FULL SHOW: Can we all avoid Mariah Carey before Christmas?

ON THE SHOW:

• We're all trying to avoid Mariah Carey's famous Christmas song - if you hear it, you're out!
• Megan is interviewing cricket legend Neil Wagner after the show today - Mike Lane coaches her on cricket and lends his advice on how to conduct the interview with a cricketing legend
• Ben was confused for someone else over the weekend... He even had selfies with his 'fan' and it wasn't until after he realised they weren't actually a fan of him
• We had a rep from State Insurance call up and share the weirdest claims they've received
• Megan has been cutting her nails in a controversial place - is the kitchen sink okay?
• What is everyone on our team all sleeping with?
•  We chat to Auckland FC CEO Nick after their historic win in the weekend, and we attempt to get Paddy Gower on after he made an outrageous wager last week

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This Jon Woman Being Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey, that's us broad to you by Hello Fresh The
experts and Tastes that kiwis love with the j Ben Podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Cheers to Dilma making the world a bitter Tea.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Belong Monday Morning. This is the podcast for a Monday.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Just watching a very funny clip.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Now, I know if you've seen this clip, you know
it has Buller. He's got in UFC circles.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
He is very popular, so Buller he is like he
is I think from a part of Russia where it's
quite common with very very small people.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
So yeah, very short. But he said like twenty six
years old. But Mike Tyson, the boxer, was just talking
about it and he got to meet him, but thought
he was a little child baby and he was like,
ess a good morning, Yeah, I guess, and they were
like play fighting, and Mike Tyson's now talking about in
an interview going yeah, I thought I thought I thought
it was a baby. I'm sorry, I thought it was
a baby twenty six years old.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
But also then I'm like, would you do that to
someone else's too.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I think on their neck?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
And he was being quite playful. Has this kid one's a.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
You're right though, I mean I don't come around your
house up there, you know, because you always wondered it
was that like a setup or what was going on there, But.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
It's apparently not.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
I love has Buller. There was a time that was
being fed was has bull of content kind of dropped
off the old algorithm. Now, but podcast, I hope you
enjoy it. It was a big it was a big weekend,
high low Buffalo. We're going to kick things off with
and you'll soon hear this, the highest energy happy birthday.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
They are children, so you didn't do a high low Buffalo,
but your daughter's birthday was at the weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
We ran out of time. It was four minutes, twelve seconds. Yeah,
well yeah, I get the high was the party. Yeah,
the low was as you're hearing the podcast to a
hock tour scandal. That was probably the low and the buffalo.
I think I saw a monkey peeing on another monkey,
which made me happy.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Laugh doesn't mean enjoyed the podcast. We'll catch tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
We started something last week. I introduced to me from
you know, a young kid at eight years old.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
She was like, we do this at school.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
High low Buffalo was kid. Yeah, so I was like, well,
she made us all do it at the dinner table,
and I thought maybe we could do it on a
Monday morning after the weekend. So you're high of the week,
you're love of the week, and for some reason, the
buffalo is the funny thing. I still didn't I kept going,
what's by buffalo?

Speaker 1 (02:35):
But it just rid. I think that's that's the only
reason I don't don't question what was your high? What
was your low? What was your buffalo of the weekend?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
My mom, I just got the high. My mom came
to stay, actually came back from a boomer trip over
you know, one of those classic boomer trips overseas.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Now Friday Friday, it was a little grieves that he
got message from his mum going, so you still called
to pick me up from the airport, And he was like,
she never asked. She's assuming we've had a conversation.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, yeah, So I don't know. When I picked up
my mom from the airport Friday night. Friday night, I
was like, norm he goes against my picking up of
family members of the airport.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Time and Friday night I was about six thirty.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, yeah, Friday, he's still evening. No it still cuts
Friday night, but I was loving to see her, so
that was high. The week she does potters around, does
a whole lot of washing.

Speaker 6 (03:28):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Let's go live the weekend. Actually up in this morning
the cat. You know, when the cat starts to vomit,
you're like, and I sort of tried to carry him,
but it didn't quite work out to get him outside.
So did you catch the vomitors? No, the floor and
a whole lot of other stuff caught the bombit this morning.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
Do you walk away?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
No? Walking away? But some times over the weekend he
did the right thing. He picked his mum up on
today night and stuff all over town. It's got Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
A funny little story happened Friday night when I was
out with my wife and who I got recognized for?
Who they thought that thought I was. I'll tell you
about that a little bit later on show.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
We'll watch New Zealand. That was it? No, was it allan?

Speaker 2 (04:10):
But I'll tell you later on All right, you guys,
Well high low Buffalo.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Shall I go?

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Hi was probably going to the zoo. I took my
kids to the zoo for the second time ever. It
was pretty quick. The skied of most of the animals,
but it was it was fun.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
And the elephant's going I think I might have seen
the elephant.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
For the Boom as a Boomer, I think it. I
don't think we're going to have any elephants.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
When is the elephant what It seems like a mission
to move in elephants.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Because they need they need like multiple elephants.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
It is just on his own.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
So little do we know, Like Boom has probably been
real sad for a long time, so it's about elephant.
But that was my high low delaying Christmas, which I
will get to later on the show, because I went.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
On and on about how I was going to put
up my Christmas tree.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
You did.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
We're going to find Christmas game after eight o'clock based
around your love for Christmas and Buffalo.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
My Buffalo.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
I don't think it's funny. You'll probably think it's funny.
I made my son some dinner last night from.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Scratch, as you know, I.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Like to do handmade.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Creamy spaghetti, and he didn't eat it, and he said
at the end, you need to stop making food, Mummy,
it's yucky.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh hey, what is the bag up spaghetti sausages?

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Have you ever had a can of what Spagheinian sausages?

Speaker 5 (05:22):
Give it as what the sausages?

Speaker 2 (05:24):
What's the meat?

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Who knows? Anyway, listen my high low buffalo. It's four
minute sixteen. We probably talked too long. No one cares
about my weekid.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
We'll move on the hits that John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Mister Ellie in right now to try and quiz us
on the New Zealand Heerior Daily Quiz. We try and
get ten out of ten, but when we get one
question wrong, it's all over for the day.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Now, this is back if you missed it on Friday,
Ben Boyce lobbied heart to end the music game, which
is the madness of the music game.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Oh like, I just put it out there after two
weeks of plague along and pass well passively plague along.
Like the listeners, I was just like anyone else, finding
this ridiculously hard.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
It was like you had to guess a song of
float single drum beats and stuff. Megan was very good
at that disturbia.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah, we played this one for we can do it
again and see how you go.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
No good. He put it to the people and the
four votes came through one hundred percent. Saying it's too hard.
Go back to the Herald quits. Yeah, and here we are.
So here we are back to the New Zealand Herald
Daily quas And I.

Speaker 8 (06:23):
Just want to remind you that on Friday you got
none right, But we learned that us they make the
most amount of picture. Yeah, make a lot of Is
it baking pictrol? That's what they stumbled, Yeah, mining petrol, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (06:38):
Biggest producer of gas. I think was the Yes.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Interesting, you go and.

Speaker 5 (06:43):
Use that at the weekend to anybody, But.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
It's still my head rounded disturb me. I've heard that
nine times down. I still didn't get that.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Question number one on a Monday morning.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
All right?

Speaker 9 (06:53):
In which movie did Sir Sha Ronan earn her first
Academy Award nomination?

Speaker 1 (06:58):
He's the one who's don't you yeah bones?

Speaker 5 (07:03):
Peter Jens kills the bars in an interview from the Grahame.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
She had a great point. She had a great point.

Speaker 9 (07:11):
I'll give you the three options, because the three options
are Lady Bird Brooklyn or Atonements.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Not lovely Bones.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
You're so confident, Yeah it was Atonement.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, is that your answer? This my answer?

Speaker 5 (07:26):
The character?

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Well then I had no idea.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
What about you're guilty, pleasure softy, it's not a rom comment?

Speaker 3 (07:38):
That is it?

Speaker 7 (07:39):
Serious? Serious? I watched the media says at school.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Generally win big awards for ROM they should do. And
what's the next one? Mate?

Speaker 7 (07:48):
Next question?

Speaker 5 (07:49):
Which New York borrow borrow.

Speaker 7 (07:54):
Is the largest area? Is it Manhattan, Brooklyn or Queens?

Speaker 1 (07:58):
She should go Manhattan, and wouldn't you well, Queens, you
go one of those?

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, because Manhattan's very condensed. But there's a lot of
people living in a small but then.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
I don't think Manhattan's very big. It sounds like the
big one, but I don't think it is.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, it's probably a condensed CBD.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
I just know lots of people there from Queens Queens Queens.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Does sound it sounds more you know, more spread out,
doesn't it? Queen Queens? All right, all right, all right,
we're two down. We're going to try and get ten
in a row. Let's have a quick break. Give us
a little teaser about the next question in the alley.

Speaker 9 (08:35):
Okay, next question is what does u X stand for
in design terminology? Is that user experience, unique experience or
universal experience?

Speaker 1 (08:44):
If you think you know you can text two four
for eight seven.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, we can go to the text machine once, so
four for eight seven if you're a designer.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Right now, we are in the middle of the New
Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. Three questions down and we try
and get ten in a row every morning. You can
texton four for a seven if you don't.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Know nothing on Monday morning and it's hard to talk.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
We just did a social video and we keep calling
the show the cho the show coming up on the show, Yeah,
and like the show swarm up. We'll get there by seven. Okay,
what's the question for Themigan.

Speaker 10 (09:24):
God?

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Wake up producer Ellie?

Speaker 9 (09:28):
Question for who was the youngest player to win a
fee for World Cup? Is it Diego, Maradonna, Linel, Missy
or Billy?

Speaker 5 (09:35):
Oh jeez, it's Bill like Madonna? Just one name, I.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Guess so Belly. I would for some reason on guard Maradonna. Okay,
I don't know why.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
I was gonna go Maradonna too, just sound sound like Madonna.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
That seems like a rock solid reason too.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
He had the hand of God when he well, he
said that we basically scored it with a handball, but
he said it was the hand of God.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
To win the World Cup.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
So I know he won the World Cup, but I
don't know how young he was, so yeah, there's locking in.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
We're locking in the youngest ever.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Sure, it's okay.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
He should have got one name like Madonna.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Do you know how how old he was when he
won the World Cup?

Speaker 1 (10:21):
To that same look, Mayor, I do know, Diego Maradonna
went on a bloody huge binge, didn't he Yeah, loved it.
He was just on any of all the bloody it.
He was pulling it up.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
His was.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I mean, he probably never bought a drink in his
life after you winning the World Cup, So.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 9 (10:38):
Pile was seventeen years and two and forty nine days
when he won a World Cup final match on twenty
ninth of June nineteen fifty eight.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
It was so.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Crazy, that's insane. It was just a bag, you spoke.
Grace sn wiki the Silver.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
She was eighteen when she made the New Zealand team.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's amazing, incredible when they do that.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Because that means have spent a lot of their teenage
years being focused and not a bag exactly.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
That's making the silver first. That doesn't mean when she
started playing against adults. Yeah, that's when she made the pinnacle.
That's pretty incredible. Yeah, so there we go. Well we'll
never forget the Palais was the youngest ever football winner.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
The newest biggest producer of gasoline.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
We're collecting fact actually.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Speak of football.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Really epic football match over the weekend between the Auckland
f C and the Phoenix. It was the big in
the area.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Bomber tweety two dollars back two dollars. There we go.
It was a huge one and big wager between Patty
Gower on the show and the owner, the CEO of AULKLANDFC.
Will bring up.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Speedie's the jonavan Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Another big weekend of sports. The All Blacks a bit
of a nail bider over England. They won that one
Tonga bit the Kiwis in league that was another nail
bider by one point.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
Jeez.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
The tongue and support is incredible. Shoots and just the
flags every time Tongue Now also more are playing. I
feel like the flags are getting bigger and bigger, dangling
out of the cars every time. I literally saw one
which could have could have covered a queen size bed.
You know that's a big flag dangling out a passenger window.

(12:20):
It was like a home game in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, it was incredible to see the support. An incredible
game of league. But tongue world done to them. And
also the Auckland FC and the big local derby against
the Phoenix and Wellington. They're the new team in the
Australian competition where the first time the two Kiwi teams
have played against each other.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
And it was too nil to Auckland lubs in the area.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Too nil.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Now, we spoke to Nick Becker, who is the CEO
of Auckland f C. Came into the studio Friday and
we brought them up to speed on an article that
our colleague, former colleague Patty Gowert had written on Auckland
f C. All sorts of wild claims, wasn't he It's
calling them.

Speaker 5 (12:59):
Up and be hooligans.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
He was.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
He was saying the port which is their official fan club,
is not there's nothing to do with the ports.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
You know that it's miles away. Can't sound like chat
g p T wrote them, he said, called them a
fake football club. Now, Petty gw we call Patty gow
and we put him on with Nick and the band
was flowing back and forth.

Speaker 11 (13:19):
Is a semi FA Football Club in New Zealand. And
that is these.

Speaker 12 (13:28):
Are fighting words, the big words, Paddy, so prove it.

Speaker 11 (13:33):
I don't want to have a fight with you.

Speaker 10 (13:35):
I understand.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I want to. I want to put it out to Pad.
If it is three nil, fine will take that.

Speaker 12 (13:43):
But if it isn't, I say, Paddy has to be
in the port, the.

Speaker 6 (13:49):
In the port, the game in the port, mate, it's
not going to happen.

Speaker 13 (13:53):
So I'll go one better. I'll go one better. I'll
wear an awcand f C jump. But you can even
put my name on the bank there you go put
my mouth.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
So he said all that.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
I forgot that. I thought he was just saying if
they win, but he was.

Speaker 14 (14:12):
The beat was for three nil. It was a very
risky it was. He was very confident. Now he said
a lot of things as we all do. Yes, talk
a big game, but we need to find out.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Today if he's going to follow three is he going
to go into the eye of the Auckland supporters and
an Auckland top as well, just turning his back on
his teeth.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
I mean in some ways least he's wearing an Auckland top,
like if he went into the eye of the supporters
wearing a Wellington top.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
They know what would be worse? Yeah, yeah, so maybe
you can end this conversation with it.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, the hits that johnaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
And it's a hits on a Monday morning.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
But new said the cricket.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Over the weekend, the black Caps won three nil against India,
which is the first time India's ever lost in ninety
five years.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Three nils any team and he's yealing?

Speaker 10 (14:56):
Did it?

Speaker 1 (14:56):
You? You just you Jarez cricket, don't you? And cricket
you love? What does this mean?

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Is this is pretty huge Jackson. Yeah, only twice in
ninety five years have we ever beaten India at a test?

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Serious, you know, and now we win, you know, three
to row, which is pretty incredible.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Now a huge cricket fan being boys and obviously I
just mentioned it before. And Meghan, you you gave been
a glimpse into one of your favorite hobbies, which was,
you know, pampering yourself. You gave him pink painted nails.
Are they still with you?

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Been through pretty much just that I've been picking them
off that now.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, so you got to enjoy something, Meghan, Yeah, loves
doing now he wants to return the favor. That's right.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Now, this is quite exciting. Neil Wagner, Black Cap. He's
got a new book out. He's coming for an interview,
and I was like, well, hey, why don't you do
the As much as I'd love to do the interview,
I'll give you the joy of talking cricket on the show.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
Much on a pretty historic day for oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
And you know, nothing nothing zero about I could.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Just I would just be like, yhistoric day, that's good,
start great stat let him, let him, let him roll
into it.

Speaker 10 (16:03):
Now.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
The interview is happening after the show today. We won't
be in the studio, but we've got Mike Lane, who's
part of the Alternate commentary collective Big Cricket Person. We
got him in to give you a couple of tips
about interviewing Neil.

Speaker 15 (16:16):
How good looking is he?

Speaker 5 (16:17):
Yeah, he's very good looking. So he doesn't play anymore.

Speaker 15 (16:22):
Well done, he doesn't play for the black Caps anymore.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
First thing, how would you pronounce his name Neil Wagner?
I don't know about that.

Speaker 15 (16:33):
Is it Wagner or Isner? I don't know. We call
him Neil Wagner, and I don't know if that's correct.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
Am I going to look like a deck if he
comes in and I'm like, good morning, Neil Wagner.

Speaker 15 (16:45):
You're laughing, don't call him. He's quite aggressive on the field,
nicest guy you'll ever meet when you meet him, quite
relatively short and stature.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
So I'm going to bring up that he's reasonably short,
has got anger issues and.

Speaker 15 (17:02):
Yeah, yeah, are you German?

Speaker 1 (17:06):
So there we go. Those are some of the PRIP
tips you've been given, Megan, And this is happening after
nine o'clock. This maiden is going to conduct her first
bit of a cricket reference there.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
I just don't want to offend him like he's a
professional who's done awesome things in its field.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
That's quick googly ye. Maybe research will mean you won't
have fit them.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Research questions, you won't to fit them at all. I
give you come in and say cricket sucks, and you might.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Have fit them.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
Just because I'm not interested doesn't mean it sucks.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
But you see, you've literally seen cricket sucks.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
The heads that jonaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
It's a big week of the two this week, guys.
The Uish elections taking place Wednesday our time, and can't
at all due respect to women and I love women. Jeez,
Trump are taking on Harris and Carmela actually went on
Saturday Night Live for the comedy Show in America and
the comedian Maya Rudolph was there dressed as Kamala and

(18:04):
they sort of went back and forward and had a
bit of fun with their name.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
Kamala.

Speaker 9 (18:09):
Take my Pamela.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
The American people want to start the chaos.

Speaker 15 (18:16):
And and the dramaa with a cool new step MAMAA.

Speaker 8 (18:22):
Keep backing our Pajamaala's and watch a rum Kamala.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Like legally Blondola and start decorating for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Follow LALAA because what.

Speaker 15 (18:36):
Don't we always say?

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Keep Kamala and carry on Ala.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
She did really well.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
She did really well.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
A frenzy crowd, I mean, geez, they were very cool
that she went on that show. And we'll bring up
to speed throughout the week on the election.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
We're speaking of a frenzy. Yesterday popping my daughter's birthday
and was the tour guide of you know, eight just
high intensity girls taking them through the zoo. You went
to the zoo to Megan and I was like, I
feel like the tour guide. And then one of the
girls keep saying, keep saying very loudly, you're the hock

(19:11):
tour guide, and we're like, you got, you got. Because
she would say it and then other people would smile
like other adults do, would smile. She'd be like, tour
of the Zoo, and I'm like, please, please, you got?

Speaker 6 (19:24):
You got?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, you're right, but you can't really expire the same situation.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
You can't really explain the full reference.

Speaker 5 (19:30):
What are these girls twelve?

Speaker 1 (19:33):
She had no. I don't know if she had any
understanding of it. She was just a fun thing, staying
a reaction. Me and my son were like, please stop
saying So anyway, I was the hot tour guide and
came home birthday cake. Hi, listen to this. I know
you don't like the happy Birthday song, but boy, oh boy,
they gave it there all. Wow, we're still recovering. Names

(20:09):
are still recovering.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Look, my problem is that sounds usually quite depressing, so
that's really.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Upbeat slow, but it just picked up momentum.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
The hits that johnaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
We talk about a lot of sporting events over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
So we've gone hard on sport this first day, haven't we.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well, you're just to take it a little in another
competition that we haven't talked about so far, to do
with a cake making competition, a big international cake baking
show in Britain, a huge one.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
And have a look at this.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
I got the picture from today's New herold. Is that
a case a life sized version of Taylor Swift? Like
a full sized version of cake stands upright of Taylor Swift.
But unfortunately, when they were transporting it for the competition,
both the hands fell off during the transportation and the

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lady who had spent over one hundred hours making the
cake didn't have enough time to put the hands back
onto and so she had to pull pull.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Herself shake it off.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
She shook her own hands off and she had to
be out of the competition.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
But it's incredible. How do we take a photo of
the picture in the paper and put it on now
the headsprey for social and yeah, we'll.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
Put it on find that photo like online.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
I hold it up like some sort of hostage situation
that I can hold up.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Baby, We'll take a photo of the paper.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, right, but incredible, like incredible looking cake, I.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Mean yeah, yeah, I mean it's nice, like a full size. Yeah, yeah,
it taste like, it looks like, it looks like a
blow up dole of Taylor's.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
But it does. Is it giving around the fact it's
like a bit puffy.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Jesus, you made cakes, but we've made every cake in
the Woman's Weekly Birthday Cake Book.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
I'm not saying I could do it, but you're been
hearing a world cake baking I would have expect did
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
I'm thinking that's incredible. I'm thinking that it's like you
look at that and go tell us offt you know
those wax. I mean, look at this statue of Dwayne
raid Or the basketballer didn't even look anything like him.
This looks exactly you know, exactly who it is. It's incredible.
So anyway, after seven o'clock, it's very defensively, Oh, it's
a credible I'm just to say here ago someone's been

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one hundred hours on that looks awesome.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
Of course, the heads that JOHNA and Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Less than fifty days took all around about fifty days
till Christmas.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Sorry, the Far Away, Far Away, and we are entering
that season two where you'll start going Megan the kindergarten.
You'll start going to the end of year presentation ceremonies
many a school assembly. You know you're go and watch
sort of kids stand up on a line and hold
certificates in front of the chest, you know, like they're
classified documents. I love. That's so cute though, isn't it

(22:52):
when with a beaming smile. And also the wrap up
of big dance recitals too, and I've begun dance recital
wrap up season. Now it's a whole season where those
were treated to an entree. My daughter's dance was Todal.
She's a very good dance. I'm very proud of her.
And she's seven classes.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
A week, seven classes.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Every day sometimes too or night. She she's into it, mane,
she's into anyway.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
It's a lot of a lot of a lot of
they really saw you coming, didn't they?

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, do you need to do tworking class is an essential?
No anyway, so they had. But here's my pitch to
that whole the whole classes, next class, the shows, like,
so you know, you go to India wrap up shows
and I know you've done your time in the theater
are now yeah, as let's just I mean, all the
kids are really talented. I want to front foot, but

(23:47):
I don't. I don't care about other kids dancing, and
I don't. I just want to go and well let's go. Okay,
so six fifty seven boom, you tell me when I'm there,
put us on a spreadsheet. We all go and you're
watching kid and you're out by seven o three. You know,
you watch them do their thing then, because you're what
the ninety five percent of what you're watching over an
hour and a half is strange children.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
They're not straight, just stranger, especially in dance recitals. Like
when I go watch by door to the shows, this
is a show. There's a story you're just watching, probably
the single dances.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Right, you know, I kind of check out. I won't
look it. But anyway, we've got some Hollow Fresh to
give away this week, don't we.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
The Hello Fresh Summer Box.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, we have your chance to win our summer box
all thanks to Hello Fresh, Nono the summer Hello Fresh
just helping you discover the joy of cooking and spending
more time enjoying the things that you love. So not
only do you get to make delicious meals, but you
get more time in your evenings. So if you want
to win a week's worth of Hello Fresh. One of
us will pull a number out of our summer box
and you'll want a great summer themed price as well

(24:50):
as a week's worth of Hello.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Fresh a summer themed price. It's a tough collection of words.
Summer theme prize. Now I need to get to christ
you shall we Good morning to you and Jen? How's
the weekend?

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Hello?

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Happy Monday?

Speaker 1 (25:01):
It was good?

Speaker 4 (25:02):
Thank you?

Speaker 11 (25:02):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (25:04):
High?

Speaker 1 (25:04):
He loo and buffalo of the weekend has been like
to do? What was the high and the low?

Speaker 5 (25:09):
Um or?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
That's hard?

Speaker 6 (25:11):
The high would be I don't act.

Speaker 9 (25:15):
If I've got a certain high.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
It was a bleak week.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
On the weekend.

Speaker 10 (25:20):
Getting to the weekend was great.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Well you're just surviving. That was the high? Well, Imagen
Right now you need to pick Megan bean on myself
to pull out a Hello Fresh meal from the box
and you'll win a corresponding summer themed prize. Summer themed prize,
what is that?

Speaker 5 (25:35):
Let's go with Bege.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
You've got a good summer vibe. You can pull out anyway.
We've got a whole bunch of surfboards, We've got outdoor sets.
What number? What do you want to go to? The
a Meigan, what we got.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
I've got number three.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
That's a roast check, pea and broccoli super salad with
avocado and Herbie Mayot.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
So that's one of the rest pees you could be
having in your weeks with a Hello Fresh, what does
it come with?

Speaker 1 (26:00):
You want a bike?

Speaker 5 (26:01):
If you want a bike?

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Oh wow, yeah, awesome. Wesh on your bike and we've
just found the high of your weekend this morning.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
Yeah, exactly, nothing will be.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Week Oh that's awesome. They have a great week on
your bike.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
As the heads that John and Ben podcast the weekend.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
I went out for dinner with my wife on well
on Friday nights, and we went out and we had
lovely dinner, and then we were going to catch up
with some friends. We're out a bar afterwards, so we're
wandering along the street.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Sometimes I get too full at dinner. You know, you're like, jeez,
I've eaten too much.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Well, you don't eat during the day. We're already eating.
Keep us going for twelve hours. You're one meal a day.
Sometimes I spread mine out.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
I've got a crane to take me out of garlic
bread for the table. Love order gallay for the table
and they're making the hand for the table.

Speaker 14 (26:59):
It round.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
So I was walking on the street and there was
you know, a group of sort of like this young
twenty somethings walking the other way coming past, and and they.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Were like yo.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
One of them said yo, yeah, you're like to me.

Speaker 14 (27:13):
Yo, yoh woh okay, it was like yes, and then
to me we nailed a bro shake together.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
I'm like, this is cool, this is nice. A moment
he's like, hey, man, I've always wanted to meet you.
And I was like, oh, that's really lovely and nice
to meet you. Hey, okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
And this is going to dog well, yeah, this is
the thing.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
I'm not just coming on here to humble brag or
anything out there. So he was like yeah, and then
he started what should have been a sign. He's like,
but I did get aga into many fights. And I
was like, oh no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Not tonight. Yeah, you know where it's going.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Not tonight, mate, not tonight. And he was like oh
good good, And then he's like, oh, yeah, Cities, I
always wanted to meet you. And he's like you're a
bit of a mad bugger, aren't you. And I was like, yess,
you know, we will look at you. Look at our career,
all the things we've done, and I was like, by head,
I'm thinking yeah. I was like, I have a mad
buget not so much these days, but I guess we've
done a lot. Yeah, you're lots of cry Yeah, lots

(28:08):
of crazy stuff. So this, you know, I was sort
of having a conversation with.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
Weird banter that doesn't quite fast.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, well I was thinking it all kind of I guess,
kind of fat. He was like, hey, well, you know
a flat we all sat around and watched your TV
couple of weekends ago, and I.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
Was like, wow, wow on DVD.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Well that's pretty that's pretty cool. And then I was like,
hey man, we've got a photo together. I was like,
good meet Yeah, way weir and I was like that's great,
that's great little textbook. I was, but weird some of
the conversation that we'd had. But I was like, oh.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
It, chis out pipping your stick.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
We'd all been drinking. It was a windsor win.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
And then as he walked away, I sort of you
know when you walk off and these conversations going on
behind you. You hear these conversations, and then one of
the girls that was with him goes.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
Who was that.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
He's like, oh, don't you know? And I'm still sitting there,
you know, listening, and I'm like bathing in the glory. Yeah,
and he's like UFC fighter Dan Hooker. As I was like, oh,
that's that's Expa sat around watching me, halloweens ago and
I was like, do I go back now and say, hey,

(29:13):
I wasn't Dan Hooker. I was like, I just keep going,
so apologies to Dan Hooker. You're ce fighter. You know,
hopefully I you know, lived up to your cred.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
Waiting for them to show people photos of Dan.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Dan Hooker.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Like Dan Hooker, Dan Hooker exactly.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
I mean he's got kind of blonde here like I am,
but he's you do look similar, but he's a lot
more cut than me.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, but what did you What was your reaction was
like you've been ginning to lately.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, baby thinks I'm a bit of a scrapper. I
was like, that was a great My wife's that have
watched one, going, you know, I've got some crid, I've
got some street cred.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
She's like, I told the handy chores at home just
so you know, oh, maybe you and Dan Hooker need
to wrestle. Wrestle for who gets to have the blonde? Here?
He cand are you handing it over? Riddy?

Speaker 2 (30:03):
If it's a wristle, if it's a pun off or
something like that, I'll back myself.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
But what about a peanuckle wristle?

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Oh yeah, we can do that.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Danger in the middle of an octagon.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
I'd seen your face, you would have gone from like
a little pivot step.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
I could have told that. Sorry, but I was, like,
I thought it was quite funny that John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
We're talking about the funniest thing he had to claim
for insurance.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
And someone from the insurance industry is actually called through
to the show this morning. Wayne Welcome from State Insurance,
the chief executive Foundation Manager General of Claims at State Welcome.

Speaker 10 (30:44):
That's that's an impressive welcome.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
But now, how much of that did he get correct? There?

Speaker 2 (30:49):
First claim?

Speaker 1 (30:50):
None of it? None of that, none.

Speaker 10 (30:53):
The state claims.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, he claimed you are a lot of things, isn't
here for some of the works?

Speaker 5 (30:59):
General Manager Madure of Claims.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah something most importantly, the only plan I'll make about
Wayne a wonderful human being.

Speaker 10 (31:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Hey, we're just talking about some wild claims. Do you
see these cases come through.

Speaker 10 (31:12):
Oh yeah, so they say in the movies, and never
work with kids and animals, and when it comes to claims,
there's a common thing. One of our fathers was out
doing a bit of di why painting the garage floor. Unfortunately,
his apprentice aka his toddler, walked through the went paint
straight into the house and also thought, I'll take a
paint brush too and do a bit of artwork down

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down the hallway.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
There must be a common one for you guys.

Speaker 10 (31:39):
Yeah, put that and also felt tips and crayons. They
don't look well with wolves or sofas or curtains.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
What about your animals, I mean animals caused a lot
of damage and claims.

Speaker 10 (31:52):
Heaps, And what I recommend is that you don't let
your peacock into your house. Now why your house? If
you've got a peacock, don't let them.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
In, Okay, good roll, good roll. First, a peacock.

Speaker 10 (32:06):
Quite territorial, and this particular peacock saw another peacock in
the home because he was looking in the mirror and thought,
don't like you, I'm going to have you, and caused
a significant amount of damage to the to the customer's bathroom.
So I don't let your.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Peacock and mind you. Yeah, peacock is a mirror to
a peacock, A whole new concept, I imagine.

Speaker 10 (32:29):
Yeah, I don't think that peacocks and mirrors don't tend
to make to do that.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
The people generally see the funny side of these things
when they're making the claim. Was that sort of come
a bit later on?

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Wow?

Speaker 10 (32:39):
Maybe when they're talking to us, you know, it's like, oh,
I need to make a claim of peacock, believe Well.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
What's been the most random one I've been? A peacock
is probably up there, but any other ones come to mind?

Speaker 10 (32:52):
What about the dog driving? That's that's not a bad one.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Of the dog driving?

Speaker 10 (32:57):
The dog driving, So the puppy and the case was
left in the van somehow managed to release the handbrake.
Van rolled backwards down the drive, across the road and
crashed into another vehicle. So van not good, can not
good puppy heavily? Okay.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
They did teach dogs to fly planes, didn't They were
driving dogs the driving dogs.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, yeah, but that was well, they were well trained,
driving dogs.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Past the learners. Yeah, rested, Well, that's awesome. I hate
thinks so much for coming on this morning. Really interesting.

Speaker 10 (33:31):
Appreciate it anytime.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Some great teachs coming through here too full for seven.
Someone else light Way and who works in insurance, claims
a suitcase of stolen adult toys lost on holiday. Someone
also tried to claim for a bunch of marijuana plants
that were confiscated in the police rate. I don't have
insurance covers there. And a lady claimed for stolen jewelry
that was stolen by fairies who came through her keyhole.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
The hits that johnaan Ben podcast, Is there anything worse?

Speaker 4 (33:57):
When someone was like, oh gross, what you're doing is disgusting.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, it's a it's a humbling comment.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
It doesn't happen to me often.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
You know what it means, It would happened to you
very often. Well, like I said, I was, I was
caught by final listeners to this show cut my toenails
beside a Paul and she was she was devastated by that.
And I just thought there was normal behavior and that's yuck.
So my gauge or what is gross and disgusting is
probably a lower bar than most.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Yeah, and I did think of you when this happened
because it's along the same lines. So yesterday I was
cutting my fingernails and I was doing it into the
kitchen sink and my husband came along and was like,
that's disgusting.

Speaker 5 (34:40):
Can you stop? And I was like, what do you mean?

Speaker 4 (34:43):
Like my nails first of all, like not grubby and gross.
Second of what, I'm going to rinse it down. At
least I'm catching the nail.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
I hear the locations a little loft, it's a little off.
I wouldn't put it in a gross disgusting category.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
I was thinking to you, Paul Clip, Yeah, you're at
a glasshouse.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah, like if someone of his family was doing that
in the kitchen, think I'd say, hey, not yeah, like
that is like at worst, go to the laundry. Like
the laundry, you know, like yeah, I don't know if
I'm bearing food in there, you're washing fruit and stuff,
and there my.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
Nails are in the sink anyway, doing the dishes and stuff.
Off does it make if they're attached to my fingers
or not?

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Look at here off your head when it's on your
head and it's a messive it it's on your head.
I mean Sidefeld's got great gigs. People stroke here, they
kiss here, but as soon as they're here, off every
gross and it's.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Stopping wet clogging up a shower drain. You don't get
any grosser version of here, do you here? In your meal?
You put I pull here out of the shower rain
drain weekly I contributed that here in no way at
all that's true.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
But anyway, my tone wasn't my toe my fingernails and
they're not clogging up the drain?

Speaker 1 (35:59):
You know?

Speaker 3 (35:59):
You?

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Are you cauling the jug? And yeah, are you putting
a broad water in there or anything afterwards?

Speaker 5 (36:04):
No, but the boiled water will go on there eventually
to clean the dishes.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
So I'm going to go to chat GPT on this one.
Are you guys filling some time?

Speaker 5 (36:11):
I honestly don't think there's any difference. My nails were
in there doing the dishes. Now they're detached from my fingers.
It's gross.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
And see what Ali has got to say, is it
discussing to cut your nails in the in the kitchen?
Now chat GPT, all right, which I've mentioned before, I
usually go to for some affirmation if I'm feeling if
I'm not feeling confident about something in my life. I'm like, okay,
I even worked out this week and they're like, it's
all right, you can always do it next week. You
know stuff like that. Well, let's come back with It's
a bit suspect, doesn't it. Cheat The kitchen is we

(36:41):
have food magics and now make it with those nails
and nail clippings. Well, they're not a part of any
recipe anyone wants to try. There's a chat GPT sid
you no wonder it's coming for our jobs.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Okay, fine, take your argument up with chat GPT.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
I'll still disagree. It was into the scene. Yep. It's
a bold move to disagree and says no point in
defending your nail clipping in the kitchen. That's what you had,
GBT saying, you might want to reminder that it's not
so much about the nails themselves, it's about the dirt

(37:18):
under them.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
That's the thing. I keep very clean nails.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
That jonaan Ben podcast last night, as I was preparing
myself for bed, got into a bit of a panic
frenzy because I wear a geez. I'm an absolute sex leopard.
I tell you I wear a mouthguard to bed. Do
you sometimes wear a mouth guard retainer. And then we
were having this conversation with Craig, who's one of our
bosses here at work, and he's like, geez, you reach

(37:47):
peak adulthood, don't you when you start wearing equipment to
be no wonder the birth rate is declining. What are
you were to be? Please see this?

Speaker 5 (37:56):
The other night I was like, God, I'm sexy. I'm
pretty much a transformer.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
I wear silicon patches on my face. Yeah, that's supposed
to do something like wrinkles or whatever. I wear a
wrist brace because I've got a coup and then I
sometimes put a pillow between my knees because I've got
bung hips.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Is what eppens if things start to spice up, is
it's unstrapping of the wrist. They're probably not going to happen.

Speaker 5 (38:22):
When you like that, it's really loud, like it's like Alcae,
she's kecked the pillow dress.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
She's peeling off her face things.

Speaker 5 (38:35):
No, don't touch the faces.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
All, Harriet boy. She said she sleeps with a full
mask thing.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
I like an l ed like she's sleeping with it.
She not roll around at all.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
On the equipment you take to be.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
I do have a retainer, but more probably about the
lack of equipment. I don't sleep next to no phones,
no phones next to me. I won't sleep next to fire.
My wife is like what I like?

Speaker 1 (38:59):
And no. She started to again the habit of taking
a cup of tea to bed. I love my.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Tea before bed, but not in the bedroom. I'm like,
that's not We're not there. We're not eighty five in.

Speaker 15 (39:07):
Arrive every night.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
I was like, I'm like, I love a couple of
at night before, but it's like, don't bring it into
the bed.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Come on, we're not here, Yeah, I not here. I
went on to that, let's open this up. What equipment
are you taking a bid? Sometimes you see the people
with the full Darth Vaders snoring? Yeah, yeah, have you
got one of those? Would love to love to hear
you calls and ticks this morning.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Talking about the bedtime routine and the unusual bits of
equipment that maybe you take to be a.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Lot of ticks coming through four four eight seven pre bid.
I put on moisturizer, writtenal a face mask. There's texts
from Hennessy. She goes to bed like a greased up
superhero wearing a mouth guard as well, are you Are
you also greasy as well?

Speaker 5 (39:54):
Like I've had my head in a bucket a KFC.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Pree wrist strap, yeah.

Speaker 5 (40:03):
And then I put my so sick. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
They had a lot of time, you know, probably lying, well,
not a lot of time, but there is some time
lying there.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
So what equipment are you taking to beat? I mean
Taylor Montoy who was a former producer on this program. Marcello,
her husband he bought her some some mouth tape so
she could tape her mouth shut. She's like a snoring thing, right, yeah,
to teach her to breathe through her nostrils. He claims
it was for snoring. She was like, I do talk

(40:35):
a lot.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
They would have a conversation before and is that all
the talking we're going to do?

Speaker 1 (40:39):
All right?

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Good night? Because they didn't put the mouth dave on
because she couldn't talk after that. She was like mute
after that. So I was like, anything else you want
to get off before good night?

Speaker 1 (40:49):
You've been taking hostage. We got to producer Alien Dylan,
come on in guys working next door here on the show.
You can call eight hundred hits as well. The bid
type equipment you're taking now Dylan. You you we are
something to be do you.

Speaker 16 (41:01):
It's a recent purchase and it's a lot of ridicule
for my friends better But I've just recently bought an
eye mask. But it also has bluetooth headphones and filter mask.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
Wait is the imask to like block out the light
or is it good for your like.

Speaker 16 (41:18):
Like we've moved into a new apartment and it doesn't
quite have curtains yet.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
So this is like a wh when I was asleep
with podcasts on. So I think it's a sensible purchase.
Is yeah, what a great design? Sometimes you think have
we invented everything? And then you hear about this and
you're like, no, we have.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Sometimes my mother in law, Joyce, will come and stay,
you know, when it's helping look after the kids when
my wife goes away because she loves cranking up and
be all night. She sleeps with z BE just billowing
out from yeah talk back, yeah all through the night.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Yeah, well she just fall asleep.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Who's talking in the house?

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Subliminal negativity, controversial opinions the sound overnight? I guess, yeah, producer,
really you're sleeping worth.

Speaker 9 (41:59):
A squashmell at thirty two years old, school one, but
it's not a huge one. I'd love it big one actually,
but it's the medium one and it's so squashy and
actually just quietly.

Speaker 7 (42:10):
My boyfriend quite likes it too.

Speaker 5 (42:12):
Yeah, it doesn't go and between you two, no.

Speaker 7 (42:14):
We kind of we kind of fight over it.

Speaker 9 (42:16):
So some nights he'll be lying on it and then
other nights I'm hugging at so we kind of fight out.

Speaker 7 (42:19):
We probably should get a second one.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
I think when did you introduce the squish mellow to
the relationship, because I feel like it's something you you
keep heading for a certain time frame.

Speaker 17 (42:27):
Now.

Speaker 9 (42:27):
It actually came during the relationship. I was gifted it,
and I was like, oh my gosh, it's need a
boyfriend anymore.

Speaker 7 (42:33):
I just need this.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
Because sometimes when you are pregnant and you have those
pregnancy pillows and like after you've had the baby, you're like,
it's just really cuddling and I can't let.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
You've got the pillow between your knees now, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
The hits that John wan Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Of November means fifty one days until Christmas will be
fifty days tomorrow, so it is getting there. We had Halloween.
I was really excited about that.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Done.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
With that done, Meghan's like, we're done without We're moving on.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
It's a table ready for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
So you're about ready to put up your Christmas tree.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
I did bang on about it last week that I
was going to put up my Christmas tree usually goes
up the first of November, and I was pleased to
do it at the weekend.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
We're reading, Yeah you was that was going to be
your entire weekend, Yeah, christmasing the house up.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
It gets to Saturday and I said, okay, well we'll
going to go get the tree out and everything. And
my husband's like, I've just thought he's filming in our
house this week. And he was like, I don't want
it to be Christmas A five because it can't, like
it's got to be a timeless can't be timeless Christmas shoe.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
And I get it.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
We have my daughter's birthdays and these birthdays on the thirteenth,
and so we kind of feel like, even though I
probably would get Christmas up earlier, I feel like it's.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
You're still going to have heavy birthday.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
You can't a party is a Christmas party?

Speaker 3 (43:50):
What is this?

Speaker 2 (43:50):
So we sort of wait.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Too after that, Oh, that's fair enough. He's wanting to
keep it neutral, a neutral zone. So I can see
where Urine is coming from.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
I did pack it absolutely, said please to.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Know, well, we're not yet. When you are filming pornography.
You don't want to time, you don't want a time step,
you don't want a Christmas Christmas name. Yeah, a lot
of Christmas range of that. Just you know, it's a
flooded market. Give it generic.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
So we wanted to, you know, because we're going to
start playing very soon. It will start playing Christmas music
on the hats, and you know this Christmas song. So
we went to the ball of the week in so
much Christmas stuff everywhere.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
It was September. I think that was sounding to dip
their toes in some of the commercial retailers.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
But trees are up, the displays are up, so it
feels like Christmas is on its way.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
But we wanted to play a little game with everyone.
So you've delayed your start to Christmas, what by a
week at least? Yeah, So we thought we could potentially
delay the start of this radio station's Christmas for as
long as well this game continues on.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Yeah, at least. Well, one particular song, the most iconic
Christmas song now, like, I mean, four four eh seven.
If you think there's a better one than that, are.

Speaker 5 (44:55):
You are you actually going to play it?

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Well?

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Play now?

Speaker 5 (44:58):
We're playing now this is okay free because I.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Feel like as soon as this song starts hitting the
airwaves or hitting the rotate on the hits or any
radio station or all the mauls or what about Christmas
has officially started for you.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
We played it a couple of weeks ago, didn't we
get in September in full?

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Go down?

Speaker 2 (45:18):
It's actually good people.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Yeah, So the game is that we all have to
try and avoid listening we're hearing Mariah Carey's All I
Want for Christmas? Now when you do hear it, and
it could be you could we're wandering through the supermarket
and that comes on, You're out of the game.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
So and then you have to let us know four
fur eighty seven on the text or other one hundred
the hits and say you're out of the game. When
everyone's out of the game, we'll play the song in full.
But it's an honesty system. You have to be honest
about it, right because you you know we're not going
to be falling everywhere.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
I mean, it'd be weird if we did.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
To the supermarket or if on What about social media,
Like if I go on to TikTok right now, if
I go on to people are going to put it
behind their stories on Instagram people, Does that mean I'm
out of the game.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
It does count.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
If it goes in your ear holes through any means
you're out.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
So at the gym, another radio station, if they're playing
in a store, whatever.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
Especially on another radio station retail.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
As soon as you hear any not just the whole song,
any of this the.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
Song you walk and it gets in your ear holes
and you walk out, it still counts.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
You have to call us or a text us full
for it seven and go I'm officially out of the
Christmas game.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
Now here's the thing We're not.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
Are we trying to get each other out or are
we all in this together?

Speaker 1 (46:29):
They're all in this together.

Speaker 5 (46:30):
So we're all trying to stay in for as long
as we can.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Be easy for one of us to leave the studio,
come back in and you know, play the song.

Speaker 5 (46:37):
So no sabotage.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
And once all of us out of the game, we
can officially start playing all I want for Christmas. Is
you on the show? How's it fun? Fun? Actually?

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Okay, we'll keep we remind people throughout the week is
people can join at any stage.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
And obviously Ben and I have already played the song.
So from this moment, we're wiping the slate clean.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Won't play that chorus again. Okay, we're here. We wish
you were carry Chris Smiths. He said, sos, have you
actually been have you been caught out this morning? I wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
Yeah, like from now, it's fine, but you might have
already heard it this morning. That's okay, that's okay.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
I'm sitting the slate.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Because I imagine therese people in retail listening right now.
They've probably have been listening to that song for how long?

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Well, the retail sect has made a contract, wasn't it
with Mariah to play at least twelve times a day,
haven't they? So have you already? Have you already heard
this song?

Speaker 4 (47:26):
Someone ticks it and stead up smashed that song already
this morning. That sounded like they opted in themselves.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Okay, and you can listen to it again, but you
would have to give us let us know that you're
out of the game.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Yeah, the game there's.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
Be fun the hits that jonaan Ben podcast question.

Speaker 5 (47:42):
What if someone sings it?

Speaker 1 (47:45):
I feel like it's.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Got to be Mariah being played. I don't know, but
we're all making these rules together. I feel like it's
got to be Mariah Carey's version.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
What if you go to like a school little pageant
interview thing and someone's like singing, stand.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Up and walk out, You're like, wow, igon asked me
Mariah here. But if they're dancing to Mariah Carey, you're out.
Oh so if you got us, you know, dancing along
to that. One year for the Hits Christmas Parade, the
Santa Parade, we had that song on loop.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Before that was three. Yeah, there was a lot of listens.
There would have been. There would have been at least
fifty or sixty times we heard that in a row
and blasting in our ears too because it was on
a float with the loud speakers, so.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Trying to avoid everyone you listening right now, you're if
you want to play the game with us, but we
have to be honest. When you do, hear it wherever
you are and let us know four, four, eight, seven
or hundred the hits and then you're out. Of the game,
and we keep going until everyone's out of the game,
and then we can play the song in four.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
The start lines now though, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (48:41):
Yeah, clarification days, but for us, it's from now clarification.
On the tech someone said I've already heard it because
Mariah Carey did a real basically saying it's too early.

Speaker 5 (48:49):
Now is the moment?

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Now if you've heard it before? Now, Nicole, Nicole, you've
heard it this morning already, Yeah, twice twice.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Al that was by your own choice.

Speaker 10 (49:02):
Oh yeah, on purpose.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Okay, So you might not want to play this game.
You might want to play it against tomorrow and you're
out of the game, but you need to call us
back and I'm out.

Speaker 10 (49:10):
I'll already be playing it again later today.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
Forfeiting already already, you got I can't do it.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
How many times do you want to play Mariah that
song in the day?

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Well, every time I put the Christmas Hits playlist on,
it's the first song, and I always replay the first
one because it's the best.

Speaker 9 (49:29):
Yeah, and then I let the rest go.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
You know.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Sometimes it's not a game for everyone, and we're not
bullying everyone to play the game as well. We don't
want to deprive you of Mariah if you want to,
if you want to listen to it four or five
times a day, that's your choice. Nicole. Okay, I feel.

Speaker 18 (49:44):
Like you're doing the Christmas thing. Christmas Okay, most joyful song.

Speaker 10 (49:50):
We should just encourage it.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
Can I suggest See has got a very good Christmas
album that's very underrated, the Michael Booble Christmas album. Great
Christmas songs out there, your chance to branch out into
other Christmas music.

Speaker 17 (50:02):
Don't worry.

Speaker 10 (50:03):
I listened to all of those as well. November December
Christmas music. Mann't it all right there?

Speaker 1 (50:08):
We want us to be a consensual game.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
We want to lovely last couple of days, and we
may all hear it within the next twenty four hours
and go back tomorrow and go, guys, we've all heard it.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
The game's over.

Speaker 5 (50:18):
So the game's over when all of us on the
show have heard it.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Yeah, yeah, and they all start playing it on the
air waves for you. Okay, Nicole, But that doesn't sound
like it's going to be an issue for you anyway.

Speaker 10 (50:29):
Not, but I would encourage that.

Speaker 18 (50:30):
That would be great.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Okay. Will you go and have a wonderful day and
Merry Christmas to you.

Speaker 9 (50:35):
Merry Christmas to you too.

Speaker 14 (50:36):
By Christmas, Merry Christmas?

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Was it too early?

Speaker 5 (50:40):
It I'm not mad about it.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
Too early for you?

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Nicle, No, not Micall. I feel like you could say
that you.

Speaker 11 (50:46):
Know the answer to this question, all right.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
The girl, Oh no, I can't do it. I can't
do it right. I'll save my Merry Christmas is for
goodness at least.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
The hits that John wan Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Exporting Match over the weekend. A lot of great sporting
matches over the weekend, but big local derby between the
Auckland FC, the new team in the Australian League with
Football taking on the Phoenix from Wellington and the Auckland
f C the new kids on the block.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
One is from the area. Two nilt, two neilts, that's
three from just a dream start to the season.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
We had Nick Becker, who is the big boss of
the Auckland FC on the show last weekend heading into
the weekend and he joins us this morning, good morning Nick,
we're doing all right?

Speaker 1 (51:33):
How are you doing?

Speaker 10 (51:34):
I'm very well?

Speaker 1 (51:35):
Thank you very well, indeed well three from three Nick,
that you must be absolutely fizzing at the club.

Speaker 10 (51:40):
You know, we're starked.

Speaker 18 (51:41):
I mean, it's it's a it's a dream start. I
can't deny that.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Now a little bit of confidence going into it, because
there was a billboard at the Wellington Airport and the
electronic billboard that went up after the game explained that
one for anyone that hasn't seen it on social media.

Speaker 18 (51:56):
We've been sort of copying a bit of flat from
well and to reach out there, going a little bit low,
a little bit blown out. The entire week they'd been,
they had their hype man Patty obviously and everything, and
you know that they were relentless, and then you know,
playing to them, I think some of the stuff, you know,
maybe not as classes as we would have been, but anyway,

(52:17):
we don't have to we don't have to dwell on
the fat. So we thought, well, let's just touch something
away in the back pocket in case we need it,
and we came up. You know, they loved to shout
about Wellington. Don't welcome to Wellington. You can't be Wellington
on a great day data da daar, only can be
Wellerson great. And so we took the W out of
welcome to Wellington, and we took the W back up

(52:39):
to Auckland and so we had Welcome to Ellington on
the boards all around all out.

Speaker 10 (52:44):
We're pretty happy with that.

Speaker 18 (52:45):
We're pretty happy to be able to put that up.
After the game, there was a massive one just outside
the stadium, so the crowd listen. The crowd was fantastic.
I mean, hats off to all of the Wellington fans
for that. Hats off to our guys who came down
the port were massive and and they were saying and
were allowed through that whole match. But just as everybody
left the stadium, the first that they saw was enormous

(53:07):
billboard saying welcome to Allington.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
Which the w h TA seeing the text and be
like it's a go to go on the bellboard.

Speaker 10 (53:16):
I mean slightly.

Speaker 18 (53:18):
If it didn't go our way and it went up anyway,
I was like, oh no.

Speaker 11 (53:21):
That's.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Well now. We spoke to journalist Patrick Gower who wrote
a piece online calling the Auklans f C a fake
football club. We called him on Friday with you a.

Speaker 11 (53:36):
Semi fake football football club in New Zealand and.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
That these words.

Speaker 12 (53:48):
I want to I want to put it out to Paddy.
If it is three nil, fine will take that. But
if it isn't, I say, Paddy has to be in
the port at.

Speaker 6 (53:59):
In the poor off been the game in the port,
It's not going to happen. So I'll go one better.
I'll go one better next. Oh we're an awkn.

Speaker 13 (54:05):
Deft seat jump but you can even put my name
on the bank.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
So that was heading into the weekend. It was a
confident Petty Gower. We feel like today we should call
him though, right, what do you reckon?

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Nick?

Speaker 10 (54:19):
Say?

Speaker 18 (54:19):
That's a great idea.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
The okay, if he answers our call. Firstly, I'll be
avoiding the private number calls. What not answer? He's not
for the answering mate, Sorry.

Speaker 18 (54:40):
Now he's scared anyway, That's what I'm telling them. When
you speak to Petty, know that we we accept his
his humble apologies.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
And will you shot them tickets?

Speaker 18 (54:49):
So?

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Will you shot them tickets to the game? To Nick?

Speaker 18 (54:52):
You can pay for those.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
He's going.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Now he's gonna pay for tickets to go inside the port.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
Yeah, we're in business. We've got to turn a.

Speaker 18 (55:05):
Profit exactly, And let him know that it's selling really quickly.
It's going to be sold out.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
Click where do people get the tickets? Like Petty gow
where they jump.

Speaker 18 (55:15):
On they come straight onto website's congratulations.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
It has been incredible and it was so good to
see both teams, the Phoenix you know who in New
Zealand loves and the Auckland f C as well having
such a great game, great atmosphere, So well done and
we can't wait to chat to your.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
Say the hats that johnaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
As he mentioned before, it was a huge sporting weekend
with the Orbles winning the Key is narrowly losing to
Tongue and what felt like our home game. They're amazing
supporters the Tongue and supporters the Auckland f C. Beating
the Phoenix as well was another of the big games
of the weekends.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
And journalist Patrick Gower he wrote a piece on the
internet slamming the Auckland FC. We phoned him on Friday
with the boss of Auckland f C neck this is
what this is what gow I had.

Speaker 11 (55:57):
To say, Oh football club in New Zealand and that
is the BNXFC.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
So that was that was on Friday. I love the
passion though, I mean I love the past.

Speaker 5 (56:08):
Good yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
Now Patty Missus called just moments ago with Nick They
had away Joane. He said to cool.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Petty live on the airwaves on the Hats Breakfast, John O,
Ben and Megha, good morning.

Speaker 11 (56:21):
I thought you guys would be ringing and I know what,
I know what it's about. Yes, my big mouth got
me into trouble.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
Just to just to bring you back to Friday, Patty,
if I could play this.

Speaker 11 (56:30):
AUKANDFC is a semi fake football football club in New
Zealand and that is the BNXFC.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Those were those are your words?

Speaker 11 (56:39):
Oh I'm eating them right now. I'm literally eating them somewhere.

Speaker 5 (56:43):
The window has gone out of your sails a little bit.

Speaker 11 (56:46):
Well, it certainly is. I mean yeah, and aukand FC
have been all over my social media. They've been bombing
me on social media. They were chanting my name at
the pub before the game. I can't remem over the
exec champ, but it was something like Petty Gower as
a loser and.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
Something rhyming with banker. You're like, I'm not in the
banking institution.

Speaker 11 (57:09):
That's right, I'm not a banker.

Speaker 10 (57:11):
Ye did rhyme?

Speaker 11 (57:12):
It did rhyme a banker?

Speaker 10 (57:13):
I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 11 (57:14):
So yeah, no, yeah, I just thought since you go on.

Speaker 17 (57:19):
The line and I will actually make a apology. I
apologize to Auckland FC and the port and the Wonder
Book supporters. You were right, I was wrong, and this
is a wholesome and full time.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Well, good on your Patty and hey, like Ben said,
it's great to have the passion either way, this.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Is more games too. There's more games coming.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
Up the fat Yeah.

Speaker 11 (57:42):
Well there's actually two more games coming up for yes,
best of three.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
So the wage you had with next the boss of
walkingd f C was if if Aukland one, that you
would go to sit in the middle of the port
with their supporters and an Auckland personally signed Patty Gower
in their S shirt Patty Girl shirt.

Speaker 11 (58:05):
Yeah, sit in the port with an Aukland CE T
shirt on.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
That's the one.

Speaker 11 (58:10):
Phoenix and Phoenix to our diet. What don't you understand
about that