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December 3, 2024 41 mins

ON THE SHOW TODAY:

  • How Netflix narked on my ex boyfriend!
  • Jono and his loose lips...
  • Info dump relationship HACK!
  • Best excuse to being late.
  • Consentino Reassures us ahead of the trick this weekend!
  • Mariah Carey doesn't baliee in bills?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This Gentleman Being Podcast brought to you by Hello Fresh,
the Experts and Tastes that Kiwis love. Hey, welcome to
the podcast on Wednesday morning.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
You look what you're reading the air as you were
intro and you hit your eyes on something.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
There just an email from our boss. And boss there's
lots and lots.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Of looking at that high importance.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, yeah, I don't like it when they put the
importance level on emails.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
The anxiety importance for you not as high as my importance.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Where's the gauge?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, you're right. We're going from one of the kids
teachers at primary school. It was like this was concerning whatever,
you know, because you see her taking some time off
to do some filming stuff, and it was like for her,
it's not concerned for me a parent, and I look
at the time off because she was filming some stuff,

(00:50):
you know, I'm not concerned at all. I thought it
was great for a future.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Have you concerned this on you? You're right talking about how.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
So they're like a weird boss like that you deal with.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, I think a lot of it. They have to
pretty they have to do it, you know, all through
the Ministry of Education and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, they have to have concerned. They probably don't, to
be honest, They probably go home and slam back a
bottle of seven forget about that.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Probably the same email and they're like, dear Ben, dear Mary.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
This is concerning anyway. Podcast. I hope you enjoyed the
show and we'll be getting concerned about stuff now.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Netflix. You know, i'd say most households around the country whatever. Netflix,
you know, it seems like it's they got in first.
A lot of people you know have it and continue
to have it, and it's provided great entertainment. I'm not
not taking that away from it. But it's a bit
of a nark.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
They'll be all right, but of a nark is tracking you.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well, no, this is the thing. And it was actually
played into my benefit last night because I've got the
standard Netflix. As many people have you seen, you watch
two screens at the same you can watch two people
can watch the thing at the same time on the
same log. And so my daughters have been doing their
musical theater stuff quite quite late nights and we're like, hey,
it's time, you guys need to get to be a
give an early night. Both of them went to be it.

(02:05):
I said good night to them, and then I went
to the bedroom and I like to watch something on
TV to go to, you know, And I started to watch.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Watch, watched TV and bed. Yeah, you can't have a
cup of tea in bed.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
No, I don't like a couple of sea food.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
And it's just like that's putting him.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, go and see it. My life tries to do that.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm like, but I got a double pasty clif Richard.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, it'd be great. So I'm watching at the moment
that spread the second series of Sprint. It's just really
really good. So I started watching that and then all
of a sudden it stopped. Netflix stopped. I was like, oh,
that's weird. And then it went too many devices, so
it came on my screen. Too many devices watching, and
it went through and it named the shot gossip Girl
Indie and brackets iPad see you pressent break see it

(02:52):
in brackets laptop, and this is all happened in real time,
real time, by the way, to be together. Then it's like,
if you want to upgrade for seven dollars more, but oh,
you can have four screens going so you can go
and rinse your daughter. Yeah, and I'm going to go
rents to the daughters.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
I always find a dodgy that it told you what
it was, because we used to share my family's while.
It used to be like your brother is watching this,
and you're like, yo, watching this.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's dark in there, and I'm like, hey, we're watching
something on What pross up? Girl on the iPads? A
break on the laptop? Thank you?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Look to season four, episodes three.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's an interesting little thing. I hadn't happen before, especially
what like I played the bill wanted to throw me
off anyway, I was first on there, but but anyway,
it threw me off for some reason, and.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
You got upset with your extended mooching off the account too.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
They used to have my yeah, my account details. They
don't anymore, and then just they'd be watching it and
you couldn't get on. You're like, hey, guys, I want
to watch something like oh, we're halfway through a movie.
It's a pay for Netflix. But anyway, we've sorted that
out now, so just just be careful. Netflix is as
a nark. Yeah yeah, it's.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
The John and Ben podcast and you're just missing.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Just before eight o'clock, Netflix knocked on your daughters last
night who was sneakily.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Watching some shows in the beard room. That told me
because I was trying to watch the show as well,
and it kicked me off right though.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
But the person you you've got.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
The credit caund although it was the first on there,
but anyway, it was like, they're trying to upgrade me
seven dollars more. You can, you know, upgrade to WACH.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Should be able to like redister the prime account. Yeah,
so you're like, I pay the bells on the prime account.
I can never be kicked off everyone else.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
A someone else's text her as well.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, now Kelly, morning to you. You had a Netflix
password is shoe. I did what happened?

Speaker 6 (04:40):
I couldn't remember it and I got a new laptop
and I was like, oh, I'll just reset the password
as easy. So I reset the password. I got in,
I started watching something, and then a couple of hours
later I got a text message from an ex boyfriend
from three years prior, and all I said was, oh,
I guess I have to pay for my own Netflix now.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Three he'd been mooching off it.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
It had been logged into his TV from when we've
been living together, and we obviously went our own ways
and I never logged out of it because I didn't
think of it. And it was before the Netflix multi
screen thing happened, and he'd just been watching Netflix and
of course tried to log and couldn't get in and went, ah.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Great, hey three years.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
There was never anything.

Speaker 6 (05:25):
I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
There was never anything like continue watching some show that
you'd never watched.

Speaker 6 (05:30):
Like no, And I didn't even I didn't sort of
really dawn on me that he was watching things. And
if it was in the list, it wasn't that I
wasn't paying attention. It was just I never thought someone
else was watching.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
No, you'd think once the relationship of that TV. But no, No,
he was still logged into you, so you.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Wouldn't say anything. You don't text them.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
Three year I got married. By then, I'm pretty sure
I was. I had a new partner and I got
married and then that happened.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
I appreciate you cool, Kelly. You were on my bloody
hot spot for about nine years hot spot, but.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
I keep coming up. You're like, oh, okay, your off
and just would connect at amaically and then I'll be like,
oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Sure would you like to connects.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
The John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's gonna be Maggie in the next couple of days
right around the country. But a a heat wave of
coming over from Australia one degrees and.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
That'll be good for the vineyards. We're there on Friday.
Do you have a funny thing I learn about vineyards?
There's an old wife's tale that they plant rose bushes,
one rose bush at the end of the row of vines,
and that can tell if there's any diseases in the
soil the rose because the roses will start to wilt
and then they bang onto the vines. But then the

(06:55):
guy who's driving with people still do it, but it's
not there's science involved. Now. Now, yesterday unintentionally unloaded a secret.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
I think I witnessed this sensitive any information you passed
the John, he will say to someone at some stage, people,
I don't know that. Every time I was I'll tell
you a second. This is gonna end up somewhere on
the radio talking to someone.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
I always give you secrets and I'm.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Like, oh, you can't, you can't unless you want.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
You wanted you onload?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
What was the one you told me? Yeah, there's something
about someone. I can't even remember it now. Obviously not
meant for he'll tell somebody there's a sensitive bit of
information about a celebrity which I was not allowed to
tell you. I haven't no one, no one anyway. So
I'm talking to this guy yesterday, okay, and I'm when

(07:46):
when in light band mode, you think, Okay, what's the
connection I can make with this gentleman? And I'm like, oh,
I heard a story about him, sensitive business information, not
like scandalous personal stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, And I.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Was like, hey, I heard blah blah blah and blah
blah blah. And then there's I'm halfway through this. I
can see a look in this man's eye of like,
how does he know this information?

Speaker 1 (08:05):
It was kind of almost like an announcement, a thing
that could happen, And he someson, John O knowes someone
obviously said slips at you, but for why? But why
should you know this? People want to say stuff too.
What if you overheard a zoober rounds or something and.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Then he volley's backward? Where did you hear that from?
And that's not the first thing you want to hear about.
When you say, I'm like, I'm just trying to start
a conversation here and then I was like, oh, I
can't remember where I heard that from. I can remember,
I know where I heard it from, but I'm not
going to say where I heard it from.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
And then so we he did tell he did the
thing on the nose, you know, when you tap your
finger on the nose. He's like, it's happening, buddy, but
let's not say any more about it. So he swore
me to secrecy. I'm sure the first problem person probably
swore me to secrecy too.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
I didn't think that you were going to go straight
to the person and the deep.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
My lottle lips tell you what they have sunk some
shiite back on the Titanic back in the day. Went
to the captain. I was like, had that got Leo
down there? He's telling me about climate change? Apparently there's
no icebergs keep plowing on.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
The heads that John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
I wanted to know if this was something particularly probably
Ben would do. It's something that me and my husband
started doing every single day, and then we've named it now,
so we often end up being like ships in the night.
So he finishes work at three thirty, and then every
day at three thirty he calls me as he drives
to the gym, and we do what we now call
our info dump.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh yeah, so because.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Then when he comes home from the gym tonight, I'm
leaving again to go to a function. So we don't
like see each other a lot.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
So it's a five powerful, five minute phone call of it.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Fifteen fifteen okay, right right. You start the info dump
with what you've got today. This is the key points
that happen. These are things I've got coming up, like
and then he will go write my turn. He dumps
what he did for the day, and then what he
needs to tell me in terms of information with the
kids or anything, and then he's unfinished my infidump.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Right.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Good, sounds like an executive meeting.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
And you don't bog up like say, if you get
free time later once the kids for us, once the
kids are gone to bed, and you get like an
hour before I have to go to sleep, it's not
bogged down with your info dump.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, and you know you wouldn't info dump. You never spreadsheet.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
To be honest, I'm embarrassing to say it. I have
a little whiteboard because i'd like say I don't see
my wife, I can't call her during the day because
she works at school, she can't take phone calls, and
there's so many things throughout the day. I'm like, I
need to talk to you about this. I need to
talk to you about this because I can't just go
yeah yeah. It's all these decisions that could be wrong
from my so yeah, be wrong. End of the day,
I'm like, hey, I just need ten minutes just to
go just ten minutes and just go through this list

(10:39):
on this whiteboard and just go hey, yeah, without calling
it the info done.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Usually it's me just coming with the list. I think
she's well capable, but.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
You know, write it down in preparation.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, but I do. Yeah, that's it with a little whiteboard.
Because I don't usually talk to her all like once
a day, I'm like, all right, here we go. This
is as well.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
That's quite sad when you break it down like that day, Like,
I don't usually talk to.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Her because I can't. I can't.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
She's working ships in the night sometimes.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Marriage you just talk about administration.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Do you do it invo dunk?

Speaker 5 (11:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
I do like to dumb information about AI on people
like you do.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Your info dumb on stranger.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Throughout the day I was watching the stock on aio
be worried, knows some stuff. But yeah, I know that's
I mean, that's a lovely thing you do, isn't it?
No other time you can do it?

Speaker 4 (11:28):
And it's the same time every single day. I get
a phone call three thirty once he finishes.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
John Aikin, who's the you know, married at first sight,
the expert with relationships. No, he would always talk about
he does with his wife. He'd have a glass of
wine every night and that's when they would kind of
connect to talk about stuff. But it's pretty hard to
try that out the car. But it's probably not gonna work.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
As he goes to the gym, yeah's probably not gonna work.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Don't have more than four or five glasses. Things start
getting a bit finger point.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
There's more on my lesson the heads.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
That johnaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Is TikTok going around. It's left a lot of key.
We stunned it's in America. As someone talking about how
much annual leave they have to people on the street.
Here in New Zealand, everyone, as we know we're hitting
into the holidays, people get like four weeks annual leave.
As sort of the standard plus twelve public holidays throughout
the year. Well, in America there's no law around holidays
and it's up to the employer as well. And so

(12:25):
one person was saying fifteen days was what they had,
and they were saying that that's the most they've heard
of in their business. Other people got zero zero.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
They work hard over there.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
A single day of annual leave to them and their
whole contract was yeah, credible.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
So what happens if they need or they want to
go on holiday?

Speaker 1 (12:41):
I just it without pay.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, which is We spoke to a guy I'd never
had a day off, guy used to talk to every week,
just like we're just worked through. It's just the culture
over there. We've got it bloody good here.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, when you look at that four weeks plus twelve
days at public holidays as well, when they're not even
getting we're very lucky to get for ten days, that's
the most.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
And then shut down over Christmas, and then we sat
moaning about the gap between Easter and label.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
I know, come on, New Zellens. We true.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, yesterday and I appreciated this. There I was I
was running late for an appointment for a meeting and
I message the person. I said, sorry, mate, I'm ten
minutes late. It's the standard one. Ten minutes buys you
twenty Everyone knows that. Everyone knows it.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Now.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
The problem was the person I was meeting also new
to theone at the building. They're like, oh, it's funny
because I was just off the phone to someone who
you work was, and they said, you just left the building. Now,
by my insturbation, I've just looked at Google Maps, see
you're twenty three minutes away from here. So got called out.
Oh because the ten minute one. Listen, we all know

(13:53):
ten minutes. When someone says I'm running ten late, everyone knows,
and that social transaction, nothing's to be true. It's twenty
twenty five minutes, and it's always been.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's like a five minute late. It's never five.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Minutes, right, My minutes is ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Just buck at the car five, but it's just two
minutes away five ten twenty.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Two bys of five. I reckon at least yeah, two minutes.
I said that in my daughter the other day. I
was like, just text us the two minutes away. She's like, well,
we're not, like.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, no, I know, it sounds better. It makes you
believe that you're not as late as you actually are.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
She's like, it'll be five minutes. I'm like, yeah, let's
just say two minutes.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Why can't you just say five minutes. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
It just was like, hey, two minutes work. We were close.
We were close.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
I reckon. Even Blooming Jesus was like, hey, God, sorry,
running ten late to help me carry that cross up
the hill. I reckon. He was doing it back then
as well.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
He probably had more of an excuse than you.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, So anyway, I did appreciate the Google Maps two
one set Nam's board into it as well. You can't
argue that.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
No, you're right.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
But then I was like, that was very late. Twenty
three minutes. It is very late for an appointment. So
this is what we want to open up. Is there
one great excuse? What's the best excuse you've heard for
someone being late.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
I used to be an employer because I used to
have a cafe, so we had a lot of people
like always calling second the weekends, and my favorite was
after like they'd literally gone out the night before, they
had food poisoning the next day.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, I think that's the reason why you're vomiting.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Did you get a lot of food poisoning cases?

Speaker 4 (15:15):
A lot of food people morning, What can you do?
You just have to be like, well, okay, either way
you're vomiting.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
And you can't come in the John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Johnson was in the country yesterday, the former British PM.

Speaker 7 (15:29):
He was.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
I think he was actually in the building that we
work in. Yeah, there was some security around before apparently
that were talking about Boris Johnson coming in. I noticed
I was just reading before how a city spent his day.
You're doing a bit of swimming and Mission Bay in Auckland,
which should have told him that swim there because the
pools contamidated water. But anyway, that's how he split his
day as well.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
And looking as disheveled as ever. I see, yeah, have
you seen here? It looks more rustled up his here
than when he was Prime Minister of Britain.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Is that gel like? Is that purposeful?

Speaker 8 (16:01):
No?

Speaker 2 (16:01):
I think he just wakes up and he's like that'll
do Yeah, they to go, Yeah, rustles it around ten
minutes late. I said, I was ed, tod. I got
called out for it. Someone looked on Google Maps like, no, no,
it's you're twenty three minutes late the travel time between
point A point B, and I thought that wonderful excuse,
just running ten late. Everyone knows they're gonna be a
bit later than ten. Everyone's accepted over the years.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
We used to work with Guy Williams for many years
and he would always name a particular street a busy road.
He was like, just on this road, no matter where
it was far half far away. He was always say
the text would just cover through it. So guys, just
on the street, You're like, but that's nowhere near where
we are. Sometimes we're sometimes further away, but we've meant
to read it and then go, oh, he'll be twelve minutes.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
I guess that's a good way to go in transit. Yeah, yeah,
and moving. We've got a non joining us on the
phone right now, a non birth name, or you want
to remain anonymous, I'd rather than not saying my name,
just fair enough.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
The best excuse that you have used, or it's been
used on you? What what was it?

Speaker 9 (17:03):
I used it? I went out on out and I
usually start working at four a m. And I kind
of was just like, it was too late. It was
two am. I was too still too drunk, So I
wasn't able to drive. And then I got home and
then I walked out to go get ready for work,
and someone had hit a car in front of me
that looked exactly like mine photo and I sent it in.

(17:27):
My car got hit and I can't come.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Was it was it you driving the car that hit?

Speaker 10 (17:34):
The other car was already someone wanted back into the
door and it dinted in and I was like, well,
that's my excuse for today. And I used to get
work off for four days to get up sick.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Four days.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
I can't climb in the passenger seat.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
It was just what. I appreciate you, cal thank you
so much.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
How you got on your mate, Tyrone? Good morning, How
are you buddy? Love to have you on, lovely to
have you on. I would love to have you on
and something to you one, both of those things. The
best excuse you've heard, Tyrone.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Grummart's falling out from an adult throwing ass man, oh.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Throwing as man? What happened?

Speaker 11 (18:18):
He was late and turned up the work and marks
Red been away as late, and he said, as Grummitt's
fell out, and you couldn't.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Hear of a lamp, well except when your grummots fall
out as soon as you like turn teen or something.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, it's pretty young, right, yeah.

Speaker 11 (18:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'd say so. So I sort of set
them up a little bit because we're in the cowshed.
So he was like riding my face pretending he couldn't
hear what I was saying.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
He was committed to the role, he was.

Speaker 11 (18:44):
Committed to her. So I walked down of the shed
and I was about no fifty meters from I suppose
at the gate, and I said, bro, I'm just going
to go change the gate, and he goes, yeah, bro, right, the.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Good this's the one done with the Gromm excuses and
you can't pull that out for a second time. I
appreciate your time. Are you going to have a great day?

Speaker 12 (19:10):
Cheers?

Speaker 5 (19:11):
The Hits that John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
What do we call to learn a party trek for
the you know, for these next couple of weeks be
able to perform at a party. And now it's really
got carried away as that we're now performing something in
a magic show this weekend with Costantino.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Sold out Magic show if you'd like to go along.
Actually we've got a few tickets magic to four four
each seven.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
Because I was just saying it would be nice if
we could have some Hits listeners, because I realized that
people going to his show are not necessarily going to
know what we're doing there.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
No or kire, No one wants to see the opening.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
So he's going to bring us on at some stage
and amongst his amazing show, and he's taught us a trek.
It's a card trek and involves a blindfold, a knife
and and us trying to get the card that someone
will select. Now, so far we have not nailed.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
It, and it's been a week and a half. A
week keep saying hey, we must practice that, and then
we never get round to practicing it. But yesterday we're like, no, no,
we must practice it because we've had multiple failures, even
with the Prime Minister, Christopher Luxen, who was trying to
make us feel better about it. Afterwards he was like, oh,
it's okay, you got on the third go. So yesterday

(20:17):
we pulled in Maddie who works out in the Hits office,
and it's a three prong attack me and you started off,
don't you just quickly explain what you do?

Speaker 4 (20:27):
So basically they pick a card from the deck that
I'm holding and they remember their card and shot to everyone.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
And then I shuffle the cards and passed them to
John oh.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Right, and then I then spread the cards around a disc.
Ben's blindfolded the whole time. He removes his blindfold. I
had been a knife, and the knife full of the
magic powers that Costantino bestowed upon it.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
That knife, yesday was magic because it just felt like
it was drawn to one particular.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Card and magic vegetable knife. And this is what happened.

Speaker 12 (20:59):
Is this your card, Maddie Languy, Oh my god, I
wasn't sure it was your card.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Everyone's real good? Were you blown away? So blown away?

Speaker 5 (21:17):
It was not exeedting.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
I'm more surprised than Many.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Now I'm going to get a little team talk here.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Okay, Mandy's Many's man is great. It fell like one
of those things where they get microphones in your face
outside our theater shows. Blown away. It was like one
of those great great moments.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
I reckon on the day. We just need to chill
a little bit because we need to be like you know,
we were going to like, we can't be like what
We can't be blown away by the magic you know
we're doing the magic?

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Also can I just say something.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
So Maddie was engrossed in the trick, right, But there
was also other people in the studio watching, and the
other people watching were like, oh, I know how you
did it.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
I saw what John I did.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah. Larissa was like I see that, but there what's
with But we're like, get out, get out.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
She was on our lord's bloody Royal Commission of Inquiry, Larissa,
and you're assuring her shoeing her out of the room
like a cat that's you know, the neighbor's cat that's
got into your kitchen. Shoe, shoe, shoe. No questions, no questions.
If you are coming to the show on Saturday, text
magic to four four its siven, what's the track B made?

Speaker 1 (22:20):
No follow up questions. Okay, that's the deal. That's the
only dealer as well. And I'll try and be a
bit more chilled about. Sorry, I get excited.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yah, I'm in just grating with now. But let's just
kid that internally we can we can celebrate backstage if
we nail it.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, okay, great, because you don't see, like.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
You know, Costantino, Dynamo, David Blank, oh.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Nor where's the audience? Not there?

Speaker 5 (22:41):
The heads the johnaan Ben Podcast of the.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
December Not too long till Christmas is over twenty days.
It's the holiday season. We wanted to learn a party
trek to impress people over the upcoming parties. We're going
to do a magic trek live on stage this weekend.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, Costantino show. If you would like to go along
to any of the shows you're turning around the country.
Four for eight seven is the test. We just want
to know who's anyone like us? Have you been dragged
up on stage to any show doesn't necessarily have to
be a magic one. Dan, good morning morning.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
How are we? We're goods? Do you get dragged up
on stage?

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Did you?

Speaker 13 (23:14):
I did?

Speaker 14 (23:15):
I went to a hypnotist show and I got pulled
out of the crowd. There's eleven other people. We all
rode up and sat down in chairs. He did his
whole spell and started clicking his fingers and said sleep,
and everyone around me started, you know, dropping their heads
and falling asleep. So I was like, what's going on?

(23:37):
And I had to act it out? So yeah, I
pretended to be hypnotized.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
And there's nice of you. You don't want to ruin
the illusion for the poor hypnotists.

Speaker 13 (23:46):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 7 (23:48):
But these guys say what they were.

Speaker 13 (23:50):
They were going around like chickens and dancing and you know,
we had to dance with each other and all sorts
of things. Ah, and I just had to act it
out until her half time. And yeah, at halftime he
comes over and he starts clicking his fingers and yeah.

Speaker 14 (24:08):
He goes, okay, okay, well played good on you.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, just left me sitting there, so he knew that
you were putting it on.

Speaker 11 (24:17):
Yeah, he knew.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Well, you're like, mate, I was.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Trying to help you. I keep going back to me.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
I didn't want to look like hypnotist.

Speaker 7 (24:26):
It was very embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Well, I know, and you would have been hyper aware
of having to act like everyone else was.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 14 (24:32):
I was sort of sitting there with my head tilted,
looking sideways, trying to see what they were all doing.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Some people were just not hypnotizable though, right.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
The hypnotis knows that, right any thing.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
As you go, Hey, thanks mate, you did be your
bloody solid. Yeah, good one on your Dan. Appreciate your
time of a good one.

Speaker 14 (24:50):
Cheers, have a good one.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Nikki, good morning, good morning. You were dragged up on stage,
worst nightmare of stuff, or you actually enjoy that?

Speaker 15 (24:58):
Actually it was quite revolting, to be honest.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Oh really, then said this is a magician. So what happened?

Speaker 15 (25:02):
Okay, So I literally got dragged up on stage and
pretty much came down dragged me up on stage, so
I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing.
And then he pulled out a hammer and a nail,
and so things got a bit icky from there, and
he proceeded to hammer this nail up his nose and
that was pretty gross actually at the time, and I

(25:23):
wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing until
he indicated that I needed to remove this nail from
his nose. And I saw, all, that's no problem, I
can do that, but he said, no, no, not with
your hands, with your teeth, and he pointed to my teeth,
and so I stood there, closed and actually not knowing
what to do. And then the crowd starts chanting, so
you know, pressure, and so you know what I did

(25:48):
it I closed my eyes someone's nose with your mouth,
I know it was revolting. With my teeth, I tried
not to use my lips. I just got in there
with those pycisms yanked it out.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
That's the problem when you're on stage, so you get
you know the show.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Yeah, yeah, herery awkward.

Speaker 15 (26:06):
I would have been very embarrassed. I would have sat
down and funds a shame. So you know, I did
my job.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, and that's it feels like a one and done scenario.
You've done that, ticked that off your bucket list.

Speaker 15 (26:14):
Yeah, that was definitely up the top there.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Well, hopefully no nails and the nose on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, we know things got desperate if we start start
hambering our noses. The hits that johonaan Ben podcast wanted
to learn a party party trek, and magician Costantino, who's
traveling the country right now, taught us a magic trek.
Can catch him in New Plymouth tonight as he hits
to Auckland as well. He is incredible and he was
very kind to teach us a track. Our trek involves cards,

(26:40):
a blindfold, a knife, and to be fair, we haven't
narled it every time we've done it.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
No have We've done it twice out of all the
times we've.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Hope we succeeded. You have succeeded twice.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
I think what's that wonderful song with Miley Cyrus, She's
wrecking ball. It's a good song.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
Part of the.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Things I had about you climb. It's all about the journey,
It's all about what's she saying that?

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Because he's kindly joining us once again, How you doing
this morning?

Speaker 7 (27:11):
I'm good?

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Thanks for having me, because I don't know if you
come out. It's a crime if you don't come out
to the song. Do you come out on stage of this?

Speaker 7 (27:22):
Being I used to when I was twelve.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
I don't even followed our journey. We've been trying our
best to learn our trick. It's making us all very
nervous ahead of this weekend to perform at your show
in Auckland. How do we keep our nerves under wraps?

Speaker 9 (27:40):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (27:41):
Do you know what? Being nervous is part of the game.
I mean still I get nervous before I come out
in every show. And because you guys, you care about
doing a good job, so to be honest, you just
I don't just get used to It's same as being
on radio. You're probably are you nervously on radio?

Speaker 13 (27:55):
No?

Speaker 7 (27:56):
You to nervous?

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Well, sometimes you do, I guess for some time a
guest coming and things like that. Yeah, you're probably right.
You learned to sort of work.

Speaker 7 (28:02):
With it, work you work for it. Now did I
see something? Did you perform for the Prime Minister?

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Ye?

Speaker 5 (28:08):
Did?

Speaker 1 (28:08):
We did the well, actually we've got the audio here,
just the end of it, because he was walking through
the building and we were like, oh, maybe well we'll
step things up and perform the track, Prime Minister. And
here was the end of it.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Is this your card, Prime Minister?

Speaker 8 (28:24):
No, that's very good.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Well you got it on the third guy fifty, so
I mean that's not too bad.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
So you're not great getting it on the third goal.

Speaker 7 (28:45):
Okay, okay. Was he good about it though?

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, but I mean nothing makes you feel worse as
a magician where someone's trying to console you if you
patronizing thumbs up. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Also, he's seen you, so he was like, he's amazing.

Speaker 7 (28:59):
He saw and was like, oh, but you know, it's
a lot harder than you actually. Like when you watch
a magician performer, or do you know even do a cartrick,
do you think very often it looks very it looks simple,
but there's a lot of mechanics and moves and psychology
involved to get it right. So there's a lot to remember.
So it's just practice, guy, it's more and more practice.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
So how do you when you are nervous and then
you nail a trick?

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Like, how do you? Because we got quite excited with ourselves.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
We haven't really.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Stopped made in the office. Yesterday we did it on
her and we actually succeeded. Have a quick lesson.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Is this your card? Madi languid? Yeah, but the energy
levels a bit, you know, happy there.

Speaker 7 (29:47):
I love that though, because when you get it right,
what a great feeling it actually is. But the more
you do it unfortunately feeling kind but you're not inside
you feel very accomplished, so you think, you know, it's
pretty cool. It's a pretty cool feeling.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Well, I tell you what magic.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
The very small taste we've had of your job has
made us, we say it daily, so impressed by what
you do. Like over an hour or an hour and
a half long show, there's you say, so many working
parts and mechanics, and we're just struggling to split one
trick up into three.

Speaker 7 (30:25):
It is, and look, there's a lot that gets involved,
as I said, but the more you do it, the
easier it gets. And and the more fun it actually
becomes because it doesn't become necessarily about actually doing the trick.
It becomes about the reaction from the other person. That's
a really beautiful things. When you go back, people laugh.
It's such a good thing, such a wonderful thing.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Now on to important important things now costumes. We haven't got.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Costume sort of do we need to sort costumes?

Speaker 8 (30:50):
Well?

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Do you know?

Speaker 7 (30:51):
I was thinking about that the other day, like what
we for your costious? But I think it needs to
be yourself, like who you are. And the last a.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Very underwhelming all I'm hearing from you is costumes, costumes, costumes,
more costumes.

Speaker 7 (31:08):
You guys, do whatever you like. I don't want to
put you in a position where you feel like you
have to be like sincred and raw. Yeah, I mean
unless you guys, unless you guys all want to be
and and But it's up to you. Whatever you whatever
you feel, whatever you're feelings.

Speaker 11 (31:26):
Oh yeah, do that?

Speaker 5 (31:27):
Do that?

Speaker 7 (31:28):
You can have David Blaine, Christane and who else can
we have? But we need a female magician as well.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
So are there any female magicians?

Speaker 7 (31:37):
There's actually a lot. There's a lot of female magicians
at the moment because they're very dexterous. They think that
much better with actually using the Yeah, there's actually a
lot coming out now, and that's because I think the
Internet has opened it up for young girls in the
beginning to get into magic and then of course grow
into two women and become female magicians.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Last question, when you were teaching us the track who
the Best.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
That it's wait for Saturday. Saturday, Megan don will mesically disappear.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
The show.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
If you want to go text magic to four four.

Speaker 5 (32:14):
Eight The Hits that John and Ben podcast.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
We have been playing the Mariah Carey game trying to
avoid their listening to Mariah Carey. So all I want
for Christmas for as long as possible. We started it,
I'd say three or four weeks ago, and Meghan, you
were the last person in the game. Now we've said
the game has done on the Hits, it's no longer
a safe space. But there are still people playing the game.
So if you are, you might not want to hear
this next bat because we're going to place.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
We are going to play a little of How I
got out.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Mariah the evil master mind behind Medie McLain's elimination. Ben
Boyce's elimination and now Meghan's elimination. She phoned up under
a different name a completely unrelated topic. Let's get Mega
on morning.

Speaker 16 (32:53):
How are you out of the guy?

Speaker 1 (33:05):
It's I love it, just a boss and then hang up.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
The amount of the amount of people that are asked,
They're like, what's Tasha's deal?

Speaker 3 (33:14):
What is I'm like, I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
And the amount of people that are like, oh, I'm
still in the game even though you're out, so many people.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
Are still playing.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yesterday is bombard When you actually pay attention to it.
You hear that song an abnormally long amount of what
I'm trying to say, You piece it together a lot.
You hear it a lot. That's a great way.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
I have not heard it since Tasha, by the way,
so I would still be.

Speaker 7 (33:40):
Like a bill.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
So this is an interview that stumbled across Yesterday and
a guy's interviewing Mariah Carey, who's she's, you know, very famous.
Obviously they labeled a diva. That's just another word for
a hustler, so they tell me. But this guy's interviewing
Mariah Carey and she doesn't he doesn't comprehend what a bill?
Heavolessen bill? I know, so bill like a like a bill?

Speaker 1 (34:07):
What is that an electricity?

Speaker 8 (34:11):
You have to pay for that?

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, I don't get it free. In America, we.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Get it free, Yes we do.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
So she thinks the electricity is free. Now you believe this?
Is it a skitch?

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, like I was looking into it yesterday. There's a
lot of it's kind of max. Some people thinking it's
she's definitely like having fun with the interviewer. Other people
thinking that maybe she is a bit ignorant. She was poor,
she was very poor, grew up with poor family till
like the age of fifteen, so you think it would
be some comprehension, and even in life in general, feels
like of a bill, Like come.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
On, she thinks power is free in America, so she
might believe that sang.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
A song about bills.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
You can.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Know that you were.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Poor as a kid, but not see your parents paying
the power bill. But maybe she believes that the power
is free.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
I'm saying she's in that adult, an adult even if
you're not paying aul. But hey, I don't know, you're right.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Should listen to the child songs?

Speaker 1 (35:05):
What are these?

Speaker 2 (35:07):
I do not understand are you telephon?

Speaker 3 (35:10):
I'm sure there's a electric.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Bloody Luxeon's favorite song lunch money looks should be what what.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Do you even that? Not the power bell?

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Well, I like to hope that she doesn't know what
bills are and she's reached a certain level of fame
with electricity water they just magically appear.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
They probably do it in some ways for her. So if
you are still playing the game, good luck yea, but
no that it's no longer a safe space, the Mariah Carey.

Speaker 5 (35:40):
Game, the heads the johonaan Ben podcast.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
So we like to start our day with the New
Zealand here all daily quiz to see how we're going
to go.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Now, it's lovely to have the quiz queen in here
from her quiz castle asking the questions producer. Really lovely
to have you with us every day. I don't tune
mic on. No, you don't know one day one day clearly,
But you just said this is a tough one. These

(36:09):
are a tough teen questions we're about to embark on. Yeah,
I think so, yeah, we is got hey, we've got
Megan here. Now you classified meaning as a Genius of
the week core.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
But but I did I sound like you don't.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Ever gone anyway.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
I'm not saying I'm not saying you're not not a genius.
It's just like radio is not really a vocation for
a genius.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
Maybe I just want to chill, you know, maybe I'm
a genius who just wants to chill.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Life engineers, mathematicians.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
I was philosopher.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
She's a psychologist.

Speaker 17 (36:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Then she took an i Q test and they're like, oh,
you have to pay for the results.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
She's like, I think I nailed it, which sucks.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
First question, all right, number one?

Speaker 18 (36:58):
What substancedence was detected at elevated levels and the White
Cuttle River to me away genius?

Speaker 2 (37:06):
What was it?

Speaker 3 (37:07):
I can't remember it.

Speaker 18 (37:08):
It's either mercury lid or arsenak.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
That is correct.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
We'll talk about that right right, speed fine, okay.

Speaker 18 (37:18):
Question number two, which song is the most streamed on
Spotify as of twenty twenty four? Is it Blinding Lights
by the Weekend Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi or Shape.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Of You by id Sharon? A good question.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
It was Shape of You, Sharon?

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Is it still?

Speaker 12 (37:32):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (37:32):
The Weekends? Weekends mess?

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yeah, Blinding Should we look on the weekend guys.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Okay, okay, that's correct. Always out there the weekend our song.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
Being Chapel roone, good luck babe, just bia streams Spotify?

Speaker 1 (37:49):
How many streams on the Hits radio session.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
I haven't heard that one early morning.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Yeah, we'll find out.

Speaker 17 (38:01):
To get guys in your own times had a billion
streams Mavable Black one day when you're a all right?

Speaker 18 (38:13):
Question of the three, which palace is renowned for its
hall of mirrors? Is it Seon Brown Palace, Buckingham Palace
or Palace of a sigh?

Speaker 2 (38:24):
I am familiar with here.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, it doesn't feel like it's been called the Palace
of mirrors. But I haven't heard that.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Is there a fringe one?

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Palace of.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
French would love mirror? Let's go That is correct.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Quite well, so far.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Should we take one to the do a question and
take it to the go to the people?

Speaker 18 (38:45):
Okay, unless you know what I mean, I don't waste
the text machine.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
All right?

Speaker 18 (38:48):
Who is the author of the book Stuart Little?

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Is it E. B.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
White, Roll Dahl or Eric Carl White?

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Eric car was the Hungry caterpillar, Roll Dale was White.
That is correct.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
Leave it to the genius, guys, nice.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
I mean, yeah, all right, christ of Eggs Engineer.

Speaker 18 (39:12):
Which country is Shakira originally from? Is Argentina, Colombia or Mexico.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
She's Colombian?

Speaker 3 (39:18):
Bah, that is correct. Question.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Let's go one more?

Speaker 18 (39:24):
Okay, Christion number sex always low prices always and save money?

Speaker 1 (39:28):
What live better? Wait?

Speaker 2 (39:30):
What I think you're reading between the questions? Do you
pop up here?

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Okay? Always?

Speaker 2 (39:38):
You find the same stock, dinam, it will.

Speaker 5 (39:40):
Be fifteen percent the heads that jonaan Ben podcast The Red.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
La to Dell Martie. We got one hundred dollars Hot
Cold Tea prize pack to give away. One hundred dollars
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bespoke reddle, and that's something in our lives. So I'm
going to go real quick on that one. Okay, I'll
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place where pills are displayed on stands. But amidst the

(40:04):
creams and raisor stacked, I made him grab some top
lip wax, A task for grooming, not a cure. As
awkward text was are you sure? Who am I describing?

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Thank you? I got my husband and buy me some
lip waxy.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Glip wax.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
You're glad he's reliving there to look magnificent today. Yeah,
not a split of here on there. Let's get at
him on Welcome to the red level.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Listen to this. Adam, okay, Adam. I ask this question
all day long, but always get completely different answers, and
yet all the answers will be correct. What is the question?
Reggae think, yeah, it's a genius. All there long, get
completely different answers, and yet all the answers will be correct.

(40:57):
What is the question?

Speaker 13 (41:00):
Past?

Speaker 11 (41:00):
No idea?

Speaker 2 (41:01):
And I'm like, I regret phoning up too early. The
old Meghan the genius has got her hands in there.
She's got I think, so she's got it, Jackie, are
you a genius? What's the answer you're asking?

Speaker 3 (41:11):
What the time is?

Speaker 1 (41:14):
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