Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Does Jacinda Ardern Have Empathy For Ian Foster??

Episode Date: August 16, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast we catch up with Jacinda Ardern to discuss the latest in New Zealand, David Lomas joins us ahead of his brand new show and we have a great cliffhanger call involving cheating, lotto winnings and rejection!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome, it's the podcast 17th of August There's some probiotic soda sampling going on in reception there Ben Oh that's good Just checking my email That was like, that was about 10 days ago I think Jono Oh I know you're right it was on the You're not very good with a work email No

You really let it get away It was, it was on the 10th of August Did you try some probiotic soda? Nah I wasn't feeling it. There was a couple of people in the office. They said it was beautiful. Have you done your survey, the survey that we have to do? Yeah.

So it feels like every three days we're required to take part here at work. And it's great, don't get me wrong, that they ask the staff. It's like a staff survey of how you think everything's going um and i always just go i'll go 10 out of 10 all the way through wow just to get it done just put a lot of thought into it yeah it's 10 the highest 10 is the highest yeah everything's i hope so 10 is actually the worst you've already been banging a lot of the companies yeah one is actually the best yeah have you done your work survey

yes I did it yesterday as well so yeah it's all done all done now for another three days and then it'll roll back again producer Joel you like to throw some questions out

from our friends at Cosmopolitan the magazine from should we call let's call Cosmopolitan and say I feel like you're not into these questions

no I like them no I like them. No, I like them. But ask the question. Yeah, we can do. Yeah, we can call them. Do they still exist? I guess so. That's what I was about to find out.

But ask the question first, Joel. So the question we got today from the 30 questions you asked on a date is, what was the worst middle school, primary school, high school fashion trend you participated in? There were a few too. I had a long fringe for a while, a really long fringe that sort of flicked back. My mum used to get annoyed. Jenny Boyce would get annoyed in photos because it'd be covering up too much of my face.

I was like, put your fringe back. I went, mum, stop it. Would it go down to your chin? No, it wasn't quite like that. Some kids could grow them down to their chin. Peroxide in my hair, but that's come back in fashion again. Both you and I had the M&M sort of days of peroxide. The M& my hair, but that's come back in fashion again. Both you and I had the M&M sort of days of peroxide. Yeah, the M&M years. But that was kind of the mullet of our generation, wasn't it?

Growing your fringe. It was the opposite end of the head. Yeah. Where you grow your fringe to an extraordinary and then just shave everything else. What about you? Whip it back. What about me?

Producer Joel, yeah. I was looking back at my year 13 school ball photo. I'm sure no one has good school ball photos, but for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to get just like a one all over for my school ball. Yeah, I also went to that ball by myself as well. And yeah, I was looking back. I kind of regret that photo now as well. I think everyone does look back at their school ball photos and have some.

Oh, you look all sweaty and zitty. It's just never a nice photo. You wore a Looney Tunes suit made out of your duvet, didn't you? Yeah, I did. That was a low point. His mum custom made a... Oh, you've seen it. You put it on the ACC cricket coverage for, you know.

Yeah, they got blasted around Spark Sport for a couple of days. Oh, everyone had a field day with that. Mike Lane, who also works at the ACC, has one as well. Because he went to school with Daniel Vittori, the famous cricketer. Did they go to the ball together? Yeah, they did. And a very surly-looking Mike Lane in the photo. Looked like always annoyed that the photo was being taken.

Wasn't happy. A friend with white gloves on. Oh, that was it, yeah. There was a few risks being taken in fashion. You'd run into Frank Casey and go, give me what you've got. I want to stand out. And they're like, oh, okay. You know, having like a purple vest

and a velvet crushed red suit and a top hat. I think I wore a monocle. I wore a bandana. Like, that was the thing. You wore a bandana. And the year before, I wore a bandana as well.

And my mum, she had a blue long coat. I wore the coat because I had matching pants and a blue bandana. Was it all blue? It was all blue the year before I wore a bandana as well and then my mum she had a blue long coat I wore the coat because I had matching pants with a blue and a blue bandana was it all blue? it was all blue the year before

and I had a cane as well and I was like jeez what was I thinking Snoop Dogg would have liked that one it was probably right in that wheelhouse

of like yeah and I was like oh my god has he got a limp is he okay? he's taking a cane we had one run home and I was like,

oh, I'll bring that along. You know, like you just, you may do. And now you look back and you're like, what was he thinking? Oh yeah, I look back on my ball photos

and I'm like, oh dear God. Yeah. You're just not, you're not comfortable in your own skin. No one should take it. Ban the photos.

Yeah. Just have the memories. Like, did you wear a thing? Nah. Are you sure you didn't? Nah. You know, you just, you know, maybe you didn't, you know, that would be the only thing. I wear a thing nah are you sure you didn't nah you know maybe you didn't

you know that would be the only thing I had a traumatising one in year 12 because the day of the ball I woke up I still don't know what it was it might have been like

a spider bite or a bee sting or something or my lip was just like triple the size my top lip oh yeah like Kim Kardashian

or not Kylie Jenner it was a Kylie Jenner lip and yeah it was whenever I was doing the trend as well And it was actually Agonising pain

But every photo I look back in my Year 12 Very voluptuous Yeah Did he just get his lips there I pretty much never met The girl that I was

Going to the ball with And I was like I promise I don't Always look like this But yeah That was a bad night She was like Did he just get his lips

Voluptuous Did you go in a big group you know well i felt like i like i went with a lovely girl she was wonderful but i felt like we the the wider circle of friends were only going for my one core friend who had a serious date oh so we all like sort of teamed up with a partner group of friends which was absolutely fine at the time yeah but I found like the whole thing was sort of centered

around one core couple and the rest are just like oh yeah I guess you can you know yeah we may get fun together we may not we may talk to each other

we may not yeah yeah pretty much the same did you go to the afterball the afterball yeah I think it was first year

where'd they have that in Masterton I think it was at someone's place on a farm probably I think it was it wasn't I don't think it was first year. When did they have that in Masterton? I think it was at someone's place on a farm, probably. I think it was. I don't think it was a school endorsed the thing. Yeah, no.

Yeah. We had ours in some weird warehouse in sort of industrial Auckland. Some old mechanic bloody. Yeah, sure, you can have your party in here, mate. Was that with the school or not? No, it wasn't a school. Are they ever school endorsed? No, I don't know.

I think the school's like, when you're done, we're done. Yeah, because all sorts of shenanigans get up there that the schools probably don't want to be part of. Yeah. What shenanigans do you get up to? Probably nothing, to be honest. Joel, what shenanigans do you get up to at the school after ball? We went to the Waitemata Rowing Club,

and there was like five guys who were just like, they're actually they had the time they were like I don't want to go to a ball I don't want to pay money to dress up and just stand around awkwardly I would just rather

make a good after ball and they did and they charged like $10 or $15 which was not too much and then they ended up making thousands off it as well

yeah smart play yeah it was like oh you're paying $150 for the ball you may as well pay $10 more for an after ball and they were rolling in it as well the gangs $10 more for an after ball. They were bloody

rolling in it as well. The gangs were getting into it for a while. Were they? Yeah, you could have them at gang pads. They were like, hey, this is going to look pretty like a function centre. Yeah, you sort of rented it out. Yeah. I don't know if they're still doing it now, but

they were like, hey, we can tap into this market. We've got a great venue. Yeah, we've got some good security guards. I mean, no one is're still doing it now. But they're like, hey, we can tap into this market. We've got a great venue. Oh, okay. Yeah, we've got some good security guards. I mean, no one is getting up to any nonsense in those venues. You're right. You can guarantee that. Anyway, fun podcast today.

On the show, we had Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, didn't we? And a great phone call. Oh, yes. About a lady who was dumped just not eight weeks ago by her husband via text. And what happened? In a twist of of fate you will hear on the podcast spilling the tea on hollywood's a-listers i have met every single one exposing scandals because she's not a good person but either is he digging the dirt is she a diva yes and finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Yelling at cast members. Yes.

It was a script. No. His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is Inti. All right, time now for our expensive phone call to Los Angeles. Inti, come on in. How are you?

You know what I thought about? I'm great. You know what I thought about this morning was, I think that you guys wake up about the same time I do, but there's still the 19-hour time difference. That's what's crazy to me. So what time do you wake up over there? I probably wake up about 6.30 or 7 a.m., which is about 2 a.m. your time.

Oh, you're dead right. A day later. Mate, there's some bleak mornings. I tell you what, Monday morning, 3.30 a.m. It's not pretty, NT. I'll tell you that. How long have you guys been doing that? Where you wake up so early every single morning?

Well, only two years. We're only new to it. It feels like a long time. It feels like 22. They always call that a prestigious breakfast slot. There's nothing prestigious about the slot. Madonna, 64 years old. And looking at pictures of her yesterday,

she looks like she could be my 19-year-old daughter. That's, you know, what they call a little Photoshop, a little filtering, a quench for thirst. I mean, can you imagine a 65-year-old just saying, you know what I want to do? I just want to get half naked and let everybody take a good, good look at me. Oh, good.

I mean, if I look like that, I would as well. I mean, she looks great. She does look good. I must admit, looking at it, very saucy, racy photos. I don't know if my mum, any prior on her 64th, wanted to get down on all fours and me photograph her in some sort of saucy negligee. It would be awkward for me. Have you had dealings with Madonna in the past, Andy? photograph her and some you know some sort of saucy negligee it would be awkward for me have you had dealings with madonna in the past enty i mean i've met her a few times but i don't i've

never done business with her or anything like that and my meetings with her have been you know backstage at a concert or um something like that because she's more new york based and because i'm in la our paths don't usually cross it's uh she's done i'll tell you what she's more New York based. And because I'm in LA, our paths don't usually cross. She's done, I'll tell you what she's done a good job, is keeping in the zeitgeist, hasn't she? Over her entire career. Whether or not you're like, oh, you know, getting into your knickers on your 64th birthday,

is it attention seeking or not? She's done a really good job. She's done it the whole way through. That's been her. She's unashamedly, which is pretty awesome that she does this. I think that if you look at her, that she has or was the first person to be able to say, I can switch genres. I can do this. If you go back to borderline in the 80s and then see how she progressed her career and when she needed to do a change, she did a change. And when she needed to have a different style of music, she did a different style of music. It wasn't until about the past decade or so that she finally

said, OK, I can't keep up anymore with all the changes and everything. But for a solid 30 years, she was changing. And if you think about people who haven't been able to change, somebody like Katy Perry, I think that she said, you know what? I had my little run. Now I'm just going to do judging on tv shows and stuff like that lady gaga is really trying because madonna is her idol so she's going to keep trying but it's just that ability to read what the new music is and a new generation and what they're going to like and it is very difficult to have a three or four decade career like madonna did she's done you know she's paved the way you know for the likes of cardi b She's, you know, she's paved the way, you know, for the likes of Cardi B doing WAP.

You know, Madonna, she should be thanking Madonna for that WAP song. Yeah, I mean, if you think about Like a Prayer, how controversial that song was, and the entire world was in an uproar that she had some video where she had a person, you know, basically pretending to be Jesus. The whole controversy that surrounded that and

everything that she did, and she hasn't backed down. If you think about what she did with her birthday photos, it's the same kind of thing. She hasn't stopped being Madonna. Good on her. All those people who were complaining in the 80s, if only they were around now to see what we're digesting. The content.

We always get excited when celebrities come to New Zealand. I don't know if you have any idea why she's here. Maybe she's just here on holiday but Lisa Kudrow, Phoebe from Friends is here. We're excited about that but we're not sure why she's here. We want to leave her be but at the same time we're very curious to know why she's here.

I don't know. I know that Rita and Taika Waititi, they're in Wellington. She's in Wellington. I mean, I think he's supposed to start filming Time Bandits or something in Wellington. Maybe she's doing that. Maybe a little small wedding in New Zealand

and she's there for that. But I can't find that they're necessarily, I don't think that they're friends. But the thing is, NT, you know, being a small country, and you're used to it over there, you're surrounded by celebrities and movie stars and TV stars. Over here, we get very excited. We come on too strong.

We're like, she was at a restaurant in Wellington on Saturday night. All of a sudden, we're phoning, well, not us, but the media, we're phoning the restaurant. What did she eat? What did she say? Who did she look at? Did she go to the toilet? How do we act around celebrities?

You tell us. We don't know. Well, I mean, that's Lisa Kudrow. Can you imagine if it was somebody who actually was famous, right? I know. We're friends. Friends has just started in New Zealand. That's how far behind we are.

Thank you so much for your time, mate. Really great insight into Hollywood. And, Andy, we'll catch up with you next week, my friend. Hey, you guys have a great week, okay? Get some sleep. An inseparable duo. Unless someone better shows up, he's just going to replace

with Lee Hart and or Ford Smith. Jono and Ben on the hits. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Ben, you've got a love heart of his name on your left buttock. I have. He's even seen it, Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

He even had it stored on his phone when we interviewed him. Dwayne Johnson, you know, it's great. It's a great story and it's great that he's got it on his phone. That must have, as a mega fan, you know, not a mega fan, almost to the point of,

geez, we should probably keep you away from him. But that must have been a hell of a moment when he had your ass on his phone. It was surreal because obviously you told him about it. We were talking to him over video link, FaceTime, and you were like, hey, he's got a tattoo on his bum. I heart Dwayne Johnson. And he's like, wait a second, I've seen that. And he got out his phone and I'm like, oh my.

It's in his photo stream. Have I died and gone to heaven? I died and gone. My gluteus is sitting on Dwayne Johnson's butt. What is this life? I died and gone to heaven. That was just a moment. That's a real moment.

That's a real moment for me. No, you haven't died and gone to heaven. That was just a moment. That's a real moment. That's a real moment for me. No, you haven't died and gone to heaven. We're in a random heaven too. But I got lost in an article yesterday about, and I never, I don't know who he's married to now. You don't see too much of his wife, but he had a first marriage,

which I think he had a child with his wife. And the marriage was on the rocks, ironically. And they went their separate ways. I'm sorry for having you done that. Was that a good pun? Yeah, it took me a while to get there. And they went their separate ways, as you do, with divorce. But they have, Danny Garcia is her name,

the name of Dwayne The Rock Johnson's first wife. They have the most interesting relationship now. So he's moved on to another partner now. Yeah, they've got kids as well. They're married again. She's now married someone else. But the guy that she's married is his personal trainer still. Yeah.

He gets Dwayne The Rock Johnson looking how Dwayne the Rock Johnson, he's married his ex-wife. And they all get on. They all get on. They all holiday together and they all hang out together. I think they've still got, she's involved in his business as well. That's what I was going to say. That's not where it stopped. So they broke up in 2008.

And from 2008 onwards, she became his manager, professionally. His ex-wife. His manager. That's crazy. Crazy. His ex-wife. His manager. That's crazy. Crazy. And so now she runs a company. She owns Seven Bucks Productions with him, which is his movie company. And they've made a whole bunch of movies.

Hobbs & Shaw, Jumanji. They produce all these movies together. She owns the Zoa, the energy drink with him. That's incredible. Do you know why it's called Seven Bucks Production? Because that was when he was at his lowest point in his life. That's all he had in his wallet was seven bucks. So it's kind of like...

Jeez, I thought the lowest point in his life was having your bottom on his phone. But no, it was... Well, that's his next one. It's Tattooed Love Heart Productions. But I just thought it was really... And she started out... They met at the University of Miami

when they were both students there. He was playing American football. And she was a, they met at the University of Miami when they were both students there. He was playing American football. And she was a bodybuilder. So there was no way that marriage was going to last. I mean, the protein budget alone. It's not sustainable. Not sustainable for two people digesting that much protein. It is incredible.

But I imagine that they're not the only ones. I mean, there's a lot of mature people out there that get on with their exes and have relationships like that. And when you think about it, I know there's a lot of messy breakups and messy divorces and stuff, but when you strip away hurt feelings, hurt egos, whatever, the reason that you liked the person in the first place is still inside them,

and the reason they liked you is still inside you. You know? That's good. You whittle away all the rubbish and all the noise and you go actually we probably do like each other as human beings yeah there's just been years and years of disagreements pent-up frustration and I'll be part of each other's lives but in a different way so we want to know 100 the hits or 4487 this morning I think you're calling it excellent relationships yeah x just you know you've got to accentuate the X. Yeah, so do you have an excellent relationship with your ex? We'd love to hear from you this morning.

0800THETHITS is our phone number. You've got Jono and Ben on the hits. This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Wall-to-wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. Now, we're talking about excellent relationships. Do you still have an excellent relationship with your ex? These are some mature, some wonderful people joining us right now on 0800 The Hits. Adrienne, how are you?

All good. Yeah, it's great to have you on. Have you got an excellent relationship? Of course. We understand that you're not just on good terms with your ex, but also their partner. Yes, who's now their ex as well. Oh, so now their ex as well oh so now the exit and what are you still really good friends with their ex being the i'm confused but you're still really good friends

yes yes um i was uh one of the main people at her wedding to another person yeah just and i met her through my ex so you met when they were so. So you'd broken up with your partner, they had moved on with this person, and that's how you became friends? Yes. That is wild. How does your ex feel about this? He was actually quite happy with it, actually.

It made things very easy for him. Yeah, everyone gets along. That's awesome. I'd just be always worried about, what are you guys talking about there? Maybe at the beginning. Maybe at the beginning. How would you feel?

Like, okay, so let's just say your ex and Amanda Ben become best of friends. You are, I can see what you mean. What are you guys talking about? What are you guys, you know, you're giggling over there. What's going on? What's laughing about? Is it me?

Is it me? Oh, no, you know. Hey, it's actually average. I've Googled it. Oh, that's awesome. The good thing is that thing is that me and my ex were good friends first. Oh, you remained good friends afterwards. That's great. Yes.

You're not so mature. I think that's what helped. He's dead now. Sad because we weren't able to get to the funeral, but we were in the throes of trying to organise the meeting, so that was a bit sad. That's very sad. But all three of us remained. That is awesome. I mean, a bit, yeah. That's very sad. All three of us remained.

That is awesome. I mean, that's chosen. I mean, life is, sadly, it's too short, isn't it? So to show that you can put things aside and relationships don't work, but you can still remain friends is a really awesome thing to do. I think so.

Yeah. Good on you. Good on you. You should be proud, yeah, of a grown-up thing to do. And not for me. Not for me. Well, hey, no, mate,

since life is short, you know, and you feel like, you know, why take that? I need to speak. I need to speak. Not for me. Well, hey, no, mate. Life is short, you know? And you feel like, you know, I heard your speech. I heard your speech. It was a good speech. No, obviously it didn't hurt. It didn't hurt. Hey, thanks, Adrian. All good. Bye. You have a great day, mate.

Kay, you're on. It's great to have you on this morning. Kay, how's things? Yeah, good, thank you. What do you need to get done today, Kay? Talk to us. Brush my hair. That's always a good start. I don't have that issue. That's it, brush your hair.

Well, that's good. That's an achievable task today, Kay. Talking about people who are in excellent relationships with their ex and you have this exact scenario. Yeah, I went out with this guy for three years and then I thought I've got to move on with my life

so I set him up with a friend of mine. I still give him birthday presents. Oh that's awesome. So you set your ex-partner up with someone else? Yes I did. Oh you're like Tinder. Yeah I know the things that are easier to do.

Ben don't get any ideas Not for me I'll set you up With someone else You know If you want Another radio show If you want to do that

Yeah I think my best friends Will be a bit old for you Because they were in their 60s Oh no Yeah no Ben's I was trying to burden Well yeah you know

Burden them with Jono What do you mean Burden them with Jono You're going to have a great day. You too. Thanks, guys. See you, mate. Bye.

Bye. Warning. This show contains Jono and or Ben. Jono and Ben on the hits. For the past 15 years, David Lomas has been on TV reuniting families through his amazing investigative work. And he's back with a new series tonight on 3 called David Lomas Investigates. And he joins us right now.

David, good morning. Good morning to you. Good to have you on, David Lomas. One thing I do appreciate about you, David, is I've watched your show a lot. I think it's fantastic. But you've got a wonderful voice. You should be doing our job. Yeah.

I very much doubt that. Listen to that voice. You've got to have a sense of humor to do your job. All we've got is two nasally, weasely voices. Listen to that voice. You've got to have a sense of humour to do your job, don't you? All we've got is two nasally, weasely voices. You would be great. Let's get Lomas on the show. Oh, no, he'd be a lot better than us.

But you have been, like your show, as John mentioned, for basically 15 years through various names of your show, but you've been tracking down people, reconnecting New Zealanders, changing people's lives. It must be a really rewarding show to do. Oh, it's absolutely fabulous. I mean, you know, you don't get a much better job than this one. I mean, you know, you get to meet lots of nice, brave people.

And top all that off, you get to travel quite a bit. Well, I was going to hit you up about the travelling because, as I said, I'm a big fan of the show. But I noticed that you're like, well, they were last seen in Madrid, Spain. So I flew to Spain. Turns out they weren't there. So then I took a flight to Florida. Is this just a very elaborate way for David Lomas to see the world? Absolutely. I mean, what I do is I look at a map and I think, oh, I haven't been there.

I would start with the internet first, you know, looking up people Googling. But David, that's great. That's your tactic and it works. I must go to Santorini and hunt out this person. Yeah. Is there one particular story that really sticks out over the years you've been doing it? The one that you're most proud of or are there just too many to think of? Well, there are lots which were absolutely fabulous. But, you know,

one we did a couple of years ago when we found a guy had gone to Rome to be a priest. He was about 18 or something when this happened. And he just walked away from the seminary and got lost in Rome.

And for 35 years, his family didn't know where he was or what had happened to him. So tracking him down in Rome was magic. Where do you start? So tracking him down in Rome was magic. Where do you start? I imagine the internet is a useful tool. Yeah, the internet, but a lot of it's talking to family,

trying to work out what sort of people they were and resources like ancestry and things like that and electoral rolls, just so many things we look at. Are you like this in all aspects of your life? Like if your car gets, you know, like someone opens their door in your car in the supermarket or you lose your car keys, you're like, right, I'm going to track this person down.

I'm going to do this. I'm going to find my car keys. Are you like that with everything? Oh, not quite. It's like, give it up, get a new set of keys. No, I'm going to track these down. David isn't constantly investigating things. Like, can you investigate where Jono's hair's gone, give it up, get a new set of keys. No, I'm going to track these down. David isn't constantly investigating things. Like, can you investigate where Jono's hair's gone, David?

That's something, or our TV show. We lost that a few years ago. Yeah, no, that was a shame, wasn't it? Shame for us. Can you bring that back? David's like, there's not much investigation that needs to go into that. Reconnect us with TV3. That'd be great.

David Lomas on the phone from David Lomas Investigates Do you ever track down people that don't want to be found? Oh, lots of them, yeah And, you know, I see of runway dads that they don't want to They've just been trying to track one down in Aussie for a couple of years I still can't find them And lots of mothers who've given up children or disappeared They're almost harder to convince to meet their children than they are.

Because I imagine you might find an individual and they would have moved on with a new chapter in their life, new family. A lot of those instances, they wouldn't have been told about the previous life. Yes, that's right. I mean, I've just been doing the story just in the last month or so. We were trying to track down a father and he had gone on, married, three other children. But he said I wanted to face up. He said I was a coward many years ago. I want to face up to my responsibilities. Oh, that's good, because it would weigh on you, wouldn't it? Well, that's what this guy said. He said, you know, when he was young, he was too young. He said, I was only 20, and I just wasn't ready for all this,

and I ran away, and I was a total coward. Thirty years later, when his past caught up with him, he just said, no, I'm going to front up this time, which was very brave of him and very good. We've got David L up with him. He just said, no, I'm going to front up this time, which was very brave of him and very good. We've got David Lomas with us. David Lomas investigates Wednesday nights on 3. You worked as a reporter too, David, on the original home show on TV. Well, amongst my many sins, yes, working with Paul.

Yeah, and honestly... Geez, there must have been some wild times back then, David. Yeah, what an iconic show to be part of. It was, and it was just must have been some wild times back then, David. Yeah, what an iconic show to be part of. It was, and it was just, you know, when we launched it,

it was absolutely fabulous and TVNZ, yeah, just threw a lot of money at it in those days. So, you know, the big lunch

after a good show. A big lunch after a good show. The good show was at night, wasn't it? Oh, yeah. The next day you had to celebrate it.

Before the next show. A big old lunch. David Lomas, you do a wonderful job. Keep up the good work. And if I get you over to my house to do some investigating as to where... The bloody socks are going in the dryer, mate. Two are going in, one's coming out. You have that problem too.

Get on it, David. Get on it. David, that's your next one. David Lomas investigates socks. Hey, good on you, mate. Really appreciate your time this morning. You go and have a great day. Thank you so much.

Cheers. Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. I had a parent-teacher meeting, Ben. Yeah. With my daughter Poppy. And it's very cute. They sort of display all their works, all their wares, don't they?

Yeah. And you sit on these miniature chairs with your knees up by your ears, don't you? You go down to the... They don't have adult chairs in children's classrooms. You're sort of awkwardly sort of crouched over. There was a guy on The Simpsons, the very, very tall man on The Simpsons. That's right, in that little car.

That reminded me of that. And so you kind of crouched around the table. And I'm a shocker. Like, I fade in and out of concentration. Okay, these are not long meetings. They're not long meetings. Your attention span is shocking. Maybe we should be having meetings with you.

Yeah. So she started reading. They're doing descriptive writing. Okay. And so she decided to write about something. And at the end of it, so I started listening at the beginning. And I heard, he's dark and mysterious with a big beard of hair. And then my mind started to wander, as Poppy's reading.

And then at the back end of the descriptive writing, my mind came back in. So you're back in the story. I'm back in the story. This is like when I go to the movies with you. You start at the start. You have a sleep for about 45 minutes, and then you pop back in at the end and try and piece it all together. I'm kind of like a –. You start at the start, you have a sleep for about 45 minutes, and then you pop back in at the end

and try and piece it all together. I'm kind of like a, you know, at the Commonwealth Games, they had the velodrome cyclists and the team events where one sort of fades up to the top and then joins back in with the team. It's kind of like how my concentration is.

And so I got the top end and I got the back end of the descriptive writing. And you're right. It's all on me. Like, it's not a short like it's not a short it's not a long story it was quick it was well written it was well done you were like you expect people to listen to this right now on the radio for the whole thing people are probably checking out now

yeah well you would be if you're listening to yourself uh and so then i came back in and the teacher then asked me who do you think she's written about? And I was like, hold on. Good question. Who are we here reviewing? Who's education are we reviewing? Last time I checked, I can't remember having – if you told me I had to sit a test, I would have studied for this. Great question, though.

It was a good question. And I think it was because and jen my wife she did a good play because she was probably knew what i was doing she was like oh well i already know who it is because poppy told me who she was writing about so you should answer and i'm like dear god i'm in a hole and i was like okay so i heard he was hairy at the top and then at the end she sort of said her dark mysterious eyes and i was like is it milo now the teacher then goes milo she goes milo isn't that your dog and i was like yeah and poppy's looking at me like milo and then jen said milo and i'm like clearly i haven't

i've either landed it with milo or they've gone jeez he's hit this one out of the park. I don't think so by the reaction of everyone and Poppy's like no it was Hagrid from Harry Potter Yeah with the big beard Oh she'd done it beautifully

You're like well the description wasn't there for me It wasn't there, I couldn't get it from there Maybe you should be teaching better descriptive there. I don't know. Maybe you should be teaching better descriptive writing. I don't know. Hey, I'm not the educator here. All I got was a dog, a small dog out of that story. I felt like a complete idiot.

And even walking back to the car, Jim was like, Milo, what are you doing? With a long and extinguished career. Jono and Ben on the hits. We want to get someone's best call with a cliffhanger call. Here we go. It is cliffhanger call. We get someone's best call. We stop it at a point at a cliffhanger, and then we all hang around to hear the second part of the story.

Now, we've been having a little bit of a heated debate off here. I wasn't going to bring it up, but all right, you brought it up. Up until this point, the format has been we tell the story, or the caller tells the story to a certain point. We then play the music, Ben. And then we go, well, do you want to hear the rest of the story? Now, the audience then texts in and go, yes. Most times, nine times out of ten, everyone wants to hear the end of it.

And then we hear the second part of the story. What's the point of voting? Because everyone always says yes. But what if people don't want to hear it? There's chants that don't, you know? Well, let's just say we'll tell the first part of the story. We'll play the music again like this. If you want to hear the second part of the story, hang around and listen.

If you don't, go off and listen to another station. You know, why don't we do that? We could save people 20 cents. It's like saying if you don't want the government to be here, then don't vote. Just go live in another country. It's like we get the rights to vote. Go live somewhere else, mate.

Don't compare this to the general election. I feel like, yeah. We're not living in it. Anyway, we're getting political on it now. Maz, welcome to the cliffhanger call. How are you? Yeah, good, thanks. Now, out of interest, Maz, did you like the voting part of this format

or would you prefer that if we just split it up, no voting, but people hear the story in two parts? Doesn't really bother me. Doesn't bother you. If you don't like it, you know where you can go. Apparently another radio station. Okay, Maz, what's the first part of your story? So my ex of 13 years, well, now ex, we were together for 13 years,

and he left me for another woman and took the kids with him as well. Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. Now, how did you find out that he left you? Because he wasn't at home? Through a text. He just told me that him and the kids weren't going to be home. Oh, my gosh. So is this some time ago?

About two months ago. Oh, she's really recent. I'm so sorry to hear that. Have you seen your kids since? Absolutely. Oh, good. Oh, good. I'm glad to hear.

I'm glad to hear. And through a text message? Absolutely. Oh good, oh good. I'm glad to hear. I'm glad to hear. And through a text message. Yes. So was he with another woman? He was. Oh mate, and how are you? Oh, I'm all good. All good. I've got my revenge though. Oh, you've got your revenge. Now is this

the part that we need to stick around for? Okay. Okay, alright. There's more to it. Well, I hope there's more to it because it's, yeah, I'm feeling like this is not the greatest of all, you know, the happiest of stories. No, that's right.

But maybe it is. It could be. Oh, she's, oh, Maz, I didn't. She's good. Oh, Maz, you're awesome. If you want to hear the second part of Maz's story. Don't text us. We're not going to look at those.

No. Just stay around. And she will tell you next. Voted most likely not to be voted for anything. Jono and Ben on the hits. Let's get back to part two. Now we are back with Cliffhanger Calls. Maz joins us.

Great to have you back on, Maz. You told the first part of your story before, and if you could just recap it in a nutshell for us. Okay, so my ex of 13 years left me for another woman, taking the kids as well. Yeah. So that's really sad that this happened just out of the blue. You got a text message.

I'm sorry to hear that. But what happened after this? So two weeks after, we broke up and things got kind of nasty and kind of found myself in a financial position that I could buy me a lotto ticket. And guess what? I won lotto. Oh!

Now, without delving too deep, what division are we talking? One. Oh, division one, Maz. Hey, the universe has come through for you. That's awesome. Oh, that's so cool. Are we talking millions?

Yep. Oh, my gosh. Maz, I'm so stoked for you. Especially after going through that. It must have been such a horrible, horrible thing to go through. That's pretty incredible. That's all good. I still get to see my kids and, yeah.

He will be kicking himself. I wouldn't know what you say with people for the money or anything like that. Yes, you do. If you could only see the Texas, it would be in every day to come back. Are you serious? I'm very serious. He obviously found out. Yeah. Oh, are you serious? Oh, I'm very serious. He obviously found out. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. And now, oh, that is, you just don't get better karma, do you?

Oh, Maz, I'm so stoked for you. That's cool. Have you decided what you want to do with the money? At the moment,

I'm just sitting on it because I've still got to work. I'm under contract, so. Good on you. That's a sensible thing to do. Yeah, do it.

What's the first thing you're going to buy? Definitely a car. Yeah'm under contract. That's a sensible thing to do. What's the first thing you're going to buy? Definitely a car. Well, you can get like a Lamborghini or something. Get a Lamborghini. Don't have Jono as your financial advisor. Yes, they're a lovely car, but maybe you don't want to put it all on a car. I don't know. Up to you.

That's right. Can you buy a house? I will eventually. Right now, I just want to sit on it and think about it a lot. It's a lot of money. Yeah, it's a lot of money. Well, you're more sensible than me. I would have bought Ben Lamborghini. Lamborghini, Ben?

Oh, no. Okay. I can't keep up with the maintenance of a Lamborghini. Here's a Lamborghini. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's great. Well, Maz, that is what an incredible story. And your kids will get to benefit from this as well. That's the main thing. No, that's great. Well, Maz, that is what an incredible story. And your kids will get to benefit from this as well.

That's the main thing. Oh, that's awesome. Oh, I'm glad it all worked out. Well, that's been a pretty crappy couple of months for you. It's really awesome that it's turned out like this. It was, but yeah, now things are all slotting into place. Like you said, the universe has come through for me. What do you do when you realise you've won First Division?

It must be hard to believe that that actually would happen, right? Yeah, just thinking about it now, I just still get the shakes about it because it was just, yeah, needed, definitely needed. Yeah, numb. You'd be numb because don't they, do you have to fly to Lotto to get it? Yes, yeah, got to fly to Wellington. Yeah, and I hear they put on a little bit of a champagne. Yeah. Yep.

Went to first class and yeah, it was good. Oh, that is so cool. You deserve it. You sound like an awesome person and we appreciate you sharing that story with us. Oh, and I thank you very much for ringing. Scrolling through your feed. Hand you over to Scuba. We call him. He's about to go deep diving into some news.

What's happening, Ben? Well, it seems to be decision day for the New Zealand Rugby Union. All-Black coach Ian Foster will basically find out today, by all accounts, if he gets to carry on coaching the All-Blacks. And I think New Zealand Rugby feel like they've got themselves into a bit of a predicament, you know, with a great victory in the weekend with the All-Blacks. Kind of felt like everything was pointed towards them

wanting to change the coach. But then the public perception, it's sort of softened towards. Everyone's sort of feeling, I feel sorry for Ian Foster. The team's playing well. They played well on the weekend. The captain, Sam Kane, and a lot of players are publicly backing him. So I feel like probably the rugby union want to get rid of him, but I don't know now.

If they can. It's been a messy, like, you know. I'm no employment lawyer, but this has been messy AF. Sloppy, sloppy work from the NZRU. And when you think about it, like, let's just chill out. A bit. It's just a game.

Sometimes they'll win win Sometimes they'll lose Yeah we all enjoy rugby You know But at the end of the day What's important Ben Is what's inside Oh yeah Yeah

Your ticker Yeah what Yeah okay How much ticker have you got Oh yeah And I feel like You know We are still a good team

Yes we've had a few Bumpy games along the way But it's You know Like we showed on the weekend And he's obviously a good coach Players Yes, we've had a few bumpy games along the way, but it's, you know, like we showed on the weekend, and he's obviously a good coach, players back him, so I feel really sorry that this has been horrible to have it playing out in the media. I think if you want to call into question his coaching,

to go off a loss and the vicious, the tirade of abuse, the torrent of abuse that Ian Foster suffered, and then come back the next week and win. Now that's the sign of coaching. Five days later, the lowest point of his coaching career and then come back and win. That's a coach.

You agree with me? I got a very interesting question on the weekend. I was standing and watching one of my daughters play sport and someone was bantering to me about the game. I hadn't heard this term before. He's like, is he a minibus? Is he a minibus, Ian Foster?

And I was like, what are you talking about? And he was like, oh, mate, half a coach. Half a coach, a minibus. Oh, like a full coach bus. Yeah, I was like, jeez, I did not get that reference. It's a long runway. So I apologise. I was like, is he a minibus? Were you on the sideline?

Was this sideline banter? Yeah, I didn't know that one. I was like, is he a what? Can you explain that to me a bit more banter? Yeah, I was like, is he what? Can you explain that to me a bit more? Half a coach was like, oh, half a coach! I was like, no. I saw some footage on Instagram last night of Sam Kane and they were at the

ceremony awarding the All Blacks the trophy. He burst out into tears. And that's how much it meant to him. You forget, you know, sometimes that people in the public eye are human beings. Exactly. They're just doing what they love to do and they're trying to do the best they can. Exactly, so let's back them.

Apart from us. We love doing it, but sometimes we don't do the best we can. Yeah, we're backing them. And Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are in Wellington by all accounts, the New Zealand director and the UK pop star. Yesterday there was a big article going, where have they been seen? They've been seen crossing the road in Wellington. What road?

Oh, it was Gusney Street, I think. Oh, I love that road. Yeah. I've crossed that road. Same road. And then they updated it this morning to say they had lunch. They ate lunch. Where did they have lunch?

Egmont Street Eatery. Yeah, never been there. Never been there. No, but it seems nice. Should we call them and see what they ate? Well, no. Let's wake them up. Wake them up in the morning.

But we just need to calm down just a little bit. But it's all so sweet, isn't it? We're like a big village. We're like a big old gossipy village, New Zealand. And we're just like, we're so proud of them. We are. And this is just, it's the adoration that we have for them. He's got to bring Rita Ora back.

You know, it's great. I mean, there's no sign of high respect in New Zealand if we're stalking what you had for lunch. Like, that means we really think the world of you. Exactly. So we should start stalking what Ian Foster's eating for lunch today. Yeah. Print that in the paper.

Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalks at V. In the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits. Come on down, Prime Minister. Oh, it's a little tardy this morning. No, that's all right. Hey, you're running a country. Like, we struggle to get to meetings on time around work.

I mean, you're running a country. Pranking, though, so. Yeah, a lot of pranking. Pranking takes it out of you, Prime Minister. Yeah, yeah. It does. Now, Prime Minister, we're like ships in the night. I feel like we haven't spoken in a very

long time. This week, you must be like, bloody hell, Gurav, mate. I didn't need this in my week. A lot of politics. When you're on the team, things will come up from time to time

but oh your phone's breaking up a bit there Prime Minister it's on purpose oh that's on purpose she says

it's not on purpose oh it's not on purpose I thought she was doing that sorry you're breaking up I can't hear you all we heard was on purpose I was like oh great play

don't wait on it like a boy to answer questions are things like that obviously you deal with all sorts of stuff and human beings every workplace Oh, great play. No way to have a boy answering questions. Things like that, obviously you deal with all sorts of stuff and human beings. Every workplace has relationships and issues that they need to deal with and get over. It's nothing new.

Does it make things awkward, though, within the party? The first thing I was thinking about last night, now for, what, 14 years, and actually this team has been really exceptional. But you're right, big teams. So you are from time to time going to have issues. Yeah, so we're looking at the teams as well. I mean, the All Blacks at the moment

with the All Black coach, Shanine Foster. I mean, you're someone that probably would sympathise with Ian Foster, you know, having their leadership often questioned, people having opinions. I mean, how do you feel looking on? I mean, I feel for the guy right now. Well, I couldn't tell whether you were comparing the Labour Party to the All Backs at this present.

You've had five losses from that, you know? Yeah, I mean, look, it's one of those things. It is tough because, you know, everyone's always focused on just doing their job, but our jobs come with scrutiny. So, yeah, I do have empathy for people who are in those kind of roles. What do you do? How do you deal with it? Just really normal things, actually.

You know, there's nothing, I think, more important than just, you know, just reminding yourself when there's a lot of scrutiny around that you've still got people in your life that really love you. And an unconditional love of a four-year-old is pretty good for that so just normal things you know i was driving to work this morning and i was thinking about you and i thought how many cell phones has she got like how many cell phones are you given because obviously you know the the one you call us munters on that's not you're not going to make that accessible like joe biden's not calling you on this cell phone so if like no i just have

no i just have one you just got one one so if a president calls you they call you on this phone yeah the same one that i talked to you look we we're we're egalitarian you know we treat everyone the same in new zealand Wow. One phone for all. I feel like you could get another phone. One phone for all. You don't want to pay for your data, you know? You want to pay for another plan. How does, like, say another world leader, like, Zelensky calls you or Trudeau gives you a bell.

Do they text you before and go, hey, you've got to spare a couple of minutes? Or is it just a straight dial? It does very much depend on the leader. Not every leader operates with, does informal text messaging and things like that. So it's just like your mates. Some mates call and some mates text. I was thinking as well,

because looking at photos of you recently, you were with Prince William over there in the UK, you were with Joe Biden in the White House. I mean go-to your your you know light banter must be amazing i mean what's your go-to first what's your questions what are you what are you talking to them about straight away that's a good question but actually for the most part you're in and you're you're pretty quick in your interactions um with president biden it was a little different we had a bit longer we actually talked a lot about Irish heritage and the history of the building.

We just, you know, we had a nice conversation. But that's not really like banter, though, is it? No. How did he wave off into Irish heritage? Oh, it was near the end of the conversation, actually. It came up quite... That sounds like it came up randomly. It didn't.

But, you know, half of New Zealand's Irish, so shared heritage. Yeah, hooked on to that. Very proudly Irish, you see. Yeah, right. Well, Prime Minister, we're going to let you get on with your day. Without us in it, with your one cell phone. Thank you. One less thing to lose.

Yeah, that's right. Damn right. And Jacinda Ardern, thank you very much for your time. Appreciate it. Have a good day, guys. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. We mentioned this before.

If our kids are listening right now, we need your help to make our radio show famous. We're looking for someone to design our billboard, our actual billboard. And if you want to design it, there's something in the New Zealand Herald today or at the hits.co.nz. You can win $500 and some spot prizes as well. It's pretty awesome.

Times are tough in the radio game, and we're looking to kids to design our billboards, Ben Boyce, but the most creative minds on the face of the earth are their children. They are the future if you teach them well, they will lead the way. Although, like my daughter, Sienna, she loves coming into the radio station. She loves, mainly because we've got a vending machine. That's for a kid that just buys them. She is so, I've never once used that vending machine, but that means, that vending machine is the world to her.

But as a kid, she's like, why would you have this thing at work and not use it every day? You're like, but you're right, you have a vending machine, and you, I mean, you don't eat during the day, but other people do. All I see is people getting frustrated with their, you know, pack of mixed nuts getting caught in the machine and not coming out, and then people sort of rocking it back and forth.

That's my interactions with the vending machine. But she's got another thing now my daughter's seeing. She was like to me yesterday, I want to come in and see the drawer. I'm like, the what? She's like, the drawer. You've got like, is it in a desk? Do you pull out the drawer? Is it in like the wardrobe drawers? What is this thing the way you keep all this cool i'm like i have no idea

what you're talking about and then i've worked it out because every time we do a prize we're like hey we'll put you in the drawer and she was like what is this drawer why has it got all the good stuff and how do i get to see where all the money is where all the prizes for, where the cons are? Well, it's not technically it's a drawer. It's a drawer without the ER. It'd be great if we did have just this enormous drawer. The prize drawer? Yeah. And you just pull it out, open the drawer, put your hand in there,

like kind of where you put the plastic bags and the rubber bands and all the things, you know, like just a drawer. Yeah, third drawer down in the kitchen was always designated to the single-use shopping bags. Now it's just an empty shell of its former self, isn't it? Got no plastic bags in there. Nothing. No, you're right.

No use for that drawer now. Don't know what to put in it. What are we filling it up with? I find random items in my bedside table drawer. Anything I don't know where to put, I don't know if that doesn't go there, doesn't go there. It just sort of ends up in cell phone charges. It's like a cell phone graveyard in there, old cell phones.

Maybe like pictures that the kids have drawn that you're like, oh, I can't throw this out, so I'll put this in there. Handmade birthday cards, you're right. They go in there. Just kind of there. And it's kind of like a holding bay for I don't know what for. For stuff you're inevitably going to chuck out. Yeah.

Do the first, I was looking. The retirement home of all the goods in the household yeah but draws is bloody useful aren't they you just anything you just don't want to see hide it but it was i was watching a tv show it was kind of like a marie kondo type show and it was about minimalizing minimizing your lifestyle apparently the first thing you want to do If you start eliminating things Is don't have any drawers Because then you have to leave stuff out on a bench You're like oh I don't like that

Don't need it I'll throw it out Because a lot of stuff you have You're not fully committing to throwing out You're putting in this Like you say a holding bay The drawer It's kind of like a storage area

You know with a garage Or if you've got storage If you've got storage You just use that storage Throw it So here's my advice today. Throw out all your drawers. You just have a kitchen

with no drawers. What do I do with my clothes? Eh? And the cutlery and stuff. Like what's... Put them on the floor. Okay, that's a stupid... Who's...

Moses from Soleil Mio. He lives a minimalist lifestyle. Yeah. He threw out everything. He's only got one fork, one knife, one spoon. What about coming over to dinner though? Use your hands, mate.

Okay. I feel like somewhere in the middle is a good way to be, but anyway. One extreme to the other, you know me. Go on from one extreme to the other. Experts in giving out inexpert advice.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben, I went into a shop yesterday and I had to sign a document and the person who was behind the counter was like, oh, you're left-handed. Now, it's probably the only mildly interesting fact about me that I'm left-handed. And every time someone notices you're left-handed, it's always a topic of conversation. I don't know why it should be because it's like people understand you're either right-handed or left-handed. And it shouldn't really matter at all, does it?

But sometimes people, yeah, you're right, I've been with you, and you write something and someone goes, oh, left-handed. Oh, you're left-handed. Yeah, well, he's left-handed or right-handed. He was either going to pick the pen up with either hand. Yeah, but my only superpower is smudging stuff out on a whiteboard when I have to write something. Because the way you're writing, you've just written the word

and then you're going over it with the side of your hand. Yeah, so you are smudging it the way. It must be tricky. Back in the day, my auntie, I remember talking to her, she was left-handed and they basically forced her

to be right-handed at school and stuff. They forced it. It was like, it's not even an option, which is terrible. Yeah, that was the joy back in the day. If you had a headache, you got sent off to a mental asylum. There was no forgiveness.

Geez, yeah, wild. No acceptance back then. But yeah, the person behind the counter yesterday, though, they were like, did you know? They're not even left-handed, but they're very invested in left-handed people and left-handed events. He's like, did you know that it was uh international left-handed

day a couple of days ago i missed it completely missed it what happens on a left-handed day does everyone just shake with the left hand have you ever done that have you ever shaken with your hand you don't shake with it really throws out the equilibrium feels a bit odd yeah you can tell the other person's a bit put off by it as well yeah well you do you know sometimes you're busy doing something you put out the wrong hand are It's just like, are we doing this? What? What are you? What are you doing?

I don't know why. Yeah, but I got some... Would you like some left-handed facts? Sure, I feel like we're here now. Do you know there's a left-handed store that's just opened up in Christchurch? Like that, you know... What do they sell?

Like scissors and things? Yeah, scissors, pens, I think, that can help you out. All sorts of can openers and stuff as well. We should go visit next time we're in Christchurch. I'd love to. Love to. For once you won't take me to that bloody Suvalaki place. The Suvalaki place is awesome. Every time we go to Christchurch we go to the

Suvalaki place. I won't have a bad word said about the beach. I'm not saying a bad word about it. I'm just saying every time we go there you take me there. That's right. I'll take you there then you can take me to the left handed shop. Okay one for one. Alright. Next time we're in Christchurch. It's like the Ned Flanders shop on the Simpsons but it actually does. Did he open up a left-handed shop. Okay, one for one. All right. Next time we're in Christchurch. It's like the Ned Flanders shop on The Simpsons, but it actually exists. Did he open up a lefty?

A leftorium, yeah. But it's awesome. Yeah. Actually, the pain of a lefty using scissors. I can't use them. Well, hey, I'll take you to the shop. We'll get a super lucky and cut him in half. Cut the super lucky in half afterwards.

But did you know, left-handers, if you have a stroke, you recover quicker. Really? Than right-handed people. Huh. Yeah. And apparently there's people who are afraid of left-handed writers. Sinistrophobia, it's called.

You scare the living bejesus out of someone if you're writing with your left hand. And did you know the fetus, so when you're inside your mother, it chooses what hand to suck in the womb, and that generally becomes the hand that you use to write. So it's from there. Right. That's all I had. Felt like you thought this was just something that had to be done.

Formalities. I'll take it to the shop. It's fine. We'll get you some left-handed scissors and a left-handed can opener as well. Do you know I throw with my right, though? Really? Yeah. So if you put me in a tennis rackethanded canover as well. Do you know I throw with my right, though? Really? Yeah. So if you put me in a tennis racket with my hand right now,

I'll beat your sixth love with my right hand. Oh, so you even hit with your right hand as well? And then right with my left. Oh, complex individual. Maybe I was sucking both thumbs and mum. Mature, responsible, and considerate. Three words we sadly can't use here. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Rough weather down in the South Island this morning. South Island bracing for heavy rain, potential flooding and slips, particularly in the West Coast. Oh, not again. They reckon pack a bag. Pack a bag if you're down there just in case. They already had a flooding last year. Yeah, it was pretty horrible.

So yeah, I think of everyone down that way this morning. Keep safe and dry. Hey, Rob, who works out here in the office uh i didn't know this about him but he apparently is an exceptional baker yeah like he a cake just a random cake appeared on a table outside the studio window i saw him bringing in yesterday and i said whose birthday is that and he said no one's birthday i just had some bananas at home that i needed to use up now he did something that most of us don't do, is use up the bananas.

Most people just put them in. They get brown, they put them in the freezer, and they say, oh, I'll make something with these one day, but no one really does. And then you throw them out six months later. Yeah, I've done that multiple times, and I don't even know how to make a banana cake. But I put a lot of bananas in the freezer,

hoping that someone will find them. Come along and go, oh, great, this is what I need. Maybe Rob comes to visit. He opens the freezer. Yeah, but Rob made, like, this cake was impressive. This looked like it was made, you know. Cheesecake shop stuff. Yeah.

High-end stuff. Yeah. Yeah, it had little biscuits on the top of it. You could have put it, remember they had that show, New Zealand's Next Top Baker? This cake could have entered there. And it just sat on the table. It bamboozled the office, though,

because everyone sort of walked past it going, is it cake? Whose cake is? Whose birthday? What's? Who's the? You know, like it just confused everyone. It was a wonderful dance. People would walk past, eyeball it out the side of their peripheral, then reverse back

and kind of investigate the cake. And we could see it through the studio window. And they look around to see if anyone's watching. There's no note attached to it. And then they'd sort of point, go, is it anyone's birthday? What's the cake? You know, and then some'd sort of point, go, what's the cake? And then some of them would go, oh, no, Rob brought it in. You can have some.

People would go, have some. And then they'd wonder if it was a prank cake, I think. There was a few people thinking that. But no, it seemed delicious, and people would eat the cake throughout the day. Always looked a little bit gillsy while eating the cake. What I loved was, and I won't name and shame them. Oh, go on. There was someone in the office who was the first person to cut the cake. And I noticed they i won't name and shame them oh god there was someone in the office

who was the first person to cut the cake and i noticed they didn't look around or ask anyone they made the leap they jumped they jumped and that's that then started the onslaught of people who could pick away at the cake but it's a wonderful communal food isn't it you couldn't leave a sandwich on there and people would no true way okay for some reason feels like everyone can jump in you have the theory too that if you go out for a dinner, you know, and someone orders a garlic bread or, like, a bowl of fries, that everyone is, you know, like, everyone's slow at first to go in,

and then it's a mad rush, and then they're slow for the last little bit. No one wants to be the person taking the last chip or the last piece of garlic bread. We get all high and mighty about that last one, don't we? No. But we all want it. Everyone at the table knows.

Everyone else at the table wants it. But then everyone goes, oh, no, no, I'm full. I'm done. It's like, no, you're not. You've still got your main to come. Don't pretend you're full. That's not an excuse. I appreciate someone who's like, yeah, no, I'll take it.

Because it ends the awkwardness. I know, because you stop. And you're like, one to go. Can't be that person having that. And then everyone goes, oh, no, you have it. You have it. It's out of the gates. It's frantic. Bang and you're like, one to go, can't be that person having that. And then everyone goes, oh no, you have it, you have it, you have it. It's out of the gates,

it's frantic, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, then all of a sudden it just stops

for some reason and then the waiter comes along, sometimes it's still sitting there, waiter comes along and is like, is anyone gonna,

does anyone want to, and everyone's like, oh no, no, no, not me, and the waiter's like,

are you sure? They take it away sometimes, you're like, I should have just taken that, I really wanted it. Everyone regrets it.

Yeah, you're right. The Hits, I should have just taken that. I really wanted to take it. Everyone regrets it. Yeah. You're right. The Hits. For more podcasts from The Hits Network, check out iHeartRadio.co.nz.