Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Do You Have A Dadlebrity??

Episode Date: August 30, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast we chat to the daughter of the infamous WWE star Butch from the Bushwhackers! Megan Papas chat what to watch and Hannah Mcqueen talks us through the latest tax scheme implemented in New Zealand!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Last day of winter as well. Is it? Oh, producer Joel's just told me. I don't know if that was on mic. Producer Joel's just told me 31st of August, last day of winter. Oh really? Don't get your hopes up though, because we spoke to...

Was it? Were your hopes up? What are you querying? Well, I just googled spring starts and then... But I don't want to say that because that's going to bring the vibes down. So let's just go last day of winter. When does spring start on the books? 23rd of September.

Oh, well, I thought the seasons would start of... This is just a quick googs. This is not... Listen, seasons are what you make them. Okay, that's what I've always said. Thanks to global warming, it probably is. Just make the most of what you're doing at that time is the important thing.

Now I'm just looking here. The afternoon program here, It probably is, you know. Just make the most of what you're doing at that time. Yeah. That's the important thing. Yeah. Now, I'm just looking here. The afternoon program here, Laura, Brad, Lazar and Brazza, they're sponsored by the Chemist Warehouse. Yeah. And I'm just looking at the wide range of products. For some reason, we've got a Chemist Warehouse display in here. And I think they give away some of the products on air.

Like, well done, you've won a pack of lipo sachets. Things like that. Well, they give out vouchers. They normally give $200 vouchers to the chemistry house. Can I use the stuff here? There's a liter tub of palm oil body wash there. Is this for your game? I don't think it is for your game.

Is it not for your game? Well, I wouldn't imagine it's for your game. There's a pack of Maxi G's like painkillers there. Is it free? It's a free game? I don't think it's free game. Oh, what the heck? No one knows.

I've been taking those protein bars every day I know you have it's been your breakfast for the last six weeks is for the protein bars but yeah

I don't know I think it's a bad look for us there's tissues yeah no bad look but anyway sorry where I was leading with this

is what's your one go to beauty product that you swear by Ben Boyce Joel Harrison I don't well you know what I love

what's that I love a bit of exfoliating do you it gets the top layer off okay yeah I don't exfoliate every day right

once a week but you otherwise you'd peel 900 layers off your face yeah yeah and you can tell by this flawless

this flawless compaction you don't name the product jeez they don't need that advertising they'll be like sink the business even though it's not need that advertising. They'll be like, sink the business. Even though it's not a paid advertorial. I'll be the face. I'll be the face. Please don't associate our brand with that.

I'll be the face of exfoliating. Maybe the before shot. It's not something I think of exfoliating. Like I wash my face. Do you face wash? Yeah, I do. Do you have like a foamy face wash? Yeah, it's just like a foamy face wash as well.

You know, if I run out of use, my wife's much to her disgust. Just because, you know, she knows, I do, yeah. Do you have like a foamy face wash? Yeah, it's just like a foamy face wash as well. You know, if I run out, I use my wife's, much to her disgust. Just because, you know, she knows when it's been used. But hey, it's all right. How does she know? Because you can get away with it for a bit. Yeah, and then it's my little, like, hey, have you been using that? And also, I don't have one, you know, in those occasions. Yeah, it's quite obvious when mine's run out.

Yeah. I always get busted using her deodorant at times when I've run out. We've got a shared, we just go shared, dove, roll on. Yeah, just like, yeah. I shared your roll on once. Yeah, that's fine. I have no qualms with it, but someone in the office was like, oh, yeah, this is pre-pandemic.

I mean, you know, you wouldn't go sharing roll on nowadays. It wouldn't worry me. Producer Joel, have you got a... I'm pretty, no, I'm pretty basic when it comes to... Have you ever washed your face? Yeah, no. I just wash my face once a week with water. But no, my girlfriend is trying to get me into

just like doing every time I'm there, like moisturizing and stuff. But no, I'm very... Well, this is the thing. If you don't do it then, look at my face, bro. Exactly. This is what you end up with.

And he's exfoliated. You've got the six-in-one. The six-in- one body wash is pretty much what you use what is six in one what do you do i think there's conditioner shampoo feels like there's five body wash other extra things toothpaste exfoliator toilet brush yeah you can use it all six in one they're covering off. There's like a three or four in one. You do raise an interesting point though, Joel,

is if you take soap, for example, just a bar of soap, you should be able to, and you probably can, wash your body, wash every part of your body,

wash your face with that soap, wash your hair with that soap. You know, but now what they've done is they've done a great job of sub-categorising. You're right, you're like, that's soap, but there's face wash that's better for your face. Yeah, when really does it But now what they've done is they've done a great job of sub-categorising. There's face wash that's better for your face.

Yeah. When really does it, is there a huge difference? Yeah. And I'm always like the brands. You pay X amount of dollars for one brand and then you get a cheaper brand for probably $20 less. Yeah. Does that make a difference? Does it?

There's questions that we should find out. Yeah, we should. I'm sure Consumer Magazine have done like an investigation into that. So maybe someone can go. Because you'd imagine like even when you look at home brand chips, milk confuses me. You're like, milk's all come from the same location.

Why are we paying more for one brand of milk and less for another? Yeah, a lot of it comes down to the packaging, doesn't it? Often you're like, oh, that looks like it's the better one

or whatever for some reason or that's fine with that one. Yeah. Some companies probably have different brands under the same factory. Yeah, you're probably right.

Let's get onto that tomorrow, guys. Jeez, we've covered some ground today. We may or may not. Enjoy the podcast. Today, stick around for the chat. We've talked to a guy from America who's dedicated a huge part of his life. It's incredible.

Thousands of thousands. I think he's got about 30,000 photos with him with celebrities. It is incredible. The celebrities that he's got is everyone. I mean, including people that have sadly passed away. Olivia Newton-John. Presidents. Kurt Cobain.

Yeah, everyone. Everyone you could think of, he's pretty much got a photo with him. How does he do it? Why does he do it? It's all on the podcast. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben, on the hits. Hey, thanks for hanging out

with us this morning. Father's Day coming up this weekend, isn't it? Yeah, constant reminder on this show, which is good. We keep saying it, so it reminds me. Do you, are you buying a present for Kevin Boyce? Yeah, normally but yeah his birthday, poor dad gets his birthdays around about the same time, 7th

of September so he kind of gets it all kind of. He could get two separate ones. Well sometimes he does sometimes he doesn't, it's very inconsistent what he gets but he gets something around about that time. I just, I'm so boring I just buy Dad vouchers. Well, hey, I love a voucher. Yeah, I know.

But it feels like I'm just doing the same present for birthdays, Father's Day, Christmas. Can't go wrong with a voucher, I think. But some people think it's impersonal. I think it's great. The greatest gift you can give someone is a voucher. Because then you get to spend it on what you want, not go, oh, wow, that's great.

So as Father say this week. And what are you wanting? Are you wanting some big bang bang presents yourself, your father? No, I'm actually all pretty good, to be honest. Homemade card or something? Yeah, homemade card's always nice. Never as good as the Hallmark ones, are they?

The homemade ones? Yeah, but they'd be nice. Homemade card, yeah. Breakfast in bed? Would you like breakfast in bed or something? No. To be honest, I'm usually the first up. So breakfast in bed requires me to go back to bed to eat breakfast.

I'm like, I've got some money up. I want to be on my laptop doing work. Yeah, I've started the day. Breakfast in bed. The day started. We're not reversing back in there. Father's Day, eh? Yeah.

You just want it to be another normal day. I'm happy. It's great to spend time with the family. What about you? Yes, I'm the same as you. I'm up early. Breakfast in bed seems like an inconvenience to me. You drink your little up-and-go chocolate,

up a little up-and-go in bed. And let's say the food made by the children, it's not restaurant quality. For many years it was. To be fair to my kids, they're actually really good at it now. But your dad actually, your dad, Kevin Boyce, a bit of a celebrity. Every time we go anywhere, the amount of people that come up to Ben

and say, your dad was my teacher or my school principal. He's been a renowned principal all over New Zealand. Yeah, he's taught for many years and been a principal, like you say. You're right. People do come up and go, oh, Kevin Boyce was, you know. And then he'll remember so many people. He'll go, oh, there a principal, like you say. You're right. People do come up and go, oh, Kevin Boyce was, you know. And then he'll remember so many people. He'll go, oh, there's such and such. And he'll go over and talk to them about it.

The man knows all of New Zealand. There's no one that's – we could bring anyone from the radio show listening right now to Kevin Boyce and he would make a connection to you. He tries to make a connection. He would have taught someone in your family. He'll narrow it down. Or he'll get to the stage where he'll just wear you down. So you'll go, oh, yeah, you know, yeah, I do know them.

Kate Shepard was his first student. So he used to, yeah, he used to also in the weekends in the Wadarapa, he would go around and report for the radio station. I remember doing that as a kid, like following him around. We'd drive in the radio car and he would basically report on the sports games that was going on, you know,

and then he'd go back into the studio and go, Red Star, we're up 14 points to 12 over Marist, 20 minutes into the game and then we'd get back

in the car and we'd drive off to a netball game or a hockey game or whatever it was. Well, it seems like a very panicked system of score updating.

And erratic too, like, you know, we probably won't get back to this game again. What happened to the Red Star game? I don't know, but I knew they were up. He's like sprinting around Masterton,

just watching tiny pockets of different codes of sport. What's the score? It was before, yeah, obviously before cell phones, before you could, you know. How would they have known what the score was if it wasn't for Ben and Kevin running around Masterton? What a redundant system, you know. Like, you know, I'm pretty sure we didn't get back to the games to wrap things up. I'm still wondering what happened to that Marist Red Star game.

But he was. He was a bit of a local. I guess on a smaller scale. He was a dad liberty. He was from the radio station, Radio Wairarapa at that stage. Yeah. So this is what we want to open up Here to Father's Day Do you have a dad liberty?

I've set the bar I'm going to love my dad Kevin Don't get me wrong But I've set the bar low For dad liberty Yeah like Maybe your dad was modelling

A wonderful polo shirt Chino combo In the spring Posty plus catalogue That would be amazing That could be an option Yeah Text 4487

Maybe your dad you know slinging a sledgehammer and a hammer hardware brochure what is the best dad liberty we can get next on the hits proud to be kiwi tono and ben on the hits father's day on sunday so we're looking for dad liberties a couple of great texts going through that was the maggie's garden one yeah wonderful my dad started on an episode of maggie's garden show that's a couple of great texts going through there. What was the Maggie's Garden one? Yeah, my dad started on an episode of Maggie's Garden show. That's awesome. That's great.

Jeez, that was a hell of a show. Maggie loved the crap out of her gardens. She did. It was amazing. And we've got Kurt with us right now. You reckon your dad's

a bit of a Dad Liberty? Yes, definitely my dad. My dad is a legend. Oh, okay. So what's your dad do? He was one of the bushwhackers for WWE. No way! That is legendary.

Don't get more legendary. Now, for those that don't know, the bushwhackers, they were like before Dwayne the Rock Johnson. It was a wild era of late 80s, 90s wrestling, WWE. It was like the biggest thing. It was one of era of sort of late 80s, 90s wrestling, WWE. It was like the biggest thing.

Like it was one of the biggest things for kids in New Zealand, you know, and all around the world. And there were superstars like the Ultimate Warrior, Hulk Hogan, and the Bushwhackers from New Zealand were on that world stage. Yeah, and then they were inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015 as well. So I think that was a good recognition for little old New Zealand. They were megastars. Your dad was a megastar.

Yeah, he was always just dad, but I never really liked that whole wrestling side of things because it all became a little bit too weird, like the fans and everything are just out the gate. But it's allowed us to travel a lot with him throughout the last 50 years. He's been doing it for 50 years. It's a real infectious industry, if you know what I mean.

I think if anyone's seen the movie The Wrestler, they almost get addicted to the lifestyle. I can imagine. Now, for the Bushmakers, if you haven't seen them, both of them were shaved heads. Butch and Luke together, they'd come out with a sort of walk of waving their arms around, and they'd often lick each other's faces from memory.

Yeah, lick each other's faces. Love sardines. Sardines, yeah, that was it as well. Which, after eating sardines and licking a face is probably not ideal conditions. And you wouldn't be licking faces nowadays, would you? I don't know, he'd probably still do it. Yeah, and they'd have the battering ram move.

He is showing that. I love the bushwhackers where they put the other one's head between the arms and run sort of head first into the opponents. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, and as a result of that, his neck is never the same. Oh, jeez, really? When do you realise as a kid, oh, my dad's job's not, he's not going down to Barford and Thompson to do real estate or accounting or something.

When did you go, oh, this is different? Well, I think it's something that I always grew up with, but I sort of felt it was different when the teacher went round to all of us at seven years old and said, OK, so who wants to be something of their parents when they grow up? And I felt really left out. I went to this really sort of flash primary school in Wellington. They were saying, I want to be a lawyer. And I want to be a blah, blah, blah, journalist. And I went, I want to be a wrestler.

I don't know why I said that. But I just wanted to be like everyone else. And then I realized I just definitely wasn't. So I think going overseas too, it was quite, as I said, overwhelming as a kid to all of a sudden have everyone run up to him and want to be with us when we're sitting eating dinner. And we went to Disneyland and we just didn't get any free time and we got swamped. It was quite bizarre, especially coming from the space where it's just my dad, leave us alone. But dad had to always put on the faces and make sure that all the fans were all

happy and had their signing and stuff so i suppose i was quite protective in a way i sort of like just back off he's my dad yeah as you would be at that age it's a hard thing to wrap your head around and what's he doing nowadays he is still part of wwe uh obviously there's royalties and things that they get as far as merchandise and pretty much the lifelong side of the contract. He lives in Kapiti Coast. So I'd like to say sort of retired, but he's got a book coming out. So he's doing a lot of podcasts and interviews and that at the moment, too. So he's kept busy on that PR front, really.

So he's still bloody bushwhacking. Still pulling the faces and doing the arms, although there's a lacerated shoulder going on now, and he doesn't walk as great as he does. He's had septicemia twice, which put him into hospital and ICU for about six weeks each time. We didn't think he was going to make it from a cage match infection he got. He's had all sorts of ailments,

and his body's pretty shot as a result of running around and jumping from the ring. Well, mate, that's amazing, Kurt. Well, I don't know if we're going to beat that. No, I don't think we can. New Zealand's coolest dad, one of the bushwhackers. Kurt, you're going to have a great day. Thank you so much.

Have a good Father's Day on Sunday. Warning, this show contains Jono and or Ben. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, you're not on Facebook and I'm not on Facebook either. But, you know, millions of people around the world love it. MySpace. We're staying loyal to MySpace. But something that my wife's on Facebook and she has now gotten on to the Neighbourhood Facebook group.

It's something producer Bee Humps, he loves the Neighbourhood Facebook group. Oh, he's always going on about, oh, the Neighbourhood Facebook group. It's something producer Behumps, he loves the Neighbourhood Facebook group. Oh, he's always going on about, oh, our Neighbourhood Facebook girl, someone's left a set of drawers out the front there. Yeah, and it's all over, like, it just seems like, I mean, it's all just crimes. It's like, you know, crimes in the area or stuff, people giving away junk that they don't want anymore. That's, you know.

That's all the content on the Neighbourhood Facebook group. Yeah, so I've been mocking her about it. What sort of crimes are they reporting? Yeah, well,, I guess it is a good thing. They say such and such, some lady came to the house and took this thing and, you know, reporting things or look out in the area for this, you know, the car was taken. There's this guy who's a peeping Tom. I think he used to be on TV. I know.

He's got a trench coat. That sort of stuff. Whatever. He kind of looks like that guy who used to be on TV. No. So what happens? So I've been saying to my wife, I don't know why you're on this Facebook group, you know,

but she, the other day, she's like, have a look at this. And someone had made a post on our local area Facebook group. She's like, read this post. And so it said, this is the post. My neighbor had been getting stuff stolen from his washing line.

I was like, oh, here we go. Another bloody robbery. And then he goes, but she's like, read on, read on. And he's like, okay. He asked me if I'd seen anything and I was so nervous, I almost crapped his pants. Crapped his pants because he'd taken them off the line i was

like it's a joke someone's doing jokes on the neighborhood i didn't know there was an opportunity for jokes on the uh so are you gonna start i might be but i might be in there now i didn't know i had a potential audience you know people so was it a crime no it wasn't it was just a joke oh right he's like i'm so nervous that i almost crapped his trousers because i was wearing his trousers yeah so now i thought it was very good there's a lot of random facebook groups out there as well i went looking a lot of passive aggressive actions go on in those neighborhood facebook groups as well too yeah yeah could number 16 please take their bins in the as soon as they've been emptied it's three days after the bin collection your bin's still sitting outside.

I imagine that's how they're talking. But I was looking at other random Facebook groups you can sign up to. These are actual ones that exist. Cats that look like Hitler. There's a whole, there's a group of, yeah.

Do the cats look like Hitler? Yeah, they do. Is it just the moustache? It's based on the moustache. The moustache was, Charlie Chaplin had that moustache. So it should be cats that look like Charlie Chaplin It's kind of like Hitler did to that moustache

What Kim Jong's done to the high fade Really tarnished it There's another Facebook group People that enjoy drawing phallic symbols on newspaper photos So they get newspaper photos They draw symbols and they upload And people rate their ones Accomplishing something before the microwave reaches zero zero

People take photos in the microwave reaches zero zero people like take photos of the microwave I did this I did this before oh you mean like running around doing other chores yeah and the drunken text

appreciation society which is quite a good one actually so people that just post drunken texts that other people have posted to them is your one

that you sent to KJ Arpa up there no no he sent it to KJ Arpa at three in the morning it wasn't a text it was the Kiwi actor KJ Arpa yes I did send him a message a't a text. It was the Kiwi actor, KJ Apa.

Yes, I did send him a message. A DM. A drunken DM appreciation sign. Maybe I'll start that one. If you're here for advice on life, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. Just reading this wee sneaky little text thing that sort of popped in last night. It's the front page of the New Zealand Herald today.

Well, then maybe it's not so sneaky now. Well, it sounded like it was sneaky last night, but you're right. It's the front page of the New Zealand Herald today. Well, then maybe it's not so sneaky now. Well, it sounded like it was sneaky last night, but you're right. It's all been revealed. The government's planned to charge GST on KiwiSaver's fees. So they're saying it's a bit of a wealth tax. Don't we already get taxed on it?

Well, apparently not. There's a 15% goods and service tax that is exempt from, and they reckon it's not coming in for a few years, 2026, but yeah, it's going to be quite a significant change to people's KiwiSavings. Now what happens if National, I don't know why I'm asking you, Ben. Yeah, I know, so you used to ask me questions.

I'm like, why are you asking? Yeah, like I've come out with the goods. I've given you some facts. I sound semi-educated on the subject. What happens if National comes in next year and goes, nah? Well, then it's all undone, right? I would guess so. There's nothing stopping them doing that.

Well, I don't know. I don't know how the laws and stuff work. I shouldn't have asked you. Let's get a financial expert on the show this morning, maybe after 7 o'clock this morning to try and pick that apart. Because it affects everyone that has a KiwiSaver. They were saying there, if you had a $100,000 KiwiSaver, under this, $20,000

could be gone from that. From taxing. So that's what one of the experts said. So yeah, that's a big significant amount of money. That's a huge chunk, yeah. If you're living off that for your retirement. Damn right, damn right. Have you checked your KiwiSaver lately? No. There was some bleak reading for a while there. I stopped checking it.

Yeah, don't check it. Write it down. Now, a deep, dark secret of mine that I need checking it. Yeah, don't check it. Write it down. Now, a deep dark secret of mine that I need to share, and I'll just do it with the Six O'Clock Club, because you're six here and you know it. Ben Boyce, you know this about me, but we haven't publicly gone out on record. I'm a huge fan of pimple popping. Yeah, you do like it,

don't you? For someone who has a weak stomach, you love... I'll YouTube them, I'll YouTube the videos. It blows my mind as i say friend of ours jeremy he's it was a sound operator on our tv show he's into it as well he sends me videos we see them back and forth is it the satisfaction of absolutely of you know seeing the relief of you know like don't get me wrong i'm watching the videos going why on earth would you put this on youtube yeah but thank you like it's very it relieving. But I also like getting in there myself.

I'm not just a fan. I'm not a sideline fan. I do like, and so now the kids, they're getting to a age where they're getting a couple of blackheads on their face.

And I'm starting to, I'm starting to, and they're like, this is the worst. Like, I'm trying to get one out of Oscar's nose last night. And he's like,

please stop. Like, I'll just, he's just like, I'll just ride it out. It'll come out eventually. And I'm like, please stop. Like, I'll just write it. He's just like, I'll just write it out. It'll come out eventually. And I'm like, no, no, it's there. It's halfway out. It's hanging out. It's hanging.

Do you want me to take a photo of it? And I'll show you. And then I took a photo of my photo. I'm like, look, we're nearly there, mate. But I fluffed it. You fluffed it? Left the core in. Oh, fatal mistake.

That was the thing. I mean, especially going through your teenage years, it's so hard not to sort of attack your face, is it? You know, like when stuff's going on, you know? Mum's always like, leave it, leave it. You've been in the bathroom. It's probably better than other stuff you could be doing in the bathroom. Why have you been in there for 15 minutes?

What are you doing in there? Open the door. Probably pimples were maybe in hindsight. It was better. Just leave it, just leave it. And I'm like, no, no, no, I can get it. But the problem is with a pimple is you start working on it, you start excavating, and you get to a point where there's no turning back.

Yeah. You're like, I've just got to keep going. But then there's no bigger disappointment than you're like, well, I haven't completed the job. I've made this worse. A whole lot worse. My face looks like I have a lesion on it. If I could give one bit of life advice to any young people is if you've got one in between your eyebrows don't touch it

very sensitive area and never yeah just leave leave between don't touch between the eyebrows you can play around on the forehead chin your nose even but between the eyebrows you're always going to end up in a... No matter how tempting that is. Massacre. Leave that alone. There's some life advice for you this morning. One great way to make the morning commute a little more stressful.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, we've been talking in our 6 o'clock club, you're listening right now this week, about the longest commutes. Yes, you're 60 and you know it. And yesterday, a lot of calls from people probably spend more time in their cars than a really committed Uber driver. People doing one and a half hour

trips to work, three hour trips to work, and overnight, a couple of people got in touch with us and they said, hey, you didn't put me on the radio, so we need to continue this on for the second day, the longest commute in the 6 o'clock club this morning. Melanie, what is it for you?

So as you probably know, I do an Elsa and Mail and Press run every day. So I drive already for about two hours just delivering all those papers. And now I'm also driving another half an hour after that to go and do my HD licence course. So you're spending how many hours in a car driving? Three hours. That's a lot of driving. Yeah, yeah.

Six days a week. Yeah, well, Melanie. Now, is this to say Melanie, who had two car crashes within the space of half an hour? Yes, and now I'm going for my truck license. So I'll see how many cars I can take out. Good on you, Melanie. That's the attitude out on the roads here.

That's it. You're going to have a great day. You too. Okay. Paula, morning. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast. Longest commute. What have you got?

Well, that's a good run. Nine hours. Nine hours. Like you could fly to Hawaii in nine hours. I know. So this is wild. Okay, Paula, what's going on? Well, I work in a large hospital in Auckland.

And yeah, I don't live there. I mean, sometimes I do, to be fair. Sometimes I stay. And those days that I stay, I still have to be at work by about four to get a car park. Jeez. I mean, that's the thing. Not everyone lives in the place that they work. Sometimes you get a house and that's what you can...

Sometimes you buy a house nine hours away. Well, yeah. Oh no, I just changed my job sort of, you know, midway through. I was doing another job for a long time. I wanted to do something different, so I trained for a long time, and it's a specialised kind of a job, so there's not many around. So where do you live? Whakatane.

Sometimes I do a round trip. Sometimes if it's just for, you know, if I only need to be there on that day, I'll drive up and back. Otherwise, I will, yeah, drive a few days early and stay a couple of nights and come back. And I've got to tell you, the worst trip I had was during one of the, when we went into a level four, you know, and all of a sudden we all had to pack and flee.

I used to call it the pack and flee trip. And as I left Auckland, so I had to go back to where I was staying, fill up my car. It took me, I think, probably one way, maybe 10 hours, because I was one of however many thousands of people fleeing Auckland.

Now, none of those people lived in Mokotani. By the time I got to the end of the Waikato Expressway, I turned off and I'd take the shortcut through the back roads. But you know why all those people were fleeing Auckland? It was so they could get to their batches in the Coromandel and we could head down to Wanaka and Queenstown and fun places. Oh yeah, it was. You're dead right, because they had caravans,

they had boats, they were fully loaded, mate. Well, well done to you. Nine hours to get to and from work. On a good day. On a good day. Well, you done to you. Nine hours to get to and from work. On a good day. On a good day. Well, you have a wonderful day, and good luck for the rest of your drive. Thank you so much.

Jeez, that's wild. I know. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. What a wee thing I want to play with you right now, Jono, called Clicker Path. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for doing that. And what this is doing, Ben,

because you've told me what this is about, is you're going to dedicate your data, your Wi-Fi, and your time to finding out what clickbait articles are actually featuring. Because sometimes you have to get through 123 pages to get to the answer that you want. And so I get to guess what path we go down,

I'm gathering, on clicker path yeah yeah you're looking very confused right now what's going on baby look i was doing a lot of talking just filling in time there and i can see ben was lost i found some great ones before and then i clicked off the article you know how they come at the bottom of the article so all these are good ones and now i've gone back to that same article and they're different clickbait options i had some real doozies picked up before and i'm like oh god that's gone that's gone well yesterday on the podcast intro we kind of played this game uh and you can listen to the podcast i heart radio and where you get all your podcasts from exclusive only podcast content uh but ben we clicked into a article which had 25 haircuts that

will make the 60 year old woman look 20 years younger and all of the haircuts were the haircuts of a lady who would say, let me speak to your manager. They did look like that. All right, I'm going to give you some options. These are clickbait articles. I'm just going to do this on the fly. This is live radio.

Okay, do you want to know more about the 15 easiest dog breeds to look after? Do you want to look inside Oprah's $90 million mansion? Sounds pretty exciting. Hollywood's biggest box office flops. None of these really helping you out right now? Well, the Oprah one does, but it really is more visual mansion. Sounds pretty exciting. Hollywood's biggest box office flops. None of these really helping out right now. Well, the open one does, but it really is more visual, because we're just going to be looking at the mansion going, whoa! That's why

before I had some, if a cat bites you, here's what it really means. Oh, I'm interested in that. What happens if a cat bites you? Don't eat bananas for breakfast anymore, here's why. Oh, that's interesting to me too. These are clickbaits. of a cat bites you? Don't eat bananas for breakfast anymore. Here's why. Oh, that's interesting me too. Look at that.

These are click baits. There's some options for you. So those are my two options. It's tossing up between the cat biting you and the banana for me. Plant bananas all over your garden. Here's what happens

a week later. Oh, that's another goodie. A little banana-based content, eh? Maybe they like, yeah, banana stuff. You know what I'm going to do? Yeah?

I'm going to do the plant bananas all over your gardens. See, what they've done in the photo, too, to really intrigue you, is they've just put bananas in the garden, like, just with sticking up, like half the banana under and the other one sticking up. Oh, so you dig them into your dirt. Yeah, but not far into the dirt. So, okay, so this is it. So we're clicking, this is your clicker path.

Do you know what they look like poking out of the dirt, bananas well yeah they don't look a bit weird so this is where this is the annoying thing and this is why you get frustrated with thing so you get there and it says building the perfect garden uh takes not only time but money and then it starts off talking about how you can use toilet roll containers as containers you know it's basically put plants inside where's the bananas where's the bananas and then i've got to click on the next page okay we'll keep going because we all want to know what happens if you put you can use a teacup as well you can put a teacup and with plants you want to put not interesting me okay you're losing me get to the banana gear okay here we go you can use forks as a weapon against birds in the in the garden

plastic forks oh that's interesting forks up there as well. So they won't come flying down. But it's not the banana content we came for. I've got bamboos all over. Or you can paint spoons, like wooden spoons. You can paint nice little things and put them in the garden. But again. I've got other stuff to do with my day apart from painting spoons.

Not the banana content. You're right. Oh, look, see, I'm clicking again. No banana content. Well, click a path is not. Like, how many pages do I have to go through to get to this? Hopefully not too many more. Well, no. I'm sorry. I don't know pages do I have to go through to get to this hopefully not too many more well no I'm sorry

I don't know if I'm going to be able to give you that maybe after 7 o'clock this morning I might give you this but right now there is multiple multiple pages

and we're not getting to the bananas keeping tea towels so this didn't work at all this didn't work at all this just shows why you don't get clickbait on it

you can grow a bloody rose out of a potato, but I can't find out why you stack bananas in there. Listen, can I do some post analysis? No, please don't. I know what you're going to say. Bananas make great compost?

No, bloody hell. Okay, keep going. I'm just putting on my boss's hat here. No, don't. Please don't. I know what you want to say. Don't. Okay.

Rather disorganized. Maybe. There was a point. It was live. It was unplanned. Maybe a bit more preparation would have gone astray. Beer kills slugs in the garden.

You can put a little bit of beer. Producer Joel, maybe we can pre-record this one next time so we can edit this a little bit out as well. Yeah. It's all live on this show, mate. Now, Producer Joel, I know you're new to radio.

I'm still clicking through it. I cannot find the bananas. This is not how it's done. Okay. How do you wrap it up? How do you wrap this thing up? What's the sign to wrap it up? I don't know.

Cinnamon will save you. Do you want to know about cinnamon saving your plants? I think maybe we take the rest of the day off. I don't know if there's no coming back. All right, after seven

there might be that but there'll be a whole lot of other stuff. Rolling coverage as we get to this banana content with you throughout the morning. It is the hits

you got Jono and Ben. Mature, responsible and considerate. Three words we sadly can't use here. Jono and Ben on the hits. The supermarket was a pack and save last night. Now the checkout aisles, what I would like to say to the supermarket industry,

they've done a good job of segregating the checkout aisles. You know, you've got your self-service ones, if that's your jam, your 12 items or less, there's a 25 items or less, and then there's just your full trolleys. I haven't seen the 25 items or less ones There's a 25 items or less. And then there's just your full trolleys. Oh, I haven't seen the 25 items or less ones. That's an option. So I rocked up to the 12 items or less aisle yesterday. Now, I had in my trolley a very minimal amount of items.

Yeah. I hope you had 12 items or less. Well, the lady behind the counter, she was serving someone. She stopped serving the gentleman in front of me. She said, this is 12 items or less. I said, I've got 12 items or less? The lady behind the counter, she was serving someone. She stopped serving the gentleman in front of me. She said, this is 12 items or less. I said, I've got

12 items or less. She's like, it doesn't look like you've got 12 items or less. I was like, I'm guaranteed. Are you counting

a Heineken, like a dozen as one item or 12 individual? Is that where we're getting into? Well, then I've filled up my whole

quota, haven't I? That was my question. Like, are six apples taking up half your 12 items? Or is it six apples in a bag

is that just one i would think that would be one item i would assume so but then if you're buying individual apples if i was buying a brayburn and then for some reason i wanted a granny smith then i feel and they were separate that would become separate what if you put both the apples in one bag well that's screwing up their system because they can't you know that's that's messing that's messing with them anyway so she was i I said, there's eight, nine items in here, mate. And she's looking at me like, don't try and fool me, buddy. I do this every day. I know how many items are in there.

And she's like, okay, I'll play your game. She didn't say that out loud. I could tell she was thinking that. So she finished serving the gentleman, but the gentleman stayed there. He wanted to witness. Oh, spectator sport. Yeah. serving the gentleman but the gentleman stayed there he wanted to witness oh spectator sport yeah and so then she was scanning them and i was like got up to like a item eight nine and i was like oh dear god there's 14 or 15 items in here she didn't say a word it was just the silence of

yeah i've been counting buddy the guy in front of me he had been silently counting everyone had been counting and she's like the reason that i do it is because I get told off by other customers. They get salty. Now you're getting other people in trouble. We're pushing your boundaries. Hey. Surely there's a bit of give and take with 12 items or less. 14.

Do you have 14 more? 12 items or less. The labour involved scanning. I feel like it was meant to be 11 and they were like, we'll give you 12 items or less. That's the give and take. Maybe they just wanted 10 but they've given you to 12

and you're pushing it. What's next? Well that's the thing if you put a number on it then everyone's going it's not the speed limit they say 50 they mean 70.

They don't. No they don't. They clearly don't. They say 100 they mean 120. Everyone knows that you can push it up by a couple.

Not necessarily. So anyway 25 items or less is where I need to go from now on. Yeah, I didn't even know that was a thing. 12 items fills up real quick. It does. It's not actually that many items when it comes to supermarket shopping. Scrolling through your feed.

Here's three minutes of mildly interesting information. What's happening? Well, yesterday I got clickbaited and I knew it as soon as I saw the headline, but I did it anyway. The headline was, what Brad Pitt is really like. And we all want to know. We all want to know. How could you not? How could you ignore that?

I know. That's an enticing article. Sometimes it's like, 25 ways to get rid of nail fungus and things like that. No, I'm not that interested in nail fungus, but Brad Pitt, what he's really like, that's a good headline. Yeah, we're going to do actually some more clickbait games before 7 o'clock. I've got one for you, Jono. But yeah, so what Brad Pitt is really like, I clicked on it. I knew that I probably would be disappointed with the results,

but I went through anyway. What, as in you thought Brad Pitt would let you down? No, no, it was just the fact that I felt like I was in the content. I felt like I was going to get clickbaited, and I was because when you read between the lines of the article, it was basically what Brad Pitt is really like, and it had a person who'd worked with Brad Pitt saying, he's super nice.

Yeah, he's super nice. He's an A-lister, but he's real down to earth. He's super nice. So that's what he's really like. But I was like, well, I could have... That's what I hoped he would be like, and it was exactly what I hoped he would be. But mind you, I don't know where your disappointment lays.

Did you, like, secretly you wanted to go, he's a monster. He kicked over all the cameras. He booted interns in the genitals. Because they've told you what he's really like there. So the article is actually delivered on its promise. I wanted, but I just had to go for a click to get there. And you're right. If they just said Brad Pitt is super nice, you're right.

I wouldn't have clicked on it. but I still would have been satisfied. But part of you wanted him to be a monster. Yeah, no, he sounds like he's a lovely person. And Chris Rock reportedly has turned down hosting the Oscars. I can imagine why he'd be a bit gun-shy. Yeah. We've talked many times about what happened at the Oscars, Chris Rock, Will Smith, all that.

But yeah, according to a stand-up set that he's been doing, someone who was at the stand-up set, they said he talked about how he was offered the gig and he said it would be like returning to the scene of a crime and he's not that keen to do it. Even though he has done it a couple of times in the past, he's not so keen to do it. Which, yeah, as you say, I guess it makes a lot of sense.

But great play from the Oscars to go, who could we get to be the host? Chris Rock. Well, I guess they kind of want to go, hey, mate, sorry you got slapped in the face. Why don't we get you back? And he's like, well, that's another slap in the face. Yeah, it literally is. But his show, his comedy tour, which I didn't actually manage to attend here in Auckland,

you're saying everyone, they can't take their phones in. So that's why there's no audio of any of this stuff. Yeah, they've got a whole lot of people talking about it afterwards. Oh, yes, we've said this. They said that. Did he? Yeah, well, that's the thing. Maybe that opens it up to more slander.

Yeah, because another thing someone else reportedly talked about, someone yelled out, talk about it, when he made reference to something with Will Smith. And he said, basically, he said that we couldn't do a fight together because Will Smith's way bigger than me. And, yeah, so, yeah, he's way bigger than me. And that was the other, someone else going, oh, he's talked we couldn't do a fight together because Will Smith's way bigger than me. Yeah, he's way bigger than me. And that was the other someone else going,

oh, he's talked about fighting Will Smith. But it sounded like it was all just in joke form. I feel like Chris Rock probably just wants to get on with life. Yeah. And we don't. We want something. Just give us something, and we'll probably want more, to be honest. But yeah, because you put your phones in bags, didn't you?

Like these Ziploc bags that you couldn't actually work or open the bag up until you got to special areas around outside of the venue, sort of around the concourse. And then you could open it and check your phone, and then you'd have to close it back up to go inside. What are the bags called? Yonder bag? Yonder pouch? Yeah, Yonder pouch or something. Was it named after Kanye's mum? Did he create the Yonder pouch?

I think she was Donda, I think. Well, then no, it's not. Yeah, but I mean, yeah. It's not named after Kanye's mum? Did he create the yonder pouch? I think she was Donda, I think. Well, then, no, it's not. Yeah, but, I mean, yeah. It's not named after his mum. Yeah. But, yeah, but Kanye, I don't know how you got there. I don't know how you got there,

but I don't, well, hey. The first thing is, when you look up yonder pouch, there's a yonder pouch hack, how you can... How you can do that. Yeah, there you go. And that's what's making news this morning.

The Jono and Ben Podcast. The world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats. Hey, the guessing game. Fun little game show to play. Ben Boyce, you like to play along. You like to have the help of the fine. Because you throw a question out to us,

and then you give us 60 seconds to come up with the order, the list. Yeah, and so today, the top five, and I'll let you banter around for a minute or so just to get your head around the topic. The top five most popular foods. Now, I'm not talking meals. Right. Just the foods. Would you like me to give you a couple of the bangers that are sitting from number five

to ten so you can get an idea of what's in the list? Oh, yeah, I guess maybe, but then maybe they would have been ones I might have come up with. I don't know. Yeah, but this will help you cancel them out. Okay. Okay, I'll tell you at number ten, the most popular food. Soup. Okay.

Soup. It's a good food. I wouldn't put top ten. I'm gathering this is in consumption. Yeah, I see. Yeah, not as in the amount of... Number nine, apples. Okay.

Oh, jeez. I don't know if this is helping me out at all. This is just... Yeah, okay. Apples. So I'd like to hand it over to you. The top five in order. The top five.

You can do this. You said that the other day when we were talking about the biggest YouTube songs, you were like, ooh, and you did it. Oh, yeah, okay. You did it. Have faith in yourself. Off the top of my head, I would say. Are we starting now, are we?

No, I'm just bantering. I'm bantering. I'm bantering. It's getting the hamsters turning on the wheel, all right? Here we go. I would say rice would be somewhere in the mix. I would say pasta would be somewhere in the mix. I would say pasta would be somewhere in the mix. You're not giving me anything here.

I would say one of those two things is in the mix, as you say. I would say, are you talking like, when you talk about soup, are we talking like meat? Is meat one or do you have to break it down? You have to break it down into a, there is one particular meat that sits in there as one of the most consumed foods in the world. Producer Joel, have you got any ideas? Because I gave you a rice cooker.

Pizza? Is pizza in the mix? No, pizza isn't in the mix. I was going to say like burgers, but then I guess it's probably not. Probably more of a, yeah, more of a meal. But soup's allowed. This is a really inconsistent list. You put a lot of stuff in a soup,

but as soon as you start making it into hamburger form, not on the list, mate. Less time questioning the guessing game. Bananas? It's not called the question in the game. Should I kick the timer off? Yeah, kick the timer off. You've got 60 seconds. Oh, jeez, I'm not even close.

Okay, rice is in the top five. Yep. Well done. That's number four. Number four even close. Okay, rice is in the top five. Yep. Well done. That's number four. Number four? Okay. Okay, I'll give you a clue. This would warm the cockles of your unclogged heart.

And I said not a meal, but technically this could be a meal. Low in calories, it's high in disappointment. You probably have one every day. Like a... Glass of water. No. Water, is it in the mix? No, I don't know. I a... Glass of water. No. Water is in the mix? No, I don't know.

I can't think of one. Salad. Oh, salad again. This is... Stop complaining. Very generic. They're switching. Salad's number one.

Okay, number two. Number two, the kernel would be in. Chicken, chicken. Well done. Okay, okay, okay. Number three. If you walked in on someone doing this for the first time to a cow... Oh, milk, milk. No. I'm milking someone. What else do you get? Cheese. Well okay. Number three. If you walked in on someone doing this for the first time to a cow. Oh, milk.

Milk. No. I'm milking someone. What else do you get? Cheese. Well done. Number three. Number four, as you said, rice, rice, baby.

And number five. Gents against. You say my head always looks like one. Eggs. What? You did it. You did it. You know, with your help.

I mean, yeah, like, yeah. I know you did one. I could feel like, oh, it's salad in there. Yeah. A lot of time arguing. Less time arguing, like, yeah. I know you didn't want, I could feel like, oh, what's salad in there? Yeah. A lot of time arguing. Less time arguing, more time guessing in the guessing game next time. Oh, well, there we go. The top five.

So let's rattle through those in order again for those to play home. Salad? Salad? Now, the most consumed foods. I'm not saying the tastiest. Yeah. Chicken, cheese, rice, and eggs. Interesting.

Yeah, there we go. Jono Pryor's guessing game. Oh, was I? Interesting. I wasn't. I thought you, there we go. Jono Price. Was it? No, it wasn't. Interesting. I thought you were just being polite. Joel? Producer Joel?

Yeah, not very interesting. Joel's not into it. Jono and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. Your chance to win $5,000 at this very moment right now on the hits is exciting. Yeah, we are still running the campaign too to do a guaranteed $5,000 at this very moment right now on The Hits is exciting. Yeah, we are still running the campaign too to do a guaranteed $5,000 winner.

Head to The Hits Breakfast Facebook page. Give the photo a like. We need to get to 5,000 likes. It's stalled about halfway. We're still 2,500 likes is great, but really management were like, you'll never get to 5,000 and they might be right. Yeah, this is why they're in management and we're in the role that we're in. So I just wonder what happens.

Do we do a slow fade out on this campaign? Do we pull a Leo Malloy, pull out halfway through the race, go, listen, this is costing us a lot of resources, it's never going to happen. What do we do here then? Well, I don't know. We need to have a wee crisis meeting,

I think, after the show. I blame Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg and his blimmin' algorithms. Yeah, well, mate, there's a lot of finger-pointing going on right now. I blame the management. I blame Zuckerberg. I throw in Leo Malloy into the mix. I mean, we had nothing to do with it, but let's get Stella on from Blenheim. Welcome. How are you? I'm good, thanks. Jeez, stunning place, Blenheim, isn't it? It is. Yeah, yeah, great climate.

Ben accosted me walking out of the petrol station toilet like an undercover gutter journalism sting. Yeah, because he hadn't bought something. He hasn't bought something from inside. Very lovely. It was lovely. It was an outdoor toilet. You know the one I'm talking about, would you, Stella? Yeah, sure.

The famous toilet. All right, Stella, who do you want to send into the Soundproof booth to win $5,000? Ben, please. All righty. And what would you do with this cash, Stella? Oh, probably go on a well-earned holiday. What do you do?

At the moment, I'm labouring, helping renovate some flats. Handy. What's your favourite part of labouring? Oh. The end of the day. Yeah. There's two favourites, actually, lunchtime and the end of the day. Yeah, that'd be my favourite as well.

All right, let's get into it, Stella. The first thing that comes into your head when I say nostril. Nose. There's the first one. Clove. C-L-O-V-E. Clove. Garlic. Oh, we've got a team member there too, Stella. Who's playing along? A secret helper, my husband.

A secret helper. Hello, husband. Pedestrian is the third word this morning there, Stella. Pedestrian. Crossing. Crossing. All righty. Talk, coming in at word number four. Back.

Yeah, talk back. Talk back. Wedding is the fifth and final word. Wedding. Wedding. Dress. Wedding dress. And just dotting back to talk Alright

Well done, well done Stella Great words Jeez, if you don't win this $5,000 Me? Yeah, for Stella I'm looking at you dead in the eyes here Ben Boyce If you don't win this for Stella Something has gone wrong with the format of this game

Alright First word Word one $25 here, Ben Boyce. If you don't win this for Stella, something has gone wrong with the format of this game. First word. Word one, $25. Nostril. Nose. Good start. There's Smoko, Stella. There's Smoko for you. Are we doing the $50?

Yep. Alright, let's risk it all. Word two, $50. Clove. Garlic? Ooh-wee! He is on fire. Are we going to 100, Stella, or are we pulling out? Yep, no, carry on.

Word three, $100. Pedestrian. Pedestrian Pedestrian Pedestrian Crossing Stella Good That's a hundy

This is the big leap You want to go up to 500 Yeah I want to go up to 500 The next one was really hard So you got your 100 right now You can walk away with that But if we go through the next word for 500,

I get this wrong, you get nothing. Yeah, it came with nothing. If we go into nothing, it's okay. She's mowing on. Rolling the dice, baby. To 500 we head, Stella. Here we go. Word four, $500.

Wild scenes. Talk, talk, talk. Here we go. Word four, $500. Wild scenes. Talk. Talk. Talk. See why this is the hard one. Speak. No. Sorry, what did we go for?

I nearly said speak. Talk back. Talk back is a good option. Which I thought, you're in the biz, mate. I thought you'd be. Oh, yeah, true. Don't you say it. And what would you have said for wedding?

There's a lot of options. That was dress. Stella. So close, but so far. Well, you played a great game, you and your husband, Dean. Thank you so much for listening to the show. We do appreciate it. Awesome.

Thanks, guys. Good luck for the day. Have a great one. And don't forget you can text LIKE to 4487 to get the link. We're halfway there in our mission to get 5,000 likes to guarantee we give away $5,000 with five words. If they were the internet, you'd want to

clear this history. Jono and Ben on the hits. Very shortly, we're going to catch up with a guy in America who spends his whole life pretty much dedicated to following celebrities to get photos with them. Oh, he's quick. You look at the photos

he's got online with people, you know, from Cobain to Cosby. He hasn't got Cosby. Don't, don't. Don't. We'll put some of the actual photos. Snoop Dogg to Dogg the Bounty Hunter.

Yeah, he sent us through some photos that we can put online, so we'll put it on our social media. Yeah, he's going to be joining us next. But over 20,000 photos he's had with celebrities, like his full-time job. Now, Jessie's coming from the office. Welcome. How are you?

Good, thank you. You had a wonderful celebrity encounter that you told us about last week. Yes. So I used to work at Countdown before I worked here back in the day, and I got a photo with Austin Butler, who is now Elvis, and Vanessa Hudgens his girlfriend at the time that's pretty incredible so they were in New Zealand yeah a few years ago this obviously before Elvis but yeah pretty pretty incredible they obviously read the wine back

catalogue and thought oh there's some there's some deals to be had at countdown this week yeah pop on down so what were they what were they buying a lot of organic fruit and vegetables I remember that. Yeah. So what is that occasion? You're okay. Can you ask for a photo? Like what happens to that? Yeah.

So I kind of freaked out. I was like, oh my God, you know, once in a lifetime opportunity. Asked for a photo. The guy next in line took it. He had no idea who they were. The photo was really blurry, but I got it. It's on the gram. But then something really awkward happened.

Yeah. This is the best part of the story. So after taking the photo, admittedly probably my fault caused a bit of a stir. People started to notice who they were. I asked him to sign his receipt and he was like, Oh, no autograph. Sorry.

But it was literally to pay for his shopping. Oh, he would have felt like, yeah, you're like, can I gonna get your autograph and he's like no no no no autographs and obviously he does need to sign Elvis wanted to leave the building like I imagine that would be the ultimate humbler when you're a movie star in movie star mode you know you get you probably get swept up in things and you're like no I've just got your credit your credit. It was an American Express, you were saying? Yeah, I was just holding his American Express. I mean, I would have just kept it if it was pay-away, but I was like, I kind of want to give this back to you.

Yeah. I had that happen to me. I was telling you too the other day about where a courier came in to work. Busy office. I was having a chat. We're talking about John Owen Benster, you know, stuff like that. And as he left, he'd given the package. He goes, I better get your autograph before you left.

I went, oh, come on, mate. I'm not that famous. And he goes, yeah, I know. I just need you he'd given the package he goes i better get your autograph before you left i went oh come on mate i'm not that famous and he goes yeah i know i just need you to sign for the package that's a humbler that's especially you know at least he's austin butler your ben voice yeah i know and it is really it is it has rattled your signing game ever since like he didn't even sign his contract for this job. I was like, I can't do it. You can't do it. Just in case it's a prank. I'm going, oh no, mate thinks he's famous.

His mortgage didn't sign that. They think he's rude. Yeah, so you can imagine Austin Butler now would be even more gun-shy about signing autographs. Thanks to you. After Elvis, I'm sure he's not even signing anymore. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, thank you very much, Jesse. We're going to get this guy on next.

Amazing guy from America. Over 20,000 celebrity photographs. He's been doing it for 30 years. A full-time job. Yeah. This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Wall-to-wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. Now, I'm very excited about this.

A man who pretty much is a professional tracker down of celebrities. I don't know if that's an actual job title. I don't think it is, but he gets photos of himself with celebrities. He's been doing it for 30 years, got thousands and thousands of photos. Yeah, Bob Piver of you. You are the celebrity photo hunter. That's correct. So how long have you been doing this?

I'd say around, probably about 33 years, around 89. Jeez, you're committed. You're committed. So, you know, just... Yeah, yeah, very much. There is an endless list of A-listers that you've had photos with. Who, just rattle off some names for us. Okay, just like current or old or...

Well, that's the thing. You've got so many... Okay, let's go categories. Let's go categories let's go presidents oh uh yeah it's like seven living presidents uh like uh joe biden donald trump bill clinton and george bush senior and junior jimmy carter gerald ford you had to get them both biden quickly didn't you yeah yeah yeah yeah i a race to the finish line on that one. Okay, let's go rock stars. Like rock stars, pop stars.

Oh, a lot. A couple of the Beatles, like Ringo and McCartney, and then, you know, Rolling Stones and The Who and Zeppelin and Motley Crue, Def Leppard, ACDC, Guns N' Roses. But you said pop, like Rihanna, Katy Perry. I saw you had a photo with Post Malone, Kurt Cobain, Eminem. You've got The Rock. Oh, it's just incredible.

We could list names all day. So how do you track these celebrities down? Sometimes it is outside of shows, and other times it's like doing your own detective work, like find them at hotels or their flight. Now with the internet, it makes it a lot easier. It must be so time-consuming. What's the longest period of time you've waited for a photo with a celebrity?

Sometimes it's an hour or two, and then I could be waiting 10 hours. I'd just be waiting all day long. Very time-consuming. Do you have a job as well? Yeah, how does that work? Yeah. Yeah, now I do. Well, I did this for my full-time income for years,

like selling memorabilia and autograph memorabilia, back to having a regular job for about the last 15 years. So now I do it part-time with work. But, yeah, I made a good living at it for about 15, 20 years. Would any celebrities say no to an autograph or a photo? Sometimes. Some have been very difficult like bob dylan's very difficult madonna uh stevie nicks very hard taylor swift's heart well because imagine a photo would probably be a little different than an autograph because they might be going oh hang on you might be selling this in the future the photo

generally easier yeah because they don't see any value with it. You say Taylor Swift, Madonna very hard. You can't get close to them or they won't do photos? I've gotten right out to Madonna. I've gotten up to her a bunch of times and I just couldn't get her. She just ignores her. She doesn't want to do anything. Let's rattle off the nicest celebrity you've come in contact with. I said Matt Damon, extremely nice.

John Travolta. A lot of heavy metal and names are nice. A lot of hip-hop names are nice. Yeah, Snoop Dogg. You've met Snoop Dogg. Yeah, Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Eminem. Yeah, both of them. Snoop was very friendly.

Yeah, real nice. What is incredible, like not only the hundreds of celebrities that you have photos with, but you look back and then sadly some of them are no longer with us you know olivia newton john meatloaf kirk cobain yeah absolutely i mean with cobain it was probably was it november and he he passed in april so i met him about a half a year before he died wow is there one celebrity you want a photo with but you just can't get them? Your golden goose. Team Brad Pitt a few times. He's not rude.

I just had bad luck. Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. Both of them are nice, but I just couldn't get them. How many celebrity photos have you got? It's probably a low number. It might be like 20,000. That's probably a low number. Really? So what do you do with them all? Obviously you've got them. I stopped

doing photo albums about 20 years ago. Yeah, the 10,000 mark. This is wild. Yeah, and then it's a mix. Some are on the computer. Ever since I went digital about 15 years ago, phone for the last few years stored on there and I try to back them up on Facebook or the computer.

Do they recognize you now? Some of the celebrities? Occasionally. Occasionally I've had it. Like Guns N' Roses is my favorite band. If they start remembering your face, you've met them so many times. But I still make trips to LA or New York and do this. Like fly a few hours.

Sometimes go for award shows. So you would have spent thousands of dollars over the years on traveling around to meet celebrities? Yeah, absolutely. That's probably a low estimate. Yeah, yeah. Wow, that's incredible. And is this you till you die, Bob?

You're going to be snapping up a storm? Oh, probably, yeah. I got my teenage son into it, too, and he's been doing it for over 10 years. He's traveled the U.S. with me doing the same thing. Do the celebrities ever give you anything? Do they ever give you any of their memorabilia? Not so much memorabilia, but I've gotten in. They're sometimes taking us in the shows, sit and hang out with them.

I occasionally sit with them at the bar for a drink, maybe for an hour or two. I mean, I had Willie Nelson give us T-shirts or iced tea, take us in the show with him. We had things like that happen. So if I wanted to get a photo with my favorite celebrity, I could potentially do that if I just dedicated enough time to it? Yeah, very possible. In general, most of them are nice. I mean, you know, the majority, not all of them. But yeah, it's very possible with the right amount of waiting and the right investigating.

Good on you, mate. Lovely talking with you. Nice meeting with you. It's a pleasure. Yeah, keep up the good work. Alright, thank you for having me. I appreciate it. My pleasure. Fascinating. We'll put on the hits, breakfast, Instagram, some of Bob's photos with the celebrities so you can check them out. Yeah, and send a chat with Bob too.

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check those stats. The government plans to charge GST on taxing the Kiwi savers. Hannah Lightning McQueen, ka-chow! Good morning! Good morning. Good morning. Nice to talk to you again. How are you?

Pretty good, thanks. Now, from Enable.me, Hannah, mate, last night the bloody government snuck through a cheeky little tax law to do with our KiwiSaver. What's the deal? Yeah, it's pretty crazy, to be honest. At the moment, you have a manager that manages your fund if you're in KiwiSaver, and they're not allowed to charge GST. In fact, the KiwiSaver is exempt from GST. And now the government has said, hey, you now need to charge GST. And that's essentially going to be deducted from the fund because the manager's fees are deducted from the fund. So if they're higher fees,

then it means that there's less money left in the fund. The average Kiwi is going to have less money in retirement because they're now getting taxed more on their fees. So this is happening, from what I understand, 2026. Is that right? So a few years away. But would it happen every year? Like, would the money in your KiwiSaver,

if you kept it there, would you get taxed 15% on that every year? That's right. That's exactly right. And so the compounded impact of that, I kept it there. Would you get taxed 15% on that every year? That's right. That's exactly right. And so the compounded impact of that, I think that there's a scenario that if you're in your 40s, your average KiwiSaver balance is around $37,000. And the impact of this little bit of tax is, I don't know, $50 a year or something like that. But over 25 years, that's $7,000.

And that's your money that you don't have. And you're kind of like, why are you penalising people for saving? That's just the wrong message to be sending. And their argument is that there's this little category of a managed fund that I'm pretty sure only uber-rich people invest in, that that has an odd tax GST treatment. So they're like, well, let's make everything the same and let's make everything as high as possible.

And I guess it's been described as a sledgehammer approach or I guess in line with my own parenting style, which is a mass overreaction to something that wasn't even a problem. Yeah, don't get it. So is it happening? Is it 100% happening? Do you know? I'm sorry to chuck a question on you that you might not have the answer to,

but is it all going to happen? Well, I think if this government is in power after the next election, then yes, you'd expect it to happen. Oh, so it can, okay, great. So it can change. Someone can get in there and go, that was a load of, you know, you get rid of it all. Yeah, but there's probably 50-50 chance of that not happening. Yeah, right. Now, it does also seem like quite hypocritical,

given the fact that this is a government saving scheme. They got us all to do it. They're like, hey, you guys, come save with us. By the way, we won't tell you in a few years' time. We'll really stitch you up, blindside you all. Great play, though. Great play. It's a good play, but it's such a shame, right?

The introduction of KiwiSaver was actually a coup, and it's a credit to Michael Cullen for introducing it. For most Kiwis, that is their only form of saving, because we're a bit useless at saving, and to penalise that. I guess the thing that kind of grated on me a bit was

that they didn't even announce that they were doing this. They just kind of released this, oh, we're going to give you 20 cents off your public transport, but hey, we're going to tax you thousands, in fact, billions of dollars over the next 25 years. It does seem like an interesting time to implement more tax. Across everyone. I get, you know, you're taxing the top tax bracket more.

There's an argument for that. But doing it at a time where cost of living is so out of control and wild. Bold play there from the Ardern government. And as you say, it affects every New Zealander, which is a lot of New Zealanders that will have a KiwiSaver. Yeah, it's pretty bullish, right? It's like in your face. But not even, right?

It's in your face with the grab, but we're just not going to tell you about it. We'll distract you. It's jazz handsy. It's jazz handsy. It's jazz handsy. Here's my conspiracy. You want to hear a conspiracy theory? Okay. Hit me.

Labor was like, okay, Guru, what are you going to do, mate? Is you're going to come and you're going to say some... Oh, no, that's not what I'm going to say. You're going to say some wild stuff about the party. Hannah, you don't have to be part of it. Hannah McQueen, you wrap me up, mate. Don't wrap up Hannah McQueen. No, she hasn't done her cacao yet.

They're like, Guru, we have a smoke screen over here. We'll slip through the KiwiSaver thing can we pull this radio mic down there we go that's exactly what happened Hannah thank you so much

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