Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Can we all avoid Mariah Carey before Christmas?

Episode Date: November 3, 2024

ON THE SHOW: We're all trying to avoid Mariah Carey's famous Christmas song - if you hear it, you're out! Megan is interviewing cricket legend Neil Wagner after the show today - Mike Lane coaches her on cricket and lends his advice on how to conduct the interview with a cricketing legend Ben was confused for someone else over the weekend... He even had selfies with his 'fan' and it wasn't until after he realised they weren't actually a fan of him We had a rep from State Insurance call up and share the weirdest claims they've received Megan has been cutting her nails in a controversial place - is the kitchen sink okay? What is everyone on our team all sleeping with?  We chat to Auckland FC CEO Nick after their historic win in the weekend, and we attempt to get Paddy Gower on after he made an outrageous wager last week See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Jono and Ben podcast, hey that's us, brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome along, Monday morning, this is the podcast for a Monday, just watching a very funny clip. Now I don't know if you've seen this clip, you know Hasbulla? He's got, in UFC circles, He's a very popular social media. I love Hasbulla. Yeah. He's like a,

he is, I think from a part of Russia where it's quite common with very, very small people. Right. Yeah, he's very short.

But he's like 26 years old but Mike Tyson, the boxer, was just talking about it and he got to meet him but he thought he was a little child. I thought he was a baby.

And he was like kissing him on the neck. I've seen that, yeah. And he was tickling him and stuff. Yeah, kissing him. They were like play fighting and Mike Tyson's now talking about it

in an interview going, yeah, I thought it was a baby. I'm sorry, I thought it was a baby. He's 26 years old. I'm sorry. But also then I'm like, would you do that to someone else's kid? That's a bit weird too.

Raspberries on their neck and stuff like that. He was being quite playful, Hasbulla was. So I think he was like, oh, this kid wants to give me a boom. You're right, though. I mean, I don't come around to your house to pick up that stuff. Raspberry's on his tummy. Yeah, so there you go. Because you always wondered, was that like a set up or what was going on there?

No, apparently not. Apparently not. I love Hasbulla. There was a time that all I was being fed was Hasbulla content kind of dropped off the old algorithm now but podcast

hope you enjoy it it was a big it was a big weekend high low buffalo we're going to kick things off with and you'll soon hear this the highest energy

happy birthday happy birthday they are children also you didn't do a high low buffalo but your daughter's birthday was at the weekend. We ran out of time. It was four minutes, 12 seconds.

Do you want to do it now? Well, yeah. The high was the party. The low was, as you'll hear on the podcast too, a hawk tour scandal happening at the zoo. That was probably the low. And the buffalo, I think I saw a monkey peeing on another monkey, which made me happy Oh okay

It does make you laugh It does make you laugh Alright enjoy the podcast We'll catch you tomorrow Now we started something last week I got introduced to me From a young kid Eight years old

She was like We do this at school High low buffalo Who was this kid to you? This young kid A friend A friend A friend of a friend

Yeah so I was like Well she made us all do it At a dinner table And I thought Maybe us all do it at a dinner table and I thought well maybe we could do it on a Monday morning after the weekend so your high of the week

your low of the week and for some reason the buffalo was the funny thing I still didn't I kept going what's by buffalo but she didn't because it just rhymes with low

I think that's the only reason she's like don't question it it's just my low what was your high what was your low what was your buffalo of the weekend oh look at my mum.

I'll just go the high. My mum came to stay. She came back from a boomer trip. You know, one of those classic boomer trips overseas. Now, Friday, it was a little aggrieved that he got a message from his mum going, so are you still cool to pick me up from the airport? And he was like, she never asked me to pick her up from the airport. She's assuming that we've had a conversation.

Yeah, yeah. So I did. I went out and picked up my mum From the airport Friday night Friday night one I was like Normally goes against My picking up Of family members

At the airport What time on Friday night Oh it was about 6.30 Oh evening Yeah Evening Yeah Friday Well Eve's still evening

No she still cuts Into Friday night But it was lovely to see her So that was the High of the week She does Potters around Does a whole lot of washing. And whining.

Loves the whining, doesn't she? Which is great. Let's go live the weekend. It actually happened this morning. The cat, you know, when the cat starts to vomit, you're like, uh-oh. And I sort of tried to carry him, but it didn't quite work out to get him outside. Did you catch the vomit? No, the floor and a whole lot of other stuff caught the vomit this morning.

Did you walk away? No, I thought about walking away. Two times over the weekend he did the right thing. He picked his mum up on a Friday night and the cat. What a hero. Picking up stuff all over town. Let's go Buffalo. Oh, a funny little story happened Friday night when I was out with my wife

and who I got recognised for, who they thought I was. I'll tell you about that a little bit later on in the show. Well, I wish actually. They're like, Alan DeGeneres? Who are you doing? New Zealand. That was it. No, it wasn't Alan, but I'll tell you later on.

All right, you guys. High, low, buffalo. Shall I go? You go, mate. High was probably going to the zoo. I took my kids to the zoo for the second time ever. It was pretty quick. They're scared of most of the animals, but it was fun.

And the elephant's going. I think I might have seen the elephant for the Burma. Is it Burma? Yeah, I think it is Burma. So I don't think we're going to have any elephants at Auckland Zoo. Where's the elephant? What? It seems like a mission to move an elephant. Sydney, because they need multiple elephants. Oh, and it's just

on its own. So little do we know, Burma's probably been real sad for a long time, so it's best for the elephant. But that was my high. Low? Low delaying Christmas, which i will get to later in the show because i went on and on about how i was going to put up my christmas tree you did we got a fun christmas game after eight o'clock based around your love of christmas and uh buffalo my buffalo i don't think it's funny you'll probably think it's funny um i made my son some dinner last night from scratch, as you know I like to do. Like handmade bloody ravioli or something? I made him some creamy spaghetti, and he didn't eat it.

And he said at the end, you need to stop making food, mummy, it's yucky. Oh! Hey, what is this? Make your own! It's a backup job of spaghetti. And sausages. Have you ever had a can of what is spaghetti and sausages? Have you?

Give it a bash. Not with the sausages. Just the spaghetti. What's the meat? Who knows? Who knows? Anyway. This bash. Not with the sausages. It's not spaghetti. What's the meat? Who knows? Who knows? Anyway. Listen, my high-low buffalo,

it's four minutes 16. We've probably talked too long. No one cares about my weekend. We'll move on. No! The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Just to alley in right now

to try and quiz us on the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. We try and get 10 out of 10, but when we get one question wrong, that's it. It's all over for the day. No, this is back, if you missed it on Friday,

Ben Boyce lobbied hard to end the music game, which was... End the madness of the music game. Oh, look, I just put it out there. After two weeks of playing along, and passively playing along, like the listeners,

I was just like, does anyone else find this ridiculously hard? I was like, you had to guess a song off, like, single drum beats and stuff. Megan was very good at this. She was. Brianna of Disturbia.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, we've played this one before. Oh, we can do it again, Ben, and see how you go. No good. No good. Anyway, he put it to the people and the four votes came through 100% saying it's too hard. Yeah.

Go back to the Herald quiz. Yeah. And here we are. So here we are back to the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. And I just want to remind you that on Friday you got none right. But we learnt that US make a lot of petrol. What did you learn? Is it making petrol?

That's what I stumbled on. Mining petrol. Yeah. Yeah, biggest producer of gas, I think, was the wording, remember? Yeah. That is, yeah, interesting. Did anyone use that at the weekend to impress anybody? No, but it's still in my head

Yeah Rihanna disturbed me I've heard that nine times now And I still didn't get that Question number one On a Monday morning Alright In which movie

Did Saoirse Ronan Earn her first Academy Award nomination She's the one who Lovely Bones Don't you Oh yes Lovely Bones

Peter Jackson She kills the buzz In an interview on the Graham Norton show. No, she had a great point. She had a great point. She had a great point. I'll give you the three options, eh? Because the three options are Lady Bird, Brooklyn, or Atonement. Oh, so not Lovely Bones.

You're so confident on it. She was in the Lovely Bones. She was. Yeah. But she didn't win it. It was Atonement. Yeah. Is that your answer?

Yeah that's my answer Oh that's bloody correct isn't it? Well done Had no idea Just said it Whatever What are your guilty pleasures? I think I was softy over there

Alright Is it a romcom? No it's not a romcom Is it serious? No I think it's quite serious I watched the media studies at school They don't generally win big awards for romcoms But anyway

They should do And what's the next one mate? Okay next question I watched the media studies at school. They don't generally win big awards for rom-coms, but anyway. They should do. And what's the next one, mate? Okay, next question. Which New York borough is the largest by area? Is it Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Queens? Jeez, you'd go Manhattan, wouldn't you? Or Queens.

Or Brooklyn. You'd go one of those. You would. Yeah, because Manhattan's very condensed, but there's a lot of people living in a small... I don't think Manhattan's very big. It sounds like the big one, but I don't think it is. Yeah, it's probably condensed CBD. I just know lots of people say they're from

Queens. Queens does sound, it sounds more spread out, doesn't it? Should we lock in queens? Yeah, let's lock in queens. All right, that's correct. All right, we're two down. We're going to try and get 10 in a row.

Let's have a quick break. Give us a little teaser about the next question there, Ali. Okay, next question is, what does UX stand for in design terminology? Is that user experience, unique experience, or universal experience? If you think you know, you can text too, 4487. Yeah, we can go to the text machine once.

So 4487 if you're a designer right now. We are in the middle of the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. Three questions down. We try and get 10 in a row every morning. You can text in 4487 if you know anything. Wow, you know nothing. Sometimes on a Monday morning it is hard to

talk it is we just did a social video and we kept calling the show the show I said the show

coming up on the show I like the show let us warm up we'll get there by 7 ok what's question 4 there Megan

Ellie oh wow wake up god wake up. Producer Ellie. All right. Question four. Who is the youngest player to win a FIFA World Cup?

Is it Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi, or Pelé? Oh, jeez. Is Pelé like Madonna? Just one name. I guess so, yeah. Pelé. For some reason, I'm going Maradona. Okay. I don't know why. I was going'm going Maradona I don't know why

I was going to go Maradona too That seems like a rock solid reason He had the hand of God We basically scored it with a handball But he said it was the hand of God To win the World Cup So I know he won the World Cup But I don't know how young he was

So let's lock it in We're locking in Diego Maradona Youngest ever to win the World Cup. So I know he won the World Cup, but I don't know how young he was. So yeah, let's lock it in. We're locking in Diego Maradona. Youngest ever. Are we sure? Yeah, let's lock it in, mate. Are we sure? That's incorrect.

Was it Billy? It was. It was. Okay. We should have gone one name like Madonna. Do you know how old he was when he won the World Cup? No, it doesn't say. It doesn't say.

Let's have a look. I do know Diego Maradona went on a bloody huge binge, didn't he? Yeah. He was just on all the bloody, you name it. He was putting it up his nose. He was a superstar. I mean, he probably never bought a drink in his life after winning the World Cup. So, yeah. Pelé was 17 years and 249 days when he won a World Cup final match on 29th of June, 1958.

That is so crazy. That's insane. I know. I was just a D-bag then. You spoke to Grace Nowicki, the Silver Fern. How old was she? She was 18 when she made the New Zealand team. That's amazing.

Incredible, eh, when they do that. Because that means they've spent a lot of their teenage years being focused and not a D-bag. Exactly. And that's making the silver first. That doesn't mean when she started playing against adults. Yeah. That's when she made the pinnacle. Wow.

It's pretty incredible, yeah. So there we go. We'll never forget the Palais was the youngest ever football winner. And US biggest producer of gasoline. That's right. We're collecting facts. Hey, next. Actually, speaking of football football A really epic football match

Over the weekend Between the Auckland FC And the Phoenix It was the big local derby Louis Toomey's in the area And Auckland FC Through Jake Bribber 22 on his back

Two goalies in the back There we go It was a huge win And a big wager Between Paddy Gower On this show And the owner The CEO of Auckland FC, will bring up Speedness. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Another big weekend of sport. The All Blacks a bit of a nail-biter over England. They won that one. Tonga beat the Kiwis in league. That was another nail-biter by one point. Jeez, the Tonga supporters, incredible. Huge. And just the flags.

Every time Tonga or Samoa are playing, I feel like the flags are getting bigger and bigger, dangling out of the cars every time. I literally saw one which could have covered a queen-size bed. That's a big flag dangling out of a passenger window. It was like a home game in New Zealand for them. It was incredible to see the support. An incredible game of the league, but Tonga, well done to them.

And also the Auckland FC in the big local derby against the Phoenix in Wellington. They're the new team in the Australian competition. The first time the two Kiwi teams have played against each other. And it was 2-0 to Auckland. Louis Toomey's in the area. And Auckland FC! 2-0. Now, we spoke to Nick Becker, who is the CEO of Auckland FC.

He came into the studio Friday. And we brought him up to speed on an article that our colleague, former colleague, Paddy Gower, had written on Auckland FC. He had all sorts of wild claims, wasn't he? He was calling them a... Ponsonby hooligans. He was. He was saying the port, which is their official fan club,

there's nothing to do with the port. It's miles away. Settle their chance. Sound like ChatGPT wrote them. He said a lot of stuff. He called them a fake football club. Now, Paddy Gow, we called Paddy Gow

and we put him on with Nick and the banter was flowing back and forth. Auckland FC is a semi-fake football club and it's the only done football club in New Zealand and that is the Phoenix FC. Oh! Oh, he's doubling down! These are fighting words there. They're big words, Paddy. So prove it. No, no, no, Nick. I don't want to have a fight with you. I want you to understand.

I think it'll be 3-0 over there. I want to put it out to Paddy. If it is 3-0, fine, we'll take that. But if it isn't, I say Paddy has to be in the port at the December derby. Let's get him alive. I spent a game in the port. Mate, it's not going to happen so I'll go one better. I'll go one better next. I'll wear an Auckland FC jumper. You can

even put my name on the back. Oh! He's that confident. There you go. I put my money where my mouth is. So he's that confident. Confident. He's that confident. There you go. I put my money where my mouth. So he said all that. I forgot that. I thought he was just saying if they win, but he was, the bet was for 3-0.

It was a very risky bet. Yeah, it was. He was very confident. Now, he said a lot of things, as we all do. You say some stuff. You talk a big game. But we need to find out today if he's going to follow through, don't we? Is he going to go into the eye of the Auckland supporters?

And an Auckland top as well, just turning his back on his team. I mean, in some ways, at least he's wearing an Auckland top. Like, if he went into the eye of the supporters wearing a Wellington top, it might be worse. I know, what would be worse? Yeah. Maybe we can have this conversation with him. Yeah. Yeah.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It is The Hits on a Monday morning. Big news of the cricket over the weekend. The Black Caps won 3-0 against India, which is the first time India's ever lost

in 95 years. 3-0 against any team and New Zealand did it. You, you just, you jazz cricket, don't you?

And, sorry. You what cricket? You love cricket. What does this mean? It's pretty huge actually Yeah only twice In 95 years

Have we ever beaten India in a test You know And now we win You know three in a row Which is pretty incredible Yeah now a huge cricket fan Ben Boyce

And Obviously I just mentioned it before Big fat And Megan You gave Ben a glimpse Into one of your favourite hobbies Which was you know

Pampering yourself. You gave him pink painted nails. Are they still with you, Ben, three weeks later? No, they're pretty much just that. I've been picking them off. They're almost gone now. So you got to enjoy something Megan loves doing. Now, he wants to return the favour.

That's right. This is quite exciting. Neil Wagner, Black Cap, he's got a new book out. He's coming in for an interview. And I was like, well, hey, why don't you do the interview? As much as I'd love to do the interview, I'll give you the joy of talking cricket on the show. Thank you so much.

On a pretty historic day for cricket. Oh, yeah, yeah. And you know nothing, nothing, zero about cricket. Maybe I'll just be like, oh, historic day. Yeah, well, that's a good start. Great start. Let him roll into it. Now, the interview's happening after the show today.

We won't be in the studio, but we've got Mike Lane, who's part of the Alternate Commentary Collective, big cricket person. We got him in to give you a couple of tips about interviewing Neil. How good looking is he? Yeah, he's very good looking. He is. So he doesn't play anymore.

Well done. I know, it's a question. He doesn't play for the Blackcaps anymore. it's a question. No, he doesn't play for the Blackcaps anymore. Now, first thing, how would you pronounce his name? Neil Wagner.

Yeah, well done. Okay, good. Well, I don't know about that. Is it Wagner? Oh. Or is it Wagner? I don't know.

We call him Neil Wagner and I don't know if that's correct or not. Am I going to look like a dick if he comes in and I'm like, good morning,

Neil Wagner. You're laughing. Yeah, true. Don't call him that. He's quite aggressive on the field. Oh, okay. Nicest guy you'll ever meet when you meet him. Quite relatively short in stature.

So I'm going to bring up that he's reasonably short, has got anger issues. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, great. And is the name Wagner. Are you German? So there we go, those are some of the prep tips you've been given, Megan and this is happening after 9 o'clock

this maiden is going to conduct her first bit of a cricket reference there. I just don't want to offend him, like he's a professional who's done awesome things in his field Have a quick googly A bit of research will mean you won't offend him. A bit of research and cricket questions, you won't offend him at all. Like if you come in and say cricket sucks, then you might offend him.

No, just because I'm not interested doesn't mean it sucks. But you've literally said cricket sucks to Ben. Okay, I'm trying to backpedal. It's a big week of the two this week, guys. The US election's taking place. Wednesday, our time. I say that in all due respect to women, and I love women. Oh, jeez.

I love women. Trump taking on Harris. And Kamala actually went on Saturday Night Live, the comedy show in America. And the comedian Maya Rudolph was there dressed as Kamala. And they sort of went back and forward and had a bit of fun with her name. Now Kamala, take my Pamela.

The American people want to stop the chaos and end the dromala with a cool new stepmamala. Kick back in our pajamas and watch a rom-kamala. Like Legally Blond-a-la. And start decorating for Christmas. Fa-la-la-la-la. Because what do we always say?

Keep calm-a-la and carry on-a-la. She did really well. She did really well. A frenzy crowd. I mean mean jeez Yeah we're loving it Yeah we are But very cool

That she went on that show And we'll bring it up to speed Throughout the week On the election Speaking of a frenzy Yesterday Poppy My daughter's birthday Oh nice

And was the tour guide Of you know Eight just High intensity girls Taking them through the zoo You went to the zoo too Megan Yeah And I was like

I feel like the tour guide and then one of the girls kept saying kept saying very loudly you're the hock tour guide hock tour

and we're like you've got to you've got to stop saying hock tour because she would say it and then other people would smile like other adults they would smile she'd be like

hock tour guide we're on a hock tour of the zoo and I'm like please please stop you can't yeah you're right But you can't really

Explain that same situation You can't really explain The full reference How old are these girls They're 12 Oh okay She had no I don't know if she had

Any understanding of it No She was just like This is a fun thing to say And it's getting a reaction Me and my son were like Please stop saying that Please stop saying that

So anyway I was the Hock tour guide And came home. Birthday cake. Hi, listen to this. I know you don't like the happy birthday song, but boy, oh boy, they gave it their all. Happy birthday, dear Poppy. Yes.

Happy birthday to you. Wow. We're still recovering. Neighbours are still recovering. Usually it's like... My problem is it sounds usually quite depressing. So that sounded really upbeat. It started off slow, but it just picked up momentum.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We talk about a lot of sporting events over the weekend. Jeez, we've gone hard on sport this first hour, haven't we? Well, yeah, just to take a little, in another competition that we haven't talked about so far to do with a cake making competition, a big international cake baking show in Britain, a huge one.

And have a look at this. I've got a picture from today's New Zealand Herald. Is that a cake? A life-size version of Taylor Swift. Like a full-size version of cake. It stands upright of Taylor Swift. But unfortunately, when they were transporting it for the competition, both the hands fell off during the transportation.

And the lady who had spent over 100 hours making the cake didn't have enough time to put the hands back on to Taylor Swift and so she had to pull herself, she had to shake it off. They shook them off. She shook her own hands off and she had to be out of the competition. But it's incredible. Why don't we take a photo of the picture in the paper and put it on the Hits Breakfast social, eh?

We could probably find a photo, like online. I could do that. No one likes to hold it up like some sort of hostage situation that I can hold up like, Oh no Megan, we're doing this old school, baby. We'll take a photo of the paper first. That's right. But incredible, like incredible looking cake. I mean.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's nice. Look, a full size though. Yeah. What do you mean? Yeah. What does it taste like though? It looks like a blow up doll of Taylor Swift. But it's a cake, though. It does.

Doesn't it? It's a cake, though. I think you guys are getting around the fact we made cakes. She does look a bit puffy. Oh, jeez. We made cakes. We made every cake in the Women's Weekly birthday cake book. I'm not saying I can do it.

But if you're entering a world of cake making, I would have expected a little better. I'm sorry. I'm thinking that's incredible. I'm thinking that is... Like, you look at it and go, Taylor Swift, you know those wax... I mean thinking that's incredible. I'm thinking that is, like you look at it and go, Taylor,

so if you know those wacks, I mean, look at that statue of Dwayne Ray, the basketballer. Didn't even look anything like him. This looks exactly,

you know exactly who it is. It's incredible. So anyway, after seven o'clock. Ben's very defensive. Oh, I think it's a crap. Well,

I'm just going to say, here we go. Someone spent 100 hours on that. It looks awesome. It does, of course. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Less than 50 days, or around about 50 days till Christmas, sorry.

It's not that far away. Not too far away. And we are entering that season, too, where you'll start going, Megan, the kindergarten, you'll start going to the end-of-year presentation ceremonies. Many are school assembly. You know, you go and watch sort of kids stand up on a line and hold certificates in front of their chest, you know, like they're classified documents. I love that.

It's so cute though, isn't it? When they're standing up with a beaming smile. And also the wrap up of big dance recitals too. And I've begun dance recital wrap up season. Now it's a whole season. We're treated to an entree. My daughter's dance recital. She's a very good dancer. I'm very an entree. My daughter's a dance recital. She's a very good dancer. I'm very proud of her.

She has seven classes a week. Seven classes a week? Seven. Every day? Sometimes two a night. She's into it, mate. That's a lot of dance. They really saw you coming, didn't they?

Because they love upselling you too, don't they? You need to do this one. too you need to do this one do you need to do twerking class is that an essential anyway so they had that but here's my pitch to that whole less classes the shows like so you

know you go to end of year wrap up shows and I know you've done your time in the theatre with Sienna is let's just I mean all the kids are really talented. I want to front foot it. But I don't care about other kids dancing. I just want to go in. Let's go.

Okay, so 6.57, boom. You tell me when I'm there. Put us on a spreadsheet. We all go in. You watch your kid and you're out by 7.03. You know? You watch them do their thing and then you're out. Because you're what?

The 95% of what you're watching over an hour and a half is strange children. Not strangers, they're not strangers, just stranger children. Especially in dance recitals. Like when I go watch my daughter do a show, so this is a show,

there's a story. You're just watching probably in the dance. Single dancers. And they're all great. They're all great. Yeah, that's what we're saying. You know, I kind of check out.

I won't lie. But anyway, we've got some HelloFresh to give away this week, don't we? The HelloFresh Summer Box. Yeah, we have your chance to win our

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How was the weekend? Hello. Happy Monday. It was good. Thank you. How are you? You're good. High, low, and buffalo of the weekend as Ben likes to do

What was the high and the low? Oh, that's hard The high would be I don't actually know if I've got a certain high It was a bleak weekend Just being on the weekend, just getting to the weekend was great Well, just surviving, that was the high Well, Imogen, right now you need to pick Megan, Ben, or myself

to pull out a HelloFresh meal from the box, and you'll win a corresponding summer-themed prize. Summer-themed prize. What is it? Let's go with Megan. I feel like that's a good summer vibe. She's got a good summer vibe. You can pull out anyone.

We've got a whole bunch of surfboards. We've got outdoor sets. What do you want to go there, Megan? What have we got? we've got a whole bunch of surfboards. We've got outdoor sets. What number? What do you want to go there, Megan? What do we got? I've got number three. That's a roast chickpea and broccoli super salad with avocado and herby mayo. So that's one of the recipes you could be having in your weeks with HelloFresh.

Oh, my God. And what does it come with? A bike. You want a bike? You've won a bike. Oh, wow. A bike? Yeah.

Wow, awesome. Thank you. Far out. There we go. Thanks, HelloF bike. Oh wow! A bike? Yeah! Wow, awesome! Thank you! Far out! There we go, thanks HelloFresh! Yeah! On your bike!

Check it off with that! Yeah! And we've just found the high of your weekend, it's this morning! Yeah, exactly, nothing will beat that this week. Oh well that's awesome, well have a great week, on your bike, as you say. The Hits, the Jono and Ben Podcast. Over the weekend I went out for dinner with my wife on Friday night. And we went out and we had a lovely dinner.

And then we were going to catch up with some friends who were at a bar afterwards. So we were wandering along the street. Sometimes I get too full at dinner. You know, and you're like, geez, I've eaten too much. Well, you don't eat during the day. No. We've already eaten. So we just have a little.

Stock up at dinner. We do stock up. It doesn't keep us going for 12 hours. You're one meal a day. I like to spread mine out. You've got a crane to take me out of this restaurant. Yeah, garlic bread for the table, everybody. I do love ordering garlic bread for the table.

And then making the hand gesture. You're trying to whirl it around like a helicopter. So I was walking along the street and there was a group of sort of, I guess, young 20-somethings walking the other way, coming past. And they were like, yo, want to go?

I was like, yo, yo. You know, like to me, hey. Yo, yo. Oh, wow, okay. And Ben was like, yes. It was I. I'm getting yelled at. Ben boys.

So he came up to me and we nailed a bro shake together. I'm like, this is cool. This is a nice environment. He's like, hey man, I've always wanted to meet you. And I was like, oh, that's This is a nice moment. He's like, hey, man, I've always wanted to meet you. And I was like, oh, that's really lovely and nice to meet you. Hey.

Yeah. Feels like this is going to dogleg. Well, yeah, this is the thing. I'm not just coming on here to humble brag or anything like that. So he was like, yeah. And then he started, which should have been a sign. He's like, but I didn't. He's like, getting into many fights.

And I was like, oh, no. No, no, not tonight. I know who you think you are. You know where he's coming. Not tonight, mate. Not tonight. And he was like, oh, no, no, no, not tonight. I know who we think you are. Yeah, you know where it's coming. Not tonight, mate, not tonight. And he was like, oh, good, good. And then he's like, oh, yeah, he said he's always wanted to meet you and he's like, you're a bit of a mad bugger, aren't you?

And I was like, I guess, you know, when you look at our career, all the things we've done, and I was like, in my head I'm thinking, yeah, I was like, oh, not so much these days, but I guess we've done a lot. Yeah, lots of crazy stuff. So this, you know, we're sort of having a conversation with you. Weird banter that doesn't quite fit. Yeah, well, I was thinking it all kind of, I guess, kind of fit.

He was like, hey, we, you know, are flat. We all sat around and watched you on TV a couple of weekends ago. And I was like, oh, wow, wow. You got bought on DVD. I was like, well, that's pretty, that's pretty cool. And then I was like, hey, you're so good on dvd well that's pretty that's pretty cool and then I was like hey man we got a photo together I was like good to meet you oh where you went and I was like that's great that's great a little textbook I said but we had some of the conversation that we'd had but I was like oh maybe maybe it all checks out we'd all be drinking it was a win's a win and then as he walked away I sort of you know when you walk off and there's

conversations going on behind you you hear these conversations and then one of the the girls that was with him goes who was that he's like oh don't you know and i'm still sitting there you know listening and i'm like bathing in the glory yeah he's like ufc fighter dan hooker as i said i was like oh that's oh, that explains the fight. Explains the mad bugger. Sat around watching me a couple of weekends ago. And I was like, do I go back now and say, hey, I wasn't Dan Hooker? I was like, no, just keep going.

So apologies to Dan Hooker, UFC fighter. Hopefully I lived up to your cred. I can't wait for them to show people photos of Dan Hooker. And they're like, no. It's Dan Hooker. And I'll be like, what is he? Like Dan Hooker. Timu Dan Hooker.

Exactly. I mean, he's got kind of blonde hair like I have. But he's. You do look similar. But he's a lot more cut than me. Yeah. What was your reaction when he was like, you've been getting into many fights lately. I was thinking, oh, maybe he thinks I'm a bit of a scrapper.

I was like, this is great. My wife's going to watch it. I'm going, you know, I've got some cred. I've got some street cred. She's like, I do all the handy chores at home

just so you know. Oh, that is so... Maybe you and Dan Hooker need to wrestle. Wrestle for who gets to have the blonde hair. Oh, he can. He can.

Are you handing it over already? Oh, yeah, definitely. If it's a wrestle, if it's a pun offoff or something like that, I'd back myself. What about a pinochle wrestle? Oh, yeah, we can do that. Thumb wrestle.

You and Dan Hooker in the middle of an octagon. I just wish I'd seen your face. You would have gone from like a little pebbly step to like, oh. Oh, yeah, I could have not told that story, but I was like, oh, no. I thought it was quite funny. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're talking about the funniest thing you had to claim for insurance. And someone from the insurance industry has actually called through to the show this morning.

Wayne, welcome from State Insurance, the Chief Executive Foundation Manager General of Claims at State. Welcome. That's an impressive welcome. Now, how much of that did he get correct there? The first claim. None of it. None. None of it. None whatsoever. The State claims, but the rest of it was rubbish.

Yeah, well, he claimed you were a lot of things, didn't he? Executive General Manager of Claims? Yeah, something like that. But most importantly, the only claim I'll make about Wayne, a wonderful human being. Thank you. Hey, we're just talking about some wild claims. Do you see these cases come through?

Oh yeah, so they say in the movies, never work with kids and animals, and when it comes to claims, there's a common theme. One of our fathers was out doing a bit of DIY painting the garage floor. Unfortunately, his apprentice, a.k.a. his toddler, walked through the window, paint straight into the house and also thought, I'll take a paintbrush too

and do a bit of artwork down the hallway. That must be a common one for you guys. Yeah, a bit of that and also felt tips and crayons. They don't do as well with walls or sofas or curtains. What about your animals? I mean, have animals caused a lot of damage and claims? Heaps. And what I recommend is that you don't let your peacock into your house.

Now, why have a peacock in your house? I don't know, but if you've got a peacock, don't let them in. Okay, good rule. Good rule. First rule of owning a peacock. Quite territorial. And this particular peacock saw another peacock in the home because he was looking in a mirror.

Oh! And thought, don't like you, I'm going to have you, and caused a significant amount of damage to the customer's bathroom. So don't let your peacock in. Mind you, a peacock is a mirror to a peacock, a whole new concept, I imagine. Yeah, I don't think that peacocks and mirrors don't tend to mix, do they? No. Do people generally see the funny side of these things when they're making the claim,

or does that sort of come a bit later on? Well, maybe when they're talking to us, it's like, Oh, I need to make a claim, a peacock's done some damage. You're not going to believe this. What's been the most random one? A bayonet peacock is probably up there, but any other ones come to mind? What about the dog driving? That's not a bad one. The dog driving.

The dog driving. So the puppy in this case was left in the van, somehow managed to release the handbrake, van rolled backwards down the drive, crossed the road and crashed into another vehicle. So van not good, car not good, puppy happily okay. They did

teach dogs to fly planes didn't they? I think they were driving dogs too. They were driving dogs, yeah. But they were well trained driving dogs. And past their learners. They were restricted. Well, that's awesome, Wayne. Hey, thanks so much for coming on this morning.

Really interesting. Appreciate it. Anytime. Some great text coming through here too. 4487. Someone else like Wayne who works in insurance claims. A suitcase of stolen adult toys lost on holiday. Someone also tried to claim for a bunch of marijuana plants

that were confiscated in a police raid. Don't have insurance covers there, right? And a lady claimed for stolen jewellery that was stolen by fairies who came through her keyhole. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Is there anything worse than when someone's like, oh gross, what you're doing is disgusting? Yeah, that's a humbling comment.

It doesn't happen to me often. No, I wouldn't imagine it would happen to you very often, Megan. Like I said, I was caught by a fine listener to this show, cutting my toenails beside a pool. She was devastated by that and I just thought that was normal behaviour.

That's yuck. So my gauge on what is gross and disgusting is probably a lower bar than most. Yeah, and I did think of you when this happened because it's along the same lines. So yesterday I was cutting my fingernails and I was doing it into the kitchen sink. And my husband came along and was like, that's disgusting. Can you stop? And I was like, what do you mean?

Like my nails, first of all, like, not grubby and gross. Second of all, I'm going to rinse it down. At least I'm catching the nail. I hear the location's a little off. It's a little off, but I wouldn't put it in a gross, disgusting category. Also, I'm not listening to you, poolside clipper. Yeah, no, just. Yeah, true.

It feels like you're in a glass house. I would, yeah, like, if someone in this family was doing that in the kitchen sink i'd say hey no yeah like that feels like at worst go to the laundry like you know like yeah i don't know if i'm preparing food and then you're washing fruit and stuff excuse me my nails are in the sink anyway doing the dishes and stuff what difference does it make if they're attached to my fingers or not? Hey, Megan, look at hair off your head when it's on your head. And a bit of a quality.

It's a massive, when it's on your head, I mean, Seinfeld's got great gags. People stroke hair, they kiss hair, but as soon as that hair is off the head, leaves your body. Everyone's like, oh, gross. And it's so true. Sopping wet, clogging up a shower drain.

You don't get any grosser version of hair, do you? Hair in your meal, you're like, oh. True. I pull hair out of the shower drain weekly. I contribute to that hair in no way at all. Oh, that's true. But anyway. I know, but my toenails, it wasn't my toenails.

My fingernails are not clogging up the drain. You know? Are you boiling the jug and are you putting boiled water in there or anything afterwards? No, but the boiled water will go in there eventually to clean the dishes. Listen, I'm going to go to chat GPT on this one. You guys fill in some time. I honestly don't think there's any difference. My nails were in there doing the dishes.

Now they're detached from my fingers. It's gross. Let's see what AI's got to say. Is it disgusting to cut your nails in the kitchen? Now, chat GPT. Which I've mentioned before, I usually go to for some affirmation if I'm not feeling confident about something in my life.

I'm like, is it okay I haven't worked out this week? And they're like, it's all right. You can always do it next week, you know, stuff like that. Well, let's come back with it's a bit suspect, isn't it? Isn't it? Thank you, ChatGPT. The kitchen is where food magic happens. And I make it with those nails.

And nail clippings, well, they're not a part of any recipe anyone wants to try. That's what ChatGPT say. Thank you. No wonder it's coming for our jobs. It was into the sink. Okay, fine. Take your argument up with ChatGPT, mate. I'll go.

They still disagree. It was into the sink. Yeah, it's a bold move. See what it says. Yeah. See, it's a bold move to disagree, it says. No point in defending your nail clipping in the kitchen. That's what ChatGBD's saying. Great. All right.

You might want a reminder that it's not so much about the nails themselves. It's about the dirt under them. Oh. No, but that's the thing. I keep very clean nails. Okay. Well, not in the kitchen. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Last night as I was preparing myself for bed, I got into a bit of a panicked frenzy because I wear a, jeez, I'm an absolute sex leopard, I tell you. I wear a mouth guard to bed. Right. Do you sometimes wear a mouth guard to bed? Like a retainer? Like a retainer, yeah, right.

And then we were having this conversation with Craig, who's one of our bosses here at work, and he's like, jeez, you reach peak adulthood, don't you, when you start wearing equipment to bed? You're like, no wonder the birth rate is declining, I think, with his words. What do you wear to bed? What's your equipment?

I literally said this the other night. I was like, God, I'm sexy. I'm pretty much a transformer. I wear silicon patches on my face. Yeah. That's supposed to do something for like wrinkles or whatever. I wear a wrist brace because I've got a couple tunnel. And then I sometimes put a pillow between my knees

because I've got bung hips. What happens if things start to spice up? Is it this unstrapping of the wrist? It's probably not going to happen when you're like that. It's really loud. Like it's like. It's a Velcro. Is when you're like that. It's really loud. Like it's like... With the Velcro.

Is she taking a Velcro bar? She's kicked the pillow out. She's going to go dress for us. She's peeling off her face things. Oh no, don't touch the face. Don't touch my face. Leave that on. Leave the patches on. That's all Harriet.

She said she sleeps with a full mask thing. Like an LED light mask. Blue light. She's sleeping with that. I thing. Like an LED light mask. Blue light. Yeah, she's sleeping with that. I don't know. Does she not roll around at all? Yeah.

You got any equipment you take to bed? I do have a retainer, but probably about the lack of equipment. I don't sleep next to, no phones, no phones next to me. I won't sleep next to a phone. My wife is like, won't, and no cups of tea. She started to get in the habit of taking a cup of tea to bed. I love my tea before bed, but not in the bedroom. I'm like, that's not, we're not there. We're not 85 and arriving. I do that every night. Do you have a cup of tea she started to get in the habit of taking a cup of tea to bed i love my tea before bed but not in the bedroom i'm like that's not we're not there we're not 85 in a rhyme i do that every night i love a cup of tea at night before but it's like don't bring it into the bed

come on we're not here yeah not here yet yeah okay let's open this up what equipment are you taking to bed you sometimes you see the people with the full Darth Vader snoring. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Have you got one of those? I'd love to hear your calls and texts this morning. We're talking about the bedtime routine and the unusual bits of equipment that maybe you take to bed. A lot of texts coming through, 4487.

Pre-bed, I put moisturiser, retinol A face mask This text from Hannah says she goes to bed Like a greased up superhero Wearing a mouth guard as well Are you also greasy as well? I look like I've had my hen in a bucket of KFC Is this pre-wrist strap?

Yeah and then I put my wrist strap on So sexy You've got to do what you've got to do Is this pre-wrist strap? Yeah, and then I put my wrist strap on. So sexy. You've got to do what you've got to do, though. You've got a lot of time probably lying. Well, not a lot of time, but there is some time lying there. So what equipment are you taking to bed? I mean, Taylor Montoya, who is a former producer on this program,

Marcelo, her husband, he bought her some mouth tape so she could tape her mouth shut. So it's like a snoring thing, right? Yeah, to teach you to breathe through her nostrils. He claims it was for snoring. She was like, I do talk a lot. They would have a conversation before and go, is that all the talking we're going to do? Alright, goodnight. And then he'd put the mouth

tape on because she couldn't talk after that. She was like, mute after that. So I was like, anything else you want to get off before? I know, good night. And we'd put the tape on. Oh, you'd been taken hostage. Yeah. We've got Producer Ellie and Dylan.

Come on in, guys. Working next door here on the show. You can call 0800-THE-HITS as well. The bed type equipment you're taking. Now, Dylan, you wear something to bed, do you? It's a recent purchase and it's a lot of ridicule from my friends about it. But I've just recently bought an

eye mask, but it also has Bluetooth headphones in them as it's built in. Built into the eye mask? Yeah, built into the eye mask. Wait, is the eye mask to block out the light? Or is it good for your bags? We've moved into a new apartment and it doesn't quite have curtains yet, so this is like a win-win.

I also sleep with podcasts on, so I think it's a sensible purchase. Yeah, a great design sometimes you think have we invented everything and then you hear about this and you're like no we haven't sometimes my mother-in-law joyce will come to stay you know when he's helping look after the kids when my wife goes away because we go up early she she loves cranking up the zb all night she sleeps with zb just billowing out from the other room yeah overnight talk back yeah allous. Yeah, overnight. Talk back, yeah, all through the night, yeah. Will she just fall asleep?

Yeah, fall asleep with that. I'll be like, who's talking in the house? You don't need that subliminal negativity. Great controversial opinions is the soundtrack to this household overnight.

Overnight, I guess, yeah. And producer Ellie, you're sleeping with? A squishmallow at 32 years old. Do you? I do. One small one?

It's not a huge one. I'd love a big one, actually. But it's a medium one and it is so squishy. And actually, just quietly, my boyfriend quite likes it too. Does he? Yeah.

Does it go in between you two? No, we kind of fight over it. So some nights he'll be lying on it and then other nights I'm hugging it. So we kind of fight over it. We probably just should get a second one, I think. When did you introduce

the Squishmallow to the relationship? Because I feel like it's something you'd keep hidden for a certain time frame introduce the Squishmallow to the relationship? Because I feel like it's something you'd keep heading for a certain time frame. No, it actually came during the relationship. I was gifted it

and I was like, oh my gosh, I don't need a boyfriend anymore. I just need this. Because that happens sometimes when you are pregnant

and you have those pregnancy pillows and after you've had the baby, you're like, oh, it's just really cuddly and I can't let it go.

Is that why you've got the pillow between your knees now? Maybe, yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Fourth of November means 51 days until Christmas. It'll be 50 days tomorrow. So it is getting there.

We had Halloween. I was really excited about that. We're done with it. Megan's like, we're done with that. We're moving on to Christmas. We've wiped the table. It's ready for Christmas. So you're about ready to put up your Christmas tree.

So I did bang on about it last week that I was going to put up my Christmas tree. It usually goes up the 1st of November. And I was poised to do it at the weekend. It was happening. You were ready. Yeah. You said that was going to be your entire weekend. Yeah.

Christmasing the house up. It gets to Saturday. And I said, okay, well, we better go get the tree out and everything. And my husband's like, I've just thought he's filming in our house this week. And he was like, I don't want it to be Christmas-ified. Yeah, gotcha. Because it's got to be a timeless

Christmas shoot. I get it. We have my daughter's birthday, Indy's birthday is on the 13th. And so we kind of feel like even though probably we'd get Christmas up earlier, I feel like it's... You've still got to have a happy birthday paraphernalia yeah you can't combine the two come around have a party like what is the christmas party what is this so we sort of wait till after that oh that's fair enough so he's wanting to keep it neutral a neutral zone so i

can see where angie's coming from i did pack an absolute sad you'll be pleased to know well when you are filming pornography you don't want to, you don't want to time step it. You don't want a Christmas theme. What is Christmas theme? Why not? Yeah, well, a lot of Christmas range of that. It's a flooded market. It's a general mouse.

Keep it generic. So we wanted to, you know, because we're going to start playing very soon. We'll start playing Christmas music on the hits. And, you know, there's Christmas songs. It went to the mall over the weekend. So much Christmas stuff everywhere. Oh, it was September, I I think they were starting to dip their toes in some of the commercial retailers.

The big trees are up, the displays are up so it feels like Christmas is on its way but we wanted to play a little game with everyone. So you've delayed your start to Christmas what by a week at least? I have, yeah. So we thought we could potentially delay the start of this radio station's Christmas for as long as, well, this game continues on

Yeah, at least one particular song The most iconic Christmas song Now, it would be, like, I mean, 4487 if you think there's a better one than this Are you actually going to play it? We can play it now We're playing it now, yeah Okay, free pass Because I feel like as soon as this song starts hitting the airwaves

Or hitting the rotate on the hits or any radio station or all the malls or whatever, Christmas has officially started for you. We played it a couple of weeks ago, didn't we? We did. We played it in September in full. How did that go down? It was actually good.

People were into it. So the game is that we all have to try and avoid listening or hearing Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas. Now when you do hear it, and it could be you could be wandering through the supermarket and it comes on, you're out of the game. So and then you have to let us know, 4487 on the text or 0800 the hits and say you're out of the game.

When everyone's out of the game, we'll play the song in full. But it's an honesty system. You have to be honest about it, right? Because we're not going to be following you everywhere. I mean, it'd be weird if we did to the supermarket. What about social media? Like if I go onto TikTok right now, if I go onto, people are going to put it behind their stories on Instagram.

Does that mean I'm out of the game? It counts. It does. It counts. If it goes in your ear holes, through any means, you are out. So at the gym, another radio station, if they're playing in a store, whatever it is. Yeah, especially on another radio station. If you work in retail.

As soon as you hear any, not just the whole song, any of the song. Any of the song. You walk in, it gets in your ear holes and you walk out, it still counts. You have to call us or text us 4487 and go, I'm officially out of the Christmas game. Now, here's the thing. We're not. are we trying to get each other out or are we all in this together i think we're all in this together yeah we're all trying to stay in for as long as we can it'll be easy for one of us to leave the studio come back in and you know yeah play the song so no sabotage no sabotage and once all of us uh out of the game we can officially

start playing all i want for christ Christmas Is You on the show. That's going to be fun. That's going to be fun, actually. Okay, we'll remind people throughout the week. People can join at any stage. And obviously, Ben and I have already played the song. So from this moment, we're wiping the slate clean. I won't play that chorus again.

We're here. We wish you a Kerry Christmas, you said. So 800 of the hits. Have you actually been called out this morning? Yeah, like from now it's fine, but you might have already heard it this morning. But that's okay. That's okay. We're setting the slate. Because I imagine there's people in retail listening right now

that probably have been listening to that song for how long? Well, the retail sector's made a contract with Mariah to play at least 12 times a day, haven't they? So, 0800THETS, have you already heard this song? Someone texted and said, I've smashed that song already this morning. That sounded like they opted in themselves. They opted in, okay.

And you can listen to it again, but you would have to let us know that you're out of the game. You're out of the game. This would be a fun game. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Question. Yeah? What if someone sings it?

I feel like it's got to be Mariah being played. I don't know, but we're all making these rules together. I feel like it's got to be Mariah Carey's version of the song. What if you go to like a school little pageant end of year thing and someone's like singing? Stand up and walk out. You'll be like, wow, he really hates his pageants. No, I reckon it has to be Mariah Carey.

But if they're dancing to Mariah Carey you're out so if you go to the dancing along to that one year for the Hits Christmas Parade the Santa Parade we had that song on loop

for about three hours that was three yeah that was a lot of listens that would have been that would have been at least 50 or 60 times we heard that in a row and blasting in our ears too

because it was on a float with the loud speakers so we're trying to avoid it everyone you listening right now, if you want to play the game with us, you have to be honest when you do hear it, wherever you are and let us know.

4487 or 0800 the hits and then you're out of the game. And we keep going until everyone's out of the game and then we can play the song in full. The start line's now though, isn't it? Yeah, the next couple of days, but for us it's from now. Clarification on the text. Someone said, I've already heard it because mariah carey did a reel basically saying it's too early now is the moment now if you've heard it before now nicole nicole you've heard

it this morning already yeah twice twice already now what's your by your own choice oh yeah on purpose okay so you might not want to play this game. You might want to play it again tomorrow and you're out of the game. But you need to call us back and say, I'm out. I'll already be playing it again later today. She's out. You're forfeiting. Already.

Already. I can't do it. How many times do you want to play Mariah that song in a day? Well, every time I put the Christmas hits playlist on It's the first song And I always replay the first one because it's the best And then I let the rest go, you know I might finish with it as well sometimes

It's not a game for everyone And we're not bullying everyone to play the game as well We don't want to deprive you of Mariah If you want to listen to it four or five times a day That's your choice, Nicole I feel like you're doing the Christmas humbug thing in Killing Christmas. No, okay. It's the most joyful song.

You should just encourage it. Can I suggest, Sia's got a very good Christmas album that's very underrated, the Michael Bublé Christmas album as well. There's a lot of great Christmas songs out there. Maybe this is your chance to branch out into other Christmas music. Don't worry. I listen to all of those as well. November, December, Christmas Music Madness.

Alright, we want this to be a consensual game. We want everyone to... It may only last a couple of days. We may all hear it within the next 24 hours. I'll go back tomorrow and go, guys, we've all heard it. The game's over. So the game's over when all of us on the show have heard it. And then we'll start playing it

on the earwaves for you, okay, Nicole? But that doesn't sound like that's going to be an issue for you anyway. No, but I would encourage that. That would be great. Okay. Well, you go and have a wonderful day and Merry Christmas to you. Merry Christmas to you too. Bye.

Geez, that felt early to say Merry Christmas. Oh, was that your first Merry Christmas? Was that too early? I'm not mad about it. Was that too early for you, Nicole? No. No. Nicole, I feel like you could say that in February.

You know the answer to this question. All right, Nicole. No, I can't do it. I can't do it just yet. I'm going to save my Merry Christmases for December at least. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Big sporting match over the weekend. Well, a lot of great sporting matches over the weekend.

The big local derby between the Auckland FC, the new team in the Australian League with football, taking on the Phoenix from Wellington and the Auckland FC, the new kids on the block one. Louis Toomey's in the area. And Auckland FC. 2-0. 2-0.

That's three from three, they've won. Yeah, just a dream start to the season. Now we had Nick Becker, who is the big boss of the Auckland FC, on the show last weekend, heading into the weekend, and he joins us this morning. Good morning, Nick. Morning, Tim. How are we? We're doing all right.

How are you doing? I'm very well, thank you. I'm very well indeed. Well, three from three, Nick. You must be absolutely fizzing at the club. Yeah, no, we're stoked. I mean, it's a dream start. I can't deny that.

Now, a little bit of confidence going into it, it's a dream start. I can't deny that. Now, a little bit of confidence going into it because there was a billboard at the Wellington Airport, an electronic billboard that went up after the game. Explain that one for anyone that hasn't seen it on social media. We'd been sort of copping a bit of flack from Wellington. We felt they'd been going a little bit low, a little bit blown out the entire week. They had their hype man, Paddy,

obviously, doing everything and they were relentless and fair play to them. I think some of the stuff, maybe not as classy as we would have been, but anyway, we don't have to dwell on the facts. So we thought, well, let's just tuck something away in the back

pocket in case we need it. They love to shout about Wellington, don't they? Yeah, welcome to Wellington. You can't beat Wellington on a great day. Apparently you can beat Wellington on a great day. And so we took the W out of welcome to Wellington and we took the W back up to Auckland. And so we had welcome to Ellington on board all around the city. And we were pretty happy with that. We were pretty happy to be able to put thatton on the blue board all around the city. We were pretty happy with that.

We were pretty happy to be able to put that up after the game. It was a massive one just outside the stadium. So the crowd, listen, the crowd was fantastic. I mean, hats off to all of the Wellington fans for that. Hats off to our guys who came down. The port were massive and they were saying and were loud through the whole match. But just as everybody left the stadium,

the first that they saw was an enormous billboard saying, welcome to Ellington, which the WBH all... Did you have to send the text and be like, it's a go? It's a go on the billboard? I mean, I was slightly panicking there. If it didn't go our way and it went up anyway, I was like, oh, no, that's not what I want. It was all OK.

Well, Nick, we spoke to journalist Patrick Gower, who wrote a piece online calling the Auckland FC a fake football club. We called him on Friday with you. Auckland FC is a semi-fake football club, and it's the only done football club in New Zealand, and that is the Phoenix FC. These are fighting words there. I think it'll be 3-0 over there. I want to put it out to Paddy.

If it is 3-0, fine, we'll take that. But if it isn't, I say Paddy has to be in the port at the December derby Saturday. Let's get him a line. In the port. I'll spend a game in the port. It's not going to happen, so I'll go one better. I'll go one better next.

I'll wear an Auckland FC jumper. You can even put my name in the port. It's not going to happen, so I'll go one better. I'll go one better, Nick. I'll wear an Auckland FC jumper. You can even put my name on the back. Oh! He's that confident. Confident. He's that confident. So that was heading into the weekend. It was a confident Paddy Gower.

We feel like today we should call him, though, right? What do you reckon, Nick? I'd say that's a great idea. Let's leave him out on the phone. OK, let's see if he answers our call firstly. I'd be avoiding the private number call if I was Paddy. Might not answer. Oh, he's not bloody answering, mate.

Sorry, Nick. He's rather scared. Anyway, that's all. I'm telling him, when you do speak to Paddy, let him know that we accept his humble apologies. And will you shout him tickets to the game too, Nick? No, he can pay for those. Oh, so now he's going to wear it.

I'll show you guys tickets. I'll show you guys tickets. Okay, so now he's going to pay for his own tickets to go inside the port. Yeah. You're like, we're a business. We've got to turn a profit. Exactly.

And let him know that it's selling really quickly. It's going to be sold out. So he needs to get online. He needs to get quick. And buy those tickets. Where do people get the tickets like Paddy Gow? Where do they jump on? They come straight onto our website,

aucklandfc.co.nz. So good. Congratulations. It's been incredible. And it was so good to see both teams, the Phoenix, you know, who New Zealand loves and the Auckland FC as well having such a great game, great atmosphere

so well done and we can't wait to chat to you soon As I mentioned before, it was a huge sporting weekend with the All Blacks winning, the Kiwis narrowly losing to Tonga what felt like a home game the amazing supporters, the Tongan supporters the Auckland FC beating the Phoenix as well was another of the big games of the weekend. And journalist Patrick Gower, he wrote a piece on the internet

slamming the Auckland FC. We phoned him on Friday with the boss of Auckland FC, Nick. This is what Gower had to say. Auckland FC is a semi-fake football club and the only done football club in New Zealand and that is the Phoenix FC. So that was on Friday. I love the passion, though.

I mean, I love the passion. It's good. Yeah. Now, Paddy, he missed his call just moments ago with Nick. They had a wager, and he said... Hello, it's Paddy. Paddy! Live on the airwaves on the Hits Breakfast, John O'Bannon and Megan.

Good morning. I thought you guys would be ringing And I know what it's about Yes, my big mouth got me into trouble Just to bring you back to Friday Paddy, if I could play this Auckland FC is a semi-fake football club And it's the only done football club in New Zealand And that is the Phoenix FC

Those are your words Oh, I'm eating them right now I'm literally eating them Sounds like the wind has gone out of your sails a little bit. Well, it certainly has. I mean, yeah, and Auckland FC have been all over my social media. They've been bombing me on social media. They were chanting my name at the pub before the game.

I can't remember the exact chant, but it was something like, Paddy Gower is a loser. Something rhyming with banker. You're like, I'm not in the banking institution. That's right. I'm not a banker. But, yeah, it did rhyme with banker, I'm pretty sure. So, yeah, no, I've, yeah, I just thought since you guys are on the line,

I will actually make an apology. I apologise to Auckland FC and the Port, their wonderful supporters club. You were right, I was wrong. And this is a wholesome and full-sum apology. Well, good on you, Paddy. And hey, like Ben said, it's great to have the passion either way. There's more games too.

There's more games coming up, the Phoenix. Yeah, well, there's actually two more games coming up. So yes, best of three. So the wager you had with Nick, the boss of Auckland FC, was if Auckland won, that you would go to sit in the middle of the port with their supporters in an Auckland personally signed Paddy Gower Auckland FC shirt. Who's signing it?

No, Paddy Gower shirt. Yeah, sit in the port with an Auckland FC t-shirt on. That's the one. I'm Phoenix till I die.

What don't you understand about that?