Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: TAYLOR SWIFT

Episode Date: September 10, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Monday morning after a weekend that we all went into the weekend very excited about some very big sporting events over the weekend. The Rugby World Cup, the Warriors in the top eight. Israel Adesanya is in the UFC. And we've come here Monday morning and whew. Jeez, zero for three guys.

The Black Caps had a good win on Friday, but I think they're going to lose this morning overnight. So I was always like, oh, the Blackcaps are our hope. Tough couple of days for New Zealand. Wasn't it? I mean, some epic, epic occasions, which were great to watch. I just feel so gutted for the players because no one is more disappointed than the people playing the game.

Imagine how gutted Izzy is at the moment. No, true. And the All Blacks. They've got to go. They've got to dust themselves off and come back for another one.

The Warriors, they'll be back on Saturday. Yeah. Don't worry about that. Go Media Stadium. They're playing against the Red Hot Knights on Saturday night.

But yeah, it was gutting but hey, that's sport. You know what? Moments like these, people use cliches like you learn more

from your losses than you do your wins, Ben. Yeah, true. It's what you say. Do you see Drake, the rapper, put $500 grand on Israel to win the UFC. Well our condolences to Drake. Only paying, I was going to say only paying but $1.87 so quite a lot of money to knock quite. What's about $900K he was getting back?

Yeah but he did four months ago, he won won 2.7 million on Israel Adesanya. So, you know, so, okay, probably. He lost 500k this time around, but he won 2.4 million a while ago. It's all wins and losses, isn't it, when you're putting half a million dollars on Izzy. Do you reckon Izzy feels the pressure there? It's like, oh, Drake, mate, don't do this to me. I'm already feeling it. But what I enjoyed, too, about the rugby.

Great commentary, too to Laura McGoldrick from the Hits afternoon show. She does a fantastic job. It was an epic occasion David Beckham in the crowd, Jason Momoa in the crowd, some amazing opening ceremony as well in France. Their fans just singing the whole game, making so much noise.

And Honey Hidemi Smiler who's one of the commentators from Sky. She's a legend. She's played rugby league and rugby for New Zealand and And Honey Hirami Smiler Who's one of the commentators From Sky She's a legend She's played rugby league And rugby for New Zealand And sevens Like she was doing the Warriors

With Laura later on in the day As well as the All Blacks in the morning I mean she's incredible Yeah But what I appreciated too Is Israel Dagg If you weren't really paying attention Every time he says the name Honey

It's like he's brought his wife into it. I'm not going to. No concerns about my line-out, Honey. They are big bodies, Honey. Right area, Honey. She's a sporting legend, mate. I know she's a sporting legend. I'm not having a go.

I'm just saying it sounds borderline. It's her name. It's her name. It sounds borderline. But it's not. It's her name. Borderline misogynistic every time. It's not, though. He's not being misogynistic. What do you It sounds borderline. But it's not. Borderline misogynistic every time.

But it's not, though. He's not being misogynistic. What do you think, honey? Well, he's not. If he said that to Laura, different story. Going, all right, sweet cheeks, what do you think? But he didn't. But they're doing a marvellous job, the poetry team, aren't they? They are.

Getting up early. And then Laura and honey work in the end of the day as well. So, yeah. Don't. Don't. Don't. What am I doing? Don't start like that,

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There'll be a Taylor Swift song playing after that. You phone up. We say congratulations. You're in the draw. Yeah. Flights within New Zealand, two nights accommodation at the Park Royal Darling Harbour, and tickets for two to see Taylor Swift.

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Although on Friday, everyone was, this is the greatest sporting weekend New Zealand's ever going to have. On Monday, unfortunately, and that's the way it goes. All Blacks lost. Warriors lost. Izzy lost yesterday in the UFC. But after the All Blacks won, you're like, that's fine. We've still got the Warriors.

We've still got Izzy. After the Warriors, you're like, okay, okay. We've still got Izzy. And then Israel Adesanya lost yesterday as well. And what they're calling the biggest upset in UFC championship history as well. I mean, they'll all be back. And we're excited. The Warriors and the All Blacks, back again this week.

Yeah, and I'm not a UFC expert, but I imagine it just takes a couple of good punches, and then, you know, they're all good to get there in the first place, those people, aren't they? Exactly, you're right. Joel, Producer Joel, you're working, covering the All Blacks coverage on Saturday morning, and what were the scenes like there?

As New Zealand, you know, the good thing is we don't let international time zones get in the way of our binge drinking. No. Do we? That's not going to stop us from having a good time. Saturday morning at about 9.30am, I went down to the viaduct and there was a few people carrying on. There was a few people probably more drunk than Friday 9pm, 12 hours before that. Yeah.

And lunchtime would have just been just disastrous. But I feel like I'm going to take this on. I'm going to say it was my fault. All three of these losses. Oh, your fault. We need a scapegoat. This is great. Take it out on me.

Was it your fault? Well, up until now, my sport viewing has just been, might sit at a friend's house, might sit at a pub. But I was talking to you on Friday night, Ben. Yeah. And you were like, get the Sky Sport app. The Sky Sport Go. Yeah, Sky Sport Now, yeah.

Sky Sport Now app. It's easy. Download it. Get it done and you can watch. You can pay. You can get a Rugby World Cup pass. You can have a week pass. You gave me all the price points.

Yeah. You sold me the dream. So then I was like, okay, I'll do it. The next day I was like, oh, Ben told me to do this thing. And I downloaded the app. And then I said, buy now. And I was like, buy now. It wasn to do this thing. And I downloaded the app. And then I said, buy now. And I was like, buy now. Wasn't working.

Uh-oh. Wasn't working. And I felt like, you know when you have to explain to your parents how to run technology? Yeah. And the last thing I wanted to do was phone Sky. I was like, no, don't do it. And I had to phone the help desk. Oh, did you have to? I was like, I've downloaded

your bloody app, mate. I can't watch you. It's taking me back to the screen that says pay and it says I've already bought it and my credit card's been charged. I was laying it all on him. And he was like, there's nothing I can do. I was like, what do you mean there's nothing you can do? He's like, you're going to have to go to the website. And I'm like, website? And he's like, there's a

customer feedback on the website. I'm not going to a website. So then I ended up explaining my situation to some chatbot. I've done that before. Not with that, but another thing. You're like, oh, hell. Who's doing this? I could feel even the judgment coming from the chatbot going, you idiot.

You know, 99% of people have managed to download this correctly. What have you done wrong? So anyway, turns out I pushed some wrong buttons. It was my fault, according to the chat bot. And my point being it's my fault is I finally got to watch all of these things. I bought the thing, bought the UFC, bought this, bought that, and all three of them lost. It's the first time I've done it, Ben. It's me.

It's you, mate. It's all me. You're the problem. I'm the only point of difference here. I don't first time I've done it, Ben. It's me. It's you, mate. It's all me. You're the problem. I'm the only point of difference here. All the players, they did their thing. Israel, he'd done his training. Jono hadn't. You weren't match fit.

You hadn't been training. It's all on you. So there you go, New Zealand. That's your scapegoat. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The first one we gave away to the person who commented on the Hits Breakfast Facebook page The moment that Ben went, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god That moment, they were going to win the trip for four

And they join us on the phone right now Michaela Hello Hello Michaela Hello Hello, it's Jono and Ben It doesn't matter which is which because what matters is you're going to Rarotonga. Oh, my God.

Thank you so much. How awesome is that? Oh, my God. It's so cool. I'm so jealous. I mean, everyone right now feels like they need a holiday and you're going to one of the most amazing places on earth. Oh, my gosh.

I can't believe it. Thank you so much. Not just you as well. You've got to take three of your loved ones It's a family trip Have you got kids? Yeah, I've got two kids and a partner That's a perfect number

It was going to be awkward if someone was like We were pretty productive when we made kids We have a dozen of them Family of four is ideal Oh my god, perfect Thank you so much. I know you're very, very welcome.

Now, have you been to Rarotonga before? No, I've never been there. Oh, have you been on the radio before? No. Oh,

we try not to say shit from time to time. It's all right. I wouldn't be saying the same thing if I was going to Rarotonga. It's incredible. Cook Islands. Do you know you won, you won out of sort of 20,000 comments? Oh, so many comments. I know.

Oh, my God. And I only commented once. And what do you do? Oh, I'm a housekeeper. Oh, well, I'm glad you're going to get to take time away for yourself. Oh, thank you so much. They've got cleaners at the Edgewater Resort. Yeah.

You don't have to worry about it. I know. You've got five nights at the Edgewater Resort. There's transfers. There's breakfast, sort of buffet breakfast. It will be incredible. Oh my God. Thank you so much. Oh, I don't even know what to say. You don't have to say anything. Thank you so much. Couldn't have gone to a better person. Oh. Thank you. No, that's okay. That's okay. Have the kids been overseas? No. They've only, so my five-year-old

has only been on a plane once. Oh, that's great. To Auckland. So, yeah. It's going to be so cool. Oh, it'll be awesome. It'll be making some amazing family memories with you and your family. Oh, my gosh. Thank you. Thank you for listening to the show.

Thank you for commenting on when we got out of the escape room. Oh, you guys are awesome. Yes, we are. Yes, we are. We've got to take it when they say it, mate. Hey, good on you, Michaela. You look after yourself and really enjoy that trip with the fam. Oh, well, thank you so much.

But that doesn't stop there. If you want to win a family trip to Rarotong We're going to give another one away this week And when you hear this song Weezer, Islands in the Sun We hear it from start to finish The entire song Even we don't know when it's going to pop up within our show

So make sure you tune in The first caller when you hear it in its entirety On 0800 The Hits We're going to give you the amazing prize It's just another motivational Monday in its entirety. On 0800, the Hits won their amazing prize. We need a bit of motivation after that weekend of sport. The All Blacks losing to France, the opening game of the World Cup,

the Warriors losing to the Panthers, their first trip to the finals, Israel Adesanya as well losing in the UFC. Don't worry, we'll come back from this New Zealand. We'll come back. And a guy also,

I don't know if you saw the rugby, got caught vaping. That was one of my favourite shots where they went to a crowd thing and he was having a sneaky vape. And his mate went, you're on the big screen. He went, oh, put the vape away. That was one of my favourite moments, trying to do a sneaky vape in the stadium. Well, you have been caught on a camera before, haven't you?

You got caught wagging school. Wagging school, yeah. Bloody cameras stitch you up, don't they? They do. They really do. So we do need some motivation after that weekend. yeah. Bloody cameras stitch you up, don't they? They do. They really do. So we do need some motivation after that weekend. Well, I'll give you a little bit of sporting motivation as well. Just going local.

I mean, I was thinking surely there's some victories throughout this country. Victoria Monaghan beat Wendy Harper in the darts 5-4. Well done. Great. The darts, gnats. Great. There you go. There's things to celebrate out there.

Yeah, that's good. You're right. It's like radio when we release our results. You know, you dig hard enough, you just got to look. It's like radio when we release our results. You dig hard enough, you'll find a positive. Everyone's number one. Now, this bit of motivation involves something that we can do with our thumbs. Yeah, so have a listen.

Grip your thumb with your entire hand firmly, but not tightly. Firmly enough that over a number of seconds, you'll begin to feel a pulsation starting in your thumb and in your hand. If you don't feel a pulse, according to Jin Shinjutsu, it means you really need to do it to clear this meridian. As the pulse develops, guess what? Your anxiety will fade. And if you're sitting in a doctor's office, you're worrying about something, just do it. Nobody can tell. There you go. Grip your thumb to get rid of anxiety. And if that doesn't work, you can try gripping something else. It just looks a little weird in the doctor's surgery.

Okay, so grip your thumb. I think the theory is, because you know a lot with anxiety is you just need to ground yourself and focus. Maybe that's just making your mind focus on something that isn't what you're worrying about. It's focusing on the pulse. I think it might be the theory behind it,

but hey, I'm no doctor. No, I think you're right. There's the whole thing. I think it might be the theory behind it but hey i'm no doctor i think you're right there's the whole thing i think they learn at school and stuff uh through i think uh some of the programs they do when you can shut your eyes and you hear this the different senses you what can you hear what can you what can you smell what can you you know those are things i think it's just to kind of relax you down to that point so you're aware of everything that's going on at the moment and if you do grab your thumb you don't feel a pulse uh start stressing i'd imagine uh the other thing i wanted to play for monday morning motivation is you know a lot of times you do get worried about what other people think and tom holland the actor we're radio hosts it's our job yeah we don't like people

people don't like us though do you uh but this i thought was quite good from tom holland the actor who's spider-man if you have a problem with me, text me And if you don't have my number, you don't know me well enough To have a problem with me That is so good So he's like, I don't care what you think Because you can't text me But we've given out our number 4487 all the time

So you can text us You can text us if you want, 4487 if you've got a problem with us But I think it's personal So next time we see Tom Holland we'll go, what are your digits mate? I want to text you every time we've got a problem with us. Yeah, but I think it's personal. It's personal. So next time we see Tom Holland, we'll go, what are your digits, mate? I want to text you every time we've got a problem. I've got some stuff I need to unload. Didn't like that Spider-Man movie, mate, and I want to tell you all about it. No, it's a very good point, isn't it?

Because at the end of the day, what does it matter? Because you do get worried about sometimes people that don't even know you. Yeah, well, that shouldn't change the way you operate, Ben Boyce, okay? You hold your head up high, you grab your thumb and you get out there and you have a powerful week. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Ben, you've got an idea. You want to dip your toe back

into the political pool. You've already been there. You've been there in the past. You ran for Parliament. That's right. We were talking about this over the weekend. We had some people over watching The Warriors and we were doing that Saturday night and someone was a lot of people were talking about elections and the fatigue, well, a lot of people were talking about elections and like the fatigue around it and a lot of people were saying,

I don't want to vote for anyone. I'm done with it. I keep saying, let's just do it tomorrow. Everyone who's going to vote for their party is going to vote for their party. No one's going to change their mind. Yeah, and then someone went, didn't you run?

Like you said, didn't you run back in the day? Many years ago, we had the Bill and Ben party we ran as a bit of a joke. They had the McGillicuddy Serious Party, was kind of the joke party for many years in New Zealand. You took over that prestigious mantle. For one election, we sort of ran it. And we ended up getting 13,000, over 13,000 votes,

which is more than we thought we'd ever get. Those are 13,000 wasted votes right there. Yeah. Although John Campbell, who's a lot smarter than you and me, he said you should have run as some almost like an anti-politician vote because there was only two members in our party at the stage bill and ben but if we got over the threshold we would have got 10 seats on the list but we wouldn't have had 10 politicians so there would have been eight less mps in parliament he's like you should be running

that should be your campaign why did campbell want to get you into parliament so bad it's like too late now campbell it was a bit of a joke. Thanks for this now, Campbell. We didn't. And so we're a long way off getting for Parliament. But yeah, and so- Didn't you go and spend- Didn't you get some- The $1,000 back that we spent on it, if you got over a certain number of votes,

you got your $1,000 back, and we're like, well, we'll spend it on a bar on the place in New Zealand that gave us the most votes, and it was Invercargill. We're like, whew, okay. They were expensive flights, but anyway, we went down there and put $1,000 on the bar. It was a wonderful night. Yeah, it says a lot about Invercargill.

Doesn't it? Yeah. But then we were talking about, would you do it again? I said, oh, probably not. Times have changed. But then my mate Dave was like, what happens if you went and you started the Up the Waz party? Imagine, and all honestly, if you went on election day and you looked down that list and you're like, National Labour, Acts, Greens, and you went up the wars, I reckon the majority of the audience, it's not a lot, I would say the majority of people would probably go up the wars, damn right, up the wars.

We cross now to the Minister for running it up the guts. Yeah, up the wars. All you would have to do is up the wars. The country would crumble. But it would probably win. It would win. Yeah. But then what do you do from that point?

Old up the wars guy. So you're now running the country. You're like, oh, look at us. We're up the wars. You can't just keep saying up the wars. But that's all you do. What do you want to say about this scandal? Up the wars.

Oh, you said up the wars. You're in a giant fiscal hole. Up the wars. I know. It would only work for so long. But I was like, that's not a President Biden up the wiles. Can you just say up the wiles? Go to the UN and your only speech is up the wiles. And everyone clapping.

Although it would be probably not quite a huge round of applause at the UN. No, it would probably be quite a confusing round of applause. Short speeches too, that's always a win. I feel like we've left it too late, and it's probably, you know, something for someone else. More foolish, you know, back in the day, but up the Waz party, it would probably win, wouldn't it? It would, Rompen.

You're right. Well, thank you very much for that, Ben. What an absolute waste of everyone's time that would be. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, I had a very aggravating, frustrating conversation with a friend on Saturday who he claimed that Saturday was the start of the week. So this is when I'm...

Yeah, Saturday seems that that baffles me. It does baffle me as well because he's like, well, my work finishes on Friday. That's the end of that week. That's done. So then his logic is things kick off on Saturday. And I'm like, Monday. Monday is the start of the week that's done so then his logic is things kick off on saturday and i'm like monday monday is the start of the week monday through sunday is the seven day cycle of the week but he's going saturday through friday you do see some calendars that start on sunday as the first day of

the week yeah around the world uh i think in a lot of the uh mus as well, it's an Islamic tradition that the day goes Saturday and Wednesday. Thursday and Friday are the weekends. Oh, really? Yeah, they're running a Saturday-Wednesday operation. Okay. And I mean, it's to their own really, isn't it? It doesn't really matter. You can run the week how you want to run the week.

I've just in my head gone, oh, the week's Monday to Sunday. Well, because the weekend, you would think, would be the end of the week, which we have Saturday and Sunday. Are you Monday to Sunday, Guy? I'll be Monday to Sunday. Yeah, well, are you a producer, Joel? Monday to Sunday, 100%. It's interesting when you look at this.

I saw this thing on Instagram that I was reading out to you before the show. So if there was 13 months of the year instead of 12, every month would be exactly 28 days. So instead of having 4.257 which across basically across every week.

So exactly four weeks. The first would always be on a Monday. 28th would always be on a Sunday. Every month would have four weeks instead of 4.257 and a proper line. Why did we go 12 months here? I don't know. It feels like 13 months would be a lot. Let's start a whole other month.

I think it's too late. You're coming quite late with the suggestion. Let's all have a referendum. We can come up with a new name, a funny little Monthy McMonth Face or something, you know, for the name of the... We'll get the internet to decide the name of the month. That seems like a wise decision.

Yeah. No, you should have been in the Gregorian brainstorm, mate. Well, I wasn't part of that. I didn't realise that, but I was just like, yeah. So like you were saying before, those sort of things confuse you. Stuff we've always done, but you're like, why have we always done that? I want to talk to someone. 0800 the hits, 4487. Do you consider the start of the week

not Monday? Sorry, I've really worded that in a poor fashion. No, I know what you mean, though. Yeah, hopefully the people listening know what I'm... Hopefully someone at this early hour is picking up what I'm putting down. But do you, for example, are you starting your week on Sunday through to Saturday? Have you got an odd structure to your week? Love to hear from you. 4487 is the text, 0800 the hits. Just got into a discussion about when does your week start.

A friend of mine, he claims Monday is Saturday for him. So he goes on the Saturday to Friday work week system. He's not working on the weekend. He just figures that the week's finished on Friday. So he starts his new week on a Saturday. By his theory it's Wednesday now. So that should make you feel a lot better about Monday morning. Yeah. It probably is

quite, psychologically it's probably quite a good thing right? Yeah. Tanya, your week doesn't start on the Monday. You don't have a Monday to Sunday week. No, my week, so Sunday is my first day of the week. Right. So you're a Sunday to Saturday lady.

Yeah. That's your seven days. And when are your days off? So I have days off on Friday, Saturday. Yeah, right. So you kind of get the mindset that your first day of the week is a Sunday when you start work? Yes. Yeah.

Does it weird you out that we're going, oh, start of the week, man, Monday, brah. Does that weird you out when you listen, Tanya? Yeah, it does. You're like, we'll catch up the weekend. You're like, well, what does that mean? Yeah, yeah. Does it put you out of sync with friends or family in your life? No, because I've still got, like, the Saturday

when everybody else is off as well. Yeah, I see. Oh, that's handy. Yeah. I see. Dairy farming, that's a non-stop game, isn't it? Yeah, pretty much. All year round, mate.

Those cows need milking. Like me, Ben. Nah, so we get like June and July off. Yeah, so not all year round. Sorry. I shouldn't have said all year round. Yeah, I said it. I was like, I don't know if he knows that.

I regret that. Sorry, Tanya. Why don't you just tell the cows, we'll start on a Monday and we'll finish. Anyway, yeah. Anyway, I just lost a lot of cred with the dairy industry there. My apologies, Tanya. Go and have a great Tuesday for you then.

All right, let's get Rhys on. You're not running a Monday to Sunday week, Rhys. Nah, mate. Hey, up the waz. Up the waz. Up the waz Up the Waz Hey good on you They'll be back on Saturday

Don't you worry about it Yeah they will be Let's not worry about That last game Rhys I don't even go for the Waz mate I just go for the All Blacks But they're not doing Too shit odd either

So I just go for the Waz And then we're all like Hey well let's get into the UFC Yeah That did work out so well as well Anyway It's alright Another week

We'll get a good tweet Now when does your week start? Oh, mine changes every week, mate. I'm a shift worker. Oh, so you don't even have a system. No, I don't have no system. I don't even know my system. I've got to check the calendar for my system.

So what day is it for you right now? This is my second day shift. Yeah. So it's Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Then I'll go Wednesday, Thursday, Friday night shift. Then I have Saturday, Sunday, Monday off. Confusing. And then it rolls around again.

Yeah. I suppose you've just got to roll with the punches, don't you, in the shift work game? That's it. I used to work really weird hours when I first started on radio. I would start work at 11.30 at night and finish at 11.30 in the morning. That does stuff to you. Yeah. Hey, Rhys.

Everybody's got to text first to see when your drinking days are. And that's the important thing, isn't it? Good old New Zealand binge drinking culture. We've got to calendar those. Hey, have a great day. Have a great week. Rhys, appreciate it. Cheers, fellas.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. High drama, though. Because we had to get out before 9 o'clock, and it was about 20 to 9. I was like, we are not going to do this. This is going to be a very disappointing end to the campaign, but about five minutes to nine, we got through, and we have a trip to give away, so you need to listen out for Weezer's song,

Island in the Sun. When you hear that this week in its entirety, from start to finish, that's right, I man-displained entirety. You'll be the first caller through. You win that trip for four to Raro. Now, producer Taylor has come in. Wonderful, Taylor.

You weren't looking forward to the escape room. No. Why not? I hate anything like that. Like, I hate activities. I hate having to use your brain for things that don't matter in life. Yeah, I just and you guys would have seen me from the get go. I you had no interest. But then you kind of pipe. I need to get out of there. I felt

like we're kind of the escape room kind of got to you and you kind of got caught up in there. Because Yeah, simply I needed to get out of there. The company around me was getting to me. But then you got, you're one of those people that thought about it quite a lot. Yeah.

There was a clue that came out that was, I think we talked about on Friday. Left. It just said left. Oh, left, sorry.

And you started going to left, to left. Beyonce. Must be Beyonce. Jay-Z. 99 Brothers. Blue Ivy. I'm like, oh, geez.

She's really taking a leap here. And the sergeant's name in the room was Richard Ramirez. And that is the most notorious serial killer ever. And you'd only know that if you're a true crime fan. He's the night stalker. Love him. No, I don't love him. I'm aware of his work.

Yeah. And I thought that was a huge clue, too. So I was fixated on that for about 25 minutes. It wasn't in the end. It was nothing. But yeah, so you're just not an activities person. I hate it. So your worst nightmare would be turning up to a party

and they're like, it's an amazing race. Oh, yeah. Bowling. Bowling? Don't like bowling. Cocktail courses. When my friends were trying to organise my hands, I said, if it involves boats, a class of any kind,

or bowling, I'm not going. We did the hits. We went to the mini-putt. What was that? Yeah, we did. It was good. Did you like that activity? Yeah.

I'm not much of an activities person. I mean, I don't probably hate them as much as you do. I love it. I know. He is an activities guy. Why? It's great. I mean, otherwise you're just standing. You're doing stuff

Yeah that's fun But like So in most of those Social situations What's the common denominator? Alcohol So why can't we Just skip to that

Like why do we have to Do something to get drunk Let's just get to The binge drinking Yeah No you feel like you're I feel like I've done something I do that even with the kids

My wife always like Why do you need to do Another activity Because I feel like We've done something Otherwise you're like Oh I just sat around on the weekend. But you go, oh no, I went and played mini-part

or I did something. This is why you two could never be together. He'd have you out bloody tobogganing at seven in the morning or something. When he's on holiday, he's got a schedule. He's got the family up. We're going for a kayak. We're running a half marathon at the day. He loves activities. I do love activities

You are either an activities person or you're not And this is what I'm proposing Is when you turn up to a party They go, are you activities or no activities And you can split off into the groups Like bride or groom at a wedding Sometimes you know at Christmas time you see these office workers Running around town going

Oh we've got to get a photo with the drag queen We've got to bloody do this And half of them are really into it and the other half are like, oh, I'm being dragged around the city here, ticking things off a list that really don't matter. That's me. So what do you refuse to partake in?

Taylor refuses to partake in activities. 0800 The Hits, this is what we want to open up. For a long time, I refused to partake in parking and paying for it. But then the bureaucracy and the the red tape it caught up with me yeah so now i pay for parking but oh 800 that's four four eight seven what do you refuse to partake in uh this morning that's what we're going to talk about uh producer taylor not an activities person hates activities tampon bowling fun little orienteering missions and you are the polar opposite you i love but then then i refuse to help people with moving like i've now i've drawn a line

in the sand many years ago and i'm like i don't i don't help people move what do you say to them no it's like it's like otherwise you have to come up with an excuse oh saturday morning have you actually been has someone actually, can you help me move? And you're like, no. And even to the stage where, you know, a family member, mother-in-law, she was moving. You wouldn't even help Joyce. But I paid.

I was like, I'll pay for a move, but I'm not going to do it. I'm like, oh, look at me, mate. I'm like 25 kgs. I can't carry anything. You end up banging the walls and hitting the things. And you're like, it's a stressful day. I'm like, I'll pay for it. But I'm not going to help you.

I hear you. I don't want to lift the couch. Moving sucks, doesn't it? In anyone's language. Name a language. French sucks. Now, 0800 the hits. What do you refuse to partake in?

We'll get Darlene on, shall we? How are you, mate? Good, good. Oh, good. What are you refusing to do, Darlene? I refuse to celebrate my birthday. Oh, that's another thing Ben refuses. Yeah, I'm not a big birthday person.

I love an activity, but not for my birthday. He's a complex individual. Yeah, I am. I disappear for the whole week. For the whole week? By myself. Go bush. Well, I come over to the coast, so it's pretty quiet here.

Yeah, I hear you. And for two people, we do a lot of attention-seeking things on the radio, Ben, but I'm not much of a birthday person either. Just because you don't like all the attention. I mean, the other day, Ben, you had Happy Birthday sung to you in the office,

and I could see you dying inside. I was like, this is the opposite of his happy place right now. That's right. I was like, come on, guys, let's pace this up just a little bit. And he doesn't like cake either, Darlene. No, but everyone got coffee. It was lovely.

Harriet the boss got coffee. That was lovely, actually. Thank you so much for your call. Really appreciate it, Darlene. Let's go to the phones. We've got Jamie on. What do you refuse to do? I refuse to write presents.

It's something I just don't enjoy doing. Yeah. It's almost a redundant thing in some ways, too, because it's kind of like people are probably going to rip the paper. No, there's a generation who carefully unwrap and fold it up. My mum loves that, yes. I bet she does, yeah. But I'm with you, Jamie.

I'm not much of a rapper myself uh on many levels but once jamie we were asked to do some uh rapping at a mall remember one christmas that's right at a westfield mall we were helping out and i think it was a donation for charity was it for charity and i wrapped a lady's present up and i genuinely tried my best and she looked at me disdain in her eyes jamie and then went around to another wrapping station, unwrapped it, and then got it wrapped again. Re-wrapped. My question is, or my thought is, why wrap presents when you can buy gift bags?

And if you speak to my wife, every present she gets is in the gift bag. I'm not one for cards as well. I kind of feel like pointless. People are going to throw it out anyway. I'd rather give someone the five bucks you're going to spend on the card. That's right. Yeah, no, a gift bag's a great option too. You can reuse it multiple times, Jamie.

You can indeed. So, you know, hey, otherwise newspaper, because it all ends up in the same place. He's anti-rap, Jamie. Thank you. Thank you so much for your call. Appreciate it. No worries.

Have a good one. Good text coming to you through 4487 as well. I refuse to partake in Secret Santa in the office. I refuse to do the chicken dance. Very specific text there, 4487. I mean, I get it. But how often is that coming up? Must be a constant cloud over this person's life.

I don't think anyone feels comfortable doing the chicken dance. I refuse to partake in underwear. Go commando every day. And another great one here, I refuse to drive. Partake in driving. So there we go. A lot of stubborn people out there. Thank you very much for your calls and texts this morning.