Talking to school kids brings up some amazing answers

Sarah Van Der Kley and Martin Good. Photo / Lynda Forrest Photography

As you can probably imagine, we get to do some pretty cool stuff in our job.

From interviewing slightly famous people to giving away amazing prizes to locals, there are a lot of highlights in our work week.

But for me, one of the coolest things we do is visit a local primary or intermediate class every Wednesday.

Kids (or their parents) enter via our website and we draw a winner each week whose class we visit and hand out free stuff to. We also answer any questions they have.

The same one seems to come up every week; "Which one of you is older?" one child will innocently ask, to which we reply "Which of us do you think is older?"

Without fail, more than half the class will point to me, which I find just slightly offensive as Martin is over 10 years my senior.

We also ask them a question and record their answers to be played back on our radio show the next day.

The questions vary from week to week, from "Who's the worst snorer in your house?" to "What do you think your teacher does when's she's not in class?"

One teacher was particularly horrified by the answers to that last one when her class responded with things like "Thinks about how she's going to punish us" and "Talks about how much she hates us". Teaching, what a job!

Last week we were visiting a class of eight and nine-year-olds and the subject of the election in the United States came up.

Realising that these kids had a quite a good grasp on the election and who the candidates were we asked them "If you were able to vote in the presidential election, who would you vote for and why?"

Every single child in the class said they'd vote for Hillary Clinton, with reasons varying from "Because Donald Trump is an egg" to "Because I don't want another boy president" and "Donald Trump doesn't like babies".

But our favourite answer came from a sweet little girl who proclaimed she wanted Hillary to win because "I've been told that Donald Trump is going to build a wall between Africa and New Zealand."

Not sure how Mr Trump would pull that off, but after being voted in as the 45th president of the USA, nothing would surprise me now.

- Don't miss Martin Good and Sarah Van Der Kley on The Hits Hawke's Bay from 6am to 9am Monday to Friday.