What is your favourite memory of summer as a kid?
The ones where Mum and Dad would launch me into the elements with no sunscreen, no helmet and zero regard for personal safety, and I’d return at dinnertime looking like a sunburned piece of beef jerky.
How are you planning on spending this summer?
With family in the Coromandel, sitting on the beach, letting sand invade every crease and crevice of my body, while trying to delay eating onion dip until a socially acceptable hour.
What lessons from 2024 are you bringing into the new year?
To cherish the potential last few years with our kids at home. Jenn, my wife, and I came to the stark realisation that they’ll be gone in a few years – a thought that both impresses and depresses us.
What do you want to leave behind in 2024?
About 1346 unread emails, a few hair follicles and 12 months’ worth of parking tickets.
What are you most looking forward to in 2025?
Seeing what lies ahead for our little family. I also want to clear out the attic, which has been a dumping ground for everything in New Zealand. If anything is missing in your life, it’s probably in our attic. Also looking forward to making more radio with Ben [Boyce] and Megan [Papas] on The Hits, plus a show I wrote called Vince, coming out in February on Three. It’s about a middle-aged TV host who gets cancelled after unintentionally exposing himself at a children’s hospital live on air.
What family recipe or meal screams “summer” for you?
Chips, dip, barbecue, sausages, steak, potato salad and garlic bread – my arteries are twerking in fear.
What does an ideal summer’s day look like to you now?
Hanging with the family, sitting on the beach forgetting what day of the week it is, then spending an hour deciphering what day of the week it actually is.
Listen to Jono on The Hits, 6am to 9am each weekday.
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