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Episode Date: October 16, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. How's everyone doing alright? Doing alright for Tuesday morning. Yeah, how was your Monday? Was your Monday afternoon productive? Was it just a Monday afternoon? Semi-productive, I guess, yourself? Yeah, no, tired. For some reason. And I hate being tired Monday, Tuesday. Right. Long mountain to climb, my friend, but you've dragged producer Taylor Montoya

into the studio, Ben Boyce, our favourite Australian. Yeah. Well, top five, anyway. And you wanted to hit her up about something? Oh, no, it's just like, well, I haven't really had a chance to chat to you about some of the things I noticed

when I was in Australia a couple of weeks ago. Oh, right, okay. And I thought, I wondered if you'd agree with some of these things about Australia. Now, we're not going to touch some of the big issues going on in Australia right now that the rest of the world

are talking about. Can I ask a question? Yeah. Is everyone chucking shrimps on the barbie? I hadn't seen any shrimp on the barbie. How often are they doing that,

Taylor? No, so we call it prawns anyways. Are you chucking them on the barbie all the time? Never. I've never once seen a prawn on a barbecue.

It seems like a Fiddly D potatoes sort of stereotype does it about the Australians. These are things I know and I want to see if you agree. A Bunnings. Jeez, you love a Bunnings.

I know, yeah. Everywhere you go there's a Bunnings. And they're huge. Could you guys imagine if you tried to do the Bunnings tour in Oz? Yeah.

That's what inspired us. The guy did it but it took him like two years. To travel around Australia eating a sausage at every Bunnings. You love Aussie rolls and Victoria especially. Jeez, they just fizz about that. And something else I noticed you love is the Chemist Warehouse. Now, we love it here in New Zealand, like at Bunnings as well, but it is everywhere.

Yeah. I went to Chinatown without a word of a lie in Melbourne, and there's a Chemist Warehouse in Chinatown. They pop up overnight, don't they? They're so versatile. I think that's why. They sell everything. Oh, sorry. I had nothing important to say, really.

You love drinking. Huge drinking. I'm most like New Zealand, but it's really expensive to get a small amount of beer, but if you want to get a slap, it's a whole lot cheaper if you want to get 48 beers. And then on tap. Why is it cheaper to get 48 beers than Yeah. It's a whole lot cheaper if you want to get 48 beers. And then on tap. Why is it cheaper to get 48 beers than 12 beers? I think they encourage being drinking with mates.

You can't really even get a dozen anywhere you go. It's either six or like bloody 24. There's a huge gap. There's a... Yeah. It's like, honestly, you go to like New Zealand to get like a dozen beers. You just, you can't find it there. Yeah.

Actually, I didn't even know you could get a dozen beers. No. It's like six, find it there. Yeah, actually I didn't even know you could get a dozen bits. No, it's like $6.24 or $4.48. Yeah. Those are your choices in Australia. You're either having a couple or you're having an absolute blinder. My wife went to get a drink at a bar and came back and she's like, espresso martinis on tap. Wow!

On tap. You don't have to make it up from the cocktail as well. And the last thing I thought was really weird and the kids thought it was quite weird as well, eating some weird stuff. Kangaroo is in some places. Yeah, it's really nice. It's actually really nice.

Someone we were with, we're like, do you want some kangaroo meat? And my kids thought, they were like, yes, we want to meet kangaroos. They were like, oh my God. And then I had to explain to them. It's not quite a meet and greet. The meat that they were talking about.

Which they were like, oh my goodness. Yeah, kangaroo burgers you can get quite a lot as well. Really? It's really nice lean meat, but yeah, sad. I've tried kangaroo. It's not bad, eh? It's nice. Yeah.

Yeah, it's fine. Is there anything you miss from like being in Australia to here in New Zealand? Yeah, the weather. Oh, I love it. Yeah, okay. What about the nicknames like Whippo, Stabo and Labby. You've all got nicknames. I feel like you've taken that for a radio show.

That is a radio show, yeah. Every radio show, like Gripper, Guppo and Stubbo. Because Aussies are just so chill and laid back. Why say the full thing when you can just shorten it? Well, if you're so chill and laid back, stop sending our criminals back here, mate. Yeah. Are we doing that

Yeah You put them on planes I feel like you've got a few over there too Well this is how the country was started Now my daughter Sienna She can't wait to the day That she turns 14 For one particular reason

That she's found out That she could be She can babysit Maybe earn some money And last night I went along And recorded her And her thoughts about turning 14 one day. Sienna, why can't you wait to be 14? I just can't wait.

Then I can just babysit. I'm allowed to be home alone. I'm allowed to be so many things. What if there's a fire? I've got my phone. Okay. What if there's something else that happens? A new trend on TikTok? I've got my phone. Yeah, exactly. There's a Under something else That happens A new trend on TikTok

I've got my phone Yeah, exactly It's easy And it's just like You put the kids to bed And it's just free Netflix Free money Like, you know

If only parenting was that easy Hey, but It's good It's good practice When you have to look after me When I'm older, right? Chuck you in the retirement village See you later

Hey, hey, hey Yeah, so that's a little Glimpse into your future Retirement village Biff you into the Ryman, mate But I was saying to you afterwards You know, so that's a little glimpse into your future, Retirement Village. But I was saying to you afterwards, you know, it's not all Netflix and easy money, you know, babysitting. I'm sure there are times that it can go wrong.

Yeah, sure. 0800 the hits. Have you been part of a babysitting evening that has gone wrong? I haven't been called in to babysit too many times. One of the few times I remember Jen's friend, my wife's friend, she's got us over to look after a little kid i just sat there for bloody four hours drinking beers and watching jurassic park three the one the movie was the kid was no i gave the kid a couple of course yeah right uh you watch that jurassic park you're like they're

going through this rigmarole all again yeah and it was pretty easy yeah yeah to be honest i was like the kid could have just done this themselves. He didn't need us there. Yeah, well, yeah, he probably were half there as well, too, by the sound of it as well, mentally. Yeah, but it is those occasions where, a friend of ours actually was babysitting some kids

and the kids locked him out of the house. Remember that? That's right. He couldn't quite get back into the house. He was like, please let me back in. Tense negotiation with a four-year-old to unlock the door. Let me back in. They know they've got the upper hand.

And then you're like, please, mum and dad, don't come home at this moment because I'm going to get in a lot of trouble. And do you still get paid, too, when you find yourself as the babysitter locked outside the house? Are they still like, well, that was a wonderful service. Yeah. So, yeah, I was a wonderful service. Yeah. So yeah, I went home with the hats. Have you been babysitting?

It's gone bad. Maybe you left your kids with someone that went bad. I imagine it happened. I remember hiding a seek, looking after my mate's kid once. And the kid got to the stage where it had such a good place that I was like, dear God, has it run outside? Has it gone? You start looking around the neighborhood as well.

It turns out it was just a very good hiding spot. Another great tip too when you're babysitting is don't call them it's. Yeah, yeah, true. Is it gone? Where is it? Is it gone? You're running around the neighbourhood and then you go, it's, where are you it's? But you're in the house going, I can't find you, come out now and you hear nothing.

You're like, uh oh, uh oh. It does feel like you place a lot of trust and responsibility like it's 14 the legal age where you can, yeah. I mean there like uh-oh uh-oh it does feel like you place a lot of trust and responsibility like for is 40 in the legal age where you can yeah yeah because i mean there are some very responsible 14 year olds but i'm 41 i don't even trust myself to look after another person's kid you know your own kids you're kind of fine you realize the boundaries that you could push them to if they'd run into a door or something like you'll be fine but there's far more responsibility when you haven't created them. And especially at the age of the kid too,

like the age of the kid you're babysitting. If they're younger compared to being slightly older. So, 100 of the hits. What has gone wrong when you've been babysitting? Babysitting blunders. We'd love to hear from you this morning. Were you a nanny? Were you out on your fanny?

And when you were employed by the Sheffields? Well, yeah, we'll take that call as well. 100 of the hits. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. And speaking of trouble, have you had trouble with babysitting before? Reading it, I see more and more people in New Zealand

is doing it as a bit of a side hustle, babysitting because of the cost of living, which I guess makes sense. You can make a little few extra dollars looking after some other kids. It's an easy gig really, isn't it? To be honest. Can be.

If everything goes well. But then it could be the easiest gig or it could be the most distressful gig that you've ever taken on board. What I'm not looking forward to is if we become grandparents because it's just assumed that grandparents will come along and look after kids. No financial remuneration.

Yeah, that's true. Just because they created kids who made kids. Yeah. I heard a story of some grandparents who actually charge. They're like, hey, we're here. We'd rather be doing other stuff. In some ways, that's fair enough, yeah. Babysitting blunders.

Let's get Amanda on. Just south of Rotorua. Good morning. G'day, how are you? We're doing well, Amanda. What happened when you're on the babysitting duty? Well, I was on the nanny duty. I was in the UK and very, very English family.

She made movies for National Geographic and he had just sold his bank to Zurich. So they're battling away. They're struggling. Yeah, cost of living. Real battling, really battling. And there were three kids. The oldest one had danced

and the youngest one, I'm not too sure exactly where he was, but he was with mum. And I just assumed that she had them all. And so when she came home and I got home and it must have been close to just after five and she's like, where's Jack?

And I'm like, I don't know. And she said, no, where's Jack? And so I laughed. And I said, I don't know, in his room. And she's like, no, no, no, he's not. You have him. And I'm like, oh, whoops. Oh, no.

Where was Jack? Luckily, Jack was at school. So he met Ethan as a day student. And he was five at the time. So it was, yeah. Poor Jess. Luckily they looked after him very well. I'm not too sure why the school didn't call though. I mean seriously

I know Kiwi school would have rung I'm sure. Yeah no listen pin it on the school. It's the school's fault. Yeah exactly. It was not my fault. She's like I'll be making a documentary about this that's for sure. Thank you so much Amanda. Really appreciate you phoning through. Oh, is that good?

Let's get Mel on. Babysitting blunders, Mel. Hello. First day on the job, 14 years old you were. Fresh faced and going to be rich I was. What happened? So I got given this child and the red flag should have been when they said to me that they'd not been able to find anyone to look after him.

And I was like, oh, but he seems all right, and there's a lot of people looking for work. So then I go, and they said to me, let him be outside. He loves to be outside. You can just carry on with whatever needs to be done inside and just let him go. He's in and out of the garage and stuff, and they said it was fine. Yeah.

After I'd put some washing liquid into their dishwasher and turned it on and filled their house with bubbles, I found him setting fire to his clothing on the washing line. Oh, jeez. A future arsonist. What an eventful evening. Oh, jeez. Just let him be outside. He's going back and forth from the shed with canisters of petrol.

Oh, God. That is brilliant. I don't know how he did it. I don't know where he got the stuff from, but apparently he had his own station. He'd done it before. And I'm like, cheers, guys. Thanks for telling me.

Yeah, they definitely need to sort that problem out. Cut it off at the pass. Thank you so much, Mel. We'll get Julia on. Babysitting blunder jewels. What was it? Kia ora. Kia ora.

Not so much me. During the first big COVID lockdown, my husband and I had separated, but we were still living together. We were both essential workers, so we needed to get a nanny in. Turns out, I ended up falling in love with the nanny, and now her and I are married. Oh, wow.

What? What? Caused quite a scandal in our small town, let me tell you. Oh, I tell you. But then your ex-husband, he's still involved in the house while you've fallen in love with the nanny. Yeah, he was. What a scenario.

During lockdown as well, so you're like, hey, you can't move. You know, everyone's going to coexist for a while. Yeah, no, he wasn't informed until after that lockdown. Ah, he kept it a secret. Hey, well, there's a plot twist no one ever saw coming. That's right, yeah. Well, not so much a babysitting blunder. It's turned out wonderfully for you.

Yeah, I mean, some professional boundaries potentially crossed, but, you know, it should happen. It does, it does. Well, let HR deal with those professional boundaries, mate. Good on you, Julie. I really appreciate you phoning through. Thanks. All right you, Julie. I really appreciate you phoning through. Thanks. See you.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, I went to the dentist a few days ago. A double whammy for the dentist. Hygienist clean plus a dentist check-up

with the dentist as well. Good old blow out of the mouth. Bit of a war on a fitness. Exactly. A teeth war on a fitness. And actually, Dental Care West

who play the Hits, which is awesome throughout their places you go get your teeth checked up there, which is good. Do they play it just when you walk in? Maybe, maybe. I like to think it plays all the time, and probably they're thinking that only our show is more painful than a root canal, I'm guessing.

Easier to them into it. But they're awesome there. And I was sort of there for about an hour, and I had an hour of instructions through the hygienist and then into the dentist you know and you have multiple instructions depending on how they want your mouth to be open shut can you move it to the left chin down a bit scooch back up the seat move you know like you have to follow all these things and have the occasional bits of conversation answer questions just with the back of your throat yeah yeah so it'd been a it'd been a day i thought i'd you know handled all the instructions

perfectly opened wide short you know like all the things they needed me to do head to the left up down all that sort of thing until i got to the dentist just towards the end and he went open wider and for some reason i went the reverse and went bang down on his finger. And I bit down. Hazard of the job. And I just felt like, oh, I'm sorry. And he was like, it's okay. And it was lovely.

And I was like, but I just felt awful. And it was just a total mistake on my behalf. I just reversed the instructions. Like a builder hitting their thumb with a hammer. Yeah. It's a collateral damage of being a dentist. But you just felt bad. It was like, it was unnecessary. Maybe I'd just come out because I just got the x-ray thing

and we had to bite down on that, you know, for the x-ray and they leave you alone in the room. And you're like, where are you going? What are these x-rays doing to me? I'll be back in a sec. And they just run out. My favorite thing too is when they bring the x-ray up on the screen and they're like, you can see here and i

always have to pretend to know what they're talking about you know you see this little that's a bit of you know cavity i'm like yeah yeah yeah clearly has know exactly what you're talking about i've been to my dentist long time 15 plus years she she spent more time in my mouth than my tongue yeah well being interested oh no technically that's not true no than my tongue. Yeah. Well. Being interested. Oh, no, technically. No, technically that's not true. That's not wrong. My tongue. No. No, my tongue spent way more time in my mouth.

But it'd be an interesting job, wouldn't it? You'd see some, geez, you'd see some stuff. Yeah. We talked back on the Rock radio station, remember? We went, we had a dentist on,

we're like, shock the dentist. And boy, he got shocked. More than me, you are biting on the finger of a dentist, actor Danny. There's a guy who had a mullet and he would pull out strands of his

hair and floss his teeth with his long mullet hair. Someone else tried once and gargling with petrol and it was like, oh jeez. Soon after that, we'll need to wrap this up. There were teeth removals in sheds with pliers. Yeah. Why don't we 4487, can you shock us?

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Anytime. Anytime. Well, not anytime. Mainly just weekly. We catch up with you and we enjoy every minute of it. How's the last seven days been? I guess watching all the videos of the people at the Taylor Swift concerts. I mean, it's been pretty interesting. Now, yes, speaking of, the movie's out.

It is. This is huge. It's massive already. The Swifties are loving it. I hear they're giving it 10 out of 10 every chance they can get to vote online as well. So the movie did great. It did fantastic. But it's obviously going to be the highest grossing concert movie of all time.

I think people think that it's the biggest movie of all time, and it's not really even close. But it's about the 80th biggest opening in history, which is great. Because they pulled in $96 million on opening weekend, the Taylor Swift movie. What has been the number one? Well, like Avengers Endgame was about almost $400 million. Wow. Wow. In one weekend.

So that kind of puts it in perspective. That is not to discount anything that Taylor did. But the one thing that's making her kind of an enemy of the theater owners is her prohibition against showing the movies except on the weekend. So right now, if you go to a U.S. theater today, you cannot see the movie. You can only go start seeing it Thursday night. Oh, really? What's the theory behind that? Because she says the kids are in school and everything, and so she doesn't want them to go see it.

And so I think that the theater owners who all of a sudden had to give over probably 70% of their screens to it this past weekend. Okay, that's great. We'll give you 70%. We'll throw in a Paw Patrol. We'll throw in an Exorcist. Fine. And then during the week is that they have nothing there, right? They have nothing to show on their screens.

Yeah, I'm checking it. A couple extra viewings of Paw Patrol in there, baby. Went and saw it at ENT. Amazing spectacle of concert. Made me really want to go. But what I'd noticed online is that people getting annoyed because obviously you vote on websites like Rotten Tomatoes for how popular you think the movie is, how good you were,

you thought it was, and all the Swifties are voting like 100%, which potentially puts this movie higher than classic movies like Shawshank Redemption and Citizen Kane and all those sort of movies. Ben Boyce, give us your honest out of 10 score of the Taylor Swift movie. Well, look, I'll give it an 8 out of 10 as far as the spectacle goes. Not bad. Any explosions, car chases? No, no, no.

No, no, no. The other smart thing that she did was, generally in movie theaters, you can't take your phone and start recording the screen, right? It's against the law. She encourages it. So then what that does is it just all these little three-minute, you know, blips to TikTok and Instagram stories and everything like that of everybody dressed up and singing songs and all that to get the people who didn't go see it to be excited and come back i did not know that i told my daughter i was like you can't film she was about to film i was like you can't film she's not going to be happy with you right now listening to this but i do want to ask because you you know taylor swift's in a new relationship uh with the footballer travis kelsey and you said that hey i think they're friends and

they get on fine but i don't think this is a real potentially a real relationship i saw them hanging out in the weekend on saturday night live they were holding hands and apparently a bit of pda at an after party have you changed your mind now did you see pictures of the pda at the after party did you see kissing me did you look for kissing pictures? Lip on lip? No, I wasn't there. So, here's my deal. Is that it's extremely oversaturated. There's no way on this earth that Travis Kelsey is sitting around singing Taylor Swift songs.

I don't know. Sometimes I feel very manipulated and I feel very used. You know, it's marketing. It's Hollywood. It's Hollywood, baby. It's showbiz. And I don't mind being manipulated. You can manipulate me all day long. Enty, have a great week, mate.

And we will catch up with you this time next week. Look after yourself. All right. You guys have a great week. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Question. You know, when you find out a secret, how long until you hold on to that secret? Do you just, can you share the secret secret? Like is it a take it to the

grave scenario? I feel like it is unless that person who gives you the secret gives you permission to tell it because it's their secret. I feel like this needs to be like a six month limit. Hey, I had my tight lips shut for six months. I've given you the grace. Love a good secret though, don't you?

Oh, you do. I'd rather not know. Do you prefer not to know? Yeah, I'd rather not know, because I hate having the fact that I don't know, and then you're like, oh, that puts me in an awkward position because someone, you know, so.

Yeah, true. I'd probably rather not know, to be honest, because then it's easier. You've got to go about oblivious to it. A very gossipy industry we're in, aren't we? We're like, oh, did you hear Tony Street? She bloody steals coffee beans

from the communal kitchen. She doesn't. She doesn't. But stuff like that. It rife, isn't it, in this industry, gossiping? Yeah, there's lots

of talkers in radio, I guess. Yeah. So naturally, through the job. And the problem is too, when you're in this particular role in radio,

you've got so much dead air time to fill up. Like, inevitably, secrets end up on the radio. And you just change the names of some people so you can get it away. But I thought maybe there might have been a six month ruling. You can text 4487 because, you know, over a time period, you know, it becomes less of a secret and more just information. Well, but if it's out there like and then it's fine but oh so you're saying if you know something someone else has already loose lips sunk the ships then you're then you're okay to

spread them the info no i just yeah well no i just feel like if it's out there that person's you know like then it's fine you know but yeah i feel like you just want to be that person to tell someone else right i do like i love it when you know something and they're like, but you don't say anything. And then if someone tells you, you've got to pretend like you don't know. That's happened to a couple of us here too, where information about like XYZ's leaving the company. We found out about it, but then we had to pretend when XYZ told us they were leaving the company that we didn't know. Great acting job. Oh, now that's a worthy of an Academy Award.

You're like, what? But you're over, I think you're overplaying it a bit too much. Because you try, in your head you're like, I've got to give a great performance here. I'm bloody Meryl Streeping it out here. The Hits,

the John and Ben podcast. A Taylor Swifter movie is out at the moment and it's doing huge things at the box office, as you would expect. A lot of Swifties out there to see it. It's a concert on screen, so the concert none of us have got tickets for. Now you get tickets to the movies to watch the concert. Smart marketing plan, isn't it?

We were saying before, we're talking to NTR Hollywood Insider, first person in history to be on a sellout world tour and selling out movie theatres simultaneously. I know, it's filmed at sofi stadium in los angeles it's about two hours 45 minutes a movie so it's quite a long one uh but it's shorter than the concert as which is over three hours but gee she's got some hits yeah covers off and it's pretty epic everything from light up bracelets the stage that moves and goes up and down massive screens screaming fans so many screaming fans throughout not a screaming fan costume changes it's all there

uh you went you took your family along to the movie theater to to watch it now were you troubled screaming fans, so many screaming fans throughout. A lot of screaming fans. Costume changes, it's all there. You took your family along to the movie theatre to watch it. Now, were you troubled when you walked in? Did you sneak in your popcorn like you usually do? No, I bought a collector cup, a Taylor Swift collector's cup that was very overpriced, but it was cool to keep at home as well, too. The Eris Tour collector cup. Swept up in the concert madness. I got swept up in it as well.

And my wife in particular got very swept up. Because you're watching these great songs and you kind of, you know, sing along in your seat. But she took it one step further and the kids, they weren't sure about it. Have a listen to it afterwards. We've just come out of the Taylor Swift movie. Amanda, you're still singing away. You love it.

You want to go back again. Oh, my God, I love it. She's my, my, my lover of that movie. That's for sure. Hey, it was awesome. All right, girls, I'm going to give you a blank space. Fill in the gaps. What did you think of the movie?

I think it was a good movie, except I just felt so bad for the people behind us. Why? Because she just had her hands up the whole time. And I could see this girl like, what is she doing? Yeah, you were the only one dancing on their feet. It was a movie! It's a concert!

That's a conundrum. Yeah. You know, it's movie conditions, but concert atmosphere. And I see all these people in America, they're all up. They're Americans. They're up on their feet dancing.

But my wife was, she was the only one, you know, doing all this. We were singing along and stuff as well. But yeah, she was. New Zealanders, we're not a get up and dance sort of movie going crowd, are we? Yeah, as well. So yeah, I thought lyrics on screen would be handy.

That was my one thing, so you could sing along. Oh, you want to like a karaoke? Little bouncing tail ahead, you know, just popping along to the lyrics as well. But yeah. And Ben Boyce, you gave it an 8 out of 10 before. Yeah. And was it a gifted movie or was it you paid for? No, I paid to go along as well.

And now I want to go to the concert. No obligations. He's giving it a solid 8 out of 10. And now I really want to go to the concert because I can't. But now I want to. But I feel like that's a great marketing point if she wanted to sell more tickets, which she doesn't need to do. There you go.

There's the hardcore review. The honest, raw review of the Taylor Swift concert. Will you be going to the movie again? My wife wants to go back. I was like, well, let's buy it when it comes out at home and have some drinks to go along. You know, it would be great in one of those social settings, I think, rather than having to sit through a few of the acoustic numbers. And I was like, ah, you know, but it's pretty impressive. Do they need a fast-forward function? You're like, ah, don't know but it's pretty impressive. Do they need a fast forward function?

You're like, ah, don't know this one. Everyone, everyone, okay, no, we'll watch this one but it is an amazing spectacle.