Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben Refuses To Be Friends With His Wife On Facebook

Episode Date: November 21, 2021

You'd think as a married couple, you'd be friends on Facebook? Think again! But Ben has a reason... Or so he reckons! We also spoke about awkward encounters you've had with a stranger, after Jono's friend really put his foot in it with someone at a dance recital. Finally, we've dug up some old audio of Jono claiming something, but now he just looks like a big ol' hypocrite when we play it now! Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast is brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Oh, not good to start a podcast with a yawn, Ben. No. No, I'm just looking at a website here.

Top 10 tips to get your listeners hooked on a podcast intro. Oh, okay. I'm doing a little bit of research. It's welcome 22nd of November with Jono and Ben here. First one, include disclaimers where needed. So would you like to be forthcoming with a disclaimer? What's my disclaimer, sorry? Yeah, you've got to include disclaimers where needed in your podcast.

What am I disclaiming about, though? The following podcast may not live up to expectations. Yeah, what is it rated? Oh, I like one of those sort of things. Rated, I'll go R13. Oh, 13? Yeah. Yeah.

You sometimes in the podcast, yeah. Yeah, sometimes get a little bit. I'd like to call it. But the radio show definitely is. It's parental guidance is. Necessary. Yeah, but probably not. But that just covers ourself as a company. Yeah, right.

So there's the disclaimer. Well done. Mention a website or a call to action. Facebook.com. There you go. Good website. Good website. Write an intro before.

Okay, we haven't done that. Create a tagline. John O'Bien. Jeez. Jeez. Those guys have mouths. John O'Ban. Jeez. Jeez. Those guys have mouths. Yeah, that's good. You know, set the tone for your podcast.

Well, I think this has probably set a really good tone for the podcast. Start with a question. Why are we doing this? Introduce your podcast. Oh, it feels like we could have done this in the wrong order, but welcome to the John O'Ban podcast. Be concise. Oh, it feels like we could have done this in the wrong order, but welcome to the John Oliver Man podcast today. Be concise. Oh, welcome.

And choose a unique intro for each episode. Well, this is definitely unique. This is definitely one of the most unique. Boxers tips there. Dotting I's, crossing T's, and that's the top 10 tips for a concise, punchy podcast intro, which I think we've delivered in leaps and bounds. Now, Ben Boyce, we're going to send an email from the head of the ACC, not the Accident Compensation Consortium.

Yeah. What does ACC stand for in terms of accidents? Have a guess. We'll have a game. Oh, yeah. Accident Compensation. Yeah, imagine those are two things. I can't think of what the others say.

ACC, Accident. Corporation? No, it's not Corporation What does ACC stand for? You know, this is the opposite of being concise, by the way ACC Let's have a look Accident Compensation

Corporation It is Corporation They really added another unnecessary C Should it just be called AC? Accident Compensation But we've called it ACC Will someone think of be called AC? Accident Compensation. But we've called it ACC. Will someone think of another C word? Accident Compensation Corporation.

It's a government organisation that manages the accident compensation scheme and makes decisions about claims. There you go. Yeah, it feels like the corporation's unnecessary. But no, ACC were emailed by Mike Lane, who's the head of the Alternative Cricket. No, Alternative Cometry Collective. Are they the Cometry Collective?

Yes. Yeah. So he's asked if we would be interested in doing alternate cometry, which we need to reply to him, for Bathurst. Yeah. The car race. I actually replied to him because I'd love to be, I don't know if I'm cool enough to be on the ACG.

It's your dream to do cometry for cricket. Yeah. And they haven't asked you. We've been here for 12 months. You've dropped so many hits. I think I even, as one of the podcast intros. You did. You called Mike Lane.

I was going to make it my life mission. Well, turns out I. You got me a Bathurst lot. But to be honest. I've got you on there, baby. But to be honest, like, no, this is no disrespect to the motor industry. It's a very successful sport.

I don't, it's my Achilles heel of sport. I don't know. It's my Achilles heel of sport. I don't know. I don't. I feel like I've got nothing to offer. But now here is your inner turmoil. You've been asked to join the team that you've yearned to be part of. But it's for a sport you know nothing. Cricket, basketball, league, you know, rugby.

You know, any of those I'll happily talk away with. The smile on his face, but then also the disappointment in his eyes. I know. His mouth is smiling. ACC, the email came through. Do you guys want to? Oh, it's Bathurst. No one wants me.

I'll make me going, oh, those cars are a bit fast. Brake, brake, brake. Oh, there's a shimmy brake, you know. He's following too closely. No one wants that. You know? Give way, give way.

I don't know cars. I don't know the drivers. It means, you know. And then you'll go, oh, I always get nervous about parallel parking in front of a cafe. That's my go-to. Yeah, yeah. Hill starts.

So what are you going to do? Are you going to do the... Look, I said, I replied back and said that. Look, I don't think I'm the right person for the job. You know, I know only in New Zealand it really talks himself out of a job. But, you know. But you feel like you'd let down motorsport fans

who would come for an alternate view of the main race, the big race. If you want someone who doesn't know anything about motorsport. I think that would be fun. I like listening to people who know nothing about what they're talking about. Like when we talk about the vaccine rollout every morning and the alert levels.

You're like, what does it mean about the... You fluff your way through that every morning. And the alert levels. You're like, ah, what does it mean about the... You know, you fluff your way through that every morning. So you could bluff your way through a car race for six hours. I always just wonder when they go to the toilet in those car races. Maybe that's a point of conversation we could bring up. So are you doing it or not?

Well, I don't know. I kind of left the ball back in the school. I said, look, I don't think I'm the right person for this job. But you know, I said't know. I kind of left the ball behind. I said, look, I don't think I'm the right person for this job. But you know, I said again, you know how keen I am to be on the ACC. But you're playing it too keen. Yeah, I know. He's like, he's giving you, he's opened the door slightly. Yeah.

He's like, hey, buddy. Yeah. Let's see how you go with this Bathurst gig. Yeah. And then bigger things might be on the way. Yeah, because I text him. He's a mate of mine, you know, so I text him. And I even dropped it into text.

He's like, let's catch up for a coffee. I'm like, just, he's really leading me on, you know. Did you see how I really kept doing it? He said, let's catch up for a coffee. Yeah, let's get a coffee. But you can't go out for coffee at the moment. Well, we can get one across the road, you know. I was like, okay, we'll get a coffee.

But you could just. Let's catch up for a coffee. Which means, well, we're not going to talk about this, but we'll have a coffee. Just to show that our friendship is still strong. But I don't want any part of you commentating on my cricket commentary team. Yeah, I think so. But I'll give you Beth here.

But they've widened the team and they've got some great people now. Great people is part of the AFC. You haven't made a cut, mate. And I understand why. You know why he's widened the team?C. You even made a cut, mate. And I understand why. You know why he's widening the team? He's widening the team with people who weren't too keen. You know, weren't coming on too strong. James McConey of Graga's Wild.

He's brilliant. Di Henwood's part of it. You know, Ben Hurley. They're all, you know. Oh, Di's a new addition. Yeah, I know. Exactly. Widen the team.

Monday, how Di got it there, mate? Probably didn't text him desperately, did he? He probably just did a competent job of what he does. And then they went, oh, we should get dialed. Yeah, that's a great idea. Great shot, you know? Anyway, I have to be that loser. Anyway, I'll continue to make it my life mission.

Yeah, I'll catch up with that coffee. Actually, I was trying to do it today, but we're running out of time. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. See, I felt like I had a bit of a cold heart in the weekend conversation with my wife. That didn't turn out that great.

So, back story is, I used to be on Facebook a few years ago and then I decided to step away from the Facebook game. Just kind of, it wasn't, I don't know, I mean, some people love it. It was a dark day for facebook when you stepped away from facebook they're still reeling yeah it's changed their name and everything since i left suckerberg's like how do we recover from this i understand like like there was parts

of it i really did enjoy but there was the other part that i didn't was because i wanted to keep it kind of unlike my instagram wanted to keep it kind of a little bit private you know a few nudes and stuff on there just just for your inner sanctum. Tasteful stuff, that sort of thing. I just wanted to keep it. But the thing is you'd meet someone or you'd work with someone and then they'd send you a Facebook request through and then you kind of get into that whole thing of going,

oh, I'm going to run into this person lots and it's not like I don't like them but I just wanted to keep it. There was an obligation there. Yeah, and I just kind of got things where I'd see someone again i'll be like oh they're i'm still like having like accepted their friend requests and stuff so it got awkward and you're like these people don't want to see my tasteful shots they're for friends and family and i was trying to keep them away from that they're for the juliettes and jonos of the world so anyway i decided to step away from the facebook game and uh you know facebook as you said before, they haven't recovered since.

They haven't recovered. I don't know how that company's going now, is it? Yeah, I think it's... It's down the same path as MySpace, I think. So in all seriousness, I got rid of my account, and that was fine, but then... Did you do a full delete or just hide? Yeah, no, I got rid of it, got rid of it. It's all gone.

But then, for work purposes, to be administration on accounts, you've got to have a Facebook account. Yeah. So I was like, oh, I've got to get back in the Facebook game again. Mark Zuckerberg's like, there is a God. The social media gods were shining their sun on him. So I've set up like a sort of private account under a secret name.

Very Jason Bourne of me. You know, like I've set up a secret name. What's your secret name? Well, just so everyone can be friends with you. He's listening. No. So I've set up another thing. It's under a secret name just to be, just so everyone can be friends with you. He's listening. No. So I've set up another thing. It's under a secret name

just for admin purposes. Like it doesn't even have any photos or profile pictures or anything. It's like literally no friends, no nothing. It almost looks like a bot, doesn't it?

Is it Glenn Joyce? No, it's not Glenn Joyce. But I've set that up and yeah, there's nothing on it. I haven't posted on it and not friends with anyone. Purely administrative. Purely.

And then on the weekend because my wife Amanda, she's been using Facebook for a lot longer than me, I to do something and I was like oh can you give us a hand with this account she's like oh you got Facebook I was like yeah yeah purely administrative yeah it's for admin purposes she's like oh do you want to be friends with me and I was like oh no no I don't and she's like she was like excuse me and I was like no no and I explained the story the backstory I said I want to keep this private. As soon as I'm friends with you, the people are going to go, oh, who's this that's friends with me?

You know? Right. She's like, oh. Yeah. And you go, to be fair, you know most of what's going on in my life. Yeah. You don't need to update it on Facebook. But she was like, well, come on.

You can at least have me as your wife. You have one friend. I'm like, no. I don't want to even cross that bridge. And then the law isn't trying to be callous or anything like that. I won't be friends with you on Facebook. I'll only make babies with you. Apart from that, that's where it stops and starts. But mind you, this payback for

her joining TikTok and only following Lance Savali. She doesn't follow you on TikTok. She doesn't follow me on TikTok. That's a very good point. The very handsome, muscular Lance Savali. I didn't think of that actually at the time. I should have brought that up. He dances.

He's got muscles. He's got them all out, Ben. And that's what Amanda's watching on that. Yeah, well, there's a good reason why I'm not friends with her there. But yeah, but I was like, well, no, we're not going to be friends on Facebook. Jeez, that's cold. It does feel a little bit cold. Actually, speaking of Zuckerberg, he's just messaged,

that is the most evil thing I've ever heard, he says. And he's like, and I run Facebook. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. Sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the heads.

The heads. We're going to chuck this open, and this is a big, this is a big banger for a Monday morning, Ben Boyce, I won't lie. It's Awkward Stranger Encounters, ASEs. We're after the asses this morning. You can text 44872. You can remain anonymous if the encounter was so awkward you don't even want to put your good name to it.

I was talking to a friend of mine on Sunday, and he said, dear God, I had to go. He went to a ballet recital last year when you could. So this is what his kids? His child's ballet recital and he had turned up just a little bit late. He was rushing from work. And so then he found his family and they had tickets,

you know, allocated seats for the tickets and he sat at the end of the aisle, on the seat at the end of the aisle. Right. And then this couple came up to him and were like, that's our seat. And he's like, oh, no, no, I think you're confused. This is my one.

I'm sitting next to my family, A1, 2, 3, 4. This is, I'm here. This is my seat. And he all got quite defensive about the whole thing. He did? He did. As you do if you feel like you're sitting in the right seat and someone comes along. Yeah, it turned a little bit heated in the middle of the ballet recital and the lovely

couple with the elderly lady, they walked off and had to find a seat somewhere else. And at half time he stood up and realised that he was sitting in the elderly lady's wheelchair. She had parked it at the end of the row of seats. Oh, my God. How do you not know that? It was dark. So he just sat there, and obviously the brakes were on. So he just sat in this.

So he was saying, this is my chair. This is actually his seat. He was like, no, no, it's definitely mine. I sat there. And then made the poor lady hobble off. And she had to find a seat somewhere else. It is so sad. You feel like such a monster, don't you?

He felt like a monster. Yeah, because at halftime, he saw them walk up because he was getting some food. And he saw them walk up and then grab the chair and like, where did I sit? In an elderly lady's wheelchair. And there's Kiwis too for them to come across and ask for it. There's nothing more awkward. Even when you know that they're your seats,

they do it at sports games and stuff. When someone's like sitting in your seats, you turn up late, you're like, oh, that's the worst thing. You always look around and go, oh, just sit over there. Just sit over there. And then someone will be like, no, they're our seats. We need to go over there. You're like, oh, hi, sorry. Let's just stand in the concourse.

I don't want to make a scene. Sorry, guys. I think it might have been a mistake anyway. You know, it's the most awkward conversation ever as Kiwis. You're like, I don't know. Yeah, it's probably my fault. It's probably the ticketing agent. It's confusing when you look at the things, but I'm pretty sure that they're like, yeah, yeah, we know.

We're just trying to sit next to our mates. We know these are not ours, but you always say, what happens now? Do you want to move? We'll just go over there and sit in those seats. I remember Guy, our friend Guy Williams, he went to a Kanye West show in Sydney, and Kanye West was halfway through the concert. He's like,

right, I am not continuing on the concert until everybody in this stadium stands up, you know. Everyone stand up. Getting everyone up. Getting them G'd up for the second half of the show. And there was this one gentleman who was refusing to stand. He's like, I'm not going on until that guy right there. And the whole stadium was like, boo, that guy right there stands up.

And then Guy was, he was near the person and he was like, that section of the audience started yelling, he's in a wheelchair. He couldn't stand up, obviously. And then so eventually the stadium had to go, Kanye, he's in a wheelchair. And Kanye's like, okay, well I guess that's not happening then

and then continue on the show. That's an awkward stage encounter. In Kanye's defence, he probably couldn't see blinding lights. That's one of his songs. He's probably got the lights right in his eyes. So, I don't know if you can beat those. I don't know if you can, to be honest. You've set the bar rather high.

But give us a call or a text. 0800 THE HITS. Awkward stranger encounters. You want to stick around for these ones. Jono and Ben with you. Jono and Ben. The Heads. We're talking awkward Stranger Encounters. Our US correspondent coming on in live from Portland, Oregon, of all places.

That's where we like to place our correspondents, in Oregon. The Bureau's tried to fight against it for many years. Put them in New York, put them in L.A. We will only talk to a man who's located in Oregon, and we do. John Lovegrove, welcome. Morning, guys. Well, I travel a lot, and some of my stories are from other places. This is what we keep saying to our bosses and the exec.

We're like, this is why he's the best on the ground, because he's in Oregon, but he's everywhere. So we get local Oregon news, and from both coasts in America as well, John. Now, we just wanted to get you on because we were just talking about awkward interactions. You've got a couple involving some big celebrities. Yeah, one that I can't name. I actually just got to

flit off to Los Angeles this weekend and attend a test screening of a movie and I wish I could say what it was but it's not announced yet so I can't. The test screening, do they get audiences in to go, oh, we didn't like that ending, we would have liked this to happen halfway through and things like that?

Yeah, there's official test screenings where you fill out a card and stuff like that. This was actually a friends and family screening. I just happened to know a dude involved in the industry down there, and I get to see all his movies before they come out. Oh, that's very cool. Awesome. Okay, so you went to this very special, it's not even a premiere.

Yeah. I don't even know what you caught. Yeah. And how did it get awkward? Well, after the film, we had a few minutes, and me and my buddy went to the bathroom, and we're standing there, and I come into my friend's, I think I like this last movie better.

And there's a pause, and from the stall, I hear, I'm right here, dude. The star of the film was in the stall taking a break as well. Oh, Johnny, what did you do? You would just die. Well, that's not to say this one was bad or any ways. It's just to say you liked it better, right? Oh, yeah, at least I liked another of his films. My friend was

mortified. I had had a couple of beers, so I thought it was funny and still do. It was a bit awkward. Well, you know, that's what you get in a test screening. You get honest feedback in the bathroom. You do. Lucky he was in the bathroom. He probably started sobbing in the third cubicle or something.

And did you see... He came back out and there was a Q&A and they got even more brutal feedback. Oh, really? Did they? He's like, why do we do these test screenings? Yeah, why do I have to be here for this? No, but that's the only awkward interaction

we understand with a celebrity. David Hasselhoff, is that true? You interacted with him once in the bathroom? Yeah, my wife and I were in Costa Rica and I was in a hotel and went into the bathroom in the lobby, and there's a tall guy in there, and I don't look at him, and I have trouble recognizing people anyway. And when I came out after him, my wife was like,

did you see who that was? And I'm like, no, I didn't even look. And she's like, it was David Hasselhoff. It was the Hoff. And I'm like, holy crap. So we kind of, she's like, he went that way. So we kind of like stalked him out the lobby and out'm like holy crap so we we kind of she's like he went that way so we kind of like stalked him out at the lobby and now through the front down to the beach and man he

is a good looking fella he is a good looking fella well i'm glad he was heading to the beach because that's where yeah all good lifeguards should be yeah they had the hostel i definitely would have taken a look at this i haven. Had a look at the Hoff. See what he was packing in those Speedos. He's massive. I'm 6'1", and he was definitely, I don't know for sure, like definitely 6'4", 6'5". But just like wide shoulders and narrow hips and just muscular.

Just insane. You're just a scrub. Oh, listen, keep talking, John. Keep describing Hoff to us. For someone who didn't take much of a look... Oh, listen, keep talking, John. Keep describing... Narrow. For someone who didn't take much of a look at him, you definitely have a great description. I looked at him with his clothes on. It'd be great if he ever had to report a crime.

In those situations, I'd be like, oh, was he wearing a blue top or was it grey? I'm not sure. No, but, I mean, John could describe the muscular physique of David Hasselhoff if he was ever at a crime scene. John, love, great boys. Love talking to you. And you keep safe in America, OK, bud?

Cheers, guys. You too. Intelligent, thought-provoking, stimulating. Three terms that will never apply here. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. No pain, no doubt. Till the lights go out. They played

in France over the weekend. At least that result wasn't as disappointing as 660. I saw a Instagram video of 660 and they'd played their show in Paris. Did you see this video? Yeah, with the bus. Yeah, the bus driver was very angry. He's a Scottish guy. You could understand probably about

80% of what he was saying, but you could tell he was steamed up and the bus was stuck in a tiny Paris street with cars on either side of it. So he made the band get out and shake the cars and move them onto the footpath so the bus could get through. Wow! Who knew Chris Mack was so strong?

He could lift an adorable little French vehicle out of the way. Now, I want to take a moment here, and Producer Julia, I'd like you to join in on this one as well. Now, I want to say something that hasn't aged particularly well. Now, Jono Pryor, lately you've been getting into, is this cancel culture? Are you cancelling me?

No. Don't go too far back. How far back are we going? No, this is when we first started here at the Hats. Oh, great. So not that long ago. We're talking last year. The least offensive version of myself.

Yeah. So recently we've been getting into a bit more of a social media, the two of us, and you, of all things, you're like, hey, we need to get onto TikTok. You even organised us a meeting with the TikTok Australian people. You emailed them off your own bat with no one else going, hey, we need to catch up with these guys. You're the one giving me facts about TikTok now.

You're like, Julie, did you know this is about TikTok? Oh, yeah, the attention span of TikTok. Oh, you need to capture people. It's got to be around for ages. All the record companies. You know, you are anything. You're flying the flag for TikTok. You're like, we need to get onto TikTok. Listen, can I tell you, I'm in bed with the Chinese Communist

Government, so the more I can get their message out here, the better for me. Not true. But yeah, but I just wanted to take you back to a little video we filmed at the start of the hits. Now, this is last year where I was on TikTok. My daughter's got me into it, and this is what you had to say. Gotta keep up with the kids, get the little girls,

you know what TikToks are. Yeah, I'm trying to get into that, so I would... Are you on TikTok? Yeah, I've just done it. And this is what you had to say. Gotta keep up with the kids, the little girls, you know what TikToks are. Yeah, I'm trying to get into that so I would... Are you on TikTok? You should be embarrassed of yourself. You're trying to keep up with the kids, you know? You're a grown man on TikTok. Hey, I'll show you one time, alright? Hey, listen, that

didn't age well. Now that was 12 months ago. I spent a good six months, Juliet, openly workplace bullying Ben Boyce. Yes, you did. I was like, oh, look at you with your fun dance. I think I even shamed you

out of your account. You even shut it down. Yeah, I did. I stopped using it. I was like, I can't do it. Prolific bullying. Yeah, it was.

I've got to brought it back up now a little bit, but yeah. I need to make a public apology. Turns out 12 months is a very long time in social media. And oh, how the tables have turned. Ben Boyce from the bottom of my heart. I apologise for that. Good.

I want to cancel myself after hearing that. I love it. You on TikTok. And now he gives us facts on the daily about TikTok. I know. Yeah. But I'm ashamed of it. Not of the TikTok thing. TikTok's great. It's going to be the biggest thing ever. Just take. Yeah. But I'm ashamed of it. Oh, yeah. Not of the TikTok thing.

TikTok's great. It's going to be the biggest thing ever. Just take it off. Just capture those attention span. You need to get on there. Record companies, you know, all the artists are on it. Yeah. But Ben Bush, you didn't deserve that bullying and mocking back then.

Look, to be honest. All you did was get on it earlier than me. Yeah. He was ahead of the game, Jonathan. I didn't mind. Like, I found it quite amusing. Well, actually, I minded a little bit because I did stop using it after. I minded a lot.

And then it just sort of faded out. I actually thought to myself about seven months into it, I was like, oh dear God, I hope I haven't bullied him out of his hobby. Because it was all just fodder. But he obviously took it to heart. Oh, I'm sorry, Ben. The good thing is we're all on TikTok again now.

You're on TikTok. The two of us are on TikTok, I'm on TikTok. I'm pretty new to the social media game, and it's just the worst possible thing for my life ever. I keep checking it every two minutes like the fridge just to find out if there's anything new on there, you know? I know. You get yourself lost in like... You do.

And you're like, what am I doing? I came into this bedroom to do some washing, and now I'm like sitting on the bed watching TikTok videos for half an hour. So what is... So maybe you're... Meth's probably a healthier option. Oh, no. New Zealand's breakfast.

This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome on to the show. Monday morning. How are you guys doing? Doing well. Doing well. Finding fit.

Feeling great. Four weeks to go. Four weeks to go. Felt like a bit of a pep talk, didn't it? Yeah, four weeks to go until we knock off for the year. Oh my goodness. Can you believe it? Yeah, it's going to go fast, isn't it? December's always so busy though, isn't it? Yeah, that's what I mean. There's always so much on this time of year.

Yeah. Big announcement today from the government. Is it a big announcement? They say it's a big announcement, but who knows? There's talk that maybe hairdressers and bars could open, but we'll find out this afternoon. I've got this, my sister-in-law's a hairdresser, and I'm like this close to hiring a Maui camper van and just driving around the streets like Mr. Whippy,

but she cuts the hair in the back. We take cash. That's not a bad idea. And I pay zero tax on that money. That's my plan. That would go really well, wouldn't it? Yeah. Just a mobile hair caravan. Or haircuts in the park or something like that.

Can they do that? I'm not sure. They cancelled Christmas in the park. Maybe they could do haircuts in the park. Hey, over the weekend, we got to go on Newstalk ZB. I want to play this little bit of embarrassing audio. So we're going to go on

Newstalk ZB Procedure Station. You said something about the protests. Oh, the Brian Tarmacky protests over the weekend, yeah. It was one of the first things we said, and I had something

in my head as you were saying it. I was like, yeah, that's what I'll respond with. And just as it got to me, it totally fell out of my head. But the good thing was, if you listen to this, I don't think you noticed that I had nothing to say. Have a listen.

I just don't understand the reasoning for it because they're protesting about something that's happened. Like there's light at the end of the tunnel now. We're coming out of this. So I don't exactly know why the anti-lockdown protest when we're coming out of lockdown. Yeah, yeah, that's probably quite a good point. Yeah.

Thank you, Ben. Thank you. Nailed it. Sorry, I had something insightful to say, but it just fell out of my brain right now. But I don't know if you noticed it. I just carry it on professionally at the moment. What a professional, guys.

What a professional. Hard-hitting opinion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's quite a good point. Yeah, yeah. You know, if you need a hype person,-hitting opinion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's quite a good point. You know, if you need a hype person, I'm your guy. Like getting your news from the internet. Half-truths and false information.

John O'Brien, New Zealand's Breakfast. It was a big weekend. All Blacks lost to France over the weekend. The second loss in a row for the All Blacks at the end of season tour. Worst result in the... Worst season in All Black history. I was reading all the articles. They were just mowing. I didn't see the game. I don't know if it was in the history, but it was over the last

year, sort of decade or whatever. It's probably like our worst result. Three losses, which doesn't seem like a lot. But for the All Blacks, that's a lot. Well, that's the problem when you're just expected to win all the time. A loss really comes out of the blue, doesn't it, that's a lot. Well, that's the problem when you're just expected to win all the time. A loss really comes out of the blue, doesn't it? Yeah, two in a row.

At least it gives the rugby reporter something to write about, I guess. But they're on the road for 12 weeks. They're probably exhausted, the poor guys. Is that an excuse? Shall I write an article about that? I don't think you can say that as the All Blacks. If they went all exhausted, people would go, they're staying in top hotels, they're under the Eiffel Tower. You you can say that as the All Blacks. If they went all exhausted, people would go, they're staying in top hotels, they're under the Eiffel Tower.

You can't say that. They couldn't use it. They probably are, but they couldn't use it as an excuse. But it's exhausting going to go to see the Eiffel Tower. Doing all these tourist activities at the same time. You've been on a holiday before. Oh, totally. I think it's good for rugby.

Because we have been so good, and it's amazing. We're such a good team, but it is kind of good that other teams are stepping up. Now, I know nothing about rugby, but do you think a large part of it, too, is these teams wouldn't have played each other in a long time thanks to lockdowns. Yeah. So, you know, they've obviously got a bit better over that side of the world. Yeah. Everyone's exhausted.

Everyone's exhausted. It's been a big holiday. It's almost Christmas. Hey, did you exhausted. Everyone's exhausted. It's been a big holiday. It's almost Christmas. Hey, did you see the eclipse on Friday night? Oh yes, that was quite cool. I didn't realise it was happening until like the evening. No. And that's quite a nice little surprise. There wasn't much press for it, was there?

The eclipse didn't do a round of press tours or interviews leading into it. It felt like there was one a few months ago though, right? Yes. Wasn't there the big lunar something? It was the super moon. The blood moon. The super moon. Yeah, right. Super moon sounds like something a third former would do on a school bus trip or right? Wasn't it the big lunar something? It was the super moon. The blood moon. Super moon sounds like something a third former would do on a school bus trip or something, doesn't it? What is a super moon though? Is it extra spread?

I don't know. It does sound like that, eh? It's, oh mate, did the super moon. Nah, the kids wanted to get up and it was at that time where I'm like, oh, I could go to bed now. It was 10.30. Yeah.

And we're sitting out there on the lawn, lying on the grass, looking up at it. And it was just the most painfully slow thing I think I've ever witnessed. So it was an eclipse. So you could see the eclipse happening. Is that what was happening? Yeah. And apparently the one that was special about this is it's the longest one since the year 1212. This one lasted, I think, three hours or something.

All right. And it felt like it. It felt like it. It was just slowly. And you're just waiting for that final little bit of the moon to be covered up, you know? And it felt like I was just waiting for this old lady in a Toyota Vitz to take a right turn onto a main road.

It felt like forever. So that's how long, since 1212. 1212, the longest one. Should I always feel like there's always, every time there's like an eclipse or something cool with the moon, you're like, this hasn't happened in 450 years. But then we kind of get cool moon things every six months or so, or every year. It's like, well, it feels like we get them relatively often. Yeah, my boy Oscar, he was looking, he was like, when's the next one?

So he was researching this. There's another one before Christmas. Is there? Oh, really? Oh, mate, they pop it up every couple of weeks. Why are we getting so excited about it? Yeah. I don't know.

There's not much to live for at the moment, is there? Especially with the All Blacks having their worst season ever. There isn't much to live for. Especially with the All Blacks being so exhausted. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is The B**** News. This is my favourite part of the show along with the government

vaccine propaganda commercials we play. Juliet, this is the news in beeps. Yes, I have got some headlines from around the world, beeped out a couple of words, you have to guess what the real headline is. Shall we begin? Woman hates germs so much she has to I'm gonna say she hates germs so much she has to kill the 0.01% of germs that don't

get killed by the 99.9% of cleaning products, you know? I love that one determined 0.01% germ. Just out there battling away, he's like, come on guys, we can do this! You're like, it's over mate let it go the rest of like we've given up yeah uh i'm gonna say woman hates germ so much that she's had to change her name to ben boys woman hates germ so much she has to rent out a supermarket to do the food shop so she only allows one employee in so her family can do the food shop this is once a week.

This family also don't go on holiday. They don't go to restaurants, and they don't go to other people's houses. They say they're quite well off because the dad, I guess you could say, he won lotto at 19, and then they invested it all. So they're like, we wouldn't be doing this if we weren't rich. And I was like, wow. So they rent out an entire supermarket.

So they'll go for an afternoon. They'll rent out Countdown just to get their weekly shopping. Yeah, yeah. With no other people around it. That's a good point. That's a very good point. You know? Oh, my goodness. We wouldn't be talking about it in the news and beats

if a lady gets home-delivered supermarket shopping. Yeah, that's very true. The next news story. Man banned from all-you-can-eat barbecue for... I'm going to say for not eating. He refused to eat. I'm going to say man banned from all-you-can-eat barbecue for bringing cheap sausages

and eating everyone else's expensive steaks. Oh, yeah, that happens, right? Man banned from all-you-can-eat barbecue for eating too much. So this guy is a food live streamer, which I hadn't heard of before this, but I guess he just, like, live streams himself eating heaps of food. He'll go to this all-you-can-eat barbecue place, and he'll eat over a kg of pork, 4 kgs of prawns.

When he drinks milk, he can drink up to 20 to 30 bottles, and so he is running the businesses dry. He eats over 5 kilograms of food in one sitting yeah yeah shit that's magnificent i know i know 30 bottles of milk that's weird eh i don't know does he wash his food down with 30 probably i would say so but then you know there's a bit of controversy around it because if it's an all you can eat and he's eating all he can eat, should he be banned? Yeah, it's kind of an all-you-can-eat buffet. It's a challenge, isn't it? Especially to a New Zealander as well who really, we just pile the wildest foods together. Shrimp cocktail with pavlova and everything. It can all go on.

I've always read that at buffets they always put bread first because bread is cheap and it fills people up so that they technically won't be still hungry if they load up on bread. Don't fall for that ploy. Skip the bread, baby. And the final news story. Zoo in Australia has been donated a mega spider that

can... I'm going to say the mega spider can defeat the green goblin and Dr Octopus and date Mary Jane all at the same time. I'm laughing politely. I'm gathering that's a movie reference. Yes, Spider-Man. I'm going to go...

Zoo in Australia has been donated a mega spider that can teach the itsy-bitsy spider a thing or two about climbing up water spouts. Zoo in Australia has been donated a mega spider that can pierce human fingernails. Oh jeez. Just let that sit for a moment, that's horrendous. It's an Australian funnel web spider. Have you heard of

those spiders? I have heard of them, I've never seen them though. No, yeah, I think they're one of Australia's most dangerous spiders and it's the biggest one this zoo has seen and they're frothing over it because apparently the bigger the funnel web spider the more venom produce, and that's quite good for making anti-venom. So if people get bitten by a funnel web, they get taken to hospital or whatever, and that

specific venom is used. It's kind of like, you know, the COVID vaccine. You have a little bit of it in you, so your body kind of can fight it. So scary. That always confuses me there so if you get bitten by a spider yeah then they use what the spider's bitten you with to cure you essentially but it's yeah obviously being treated or mixed in a way that it can reverse effect if that makes sense yeah right yeah it's a beauty too a couple of white tails sift around the prior household over the weekend

as well yeah i've got a lot of daddy longlegs in my room. They're everywhere. I'm like, oh, God, this is really annoying. But they keep the whitetails away, apparently. Daddy longlegs would be a great name for a sugar daddy. I need daddy longlegs. You were saying the other day you had a few sugar daddies in your DMs. Is any of them called daddy longlegs?

No. I should reply to one of them and be like, can I call you that? Daddy Long Legs? Live free. The Summer Holiday Edition with Škoda. You can win a $5,000 summer holiday in the use of a brand new Škoda Kodiaq seven-seater SUV. It won't be amongst the first in New Zealand to experience the seven-seater Kodiaq

as you go on your own summer adventure. That's a wonderful prize and $5,000. Summer is on us. And Rob in Wellington, Morena, how are you? Morena, how are you guys? Good morning. Good to have you on. You're a courier in the capital, are you? I am, I am. Now, I've got plans for the scooter. OK, you talk us through these, Rob.

I'm going to take the seats out and deliver some parcels, is that alright? Well, it's a seven seater, so I imagine he'd take the seats out and we'd probably have a bit of room. So there we go, Rob's going to turn into his work van for the fortnight. Now we understand you might take the family to Rotorua, Rob? Yes, we're looking

and hoping. We've got a short break there, obviously with courier driving and stuff, but yeah, that's the plan. Good on you, mate. I imagine it's extremely, extremely busy for you guys at the moment being couriers. Yeah, we are. We're getting slammed. But it's all good.

We're used to that. Can I play a game with you? It's a fun game I've played with Ben before. It's courier or Korea. And you have to try and figure out if I'm saying courier or Korea. The country. Okay, you ready, Rob? It's a best of three. Ben, you can play as well. Oh, jeez. And you ready, Rob? It's a beast of three.

Both of you being you can play as well. And you too, Julian. It's a game for the whole family. Okay. Korea. Korea. Yeah, yeah. Well done, Rob.

I mumbled it, but yeah, sure. Next one. Korea. Oh, that was the country, Korea? Yeah, well done. One each. One all. Korea.

All the way to Korea. Yeah, well done, Rob. There you go. That's the game. Rob takes that one out in 2-1. Rob, you're in the draw for that. Fantastic. Is that two scotas or one?

I don't want to see the scota doing burnouts on the news or anything, Rob, okay? I love your work. Thank you so much for listening to the program. Cheers, mate. Have a great day. You too, buddy. He's across the news like the sun, the earth and the moon were across each other on Friday. Ben Boyce, what's happening in scrolling?

Well, there's been another poll come out last night on the news on News Hub and Labour, the Labour Party holding steady at 42% at the moment, just down by 0.3. But the real surprise is the ACT Party just continues this meteoric rise. It's at a massive 16% the ACT Party at the moment, up a record-breaking 4.9% in the polls. And that seems to be not far away from National at 26%. Do you think, because David Seymour used to be the wonderful comedic fodder in Parliament where we were always like, look at him, he's in the one-man party, lonely party. He's going out twerking on Dancing with the Stars, that sort of thing, yeah?

He's acting like he's got some friends who, you know, make all these jokes. But now he's pretty much becoming the opposition. Yeah. He's going to be more powerful than National by the next poll. I know, it's like National need him. It used to be the time, you know. So I think this earns him 20 seats in Parliament if there was to be an election.

Yeah, and he's currently doing pretty well in the preferred Prime Minister in the poll as well. 11.9% naming Seymour as preferred Prime Minister. Judith Collins only at 6%. Jacinda's still taking that one out, just over 40%. So yeah, he's the second preferred Prime Minister. You reckon Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Judy's going to get rolled by Bridges? Well.

That's the rumour, isn't it? That seems to be the rumour that's going to happen. I mean, Bridges is only polling at 2.5% in the poll, but it's not to say that within the National Party they wouldn't want to put him in there. Jacinda hasn't gone down that much as well. You'd think, you know, there's been some hiccups along the way with this COVID recovery plan, this roadmap.

A lot of frustration at the moment out there. There is, and you'd think she would have taken a bigger hit, but she hasn't really. I think the party only dipped 0.3, and they're still on 42%. Massive majority. Huge majority. There you go, there's John. I've been vaguely talking politics. Wasn't there just a poll

last week? It felt like there was. It's like the supermoon. There's one every couple of weeks. I've been vaguely talking politics. Yeah. Wasn't there just a poll last week? It felt like there was. Yeah, it's like the super moon. There's one every couple of weeks. I think TV One did a poll, didn't they? So TV Three feels obliged. Well, we'd better do a poll. Yeah. It's like you with your coffee shouting thing with you and producer Humphrey.

One of you shouts a bunch of coffees. And then you feel obliged to do it the next day. Yes, we've got to do a poll. And the Comedy Wildlife Photography winners have been announced. I, we've got to do a poll. And the comedy wildlife photography winners have been announced. I didn't even know this was the thing. So think of America's funniest home videos, but with animals and photos. So basically these are...

And not in America, like internationally. Yeah, these are the funniest photos with wildlife. So there's a poor monkey that he's on a rope. Over 7,000 entries for this competition too, by the way. And so there's more monkeys. So this is not like you've set up animals to do funny. This has just happened naturally as well. And there's poor monkeys on sort of like a tightrope

and he slipped and his legs have gone either side and you can see the pain on the monkey's face. Just show producer Juliet the photo. His important part, his brass monkeys, are evenly split on either side of the wire and the other part is just pushed up into his stomach and he's holding on with both hands. Grass monkeys are evenly split on either side of the wire. And the other part is just pushed up into his stomach. And he's holding on with both hands.

Oh, my goodness. Look at him there. And he's just screaming in pain. He's moaning. I know. It's the only thing more painful than listening to us in the mornings, I think. It is. Then there's another one. The poor pigeon's got this leaf that's blown into its face.

An elephant's doing a face plant. I've got to feel sorry for these animals. They just had a little hiccup, and then suddenly we put them in the world's funniest wildlife photo awards. It's the only competition that the entrants don't even know they've been entered in. Or one. That monkey doesn't know. Hopefully that monkey started a family before that incident. It's a very strange, unusual thing.

I mean, I've got a goofy dog that we talk about a lot on the show. I didn't know that he could be a front runner for this sort of award. The one that I had a question mark over, that I had a question mark over was the elephant. It's face planting into the mutt. Oh, yes. And I'm like, elephants have the most

rock solid foundation. They've got four tree trunks as legs. Yeah. And a trunk. How do they face plant? Have you looked out the back of that elephant photo as well? They've got four tree trunks as legs. And a trunk. And a trunk. How do they face-plug? Have you looked out the back of that elephant photo as well? Looks like it's got three legs.

Have you seen that? I'll have another look. Have another look there. Oh, it does, doesn't it? Yeah. Looks like it's got three legs, but it's not a leg. That's it. I know.

Wow. I thought it was a leg. Wow. Have a look, Juliet. Look at that thing. Oh, wow. Yeah thought it was a leg. Have a look, Juliet. Look at that thing. Oh, wow. Gee whiz. That's something.

If anything, that would be anchoring them down. You'd think. That's a tripod of, like, anyway. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. I don't know how we got there. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Spy. The What's Up by.co.nz

Now Julie, it was out all weekend sailing the seven seas and now we hand you over to our captain for the spy update. Take it away, Ju. So, Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson, we've talked about their apparent romance a little bit and over the weekend they seem

to have confirmed that romance with a little bit of PDA in public. They were spotted holding hands. Oh, Ben, you wouldn't like that. In Palm Springs, I know. I'm convinced, though, it's a bit of a... Publicity? Yeah, I'm convinced they're playing it up for the media.

Well, who knows? Yeah, I don't know. I just think that he probably, she probably thinks it's, oh, this is a very young, different guy from Kanye West, and he's probably like, this is crack up. He has dated a lot of Hollywood ladies. He's been to more Hollywood ladies than Botox, Pete Davidson. He really has.

Yeah. And what I like about him is he looks like he's either just got to step into rehab or he's just stepped out of rehab. And he gives everyone else who wears shabby clothes look he's picked his clothes from a clothing bin yeah and he's living his best life yeah i mean anything we should be looking up to him but you know you'll meet john i mean he's got bad tattoos he you know tries to be funny like you know like we do yes but like i can see the appeal because i i guess so many hollywood men would know... Perfect. Yes, and so he's quite, you know, he's a little bit...

And he's funny. He's funny. Yeah, he is very funny. Yeah, yeah, so I can see... Do you like Pete Davidson? Because I know you're a Harry Styles lady. Yeah, I haven't... Do you mean, like, in terms of what he looks like?

Aesthetically, yeah. Traditionally not my type, but I can see why people like him. Like, if I met him, I'd probably be like, I can see why people would be attracted to him. He's charismatic, I'd probably be like, I can see why people would be attracted to him. He's charismatic, isn't he? Yeah, that's the word. That's the word, charismatic. We'll go to Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson.

That sounds like a relationship that'll last the ages. We will see. We will see. Now, Adele released her album 30 over the weekend, and as soon as it was released, I listened to it. I did actually fall asleep listening to it i napped but then i woke up and i was oh my gosh i've missed like three songs let's go back and re-listen to them i noticed that spotify uh like you can't go shuffle on it on

the album you've got to listen to it in the order because that's the way it's intended to be listened to so intended to be shuffled it's a journey it. Yeah, yeah. And when an artist actually releases... Well, that story put Juliet to bed. It's a bedtime story. But no, when a new album does get released, I do listen to it in order because I do think that the artists have probably put it in that order for a reason. But one of the songs, which I really love the title of,

it's called I Drink Wine. It's this one here. This song is about six minutes on the album but move over Taylor Swift because the original was 15 minutes long She's drinking a lot of wine 15 minutes That is monumental

You'd even forget the words to your own song if it was 15 minutes long I know She wanted to have it as 15 minutes but her label said listen everyone does love you but not enough to want to play a 15-minute song on the radio. But it's still quite long.

It's six minutes, so, I mean, it is a very nice song, though. Boss Todd sent through a story last night about an Australian reporter who's been stood down. Yes. What was that about? So he was flown over to London to interview Adele, and during the interview, he didn't really ask any questions about the album. And so then at the end of the interview, Adele asked, you know,

so what did you think of the album? Because he didn't really ask any questions about it. What questions was he asking? What's your favorite color? Yes, probably something along those lines. And that's when he admitted he didn't even listen to it and hasn't even listened to the album. And so he's been suspended for two weeks. And they haven't got the footage

either, too. I don't think the network. Oh, the record company won't release the interview footage. I guess it's fair enough in that situation. Why would you not listen to the album if you're interviewing Adele? And they paid a million dollars for the interview. That package, which includes the Oprah interview,

which is going to be a huge ratings bonanza. Oh, so they got that and a... That's the thing, yeah. So that's not, it's just not a million dollars just for that interview. That was like a bonus on top of that, I guess. So he would have got back old Gary back to the office. How'd the interview go, Gary? Yeah, good, guys.

Where's the interview, Gary? Ah, it'll be coming soon, guys. What, like, just what, like, I don't know what he was thinking. Maybe he could do a cheeky cut in Use other interview snippets of hers And then pretend he's interviewing her Bit of an edit job But I mean flying to London You're travelling for almost 24 hours

If you're flying to London There's probably ample opportunity to hear the album Plenty of time to listen It's such a huge interview And not many people would have the opportunity To interview Adele You would have been asked What did you think of the album by adele and you said well it put me to sleep yeah but then you picked it up and listened to it again yeah we went back to the

song that i fell asleep to so it's all good it's all good and that's your spy update for this morning for more you can head to the hits.co.nz new New Zealand's Breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben just got on 7 o'clock. It's reading NCEA exams start today. So good luck if you're sitting those. Always a really stressful time, isn't it? Exams. Yeah, I never knew how to

handle exams. I wasn't much of an exam person. I was a shocking student. And it was only because I think about it nowadays, because my son always asks, he's like, what were you like at school? And I was like, mate, I was terrible. He's doing far better than I ever would have imagined.

And I was thinking, it was because I wasn't really into it. I knew what I wanted to do. And so if you're doing something that you're like, well, this is not going to help me get to, you know, the heights of New Zealand radio, learning about Latin. And then you don't really show, you know. I reckon if you applied yourself, you could do it. Yeah, that's right.

There was a lot of the reports if you applied yourself. Yeah, that's the son of a school principal right there, Ben Boyce. How do you go on exams? Let me guess. I'm going to say sort of the 70s and 80s. Yeah, I wasn't too bad on exams. You kind of knuckle down. You know, you're like, all right, it's time to do it.

And you kind of just have to do it. Yeah. June? I can imagine you'd be pretty good at that. She would have been 90s, a few 90s, I reckon. I was not, exams were always harder

than like the internals during the year. Internals during the year were easy because you didn't have to rely on memory to like pass. You would just like work hard on something for a few weeks, submit it,

and then you'd end up doing better than probably the exams. Yeah. The exams were scary. Because at NCA you do little projects throughout the year, right? Yes, yeah. Because we used to have the big bangers at the end of the year, didn't you? Yeah, I can do that, aye.

The big exams. And when someone finishes an exam early, you're like, oh my God. I'm only up to this part. Whether that was just a move from someone who had no idea what they were doing. It's a big dinghy swinging play, isn't it? Yeah. And then the hands behind the head. And they're like, ooh, they're done.

And just writing boobies on their calculator. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning at this time on the show. We tell you five words. You tell us what pops into your head after those five words, and if they all match with our five words, you win $5,000.

Over $50,000 given away so far this year, which is 25 times that we've caused huge accounting issues for the NZ Media Accounting Department here at the Hits. We're going to welcome Daniel on from Timaru. Welcome. Hello. Great to have you on from Timaru. Welcome. Hello. Great to have you on, Danny boy. What do you do?

Auto electrician. Oh, car electrician. Yeah, basically. It's as far as my banter goes with car electronic stuff. But Ben Boyce, you love a bit of car chat, don't you? Oh, do I what? Do I what? Good car, yeah. Oh, jeez, I love those cars. car chat, don't you? Oh, do I what? Do I what? Good car, yeah.

Oh, jeez, I love those cars. Go fast, don't they, cars? Yeah. Always breaking down, aren't they? Tell me about it, tell me about it. The wheels? Yeah, wheels, yeah. We go constantly tripping.

Wheels and tyres. Yeah, tripping. Make round things. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Good stuff. Steering stuff. There we go. Hey, well, there we go.

Some champagne car chat there from Ben. Don't put me, don't ever get me to do car chat. Daniel, it's his worst fear being caught in car banter. We spent a day at the Burnout Nationals, and I could tell just he was in a sad place, weren't you, Ben, boys? Yeah, exactly. Okay, Daniel, let's try and win you 5K, my friend.

Who do you want to match words with this morning? Let's go Ben this morning. All right. We couldn't talk about cars, but can we match some words? Yeah, it's going to be great. Hope you have couldn't talk about cars, but can we match some words? Yeah, it's given me great hope, yeah. All right, as he goes into the soundproof booth, which also doubles up as a spray tan salon, when he emerges, he's going to look like mid-January Daniel.

Let's win you $5,000. You know how the game works, buddy? Uh, yeah, yeah. The first word that comes into your head when I say expiry. Date. Yeah, date, great option. Crumbs is the second word that comes into your head when i say expiry yeah date great option crumbs is the second word this morning bread he's playing a quick game stink word number three stink think s-t-i-n-k uh rubbish rubbish cellotape Rubbish. Rubbish.

Sellotape. Sticky. And the fifth word this morning. Fishing. Rod. You did well. You happy with all five of those words, Daniel? A wee bit on the stinky one, a bit unsure of. You can have a change if you want, if you've had a change of heart.

We'll go socks. Stinky socks. Stinky socks. All right. He's changed from rubbish to socks. And let's get Ben Boyce out of the soundproof booth. As he emerges looking fantastic, Ben Boyce. We just said it doubles off as a spray tan and

you've got the all round summer glow. You're ready to go. Let's put something in Daniel's pipe and make him smoke it okay? Okay. And let's hope it's $5,000 let's do it. What is the first word that comes into your head Benjamin Ross Boyce? When I say

expiry Date. What's the first word that comes into your head Benjamin Ross Boyce when I say expiry date it's the first word that came into Daniel's here yeah makes a lot of sense I can't think of any other options expiring yeah your career if we're going down we're going down together you know it works second word is crumbs bread bread comes two from two danny let's go come on third word this morning is stink s-t-i-n-k stink jeez smell Oh, jeez. Smell? Daniel originally locked in rubbish.

Oh, yeah. And then he changed his mind to socks. Smell makes a lot of sense. Smell does make, that is a very, it's a wide and very good. Yeah, it's a tough one. Yeah, really tough one. It was a tough one. We'll go to word number four, which was sellotape. Sticky.

And fishing. Line. Ah! Dan, you played a good game. Yeah. What did he say for the last one? He said rod. Oh, that's, yeah, fishing rod.

Three out of five ain't bad, my friend. Not bad. Not bad. We were pretty close. I reckon we should give this another shot. We might get there. Yeah. I'll be back.

All right. Well, Daniel, you're going to have a great day. Thanks so much for listening to the show. Thanks a lot for that. See you, mate. Another chance to play. Same time, same place tomorrow, 7.45. We've got some Spy on the way.

It is the hits. Spy, the what's up by doco.nz. Time now for a celebrity update. And the update is the celebrities are still doing better than the rest of us Juliette, what is happening in spy entertainment news? You're going to love your favourite person a whole lot more Ben Boyce Dwayne The Rock Johnson has surprised a busload of fans with thousands of dollars worth of gifts

so it looks like one of those tour buses that tourists would jump on, go around Hollywood, see all the sights. He often rolls along beside them and reveals himself to them. Yeah. It's a little thing he likes to do, right? Yeah. And so they pulled up outside his house, what it looks like. And he has called himself Duantaclaws.

Duantaclaws. I don't know how you'd pronounce that. The puns aren't working. He's lost a bit of Ben Boyce there he's not scanning that pun and he walked out and basically

showered them with gifts and they were absolutely frothing hey you guys don't worry I can find you up guys I just wanted to come out

and say hello and I have a few gifts I started an energy drink so I'm going to send you guys energy drinks anybody drink tequila? alright

everyone gets Terramana tequila I'm going to give all you energy drinks. Anybody drink tequila? All right, everyone gets Terramana tequila. I'm going to give all you guys on this cross a year subscription to Netflix. I'm also going to give you guys $500 towards your holiday shopping. All right, I'm going to give you guys all a big screen TV from Samsung. And all of you guys could have a free Xbox. I love it. I love it. I love it. Do you know what I love even more?

Is, Julie, you were saying before the show that he had not planned any of this. So he just started listing stuff off. And he started with, okay, you'll get a can of energy drink. Lackluster. I'll upgrade it to a bottle of tequila. Okay, the crowd's starting to move. And then he's like, what about a year subscription to Netflix? TV? Xbox? $500? He's just naming stuff. And then he's like, what about a year subscription to Netflix? TV?

Xbox? $500? He's just naming stuff. He's seeing Ferraris. Everyone gets a Lamborghini. Yeah, like on his Instagram post, I'm just reading, he's like,

my team are used to me doing this and I love it when I walk away and watch basically his personal assistant start getting on the phone and go, okay, guys, call Samsung. We need 20 TVs. Call Xbox. Tell them we need the same team. Call Terramata. Call Zara. We need cases now. Call Xbox. Tell them we need the same team. Call Terramata.

Call Zohar. We need cases now. DJ just gave away $500 to everyone. Call the bank. You know, they all have to scramble. It's like when you recklessly give away wild bean vouchers on this show. You should be hums as the one cleaning up

your wild bean madness. That is so true. That is so true. A very, very generous thing, though. How awesome is that? Very, very cool. It's kind of like a bit of an Alan situation or an Oprah situation. You get a car, you get a car.

He's a lovable guy, isn't he, Dwayne the Royal Johnson? He's very active on Instagram as well, I've noticed. He's just posting all the time. I feel like that's why we get so many stories out of him, because he's posting heaps. I just got lost in a Dwayne the Royal Johnson Instagram hole just before, and gee whiz, he loves working out, doesn't he? He does.

I know. Keeps him grounded, mate. Keeps him grounded. Anchors him. That's what he says. I follow him. I follow him. I follow him. I follow him. Big fan. Big fan. I love you, Rob. Juliet just saw her. Dwayne, there were drops of pillowcase. She's like, you need to get this, babe. Yeah, I know.

So you can sleep with Dwayne every night. And tonight us Kiwis can finally view Adele's one night only interview special with Oprah in full. It's going to be on TVNZ2 at 7.30pm tonight. So you can watch the full thing and then watch her perform at the Griffith Observatory. So we obviously saw little clips come out last week, but we can watch the full thing tonight. And Piers Morgan, we haven't spoken about him in a while.

He was very sort of anti-Megan and Harry. He has come through with some criticism of Adele. He says she's shameless and hypocritical for flogging son's pain to sell album. Now, if you haven't listened to one of her songs, it's called My Little Love. And in it are sort of voice recordings of conversations that she's had with her son,

basically explaining, oh, mummy's going through a bit of a hard time at the moment. You know, mummy loves your dad. Oh, and she's edited that into the song. Yeah, yeah. And so he is saying, oh, she's hypocritical, blah, blah, blah. Has he heard Ben Boyce playing his kids every day on the radio? No, I don't know if he listened to us on the podcast. But he's saying in Piers'

defence, oh I've read into it a little bit more, Adele when he was when, sorry, her son Angelo was one year, one years old she went to court to protect his privacy so that paparazzi wouldn't take photos and then now she's kind of using his voice in songs. But I guess it's

with her permission if she wants to use his voice. And when your album is based on your life, you've got to be an open book. If that's the path you want to travel down. Exactly, exactly. And I see Piers Morgan also, basically this is an update on people Piers Morgan's been slamming over the last 48 hours, said the interview with Meghan Markle and Ellen DeGeneres made him vomit into

a bucket. He went and got a bucket from the garage and literally expelled liquid from inside of him. That's how sick that interview made him. I did watch that interview and you know the segment that you guys used to do on your TV show Next Actor? They did Ellen did that with

Meghan Markle so she was speaking in Meghan's ear as she had to go up and do things. Champagne, Alan DeGeneres. Always stealing our content. Do you know when we came up with that idea, we were like, let's do this. And we did it. And we thought we had literally cracked television.

And then we Googled it and we're like, bloody, Alan already does it. So to be fair to Alan, she was already there. That's unfortunate. With bigger celebrities too. We were like, we're going to do it anyway. And that's your spy update for this morning. For more, you can head to thehitstockco.nz.

Thanks, Drew. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't save this battered-up old face here. Prime Minister this morning said, because there was a bit of talk going around whether hairdressers and cafes and restaurants could potentially be opened up this week ahead of the big announcement next week.

But she said this morning planned for the 29th. So there might be a few more days yet to wait for that haircut of yours, Johnny. Well, listen, if anyone needs a patch up on their headband, boys, if anyone needs some renovations done. That's right. I shouldn't really be going around throwing stones. Well, there's some mullet mohawk he's got have you had any more adjustments over the weekend the weekend's usually when you give it another shave isn't it let's see what

it's going to like growing back at the moment you know my kids have been hacking away at my hair it's been a little project for them in the lockdown well if i said to him over the weekend he looks like a head hunter on a learner license it's just uh the head it's nearly there the haircut isn't it? I reckon you should roll with it because I like it. I do. It's going to be a hundred days you're working out before this week of lockdown. Yeah, I think so. What's today?

Thursday, by the sound of it. Today's day 97, I believe. I may have that one day right or wrong. So the last week of lockdown, by the sounds of it, around, you know, so we try not to bang on about it too much because we realise that not all of New Zealand are in lockdown. Oh yeah, true. But yeah, but it's a long, long

stretch for anyone that's in it. It's a long haul and once those borders open up, you can't wait to see Auckland. Should we just send our EF postcards to you with our pins? That's probably the best way to do. It's Jono and Ben. Got me in love.

It is a hit. Jono and Ben. Got me in love. On the hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben hanging out with you guys and we're very pleased to announce Benny's World Tour. She's added three new shows for the New Zealand League

of a World Tour before she heads away to Australia, Europe, UK and North America in 2022. It's very exciting. A 24-hour live

Live Nation pre-sale kicks off Thursday 10 o'clock. General tickets on sale Friday and Benny's going to be going everywhere from Nelson Nelson, Dunedin, Invercargill, Auckland

Hamilton, Wellington, Tauranga, Palmerston North Napier and New Plymouth. So get out and see Benny early next year. All the details at the Hits.co.nz. She's literally the only Aucklander the rest of the country will be happy to see in their part of town. Just looking into Benny over the weekend she could have played water polo for New Zealand.

Really? She should have gone water polo. Yeah, she was really committed to the sport of water polo, was determined to make the New Zealand team. Then at 17, was like, oh, no, I'll just do music. Wow. And how's that worked out for her? Bloody well.

Bet she's regretting that water polo decision. Next year, we've got a double pass, I think, have we, for Benny. So 4487, if you want that, flick us a text and go see Benny on her world tour starting in New Zealand next year we've got a double pass I think have we for Benny so 4487 if you want that flick us a text and go see Benny on her world tour starting in New Zealand next year It is super lonely it is the hits Benny about to go on her world tour next year starting

off with New Zealand which is very very exciting and we just found out she was a competitive water polo player on her world tour next year, starting off with New Zealand, which is very, very exciting. And we just found out she was a competitive water polo player as well. She'll be holding water polo games at each of the venues as well. We should play a game of water polo with Betty. I've never played water polo. It looks impossible.

It does look very difficult. A lot of core strength required. Looks like you're wearing underpants on your head. It does a little bit, actually. That's a very good observation. What are they for? I think it's to stop the water from going in the ears.

And also if the ball, oh, actually the ball is probably soft, isn't it? Just to look cool, mate. Just to look cool. You should get into an internet wormhole about that one, don't you?

But the speedos, the combo of the speedos and the underpants, most of the speedos, for me, you're under the water. You don't have the shame of that until you get

out of the pool. We'd be the only water polo players standing there with their hands in front of me with their're under the water. You don't have the shame of that until you get out of the pool. We'd be the only water polo players standing there with their hands in front of me. Ugly hunched over. Listen, I had a shocker. Absolute shocker. Sunday morning. I was about to go to the supermarket, Ben Boyce.

The weekly shop. It's my duty in the household. Are you the shopper in the household? Yeah, I am. Yeah, I normally am. I don't mind the supermarket, eh? Yeah. It's not bad.

Yeah, it's nice to be alone with your thoughts. It's the only time I see my mate Bryce, we bump into each other at the supermarket, and I was like, Jesus, this is what life's become. Just us pushing a couple of old nannies and nattering around the supermarket, pushing trolleys. But as I was about to leave, I thought, well, I'd better go and visit the, you know, nature's call. You love a supermarket toilet, don't you?

Oh, no, not in the supermarket toilet. This is in my toilet. Oh, prepping. Prepping for the departure. I thought it was another story about him using the supermarket toilet. Jeez, is that all you do? Just hang around supermarket toilets like a piece. The other one was when the door wasn't locked and someone opened it in the meat oil.

Well, that's the only other toilet story I've told. Don't make it sound like a... It happens every week. Don't make it sound like a... I don't even know the worst toilets in the supermarket. There's also another story of the toilet at a petrol station as well. Like, you in public toilets. He loves using a public bathroom. You get a lot of stuff done in public bathrooms.

Don't you? A versatile place. But anyway, so I've dropped... I'm holding my keys And I drop them in Yeah This is your home toilet This is home, yeah I don't really want to ask this question

Is this before anything had happened? This was during I'm not just swinging them around on my finger At that stage, there's two options Okay, well, buy a new car swinging them around on my finger. Oh, no. Yeah, no. So at that stage, you're like, there's two options. Okay, well, buy a new car and buy a new house because I can't get into the one I currently own. Or fish them out. And so I got the handle of the brush

and scooped them up with the ring. You know? Right, yeah, yeah. It's like a game that you'd play at a carnival or something. Yeah, like an arcade sort of game, like a claw game sort of thing. Yeah, in a much more hygienic environment. But anyway, he got them out, got them out. That's the main thing.

And the other main thing is that I don't hang around public tours, if I can get that message across. But I want to chuck this out there. Oh, 800, that's the telephone number. What have you flushed? What has gone down? We had an occasion where we were making a TV show in a guy's flat for a while. And it was all sort of four of us living there pretty much and making a TV show. And the toilet just started almost over.

Rising. Rising. Was it climate change? Well, maybe it was. The sea level was rising? Anyway, we had a conversation. We were like, anything happen? Everyone's like, nah, nah.

Anyone trying to flush anything? Nah, nah, nah. Okay, well it seems to be rising. Getting frighteningly close. Closer, closer. We're like, we've got to get a plumber around. And the plumber came around. Anyone trying to flush anything? We're like, no, no. And so anyway, he sorted it out. He did the work that they do, having to get their hand in and sort of... Just, they

are doing God's work, aren't they, the plumbers out there. And anyway, he came out with like half a power shell. And he was like, look, this was up there. And then one of the guys who were making the show went, oh, yeah, I tried to flush that. It had fallen off the top of the bathroom that was on display. It had fallen off the top of the toilet. And he thought, oh, we'll give it a go.

The only option is to see. To give it a go. But at no stage during the multiple conversations of, has anyone flushed anything in there? No, no, no. A giant power shell didn't come to mind. Didn't come to mind until the guy came out, the plumber came out with holding it in his hand.

He's like, oh, yeah, that would be me. I tried to flush that. There must be so many occasions where plumbers ask, and the person, they just deny it, hoping that it has gone far enough into the system that it doesn't like that look like they've caused an issue yeah we want to know this morning what did you try and flush yeah now we've got kelly on the phone what was it um false teeth mate oh geez did they fall out of your mouth and in, or were you holding them in your hand, or what was going on? No, no, no, no.

They fell out of my mouth, man. I was particularly intoxicated. Oh, yeah. Just spent a bit of time on my knees in the throne room and woke up the next morning with no false teeth. Oh, they'd come out in the year, right. Did you get them back? Sorry?

You wouldn't want them back, even if you did find them, right, after that? Yeah, that's a really good observation, mate. I definitely did not want them back. Well done, Ben. Good observing. How much is a replacement set, Kelly? Look, I was young at the time, mate. I was probably only 17, 18.

It cost me nothing. I don't know whether ACC paid or whether Mum and Dad had to front with that. Did you have falsies at 17? Yeah, just my two front teeth, mate. I knocked them out. I fell off my pushbike when I was about 10. Oh, right.

Knocked my two front teeth out and I've still got two front teeth on a plate now. Wow, we know what to get you for Christmas. Alan was the one who sang that song. If you could. If you could work that out for me, that'd be great. That's all he wants.

Lovely chatting, Kelly. Have a great day. Cheers, mate. You too, boy. Thank you. We'll get Natalia on from Tauranga. Welcome. What did you flush? My false teeth down the toilet. Another false teeth. Can we get any non-false teeth related calls? We're going to roll with it anyway. What happened with you, Natalia?

I was extra festive the night before and didn't even think about it. And they come flying right out and out and down they went. Listen, this is a copy and paste from Kelly's story. Yeah. Maybe people just shouldn't get so intoxicated with false teeth. No. Should be the take-off. Well, I've left my lesson.

Now I just take this straight out. Or maybe you could just drink less. Yeah, that's an option. No. You're awesome, Natalia. Have a great day. Thank you. Thank you. And Lindsay, what did you flush down the loo? Well, it wasn't me, but we had cousins over from Australia and having a few drinks one

night. So one of the cousins just appeared upstairs to the toilet, and then he comes back down and he's only got one sock on. So I thought, ah, I didn't really think too much about it. And then he's like, yeah, yeah, I need to do socks because you guys are out in the toilet paper. Oh, no. Did he improvise?

I told him socks up quite a lot now. So, he actually, oh, okay. Well, I mean, what was the alternative, I guess? Well, yeah. You could have yelled out, maybe. Yeah, I suppose there were options. I imagine the thought process goes, it's got to be the sock, it's got to have to be my sock.

Yeah, but then he could have lied about where the sock had gone to. I mean, it would have to have been a wild story. You would think, yeah. Oh, there you go. So the sock's still in the plumbing system, is it, Lindsay? Oh, I'd say so, because we keep randomly blockages in the toilet quite a bit up there now you could go you could go to the shower there's always an option

is he showering yeah i did it was a little sweaty yeah you wouldn't want to say why i mean there's no there's probably i mean he probably chose the best of the worst that were on offer oh you just you're just like, you guys mind if I just have a shower? You're like, oh, I guess not. What are you doing? He only came over for dinner, and now he's showering as usual. Lindsay, you look after yourself and company, okay?

Thank you. See you, mate. Lorraine is on from Rotorua. A lot of calls about false teeth going down the gurgler, Lorraine. Jeez, we must be rating well with the false teeth community of the show. But, Lorraine, you work at a wastewater plant. Yes, I do. And this happens all the time.

It doesn't happen frequently lately, but for many years the boys used to grab at false teeth and other things that obviously get flushed down the toilet and the boys used to keep a jar in the workshop with all these false teeth. Oh really? Yeah and over the years apparently there were the odd older person come in looking to see if we had retrieved the false teeth down the sewer line. And one man went for it to try and find his false teeth in this jar.

Gee whiz, he hosed them off back in the mouth. Away you go. Oh, away you go, mate. Away you go. Away you go, mate. What a Kiwi hero. What a hero. Ben Boyce, you're impressed but gross at the same time.

Well, yeah, like I like the fiscal nature of it. It's great, but I couldn't get over the fact that we're these teeth and bits. And then you're putting them in your mouth. But go on, yeah. Good on you, Lorraine. Have a great Monday, eh? Hey, you guys too. The Hits presents the Humble Yum Yum Podcast with Ganesh Raj.

Thanks to Countdown. It sounds like a really awesome podcast that starts next week on iHeartRadio. It's hosted by Ganesh Raj, who you know from Eat Well for Less. You can enjoy the magic of Christmas with Countdown's own range, available in-store and online at countdown.co.nz. And he joins us right now to tell us all about it. It's our mate, Ganesh Raj. How you going?

No way. Tell me it ain't true. Tell me it ain't true us all about it. It's our mate Ganesh Raj. How you going? No way. Tell me it ain't true. Tell me it ain't true. It's true. It's him. I can see your name on the phone system and everything, Ganesh. I'm sorry, gentlemen. I've slowly managed to weasel my ass in.

Oh, I love it. We love it. You can weasel your ass all over us, mate. We do not mind. Hey, this is very exciting. A new podcast. Yeah, bro. I mean, the Humble Yamanulke podcast is real now, gentlemen.

And I was thinking about it as well. Like next year, I'll do it with the two of you. Oh, awesome. We'd love to. We'd love to do that. But hold on. I do have a bugbear here, Ganesh. You've obviously recorded the season, have you?

Only five out of the ten apps are recorded. Five out of the ten apps are recorded. You know, for three years, Ganesh is like, I'm going to get you on my podcast. He said that to both of us, hasn't he been? It's been three years, Ganesh. And now he's putting it off to 2022. Listen, man, you're getting real sensitive in your old age.

So let's talk about who you've got on the podcast. Well, actually, no, let's back it up. Let's talk about the podcast. So what's the idea behind it? All right, here we go. So the Humble Yum Yum is finally a podcast. You know, the Humble Yum Yum was all about $20 for four people using one pot or one pan,

and you two have been supporting that for a long time, so I really appreciate that. But guess what? Now I realize that people like to talk to me about other stuff outside of food. Yeah. What gives? Let's do a podcast where I can discover the food habits

and the family habits of some of the most famous New Zealand people, including the two of you. In 2022. It's the coolest thing right now. And, of course, every episode after the chat, I make a recipe of what somebody talks about. And this is the best part. I'll give away a little bit.

But at the start of every chat, I ask every guest what their death row meal is. Oh, that's a great question. What is your death row meal, Ganesh Raj? No, but mine is a very simple meal that my mum used to make when I was a kid. It's turmeric and chili fried cauliflower with onions and garlic and then you just eat it with rice and yogurt and a mango pickle oh that does sound good i would go on all you can eat buffet just to drag it out and drag out the process and then he's 24 hour one this isn't shut no but this is the beauty so you have to think about like

when i ask you this question on the podcast 22 22, you're going to have to have a kicking answer from me, okay? Okay, we've got time. What's yours, Ben? What would be your detour? I've got to wait for 2022 now. There's too much pressure right now. No, but you're going to put more pressure on it waiting until 2022. Well, if I feel like, yeah, no.

Well, look, let's put it this way. That first episode, the right honourable New Zealand Personality of the Year, Hilary Barry. Oh, she's your first guest. What was her – can you give us a tease as to what her death row meal was? Absolutely not. All right. But let me tell you this.

Let me tell you this. Every episode, the best part is I take the death row meal and then I turn it into a humble yum-yum 20-buck-for-four-inspired recipe, and then I drop that with you guys on the hit and on the Herald every week. Yeah, boy. That's awesome. Yeah, because not only Hilary Barry, you understand, Tana Umanga, legendary reggae player.

We've got Tana Umanga. We've got Anita Wiglet in there. Oh, awesome. We've got Holly Smith coming on board, and then we've got John Wiglet in there. Oh, awesome. We've got Holly Smith coming on board. And then we've got John and Ben 2022. 2022. What a great concept for a podcast, though, Ganesh. So could you make a meal tasty for, let's say I gave you a $5 budget,

would you be able to whip up a tasty meal for $5? For how many people? I won't put too much pressure on it. Maybe 15. That's a lot of pressure. For 15 people, for 15 people we'll have to use the five for ingredients and we'll have to steal another

$15 worth of stuff. So there'll be crime involved. There'll be crime involved. Okay, a bit of shoplifting and then you can do it. No, but say for two people, could you make a good meal, you know, a good meal for two people for five bucks? I could. Right now, I could. Right this second, a meal for five bucks for two people

involves rice, frozen vegetables, eggs, sesame oil, salt and pepper. It's called Chinese fried rice. And he's just whipped that up for five bucks. Just like that. It's too easy. What a great idea. Really good idea.

Now, Ganesh, I imagine you have so many meals in your repertoire. You just have so much in your back catalogue. Do you ever have the same meal twice? Like, would you have a spaghetti bolognese one week and then back it up the next? Yes. You know why? Because if the meal is tasty, eat it.

Bro, that's a good attitude to have towards it. I like that. You know what I'm saying? Like, don't worry about it. Like, I just ate the same meal three days in a row at home because it was super tasty. Like, what is the – there should be no pride involved if the meal is tasty, right? If the meal is tasty, smash it all day, three days a week. That's how you save money, but also smile on your face

because you're not eating crap, you're eating good food. I love it, Ganesh. Well, it's going to be great to catch up with you more and talk more about the Humble Yum Yum podcast. People can get it on iHeartRadio. It sounds awesome. Thanks, man. Look forward to catching you guys soon.

Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on New Salted Bean. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The Heats. Now, News Hub released a poll last night, and as you were saying earlier in the show, it just feels like there was a poll a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, it's like you're standing in the, you know, line. Everyone's getting their polls out and trying to impress each other with the polls.

Do people do that? I don't know. One News had their poll out out and TV3 was like, oh, we've got a better poll. And so these are only seven days apart, although their results seem, well, they seem consistent, but quite different. Yeah, so Labour are holding steady around 42% in the poll.

National are down a little bit to 26.9%. But the real shock, I guess, for some people, but maybe not everyone, is ACT continues its meteoric rise up to 16%. Wow. Up almost five spots in the poll. And then David Seymour is comfortably in from the ACT party as the second preferred prime minister in this poll as well. Behind Rudy Judy.

Oh, he's the head of Rudy Judy. Is he the head of Rudy Judy? Yeah, he's the head of Rudy Judy, mate. So does it go Jacinda then him? Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. Judy. Is he the head of Rudy Judy? Yeah, he's the head of Rudy Judy, mate. So does it go Jacinda then him? Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow.

Sheesh. He's at 11.9%. She's at 6%, Collins. Oh, Rudy, Rudy, Judy. Sheesh. Yeah. Her eyebrows will be raised even higher with that result. Bridges will be going in for a rolling, wouldn't he?

Yeah, well, he's only at 2.5% in this particular poll. But I guess in some ways he's not the leader. So maybe that would change if he was the leader. I don't know. Well, listen, he's only at 2.5% in this particular poll, but I guess in some ways he's not the leader, so maybe that would change if he was the leader. I don't know. Well, listen, we need to call. One thing that we do love about David Seymour is he's very accessible, somewhat unusually so. Like, he probably needs to close off a little bit

because every time we call him, he'll just answer the phone. Yeah, he does, doesn't he? We phoned him once. He was in the middle of a 7 Sharp interview. He put that on hold to talk to the hits. Well, let's give David Seymour a call. Hello, David Seymour. He's polling higher

than Eliza McCartney at the 2016 Rio Games. David Seymour, come on down. Hey, look, I can't believe that I've been mentioned in the same sentence as Eliza McCartney. This is a new high for me. I feel like I've cleared a believe that I've been mentioned in the same sentence as Eliza McCarthy. This is a new high for me.

I feel like I've cleared a bar that I didn't think I would ever be near. Well, since Jono have been calling, I'm sure you've worked that out. I already knew it was you guys. You're doing great in the polls. I mean, what's going on? Well, look, I don't know if I should give you the political answer or the real answer. The real answer is we just listen to people, and, you know, we don't lock them up like it's bedtime. I've got to say, I've been watching you guys' Instagram,

where you get locked in bed by Jacinda, and you guys are killing it. You guys should get into politics. Maybe you are at sort of a lesser level, like Zuckerberg. David, surely National must be ringing you going, buddy, let's do something here. Oh, no, look, we are doing something. I mean, if you look at it from someone who just wants a bit of choice and a bit of responsiveness from politicians,

I mean, National's actually up a bit, acts up a bit more, and together we're closing in on this government, like, you know, puff the magic dragon on a scared child at bedtime. And, you know, we're actually going to be able to give the voters some real choice because the left and the right are almost neck and neck now. I'm sorry, David, we can't, like, we wouldn't be doing our job if we didn't call you out on your puff the magic dragon closing in on a scared child. I didn't quite understand it, to be honest, but I laughed along politely. You're going to have to go recruit some people

at the rate you're going at the moment. Yeah. Well, it's funny you should mention that. I'm really pleased that you're on the line. I was going to put something to you. Ben Boyce, number 18th on the ACT Party. First MP. There's funny weird and there's funny ha-ha.

We've got lots of weird in Parliament. David Seymour, hey, well, congratulations. Seem to be going strength to strength. Oh, look, you know,

weeks a long time in politics, et cetera, but look, you know, whether it's COVID or crime or the cost of living, we just try and listen to what people are saying

and reflect back a positive way forward because we all want a better New Zealand, right? It is David Seymour who stupidly keeps answering his phone to us. He should probably stop doing that. But hey, tomorrow on the show, make sure you join us. James Blunt is going to be on the program. Also Ben, Ben Boyce will be on the

program. Juliet, producer Juliet, producer Behams will be here. Yeah, we'll be here. We'll catch you tomorrow. Have a great day. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on the hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben, brought to you by Rosene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946.