Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Bill Gates Predicted The Pandemic Back in 2015, And Nobody Listened...

Episode Date: November 28, 2021

There's a video from 2015 where Bill Gates gave a TED Talk on how the world is not prepared for a pandemic or a highly contagious virus... and it's so eerie to watch now! We also discussed the Christmas jobs that are so admin & unenjoyable, and finally, we caught up with Dr Joel Rindelaub who spoke to us a bit more about this new Omicron covid variant and whether we should be worried. Eeeek! Enjoy the podcast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, 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. Cool, okay, this is the podcast intro. And this has been a pretty casual start. Ben, I want to bring you in here. It's the 29th of November. Great to have you with us. Jono and Ben are here. Now, you have, over the last couple of weeks, slipped into the soda stream. I have.

He's slipped into the, not the slip stream, the soda stream. And he brings in a soda stream bottle, and every time he opens it, I feel like the capsule of Jeff Bezos' space rocket, the penis rocket, is opening up into space. Well, it's probably not going to be quite as, because you get it prime first thing in the morning. It kind of goes. Yeah, can I say hashtag gifted, hashtag ad?

If I was a hashtag ad? It was gifted to me. Yeah, it was lovely. It was lovely. So I have been enjoying the SodaStream. So in the morning before I come to work, I put a bottle on and I pump it up. But I've used it many times already, so...

Oh, yeah, no, it's losing its punch. But that's over, that's four hours of, you know? But when it first happens, it's like... Yeah. It does, it makes a lot of noise. And I try and do it under the desk, because away from equipment and quietly, but you can't, you can't

hide that it gave me a fright I won't lie the first time it happened yeah I thought what is happening does this guy need

a colonoscopy what is going on how was your weekend yeah not too bad yourself yeah good yeah yeah good we had a lovely weekend

actually we asked some dear friends of ours to be godparents and they're over in Chile yeah friends Mark and Sarah they started crying

when we asked them. And I was like, this is what life's about. You know, these moments. So that was a lovely thing that happened on the weekend. That's very nice. You've really come out the gate with a really lovely, touching story.

The last weekend of lockdown. Shall we say, the last weekend. So what happens now? You talk to me. Talk to me, boys. Talk last weekend of lockdown. Shall we say the last weekend. So what happens now? You talk to me. Talk to me, boys. Talk nice to me. That's whatever I'm saying now. Talk nice to me.

What does it mean moving forward? Well, it means we can get out there. Get out. Get back. So it's back to normal? Wow. From when? From Friday, I think it's not normal.

There's like gyms can't open, things like that. The poor gyms are battling away. When can the gyms open? There's a few restrictions by that. I think it's in the orange light setting. But then each region might be in different settings by the sound of it. So we'll find out today if, you know, because you think the South Island is probably not going to be quite as restricted as you'd hope as Auckland.

They'll be out there. They'll be pumping iron. They'll be squatting and burping. But you're right. The gyms, I mean. Gee whiz, yeah. They would be squatting and burping. But you're right, the gyms I mean. Gee whiz, yeah. They would be really, really struggling. If they're going to be one of the last locations

open and they have to wait to level green. What about the old broths? It's very out of social distance on occasion like that. I'd imagine. I was reading an article in, oh I'm going to get the country wrong, but I want to say the Netherlands. I want to say the Netherlands. I want to say the

Netherlands. That they were doing vaccinations at them and as a bit of a carrot dangler of sorts you were offered half an hour worth of free business. Oh really? From the services that were on offer

there. But then they had the photo of this gentleman who was getting vaxxed in the broth. Yeah. And he had this look on his face of, please don't photograph me. You know, he's been plastered all over the news, getting vaccinated there. And we're like, well, we all know what happened next.

Yeah, you're right. You wouldn't want to be that person in there. I mean, you know, at what point are you like, no, no, I'm not getting vaxxed, I'm not getting vaxxed. Oh, the brothel's offering them up. I might as well go in there and get it. Not the bloody walk-in vaccination centre. Oh, actually, sorry, can I just say gyms are allowed to open?

Public facilities, museums, zoos, libraries, gyms and pools are able to, with capacity limits. Oh, OK, on level in red. Yeah. Oh, that's good. Sorry, I take that back. But if you're not doing a vaccine certificate, you can't open, which makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, right.

So you have to be vaccinated inside the gym. Yeah. But the unvaccinated can do a whole bunch of stuff in level red, can't they? It's when it goes to orange that it tightens up. The belt tightens on the unvaccinated. I guess we'll get our heads around this system a bit more. Yeah, because clearly we don't have that at the moment. We're just babbling away.

I'm doing a weird tangent about a brothel in the Netherlands. And I see something about a gym, so now I'm taking it back because I found out I was wrong. I was like, do I retract this? I feel like I do. Oh, well, exciting times. So are you going to get out on the weekend? Are you going to hit the bars?

I don't know. The bars, what would the bars be? I guess you'll be able to go have a drink somewhere. And eating table service and stuff. No dancing, though. I don't imagine. The bar's water. What would the bars be? I guess you'll be able to go have a drink somewhere. But an eating table service and stuff. But I don't think it'll be. No dancing though. I don't imagine there'll be dancing. Which is great for white guys like me.

Yeah, that's good. Yeah, I'm glad. Anytime that I don't have to dance, there's always a win. There's always a win. So if we can stay on level red for as long as possible. Just for that. No dancing. Why don't you just make that condition?

No dancing for white guys on dance floors ever under any of the traffic light system. That'd be good. I enjoyed the podcast today. What did we get up to today? Oh, we spoke to a scientist. Yeah, we did. Yes, we spoke to a scientist who was talking about the new Omicron. The Omicron, we haven't quite figured out the pronunciation of that.

The new variant. Whether we should be worried, whether we should be locking down, whether we should be burning everything at the stake. Yeah. Who knows? Is this another kick in the guts we need just before Christmas? Well, it feels a little bit of that way, eh? Wait till R&V.

Yeah. Wait till after R&V, Omicron. Exactly. Exactly. All right. Have a great day. New Zealand's Breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits.

Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome along to the show. It is The Hits. You got Jono and Ben on your Mondayits. Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome along to the show. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben on your Monday morning. Tell you what, you know, it's starting to creep into summer when producer Bee Humps gets his legs and his boat shoes out. He's got his first time I've seen his legs, you know, for the latter half of this year. Is it the debut of the boat shoes as well? Is it? Yeah, he's giving us the nod and the thumbs up.

Yeah, no, he does it wonderfully. He's got some good legs too from Fairleigh. Good southern legs. How are you, Ju? I'm good, thank you. How are you? Good. Getting closer to the end of the year.

Very happy for that. Well, it is, yeah, but the optimism that I had towards the end of the year is fading a little bit with all the big news over the weekend about this variant of concern. All the countries seem to be shutting their borders and all sorts of stuff. Oh, me, cron. Oh, me a cron. Oh, me a cron. We're going to actually talk to a scientist or an epidemiologist? A scientist, yeah.

A scientist. He's in charge of research at Auckland University. He's going to join us about 7.30 this morning and tell us if we should be concerned about this virus. Have we shut our borders to the countries that have... I think there's some on a list that it's only New Zealand residents coming back in. So, you know, that whole MIQ that everyone was like,

yeah, scrapping it, we're getting rid of it. Well, maybe we are getting rid of it now. Bring it back. Well, it's hard to shut the borders too to the countries because it was just in Africa originally on Friday. Then it was like Europe, England, bang, Australia. Australia last night as well. Tell you what, exciting times.

Exciting times. Just when you thought it was all nearing an end. Yeah, yeah. All right. We'll have some positive news, though, on the show. 7.45 this morning, your chance to win $5,000. So that is good. That is good.

That's some good news. Some good news and some indifferently bad news. It is the hits. You got it, John. I'm Ben. Scrolling through your feed. Now, some people say the news is depressing and bleak, especially what's eventuated over the weekend.

Well, I tell you what, they haven't heard bleak and depressing until they've heard Jono and Ben trying to discuss current events. Welcome to Scrolling Through Your Feed. Now, you would have heard this over the weekend, as Jono mentioned, the new variant of concern that has got scientists worried. It's got some of the countries closing their borders to other countries again. Lots of news about this over the weekend. Omicron, Omicron, Omicron.

We'll get some practice on saying that and find out, because I'm sure you will say it a lot more time over the next year. Now, I was doing some research into why the names. Why Delta and why Omicron. Apparently it's from the Greek alphabet or something. Oh, is it? They do it that way, yeah. Because they don't want to say,

oh, this is the African variant or this is the Indian strain. Oh, right. Because then it stereotypes a certain part of the world, which we don't want to do. Because, you know, it's not the people. It's the virus. The virus is the problem.

Yeah, so there's some cases of this popping up around the country. They're not entirely sure if the vaccines, how effective they're going to be with it. But it seems very transmissible, very spreadable. But we're going to have an expert about 7.30 on the show this morning to hopefully make some sense of it all with us. There was a graph on the news, a very alarming graph yesterday. Did you see that on the news?

Which was like it just showed the timeline for all the variants, like the original strain and then Delta. And they both had kind of a slow rise. And then old Omicron comes into the game off the bench. And boom. Boom. Impact player. Impact player. Sonny Bill Williams World Cup stuff.

The line just goes straight up to the sky. I read something as well. And this is very true. It feels like a bit of a gut punch to the world is how they described it. It does because you feel like, okay, we've got the vaccines. We've got some positivity. We're feeling good. You know, New Zealand's easing our restrictions. We're getting rid of MIQ

and then it's all homicrop. So it comes in there and you're like, oh. It's just like, where's the end? There's no end in sight. Yeah, I know. The scientists somehow have to try and leapfrog the virus. Because at the moment the virus is leapfrogging

the vaccine. I don't know how they do that. I guess the longer it's around, the more they can know about it and the cycle of it and how it mutates. But they're going to have to somehow Jump ahead of it How do you do that? I don't know But Boris Johnson, we love Boris Johnson The UK, you know, the British Prime Minister

Boris Johnson We love the fact that he loves to talk about all sorts of random things Well, last night on the news Because obviously there's some restrictions happening For the first time in a wee while in Britain But I love his certainty about Christmas. Have a listen to how certain Boris sounds. I'm pretty confident or absolutely confident

that this Christmas will be considerably better than last Christmas. That will do for the time being on that one. Can I resign now? When you can't even finish your sentence. Is leaving an option? Have it, have it, have it.

You just don't know what's going to happen week to week. You know, think back to last Monday. This wasn't even on the horizon. And as things start

to sort of ease up, you know, restriction-wise for New Zealand, you know, restriction-wise for New Zealand, the traffic light system kicks in, there's some positivity around, so we'll try and keep positive. Get that out of here, mate.

We could be... I'm pretty sure there's some stuff that will happen. There. He says what we're all thinking doesn't he hard hitting interviews and informed opinion Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB in the meantime here's Jono and Ben the heads

a lot of talk at the moment about who's going to take over as the National Party leader Christopher Luxon who was the former head of Air New Zealand looks like he's going to put his name in the ring well I was listening to the news over the weekend they're like oh so John Key's been phoning around the National Party The head of Air New Zealand looks like he's going to put his name in the ring. I was listening to the news over the weekend. They're like, oh, so John Key's been phoning around the National Party,

putting his weight behind Christopher Luxon. And then five minutes later, there was another news report going, John Key's now said he hasn't been phoning around the National Party and he hasn't been putting his weight behind Christopher Luxon. Well, who's out there saying he is? I don't know. We can all just say stuff, can't you? Yeah. But, of course, Judith Collins no longer the leader of the National Party.

And we wrote a little song for Judith to do with, you know, Hey Jude, Hey Judith, this was the song we played for you. Hey Judith, it's not that bad. Raise an eyebrow to show you're glad. When my eyebrow goes up up it's a joke no more hard questions from tova i think um tova you want to actually um understand a joke when you hear it you can still say my husband's someone My husband is Samoan, so Talofa. Talofa! Yeah, so yeah, it got picked up.

It got put on, which is very cool, got put on News Hub as a little article about the parody. But I loved at the end of the article, it said, at the time of writing, Collins has not responded to the clip. Like she was going to break. Had you sent it to her? No, I didn't ask her. Maybe we should call her and see what her response is.

In time of writing, she hadn't responded to the clip. Like she was good. I mean, John Key was ringing around a few people to see what they were thinking about it. Have you heard that parody? John Key's now phoned back saying he wasn't phoning around people asking you about the parody. Live free.

The Summer Holiday Edition new Škoda Kodiaq seven-seater SUV. You'll be one of the first to experience that seven-seater cruising around on your own summer adventure with $5,000. And let's welcome to the show, it's our mate from Te Araha, Debbie. How are you? Good, how are you guys? Oh, good. How's things been in Debbie's world?

Oh, very, very quiet. Very quiet. Like everybody else, it's been a bit depressing not being able to be family and friends. Yeah, well, hopefully this summer you could be off in your Škoda driving around and you'll be going down the road just throwing cash out the window like some sort of eccentric billionaire who's lost their marbles. Oh, that sounds amazing. $5,000 to spend.

Where would you go for summer, Debs? Oh, I'd like to go up north. I mean, I've got family and friends in that direction and I haven't been able to see them for a while, so I'd like to sort of pack up the car and head out that way. Good on you. Yeah, well you'll be living like Jeff Bezos for a few weeks then come crashing back down to earth in January but good luck

you're in the drawer and you're going to have a great day. What do you do today? What do you do Debbie? I'm actually, I've got a little doggy daycare so I've got a little doggy coming around today to play with mine and yeah, so I keep busy playing with dogs. So I'm a lucky person.

Oh, that's cool. Do you ever lose any? No. No, not a great advert for doggy daycare. I've had a couple of losses, but hey. Hey, you win some, you lose some. All right, well, good luck looking after the dogs today and have a wonderful Monday, Debs.

You too. Thanks, guys. See you, mate. We've got some Spy Entertainment news before 7 o'clock this morning. Yes, Netflix has released the top 10 movies on their streaming service of all time. All time. So if we're going into lockdown thanks to Omicron again, then you can make your way. No one's mentioned, until you said that, no one's mentioned lockdown again.

Oh, no. Maybe this is just me. I know, Judy. She's dropping truth bombs. We all know it's on the horizon. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is the B*** News. She's got a Kiwi can-do attitude and a trigger-happy finger when it comes to the beep machine.

Juliet, for those new to the broadcast, would you like to do the honour of explaining what we're about to embark on? So I've gone and found some news stories that I think might interest you, beeped out a couple of words. You guys have to guess what the beeped out words are and then we chat about the real headline. It's a great way to ease into the day with a buffet of off-centre news stories. All right, the first news story. Australian Council to ban cats outside unless they're...

I'm going to say unless the cats are out of the bag. I don't really get that saying the cats are out of the bag. I don't really get that saying anyway, cat out of the bag. Who's keeping cats in a bag anyway? They shouldn't be. The cat should be out of the bag. No, it should lose the cats out of the bag. That should be another saying we investigate.

We'll say that's the last. Yeah, okay. Let's do that tomorrow. I'm going to say Australian Council to ban cats outside unless they are on their way to perform in a smash hit musical. Australian Council to ban cats outside unless they are on their way to perform in a smash hit musical. Australian Council to ban cats outside unless they're on a lead. So Fremantle, which is a little area in Perth, are putting this into effect. And the reason for this is because they want to protect wildlife and also protect pet cats getting hit by cars.

And they think that, you know, back in the day, dogs used to run around freely, and now they're on leashes, so they think that this might be a thing of the past, cats being able to run around. How many cats are being run over for this to be such a huge problem? There must be some terrible drivers over there. But they also went to say that apparently pet cats kill more wildlife than, like, stray cats.

Oh, really? Yeah. Like Gareth Morgan. Remember Gareth Morgan was on a big cat culling rampage a few years ago? He was running for Parliament. He was with the birds, yeah. Yeah. That was his main thing to get into Parliament, wasn't it?

Let's kill all the cats. He probably had a lot of other policies that maybe they were good, but no one picked up on them because they were all worried about the cat one. Well, your cat loves going for a walk with you, and you're sort of thinking about a lead, aren't you? Well, the kids have been pushing for a lead. I'm like, we don't want to be that family. But maybe we do.

But you could be in free mental. The next news story. New Swedish Prime Minister... ...on first day in the job. I'm going to say the Swedish Prime Minister was cooking, and they're all chefs, aren't they? The Swedish chef, isn't it? Or is that just a stereotype from the Muppets?

I was eating a skrub and a herb and a herb. I was like, the chef? I'm going just a stereotype from the Muppets? Was he the chef? I'm going to say new Swedish Prime Minister loses his swipe card on the first day of the job. New Swedish Prime Minister resigns on first day in the job. And I'd like to correct, it's a she. I know, I know. When I said he. It is a she. I'm sorry.

It's okay. We can be leaders now. When? Since when? How long have we been doing this? Many times. I'm going to ignore that. I'm sorry. It's okay. We can't be leaders now. When? Since when? How long have we been doing this? I'm going to ignore that. I see this. This is all like the first... It was the first female prime minister for Sweden. Her name is Magdalena Andersson.

And they're like, we've made a mistake. No, she actually decided. She decided to resign because I think that she got into government by forming a coalition with the Greens and then the Greens decided to quit because budget wasn't approved all that boring stuff and so she then decided to resign because she couldn't she didn't minority government basically and so it'd be impossible to do anything so yeah right so that's a bit of a bummer for her i know she looked cool too just by looking at her i mean that's how i like to get my world leaders in. They look cool. Yeah, exactly. And the final news story.

The Queen answers her phone to just two people, and it's not... Telemarketers. She's definitely not answering the phone to telemarketers. Although she might be at that age where she wants a chat. Yeah, true. She's like, oh, anyone... The telemarketer has to actually end the phone call with her. I'm going to go,

the Queen answers her phone to just two people, and it's not Prince Andrew. True. the Queen answers her phone to just two people and it's not Prince Andrew. True. The Queen answers her phone to just two people and it's not her sons. You were on the right track, Johnno.

She answers the phone to her daughter, Princess Anne, and her racing manager for her horses that she owns. So this is just her, so she's got her mobile phone and it's reportedly

a Samsung with some anti-hacking software on it so no one can like hack into the Queen's personal mobile phone. So her personal phone, it's reportedly a Samsung with some anti-hacking software on it so no one can like hack into the Queen's personal mobile phone so her personal phone she only answers the phone

to those people and then she has her landline which would be like professional professional phone geez it really really humbles you know

all the other family members that their horse trainer is above Charles and William yeah I know Harry's he's far down the list obviously

for reasons. She does seem like that type that would turn her phone off after using it, though. The cell phone, one of those, you know. Make a call, turn it off, and then you're like, why did you turn it off? I'll say Barry. Why does she have to have an encrypted telephone to have conversations with a horse trainer? Ooh, dunno. Fixing races.

Oh, interesting. And that is the news and beats for you this morning. After 7 o'clock, as we mentioned before, we're going to talk to an expert who hopefully will give us a bit of sense about this new variant of concern that everyone's talking about that seems to be sweeping the world. We'll talk more about that after 7.30 on The Hits.

Spy, know what's up, spy.co.nz. All right, let's smack you across the chops with some no-holds-barred, brutal entertainment news. Juliette. So Netflix has revealed its top ten most popular movies and TV shows of all time. Can we guess them? Yes. So let's start with TV shows.

Oh, TV shows. Squid Game. This is on Netflix. Squid Game's got to be there, right? Yep, Squid Game's number one. Tiger King? No. Oh. Netflix. Squid Game's got to be there, right? Yep, Squid Game's number one. Tiger King? No.

I said Let's Play a Game and now I can't think of it. Richard in? Yes, that's number two. True Story, the new Kevin Hart one? No. The Crown? No. Oh, okay.

Number three is Money Heist. Oh, yes. Yeah, my parents watch that. They really enjoy it. And then movies. True Red Notice Or whatever it's called That's number two

The Chris Hemsworth one Extinction or whatever Extraction Extraction Is number three And number one Oh the number one Netflix movie

It's one that you all Have heard of But I didn't realise That it was actually As much of a big deal As it is Is it something like The Christmas Prince

Or something No What's the one with Goldie Hawn And Christmas Chronicles actually as much of a big deal as it is. Is it something like the Christmas Prince or something? No. What's the one with Goldie Hawn and Christmas Chronicles? No. What is it? Give us a clue. It's okay. In the name, there's an animal in the name.

In the title. Oh, jeez. Sex Panther. Alright, we're not going to get this. What is this? Bird Box. Bird Box. All right, we're not going to get this. What is this? Bird Box. Bird Box. Do you remember that? Yes.

Yeah. So those are the top three. And they actually changed how they determined it. So they used to determine this list by how many households viewed it, but now they determine it by looking at the total number of hours viewed in the first 28 days of a release. So Squid Game obviously was going to be number one because everyone just watched it immediately,

pretty much, as soon as it was released. Ben, you're reading an interesting article about the director of Red Notice with The Rock, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Now, he's directed a lot of movies. Like Dodgeball, you know, like successful movies like Dodgeball, Central Intelligence, things like that.

But more people have seen his movie Red Notice on Netflix already that saw all his movies combined in theatres. Really? In a week. Oh my God. 150 million people saw Red Notice, which is more than the audience that he's had for all his movies combined.

That is crazy. What an achievement. And a couple of other little stories. Lindsay Lohan has got engaged to her partner, Beda Shammers. She posted on Instagram just photos of the ring. It's a made-up name. It is quite an interesting name, isn't it? And Brian Adams has tested positive for COVID for the second time,

apparently in a month. Yeah. Second time, so he must have recovered and then got it again. And he's fully vaccinated. I saw that on the news. He's fully vaccinated and he's got it again. And he's fully vaccinated. I saw that on the news. He's fully vaccinated and he's got it again and he's in Italy gone to Hospital Milan. Yeah. Second time in a month.

Jeez. How long does it take to recover from COVID? I don't know. I don't know. Alright, let's get back out there old bright abs. Get the subber at 69. Oh, hang on. Now I've got it again. Yeah, but he had no symptoms at all either so maybe he just has it and has no effects Because he's probably fully vaccinated

Oh, so he's just getting tested by chance He's not actually sick as such So poor old Brian There goes the theory that if you get it once, you don't get it again But, I mean, if you're vaccinated It's good, which he is That story's some good ammo for the anti-vaxxers Yeah, yeah, but he's fully vaxxed

So, you know, no symptoms And that is Vi for this hour For more, so, you know, no symptoms. And it's five for the South. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. Good morning, New Zealand. Just got on 7 o'clock.

Jono and Ben hanging out with you. Now, the government today is going to announce which traffic light system each region around New Zealand, which we're going to enter on. They've already said Auckland's entering in on red, but the other regions, maybe they'll get to an orange or even a, will they get to green? I don't know. I don't know.

Maybe the South Island will be like, come on. Yeah. Come on, let us out there. Does anyone know what they mean? Has anyone taken the time to, I haven't. Maybe I should. Maybe you should. Have you, have you done the research into what level?

A little bit, but it is a little bit confusing when it comes to like, yeah, which I imagine they'll do some more clarity on gatherings and things like that because you're like, well, is a gathering meant to use vaccine passports? But is that when people come over to your house or is just for things like weddings and funerals? So, yeah, I'm not entirely sure about things like that. Do you have to check people's vaccine passports when they come to you? Well, that's what I was sure of. They're probably going to encourage that.

Otherwise, you're meant to have a much smaller gathering than if you don't. That's what I gather, but I might not be 100% correct. Who's standing at the door scanning people's vaccine passports? I did a test run last night. I picked up some food, and the place was like, oh, we've got this thing. We're doing it now. So they scan it, and it all ticks off,

and it comes up with your name, age, day of birth, if you've been vaccinated on their app. He's like, the strange thing is, though, is that's it. That information isn't logged anywhere. Oh, right. So then I imagine you still have to scan it with your QR code if you want the contact tracing. But they're not contact tracing now, are they?

Well, I think it's getting a little the paperwork's piling up. They're like, ah, we're getting through. Control all delete. But it's all just getting a bit much at the moment. Hey, well that's how that's going to work. Who knows how the traffic light system's going to work? We'll try and figure it out before 9 o'clock.

We've got till Friday at least, I think, before that kicks in. Hey, next, you mentioned this before, Bill Gates. Oh yeah, some spooky audio.. Hey, next, you mentioned this before, Bill Gates. Oh, yeah, some spooky audio. Bill Gates, Juliet, put me onto this. It was on a TED Talk. And I watched it over the weekend, and I'm going to play it for you next. And Bill Gates, turns out he's quite a smart guy, Ben.

All right, we'll find out what he had to say. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits, with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Now, Juliet, you said something on Friday that perked my interest. Yes. And it was a TED Talk involving Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

It's kind of doing the rounds on the internet at the moment, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Now, I just wanted to humble brag firstly that i watched a bill gates ted talk over the weekend makes me seem more sophisticated and worldly than i actually am uh but i then did go back to watching a video of a lactating man on lad bible okay just to even things out but this was in 2015 okay so bill gates is talking about the ebola. And basically the crux of his TED Talk is governments all around the world, they invest so much,

billions and trillions of dollars into military, defending themselves from other countries, but there's a lack of funding into health and pandemic response. When he was basically saying that's as much of a threat to the human race as a war is, you know, a virus. Back in 2015, I wasn't ready

to hear that. I was like, ah, you're crazy. We don't need to worry about that, but jeez. Yeah, we're like, shut up, Bill Gates! Shut up and tell me how to work Microsoft Teams properly. And why, that's such a pain in the ass when everyone wants to have a Teams meeting and not a Zoom one. But yeah,'s such a pain in the ass when everyone wants to have a Teams meeting, not a Zoom one.

But yeah, so he's talking about the Ebola virus, which, you know, I think broke out in Africa. And it was relatively contained, the Ebola virus, in the grand scheme of things. So this is him talking about it. But have a listen to what he says after. There's three reasons why it didn't spread more. The first is there was a lot of heroic work by the health workers. They found the people and they prevented more infections. The second is the nature of the

virus. Ebola does not spread through the air. And by the time you're contagious, most people are so sick that they're bedridden. So next time we might not be so lucky. You can have a virus where people feel well enough while they're infectious that they get on a plane or they go to a market. And so there are things that would literally make things a thousand times worse. Sound familiar? Sound familiar? In 2015? Yeah. In 2015. Yeah. Jeez, I hope Bill Gates is sitting there in some sort of NASA-designed bubble, virus-free bubble, just laughing at us all now. Well, I don't think he's... No, he's probably a better human being than I am.

Yeah, he's probably like, yeah. Yeah, but, you know, and it's a good reminder that sometimes when people are saying these things that you go, ah, that's not a reality that's not happening now that actually maybe we should listen yeah and do stuff so his whole thing was we need to invest more in a response plan that when this will eventually happen we need to have a plan and we don't why not i mean boris johnson he's got remember the british prime minister he's got the plan he was talking about christmas the British Prime Minister, he's got the plan. He was talking about Christmas.

And listen to the certainty. Listen to the assurance that Christmas is going to be fine in the UK. I'm pretty confident or absolutely confident this Christmas will be considerably better than last Christmas. That will do for the time being on that one. Can I do a slow fade out? I know I feel like that sometimes on this radio show. You're like, why am I still talking?

I should be talking. I'm like, no. Jeez. Speaking of which, we've got Joel Rindaloo, Dr. Joel Rindaloo from the University of Auckland. He is going to talk to us about this new strain. What does it mean? Are we going to be shutting the borders?

Are we going to be locking down again? And other alarming headlining comments from Jono and Ben. We should be talking to Bill Gates. Maybe we should try and get him on. It is the Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. The Hits presents the Humble Yum Yum Podcast with Ganesh Raj. Thanks to Countdown.

You'll know him from Eat Well for Less, Ganesh Raj. The humble yum-yum podcast presented by The Hits proudly brought to you by Countdown. It's a really cool idea. Ganesh each week talks to different Kiwi celebs about food, family, and fame, and you can find it on iHeartRadio. Come on down, Ganesh. What's up? I'm good, brother.

I'm good. Yeah, you're feeling good? Morning crew, eh? Look at you guys. Look at us, eh? It's going hard and it's not even noon. Hard and early. That was our lockdown strategy, wasn't it?

That's our strategy as well. Yeah, we've actually gone soft and slowly, to be honest. Well, listen, you know better than to worry about those things too much, bro. Yeah. As you know, Jono, all dreams do die one day. And ours is having

a very long, slow one. Hey, Ganesh, I tell you what, this podcast, amazing. The debut, baby. Yeah, man. I reckon people

are going to love it, bro. It's called The Humble Yum Yum, hosted by yourself, brought to you each week by Our Countdown. And the first episode, you've got a pretty amazing guest. Yeah, I mean, it's Hilary Barry, mate, the mate of the nation. She's revealing so much about herself in this whole story about food, family, fame.

But I tell you what, you know, she's got a little bit of a potty mouth and she lets it loose on the podcast. That's the thing that really surprises me when you meet journalists when they're not being journalists, is, you know, John Campbell and, you know, Hillary it's just like, how are you guys even doing your job? The amount of

swearing that goes on, Ganesh. Well, that's because behind the scenes they cut loose. That's what it is. What happens with the humble yum-yum is at the very start of the podcast, I ask the guest what their death row meal is. And then that triggers them to start going, oh, what a good question. Let me think. All that would do for me, Ganesh, is go, well, what horrific crime have I committed?

Yeah. Why am I not off this crime? And my answer to you would be, pick from the list of crimes you have to do. Crimes against comedy. Pick one, brother. It's up to you. And so it all spawns from that. Yeah, it all spawns from that.

So she came back and she said, look, I love seafood, fresh seafood. You know, that was her brain. And then I put my humble yum yum hat on. Then I create a recipe based on that that's $20 for four people that delivers seafood. That's really cool. And do you do this during the podcast or afterwards? I do it live, bro. Just like I'm about to do it live for you.

I just roll with it. I let the universe tell me. Do you ever draw a blank and go, oh, I don't know. It's going to be probably a $90 meal. I can't do anything about it. Nah, bro. Thankfully, I grew up in asia where everything is less than is 20 bucks for four so my brain is full of like ideas from 40 countries that can be

cooked for 20 bucks or four and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg nobody's too good for anything nobody is too good for anything i like that That is a wonderful saying Ganesh Raj's podcast is out The Humble Yum Yum And we wanted to know on Owen How did the hits If you had any questions about the kitchen You know, dinner party related

That Ganesh could kind of help you out on Yes, you check your situation at Ganesh And he'll try and come up with a meal Where you can feed four people For $20 or less Sarah's with us, Ganesh Oh, cool Hi, how's it going?

Sarah, just remember, nobody is too good for anything, okay? Okay. Yep, wonderful saying. A very wise man once said that to us. Okay, Sarah, what's your situation? Tell Ganesh. Okay, Ganesh, I've got a sister-in-law who is gluten-free, vegan, can't have garlic and can't have onion.

So I find cooking for her really difficult. But can make it a pain in the ass for you. I mean, that's what happens. I mean, you've got two options. One, you invite them or not invite them. But I'm sure you want to celebrate together. This is my next question. Sarah, are you thinking of having a little gathering for the family,

like a small gathering? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, probably about eight. Lunch a little gathering for the family, like a small gathering? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, probably about eight. Lunch or dinner party for eight people. Here's what I like to do when somebody comes into the house who has, you know, dietary requirements, right? Let me guarantee you something. She's already thinking about it and she knows that everyone's watching her.

She doesn't feel too good about this. Let me guarantee you that. So the key is to make them feel comfortable, but you also get a delicious meal. Think about it this way. Have a Mexican taco party. Oh. That's a good idea.

Yeah. Okay, so check this out. One, let's go gluten-free tortillas to start with, right? They're really good right now. The tortilla people have upped their game. Once upon a time, those tortillas were crumbly and they, like, disintegrated in your hand. But nowadays...

The tortilla industry looked at itself and said, guys, we need to raise the bar. We need to raise the bar. We're so ashamed of what we're doing right now. Gluten-free tacos are all over the place great. So you're going to basically gonna basically have like a buffet spread of things that people can decide what they want to have so avocados make a guacamole but yeah absolutely so you've got the guac then you've got the tomato salsa then you've got your lettuce

which you can chop iceberg chop chop chop chop so that's like the primary components of a taco then vegetarian person find a vegetable that is currently in season and grill it on the barbecue, salt, pepper, olive oil, and some cumin powder. And that'll give you that Mexicanness. Then for you guys, great. You can have the two other things. You can have grated cheese, which she doesn't have to have. And then you can do like a beef mince that you then fry up with that cumin seasoning. Mexican taco party, ole, everyone gets what they want. Oh, wow.

That's handy, isn't it, Sarah? That's really handy. You know what I wanted to do to you, Ganesh? Have you seen the El Paso commercial where they throw that little child up in the air? Oh, the whole of them aloft, yeah. Yeah. Can we recreate that, please? I want to throw you up in the air now.

Can we recreate? When red light becomes green light or whatever, we have to do this shot. Yeah, shot for shot replica. Oh, Ganesh, that is, yeah, bloody Jesus, on the spot too. Yeah, Sarah was it, Andy? Absolute genius. Yeah, I hadn't even thought of tacos, so that's perfect. Is ejecting her from the family the other option?

No. No. Hey, listen, people are people. Nothing is too good for anyone. Sarah, we want to hook you up, thanks to Countdown, because they're great supporters of the Humble Yum Yum podcast, with a $200 Countdown voucher. Oh, wow, that's so awesome.

Thanks so much. You can feed the eight people for $40, and then you've still got, like, $160 left. So good. Thank you. Listen, you come in here, you get a free recipe, you get a countdown voucher. There's nothing more we can do. No. Amazing. We did it.

Sarah, well done. You enjoy the dinner party and have a lovely Christmas, okay? Thank you, you too. All right, Ganesh, you're a superstar, mate. Well done. Thank you so much, gentlemen. Talk to you too. All right, Ganesh, you're a superstar, mate. Well done. Thank you so much, gentlemen. Talk to you soon. Rise and shine. Time to start the, um, who are we kidding?

We're not the boss of you. Jono and Ben, the hits. We're just about to play Dreams, which, of course, the Fleetwood Mac song that's been sort of remixed by a Kiwi DJ, Joel and Pitch. Yeah, I was thinking, we were having this conversation as the news was playing. We need to take it upon ourselves to remix a Kiwi classic, don't we?

We do. We do, yeah. Why do we need to take it upon ourselves? Why can't Joel and Pitch do it? He's a Kiwi DJ, why can't we get it? Someone's got to step up and do a bit and it needs to be us. Now, the downside is I don't possess any skills, any DJing skills, to be able to do that off my own bat.

You? No, no. If you had, I would have been surprised because you've been hiding them from me. Yeah. I mean, it's really cool how they're doing that at the moment. You've got the Elton John, Dua Lipa song, you know, like it's sort of been remixed in an old song. Oh, thank you. Could you studio it?

Now, do you think if you do it, you have to get permission from the artist in question, or you just do it and then hope they don't hear it? Do you think Joel and Patch has just gone, geez, I hopefully would, Matt never hears this. Even though it's been played as a single. Yeah, no, he's definitely got permission. Do you think Elton John knows that he remixed his own song?

Yeah, I think he does. He's on board? Yeah. Yeah, I think it's, yeah. I mean, there's some hoops to go through. There's a lot of hurdles. We can't do it ourselves. We don't have the skills,

and we don't have the permission of any Kiwi artist yet. But we'll make things happen. Really? We could just play... I'm a mover and a shaker, mate. We'll get stuff done. Play this song, Dreams, Fleetwood Mac, on the remix. It is the hats you got, Jono and Ben.

Jono and Ben, the hats. Now over the weekend, a lot of news around the new variant of concern, Omicron, that seems to be getting to more and more countries. And more countries have had more restrictions now. So a little bit of a worry, a little bit of a concern. And we wanted to find out a bit more all about it. So we've got a scientist from the Auckland University with us on the show. You would have seen him on the TV as well. Dr. Joel Rindelab, how's it going? Good morning.

Yeah, pleasure to be here. I don't know how you guys wake up this early. That's an early one, isn't it? Yeah, sorry. Did we book you in and then make you get up about 45 minutes earlier than the time you wanted to get up? We'll just say at least 45 minutes. I'm thinking of three or four, but we've

seen you on Breakfast TV many, many times. Yeah, it's a skill, I guess. It's lovely to have you on, Joel. Now, if those listening haven't seen you before, what we do love about you, a very distinct look.

You've got sort of an M&M combo, I like to call it, a mullet and a mow combination. And, you know, you do look like you could be playing rugby league for the Cronulla Sharks, but instead you're doing science stuff, Joel. Yeah, man. It's all about the science party in the back. The science party, because you're a lecturer at the University of Auckland. Yeah, University of Auckland in the chemistry department.

So you came to New Zealand, I was reading, a few years ago for a bit of a holiday to play some ice hockey. We don't play a lot of ice hockey here. Did you get mixed up on that or did you come to the right place? Did we lie to you? Yeah, I did come here to play ice hockey.

I accidentally got a job at the university and here I am. Now, the mullet that John brought up before, you've had it on and off since high school, I understand. It's an ice hockey look that a lot of players have, right? Yeah, exactly. It's got the flow going out there. That's beautiful.

Ben Boyce, actually, he's got a mullet designed by his children during lockdown, Joel, which should be very impressive. He's gone quite a sharp shave at both sides. Ooh. Yeah. Ooh. Yeah, yeah. Okay, all right.

All right. That's exactly what everyone says when they see it. Yeah. Now, what we do love about you, Joel, is we love, obviously, the mullet, we love the moustache, and we also love some of the terms that you use when you break down some science stuff, like COVID hole you often refer to, or this one, face hole. Absolutely. So when you are outside, you are, you know, throwing out those particles from your old face hole there.

It's wonderful lingo. Would you mind if we pitched you some other terminology that we'd love to see if you could put in future interviews? Oh, yeah, let's go for it. Okay, you could have the COVID kisser. Could be. You don't have to, there's a lukewarm response on the COVID kisser. That was a better response than my mullet, so you're doing alright, Jada.

The COVID cake hole. Nothing yet. No, you're still not a big seller, Kay. The COVID blower the COVID blower COVID blower yeah you're just going to stick with face hole

I mean it gets right to the point it does get right to the point and let's get to the point right now obviously Omicron we're not 100% sure how to pronounce it but geez it's getting some coverage over the weekend. A variant of concern.

Should we be concerned? I would say, yeah. You don't want to start freaking out yet because there's still a lot of data left out there. Right now, we kind of already have the border shut, so easy to sit back and wait and see. But a lot of places across the world, they're taking a cautious approach

because there's some pretty funky mutations going on here. They kind of want to see how it plays out. So the vaccines that we've, you know, a lot of New Zealand have had, when will we know if these are effective for this new strain? It's going to be, you know, on the weeks, maybe even a month,

just to get enough data to see if the vaccines can work. There's no indications right now that they won't. But like I said, there's a lot of weird stuff going on with that spike protein of the virus, the thing that actually, like, grabs you, the claw that attacks your cells. So we need to see how this new variant performs in a more vaccinated population before we can make that assessment. Is it possible for scientists to leapfrog ahead of the virus in terms of a vaccine? Can you predict what the virus is going to do or how it's going to mutate and then build a vaccine based on that information or not? So, yeah, mutations are random.

That's kind of what the idea is. So we can't really predict what's going to happen. But what we can do is once we sequence it, we can start making a vaccine for it straight away. So they've already started to make a vaccine for it in case it becomes something of consequence. Oh, for the Omicron? Yeah, I mean, once you get the sequence of the genome,

then you can just, boom, technology is cool. We can do this. It's just, you know, it's going to take some time and we've got to sit back and wait and see. So I guess that is some positive news. What would you say looking, I know it's always hard to predict, but looking forward to next year, should we be optimistic that people will be able to travel or do you think there's still some

uncertainty with this new virus? Oh, I think it's way too early to make any judgments on that. We need more data to see, is it more severe? Is it less severe? Is it more transmissible? The reason why it got red flagged is because of all these weird mutations that they saw and it's basically exploding in south africa right now all right okay so would we expect to see it here if it if it's um if it's as bad as we think it is it'll be everywhere so it'll be here i mean it already popped up in australia so it's just a matter of time really yeah right hey well dr joel rindub, thank you very much for your time. Really appreciate it.

Thank you for getting up early. Way too early. And you keep safe out there. Yeah, you guys do the same. It is our Game of Void Association. We play it every morning around about this time. We tell you five words. You tell us what pops into your head after those five.

If they match up with ours, you win $5,000. Yeah, let's get Jo on from Christchurch. You're a psychologist, Jo. Morena, you say it, Anne. Morena to you. Far too intellectual to be listening to this show. We just had a scientist on 10 minutes ago. We've got a psychologist on now.

What is this, Radio New Zealand? Bloody loving life. How's Christchurch this morning, Jo? Well, it's not raining, so that's a good thing after the weekend. Well, that's a bonus. Now, speaking of the weekend, the soundproof booth looks like it's had

a wonderful, relaxing weekend, mixing and mingling with other booths in the park. Phone booths, peep booths, all the booths. And it's ready to have one of us inside it. Jo, who are you going to send in to match five words with this morning? I think I'll send Jono in. All right. Now, being a psychologist, she might already be in my head.

Yeah. Huge advantage. I wish I could get into your head, but no. All right, let's see if you guys can think the same as Jono makes his way inside the soundproof booth. And let's get into it. First word this morning joe is crusher crusher collins crusher collins love it topical reference that's what that's what i was thinking uh eraser e-r-a-s-e-r eraser rubber rubber we've matched two from the team. Yeah, you're same. Yeah, all right. Battery.

B-A-T-T-E-R-Y. Battery. Oh. Remote. Remote. Oh, yeah, the battery for the remote. It's always one that needs changing. Bubble is word number four this morning.

Bubble. Bubble. Can we come back to that one? Yeah, of course you can. And patty is the final word. P-A-T-T-I-E. Patty. Cake.

Patty cake. Oh, yeah, patty cake. All right. Now, bubble. Bubble. I'm trying to think. Shall I go with COVID or? Yeah.

Depends. Yeah. What does Jonah's brain do? What's brain do i don't know is he a one for uh his brain is erratic yeah i know he's very hard to pin down very unpredictable um is he gonna go yeah there's lots of options too in there bubble, bubble wrap, bubble, yeah, two sorts. Yeah, yeah. Maybe I'll go bath. Bubble bath. All right, we'll see how you go with that one. There's some tricky words there, Jo,

but we'll see if we can get Jono matching up all five with yours. Okay. All right, Jono's out of the soundproof booth. All right, let's do it, Jo. Let's win your five thousand. Come on, Jono. Come on. Come on, Jono. Come on. What would you spend 5K on, Jo. Let's win you $5,000. Come on, Jono. Come on. Come on, Jono.

Come on. What would you spend $5,000 on, Jo? I've got a lot. My daughter's just got a pony, so I've got a lot of bills to pay. Oh, wow. Oh, Jesus. Tell us, at what moment do you regret buying a pony? The minute it happens. Yeah, I can imagine.

It sounds like. Yeah, it sounds fun. You know, it's every daughter's, can I have a pony? And you follow through. Yeah, you did. Oh, no. Crazy, yeah. Yeah, geez. Parent know, it's every, you know, every daughter's, can I have a pony? And you follow through. Yeah, you do. Oh, no, crazy, eh? Yeah, geez, parent of the year, Jo. I tell you what.

Well, okay, let's try and get you $1,000 per word. That's how much this is worth. You know, the word to cash equilibrium is way off here. Yeah, but you've got to get all five. We can't just give away $1,000 every time you match up. It would be good if you could do that. Yeah, I know. Okay, let's do it, Jo.

All right, first word this morning. Crusher. Crusher. Collins. Yeah. R.I.P. R.I.P. She's still with us.

Yeah, she's still with us. Yeah, she's still the MP. Eraser is word number two. Eraser. You go rubber. Joe. Okay. Two from two.

All right. Yeah, but then the next one's hard. Oh, is it tough hard Battery, B-A-T-T-E-R-Y Battery I've got a jingle in my head A radio jingle that we play Oh no Okay, well I won't go down that path Good psychology there

Yeah Oh no She didn't want to hear you sing I think that's what she was saying Battery I'm just going to go like Ever ready? It was a tough one that one

Remote Oh, remote battery That was a tough one Joe, I'm sorry Oh, that's okay Let's see how one. Yeah, it was. Joe, I'm sorry. Oh, that's okay. Let's see how you would have gone for the last couple. Bubble?

Bubble bath? Oh, he did get bubble bath. Nice. And patty was the final word. P-A-T-T-I-E. Hamburger patty? Well, three from five wasn't bad, guys. Yeah, not too bad. Joe, you're a hero.

A Kiwi hero. Can we still get wild bean vouchers? No, no, we've given all, guys. Yeah, not too bad. Joe, you're a hero. A Kiwi hero. Can we still get Wild Bean vouchers? No, no, we've given all those away. Okay, all right. You know we can. Okay, we can? All right, okay. Are we still in bed with Wild Bean?

Yeah, well, I don't know. We are now. Yeah. We might have to buy the vouchers and then give them to Joe, but that's fine. We'll give you a Wild Bean voucher, Joe, all right? Oh, thank you. That's awesome. Get yourself a coffee and good luck dealing with that pony for the rest of your life.

Thanks for that. See you, Jo. See you. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. Got me in love. Good morning, New Zealand. Just gone 8 o'clock on your Monday. Now, remember last week before we were

talking about the variant of concern? Remember that? Remember better times when we were all talking about Adele's interview with Oprah and that amazing novel? I just love listening to us say the variant of concern because we're a bit concerned about how to pronounce the variant of concern. Yeah, Omicron or Omicron. It sounds like an evil corporation, doesn't it? Sounds like an IT company, doesn't it? Yeah. But Adele, we were all talking about Adele last week, and the Australian journalist, we spent a bit of time talking about this, who went over to interview her and didn't realise he'd been sent a link to her album,

and he had listened to the album, and they didn't give the footage to the interview to him. Yeah, because she said, what did you think of the album? Adele did, and he said, oh, I haven't heard it. And then that was the end of the interview, and never got to play it, and it was good, because they didn't spend like a million dollars on getting the interview. Now, Patricia Juliet, he's spoken about it. Yes, he has. It's quite a long clip, but we've cut it down.

It is worth watching the whole thing. He does take pretty much all the blame, but I feel like he's quite justifiable. I flew to London to interview Adele, an unspeakable privilege, and what was to be one of the highlights of my career. I made the terrible mistake of assuming we weren't to be given a preview copy of this album because our interview was airing before it was released and Adele's album was the industry's most prized secret. The day after, after we landed in London, an email came through from Sony. It didn't mention Adele, but it did contain a link to her album. The genuine, dead set, hand on heart truth is that I missed it. By an absurdly

long margin, the most important email I've ever missed in my life. The interview itself, Adele didn't walk out. It ran over time. At least half of the interview focused squarely on the new music. I feel a bit sorry for him. Don't feel sorry for anyone, Ben. It's the first rule in life. Never feel a bit sorry for him. Don't feel sorry for anyone, Ben. That's the first rule in life. Never feel such a sign of weakness. Surprisingly, they still haven't given the footage over, even after all that. I know.

You just hand it over. I let them play the thing. It's almost got more publicity for this whole thing. So if they release the interview now, they'll have probably a lot more viewers because they'll be like, oh, how did it all pan out? So the interview was him just retelling the interview. Yeah, I knew there was another

really great bit. Yeah, and then she laughed and then she got a bit thirsty and was like, can I have a drink of water? Maybe that's a good way to do interviews from now on. Hey, next on the show, we want to get into the Christmas spirit because jeez, we need it after the weekend's news and there's the hats. Yeah, you did that. Yeah.

Nah. You lied. The whole movie. Yeah, nah. She'll be right, and at the end of the day Jono and Ben, Breakfast on the Hits. Now, this week we tick into December, so not long until Christmas, and everyone is kind of looking forward to Christmas after the year it's been. Boris

Johnson, too, UK Prime Minister. This has brought us a lot of joy over the last two hours. He obviously reacting to the new variant and wanted to make a public statement, just reassuring the English public that everything was going to be right this Christmas. I'm pretty confident or absolutely confident this Christmas will be considerably better than last Christmas. That will do for the time being on that one. I love how he's saying he's confident,

but then he's rapidly losing confidence the further he talks. I can't guarantee that everyone's Christmas is going to be better. I mean, what if you don't get the gift you want? What if there's an argument in the family? What if you're laid off in your job? No, I just can't. That's all I've got to say. No more follow-up questions. But we did the tree set up and all the decorations yesterday.

It's quite nice. It's early. I haven't done it this early before either. No, it's fine. I come from a very Christmassy mother, Annie Prior. She's obsessed with Christmas. And she's slowly burdening me with all of her decorations. She's got so many decorations.

Each time she flies from Christchurch she's another load of decorations. So it's much like your family's going to be weighed down with your costume collection and your figurine collection. Yeah, same with Christmas. Same with Christmas decorations. Sometimes I'm like, is my real father

Santa Claus? Are you the kid from Mummy Kissing Santa Claus? Yeah I was the result I was the result He did more than kiss Got to second base with Annie Pryor Even third maybe I don't know

What is the base structure? Yeah I'm not sure But yeah so we sat at the Esso trees today But the biggest stress for me Is Annie has all these things in little cardboard boxes You know you buy a decoration i gotta put back away and they've got the mold the plastic molding around and the biggest stress for me is i think i i'm a forward thinker to january the cleanup and when you have to put

the decoration in the specific piece of molded plastic back in the box and the whole time i'm just like kids put the molded plastic back in the box back in the box and that's the the one job that i'm like i'm not looking forward to that apart from that i love chris i'm no grinch but i would be happy with you know yeah 30 centimeters of tinsel hanging from a window that would be fine with christmas lights is the one for me too you know every year i take it off the tree and i just put together and sort of some sort of clump and then come like december or end of november when you want to get it, you have to untangle the...

It's just like... Because you put them away going, we don't have to do this 12 months away. Yeah, no way. You don't have to do that. Ju, is there one job at Christmas time you're not a fan of? Honestly, actually, I do.

I help out with my family with a lot of the cooking. But we have so many... We've got so many family members and you have to cook something for one group one dinner one lunch da da da

and so you spend your whole time just cooking yeah you're the family cook are you well I help out mum with it we kind of take it upon ourselves to do it together

yeah there are people who just assume those roles on the day no nothing's being discussed it's like you're the person who does all the cooking well why

well because you did it 10 years ago and no one stopped you. Yeah, literally. That's probably it, right? Oh, it's their thing. They love it. Oh, my God, no.

Do I love being trapped in a kitchen for 12 hours? I know. Stirring boiling hot gravy? Oh. So that's what I want to chuck open this morning on R800. It's 4487 on the text too. What's the one Christmas job you're not looking forward to doing? You can get in touch

with us you can be anonymous you know because we all have to pretend that we love every part of it don't we getting rid of the

trees is another one we've spoken about this before you know if you've got a real tree getting rid of that is you know again you're like

you just dumped it on the berm hope for the best I did but then I ended up with everyone else's Christmas tree from the neighborhood

on there it was the collections the drop off centre yeah it's like three trees out to get rid of. It's because everyone holds back and just waits for his number 28

going to drop the tree first. And once they do, it's all guns blazing. So get in touch with us. The one job you're not looking forward to over the next few weeks, 4487 on the TX. We'll do that in just a few moments on the hits. Jono and Ben, the hits. Christmas not too far away.

Many of us looking forward to it But there is the jobs that come with Christmas That you're like, oh You can't love everything about it, okay Let's just call a spade a spade Although, you know, you're speaking about your decorations And we had Julie, remember Julie? On the phone a few weeks ago

And she loved Christmas, she had so many decorations Yeah, she was set up early October, wasn't she? For Christmas Have a listen to Julie. That is one of about 35 I've got. Oh my goodness. All different. Can we hear another one? Okay. What about Farting

Santa? Hey, alright. You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not cry. I'm telling you why. Oh my God. Who came up with this? I mean, who was like, you know what? I was in the...

Jeez. Of all the decorations. That's when you've reached the bottom of the barrel, isn't it? Guys, we've done everything. Have you got a gassy Santa? I guess we can do that, yeah. Chuck one out into market. We'll see how it goes.

Julie bought it. So what's the one job you're not really looking forward to over the coming weeks? We'll kick it off with you, Susan in Wellington, Morena. How's the capital this morning, Susan? Oh, hi. Not too bad, I think. Not too bad? One job you're not looking forward to, mate?

Getting out the silverware, like the cutlery, it's been passed down from the generation. Oh, you've got family cutlery. Yeah, the sterling silver cutlery is about a 12-piece setting and it's all wrapped up in tissue paper and set individually

in the box. Oh my gosh, this is intense. Do you have to prepare it in any way, Susan? I'll give it a good clean and polish when you bring it out at Christmas. Polishing? Yeah. Susan, just go fishing, guys. Use your hands.

Yeah. Yeah, and then you have to put it all away. Make sure it's all, you know, put it in an individual place to keep everything. It's an obligation. It's been handed down to Susan. I mean, it's nice to use those things, because otherwise when else are you going to use them?

But it's going to be your costume thing. Your kids are going to be like, oh, Dad loved it, and we're going to dress up like a cell phone or a fridge for Halloween. It's what he would have wanted. And everyone's like, do we have to? Do we? Well, it's what I would have wanted, you're right. Hey, good on you, Susan. Have a great day. We'll get Katie on from Auckland,

the one job you're not looking forward to at Christmas. Katie? Hi. So I used to be a professional gift wrapper when I was a teenager, and I've wrapped hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands of presents. Prolific wrapping career, yeah? To the point where every time I'd take a piece of sellotape and it would rip a piece of skin off my fingerprints.

So I could have got away with a lot of crimes back in those days. You didn't have any fingerprints from so much rapping. I tell you what, we had a little taste of it one year. We did it at the mall, didn't we? Yeah, the Westfield Mall. And it was like, oh, come in here and, you know, wrap some presents for charity. And listen, I'm not a good rapper. No, you're not.

You didn't like... Impatient. And I remember this one lady, she got me to wrap up something from Briscoes or something. And I could feel the pressure on her. I could feel her eyes burning away. I mean, who wants a present wrapped by a low-rate radio announcer anyway in a race against time?

But I wrapped it up and I kind of did a really shoddy job and then she the look of just disdain in her eyes at me she was just disappointed and then she went and unwrapped it and then went around on the other side and got someone else to do it so there's a lot of pressure on those

professional rappers Katie there is there is and at least I've learnt now how to wrap a present. And if in doubt, put it in a box. Yeah. It is quite possibly

the worst thing one human can make another human do, is wrap a present for them. Because it's a pointless exercise anyway. You're going to rip it off? Well, that's true. Some people take a lot of care and attention to it.

I bet Jenny Boyce, your mum, keeps the wrapping paper. She does. Does she fold it up? Yeah. My mum does the same, actually. You have to keep it all. You put it inside. Don't, don't, don't rip it off.

Mum, we're going to rip it. Don't you rip it. I'm going to use that again. Does it ever get used again? Mum does. Yeah, she's the one person that does use it. No one else would, but mum would. You haven't had the present wrapped the same since 1985.

That piece of paper, that little bit of paper that could. Hey, Katie, you're going to have a wonderful day, eh? Yeah, right. She is. She's already going to have a wonderful day. Welcome to Two Half-Assed Dads to a Half-Assed Job. Official title, New Zealand's Breakfast.

It's an unusual time in the world. There's a new COVID variant going around. And COVID in general has affected, you know, obviously it's affected all aspects of life. And I noticed over the weekend it affected another thing as well. Playtime with kids. Like COVID in a COVID world. This is, you know, something my daughters were doing in the weekend.

I was like, this is two years ago. Wouldn't even be a consideration. So they set up like a beauty salon at home, like a little nail and beauty salon. Were they paying tax? Well, no, that's the first question to me. I was always taxed. It all seemed like under the table cash jobs. Yeah, so what is this?

What is this? Illegal nail beauty operation you've got running here. I tell you, then Laer Revenue would be quite interested to hear about this little operation. But it's always cool to see them use their imagination and they go to all the trouble of setting up all the nail polishes and all the beauty stuff as well. But something else, they were spending a lot of time

doing some sort of arts and crafts. I was like, oh, maybe this is a sign for the nail salon. And it was a no. They were basically making a QR code. Oh, my goodness. A yellow and white striped thing with a little barcode. Thecode didn't scan too that was the other problem i was like this thing's not right this is not contact tracing at all yeah you're a legal nail salon not even documenting what customers have come in here and so did you go and get your nails done i got a little bit of

a nails but i actually yeah i took i took them off it It wasn't, you know, it wasn't, yeah. I was wrong. Yeah. But I got my hair done and stuff. It was lovely. It was a lovely time. It's just nice to have some time for that. Just pamper.

But also they had some hand sanitizer there as well. And they'd also stuck a little thing going, for our safety and yours, please use this hand sanitizer. Again, these are things that kids, you know, are thinking about these days. Yeah, well, it's definitely affecting a generation, isn't it? You imagine what the long-term effects of this are going to be. You're a legal nail salon, I'm talking about. When's this going to come back to bite you?

I had to wear a mask into it. I was like, hey, we're in the same bubble. I've been in the house without a mask. I do love the nail salons. When you walk into them, they just smell dangerous, don't they? Oh, my actual... Actual, just the chemicals you're like man i'd love to talk to these respiratory systems in here there's poor people you know

the mall ones and stuff you know like the nail diamond and professional and all those fun fun named ones did they name their nail salon i think it was yeah bibbidi-bobbidi-boutique or something which i think is something they've ripped off a Disney thing. I was like, I've got it. Not only have they. Yeah. I feel like this is another Disney salon somewhere. I think they've seen. Mickey's going to come knocking as well. So there are a lot of lawsuits pending on there.

They should be less worried about the COVID spreading around there. I can imagine what was the quality of the craftsmanship like on the nails. Was it a bit sloppy in parts? A little bit sloppy. Or did it end up bit sloppy in parts? A little bit sloppy. Or did it end up on your actual fingers? Yeah. A bit patchy. But it's kind of interesting what they do.

I mean, yeah, a while ago I was talking about the fact that they started up a roller skating restaurant as well. Again, not paying tax on it. But a shocking business model as well. All the staff on roller skates. Yeah. And you, you're like, I staff on roller skates. Yeah. And you, you're like,

I've already bought this food. Yeah. Now I'm paying for it again and I'm nervous about breakage of the plates that I have. You know, I'm like,

skim on, skim on, skim on. As a customer, I was very concerned. Like, I had to drop character a lot of the times.

Go, no, no, just put that one. You know, you don't know how much you commit to the role of, you know.

We just started going, hang on, not that plate. Dip in and out of panicked parent and happy customer. But not that happy. No, just a little bit like, this is a bad idea. I was researching just nails, as we were talking about this morning. Date back to 300 BC. This was before Christ was even a thing. What?

Painting nails in China. Nail salons? Well, I don't know if the salons were thing. Painting nails in China. Nail salons? Well, I don't know if the salons were that. Was it nails or? Painting nails. Oh, okay. Yeah, right. Yeah, been around for years.

What did you say? What, 300 BCE? Yeah, there you go. Long time, isn't it? Yeah, well, it's a long time. You're right. There's a few nails through the, and I was going to make a joke,

but your religious background won't like the nail talk. I'll just move on from there. Jesus went to the ultimate nail salon. That was the joke that I was too scared to make. But then he gets the Catholic to do it. See what he did there? He bullied me into doing it because he thinks I'll be forgiven by the big guy upstairs.

Yeah, I see. I see. He says he's not a believer but he fears. He fears. Still, you're not going to play it safe just in case. Kind of hedge my bets. When you get to the pearly gates, you're like hey, I wasn't, but I didn't not.

Now where's your COVID QR codes like it's scattered here? They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Now we spoke to someone on Friday, if you're listening to the show. Sense Offense is his

rap name, and he was going to break a world record over the weekend for attempting to rap for 40 hours. Yeah, it's like a 40 hour famine, except there's words coming out of your mouth and you're not jacked up on barley sugars. That's incredible. Like, even to think of just rapping even for four minutes,

non-stop freestyle rapping. Well, especially you and me, even to just think of rapping. Yeah, well, true. For 40 hours, all raising money for charity. It was a wonderful thing. And on Friday when we spoke to him, you got him to freestyle rap about us. Yo, I'm going slow with Ben and John No.

Every time I go, other rappers like Geronimo. Yo, you know we gonna flow all of the time. We blowing your mind with every rhyme. It's so divine. Yeah, you know that

I'm not in the literate. We rapping here with John No, Ben and Juliet. Yeah, you know I've been a threat to other rappers on internet. Very good, eh? Yeah, very good. I respect it when you hear stuff like that. You good, eh? Yeah, very good.

Respect it when you hear stuff like that, you know, Eminem and that. You're like, how's it working? I can't get my head around it. Their brains must be just working overtime. Yeah, well, fresh off the record attempt, let's get him on now. Sam, this is his real name, Sense Offense's artist name. How you going, buddy? Hey, good, thanks.

How are you? Yeah, good, buddy. Spoke to you on Friday. I was going for 40 hours nonstop, freestyle rapping. How did you go? Well, I got up to 22 hours, and by that point, you know how when you're super tired, you have those microdamps in the middle of doing something? That kind of started happening while I was rapping, and it got past the five seconds, which is the biggest pause you're allowed, so I had to call it at about 22 hours oh my goodness oh so

so five seconds is all you could pause for and between your raps yeah that's right once you start pausing longer than five seconds you lost oh my gosh well no i mean 22 hours is it's unbelievable even doing that non-stop yeah yeah 22 hours is unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Even doing that nonstop. Yeah, yeah, 22 hours felt like a lot longer than 22 hours. Well, when we were talking to you on Friday and you just did that little snippet for us, I was thinking, jeez, he's going to do this for 40 hours nonstop. At what hour were you like, uh-oh, this is becoming quite the mountain? So, honestly, that happened like four or five times throughout it so like i had a few moments where i was like really losing my voice and i was thinking like

no way i can keep going but i like pushed through and like managed to get the voice back so that had already happened a few times i've had these kind of like moments of like nah no way i can keep going push through come out the other side and there's probably about like four hours at the end that i was like thinking like oh i don't know if i'm gonna come out the other side. And there's probably about like four hours at the end that I was like thinking like, oh, I don't know if I'm going to come out the other side of this one. What was the most random thing you ended up freestyle rapping about?

Oh, I don't even know. Because so much stuff came out, my entire life story pretty much. Oh, really? You went deep there for a minute. Way too deep sometimes. It got way too inappropriate other times. It just went all over the place there.

Yeah, well, geez. Sam was, you know, the man trying to talk at a rate of knots while rhyming for 22 hours. That's a huge if. And you must have raised some cash for charity, did you? Yeah, yeah. So we raised nearly $4,000. So I'm still really happy with that. You know, obviously, would have loved to have gotten the world record.

But, you know, we got some money raised with some great charities. So really happy about that. Sleep deprivation, it's such a hard thing. And your brain as well would have been just working overtime. Even the brakes you would have been allowed to have wouldn't have probably even felt like brakes. They would have gone so quickly. So the brakes, they felt kind of like, you know, when you watch like those car races and stuff and they go in for the pit stop and it's just like all hands on deck,

like getting them ready to go out again? That's kind of what the break felt like. Now to our American audience who said all hands on deck there for our international audience. Well, listen, if you could take us, could we do a little favour and get another freestyle from you? Well, you can't make him freestyle, Rappagee. We said that was his condition. I would love to do that, but honestly, I don't think the make him freestyle rap again. We said that was his condition.

I would love to do that, but honestly, I don't think the voice is going to allow it today. That was his condition. He's talking to struggle enough. The condition was no... We promised him on Friday if we get it back. We said we promised no freestyle rap. I know.

And you went for it. I'm sorry. Why would you go for it? He's just at 22 hours. I thought maybe... If you want more rapping, you should have watched the whole 22 hours. Yeah, true.

I know. I shouldn't have asked. I'm sorry. How about we get Jono to rap us out? Okay. Should I rap you out, Sam? Yeah. So Sam, I'd like you to include Sam.

I'd like you to include his name. I'd like you to include... Don't do this to me. You just did this to him. This is what he does for a job. Okay. I'd like you to include my name, Ben. And I'd like you to include the word dinosaur as well. Okay. what he does for a job. Okay. I include my name Ben and I actually include

the word dinosaur as well. Okay. Just something random. All right. Give us a beat. Can you give us

a beat, Sam? Yeah, sure. I'll do a beatbox. This is John Owen Ben. We are men. Sam's the man. He did some

rapping over the weekend. And a dinosaur. I saw a dinosaur. Oh, weekend. And a dinosaur. I saw a dinosaur. Oh, God. There we go. So, listen, full credit to you. Full credit to you.

Very hard task, and you did that for 22 hours. Well, you didn't do that. You did far better content for 22 hours. I apologize to all of the audience. I think I've taken white guy rapping back 25 years. It was very... Sorry about that. Hey, well done,

Sam. Good on you. You're a great New Zealander and good on you raising some cash for charity, mate. Thank you. Appreciate it.