Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Found Our Prime Minister's Spotify Wrapped Results!

Episode Date: December 1, 2022

Today on the podcast, we play the top 5 songs from Jacinda Ardern and Chris Luxon.... we went to Field days and it is Friday so we ask 'who is having the best weekend?'See omnystudio.com/listener for ...privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:32 brought to you in association with Challenge Service Stations. Our slogan is we challenge you to find a better service station challenge. That's a good one. That's a good one. You used to be a copywriter and write commercials so I see you're good at the wit. Whenever we have to
Starting point is 00:00:49 read a commercial you're like that's not going to fit in 30 seconds. That's just one superpower. But it's not a superpower for me.
Starting point is 00:00:55 No we're not going to get that in 30 seconds. That's a 60. That's going to take 60 seconds. I notice it takes two seconds of a look at a script and you're
Starting point is 00:01:04 like it's not happening in 30 seconds. It's one of those, yeah, I did write some ads for many years. Novus, Show Us Your Crack was an ad that, it's probably the only one that's still around at the moment.
Starting point is 00:01:12 But yeah, it was, it will serve me no purpose in life other than those moments in the radio industry. Yeah. And they're like, we don't care,
Starting point is 00:01:20 try and fit it into 30 seconds. You're never going to go, you know, someone's never going to, something's going to happen on a plane. Oh my God, we need to read this announcement in 30 seconds. You're never going to go, you know, something's going to happen on a plane, oh my God, we need to read this announcement in 30 seconds. You're not going to get that done in 30, mate. Get the safety briefing in.
Starting point is 00:01:31 I'm going to tell you that right now. Too much. Can we skip over the seatbelt part? Do we need to know how to put on a seatbelt? You know, yes. But it is a good power. It's not a power at all. It's specific.
Starting point is 00:01:40 It's specific, I'll give you that. Something I picked up on doing that job for a few years. Now, we need to call someone because it's the end of the year Spotify wrapped, and a lot of people getting their listening habits sent to them and then posting them on social media as well. And we've just had a message from a gentleman that we spoke to this time last year. He was on the podcast last Saturday, Producer Joel. Yes, Aaron.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Was he on the podcast last Saturday? Yeah, we interviewed him for the podcast last Saturday. Yeah, great guy. Yeah, he was on the podcast last Saturday, Producer Joel. Yes, Aaron. Was he on the podcast last Saturday? Yeah, we interviewed him for the podcast last Saturday. Great guy. Yeah, he was on the podcast. Was that scheduled, that podcast? Yeah. Blenheim. Yeah, he was. Sorry, I'm just giving Producer Joel some grief. Sorry, John, I'll talk it all off you, mate. I'm trying to fit it into 30 seconds, but
Starting point is 00:02:20 anyway. Hopefully Aaron is we're going to go through him because he texted and he had his update of how many minutes he's listened to the podcast this year. So we'll get the 2022 numbers. Hello? Azza, Jazza and Bazza from The Hits, mate. Hey, how's it going?
Starting point is 00:02:41 Oh, we're good, buddy. It was lovely to meet you last week. Yeah, it was fantastic. Yeah, it was awesome to meet you last week. Yeah, it was fantastic. Yeah, it was awesome to meet you. And it's great that you actually listen to the podcast. We're surprised and we're very thankful. So thank you very much. No worries.
Starting point is 00:02:54 It's a great show. Now, we have your 2022 results. They've just come to hand. Have we got like dramatic music producer Joel that we can have Aaron lead in with his listening statistics? The analytics from 2022. Over to you Aaron, how many minutes have you listened to the Jono and Ben podcast this year? It was
Starting point is 00:03:14 It was a massive Do you need us to do another drumroll? Yeah, I feel like it. Oh sorry, I talked over you there. Sorry, stop. Hold on, Joel, you stop me. Okay, sorry.
Starting point is 00:03:27 Start again. Joel with the drum roll and you go, Aaron. Here we go. 10,880 minutes. 10,880 minutes now. Wow. Are those numbers up or down on the year ending 2021 they're down but that's because you guys
Starting point is 00:03:48 made the show shorter a great controversy as you all know producer Joel came in with this one he's like we've got a new strategy to release shorter versions of the podcast I think I did it for one week I think he was trying to minimise his work schedule
Starting point is 00:04:03 just to make it shorter. The people want a shorter podcast. First 10 minutes of the show, then that's it. Three other people making the podcast this year. So give me some message. So Aaron, you want longer podcasts? Well, at least, you know, 30 minutes onwards? No, mate.
Starting point is 00:04:18 I want everything. I'll chuck the music in there if you want, Aaron. Do you know you've listened to us 7.5 days if you're listening non-stop. It's over a week of listening to us over the past year. So thank you very much. I really appreciate it. Let's send Aaron out something, alright? I'll get that to him. Put that admin on. I'll produce a behemoth.
Starting point is 00:04:36 What is that something? Chafing cream from the chemist's warehouse? No, I don't think we can I don't know. We've got a chemist's warehouse. Are you suffering from chafing, Aaron? Not at the moment. Not at the moment? Okay.
Starting point is 00:04:49 Well, how about some Hell Pizza? We've got Hell Pizza. I've got a lipo sachet. Do you want some more lipo sachets? Oh, mate. He's like, I'll take the chafing cream. Yeah, we'll send you out some Hell Pizza. We appreciate you listening.
Starting point is 00:05:03 And thank you. Oh, thank you for doing that. And it was great to meet you, as Jono said. Yeah, fantastic, lads. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I was just reading Fire and Emergency New Zealand. They've just released a cookbook, and it's designed specifically for people who come home drunk or high.
Starting point is 00:05:20 It's called Your Cooked Book, and basically all the recipes can be made with a kettle or a microwave, air fryer, toaster, nothing to do with the oven or frying, anything like that, because they don't want people to actually cause fires. Because a lot of fires are actually caused, I think about half the kitchen fires. Well, I mean, how many times have you come home and you're like, jeez, I could eat 58 chicken nuggets. You chuck all the frozen nuggies in the oven.
Starting point is 00:05:42 You fall asleep on the couch or something like that, yeah. You're watching an infomercial at 12.30 in the morning. You fall asleep on the couch or something like that, yeah. You're watching an infomercial at 12.30 in the morning. Joe, producer Joe, you're laughing away. It's like I did that last night. Yeah, so that's your cooked book, actually. So to stop people from actually being literally cooks on fire. Watch and win with Cooks on Fire on TVNZ1. Yeah, that's right.
Starting point is 00:06:03 You chuck a couple of cheese sizzlers on the barbie. You've got yourself a reality show nowadays. Yeah, it's the battle of New Zealand's best barbecue teams. And it's really heating up literally on the show and in the competition as well. 7.30, TVNZ1, every Thursday night. And there's a special hits pop-up word that pops up during the show. You call us back when you hear it. The day after the show, you can win a $500 Silver Ferns Farms voucher.
Starting point is 00:06:24 Now, our dear friends, Nick and James, made the show, didn't they? They did, actually, yeah. They helped us make a show called Good Sports. Wonderful guys. And then they moved on to a better show. They moved on. They're like, we're doing barbecues now.
Starting point is 00:06:33 We're like, what about Jono and Ben doing sports stuff? They're like, nah, barbecues are the only way to go, boys. All right. Way more successful. Hannah, you're on from Tauranga. Hey. How are you, mate? Awesome.
Starting point is 00:06:43 Oh, real good. Just having a coffee. Having a coffee, getting yourself jacked up for the day. Why are you up? from Tauranga. Hey. How are you, mate? Awesome. Oh, real good. Just having a coffee? Having a coffee, getting yourself jacked up for the day. Why are you up so early at 6.15? Have you been working out? What have you been doing? No, the baby cried at 4.30 today. Oh, so is that a back to sleep situation for you and the baby or not?
Starting point is 00:06:59 Yeah, it's pretty much lunchtime. Yeah, yeah. You're right, you're like producer B-Humps. He comes, he's like, 32 minutes sleep last night. I know. You poor buggers. Anyway, you'll get through it and then before you know it, they're bloody vaping and ram rating, mate.
Starting point is 00:07:13 Oh, jeez. Hey, what was the key word last night on Cooks on Fire? It was loin. It was loin. Well done. You've got a $500 Silver Ferns Farm voucher. You can spend that on natural grass-fed beef, lamb, venison. You name it.
Starting point is 00:07:28 You can have that. You can have a safe fry-up while you're awake with the baby. That's so good. Love it, guys. Awesome. So helpful. Thanks for listening. Hannah, you're going to have a wonderful day in Tauranga, okay?
Starting point is 00:07:41 Thank you, you too. Bye-bye. The Hits, the Jono jonathan ben podcast only 23 more sleeps of christmas the year has flown by and it's the time of year that we're gonna get your daily countdown yeah mate i'm telling every day every day uh until we get uh well until we leave for the holidays i won't commit to doing all the way to christmas for you i know even if we left before christmas i want you to come in every day and go six days to go i'll text you i'll text you each day uh but of course we're starting to starting to play Christmas songs on the radio,
Starting point is 00:08:07 which is great. We're in December now. We're getting into the Christmas spirit. And Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is one of the bangers. From 1994, that song came out. She was going to do a Christmas album. She went into the studio. It was going to be all covers, apparently.
Starting point is 00:08:21 And then she got so inspired, she decided to bang out. In 15 minutes, she co-wrote that song all i want for christmas an original song in 94 it was it was like it only went to 12th not only but it got to 12th in the billboard charts and then 25 years later it got to number one but the song has been around every christmas it's a huge song the 11th biggest selling single of all time 60 million dollars in roy royalties. Oh, it must just be a great payday for Mariah. 15 minutes of work ready to write it. Yeah, a little Christmas
Starting point is 00:08:50 bonus every year. She was performing it live the other day and there was a bit of a scandal. Yeah, there was. And we spoke to Enti, our Hollywood insider, about it. Mariah Carey caught in a lip-sync scandal. Lip-syncing all I want for Christmas is you. Now, can I just say, I don't blame her.
Starting point is 00:09:06 I don't want to hear Mariah Carey sing a lackluster version of that song. You know, she probably doesn't have the pipe she had 20 years ago. Get out there, sink your lips, make it sound good. Merry Christmas. Let's have a good one. I don't know if it's a scandal. I think everybody knew that Mariah was lip-syncing. I think Mariah knew that everybody knew that she was lip-syncing. And I don't think Mariah really cares that everybody knew that she was lip-syncing. I think Mariah knew that everybody knew that she was lip-syncing and I don't think Mariah really cares that everybody knew that she was lip-syncing. She almost got the
Starting point is 00:09:29 branded name the Queen of Christmas. She went to court to be called the Queen of Christmas, didn't she? Yeah but she lost because somebody already had it. Thank goodness because you shouldn't just be able to throw your money around and just say I want to be called the Queen of Christmas. And the Queen of Christmas, I'm sure have a uh have a counterclaim on that one but what is the best christmas song would you go all i want for christmas is you that's not a bit it's up there it's up there yeah you know i i enjoy the song i think it is a bit overplayed i do appreciate that mariah really gets into it and beginning november 1st everybody starts singing it in america however i
Starting point is 00:10:05 think that there are other better christmas songs because after a while you've heard it so many times you go let me just find something else there's some bangers yeah there's some christmas i go back you know lately for some reason i like thea's song i like taylor swift's song even go back to the original like nat king cole christmas song there's nothing wrong with Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas. I just feel like it's played and played and played. There's some bangers on there. I mean, my daughter's playing Ariana Grande's one. You said it's a good one?
Starting point is 00:10:35 Yeah. The Boob, Get Your Boobs Out at Christmas Time. Yeah, yeah. Michael Bublé. Bublé, yeah. But it is a banger of a song. And I don't care what NT says over there in Hollywood. We love it here on The Hits.
Starting point is 00:10:44 So why not? Let's bust it out. Let's get into the christmas spirit this is honestly the fifth time i've heard it in two days it's a friday we're getting towards christmas it's mariah on that i don't want a lot for christmas there is just one thing i need the hits the jonah and ben podcast i was talking before about some terrifying stuff being dropped from the skies in Melbourne. So there was these pot plants with flowers and plants in them being dropped from the sky right in the CBD,
Starting point is 00:11:14 and it was a cockatoo, a bird. Thank you, Producer Joel, for the sound effect. Yeah, in the CBD, the bird was, they reckon it was just being playful, but it was landing on trucks and almost missing people's heads. Four of them. It would like fly down, grab another one, drop it down, grab another one, drop it down.
Starting point is 00:11:31 Apparently it kind of feels like in Australia, it's kind of like the care, you know, the care is a little bit cheeky in New Zealand, but in Australia they will often get into the wheelie bins. Some residents have to put like bricks on top of the wheelie bins to stop the cockatiels from lifting it up. The cockatoos sound like a right menace. They sound like a 21-year-old university student. Now, how do they have the strength, though,
Starting point is 00:11:50 to lift up a pot plant? That's pretty incredible. They've been known to drop sticks in the past, roofing materials as well. They hang out on the ledges of buildings. So these are not ones that are pets or anything like that. They just fly around dropping pot plants from the sky. Jeez, I tell you, one of your major fears
Starting point is 00:12:04 when we launched some chips into space was you had no sleep for three days. You thought that our chips were going to come down and decapitate a young baby or something. I swear they're going to end it up. Fortunately, they had very well planned and there was a lot of countryside along. Landed in a farm. Yeah, Ashburn, Perth. I couldn't work with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and sending people to space.
Starting point is 00:12:26 I'd be so worried. In your head, you were leading all the news on Al Jazeera, some idiot New Zealander. What'd you do? Send some chips into space. Rended an elderly lady unconscious by knocking her out with a bag of chips. You'd no be good, no good at space travel.
Starting point is 00:12:40 No, no, absolutely. You'd be like, what if the spaceship drops out of the sky, guys? Yeah, that's right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Spotify, you know, people love streaming music on that. I've got Apple music on mine. I haven't quite gotten to Spotify.
Starting point is 00:12:54 No, I'm the same as you. It's huge. It's massive. It's the main one, right? Once Apple got their claws into me, they've got their claws into you for life, don't they? Such a pain in the ass to change. I know. You tried it once. You tried to go over to Samsung, didn't you for life don't they such a pain in the ass to change i know you tried it once you tried to go over to samsung didn't you you're not but then when people love it
Starting point is 00:13:08 they whatever way you start off with people seem to just love it and stick with it yeah it goes with streaming services as well doesn't it with music and joel you're on spotify producer joel isn't that the one where you can have free or premium and then you get interrupted with ads if you got the free one yeah you pay an x amount a month i actually pay more a month than i would for apple i feel like just for this spotify wrapped i love the day love seeing everyone so this is why at the end of the year basically spotify sends you the biggest songs that you've been listening to and the artists you've been listening to right yeah they do like a big slideshow of all the data i think it's from the october to october and uh yeah it's all the data they've farmed off you over the 12-month period.
Starting point is 00:13:46 So you get to see, it's a bit of a surprise. I'm sure, like you said yesterday, Rod Stewart crept into your top five. Rod Stewart did, yeah. Yeah, it was obviously a weird year for me. Obviously a lot going on. Yeah. So Jacinda Ardern, Chris Luxon, obviously the leaders of the main two parties. Now their Spotify raps have been released now to us.
Starting point is 00:14:07 Just to us. Just to us. We've got some inside intel from people. Anyway, let's not say how we got it from the dark web. Let's just say we've got this information. We purchased it off an Albanian gang. And we want to play some of it now. Some of these songs may surprise you, what they're listening to.
Starting point is 00:14:21 Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister. Should we start with her? Yeah. Top of her playlist, Old Macdonald had a farm because he might not have one next year. Yeah, well, the carbon emissions tax and stuff as well, you know, so yeah, he had a farm but he didn't like the
Starting point is 00:14:34 carbon emissions tax. Also, not surprisingly, this song, because of the colour of her party. Yeah, it's a good tune, local song. Cost of Living has got Jacinda Ardern playing this song a lot. Mo' money, mo' problems. Brooke Fraser, Something in the Water,
Starting point is 00:14:54 a lot of talk about Three Waters. Bloody Three Waters, that's what she's saying. Her whole music catalogue is based off topical events going on in her life. And finally, is it time for Jacinda to call it a day? Well, she's listening to this one. End of the road, maybe? Question mark, question mark.
Starting point is 00:15:13 Chris Luxon, well, his favourite colour. Well, what's that? Eiffel 65? Yeah. Now, when does he holiday? You know, he holidays... He goes to Te Puke, doesn't he? No, no, no, mate. He goes to Hawaii and pretends he's in Te Puke. That's why he likes Hawaii? You know, he holidays. He goes to Te Puke, doesn't he? No, no, no, mate.
Starting point is 00:15:25 He goes to Hawaii and pretends he's in Te Puke. That's why he likes Hawaii Five-0, the theme. If you vaguely remember that TV show. Yeah, all that. Or there was like an Elvis Hawaii song we could have used. Yeah. He wants to send all the Ram Raiders to the Seven Nations Army. And Christopher Luxton, of course, in this election,
Starting point is 00:15:46 will be hoping for a bit of this. Changes. Oh, yeah. It doesn't quite work when you don't get the hook of the song. You need the 80-wit. Changes. And finally, the tax breaks for his rich mates makes Christopher Luxon want to talk about.
Starting point is 00:16:07 Money talks. his rich mates makes Chris Philaxen want to talk about Muddy Talks some great songs both their top five Winston Peters he had like Return of the Mac Bitches Back yeah basically
Starting point is 00:16:16 it's all coming back to me now I won't go away and take me to your leader as well because you work with any leader oh my god
Starting point is 00:16:23 the songs we brainstorm guys we could do this for another two hours. And that is the Political Party's Spotify Rap. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We want to know on our 100 The Hits, who's having the best weekend? We've got some Farmers Vouchers.
Starting point is 00:16:38 $50 Farmers Vouchers are for grabs. You can do all your Christmas shopping at Farmers right now. Now, Producer Behemoth, he's got a great weekend. He's going along to Dottie, his daughter's daycare, and guess what? He's playing the role of Santa. He's filling in for Santa. That's lovely he's filling in.
Starting point is 00:16:50 Now, what concerned me was he's had a text from a mate going, should we preload? Oh, no. You don't. The last thing the kids need is a wobbly Santa. Yeah, the conditions are not right for that, really. Although Santa does it during his parcel deliveries. That's what I always think.
Starting point is 00:17:08 A lot of people leave out, including our family, you leave out stuff like that. I'm implying the guy with whiskeys and beers. I mean, the reindeer probably know what they're doing. Yeah, he's not, really, he's not driving, is he? He's got to navigate through chimneys and into houses and stuff. He's like, no, he's on to the next one. Yeah, what a great night for him.
Starting point is 00:17:26 It really would be a great night, wouldn't it? One of the guys is so bloody retarded. One night he just binges cookies and, yo, just all the great food. Love it. All right, let's do the best weekend. Nismo, you're on from Auckland. How are you?
Starting point is 00:17:38 Yeah, pretty good, mate. Great to have you on, Nismo. This weekend, why is it going to be a good one for you? I'm taking my kids to go-karting, and then we're going to Coromandel for some charter fishing. Oh, awesome. How are you fitting that all into one weekend? We're doing, on Saturday we're doing go-karting,
Starting point is 00:18:00 and then on Sunday we're doing fishing. Right. No, I guess there's two days of the weekend. That's how he's feeling. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. You can't actually do an activity per day, can you? And Nismo, you've got one more activity to shove into your weekend. You're going to go to Farmer's and spend this $100 voucher, okay?
Starting point is 00:18:19 That'd be great, mate. Appreciate that, boys. Yeah, good. Now, sorry, producer, you're mouthing things at me. It's $50. Oh, it's $50. Hey, you know how I said $100? Halve boys. Yeah, good. Now, sorry, producer Behem, you're mouthing things at me, Woody. It's a $50 voucher. Oh, it's a $50. Hey, you know how I said $100? Halve it.
Starting point is 00:18:28 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The comms, I didn't pick up the memo. Sorry, Nismo. It's a $50 one. You still have a great weekend. See you, mate. Kirstie.
Starting point is 00:18:39 Kirstie, welcome. How are you? Hello. Hi. Just so you know, it's not $100. It's a $50. It's a $50 voucher, right? Are you going to hang up?
Starting point is 00:18:47 No, we'll take $50. $50 is awesome. What are you going to do this weekend, mate? We're moving house, which has been a long process. We've got two little kids, so they're busy taking things out of the boxes when we put them in. We're finally getting to the point where we can actually move. Got everything in boxes, ready to roll tomorrow for the movers.
Starting point is 00:19:04 And then in the afternoon we've got our hospice. Hospice, we're hanging on a cliff here. A hospice what? We'll never know. We'll never know. Oh, you're back. We lost you just when you said hospice.
Starting point is 00:19:23 She doesn't want to tell you this. Yes, we're here. Hospice what? Are you there? said hospice? She doesn't want to tell you this. What? Yes, we're here. Hospice what? Are you there? I can hear you. Yeah, we are. A hospice.
Starting point is 00:19:31 A hospice? Hospital. Hospital. Yeah, no, hospital work functions. Our Christmas functions. Our Christmas functions. Oh, there we go. We finally got there.
Starting point is 00:19:42 We're a $50 father's voucher. We're sorry we had some phone issues there, but you enjoy. Have a great weekend. $50 father's voucher. We're sorry we had some phone issues there, but you enjoy. Have a great weekend. Okay, thanks. Good on you.
Starting point is 00:19:49 Now we'll take one more. Tiana, you having a good weekend this weekend? Why? Because I am getting ready for my mum's very first visit to New Zealand. She has never left Australia. I have been here for 12 years, and for my 30th birthday, she's flying all the way here. Not once in 12 years has she come here.
Starting point is 00:20:08 She's terrified of flying, so it's taking her a lot to actually get on the plane to come over. Well, as soon as she gets off that plane, you go, we're going straight to Farmer's Market. We're spending $50. Well, that's awesome that she's doing that. It's really incredible, and I'm sure it'll be an amazing time when she's here. Yeah, that's awesome that she's doing that. It's really incredible, and I'm sure it'll be an amazing time when she's here.
Starting point is 00:20:28 Yeah, it will be. Thank you. I'm so excited. You give your love to your mum from us, and she'll go, who? Pretty much, she will. She will. You play this bit on the podcast,
Starting point is 00:20:39 and you go, look at what Jono and Ben said. Good on you, Tiana. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend. You too. Bye, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben said. Hey, good on you, Tiana. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend. You too. Bye, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The last couple of weeks for the school term,
Starting point is 00:20:51 there's a lot going on in the school term. Still, though, there's still kids going away on, you know, your son was away on camp. One of my daughters is going away on camp next week. They're still packing a lot. I thought this was movie time, you know, at school, back in the day, you know? Just slowly turn down that volume button.
Starting point is 00:21:05 But I don't think they are. I think they're still cracking on. Guys, should we stack the desks? Oh, there's still another two weeks to go. Oh, let's stack them anyway. Yeah, I know what you're saying. But it's funny when they return from camp. Jeez, they are chewed up and spat out.
Starting point is 00:21:16 Aren't they? Came back like a red beetroot, the poor little fella. Bits of twigs hanging out of his hair. Had a blast, though. But on Sunday, I'm sure many are, the calendar, getting the old calendar invites for the end-of-year assemblies. You got a couple of those popping up? Yeah, I have got a couple of those popping up. Some are all tens, others are all...
Starting point is 00:21:32 I'll send a video in. Sorry I couldn't make it, guys. You know that there was many downsides to COVID, but the one positive was the end-of-year school assemblies were all over Zoom. Yeah. And you could half be watching watching bloody, you know, Tiger King or something and half be paying attention to the school assembly.
Starting point is 00:21:50 Oh good, our one's up. Although my mum didn't quite grasp the concept day. She had a conversation with my mother-in-law as well over the top of the Zoom with everyone watching. All 150 people. Oh hey Joyce, how's it going? Oh, we should catch up soon. Had to be interrupted by one of the teachers going,
Starting point is 00:22:06 I'm sorry, ladies. Everyone can hear this conversation going on over Zoom. So that's a lot to do. But now you're going in person now. But you're saying there's a way to kind of minimize the time that you're there. Well, I think so. And there's many parts of the school. I don't want to be negative against it because there's some beautiful moments.
Starting point is 00:22:22 And one thing I love about the classic New Zealand school assembly is the unwritten law that when you receive a certificate you hold it up in front of your chest and you're proud as punch and that's adorable
Starting point is 00:22:31 it's awesome mate and these kids have worked so hard for it it's a great moment for them to celebrate with everyone the problem is I don't care about
Starting point is 00:22:37 most of those children I care about my kids there might be some friends oh good they had a win 95% of them you don't know. It's still great for them, though. It's great. It's still great, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:49 It's amazing. It's awesome. But here's my thing. You can sex up the school assembly. Not literally. No, no, no. That'd be weird. But cut down time on applause.
Starting point is 00:23:01 After every one, we're... Yeah. You know, let's go. No one applauds. No one. Not one of you. We save it all for the end of the night. Get them all standing up there as a group. Let's hear it for the award winners. Rattle out the names, you know,
Starting point is 00:23:13 Joel Harrison, Harriet, yeah, everyone comes up, you stand up there, end of the night, 30 seconds of applause, we get out. Standing ovation too, I reckon, too. That would be one of those, one of the ones you see in the Cannes Film Festival. You could give it like a three minute one or whatever. That's right. It'd be great.
Starting point is 00:23:28 That would knock it, I reckon that would knock at least 45 to an hour off the assembly. We had something yesterday, we were going through stuff. It was a similar thing with the office and reading out stuff when we're clapping. And even in that environment,
Starting point is 00:23:39 you peter out, don't you? And you feel like, because once you've clapped, hardly by the end you start, people drop off and you know, you're right and and we're like we're still clapping and we're not clapping so yeah okay i'm with you on that okay so let's all no one applaud at the school assembly okay we say it's protest and we save it to the end we reformat the assembly like we all know how to hold a certificate up in front of our chest we'll all know not to applaud
Starting point is 00:24:03 it's gonna be a couple of rough years. But we'll get there. We will. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jono and Ben with the ASB Classic, January 2nd to 14th. Ah, yeah, January 2nd. So what, one month away, it's happening, the ASB Classic, the superstars of international tennis live in Auckland.
Starting point is 00:24:21 It's going to be incredible. And you can get all the details at the hitstock.co.nz tickets on sale right now. Now, I used to do, you know, a little fun fact about John O'Priot, Ben?
Starting point is 00:24:31 I used to make the signs for the ASB tennis tournament. Did you? Back in the day, they didn't have, you know, this is back in the 1920s and they didn't have
Starting point is 00:24:39 digital billboards so the players' names. So my neighbour, Terry, was a sign writer and during the holidays, Terry would get me over, and then painstakingly, letter by letter, I would wipe them onto bits of core flute, and then those of this core flute, they'd slide into the, you know, it used to be like, Navratilova versus Agassi sort of thing, and I'd write them a couple
Starting point is 00:24:57 of spelling mistakes, mate. But once you start, you can't really take it back. There's no deleting those, is there? I remember in my very immature teenage years, there was a tennis player called Vagina. Right, okay. I'm moving on. Okay, let's give someone a double pass, hopefully to the ASB Classic with our game 30 Love.
Starting point is 00:25:14 And Evelyn, welcome. You're on the show this morning. How's New Plymouth? Yeah, it's really, really sunny today. Oh, good stuff. Now, Evelyn, you've got 30 seconds to phone someone. Who are we phoning? My husband, Elliot.
Starting point is 00:25:28 Okay. To be fair, if you don't get your husband to say I love you in 30 seconds, the relationship hangs in the balance. But it's weird on a Friday morning, you know. But let's give him a go. We've got his number. All right? Yep.
Starting point is 00:25:38 Okay. Okay, we're going through. What's his name? Sorry, Evelyn. Elliot. Elliot. I feel like you already told me that it was elliot yes yes but that's right yeah it's the amnesia okay good luck evelyn let's go elliot let's go I love you.
Starting point is 00:26:14 Oh! What? Hello? Didn't even say hello, just said I love you. Hi. I just left work and I said that I loved him and he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I would nag him to say I love you.
Starting point is 00:26:31 And he just answered the phone with I love you. Of course you knew you were going to win this competition. Well done. You're both off to the tennis. Oh, yeah, that's amazing. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. I bumped into Amber and she handed us a picture over
Starting point is 00:26:46 and it was a beautiful artistic impression of our game Five Words. Now it featured two sort of scenes. It was like a blow-by-blow of what happens off air. Then it sort of transitioned to the game on air, didn't it? It was pretty awesome there. Yeah, little Ember had drawn this picture of us playing Five Words, which we're going to play very shortly. But you're right.
Starting point is 00:27:06 She'd gone to a lot of detail, almost like a comic strip, of how the game played out in this particular scenario that she'd drawn. A lot of detail. Now, what I liked about Ember is she wanted to explain the whole scene. She wanted to explain it blow by blow. And you tried to rush her along. I did. You tried to go, oh, I could tell you she had lost you.
Starting point is 00:27:25 And you were like, okay. And now they're playing and she's going, hold on. You're still discussing this part. And it's almost like going up to Da Vinci and be like, mate, you've been banging away at that Mona Lisa for long enough. Mate, let's come on. Let's go. But I haven't done the eyebrows yet.
Starting point is 00:27:38 I don't care. Yeah, no, she was awesome. This was adorable. So have a listen to Ember explaining her picture, how she drew us playing five words. John, I was like, let's do this. And then you were like, do what? And then he was like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:27:52 John never knows what's going on, that's right. And then Ben's like, hello. And then the person here is like, hi. And then you're like, your first word is toy. And then the person's thinking she's like doll toy doll oh doll good answer but yeah second word is second word is money and the person's like machine and then he's like and there's a third word eat and then it's like, good option, yeah. Fourth is run, and then the first one's jog. The first one says jog, yeah. And the fifth is house, and he's like live.
Starting point is 00:28:31 And then it's like correct, $5,000. $5,000, we got a winner. And then they're like, oh my God, my God, my God. She was adorable. That was awesome. Thank you very much for you, Emma. That was incredible Great picture
Starting point is 00:28:45 We put it up in the office Here at work as well The hits The Jono and Ben podcast Let's go Jono and Ben With five words for 5k Stop any time
Starting point is 00:28:56 To keep the cash Thank you Or play on to win more It happens every day On the show This time Our game of word association We say five words You tell tell us what pops into your head
Starting point is 00:29:07 after those five words. If all five match up with ours, you win $5,000. We need, and if you win $5,000, we need some Christmas sobbing, uncontrollable, hyperventilating. Can we get that from you, Amy, in Christchurch this morning? I will do my very best. Practice your hyperventilating now. That's good. Oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:29:26 That's good. Yeah, that's good stuff. Now what are you doing at this exact moment? What are you looking at, Amy? It's a little bit sad. I'm in my work car park looking at a dumpster, but I'll turn the other way and I can see work vehicles. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:29:39 Where do you work? I work near the airport. I'm a quarantine officer. Oh, nice. We were out by the airport the other day, out at the Bunnings near the airport. I'm a quarantine officer. Oh, nice. We were out by the airport the other day, out at the Bunnings by the airport. There's a whole lot of shops still going on out there. Yeah, there is. There's lots of new things popping up. I'm hoping a new Costco's going to pop up there, but we'll see. There's a lot of land out of that
Starting point is 00:29:57 Christchurch airport, isn't there? I reckon there's room for a Costco, if you ask me. Now, when you quarantine stuff, what do you do? So we check people's bags and sea freight coming into New Zealand. So we, yeah, we look at things that aren't allowed in. A few cheeky little parcels for B-Boys coming over there from Eastern Europe. Hey, hey, hey. Haven't seen anything yet. Keep an eye out for them. When are they due in? All right, all right.
Starting point is 00:30:24 Just make sure they get to the right man. Hey, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth, Jono or Ben? Jono, please. Yeah, good. I'm glad to, too. Ben's happy for that. Yeah, get in there, mate, so you can stop talking.
Starting point is 00:30:35 All right, Amy, here we go. Here is your first word. It is frizzy. Frizzy. F-R-I-Z-Z-Y. Frizzy. Frizzy here. Yeah. That-I-Z-Z-Y. Frizz-y. Frizz-y here. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:47 That's all I could think of too. Roman. Roman is word number two. Roman. Numeral? Yeah. Numeral, did you say? Yes. Numeral. Roman numeral. Yeah, with you say yes numeral roman numeral yeah no with no s right okay um
Starting point is 00:31:09 i'll add this oh no i'm not trying to make you add this i was just trying to i was just trying to confirm roman numerals okay oh well look i wasn't trying i was just because i know the s's can be the difference between winning five thousand dollars or not so we're adding the S. Okay. Leopard is word number three. Leopard. Leopard skin. Leopard skin.
Starting point is 00:31:33 Surgeon. Number four. Surgeon. The first thing that popped into my head was heart. Oh, yeah. But can we come back to that one? Okay, and snail is the final word for Amy in Christchurch this morning. Snail. As in the insect snail?
Starting point is 00:31:59 Yeah. Obviously. Yeah, yeah. Snail. It's tough, it's tough. And there's so many options floating through your head. You want to lock on the right one to get $5,000. What are you going to do, Amy?
Starting point is 00:32:15 Snail pace. Snail pace, yep. And surgeon is word number four we've got to go back to. What's it going to be? Surgeon. Hospital. Heart. Well, any of those, sorry, I'm going to have to grab an answer.
Starting point is 00:32:38 What's it going to be? We'll go with heart. Heart, surgeon. All right. Sometimes the first thing you think of is the best one. We'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth and we'll see if we can match $5,000. Well, five words with Amy. Yeah, I was quarantining in there. I was like, gee, am I doing my two weeks in MIQ?
Starting point is 00:32:51 What's going on? There's some tricky words in there, so let's rip straight into the $25 word. Word one, $25. Frizzy was word number one. Frizzy. Frizzy hair? Yes, that would be correct. Do you want to jump up to the $50 word, Amy? Yes, please.
Starting point is 00:33:09 All right. Word two, $50. Roman. Roman sandals. Oh, we debated numerals and numeral, and we didn't even think of sandals. You don't think of Roman sandals? That's a great option, too.
Starting point is 00:33:22 Oh, the Romans, very famous for their sandals. See that? Roman numerals are also a good one as well. What were the remaining words? Leopard. Leopard skin. Oh, yeah. Surgeon.
Starting point is 00:33:32 Brain. Oh, and heart. And snail. Trail. Less said about that last one, the better. Amy, I'm so sorry. Have a great day at work. All right, thanks, guys. You're a champion, Amy. Thanks for listening, mate. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. one the better Amy I'm so sorry if you have a great day at work alright thanks guys
Starting point is 00:33:45 you're a champion Amy thanks for listening mate the hits the Jono and Ben podcast now Jono I know you love a wash world
Starting point is 00:33:51 I love a wash world too I do yeah it's a it does create me an unnecessary amount of stress I don't know why
Starting point is 00:33:58 because I the timer counting down when you put your coins in you feel like you're in a race I know but you're not where you can
Starting point is 00:34:03 just put another dollar in or whatever but you do your life frantically I've got feel like you're in a race against Tom. I know, but you're not. Well, you can just put another dollar in or whatever, but you do your life frantically. I've got a minute left. I'm only up to the bloody waxing. A hot, soapy mess at the end of it, but it's great. I often play the hits over the loudspeakers at Washworld, so thank you very much for listening to us when you're there,
Starting point is 00:34:16 cleaning your cars. Do you know a wonderful gentleman at Washworld gave me some free coins once, and I put them in the thing, and I had some time left over, and I went to another motorist. I was like, there you go. There's five minutes left on there man and they're like thank you so so much yeah I'm sorry no I felt like a bloody legend I failed to mention that I got the coins for free because they didn't have to do that soapy race against time that you all have to do in wash world but there's one opposite of mall uh and my mate was in the mall was about to go to the mall
Starting point is 00:34:42 with his partner she was going to pick up something from the shopping. And he was wanting, to do on his to-do list was to clean the car. And she was like, well, why don't you take the car across the road to the washroom? I'll go pick up this item and then I'll walk across and come and see you at the washroom. Two-prong attack. Yeah. Cut down the time. Cut down the time.
Starting point is 00:35:00 So he does the soapy race against time. He's doing all that and he's cleaning the car. She finally does her shopping and then she heads across the road and she saw him sort of in the vacuum you know the vacuum section we're bending over the car the door opens a vacuum furiously but you do everything furiously at wash world waited for the vacuum cleaner to stop but still he was in a sort of an uncompromising position with his bum in the air and sort of bending down into the footwell so it was all sort of bum facing her out the door so she came over to my mate's partner slapped him on the bum who went hey sexy do you come with the car person got a heck of a fright and i say the person because it wasn't him it was another motorist and a pretty identical car to his. He was still furiously washing away in the wash world
Starting point is 00:35:45 and someone else who she did not know. Hey, sexy, do you come with the car? She's got a whack on the back of the car. A heck of a fright. And my poor mate's partner had to explain it. A lot of embarrassment there. You know, the situation, they thought you were someone else,
Starting point is 00:36:00 but, you know, it's like... Did sexy come with the car? I don't know if we even established if sexy came with the car. don't know I don't know if we even established that if sexy came with the car was he in the same clothes well no it was just jeans it was just jeans
Starting point is 00:36:10 poking up so I don't know I mean mate it was just they get you an HR complaint that does I don't even think Washworld could wash out
Starting point is 00:36:17 the shame of that embarrassment there so yeah just a little word to the wise next time you're in Washworld don't do that or wrap your lips around the water blaster
Starting point is 00:36:24 well yeah that's another word to the wise The time you're in Washville, don't do that. Or wrap your lips around the water blaster. Well, yeah, that's another word to the wise. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, we travelled around the country eating 41 sausages at every Bunnings warehouse store in the country. I think it's still working its way through my system. It is, yeah. Things, yeah. Just returning to normal, much like the show. We're returning to normal back in the studio.
Starting point is 00:36:43 Slowly functioning back to normal, much like the show. We're returning to normal back in the studio. Slowly functioning back to normal again. But as we sort of reflect back on the whirlwind of the trip, we need to talk about something that happened in Gisborne. We got there late at night. Usually what goes on in Gizzy stays in Gizzy. Yeah, Gizzy Hart. Rhythm and Vines will vouch for that. So we got there late at night. We went to the hotel and there was an after hours notice outside.
Starting point is 00:37:02 You had to ring a number A mobile number And you did some So listen I'll front foot it saying I was tired, I was weighed down with sausage My guard was down Ben So I wasn't fully Well we've got to call this number
Starting point is 00:37:19 So instead of grabbing your cell phone Which anyone else would have done It's a mobile number I need to call the phone You saw an intercom, a keypad, and you started dialing in the door. 02182 and put it in the intercom. And then the intercom just started. Unnecessarily ringing nonstop. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:39 And it wouldn't stop. It felt like I'd sent the thing into meltdown mode. And then I was like, oh, this person's not answering. It's not working. And then you said, well, did you read the notice into meltdown mode And then I was like Oh this person's not answering It's not working And then you said Well did you read the notice to the end And I hadn't I'd done the classic thing
Starting point is 00:37:50 Where I like to read the first paragraph of a news story Form a hard opinion about it And get it on the radio And the end message said Dial this number on your phone It was all laid out there Black and white But I'd sent this intercom system
Starting point is 00:38:03 Ringing I think every room in the hotel And the hotel next door as well it was ringing we're all late at night i think it was still ringing in the morning uh when we were still going i'm worried that this thing is still ringing in there i'll put it on backlog just trying every room in gisborne uh so i reckon we should give them a call on the number not through the intercom right now the hotel and just make sure the thing is actually turned off. Should we give them a quick call? Allside Hotel, Grace speaking. Oh, hey, Grace. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station.
Starting point is 00:38:34 How are you doing? Oh, hello. Good, thank you. Hey, we stayed in your lovely place the other day. It was awesome. But we arrived late at night. Mm-hmm. And there's a sign outside to say to call the number on a cell phone
Starting point is 00:38:44 if you arrive after hours yeah and jono hi that's me that's um punched in on the on the keypad on the intercom the the mobile number like it would work oh two blah blah blah like that and then the whole thing started beeping for ages and we couldn't get the thing going it was making a lot of noise and this was late at night and i imagine it would affect a lot of residents there, a lot of people staying in the hotel, so we just wanted to apologise for Jono's... He's an idiot.
Starting point is 00:39:12 No, that's fine, that's all right. I didn't hear about it. Because it was constantly ringing. It was going... We couldn't stop it. He tried to call a cell phone from an intercom. It sounded like I was dialling another solar system, but the lady came down to let us in,
Starting point is 00:39:27 and it was still ringing very loudly, and I was trying to talk loudly to hide the noise of the intercom. So it hasn't had any long-lasting effects? No, no, no, it's all been fine. Oh, God, you managed to get it stopping after a couple of days. I'm glad you stopped it. Hey, it was lovely staying at your wonderful place, and hopefully we'll see you again soon.
Starting point is 00:39:44 Oh, cool, thank you. There you go, got a clear conscience. I'm glad you stopped. Hey, it was lovely staying at your wonderful place and hopefully we'll see you again soon. Oh, cool. Thank you. There you go. Got a clear conscience. I'm glad it stopped eventually. It was keeping me up at night and it was probably keeping a lot of other people up at night as well. Okay, this is what we want to do. Oh, 800, that hits. Button pushes.
Starting point is 00:39:55 When you push the wrong buttons. First time we met producer Joel, he filled in for one day on the show and managed to take nine of our markets off air. Yeah. Didn't you? Yeah, I like to think I'm not bad at pushing buttons, but I think I managed to take nine of our markets off air. Yeah. Didn't you? Yeah, I like to think I'm not bad at pushing buttons, but I think I took about 10 years off our boss's life.
Starting point is 00:40:10 It was a dark morning. He sent the Hawks band to need an offer. Oh, okay. 0800 the hits. When you push the wrong button, you can set off emergency buttons in malls, accidentally push hospital buttons, you can push ambulance buttons. The Hits, the Jono and ben podcast pushing buttons we want to know i know a hundred the hits when you've accidentally pushed the wrong button because uh jonah at the hotel we said at the other day and a really shocking
Starting point is 00:40:37 moment where he tried to dial a mobile number from an intercom system did you get into lift at work and try and call home and stuff like that? No. Yeah. And hindsight, it was late at night, tired. It was, yeah, I was vulnerable and it felt like I might have
Starting point is 00:40:51 pushed so many buttons I let off some nukes in North Korea. Yeah. And it was because it was ringing. Even the next morning when we left,
Starting point is 00:40:57 it was still going. But thankfully, there's no long-lasting issues there at the Portside Hotel in Gisborne. But we'll go to Mel. Pushing the wrong button. Mel, what was it for you? Yes, morning, how are you?
Starting point is 00:41:08 Oh, we're doing well. Lovely to have you on the show, Mel. What did you do? So yesterday I was sitting at work and we've got our home CTV on our phones and I got a message on there saying that someone crossed the line, so I was checking it out and I accidentally pressed the panic button. My husband, whilst working at home yesterday on a video call, had every alarm in our house go off and panic and screaming,
Starting point is 00:41:36 and he's wondering what's happening. I'm looking at my phone going, there's panic flashing, and I'm like, oh, shit, so I'm trying to turn it off while I'm in the office, and he's at home trying to explain to his call while every alarm in our home house is going off, and he's wondering what the heck is going on. Well, good on you. Great prank. Sorry?
Starting point is 00:41:55 Great prank, isn't it, that you can do when someone's at home? I wasn't a very popular wife when I got home from work. That's very good. Thank you for your call, Malcolm. Oh, such a great call. Have a good weekend. We'll get Vixter on from Hamilton this morning. How are you, Vicky?
Starting point is 00:42:09 Good, thanks. How are you doing? We're doing well. It wasn't you. It was your daughter in a hospital setting. Yep, yep. It wasn't too much of a major, but it was a panic station for a minute. My daughter was getting a blood test.
Starting point is 00:42:22 She'd broken her collarbone from biking in the redwoods. And my daughter, while she was getting a blood test. She'd broken her collarbone from biking in the redwoods. And my daughter, while she was getting a blood test, went around and pushed the red button at the bottom of the bed, which shoots it back. And, yeah, there was blood all up her arm, and not everyone was happy. Kind of like the Graham Norton's red chair. Bam!
Starting point is 00:42:41 Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't know who was more concerned about it, more shocked. But she's also pushed the button on the steriliser at Playcentre. She loves a button push.
Starting point is 00:42:56 She's going through her teens, she really is a button pusher. The problem is in hospital there's so many buttons that look pushable. That happened to me and my wife. Red, they're screaming at you. my wife had a you know cesarean before we after we had our first born baby um yeah she was like can you push the button on the bed to just erase it in the hospital and i pushed a button and she's like oh that's the pain relief and just give it another burst of that just medicating your wife yeah so i don't know why they leave those things
Starting point is 00:43:25 next to each other. Well, there definitely shouldn't be access to like morphine buttons for just your average month to like the invoice. Exactly. That seems well done, Vicky. We'll get Victoria on. Another Vic from Taupo.
Starting point is 00:43:35 Welcome. Now, you set off your grandma. Yeah, I did that. What happened? Well, I believe when I was like four or five, my nana had like an ambulance pendant, and I really liked it. Like, it was a really pretty necklace.
Starting point is 00:43:53 So I put it on, and I wore it like I was super cool. I had like the backwards snapback hat and the sunglasses. And this cool medic alert bracelet pendant. Yeah, yeah, yeah, obviously. But like, little did I know what it did so i decided to press the red button yeah one they generally tell you not to press so the paramedics came and it kind of went downhill from there oh they're right really cool because i'm so professional with the stimulator so i went up to them and they asked where the patient was and I was like, oh, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:44:26 Like, oh well. But I was like, oh look, check out my cool necklace. I was like, I was at that moment. With your cap backwards and your sunglasses on. I love it how there's St. John's people there and they're like, where's the patient? And you're like, I don't know, but check out this mint necklace I found.
Starting point is 00:44:42 That was pretty much it. That's great. I was like, oh, yeah. Good on you, Victoria. Hey, cheers for listening, mate. You're going to have a good weekend in Taupo. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, yesterday we went to Field Days.
Starting point is 00:44:55 A lot of fun. The Agricultural Expo, Mystery Creek in Hamilton. It's on again today and tomorrow. So many people out and about. It was cool. We took our chips down, our out-of-this-world chips. We wore flamboyant space suits, our suits with the solar system on it. The only thing we were farming was fashion in our flamboyant solar system.
Starting point is 00:45:12 We really didn't blend in, though, did we? Yeah, no, we did. Serious lack of fields at field days, did you notice? Quite a lot of marquees. It's all on the field. Yeah, but you didn't see the field. I would say more tents than fields, wouldn't you say? More giant marquee.
Starting point is 00:45:24 But it was awesome down there as well. And actually, speaking about chips, which we were handing out yesterday, if you get a photo with one of the bags of chips, there's a QR code. You can win $10,000 next week on the show. What I did notice is people get very suspicious of shady-looking people in solar system suits handing out sample chips, like little boats of chips, not in packets. Someone thought they were wood chips, didn't they?
Starting point is 00:45:44 Yeah. But I noticed when we just started handing them out in packets someone thought they were wood chips didn't they yeah but i noticed when we just started handing out in packets people were more accommodating oh they were like flooded around yeah yeah but when you're just like hey here's six chips in a boat people what's going on yeah but this is the area our reaction from the farming folk at field days marjo and anne hello how are you both? We're both well. Yep. Now you're trying our chips for the very first time. Let's see. Oh yum.
Starting point is 00:46:09 Let's see what Ann thinks. Well she always says yum and she hasn't tried it and it was sarcastically, wasn't it? No, it's awesome. That's it. Very nice, thank you very much. You said that with your face kind of a little bit puckered up like you did for a minute. You like that Marjo? Yeah. Arwen's just trying our chips for the first time. You said that with your face kind of a little bit puckered up like you did for a minute. You like that, Marjorie?
Starting point is 00:46:27 Arwen's just trying our chips for the first time. Oh, fantastic. I haven't struck chips like this since I had an axe of my own. You thought they were wood chips that we were giving you. Yeah, but they don't taste very woody. They taste quite good, actually. Actually, they are really good. I'm a lover of potato chips.
Starting point is 00:46:47 If you're rating it a 10, one shit seems good. So I'd say they're probably an 8.5. Oh! There you go, positive reviews. It was actually very positive. A lot of rock-solid handshakes, too, there at field days. They would shake your hand to the point where you thought you had brain damage. You know, a lot of just
Starting point is 00:47:06 they almost ripped your arm off don't they we got to go on the country radio show there were guys around the country
Starting point is 00:47:14 obviously the country show you could not have messed that up anymore yeah so I was a bit a little nervous because it was you know rural things
Starting point is 00:47:21 you know it's not my I got nervous with the first syllable of that word you were trying to attend. And I was like, why is he stalling? Why is he stalling here? No, it was a fun day. And it's still on today, tomorrow too.
Starting point is 00:47:33 Mystery Creek, Hamilton. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Car park, I noticed, is quite a way away from where the action is. And it needs to be. But I got to the end of the car park, I felt exhausted. It's like, you're only halfway through the car park. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. And it's Pink, try your New Zealand's breakfast.
Starting point is 00:47:52 Jono and Ben with you on The Hits, 8.34. Thanks for hanging out. Now, Spotify, you know, people love streaming music on that. I've got Apple music on mine. I haven't quite gotten to Spotify. No, I'm saying it's huge It's huge It's massive
Starting point is 00:48:06 It's the main one right Once Apple got their claws into me They've got their claws into you for life Don't they Such a pain in the ass to change I know You tried it once You tried to go over to Samsung
Starting point is 00:48:15 Didn't you No you're not But then when people love it Whatever way you start off with People seem to just love it And stick with it Which is great Goes with streaming services as well
Starting point is 00:48:23 Doesn't it With music And Joel you're on Spotify Producer Joel Isn't that the one where you can have people seem to just love it and stick with it. Which is great. It goes with streaming services as well, doesn't it, with music? And Joel, you're on Spotify, producer Joel. Isn't that the one where you can have free or premium and then you get interrupted with ads if you've got the free one? Yeah, you pay an X amount a month. I actually pay more a month than I would for Apple. I feel like just for this Spotify wrapped.
Starting point is 00:48:37 I love the day. Love seeing everyone share on Instagram as well. So this is why at the end of the year, basically Spotify sends you the biggest songs that you've been listening to and the artists you've been listening to, right? Yeah, they do like a big slideshow of all the data. I think it's from October to October. And yeah, it's a great day.
Starting point is 00:48:53 All the data they've farmed off you over the 12-month period. So you get to see, it's a bit of a surprise. I'm sure, like you said yesterday, Rod Stewart crept into your top five. Rod Stewart did, yeah. It was obviously a weird year for me. Obviously had a lot going on. Yeah. So Jacinda Ardern, Chris Luxon,
Starting point is 00:49:10 obviously the leaders of the main two parties. Now their Spotify raps have been released now to us. Just to us. Just to us. We've got some inside, you know, intel, you know, from people. Anyway, let's not say how we got it from the dark web. Let's just say we've got this information. We purchased it off an Albanian gang.
Starting point is 00:49:25 And we want to play some of it. Now, some of these songs may surprise you, what they're listening to. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister, should we start with her? Yeah, top of her playlist, Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Yeah. Because he might not have one next year. Yeah, well, we get the carbon emissions tax and stuff as well, you know. So, yeah, he had a farm, but he didn't like the carbon emissions tax.
Starting point is 00:49:44 Also, not surprisingly, this song, he had a farm but he didn't like the carbon emission tax. Also, not surprisingly, this song, because of the colour of her party, yeah, it's a new tune, local song. Cost of Living has got Jacinda Ardern playing this song a lot. Mo' money, mo' problems. Brooke Fraser, Something in the Water, a lot of talk about
Starting point is 00:50:04 Three Waters. Bloody Three Waters, that's what she's saying her whole music catalogue is based off topical events going on in her life and finally is it time for Jacinda
Starting point is 00:50:14 to call it a day or she's listening to this one end of the road maybe question mark question mark Chris Luxen well his favourite colour
Starting point is 00:50:24 well what's that? Eiffel 65? Yeah. Now, when is he holidaying? You know, he holidays... He goes to Te Puke, doesn't he? No, no, no, no. He goes to Hawaii and pretends he's in Te Puke.
Starting point is 00:50:36 That's why he likes Hawaii Five-0, the theme. If you vaguely remember that TV show. Yeah, all that. Or there was like an Elvis Hawaii song we could have used. Yeah. He wants to send all the Ram Raiders to the Seven Nations Army.
Starting point is 00:50:52 And Christopher Lux of course in this election will be hoping for a bit of this. Changes. Oh yeah. It doesn't quite work when you don't get
Starting point is 00:51:03 the whole song. You need the 80 ones. Changes. And finally the. It doesn't quite work when you don't get the hook of the song. You need the 80-wit. Changes. And finally, the tax breaks for his rich mates makes Chris Philaxen want to talk about. Muddy Talks. Some great songs. Both their top five.
Starting point is 00:51:19 Winston Peters, what he had, like, Return of the Mac. Bitches Back. Yeah. Basically, it's all coming back to me now. I won't go away and take me to your leader as well because you work with any leader. Oh my God, the songs we brainstorm, guys, we could do this for another two hours. And that is the political party's Spotify rap. Yeah, there we go.
Starting point is 00:51:43 Definitely the songs that we're listening to right there. Hey, coming up, chance to win big before nine o'clock. It is. You got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben with Chalice.

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