FULL SHOW: Did Megan Or Ben Get Out Of The Mariah Game At The Santa Parade?

ON THE SHOW TODAY:

• The funniest out to the Mariah game!
• The trick "guess my age" question...
• Bluey kicked us off stage!
• Our phone a friend NZ Herald FAIL
• We get a magician to help us with our party tricks!
• How Megan reinjured her hand...
• Dear Megan: I don't want to sound like I'm nagging but...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
With the John and Ben Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Cheers to Dilma making the world a better tea.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Hello, Welcome to the podcast on a Monday morning. We're
a big show today, including getting into the high drama
and a Mariah Carey game that we have going on
at the moment. We've been talking about this. You would
have heard it on the podcast. You just have to
see how long you can avoid listening to Mariah Carey's
All I Want for Christmas? So did you hear it
the other game?

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Yeah, you guys have done brilliantly well, exceptionally well.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hung in there over all weekend, as you'll hear at
the Santa Parade, the Farmer Santa Parade, which was peak Christmas,
Like that was peak Christmas? It was. It wasn't a wonderful,
wholesome event, isn't it? What was lovely?

Speaker 4 (00:39):
You know those floats they just they go and sit
in the shed for twelve months a year and they
come out one day of the year.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
And I always wanted to do and we we talked
about this before and it's probably a logistical nightmare, but
wouldn't it be cool one year for a small town
to win a smaller version But of the Farmer Santa Parade.
So we take them all. It'd probably have to be
driving distance from wherever. But you drive them through and
you have a small town, you have like a version
of the Center parade wouldn't be cool. Yeah, it's like

(01:05):
in my head, I'm like bringing like I didn't want
a small version. I want everything. I want the big
But I'm just going, hey, I'm not the person that
would have to organize it.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
The organizer Pam I was talking to, She's like, they
come with their own police, like a president with their
own police. Scored all the floats, they get police escorted
through the streets to the start of the parade. So
if you can organize a police escort to somewhere in
the South Island bin.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, it's basically who we do run into. There was
someone that her husband built. I was talking to a
lady w her husband built most of the floats.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
As well, which is fifty years But maybe we can
take maybe we take one.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Why don't we just hire a flatbeard truck.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
I'll drive the truck through down chucks and bloody kids
on the bank away the parade.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
I think most little towns kin'd of do that. Anyway.
The Rotary Club get down there and they do that.
I was just thinking bringing some of the big you know,
the big city, big city ideas, the small town New
Zealand schoburs resmets.

Speaker 5 (01:59):
I don't want it down here, mate to yourself.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
I enjoy the podcast, which starts with high drama and
now Mariah Carey Game. And now we've been playing a
fun little game. We've been banging on about it, and
so many people playing it as well, the Mariah Carey game,
seeing how long you can avoid Mariah Carey's all I
want for Christmas. As soon as you hear it, no
matter where you are in the shop, on social media,
you are out of the game. And people we're at

(02:24):
Santa Parade yesterday, people had signs I'm out. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
We thought you could do T shirts, couldn't you. Next year,
I'm thinking of next year already bigger and bitter. Next year,
have some merch reversible ones. I'm in the game and
then you flip it over. I'm out of the game,
you know.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Yeah, please don't play me Mariah.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah that's veraby better. Actually, yeah, that's good. We'll get
to that. Next year. We've got merch on the horizon.
Big we say that, you know, we'll see budgets. Mate.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
It's tight out there, right, But yesterday you two are
still in the game. I'm out, but you went into
the eye of the storm and the Center parade the
whole day.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
Ben's like, we're gonna get out, We're going to get out.
I was like, don't be Pi's a mistake.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, manifest it.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
We're still in.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
I was fully behind you, and so I wanted you
to survive the day. I came along with a full
open face helmet for you, Megan, very soundproof race helmet,
and then we get to tape the pillow around your head,
around your ears and put EMFs on top of the pillow.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I looked like I had a head injury or something.
You know, we look like you.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Hated Christmas, like I don't want to hear any of this.
And I looked like I was scared of falling off
the float.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
So we did that walking to the float. Then we're
on the float, We're like, hey, we just got to
take take this off because one we look stupid, and
then two because we you just got to roll with
that around the gauler.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
So we'll bring you some blow by blow coverage at
the Santa Parade US today. Did they make it through.
You'll find out in about twenty minutes time. But Friday, jeez,
that was an exciting day.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
We get a message in the afternoon group chat Maddie McLain,
who's playing the game as well. If we're a competitive
Maddie from Meddie and PJ. In the afternoon, he is
out of the game now.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
He Won's Celebrity Treasure Island, didn't he? And he said,
you know, afterwards, I was like, really, my competitiveness get
away on me on television.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
So he wants to win this game. And there's been
a listener, a fan of you know, like we're a
fan of hers. She said, Hey, I'm trying to get
Maddie out. I don't know why. Tasha is her name.
We spoke to her. She's I'm trying to get him out.
She'd set up burner accounts, she done all sorts of
stuff like that on Instagram. We're like, we love everything
about this. And on Friday she got through. She made

(04:23):
up a story for their phone, a topic. They're like, oh,
we'll get her on here. And then when she got
on here, she played all I Want for Christmas Now
we're beaped out the music, obviously because we're still in
the game and you probably are still in the game
as well. But it's the moment, Maddie. He took it well.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
Lea's go to Tasha on one hundred. What was your
claim to fame?

Speaker 1 (04:44):
You?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Okay? You are producers.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Here here we vitted that court. That wasn't I've just
pulled her down. That wasn't planned.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
She told a great story about her claim to fame.
The mains are popping in the video.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
It's hilarious, like he was all sorts of names of
being thrown out and PJ had to remind him, Hey,
it's a forty year old.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
It's a fun game, it's a Christmas game, and it
doesn't block her block her from the blocker. I know
it's about late for KII back news the yinder of
the Year, but I think we should put her up
for it next year. That's such a great.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
You okay.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Forty.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
On Friday afternoon, I get a text from any which
I can't even read out.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
On a few it's a fourteen year old girl. It's okay,
no price at all, there's nothing I mean competitive money
for charity. Great, he just wants to win. Winning is
enough for him. The glory is enough.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
The hits that jonaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Trying to avoid listening and Meghan, you and I well.
As of the weekend, it was still on the game,
the Mariah Carey game. So many people messaging through as
well playing the game, either letting us know they're still
in or still out. Someone got caught five of them.
Family trip away Overseas Singapore, Judy Free Shop, No.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
That'll get yours over the weekend, Shangy Airport, the Great Airports,
Chaney Great Airport. Yeah, tell you what you go to
mini Airport anyway. I won't get a cheney hole there.
It was just a great airport. But obviously playing Mariah
Carey on full blast. All I want for Christmas the
game is to try and avoid hearing it for as
long as possible.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
And Megan and Ben.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, still in the game. Some very impressive considering Maddie
McLain was sabotaged on Friday out of the Gate the Tash.
She's been trying to get him for some reason. She's
made a Ben ditter against him, phoned up on an
unrelated topic and then just started blasting the song down
down the phone line to Maddie and here was as

(06:54):
you we're going to get some mileage out of that day.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Just a rah, no measured response, right, no prize, no glory. Meghan,
yourself and I. You know, we had to go as
part of the Hits team. We're on the float for
the Santa Parade, the Farmer's Santa Parade with so many people,
so many floats, and also had to host the after party.
So we knew we were walking into the hotbed of
Christmas yesterday.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah. Now, because there was a debate last week about
what songs should be on the float. It was going
to be all I Want for Christmas on the Hits float,
and the.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Bosses here were like, well, you're going to the sand Parade,
you're going to hear it.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
And yeah, they put on Riah's the float.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
But we got it changed, got it changed to Bruce Springsteen,
Santa Claus is coming to town.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
I just recorded. Sheez. We had this blasting. This was
like ear bleedingly loud.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Listen. It was just pounding into people's faces as the
float was coming past.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
You know, it's loud and you can feel it in
your body.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, yeah, people waving back to it's all great people
filming and waiting us. You're like, this is great. Who's
gonna watch this back? I don't know.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Beats behind me? Guyings hours of footage.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Watch it was so wholesome, it was so lovely to
belaning faces, every getting into what it was great.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
And here is a bit of a montage. Did Ben
and Meghan get caught out?

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Have a listen all right? Pre parade?

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Meghan has a safety helmet, a full place safety helmet
on her head.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
I look like I'm scared of falling off very safety first,
and I've defit.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Take a pillow around.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
Ben's head and ears, and he's got ear muffs over
the top.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Of that pillow. I'm vaguely hear a little bit of
what you're saying, and it looks like I think it
looks like I hate Christmas guys. Everyone's like, what's up
with that guy? He looks like a Grench. You are't
getting many looks.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
It looks like you're scared of loud noises, and then
he could bite at any moment if he's frightened.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
I think I'm just going to run the gauntlet, I think, Megan, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
We're just gonna do it. It's happen.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
We're gonna shunned it on the float.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
The float beside us just started and thank god, is
not Mariah.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
It's almost Carnie like, isn't it said down?

Speaker 1 (08:59):
We're here with many.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
McLain, who is savagely eliminated, viagely from the competition on Friday.
You must feel like there's a blade lifted off your shoulders.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
Well, as a man who loves Mariah as much as
I do, the fact that I can do this fault
parade unencumbered by the fear of hearing her is very,
very liberator.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
I feel gray, You're me John a week. We're free,
We're free. It kind of feels good.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
Are you anxious?

Speaker 5 (09:24):
Horribly anxious? Every time I hear a tune, I'm.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Like, what is that? Your music has started in the parade.
Other floats Christmas songs, not Mariah so far just got
off the float and we have not heard Mariah Carey's
all for Christmas Ship.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
I really thought someone was going to be holding up
the speaker. Did happen?

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Art one done? Gotta go to the after party. We vegan.
We're at the after party. The state parades. The chance
is going on Christmas shops.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
They've still got another couple of songs to do.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Are we gonna hear Mariah Carey? Hey, we did not
hear Mariah Carey's all I Want for Christmas. We are
walking back from the Santa Parade rat pass some shops.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
But thank god we changed that song.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
We're still the game. We're still daughter.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
It's almost a sim So there you go. You made
it through.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
No take two. I don't we're selling the game.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
The heads that jonaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Love love chatting to people. Used to they got to
chat to a few people.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
And Avengers look at each other late.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, I found myself in some interesting conversations. Used to
at the Center parade. Hundreds hundreds of thousands of people
I could talk to, you know, so many conversations. You
really do meet some interesting.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Characters, don't you. At events? Like they probably go away
saying the same thing about you.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
It's like the most endearing quality about you, but it's
also forbid.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
And one of the most annoying.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, and I'm sure.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
And you love talking to people, and it's very sweet.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
You met this lovely lady Sally.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Now Sally, I don't know how we got here, but
She chucks out quite early in the piece, how old
do you think I am? Terrifying question, terrifying questions? Undershoot it, yeah, yeah,
because you never want to offend them. And it's such
a balance, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
And so I did. I did that thing. I started.
I was like sixteen. She sat a way.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, She's like, you take the piss an adult, right,
she's a fully grown adult, and then slowly work up
and you're like, oh, twenty one. She's like, no, twenty two, No,
I'm not. This is going to take ages. And then
I leapt up to thirty. She's like no, and I'm
like higher or low, and she's like higher and I'm
like thirty one.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
No.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Eventually we got there thirty four all right, and you
saw selling. Yeah, she asked me, how old do you
think I am?

Speaker 5 (11:43):
Did you just go thirty four?

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Should exit?

Speaker 8 (11:45):
No?

Speaker 3 (11:46):
I went twenty one and I was like, she's like
higher and I.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
Was like she comes to me and I'm like, Sally,
you're thirty four, kind of.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Like, oh, I can't get I can't get it. You
tell me she can't.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah, it's a good game to play with people that
if you didn't know our ages.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Megan, what gisskiss? I've just come in. I'm like, giess my,
it's hard to tell that. It's like even I realize
everyone gets to a certain age, and then you just
kind of feel like it could be some people could
be in the twenties, some people with the thirties. Some
people can be thirties and their forties.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
And am I going by your like demeanor and you're
like the way you tot around and get.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Lost or just lost, just I've just walled in the room.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Okay, Megan, hell you get how old do you think?
I am? Forty high?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
The He's that jonaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Along till Christmas. Now we're really getting into the Christmas
spirits is the shops and malls and everywhere around the country.
It was the Farmers sandsa parade yesterday, just an amazing turnout,
just so incredible, so many people, hundreds, felt like one
hundred thousand people that was without a word of lie,
just on the streets, everyone waving, having such a great time.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
So you got to smiles and you're like, this is
what it's all about.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
That's why I love Christmas. Nothing beats the feeling that
Christmas brings.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
The people filming us. We're one of the floats. I'm like,
I keep saying to a mega, no one's going to
be watching watch this footage. But it was great. I
mean other stuff. I mean there was some big bangers
in there. You know, there was Bluey, there was Santa,
there was all sorts of people as part of the
Santa Parade. You know, the big balloons incredible as well.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
I just honestly find it the most interesting exercise a parade.
You know, it's basically just a traffic jam. Everyone's really
happy about. Yeah, but you're like moving into five kilometers
an hour and these people are probably one and a
half two meters away from you on the side of
the footpath. You're waving at the en. This is a

(13:44):
very strange interaction. We're heaving here, Hello, Hello. On any
other day, that wouldn't happen on any other day.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
They're well quite worried about hearing the Mariah Carey all
I want for Christmas song. Because we're still onto the game.
We'll find out after eight o'clock this morning if we're stilen.
But we need to talk about a couple of things
that happened in Centsus after party. I know we talk
about after parties and that's where things take a turn
and nothing good happens after midnight.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Well it turns out nothing good happens after two o'clock
in the afternoon.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Because we got to host, you know, which is a
great order, the Farmer Santa Parade after party. There's a
whole lot of great acts that come on stage in
the area. There's lots of great stalls and activities, and
it's a really fun thing to do after afterwards. But
you know, firstly, we had a bit of a scandal
with Blue, Blue, the lovable dog that we all love

(14:32):
as well. We're introducing the big headline acts with Blue.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
They'd come out and you know, hundreds and hundreds of
kids frothing to see Blue.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Like chanting and cheering, and.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
It's quite a turn around from the parade and getting
everything done. And so we're about to introduce Blue and
I hear side of stage, Bluey it's not ready yet.
So I'm like, Okay, we're going to need to keep
filling as MC's we're going to need to keep filling
the three of us. See, we're getting the crowd frothed up.
They're chanting Blue Louie.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
But they're getting to the point where them like we've
seid Bluey on repeat so many times, they're fading out
of enthusiasm and once.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
You've gone to like a full on chant, what's next.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
We felled, we felt and then I looked to the
side as well, and I was like, oh God, I
can see Bully come out with this. You had a
whole lot of people. There's Bluey, there's Bengo, They're all there,
and I'm like, great that we can see were walking up.
Now we can please welcome Bluey and then all like
they stopped and oh they've stopped. What's going on?

Speaker 4 (15:25):
And then being a miror on stage, Meg and you've
disappeared from the stage.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
At this point, I saw Bluey's people at the side
doing the nick thing and I thought like, hand over
the nick and I was like what are they are?
They meaning Bluey like not rooting, So I was like,
we're caring on for a bit and then I was
like what are you saying?

Speaker 5 (15:41):
And They're like you need to get off the stage.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, because Blowe had a big intro with music which
we didn't know, and then in the end we got
Blowy onside of stage, telling us to get the little
arms waving off like YouTube off.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
We got a routine and the micro front ended up
like can you get off the stage please?

Speaker 3 (16:02):
So finally got off forgot bloomy there and that was great,
and then we're all a bit worrying what the wristle
was from our promo team about a T shirt gun,
you know, high velocity T shirt gun. We're gonna fire
out some socks and T shirts and we're like, who
wants to fire it off?

Speaker 5 (16:15):
Not like a whole like gas get scary.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
I was about TENI three hundred PSI. I don't even
know what PSI is. And then someone's like, oh, John,
I will do it, so you've got the safety thing.
You are there, all okay. Briefing comes out on stage
and then he noticed someone dresses a grinch. Not part
of it. Was still a great job the grunch. Don't
get me wrong, it's very entertaining, but I don't think
it was any official part of that. And you're like,
let's get the grunch up on stage. And Megan's like,

(16:38):
why why is he doing this? What is going on?
And you did you got any increditation? No grinch.

Speaker 9 (16:45):
We had to get Grinch past security finally got him
up on stage. They went against the bit of judgment
and let him through. And then you're like, let's get
the Grinch to fire the T shirt gun. All the
health and safety worrying about people in the audience and
you don't got the safety.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
And then he's doing a little routine answering around. He's
waving the gun around in our face. Is going to
go horrible.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
The clipboard in front of my face.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
I was crouched down, and then the Grinch decided to
do a trick shot.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
This is going to be a story. I was like,
the Grinch is going to fire the Grinch the gun.
I don't know. I just got twice though, twice and
I give it back to you and you're like, let's
get the rest to them again. We'll we'll crank.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
It up literally like no, John, Yeah, I mean afterwards,
I was like, there was a high chance he's going
to fire a high velocity T shirt in the kid's face.

Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yes, I realized that after Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
I know.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
Thankfully the Grinch he came through, did come real showman
came through.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
But jesezu it was a hairy moment.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
The hits that Johnaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
It's time to start the day like we like to
do with the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Now, remember Friday we ended the week on a ten
out of ten.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Last week we clocked it.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
Still still sitting in the crop dust of that magnificent wind.
So feeling confident, although producing rally the quiz queens is
a little bit difficult this morning.

Speaker 10 (17:58):
A couple of them.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah that on a Monday, true to the week.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
New Zealand Hero Daily Quiz dot co dot indeed.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, Okay, here we go the first question and today's
New Zealand Hero Quiz.

Speaker 10 (18:09):
All right, what element is commonly used in the filaments
of light bulbs? Is it aluminium, copper or tungsten?

Speaker 2 (18:18):
It's usually like a copper color A but I don't
know if alum.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
As soon as you mentioned elements, you lost me.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah, he lost me, which is a Grace loves his
science stuff. You do, come and producer Grace, you can
help us out here, just like Bill Ney, the science
guy and.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
Unique for a twenty two year old girl. Yeah, twenty
three year old girl.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
Producer Grace, you have any idea?

Speaker 5 (18:44):
What were the elements?

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Were you not listening to the show.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
Aluminum.

Speaker 10 (18:49):
Copper or tungsten is the element common commonly used in
the filaments of light bulbs.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
I was thinking copper.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
What's a filament that we're getting lost? There are little
copper wires, aren't they.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
It's the little wires that like the copper.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Okay, yeah, okay, put it on. Put it is very confident,
very confident.

Speaker 11 (19:12):
That's incorrect because I've heard about but I was I
wasn't confident enough to do it.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Yeah, I'm not allowed to play. It's just you, but
you want to play.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
But I wasn't confident enough. I have heard the terms
and yeah whatever. That's ever.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
I come in with any confidence, blind confidence, and I
don't know the answer.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Please stop me. Sometimes you do know the answer already
come in this same it's hard to tell whether you're
actually no bluffing or not. Well, there we go. That
was That was tough. Out of interest. What was the
next question?

Speaker 10 (19:54):
The next question was what is the most spoken language
in the world by the number of native speakers?

Speaker 4 (19:59):
Mandarin's handy.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Very confident once again. This is his confidence again, it's
I stop him, stop him? This a stop me situation.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
I mean maybe a little bit of.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
It's so confident too.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
You know.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
That is correct, So we would have got out there too.
So there was a shocking start of the week. Apology
the Hits.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
That johna wan Ben podcast party track.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah hit a Christmas party season. We want to wow
the officers of Vault with our party trick, don't we end?
A lot of people phoning through. A guy can blow
smoke out of his ear hole in his ear drum.
A lady who can do backflips too, black flips and
backflips in a row. The double jointed people as well,
some very talented people out there.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Lady can do a car and alarm noise. It's pretty precient.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yeah, so you want to enlist the help of a
professional here. Now we're going to go through to an
Australian musician. Musician, magician, be a musicianist here be multitasking Constantino.
Hope you allow answer his phone.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
He's in the country at the moment.

Speaker 8 (21:08):
Hello, it's Coss speaking.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Oh hey, Coo, it's it's John, o, Bin and Meghan
from the Hits radio session in New Zealand. How's it going?

Speaker 8 (21:15):
I'm good? How are you going?

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Look? You know we've we've been lucky enough to have
you on our show a couple of times over the years.
You're amazing. You're in New Zealand right now, christ Church
this week in I'm getting all the tour details in Duneda,
well exend, New Plymouth, Auckland.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
Yeah, you're buttering them up with this too, exactly.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, got to your website for more information as well.
I'm pretty sure he knows us to details, you know,
just trying to get it across because we have a
wee bit of a favor to ask you. Yes, what's that? Well,
you see, it was at a party the other night.
Someone was doing a wonderful card treker, like a party track.
Everyone was crowded around. They were the life of the party.
It was great, but I had a real sense of

(21:56):
jealousy that I wasn't that life of the party. He
wasn't the main care And I can't do a party
trick and John, I can't do a party trick either, Meghan,
you can do one with.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
A cheery tied, cheery stort with my tongue. That's about it.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
It's a seasonal don't act and press. You've got to
do it in season though, Like if there's no cheery's
around you can't do it. It's not twelve months of
the year track, so it was seasonal. So we wanted
to know, is there any chance you could, because we
know you're amazing at tracks, teach us something that we
could maybe display at parties at party trick.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Of course, of course, I love you, guys, I do.

Speaker 8 (22:30):
I do, And we go back a long way. I
would I would love to be able to show you
a trick. Yeah, I mean I'm here, I'm in New Zealand,
so I mean I can come in. I can come
in afternoon and show you, guys. You know, I'll do.
I can perform it for you. You can see if
you like the trick, and if you like it, then
I'll teach you the secret, the method to the trick.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
We know.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
I feel like we've just really put you on the
spot here. Have you got a trick that you could
teach absolute mbeciles.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah, I do, I do.

Speaker 8 (22:57):
I do it, and look, we can do it in
a different way, so of woids. I'll just show the
method and then you guys can figure out the best
way to do it, like together to perform it, so
you're not a problem at all.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
I love it, how he didn't debate that we were.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
I guess he's made us many times over the years,
and he knows that. What was the first trick that
you ever learned?

Speaker 8 (23:15):
I learned to vanish a coin. Not very impressive, because
all kids can make money disappear, right.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
I do have that party trek. Actually, I'm very.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Good at that. There you go, there you go.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
She's got depleting a credit card online.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
What's what's on the track? What's a trick? How we
going to potentially learn is to deal with cards? Coins?

Speaker 5 (23:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (23:34):
I know, I think cards because it's very easy to
bring a packet of playing cards, or you can just
borrow a packet of playing cards, whatever it might be.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
All right, well, do you want to see a magic trick?

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (23:45):
I do.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Okay, goodbye. Oh it's disappeared.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
He's he's gone. Hold on, hold on, behold on, hold on.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
I'll make it disappear again. He's God.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
If he doesn't that, I hang up sort of noise
and he's back, causey oh wow.

Speaker 8 (24:02):
Well you know, with that kind of magic, you don't
even need me.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Well, we look forward to seeing you this afternoon, and
don't forget you can't see you Castino as he heads
around the country and his greatest hits tour christ Church
this weekend. Duneed in Wellington, New Plymouth and Auckland. Can't
wait to catch up and earn our tracks.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
That John and Ben podcast Again.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
We need to talk about your arm because you come
in to work today. You had surgery on your arm
a little bit a couple of weeks ago, and now
you're back in some sort of caste bandage, su.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
Strapped rest brace.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:35):
So yesterday we had a big day.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
We did the sand parade and everything, and at the
end of the day I went out for dinner with
my best friend for her birthday today, Happy birthday, Ali, Happy.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Birth Early Hell's Eli. Let's try and guess e twenty one.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
And so we actually went to my favorite restaurant. And
this is nothing against the restaurant, but if you know Lillian,
she's a cute We place always full of people, it's
always busy, and so we turned up yesterday.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
It was packed. It was packed, but we made a
reservation so there was a table for us.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
It was.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
Right when I walked in the door. There is a
little step.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Down, not in trying of a packed restaurant.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
Please, this place is like like it's there's you know,
people are dressed nice.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
This is your sort of place.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
It's not pumping with music, like there's not a lot happening,
just people talking. And I missed the step down, Oh no,
and I fell flat. I fell flat on your face,
like the only thing that I had my handbag on
my phone in one hand, in my good hand right,

(25:49):
and I fell flat on my face and had my
bad hand take my phone. And you should have heard
the thud, like was it wasn't even like it was
like a bang. The whole restaurant when quiet, like we're quiet.
And I put my head down and I looked down,
and I was thinking that did not did not? I

(26:12):
looked up and I was like, it would have been
better if people laughed.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, but did you get anyone to silence? Nothing?

Speaker 5 (26:20):
It was almost like everyone was like, is the old duckle?

Speaker 3 (26:24):
She said, a fool? Just crawl out of the restaurant situation.

Speaker 5 (26:27):
Isn't it like everyone was steering? So I just looked
up and I was like, am I? Am I?

Speaker 3 (26:33):
And so you regathered? You had dinner there.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
I wasn't so much pain. We had dinner. I was
so embarrassed, but do you know what?

Speaker 2 (26:39):
A couple of people had tripped as well, just like
like little little like oops to daisy, but no one
fell flat on their face.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
And now you're back in then like a pretty intense
really do you know?

Speaker 2 (26:50):
And I've like reopened the little cut from the surgery,
like split it open. Yeah, I need to pretend it
didn't hurt.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, that's the worse than too And I wasn't so much.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
He fell down five five flights of steers in.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Front of peoples. And then I got up and rerecculus.
I saw my drinks and food and it was okay,
and I was like great, and then I wake to
step again and slip down the next lot. It was
like out of a sitcom. And it was like and
then my wife's like just keep walking, you know. I
was embarrassed. We're just going to leave seats are there?
We never came back to the Into.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Me Now the hEDS that John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, throw it out to the text machine. I'll tell
you what a lot of feedback. Have we gone too early? Yeah,
it's not even December. Too early for Christmas songs? Gone
too early?

Speaker 4 (27:36):
Guys, definitely gone too early. Hey, team, you've gone too early.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, all the texts pretty much said we've gone too early. Megan.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
You're saying it is the twenty fifth of November, it
is one month until Christmas.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
That's a really good point you raised there, like we're
factoring in the end of November. But yeah, when you're
like a month's worse of Christmas songs, that's that's palatable.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
Yeah, how come the supermarkets are relied to but we're not.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
I've gone early, they go I reckon. I would say
decend with the.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
First past and Neil's text Neil text in to say
you can't have gone early on Christmas when you were
at the Santa Parade yesterday.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
Oh good, great points, sill start line by any all
these texts of the coming in. No one's answering the phone,
No one wants to stand by it, No no wants
to stand by the communis.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Let's do this mean welcome to de Meghan.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Now someone's slid into your DMS again, Megan.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
This is an interesting one and.

Speaker 5 (28:26):
Fitting for this time of the year.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Someone writes, Dear Meghan, I'm part of a community group
that I really enjoy, saying fun events, shared hobbies and a.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
Good group vibe. But there is a catch.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
I've somehow ended up as the go to person for
organizing everything that happens.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yeah, it does.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Everyone seems happy to join in and have fun, but
when it comes to helping out, they suddenly disappear. I'm
starting to feel like I'm doing all the work while
everyone else.

Speaker 5 (28:52):
Reaps the benefits.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
How do I get the group to help me without
sounding like I'm nagging or ruining the fun?

Speaker 3 (28:59):
Well, well here's my solution.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
A text message to the group check going, Oh you
lazy bozos, I'm doing literally everything here.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
Help please? Would you do that?

Speaker 7 (29:09):
Though?

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Like?

Speaker 5 (29:17):
OI, do you guys want to help me out this year?
Otherwise I'm just gonna pull pen and I'm not going
to do it.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
I really appreciate those Those people are the lifeblood of
the community.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
People who are like they will get in there and
they'll organized stuff.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
You notice when when you could school me in these days,
there are those very special people. I'm not one of
them that will really they'll get those fundraisers going. All
I can offer is, I tell you what the lifeblood
of a radio host at a schoolers They're pretty happy
to have you there in the beginning because oh, we've
got someone who can you know, hock off raffles at
a fear in a microphone. Then the novelty wears off

(29:48):
about year two or three, all right, yeah, and then
by the end of your five year cycle, no one
wants to hear from you. So when you start at
a new school, they're not the excitements there again for
the first couple of years.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, yeah, but there is always one person that ends
up doing majority of the work.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, I'd definitely be one of the people that's like, oh,
I'm keeping them along, but yeah, are no good at
organizing stuff like that?

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Are you?

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Are you one of these people?

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Are you helping out in the PDA, Mate, I'm not. No,
I'm not PTA. I'm not joining the PTA and stuff,
but I do yeah, I do like vibe. Yeah, particularly
at home. I do feel like I do ninety nine
percent of the organizing. That's my thing.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
And maybe you maybe think that's because they don't want
to do all the activity.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, probably, Yeah, that's probably it as well. So I
guess I get where this person's coming from. Yeah, in
a lot of ways, but it is hard.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
But then also the personality traits of these people are
they they have to do it because they can't trust
anyone else.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah, you're right, sometimes that might be the case.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Also, I get the vibe that they're too nice to
say anything, whereas I would just be.

Speaker 5 (30:47):
Like, just help me out.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Yeah, okay, are you one of these people? Are you
in this position? Are you organizing everything in the group,
the social group, the school group, whatever group. It is
the work God's work, and no one else is helping you.
What's your advice? How can she get people to help her?

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Maybe make some sort of spreadsheet. Maybe, but he loves
a spreadshee. I love a spreadsheet and specially have a spreadsheet.
But then, hey, I've just allocated some things where you
put your name next to some things you can help
me out with.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
Ben does organize this show founder Do you know?

Speaker 3 (31:20):
One year in December he sent me a to do
list for the following years, all the stuff we need
to do, beg able to do list.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
The hits that John and Ben podcast again in.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
The middle of today's their Meghan the Dilemma post to you, Meghan, So.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
This person is part of a community group that they
really enjoy. So they're organizing all the hobbies and events
and things that they do. There's a good group vibe,
but everyone seems happy to join in and have fun,
but when it comes to helping out, they disappear. So
they want to know how do they get the group
to help them out without sounding like they're nagging or
ruining the fun.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
Yeah, made a rod for their own back? Really, haven't
they laid the foundations?

Speaker 3 (31:58):
What your your fame? Saying that?

Speaker 4 (32:00):
When I first meet you, you said, don't get good
at something you.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Don't want to good at what you don't want to do. Yeah,
I'm gonna put that on your tombstone.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
Thank you. I live my life.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Who's kidding?

Speaker 4 (32:09):
You're definitely not dying before me, But don't get good
as something you don't want to do. And then this
is what this lady has obviously done.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
And like people probably think she's happy to do it.
I think she should just front for it and be like, hey,
I need some.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
Mout mind she's volunteering, which just walk off the job, Warren,
what's your advice?

Speaker 1 (32:29):
So do a pre.

Speaker 12 (32:31):
Christmas center secret center, get them more to put their
names in with a number, then pull one out and
go it's what you're doing the event?

Speaker 3 (32:39):
Oh nice? Lure them in.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
And assigned jobs to around. They'll be like, this is
the worst secret standard name handout in history.

Speaker 12 (32:49):
Yeah, they think they're getting something out of it, and
yeah they're getting a.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
Tough Are you a helper, Warren? Are you a volunteer?

Speaker 12 (32:56):
I normally organize most things, but I write.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
People in to help me, right, So that's your trick.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
You got you do because people don't want to help.
They don't I'm a people and I don't like help.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
I don't want to do when that sounds like work
and reaping the rewards sounds like fun.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
The rewards without help, I feel like you haven't contributed to.

Speaker 5 (33:15):
Yeah, but if someone, if someone asked me, I would help.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah, but you could offer too, but I'm not going to.
You need to be asked and then you'll help. That's
the thing.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Yeah, But you do create like a whole other, full
time job for yourself, don't you warrant?

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Like what are you organizing at the moment.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
I've got house renos on, I've got projects on, I've
got family arriving from overseas.

Speaker 12 (33:37):
So kind of just plan and then there's work.

Speaker 8 (33:40):
Yeah, so you just plan your plan things and then
see who's available and wrote them.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
You and b need to have a ship spreadsheet. You
guys to be getting stuff done exactly.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
I appreciate you. Cool worn and on the text machine
while they're saying, there's.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
A great taxs here that says you need to delegate
and be specific please help allows people to ignore the request,
but giving specific jobs it's better.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
That's a good tip.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
Yeah, can tell them I just need you to do
this and then like to me, if someone said that
to me, I'd do it.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
I specifically don't want to do this.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Hey, good on your thank you so much your calls
and text so it's in favor of And what's the
final advice speaking up?

Speaker 5 (34:15):
Delegate and ask for help or just pull the pen
you don't.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah to do it, get on with your life. The
heads that johnaan Ben podcast and I've been trying to
avoid Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas, as many
of you have been doing as well with our Christmas game.
It's a fun game to play. You can start right now.
It's fine, just see how long you can last. Try
not to hear Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
Now you, Megan and Maddy McLain the only three staff
still in the game, and Maddie McLain fiercely competitive Friday
afternoon drama. High fuel drama is Tash, who's made it
her life mission to get Meddie out of this game.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
For some reason, love this, This is the radio moment
of the year. He keeps going, what have I done
to this woman?

Speaker 4 (34:55):
So Tash to set up fake burner accounts on social media,
trying to lure Meddie in with the you know videos
that had That is the soundtrack. She clever plan on Friday,
phoned up on an unrelated matter, made up a story,
a fun radio story. Then as soon as she got
on air, Boom blasts Mariah down the phone. Now this
is censored for those still in the game.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
Plea's got to Tasha one hundred?

Speaker 3 (35:18):
What was your claim to fame?

Speaker 1 (35:20):
You?

Speaker 5 (35:20):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (35:23):
You can we pause it.

Speaker 5 (35:28):
Sarah here we vited that.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
I was just going to say, produce a Siah is
my favorite. But as she comes on and very flustered,
also with Maddie's rage, go, oh god, I'm going to
have to deal with the fallout of this.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
That his rage is not faked.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
What he's like So siahs and Panic Mode producer panic mode. Yeah,
it wasn't. I've just pulled her down.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
That wasn't planned.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
She told a great story about her claim to fame,
about a.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
Clime to fame.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
She told a great song as a leg Did we
love it? We love it so much? Okay. We wanted
to get hold of Tash to hook her up for
her price, because whatever reason, she's eliminated our strongest competitor
from the game.

Speaker 5 (36:09):
And where does it come for me? Is she come
for you?

Speaker 13 (36:12):
For me?

Speaker 3 (36:12):
Yet? Maybe she'll turn out to teaching. Ask that's fine,
that's fine too. Ever happens.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
It happened, So you're darned as Tash. Now, Donna, you
were listening to this in real time?

Speaker 3 (36:20):
How was it for you?

Speaker 12 (36:22):
I was half asleep on the couch having a cat
net and just kind of made it out in my
half dazed sleeping effort. And then my daughter. I didn't
really know if I'd heard it or not, and my
daughter came and said it, and I went, oh, my gosh, yes.

Speaker 7 (36:40):
I did.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
It's meant to be a safe space, wasn't it. That's yes.

Speaker 12 (36:44):
Absolutely didn't expect to hear it.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
And you, okay, I hope your reaction was a little
bit more reasonable than made mclades.

Speaker 5 (36:53):
Being woken up to that would have been.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
A breached that you play the game. It's a lot
of fun. We've decided we need to do this annually.
We're still going on, you know. Yeah, we're talking.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
We're talking upgrading it to merch next year. We're talking
a live concert from Mariah carry a weig plans for
this game. Now three weeks, you guys have been going
that's pretty good. That's really aggressive, actually, Donna.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Because like Maddie was like hard into it, but I'm
I keep forgetting that I'm even playing.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
You go to the mall and I'm like, oh, what
am I doing here? But it's so far, so good.

Speaker 12 (37:24):
Yeah, well, I'm quite lucky because I live in Nelson,
so we don't really have any malls here, and whenever
we do SCO shopping, I've seen the kids.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Then yeah, that's a good plan. Yeah, well we'll be back, Donna.
You'll be back next.

Speaker 12 (37:38):
Year, Yes, definitely, And I.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Would love you to let let us know if you're
in all you out. We'll continue on this week and
when everyone's out of the game, we'll play Mariah Carey.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
But next the hits that johna Wan Ben Podcast CJ.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Snake Justin Bieber at seven twenty nine on your Monday
morning they're all black Satter win over the weekend. It
was a bit of a missy game that one, but
they won against Italy and the Auckland f C.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
I love you they still won and were like they
didn't win game.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Yeah, what's a bit of a missy game. I don't
think that we're particularly heavy with our of course, Scott
Roberson now even he resorted to a vape on the sidelines,
just half on a vape halftime.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Great that they won, but you know, stressed outres I
love a stressed our vaping coach.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
And then the auaklyand you were saying, yeah they had
their fourth won four once from four games, which is
just an incredible start to their A league.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
Did we figure out so no one's even scored a
goal against.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
That against them, Yeah, and the four games they're played,
the competition games, someone scored a goal but they overturned
the goal. Yeah, so you couldn't get you couldn't.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
Script a bit of stuff for a club. Now on
Friday we learned that, well, Ben, you don't have a
party trick. I don't have a party trick, Megan, you
have something that you can do which is very impressive.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
Yeah, tire cherry stalk with my tongue.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
That's a great.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
When you watch it, you're like, this isn't gonna how
is this going to happen? But she manages to do it.
Your issue is it's a seasonal trick.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Yeah. Yeah, it works well when these cherries on hand.

Speaker 5 (39:10):
It's good at Christmas party time because cherries are at Christmas.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
It seems probably you were okay for a party trick
of sorts, but we thought, well, maybe be an eyewitnessed
someone doing a magic trick the other night and I
was like, oh that was really cool and everyone crowded
around pulled it off. Magic trick. I was like, that's
a great party trick.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
Yeah, So what we want to We want to learn
a party trick. The show party trick. You guys phone
through with a few on Friday.

Speaker 8 (39:31):
Friday morning, I'm.

Speaker 12 (39:33):
Double jointed in my fingers and my son is also
double jointed in his thumb.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
So we do that together.

Speaker 12 (39:41):
But then my other children to make clovers with their tongues.
I do animal impersonations, oh chicken. I do a handstand
while drinking a beer.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Well that's good handstand beer.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
Yeah. Now, if you ever wondered if so she bring
back to New Zealand got talent, I think that's proof
right there.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yes, we do exactly, We still have talent.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
So I went under the hits. Watch your party trick.
We're going to try and learn one ahead of Christmas
party season?

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Is it Jeff?

Speaker 4 (40:11):
Is it?

Speaker 12 (40:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (40:13):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Jeff?

Speaker 7 (40:16):
It's a great day up here in Northland, beautiful.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Jeff sounds like he's got some stories to tell. Now
what you do a party trick with your ear?

Speaker 8 (40:23):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Jeff?

Speaker 7 (40:26):
First?

Speaker 13 (40:26):
My ear?

Speaker 7 (40:26):
John in the in the early eighties, when I was
at UNI and I was compensating, one day I noticed
a pressure I could would come out my ear. So
after that it was just a small step to fill
my lungs with smoke, hold my nose and push push
here out my smoke out my ear.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
Put smoke at years Wow.

Speaker 7 (40:45):
Yeah, yeah, I can't anymore because the hear is fixed up.
But there's a lot of fun. When I was out
down on Parmi in the.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
Eighties, Pami in the eighties sounds like a fun time,
So you would inhale cigarettes, smoke and then somewhat hold
your mouth shut and kind of put pressure in your
ears and it would come out.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
Yeah, hold your nose, bock your nose really tight with
your fingers and then you know, when you compensate when
you're diving, you build up the pressure, try and push
the ear out. Yep, and they're coming out my ear.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Well, okay, then we go. All we need to do
is burst an the ear drum and one of us
can have that party check. Ah. I appreciate your call
this morning.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
The hits that jonaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
The movie Wicked, which yeah, as you said, John Omeghan
and myself will be banging on about. It's in cinemas
right now. It's the story of the Wicked Witch from
the Wizard of Oz before Dorothy arrived in Ius as
a Broadway musical, one of the most successful of all time.
They've turned it into a movie. And here's some of
the trailer.

Speaker 13 (41:38):
You agree, welcome new students to She's University, Miss Alphama,
you can room with Miss galind don't be afraid.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
I'm not afraid.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
So he's got Ariana Grande And who's the other wonderful
lector Cynthia Arriva.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
And she's getting high prey.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
Yeah of them absolutely killed it.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
Both are incredible. But what really amazes me about, you know,
movies like this, you know, like and technology. We've got
such amazing technology these days, and you just watch something
you're like, oh, that would be AI or that would
be cgi special fix for Yeah. And there was obviously
parts of it that is, but reading this morning, they
op'tening scenes and there's all the tulips. You know, there's

(42:21):
fields and fields of tulips. Okay, clearly this is all
I know. The director was like, I want tulips planted
and is in England and nine million of them? Nine million?
She was like, a wild we could do it. That's
what I'm like. I'm like, surely this has.

Speaker 5 (42:38):
Got to be a the ones close to you, but
like if they were far away.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
I'm like, yeah, exactly, and poor soul I had to
plant nine million sulips.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Yeah. Like the guy who was the production designer was like,
the directors like a need color, I want a rainbow.
Let's go find a tulip farmer like oh, okay, so
there and just out of England they planted nine million.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
If they built well, they built the university, every train
and as well. Yeah, it's everything that that they're in,
like the whole world.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
Well, obviously they've ramped things up from safety, health and safety,
the original, the original.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
They're talking about that the other day, except when you're away,
it's just crazy asbestos. The tin man, God, he's got
paint poisoning. The witch got actually burned in the up
in hospital.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
Who got replaced.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Poison? I don't care, mate, must go on. We need
to film they have didn't they have Garlands jacked up
on mouse. Put a bit more pepper. We need more
out of this, getting enough out of it. And she
got she wept, And the other day she was laughing,
giggling at something that was funny that came up, and just.

Speaker 5 (43:47):
Wow, laws of madness, PC madness.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
You can't put kids on famines now to get results.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
The heads that John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
Sales are all starting your already ahead of this Friday,
where all the sales will be all over the country,
all over the world.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
And then you've got Cyber Monday, don't Yeah, it makes
I think it's December that might be it.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
Yeah week, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
If you pay full price for anything, you're a schmuck.
Really aren't you Last year, I was like, I missed
both sales and I was like, why am I on
them all? Paying full r RP for this when everything
was on sale just a week ago.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
It is a great time to kick off your Christmas.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
Although I did hear on another radio station you do
need to be careful there is sales going on. Sometimes
the sales are not as good as sales have been previously.
They say Black Friday and they're still on sale, but
they're not quite as good.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
As they're not allowed to.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
But like sometimes they hike the prices just before so
that when they bring it back down for Black Friday.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
It looks like maybe do your research.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
Yeah, keep an eye on that you want.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
It's not to say things aren't on sale, but yeah,
it was a lady that was talking about and she
was like a month ago it was a lot cheaper
than the Black Friday sun Yeah, so yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
Do your research.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Thank you too.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
That lady was on the other radio soation listening to
another radio.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Station because well safe, you know, like all I want
for Christmas, you can't go tony music stations these days.
He's on a talk station. Talk station.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
Yeah, now we are heading into obviously Christmas in summer
and barbecue season, and obviously the Internet's decided.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
You know what this guy likes.

Speaker 4 (45:17):
He likes barbecues, so I can getting a lot of
barbecue content for some reason.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Are you watching the barbecue videos?

Speaker 4 (45:22):
Yeah, I'm loving them. And I've got a new favorite
human being. Okay, Now, this guy is so passionate about barbecues.
He's from the Southern States of America. Ah, and he's
got this massive backyard barbecue set up where he's got
a tray on this massive tank that he puts chicken,
all chicken in. The lowers the tray into the bubbling

(45:45):
or boiling oil and fries the chicken.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
And boy, he is so passionate. He is so passionate.
Have it listened to this man? He can't do it
like this right now? Cook to perfection. Now we've called
this the premiere fryer.

Speaker 14 (45:57):
Right here, Look on beans right now, big on binges there,
look right there, Look at it right there, look at.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
It right there.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
He keeps going, look at it right there, looking at it.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
Look sleep in the chicken.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
Yeah, I know, he's like he's like displaying his WIRs too.
And he's he's also cooking a pot of beans. But
he keeps saying, look at that right there. But he
manages to say, there's one word. Look at it right there,
look at it, look a look at it right there.

Speaker 14 (46:18):
Are we're gonna walk around here.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
We got some Tomaho states hanging.

Speaker 14 (46:22):
We didn't got some dirt and his crash right here,
look me right here, look at it right there. Look
at that big boy right there. Look at it right there,
right there, look at it right now.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
He keep saying, look at it right there. I'm like,
I'm looking looking at the video. I can see it.
Look at it.

Speaker 5 (46:35):
Who you know doing it like this?

Speaker 4 (46:37):
But he's very passionate about his barbecues, and if you
want to see him press of barbecue, you should see
his one being not you're not like you jump back
that you bought and you got mocked for now.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Now I've got a much much nicer one now because
I got mocked out of that one. Did you get mocked?
Temp one? It was a temporary one, but yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
His wife seen him to get a barbecue and he
came back with just she stick standard one that I've
got as well, And then he.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Got mocked by his friends and family. Yeah, I got
another nicer one, yeah, like a year or two ago,
but my wife wanted the color that was. She chose
it because they had a nice blue lid. I was like,
doesn't matter. And then the guy was going to give
us the one already set up in a different color.
I was like, great, I don't have to install that
and it was cheaper, and she's like, no, I already
want that blue lidden, Like how long do we see

(47:21):
the lidd in this thing? Anyway, So we've ended up
with a bark Yeah, okay, coulda got the display model.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
For jebas that Jona and Ben podcast.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
And now a little game that we were playing wasn't
a sporting game over the weekend, But I don't know
why someone bounces. We've got a like a lad's chair.
And this is the extent about how Laddy our lads
chat is. Someone's like, name foods they have a Z
in it? Okay, and see if you can get to
ten foods that have a Z or a Z however
you want to say it in the name somewhere. It
can start with Z. You could also have a Z

(47:52):
within it. It's a fun game. Comes straight to Keeni
was one we got as well. Yes, okay, that's the one.
You're on home streetch and you can four for it
even on the text if you want to get involved
as well. Ten foods that we got to see.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
We got pizza, pizza, great fusilly. As a pastor, I'll
put question mark on what else.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Jesus is tough.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
Jeesus.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
Yeah, I was like these nuts, but that didn't care.
That was the most lady thing of that. The lands
chat was like the name foods that Z and that
we all got quite involved and then I was, yeah,
I was probably the most lady with that, just as
a gag. Oh geez, I'm out.

Speaker 4 (48:39):
Food was Yeah, there's a few fours even on the
text if you've got any Yeah, she can call as well,
just replacing the New Zealand here all data.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
I can get Today's HEROLD Daily quest next if we
want to. I just thought it was a bit of
a filiquiz. How many have we got so far? For
three or four? Maybe that you won you were, but
do you know if it's anis or a Z? That
on me check?

Speaker 5 (49:00):
Let me check. That's a pasta, silly pasta. It's okay,
so we've got three, sure, there's more.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
There is more. There's an obvious one.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
Did you get in your chat?

Speaker 3 (49:11):
Well yeah, not not me personally, but we got ten.
We got to ten of them. I think over twelve
actually in the end. So yeah, there's there's a few
round tarizza, oh, zebra, hoast zebra, something you'd have like
quite salty. There's like a snack as well. Americans love it,

(49:32):
o prinzel. Yeah, there we go. Mozzarella. Yeah, I love it.
I love that sauce so much, but I never know
how to pronounce it. Yeah, I love it. I can
never say it. I'm entirely sure.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
It's an orso pasta, solar cheese, gorganzola, gorgonzola.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
We didn't have gorgonzola. That's a good one. That's a
fresh one coming through, all right. There's a couple in
the nut family as well too, Brazilian, Yeah, brazil Brazil nuts. Yeah, yeah,
is there another one? And then another one in the
nut family as well.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
Now come through producer rally. She's mouthing something from the
producers booth there. What's what's the sedution you've got there?

Speaker 3 (50:19):
You haven't seen from the nut family as well. Yeah,
guess Parcho well, jeez, we didn't have that one. That's
a good one.

Speaker 5 (50:27):
What's Spanish?

Speaker 3 (50:30):
He has a cold soup or something?

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (50:32):
Yes, tomato cold one that I know that from.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
The Simpsons because Lisa makes it, which he's vegetarian. Another
ticks here, four for seven. Thank you very much for schnitzel. Yeah, yes,
that Yeah, I think we've probably got closter. Yeah, well done, guys.
It's fun game. Yeah, there we go. So there you go.
What you start thinking about it? There is more, but
it's quite had to do.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
We had it quarter past thank you.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
I was probably the most involved our lads chat has
ever been, Like my wife, I was like, this is fun,
enjoy enjoyable than the date. I'm not normally involved in
the lands yet, and I was like, this is a
great this is great.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
There we go, like can you get off your phone?

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Hold that texting the lads and like our foods have
got z and oh.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
This is so I think the lads are talking about
they're actually talking about.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
It's quite like but a lot of fun.