Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Smash Another World Record With How To Dad!

Episode Date: December 14, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben show we break the most Kiwi world record with How To Dad, Jacinda Ardern spills the beans on her and David Seymour's feud and Shaun Johnson is a new lego ambassador!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kia ora, thanks to Challenge Service Stations for the proud sponsorship of this podcast. I'm not going to say sponsorship, I'm going to say it's a friendship made in unleaded heaven. Yeah, it's lovely that they've come on board, we appreciate it, we're doing a lovely thing this week. Thank you very much for filling up people's tanks and filling up our hearts as well. Now, Ben, I'm going to play a little game with you, it's called Merry Guessmas, okay? I know you're a big fan of Christmas, aren't you? I do love Christmas, yeah. Okay, so how does this work?

Now, the audience won't know you because you're going to see family overseas this Christmas. You haven't seen them in many years. Yeah, my wife has a couple of brothers and they're married and kids and stuff and they live in the States, so they have done for many, many years. And so we're going over there for Christmas in San Fran.

Not a white Christmas I'm gathering. No, it won't be. Why? I don't think so't think so does it snow and say i don't think as well very unusual if it does yeah you get more of a white christmas on the other coastline with new york and and stuff like that still be exciting though yeah this is cool so heading away next week are you taking your christmas paraphernalia i know you do have jerseys t-shirts whatever i'm kind of torn between that because obviously bringing it a long way for one day. But then I'm also considering because I'm going to a Golden State Warriors game with my wife over there as well. And I'm thinking about bringing my Vodafone Warriors top just to wear a Warriors top to the Warriors.

But I'm like, I'm taking it again, taking that probably already where that one day is. But is that just for a funny photo? Just for a funny photo. And then go to the Warriors go the warriors yeah yeah or something like that and you know is it worth it for that i love how this man is going on a family holiday he's stressing out about packing he's got a lot of stuff going on but he's also at the forefront of his mind as a amusing instagram photo yeah i've got a warrior's beanie too so i might say well i'll probably get used out of that as well you know it's either that or the christmas

gear isn't it really? Yeah, I'll probably take the Warriors stuff because it would be a funnier photo. Here go the Warriors. But yeah, so anyway, Ben does love Christmas is where I was heading. Sorry, I really doggled that. I want to play a game called Boyce's Bells. Okay. Okay, so now I have some of the famous bells from your favourite Christmas songs.

Okay. So first you can listen to the bells and see if you can figure out the songs. You can play along too, listening. some of the famous bells from your favorite Christmas songs okay so first you can listen to the bells and see if you can figure out the songs you can play along to listening and then we'll see if you're right or not here's number one It's Mara Carey, I Don't Want to Look for Christmas All I Want to Look for Christmas is You, sorry Unforgettable drum beat there one Yeah Okay Here's the next one It's Christmas time

Do they know it's Christmas Band-Aid Yeah And there won't be snow In Africa This Christmas Technically incorrect Because it does snow

Mount Kilimanjaro So there will be Snow in Africa This Christmas Now we spoke to someone Years ago Who was at There was a big band-aid concert to raise money

for Africa. Snoopy's Christmas. We'll get to that one next. And they were saying a wild amount of cocaine backstage. Oh really? So it was snowing in Africa. Okay, here's the next one. Oh yeah, Snoopy's oh yeah snoopy's christmas snoopy's christmas yeah there you go that's the one iconic

what's your favorite christmas song out of all those or out of all those oh i mean you can't it's something about mariah carey's uh you know all i want for christmas is you it's just that you know okay here's the next one oh he's not so good anymore is he Thank you producer Joel Play that one again It's a good song

It's not It's not one that you hear a lot though Is it I've actually never heard of it No I'll give you a clue She grew up on one Oh Taylor Swift

Yeah It's a yeah Christmas Tree Farm Christmas Tree Farm I'll give you a clue. She grew up on one. Oh, Taylor Swift. Yeah. Christmas Tree Farm. Christmas Tree Farm. Yeah, that's right. She grew up on Christmas Tree Farm. Yeah, so the song about that. And there we go.

That was it. That was fun. I was going to do that on the radio. Kind of glad I didn't now. Oh, it was fun. Should we have done it on the radio? I don't know. We did it for the podcast. We need to give give the podcast you know some extra con yeah extra stuff this is your stuff

that you wouldn't get it you know exclusive that's the word i was looking for podcast exclusive only good stuff that you wouldn't get on the radio that's why you come to the podcast that's why you go to ben's instagram stuff that you wouldn't get on the radio you see him wearing a warriors jersey at a golden state warriors game yeah that's right. New Zealand Warriors. How many likes? I hope you get a few likes. What are you hoping for? No, I'd be hoping for over 800 for that one. I'm hoping so. 800 likes. Otherwise, it's a waste of time.

Exactly. That's a lot of likes. Don't get me wrong. And it may never get there. But I bought this top all over for this. Maybe I'll just say, I bought this top over for this gag. Please like it. Please like it.

Yeah. Go the it. Please like it. Yeah. Go the Warriors. Wrong Warriors. On the podcast today Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern fresh off the David Seymour arrogant prick comment.

Yeah. What does she have to say about Seymour and also do her security guards and does her security details join her at the Christmas table? Does she say anything about us too?

I almost wanted to pause at the end there and go does she know who she was like? Oh, it's too table. Did she say anything about us too? I almost wanted to pause at the end there and go... Did you know she was like... But she didn't. And we do address it on the podcast. The Hits, the Jono and Ben

podcast. The next Football World Cup semi-final about to start very, very shortly. France taking on Morocco after Argentina. They looked really good yesterday, made it through to the final. So, yeah, it's going to be very exciting. Who are you backing with no football knowledge whatsoever?

I quite like much to Producer Joel's disgust. He's not a fan of the French. I'm a big fan of the French side. So, yeah, back him in. Watch your beef with the French, mate. Too arrogant. Not those snail eaters, mate. They knocked out the English.

I was a big fan of the English. They knocked us out. Yeah, right. But France, they're a very good team yesterday we had our secret centre that

actually going back to producer Joel Joel organised took it upon himself to organise which Ben the whole time

he's put another burden on everybody there's too much going on yeah I did go into it I went into it neggy

a little bit unlike me grinchy yeah I did and I kind of I went into it. Negi. You're a little bit unlike me. Grinchy. Yeah, I did. And I kind of lost yesterday. And we're there. We were giving away the Secret Santa gifts to everyone. And I was like, hey, this is actually really lovely.

So I apologize if I came across Grinchy. Because yesterday we were like Secret Santa. I'm like, ugh. Well, you can organize it next year. Traipsing around the mall. Anyway, I did it. And it was lovely. It was lovely. Everyone had really thoughtful gifts. and i thought it was really cool yeah um which is good because other radio stations that we've

been at before being boys you know particularly if you go to the rock you can only imagine the sort of the sort of secret santa presents you're getting at the rock yeah yeah some sort of used adult apparatus i once got a light bulb they're like look it Rock. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some sort of used adult apparatus. I once got a light bulb. They're like, look, it's like your head. Things like this. But the hits, these are genuinely well thought out, caring presents. What did you get? I got like, well, I'm a big lover of, you know, the Funko Pop, the little toys.

He shouldn't be. And I got a big lover of Dwayne The Rock Johnson. So what did I get? I got a Funko Pop Dwayne The Rock Johnson toy from Black Adam. We talked to him about Black Adam. I was like, oh, that's lovely. You know, whoever got me that, thank you very much. You would have got home and Mandy, your wife, would have been happy with another.

She was the only one unhappy about that. I was stoked about that. Toy on the shelf. Yeah. Your one was very, I thought it was, like, again. Well thought out, too. It was a bag of sausages, which gave me PTSD. Because we ate 41 sausages around new zealand and every bunning store also well publicized uh about my sleep routine sleepy jono ben calls me like sleepy

joe biden uh i've been given a neck pillow for the car for the workplace forever just for day to day you can walk around with a neck pillow and go to sleep no so it was lovely so thank you for organizing that joel it was lovely well i don't know if i'll do it next year you know i broke my back to get make sure everyone got a present did anyone not now i imagine as the head the chief executive officer of the secret central organization i imagine people say yeah i'll participate and they don't come through where does that leave you yeah there was there was a bit of drama in the office yesterday because someone didn't, but they were off sick for a while as well,

so they obviously didn't see the email. So what did you do on that occasion? Someone just didn't get a present. There's a lot of stuff lying around radio stations, and there was a voucher. Here's a stapler. It was actually the drive producer, Taylor. She actually got a voucher up to $50,

which is like double the value. So she did well. She did very well. And apologies to whatever listener was meant to win that voucher. Someone will be like, oh, where's my prize? Where did that go? Who's dealing with that admin secret, Santa Claus? Not my problem.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Avatar, the new movie released this week. It's very exciting. Filmed in New Zealand as well. Yeah, now, did James Cameron say, this is probably the most expensive movie series ever made over the next five or six years? Yeah, because it's been 13 years since the last one.

But you're right, I think it was billions and billions. Cameron's like, jeez, we're in deep, guys. We need to hock off some tickets. But I think he can back it. Like, he's so successful because, obviously, you know, Titanic and all the other movies and the first one as tickets but I think he can back it like he's so successful because obviously you know Titanic and all the other movies and the

first one as well then they kind of he can just back it he's probably fine if it you know has he ever released a dud I don't think he

has he would never have released a box office dud what's he done in the past here James Cameron Titanic obviously

Terminator one of the Terminators they were a huge success weren't they yeah then Avatar obviously what's it oh here we go Titanic, obviously. Terminator. One of the Terminators, I think. They were a huge success, weren't they? Yeah.

Then Avatar, obviously. What's it? Oh, here we go. Terminator. Rambo. Aliens. Oh, yeah. Point Break.

Oh, jeez. Jeez, he's got a bloody great... He's got a better back catalogue than you, Ben Boyce, I'll tell you that. Yeah, no, that's... I knew that probably before Googling him, but... Rambo? Yeah. He did Rambo. He's done all right. James Cameron, don't you worry about him, that's for sure. him. Rambo? Yeah. He did Rambo. He's done all right.

James Cameron, don't you worry about him, that's for sure. Yeah, well done, James. Yesterday I was in an Uber, and you know, Ben, I like to keep my banter up, and there's inside the Uber, keep my star rating up, although I dipped, and your theory is thanks to the banter. Too chatty. Too chatty, I imagine.

Too chatty. But I was asking the guys, how many k's Are you doing on a day Have a guess On an average day And he's not driving A wild amount of hours You know Look I'd say

It'd be a lot Like 100 k's 230 kilometres Oh a day A day He drops his wife She's a school teacher Primary school teacher

Out in Mangere Drops her And then about To charge her like a chief that's what I said but I hope she's paying giving you a good rating

yeah which probably depends on the day and the relationship with your wife at that time and then he drives around only

now this is only between the hours of nine and about 2.45 when he goes and picks her up oh no it's a bit later 3.30

when he goes and picks her up oh wow 220 k's a day Jeez He's clocking up more K's than Forrest Gump This guy

Yeah Well what do you reckon You drive a day Kilometers Oh nowhere near that It's just to work it back Which is Probably a 10

Yeah Round trip Well maybe 20 But yeah Picking up kids and stuff But not No nowhere near that That's for sure

I just get sick of driving Imagine you're still In 220km kilometres a day. Although you'd be fine. Imagine that new person in the Uber. You'd love it. It'd be a pretty extreme dream job for you. My biggest issue would be staying awake.

That would be like sometimes I drive home from work and I wake up in my driveway. I don't know what's happened between work and here. But this is what I want to chuck out there. 4, 4, 8, 7. Who's driving or who's getting the most kilometers on their clock every single day? There might be truck drivers listening right now. Oh, they'll blow it out of the water, won't they?

They'd beat 200 kilometers. But they've got restrictions, don't they? Well, to how many hours? Is it hours or kilometers that you can drive? I think it's hours you can drive. Yeah. Whether they stick to them or not. I'm sure they do.

Some of the trucks just shut off don't they I think when they get to that thing yeah I think like main freight has a system that just turns the truck off in the middle of the road

going on 100k's can I just pull over to it no no no I'm sure the safety feature is a lot better than that the hits the Jono and Ben podcast

Jono you just threw it out there before we wanted to know listening right now and we appreciate everyone that's listening getting up early and hanging out with us. The 6 o'clock club, you're 60 and you know it. Thank you for listening early.

Yeah, who's doing the most Ks per day? Spoke to an Uber driver. 220 a day on average. Gee whiz, stuff the ozone layer. That's what I say, mate. Keep driving around. I imagine how much road rage you would encounter. You would either get it yourself, hand it off,

your classic, you know, your grassroots Kiwi road rage, or witness it. Yeah. You'd see some stuff on the roads driving that much. We're going to kick things off with Trish. You're in Tairua. Good morning. Good morning.

How are you, Trisho? Pretty good, thank you. How are you guys? Yeah, good. You never meet a salt-of-the-earth Trish. You. You never meet a salt-of-the-earth Trish. You never don't meet a salt-of-the-earth Trish. Oh, yeah, so where's he going with this? Damn right you don't.

Yeah, you're salt-of-the-earth Trisho? Yeah, absolutely. All right, high salt consumption in Trish's diet. How many Ks are you doing? 152. Where are you travelling to? From Pairoa to Pocono. Oh, you work in Pocono, obviously.

I work in Pocono, yeah. That's a big drive. And a lot of time alone with your thoughts as well. Hey, look, the best conversations I have are with myself. Yeah. Ben, you couldn't be alone with your thoughts for that long. It would be too dangerous. Come up with all sorts of stuff. I know, of stuff But then I have you guys in the morning

So you know, there's light entertainment right there Oh, thank you Light entertainment, mate We are heavy, heavy hitting entertainment None of this light business Hey Trish, we're going to hook you up with some hell pizza We really appreciate you listening on your long drive to us Oh, awesome guys

That's great, thank you Have a great Christmas See you listening on your long drive to us oh awesome guys that's great thank you have a great christmas yeah you guys too see you trish safe drive craig oh sorry lee we'll get you on lee can you beat 152ks a day i do between two to five hundred two to five hundred what do you do i'm a steel delivery driver on the semi truck oh on a truck now does your truck just shut off like Ben said apparently no it doesn't

is there such a thing no there's not oh do we just make we just make up because I said main freight it goes by hours goes by hours

but the trucks just don't turn off from a central hub no oh god we just sit here I'm part of that fake news I'm sorry but trucks just don't turn off from a central hub. No. Oh, God. We just sit here. I'm part of that fake news. I'm sorry.

Okay, well, we're going to hook you up with some hell pizza. Thank you very much. Merry Christmas, Lee. And, Craig, apparently you're going to blow Lee and Trish out of the water. No. How many Ks are you clocking up a day, Craig? I do around 500 to 600 k's a day. 500 to 600 k's.

Are you truck driving? What are you doing? I'm truck and trailer driving. Does your truck just turn off? No, it doesn't. Is there any such a thing or are we just sitting here making stuff up? I think you're making stuff up. It's funny though.

I'm glad it's funny. It wasn't intended to be funny, that part. But now it is. Man, light entertainment, mate. That's what you come with. Not facts. Oh, Craig. Well, safe travels, my friend. Thank you for listening.

We're going to get you some hell pizza as well. Thank you, guys. Cheers. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, how did Dad... He's an internet sensation. A Kiwi dad who does some very, very funny videos. We used to work with... His real name is Jordan. Knowing this, how did dad, he's an internet sensation. A Kiwi dad who does some very, very funny videos.

We used to work with Israel and his name was Jordan. Knowing his how to dad back in the day on our TV show, John on Ben. And now he's far eclipsed anything that we've ever done.

Making funny videos with his kids gone worldwide. You have taken all CNN, all the news outlets have covered his videos. And last year he released Jandals, didn't he? Through the warehouse.

Golden Jandals they're called. Yeah, and he's done it again. A year he released Jandals didn't he through the warehouse Golden Jandals they're called yeah and he's done it again a new a new prototype of Jandals that's going to be available in all warehouse stores

and he phoned us up and said I need you to come down meet me at an axe throwing warehouse where people throw axes sweet axe it's called

and I want to break a world record so we said okay we'll meet him 10.30 yesterday we met him you don't have to follow a Jand. So we said, okay, we'll meet him. 10.30 yesterday, we met him. You don't have to follow a channel, Chip. Just so you guys are aware, these are just our new versions, the Golden G2.

New and improved. We've taken on feedback, and we're back. And we've got good sizes. Okay, great. That's great. Now we're with How To Dad, Jordan Watson. We're just getting the lowdown on the G2. The G2, Jandal.

The second wave, the second incarnation of you don't stuff this up guys all right the golden g2 lighter stronger the comfier kid sizes available right my plug's done no but you took on feedback what was the feedback it was the feedback yeah oh the main well as a brand we want to do things a bit different yeah why they sold out quick right yeah we're brand new to jandal building right so here they sell out but we want to not just hit print and carry on, we want to hear what people thought. Well like Apple, they make upgrades and they don't listen though, they can bloody do it whenever they want. So more like Nike, if we're talking footwear, they kind of upgraded their footwear over a number of years haven't they? Again, but I don't think they listen

to customers, we listen to the customers at Golden. Mate, should you listen to the customers though? Yeah you should. So what have you done in the new improved, the golden jandals? People thought they were a bit hard, so now these are softer but still the abrasion's right. The science that goes behind it, no lie, since last year to this year. This is the eighth version. Really? Eighth version and they're a tighter fit. Most people said, we set them up for my wide Māori feet.

Not the thin white man feet. So a lot of people were like, the strap's a bit loose, mate, so the strap's a bit tighter. So you can get these in every warehouse in the country? Yep, we had a trial there, they sold out, and we were like, can you please get us back? We waited months, and then they were like, yep, you're in.

Now can I make a suggestion as a customer too? Too late now, mate. Maybe this will be for the G3. G3 time was over. G3, G3. Have you tried them on. What if you had adjustable straps? I'll leave that with you.

Yeah, we've thought about all these science-y gimmicks, but, mate, the abrasion on your foot, the rubbing of a buckle or however you do it, just... Great invention, though, cos obviously the unique thing about it is the bread... What was the bread tag solution that you would have when your jandal broke back in the day? You basically put that inside the jandle. Yeah the main thing is all those little jandle brands, we can't name them, but the popular one has the tiny little

plug on the bottom and a kid could just pull that and unplug it and then once it's unplugged it just keeps on wanting to pull out. So ours is larger, shape of a bread tag, the whole idea is that it won't unplug, it can't pull through the bloody little tiny hole so you can actually run around on the beach in summer without freaking out you're going to bail. Because you are a big backer of jandals. You're never not wearing them, right? I know. Before we launched these, I was in jandals all the time. The moment someone said to me, hey, how did that?

Got a business idea for a product? I was like, jandals. I blow out jandals every two, three months. And so now I'm proudly going strong. Yeah, this is like, you know, the Beats headphones were to Dr. Dre. The jandals are to how's your dad. You guys have got a scoop here. Talk to me in two years' time, I'll be a billionaire,

and Dr. Dre will be wearing my goldens. Now, because how did that, it took off really quickly if people don't know your story. And it just, because we used to work with you, you sent a funny video to a colleague of ours, and it just really snowballed from that. That's exactly it. And I feel like I've told this lame story a million times. That's a great story, though. video to a colleague of ours and it just really snowballed from that that's exactly it and i feel

like i've told this lame story a million times that's a great story though that's basically it my wife left me at home with a four month old i was bored i picked her up put the camera on and did this is how to hold a baby and just roughed it up a bit the rugby ball hold the bloody rugby ball hold posted it to him on his facebook page and it went viral overnight and instead it was a bit of fun, no lie. Like, instead of watching you guys be famous dudes, all of a sudden Paul Henry was calling me. Yeah.

Like, hey, would you like to come on my Paul Henry show for an interview? And so we committed to making a video every week. And then, boom, just took off and here we are. So it's a full-time gig now? Full-time gig, yeah, since 2017. Quit the job with us. Quit the job with you guys, working behind the scenes to make you guys look funny. And you were a huge loss

because Jordan, he's one of those people who can do everything. You can do the admin, you can do the building, you can do the jandal making, you can do anything. Well I think building props with you guys, that's what honed my jandal knowledge and just being able to build anything guys. So did we get a cut then? Because

in a way we helped design these then, I guess, in a roundabout way. You would have got a cut if this interview you were wearing the bloody goldens that I bought you. We've just got the beer and we're going to put them on. You're going to try and set a world record today. Yeah, Guinness World Records. You Google it, right?

You'd swear a Kiwi would own a Guinness World Record for a Janda-related thing, right? No. There's like five real random bloody Guinness World Records. And, yeah, I think New Zealand should be able to proudly claim one. So with your guys' help, hopefully we get one. Well, can we do it? Can we break a world record throwing Jandalls with our feet at a target?

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday we went to Sweet Axe, which is an axe-throwing place. They've got some targets on the walls. We had Howda Dad there. You'll know him from the internet. Viral sensation. He wanted to break a world record with his new golden jandals by flicking jandals at the target.

The record was five. Could we do it? John, I'm Ben reporting here from Sweet Axe, where we're trying to break a jandal world record with How To Dad. He's got his new golden jandals out in all warehouse stores at the moment. Most amount of jandals flung at a target. What's the record?

Hitting the target more than five times in 30 seconds. All right. Here we go. He's warming up. Has he trained for this? I don't know. I don't think he's trained. I think he just got here today and we said, hey, let's do this.

But he's going to have 30 seconds to try and break a world record. The jandal target to beat is more than five. Okay, here we go. Okay. History in the making. Okay. Three, two, one, go. There's one.

There's one. Okay. There's a wayward one. That's all okay. There's one. One just under. Two. Two.

Here we go, How To Jandl. Here we go. Three. Come on. Oh, you've got this. Three more and you've beaten the record. Four. Ten to 12 seconds.

Five. Keep going. Keep going. You've got another three more and you beat the record You do it New Zealand we've done it well done back to you in the studio that was an amazing moment actually we were so caught up on it we're going to have a video out later today so keep an eye on the hits breakfast

on Instagram and Facebook the hits the Jono and Ben podcast just quickly you discover things when you've been saying something wrong for a while you're like oh I've been

I've been doing that wrong all my life. Do you know it's actually Brussels sprout, not Brussels sprouts? Who's that? Brussels sprout. It's from Brussels, the place Brussels. So it's Brussels sprout. It's been going viral online the last couple of days. There's a lot of people in the same camp as me not knowing that it's Brussels sprout.

I don't know if you'll be having any for your Christmas dinner. Don't mind it. Don't mind a Brussels sprout. I feel like they get a bad rap doesn't it i'd like to thank the fine people of brussels for bringing us the sprout everyone just says bro i feel like everyone says brussels sprout yeah but it's brussels sprout with an s on the end of brussels the old bee sprout it's suffered some brain damage over the years but it's really just it's like a tiny little lettuce yeah a mouthful of lettuce. Yeah, but I don't know why it was. I guess out of all the vegetables, that was the one to hate on for some reason.

Yeah, or it's a tiny little lettuce or a steroided pea. One of the two options. A roided up pea, yeah. But anyway, Ben Boyce, there's something I've taught long, long rolling coverage about the bird issues happening in the prior residence where they're nesting in the roof and whatnot. And so what they do, because I watch them. I've got my rifle out. And I watch them.

And what they do is the mums, they sort of hang in the trees. But then they'll come into the roof. Because under the roof, perfect incubation. Right. Temperature, I imagine. Yeah. I'm always like, geez geez aren't they cooking under there so on a hot day yeah under a tin roof yeah um scrambled eggs really on a 30 degree day

sure it would be unfortunately the weather's been terrible of late so yeah but the the bird the mothers they sort of hang in the the surrounding tree to sort of swoop in food. But there's this one bird, and I swear to God it's on loop all day. Oh, really? I can't speak bird, but it sounds to me like this bird is just saying the same thing over and over and over. All day.

Wow. Same noise. Just non-stop. Just waiting for someone to reply. That's what I'm saying. If there's any other birds, answer this bird's question. Because it's throwing stuff out to the universe and getting nothing back. And it's nice for five minutes.

You're like, oh, that's a nice little bit of nature there. Then afterwards, it's like, jeez, mate. It's probably like us, you know, like talking nonstop and waiting for people. Give us a call now. Come on, call, text. Just give us something. If the other birds live with that bird, that bird will drive them. Okay, yeah, but you're driving me bonkers saying the same thing over and over.

But I don't know what that bird is. Maybe if we'd listen to Radio New Zealand, they'd do the bird call. They'd be able to tell us. But I'm certainly not voting for it for bird of the year. Sean Johnson, you'll know him from The Warriors, the one New Zealand Warriors now. And you'll know him from my dreams. Welcome, Sean.

Cheers, boys. Cheers. It does feel weird saying the one New Zealand Warriors, doesn't it? It does, but you'll get used to it. Give us a couple of weeks and we'll be all used to it. Yeah, it won't take you long. I thought it was weirder that I was the man of your dreams, to be honest.

That was the thing that he was... I was glossing over that, mate. Now, yeah, Sean Johnson not only teaming up with the Warriors, but teaming up with Lego, which is awesome. Yeah, it's exciting, hey? Teaming up with a brand like Lego and I guess the excitement that they've brought families and kids for years now,

especially for this festive season. That's really exciting. You know, really exciting for me. Obviously, I've got a little daughter now in Miller and her bringing out that side of me a little bit more, being a little bit more hands-on with building things. So it was just the perfect fit.

Oh, I know at the games I've been to before they have Let's Go Warriors or Let's Gone Warriors. Now is it going to be Lego Warriors? I mean, we're going with that? There's something in that, actually. I wonder if I get that going. Yeah, well, it depends how much Lego play the Warriors, I guess. Now, you did mention you're playing with Lego and building Lego

with your young daughter. Have you got to the stage in parenthood walking over the carpet, the kids leave the Lego around, you're barefoot? That's the part I'm still getting used to. And probably the part where you build it and then they just dismantle it just as fast. Well, because a sporting family, obviously your wife Kayla plays for the Silver Ferns as well.

Is it quite competitive when you build Lego as well, like competitions going on in the Johnson household? I don't try and make it competitive because I know it's something that I probably won't win. But I don't know if you've been down to the activation down at Altair Square yet. I actually went down with the kids on Friday. It was awesome.

Oh, it is unreal. So pretty much that's inspired by we sat down with a group of kids and families a couple of weeks back and just asked them a whole heap of questions about what's their perfect type of Christmas. And that down there is pretty much a result of the things that got answered that day. So yeah, if you haven't had a chance to get down there,

I highly recommend it. And then that'll make you think twice about your Lego building skills and how good you actually are. We've got Sean Johnson with us, Warriors player and now Lego ambassador. Now, obviously the Warriors, can you promise like Lego,

everything's going to be awesome, you know, next year? How are we feeling? I don't know if I can have that certain, I guess, that level of confidence. Like, LEGO is just a household name. But, like, with the way we're training at the moment, how hard we're training, like, we're giving ourselves the best possible chance. What does New Year's and summer look like for you

as a professional rugby league player you're training on christmas day what's going on oh yeah we get a little break so we finish up officially finish up our pre-season training uh december 21 and we come back in january 4th but um in between that yeah obviously you can't just undo all your hard work you've done so we'll keep the legs sticking over i'll be be up beautiful Mungify, magical Mungify with my family. I wasn't even here for Christmas with them last year. So this is going to be just my perfect Christmas, bro, literally. Yeah.

Yeah, up Mungify with the family. I imagine it'll be a special Christmas, although you don't want to be coming back on the 4th and be like, Johnson's put on bloody eight kgs. Christmas ham. Not at all. Not at all. Oh, it's so good to have you you back it's awesome that you've teamed up with lego uh before you i've got this is a high concept thing that this may not work now you've teamed up with lego he

was explaining it to me before and i still don't understand what it is okay so here we go okay so it's lego it's kind of a role play so i'm making a sean johnson type run towards the tri-line okay and the only way that i can step around, because you've got a great step, the only way I can step around the defenders is with an awesome Lego fact. All right, so I'll say the fact. This is where I got lost. Yeah, this is our fact. And Sean Johnson, you decide if the fact is good enough to get around the defender

or if I'm going to be tackled, all right? Okay. All right, here we go. Are you with him on this? I'll say. Okay. All right, Sean, start commentating, all right here we go are you with him on this uh i'll i'll i'll see you okay all right johnny you start commentating all right okay oh boyce is coming up to the 50 meter mark with an outstanding

lego fact okay well lego's so popular seven lego sets are sold in the world every second i think he's definitely beating the fullback oh he's gone he's up to the 40 meter boys with another lego okay a lego is the biggest tire manufacturer in the world and that's not that's fullback. Oh, he's gone past. He's up to the 40 metre points with another Lego. Okay, Lego is the biggest tyre manufacturer in the world, and that's not, that's car tyres as well. Biggest manufacturer of tyres. I'm going to go, I think he's

definitely beating the fullback. Oh, he's sprinting towards the trial line with one more Lego back to get past. Okay, okay. James May created the first full- one more Lego bag to get past. Okay. Okay. James May created the first full-size Lego house. Three million bricks. It had a working toilet and a shower. Full Lego house.

Do I get the try? No, I think the full bag. Second try. Oh! He's just taken out. All the short of the try line. High concept. Tell me that last fact is not true with the working toilet.

Yeah, apparently it is. Oh, what? Yeah, James May. I think he was the guy from Top Gear. He built a full Lego house in the UK as well. But I don't know how the working toilet. You drop your little bricks in there. Hey, Sean Johnson, we love your work.

It's awesome that you've teamed up with Lego. We can't wait for the season to start as well. Have a great summer. We'll catch up with you in the new year. I appreciate it, guys. Thank you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Really sad news this morning.

If you ever watched The Ellen Show, there was a guy who was with a dancer, DJ, named Twitch, suddenly died overnight in the USA. He was in the movie Step Up, Magic Mike, just 40 years old with three kids as well. So really, really sad. Alan's just released a statement saying how heartbroken she is. Her pure love and light.

And you never really know what's going on with someone, do you? You don't, do you? We would watch every day after we finished radio. Alan would be on mute and we'd watch him dancing, singing, smiling. And you're like, he's an amazing dancer. You just don't know what's happening with people's lives. If you do need to get any help over the holiday period, you can always call Lifeline on 0800 543 354, available 24-7.

Jono and Ben's Christmas event calendar, thanks to Frontier Touring. We've got to double pass to some of the amazing events that are happening in 2023. There are some incredible concert tickets we've given away so far with our event calendar, like Ed Sheeran, Elton John. The Big Bangers and Elise, welcome from the Waikato. How are you this morning? I'm good, thanks. How are you?

Yeah, good. What are your plans next year? What's your goal? Just try and make it through the year, really. Oh, you just plough on like the rest of us, eh? Just happy to make it through the year, really. Oh, okay. Just plough on like the rest of us, eh? Just happy to make it through another one. Yeah. One more year on this earth with the sun revolving around,

rah-dee-rah-dee-rah. But what do you do, Elise? Uh, farming. Farmer. What have you milked this morning? You tell us the things you've milked. Uh, the cows. Oh, yeah, you're out and at it with the cows?

Yeah, yeah, milk the cows and just drop the kids off. Is it still a hand situation? I think there's machines and stuff now, right? Yeah, we've upgraded. Yeah, right. It's amazing the technology, isn't it, when it comes to cow milking. We were just talking just last week about how we, I don't know if you know, Tangaroa Walker, who's a spokesperson for the dairy industry.

We did some filming with him and he squirted, squirted milk straight from a cow udder all over my face. All right. Erotic scenes. Thanks to Frontier Touring. If you want to watch that, join my OnlyFans. Thanks to Frontier Touring. We're going to hook you up with a double pass at random.

You need to pick between one and five. Which little event calendar box do you want us to open up? Five, please. Oh, five today. Okay, here we go. What's it going to be? Think three times when you feel it. Lord!

Double pass to Lord at the Outerfields in Auckland next year, which will be pretty awesome. Awesome. Thank you so much for that. Don't bring your cows to the Outerfields, though. It's not a man's place. You probably could have cows there. They probably chew the grass, couldn't they?

Yeah. Now, how are you going to get time off of this? Because I know you guys work so hard. You don't even get Christmas Day off, do you? No, no, we're milking. Oh, you just make it work if you've got something on. Yeah, make it work. What, have you never been to me to come down and milk the girls?

Yeah, go for it. Squid milk in Jono's and me to come down and milk the girls? Oh, yeah, go for it. Squid milk in Jono's face again. We can do that for his only fans. Hey, have a great Christmas. You enjoy Lorde next year. Yeah, thank you for that. Good on you. She's given us such great parenting advice over the year,

and you can get more great advice at parentingplace.nz. Her name is Holly-Jean Broca. Good morning. How are you? Good. How are you guys? We're doing well, mate. We're doing well.

You were just saying off air you're sitting at home with a COVID patient. Yeah, we're day eight of COVID, so we're nearly out of the woodwork. The rain is drizzling. It's a great time this summer. Yeah, I know. Where is the summer? What's going on? You guys do such a great job at The Parenting Place.

It's a really great tool for parents to go to. And you've been putting out some articles, things to help out over the holiday period. And in particular, the one we wanted to talk about is around older kids in the teen years. Yeah. Thank you. There is an amazing team at The Parenting Place. And I actually just did a parenting course myself called Toolbox which you can do online over Zoom

for I think it's six weeks. I did it every Monday night and I did it about the teen years because I've got a child that's kind of coming into the teen years and it was so helpful to just get a refresher on what happens for teenagers and how they're developing during that time and how they're changing

and growing because it's quite a shift when your kids turn into the, you know, move into those teenage years. Ben was saying the other day he's had a wonderful period when he's been able to dress him and his family and his kids up in matching outfits and costumes. And he feels like that has started to come to the end of the road. No one's said anything yet, but I feel like, oh, maybe those days are numbered for me. You know? I'll still wear it.

I'll still wear the embarrassing outfits, but I feel that during the teen years, the kids might be like, oh, maybe those days are numbered for me. I'll still wear it. I'll still wear the embarrassing outfits, but I feel that during the teen years, the kids might be like, oh, okay. So we can't turn up as a family of vegetables. Yeah. Yeah, I think those fun times are probably definitely coming to an end. All right. I'll ride it out a little bit more. But what about when the teens, you know,

get to the age where they want to go away with their friends? Yeah. You know, this is kind of a natural development as teens. They start to want to hang out with their friends more than they want to hang out with us. And alongside with that, unless we bubble wrap them, there's no doubt they're going to probably take on some risky predicaments during these years. And if we think back to our 10 years, we have been through the same situation. So it's just a brain development time when the risk-taking becomes more common

and to get all science out on it, this is a time when the front part of their brain, the prefrontal cortex is developing. And that's the kind of part of the brain where it's responsible for planning and prioritizing and controlling impulses. And we talk about it at Parenting Place that this is kind of a time period when their brain's in renovation. And I was thinking about you two and probably, I don't know if you guys have come out of the renovation time.

I was just about to say, the only fact my mum always used to tell me, because she had to deal with me and I was an absolute menace, she was like, the male brain isn't fully developed until age 25. Yeah, I have read that as well. 25, like you say, I'm 41. I don't know if I'm fully formed yet. It might have been a glitch.

Heading away over New Year's, you've got to have your head stuck in the sand, so to speak, given it's summertime. If you don't think that your teenagers aren't going to be exposed to drinking, potential drugs, whatever bad decisions, fighting, ratty, ratty, rah, what's your suggestion to the teenagers in those situations? Because we have all been there and going, no, thank you. You know, it's a hard thing to say in front of a group of friends.

Oh, totally. But this is where it was really helpful to have these sort of questions because you can say that to your kids. You can say, to your kids. You can say, I know that it's kind of awkward sometimes to say, you know, whatever. Give them examples of your experiences, your life, maybe tone yours back a little bit.

Because I said yes to everything. Is that the right thing? Yeah. Maybe your wife could do the same thing. I think that, you know, it's actually so great when we can share our experiences and our perspectives with our kids and be realistic about the fact that sometimes there are some really awkward situations and we don't want to be the center of attention and get mocked by our friends. So having some good, like, backup lines or, you know, this is where the family code word

can help as well if your child has a phone and they can text you and say, oh, I'm feeling really awkward. You know, they're not going to probably say it, but they might be feeling awkward and there's things happening and they don't know how to get out. And there's a code word that they send to you and you ring them and you say, oh, auntie's sick. We've got to pick you up right now to go to the hospital or whatever,

some kind of made-up scenario. So you can get them out of it because sometimes they just need a bit of a, they need backup. That's very good. That's a good bit of advice. Yeah. Great bit of advice. I remember the teenage years, some parents would travel down from,

you know, Auckland to the Coromandel to pick kids up. Parents will go anywhere to pick a child, their child. I'm not going, you know, I'm not traveling five hours to pick some rando kid up. My mum has definitely had lots of experiences like that and I take my hat off to her. It's what parents do, as Jono said. Holly, thank you so much for your time this year

and the great advice you passed on, not only to us, but everyone listening on the show. You have yourself a great Christmas and hopefully we'll catch up in the new year. Yeah, you guys too. Enjoy your break. Well deserved. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Let's go. Jono and Ben, with five words for 5K. Enjoy your break. Well deserved. It's our game award association. We play it every morning at this time on The Hits. And you can win $5,000 just by matching all five words with us. Hey, let's head to Reparoa. Krista, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? Thank you, I'm good.

How are you? Yeah, doing well. What are you doing in Reparoa? So I work at LifeWise in Rotorua. Oh, yeah? As peer support. And you listen to five words, you play every morning. Yes, I do.

So my travel to work every morning is a 15 minute travel because I've got to go through Waikiri Valley as well. Drop my daughter at school. Do you listen to this show for 50 non-stop minutes? Yes, I do

because also you're the only radio station really that we get out there. That's the only reason why. I love it. It's just out of no other options available to Krista. Yeah, unfortunately. All right, we'll take it.

But I find you very entertaining. Oh, that's good. Well, let's see if we can win you some money. All right, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? We'll choose Ben. Okay. You're a little hesitant. I don't have faith.

Yeah, because I don't have faith in either of your guys' answers. But, you know. He doesn't have faith. He's the better of two bad options available. Ben Boyce, he's off into the soundproof booth. Let's get some words out of your mouth. Okay. First word you think of, Krista, when I say melon.

Water. Watermelon. You're locking in watermelon. Father. Second word this morning. Dad. Dad. Ham. Burger. Trees. Trees. What pops into that sweet little dome of yours when I say trees?

Well, it? Christmas trees? Christmas trees. We'll go Christmas trees. Christmas trees it is. Yep, it's topical. And the fifth word rounding out your game today, quiz. Quiz. Ooh.

Ooh. I don't know. Quiz night. Quiz night? Yeah, good one. You've done well. You did really well. Are you happy with that?

Yes, thank you. Yeah, all right. We'll get boys out of the booth. How was it in there, mate? How was it? Oh, me? Yeah. You came out silent.

What on earth went on in there? A lot going on I was thinking a lot of admin stuff When you get a moment alone You're kind of like Oh they've got a lot of admin things Going on We'll talk through your admin

With Christian No I wasn't talking There's a lot going on Before Christmas Name one bit of admin Oh look Christopher we're going away Next week

So yeah I've got a lot of admin Yeah right So packing bags Yeah Yeah that sort of stuff End of year stuff There's lots going on

But it's The last thing Christian wants to hear When you've walked out of the booth is that your mind isn't focused on her game. I've cleared my mind now. Okay, I'm focused. Here we go. Let's win Krista some money. All right. Here we go, Krista.

Let's do it. Round one. Word one, $25. Ben, what do you think of when I say melon? Melon. Water. You got 25 bucks there, Krista,

in Reparoa. What do you want to do next? Are we advancing on? Yes, advance on. Word two. $50. 50 bones on the line here when I say father. What do you say, Ben? Dad?

Oh, yes! There we go. Now, Krista, $50. What would you do with this money at Christmas time? Oh, probably go towards the kids. Okay, alright. Get all the money. They get all the, they sap it out of you, don't they, those blooming kids? They do.

Every last dollar you've got. Alright, Krista. You've got $50. What about the $100? Does that sound good? Yep, we'll continue on, eh? Word three. $100. Third word this morning for you, Ben. Ham. Christmas?

Christmas? Krista! Oh, no! It's not a Merry Krista-mas. Oh, we're doing it. There were so many Christmas hams last week, and it's always popped into my head. Hamburger.

Oh, that's a good, yes. We'll go through the remaining two. Trees. Christmas. Oh, that one was Christmas. Oh, okay. And quiz. Question?

Quiz night. Krista played. And quiz. Question? Quiz night. Krista played a solid game. Awesome. All right. Even though we're your only option available, we do appreciate you listening to the show, Krista, okay? No worries. Thank you for having me on.

Anytime, mate. You're going to have a good Christmas. All right. You too. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jono, I got told by a friend some news, some pretty big news in my friend's circle. Now, I won't use the guy's name who told me.

Let's just call him Greg, okay? Is that his name? No, it's not actually his name. I was actually going to use his name, but I'm not, okay? So Greg told me some hot gossip that two of our friends were actually a couple. Oh, but were they in a period where? They weren't a couple. They were but were they in a period where... They weren't a couple. They were both single people and stuff like this.

And this was really exciting news that they'd become a couple, but they hadn't told the friend group. But Greg had been one of these people that none. Oh, loose lips. Yeah, loose lips sink ships. You know the Titanic? They thought it was the iceberg.

It was Greg. It was Greg's loose lips. Yeah, but I had a conversation with Greg, like a few days ago, and he did that classic, you know when someone's got gossip and they want to tell you and they're not meant to tell you, like, you didn't hear this from me. Oh, I love it.

We're such and such together. I lap that stuff up. But I'm always like, well, why did you tell me this? Now I've got this burden of not knowing, you know, acting like I don't know this information. But you love it. Did you love knowing it? Yeah, I did actually like it.

I was like, oh my goodness, that's so awesome. And who did you tell? Did you tell Amanda? No, I was actually pretty good at not telling anyone. I think she was also new. I think Greg had also told her as well. But I caught up with a bunch of friends last night and I was in the conversation with the guy

who's in the new relationship, but obviously I wasn't meant to know this. So we're having a conversation until he said guess what i'm in a relationship with such and such the other friend and now this is interesting for you what do you because you how do you play this i know this information but i'm not meant to know this information so that's when i pull out my academy award-winning acting oh my goodness that's amazing that's so awesome we've both we've both acted in sketches over the years that's not our strong suit how was your We've both acted in sketches over the years.

That's not our strong suit. How was your acting on this occasion? I felt like it was actually pretty good. I felt like it was a good performance. Okay, I'll role play it, okay? Oh, don't, you know. Hey, how's things, man? I'm good, I'm good. How's things with you?

Yeah, good. I just got some news. What's that? You know Trish? Yeah. I've been kissing her lips, mate. You and Trish? She's been kissing me kissing her lips, mate. You and Trish? She's been kissing me back.

Oh my goodness. Yeah, we're in a relationship. Oh, I'm so happy for you. That's amazing. Was that good? How was that? Did you know this? No.

Hold on, hold on. No. You look like Greg told you this. How long have you known for? No. Don't put it back on me. So anyway, I thought it was a great moment where I was pretending I didn't know. The person believed it.

It was great. Send me to the Oscars, that sort of thing. But in my head, I'm like, well, no one's giving me any credit for the fact that I'm acting. I'm doing a great job. I'm never going to get any credit for this. The only person who knows is Greg. Yeah. But then what happened is the new partner came back.

The other friend came back. And my mate who just told me the news was like, oh, guess what? I've just told Ben about this. And she's like, well, didn't you already know? Because Greg just said, Greg said he told me. And then I was like, oh, no. And now I've clearly been acting to my mate.

And so now I'm like, what was Greg? Greg just needs to shut his mouth. Greg is like, don't tell anyone. But then he told someone Oh yeah So I was like Well my acting My good acting

And so then did you have to go And say hey Liz I knew I put on a performance And then you feel like An absolute schmuck You do You're like

Well why did he put on An acting performance And to be fair You know You weren't in the wrong You weren't in the wrong All you did was receive Some information

You didn't want to receive it And acted like I didn't know. So anyway, just be careful out there. Be careful of mates like Greg. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We want to know this morning, do you have a birthday, maybe on Christmas Day or on an important day? And is it a burden or is it a good thing?

Yeah, we're going to take a little bit of a poll. And how do we, those that don't share a birthday with maybe Jesus, how do we there are those that don't share a birthday with uh maybe jesus there how do we how do we approach it can we wrap it up as a as a one present situation what's the best thing now because we did discover that someone here in the hits team the hits fano uh you might have heard lee read the news in the afternoon lee her birthday's on christmas day good morning good morning guys how are we doing? I'm good, love. Are you all good?

We're doing good. Now, we just discovered yesterday that your birthday is on Christmas Day. Yes, I'm baby Jesus. Baby Jesus. Baby Jesus. Did your mother claim to be a virgin as well? Oh, geez. Okay.

Do we want to go there? I don't know. There's a lot of questions asked, and there were three wise men there. Not one of those wise men asked any questions. But we want to go there? I don't know. There's a lot of questions asked, and, you know, there were three wise men there. Not one of those wise men asked any questions. But we want to ask some questions to you. So how has it been, like, having your birthday on a day that everyone else gets presents? You know, as a kid, I took great joy in making my family wait to open their presents because the rule in the house was

we celebrated my birthday together. So I would open my birthday present as slowly as I could just to see the torture on my brother's face. Has it been like has it been would you say it's been a burden or a good thing having your birthday on such a prestigious day? You know like I always felt quite special because of it because everyone's like don't say it's on Christmas day so I always felt quite special because of it. Because everyone's like, well, don't say it's on Christmas Day. So I always felt special. But you had to wait an entire year to get any presents. Well, that's true. If you had a birthday in June or something. But everyone

would say to me, you're so lucky you get twice as many presents. Like, yeah, but you get the same amount of presents, but you're getting spread out. When you're an impatient person like me, waiting an entire year for that to come. Yeah. Do you find that, find that people might lump in a birthday and

a Christmas present at the same one and give you one present when maybe they would have given you two? Absolutely. I only have a couple of bugbears when it comes to my birthday bean on Christmas Day. Don't you dare put my birthday present under the Christmas tree and don't you dare wrap my birthday present in Christmas paper.

Okay. Is, all right. Is there a bugbear that if we haven't even got you a present? Come on, boys. You've still got a week, mate. You've still got a week. I imagine also one of the other biggest bugbears of having your birthday on Christmas Day is people asking,

is it a pain in the ass having your birthday on Christmas Day? And you know what? Look, the older you get, the less important your birthdays tend to feel. But I must say, my husband does an incredible job of making me feel really special. He's sent me off to hotels for the day to get massages and just has really taken good care of me. So actually having a birthday on Christmas Day is better as an adult than it was as a kid. Oh, that's awesome.

Well, Merry Birthday or whatever, Happy Christmas or something like that. I've combined the two for you. I hope you have a great day on the day and thank you for sharing it with us. And I look forward to you at the birthday present

arriving on my desk later on, shall I? Love your work, mate. Have a good one. See you guys. See you, Lee. Oh, and with that, do you have a birthday

on Christmas or another important day? Waitangi. New Year's Eve. I imagine all the festivities come away from you on New Year's Eve. The focus is off you

on New Year's Eve. 0800-THE-HITS-4487. Get in touch with New Zealand's brekkie. The focus is off you on New Year's Eve. 0800 that's 4487. Get in touch with New Zealand's Brekkie. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Christmas not too far away. 10 days now. 10 days.

I know. I love your countdown too. Because by your countdown, you always, every single day, you always sound surprised. So the delivery is great. You always sound surprised and also shocked at how close it is. I know. Every day.

Every day. I have been doing that for the last 15 days. I've been, oh, Jesus. It's like he's got amnesia or something, and every day he catches himself by surprise. But have you got a birthday on, whether it be Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, whatever, on a special day? And is it a huge issue having your birthday shared with a public holiday

or whatever? Some great texts coming through on 4487. This is through, actually not, text through the method of Instagram. Yeah, here we go. Marcel, her grandma was born on Christmas Day and died on Christmas Day. Oh, really?

What are the odds? One in three. Yeah, those are the odds. Brother-in-law was born on Christmas Day, so we spend the first half of the day celebrating Christmas. After midday, it's his birthday. Oh, right. Dividing the day clear in half, which makes sense.

We hit the mutter-mutter. Karen, how are you? Good to have you on, Karen. You there, Karen? I'm here. All right, given your name, what do you want to complain about, mate? Oh, well, I suppose it is a bit of a complaint. I'm born Christmas Eve, and I was born at 5 to 12 at night.

I'm not sure whether Christmas Eve is better or worse. Oh, yeah, because I mean— Never had a child at a party because all your mates are away. I know. They're all doing their own. I don't remember ever having a schoolyard party thing because everyone's on holiday. I know.

And obviously, it's such a busy time of year. Everyone's focusing on shopping, getting places. So you think you might miss the mark more on Christmas Eve, Karen? Oh, 100%. 100%. And, you know, you get to Christmas Day and the family's all there and they go, oh, yeah, happy birthday for yesterday. It's like, oh, yeah, no, that's been and gone.

You couldn't wish me happy birthday yesterday, but you want to say it today. Well, I feel for you. Tell you what, Karen, we're not going to miss your birthday, babes. Okay? We're going to give you some hell pizza. Lovely. Perfect. Happy birthday. Yeah. Perfect. Thank you very much. Merry Christmas. And thank you for listening.

Love your work. Thank you. See ya. We'll go to Auckland. Dawn, you're on. You share. And thank you for listening. Love your work. Thank you. See you. We'll go to Auckland. Dawn, you're on. You share your birthday with a big day? I do. It's New Year's Eve. Ooh. Now, we'll just have a little debate as to whether you think this is an issue or not,

if it's a burden. I'm imagining all the focus, all the attention's taken away from your birthday. So it's been a lifelong problem. No, I love it. I absolutely love it. When I was little, growing up, everyone wanted to come to a party because we were in the UK

and they were bored on school holidays because it was so cold, so we'd have great parties. And then, you know, as you get older, there's always an event to go to so you don't have to plan anything. And everyone wants to shout you a't have to plan anything and everyone wants to shout you a drink. You're right everyone's in party mode.

Fireworks displays. The only sad thing is they count down to the end of your birthday. Well they don't but at least they send it out with a bang, so that's awesome. Good on you, Dawn. We'll get you some help pizza as well for your birthday and New Year's Eve, okay? Thanks, guys.

Have a great day. And Marilyn, oh, Mazza from Pawanui, good to have you on again. Hello, Jonathan. Now, when were you born, Maz? Where do you share your birthday with?

Christmas Eve. Oh, Christmas Eve as well. And I had my son on Christmas Eve. No. Oh, really? What are the chances? One of them will be through this. So how does it, well, yeah, I feel like as a parent,

if you've got your kids having a birthday, they probably get more of the attention, right? Well, the thing is, when Christopher was born, it was the best present any mother could wish for on her birthday. But then when I realised how my aunt suffered, but I hadn't enjoyed it as much as other kids, I made sure that Chris got his birthday

at the end of November before the children went to school. Oh, celebrating. Yeah, celebrated. Shift the celebrations. That's a smart move, Marilyn. On holiday? Yeah, celebrated. Shift the celebrations. That's a smart move, Marilyn. Now, do you like it or don't like it for yourself personally? Well, I think it's special because not a lot of people are born on Christmas Eve.

Yeah. And then when my husband proposed to me on Christmas Eve, that was very special too. So I quite like it. Jeez, Christmas Eve's been a blinder of a day for you. Births, proposals, births, let's all go. Maz, love your work. Once again, thank you for listening and have a great break, okay? You too.

Thanks, John and Ben. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you too and happy birthday for the 24th. The Hits, the John and Ben podcast. The Hits, you've got John and Ben joined by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Good morning.

Good morning. How are you? Hello, bloody good. We're probably the last people you want to Jono and Ben, joined by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Hello, bloody good. We're probably the last people you want to talk to this week, mate. No, no, no. There's a much greater list on the other side of that. It's nice to have you on for the final time this year. Looking back at the year, obviously it's been a tough year for the country and probably you yourself. Let's look at a highlight. Has there been a highlight this year, something positive that you're focused on? Oh, yeah. Actually, this week it was so awesome to have the Black Ferns down in Wellington.

It was a beautiful day. To see everyone come out and acknowledge their win was awesome. But, you know, if I track back a little further, I really enjoyed our first Matariki. I went to a couple of events to mark the day, and it's just so amazing to see families out starting their own traditions on our new public holiday. That was a real highlight too. It is, because it's probably important to focus on positive things. Like Ben said, a lot of negative stuff has happened.

Does that weigh you down? Because you're at the forefront of it. You're at the bloody coalface of all the negativity every day. Does it get on top of you? Oh, look, I'm human, so I won't pretend that things don't affect me, but you want politicians to be affected by things that are going on because you want us to be empathetic and to respond to problems when we see them, and actually, that's what politics is.

It's problem-solving. It's problem solving. It's fixing issues. And so not unexpected, but when you have a large number of them, yeah, it can weigh you down. But I still get to see and do amazing things. And so I always focus on that as well. Yeah, got to. You must have to do that at the end of every day. Okay.

Now, what were the good parts of the day? The two good bits. There's no time for a gratitude journal, I can tell you that. Now, Prime Minister, a lot of talk about the hot mic. Someone left the hot mic on. Tell me, you guys have been there. I know you've been there. Oh, yeah.

I know. And we all say stuff. But we phoned the arrogant so-and-so yesterday, and we got his response, and this is what he said. Let's have real talk, David. Did it hurt a little bit? Oh, no. Look, this is the woman of kindness and inclusion,

and she's nice to everyone, but she says, I'm an arrogant prick, and I thought that felt very nice. And the great irony is that now, because she apologised for calling me an arrogant prick, that's the first time she apologised for something. See, but this is why she's calling you an arrogant prick. He doesn't. I can see where you're coming from.

I'm not going to dig a hole any deeper for myself. I did send him a text message afterwards and said, look, you shouldn't have said that. I do apologise. And I also said, as my mother would say, if you haven't got anything nice to say. To be honest, he said I've been called a lot worse. Yeah, yeah, he did. Christmas, what's on Jacinda Ardern's Christmas wish list?

Because I'm thinking maybe a new plane because, jeez, your one broke down a few times this year. Oh, well, actually the the one the one in antarctica we actually already have new hercules on the way those those have been on the uh on the list for a while it's just they do take a bit a bit of time to build so our defense force deserves new uh c-, I think, so that's not on my wish list. Oh, for me, sleep. Just a little bit of extra sleep. I'm very simple, so that's what I'm looking forward to. And so Christmas Day, does your security detail wherever you're going for Christmas Day?

I'm not sure what you're doing, but do they come with you and do they sort of awkwardly stand or sit around the Christmas table? So they do. They're with me all the time. They're not physically in my house, though. They're usually stationed outside, and so on Christmas Day, we do bring them in. And I can never tell whether they're happy about that or not.

I can tell you the year that I made them all wear Christmas hats from the crackers, they weren't happy about that. In 2023, looking ahead to next year, year that I made them all wear Christmas hats from the crackers, they weren't happy about that. In 2023, looking ahead to next year, is there a wedding going to happen? Just to know what's going on there. Yeah, we're being so slack. I just hope that

that's a sign to everyone how much we focus on our jobs. It is not indicative of my ability to plan. We haven't planned for it yet. And I think it's just one of those things where when we do, we want to be able to have the time and the space to enjoy it properly. And it's just been a busy time.

So we'll get there eventually. Mate, I know you've got an excuse. You're focusing on a job. He's just moving a couple of houses and going fishing every now and then. He can do some bloody admin. Yeah, he does do. But he does basically all do some bloody admin. Yeah, he does do. But he does basically all of our life admin. I bet he does.

I can imagine. I'll give him that. Probably pretty true. Jacinda Ardern, thank you for your time this year. I know it's been a difficult year, but we really appreciate talking to you. I enjoy catching up with you. Yeah, thank you. And have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy new year.

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