FULL SHOW: We Chat To Our Favourite Hotel Employee Daniella!

ON THE SHOW TODAY:

• Can you use a petrol station toilet... Without paying?
• Megan broke her nose!
• Can you beat our niche heroes?
• "I'm 5 minutes away" is the biggest lie
• Jono has another sexism scandal during the riddler...
• We are going SOCK CRAZY
• The stress of buying concert tickets is unmatched!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This Jonaman Being Podcast brought to you by Hello Fresh,
the Experts and Tastes that Kiwis loveme along to the
podcast on a Tuesday. It's great to have you with us.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I thought I just introduced the music to this part
of the.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Lists, a little bit of a gear change for what
we normally at, a bit.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Of a menu of what's to come on the show.
Megan almost broke your nose last night. Yeah, from a child, pretious.
I lied to the dentist.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
I feel like you need to like you're coming.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Into sorry always some of my problem with me, I'm
always coming in too hot all the time.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Sorry, Sorry, sorry, sorry, I know I know people said
it when you walk into a room.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
It's just like, yeah, no one's to me before.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Okay, So I lied to the d is how much? Yeah,
light to the dentist. I feel like it's a lie
that most people would say. You hear that on the
podcast very surely.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
And are you allowed to use the picture station toilet
if you're not purchasing any goods? Well you're about to
find out now. I was at the picture station yesterday.
Now I want to front foot this and say I've
done this hundreds of times okay, and that has gone
and it's been a huge bug bear in our work
marriage being voice is that whenever we drive to a
petrol station, I'm like, oh, I need to use the lavatory.

(01:08):
I'm going to go and use the toilet. He's like,
are you buying anything?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
And I'm like, no, no, you know, nothing just goes through.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Use the thought. Now. Ben then gets guilty and he's like, oh,
I'm going to go and buy. So he then buys
something and it buys like a little pack of mixed nuts,
one of those Cranberry trio Johns the Mother Nature ones.
Some guilt purchases for my toilet usage.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
I do feel like that's if you're going to use
someone's facilities, you need to you need to buy something.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
How arrogon are you just rolling on up walking them
through a petrol stations different different toilet.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
I agree with John, Oh, yeah, you're right. I think
petrol stations a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Have you walked inside a petrol station toilet last? Have
they even been in there in twelve years? They don't
care what's going on in there. Well, that's what I thought.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
At least sometimes they do that cleaning chart and you
look at it and you're like, there was like five
days ago.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
That was pre COVID.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Like, if you're going to do that, don't put a
chart up.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I was at the county yesterday pay for peture, and
the reason I don't have a problem was using the
picture station toilets. There's an industry I've given so much
too over the years, mainly money.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
The guy walked out of the laboratories, so then the
person behind the counter was like, excuse me, are you
going to pay for anything? And I was like, oh,
spicy content. I feel like a public telling off there.
And then the gentleman, to his credit, was like, well
I hadn't planned on it, and it just walked down right.
So I didn't realize this was the thing that the
petrol industry, that you're not allowed to use the facilities

(02:31):
unless you're buying something.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I don't know if the cafes.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Small cafe, sure, So why is it okay with the
petrol because they've got money?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Multi has got lots of money, But you're rolling there
and use their toilet. They don't need you to.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Buy a packet of nuts.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
They're good.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
They're good.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Don't worry about the petrol game.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
We've been making money here to we all right, people
are coming off the street.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Some very reedy people would go into the toilet. Next
you're in the door, do all sorts of stuff in
the came a meeting place the furious purposes I found
out the hard one I was, we're here, now.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Shut the door.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Fut this out? Can you okay? So obviously the small cafe,
small business.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
No, no, you'll lump everyone and together. You can't just
you know, you can't just say it's what's good for one?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Okay? Can you use a business toilet? I think it
depends on that. The I think it depends well, but
how do we know that? How does that station? Ronald
does not care.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
The heads that John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Did you know these posters and the women's toilet looking
for your sock?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
We looked at last night.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
No stone onto toilet, I see your sick.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
John had to put posters up everywhere. You see it everywhere.
I took that you get me to do everywhere. But anyway,
you sent me a mission, my friend and I'll pull
their stuff everywhere. But you couldn't find a sopper while
we did stumble across because we found a hotel. You're
staying at when you were in Total for the Ames Games,
and we stumbled across Daniella Charis metic Italian hotel manager.

(04:08):
And we feel like it's only fish you couldn't find yourself.
We feel like it's only fear that we give to
some of our new socks. Yeah, that's kind of the
the unlosable socks where they come and threes, John have
been a meighan socks. Every pair has a spear. And
we'll go through to Daniella.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
Now speaking, I can I help you Chow chow chow chow, guys,
Daniella Megan, good morning.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Are you good? You missed us?

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Do I need to be honest with you? I have
to confess. I even told my husband I missed the
tree guys.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I do.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
And I just watching a couple of whole podcasts And
were you up to guys? And you ride with the
socks and.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
What the socks? Yeah, I wait to try.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
I thought maybe I'd leave my socks there at the hotel,
but I don't think that's the case.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
So who knows the socks gone?

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Oh yeah, yeah. I think you just need to rest
in peace, this socks and you need to just pass
to the next month.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
We have got new socks, We've got some one about it.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Everything we want to We want to give you a
pair of hing A Meghan socks please.

Speaker 5 (05:22):
Actually was a little bit, you guys let me down,
little bit because you guys give away everything to everybody,
and I didn't receive any special present from you yet, Like,
I don't know. A beautiful T shirt with your tree
face is for lip with like cute?

Speaker 4 (05:38):
You don't want to wear that.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Plus, times are tough in the radio game, mate. We
can't afford T shirts and faces, but we can't afford
socks with our names on all of them.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
You know what, It's okay, we'll do you get the
pair with the spear three socks, even three.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Socks, Okay, I like it. Yeah, actually I like the idea.
Then if you lose one, you know, need to be
worried about?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Are calling you up? I leave a sock at the
question doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
What are you guys being up to on the weekend
with ziplining?

Speaker 2 (06:11):
That was fun?

Speaker 5 (06:11):
I saw that with your wife climbing.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Had a couple of birthday parties. What did you know
of the weekend?

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Oh? Well, I need to tell you you guys need
to go in one of the candlelight concert by Fever.
Did you heard about that?

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Kind of like concerts?

Speaker 5 (06:27):
What's concert that they do? A cova in this case
was Coldplay and imagine Dragon then is a real orchestra.
They did an amazing concert of an hour and it's
all with candles. Then of course sake candles, but it's
all candles. And he was in the Aviation museum here
in the mound.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh well, just a huge fire candles.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
No fire happened, but it's very romantic and he's really
warm your soul. It's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Well personal question, so tell me about it if you
don't want answer.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
But how long have you been in New Zealand? No?

Speaker 5 (07:03):
I can answer so that I've been here since March
twenty twenty. I got stuck here with COVID.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Which is COVID It sounds nice.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
I wanted to get COVID. You're going to stay here?

Speaker 5 (07:16):
Oh well, I'm sorry for you guys. Yes, you need
to put up with me. Yeah, I'm so sorry for that.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
So where's home? And in Italy? Whereabouts?

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Is that Roman?

Speaker 5 (07:26):
That's what was home?

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, Bean's got a very special connection, was right.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
I got engaged to my wife at the Fontana the
trivia the trivia fountain.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
Oh, that's the best spot to get engaged.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
A lot of a lot of people get engaged. There
was probably about cliche for your but it was lovely,
beautiful spot.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
It's nice, not it's not cliche. You know, every every
part of the world that can be special and you know,
romantic for an engagement. But yeah, Fonta Treve is quite beautiful.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Then you see all these pists. As soon as you
got down on one knee, all the pists come with
the roses revolt.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
I need to apologize in that bent.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
I try to give me the whole bunch, like you're
just selling individual ones. Guys get engaged. He's going to
buy them all.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Now you know why.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Yeah, because you've got an accent for them.

Speaker 7 (08:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Well, listen, we want to put something to you. Do
you mind if we call you weekly and we give
you your own segrets.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
I need to think about a spots available on my agenda.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Let us know.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, we'll keep We'll leave it on a cliffanger.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
You ever think about it.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Right, Okay, think about this special request from your tree
guys and your trouble makers. You know, but you need
you need to put I need to put a little
of condition of that.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Okay, Okay, you need.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
To promise me that you make me laugh all the time.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't know if you try.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
That's already something.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Oh Daniel, I love it here from you and will
get these socks to your mate.

Speaker 5 (08:55):
I cannot wait, and me can try to look after
the t is to trouble make a boys.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Okay, the heads that Joan Ben podcast Megan come to
work with an injury today, not feeling too good.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
I yeah, I have the bid.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
We call it the big time parade, putting the three
year old in the one year old to be at night,
and it's always a bit of a.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Is it like a paradella to be?

Speaker 3 (09:18):
It's like the zoom or like some nights it goes well,
some nights that I want to go to bed. It's
just kids, but last night, my daughter, my one.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Those kids will grow up one day and every night
they want to go to bid.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
And the adults fight them on the best things like food,
showers and bid. That's what we love.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Soon you become going to bed like if I can
avoid it, I would happily avoid.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Would you rather just stay away for twenty four hours later,
love to.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Chet.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
I feel like it's such a waste, but you have to.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Love to go go go though stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well, I mean there are options, h.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, yeah yeah. But last night it was it was
going well. My one year old, she was keen, she
was cuddling. It was fine, it was great, and so
she even got her titty be to turn off.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
The light it was dark.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
I gave her a week cuddle and at that moment
she kind of sat up and hid butted me square
on the nose, you know, like you know how much
it hurts. It was the worst nose and jury, worst
nose whack I've ever had. I felt my nose crunched
and I was like, it's broken. I've definitely broken my nose.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Did you get the eyes watering? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:34):
And I was like, it's gonna bleed. It didn't bleed.
I was being really dread Well.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
I went.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
And I started crying and the dark, holding my daughter, and.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
She goes making it all about your get to sleep here.

Speaker 8 (10:49):
She goes, yeah, okay in the dark, and I was like, oh,
mommy's okay, Mommy's okay.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
So I ended up putting it a beard. I'm like
crying on her. She was very quiet though, so she
just went straight to beard and you.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Are silently sobbed.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Yeah, no win out.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
And I was like crying out of my daughter's room.
And Andrew's like, are you okay? My husband? I was like, no,
I think I broke my nose. He wouldn't have got
me an ice pack. I was like, I'm gonna have
a black eye. I don't have my nose is fine today.
You wouldn't would know, no, but God, there is nothing
harder than a toddler's hid.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
It's like a bowling ball.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
And they just come at you with such force you've
wrapped them up in cotton ball. But they can. They
can stand a lot. They can walk into poles. They can.
I think my son and Squeaking Customs have about four times.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Kind of like those bubble heads too, aren't they They
kind of like the heads quite large for the rest
of their body, and they're kind of a little.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Bit around hazardly.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
I know. Yeah, the injuries I've got from those kids
just being themselves.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
You'd be a nightmare in the UFC, though. Yeah, if
you're having a fight, we all would be listen. No
one wasn't get punched in the nose. I'd be a
nightmare too.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
I used to always want to do one of those,
like charity boxing matches, but then I forget that you
get punched too. Yeah, as soon as someone put me,
I'll be like.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
I always thought that sobbing would be quite a good
technique in the old octagon because it would throw your
opponent in the corner. You'd be like, you're okay, like
you're doing it. I think they'd just give up a
feeling bed. You know, then you wouldn't by default.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Next, you want to know your heroes that maybe not
everyone would know about. Who would you approach in a
room if you've got the chance to meet them, that
everyone will be.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Like, who's that person?

Speaker 9 (12:28):
Ye?

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Niche heroes, heroes.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Because we've all got one. I came to work with
an injury today, not feeling too good.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
I yeah, I have the bid.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
We call it the big time parade, putting the three
year old in the one year old to bed at night,
and it's always a bit of a is it like
a parade away to be polite, where it's like the zoom,
or like some nights it goes well, some nights that
I want to go to bed.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
It's just kids.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
But last night, my daughter, my one.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Those kids will grow up one day and every night
they want to go.

Speaker 6 (12:56):
To bid.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Them on the best things like food, showers and bid
that's what we love.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Soon you'll become going a bit like if I can
avoid it, I would happily avoid.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Would you rather just stay away for twenty four hours later?
Love to hes.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
Like like get done on my check list.

Speaker 10 (13:14):
I feel like it's such a waste, But you have
to go go go though stuff.

Speaker 11 (13:24):
Well, I mean there are options, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
But last night it was it was going well.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
My one year old, she was keen, she was cuddling.
It was fine, it was great, and so she even
got her titty be to turn off.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
The light it was dark.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
I gave her a week cuddle and at that moment
she kind of sat up and hid butted me square
on the nose, you know, like you know how much
it hurts. It was the worst nose and jury, worst
nose whack I've ever had. I felt my nose crunched
and I was like, it's broken. I've definitely broken my nose.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Did you get the eyes watering? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:03):
And I was like, it's gonna bleed. It didn't bleed.
I was being really.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
Well.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
I went.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
And I started crying in the dark holding my daughter,
and she goes.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Not making it all about your get me to.

Speaker 8 (14:16):
Sleep here, she goes, yeah, okay in the dark, and
I was like, oh, mommy's okay, Mommy's okay.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
So I ended up putting it a beard. I'm like
crying on her. She was very quiet though, so she
just went straight to beard.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
And you just silently sobbed.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (14:29):
No.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
I went out and I was like crying out of
my daughter's room. And Andrew's like, are you okay? My husband?
I was like, no, I think I broke my nose.
He would have got me an ice pack.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
I was like, I'm going to have a black eye.
I don't have.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
My nose is fine today.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
You wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
No, but God, there is nothing harder than a toddle's hid.
It's like a bowling ball, and they just come at
you with such force.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
You've wrapped them up in cotton boll but they can
was standing a lot, they can walk into poles like
can I think my son? I was squeaking. Customers have
about four times, kind of like those bubble heads too,
aren't they.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
They kind of like the heads quite large for the
rest of their body, and they're kind of a little
bit hazardly. I know.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, the injuries I've got from those kids just being themselves.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
You'd be a nightmare in the UFC though. Yeah, if
you're having a fight, we all would be listen. No
one wasn't get punched in the nose. I'd be a
nightmare too.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
I used to always want to do one of those
like charity boxing matches, but then I forget that you
get punched too. Yeah, as soon as someone punched me,
I'd be like.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
I always thought that sobbing would be quite a good
technique in the old octagon. Yeah, because it would throw
your opponent off in the corner. I say, you'll be
like you're okay, like you're doing it okay. I think
they'd just give up for a feeling bed, you know.

Speaker 6 (15:45):
Yeah, the heads that johnaan Ben podcast A.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Thousands of the bins been taken away in Auckland City
from the council. Councils do strange things all over the country,
but they're taken away thirty percent of the bins around
the Auckland region. It's going to say about nine million
dollars to rate players.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, but there's rubbish every weight now.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
And now they've got a huge pile up of Yeah,
it's like a ben wasteland. But anyway, so I'm just
going to talk about your niche heroes. Megan's always always
banging on about very niche people in the fashion industry.
They've been neither you were me. No, She's like, how
do you not know this? How do you know this
fashion brand?

Speaker 3 (16:24):
And when you're in your world, it's I'm not sure
what you would know and what you don't know, because
like that's so big for me. And then when I'm like,
do you know Olivier Rustin and.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
We're like, no, we don't know whom Rodrigo. I don't
have no idea you go.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
And then I was like, well he's the creative director
of the fashion house beaumont O.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
God, how do you not know? I haven't. That's why,
that's why not everyone knows.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
If I have probably lots of sports players that you
wouldn't know.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Olivier walked in the room right now, you would die
and being in like good Olivia, mate, I'll just be like,
oh hey, mate, can I help with anything? You know
receptions over there, that sort of thing. You look very fashionable. Yeah, yeah,
so that's your niche hero.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah, why, well he's start he was a creative director
of Roberto Cavali. We heard of that when he was
eighteen years old.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Didn't impose the lives answer, No.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
I's already the outside the creative director of this massive
French fashion house.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
I've heard of before.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Helen star Brothers.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Very vague but sure like he's just he's an incredible
designeryes and amazing things in the fashion world's ad of lessons.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, so that's your one of your niche shires. We
have lots of niche heros right now.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
So we want to play a little game. You you
have to.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Say, Andrew Hats, who are hero as of yours that
maybe we wouldn't know And if we haven't.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Heard of it, we can try and guess.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, we'll give you some of our John I beIN
a Meighan socks.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Because you do, especially with the Internet too, you do
delve into very niche categories. I don't know if so,
he's kind of dropped off my algorithm, but uh, there
was a period there for a number of years where
I don't know if you've heard of David Goggins. David
Goggans is some sort of psychotic ex marine from the US,
and he's kind of unnecessarily aggressive with his motivation.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
He's a motivational guy at the moment. Yeah, green tactics.
He used to be a bit larger. Now he's like
this super fat and he is working out and he's like.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
You know, I go under the water and I died there.
I'm down there for forty five minutes. Hold my breath
is stay hard and he's yeah, he kind of makes
you feel like less of a human being and a
lazy slop. He Listen, this is Goggans just going out
for a run and are like one hundred and forty
degree day or something.

Speaker 12 (18:41):
It's the heart mother nice heat week. Mother nations are
pissed off. Mother guess what?

Speaker 6 (18:47):
So am?

Speaker 2 (18:47):
I so? Who gives today? I was wanted? And this
guy passes me in the car.

Speaker 12 (18:53):
It's about one hundred degrees out here, and the guy
comes back around, looks at me. He pulls his car
by me. He says, one of the you are here,
I said, because you're not.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Because you're not.

Speaker 13 (19:05):
That's the motivation for you have you Goggans the character
now Goggins was in the room, but I mate, I'd
love a photo purely, just I could send it to
the small select group of people on my friend group
who appreciate godle me tell you.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
To go away. Yeah, you people who run yeah.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Yeah, the Hits that jonaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
And you a revolutionary pair of socks appear with a
spear of John O beIN a Meghan socks, the White
Sox or the Hats logo our names on each side.
If you lose one, well that's why they're coming.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Three genius idea. But we are after your niche heroes.
This morning on eight hundred the Hits, I just played
you David Goggins, who is a guy who just kind
of yells abuse at you and yells cliches down the
camera and he's got what he's always like, stay hard.
That's I don't know what on what level I take
that out, Just catchphras right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
I really got into home workouts, you know through COVID
times you couldn't go to the gym and stuff, and
on YouTube you could do all these work outs without
weights and stuff. So there was a guy Joe Wicks.
At first he was a UK guy. Oh that savage.
She would sound like that and everything was savage. But
he's really fat. I was like, mane, you're not struggling.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
He struggled along with you. He's quite entertaining.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
But then I got found another guy called Bully Juice,
and he is this massive guy, just a guy shirtless.
He doesn't say anything, so I could listen to a
podcast put him on. He just gives me thumbs up.
He's like my little buddy. My kids will come in
the room and go.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Oh, you're watching Bully Juice again. Juice. He's a rep dude.
I mean, it's a Bully Juice walked in here right now.
I want to hear him speak first. But a Bully Juice.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
You're a fan and you've never heard him speak.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
But every second, third day, I'm watching Bully Juice for
twenty thirty minutes doing this thing. Is jumping around, jumps
and all sorts and mountain climbers and stuff. Just gives
me thumbs up and mate thumbs up back to him.
But I don't know yet Bully Juice.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Imagine if we got Bully Juice over here to come
and he just walks in the room, just gives your
thumbs up and walks out. I'm excited. Yeah, that's all
after your niche heroes, this are this morning. So you
just tell us what it is, and if none of
us know who that person is, you're going to win
a pair of the revolutionary socks. We're going to head
to potty door. Helen. More than how are we doing,

(21:13):
We're doing well, your niche hero, Helen.

Speaker 14 (21:17):
My niche hero is Eunice Kennedy Schrever.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Unice Kennedy Shrive. Okay, I feel like I might have,
but I could not tell you. How is it part
of the Kennedy political family in America?

Speaker 6 (21:32):
She is related Shiver Marie.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
My hero Shriver was married to There's a Shriver Mary
to Arnie, wasn't it Yeah?

Speaker 7 (21:39):
I think it was? Actually yeah, career.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
So what did this person do?

Speaker 7 (21:44):
Unice created the Special Olympics.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Ah, it's incredible. Listen to us with our niche hero, Olivier. Yeah, wow,
you're really amazing.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Well, hey, we need a bit of heroes.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
He's a niche me. You over got big heroes and
other stuff, but these are n heroes.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
How we're gonna hold Jesus we're going to hook you
up with a pair of Ournu John O, Ben and
Meghan socks.

Speaker 9 (22:13):
Oh look my granddaughter.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
I love it.

Speaker 9 (22:14):
She's got ninety pears of socks collection.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Wow, it's a big collection.

Speaker 9 (22:21):
Really excited.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah that is great. Uh well, I was saying we
all collect socks, don't It's just how hard you go? Really, John?
Morning to you, Oh cureder to you talking niche heroes, Johnny,
you name the character, we'll try and figure out if
we know them.

Speaker 14 (22:36):
Yeah. So here's this kind of I'm the Dave Goggins
sort of thing you're talking about. It's a guy called
Mark Wildman.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
No, neih.

Speaker 14 (22:45):
He's he's a Hollywood trainer. He specializes and how you
see kettlebells everywhere now, he's specializes in these things called
heavy heavy clubs or club bells. So he's got about
a million follows on you Tube, and he's trained Chris
Pine on a bunch of his movies as well.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
And Jack Black never heard of this man. I've even
forgotten his name. What was his name, Mark wild Mark Wildman.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
They look like baseball bats that he trains with.

Speaker 14 (23:12):
That's right, that's exactly that's right.

Speaker 12 (23:14):
Yep.

Speaker 14 (23:15):
And so he's got towns of videos of sort of
instructional videos of how to do that. But he also
brings on the celebrities on a bunch of his videos
as well.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Mark Wildman, John's niche hero did did anyone know Matt Wildman?

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Feel like he's someone I could add to the bully.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Well, next time you're working out to Wildman, you can
put on a pair of our socks and if you
lose one of them, you've got a spear. John beautiful,
thank you. Great one is coming through on the text here,
I love you see who skin on TikTok Instagram.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Kee we Guy, amazing funny stuff on TikTok just blows
up both Sloop dogg All ship has stuff all the time.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, he does like it does dances to songs that
don't match the dance. So you'll have us have crew
and they're like dancing along to Britney Spears or something
like the songs. Yeah like that. Yeah, So one know
who is getting is Joey Swoll text here on four
four eight seven. If Joey Swoll walked in the room,
I would faint. Trainer reads the texts.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
I think they're the name like swoll social media.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Do you know Joey Swolbing, It's coming up on Google
there a massively ripped dude.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
They're hugely ripped, is there?

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Joey's another ticks here? Test Conway on TikTok again.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
I think it's Tissa, isn't it Tas She's Yeah, she's
big on TikTok.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Absolutely beautiful soul. I would die if she would.

Speaker 6 (24:37):
Coming through seven of the hits that jonaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Boy seven years old applied for a passport in the
UK Wars family did and it got rejected because his
name is here's Skywalker in it, and they're like copyright infringement.
Hey for the passport people place were like hate yeah,
but they they didn't. They were like, we can't issue
this because it's a copyright. You don't own that name.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Doesn't he do? And Disney weren't even involved in it.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
So actually they had to register his name when he
was born.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, so they're now going back and forth on that
one as well.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, maybe the past what people are diversifying into intellectual property. Yeah,
they're not trying to make from it. But anyway, that
was an interesting one as well.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Actually, speaking of kids, yesterday, I was pick up my
daughter from something en after school thing and then take
her across town. She had a dent disappointment, and you know,
when you're running through traffic, people will know right now
the traffic. I was like looking at the you know,
the GPS, the maps, and I was like, oh, we're
going to be We're going to be ten minutes, ten
minutes later.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
I see that as a challenge. I see like when
you shave minutes off Google Maps.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Or afford back, that feels good.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, but ten minutes is a lot. That's a lot.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
And I'll maybe get two minutes.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
And I got closer to the time and and then
it was a middle turn. I was like, I'll better
call the dentists and say, hey, we're running late. And
so I put it on speakerphone in the kara daughter
seeing here sitting next to me, and it's still where ten.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Minutes to go.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
So I'm like, you know, it's eleven twelve minutes to go.
To be honest, I'm like, hey, we're just traffic. L
We're running five minutes late. They're like, oh, okay, okay, yeah,
we're just on the way a bit of traffic. They're
like God will see you soon. I hung up and
my daughter was.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Like, hello, know you blame him on traffic as well,
and it was there was traffic is always here that yeah,
we're running from one thing to another.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
There was some traffic, but we're running, you know. I
said five minutes late. The gp is still said twelve minutes.
And then my daughter's like, you don't mean that.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Why did you say that. She's not saying this on
the caller, thank you, I've ung up the things. She's like,
you said we're five minutes away.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
It's like you could see it's she could see as well,
we're twelve minutes away.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
You're going to get this seven minutes after your late time.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
And I was like, yeah, when I say that, that's
what we all say. And they put the press on
the phone nose. I'm not five minutes away.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
The international rule, the unspoken rule, and they say five
minutes is probably fifteen. Yeah, and she was like, what
did you just say you're twelve minutes away.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
I'm like, it doesn't sound I say to her. She's like,
just say you're twelve minutes away. That's what it sees,
and then you don't have to stress about Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Five minutes by as you're fifteen, I reckon yeah, ten yeah,
twenty boys before five minutes.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Everyone knows if you say I'm just five minutes away
or I'm just parking, they know you're going to be a.

Speaker 11 (27:09):
Little bit longer, right, I no want ever in the
history of saying I'm five minutes away.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
And I was like, they know that, and it was
very confused, much like you're confused right now.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
Big, Yeah, that stresses me out.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
You don't like being late, be late as well. But
I was like, well, what was my option? They neither.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
I've told them I was twelve minutes away. Yeah, it's away,
but never twelve to me. That's a long time near
twelve minutes.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
You know, it was one thing to you. But anyways,
my daughter, what was the environment like when you when
you did twelve minutes?

Speaker 2 (27:46):
It was fine.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
In fact, we waited for the dentist rushed through it.
I felt they were having a busy day as well,
so I felt like it was fine. If anything, it
was could have been another fifteen Yeah, everyone was fine
if I got them, But I was like, five minutes
doesn't mean five minutes.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
And everyone knows that, right, five minutes away. But whenever
you're waiting for an appointment and you're sitting there for
fifteen twenty minutes, you're like, what a hole has throwing
a spanner in the works earlier in the day, Yeah,
that guy not normally, but today it was five minutes late.

Speaker 6 (28:19):
The It's the johnaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Thanks to our.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Friends at Dell t great supporters of the show.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Trying to make the world a bit of tea. Do
try it? We do the riddler every week?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Are we teaser where you could win a hot and
cold tea price pack and one hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
You have two loves in life? Riddles on the internet?
Don't you a family? Coming close to it? They're climbing
up the charts, but riddles they plague your life at
the moment.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Are you taking over from producer Taylor on the riddle
responsibility every morning? And it's been it's actually quite fun
having a lockground for riddles on the internet. Some I
feel like it's the only thing is that takes away
from me be having a chance to get some of them,
like oh I get that and.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Others on my do you find it hard to figure
out if we would get it?

Speaker 1 (29:02):
The answer yes, yeah, and how easy it could be.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
But there are several questions just worded complicated, aren't they?
So how long would it take a man in the
kitchen to make a cup of dil marty? How many
cups would you make in ten minutes?

Speaker 15 (29:14):
And it's designed the answer to that, and it's always
like a little bit that you maybe need to listen.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, that's the thing. It's worded in a way that
kind of annoys you. But anyway, the one for the
room right now. Police get an anonymous phone call. The
suspect they're looking for is in a building in town,
and the evidence is good that he's actually there. They
don't know what he looks like, but they busted and
find a doctor, fireman, mechanic, and truck driver playing poker.
They immediately arrest the firemen and he confesses to the crime.

(29:44):
How did that that was not him? And the other
one's playing cards? A Police get an anonymous phone call.
The suspects in a building in town. The evidence is
good that he's actually there, although they don't know what
he looks like. They bust in and find a doctor, fireman, mechanic,
and truck driver playing poker. They immediately arrest the fireman

(30:07):
and he confesses to the crime. How did they know
it was him and not the others playing friends? Not
another s playing poker? Sorry, not that I was playing friends.
They weren't watching friends as well.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Did he say did he have the picture Kennister in
his hand? No? No, no, do you know it?

Speaker 1 (30:26):
No?

Speaker 3 (30:27):
This is an anonymous tip. Yeah, I don't even know
what the guy's done.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
So they find there. Inside there there's a fireman.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Doctor, mechanic, and truck driver and they arrest the fireman's
he's the only man. Arrest of females again another sixers
scanner for the show mate, the doctor, the mechanic, and
truck driver or females the fireman or the.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Thought maybe you'd get that one.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
It was complicated because of the last six of them
scanner we had on one of them.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
I thought we were through the I thought we were
through the sixers. How many Six's riddles? Have you got
a lot of sexus reddles?

Speaker 4 (31:07):
Honest? I even missed the point that the suspect.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Was a man. Okay, well that was we failed.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Here's a quick one for you, I know, Andred the
hats lose me once and I'll come back stronger. Lose
me twice, and I'll leave forever.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
What am I? She's a woman? I think I love
that one. We only get the sixers, well, the hats.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Lose me once, I'll come back stronger, Lose me twice
and I'll leave forever.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
You get to deal my tie price bed this morning
plus one hundred bucks end. Every caller this morning gives
a pair of our limited edition socks. Millie. Good morning
to you in christ Church. Hi, Okay, the answer.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
It is a tooth. Yeah, Lose me once and I'll
come back stronger. Lose me twice and I'll leave forever.
Then I'll come back. Yeah, that's clever answer too.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Speaking of losing things, You're never going to lose a
pair of socks, Milie, because you've got our brand new socks.
Every peer comes with the spear, Meghan, John and Ben
on the socks, and also the Delmar pack and one
hundred bucks too.

Speaker 9 (32:13):
I think I'm excited about the socks.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Ah, that's good. That's a show of socks. Don't play
this to Dilmary. You've been with us for a very
long time. We come in with some novelty socks and
blow them out of the water. But I got on
you Millie. You have a wonderful day and checha all right.

Speaker 9 (32:31):
Thank you you too.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
The Hits that John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Ben, you lost your sock last week. We went on
a big nationwide hunt to try and find it. We
couldn't unfortunately, but you know where many would see a
lost sock, we see a business opportunity. And that's why
we've released John O, Ben and Meghan's exclusive socks. The
every peer comes with the spear. One's got Meghan, one's
got Ben, one's got John O written on it, and
you'll never lose them.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
So the white socks with the Hits logo and as
you said before, our name's on the inside. So yeah, yeah,
three socks, but they all can go together. So you
just you've got an extra one if you.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Lose a great business opportunity. My business mentor, Donald J.
Trump once said the difference between winners and losers is
hell person reacts and a twist of fate. He also
said this, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the catch,
they're eating the patch of the people that live there.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
To take that with a greenies, he can put a
sock in definitely that's for sure. So right now we've
got socks to give away, but I'm gonna make You're
not gonna make your work for.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Them this morning. Aunt sock related stories injuries, they can
be your best friend and your wearst enemy. So can they?
Do you remember when if you had like a non
carpeted hallway or something, you could use that as a
sliding rink and get some good run on some good
sliding pace. To the problem is once you start the slide,
you can't pull out of it like you just have

(33:48):
to let momentum stop you and slowly wear off. I
did this once and my Nana was staying Winifred, God
bless her. She walked out of the spare room at
the time. I was mid slide heat on collision with Grandma.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
He took out Winterfred.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, well I held on to it like she didn't
fall onto the ground, but it was.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
It did catch you, my surprise. So sock related stories,
have had a sock injury? Have you had to pull
a sock out of your dogs behind like I did?
After you ate one of the kids socks when it
was little he had an extra tail. When I sort
of help the dog out with that one. So yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
How did did the dog like move in the opposite direction?
Like the force was going the opposite way? Was he
helping you? Like, yeah, I wouldn't mind getting this out,
and so he knew which way to move.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
He was just sort of he was a bit confused
about what I was doing.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
Yeah, he turned around and was like, excuse me.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
I don't get involved in that part of the process.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
He's got a glove on. He's coming up to me.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
What's going on, isn't I don't consent.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Just helping you out here, And I think afterwards he
was quite relieved. He probably had no idea what was
going on back there, to be honest. So the fourth
him and you got a new sock.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
We might not get a single call.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
There related like injuries as well.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, Actually do remember get in quite a substantial amount
of trouble when I took some of my father's gold
tops and I turned them into sock puppets for a
school project. John Boy not heavy about that. So anything
sock related, we'll take it.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
We might not get a single call, but if you
want some of our socks that could come with some
exclusive perks.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Next year's working on.

Speaker 6 (35:21):
Perks the hats that johnaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
In addition, not many pears. No, we've got every pair
that has a spear, so they're unlosable socks. It feels
like what Elon Musk did to motoring, we're doing to
the sock industry, revolutionizing it, losing maybe over selling it
a touch there. But if you'd like a pair of
our novelty show socks eight hundred hits being your bass
for sock related content, socks to be you any sort

(35:47):
of a sock story incident I have?

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Oh well, unfortunately we've got some calls and texts through.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
You talked about your dog having to pull the sock
up out of a bump. But someone text in Wendy
texting to say she's a vetna. We had the same
dog coming twice after eating a sock. We had to
do surgery each time to remove the surgery. But we
always joked that the owners at least they got there
the pair of.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yeah, you wouldn't really want to wear I could have
got you, could have got you into the surgery for
any dinner.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Okay, if it's coming out and you can see it,
I can't really.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Get I know, for this job let's go to the phones. Ginny,
you're on New Zealand's Breakfast, More Dinner, Good morning, lovely
to have you on, Jinbo. What happened to you in socks?

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Well, I was young and foolish, just gone flashing, had
a beautiful long tile hallway.

Speaker 7 (36:39):
Thought that's going to be great for a slide.

Speaker 14 (36:42):
Did my slide and I split my head open and
broke my arm.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
Oh geez, your head open?

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Did you hit the head butt the ground?

Speaker 14 (36:52):
I head butted the corner of the wall.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Geez. You must have been coming in at a rate
of not see, Ginbo.

Speaker 14 (36:59):
It was impressive.

Speaker 9 (37:00):
I was very impressed with my efforts.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yeah, because the thing is you need to get gripped
as you're running into the slide too. Don't you want
some study grip there? It's slightly what's the downhill, bob slid,
isn't it? You need to get some good pace to
go with And didn't turn out well for you? Well,
I can't vouch these socks won't make your slip, Ginny.
But you've got three of them? Are right?

Speaker 9 (37:20):
Awesome?

Speaker 14 (37:20):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
That's a right, that's right. It's popular the socks, aren't
they Someone's texting saying, my son and law collect socks.
Would love a pere for his collectors. It's got one
of my family, don't we all colick socks?

Speaker 1 (37:32):
My socks? Sometimes people like socks. When a family does that,
it's great. When you have their birthdays or whatever like that.
You're just like, great, you know what they want.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
Happy with it? Socks?

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Okay, but are they like have they just been branded
as the sock? Maybe you're right. Yeah, we'll go to Wellington, Victoria.
Good morning to you. It's lovely to have you on
in Wellington. What happened to you in socks?

Speaker 7 (37:56):
So I'm a dance teacher and I was teaching dance.
Said a move, I slept and my big toe like
curled up under itself and I broke it. Oh yeah,
yeah in front of all of my students.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Do you keep dancing there or that? That's a stop dancer?

Speaker 7 (38:15):
No, I had to do like the awkward limp off
to the side, try not to cry.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah, I was gonna say, did you crime from them?

Speaker 4 (38:22):
You go to the side, Oh yes.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Okay, then you're like, do some peri weeds amongst yourself
for a few seconds. Kids. Yeut, hey, that's really good.
Thank you so much for your earn cool.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
Oh, I don't know it was there a toe cast?

Speaker 7 (38:34):
No, they used like a splint made out of popsicle
steck and then I just wore crops for like slick cleats.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Someone's just made that. Yeah, someone sick in here as well.
I used to have a lot of socc related incidents
when I was a teenage boy, So maybe they've learned
how to use this socks now is a fully grown outut. Yeah,
I'm sure that's exactly what that means. I can cast
myself and I slipped over while chasing the cats in.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
My SOCKSZ A lot of people stock related reason. I
used to stuff my brather socks. No nobody knew, I hope.
As the text came through.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Yeah, no one said anything, and then we go, it's
got bumpy boobes.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
We had very little faith in the fact that people
would come through with a sock related content delivered these yellens.

Speaker 6 (39:15):
We appreciate that the hits that John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Productive day of the week it is. Yeah, I did
get into a Tuesday whole a few weeks. I can't
even remember all I clicked on this, you know, twenty
eight reasons why Tuesday is great or something. There's bad luck,
superstitious to start a new project or venture on a
Tuesday as well. Okay, it feels like some lazy colleagues.
He should we get it into this new No, no, no, no,

(39:40):
got to do it next Monday. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Hey, I don't know if you guys have bought tickets
lately for anything, but jeez, that's one of the most
stressful things I think to do, is to try and
buy tickets.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Oh, they do make concience. Yeah, and the websites ticket
the clock ticking down, that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
So I had to look homes is coming to New Zealands.
I was excited about that. I thought, I get some
tickets at homes now locked on his website. You can
sign up now. You had to sign up to his
boot Leggers Club so you can get in a day
before the other tickets to sign up, like your ten
percent discount on all his merch and I could also
get tickets twenty four hours before they go on sale

(40:16):
Ticketmaster pre sales.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
You're now You're now an official Tooth club mate me
and Luke Colmes.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
So I signed up for that firstly, as I had
to sign up for that, get all my details, get
your passwords.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
All that sort of stuff. What was your password?

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Oh yeah, something number telling Luke colmbs in the name
and an excamation mark's.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Pretty much some mutual character was my exclamation mark.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
And then finally got on there and yesterday four o'clock
got waited in the que You have to wait the
virtual cue and then suddenly you get let in for
ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
Oh so you've got ten minutes to get every ten.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
And that's a frenzy ticking down clock of looking at things.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
And you're looking at tickets.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
You're like, jeesus two hundred and fifty dollars tickets, these
ones here, and then you're like what about.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
These was there?

Speaker 1 (40:59):
And then I was buying for the people and myself.
So you feel the pressure of like, oh, do they
want to get these turndred fifty three hundred OD tickets
or they won well one hundred and fifty.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
I'll make an executive decision. And then isn't a crazy
how expieceive tickets are?

Speaker 3 (41:11):
Yeah, three hundred backs of tickets.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yes, the two hundred and fifty dollars was like your
standard GA tickets for comes.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
If you want a GA.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
It's a standard two hundred and fifty, but then I
got one hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Tickets were like the front row of kind.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Of the back section. Nose please, yeah, but it's like
the front of the nose. But you got seats, I
got sex.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Yeah, I said, but how you were selling them?

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Other people a front row with the nose please of
these please.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
The back section will with the front row of the
back section. But then I bought it.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
And for the people and myself and my wife. But
now I was like, oh god, I made a bed.
After I purchased, I was like, oh, they're not going
to be happy with this, you know, that's way to
sell them.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
I was like, what's the positive. We're in the front
row of the worst section.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
He's lifted up to someone. You have to just go
with it.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
That's why I never almost very nice. I like, hey,
we're just grateful to doing it.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, you've gone for the worst house, best street policy.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Yeah, it's a stressful thing. I think you don't have
time to call the people and go, hey, I'm looking
at these ones. So I do this, and then every
time I click on the four seats and I go
into now go. Sorry, these ones have just been taken
you then you have to click.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
On four more six minutes tickets live. Yeah. The the
other question is what did they have the surging? You
know how they do the surging on some of the
side surging. Didn't see any surging.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
But I think ticket Master today is the pre sales
and then general public to day after two nights for
lut Cimes.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
But if you sign if you're a true Combs fan,
you sign up to the boot Leggers Club.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Mate, the Bootleggers Club, that's me, and you get to
get some cowboy booths on my tip sid discount.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
You know, that's for sure. I'm very excited about that.
Lout comes finally got there. But we're a front row
of them, Yeah, front row. Did they sell out that
sell out the pre sales, don't know if it is
pre sale, Yeah, sold out on the pre sales.

Speaker 16 (42:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
I think today maybe it'd be interesting because that's where
the general public, not the Bootleggers Club, the true og fans.
There have been bootleggers since yesterday.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Well, he's off to Cove. He's in this country.

Speaker 6 (43:05):
Ere the hits that johnaan Ben podcasts awk.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
On To FC, a brand new football team for New Zealand.
We're gonna have the Phoenix and aukne To FC, the
Black Knights and the Auckland and the Sorry and the
Australian A League competition. Is very exciting and Nick Becker,
the CEO of the Auckland FC, joins us in this
in the studio. Thanks so much hanging out.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Thank you now.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
I was just thinking very exciting Aukland f C, but
thinking how much work would go and I was last night,
I was thinking, you're coming up with ten colors, cap logos,
We're going to play sponsors this so much?

Speaker 2 (43:35):
How long have you been working on this?

Speaker 17 (43:37):
It's it's been a really short time. So it's it's
an amazing honor, Like it's a super privileged to be
able to do this, right, to set up a football club.
But I only joined so we got the license last November.
I got the job in November. First thing that you
have to do is you've got to hire the football side, right,
so we got a football director and head coaching. So
once you've got kind of faith in them to your point,

(43:58):
you've then got to start building an identity, right. You
got to get so what's the badge, what's the colors?
You know, we're majority owned by a guy called Bill Foley,
who's a very successful US businessman.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
He'll see some sports teams around the world, he does.

Speaker 17 (44:11):
Yeah, absolutely, So he's got Vegas Golden Knights and which
an ice hockey team he's got. He's got a great
story about them. So he bought the license for that
in twenty seventeen. And everyone in ice hockey, they all
play it up in Canada and up in the Northern States, right,
and so they were all like, you know, what are
you doing taking ice to the desert. Nobody plays ice
hockey out there. They really ripped him for it, right.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
And well, the conditions aren't ice outside. I guess you
need a serious freezer.

Speaker 17 (44:36):
But he got he got riled up about it, right,
so he was like, I'm not having this, and he
came out public and said I'll make the finals and
three and I'll win it in six in terms of
the Stanley Cup, and you know there's teams that are
in that league that haven't won it in sixty years,
so it's a big statement. They started competing in his
first year. He made it all the way through to
the Standard Cup finals. All but one year of those
six years he made the finals and then in the

(44:59):
sixth year he won the Stanley Cup. It's not a
bad effort.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Yeah, he was telling the team how have made some
big claims much so you know someone like that back
in the club and behind you. He's not here to
miss around. Is he putting those sort of demands on you?
I want to I want a.

Speaker 17 (45:16):
Victory and thankfully not publicly, right, but he is. He's
one of the most competitive people I know. And then
and then we've also got some great local owners too.
We've got Anna Mobray and Allie Williams both. Yeah, they
know how to succeed that they're driven people. And we
just recently announced three ex All Whites have joined the
club as well in terms of part of our ownership group.
So Winston Reid, who's arguably one of New Zealand's both

(45:38):
successful footballers, former West Ham captain from New Zealand captain
Tim Brown of All Whites and then now more recently
All Birds Fame and No Hecky as well, who was Yeah.
So that's a great combination of people, right.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
It is wild to think you've done this in under
a year. Colors.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
I'm actually painted the house and still colors for that
sports team.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Nick Bicker with US CEO of New Zealand's newest football
club and the A League are the Auckland f C.
You know, you've had your to do list with the club,
getting the club off the ground, and we have kind
of colors and logos, colors, goal posts.

Speaker 16 (46:16):
You get some goal posts we did, you're ticking stuff
and as a show and as a station, we've tasked
ourselves we're going to come up with a celebratory move
for the club that all the fans.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Do to the Phoenix. They're taking the tops off, spinning
around a little bit more class than taking your Okay,
I like it great, and so we were going to
try and design a move you and what.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Do you think you've seen in the past that's worked well,
Because I know you've worked in the UK and Australia
with football as well.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Have you seen anything that well, there's a great one.

Speaker 17 (46:49):
So I worked at Man City and they used to
do the Posnan with the whole stadium. I mean, it
sounds a bit weird, but they turned the back on
the game, but the whole stadium turn around with their
back LINKR and they just jump up in unison.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
It's worth google. Well, Megan, you actually count with a
really good one.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
I did because nights I was going to draw inspiration
off when you get knighted, so you bow down and
you get the sword first on the right. So I
thought you could bow you hit and tap your right shoulder.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
After score a goal, you get knighted. Yes, being you
something else you wanted to.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
I was watching Steph Curry, one of my favorite basketballers,
and sometimes he does the night Night where he does
the sort of go to sleep post. So I thought
maybe you could do it. So they score a goal
and everyone does the good nights hold on.

Speaker 17 (47:37):
So I've got confusing. I thought you're talking about the fans.
We're talk about the players, the.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Fans and the place someone everyone goes out around the
ground and everyone goes to sleep.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
You're putting the opposition to sleep.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
We're just we're workshopping these things.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
What we're working on at the moment, so we'll repitch
the winning one to you later on. I like it.
I like it.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
It's very exciting. October nineteenth the first game.

Speaker 17 (48:02):
We want to see as many Orcans who can support
us in those first two weekends, they'll be fantastic, very exciting.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Yeah, congratulations on everything and we look forward to it.

Speaker 6 (48:09):
The hits that John and Ben podcasts.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
A lot of traffic in the mornings that builds up
and all over the country, particularly in the weekend in
Auckland's New Mall right, Oh, how about the airport.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
I was going out that way and I didn't know
why there was gridlock traffic in the weekend. I was like,
what is happening? But everyone was going shopping.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Wouldn't it be depressing to think if you add it
all up over a lifetime, how long you spend your
sitting in the car, don't I reckon? It's probablybout nineteen
and a half years or something.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Wild well, particularly people taking long long trips.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Yeah, but people at work that take hours in the morning.
I used to it with some of the drive from
the two hour drive from Coramandal every day back and
for four hour round trip in the car every day. Wow,
those eyes of bonus. I guess of spending four hours
alone with yourself, you can think about stuff, think about life,
listen to radio.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
When I was doing like more normal person hours, it
took me. There was one day it took me two
and a half hours to get to work. What takes
me at the moment? Twenty one minutes? Took me two
and a half hours just because of traffic.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
You're in a deeper, meaningful relationship with the motorway, then,
aren't you. Yeah, you spend more time, more intimate with
your car on the road than you are with your family.

Speaker 6 (49:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yeah, over the course of a day. So we have
so we want to chat this open. Who is doing
the longest commute listening right now?

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Do you mean cas wise or time wise?

Speaker 2 (49:35):
Oh now you're stipulating. I'm going to go time wise. Yeah,
probably time wise? Okay, yeah, yeah, it's an easy gauge
for people.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Yeah, all right, time and we're talking cars. We're talking
cars or like people on trains and buses and things
like that.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
All forms of transport. This is desperate made at six o'clock. Yeah, bike,
you're taking ten hours to bike to work. We'll take that. Yeah,
I got nearly called first off the bed. Who's this, hi, Ezra?
How long you commuting for hair and half? That's so
that's one way or is that return one way? Okay?

Speaker 3 (50:07):
Are you driving a Yeah?

Speaker 1 (50:10):
So where we're talking from where to where?

Speaker 7 (50:13):
From hard and to.

Speaker 9 (50:15):
Phil Bourton?

Speaker 15 (50:16):
Okay, okay, thank you hour and what do you think
about during that hour and a half yelling at me?

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Are the kids in the cow the whole time?

Speaker 6 (50:29):
Too?

Speaker 7 (50:30):
He comes to me for kidney so if he comes along, yay.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
You get to hang out with the family.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Three hours in the car. Are these days we're like,
maybe I should get a job closer to home? Yeah, definitely,
probably every day?

Speaker 7 (50:47):
Every day.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Do you enjoy enjoy parts of it or oh yeah.

Speaker 9 (50:52):
Yeah good?

Speaker 2 (50:55):
And you get to get to listen to fun, fun
stuff like this every morning, Ezra.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
We're going to hockey up with some of our new socks.
Show socks. We've got John O Ben and Megan sock
that all come together so you never lose a sock again.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Well, if you do, you've still got a You've still
got too. Yeah, if you go beyond.

Speaker 6 (51:13):
That, that's on your the heads that johnaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
A nice photo of the rhino I saw in today's
paper from the Auckland Zoo. It's pregnant, the white rhino
giving birth in November. Then I read underneath the caption
it's fourteen months pregnant. So fourteen months, so rhinos and
then a bit more research. Sixteen to eighteen months is
how long they have a paper in elephants?

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Two years? Two years elephants.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Are pregnant between you going to tell me not to complain?

Speaker 2 (51:39):
No, no, no at all, because yeah, I was actually
just thinking about that.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
But no, not my place in your face? Yeah, like,
what are you complaining about?

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Mate? Not for me to say, not my business, stay
in your lane. But that's impressive. Two years too, and
lugging around a baby elephant would be a lot of different. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Yeah, I thought maybe it was a typo from the paper,
but no, it's a the rhinos. Yeah, fourteen months bringing.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
No wonder they look so depressed. The poor elephants move
so slowly. We're just, after speaking, moving slowly. The longest
commutes to work. Oh eight hundred hits telephone number, every
caller we get on here today. When's a pair of
the show's exclusive socks. Every pair has a spare. There's
three socks in this so you never lose one. Bruce,
good morning, how are you? Yeah, we're doing well, Bruce.

(52:24):
What do you do?

Speaker 9 (52:27):
I actually reckon the coal industry?

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Oh, the coal industry. Yeah, love cold Cole gets a
bad rapper. Gee, I love coal, it.

Speaker 9 (52:36):
Does, it does, but we've got to better have it.
Gotta have co that's what I do. And of course
the col mines are in Huntley and Christmas time I
decided to relocate to a little coastal village called only
Marna and the Corimandel know well, yeah, yees. So I
commute about one fifty a day each way.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
This is a long time.

Speaker 9 (53:00):
By yourself, Yeah, by myself.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Yeah, she's iced. I love Cole. Bruce loves coal. He'll
drive that far for coal. And but what time a
you're getting home every night? Bruce?

Speaker 9 (53:10):
I ran about six o'clock at night. I sleep, sleep,
and man are about quarter past five five in the morning.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
Jeez, you must be exhorted, like sitting in driving. Concentrating
on driving does take it out of you. You must be
bugging when you get home.

Speaker 9 (53:24):
It does. But you're just sort of taking the little
chunks over the hill and into Thames and and away
you go through the Manon Burr and then all of
a sudden you're there. But the beauty is, can you
can't actually do a little bit of work on the
hands free on the phone?

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (53:38):
Right, well yeah, yeah, so talk good.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Haven't they still got that wonderful mural of the Top
Twins up up on the main road there they.

Speaker 9 (53:45):
I used to go to school with the Top Twins,
zeal a little bit of singing, a little bit of
singing back in the day as well with.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Them the actual to place knew Yoda, Yeah, I went
there that, Bruce, Could we before we get you some socks?
Can we get a couple of bars out of your baby?
A couple of lines?

Speaker 9 (54:11):
Not now? Not now?

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Early morning?

Speaker 1 (54:14):
The seing days are done, mate, The scene days are done, mate.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
What more do you want?

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Bruce is calling up, He's on the now you want
to sing?

Speaker 2 (54:21):
He's like, I'm not a dancing making hockey. Have some socks.
So I appreciate you listening to the show as long
as you do.

Speaker 9 (54:29):
Okay, you good on you, Bruce.