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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast.
Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations.
After a long labour weekend, it feels like we've turned the corner for summer,
although the news this week for the weather, not too good.
Yeah, it's meant to go a bit nasty, and even snow forecast on Friday,
didn't it, Eden?
Oh, we're turning back around the corner there.
We went around the corner, we're like, no, no, we don't like all this sun
and summer stuff, we'll just reverse back.
But it's nice to have A long weekend isn't it
The weekend
Pulling some overtime there
Getting a day in lieu
Well done to the weekend
For giving us the three days
You went up north
How was it?
It was good
It was really nice
To go up to see my new niece
I hadn't seen her
She was a few months old
What's your new niece's name?
Zoe
Yes
Very very cute
It's funny how
I was thinking that
Over the weekend
You can comfortably Fat shame over the weekend you can comfortably
fat shame a baby
yeah you can
oh she's chubby
chubby chick
and everyone's
cool with her
oh she's a chubby
and you grab the
little rolls of fat
yeah they're very
cute and has chubby
cheeks but it's like
we're all fat shaming
the baby
it does get weird
around the office
when you grab my
cheeks and you're
like you chubby
little ball thing
did you talk to the
baby we spent a lot
of time talking to them too yeah a little talk you just try and get their attention the whole time you're like, you chubby little ball thing. Did you talk to the baby? We spent a lot of time talking to them too.
Yeah, a little talk.
You just try and get their attention the whole time.
And they're at that stage where a few months old
where you're probably just moving sort of blur of pictures and colours and stuff.
So trying to get smiles and you don't know if it's wind or gas
or you're getting an actual genuine smile, but very cute.
Have you still got your baby skills?
Have you lost them?
They disappear very quickly.
I still feel comfortable holding a baby.
Like it's probably all though.
And it was great.
I was holding the baby and then obviously accident happened.
It wasn't me.
And it was great to be in that position to go to my sister, Amelia.
Here you go.
By the way, if you could change mine at the same time,
I might have had a little whoopsie.
All Blacks had a good win too.
All Blacks in the final this weekend.
Ian Foster, I kind of feel, you know, a year ago,
everyone was like, get rid of him, you know.
He must feel pretty good and deservedly so.
It's awesome.
I hope he's got a draft text ready for the New Zealand Rugby Union next week.
Just sitting there waiting to press send.
But hey, he's played a classy game on the field
and also off the field as well.
Because everyone's like, is this good revenge? He's like, it's not about that. Deep down, he's like a classy game on the field and also off the field as well. Because everyone's like, is this good revenge?
He's like, it's not about that.
Deep down, he's like, it's definitely about that.
But well done to him.
It's great, eh?
It's probably time for a change of the guard regardless.
Yeah, but the way it was handled was pretty shabby.
For him to go out on a high like that, incredible.
That South Africa-England game was wild, wasn't it?
Very close.
I thought England were going to win it for a while there.
Yeah, boring game. I'm not a rugby to win it for a while there. Yeah.
Boring game.
I'm not a rugby expert, but they just kick the whole time.
All the commentators were like, this is the most boring game of rugby I've ever... Even Israel Dagg was like, I was falling asleep.
I kind of felt like last week, and we said it last week, there was two amazing games
in the quarterfinals, and they kind of felt like they were the semifinal.
Even the All Blacks game was a bit of a like.
It was great to see them win, but then after midway through,
we were like, oh, we got this.
We got this easy.
Good for third and fourth, though.
I think England, Argentina, they both deserve to be there.
And either would be stoked to come third at the Rugby World Cup,
you would imagine.
Yeah, well, particularly Argentina.
So there are a couple of big games this weekend.
I think Saturday, the third and fourth game.
Sunday is the World Cup final on Sunday morning, 8 o'clock.
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The Jono and Ben podcast.
I had the wedding anniversary over the weekend there, Ben Boyce.
And 17 years.
17 years of marriage.
Goes quickly, I tell you.
Sometimes, you know, when a couple tells you, oh, it's our wedding anniversary today,
I always like to go, how many years have you been married?
And not all people, but a lot of people, you just see the fear in their eyes of,
dear God, why would you do this to me?
You don't want to get that one wrong.
Why would you do this to me?
Yeah.
I found a website.
It's called howlonghaveibeenmarriedfor.com.
Yeah, wow.
And you can put it in.
Surely you can work it out without the website.
There's a website for everything.
Yeah, but okay, fair enough.
It tells you the exact minutes and days you've been married
so you can look like an uber-detailed person.
Wedding anniversary is another one that many people can forget.
From time to time, I forgot mine once.
That wasn't a good look because I have the wedding date tattooed on me.
So that's not great.
But you went with the Roman numerals because we got engaged in Rome.
So yeah.
That was my excuse. I was like, oh, I forgot. Oh, it's in the Roman. You should have written the Roman numerals. Because we got engaged in Rome. So, yeah. That was my excuse.
I was like, oh, you know, I forgot.
Oh, it's in the Roman.
You should have written in English numerals.
Oh, yeah, I see what that is now.
But we had a lovely dinner and stuff.
And the whole time we were at dinner, I'm like,
because there's a casino nearby.
I was like, let's go to the casino.
End of the night casino.
It's a wedding anniversary.
That's right. Lady luck. Let's see if we win some money. It'll be a great end of the night. End of the night casino. It's a winning anniversary. That's right.
Lady luck.
Let's see if we win some money.
It'll be a great end of the night.
Shake the dice and stuff.
And she's like, no, I don't think the casino at this time of night
is going to be what you think it's going to be.
I was like, come on, trust me.
Let me take you to the casino, babe.
We'll win thousands.
And walk into the casino.
And she was right.
It wasn't what I imagined.
We literally sat there for 20 minutes playing pokies next to a lady who was scratching her face and vaping under her T-shirt.
And the money disappeared in about 20 minutes.
You're like, all right, we're done here.
Yeah, and I was like, oh, should we go now?
And that was it.
The wedding anniversary didn't go to planiversary pen
no
it's not where I
had imagined the
night ending up
but imagine if you'd
won it would have
been like oh
we're kicking on
we're kicking on
to great times
I got grief from
producer Charlie
the other day
because we had
our wedding anniversary
and I used a
voucher
a voucher
you can't use a
voucher
why can't I use a
voucher on the
wedding anniversary
I know but you
could have but you
just the problem was you made it public I front footed it I use a voucher on the wedding anniversary? I know. You could have, but you just, the problem was you made it public.
I front-footed it.
I had a voucher.
Because everyone kept going, where are you going?
And I went, oh, this place.
And they said, why is that?
I said, because I've got a voucher.
It looks great, but I haven't been there, and that's the reason why we chose it.
What did you do?
Did you not use the voucher?
We used the voucher, and it was wonderful.
It was wonderful.
I highly recommend it.
How did Amanda feel about you using the voucher?
Oh, well, she got lost.
I can order as much as I want.
I'm not worried about the bank balance up until a certain point tonight.
If you go over the $150 threshold.
Then, you know, should I order that?
Yeah, of course you can.
Anything up until $150.
At the start of the night, I was all just like, get that, get that.
Then later on, I did the maths in my head.
I should have had that website.
You didn't need that term, Sue?
Maybe not. Maybe we'll just share a dessert. Okay. I should have had that website. You didn't need that term, Miss Sue? Yeah, I was like, maybe not.
Maybe we'll just share a dessert.
Okay.
I ain't under the hits.
This is what we want to open up.
You can text 24487 on New Zealand's Breakfast.
When your wedding anniversary didn't go to plan-a-versary.
I'll wait under the hits.
Give us a...
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Just talking about wedding anniversaries.
Not going to plan.
I mentioned that I ended up bleakly taking my wife to play pokies
late on a Saturday night, and she just
texted saying, you forgot the part where
you forgot to mention when we were walking into the casino
you said, oh, by the way, I don't
have any cash. I haven't got any cash
for the pokies. So she had to pay for the pokies as well.
I didn't have any cash either.
I don't have cash. Anyway.
I just used the bloody tap and go business, you know.
Oh, okay. Yeah.
So, it was a very sad fade out to a 17-year wedding anniversary.
But when they didn't go to plan-a-versary, Chris.
Yeah, good.
Thank you.
Anniversary.
What happened, mate?
Well, I'm not a big seafood fan, but my wife is.
And so, I decided that, you know, I'd be nice.
It was a work day.
So we were just going to pop out and have something to eat and a little drink
and then we'd head home and call it a night.
So we shared a seafood platter and a couple of cocktails
and then a couple more cocktails.
Right.
And then a whole lot more cocktails.
And then we proceeded
to head home, which I actually
don't remember heading home.
But we got there anyway. You got a belly
full of seafood and cocktails.
And I
wake up with the room spinning.
Uh-oh. Oh, no.
So I do what
you do in that situation. I think, right,
beeline for the bathroom.
And as I made it to the bathroom, I didn't get any further than the door.
And I proceeded to, yeah.
Yeah, we know what happens next.
Yes.
Well, sadly, somebody already bit me to the bathroom.
And my beautiful wife was laying
cast out on the bathroom floor.
Jesus, this is a hell of a mid-week
anniversary.
So, she was awoken
by me
vomiting on her face.
Oh, no.
No.
Happy anniversary, darling.
Yeah.
It gets better.
Better?
Okay, what happened?
Okay, well, obviously because I'd thrown up on her face
and it was stinging her eye,
she decided, okay, yep, I need to quickly have a shower.
She got in the shower
and did the most beautiful ballerina purit ever
and then crashed through the shower door. Oh most beautiful ballerina purit ever and then crashed through
the shower door.
Oh what through the glass door?
Yeah.
Oh wow.
When she woke up in the morning her knee was cut open and stuck to the bed sheet.
Our bathroom was full of water.
What a wild time.
We were both running late for work.
Oh my and it's a weekday too.
Just a quiet lunch.
We'll go out for some seafood.
Oh, my goodness.
That is impressive.
Are you guys still together?
Yes, we are.
Oh, there you go.
The anniversary will be 20 years.
Oh, 20 years.
Yeah, that is amazing.
Well, I tell you what, once you've vomited on someone's face, that's love.
Yes.
That is love.
Stay together.
Exactly.
Oh, Chris, really appreciate you
sharing that story. You're going to have a wonderful day.
Thank you very much.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
The All Blacks are back into the
Rugby World Cup final. Congratulations to
Ian Foster and the team. It really is a
remarkable turnaround for people
a year ago. We're saying some pretty nasty stuff
so it's awesome. They must be just wanting to
do all sorts, say all sorts of things but they're playing it very mature and cool. We were saying some pretty nasty stuff, so it's awesome. They must be just wanting to say all sorts of things to it,
but they're playing it very mature
and cool. We were saying, I hope Ian Foster's
got his screw you text ready for the rugby
union. Just sitting in draft. Just a mic
drop at the press conference if they win, so good luck
this weekend. I think he's probably above
that. He is. He's classy.
And I felt a bit sorry for
Argentina over
the weekend. I tell you, I felt sorry for England
They were in the lead for most of that game
That was a close game, wasn't it?
I feel even more sorry for the person who has to nappy sand the English uniforms
White, bad choice for rugby, isn't it?
All white
But on Friday you had a really good idea that would phone an Argentinian shop
And get their vibes, thoughts and feelings pre-match.
So this was Friday.
Jono and Ben
calling from the Hits radio station.
Oh, hi. Come on, Ben.
Nice to talk to you. Now, there's a big rugby game
going on this weekend. New Zealand
taking on Argentina.
Yes, I know. We are super excited
about that. Well, you won't be super
excited come Monday. Oh, you won't be super excited come Monday.
Oh, you don't know that.
Here we go.
A bit of international rugby banter.
We just thought we should call some Latino places
and get a bit of banter going, you know?
Yes, of course.
We love the All Blacks as well.
And we love Argentina as well.
One way or another, we are going to be happy.
We all win. Okay, so this is a conversation, we're having
this conversation on Friday. If we called you
on Tuesday, let's see if it's different. So right
now, how are you feeling? You feeling good about the game?
Yes, I'm quite confident
about it. They play quite well. They've
been quite, yeah, they are a
great team. I tell you what, the Argentinians,
when you see your team
sing the national anthem, boy, they're giving it 120%.
Could we get a couple of bars of the anthem from you?
I'm terrible at singing. No, you're good libertad, libertad.
I'm terrible at singing. No, you're good.
That's really good.
I didn't know if I should interrupt you because it would be quite disrespectful to cut in on the anthem,
but that was beautiful.
Oh, no, it's just been nice, but that's all good.
All the best for tomorrow's game.
Do you mind, can we call you on Tuesday and then we'll see how things are going?
Of course, yes. Go for it.
Can we talk about how much meat you guys eat?
Yes, we do eat a lot of meat. Mind you, I've been vegetarian for many years. Oh, you're vegetarian? Okay. How does Argentina feel about you being
vegetarian? Well, now I think it's a little bit
different, you know. I'm 49, so when I was 18,
I went vegetarian, and that was a big shock for everybody. Nobody knew what they were supposed
to feed me, and it was always very funny. What do we feed this person? Parties and places. Oh,
no, here comes a difficult one. You and your vegetarian ways, you brought great shame
upon Argentina.
I know.
All right,
we'll talk Tuesday.
Sounds good.
Okay,
thanks for the call.
So that was Gabby
on Friday
and we thought,
well,
we need to follow through.
Even though the All Blacks
won comprehensively,
we need to give a call
right now,
don't we?
Yeah,
and I think Taylor's
got a hold of her.
Gabby?
Yes?
It's us.
Hola.
Oh, hi.
It's Jaro and Ben.
Yes?
Bit of a different vibe to Friday.
We said we'd call you back.
Hi.
Yes, you guys.
Yeah, it's us.
It's us, the guys that phoned you on Friday.
Of course, yes, I remember.
Yes.
How are we feeling today?
Well, we were a bit sad, but we were happy for the All Blacks.
So, yes.
Oh, gracious and defeat.
It's all good.
And Argentina can still come third.
Yeah, that would be a cool thing, though.
Yes, but we are very excited and hoping that the All Blacks will win this time.
Yeah.
Now, I just noticed, and I'm sorry for missing this over the weekend,
that you messaged us on Instagram as well.
Yes.
And you said that if the All Blacks win, you will eat some Vegemite.
It sounds like you need to eat some Vegemite.
Do it now.
Vegemite.
I will send you a photo having my toast with Vegemite.
Vegemite's lovely.
I want you to eat the whole jar.
No toast.
Nah.
Oh, Gabby, you're a good sport.
Good luck to Argentina this weekend
for the big third and fourth game.
We'll have to come out and visit you at your store.
Yes, I look forward to that, guys.
See you, Gabby.
Lovely.
And every time
I have a long weekend
Ben
I'm like
Why don't we just adopt
The four day working week
People are doing it
Japan are doing it
Some people are doing it
You're right
Big companies in Japan
I think Mitsubishi
Trialled it
Panasonic
Big players
I don't know how radio works
Though
For you know
Yeah
A show that you know
Monday to Thursday
I know but everyone
Would have to sync
Monday to Thursday Right You'd just all everyone would have to sync Monday to Thursday.
Right.
You'd just all have Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Gotcha.
Yeah, it'd all line up.
Yeah, I went up north over the weekend, saw my mum and my family, my sister.
She's had a new baby a few months ago, which is awesome.
And the cousins get together, my daughters with their cousins.
Did you have to go, oh, that's a cute baby?
Oh, it was a cute baby.
It was definitely a cute baby.
I wasn't faking this one.
Yeah, there are some out there where you're like, geez, I'm having to put a bit of an act on here.
Because not all babies are cute.
They can't all be cute.
I was an uggo.
Yeah.
No, it's a very cute baby.
And the cousins all get together.
One thing I love when the cousins get together,
and they've done this since they were little,
is they do performances.
But they spend a good two or three days
working out a performance to put on for the whole family.
About as long as
taylor swift prepared for a movie yeah and it's actually really cool because firstly they're gone
for a couple of days working on this thing costumes scripts and stuff like that so it's good and you
have to sit through like a 30 minute 45 minute performance sometimes you're like you could have
edited something out that's what you always come back to me saying they could have just trimmed it
a bit but the older they, the better these concerts are.
You're in the trenches for a while.
Yeah, like early days.
But now they've got scripts, they've got jokes, they've got costumes.
They're really putting this on and it's quite impressive.
But now they've turned from, you know, a couple of years ago they would go,
oh, we're going to do a Disney performance.
Do the Little Mermaid or we're going to do, you know, Des The Little Mermaid, or we're going to do Descendants
or something like that.
But now they've decided to make performances of the family members.
And this is quite interesting when it's kids aged probably from eight to 13 years old,
where they are turning their attention to getting jokes, getting laughs out of performing
as you.
And their gauge on people's feelings isn't as probably set as much as adults are.
And what really was, it was very funny.
Firstly, very funny.
But also some home truths came out through kid form.
Conversations, adult conversations about family stuff, which I won't get into on the radio.
They came out in performance form.
I like think, why aren't you doing this?
Why is this and such this?
My mum, yeah, she was drinking a lot of wine.
The character was drinking a lot of wine.
She was bragging about her son on the radio.
I was some sort of neurotic sort of guy that kept putting hand sanitizer on.
Granted, that's me.
Perfect character.
Doing my hair a lot.
Telling everyone to get involved in Instagram photos as well.
Giving everyone pep talks.
Come on, guys.
You've got to make the most of the day. Get up and at them on push yourself i'm like oh god dear god that is me come on you can
do it you push yourself let's get up win the morning win the day that sort of stuff you know
it was kind of a passive aggressive character uh sort of analysis but through performance everyone
loved it when it was someone else they're like oh this is so good That is definitely my sister
And then it came round to me
You're like oh this is me
But everyone else was loving it as well
And the kids the more they got more laughs
The harder that got
The performances
Look I won't get into too much on the radio
But I just went whoa okay
There's some personal conversations
Have you ever seen one of those MTV comedy roasts
where all the comedians get up?
And you're like, oh, that's a little too far.
And just rip to shreds another comedian.
Well, this was an occasion where, yeah,
your family members ripped to shreds you, but hey.
Hey, well, we'll script something up
and you can do one back to the kids.
That's what I said last time.
And they were like, that's bullying.
I'm like, how's this now suddenly bullying?
Oh, I can't wait.
I can't wait to do it.
Christmas time.
The boys roast.
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We want to know on 100 The Hits,
what was the most random thing that you walked into the bathroom to find?
Have you got anything, Ben Boyce?
Well, not compared to walking and finding a dog like yourself
or also this next car.
Oh, this is going to blow that out of the park.
Mike, what did you walk into the bathroom to find?
Oh, yeah, well, back in the days when I was flat in West Auckland,
one of the mates decided to go out and collect a sheep from somewhere
and I woke up.
I was on shift work and went to go and have a shower.
There's a bloody sheep.
There's a sheep in the shower.
A sheep in the shower.
I mean, I guess they've got to stay clean somehow, I guess, maybe, yeah, if they've
got the option.
But yeah, it's not the kind of thing that you want to wake up to and go and have a clean
yourself and there's a sheep in the shower.
And what do you say?
You hit up one of the flatmates and wake him up and tell him to get the bloody sheep out
of the shower.
And was it a weekday morning?
Because you can't handle that on a Tuesday morning.
No, it was a Monday morning.
Monday?
And, yeah.
Oh, yeah, we stuck with it, mate.
We all got on well.
There was about five of us living in the same house.
Okay, what's the worst thing about living with five other people?
The amount of parties that you have.
Yeah, we're talking about you can't sink your partying up, can you?
No, no, no, no.
It was from a Friday night right through to a Sunday.
Yeah, and then once people know it's...
It's a party house too.
Some places become party houses and you're stuck with it.
It was a good time all the time.
All the time?
If you didn't want to have a good time,
it was definitely on.
I met a new lady and she said,
hell no, am I moving into that place.
Yeah, right.
Well, there's sheep in the bathroom
and non-stop parties for four days in a row.
I don't blame her.
Yeah, no, I don't either.
Good on you, mate.
Appreciate your call.
Have a great day.
Cheers. See ya.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
Of course, in the Rugby World Cup, that's happening Sunday morning. Now, Producer Tata, you've been course in the Rugby World Cup
That's happening Sunday morning
Now producer Taylor you've been here in New Zealand
What for just over a year now?
Yep
How's Australia going in the Rugby World Cup?
Now we can gloat eh?
For a while there we were like let's not gloat
In case we don't make it past the quarters
And stuff like that
Now we're like eh?
Now you can answer that question, Taylor.
Yeah.
Look, I'm not following it, to be honest.
No, because you're here.
You're in New Zealand.
You're pretty much an honorary New Zealander now, right?
Yeah, I'd like to think so, yeah.
12 months in.
That was only the celebration a couple of weeks ago.
And we thought, well, we need to, since you've shown your commitment to the country,
we need to show our commitment to you.
And we want to welcome you in with open arms and a novelty radio campaign
Yeah, because I'm a little bit worried because over the weekend
I met someone and Russell who was also just come to New Zealand from America and he's like
New Zealand now it's my new country and these these birds called the wicker now
I don't know if you've seen the wicker there are like a brown bird going around
There's quite a lot of them up in Russell and he he was very tasty he was like look it's another kiwi i've seen so many kiwi birds today
man i'm like did you have the heart to tell them like you know i was like technically it's not a
kiwi the beak's a lot shorter kiwis are very hard to see and i was worried that you're going to go
along and make the same sort of mistake embarrassing you know other people by being here in new zealand
not knowing the things you need to do well we're not we were overseas just recently
my husband and I this American guy asked like oh do you guys mind being called
Kiwis and I was like yeah which it's just a fruit and my husband was like no
we're named after the bird and I was is. So we want to turn you into a bungee jumping,
pavalova eating, kakapo cuddling New Zealander.
Right.
Now, I know where this is headed.
If I'm bungee jumping, I'm saying no to that.
Okay.
Right?
I'm going to front fade there.
It's 23.
We can't make you do anything now.
No, no.
But we're all too scared to make you do anything.
But if anyone has any suggestions of how we could welcome
Producer Taylor in officially, because you like New Zealand.
You went back to your homeland of Sydney.
You were like, everyone's rude.
Yeah, crazy drivers.
And now I know what I'm doing to the people around me here
because, yeah, it was very confronting.
So we want to stop you from saying things like set and ashe
and up, up Cronulla and get you saying things like yeah, nah,
and New Zolid.
In Oz, I think we say nah, yeah.
Oh, the other way around.
Yeah, I think so.
Okay.
So we need the things on 0800THETHITS4487,
the things that can initiate producer Taylor
into becoming more of a Kiwi right now.
You can call us 0800THETHITS4487 is the text
and we are finishing this on the end of the anthem.
What radio timing that is, Ben Boyce.
THE HITS, the Jono and Ben podcast.
Thank you so much for all your great calls and suggestions
as we try and initiate Producer Taylor from Australia
to become an honorary Kiwi.
Someone texted 4487,
drive through the Mount Vic Tunnel in Wellington
and obnoxiously honk your horn.
Love doing that when we're in Wellington, Ben.
No one else in Wellington now likes doing it,
but I imagine the first five to ten times they did it,
they drove through, they love doing it as well.
The people in Wellington love it
when the climate change activists
glue themselves to the road.
That's what they love in the Mount Vic Tunnel nowadays.
Also another great text here.
Get a pie with a hard concrete exterior from a petrol station at two in the morning.
Oh, yeah.
That's definitely something you need to do.
Iconic New Zealand thing.
Just keep saying gizahoon to everyone.
4487.
Joining us on the phone right now is a Daniel.
Kia ora.
Kia ora. Kia ora.
Lovely to have you on. You've got a suggestion for
Taylor, how we can initiate it. Welcome her
into New Zealand.
Well, a very care we think
to do, of course, is
see Lord of the Rings.
Ideally, all in one sitting
followed by the prequels.
On The Hobbit as well.
There's six movies, right?
Jesus.
I believe so, yeah.
Yeah, so three Hobbit movies,
three Lord of the Rings movies.
Have you seen them all?
In a single sitting, even.
Oh, my God.
What are we talking time-wise?
How long did it take?
I think there might have been a nap somewhere in the middle.
But myself and some flatmates started, I think, Saturday midday-ish.
And it was a late night Sunday with a few breaks in the middle.
Wow.
Because they're over three hours long, I think, some of the movies.
They really packed a lot in there.
So I think that's a great suggestion.
You've got to go home and watch all of those movies from start to finish.
I'll do that if that means I don't have to come to work.
Oh, okay.
Because how?
It won't be one sitting then.
Well, yeah, just keep watching then.
No, I'll just watch other producers then.
All we're trying to do is welcome you in.
And all you're trying to do is...
Find technicalities of what not to do.
Do you want to be a Kiwi or not?
I don't know.
If it means watching those movies, I'm not much of a fan to see.
I've never seen Harry Potter ever.
I've never seen Avatar. I have not seen any Lord of the see. I've never seen Harry Potter ever. I've never seen Avatar.
I have not seen any Lord of the Rings.
I really enjoyed the movies.
What about you, Daniel?
Huge fan.
I think I read the books when I was like eight years old and didn't understand them.
But you have to make sure you're watching the extended editions as well.
Yeah.
We're not cutting corners here.
You ought to see all of PJ's masterful work.
Oh, I have no promises. I'm sorry. All Alright, that's a great suggestion. Hey, thanks so much
mate. No worries, thank you. Let's get Shelley on from the Mount, welcoming
Australian producer Taylor to New Zealand. What should she do?
Well, zorbing. Oh,
have you ever been zorbing, producer Taylor? No, I don't
even know what that is.
It's the big round bubbly ball thing that you pop inside and you go down the hill.
Oh, God, I throw up.
You're not very adventurous, are you?
No, I hate activities.
No, she's not actually.
Yeah, it's another thing.
She hates doing activities, Shelley.
Well, the luge would be all right, but she's probably 100% going to come out with an injury from the luge.
That sounds smart.
You sound like you've got an Australian twang yourself, Shel.
I have.
I'm from Melbourne.
Yeah.
Now, what have you done to welcome yourself into the country?
Married a Kiwi.
Yeah.
Maybe I should do that then.
She's already spoken for.
Do you think Marcello would be cool with that?
Anything for radio, mate.
Oh, okay.
He's fine with that.
Good on you, Shell.
Have a wonderful day in the Mount, eh?
You guys have an awesome day.
See ya.
All right.
Well, Patricia Taylor, I think because we can't get to Rotorua today, to Zorb, I think
tonight it's Lord of the Rings Marathon in your household.
I'm so excited.
Yeah, you can't wait for that one.