Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Is Ben Too Old For The Backwards Hat?

Episode Date: August 14, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. Finals of the Football World Cup, one tonight, one tomorrow night in Australia. They're talking about having a public holiday if the Matildas win the World Cup. We should have a public holiday too if the Matildas win the World Cup. Putting more pressure on them, although I was listening to Heather Duplessy-Allen on Newstalk ZB yesterday. She'll call a spade a spade. She will. And she was like, okay, so the final's on a Sunday night, late on Sunday night.

So then she was like, so what does that mean? The next day, the Monday? Is that the public holiday? Or, you know, like when are businesses going to know? They can't wait because it is quite late on the, or are we going to wait a week? Are we going to wait two weeks? I mean, what? Because they can't announce it until they've won.

Oh, I see. Like if it's a, yeah, I get it. So you announce it until they've won. Oh, I see. Like if it's a year, I get it. So you don't know they've won until the 90 minutes is up. Yeah, you're like, oh, it's 10 o'clock at night. Oh, I'm not going to work tomorrow. Day off tomorrow. Or maybe not the day off tomorrow. Oh, but I've ordered all the food in for the bakery.

Too late, mate. Yeah, or are they going to say, if they win, we'll tell you on the day after when the holiday's going to be. And she's like, oh, that'll just drag on or whatever it is. She's our bloody love, Heather. She'll call a spade a spade too maybe she came out once she's like if the uh the ferns lose this weekend i'm out i'm losing interest country will lose interest she calls a spade a spade now ben um something i've added to my morning routine that i want

to talk to you about yeah okay now you've let it be known publicly multiple times that I'm follicly challenged on top of the dome. Oh, yeah. Hadn't noticed. But if you want to bring it up, then we can talk about it. A rich career of 10 years of alopecia mockery of my disability. It's not a disability. You can grow patches of hair.

But then my… It's like the lawn I try to mow for a while With the dog peas on it That kills the grass I grew a lawn and it wouldn't work And it was patchy and then I grew it again And then in the end I was like I'll just artificially Put some artificial grass down

That's what you could do Maybe I need to astroturf my head Yeah exactly But for a while there too My eyebrows were getting out of control. They were growing very long and kind of going like the members of One Direction. Harry was off over there, then the others were kind of all playing over here, and it wasn't working for me.

Right. To the point where we did something for the hits, I think it was like a photo shoot or an ad or something, remember? That's right. And the makeup artist was like, ooh, she had to cut my eyebrows. And once I went to the barber. Remember I went to the bloody barber downstairs from our old work? Yeah.

He shaved them off, didn't he? He's like, do you want me to shave your eyebrows? And in a tone of like, well, this is common practice in the barber game. And I said, yeah, sure. Clean off. It was the afternoon of the musical. I know. He came up and I said, oh, off it was the afternoon of the musical i know you came up and

i thought oh what's happening to him yeah um but now i'm like okay well i don't get to enjoy brushing my hair every morning or doing my hair so now i'm focused in on the eyebrows i give them a little brush a little bit a little brush every morning that's nice i'll keep them trimmed too now you'll notice they're not going oh Oh, yeah. Oh, that's good. They were getting very long though for a while. I felt like they were becoming windshield wipers dangling over my eyeballs there. So you get into play in the hair game a bit. I do.

It's fun. Thanks to your eyebrows. It's like 20 to 30 seconds of like, oh, this must be what it feels like. Because how much is that adding to your morning routine every morning? Two or three minutes? Yeah, having to do some hair. Mine's pretty low maintenance. But I imagine for some people it's taking a long time.

It could take half an hour to an hour, depending on how hard people go. And it's good too. If you're like, oh, I'm having a bad hair down, I'm going to be like, amen, brother. Don't I know what that feels like? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. In the weekend, I was about to leave the house with the kids, been at home for a couple of hours or so. And as I got to the house with the kids, been at home for a couple of hours or so and as I got to the

door and walked outside, one of my kids turns to me and went, Dad looked at me in my head and went, your hat. And I went, yeah? And they're like, what's, it's backwards. And I'd been going around the house wearing a hat. Now I've got a hat, it's a crusty

burger hat. It's yellow, it's, I know the one you're talking about. Yeah, and it's got a very flat peak at the front. Now, in my head, I don't feel trendy enough to wear a flat peak cap. You've got to ride a motocross bike or have tattoos on your neck or something. I love the hat, so when I wear it, I wear it backwards. And apparently, according to my kids, I've reached an age in my life where it's not acceptable for someone. It's embarrassing for someone to be rocking around with a yellow hat backwards in public.

I hate to say this because, you know, close friends, Ben, but yeah, they're right. Really? Yeah. Have I reached that stage? When you get to this stage and age of life, are you bringing the hat out, are you? He's actually brought the head in. Show me what it looks like frontwards. Frontwards.

Oh, yeah, no, I can't pull that off. And backwards. And backwards. See, backwards I thought I could do. Yeah, no. I'm sorry. Really? I'm sorry, yeah.

It looks like you're playing an old man playing a character of a teenager in a community theatre play. And you're like, what's this cracker licking, radical dudes? You know, that kind of looks like that. Right. So not, okay, so I've reached that stage. But no one tells you these things. No.

At one point you're like, I can wear this. And then you get to a point you're like, huh, you can't do that anymore. Are you saying it looks like that producer Joel? There's a great, it's like a meme. I think his name's Steve Buscemi. Oh, Buscemi. Yeah. I wore this hat backwards.

You remind me of Paul Rudd when he did that, you know, stay at home and isolate ad for the New York governor. And he was trying to be happened down with the kids, but he wasn't. Yeah. Okay. But I'm not one to throw stones. I mean, I still dress like I'm a teenage boy. And I always have consistently dressed the same.

And sometimes you find other people in your age group and you're like, oh, they're dressed like. I should probably be dressing in suits and shirts and nice things. And you're like, well, I still dress like I'm 19 years old. Yeah, because I wouldn't wear this to work. It was just on the weekend. Casual stuff. It was on the weekend. But even that is not allowed in my life right now. Yeah, because I wouldn't wear this to work. It was just on the weekend. Casual stuff.

It was on the weekend, but even that is not allowed in my life right now. Yeah. I think the older you get, the more your hat kind of finds its way around to the front. Sensibly to the front to block out the sun. What it's designed to do, the peak. The other thing too, which I really enjoyed,

I went to a surf shop over New Year's a couple of years ago, tried on some bloody camouflage pants tonight. Yeah. And the girl, bless her, she said it nicely. She's like, oh, I think that might just be a bit young. Oh, she said that honestly. That's just the way it is. She was right.

You do need that honesty, don't you? You do. And she said she delivered it nicely, which made it even cut deeper. Because you don't want to walk out of there and then someone else is like. Oh, your legs are camouflaged, you know, with pockets down the side and stuff. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. Tomorrow, lotto. 33 mil. You don't get really swept up in lotto, do you? What's your theory on lotto? Oh, I just, I mean, yeah, I just go into it. Every time I buy a ticket, I'm like, I'm not going to win. Why don't I just, you know, so.

But how will you ever know the feeling of wasting money on a piece of paper that you'll never win Lotto with if you don't buy a ticket? Yeah, I know. And every now and again, I do. And I go, I'm not going to win. And then six months later, I'm like, I never checked that ticket. And then I just give it the ticket. Chances of winning Powerball?

One in 38 million. Wow. But someone does. You know, from time to time, it happens. That's what keeps the gambling alive. Yeah, does. From time to time it happens. That's what keeps the gambling alive. Yeah, but I'm just going with a negative attitude. And producer Taylor, you're like, well, that's not the way to be, right? You manifest your luck, don't you?

Yeah. So if you don't even buy a ticket, then you'll never win because you're not even in it. You know what I mean? I know what you mean. Yeah, and that's that mindset that's just holding you back, Ben. It's just a negative mindset. Go spend money on holding you back, Ben. It's a negative mindset. Go spend money on lotto tickets, Ben. It's not being so negative.

So if I'm more positive towards it, then hopefully I'll have a better chance. Is that what you believe? And I'm not saying you might win the million straight off, but you'll get some little things along the way. What have you manifested in the past? I would say probably my biggest one is my career, my husband. So you manifested this? No, it was going well in Australia and then I moved over here.

Things kind of fell off. She stopped manifesting. This is what happens. Wow, that's a great example. I need to get into it. So I read this book, The Secret, which is huge in the spiritual law of attraction world. Yeah, right.

Light the bloody incense up. Here we go. And one of the biggest techniques, it says, act as if you've already received it, right? And that'll bring it to you. So I think if you guys want to win the lotto. Go buy a house. Yeah, spend.

Lamborghini. Spend. Because then that house? Yes, spend. Lamborghini? Spend. Because then that shows the universe, oh, I'm not doubting you. Like, I'm sure I'll win. Like, I've already won. My thing is, though, if I go, okay, I'm going to win a lot. I've got positive. I'm going to win.

But then I know deep down that this is just an act. There you go. Because you're not believing it, mate. You're not believing it. You've got to mind screw yourself into thinking you've won. But I'm not going to be able to convince myself. I'm the hardest person to convince. Mind if the universe into thinking you've won, Lotto. Yeah, but then the universe is going to go,

do you really? I'm going to go, no, I'm not. Even the universe questions him. I think you need to be energy healed. Like there's just so many barriers right now. You just need to get cleansed. I was actually looking at this this morning. Apparently, if you write down,

here's a starting point for you, Ben. Okay. If you write down what you want 33 times for three days in a row that's a good way of getting what you need. Okay. Alright. You're not going to do that are you?

Well 33 times you say. How long is that going to take? Maybe some people out there have got it. Maybe in control C and control V. Yeah. So you don't have to write it

out. What sort of luck have you got? Can we find the luckiest listener? Yeah.

0800 the hits 4487 is the text this morning on New Zealand's breakfast. Have you won lotto? Has luck just

come your way? Lady luck over the years. All right. Or man luck. 2023. It's just luck. Non-binary luck. Just luck. Yeah.. Well, man luck. 2023, it's just luck. Non-binary luck.

Just luck. Yeah. But you manifested something, Susan. I did. What was that? But just before I say, the ladder was mine, by the way. She's already manifested. Oh, you've manifested.

Yeah, what else have you done? I've already manifested that. We can't all manifest it, can we? So much manifesting going on this morning. Yeah. I'll get this one. you get the next one. How's that? Yeah.

They're every week. Fair enough, fair enough. What did you manifest, Susan? So in 2014, I came to New Zealand from Ireland and travelled around the country and fell absolutely head over heels with it. But unfortunately, my visa was running out so i had to go home and there was just absolutely no way of staying so went home and i just i just wanted to get back here so badly um and for a few years i was just as as taylor was saying write it down manifest. And I met my husband. We talked about coming over here.

We couldn't get here. He looked at his visas. There was no chance. So life went on. We got married. We had a little boy. And then four or five years ago, we were on Facebook. And my husband found this scam.

And we nearly got conned into it but we realized it was a scam pretty quickly but we realized how badly we wanted this so my husband went on started looking at immigration and found out that we could actually get here and it took a little while but we got back. Is it manifesting or is it just following through with administration is probably the other thing no i would say it was manifested because there was absolutely no way that we could get here like our visas just weren't giving us the option and i just i just prayed i just i really desperately wanted to get back here. I love this country so much and the people here.

And I just prayed every day. Oh, Susan, that is sweet. And a good reminder, too, that a lot of us miserable Kiwis who spend all the time moaning and phoning up Talkback Radio, Susan loves New Zealand. Spent years wanting to come here, to live here. We've got it pretty good. Yeah, we have got it pretty good.

Susan, we appreciate your call. Great to have you here. Yeah, we have got it pretty good. Susan, we appreciate your call. Great to have you here. Thanks, guys. Love the show. Hey, thank you, Susan. And now I love her even more. She's pandered to our fragile egos being here. Anonymous doesn't want to be named.

Luckiest listener. Why? Because I won the lotto. You won the lotto. Did you manifest this? I did. Yeah? You manifested hard.

Someone's texting saying Lotto's $37 million too, by the way, tomorrow. Yeah, I know. I've been playing Lotto for many, many years. And anyway, one day I said to myself, no, I'm going to win the Lotto. I'm going to win the Lotto. And I did. Wow. How much did you win? to win the lotto, I'm going to win the lotto, and I did. Wow.

That happened. How much did you win? $333,333, but I had to split it with two, but it was very good because I just got out of hospital the same day. Oh, that is wonderful. Wow. And you just basically just kept repeating, I'm going to win Lotto, I'm going to win Lotto. And the Lotto lady says to me, she says, are you actually going to stop playing Lotto?

And I says, no. Because my mother said to me, she says, because it was in Richmond and Nelson, and she says, oh, have you checked your ticket? Someone won Lotto. Then I says, oh, well, it won't be me. Anyway, and I went out there and put my instant carry through, which I'd done. I'd won $2, wahoo.

Anyway, and the lady says, oh, well, the little machine wouldn't work. So I said, oh, you can take the rest. And then the power ball went through, and it came up, congratulations, first division winner. And I said, holy, you know, and I sort of just about wet myself. And then they had to give me a glass of water and put me out the back and sit me down. And then my mother comes in and the lady says, what the hell's happened to you? She says, well, it's nothing.

It was me that won the lotto. So, yes, I manifested it pretty good. Good on you. Yeah, blow by blow account of nearly urinating yourself and everything. Jeez, well done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I went out and I did admittedly. A lot of it away, but I went out and had other savings as well.

But the best thing about it is I didn't have to share it with no men. No men. Oh, good on you. Well done. So I went out, and so now I'm on the three. All right. Thank you so much. All right.

We'll get this covered through. Time to move on, Ben. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Last night on 3, the reality TV show The Traitors was on and broadcaster Mike Peru was savagely sent home. Mike, before you leave the game forever, please reveal whether you're a faithful or a traitor. I am a faithful.

He was a faithful. Yeah, they were trying to work out who the traitors are on the show, and he wasn't one of them. So they sent home one of the faithfuls. Geez, you add dramatic music to anything, it makes it sound spectacular. Now, Mike Pudu, the wonderful Mike Pudu, he's just finished Breakfast Radio. We're making him get up early in the morning How are you mate? I'm good, yes and no

I can't believe people get out of bed and work this early It's crazy isn't it But hey, nice to talk to you boys My favourite boys on radio How are you? Oh we're doing alright Nice to talk to you Now the experience

I mean this I imagine this would have been quite a few what Weeks, months ago when this happened But you're finally seeing it on TV And reliving it all over again last night. Yeah, and it was triggering last night because, you know, that moment where you realise that you're going home, you kind of go,

oh, God, I've been here a couple of days, give me a break. It was a lot of excitement and a lot of disappointment last night again. Now, Mike, we love you, and you've dealt with a lot of traitors in the radio industry over the years. What is it like being on a show like this?

And how intense is it? Because we spoke to Paul Henry. They're locking you in dark rooms. You obviously don't have access to cell phones. Do they actually go that hard out, the production team? I honestly, at what? And, you know, look, I'm used to hosting shows, so being on the other side of it was quite an experience for me.

Our rooms that we had were blacked out, and they had security guards everywhere so you could never leave. Not having a phone was quite hard to deal with, but you just never knew what was going to happen, whereas when you're the host, you avoid the script in a funny sort of way. You know what the challenges are going to be, you kind of know what's going the script in a funny sort of way. You know what the challenges are going to be. You kind of know what's going to happen in a funny sort of way. But yeah, I loved it though. Honestly, it was so much fun.

But very intense. And when Paul Hadley walked out as the host, everyone was like, oh, this is going to be next level. So yeah, it was fun. It was good times. Because obviously without your phones or any contact with the kind of outside world, it must sort of change your perception on reality for a few days or a few weeks or however long you're in there.

Is it kind of like us looking back at COVID, which is now gone and gone, wow, that was a strange time. That really got away on me. During COVID, I had to work. So, you know, I mean, it was a different experience. So I did come out of it thinking that was like my little isolation period. Yeah, it was pretty intense. An experience like none other.

So you obviously are out of the show early on. Do you know what happens in the program? Do you know who wins? Well, no, this is the beauty. I do not know. And it's kind of nice all of a sudden to sort of be honest about that because, you know you can't say what your journey's been

like and then now I get to sit back and watch it and I have no idea honestly I am just a shit reader of people's personalities clearly because I did not see that coming last night I honestly had no idea that my name was going to be flipped up

and you trust people you you know, like Brodie King. Nine years, made a little pact with her at the start, threw me under the bus. But it was nice seeing people like Matt Hayter, our fellow radio buddy across the road. You know, he had my back. But honestly, man, there are some deceitful lies and people

are really good at it. I went hard on the sleep. Clearly that did not pay off. Yeah, it really brings out the best in people this show. Okay, did you have any inkling when you were filming it that that was them? As to who you think the traders are? To be honest with you, I kind of had an inkling Matt Heath was the trader.

Honestly, it was hard. I didn't have time, man. I only had a couple of days to suss people out. I thought I was a good reader of people, but nah, I'm not. Well, he reads the weather a lot better than he reads people. And he's done a fantastic job on News Hub. Mike Peru from The Traders. Always love catching up with you, mate.

You go and have a great day. Will do. Thank you. And keep watching because this show is intense. We are looking for the best song ever. We're going to have another big battle after 8 o'clock this morning where you get to decide what is the best song of all time. Yesterday, Robbie Williams, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston,

Britney Spears, sync packing. Yeah, Michael Jackson beaten by Guns N' Roses. I know. November Rain, beat it, beat it by November Rain. Both epic songs. Great songs. Whitney Houston beaten by The Exponents. Who loves who the most?

You Can't Touch This, MC Hammer beat Britney Spears. Oops, I did it again. I've been growing both epic songs. Great songs. Whitney Houston beaten by The Exponents. Who loves who the most? You Can't Touch This. MC Hammer beat Britney Spears. Yeah. So I did it again. Oh, I know. So it's up to you to decide on your favourite song. And we wanted to back a song for our show to see how far we could get it in the competition.

And we chose yesterday this one, taking it back to the 90s with a bit of Boyz II Men. Oh, what a show. Just very sultry, very sexual. Everything you say about this show, it's in the bio. If you want sultry and sexual in the morning, well then you've come to the right place this morning.

I thought there was a comedic angle there. The juxtaposition between us being the polar opposite of making love to you all night long and Boyz II Men, who probably could. They've got the stamina. Yesterday, at the end of the show, five to nine, I said to producer Taylor, I was like, Taylor, can you get us Boyz II Men on the show in the next couple of days? And you've come in this morning with a wild claim. Yeah, it was quite a nice request to get yesterday.

So I've gone and done it. I've reached out to my people. I think that's sarcasm, Ben. I think that was sarcasm. Just in case you're wondering. So I've spoken to my peeps and I have someone on the show tomorrow from Boys to Men. No, you don't. Yeah, I've done it.

You haven't done it that quickly. I think they're probably quite obtainable. Oh, did you want to do it next time? Yeah, mate. Did you want to set that all up? I'm sorry, Sally. You did a great job. You did a great job. Okay, so who? Who from Boyz II Men? Nathan Morris.

Okay. Nathan Morris. Ringing bells. Yes. He wore the glasses. He wore the glasses. Yeah. Okay. Tomorrow Morris. Ringing bells. Yes. Oh, yeah. He wore the glasses. He wore the glasses. Yeah. I don't know my boys. Okay. Tomorrow on the show. That's pretty cool.

Yeah. So you're welcome. You'd make a great online scammer, Taylor. Why? Well, just because of your skills of tracking people down. Oh, I feel like I could be like on social catfish. Yeah. Yeah.

You've actually got a really good knack for it. Well, thank you for organising that. So we're going to get Nathan on. We're going to say, hey, mate, look what we're doing. What are we wanting from this? We're going to get him behind it as well. You know, we get more. Add some celebrity weight behind it.

To be honest, I didn't think you were going to deliver that quickly. I mean, John, I think they're obtainable, but I was like, geez, you're never going to get someone with time zones. They're probably touring. Mate, I've got my ways. They're still performing. So, yeah. Yeah. So we'll get someone in the time zones. They're probably touring. Mate, I've got my ways. All sorts of stuff performing. So, yeah. Yeah.

So, we'll go and have them on the show tomorrow. And hopefully, once we... Because we're just basically tampering with this campaign, aren't we? Trying to convince you to vote for Boyz II Men so we can get it to number one. Yeah, we'll give you five weeks parental leave if you vote for Boyz II Men as well. And, you know, fruit and vegetables. We won't take GST off them. They'll just be free.

Free. Just wander into a shop. Any fruit and vegetable shop, just take them. Like the little baskets for kids at the front. It'll be like fruit and vegetables Won't take GST off them They'll just be free Free Just wander into a shop Any fruit and vegetable shop Just take them Like the little baskets For kids at the front It'll be like Fruit and vegetables for all

That's our promise If you get boys to be Into number one The hits The Jono and Ben podcast I know you're not a fan Of being massaged Are you not a fan

Of the human to human massage No Some people love it But it's not for me I just find it One of those I don't know I don't relax I get more tense to relax I'd love to do it And then I start not for me. I just find it one of those, I don't know, I don't relax. I get more tense to relax.

I'd love to do it. And then I start thinking about more things I need to do. It's like a moment that I need to, I find it very hard to switch off in that situation. I'd love to take you to a massage place and just film it for social media and just you're like, oh yeah, I'm going to stay here for 60 minutes. You can't move. And just have the camera pointing up from underneath the hole,

you know, that you have your face down. You end up with that big sort of mark on your face at the end. And the whole time you'd just be like, I'm not enjoying this. Stuff I could be doing. Well, my wife, Jennifer, she goes to the chiropractor and every time the chiropractor tells her, you must get your husband to massage your shoulders. This is putting you out. Right.

The problem is I'm not a good massage person. You know, a fair play to the massage community all day they're using their fingers and thumbs they must every time they open a door handle they must rip off the door handle uh they must be so strong because my thumbs get sore within sort of 30 to 40 seconds do you offer a massage do you do massage i'm not really but you're right the times I have it's a search fingers it's a sport pay for and you never know

the person some people like hard that sort of thing and what happens is because I'm behind Jennifer make it sound like

I go around offering lots of people I don't we're in the office we know him as what do you want mate deep tissue sort of a reiki one

I've got options available we used to work at a place there was a guy the massage guy he'd go around massaging Stick tissue. Sort of a Reiki one. I've got options available. We used to work at a place, there was a guy, the massage guy. Yeah, it was. He'd go around massaging. Oh, no. Yeah, everyone. It was a bit weird, wasn't it?

It was a bit weird, yeah. We would look through the window and go, that's a bit odd. That's a bit odd. But anyway, when I massage Jen, she's obviously can't see because I'm behind her. But I get easily distracted and I kind of get distracted by what's on the television. And she can feel it in the massage when the distraction is set in. Did you guys buy a massage gun? That's what I was about to say.

So then I've resorted to investing into many implements to do the job for me. You've got the massage gun, the jackhammer, you know. Also got conned into those people in the mall. They stand in the middle of the mall. And they're like, just have a seat on the chair you're like i don't have time mate you did you bought the thing the neck the neck how often are you using that we said that at the time it was like it actually was it was actually quite relaxing i was even me who did like massages i was like i see why you bought this but i'm like you're not going to use this anyway she's been using that but it's not doing the job so then i have to get back in there with the thumbs i've been called back into into question so i don't know what the point of this was uh i don't

know if it's a complaining or a ranting or if i need to somehow strengthen up the fingers and thumbs it's true yeah because i've got 30 to 60 seconds of good massaging. Beyond that, really, the pressure lightens up and I've got nothing. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Who is running the most unique schedule? Like maybe you haven't been to bed yet. Maybe you get up earlier than everyone else. Maybe you don't need many hours of sleep.

That's what we want to know this morning because a friend of ours, a friend of the show, Irish Dave, as we like to call him, he's running a very unusual schedule and he's going to tell us about it now. Good morning, Dave. What's the crap, boys? Irish Dave. In Ireland, he's simply Dave. But to us, we have to stipulate his country of origin before his name over here. How are we doing, Dave?

We're doing all right. Now, your schedule. We wanted to talk to you about your schedule because you worked in the hospitality industry for many years now, right? For my 28th year this year. 28 years. Jeez.

You would have seen some stuff, Dave. I've seen some things. Don't you worry. Stuff you'd rather forget, but it's etched in your memory forever. It burns into my retina for sure. But because obviously you work late hours, long hours through the night when you're working on hospo, but you run your schedule like that throughout the week.

So what time would you normally go to bed even when you're not working? So my kind of bedtime is 6 or 7 a.m. 6 or 7 a.m.? Yeah, and then I'll sleep probably till like 3 o'clock. So I still get a solid 8 hours sleep. It's just when the rest of the world is doing its thing. That isn't really it. And Ben says, you know, because this right now,

this is your 9 or 10 o'clock at night for most people. Ben says you use our radio show as like a sleeping pill and it puts you to sleep. It's what sends me off. I get the first day of your show and then that's me done. I don't know if that's good things or bad things. Right now he's probably getting a little sleepy hearing our voices as well. Really interesting. So what happens if someone's like, like hey dave we really need you

for this 10 o'clock meeting in the morning are you like oh that's the middle of the night no i mean some sometimes i just have to work into like the normal world schedule it means i'll just stay up later um or i'll yeah actually have to get up in the middle of my night, which is, you know, your day, and do some stuff. But, you know, generally speaking, I can get most normally be hitting up the end of a normal person's workday. So I try to schedule everything after 3 p.m. So all your admin, if you have to go to the post office or have a meeting, it's sort of between 3 and 5. Yeah, exactly. Or if I need to, like, for example, I go shopping,

I go shopping at 6 a.m., which is good because there's nobody there. It is the perks of, like, living in the night world is a lot of people around. Have you tried running just a normal person's schedule where you're awake during the day and asleep during the night? Have you given it a go? Yeah, I've done it. I actually did it a couple of weeks back for field days,

the normal world schedule, and I hated it. I hate it. It's just not, I hate it. It's not for me. Is it true you just came across from Ireland who are opposite to us and just kept with that time zone? Is that what you've really done? I mean, it worked out well because I can talk to all my friends and family.

So it's just like I'm still there for them. Yeah, he's running normal business in Ireland. He's working business hours. Maybe that's the thing. Well, have a good sleep. You're about to go to sleep very shortly. I'm off to bed soon. Can you ever see yourself not running the schedule?

No, probably not. Wow. Do see yourself not running the schedule? No, probably not. Wow. Do you get tired during the night, like staying awake? Or is it just like, well, you're just used to it now? I've been doing it for so long.

It's just part of who I am. It's really impressive. He's running the schedule of a rock star. And he's been doing it for 28 years. Yeah, wow. What a legend.

Dave, listen, night-night. Have a good sleep. Yeah, goodnight, boys. See you. See you, mate.