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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
With the John and Ben Podcast. Cheers to Dilma making
the world a bitter tea.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hello, Welcome to the podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
It feels like inspirational music from like a Instagram sort
of video or something.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Okay, you've got to see really quick. You got to
say one thing inspirational from everyone.

Speaker 5 (00:19):
Oh Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, that was inspirational.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Now we can't talk Jesus. First it was blessed for me,
and then it was inspiration.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I just need to say it with that inspiration music, Jesus,
Oh Jesus. We've got David Williams joining us on this
podcast as well, very very funny, Like I just love
chatting to him.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
He's incredible.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
He's not only a great author, great comedian as well.
He's just got great stories about Adele and Prince Harry today.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
And a lovely gentleman to boot, doesn't he.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Yeah, it feels like someone you could talk to you
for an hour and a half and need to get bored.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Also fair enough.

Speaker 6 (01:02):
Say for like for ages, it's like an hour enough
that I feel like I've were had a party and.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
John will be talking David Wells about a half I'd
be like, oh God, he's punished half.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Specific amount of time.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
Like most people will be like talk two for hours, He's.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Got a half about ninety minutes a good amount of time.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
I feel like David Williams, well, that's pushing the boat,
so that's a lot of his time. He's probably i'd
say he's got books to write and ship like that.
He'd be like, this guy's talking to me for an hour.
I reckon at the forty five minutes forty five minutest
Williams will be looking at his watch on the halfway baby.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I was like, he's lovely.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
So you're there on the podcast today as well as
while I might.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Not ever be able to take an uber and you
excuse me, are flirting?

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all on the podcast and joy
and won't take it an hour and.

Speaker 7 (01:56):
A half either.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Last night I took being It was a bit of
a surprise. I took him out on a date, but
my husband was there, so.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah that when I got home was so it was
so awkwardly just hanging lingering around the whole time.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, did you pick them up? I meet there and
offered to drop me home afterwards. Full third wheel situation.

Speaker 6 (02:15):
I didn't offer to drop him home and he was like, no, no, no,
my wife's going to pick me up, and then we
go passing me to order them.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Uber.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
I was like, I didn't want to come. You didn't
want to sit in between the car seat.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
It was very nice to you guys. Now, I thought,
it's an awkward environment to begin, so I don't blame you.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I was like, jo I third wheel up for too
long because it's move on there I knew, and there
was lots of Warriors people I do know of, but
I was like, oh.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Do they want me to come back?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Can I sit?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Because of myself? So punished you.

Speaker 6 (02:39):
Guys, like because we didn't really know that many people either,
so we were all just like sticking together.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
But it was the launch of the Warriors, the league team.
They've got their own barn.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
At times sports bar. It's very cool near Inn Park.
Amazingly done.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
But you flash his screens everywhere in Europe.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Set that it wasn't called up the bars been a
good name.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
It was like a messed opportunity or.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Six more another league, another league saying.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, is that one like trying to join in?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Guys, it's our beer, it's our beers. We always talk
with the Warriors. It's that year anyway, they've got a
name now.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
So we went last night and like there was free beverages.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
It was good.

Speaker 6 (03:23):
So we were sitting there and there was like table service.
So the waitress came over and she was like, what
would you like to drink? Ben gets a beer and
she's like okay, goes off and gets them.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
What's this?

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Lad felt like there was it will become clear later
the islands.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Sorry, it has been grossly taken out of content.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
So then Andrew, my husband, was like, do you want to.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Know any like a little should of things a little while? No,
it was like, what'd you like that? I'm like, you're
like a beer?

Speaker 5 (03:50):
It was like is that how we found or is
my is my Recularno?

Speaker 6 (03:56):
So he finishes his beer and Andrew my husband's like,
do you want to other drink?

Speaker 5 (04:00):
I'll go get them.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
So it goes up to the bar and it turns
out the beers that Bean has been drinking.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
It wasn't like there were fancy beers or anything like yeah, no,
but that.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
The waitress had been bringing him. We're not on the
free list.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
You're going to stop turning the voice. When the waitresses like,
what would you like, big boy?

Speaker 5 (04:22):
They were not on the free list, but the waitress
had been bringing him these free beers. He supposed to
be taking whistle.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
You look gravishing a big, juicy burger, sir, Yeah, I
don't know that. And it was with another beer.

Speaker 6 (04:40):
It was just but then she comes to the table
again and she's like, would you like another?

Speaker 5 (04:43):
And bes like yes, his voice is.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
She'sfully professional. Now there's role plays. You know what, I'm
like another beer?

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yes? Yeah, you're savagely ordering beers that aren't on the
free beer list. This poor person they're handing out free
boost The place hasn't even made a dollar, and now
you're putting them in the bloody red because.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
Ben was worried that when he got to the door
they were going to be like, right, here's t mate.
No they didn't make you pay, so.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Last I hope you're never a witness the way you
recounter story.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
The waitress did.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
It know the heads that johnaan Ben podcasting.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Along to the six o'clock clubs. You are sixty and
you know it, and we don't forget it.

Speaker 7 (05:37):
Now.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
I just meeting moments ago, something changed about me and
I was wondering if you had noticed, and mean you
did bring a botox and it is in the realm
of the beauty world.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Made the fatal error.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
This morning, okay, of getting up and going, oh, there's
a ZiT there, there's a sit there.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
And I went digging.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
I went diving in the caves with my finger and
the nails and nothing was coming out.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
And then you get to the point where you're like, well,
we're here now and I've gotta keep going.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
No thing's got to come out.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Yeah, and you did the but the more you do it,
the less it comes out, and then you just end
up with a lesion on your face.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Everyone's teenage, you know experience, right, Yeah, hacking away at
your face when you probably should leave.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
It ninety it, just leave it if you ever done
it so bad you leave like a bruise either side.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
And it's just determination, pure gritin determination. But you do
you remember Dallas and tea and you'd put that on,
it would like sizzle away.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
It was like raw alcohol.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, mean, to be good for killing them and probably everything,
My wonderf it still exists.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Surely it is still out there. What did you put
toothpaste on your face.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
That was another rumor too. You can put a little
face before you go to bed.

Speaker 6 (06:50):
And also dad perfume on it, which is just alcohol,
wasn't it.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
It's just a dryer.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I noticed the kids. Nowadays you've got little cute stickers.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Yeah, you can put on pictures love hearts and stuff
all over your face.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Maybe I should have done that. Ye become like a
cutetled star or something that little on your cheek.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
What's been the greatest beauty mistake you think you've made
over your years? I mean you did see us a
picture of your eyebrows.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
Yeah, I've done my eyebrows that.

Speaker 7 (07:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:18):
Well yeah, well I had thin eyebrows. And then again
like I die my own eyebrows, and it does always end.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Up, well do you die those yourself? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (07:26):
But leave it on too long, Like they changed the
formula one time and I didn't read the instructions that
you're only supposed to leave it on. It went from
ten minutes to one minute, and so I ended up
with like what looked like I'd just drawn on my
eyes with the Yeah, like like someone had drawn on
me while I was asleep.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Oh yeah, but I mean you go back to the eyebrows.
It was just a trend, an eyebrow fashion. I'm sure
we'll go back to the eyebrows at some point.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
Have you ever used here removal cream on? I knew
where seas you shouldn't use it?

Speaker 5 (08:00):
No, no, no, neither.

Speaker 7 (08:05):
Sorry.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
I wish I could share that.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
It tells you not to. There's a reason why it
tells you not to.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Interesting. Yeah, I would have given it a bash at
some point in my life. That's great advice. Yeah, but
we were you meant to use it then? It just
like you.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah, I guess your lip if you need to, gotcha.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Here removals working great pain in the arts, isn't it really?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Who decided to get rid of all out here?

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (08:33):
Well, like where do you get rid of your Sorry?

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Decided for me? Mate, decided this guy he's better or raw,
raw and smooth.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
I wish they could put male pat and baldness on
my legs.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Heavily give you some of my hair. Last night.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
That Joan Ben podcast.

Speaker 6 (08:58):
I got the Originally we used to have a cafe,
so you go to like places. It was like Gilmore's
for those who are familiar, where they sell you lots
of things in bulk so like you're supplying like.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
Cafes and restaurants. So it was back then that I
was like first introduced to the three kg jar.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
Of gerkins, and I was like, yes, please, Now I've
been through maybe three jars.

Speaker 8 (09:25):
Nine kilograms on anything I'll put but like I also
just go into the fridge and I'll eat just a gurkin,
like several gerkins by themselves.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
I am pickle, not opposed to a gurkin, but I
don't know if I'm you know, three kilogram jar that
would last me four lifetimes.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
I've also when I went to Disneyland, you know in
America they do those huge deal pickles. I was the
person at Disneyland that bought a big pickle, like of
all the things that you can eat there, sticky.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
No, it's just pickles, shried peckles like huge.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
Really you just give it to you on a napkin
and you just it's like a mist.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
More around reading like a cucumber down. Yeah, love, So
what did you do?

Speaker 7 (10:15):
Want to know?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
What do you body? You bulk by? What have you
got in bulk? Toilet paper was a big one.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
During We were nuts about that.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
We're worried about wiping stuff. We is now we're good
to wipe for decades. It's another pandemic.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, we need some some so salardy, like a bolt
thing of salad. Nuts things you sprinkle on top of
the salad.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
You really love nuts.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, and we use every other sound. But the kids
are like, oh, could we not sprinkle the nuts on
another salad? Because I got to get rid of this bulk.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
How many kilograms?

Speaker 3 (10:46):
It's probably like it's probably like a big sort of
It was when we went to that Costco place, you know,
and we got that membership and we went along there
and we're like, well, what it doesn't bulk and we
happen using it but probably too much. The kids like,
just have a celeb without the nuts, like over a kg. Yeah,
it's like a big yeah, big three cages.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah wow.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah radio mate is all we do is just hassle
each other, so that yeah, what have you? What are
your I remember I went into Bunnings once they had
a big special on witt and forget.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
I've got like twenty liters of wa to forget. Ironically,
I've forgotten to.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Spray the Witten beginningnywhere it's just sitting there in the ship.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
I was like that's a bargain I can't pass up
if I even want to wheat and forget something.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Some people love it a Some people love buying a
bulk because they're like, it does save you in the
long run.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
But I don't know.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Sometimes it feels like a giant cloud that just hangs up,
like these nuts that you're trying to get rid of.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
These I have to put them somewhere.

Speaker 6 (11:37):
It's like it's great, but like, yeah, you've got to
find space for a thousand bottles of whitt and forget.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Well, you could be bulk buying something at the warehouse now.
You gave me some grief about my segways earlier in
the show, but that would have to be one of
the top box. Yeah, Barbie celebrating her sixty fifth anniversary
at the warehouse. Now we've got sixty five dollars for
every caller that makes it to wear.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
What have your bulk bought? Maybe you're sitting on a
stock load of something right now.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
The hits that johnaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
I wanted to know, what are you one of these
people that buy in bulk like Megan and the pickles
that me and my salad nuts slid nuts.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
What are sealing nuts.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
Nuts like a sprinkle specifically for your salad.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
You sprinkle on top of the salad. They work all fight.
You got nuts from bloody morning to evening.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Diet, pumpkins, seeds, there's all sorts of eves you know.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Now, sorry, did you say how big the beg? Was
trying to think how big it is?

Speaker 7 (12:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
It's a big.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
It's a like over a kg.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Well, a lot of sement, a lot of sellings. You
got to work your way through. So what are your
bulk bought? What have you got backlogs in your house? Mandy,
you are on the air. How are you?

Speaker 1 (12:41):
I'm good?

Speaker 9 (12:41):
How are you going?

Speaker 2 (12:42):
We're doing well, Mandy Hage. Just for making it on
the air, you've done nothing. We give you sixty five
dollars out you for the warehouse.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's Barbie's sixty fifth anniversary at the moment at the warehouse.

Speaker 9 (12:52):
Oh that's exciting, thank you.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
It is exciting. No, what have you got in bulk there? Mate?

Speaker 10 (12:58):
I have fifteen kilo of dark chocolate buttons.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
That blows my cellar.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
I've got a sellar DUTs That's what I've got, the
sellar top.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
But yeah, did you say fifteen kilograms. At some point,
did you like I'm going to get into some baking.

Speaker 10 (13:19):
No, so at Easter. I love getting in the chocolate
buttons and mounting them on toastal bagels with banana. And
I got really excited one day at Reduced to Clear
when they had fifteen kilo box for twelve dollars.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
There's a bargain I scored.

Speaker 10 (13:35):
Oh exactly, I thought I'd scored this amazing bargain. Little
did I know they were dark chocolate buttons. And then yeah,
don't taste quite as good on the toast with Bananah.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
You like the milk chocolate buttons. I see where you're
coming from.

Speaker 10 (13:49):
Yes, but I can't think to get rid of them.

Speaker 11 (13:51):
They mix it with.

Speaker 5 (13:52):
Cream and make it an ash and put that on
your bagel.

Speaker 9 (13:56):
Oh that's a good idea.

Speaker 10 (13:57):
We have done so much baking with chocolate.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
What will you give away some on the radio?

Speaker 10 (14:04):
More than happily, more than happy.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
We're going to hang you up with that warehouse boutchers
so you can spend that. Thank you so much your.

Speaker 9 (14:10):
Call, Thank you very much. Have a great day.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Sometimes it gets you if I don't know if it's
some time to time, I'll order like from the supermarket
online and you just got oh that's a picture and
your click on it, and then this massive thing of.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Garlic, crush garlic. We'll arry and you're like, oh it
was like.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
The picture small, but yeah we did that with the
bloody sweet sweetens our sauce. We got nine liters enjoint,
like a swamp of crepy bottle of sweetened our sauce.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
They need a little perspective hand mixt.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
Like looking at the price sixteen dollars.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
No gee swims our sauces bloody through the roof at
the moment, Gina.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
How are you good?

Speaker 12 (14:45):
Thank you?

Speaker 9 (14:46):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (14:47):
It's great, We're doing really well. It's lovely to have
you on the show this morning. What have you bowl bought?
What do you got stopped in your house?

Speaker 9 (14:53):
Stopped in my house?

Speaker 13 (14:54):
I accidentally bought a box, a five ko box of
angel baby petties, thinking that that'd be great. But when
I got them home, opened the box and they're just tiny,
tiny little petties the size of a two dollar coin.
And there's over eight hundred of them in the box.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
What have we got? Miniature little minutes, little meat petties.

Speaker 10 (15:16):
I have no idea.

Speaker 9 (15:17):
So now I've got over eight hundred tiny little angel
bait meat petties.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Are they just for like very tiny little burgers?

Speaker 9 (15:25):
Yeah, for sliders? But they wasn't even for a slider burger.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Now we also you have sixty five dollars to spend
at the warehouse from us as well.

Speaker 9 (15:35):
So thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Why don't you just melt them all together and make
one giant meat petty like you could get like twelve
at a time.

Speaker 9 (15:42):
Well that's what my husband did say, and we actually
we've only actually eaten them once and we had to
cook like twenty five of them up just like there's.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
Well, next week we're gonna have miniature meat petties to
go away and tiny dark dark chocolate butters.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
We recall it.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
On the heads the jonaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
To a Harker attempt at taking place at Eden Park
on Sunday, which would be really impressed. Of six sixty
are going to be there, including a ConA and O'Brien,
the US.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Talk show host. Is he here?

Speaker 3 (16:15):
He's apparently he is coming to New Zealand to film
some stuff for a travel show that he makes and
so this is part of it. He's going to learn
how to do the Harker and hopefully break the Harker
world record, which is currently held by the French. The
French hold the Harker world record in about four thousand people.
So they're hoping to get about ten thousand people on
Sunday at Eton Park to break the world record for

(16:36):
the Harker.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
They're going to teach him to do it properly.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yes they are, Yeah, yeah, he's going to be how
to do it properly.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Now on Earth do the French hold their record?

Speaker 3 (16:43):
I know it does feel like one that we need
to win foury twenty eight people in France.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
We're not over here holding the bloody cross on makingcord.

Speaker 7 (16:51):
Are we?

Speaker 6 (16:52):
They stay in your lane France say record of course
making records.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
So we're not holding it because I can't even pronounce it.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
So you can't get along if you want to help
out and help New Zealand win that record or record.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
So you probably did say this first switched off?

Speaker 3 (17:07):
How many people? What does the current record? Four? They're
hoping to get about ten thousand people even park on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, we'll blow those frogs out of the water now,
producer Relly, you actually brought this up our new producer Rally.
Come on and mate, Ellie's been with us for a
couple of weeks. Tailor's off having twins, and you said
you used to work at Coca Cola. I did one
of the greatest work purpose. This is what we want
to open up this morning. Stuff you're getting for free

(17:34):
that other minions are having to pay for.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
What will you get for free at coke?

Speaker 14 (17:39):
So at Coca Cola and the office they have vending
machines everywhere and you can literally just go up and
get a drink whatever's in there free, Just drink it.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Don't need to put money in, which makes but I
don't want to put Pert Coles in this. But the
vending machine's kind of redundant in the process. You're just
unnecessarily putting stuff on a vending machine if you don't
need to use it as a payment.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
There to fridges.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
I mean, you still get the thrill of machine.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
It is exciting.

Speaker 14 (18:07):
It's like a little raffle or like a little like
claw machine. It just makes a little game. But they
rotate the drinks, so if you get sick of one,
it's okay, you're always God.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
It's dangerous though, because like, yeah, zero.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
You got hooked on mother.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
Not my proudest moment.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
I love mother.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
Yeah, it was it like one a day or I
tried to limit myself.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
It was definitely at least two a day though, but.

Speaker 14 (18:35):
Three though, I guess it's you know, you're like, you know,
I mean my house can so I did do the
little ones.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, so I had the little ones.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, it's great work.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, here, what do you get here? Have you giving
you a free pair of our John Meghan socks? Probably not,
didn't even so I can't. Probably that also really dried up.
In radio, it used to.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Be littered with if we've got a freed new machine
out there, you' it's the traditional and we have to
pay for the items. Yeah, but it used to be
literally get showered and freebies in this industry.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
Don't tickets get those these days.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
I think the first five years of my career I
was paid in bloody promotional party pills, just.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Lives off party pills. Then we just give away party pills.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
All the radio stations explained so much explained a lot,
doesn't it. Yeah, so you know now now you get
nothing times are tough out there, but this is what
we want to open up. What are you getting for
free that others are paying for? Maybe free parking.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
There are some towns in New Zealand where you don't
pay for parking.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yeah, maybe it's a work perk as well. A lot
of people get travel perks or places that you work
out that are attractions. We'd love to hear from you
this morning. We're celebrating sixty five years of Barbie at
the Warehouse this week as well, giving away sixty five
dollars gift cards to every caller that gets on the air,
and you can take a picture in pink at the
Warehouse as well, tagging the Warehouse and the hats to
go on the drawer to win one of sixty five

(19:52):
Barbie Dreamhouse Price packs works worth six hundred dollars.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
I take it back, I take it back. Sorry, I've
just been reminded that's Monday. Got some fried breakfast chicken,
Oh chicken, turn up at eight fifty in the morning,
and so that was a great perk too.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
You've really got to be in a certain frame of
mind for breakfast chicken, thought. But it was a lovely.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Hits that John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Talking with stuff you're getting for free that others are
paying for. This may come in the form of a
work perk. Megan purpose, what work perks.

Speaker 7 (20:23):
You got made?

Speaker 5 (20:24):
I actually have a park in the building.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
She negotiated a great content. She's like, do you get that?
Do you at that? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (20:33):
These guys, I don't know. Even our boss doesn't park
in our building. I don't know how I wrangled that.
But let's just keep it quiet.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
I share a carp out was a myth. Hit. That's
what we're doing, five blocks of five kilometers away.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
Does this mean hosking downstairs?

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
So Meghan just rolls on and parks on the convenience
downskeep I can't know. Yeah, I also forgot to this industry.
As we see, we used to rain in freebies. A
large period of my life tour is just dressed and
free promotional out whole merch like you know, woodstock, bourbon
merch or like purple go on and bucket hats and
things like that.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
It was good work perks for you being now one. No,
I mean they have dried up.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
There used to be CDs back in the day, didn't they.
When CDs were a thing and used to be able
to take them down to a store and get either
store credit or cash. That helped you out when you
were a young person in this industry.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
They ended up just.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
With a large quantity of like we don't need City two,
matchbox twenty things.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, you go down to give them twelve of the
same album did you really love Knickelback?

Speaker 2 (21:31):
And then all of a sudden they ever change about.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Twelve copies of the Feeling I love the Feelers, but
twelve of them. I bought thirteen copies. I don't want
to give twelve to the store.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
You know.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Let's go to vour and welcome to the show. How
are you? And Palmi Vorn?

Speaker 15 (21:44):
Hey good you boys, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
We're doing well. Work perks. What are you getting for
free that the rest of us are paying for?

Speaker 15 (21:51):
Well, it's not actually work works. It's school lunch. My
boys thought, you thought, okay, cool, I'm gonna take a
burgo do your dad and it reach. And then the
school lunch started changing to subway and I said to
the little man, he's only five by then, I said, look, boy,
if you bring me a school lunch home every day,
I'll give.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
You a dollar.

Speaker 15 (22:09):
So every day. He started running in with lunch, right,
So I'm getting free school lunch. So I'm paying a
dollar for a subway to him, it's free and he's
getting pocket money.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
So yeah, school lunch a subwayool lunch.

Speaker 15 (22:24):
I'm not going to mention the school, but I must
say I wish I was a student there, because damn
it's not back in the day. He just got your dan,
which this is a subway with a little fruit and stuff.
So yep, so you're getting.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Him to bring you home his school lunch. Does that
kind of helps.

Speaker 15 (22:42):
Because he doesn't like that there's letters on and stuff.
You know, they before the kids, and I'm not I've
got no problem with that. A nice chicken rap for
a dollar, I'll take that any day.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, and what are you eating for for lunch?

Speaker 15 (22:54):
Then I just put it in the fridge tomorrow morning,
take it to work. That's my lunch. I'm a smoker
for the morning or whatever.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yes, an illegal underground sandwich ringing.

Speaker 15 (23:04):
One of many.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
You know.

Speaker 15 (23:05):
It's like when you walk through your can on well
willis now they are angry. Then they eat a banana.
I'm like, well organized that a banana too, And then.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Are you need the kids fruit?

Speaker 7 (23:17):
Are you?

Speaker 15 (23:18):
I'm eating the rest of his fruit.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
That's a nice way. We're gonna hold you out for
sixty five dollars. There's a work perk for you to
spend at the warehouse. Enjoy that, I.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Guess as long as the child's hand pulls the fruit
out of the bar.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
And they started, Yeah, Nikki, you're on at Maria now
your work perk.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
What are you paying for that? We are We're not
paying for sorry that.

Speaker 11 (23:39):
We are all I want to say, all gravy in
the navy.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
It's catching on Meagan, we're bringing it back, trying to
get a show catchphrase off the ground.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
That means she gets show socks though we did promise them.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
Yes, sir, you've got socks. Every pair comes with the spear,
the unlosable socks, John O Bin and Meghan socks.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
The congratulations NICKI.

Speaker 11 (23:59):
Them thank you.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Well.

Speaker 11 (24:00):
I'm a very bit lucky at the moment. So we've
got family friends that are in the process of opening
a cafe, so I get to be the taste test
of the like brist training, storm, baking everything. So it
is amazing, free, all for free, all for free. Yep,
and I have to give my honest opinion, which is

(24:21):
quite hard. Would you kind of like it's more like
a white than.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
A lafe, But you know, getting quite snobby on your
coffee too. Yeah, good on you. There you go, free coffee,
baked goods for Nikki. That's a great work percuse. Yeah,
a friend of ours, his brother, was getting into the
tattoo game, and obviously tedo artists they have to start somewhere, right,
they do, And so he started on our friend and

(24:45):
well there were some shaky years.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
But they were free. Everyone else's playing one hundred and sixty.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
An hour the hits that johnaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Now, I was telling you guys before the weekend. We
had a busy weekend of activities, which is great idea
weekend for me. In one the things here, Friday night,
went with some friends to the arcade with the kids
and families and stuff. It was you know, there was
a bar area there, an arcade game, so it was
a fun night. And I messed to get injured though
at the arcade by standing too close to the punching
machine when my daughter was doing it and she punched

(25:15):
not straight but to the side, and the punching bag
smacked me in the face.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
Are you like tactical from that?

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Why are you standing right beside the punch?

Speaker 3 (25:23):
I was kind of and it was a marring fault,
going all right, God, just give me a be shot
because I had to go, and then she was having
to go and I was next to the punching bag,
and then she just maybe it was tactical because it
went off to the side, a very dangerous location, shack
me in the face. So anyway, apart from that wonderful evening,
I went out to you know, I went home to
order an uber.

Speaker 7 (25:42):
I ordered the uber.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
I said one minute away, as you do, you know,
and so we.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Waited for a bat and then you look at the
little and you follow the little car like a little
game that you can't play. And then I was like, oh,
that's further the one minut's away. Then it recalculated to
like four or five minutes. And then I was like,
he's two point four k's away, and you know, this
is not going to be one minute away. And so
my wife sort of grabbed, you know, had a look
at the phone. I was like showing her and I
was talking to my kids. And then she was like, oh,

(26:08):
this is ridiculous. I'm telling him some stuff and she
messages and starts messaging some things. Someone'm thinking, oh, okay,
she's yeah, she's the one in the family that would
get involved and dispute.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
I'm like, okay, if the wrong meal's been sent out,
you'll leave it to Amanda.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
I mean, she's just no, she's not rude, l anything.
She just you know, like, and you're well with and
you're right exactly. I'm just I don't make a scene.
I don't make a fuss.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
What was the great story you told?

Speaker 4 (26:29):
Like they had sent you got some takeaways and they
put the wrong meal in, and she's like, you go
back and sort it out.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
I went back and with her as well, and he
told you to it. I was like, hey, sorry about that.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
Weird.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
The guy's like, it's.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Okay you and you keep going it's all good, it's
all good.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
It's not good. Why did you keep saying it was
all good? We probably should have just eaten it exactly.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
So anyway, this occasion, she's messaging back there, but I'm like, oh, yeah,
that's all good. She's doing her thing, that's fine. And
then I realized, oh no, this is on my logan, this.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
Is ben confrontation on my look and how you can
miss as the driver, You're like, that's ridiculous. Is taken
longer than that is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Hey, I've caught in the saying. I'm like, what I
told us one minute now it's.

Speaker 5 (27:13):
Not And I'm oh, I've been boys guys, and I'm
like oh.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
And then she's like, oh, can you sit in the front.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
And I'm like, because the kids and I either pack,
I'm like and I'm trying to overcompensate, you know, being.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Going he's going to be.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Like this, you're literally just giving me late.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
And then one of the kids won some sort of
jelly you know how you go the arcade, you win
tickets and you can spend it on whatever it.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Is that's wrought.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Whoever invented the bloody ticketing system was having a laugh
as they did that.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
They bought some sort of jelly, these little packets and
the like, yeah, they're kind of like sweets but also
jelly like whatever it was whatever. They went to eat
one of that and it's sort of sat letting on
the guy's arm and I was like and then I sorry,
sorry about that, And I was like oh god, down
did you think I spat on them?

Speaker 4 (28:06):
And I was.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
I was like, oh, do you go on?

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Now?

Speaker 2 (28:11):
I can never take an over what.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
You don't know starting gone down a look, he's going
to be like this guy is a roller coaster.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
He's like he's abusing me. Then he's overly friendly that.

Speaker 11 (28:24):
He's on me.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
I was like, there was other kids things. And then
when he lifts up, thank you, thank you so much,
thank you, thank you. So it was really was a
real roller coaster over ride up. How next, Megan, you
told us yesterday something that you have? How many leads
of this thing do you have?

Speaker 5 (28:38):
It's three kgs?

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Wow, but it was a lot.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
How quickly I go through it, it's pretty grim.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
I wouldn't have heard that probably over in a lifetime.

Speaker 16 (28:45):
Really kilograms with the heads that johnaan Ben podcast now
I mentioned yesterday we got into a heated debate to
as to whether you can use the petrol station facilities
if you're.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Not paying for any you know, petrol Snacks's a little
minature nuts that Ben likes to pay for, gilt nuts
I call them.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
He buys those and I use the toilet.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
He won't stand for it if I walk in there
and use the petrol station toilet without paying for anything. Yeah,
very nice of you, he gets as he do you
do love your cranberry trios, that your almonds and.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
A little minipeck of almonds. Yeah, well one another one
I want to chuck out there.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
And I saw yesterday two days in a row, so
in the supermarket, guys wandering around with a trolley puts
a bottle of coca in his trolley and opens it
up and starts drinking it and shopping as he goes
about his day. Now, from what I can gather, ultimate

(29:45):
boss move, absolute power play. Congratulations, nothing illegal at this stage.
Hasn't shoplifted because probably the intention to buy it at
the counter. You'll just scan it through.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
But can you do that?

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Because of this is a this is the thing we
can do with shopping, and we can eat whim we're shopping.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Technically you haven't bought it though.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Have you?

Speaker 4 (30:04):
No?

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Technically, that's what I was going to say.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
You haven't yet bored it, just gone and grabbed something and.

Speaker 5 (30:09):
It started to consume.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, because I have seen someone else do that, eating
something from the deli counter, like a sandwich or something.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Yeah, I think it was some sort of like I
come in what it was that was snacking away? And
then I saw them later screwing up the bag and
just putting it in the putting it well, they were
just walking around and then they put it away, you know,
And that's the sort of thing that could happen. He
could could have and I'm not saying he did, but
the bottle at the bottle, I don't like confetation.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
I think someone was worth the dark. But yeah, at
the time, I was like, oh, that's all over there.
But yeah, but.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Yeah, did you knock on people in COVID you know
when friends over in their house?

Speaker 2 (30:50):
People were so wild with that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, but it's interesting because I know it's interestingly when
you've got kids and they're getting a bit hungry and
scratching like you know, like a squeezy yogurt or something
like that.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Maybe, you know, because that's.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
Why like a lot of the supermarkets do fruit for kids.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
Now, yes, but this theory you go there, Well, then
you would argue a case that you're not allowed to
read the magazines while you're waiting an aisle.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Well, you're probably technically not because you're diducing the content.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
You're put in the magazine, but it.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
Doesn't disappear when you diduced it. Yeah, you can put
it back and someone can buy it.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
But you've got to pay to have the right to
digest their content.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
But you probably should buy the magazine. I'm sure the
magazine people listening.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Reading them, waiting with their trolleys.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yeah, just speaking of you know, shoplifting and sand friend,
basically you can just.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Walk into a shop and take it. Were speaking about shoplifting, except.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
What sage conversation when we're talking about the shoplifting, I
was just like speaking of shot.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
That worst segue shotto, like, yeah, it's pretty much shoplifting
speaking of sand friend.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
You're right.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
I was like, no point you that conversation when we're
talking about shoplifting.

Speaker 5 (31:59):
You said, friend, to hold your hand through that.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Seace you take a trip to Sandfred. I can't go on.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
You want to talk about shop on another show, a
professional show.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
They wouldn't have acknowledged that. They would have just gone on.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
Maybe we were speaking about it was like stopping. Yeah, yeah,
I was just hoping that you didn't remember that we
were talking about.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
But it's illegal.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
You can do it over there up to nine hundred
and fifty dollars because it's rampant crime in San Francisco.
So the lawmakers have said, well, if you take anything
to the value of under nine hundred and fifty dollars,
it's a misdemeanor, which ultimately means the police will never
investigate it. And the shop workers they've been told, well,
don't try and stop these people for fear of violence.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
It's like the bus drivers.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
Not being allowed to ask if people haven't paid their
fair crazy just wandering and take stuff.

Speaker 6 (32:55):
Do you like, look at the TV price tag, You're
like nine hundred and that's good.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
It's little knocking sandwich.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Now the hits that Joan Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Last night, Megan, you were like, what are you doing
six o'clock? And I didn't have anything that I was
having to do.

Speaker 6 (33:14):
It was like a lot of trust from you. I
was like, right, I need to book you up from
six till eight Tuesday night.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Thursday.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
You can handle for a Tuesday. You're like, we are
only at the start line of the week.

Speaker 5 (33:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
So I took you out to the opening of a
new bar. Yeah, owned by your favorite team.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
I know, the Warriors got a new bar. It's called
Full Time. The bar. Well, this is like your Disneyland
and he already loves Disneyland. Yeah, so thank you very
much for that. There was a few.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
I did try and play it cool, and because I
do get quite excited to particularly you being in the
same room or near Warriors players, and.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
There were a few.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
He was like, no, give me away from Shawn's Johnson.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
I didn't see you want Rris Johnson there last time,
but he might have been there.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
But I tried to play it cold, we know, just
because Megan was there, and you know, Megan's husband Andrew
was there, and I was like, I can't be just
fanboying out over Warriors or ex Warriors, were ex players
or you know.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
But he did point them all out to me.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Oh yes, did you reddle through all the previous Warriors
teams partshit them as well?

Speaker 5 (34:22):
I wanted to. I was like quite keen just to
see Ben be like.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Didn't you want the bar to be called up? The Bars?
The Bars was one of the names that I thought
it was quite good. Yeah, great, yeh. Did they what
they call it? Full time so much works? Well?

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, it's it's next to Eaton Park. If anyone's in
all I think it's opened from tonight, so it's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
But I tried to tried to play it cold Warriors
scene bars like Warriors stuff everywhere if you.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Warriors things, but so other sports as well. So amazing screens,
like a real wrap around screen around the bar.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
I don't know how to.

Speaker 6 (34:52):
Take screens everywhere, Like you can't go anywhere in that
bar without saying, like the screen. I don't know if
they're all He's going to be playing one thing, but
there will always be sport that you can see, that's
for sure.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
And so did he drop you home afterwards? City?

Speaker 6 (35:07):
We offered to drop him home and he was like,
oh no, Uber, but yeah, we have two car seats
in the back so he would have a squeeze.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
I was almost going to take him. I was half,
you know where you're talking. I was talking to you
guys and talking about people. You don't want to be
that person on your phone. So I was half getting
messages from my wife because she was going to pick
me up. And then later on I was she was like,
I've ordered dinner and stuff, and I was half lock
at messages. It seemed like I was meant to pick
up the dinner and get an uber home. That's what
the messages for.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
When I like regularly, when are you come to pick
me up?

Speaker 3 (35:38):
I told you the dinners need to pick out half
across the road from where you are and taken over.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
I'm like, oh wow, I'm like an hour late for
you guys.

Speaker 6 (35:44):
So it was like, oh, my wife's picking me up.
And then we walked past and he's waiting for an
over and I was like, out, want to ride?

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah, I get home, had a few beers and dinner
is quite late for the kids sitting there for sitting
there for a while, but anyway, at least it was
past that you could reheat it, so I was fine.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
So that was that nice. So thank you Mega. That
was very very funny surprise and good surprise.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
The hits that johonnaan Ben podcast in the.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Country this weekend from Friday.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
He's doing some shows for kids and she shows for
slightly older kids as well.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
It looks very funny.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
David Williams, author comedian, it'd be great to have the
New Zealand.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
And he joins us over zoom now David, Hello, Hello,
David Williams, there is right.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yeah, you look very rested in a wonderful little hotel
room there.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I am.

Speaker 17 (36:34):
Yes, I've been enjoying myself. I've been watching the dirty
movies on the.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Do you still watch? Do any movies and hotel rooms?
You know there's the internet.

Speaker 7 (36:44):
I don't think there are an.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
We're very excited you coming to New Zealand this weekend.
You've got to be here. You're in Australia now.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
I noticed from your social media you had people on
stage there were you were kissing one of them.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
There was all sorts going on.

Speaker 17 (36:59):
It was It's been really fun actually, because the show
is sort of well planned out, but there is plenty
of chance to sort of be loose and to be
playful as well. And obviously with any comedy really that
the best parts are often the spontaneous parts, aren't they
That the bits that the audience wouldn't have seen last
night and not going to see the next night.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
I was in.

Speaker 17 (37:22):
Newcastle. I no, that's where I am now. No, No, no,
my new Yeah, no, I'm in Newcast but I was
somewhere else. Where's all the churches? Where's Adelaide?

Speaker 2 (37:34):
I sounds like your toener is quite spontaneous too.

Speaker 17 (37:39):
Yes, I just wake up and I was in Adelaide
and was so much fun and the audience is such
a big part of it. It was Saturday night, they'd
had a few drinks and so they were kind of
keen on getting involved, which is which I encourage.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
Must be frightening for you going opening the floor to
questions from the audience.

Speaker 17 (37:56):
Especially when you don't know what city you're in. The
best questions are the ones that's rude. I had this
great this woman came up, like in her early twenties
or something like that. She said, Yeah, my mum was
meant to come tonight but she couldn't make it, so
she gave the tickets to me. And I'm just twenty two,
so I just want to ask, who are you.

Speaker 7 (38:19):
Right? Question? Yeah, and there was there was a boy
got up in Sydney and he was like.

Speaker 17 (38:26):
I've read all forty three of your books. When you're
going to write a good one, these are the ones
that get the best laughs. Are the ones that you
know that put me down. So please rude questions listeners, because.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
You've got these shows there earlier in the day, which
I gets a bit more caned around the box.

Speaker 7 (38:45):
The kids and.

Speaker 17 (38:46):
Yeah, the family shows in the day for people who
like my books and shows in the evening. I mean,
there's not that adult, but I wouldn't take your eight
year old with teenager and they'd seen Little Britain and stuff.
But I think it'd be fine.

Speaker 6 (39:01):
How do you navigate between doing the comedy for you know,
like a PG audience and then moving into something a
little bit more adult related.

Speaker 17 (39:09):
Well, I kind of I feel like it's the same me,
but it's just it's just slightly it's just slightly different.
You know, I'm not I don't I feel with the kids,
you know, as a children's author, I don't patronize them,
you know, like I don't go hallo kiddies. You know,
it's still me and I'm still an archic and obviously
I just know not to drop the F bomb.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
I'm very excited. I think we're all going at various
stages over the weekend. Do you think about your career
because I was reading yesterday you started, you know, back
at I think at Edinburgh and things like that, performing
to the just a handful of people, and now you're
selling out in New Zealand and Australia and you've done
amazing comedy shows and books. Do you think about that
journey that you've been on.

Speaker 17 (39:49):
Yeah, always, I think you've always got to feel very
grateful because, yeah, me and Matt's first ever gig together
was to three people.

Speaker 7 (39:56):
Who are those.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
People's as big as this gig right now? There's three
muss Yeah it was you three day one baby, Yeah,
just three.

Speaker 7 (40:06):
But then that's how it all starts.

Speaker 17 (40:08):
Everyone's you start a humble way, and it's good because
it keeps you grounded and makes you grateful that you've
had your success. And I think it's just really important,
isn't it not to take it for granted. I just
always remind myself when I was a lifeguard at the
local swimming pool and what I used to get paid
an hour to be there, And then I think about
what I got paid now, And okay, David, stop complaining.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Yeah, and you don't even have to mouth to mouth
anyone nowadays. There was the lady of the audience. You
were quite hoky until.

Speaker 17 (40:39):
I'm very big with the older lady.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Did David Williams actually have to save anyone from drowning?
And your years as a lifeguard?

Speaker 7 (40:48):
I didn't, and I was desperate too to push children
in the pool.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
The hits that Joan Being podcast.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Just discovered that you used to go the same gym
as Prince Harry, Is it correct?

Speaker 17 (41:03):
Correct? Until he moved to America, which is very selfish
of him. We used to, Yeah, we used to sit
in the steam room together and did you is a
very well built young man.

Speaker 7 (41:14):
I must say.

Speaker 17 (41:17):
He's great, really fun, really friendly, real laugh. I know,
I know it's silly, you know, but there's not like
you know, you had to call him Prince Harry or something,
you know of that.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
What did you call him when you're sitting there at
a towel?

Speaker 17 (41:31):
I called him big boy because it was like, you know,
I think he was. He's the most down to earth
and the most normal of a lot of them. And
good luck to him, you know, I've always liked him.

Speaker 7 (41:45):
Was always great.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
If he if he like, forgot a swipe car, would
you be able to swipe him into the gym?

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Or is there like a five hundred dollars fine for that.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Was a.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Fancy gym. You're not snip foot.

Speaker 17 (42:00):
But it was very popular there because it's just to
laugh and just always fun, always full of energy and
just it was no like, oh my goodness, it's Prince Harry.
You know he has to be kept away from everyone else.
He just you know, everyone loved him. Now coming up
with me, I love about him. Quoting Prince Harry, your.

Speaker 4 (42:20):
Sell tickets to his own showed and New Zealand this week.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
In how long does it take you to write a book?

Speaker 4 (42:27):
And is it like a constant cloud hanging over you
like you're in the middle of writing books?

Speaker 7 (42:31):
Now, I've been.

Speaker 17 (42:32):
I've been writing one as we've been speaking. Actually it
takes a few it takes a few months. But you know, again,
I just keep reminding myself. Although you know, sometimes it
feels like hard work because you're stressed and you're working
late into the night or whatever, and you know you
get frustrated and all that.

Speaker 7 (42:51):
But you know, I just keep my mindself. Yes, it's
not actual real hard work. You know, it is.

Speaker 17 (42:57):
Daunting, but at the same time, by the time you
sort of filled it and created a story, it's really exciting.
So actually I always can't wait to get on to
the next one.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Oh, we're very excited about you. Here the final question.
I went to look on an article last Night's from
the Age and then see David Williams has advice for Adele,
and then I had to pay for that to subscribe,
and I didn't do that.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
So what what's your advice for Adele?

Speaker 7 (43:20):
This story is what happens.

Speaker 17 (43:22):
You say one thing and then Chinese whispers, it gets
reporting all these different sites. Well, basically, Adele used to
both be my neighbor, so I'd see her a lot,
and she came around, she came around with her for dinner,
and she brought her oscar.

Speaker 7 (43:38):
It's really really nice.

Speaker 17 (43:39):
And anyway, and I was talking to her because it
was like a long time between the second and the
third album, and so I said, I said, you know,
is it difficult you know, just come up a song
and it's like yeah, because you know you've had these
rative hits and now you're sort of competing. You're not
competing by other people, you're not competing with yourself. And

(44:00):
she was like, yeah, I suppose it is, because I
guess if you've written a song like someone like you,
you're starting to write another song and then you think, oh,
it's not as good as someone like that.

Speaker 7 (44:10):
It's just coming in.

Speaker 17 (44:10):
Your head, even though she may be better or different whatever.
And so anyway, she took that advice and now.

Speaker 7 (44:20):
You right, Hello, Thanks, I help all the big I've
got a note for everybody, Pep, Philbergh.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
Prince, Harry and the sauna. You got them all.

Speaker 7 (44:34):
I've got something to say to you.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
Oh we love catching up and order on it, Harry,
David Williams in New Zealand this week Friday, Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, Auckland,
Wellington and christ We can't wait to see it in
New Zealand.

Speaker 7 (44:49):
Are you coming?

Speaker 3 (44:50):
I'll be there Friday night. I think John going on Saturday.
So yeah, I can't wait to see it.

Speaker 17 (44:55):
I can't wait with you come backstage and catch me
in my underpants when I'm getting dressed.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
I love to I don't know if I'll be allowed to.
What do I say? Maybe that's the first question. Can
I come back expeciation to see you in your underpants?

Speaker 17 (45:06):
Yes, that would be a great question. Because I'm such
a terrible show off. I'll probably strip off on stage.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Okay, great, I'd love to see you in your underpants
and love to see your.

Speaker 7 (45:17):
Promise me you're going to ask that question?

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Okay, yeah, okay, but okay, right it sounds great.

Speaker 17 (45:21):
All right, Well, and I come back backstage and see
you and your and I'll ask it at the children's shown.

Speaker 7 (45:32):
One your Dark and Disturbed Mind.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
All right, we'll see it Friday night.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
And the hits that Joan Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
About the Auckland if C.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
New Zealand's got a brand new team in the A
League football for the Auckland team and we want to
get in behind many in PJ in the afternoons. They've
got their selves a move which I don't know exactly
what the move is, but we're like, we're coming up
with the move. We're going to inspire the fans, and
we're like, well, hang on, why don't we try and
putch a move.

Speaker 6 (46:01):
This is like a celebration move, so after they score
a goal, the players and everyone in the stands can
do this move as a celebration.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
I feel like hate far bit from me.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
I've never invented a move before, but I feel like
we're doing Do we want to score the goals first
and then come up with the move or do you
need to have to move before the goals are scored
because the team has then played you and we're already
invading a move. I feel like in order of things
of priorities, yeah, but then you don't know goal is
going to happen at some stage, and then you want
to know what to do, right, You want to be prepared.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
Otherwise you're like, oh, no, we didn't come up with
the move. They'll score another goal and then you know,
which would be great, but you'll just sit there applauding. Yeah, yeah, great,
which great you do applause. Failing to prepare, preparing to fail.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
So we put a couple of moves out on our
social media as well. We went to the football grounds.
We ignored the signs that said keep off the grass
and we went out there and.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
We very soggy shoes. I said, I now know why
you keep off the grass? Yeah yeah, And there was
a very There was a medley of moves. There was
the trying to get on the property ladder where we
would all try and climb on the goal. So the
goal scored and we all try and clamber up the goalposts.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Because they're an Auckland based team, so we're like, let's
come up with an Auckland Auckland move or a night
because they're called the Black Knights. There were some options
so that John I said. There was the property ladder,
There was the Pontsibi Road. I was like a very
poor table too. Sorry, I was like things would be
sliding off. The table was on my hands and these
you guys are pretending to drink lattes. Yeah.

Speaker 18 (47:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
There was the pile up on the motorway. We were
all just piled on top of each other.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
There was the ram raids too, where you were a
shop door and then I drove through with the shirt
over my face. The problem is that it needs to
be a move that not only the players can do,
but also the people in the crowd can do, and
so a lot of.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
The ray would be difficult. It requires three people.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
And a lot of movements.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
You know.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
I want to be able to do it in the seat.
So pretty much ninety nine percent about moves. We're not
good for the crowd, very physical.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
That's why the Phoenix have done a great job of
just taking their shirts off and just swinging them around
the head.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Anyone could do that, no matter you are. Yeah, now, Megan,
you've you've cracked it. I think you know.

Speaker 6 (48:03):
With the name, I don't know if it was I
just took inspiration from the name, so not like hugely original,
but I went for a moved that I'm.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
Calling the knighthood.

Speaker 6 (48:12):
So the player bends down on one knee and another
one nights them tap on the right shoulder, tap on
the left shoulder, and.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
You can do that to people next to you in
the crowd. You can bend down if you can, but
if not, you can just turn and not the other person.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Two plus and role play love it? Okay? Is that
the move we're putting forward. That's the move we're putting
forward right now. That's the move. So that's what what
a medium PJ don We don't know. I don't know, No, I.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Don't know what's going out today, but lots shrouded in
secrets there knowing.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
PJ probably nothing, something shamboling, scramble something together in the
last five to the deadline. Yeah, So that's our move
for the show.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
We'll put it up on social media today and we'll
get some votes and we'll see if we can meet
Maddie and PJ for their move, which we don't know
what they're one is yet.

Speaker 7 (48:53):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (48:53):
And then one of the most votes obviously is democracy.
There's the one that we're going to be pitching to
the club.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Putting the club, pitching to the fans and then old
it's they're out of work has started. It's not up
to us anymore. Will it take off or will it not?
I mean those things. You know, it's very hard to
create those things.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
We've tried to start catchphrases in the past, but we're
not catchphrase. It does take It needs to catch on
like wildfire, and that is that's the unknown.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Who would have thought up the wars? Yeah, would have
been a thing. It was like a hugely massive thing.
We tried to get all gravy in the Navy was
going to be the shows.

Speaker 10 (49:27):
In the Navy.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
We did it. We did it for a week and
then really pete it out.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
The hits the johnaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
School Holidays just around the corner, and there's a new
live show starting today, Roll Dahal's Matilda.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
The story looks really good at.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
The Bruce Mason Center and Auckland running for the school holidays,
and we've got two of the stars are joining us
ahead of opening nights. And we've got Rebecca who plays
Miss Honey and Juliet who plays Matilda, one of the
few they're playing Matilda.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Welcome to the studio. How you guys going good? You're
looking amazing. Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
Yes, Matilda the Musical Bruce Mason, Senter and takapoona incredible production.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Matilda.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
It's a great show, isn't it.

Speaker 18 (50:07):
Yeah, lots of great songs, lots of It's really one
of my favorite.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Yeah, what's pretty amazing role, Joel. I know I learned
from Telly. That's smarter the man. Yeah, why do you
know so much about it? I went to Matilda the
Musical a couple of years ago. I had the time
in my life.

Speaker 5 (50:27):
Really songs good on.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
Yeah, a really big role though, wasn't it, Juliet for you? Like,
how has it been like getting that amazing role?

Speaker 6 (50:34):
Definitely the biggest role I've had.

Speaker 18 (50:36):
So I've learned of my lines, but it's quite nave.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Yeah, that's the key thing. Learn your lines, don't forget them.

Speaker 5 (50:42):
Yeah, thank you, John.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
If you could have her powers, what would one thing
you'd like to move?

Speaker 18 (50:51):
Probably like my sister.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
I thought about that first. Great answer. How has it
been working?

Speaker 3 (51:03):
Because cast of adults and kids as well, it must
be a challenging but also amazing at the same time.

Speaker 18 (51:08):
Yeah, Yeah, it's pretty incredible. And we have three Matilda's
working on the show as well, and then two sets
of kids. So it's been super fun and super fresh,
rotating casts and everyone brings different energy, which is super fun.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Who's your favorite?

Speaker 18 (51:21):
Matilda's such a dangerous question to.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Ask one you don't have to answer now publicly, Julia.
Now people might not know this. You're actually broadcast to
Tony Streets daughter.

Speaker 5 (51:32):
Yeah, AMMAULI didn't know that.

Speaker 4 (51:39):
She was looking at me, dear got her she is,
but you are, and and Matt, your dad is out there.
Now we've got a wonderful, wonderful history.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
Don't bring out the running the running incident. We're on
holiday over New Years, Rebecca, Okay, you can you can
judge of that, Okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
So we're on holiday over New Years and fonga, Mata
man and I was running around you were you know,
on holiday together? Were?

Speaker 1 (52:03):
No?

Speaker 2 (52:03):
We just Matt.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
We was running and I was running and we collided
at an intersection, not literally, and I was like, oh
we are you running too?

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Mates, I'm just going for my my morning run. And
I was like, I'll run with you now. The entire
time I talked, I talked as he's running, I ask
him questions.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
It was basically like a slow moving interview for about
forty minutes, and then I got to the end of it.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
I was like, oh, we should do this again tomorrow?

Speaker 4 (52:24):
He said probably not, probably not too much talking was
like fair enough to dare come home and talk about that.

Speaker 7 (52:37):
Juliet.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
Rebecca from Matilda the Musical tickets to give away if
John O and Meghan can answer four questions about Matilda.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Okay, John, I feel like John should be able to
get these all right. Okay, this is making on JOHNO then,
because he seems like he's the expert on the I
suck one song about a TV Okay, okay, So the
first question here, John asked the first question, Julia, Well,
is Matilda's special.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
Power she can make things move and float and all
that sort of years should we give them that? One
sort of You don't seem overly satisfied names Telkin.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
So we'll get that's one ticket. One ticket we have
it's so far to give away, okay, Rebecca.

Speaker 18 (53:16):
Next question, what kind of business do Matilda's parents run?

Speaker 2 (53:20):
The used car? Didn't they they did?

Speaker 4 (53:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:23):
Yeah, here's a bloody, grubby used car. Dodgy things. He
was running the clocks backwards and stuff.

Speaker 5 (53:28):
Okay, Next question, what's Matilda's last name?

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Matilda's last name?

Speaker 3 (53:36):
She's She's just the single name the musical Yeah, it's
not the musical the musical Green, No, that's Matilda Green
was the merit.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
The Bachelor. What is her last name?

Speaker 5 (53:52):
Wamwood Wormwood?

Speaker 2 (53:53):
I did not know. I lose out on that ticket.
And one more for the third ticket.

Speaker 4 (53:59):
What food I?

Speaker 18 (54:00):
And does Bruce bog Trotter eat in the musical The Musical.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
That you love something the pudding's trunshball makes him eat
the whole cake?

Speaker 15 (54:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Well there we go. And she has a very experienced
shot putter. Wasn't she beckon her day? Don't don't throw
other but that's not one of the questions. Thanks for
coming in, guys, and enjoy the show.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
The hits that John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Up early, so we like to know other people that
are up early what they're doing around the country. Part
of the six o'clock Club?

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Are you sixy? And you know it's I. You just
have to phind us up and tell us a why
on earth you up at this hour of the day?
And also what's on the what's on the agenda today?
His and loads of what's on your day? We're going
to go to person. Hi Georgie, good morning.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (54:46):
We're doing really well? How wake are you right now?
Percentage twice? Are you from? How long you been up? Georgie?

Speaker 12 (54:57):
I shouted it for well, what are you do? Oh,
career driver?

Speaker 4 (55:02):
She s this an early hour to drop off packages
at people's houses four o'clock.

Speaker 12 (55:07):
Oh no, they don't appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (55:10):
Fine, Oh yeah, and you are honestly delivering parcels that
sort of four thirty five.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Ye really to businesses.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
I guess some businesses are open twenty four hours, aren't
They have security on and stuff.

Speaker 12 (55:22):
Yeah, they give us, give us a key or something
to drop it off.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
Do you decide that, like, do you just want to
get a jump on the day and avoid traffic and stuff?

Speaker 12 (55:30):
Well, no, because we just go go go all day,
just go go. Imagine you start the bill of your
day is basically I don't mean to.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Get personal, Georgie, but I imagine you've got magnificent calf muscles.
You look at the legs of career drivers. They've all
got great calves.

Speaker 12 (55:44):
Oh that's that's that was the heyday.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
I think still I've rigging, there's still good I can
tell those calves are still strong. Georgie, that's sure a
lot of running.

Speaker 4 (55:53):
I like it because the next door we've got a
cafe here at next door to work, and they are
trusting because I noticed the go the milk.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
He's just got the key to the place.

Speaker 12 (56:01):
Oh right, yeah. Yeah. It means they get it before
they even start with so that I need to wait.

Speaker 4 (56:07):
I would not be trusted. I could not be trusted
with responsibility the keys.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
To businesses all over town. Yeah, that's pretty pretty. Do
you do you steal stuff packages?

Speaker 4 (56:19):
No?

Speaker 2 (56:19):
No, no, keep You wouldn't go down to well it's
a great. What's the craziest thing you've had to deliver? Georgie,
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (56:31):
Some of the stuff is just super extensive, like and
you don't realize until someone tells you and you're just like, holy,
you can lucky I didn't drop that.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
You're still taking photos, like sometimes the couriers take a
photo of leaving the packages or when you get your package, right.

Speaker 12 (56:45):
Yeah, no, we take a photo just so they can
see where we've dropped it. And it kind of proves
that we've put it go anywhere.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Because once I've got a photo taken when I was
holding the package and I.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
Was in my and the front of the house, I
was like, I don't know where this is going, but
I'm holding a package in my underpants at home.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
I'm like, where's this going. There must be like a
courier pits dot com website or something.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
Oh, George, you're going to hook you up thanks to
the warehouse or the sixty five dollars gift cards you
can spend there as well with