Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's Predictive Text Blowout

Episode Date: November 7, 2021

Technology can be great but it can also be painful. Ben sent an email to someone but predictive text changed his words... And it got him into a predicament. We also spoke to a woman who nursed a baby seal in her backyard back to health, and so we opened up the phones to hear your stories of animal rescue! One story ended savagely... Finally, we caught up with the PM's partner Clarke Gayford and comedian Tom Sainsbury. Enjoy the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. 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. Guys, guys, how are you? Kia ora, Jono and Ben here.

It's the 8th of November, Ben Boyce. Now, can I just bring something to your attention? Yeah, what's it? My attention? To your attention. And to the attention of the podcast listening community. What would you like to bring to my attention? Sensodyne is a number one brand for sensitive teeth.

That's what I'd like to bring to your attention. I just read that on the TV. Sensodyne commercials, they're very emotional, aren't they? I haven't seen. Are they emotional, aren't they? Yeah, I think. Are they sensitive? Because that would be a good thing. That's their demographic, sensitive people.

But actually you joke about sensitive teeth but when you've got sensitive teeth oh Jesus. I know it really really is. The worst thing ever. I was banging on, how many times did I bang on about my root canal? Yeah you did. I was just banging on you, I could tell you were like hey mate you've got my root canal? Yeah, you did. I was just banging on you.

I could tell you were like, hey, mate, you've got a root canal. But you're right, when it's affecting you, it's just... But anyone else was like, give me a root canal. Shut up about your sensitive teeth. I wanted to have a root canal just to, buddy, not listen to you talk about it. I would have made that choice anyway. But I had to go back four times and get it re-rooted. I know, I know.

You heard about it. You were there. You were every step of the way. Anyway, so that's not what I want to go back four times and get it re-routed. I know, I know. You heard about it. You were there. You were every step of the way. Anyway, so that's not what I want to bring to your attention. What I bring to your attention is that as our area went into lockdown, one of the huge benefits you said was getting out of our never-ending cycle of shouting coffees for everyone. This is one of the benefits that you said.

You're like, we've got into this thing where one of us pays for everyone's coffees and it rotates around and I just don't like it. And so the lockdown happened. Cafes were shut. You had an exit pass. You were free of that burden. Yeah. Okay.

Now, slowly as things have started to open up, cafes and the like, so you can click and collect and wait at the door, I notice you've got deep back into this horrendous downward spiral of shouting copies. Well, it's just me and B-Hum. Oh, but the other day you were kind of opened up wider than that a couple of times, you know? But I'm sorry for wanting to stimulate business that have been doing it hard.

You know? I'm sorry for like, you know, for going out there. But I know you're like, we shouldn't do this, we shouldn't. You keep saying it, but now you're back now. It's hard. I find it hard not to say yes to, I know. But I know you're like, we shouldn't do this, we shouldn't, you keep saying it, but now you're back now. Producer Humphries is coming. It's hard, I find it hard not to say yes

to that situation. Because I could, you know, you can go without a coffee. I've had a coffee this morning, I can go without, but then I'm like, oh, he's going to go to coffee,

he's like, would you like one? And then I'm like, well then next, tomorrow then I'll feel obligated to get him one and that's how the cycle starts. Well, it sort of started, it started last week. You're like, no, no, no, no. I'm like, well, then next tomorrow, then I'll feel obligated to get him one. And that's how the cycle starts. Well, it started.

It started last week. You're like, no, no, no, no. I'm done. Well, I've started doing just straight raw coffee. Just chewing the beans with my mouth in the morning. I was thinking that as well, which I understand why you're doing that, because I don't have a lot of milk. But you don't eat at all. So the milk would have been just a little bit for your body, just to give them something.

You're like, oh, he's getting coffee throughout the day he's getting some milk in there now you've taken that away from your body just raw caffeine pumping through these veins buddy yeah yeah they're through no food through for yeah but two double shotters i have in the morning before i get to work yeah two double shotters whacking back and uh i don't need it to be fair i don't need it i can imagine fair, I don't need any more. I can imagine you would. I would be worried about your safety and health if you're in the same room as me if I had any more coffee. Yeah, and obviously I'm not running at your high coffee level. So.

No, it's good. It's good to be back in the cycle. That's fine. I know. I'm not going to judge you. Well, yeah. It felt like you were. But that's fine.

Yeah. I was just saying you had a pass out. You were out. Oh, no. You were out of the game. I'm retired. All right. Maybe I'll go one more because now had a pass out. You were out. Oh, no. You were out of the game. I'm retired. All right. Maybe I'll go one more because now I owe Ben one.

You know, this is the thing. I can't exit the game now. I'll try. I'll come back in and go, hey, thanks for the coffee. Hey, just so you know, I'm out. See how he takes it. He'll be like, oh. But then there's the thing.

You then shout the next round. He feels obligated. You're right. OK. Well, maybe I'll buy it tomorrow and then I'll be like, that's it. We're out. The madness. We're on our own. You're right. Okay. Well, maybe I'll buy it tomorrow and then I'll be like, that's it. That's it. We're out.

The madness. We're on our own. You're on your own. I'm on your own. Because only the Squid Games gets down to the final few. Everyone's on their own. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Hey, podcast today. First man in New Zealand, Clark Gayford, who you have a history with, don't you? We used to work together on a TV show back in the day. Yeah. You made a TV show out of his flat, didn't you? Yeah, we were. We were editing in the kitchen. Was Jacinda sniffing around then? No, I never met her.

But it's crazy to see just, you know, what they are doing. I watched the news a couple of years ago, I think I told you this, and I was like, Clark and Jacinda had like a private sort of 20 minutes conversation with the Queen. That's right, yeah. And you're like, Clark! Clark! It's awesome. It's really cool.

So he's got a new book out actually. It was quite interesting. He nearly died. He nearly died spearfishing, which is quite a harrowing tale, wasn't it? Yeah. I know. Very, very scary situation. He bought a trampoline as well too for Niamh, which is kind of cute.

But in Wellington too. So, I mean mean you jump up and you get blown off to... Well it depends what you've got you know, the new age jobbies, none of us want the kids falling off the trampoline, hey I'm guilty of it, we've come with that netting around the side, you know, the spring free jobbies

back in the day, and a school of hard knocks, major who you were getting your groin jammed on a spring that really built childhoods didn't it? Made you who you were. Yeah. Getting your groin jammed on a spring. That really built childhoods, didn't it? Not now. So what I'm saying is if a net trampoline would be catchy in the wind in Wellington, a net-free one, though, it'd be not too bad, you would imagine. Yeah, true.

Maybe they should have gone with that. But then, yeah, you don't want to be. You can't have knee falling off. No. No. All right. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits.

Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome along to the show. It is a Monday morning. We're kick-starting another week, though, with you guys and hopefully giving away some money this morning. Lovely to see you guys. Juliet, you right, mate? Yeah, good.

A little bit sunburnt from yesterday, but we get through it. It was nice weather over the weekend. It was. Right around the country over the weekend. It was lovely. It was nice weather over the weekend. It was. Right around the country over the weekend. It was lovely. It was good to take your skin out there and just give it a good old crisping for that first sunny day.

I'm so annoyed at myself. Burn off those moles and get prepped up for summer. Ben Boyce, I see you've had a touch up on the mullet. Yeah, I got the family to have a hack away at my hair again. It's gone higher. It's gone higher up the sides. You never really want to hear that

because the kids had a crack as well and then my wife sort of did it a little bit and then she went the old, oh, and you never want to hear someone go, oh, when they're cutting your hair. She's like,

oh, it went a little bit higher on that side but it just kind of. Yeah, she fell into that trap of having to even each side up and now it's really, it's really running at the top of your head there.

It's up there, it's up there. Yeah, we'll put a photo on his breakfast Instagram. I had to actually cut Oscar's hair, my son, yesterday as well. Gee whiz. Sham balls. It looks like he literally has grown a mushroom on top of his hair.

I tried to blend between the shave and the hair bit at the top, and I couldn't. I can't do the blending. So it's just quite an abrupt drop off from the top of the hair to the shave bit at the top, and I couldn't. I can't do the blending. So it's just quite an abrupt drop-off from the top of the hair to the shave bit, really creating quite the line in his head. We've got an exciting show coming up. Clark Gayford, first man of New Zealand, he's joining us after 8 o'clock this morning, isn't he, Ben Boyce? He is.

As well as that, we've got $5,000 up for grabs. And if you want a wee clue for what the words are this morning, you can head to The Hits Breakfast on Instagram and Facebook. You can see the words ahead of 7.45 so you can formulate a game plan, and hopefully you'll win $5,000 this morning. Woo! That and plenty more. Jono's excited.

Is he? I just keep saying woo. I'll start enjoying Monday. Woo! There's that. Going hard and ooley. Go hard, go ooley. Go hard and ooley.

Hard and ooley. Go hard. With Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Both our kids, all our kids, you know, they're growing up fast. And a couple of our kids had a birthday. Your daughter Poppy, my daughter Sienna, had a birthday over the last week, which really shows.

Gives you a sort of a reminder of how fast they're growing up. Yeah, they have birthdays every year. Yeah. I noticed. These will roll around quicker and quicker. It sounds like such a cliche, though. I'm not allowed to take down the, we bought some letters that spelled out happy birthday, but you blow each one up.

Yeah. I'm not allowed to take that down from the wall. So how long are you going to leave that up for? I don't know. Every day I'm like, can I remove this from the wall? It's like a birthday shrine. I'm like, we're not writing this out until next November. Yeah.

Well, it feels like only yesterday that me and my kids in particular were very small. And then over the weekend, I had a couple of reminders of how much they've grown up, not just the birthday, but Friday nights, fireworks going off. As soon as we heard it, my daughter, Indy, turns to me and goes, oh, we're going to be in for a long night. I'm like, geez, what are you? She sounded like my mum. But hey, you've instilled that in the boys' clan. You put that in their DNA. You're not a fan.

You've publicly said you're not a fan of private fireworks. Yeah, I she's like oh we're gonna be in for a long night and then my daughter cnr of the weekend came to me with a very interesting question and like i do with everything else that she comes to that i feel it's interesting i record it and then i put it on the radio what a birthday treat for her here was her question i thought it was quite interesting okay so if you were to go to any decade in the history, where would you go to? Any decade at all? Yeah, in the history, the whole history. Oh, great question.

So if you could go back to any decade, where would you go? Would you go way, way, way back? Yeah, that's a good question. I tell you what, I've been loving the last couple of years, actually. I might just stay where I am, thank you very much. I'm feeling quite comfortable. I was like, maybe I I go back at least two years That would be nice

Where would you go? I reckon you'd make a good Sort of Wild West sort of guy 1930s How long are you there for? Is it just to pop back and go Oh yeah Or is it to pop back and go

Well this is me That's a good point And what did she say? She was like maybe you go back for a week. So you get to go back for a week. Oh, you just get a little taste of it. And then you don't have to stay if you don't want to. I was thinking 70s.

It seemed like a wild time. Yes. I was going to say 70s too. Yeah. So maybe. So fun. Yeah. Well, you need to have a week of orgies and free love.

Move on. That's exactly why I was going to come back. Is that why you're back there? Jeez, guys. I am rinsed. Won't you come back to 2022? I've got nothing left. That's for sure.

I started with some wholesome chat and that's how we ended up there. But that's that show. It's a good question though. Don't try and pull it back now. I'm wrapping this up. I've finished the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Don't pull it back now.

Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. The hits. Now, Tom Sainsbury, he's the Snapchat dude you would have seen all over social media. He does amazing impressions. Everyone from Paula Bennett. Hi, sweeties. It's me, Paula Bennett.

Yeah, so we had a great week this week, didn't we? We all had a great laugh, didn't we? Big laugh. We all had a great week this week didn't we we all had a great laugh didn't we big laugh we all had a big big even does at the moment uh a really great character called boomer dad no no you wait here i'm gonna go and pay for the parking now where's the thing where's the thing you pay at oh there it is i can't read that use keypad to enter your license plate yeah uh he is very funny and extremely talented and he joins us right now. Tom Sainsbury, good morning. How are you, buddy? Really good. How are you guys going?

We're going alright. It's always lovely to hear your wonderful voice. Tom, are you being well, bud? Yeah, I've been great. I've been loving it, being an introvert. Yeah, no, you would be. Not even to go out and see anyone. I know. Now, you describe yourself as the Snapchat dude I've seen online. Is that what

people would say to you? Is that what, oh, it's the Snapchat dude. Is that what you get yelled at? Yeah, it was like a decision. When I first made my page, I don't know what I was thinking. I could have said anything, but I decided to say Snapchat dude, and now I'm kind of married to it. Hey, now you're going to WOMAD, World of Music and Dance in New Plymouth, which I understand.

I've never been, but it looks like a great weekend, Tom Sainsbury. Yeah, I can't wait. I've got this section called World of Words, which is like writers and novelists and painters and things, just to talk, rather than to play the music. Oh jeez, I'd love to be included with writers, novelists and painters, but I'm not, I'm never in that category.

Not yet, wait until your memoir comes out. Yeah, well because that's the thing, you describe yourself as Snapchat dude, but then you also, playwright is next to it as well. I mean, so that's the thing, you describe yourself as Snapchat dude, but then you also playwright is next to it as well. I mean, so that's, you know, quite a difference in how you describe what you do for a job. Look, I want to say more highbrow, but it's not. Some of the plays I've done have been pretty lowbrow.

Oh, great. What's the lowest thing you've written, Tom Sainsbury? The lowest thing I've written, it's really maybe a Ernest Terminator 2 inspired play. Oh, a whole play on Terminator 2? Yes. But he was earnest. What, was he looking for love or something? It was more like, how would I describe it?

He was being more persecuted. I'm so embarrassed to even be talking about it. I just want to talk about it without a doubt. Secret shame. Actually, speaking of your career, I was reading on the IMDb page last night that you were in a movie with Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe. Well, yes, I was.

And he came up to me and said I was hilarious, so I'm going to take that to the grave with me. I'm literally one of those parts that's 13 seconds of screen time. But you know what? I eat up that scene. What was the character you were playing in this movie? Oh, my God. The singing dude at the office. Yeah. There's no name for him. It's like the Singstar were playing in this movie? Oh, my God. The singing dude at the office.

Yeah. There's no name for him. It's like the sing-star dude or something, right? Yeah, sing-star dude. That's right. Is there any profession you have that's always ending in dude? Snapchat dude, sing-star dude, WOMED dude. This is a good precedent for me.

We've got Tom Sazer with us. We love catching up with him. You can catch him at WOMED. Now, you're always doing great videos online. I'm loving the Boomer campaign you're doing at the moment. But it's very funny. Boomer dude. Boomer dude.

I love Boomer dude. But I wanted to know, because producer Juliet, who works with us, she's always on her phone. Kia ora. What's your screen time? Let's compare screen times and see who's got the most amount of screen time on their iPhone right now Who do you want to go first?

Okay, you go first, Juliet, and then Tom Sainsbury can look at his screen time My weekly average is six and a half hours a day at the moment He's judging, he's judging That's a lot, eh? Mine's all

45 Juliet, well done You've got an issue He's judging, he's judging. It's a loss, eh? Right. Mine's full 45. Oh, Juliet, well done. Juliet, you've got an issue. I do. And it's the social media dude. It's the dude, yeah. It's the dude. It's the dude.

Well, that makes me need to question my life choices there. What are your characters, Tom? Do you pull anything from people that you know in your life, family members? Do they see these play out on the internet and become viral hits? And do they ever hit you up about them? Really interesting because I thought I was safe on Instagram because my parents weren't on Instagram. So I started doing this boomer do.

For me, it's like my dad, 100%. And then my dad signed up. He signed up to Instagram for some reason to watch my videos. I'm the only one he followed. And for some reason, he looks like a bot, and he's chosen a Russian woman as his photo. Has he got a wife? Yeah, he's with my mother.

He looks like, if you saw him, you'd think he was a bot. But anyway, he said, I loved him. I loved that boomer, Dave. He's so funny. What an idiot. I was like, whoop. Nothing more. Hey, Tom, another great show that you're part of, too.

Give us a, we're just sort of rattling through your career. This is your lifetime, Sainsbury's. I don't know if you knew this is what we're doing today, but we are. And do you recognise this voice? No, Tom, you are part of Give Us a Clue. And Ben, you want to play a bit of a game with Tom Sainsbury? Yeah, just the end with Tom Sainsbury. Jono, I've got some famous people's names, famous New Zealanders.

Jono's going to describe them to you and see how many you can get in 60 seconds, all right? Okay. Jono doesn't know about this, so I'm really throwing him under the bus here. All right, Jono, I'll hold them up. I'll hold them up one by one. Here we go. Okay, time's up. Host Seven Sharp, you've worked with throwing him under the bus here. Alright, Jono, I'll hold them up. I'll hold them up one by one. Here we go. Okay, time's up. Host, Stephen Sharp, you've worked

with him quite a lot as well. Stephen Sharp, is that Jerry Wells or Hilary Barry? Yes. You impersonate her. Used to be in the National Party, now hocks off real estate around Auckland. Oh, Paula Bennett. Well done. Fancy Gucci

Italian leather loafers. Very judgemental. Maracana. Yes, Mark Hos Bennett. Well done. Fancy Gucci Italian leather loafers. Very judgemental. Maracana. Yes, Mike Hosking. Well done. The Hippo. He was, what is he, Minister of Education. Looks like a little boy. He never ages. Kip Hickam. Yes, well done.

He was leader of the National Party. Got rolled by the lady with the high eyebrows. Summer Bridges. Oh, yeah, rolled by the lady with the high eyebrows Summer Bridges Lady with the high eyebrows There you go Well done Tom Sainsbury You nailed that Always good to catch up with you man

There you go and Taranaki Womad March next year Tom Sainsbury Love hanging out with you have a great day mate Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Now, this Thursday and Friday, we're hooking up one town and city with free fish and chips. It's all thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup.

Last week, it was Christchurch and Nelson that had it, and so many people came out. It was awesome. Free fish and chips, how good are those? Amazing, man. They're the best I've ever had. Brilliant, yeah, really good. Oh, it's amazing.

Just amazing. Thank you. How about that, Heinz? That's absolutely pretty good, isn't it? Oh, I love it. There's some greasy and happy people. Yeah, people were very happy. So if you want your town or city to get free fish and chips this Thursday or Friday,

head to the hits.co.nz and nominate your city. And it's all thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. Packed full of tomatoes, which makes it thick. And now the Sands and Nelson on Friday. It was in the news, made the news. And apparently the wonderful owners from the Sands, they had a long line. And we sort of said, you know, between 12 and 2, you get free fish and chips, thanks to Heinz. We've got a cutoff limit.

Okay. We've got some structure. The owners from the Sands kept cooking so they'd get to the end of the line. So everyone in the line, I think they kept cooking for under 40 minutes. So everyone had free fish and chips. That's awesome. Good on them. So head to that stock.nz if you want to nominate. Or maybe they've just charged that to our credit card. I don't know.

Your town or city. Next, there's a TV channel for dogs. I'll tell you more. Listen, he spends his time during the songs silently sifting through his computer and I assume he's gathering news for this or are the catfishing lonely old ladies? It's one of the two.

I won't say which one. Now this afternoon Cabinet's going to review its in-principle decision. Now we talked about this last week. Jacinda was like, in-principle Auckland will move to step two of the phase. As you behave yourself. It was a bit like Mum was saying, yeah, I'll give you that if you did this.

So from 11.59 on Tuesday this week, retail looks set to be open on Wednesday. All going well. Although there was 200 cases over the weekend. Let's not worry about that. Let's just move on. It's all positive stuff now. Now, what I like about it is it seems the higher the case,

the more likely we are to be open. Yeah. And that makes a lot of sense to me, given the history of this whole COVID thing. I guess we've got to keep things moving. And some positive news over the weekend. All three DHBs in Auckland now have reached 90% for first dose. Yes, sir. Two shots this summer. So that means all going well.

We're about three weeks away from the confusing traffic light system that we need to get our heads around. Yeah, we've got a bit of time to adjust to that. Oh, that's positive stuff. So what happens then? Aucklanders can just go and spread their wings throughout Aotearoa? I don't know. Or does the rest of the country have to be at 90?

Is this what we're aiming for? I think so. I think every year to travel, but then it was like, we're not going to keep you around at Christmas. Oh, so who knows? I wonder if you've got Auckland when we reach 90% and just say

another region reaches 90%, can we travel between those regions and just not go to the other regions? Oh, the 90s. Yeah, can the 90s form a coalition, you know? Yeah, I love it. The 90%ers, baby. We'll find out. And over in the UK there's a brand new TV channel and it's created specifically for dogs.

Now it will launch this week in the UK. It's called Dog TV, and it's had three years of research going into this channel. So it's basically set up for— That's three years, way too much research. Yeah, it's a streaming service that is set up for dogs that stay at home during the day, alleviate stress, anxiety, and loneliness in dogs. So they've come up with a whole TV station, a whole network for dogs.

The shows include The Dog Chef, Road Dogs, Paws for Love, Things We Woof About, Meet the Breed. These are actual shows that are going to be on dog TV, but it's actually a thing, a friend of ours. Oh, Bronnie. Yeah, she put the TV on for her dog when they were going out, and she'd have a great debate with her husband about what sort of mood the dog was in.

Is he ready for a rom-com? Is he feeling more like a dog? They'd turn movies on for Kevin, wouldn't they? That's the dog's name. Yeah. Yeah. And they'd be like, oh, he's in a bit of a rom-com mood. I think that'll be good for him.

Full weddings and a funeral, maybe. Yeah. Yeah, so the dog would be sitting there and crying its eyes out. Yeah. An emotional movie. But what I mean, that seems like a gross waste of resource. Dogs and me? Making dogs.

How do you know if the dogs are enjoying it? Well, yeah, a lot of people. Well, they've done three years worth of research to prove me wrong. When we were hosting the critically acclaimed Dog Almighty, there was a lot of people that sent in photos of their dogs watching the show. Remember that? We're seeing the other dogs. Dogs like watching other dogs. Yeah. I dogs yeah i love road dogs but they're the road dogs are

obviously they're on the road but they're sort of you know cops what are they i don't know see now you want to stop for you stop for you uh basically you just take any human reality show and put dogs in it love island dogs where they're all just bloody... Oh, yeah. No, I reckon they'd be fornicating less than the people on Love Island. That's for sure. I'd love to make some shows for dog TV, wouldn't it?

Wouldn't it be cool to make some? That's a less judgmental audience, Ben. He's always said, he's like, we need to make shows for little kids. Kids? They're not as judgmental. Yeah, that's the market you want to tap into. That sweet sort of three to five

year old age range. Before they start turning on you. Before they start figuring out they can write on comment sections on the internet. Yeah, that's our problem. Dogs and toddlers, that's our market. $5,000 up for grabs at 7.45 this morning. If you want to win that, go

to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram and Facebook. See the words for today and you've got a huge advantage grabs at 7.45 this morning. If you want to win that, go to The Hits Breakfast on Instagram and Facebook. See the words for today, and you've got a huge advantage ahead of 7.45. Jono's Internet Wormhole. Uh-oh, like someone who's accidentally taken horse tranquilizer, he's lost in a hole. An internet hole. This is a fun part of the show where old Japes over here, Jay Pryor, gets click-baited, side-clicked on those articles that I might be interested in. And boy, oh boy, am I interested in them.

Now, coincidentally, this is someone that we had appear on the show on Friday, Joe Rogan. You know Joe Rogan? Yeah, he hosts one of the biggest podcasts in the world. And he was having a go at the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern last week. He was making big news here in New Zealandaland uh have a listen have you seen that lady who's running new zealand if she even gets asked questions at press conferences people yell out questions he goes we're going to shut this down we're going to shut this down if you keep yelling out and she just leaves she's like a lady trump credited accredited press only and so she

leaves like she she took the press conference Yeah, took the leap on the accent there. Gave it a bash. Sounds like he's Mary Poppins or something like that. She sounds adorable, doesn't she? But yeah, anyway, that lady from New Zealand, Lady Rain, New Zealand. So that's Joe Rogan. And this was actually a little internet wormhole request

written in from a little boy named Benjamin Boyce. You wanted to know more about Joe Rogan. Yeah, I did actually, but I didn't want, not enough for me to do the Googling. But I was like, hey, why don't you, to you, why don't you do it? It could be a little weekend project. It's not Ben's internet wormhole, is it?

No, that's right. So I thought it'd be interesting for me to know and for everyone listening right now to know a bit more about Joe Rogan because he's obviously one of the biggest stars in the world. Oh, he's got the biggest podcast in the world. You're right, yeah. And he hosted Fear Factor,

which you might remember from a few years ago. And what's beneath, you know, that leathery, tattooed, 100% beefy American exterior? Well, I'm about to tell you some facts about Joe Rogan. Juliet, you know My Chemical Romance, the band? Yes, yes, I do. Gerard Way, the front man. Okay.

Yeah? Yeah. Joe Rogan's cousin really oh is that not that good i guess so you feigned interest but you know i know the band but i don't know the front man you know my cousin's the thing you're like oh okay yeah no okay i really regret asking to come up with these uh oh james oh one here. Okay. He doesn't speak to his father. His father left him and his mother when he was five years old. Really?

Yeah, didn't it? Yeah, he's never spoken to him. Never spoken to his father. Did you know he used to be on a Disney show? No, I didn't. No, here we go. Eyebrows raising out. I wasn't his cousin on the Disney show.

He was on a Disney show called Hardball. Just lasted one season. Okay. Much like Jonah on Being Good Sports In and out, it's done, one and done He suffers from vitiligo Vitiligo Vitiligo, thank you Juliet I gave it three stabs and none of them were right

Which is sort of A disease which you get on your skin Pigmentation of the skin, you know some people Can end up with giant white spots Usually around your mouth, hands. Michael Jackson had it, but his was quite severe that he ended up, his whole sort of body colour changed. Yeah, so he's got it on his hands, Joe Rogan.

Wow. And he gets it filled in. Really? He can get the colour filled in. Okay. Okay, yeah, so Ben's, are we winning him back? Yeah, slightly. Do you know he almost had a UFC fight

with Wesley Snipes, the actor? Joe Rogan? Really? Well, he's a mixed martial artist as Wesley Snipes, the actor? Joe Rogan? Really? Well, he's a mixed martial artist as well. Yeah, because he does the UFC commentary. So he actually gets in the octagon, does he? Yeah, well, yeah. He was going to fight.

He was training to fight Wesley Snipes. Then he ran into some issues with the inland revenue, Wesley did. I've been there before, Wesley. I know what it's like, mate. They always wanted you to pay tax. So the fight never happened. And he also he got into a fight on the show Fairfactor with a married couple. So the lady slapped

another contestant and Joe Rogan, well, Joe Rogan was having none of it. You don't run up and hit other contestants. No, hey, hey, hey. No, hey, hey, hey. No, hey, hey, hey. Oh my God. And then all of a sudden they start going at it. And I was like, alright, I gotta break this hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, When has a host ever choke-holded a contestant? I'd like to see Bradley Walsh do that, some of the contestants. Some of the J's.

Choke-holding a contestant. So that's good. And could almost be a professional pool player, Joe Rogan. That good, isn't he? He spends two hours a day playing pool. Two hours a day? What a waste of time. I mean, pool's not that enjoyable, even when you're drunk playing pool.

Two hours, there you go, the internet wormhole in Joe Rogan. Very interesting. Hey, before 7 o'clock, we've got some Spy Entertainment news. Big news about Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Yeah, do they want a divorce? Is this even happening? More details before 7 o'clock. And as it hits, you've got Jono and Ben. Spy, the WhatsApp, spy.co.nz

She's like a celebrity gobbler, chewing them up and spitting them out like a waste disposal. I'll hand you over to the gurgler. It's Juliet. Thank you. So after Kim Kardashian's backed back hangouts with SNL star Pete Davidson, Kanye West has now unfollowed Kim on Instagram.

Kim still follows him. I had a wee look-see. He's probably not very happy with old mate Kim. But as well as that, which is interesting, he also said that he and the kids don't want the divorce. He spoke publicly about their divorce for the first time and said he hasn't seen any divorce papers. He's not keen for it. But on the other side, he said the media don't want them to stay together.

They want the divorce because that means they want it to be a new wedding, a new episode, a new TV show of Kim and Kanye's futures. Basically them staying together would probably be boring for the news story. So they haven't lived together for a long time because he moved to his ranch in Wyoming. He's got a big ranch there. So she was obviously

based in Los Angeles where the bulk of her work would be, you'd imagine. So it'd be hard to maintain a marriage when you're at a distance such as that, Benjamin Ross, boys. Well, yeah, true. Your thoughts, over to you. I guess they probably got the benefit of private planes,

I'm sure, in that situation. Yeah, true. But you're right, it is difficult for that, yeah. I know, I know. And I feel like he's probably not very happy that she's gone to a younger, maybe quite comedic man. Like Pete Davidson is quite a funny, charismatic dude. He maybe feels a bit threatened.

But there are lots of memes going around about Pete Davidson being like, am I the only person in the world who now hasn't dated Pete Davidson? Because he's just gone through so many people. He has. He's chewing through them, isn't he? He's putting Ariana Grande. I know, I know. Kim Kardashian. I know.

There's only two. Sure, there's been some others in between. A few more. There you go. 15 hours and 6 minutes to drive from Los Angeles to Wyoming. That Kardashian. I know. There's only two. Sure, there's been some others in between. There you go. 15 hours and 6 minutes to drive from Los Angeles to Wyoming. That's a big commute, isn't it? It's a big drive. It's a big drive, yeah. It's a big drive, yeah.

I don't think they'd probably ever drive, would they? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Can a relationship last a 15 hour, 6 minute drive? Who knows? Who knows? And Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and Dwayne The Rock Johnson, they've just finished filming

a new film with Netflix called Red Notice. So Ryan Reynolds is having a little bit of a break from filming at the moment, but this was his most recent project. And Ryan explained that he wasted millions of Netflix's dollars while filming this new movie. Basically the reason for this, when I saw this headline being like, Ryan Reynolds wastes millions of Netflix's dollars, I was like, what did he do? But the reason for this was because he kept making all of his castmates laugh in the middle of takes so they wasted so many takes.

Not even takes that he was in, like he'd be waiting by the sidelines and just like bounce in behind the camera and distract them. And I think this movie is Netflix's most expensive movie. It's got the biggest budget they've ever had. And it's going to cinemas first, I saw, over the weekend. Is it? Wow.

It's Netflix here in New Zealand on the 12th. Yeah. But it's in cinemas right now overseas at the moment. Yeah, so it's huge. The Rock, obviously, Ryan Reynolds, Gagadah. It's massive, you're right. It's the biggest thing they've ever invested in, Netflix. He sounds like he was an absolute menace on the set.

A pest. I know. Because I guess the longer they're waiting on set around, the longer the days are, the more expensive it is. Yeah, time is money. There you go. That's a film for Ben Boyce, tell you what. Ryan Reader, who he loves, and Dwayne the Rob Johnson.

I know, I remember this one year it was November 12th on top of my head. He's even got Gal Gadot as a screensaver, so I know that's the ultimate film. I saw her in Wonder Woman, which was very good. She's awesome too. I haven't got her as a screensaver. I just felt like he'd point that out. Because often people, even our boss Todd was like, did you say that? And I said, no, Jono said that I said that.

It's not true. Oh, that was because the Bird of the Year, and you tried to run the Bird of the year sweepstakes in the office with the ladies of the office. And I didn't. I thought it was clear enough that you were joking. So I didn't go, no, I didn't. And because I didn't go, no, I didn't, even our boss was like, did you really? Oh, hey, I'm disappointed in you, Ben. I'm like, I didn't.

Here, do you win the running Juliet for bird of the year? Here and there, mate. Okay, here we go. I didn't. I didn't. That is great. That is great. And the bird of the year, when, here we go. I didn't. I didn't. That is great. That is great. And the bird of the year,

when will that be announced, Benjamin? Will it be a batch? No. Vote online at the hits.co.nz. All the hot babes. Ben's bird of the year.

That's smart for you this morning. For more, you can go to the hits.co.nz as well. After seven o'clock, your chance to win five grand. It is the hits.

You got Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the Hits. Good morning, New Zealand. Jono and Ben with you. It's gone 7 o'clock. We've got $5,000 up for grabs in about 40 minutes' time with five words for 5K.

But he did it again. He's done it again. The prankster who invaded the pitch ahead of the All Blacks game a couple of weekends back where he dresses up in full kit and he joins the players. Well, he did it over the weekend. He basically lined up with the Japanese rugby side over the weekend. There's Jarvo. Jarvo's 6'9", isn't it? I don't know how he does that.

How is he? Yeah. And then everyone's like, oh, you know, is he taking away from other people's special moments? It's like, no, he is doing a hilarious prank that we all enjoy. We don't mind about their special moment. I always love the reaction from the last player in the line, the last actual player in the line when they see him

next to him. He gets a double glance. I'm pretty sure I knew everyone on the team. Maybe I'm being subbed out today. Standing there with the Japanese team in full kit with his hand over his heart And another one on his belly as well As the anthem was playing

And then midway through the anthem security come away And sort of take him away But I don't know, who's paying his fines? He must have enormous fines Yeah, and what he does though is he picks wonderful moments Where he's not going to get spare tackled By an over-enthusiastic security guard in a high-vis vest. Because, you know, it's going to be a grim look

if someone just mows him over in the middle of the Japanese national anthem. So they have to gently just remove him. So he's picked his time beautifully. Well, next on the show, a wonderful story I saw on the news the other night. An Elson vet who has basically found a baby seal who was not very well away from his family has been nursing the seal back to health it was on one news the other night and we're going to talk

to the owner of the seal and next it is the hits you got jono and ben the show where the masks make them look a whole lot better can't say this better than jono and ben new zealand's breakfast now on one news the other night, I saw this adorable story. A baby seal named Molly, a seal cub who'd been nursed back to health by a Nelson vet named Mana Stratton. But the baby seal is not the only animal she's helped. A full-time vet, Mana, with the help from Mum Frances, volunteers her time to take care of the sickest wild animals.

Without Mana, I think the outcome for a lot of the animals wouldn't be so good. It's awesome what she and her mum is doing. And she joins us right now from Nelson. Mana, good morning. You've been helping out this baby seal. Yes. It sounds like Ben might be breaking news to you. Yeah, you know about this, right?

Well, she went back to the wild yesterday. Oh, there we go. It's a happy ending. I was like, I thought you were about to say she actually passed away last night. No, no, she exceeded her 15 kg limit, and she really had the attitude by then so we took her out to a isolated little colony of seals and let her go oh that's lovely so you nursed the seal back to health oh geez how do you transport a seal you sort of you know strapping it to the top of the roof of the corolla what's going on

there mana no i have i have a transport crate stick that on the back of a ute and took her up to the colony of seals. Let her go off the back of the boat and she just went straight over to the seals. Pulled herself up onto the rocks and immediately went and found another seal that's similar age to her, all having a bit of a play together. Oh, it would have been like you dropping your little kid off at kindergarten for the first time. Yeah, I mean, it's one of those moments where you're like really, really happy, but you have to admit that you're a bit sad too.

Well, it was adorable. Yeah, that's your reward is to get one back to the wild. What I did appreciate, Marta, is you had the little baby seal in your classic blue para pool, one of those rubber jobbies that sit on the lawn. Oh, it brings back wonderful memories of my childhood, but they would be needing a good chlorining, I imagine, now.

And I need a good clean. It's purely for seals and penguins. Oh, is it? Yeah, because this is what you do. You look after your rescue animals and help, you know, basically get them to, they can go back to the wild.

What sort of animals do you have or have you had over the years? Quite a variety. To be honest, we released the seal yesterday and I have come home with a penguin chip. Oh, you've got a penguin now.

Jeez. You trade or you did a deal with nature. You're like, I'll give you this back and I'll take another one. Jeez. You did a deal with nature. You're like, I'll give you this back and I'll take another one. Yeah. Yeah, basically I released a 15kg seal and came home with a 150g penguin shit. Oh, good on you, man. Now, you'll be happy to know, and I've actually nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize, a Grammy and an Academy Award.

Ben Boyce. Last week, he rescued a goose. It was a goose just turned up on my doorstep out of nowhere, a baby goose. Yeah, so I had to take it out to bird rescue. But, yeah, it's one of those situations. He didn't know what it was, though. The whole family was like, is it a duck?

Is it a swan? Is it a goose? So that was probably, I mean, you would probably know what the bird was if it turned up on your doorstep. They spent about an hour just talking around in circles as to what it could be. Yeah, I've had a few interesting cases where I've been rung up, you know, such and such is coming in, and when it comes in, it's like, yeah, actually, no, it's not quite that. Yeah, that was the voices last Wednesday.

But it was one of those times. You're like, how does it turn up? How do these things happen? He's also saved a bald eagle as well and that bald eagle is me, Mana. He's saved my career. So he's a true hero, this guy. Hey, well, well done on all the great work you're

doing. It must be very rewarding work. It is. Days like yesterday where you get to take them back out and see them reunite. That's the real reward. Do you know I was reading an interview on you too, Mana? Do you know what the best piece of advice Mana's ever been given?

What's that? If someone annoys you, get to know them better. Oh, really? That's quite nice. That's a great bit of advice, Mana. Yeah. So when a seal starts biting you, just get to know it better. I appreciate your time this morning. Really great talking to you. Keep safe for Nelson, all right?

I will do. Such an awesome story, that one. Now, if you've done the same thing, we'd love to hear from you this morning. Tales of Animal Rescue. Have you helped out an animal like Mana or many animals like Mana? Love to hear from you on 0800 THE HITS. It is Coldplay 7-11. Never an honest word Mana, love to hear from you on 0800 The Hits. It is Coldplay 7-11.

Never an honest word, but that was when I ruled the world. Now we're just talking to Nelson Vett, Mana Strattener, who in her spare time has helped around 40 varieties of animals and birds, including an adorable story that was on one news the other night, how she helped a seal cub that she nursed back to health, which is pretty amazing. Yeah, well, let's welcome a 37-year-old. Her hobbies and interests include getting ready for work and calling up radio stations when they're desperate for phone topics.

Leilani, what did you save? What animal did you rescue? So at the time I lived in Whanganui and we lived up Drury Hill and there was a little duckling and we couldn't find it's mum, couldn't find out where it had come from couldn't work it out door knocked and anyway thought

well because Virginia Lake is where all the ducks hang out in Whanganui, it's like a big pond lake thing and so we thought we'd take it down there and some other duck would you know take it under it's wing and adopt it you know, new mummy thing and look after it, we'd take it down there and some other duck would, you know, take it under its wing and adopt it, you know. Yeah. New mummy thing and look after it.

Well, we took it down there. It was about 15 to 100 minutes drive from where we were. And took it down there and let it go. And we were like, yay, someone will look after it, you know. Oh, no. Do I want to hear? It's fine. I don't know if I want to.

Just duck ate it. Oh, no. He fell through just right in his mouth once. Oh, no. I knew that story was's mouth on Goldberg. Oh, no. I knew that story was going to a place I didn't want to hear. He tried to do the right thing, and obviously the circle of life. That made me think twice about ever saving another animal. I know you must be meant to be there.

It's the circle of life. I did the same. There was a bird that ended up in my daughter's bedroom. We nursed it to, well, we wrapped a towel around it and put it on the deck and it was a savage bloodbath with the neighbour's cat. Oh, okay, okay. I can't hear these stories.

This is too much. This is too much. The intention was there, though. Yeah, your intentions are the greatest. That's right. Hey, good on you, Leilana. Appreciate your call. We'll get Steve on from the Waikato. Welcome, Steve-o. How are you, buddy? All good? All good, Jack.

Nice to talk to you. Animal Rescue, Steve. You've played it. I have played it several times. And it's always via my landlord and her children. They came up with a chicken and it was all soaked in yoghurt because it had fallen in the yoghurt pot and they didn't know how to save it. I ended up bringing this thing up now. It gives me eggs, so I'm quite grateful for that one. How did a chicken fell into a yoghurt pot?

Yeah, well, they've got these chickens and they were feeding them yoghurt and it hopped in and got all soaked. And then about two weeks ago they came up with six ducklings. I've got these chickens and they were feeding them yogurt and it hopped in and got all soaked. And then about two weeks ago they came up with six ducklings. And I looked at it and I went, oh, okay. So I googled it and found I have to get their temperature up to 35 degrees. So I went and bought a special blanket. And these things are getting bigger and bigger, and they shower with my wife. Oh, really? Are you okay with that?

You're like, hang on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, one's called Bird Spring because it squeaks too much. And the other one's got a little bit of a bung eye, so we call that Pirate. Slowly fixed its bung eye with a bit of saline. Oh, my God. You've done a great job in nursing.

And in the shower, are they getting a little shampoo?ine. Oh my god, you've done a great job of nursing. And do you like, in the shower are they getting a little shampoo? You're having like a little... So you've got to take them out and dry them and then put them under a heat lamp real quick so they get all their body temperature back. But I went out to Budding and bought a $15 sample

and turned it into a pool. Oh, cute. Oh, Steve, he's like a... I love it. He's a truck driving version of Noah, he's like a, I love it. He's a truck driving version of Noah from Noah's Ark. All the animals are slowly going to make their way to Steve's house. You have a great day. You too.

So good. Thank you so much for your calls and texts. We've got $5,000 on the line. We do that every morning at 7.45. Five words, 5K coming up very shortly. Hey, predictive text. Yeah, predict. What is it there for?

Like, it just seems like it's there for this moment right now where you go, I was trying to do something the other day and a predictive text said something that it wasn't meant to be. Yeah. Like, is it really that helpful or is it unhelpful? It's technology that's, you know, sort of 80% you know, it commits to you about 80% of the time. It's like Wikipedia. You're not going there for hard facts

100% of the time. You want nearly correct stuff. And that's what predictive text provides. Sometimes I don't even notice that it's changed something, that you write in what you think you want to write, and you don't realise it's changed it. The predictive text has just changed it to something else. Maybe it knows you think you want to write and you don't realize it's changed it. The predictive text has just changed it to something else. Maybe it knows you so well. Is

it predicting it knows you so well? Oh, this is what Ben would say. This is what my old mate Ben Boyce would want to chuck out now. Well, I didn't know until the other day. I sent an email on my phone to someone. I was just booking in something in a few weeks times. And I said at the end of it, like I'd say at the end of many, many emails many emails thanks heaps that's all i wanted to say was thanks heaps ben but i auto corrected to thanks jesus and i didn't realize that i just sent it away thanks thanks jesus ben i sent it away and it wasn't it wasn't until i got back an email from the person going god bless you ben and i was like oh which is lovely it was just like the lovely and then the lovely little quote religious quote

at the top of it which was lovely oh that's so cute like it was about Jesus being the way the truth and I thought it was awesome

I mean you know like I'm not here right now if that's your you know that's that's amazing but what I really enjoy about this is

you're not a Christian you're not so now now and he's got the inner turmoil of he also is a very polite person he's like how do I of he also is a very polite person. He's like, how do I tell this person that I'm not a God-fearing human being?

I look like I'm very Christian, just go, hey, thanks, Jesus. And they've got time to go to the Bible and hunt out a quote that they feel would be applicable to you. For someone who's also like, yeah, it's too late now for me to go, oh, when I said that before, I didn't mean to say thanks, Jesus. But it's not. I mean, a lot of times I have a problem with saying thanks, Jesus. It's probably just not something I'd round out an email. So now I am in a bit of a situation with the person that I'm like, oh, do I go back and go, oh, no, I didn't mean to say thanks, Jesus? Well, you know, as the Catholic representative of this program, you know, a proud Catholic, proud Crizzo.

You do go to church. He's like, you're the worst Catholic ever. That's what he says to me. Have you seen all the Catholics? Man, there's some pretty bad ones. Yeah, true. Yeah, true. I'm a good scale.

I'm one of the good ones. I'm a poster child for Catholicism. So what do I do in this situation? Just ignore it? I feel like it's just better to ignore it now and just go, well, he's. But then what if he's like, hey, man, what are you doing this sunday morning bro do you want to come to church oh but yeah it depends how how long will this email train go on for like well not much more like it's just a one and done then it's fine why don't you chuck a you know john 314 back at him

or something oh no i don't want that he's hit you with a religious quote Come back, volley back baby, it's a game of tennis God tennis It's lovely, it was a really lovely It was a lovely message to receive Christians are lovely people, and you're a monster pretending to be one No, don't mate Don't Now he's trying to pin it on predictive

Now he's trying to blame Apple Oh Jesus That's very funny. 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 every morning on the hits. We say five words, you tell us what pops into your head after those

words, and if they all match with one of ours when we play it, then you win $5,000. A long time between drinks, too. That's why we're giving you a bit of an advantage over the last week or so. You can head to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram. It's just on the story there. We put up the five words that we're going to use the night before so you can develop a bit of a plan because, you know,

we haven't had a winner for a while and people are starting to get upset. And, Ben, that's one of his morbid fears is upsetting people, isn't it? Yeah, we've had a look at the words, obviously, as well. We know what they are. I reckon word four for me today is probably the one I'm like, oh, this one, you know, like a couple of options that could go either way. Well, we'll go to Marlborough and see what Angela thinks. What did you think of word four today, Angela?

A bit tricky. It's a tricky one, I thought, as well, looking ahead. But, hey, well, one of us could be in sync with you. Hey, you're a nurse. You're a nurse. Just finished the night shift. Just finished the night shift, yep. Oh, jeez.

Nurses, eh? You do God's work, don't you? You running some crocs? Do you run some crocs, Angela? No, no, I don't, actually. I thought that was the official footwear of the nursing community. It is for theatre nurses. Ah, right.

What is your role? What do you rock? Pediatrics. So I wear funky tights and bits and pieces for the kids mostly. Oh, funky tights and bits and pieces. Well, Angela, let's win you bits and pieces of money, $5,000 worth. Who are you going to send into the booth? Jono, please.

All right, I'm heading in. Watch out for word four. It's tricky when you come back out, Jono. All right, Angela, here we go. Jono is in the soundproof booth. He can't hear any of this. What do you want to say when I say on? Off. On, off. Makes sense to me. Hay?

H-A-Y. Sorry, just spelling it for anyone that hasn't heard it. What do you want to say? Shed. Hay shed. Nice. Pedicure is word number three. Pedicure? Manicure. Oh, okay.

Water is the one I thought was a bit tricky because there's many, many options. There's lots of options for water. Yeah, I'm going to go bottle. Okay. That actually is very, very smart. That's quite smart. That was actually none of mine. I asked you before, didn't I? Why did I not think of that? That's quite smart. That was actually none of mine. I asked you before.

Why did I not think of that? That's so obvious. When that song was playing. Let's hope that Jono thinks the same as you. And the final word this morning is airport. Plane. Plane. Just plane, not planes, right?

Just plane? Yeah, just plane. Plane. All right, here we go. Well done. It's a quick game. You know the words that are coming up. Jono probably didn't have any time to really think about anything.

No. Every time I go in there, I hope it's going to be like an episode of Extreme Home Makeover where you come out looking better than you did when you went in. But if anything, I look more beaten up and weathered. And when I come out of that box, Angela, how'd you go on word four? Yeah, good, hopefully. I think she did actually really well. Yeah.

She said it. I was like, oh, okay. But hey, let's see if you think the same as Ang right now. Okay, I'm going to play a quick game, because I know you like a quick game. Benny always looks up at the clock and he's like, this thing's dragging. So for Ben Boyce's sake, we're on fire today. Alright, here we go. On. Off.

Nice. Hey. H-A-Y, you know. Hey. Hey. Ched. Ooh, Angela. I didn't think I was going to get that one. Ah, pedicure. Go the opposite, manicure. Yes, nice.

Water. Bottled. Ooh. Oh, no. What do you mean no? No. What happened? You said bottled.

Yeah. She said bottle. Oh, Angela. You got the ding through, but you didn't. Then I second guessed my name. Angela. So close. One letter.

All good. I'm sorry, mate. What was the fifth word? Airport. Plane. Oh. Angela. Angela We're a D away from A D

One letter Oh good We'll send you out some wild We've got some wild bean bee hunts We'll send you out some wild bean vouchers Let's try and do this again Angela We were so close One letter Big news with with ed sharon talking about being diagnosed with

covid next it is that she got jonah and ben spy know what's up by doco.nz uh if it's jay low or jay z have been jaywalking jay roth will be talking about them over to juliet rothel what's happening spy so over the weekend you may have heard about the really tragic events at the astroworld festival now this is uh rapper travis scott's festival travis is kylie jenner's partner um for a bit of context and in houston in texas eight people lost their lives due to a massive crowd surge in the middle of the festival so basically the crowd sort of began to compress towards the front of the stage, which caused panic and injuries. People began to fall.

They sort of got crushed and struggled to breathe and then became unconscious, which caused more panic. And in a crowd of 50,000 people, that is so hard to get ambulances in. I saw some footage of an ambulance just trying to get through a crowd through the crowd it was crazy um they uh the performance carried on too i don't know if they realized what was exactly going on but yeah well it's a two-day festival normally but they cancelled the second day after what had happened um but deaths that happen in crowds like this i was doing a little bit of research, and it has happened in the past.

It's usually because people are often getting squeezed so hard that they can't get any oxygen. It's not often from being like a stampede or anything like that. But something for a bit of context, when a crowd surges, the force can be strong enough to bend steel. That is how intense it can get in a crowd. That's horrible, horrible situation.

Horrible, horrible. And you know, he would be feeling just... Oh my goodness. Wouldn't he? He'd just be feeling so guilty and responsible for it. I mean, they're all the reason he's there. I know. And I also think probably in a post-COVID world,

everyone was probably so excited to get back to festivals, get back to concerts, that everyone is just so excited and want to get to the front. And that's just what causes the panic within the crowd. It's awful. Ben makes fun of me of sitting in the old man seats, don't you? I like to book myself a comfortable seat. I take along my little seat mattress, you know,

I carry that with me too. It's lovely. It offers a layer of protection. But I was just reading an article too that, of course, now they're investigating his past, Travis's wild festival past. And they interviewed one guy who he was like Travis Scott encouraged him to jump off a balcony in New York. Really? He's like jump into the crowd they'll catch you don't worry and you know ironically the

crowd didn't catch him so he landed on his back and then Travis Scott felt so bad he's like security bring him up here so the security carried him up and he took our rings off his fingers and gave them to the guy. Oh, wow. As an apology. Right. Yeah. Hopefully he'll send them off to White Cross as well. Yeah. As another apology.

Oh, it's awful. Just got to be careful in those situations, don't you? Yeah, you do. You've got to be sensible, Juliet. Yes. I'm talking to you. I know. I used to be a front of the moth to a person. Oh, I bet you were.

But now I prefer, you know, having a bit more space. Being able to actually dance at the back is quite nice. Once you've got your two shots for summer, fam, just be careful. Yes, we will. And Ed Sheeran has now recovered from COVID. That was quite a speedy recovery, it seems. But he has opened up a little bit more about his diagnosis

and how he reckoned he actually caught it. Quite an odd thing, getting that and then having to announce it to the world. Like, I really didn't want to announce it to everyone, but I had to cancel, like, three big things inland and i didn't want to be rude and be like i just don't want to turn up for this you know did you did you have heavy symptoms at all or i assume you were vaccinated yeah i was yeah but i was super ill and run down before i was also doing like getting up at like 6 a.m starting starting Zoom interviews and getting up at 3 a.m. and getting a Eurostar and going to Paris.

And I was really, really, really run down. There you are. Well, I think we're responsible for that because we were making him get up and do Zoom interviews all through the night. Sharon's COVID's on you, Ben. It's going to become more of the, sadly, more of the norm, isn't it, by the look of it, New Zealand?

You're going to know people or you may encounter it a lot more, you know? Well, there's a stigma attached to it, isn't it? And, you know, I imagine there's a certain level of, hey, it's not the virus. I mean, what is it? It's not the person or the virus, whatever. They say some stuff. The virus is the problem, not the people. And it's going to be more and more of that.

So bear that in mind as it seems to be spreading, unfortunately, around New Zealand. Well, I imagine you'd be embarrassed, wouldn't you, if you had a, you know, like if one of us bought it in here, you'd be like, oh, yeah, Juliet's got her flat that I could have given it to. Be in your family. Bee Hut's got a new baby. You'd feel guilty. And you're not doing it on purpose for it, you know.

No. It's scary. I was just out kissing some stranger. It wasn't my fault that I caught COVID. And that is your Spy Update for this hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock on the show, we're joined by Clark Gayford to talk about his new book that's coming out as well and how he almost died.

A story when he was in Niue. It's a crazy story. We're going to talk more about that. And Laura McGoldrick from the 3pm Pickup joins us about what she calls her partner. It is the hits. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben, 7.58. We're going to find out later today if retail is going to be opened up in Auckland

as of Wednesday this week, if Auckland can join the rest of the country. What happens with malls in that situation? I think I heard over the weekend they are open just with social distancing and masks are required, the shops and the malls. I imagine the food court and places like that aren't open. But hey, what do I know? What do I know? What do I know?

I'm just some guy talking words on the radio. And no bars or restaurants, though. That's out of the question. No haircuts, no gyms, nothing like that at the moment. God, I wish you'd go get a haircut. He's come to work. He's altered the mullet. The mullet has gone more shaved and more high up the sides.

That's what happens when you get your family to do it. It gets, you know, a lot of height on the sides. A lot of height. It's almost turned into a mohawk mullet, hasn't it? Yeah. Yeah, you look like a UFC fighter, doesn't he? Yeah, so I'm hoping, I'm the only one hoping lockdown will continue so I don't have to see anyone.

But over in the UK, the malls are open over there and you know it's always tough to find a car parks at the best of time you know it's always an awkward situation but there was a guy driving out of a westfield shopping center in london in his tesla and he ran out of battery just as he was sort of trying to go out and held up but No one could do anything for three hours. Oh, my God. Yeah, he's that guy. Five-story car park, three hours. He blocks everyone in. He was the guy that ran out of.

Have you read Jimmy Carr's book? Yes. The comedian Jimmy Carr. I started reading it. It's really funny. Very funny story. He went to test drive a Tesla. And so he took the sales agent out with him and his girlfriend and they drove around and they came back and uh they pulled back into the garage and uh the the

sales agent was like i'll go move the cone from the car park so you can park in and uh what jimmy didn't realize is that doors swing up some sort of like a delorean sort of futuristic doors they swing up and so he was like well, he's walking quite a way. I'll go and drive and pick the agent up. And he took off, but the door was open. And it ripped the door clean off from the garage roof. Oh, my God. He wasn't sure he was going to buy the car until that happened.

And then he bought the car. He wound down the window. He's like, I'll take it. The guy's going from a real angry face to like, oh, okay. Yeah, all right. Sweet. Then you spend $50,000 on a new door. It is a hit.

It's got John O'Baird. New Zealand's breakfast. It's John O'Baird. It is a hit. John O'Baird just got 8 o'clock on your Monday morning. Looks like in principle things are opening up a bit more in Auckland as of Wednesday. Jacinda Ardern was also on TV this morning saying Aucklanders will be allowed to move around around Christmas time. That's what she's saying.

She's not sure how that's going to happen yet, but she's saying it as well. They've tried the allotted time slots, didn't they? Yeah. They gave that a go. That just got ripped and ridiculed. I think we were part of that mob, weren't we? It felt like Chris Hipkins

was just throwing out things you know a brainstorming session you know what about this? And everyone went oh that's the worst you know when they say

no idea is a bad idea but that one seemed like a bad idea Hippo's like never do live brainstorms he went back and talked to him so he gave a good

long hard look at himself in the mirror but it's pretty awesome that all three DHBs in Auckland as of yesterday have got to 90% on the first vaccination.

So that means they're all going well around about three weeks until double back. So the country doesn't fully open up, though, until everyone is at 90%, right? So even... I think so, unless things are going to get reviewed on the 29th, and then they'll go, ah. We're only joking. We just did that as a little bit of a thing. Julia, you had a concept where 90%ers

can go visit other 90%ers. Yeah, yeah. That was Juliet's pitch. Form a little coalition, you know? That sounds like something the hippo would live brainstorm. Yeah. What if we did do a 90s movie and hung with other 90s? Yeah. We could play 90s music and we'll dress in 90s

clothes. It'll be like a throwback. The 90% Club. You can lord it over the rest of the country. Hey, next, we had a conversation after the show on Friday about what we all call each other, or our partners call us. You know, numbnuts is a popular one in my household, for me. But, yeah, we're going to get into this next. Does Ben Boyce have a nickname for his wife, Amanda?

Oh, we'll find out after Justin Timberlake. It is the Hits. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there and then I backed out. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. It is the Hits. Jono and Ben with you on a Monday morning. We're just talking

on Friday, just as we were leaving the studio and we were like, we must discuss this on Monday. We'll pick this conversation back up on Monday and loop around, as they say. I wanted to text you over the weekend on it, but I was like, no, no, we said Monday. Yeah, no, we'll cease talking about it now. And now's the time to bring it back, Benjamin Boyce.

And it was like nicknames that you have with your partner and whether you do refer to each other with nicknames. So, like, does Amanda, your wife, call you Boise? Which is your nickname? No. No. Not generally. Not generally. I imagine you run a pretty formal operation at home.

Good day to you. Good evening. Good day. Me good lady. It's a pleasure to meet your acquaintance, Benjamin Rolls-Royce III. Yeah, Rolls-Royce. I like that.

Yeah, so no nicknames rolling around your house? No, really. You're not a huge nickname family as such. Now and again, I like that. Yeah, so no nicknames rolling around your house? No, really, not a huge nickname family as such. Now and again I would, you know, I occasionally, her maiden name's Talbot, so I go, all right, Talbot, now and again, you know. Just to keep things spicy? She's like, oh, Talbot, there you go.

And that's why she stays with him. He's unpredictable. No, it's me, just mixing things up. You're a fan. Oh, Talbot. I do Dole. Yeah, tell it. I do doll. You're doll. Doll or genbo.

You're kind of one extreme to the other. More like a mate with genbo, and then quite often like, oh, hey doll. Hey doll. It sounds like I'm a cast mate from Greece in the 60s, the original one, when you call her doll, didn't it? Hey doll, sugar pants. You know, quite a little bit chauvinistic, but yeah, those are the ones. But there is someone on station.

She refers to her husband with a nickname, Laura McGoldrick. Welcome to the show. Lovely to have you on. Good morning. How are you? Bloody good to have you on, Loza. How are you? And tell me, have you slept at all?

Because the Blackcaps are playing overnight and you're doing our work for Sky Sport at the moment. Have you been to bed? No, I haven't. No, the game started at 11. You've just got to power through sometimes, as you know, with these early morning starts. But I was worth it. Black Caps victory.

We go through to the semifinals on Wednesday and play England. Can we talk about the fact that your nickname is Boise? Now, where is that from? Obviously, it's just a surname, but I don't know if I'll ever be able to call you that. Call him Boise. No, whatever. I'm trying to get it off the ground.

No one's really called me Boise. Am I a Boise? I don't think I'm a Boise. It's like the Rosatron from Friends. It's a little sticky. So, Laura, you call Martin Guptill, your husband, Guppy. Yes, I do. Does he call you Lazar?

No, no, he does not call me Lazar. He calls me Lou, but that's because my nickname, my middle name is Louie. He said my whole family calls me Lou because, well, why would you call me Laura? I don't know. Why would you refer to me by the name you gave me? It's very weird. So, Guppy,

Martin's just a bit serious. It's always been a name that sort of panics me when I've said it. It certainly panics me any time I've called him Martin. So, I think the second time I ever called him Martin was in my wedding vows. And the first time was because I said, should I call you Martin? And he said, nope. So, that was really the long and short of it.

Marty though, there's the option of Marty though, you know, but you've gone with the guppy, which I like, I like guppy. You know, when you're calling Martin, he must be in the, he'd be in trouble when he gets a Martin. Oh yeah, if he gets a full name, but it's quite funny because our daughter is just starting to understand that maybe like daddy, like lots of people him Martin Gutsall, and she's always like, who is Martin Gutsall? Who is Martin Gutsall?

Yes, Marty, it makes me think of a tomato, and he's ginger anyway, and I just think, you know, he's just guppy. I like guppy, it's great. And hey, the other day, didn't he lose like 89 kilograms when he was batting in Dubai? I know, it's why I booked a flight to Dubai, out of here. He lost he lose like 89 kilograms when he was batting in Dubai?

I know. That's why I booked a flight to Dubai. Out of here. He lost four and a half kilos. He batted for an hour and a half. And it was so hot. He just sweated it out. Wow.

Four and a half kilos in 90 minutes. Yeah. Jeez, I tell you what. Everyone in Auckland who's coming out of a lockdown is going to fly straight to Dubai. Laura, I really appreciate your time this morning. You have a great day. Get some sleep. Go get some sleep.

What is sleep? You guys don't know much about that. That's true. Laura Begoldrick from 3PM Pickup, for her nickname for her partner. Okay, 0800THEHITS is what we want to open. Are you calling your partner by a nickname? You don't actually use their real name. Maybe like Sweet Cheeks, Porkchop, Sugar Lips.

I don't know. I'm just making these ones up on the spot. But 0800, that's 4487. Do you just roll the nickname? The more funny, the better. We've got some wild bean vouchers up for grabs as well. We'll do that after Adele. Easy on me on New Zealand's Breakfast.

Tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe. And that's all I have to say thanks Dr Ashley Jono and Ben New Zealand's Breakfast now we want to know this morning on 0800 the hits

did you give your partner a nickname and what is it? yeah now I imagine you're not a nickname guy Ben you know you've publicly stated where you sit with public displays of fireworks and public displays of affection we spoke about that on Friday yeah I did talk once about the fact that where you sit with public displays of fireworks and public displays of affection. We spoke about that on Friday.

Yeah, I did talk once about the fact that I just called my wife bro by mistake once. Oh, no. They don't like bro. No, bro was, and it wasn't, what was the intention? You're like, thanks, bro. Yeah, yeah. Excuse me?

Yeah. Did you just call me? Yeah. But I was looking at a survey here of 1,000 adults. Researchers found that 87% of Americans use pet names in relationships Compared to 74% of Europeans I don't have the stats on New Zealand Because apparently we had better things to do with our time Than take part in that survey

But that's where we sit internationally We'll start with Kerry Welcome Kerry You call your partner what? Morning guys I call my partner Kiri. Kiri. Because he's got a really hairy chest.

I shall name you Kiri. Kiri and Kiri. I like that. It's good. Yeah, it's been about 20 years, and sometimes I actually forget his real name's Brian. Oh, right. You forget your husband's name.

Well, it's been about 20 years that I've called him Harry. So when I have to write it down on forms and stuff, like, oh, my gosh, it just goes out. So would you introduce him as Harry? Like, this is my partner, Harry, if I'm meeting him for the first time? Yeah, and he kind of blushes sometimes. And it's just like, oh, my God, why do you have to do that? Well, because then he's like, why are you called Harry? Then he has to lift up his top.

It's self-explanatory. That's great. Kerry and Hairy. From Donaldson's Dairy. Great idea. We'll send you out a wild bean voucher. You and Hairy can go get a coffee. Sounds great.

Good idea. We'll get Tiana. I'm from Auckland. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Tiana, what are you calling your partner? I call my partner G. Or if he's in trouble, it's Gianni, which is his last name.

Oh, Gianni. Yes. Are you married to an Italian model or something? Yeah, sounds like it. I like it because it makes my name sound like I'm from Italian Martha. Tiana Gianni. Are you Tiana Gianni? Oh, that's a great name. I know, right? I love it. I married him.

It's the only reason I married him. Tiana and G, you can go off name. I know, right? I love it. I married him. It's the only reason I married him. Yeah, let's do it. Tiana and G, you can go off you can take the Sicilian Mafia to the Wild Bean Cafe, alright, for a coffee? Oh, thank you. We thank you kindly. Ciao. Ciao, Bella. Hey, good on you, Peter.

We'll get you. Oh, you want to go to Tom, shall we, Jew? Tom, welcome. How we doing? Yeah, good, Tom. What are you calling your we, Jew? Tom, welcome. How we doing? Yeah, good, Tom. What are you calling your partner, Tom? Well, her name's Hannah, but her nickname is Murray. Oh, you call her Murray? Yeah, I call her Murray. What?

Okay, well, okay. Do you introduce her as Murray? Yeah, to everyone. I don't know, I said it years ago, and then it sort of just stuck, and now everyone calls her Murray. How does Hannah feel about this? Probably not. She probably doesn't like it.

But I'm rolling with it now. You're enjoying the joke. Yeah, Murray's a great name. It's a beautiful name. It is a lovely name. Yeah, right. So, Tom and Murray, you're off to Wild Bean Cafe. Oh, thank you.

All right, we should try and get Murray on and see how Hannah actually feels about Murray. Shall we? You hold it. We'll get Murray's number and try and get her on before the end Anna actually feels about Murray. Shall we? You hold there. We'll get Murray's number and try and get her on before the end of the show. Wild Bean, thank you so much for supporting the show. You can shout morning tea next time you're passing Wild Bean. You get your sixth coffee free when you use the BP Me app at Wild Bean. It's One Direction.

You're on the hit. Joined right now by the first man of New Zealand, the first bloke in New Zealand. He's got a new book out, Fish of the Day. Clark Gayford, good morning. How's it going? I'm doing very well. How are you guys?

Yeah, doing well. Now, Clark, you're in Wellington at the moment? Yes, yeah. No, I've been holed up down here for some time. Must be. You guys must be living a crazy life at the moment. Yeah, well, we sort of had 20 minutes to throw my possessions in a bag to come down at the start of the last one.

But now for several months, I'm like, maybe I'm just a Wellington person. Yeah, that's where I look at. If I had the choice, I'd be a Wellington person too. Did you, you know, packing up in 20 minutes, you must have forgotten some pretty important items. Is there anything you need us to dip over and grab and courier to you? Oh, man, I would love to, Jono, but with your

arrest sheet, I'm not sure how you'd go getting from the front door of my house. You just actually bought a trampoline in Wellington, I saw on your social media. A very cute photo of Niamh dressed as Wonder Woman, I think it was, on the trampoline. Yeah, well look, I'm definitely putting some roots down. When you buy a tramp in Wellington, you're

committed. I came with a set in Wellington, you're committed. I came with a set of anchor pins, and I put them as deep as I possibly can into the ground. Now, of course, you love fishing, and you've always wanted to be a fisherman, fisherperson. What is this, 2021? What do we say? I just say fisher.

A fisher. You wanted to be a fisher since you were a little kid in Gisborne when growing up. You memorized something I was reading. I did. I got stuck into all the Latin names. I was real nerdy and I used to just pore over all the fishing books in the house and I sort of

learnt all the Latin names of the fish and all of their lifestyles and characteristics and where you could find them. Well there you go. She's had an exciting childhood. The book does look awesome. It's a mix of amazing fishing yarns and recipes. And speaking of fishing yarns, you had a pretty scary experience in Nule.

I did. I enjoy spearfishing a lot and blue water spearfishing, which is out deep chasing big sort of pelagic fish. The ultimate nemesis of a spearfisher just about anywhere in the world is a fish called a dogtooth tuna. It's a big powerful, powerful fish that lives in on the reefs but they sit down deep so you have to deep dive to get them and basically

I didn't hold my breath long enough and I didn't breathe up properly and I got dragged down about 30 metres after I had a line break and it dragged me down about 30 metres before I released myself, and I didn't quite make it back to the top and blacked out. So I, yeah, passed out.

It was a bit of a scary moment. And so was there anyone else down there with you, or was it just you and the tuna? It was just me and the tuna down there, but up on the top, thankfully, was a Nguyen guy. The funny thing was, if you can find some humour in all of this, at the start of the day, he'd misheard my name as Mark, and he was calling me Mark all day, and I didn't really care.

I hadn't really corrected him. And he saw what was going on, and he grabbed me, and he held my head above the surface as I came back around. And as I came back around, all I remember is this large Noaian guy staring me in the face going, Mark, Mark, wake up, Mark. Wake up, Mark. We can't lose you, Mark. You're very dear to me, Mark.

I've just Googled the dog through his tuna. It is an ugly-looking fish. Oh, cool. They're cool-looking fish. Big mouthful of teeth. Yeah. And one of the most incredibly powerful fish to ever be attached to. They're just amazing.

And beautiful eating, like stunning white flesh tuna. Well, you're so passionate about it. It's so awesome to see you doing something you love and booking on TV. When you travel around the world, and sometimes you get to do that before COVID, with Jacinda and, you know, for government reasons as well, you travel. Is there anyone you've talked to, you've been surprised that you've met, that has been a fisher person, a fisher like a fisher like yourself she's really struggling with this the frightening thing is is that when you go and meet some of the world leaders uh and their

partners they've obviously been given a brief on you and so that is a natural point at a conversation started so it's the strangest thing to be like talking to the Prime Minister of Japan and he'll turn to you and start talking to you about fishing. I always find it quite unusual. In fact, I had a one-on-one with the Prime Minister of Japan's partner, Aki Abe, and she was so nervous in all of her years in that role. She had only ever received first ladies and I was the first guy that she'd ever sat down and had a cup of tea

and did our sort of formalities with. So she brought along to our meeting, they have this sort of ambassador of fish called Mr Goh who dresses with a big fish on his head and he has these crazy big jazz hands and he draws these amazing pictures of fish and so she brought him along to our chat and we sat there and while we were chatting he was furiously drawing pictures of new zealand fish and he'd learnt them all and he was drawing pictures of them and i kept guessing them it was amazing oh so you played a little uh like a picture like a picture he'd have these pictures he'd draw them

and then he'd cover them up and then he'd start slowly sliding a little bit up, and I'd see the tail, and I'd go, ooh, I've got that. I think that's the back end of a teraki there. Now, we've got Clark Gayford with us, Fish of the Day. He's got the book out. Does Jacinda fish? Yeah, she does. She does.

You know, obviously circumstances have changed, but actually one of our first ever dates, I took her out fishing, and it was like this weird scene where the water went dead flat, and then we had a whole lot of dolphins show up, and she cast her line over the side, and the very first fish that she caught within maybe three seconds of her line going over the side

was this 14-pound snapper that she was struggling with, and she was like, is this good? Is this good? Yeah, it's good. I mean, a risky first date on your behalf too. Like taking her out fishing, it's either going to go one of two ways, isn't it? Luckily it went the right way for you.

It worked out the right way. The whale show up. It was amazing. Oh, what a magical first date. Ben doesn't do anything special like that for me now. No, that's gone from our relationship. Before we go, What do you mean?

You guys go fishing in an inflatable castle? It's true. We did. Yeah, bouncy castle. Oh, yeah, on Lake Topol. That was a wonderful first date. That was in our early stages as well. Yeah.

Now I'm just a dead fish to it. Clark, nice to catch up with you, buddy. And if people want to get the book, where can they get Fish of the Day? Oh, from all good booksellers and there's places online as well. It's full of great recipes as well, so perfect heading into Christmas to maybe catch a fish to go and pull out one of those recipes and try it. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion.

Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The hits. Now, there's a bit of a bone of contention in your relationship at home at the moment, Ben, over the use of your garage Which Ben slowly turned into a costume Hire shop He's got a pinch on for collecting costumes

You were saying the other day because we did something for Halloween And we got some costumes from Look Sharp And I've taken them home and put them in my garage Yeah you're like I'll take those things So you did ask politely I saw them there with my costumes And my wife Amanda she is excited about more costumes in the garage she hasn't even ever parked her car in the garage not once not once

of when she's like most people would have a garage that you know that was the reason for getting a garage was to put the car you know the car in there and I'm like well it's at the moment I need to have my uh inflatable monstersers, Inc. costumes in there or my Wairarapa Bush rugby jersey or, you know, sports gear that says Jono on the back as well as Ben, you know, in case I need both of those. What is it with you and costume? I mean, you've collected many over the years. Like, how many do you think you have in there, realistically?

Thousands? Oh, not now. I could have. I could have. It was getting away on you. It was getting away on it. But at the end of the hour, our old'Byrne TV show I was like well I kept a few

So that few But now I'm like At that point I'm like Am I ever going to dress up Like a Twitter bird Yeah Mind you Mind you

We needed a hypodermic needle Didn't we And for a thing we were doing Do you keep it Just for this reason Just in case This is my I'm not a hoarder

But this is my only This is my This is your thing This is my sweet spot of hoardinger but this is my only this is this is my this is your thing this is my sweet spot you're gonna be on a tv show in 20 years like you know dad's costume you know my dad's costumes are ruining our family and there'll be an intervention and be like mate you gotta throw out the costumes no you never know when you're gonna use you know a sky tower you never know when you want to dress like you know a bus a public bus yeah i know they're great costumes don't get me wrong.

But I really need to do something with them. I gave some of them away, like a down size, but they're still not enough to put the car in the garage, and that's causing a few discussions at home. Yeah, right. I mean, you must love it too. I mean, you did pull out the needle. We needed the needle the other week. You must really make a point of telling Amanda that,

hey, look, these are in use. I actually went home and said, see this? We used this today. Your car's depreciating outside every night. But this needle pulled us out of at least a 60-second sketch on the internet. I think it got 23 likes for $20 somewhere else, but we did it. That's the main thing. Well, if it goes on much longer the only thing

parking in that garage is going to be your ass. You're going to be living out there you and your

costumes in your lonely costume garage. I'll be looking good though because we have all sorts of costumes

out there. We're doing one man pantomimes out there by himself. You'll be that guy in the neighbourhood

what's his name he's the costume guy. The lonely costume guy. Don lonely costume guy. Don't go near him. Oh, jeez. It is that.

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