Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: You Don't Want Your Butt Getting Stuck There...

Episode Date: February 14, 2023

When have you needed to be rescued Adam and Megan from Hawkes Bay The Hits Paul Rudd and his director Peyton Reed See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joel you got some audio for this eh? Oh Ben Sorry Ben Ben Oh now I did it Now you go Alright Hi this is the John and Ben podcast

No you go Portia by Challenge Petrol Service Stations As you can tell Not the usual smooth operation We like to run Ben Boyce is Currently in Wellington Which is confusing me

He's heading further down the country Further away from where he needs to be In the middle of the cyclone He's in Wellington, which is confusing me. He's heading further down the country, further away from where he needs to be in the middle of the cyclone. He's in Wellington. Yeah, so we've gone from Palmerston North. It was a one-night, it was meant to be a one-night experience in Palmerston North, which had turned into a three-night, and now it's the fourth night we've spent in Wellington. We booked ourselves out of Wellington,

thinking that maybe the bigger planes would head back yesterday, but that wasn't the case. So yeah, here we are in Wellington today. Do you want to know something? What's that? You told us that and you told us your reasoning. And then after you logged off yesterday, Ben Humphrey, our producer and myself looked at each other and were like, he's not coming back. He's not coming back today. Do you think it wasn't happening?

Obviously, the weather has been wild. Yeah, it was only just down to weather, not through your decision making. It was just like a lot of bad weather, and it was all heading your way. Yeah. But I'm glad you got on a flight now, which is good. Well, we'll see. Today's meant to be the flight out, or otherwise I could be coming to you from maybe Nelson, Hickton tomorrow or something. Who knows? he might be in hobart he's just where where in the world has been boys are you on the

run from something just out of interest like you keep it does feel like it right doesn't it from one location but you obviously didn't go to the airport but i was watching on the news last night just thousands and thousands and thousands of travelers uh flights cancelled all that sort of stuff you know but so many disruptions you know like for people you know with travel plans school plans work plans and then just you know you take it steps up and you know homes being destroyed and businesses and all the heartbreaking stories you know families you know not being able to get hold of each other those are the things you're like oh my god they these you know people are really dealing with it you're like a couple of days delayed on a plane is probably uh yeah at the lighter end of the scale

you're right you're right there was a lady here at work who's grew up in the hawks bay and she's like i haven't been able to speak to my mum for since 12 o'clock yesterday. Now, all comms cut off, bridges broken, there's no access to anywhere. It's just, would there be any moment in New Zealand's history where there's been this much mass devastation? I don't know. Chris Hipkins was saying it was the worst storm of the century or something.

So, yeah, he's put it out there over, what are we, how many years into that now? Yeah, 23 years into it now I like to just go when they go The worst storm of the century Is that the century Are we in the 100th year of that century He's referencing or are we like

Year 23 and he's like there's not going to be another one Like this for another 77 years Or something That's a very good point I'm not entirely sure What he meant If I was a journalist I'd ask him that question and he'd be like i don't know mate just saying some stuff here buddy things have you seen outside trying to come to terms with that yeah you're right now producer joel's got some uh got a wee quiz for us to do what's your game joel yeah so

there's uh some iconic sounds just from like random different brands or maybe TV shows and stuff. I wanted to see who's faster. John Ovis has been in the iconic brand sound test. Listen, I don't want to talk down the podcast intro, but this sounds too good for the podcast intro. We should be doing this on the radio, but we'll give it a go. Okay, if it works here, we won't do the whole game and we'll save some for the radio. Okay, we'll start. We'll start nice and easy.

And it's just the first person to yell it out wins. Okay, okay. I need like start nice and easy and it's just the first person to yell it out wins. Okay, okay Been boys one This one here. Oh, Seinfeld! I couldn't even hear that. Mr. Ironman Wellington, I couldn't hear that. I didn't hear it.

There was silence for me. It was Seinfeld. It was the bass line from Seinfeld. I couldn't hear that. Oh, there it is. I can hear that now. Oh, you can hear that one. Okay, okay. Oh, yeah.

Okay. Are you even looking at the? Okay, okay. Oh yeah. Okay. Are you even looking at the answers up there? He's not, he's not. To be fair, I don't think Ben could hear that. Sorry Ben. We'll call it 2-1 though, because Pride needs it. Okay, right.

Alright, here we go. I can't hear that either. Okay, here we go. It's coming in now. Oh! HBO? Yeah, damn it. That is...

To all. Everyone's right. We'll call this one the last one. The Decide. Oh! HBO? Yeah, yeah. That is... We'll call this one, the last one, the decider. Okay. DJ the dude! Computer, like, the sound of your computer. Adobe?

No, no. Windows? It's a computer company, it's a computer company. Intel. Intel. I think you guessed a few times. We'll go one last one. This is the final decider. Final decider coming in. Ooh. I know, oh.

That, I actually don't even know. No, I don't know that one. That was LG. LG last year. All right, here we go. One more. One more. Oh, Apple.

Apple. Apple. Apple. Apple. This is a fun game. Fun game. Oh, Apple! Apple! Apple! This is a fun game. Fun game, mate. Pushing us on the chase. Boo!

Just yelling. Just like, calm down. Bradley Walsh would be like, guys, you can dial it back about 10 notches. That was fun. All right, enjoy the podcast. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I really hope everyone's done okay this morning.

Yeah, Chris Hipkins is, of course, labelled Cyclone Gabriel, the worst storm this century to hit New Zealand, a national state of emergency. And, Jono, it's just heartbreaking to see some of the areas affected, and families losing everything. Oh, it is. No power.

Gisborne cut off with communication with the outside world. The Hawke's Bay. Yeah. Every bridge along the river between Hastings and the hawks bay has come down there's no way to get from one side to the other there's no communication there's no power just hundreds and thousands of people hundreds or thousands of people sorry affected at the moment and you just do like they would have had no sleep nothing nothing, no power, worried about food rotting in the fridge.

It would just be a nightmare. And it doesn't, you know, sort of end once the cyclone's passed. There's all that clean-up and all that. Yeah, so just really, really thinking for everyone affected. Sadly, we've seen some loss of lives as well. We've also seen some heroic tales, some rescues people on their roofs and flooding and yeah it's just just wild wild scenes for New Zealand to to get your head around I tell you what has been an absolute miracle for me probably the biggest miracle of this whole thing is Ben Boyce who started

broadcasting in Palmerston North okay came off a weekend in Palmerston North said he was gonna move there said he was he was moved there, he'd moved the family there. I wake up this morning. One night. I wake up this morning. He's like, now I'm in Wellington. Like, what are you doing? Are you slowly moving down the country to Invercargill?

Where are you going to end up by Friday? Who knows? Who knows? I mean, yeah, like we have been, in the grand scheme of things, only slightly put out compared to everyone, you know to everyone else that have gone through so much. But yeah, we just can't get on a flight. The airport's been closed. We thought we'd have more luck in Wellington.

And then on the way to Wellington last night, we were like, oh, okay, all the flights have been cancelled. So yeah, I mean, a very small thing for us to deal with compared to what everyone else is dealing through. But, yeah, I don't know. I don't know when we get home. Hopefully today. But, as you say, we could just be moving down the country.

It's thrilling. It's thrilling. I never know where Ben's going to be, like, from one minute to the next. It's so exciting. I reckon you could have done, you could have strapped a couple of tennis rackets to your arm, gaffer-taped them, stuck your arms out, and the wind would have taken you back to Auckland.

My wife, Amanda, she's like, this is good for you. This is good. Because I like to know exactly what's going on and organise everything. And she's like, this is good. You've got to just, what will be, will be. And I'm like, it's not good for me.

No, it's not. You must be so wound up right now. Jeez, you must be. How uptight are you? You can share. I mean, as I say, it's nothing. it's nothing at all compared to what other people do but you know just like oh now i've got oh you know but anyway anyway you're not like he can't even get his sentence out he's so then i got told off for being on my phone i'm like i am trying to rebook every

anyway uh but yeah so that's you're not a guy he's not a go with the flow guy. No. No. Like how you wouldn't have packed enough. You won't be. Well, actually, to be fair, I'm the only one in my family. Because you know me, I overpack. So I have got clothes, but no one else did because it was one night. So everyone else was like, I've got no clothes.

I'm like, oh, I've got like nine t-shirts. So I've got formal gear. I've got it all. Butshirts. It's like I've got four more gear. I've got it all, but no one else did. Oh, well. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yeah, we think everyone affected by the cyclone, Gabriel, over the last couple of days as the cleanup continues. People waking up today, losing everything with their homes.

It's just heartbreaking, all the scenes. Hard to watch. Really is hard to watch on the news. And Ben, also heartbreaking, is not able to get back to where he lives. Well, that's very small. It's breaking my heart, okay? I said it's heartbreaking.

My heart's broken. It's not heartbreaking. Don't tell me what breaks my heart. Slightly inconvenient, but hey, it's nothing compared to what a whole lot of other people are going through. Also slightly inconvenient, Post Malone. He's been going around the world with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He was in New Zealand.

They played in Auckland. They played in Dunedin. He's just been denied entry to a rooftop bar in Perth because he had facial tattoos and neck tattoos. Yeah, well, I was having this exact conversation with you. When he was in Auckland, someone in the office was like, oh, he went to this fancy pants restaurant down at the waterfront. And I was like, mate, if Barry the mechanic from Henderson rocked up to that same restaurant with the same tattoos on his face,

would he be allowed in? Well, if it's Post Malone in Perth, no, Post Malone wouldn't be allowed in. But they've since now gone oh no we made a mistake the security person made a mistake i think the mistake was not recognized it was post malone yeah i think that was the main he was just doing his job he's like you told me no tattoos on face except when there's a famous guy with tattoos on face like come on mate if it's famous later mate you knowous people are always better than us ordinary, boring, dumb people. Although half the NRL league players have all got neck tattoos,

so you'd be like, is this a league player or is this not a league player? To be honest, they probably shouldn't be let into any bars. We all know what happens when an NRL player goes into a bar. No, you're right. Now, Post Malone seems like a great guy, though, doesn't he? He does. Yeah, he seems so lovely. One of Joel's friends was driving him around,

and he said he was probably the kindest, most lovely person he's ever met. Yeah, I think a couple of times he's come over, and he gets tattoos from local people in Auckland as well, and nothing but amazing things about him from what I've heard. Someone should tell him to stop getting tattoos. And probably stop smoking cigarettes as well. So is this coming from you? Is this coming from you?

Like, are you of all people? Hey, mate, I know you're in another part of New Zealand. I know that the storm's passed, but I can still feel a bit of shade coming here. Oh, you of all people. Anyway. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Idiot answer.

Oh, I'm sorry. What were the other ones? Collar. Go like sort of like the crimes you commit. White collar there, Ben. Oh, you got it. I didn't think you were going to get that one. And tape was the final one.

Sticky. Oh, pretty good game. Three out of five, but not quite good enough this morning. But hopefully you can play again and we'll get you to the Philippines. Oh, that was a great experience. Well, it was lovely to meet you, Esther. Thank you. Have a lovely day.

You too. Be safe. Bye. But you be safe too. What a word. Cheers. I love Esther. She's awesome.

Fashion Car coming up. And Phil Rudd, Paul Rudd is joining us, not the ACDC drummer. It's Paul Rudd in he does it so well. I can see the end as it begins. My one condition is. Staring at the sunset, babe Red lips and rosy cheeks Say you'll see me again Even if it's just in your wildest dreams Ah, ah Wildest dreams Ah, ah I said no one has to know what we do His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room

And his voice is a familiar sound Nothing lasts forever But this is getting good now He's so tall and handsome as hell He's so bad but he does it so well And when we've had our very last kiss My last request is Say you'll remember me

Standing in a nice dress Staring at the sunset, babe Red lips and rosy cheeks Say you'll see me again Even if it's just in your wildest dreams Wildest dreams You'll see me in hindsight

Tangled up with you all night Burning it down. Someday when you leave me, I bet these memories follow you around. See me in hindsight, tangled up with you all night, burning it down. Someday when you leave me, I bet these memories follow you around Say you'll remember me Standing in a nice dress Staring at the sunset, babe

Red lips and rosy cheeks Say you'll see me again Even if it's just pretend Say you'll remember me Wildest dreams, oh Wildest dreams, oh Even if it's just in your Wildest dreams, oh In your wildest dreams, oh It's Taylor Swift, you're on the hits. John O'Byrne, 758. Hope everyone's doing okay This dream's a-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha Yeah, I know. Because you were sort of weirdly being quite defensive about Palmerston North.

You sort of pointed yourself the unofficial spokesperson of Palmerston North. They welcomed me with open arms. You said, I will live here. Me and my family are going to move here, yet you're in Wellington now. So please explain. Well, we did kind of head to Wellington yesterday thinking that was a better chance of getting back home. But that didn't work out, but that's okay.

Why didn't you go back to Palmerston North then? I thought about it and I might do today, mate. It's all good. I've got to go back and sort my stuff up at home, you know, before I move down to Palmerston North. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The national state of emergency around the country after Cyclone Gabrielle. And I hope everyone's doing okay. Some heartbreaking scenes we've seen on the news over the last couple of days.

So thinking of everyone affected. Now tomorrow, a brand new Ant-Man movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Quantumania. I used to ask myself a lot of questions. Scott, you're an ex-con. How are you an Avenger? That doesn't make sense. But everywhere I go, people tell me the same thing. Thank you, Spider-Man.

It's the third movie. It stars Paul Rudd again as Ant-Man, a very, very funny actor. We were lucky enough to talk to him over Zoom. We had a green screen behind us, and Paul Rudd had a lot of fun imagining what we'd put on behind us. Hey, Ben and Jono, welcome to the interview room. If you could just do a quick ID, we're rolling. You can start the interview after your ID.

Hello, we are Ben and Jono from the Hits of New Zealand and we're joined by Paul Rudd at gmail.com. Welcome. Guys, you've got to email me now. Have we cracked your email firstly? No, I will say, you're off. We're going to spend the next five minutes going through other emails. Paul Rudd, why don't you? Have we cracked your email? No Five minutes go through other emails Paul Brad what it no, no, it's not waste time. We're so nice to see you I'll be told not to get excited, but I'm very excited to see you. It's great to see you guys Okay, I love where you're at right there. It was a

Green screen that amazing background. What is that a beach beach you're on? Or is that outer space? You can put anything on here. That's the beauty of it. I know. Ironically, it was a beach in outer space. You picked it. It's so crazy. That is an impressive setting you're in, I gotta say.

Can we claim this as a New Zealand movie? Because I hear that it was influenced by Thor Ragnarok, you know, Taika Waititi, you know? So pretty much a Kiwi film. I think so. It's got a real kiwi flavor uh one of the things that actually peyton reed the director of quantamania and i said with like oh man look what they did with ragnarok it's the third one they surprised everybody by coming out

with a one that just feels so different and we kept thinking about ragnarok when we were making this one thinking this one's going to be a little different than the first two. God, Taika's so funny and good. He's pretty much single handedly helping, holding up the New Zealand economy. So you know, we've got a lot of chips in there on Taika. Now your son, because when you first said you were going to be Ant-Man, your son was like, I can't wait to see how stupid that's going to be. Are you like rubbing it in his chops now, Paul?

No, because he's now moved on to other things that I do that he'll criticize. And outside of just acting. You know, it is true. I did say that. He did come around. But he also says like, hey, don't get so, you know, highfalutin. You're not Black Panther.

That's true. You're not Captain America. Just keep it in check. Keep it humble. Keep it humble. Keep it humble. A lot of talk about how you pee in the costume. I heard the first movie you had a button fly, second movie magnets. I mean, a lot of concern about how you go to the bathroom.

Yeah. And I'm glad there's a lot of concern about it. Certainly when they were making it. This is the great thing about doing it for the third time is like you've really, really refined it. So the magnets, turns out, the way to go. All right, okay. They're great.

It's actually pretty, pretty good. It's pretty accessible. Although, you know, sometimes it's still, like the fit of the suit is tight and all that stuff. So the magnets are okay, but sometimes you kind of have to put the hands on the wall. Right, okay, okay. Yeah,, okay. You know what I mean. Yeah, we know.

You know what I mean. Are there magnets around the back of the suit as well? There are now. No, there's not. That might be a flaw in the design. I was going to suggest you call, you do like from Ant-Man to Pants-Man, you just shoot from the waist up. The legs are free, baby.

Okay, it would make things so much easier. A lot of complaints to HR, though, I imagine. I think you're right. Now, of course, the mortal enemy in this movie, Kang the Conqueror. I mean, how does he compare to Ant-Man's other mortal enemy, can of insect spray? I mean, you know, where do we compare on the scale? Yeah, well, let's get real.

That can of insect spray is deadly. Found a hole in the plot. Basically, you want to keep that away from me and Tom Holland. But Kang is even tougher than a can of Raid. Kang the Conqueror is the biggest baddie we've ever seen. I think he's badder than Thanos. It's kind of cool that Ant-Man is the one that's going to go up against him. To be able to be the movie that kind of introduces this character to the rest of the MCU and everything kind of going

forward because it's the beginning of phase five is very exciting and a little crazy and nerve-wracking. Now, I understand that you, to prepare for this role, you actually did get an ant colony in your house. Have you knocked it over and are you infested? Well, I don't actually have an ant colony in my house, to my knowledge. Goddamn Google. What? Yeah.

You do now. Was there something online that wasn't true? Yeah. But I did, I have noticed this last year seasonally that I did find some ants in the house and I just leave them alone. I don't mess with them.

Well, thank you for making up an answer to my ill-prepared question. Damn it, it was going so well until that last moment. Now when we're told to wrap it up, we're blowing our big chance with Paul Rudd. The the movie looks amazing we saw the first 20 minutes of it it was incredible i can't wait for kiwis to see it well thanks a lot i hope you like it i've enjoyed talking with you that video will be up online at the hits breakfast later on instagram and facebook you can catch ant-man and cinemas the new Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania in cinemas tomorrow.

It is the hits, Jono and Ben. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Really a heart to go out to everyone affected by the devastating weather over the last couple of days and people still dealing with the aftermath and the cleanup as the weather still lingers around, particularly in the top of the South today.

So do take care out there and we're thinking of everyone. Yeah. Ben, you said you had a surefire test to figure out if I'm bald or not. Now, up until now, the test I have been doing is looking on top of my head and there's been less and less hair on top of my head over the years and I figured that was a pretty rock solid test. Well, so the kind of the scientific, potentially the scientific reasons behind it.

I don't know if this is going to work, but we were just chatting to Paul Rudd before, the star of Ant-Man, and we were over Zoom when we talked to him. And when we were waiting in the Zoom waiting room, there was a lot of reporters from around the world. And one of them thought you were another famous bald celebrity. Kamusta,

Andrew. Kamusta, Jeff Bezos. What a call. Andrew from the Philippines thought you were Jeff Bezos. My, if I got just a mockable looking face,

have I? I've got a face that like internationally, like I could mock that guy. I don't even know him, but I could make fun of his hair loss. Yeah, but you even had a hat on, I think,

at some stage as well, just to try and cover up. But yeah, but he mocked you back. I put one on afterwards. So there's, there's, there's been some scientific research.

If I'd seen, sorry, if I'd seen anything back to him, yeah, if I'd seen anything about appearances, I would have been cancelled. But for some reason, it's fine for you and Andrew from the Philippines to mock me about my disability. Now, male baldness commonly affects two in three men. And allegedly, according to scientists in this article I was reading over the weekend,

it can be detected if you're going to go bald by the length of your fingers oh yeah i don't know if this is true but balding is six times this is according to scientists it's six times more likely on a male if their ring finger so your fourth finger on your right right hand side if that is longer than your index finger, your first finger. So if your index finger is longer than your ring finger, you're probably not going to go bald, according to scientists. But if you're...

So what have you got? Yeah, my ring finger's longer than my index finger. Producer Joel, you're in for a world of pain. Oh, here we go. I knew it was coming. Thanks, Ben. Yeah. But yeah, no, I, you're in for a world of pain. Oh, here we go. I knew it was coming. Thanks, Ben. Yeah. But yeah, no, I think you're actually,

you might have debunked the fact there, Jono. Why's that? If your ring finger is longer than your index finger, then you're more likely to go bald. But if yours is longer, I don't know, maybe you're just a glitch in the matrix or something. No, it's longer. Doesn't that mean I'm going to go bald?

Longer, sorry. So your ring finger is longer than your index finger yeah that's what you're saying right yes yeah right you're gonna go bald this is your test mate yeah sorry it's very hard well i can't see what you're doing right now yeah all right so and producer joel and not good news for you slippery slope for me far out oh my my index index finger is longer than my ring finger, so hopefully that's good news for me. Not that anything's wrong with, you know, Jono, you know. No.

I just don't want two Jeff Bezos. I mean, you know, they're Fletch and Bourne when he got the two, you know, that's their thing. Oh, now he's firing shots. Now he's firing shots at other bald radio shows. When does this guy stop? Two shaved heads over there. He's all like,

public, he's all, we should be nice to everyone. We should stop bullying everyone. You know, and all morning he's like, my thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by this. I didn't say prayers,

prayers was you. My thoughts was, my thoughts are with everyone. He doesn't pray. And then he comes on here. Bang, a massacre of alopecia. No, no.

All right, science, science. Science, you can't argue with science. Feel like you are. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It is The Hits, Jono and Ben on a Wednesday morning. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins labelled the storm

the worst this century. Thousands of homes without power. families displaced from their homes, a lot of damage and flooding and all sorts happening around the country. So many houses and families affected, including Cody, who joins us on 0800 The Hits. Good morning. Good morning. Jeez, you sound buggered, you poor thing.

Oh, yeah, slightly. I had a good sleep but yeah it's uh your story we've we've read it uh on the herald but you just share what happened to you two nights ago uh so we went to bed like normal um i didn't feel okay it was like the trees around so i made all my kids sleep up in the lounge and then at quarter past two in the morning we wake up to just like all this banging and all the smashing of the glass and I just ran straight upstairs because I could hear my kids screaming so I just ran straight up I didn't even realize what had happened like I knew a tree had come down but I didn't actually think it was that tree that had come down.

I just thought it was like a small tree that's maybe taking out the corner of the house or something. Not every single window on one side of my house, both my cars and the deck. Oh my goodness. So the roof, obviously it's collapsed. The cars got smashed. Was anyone hurt?

No one was hurt. The only one, my seven-year-old he was only like a meter away from where the trees actually hit um and the chair that was up by his head has been like a big branch has come through the window and has actually bent all the metal bracket of the chair which was right above his head so he just had bits of glass all over him, but he wasn't cut at all. So we're pretty lucky. Yeah, geez.

And then this is in the middle of the night. What time is it? So it was quarter past two in the morning. So what do you do in that situation? The kids would be traumatised by this? They would, I imagine, be hysterical. They were, like, besides themselves. But I think once they realized no one was hurt and I was there,

they all sort of just stopped and calmed down. And because it was so dark, like, they couldn't actually see what was going on. It wasn't until we were leaving that they, like, saw the glass and a bit of the tree coming through the front door because all the front's like the worst so we had to try and exit out the back so I had to get my kids to walk over all the broken glass luckily my dad lives with us so he's got a going car because both of our cars are going to be right off and I messaged I rung my my friend she's like a sister to me and I rung her and I was like,

hey, you know, you said I can call you anytime. I was like, well, now's that time. And I turned my phone around and showed her and she was just in absolute shock. Oh my goodness. But, yeah. And so you come back in the morning. I'm sure daylight shows a lot more of the destruction.

Yeah. Yeah. Is the house, do you have to bowl it? We have no idea. Like, we've just got to wait until the assessor comes out. So we've got, like, all these people that want to help. They want to move the car from underneath the tree. They want to help chop the tree down and everything.

But we literally can't do anything until the assessor comes out. Because if we move, like, all the big main objects, then they're going to be like oh well you've moved it all so we can't do anything yeah i was just looking at the pictures online you've got one of those cool uh sort of a-frame houses that looks like the letter a yeah which i've always thought very very cool but you reckon that was a really um was actually helpful in a lot of ways. I think, yeah, I actually hated, I won't say that now, but I actually hated the house and the design and everything. But we think that if it was a flat roof,

that tree would have just come straight down. But it's hit right on the edge of that A and it's like slid off. And that's why it hasn't gone straight through the house. Well, our sincere apologies firstly to the architect of cody's house she didn't hate it uh she now she now loves it in fact it's a beautiful design and you know that's the thing that's eventually this will stop featuring on the news and won't be in the papers and won't be online but people are still going to be dealing with the cleanup and the admin of the destruction, you poor thing.

Yeah. Hey Cody, listen, our thoughts are with you. I'm glad everyone's safe, that's the most important thing. And good luck with the clean up and everything. Cool, thank you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Paul Rudd is

joining us. Yeah, Hollywood celebrity Paul Rudd, talking about the new Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania, which is in cinemas this week. And speaking of which, it's directed by Peyton Reed. He's directed that, all the Ant-Man movies. Yes, man, bring it on. And somehow he lowered himself to talk to us this week as well. You're in Australia.

It's three hours away from us. What the heck, man? Come on over. You know, I asked about it. I think the flights were booked. I don away from us, what the heck man, come on over. You know I asked about it, I think the flights were booked, I don't know what, maybe I wasn't allowed, I don't know if I'm allowed, they denied my visa, I have no idea. I would love to come to New Zealand, are you kidding me? I have a lot of dear friends, Taika of course, Jermaine, Reece Darby, all those guys.

You worked in the same office as Taika, we understand. That's true. Taika was asleep on a couch for most of that time. We worked together. So was he making Thor while you were making this movie, Ant-Man and Wasp? I think they were shooting Love and Thunder around the same time, maybe slightly before.

But I remember on the first Ant-Man, we were in Atlanta, and I think Taika was shooting some pickup shots for Ragnarok. maybe slightly before. But I remember on the first Ant-Man, we were in Atlanta, and I think Tycho was shooting some pickup shots for Ragnarok. So we always crossed paths. Now everyone says how lovely Paul Rudd is. I mean, he's an amazing actor, but can we dish the dirt? Can we get the scoop?

What is he really like? What's Paul Rudd really like? What sort of monster is he like behind the scenes? Well, you know, nice guy, Paul Rudd, guy who doesn't age, Paul Rudd. It's the most elaborate hoax that's ever been perpetrated on the world, honestly. He's a monster. He's a monster.

He's an absolute monster. I'm going to say it now. I want to give you guys the exclusive. You know, there's a reason I'm doing this interview solo. I can't be in a room. Yeah. You can tell there's something in his eyes something monstrous is going on but but an amazing cast I mean Michelle Pfeiffer

just one of the many actors and and these particular movies and I heard it was bit of a like a nervous time for you trying to convince her to be on the film she was like I'm gonna pull out I'm gonna get out of the movie yes well Michelle Michelle will tell you this she claims that on every single movie that she's ever been in, you know, from Grease 2, Scarface, Fabulous Mega, anything, Batman Returns, she's agreed to do the movie and then tried to figure out a way to back out. I think it's just part of her process.

She gets nervous, like the pressure gets to her. She's like, no, I can't do it. I got to back out. And of course she doesn't. And she's fantastic in every one of those movies. you know listen that's her process now can you actually sit down and watch your own movies can you just lie on the couch at home and watch one of your own movies without being judgmental or picky at parts why would i possibly want to do that why would i lie around and watch by the time we finish a movie, I've watched whatever movie it is.

I've watched it hundreds of times, you know, in editorial. So the last thing I want to do is watch one of my movies. That's not a slag on my movies. It's just, you know, it's a time management issue, really. I would love you guys to sit around and watch the movie. We're going to watch Bring It On tonight, actually. We're going to invite you over to watch Bring It On. Would you watch that?

Would you watch one from years gone by? Well, you know, listen, if it was on TV and if I were exhausted and maybe had a couple of drinks and I was lying there, that was not bad. So hold on, you have to be near exhaustion, mildly intoxicated, and nothing else to do, and it's got to conveniently pop up on your TV screen. Those are the only conditions.

Exactly right. It's got to be completely serendipitous. We understand there's also some costume issues with Paul, and throughout the series of Ant-Man you've had to kind of manipulate the costume so he has easy access to go to the lavatory. Yes, yeah. It's the first thing we do on every movie, is design sort of a bathroom technology built into the Ant-Man suit. It's crucial for Paul.

And as Paul's gotten older now, you know, he has to be able to treat it. So we bear that in mind when we design the suit from the beginning. Hey, well, listen, this has been an absolute treat. Lovely to meet you. Likewise. Thank you, guys.

We'll pass on our regards to Brett, Jermaine, Taika, and Rhys because we all have each other's numbers here in New Zealand. Well, it's a tiny place, right? It's like a village. It is a village. It is a tiny place. It's a village of funny people. Yeah, and we've actually only got one computer, so we have to get off it now and give it to someone else

who needs it for a Zoom meeting. Yeah, it's funny people and then it's like crowded house. It's like Neil Finn. Jeez, you know a lot about new zealand of course man i was the new zealand you know the chills and you know the finn brothers all that stuff yeah i love it wow how do you know an obscure band from dunedin the chills i came up in the band scene in chapel hill north carolina with merge records and they released a lot of the those bands from New Zealand. And I started to discover that stuff in the 80s and 90s. And it is great. Wow.

Go next door and tell them all to keep an eye out. They're about to come and record something. They've got band practice. We better get out of the room. Congratulations. Congrats on the movie. Lovely to talk with you. It's been a real treat.

And I can't wait for New Zealanders to see the movie. All right. Likewise. Thanks, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. talk with you uh it's been a real treat and can't wait for new zealanders to see the movie all right likewise thanks guys the hits the jonathan ben podcast it's a national state of emergency around the country uh from cyclone gabriel caused a huge path of destruction across the north island particularly in hawks bay flooding evacuations power outages some heartbreaking scenes some some heroic scenes as well of rescue over the last 24 hours. And we wanted to check in on some of the Hitz family from Hawke's Bay.

Adam and Megan, good morning. I hope you guys are all right. G'day, guys. Well, we can't go anywhere else, so yeah. How are you guys doing? I mean, a rough 24 hours for the Hawke's Bay. Just heartbreaking some of the scenes we've seen. Yeah, it's pretty scary stuff. I mean, thankfully for both Megan and I, our families are OK, our houses are OK,

but there are so many out there that are in a much, much worse position. 24 hours, well, 20 hours or so of no power for some people at the moment. It'll be coming up 24 hours as the morning progresses. So lots of people probably pretty worried about their freezers, their fridges and all of that sort of thing as well.

Yeah, and there's just been so much extensive damage. You will have seen all the footage coming through. So our infrastructure is well and truly stuffed. We've got five bridges out. People are isolated and cut off. And with no comms, no one knew where anybody was. So I think that was one of the hardest parts of this disaster was that no one could get in touch with anybody. So you literally didn't know you would have been speaking to your parents at six o'clock the night before,

and then you haven't heard anything throughout the rest of the day. So that was really hard to deal with. My mother-in-law had a very traumatic rescue from her house. It was up to her neck, and she was just waiting for a boat to come. We didn't find out any of this until kind of last night. So just really scary and frightening things happening to a boat to come. We didn't find out any of this until kind of last night. So just really scary and frightening things happening to a lot of people. Looking at the news last night, I don't think New Zealand would have suffered such mass devastation across such a large part of the country. Do you think the power and the comms are going to be back on, what, within days, weeks? What are they saying?

They are saying that there is a substation that's blown and another giant cable sort of runs over to Taupo ways that they might have some issues with. It could potentially be days, it could potentially be weeks, but how long's a piece of string? We're not really getting any communication on exactly when power will return to the region. And that's the hard part, I think, because we've all discovered that the torches on our phones,

if you've even got a phone, are just not that good. Yeah. Now, you stayed on, yeah, both of you for 10 hours yesterday supporting the community, which is awesome. Yeah, it was really good, and we had messages coming through. For some people, the radio was the only form of communication that they had with the cell phone networks down,

with obviously no television, no power, nothing else. They were sitting in their cars and listening to the radio to get the info they needed. So it was nice to hear from the community. We heard a lot of really good news stories coming out as well. You know, people were positive in the face of adversity. And I think that's one thing that Hawke's Base found. We went through some reasonably large floods a couple of years ago. And everyone got stuck in and helped and, you know,

went to their neighbours and looked after each other. It's a great region to be in for that. So I know it's going to be one hell of a clean-up, but you can rest assured that people are going to be out there getting stuck in and helping each other. Megan, of course, you had to evacuate your house with your cat and your dog. Yeah, well, we did. I don't know if we've ever tried to put a black lab

and a cat that hates dogs in a van together. So that was my husband's lovely job to do. And as well as that, I think just like having the children with us to do a 10-hour show, you know what it's like when you're trying to work from home with kids. Well, working in a studio with kids is also very difficult. But for them, they've never been through anything like this. So I'm going to be honest and say I wasn't the best version of myself

come yesterday afternoon as a parent. They didn't know what was going on, and they just didn't understand the enormity of the stress of what all of these kind of parents were facing. So, yeah, that was a little tricky. Yeah, well, I mean, that's why we all have kids, so you can take out your frustration on them. That's why I had them.

Now, overnight, where are we at? What's happening? So at the moment, it has been pretty dry. There has been a little bit of rain. We are in kind of central Napier. It's drying out, which is good, but there certainly has still been some rain overnight and some strong winds as well.

So that has still been a little bit scary for people. And I guess today, kind of waking up, we'll see just more of the damage and just knowing that it's not an easy fix. Like this is just the beginning of just a horrible road. We are thinking of you, sending our love out to you and everyone else in Hawke's Bay. Just heartbreaking some of the scenes we're seeing.

People lost everything. It's just awful. Yeah, it really is. Thanks, guys. All right, well, have a good show. We understand you need to go and try and turn on the studio now, so good luck. We'll be cranking the generators.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. There's a lot going on out there. It's hard to watch these poor people in the news, isn't it? Just lives turned upside down. There's been a couple of days spent at home, obviously, with the kids who haven't been going to school, and there's been you know one constant noise a background noise in my household and it is you know olivia rodrigo

the pop artist it's it's her album olivia rodrigo and she was on a bunch of tv shows disney uh disney shows and movies and stuff she's sort of come through that she's very good actor yeah very a very good singer as well. Very talented. I was saying my kids were really into her, you know, and I've watched Docos and stuff. I really got deep into Olivia Rodrigo. You know way too much about this 17-year-old girl.

Yeah. But she sings this song. Got my driver's license last week. Yeah, she got her driver's license last week. And, you know, she sings a lot of songs about being broken up with and heartbreak. Yeah, it was a heartbreak story. It was a real story. Oh, man.

What happened to the dog? Oh, mate. Oh, this dog. What, he offered someone else and she finally got a license to go in? Yeah. Anyway, because, you know, now he's off with. Anyway, I felt really bad for her. Who was the dog with the boyfriend?

Didn't say. Didn't say the name. He would know who he was Yeah he would actually He'd be like Oh that song That's about me That's a bit awkward

So he ran off with another girl And a lot of the albums About dealing with that But you know One was She got her driver's licence Come on It's driver's licence

Last week The song's called Driver's licence Yeah Like they always talked about They talked about getting the She finally got it But it's too late mate

He's off that dog Off with someone else Yeah She was gonna go Pick him up and everything Still drives past his house Yeah They talked about getting the license. She finally got it, but it's too late, mate. He's off that dog with someone else. She was going to go pick him up and everything. Still drives past his house. So that's one of the tracks. And then a couple of tracks later, a song called Brutal. She then, I feel like, drops herself in it.

I hate every song I write. And I'm not cool and I'm not smart. And I can't even parallel park. So she's gone, beseeched to go, I've got my driver's license, but I can't parallel park. Now, I am not a driving instructor,

but I would think you'd be able to parallel park in order to get your driver's license. Well, yeah, you're right. Over to you. As someone who's not good at parallel parking, at least I can kind of do it. As someone who's not good at parallel parking, at least I can kind of do it. Okay, I wouldn't, but I'm not good at it, but I can do it. I just wanted to get some clarification

on this, because if she's, this is essentially evidence in a court case, if she's just dropped herself in it. So we're going to go through to a driving instructor now, just to see what the rules and regulations are around this. Welcome to CDTNV, speaking with Jeff. Hello, have we reached the Driving Academy? Yes, so we do commercial here in Hamilton.

How can I help you? Oh, you do driving, do you? It was just Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. How are you? Good. Just a hypothetical question. Yes. I know, you're like, where is this going? Where is this going? No, but it's in. It's a hypothetical question Yes I know you're like

Where is this going? But it's in It's a good question In order to get my driver's licence Would I need to be able to Parallel park at an appropriate level? Yes That's what we thought

Jess what do you think When I play you Do you know Olivia Rodrigo? Yes Yeah This would be the theme of your place. This is her song, Driver's License. I'm a driver's license last week.

So she got a driver's license last week, which is probably a while ago now because that song's been out for a while. And then a couple of songs later on the album, Jess, she then says this. And I'm not cool and I'm not smart and I can't even parallel park. So she's dropped herself in it.

She can't parallel park. So we're like, well, hang on a second. Different country, different rules. Different, yeah. You're probably right, actually. Did you think we were trying to pin it on you? We weren't pinning it on you. I don't do the asusing, so nothing's on me.

Yeah, no, nothing's on you. No, no. And we're not putting it, no, but you're right. But we just want to like. You run a great driving school. They'd all be able to parallel park with their eyes closed at your school. Not that they would though, Jono. No one would, because that's not in the road rules.

But we're just like, yeah, in America, it seems like it's wild if that's the case. Yeah, it would be unusual. Yeah, it would be. I mean, you're not going to be handing out a driver's license to someone who can't parallel park. No, no, all driver's licenses are actually BTNZ's problem. That's right. Not even your issue as well. You're wiping your hands of a lot of stuff here.

Keeping those hands clean. Another country, another thing. What would you say about a fully grown man who's had his driver's license for a number of years but gets frightened to parallel park in front of people? It does scare me. It does scare me. I think his mate should probably

give you a bit of a helping hand and give you a few lessons there. But what if that mate really enjoys seeing him get nervous about parallel parking in front of people? It brings him a lot of joy. Rethink your friends. Thank you. That's therapeutic as well as helpful.

Thank you very much. I'm glad we got to the bottom of it. Olivia Rodrigo, maybe you shouldn't be so honest with all your songs. You have a good day. You too.