Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - SHOW HIGHLIGHTS: The Great Word Sneak With A Houston Weatherman!

Episode Date: March 29, 2023

What went in your mouth Awesome callers Tai & Charlie Chestnut Ben is getting confused & Jono is always off time! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kia ora, welcome, it's the John Owen Bean podcast. Thank you very much to Challenge Petrol Service Stations. It's a pleasure to be here. Ben, a pleasure for you. Yeah, it's great to be here. Look, can I say apologies? I come off somewhat demanding sounding on the podcast you're about to hear today because I requested that we, at late notice, for no real reason,

that we wanted to track down. One of my favorite follows on the internet is a weather meteorologist uh from houston he does the weather bulletins on a on a station that's all traffic all weather yeah uh yeah it's just it just goes news traffic weather news traffic weather all the time four hours a day he does 25 weather updates in four hours and what he does what i love about him adam kruger's his name you. You can follow Weatherman Adam on TikTok and Instagram. He will insert a song or lyrics for a song, obviously, quotes from a movie, a TV show. Each day he picks a different one and he'll sneak it in over his 25 bulletins throughout the morning. He got challenged to do Eminem without me.

Have a listen challenge accepted two areas of fog going around the outside of houston so if your commute takes you around the outside around the outside you're going to encounter some of those lower visibilities but one last dry day but guess who's back back again so he's very good he's very good so i got producer b humps to track him down today during the show and then when we talked to him you said you requested we kept saying demanded you started this podcast by saying you might come off demanding but then you i noticed you segued cleverly into requesting i was like hey it was a gentle push it was like one of those hey yeah you literally pushed him into the door face first then you

shoved his face producer humphries into the rubbish it was like one of those reminder emails going hey it's over you it's over you just a little hey if you want to pay it that'd be great we're not you know there's some stuff threatening that could happen in the future but right now you know what could happen yeah let's not get it no one wants to take it to that stage so we spoke to him and we asked him to do royals now we've just checked his Instagram. Have a listen to this. Jono and Ben right here had me on their show in New Zealand to talk about my viral videos, and their request, Royals by Lorde. She's from New Zealand.

That seems like it should be doable. Now, did he do it? Oh, yeah. Did he do it? You'll find him and plenty more on today's podcast. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Cold, cold morning around the country. Coldest place overnight was Tekapo, negative three degrees.

They reckon it's the coldest night in March since the 60s, as I said before. And in Wellington, really, really rough weather this morning. Huge swells, a ferry. Guess what? The ferries are cancelled again. Poor inter-islander ferry Why don't you just Why don't we just

Let's stop covering news When they're cancelled Just tell us when they're on Some roads closed As big swells Big water Gets onto the roads As well today

Do you know Tekapo I remember going there With my cousins Many years ago I was probably 12, 13 They let me into the pub I was drinking beer In the pub

Oh jeez I'm sure things Times have changed now Hopefully But I tell you what Back then It was a law unto itself Wow

Yeah Things didn't end well that night I can imagine Now this morning You mentioned it's cold Ben And we park We've mentioned it before A couple of blocks away

From the studio So we walk over But I've taken to electric scootering over Out of pure laziness. If I've got an option not to use my legs, I will. I'll take that option. But the problem is because you're hooning along 35 k's max, you know, down the road, and boom, bug into my mouth.

High velocity bug. I don't know. It was under the cover of darkness, obviously, at that time. But you always know it's a bug, right? Yeah, because you're like it really hits the back of your throat. The bug's like oh man, I've taken a wrong turn here.

Last thing, you know, the last of the bug I wouldn't wish the bug, anyone going inside my mouth. I don't know, this poor bug, this is how the bug, and I don't know if I swallowed it and you try and gag reflex it back up. But it doesn't seem to work, right? And you're like, I hope it flew away, and you're like, up. But it doesn't seem to work, right? And you're like, I hope it flew away.

And you're like, in your head, you're like, it didn't fly away, unfortunately. So RIP that bug. Currently sitting in my digestive system, whatever it is, whatever you are. But it was quite a big one too. Yeah. Yeah. I could feel the crunch. So we wanted to know this morning. Well, you know, because, I mean, things accidentally do end up in your face somehow.

Like you swallowed a bug. I, a story I've actually told on Graham Norton. I think we got the audio. I got to be on Graham Norton's red chair. We both did. It was a star-studded couch, wasn't it? It was Tom Cruise was there. Coldplay was there.

I signed up to Scientology. He hooked me in. Yeah. And I got to tell the story about how I accidentally put something in my granddad's face. Okay, so a couple of years ago, my granddad had an eye infection and asked me to put eye drops in his eye. So I grabbed him from the top of the fridge, put about six or seven drops in, looked down, realised they weren't eye drops, it was super glue.

Took about six hours for them to surgically separate his eyelids. Yeah, he sleeps now with one eye open I mean I could tell that story again I could have but no one would give me that reaction again

I mean don't dare I wouldn't give you that laughter you had an audience of a hundred people there Tom Cruise was there you couldn't have had a better setting

no I was like jeez they were really invested in the story if you had told that to me I would have gone

oh yeah I've probably heard that before nothing like that I know so that's why I the story. If you had told that to me, I would have gone, oh, yeah, I've probably heard that before. You know, nothing like that. I know. So that's why I had to play that again. That was that story at peak. I know. Peak retelling.

I know, on Grand Norton Show. Couldn't get better conditions. Okay, 0800 the Hits. We're going to open this up. You can text 24487. Get a hold of New Zealand's breakfast. Face the facts. You tell us what went in your face.

Yeah, we'll take it on the face value. The fact that what went in your face, your nose, your mouth, your ears, whatever ended up there, we want your stories next. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jono accidentally ate a bug this morning. Poor bug. Yeah, the bug didn't deserve to go out like that. No.

So my apologies and condolences to the Bugs whanau, wider family. And of all the mouths to end up in, mine, you've seen what's gone on in there, Ben. Not pretty. So facing the facts, what has happened? What has hit your face? What has gone on your face? That's what we're talking about this morning, 4487.

We're joined on the phone by Andrea. Again, something not on the face but in the mouth, Andrea. What happened? Oh, God. One of those horrible, biggest, blackest cockroaches that you get in your house. Oh. You know, it wasn't just one of the little brown ones. It was those huge black things.

How did you end up with one of them in your mouth? Well, I used to go on to sleep, you know, on my back, snoring away. And mouth open. And I don't know what it was that woke me up, whether it was just the tickle of the penis or I don't know. But, of course, being fast asleep and then waking up, I closed down my mouth and felt a crunch. Oh, no. What's that disgusting thing?

Oh, stop. And I reached into my mouth and pulled out half a black cockroach. And what happened to the other half of the black cockroach? Must have gone down the throat. Oh, Andrea. It's too much for this time of the morning. What did your mouth, like, what did you do with your mouth directly after that? Oh my gosh.

It was such a disgusting taste. I was just like, oh God, what's that? I'm getting, I'm, what are you doing? You must be just drinking hand sanitizer to try and get rid of it. I was gagging. I was gagging in the toilet and the thought of it

because, oh, those cockroaches are just so disgusting. My story pales in comparison to that. Doesn't it? Well, you and your mouth go and have a better day than you had that day, all right, Andrea? Thank you very much for your time. Okay, thank you. Bye-bye.

Erin, welcome to the show. How are you? I'm good. Now, we are facing the facts this morning Okay, thank you. Bye-bye. and my son was young and he said that he wasn't sure what to do and that my son had stuck a Tic Tac up his nose. They do look like you could shove them up, you know. They're just tiny enough, aren't you? I could get that up there, yeah. Yeah, well, apparently his sister had done it, his older sister, and so he copied her but he couldn't get his out again.

She pulled it off. She pulled the magic trick off. She pulled it off. Yeah, she did, yeah. And so what happened? So this tic-tac's up his nose, and I imagine very minty in your nasal cavity. It was a peppermint one, yes.

So it was quite stingy. Yeah, and so what do you do? So I actually work at the hospital, so I said, look, ED isn't busy. Bring him into the emergency department. We'll see if they can get it out. And so I met him him into the emergency department. We'll see if they can get it out. And so I met him down in the emergency department and brought him in.

We finally got in to see a doctor and he made me blow up his nose to try and squirt it out. But apparently it had dissolved while it was up there and he'd kind of dissolved into his mouth and he'd eaten it. But he was so young young he didn't tell us oh so hold on he'd gone he'd digested a tic tac by putting it up his nose his nose yeah and it had fallen

back into his mouth yes and then he's eaten it now Ben after 8 o'clock on the show radio stunt 101 Ben Boyce snorts a tic tac and ends up eating it in his mouth. Yeah.

It can be done. This little battler has proven it. As a parent, you have to do some low things, don't you, for your kids from time to time, don't you? What were you thinking at that moment as you're basically giving mouth-to-mouth to his nostril? Yeah, yeah. So apparently you have to kind of cover the whole nose because you've got to get

the air up there to try and, yeah, it's not a very nice experience, especially considering the nose had been weeping a bit because of the singing. Yeah, and so then that's what ended up in your mouth. I see what's happened here. Yeah. Well, a mother's love, eh? Because the doctor's like, mate, I am not putting my lips near that.

That's over to you. Yeah, it's exactly what he said. That's brilliant. Thank you very much, Irene. You're going to have a great day. Okay, thank you too, guys. Actually, we'll keep them coming through. The whole phone line is lit up on 0800 THE HITS.

We're going to go a third. We're going to go a hat trick, are we? Mate, but maybe. Voice has made the call. If it's worth it, it'll be back next with the next mind-blowing story of someone accidentally getting something in the face on the hits.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Congratulations to us. We've managed to capture the hearts and imaginations of the audience, Ben. Nothing warms the cockles of our hearts. When we get onto a good topic, I got a bug to the face this morning inside my mouth to be specific. And what have you taken to the face? Facing the facts this morning.

A raft of great texts and calls coming through and we're joined by Ty. How are you? I'm great. Great to have you on the show. We're heading to work, are we? I'm at work. I start pretty early.

Oh, good on you. What do you do, Ty? I can't say. Okay, that's all right. I love it when people can't say because I'm like international woman of mystery. And like a, yeah. Spy agency.

Jason Bourne sort of thing or something. That's what we're imagining in our heads. But what happened? What did you accidentally get in the face? What happened? Okay, yeah. So I went on the Stratocere and the one that rainbows in.

Oh yeah, that's a lot of fun. Yeah. Yeah. So while we were up on top, while we were up in the air, I felt something wet on my face, and I thought it started raining. Okay. Did you look at the skies? Were they grey?

No, no, no. It was also windy as well, so I thought, you know, it's starting to, like, rain. And then we went, so when when it finished we went back down and i found out it was someone throwing up and it just landed on my face and my hair it was the vomit oh i thought maybe a bird and maybe you know like oh that's so shy did you take the brunt of it all?

It was actually my brother. Oh, your brother was the one who did it? My brother was next to me on the show. Yeah, yeah. He's a rock. Oh, Ty. Well, I mean, at least it's family. You know, the DNA's in there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That made me feel a little bit better. I was my brother and not some stranger. It's a very small consolation. I tell you what, we went on that thing, remember? They made us up

multiple times because we were trying to hold on to some food. It wasn't Rainbow's inmate that's doing it, the people that were filming something, right? Yeah, 10 times in a row

we went on there. And yeah, it was just round and round. We dropped all the things that we were meant to be trying to hold on and then we were just trying to talk to our sound guy.

Let us down. We've done all the things. Make it end. Yeah trying to hold on and then we were just trying to talk to our sound guy. Let us down. We've done all the things. Make it end. Yeah, they just keep going. We travelled back down the motorway, Ty, and I felt like a rugby player who had a 25-year career. Because normally you only do it like once or twice you go round, but we just kept going round and around.

Long-term brain damage, which is good. So if you have any worries about the show and why it is the way it is, it's because of that. So thank you very much, Ty. Great story. No worries. Thank you. Charlie Chestnut with us.

Do you want to talk to someone called Charlie Chestnut, Ben? Of course I do. Does that make you a little bit nervous? A little bit, yeah. Charlie Chestnut, what did you take to the face? Yeah, I was about four years old. Can I stop you there, Charlie? Ben, I see. Yes. Did you want to talk? The answer's yes. Did you want. Can I stop you there, Charlie? Ben, I see.

Yes. Did you want to talk? Yes. Did you want to talk? Nervous, yes. Oh, so talk. Especially when it's hair. There you go.

All right, Charlie, don't let me down. No, I just kind of turned on the radio on my way to work and I heard someone getting something stuck up their nose anyway. And it just reminds me of a story that family brings up all the time. My name's Charlie Chisner anyway. Yeah, I love the name. Yeah, thank you. And I was, yeah, I stuck a peanut up my nose when I was a kid.

And they had to take me to the hospital. The old man couldn't get it out and stuff. And he was, and then, so they me to the hospital. The old man couldn't get it out and stuff, and he was, and then, so they called over the speaker, Charlie Chestnut with a peanut stuck up his nose. Can you please come to reception? So everyone was cracking up, and that was the half and half.

Did you get the peanut out, Charlie Chestnut? I hope so. It doesn't feel like it sometimes. Maybe he's still in there Oh you're a champion Charlie Hold the line We're going to find something for you You've made our day

That was great Thank you The hits The Jono and Ben podcast Big bone of contention In my personal life Is Just my forecasting of time

And how long it takes To get to somewhere Right I'm not good at predicting Or factoring it in to travel time. And my wife, she's like, you just never have never been able to nail it. You know, if I need to be somewhere in 15 minutes, I start cooking a barbecue, you know, with five men. We're meant to be walking out the door. Hold on, I'll just finish these sausages and steak.

We've got plenty of time to get there. And then you never do because all you end up on the road is a stressed aggressive motorist honking at people who haven't left as soon as the lights have gone green etc etc and it's not their fault that's what i'll say to my parents i said not their fault we're running late but that's always the thing people they're running late they get annoyed with other people it's like well it's don't you get so frustrated behind someone who's just turning right and you get stuck behind them and you're like it's not their fault you've got to go down that road yeah yeah or someone when you're turning right and then they put you're looking at oncoming traffic and they sneak in the left side in the car box of you you get very angry at them for no reason it's just the road rules but uh what i've

managed to do is work in some vernacular like if i am running late text someone text you ben will be there in a jiffy and i find a jiffy is a wonderful measurement of time where no one knows exactly yeah true exactly you haven't pinned it down to any specific time you're right five minutes could be 55 minutes your interpretation of it is completely different to mine yeah but it sounds like you're you're on things you're on your way i thought it was two minutes but you turn up 45 minutes later and you're like it's like when people go

five minutes late well that's buying your tent yeah no one in New Zealand has ever said running five late they've turned up exactly five late

just parking is another good one or just parking you say that a bit yeah just parking what does that mean well often I am just parking but I do think it does

buy you a little bit of time as well and you're like parking was a nightmare what 45 minutes nightmare yeah bit of time as well. And you're like, parking was a nightmare. What, 45 minutes nightmare? Yeah, it's hard to park around here. You're like, all your visitors park, so you could have parked in there. And it's a game like the person you're telling it to or texting it to,

they're like, they know you're lying. They know a jiffy doesn't mean a jiffy. Five minutes doesn't mean five minutes. You're not just parking, but it's just to make yourself feel better, like you're pulling some sort of charade over people saying you're going to be there shortly the hits the jonah and ben podcast a weather reporter from houston in america has taken off on the internet his name is adam kruger you can follow him on tiktok and instagram at weather adam and what he does is he sneakily inserts lyrics from songs quotes from tv shows and movies

into his weather bulletins like here's him doing Snoop Dogg. From the depths of the sea back to the block. So that's how it looks now. To keep up with the forecast, follow me, follow me, follow me, follow me. Pretty soon we'll step through the fog and we'll creep through the smog and we'll be able to see a little bit of sun popping out this afternoon. Forecast from the most accurate meteorologist, guess what? He is I and I am him.

We're going to be warm and humid with highs in the 80s. It's like that. And as a matter of fact, rat tat tat tat. I love him. He's one of my favourite followers on the internet. Now, you demanded that Producer Humphrey track him down today. Tomorrow wasn't going to be good enough for you. No. So, from Houston, Producer Humphrey's managed to get him. Adam Kruger, it's great to have you here. It's great to meet you guys. It's great to meet you guys.

It's nice to see you. You are one of my favorite follows on the internet, and it's so good. We've managed to track you down. Yeah, it's pretty amazing how widespread this whole thing has become. Here I am talking to you in New Zealand. I did a radio show in Australia a little while back too, so it's worldwide, I guess. Well, you've downgraded from Australia to New Zealand, but that's okay. Well, Canada is to the US us we are to australia okay so you're based in houston uh and you're

the meteorologist there you do the weather uh so is it a morning news show that you take part in uh it's a morning show it's about four hours long and so there's a lot of weather over that four hours gives me a lot of opportunities to do a lot of these things i've been doing on social media well because yeah you have been inserting uh song lyrics into your weather bulletins. Now, does this take, this isn't just in one bulletin, it sort of goes over the course of the morning? Yeah, it's kind of like that. I mean, I think it's about 25 times I'm doing weather over the four hours. So I'll sprinkle something in here and then, you know, 10, 15 minutes later, sprinkle something in there. So if someone's watching it from home, it's not like they're

just getting hit with lyric after lyric constantly. And then I'll take those clips and I'll put it all together for what you see on social media, where they kind of run back to back. 25 weather updates. That's a lot of weather. It is. And we call our show No Wait Weather and Traffic

for a reason. So there's a lot of weather, there's a lot of traffic. We get crazy weather here in Houston. Does it change that quickly? You have to come in like, what, 30 it can sometimes it doesn't which then it becomes tricky of what to talk about and sometimes that's where the the lyrics help so yeah song lyrics even movie lyrics tv show lyrics you've done everyone from eminem lizzo tv shows like friends top gun the list goes on where did the idea come from to try and sort of sneak these into your weather bulletins?

It was about a year ago when just for fun, and I had very few followers on TikTok, but I started, if you guys know the Wordle game, it was very big here last year. So I started with that and we were playing it at work and I thought it'd be fun to just take whatever the word was for the day and throw that in the weather somewhere. And maybe some of my co-workers would notice or maybe they wouldn't. It didn't really matter to me me it was just like a fun little almost like a brain exercise for me to do every day to try to figure out how to sneak this word in yeah because you're like i've got to do 25 of these goddamn updates i've got to make them

exciting for myself yeah kind of i mean joking a little bit at the same time yeah that was part of it it's just something fun for me to kind of entertain myself and i did that for months and it kind of had this slow you know following and people thought it was kind of entertain myself. And I did that for months and it kind of had the slow, you know, following and people thought it was kind of cool online. And then it wasn't my plan to switch. But the comments I was getting online was like, we love what you're doing, but try rhyming with the word or word that you're using and then try saying, you know, a few other things and try all your guesses. And then it just naturally evolved into people without me asking them. They just started throwing out requests like say these song lyrics say you know reference this movie and i started doing that it was a lot

of fun and that's when it got a lot of attention yeah i mean are you surprised how big it's become i mean this is all over the world i mean talking to us as you say in new zealand every part of the country even like snoop dogg and other artists that you've done have reposted some of your stuff saying how cool it is yeah i am surprised for sure and you know after doing it for a while there's a few of them i was doing it i'm like this is really good i i thought it was pretty clever and you know some people should like this but the fact that it's gotten as big as it is and it's but they i mean the craziest thing for me so far was snoop dogg reposting uh my video where i used his lyrics that blew my mind i i that was like the

coolest thing that must have got you a couple of extra followers on the gram, did it? It did. But what's funny, so Snoop, if you're listening, you've got to tag me, man. He didn't tag me in his video. I hate to disappoint you. He's definitely not listening. He's not listening to us, that's for sure. Hey, what do your bosses think?

Are they cool with it? I've been surprised at how cool they've been with it and you know there are probably some other places i could be working where maybe they wouldn't be as cool you know if we have important weather or storms i'm not going to be goofing around with with throwing in song lyrics or something like that has it become the bane of your life though where you're like oh god i've got to buddy insert katie perry lyrics into a weather report it's it's taken over a part of my life for sure for one i can't listen to music without taking notes on my phone like oh that'd be a good line and so i like on the weekends i get to turn my brain off for a day i don't have to think about you know how do you

throw britney spears in it's taken over a little bit but it's a lot of fun oh it is awesome what you did uh we're obviously in new Zealand, Adam, talking to you, and we wanted to give you another burden, a Kiwi challenge, a New Zealand sort of song. We're looking at movies. Obviously, New Zealand, the Lord of the Rings, TV shows like Flight of the Conchords, Taika Waititi as well, very great New Zealand director, comedian.

But we thought maybe Lord, Royals, obviously a song that was big in America, big in New Zealand as well. Do you think for us one day you could try and insert some of the lyrics for that song? I don't see why not. I'm on board with that. I'm thinking, I know one line I can't probably use. It's like gold teeth, grey goose,

tripping in the bathroom or whatever that is. But I think there's some lines in there. I'm up for the challenge. I'll give it a shot. Oh, thank you. And we're sorry to give you another task. It's all i could i'm up for the challenge i'll give it a shot oh thank you very and we're sorry to uh give you another another task it's all good i'm i'm all for it it's a lot of fun okay we'll keep an eye out uh see if you can and we'll see how you can weave these into your weather bulletins sounds good i appreciate it all right it's cool we might get

some lords on adam kruger's uh weather over there in the states that'd be pretty cool yeah it's uh well this is this is everything you dreamed of? You demanded he come on the show today? Yeah, well, this has been great. This is awesome. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Very cold morning right around the country. The coldest morning since March, since the 60s.

Jeez. Wild time in the 60s as well, wasn't it? I can imagine so. They wouldn't have had, have had nice electric blankets and things like that. You're right. Insulation in their houses. Anyway, yeah. So there's two Bens on this

radio program. Poor producer. We call him B Humps because we roll in here to the hits. There's Jono and Ben and Ben. Ben Humphries is his name. Been here for years. a decade or so. And then old show pony Ben comes in. He becomes the number one seed Ben at the hits.

So we call you Ben and then we call him second fiddle Ben. No, we don't. We don't. I feel bad about that. But just when we talk about him on the air, it's a bit confusing because there's two Bens. So unfortunately. So we call him Ben Humphreys, his call him b humps c humps or humphrey

whatever but you know but obviously he still goes about using his name ben well that was the name it's his name born with he's allowed to exactly so he often will book guests under his email which comes through obviously with his name ben and all that and we'll talk to guests as well so they know that there's two bins they don't get too confused by that people can't have the same name but not in radio no apparently one the one place where it's illegal yeah we went to a station where they made a guy change his name yeah randall yeah works on the edge yeah his name is clinton yeah like we don't like it there's another clint yeah you're gonna be known as randall he's like i don't want to be known as Randall. Well, you are from now.

It's what happens in radio. But I had to ring someone the other day to ask about something. So I rang this person, a guest that we've had on the show before. Got the number from Ben. And then I rang this person up. It's not someone I would traditionally call up. I haven't had many rich conversations away from the radio with this person. So was this your first phone conversation with them?

Yeah, and it was fine. I just said, hey, I'm Ben from Jono and Ben, because again, I don't feel like I've got a last name, because no one knows my last name. We're just Jono and Ben. So I thought Ben from Jono and Ben would be that, oh, it's the Ben from Jono and Ben. That's all I'd need to say. So having a conversation with this person saying, hey, would you be okay? We'd love to have you as part of this thing.

And then when this person said, oh yeah, I'm a fan of the the guys that's the point i should have realized i should have realized i should have probably stopped them there but he said i said i am a fan of the guys and then carried on and i kind of went oh fan of the guys how does oh and then i thought oh he thinks that i'm the other ben he thinks you're producing because then he went later on he's like you tell the guys i'm happy to help out. Oh dear God. So you're now in a position where you're playing

the role of another Ben. Yes. Now do you, do you assume a different character? Are you feeling different emotions?

Because he's from Fairleigh. So you know, were you feeling like a hard southern, southern gentleman or? I just didn't know what to do because I kind of felt

like I'd gone past the point of saying, oh I'm, you know, like it would have been too late at that conversation to go oh no actually it's been from so i just had to go no no but that's just you thinking that at no point in that conversation is it too late to bring that up go hey i think there's been some confusion like was that not an option i don't know all i said back was like yep i'll tell the guys like i just assumed the role of uh producer ben going yeah I'll tell the guys. I just assumed the role of producer Ben going, yeah, I'll tell the guys. They'll be happy to help. They'll be stoked about this.

Can't wait to tell them. If I know the guys. And I do because I'm one of them. They'll be stoked about this. And so the issue, the rod you've created for your own back now is your number. This person's phone is now going to be saved as producer Ben. So every time you have a conversation with him, you're going to have to fraudulently play the role of producer Ben Upry.

G'day. I'll tell you what, we're phoning about the guys again. I know the guys, they'll be happy I'm calling you. So you can never have a relationship with this person that goes beyond booking interviews. That's it. Well, I'm very good at booking the interviews if you want me to do that.

Because now it's far too late to go back and go, hey, remember three months ago when you thought that I was that? Well, for 12 weeks I've been playing the role of a producer. It's been me all along. I got it too deep.