Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - April 17 - Monty Betham, Fun Facts From Houseparty, Iso-Legends

Episode Date: April 17, 2020

What have you become a semi-pro in during lockdown?Monty Betham called inWin An AdFacts from HousepartyTiger King's Jeff Lowe - Part 2We reward another Iso-LegendSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kia ora, Aotearoa. I don't know what day it is and I haven't shaved in a very long time. But that doesn't matter right now because it's time to get ready to bust up the boredom of your house prison. This is the ISO Luncheon. Please welcome your hosts standing two metres apart. It's Jono and Ben. Welcome along, New Zealand. This is the very final ISO Luncheon. Jono and Ben with Welcome along, New Zealand. This is the very final ISA luncheon. Jono and Ben with you on the hits. RIP ISA luncheon. We'll be holding a wrap party afterwards.

All standing two metres apart, though. Yeah. And not sharing anything. No, nothing. So we're just going to stand in a room. We're not having a wrap party. Coming up on the show today, we've got our second part of our interview,

our Zoom interview with Geoff Lowe from the Netflix documentary The Tiger King. He will be joining us. Plus, if you know someone who has put their body on the line in the name

of essential working, then you need to nominate them. They could be our ISO legend and win a $250 Grab One voucher at the end of the show. You can text HITS their name, a few details,

and we'll do that shortly. Now, we used to do a TV show, didn't we, Joe? Some of the people that were on the TV show with us have gone on to bigger and better things. And deservedly so as well. Yeah, we were holding the back really. We were, we were and

we've gone on to the hits. What are you saying about the hits? No, I'm not saying. Producer Juliet, you've been working at the hits for a while. I mean, do you take that as a personal? I just said some people have gone on to bigger and better. But insinuating we had done. Thanks Ben. Thanks Ben. Juliet worked for 18 hours yesterday and you come in here and go, oh they've gone on to bigger... But insinuating we had done... Thanks, Ben. No, I'm just kidding. Thanks, Ben. Juliet worked for 18 hours yesterday.

And you come in here and go, oh, they've gone on, she's still on TV. We're just at the hits. I didn't say that. I was going to say, including us who have gone on to the hits. Now, Laura Daniel

we used to work with on Jono and Ben and she's now working on Seven Sharp. Apparently she's gone on to bigger and better things. Bigger and better than the hits. Well, she has recently because on Seven Sharp

they had a cake baking challenge in lockdown and they had to bake a cake about their favourite person. Jeez, we're all filling in airtime, aren't we? She made one about Jacinda Ardern and it didn't turn out that great. I know, you showed me a photo of it this morning and it gave me nightmares. And I haven't even slept yet.

And I still had nightmares from that cake. But this, of course, has gone around the world. It's around the world. It's at BBC, CNN, Guardian, all the websites around the world have picked up on this cake about the Prime Minister

because the Prime Minister even commented on Laura's post as well. It looks like the Prime Minister's suffered a horrible nuclear explosion. Yeah, yeah. It was in the middle

of Chernobyl or something. Yeah, it does. So I thought we might give Laura a call. I don't know if she still answers our phones now that she's gone on to bigger and Better Things.

The number you have called is not currently active. She changed that number. Oh, there's your answer. Gone on to Bigger and Better Things and Bigger and Better Cell Phone Numbers. Jono and Ben's ISO luncheon on the hits. Ed Sheeran owns a pub and paying all his employees in full. And he said they can go and work wherever they want

at the same time if they can get jobs, as well as being paid in full. Oh, God, I love him even more. He's good, eh? I love him even more. But mind you, if he'd share into Bosch, you'd be like, come on, mate, you can foot the bill for a few weeks, can't you?

Yeah, exactly. Now, during isolation, we're all having to, you know, I think develop new skills, skills that you would usually go and see a professional for. Oh, I thought you meant like eating and drinking about midday. Well, we've all

developed those skills wonderfully. The clock keeps turning back earlier and earlier on that start time, but, you know, like Ben,

you need a haircut. Yeah. And I said, I will give you a haircut and you refuse to let me give you? I haven't got that desperate yet.

Really? Not yet. I don't think really. Look at my hair. Have you seen his head, Producer Julian yet. I don't think really. Look at my hair. Have you seen his head, Producer Julian? Yeah. Take your head off.

Look at it. What a, look at that thing. What have you come dressed as today, mate? Just keep the hat on, Erica. Oh, oh. You look great either way. That was a good joke.

Savage burn made up with a lovely compliment. Thank you for that. Well done, Producer Julian. What a rollercoaster. But you know, I've become, Jennifer, my wife needed her hair cut. Oh, she didn't get you to do it. Well, I tell you what, you could cut the air with a knife or a pair of kitchen scissors,

as it turned out, the tension. Oh, would it be? I was just like, it was like diffusing a bomb. Yeah. It turned out, you know, I have no place in the hair game. I mean, nature's decided that for me already. It's given me no hair. But it went all right.

I'm imagining it's not like a whole new style for her or anything like that. No, you're not going to see me at Rodney Wayne or anything. You're just like trimming a little bit here and there. But still nerve-wracking. It's a prison haircut. It'd be like, oh, you've just come out of prison. But you still look respectable. You know, you want to make yourself,

when you're exiting prison, you want to make yourself look respectable for your friends and family. There's going to be a welcome home party. Oh, you've had a prison haircut. That's what it turned out like. Have you become a semi-professional in something? Oh, not anything that you would want to use

outside of lockdown, but I'm getting more and more risque taking out the bin each week. At the start, I was probably like, oh, you know, I'll be clothed. And now I'm like, oh, I'm just in my boxes because there's no one around. So you get more over the four weeks of just sort of like lost an item of clothing every time I'm taking the bin out.

Come the Sunday night, fully Nakers. I don't know if I'll get that far. Former TV presenter strolling through the streets with a wheelie bin. Yeah, like, oh, there's no one around. It's funny he's dropping the bin five blocks down. Should we throw this out there? Yeah, I reckon we should. 0800 the hits.

You know, come give us a call. We're always here to take your calls as long as it's between 12 and 1. Otherwise, we will not answer them. What have you become a semi-pro in during lockdown? 0800 the hits. My wife actually fixed our washing machine because she's the handy person in our relationship. She is. And she, like, fixed the whole thing the other day.

I was like, well done because I was already about to call an emergency plumber and she did the whole person in our relationship. She is. And she, like, fixed the whole thing the other day, and I was like, well done, because I was already about to call an emergency plumber, and she did the whole thing. She's got a tool belt. Your wife has a tool belt. Yeah, I'm good. I get, like, cups of tea and bring it to her and stuff. I'm in charge of smoko. Ben's got a Ben 10 belt that holds up his trousers.

Exactly. On the phone for the Waikato, Emily, you've become a semi-professional what? I've become a semi-professional beautician. Congratulations. And I imagine that would be the same for, you know, a lot of people across the country having to prune themselves, prune and prune themselves, prune themselves. Oh, prune themselves. Trim the bits, yeah.

Started doing my own waxing. Oh, wow. That's adventurous. How's that going? So far, so good. It's definitely a bit more tricky in the hard-to-reach areas, but otherwise, all good. All right.

You haven't left the job half done or something? Because if I was self-waxing, I'd be like, oh, no. Once I did one, I'd be like, someone can sort that out in a few weeks. Someone can tidy that mess up. That's a new style here, guys. I'm rocking. Thanks for your call, Emily.

Dave, welcome. You're on the air. You've become a semi-professional what during lockdown? Oh, it's not me. It's my brother. He's become a semi-professional dentist. He yanked his own tooth earlier this week. Well done.

No. I don't want to know what he yanked it with, but he did it with a can-do attitude. No, he was out in the garden shed. Oh, God. I remember working the rock. There was a guy phoning up. He's like, oh, my dad refuses to pay dental bills, so he sorts

his teeth out with pliers, pulls them out with pliers. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. And the next call we got after that was a guy who flossed his teeth with his long hair. That's right. With his long hair. Yeah, well, well done, New Zealand. Who knows how much longer of lockdown to go? Yeah, I mean, what we've realised is, yeah,

the people who do their jobs professionally, they do them really well. Yeah, can't wait for a small business to open up again. The ISO Luncheon with Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, if you're a small New Zealand business and you're looking for help navigating COVID-19, there's a free support network set up. A whole lot of business experts at hand

to offer you help with questions and advice. Amazing online tool, totally free as I said before. It's called Monarki and it's M-A-N-A-A-K-I. And joining us on the phone, one of the founders who set it up, former sports star Monty Beetham. How's it going? Good to see you, boys. How's the bubbles going for you?

Well, the bubble's doing well, mate. And our bubble is an air-conditioned radio studio. Very nice. Luckily, you love each other. And that's right an air-conditioned radio studio. Very nice. Luckily, you love each other. And that's right, yes. A little too much. A little too much. Actually, if anyone was in the building right now,

I'd have to take Ben to HR. Stuff he's been doing to me. It's amazing how he can do it from two metres away, too. Now, Monty, before we get into the very important chat, something I found out about you while researching, your full name Montgomery. It sure is, Montgomery Junior Beesham and once upon a time when I was under

19, when that came out across the program, I was horrified. But many years later, you know as an older man, it's fine I'm fine with that, that's my birth name, give it to me. Montgomery it is. Yeah, but a very distinguished name isn't it? A man who would read leather bound books and smoke fine cigars

from Cuba. The books part is correct, but maybe not the cigar part. Now, Monty, you are doing a really awesome thing for New Zealand businesses. You've got together with a few other people and created an online platform. Tell New Zealand about it. Oh, look, it's great, man. First and foremost, it is reset.monarchy.io. It's a website with about 150 killers in their industries. You want to find out a bit of information

about something to help you navigate through COVID-19. And you'll be surprised at the people that are on board there giving you that sort of information. Craig Hudson, MD of Xero, New Zealand Anastratum from the Streatham Group, Stefan Lipionka from Charlie's, Peter Cullinane from Lewis Road Creamery. So these are the type of experts you have there to ask advice

or to ask questions to help you, and it's absolutely great. You know, we're getting a number of people go there now. So, like I said, it's free. It's something that we've put together to ensure that we can help small businesses because they are the backbone of our country. If it wasn't for them doing what they do, giving us our first job opportunities, they really do make New Zealand flourish.

And as a result, we wanted to help them out. So that's the place where they can go. Now, you said 150 killers in their industry, the big hitters, the big players. Now, I understand you asked Ben Boyce to come on as an inspirational speaker. A killer in the industry? Maybe he's killed the industry.

Like, how far, I mean, I'll be honest with you, Monty, because obviously I know that Artie Sevilla, All Black, a Warriors star,

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, they helped set up this platform with you. So how far down the list was I before you're like, oh geez, we're getting desperate, we're going to ask Ben

to come on this Instagram live? Yeah, look, what it was, and we'll give you some context in a moment, you're so good at extracting information

out of the experts and the geniuses out there. So I was going to ask you to do that and host that. Oh, okay. So it wasn't for my expertise. Well, not for my business knowledge. It was for more like... He literally came into work and he was like,

you'll never guess what I've been asked to do. I've been asked to give an inspirational speech to pull small business out of this COVID doldrum. No, I didn't. That's exactly what he said. No, I didn't. That's exactly what he said. No, I didn't. And now we get the truth. He just wanted you

to host an Instagram channel. Ben, we just wanted that you should follow us. That's good. Because when you say killer in the industry, the only thing he's killed is his career.

Isn't it great that everyone's pulling together? It feels like the country is really going to combine as one to try and get through this. And if you've got all those great, fantastic business leaders offering free advice,

I feel like I should take it, and I don't even run a small business. Well, you're a small business in yourself, aren't you? For a lot of people out there now, they're moving into e-commerce, they're moving into the online business because that's the only way they can trade. Look, all the information is there, and the experts that have come on board, man, they're doing this free of their own time. So, you know, even people that are wanting to do some start-up initiatives, they're getting on board and asking questions.

And some of them are going offline with those conversations and helping them further, which is just amazing. I love how Kiwi is standing strong. Get us through this, man. That's a very cool thing you're doing there, Monty. Now, we've got Monty Behan with us. You're a very fit individual. I love that you used to live not far from Jono's old house,

and Jono would talk about how he would be out mowing the lawns with a bear in hand, and he would see Monty shirtless running around. Running past, and I was like, well, there's a better man than me. Yeah, yeah. Before Jono moved to a mansion. That's right. Now I won't even let you near me. You have to ask security to get past the gate. Yeah, you That's right. No, I won't even let you near me. You have to ask

security to get past the gate. Yeah, you're exactly right. The police will stop me before I get up. But you know,

I'll tell you what, though, to be honest, the neighbourhood prices have gone up so it's going to happen. I was bringing down the neighbourhood.

Hey, Monty B, he's a bloody good man and what a great initiative you're doing. How do we spell the name of Menarche? Menarche, that's a very good point. So Menarche is M-A-N-A-K-I.

So www.menarche.io is three A's in there. M-A-N-A-K-I. Thank you so much, boys. We're always delighted to talk to you and your support across the years, over so many years. It's been awesome. Right back at you, mate.

Stay safe in your bubble, and we look forward to catching up soon. Yeah, boy. These two germs are the 0.1% hand sanitizer can't get rid of. Jono and Ben's IsoLuncheon. On the hits. Don't tell the sales department because it's Jono and Ben's winning ad. All right, everyone. Don't tell the sales department, as the guy just said.

You know, we're giving away a free ad on the hits right now. Normally they'd charge for this. They would, yeah. Can I just say we're starting this in quite a threatening tone. What do you mean? Sort of threatening the audience. Don't you tell the sales department. Yeah, true. If we're in prison, stitches get stitches. Yeah, that's true. Okay, well anyway, we're going to call

a business, a hardworking business, give them a free ad. They don't know we're calling. They've just got to fill in the blanks. We'll ask them if they know. Did you know we were calling? No. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. You don't know that. Now you do.

And we want to give you a free ad on the radio. Oh, that's exciting. I'm excited. You're excited. As long as you don't tell our sales department because we've already laid down that hammer. Snitches get stitches, okay? So you just got to fill in the blanks, okay? Have you heard about one of the Kiwi businesses?

It's the... Oahiti Foursquare. The Oahiti Foursquare, okay. Famous for its popular... Groceries and shopping. And other generic stuff. I like it. And don't forget the crowd favourite.

Specials. Specials. On all that stuff. Everyone loves specials. But wait, there's more. Because that's not even the best thing about them. Let me tell you about it right now. Friendly services.

Oh, you news goodies. And not just service. Services. You want service, I will give you more than that. The plural. And who could forget their catchy slogan? Yep, best convenience store in town. Best convenience store in town.

Have you done the research on that? Not yet. I like it. And their wonderful staff, who sometimes like to reveal a secret about themselves live on the radio. I think you just did. I did. You're claiming to be the best and you've surveyed no one.

Their happy customers are always saying... We'll come back again. Have you done the research on that? Not yet. So make sure you check out... All our specials. All the specials. Again, you are

an absolute Kiwi hero. Thank you so much. Alright, mate. Thank you. Good luck and congratulations on the great work you're doing through this period.

Cheers, buddy. Jono and Ben's ISO luncheon. All the hits. A lot of parents right now have the responsibility of homeschooling their kids.

Oh yeah, yesterday I was in charge of physical education and basically spent... I mean, look... I guess there was no one else. There's no other option. Yeah.

And spent, you know, three quarters of an hour running around with my daughter pretending we were Pegasuses. Right. You know? I didn't know what the plural of a Pegasus was. You know the horse with wings? Oh, yes. Yeah.

I don't know if it's Pegasuses or Pegasai or something. Yeah, I don't know. No, but the back story was she was like, oh, there's been a fire in the Pegasus's bathroom. I was like, why have they got a bathroom? Surely they're dropping bombs from above. Oh, yeah, true. If you were.

But anyway, we were trying to put out the fire. Oh, that's good. She was Peggy and I was Steve. Good name for Pegasus. It was a wonderful PE class. I don't know how physical education had to do with it. You really, it was great. Well, yesterday when I came home from work,

my wife's also a teacher so she had to look after her actual class so she's like, oh, can you look after the kids through homeschooling? I did a little bit of stuff and then the kids were like,

hey, I'm not the qualified one here, mate. Yeah, sorry for me. Then the kids were like, hey, I want to get on House Party and talk to my friends. And I was like, well, hang on, they've got facts on House Party.

So if you come back and tell me a fact after each little catch up on the House Party video call hat, it's learning at on House Party. So if you come back and tell me a fact after each little catch-up on the House Party video call hat, it's learning at the same time. So they came back with a couple of good facts. I'll play them to you now. Here's one. Birds don't pee.

Birds don't pee. Mm-hmm. Did you know that? Birds don't pee. That was in there. Hold on, mate. They're going to go back to school. They're going to be like, hey, did you do any of the curriculum

we put up on the Google Drive? No, but birds don't pee. Oh, well, then you're going to have to restart the year because your dad has done a shocking job educating you. You're smarter than all the other kids there. So there you go. I'll 800 the hits if you've got a fact that you can pass on to us from House Party because here's another one.

Well, some kangaroos that lived 12,000 years ago were the same size as rhinoceroses. I take it back. You've passed with flying colours now. How's that? Kangaroos as rhinos. Wouldn't that be a scary experience? They're just big Aussie buffheads, kangaroos, aren't they?

Well, imagine them the same size as rhinos. Yeah, terrifying things. I don't know how they get so muscly. They're just so, they're cut. Oh, yeah, yeah, they're always working out, right? So what have you learnt from House Party 0800? What I learnt from House Party is don't download Houseparty because you get bombarded with notifications about friends who have joined Houseparty.

Oh, yeah. We always know we're in social L's at all times of the night through Houseparty. I wake up in the morning and say, oh, L had a late one last night on Houseparty. See why he's a bit shady at work today. Okay, all right. Who's on the phone here? Felicity, you're in Christchurch. Welcome to the radio show.

Thank you for having me. What did you learn on house party, Felicity? I learned that Doritos were invented in Disneyland. No way. What? Really? Apparently so. I was actually, I was quite blown away with that one.

But then I thought about it and it kind of makes sense because, you know, Disneyland's like the most magical place in the world. And I reckon Doritos are pretty magical. They are very magical. It kind of works out. They've literally pulled me through the last four weeks, Doritos. A lot of New Zealanders, they're the real heroes. Joining us on line two, Darren.

No, he's on line three. I'm sorry, I'm really trying to come to terms with this phone system. That's all right, mate. And I'm not doing a great job of reading it. And it's pretty straightforward, too. Like, it's my fault. I'm not blaming this on anyone else. I'm really trying to come to terms with this phone system. That's all right, mate. And I'm not doing a great job of reading it. And it's pretty straightforward, too. Like, it's my fault. I'm not blaming this on anyone else. I'm very basic.

Joining us, Rebecca. You're from the Hawke's Bay. Welcome. How are you? I'm good, thanks. How are you? Are you coming to us with a fact from house party? I am, yeah.

My fact is that goats actually have accents. And I have three at home. So now my mind's just blown. Goats have accents? Yeah. Hello. I'm not good at accents. Yeah, but they all go, yeah.

They'll be like, oh, yeah, he's Scottish, he's bloody. Is it racist to do an impersonation of a goat accent? You're going to have to ask a goat. I don't know. Don't offend anyone. Darren, you're in Whangarei, and now you're on the radio. What's your fact from house party? Yeah, first off,arei and now you're on the radio. What's your fact from House Party? Yeah, first off, bloody love listening to you boys on the hits.

Good job. Oh, thank you very much. Thank you for spouting off our pre-prepared propaganda that our producer told you to say. We appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, that's nice. I was on House Party the other night and found out that in the 1880s, pants was actually considered a dirty word.

Pants? Yeah, like pants. Like, I'm not wearing any pants. Well, that's also a dirty thing. Pants. Yeah, like pants. Like, I'm not wearing any pants. Well, that's also a dirty thing now, but I guess... I guess pants is... Well, there we go. Fun fact, Ben's not either,

so we're all in the same boat. Thank you, Darren. Have a wonderful day. There's your hack today for homeschooling house party. It's a great source of facts. The ISO Luncheon with Jono and Ben on the hits.

Now, of course, the hugely popular Netflix documentary seems to have everyone talking is Tiger King, and one of the stars of the show is Jeff Lowe. Now, he takes over the zoo from Joe Exotic, right? Yeah, you would have seen Joe Exotic, pictures of Joe Exotic floating around your feed as of late, and he basically used to own a zoo full of wild cats,

tigers and leopards and all that sort of stuff. And this guy has taken over the zoo. Joe Exotic's now in prison. It's a crazy story. It is. We don't want to give away too much about it because you should go and watch it on Netflix if you can. It just gets crazier and crazier. And yesterday we caught up with Jeff Lowe and his wife Lauren on Zoom.

And here is part two of our catch up from one of the stars of the Tiger King. Where was the last time you had any contact with Joe Exotic? It would have been about the 18th of June of 18. He texted me after he left the park. He texted me and he says, I just can't do this no more. And now, you know,

I don't want anybody to know where I'm at. So he was living up, you know, about 30 or 40 miles away from the park, hiding in somebody's backyard. And, you know, he was just trying to abscond from the authorities because he knew something, yeah, he knew something was coming. And he was applying for a job as an emergency room nurse with a falsified resume that another nurse friend of his helped him to draft. Yeah, so he was, right up to the end, he was trying to scam everybody. So, you know, can you imagine Joe Exotic as your nurse

with no credentials whatsoever? Yeah. Wow. The story just gets wetter and wetter. He could sing you to sleep. What I really appreciate about Joe is his blasé security with gun control. I mean, he's just firing bullets off left, right, and centre.

Were you ever close to being shot by Joe Exotic? Oh, man. You don't know, but when he would get into his studio and he was doing his Carole Baskin, his hatred videos towards her, he would pull that gun out and shoot through the walls. He just fires bullets on her. Wow. And you'll be voting for him in his presidential campaign,

Joe Exotic for president 2020? Yeah. He actually had signs in the park. Really? Already. Already. After he lost the election in 16, surprisingly, he had the 2020 signs printed

and stuck on the buildings. Well, you've got a plan. We've got one of the stars of the Netflix documentary, The Tiger King, on Zoom with us right now, Jeff Lowe and his wife, Lauren, in America. President Donald Trump has weighed into the documentary. What do you think about a potential presidential pardon for Joe Exotic to be released from prison?

I think if he wants to protect Joe Exotic's life, he'll leave him where he's at because there's so many people that hate him now and that would like to get famous by knocking off the former Tiger King. On top of it, he's got so many more charges pending from the federal government here for campaign finance violations.

Tax evasion. Income tax. Even if Trump let him out, he'd be right back in. They'd probably arrest him before he got to his limousine. Tax evasion. Ben's been doing that for a while. Yeah, but don't admit it. That's the thing, you don't admit it.

Do you believe that he ordered a hit out on Carole Baskin? Absolutely. He talked about it every damn day of his life. And then when he finally went to that fat, chucky-looking guy on carol baskin absolutely he talked about it every damn day of his life and you know and then when when he finally went to that fat chucky looking guy and because james was in the strip club and james in strip club business so james joe thought james would know the you know unsavory shady characters so james was already working with the feds unbeknownst to joe so the feds sent in this great big biker looking guy and james says here's

here it is joe here's your guy this guy will do it so joe stood right up in the office and and explained what he wanted him to do follow her into a parking lot and cap her and drive off and he promised to give the guy some money um by selling tiger cubs the following week had he handed the guy a dollar bill at that point, they would have raided the park and arrested him. That's just an unbelievable story. We thank you so much for your time today. And one other unbelievable thing I found out is, Jeff,

you've got 60 to 70 of the same brand of T-shirts. You know, they're $80 T-shirts. And, you know, so not everyone wears them anymore. And as soon as Aizad starts putting skulls on shirts, I'll switch to Isaac. All it takes is a skull on a shirt. Bedazzle it if you want. Okay, and finally, one last question.

Out of all of the cast of Tiger King, who is the craziest? Are we talking Joe Exotic? Are we talking Carole Baskin? Are we talking the guy, Antlele who runs his weird cult tiger thing? You know, I think Joe would probably be the loosest cannon of the bunch because he had the world in palm of his hands and he just let his hatred and his greed

destroy him and he let one woman sitting 1600 miles away drive him crazy every single day of his life and now i'm sure it's even worse can you imagine this guy wanted fame so bad and now he's sitting in a federal prison in a nine by seven cell can't enjoy the fact he's on people magazine today couldn't even watch the documentary and it would drive him absolutely yeah crazy to know that we were getting you know, the attention that we're getting. He's probably one of the most famous people in the world right now. Yeah, unbelievable story.

Thank you so much for your time, and thank you for the seven hours of my life I'll never get back. I'll tell you what, next time we're over there, we'll be coming to visit that zoo. Absolutely. We'll have the new one open by then. Oh, we'll be there. We'll be there.

Are we? We'll give away a trip on the radio station to the zoo. Absolutely. Let's go. Done it. Promo on the spot. I'll sort out the flights. That's how it works.

Once the border control restrictions are off, we're over there. All right, mate. Hey, thanks for your time today, guys. Thank you. That is one of the stars of the Tiger King, Jeff Lowe, and his wife, Lauren. If you want to catch that full interview, you can catch it on iHeartRadio or on our Facebook page as well. The hits

breakfast. One hour of mildly entertaining radio. It's Jono and Ben's Iso Luncheon. On the hits. Before we go we'd like to reward someone who's doing great work for New Zealand right now because a lot of great New Zealanders to coin a phrase from another popular radio station. We've been coining that phrase every day. Yeah.

I know we should apologise. I'm really pitching in and doing great work for the country and we'd like to reward them right now. That's right. So this person has been nominated. They're going to win a $250 GrabOn voucher. And these people, I believe, are doing some of the hardest work out there, having to control numbnuts like you and me, Ben.

Hello, Jack speaking. Is this Jack Hibbs, police officer from East Auckland? Yes, it is. Speaking. It's Jono and Ben, low-rent radio announcers from the Hits. How are you? Oh, yeah, good, man. How are you guys? We're doing well. You've been nominated by your wife, Sophie,

for the ISA legend today. You're a police officer on the front line, out there doing it all, and then coming home cooking meals while she goes out and is a paramedic. Oh, yeah, just any other day. That's what it is. Well, yeah, no, you guys are doing amazing stuff.

Oh, thank you. Oh, I really appreciate that. But, no, hey, we love what we do, and that's why we're here. Now, I know Ben's had a bit of a run-in with the law in the past. Is it okay for you to be talking to him right now and knowing criminal? Oh, yeah. None of those are strange. Can you accept a prize from a known criminal?

This is a bribe. It comes across as a bribe now. We've actually got Sophie, your partner, on the phone. Well, producer Bumfrey's actually teed up Sophie. His name's Ben Humphrey, and we've just labelled him Bumfrey. Sophie, are you there as well? Yep.

You nominated Jack as the ISA legend but you're a paramedic, you're also an ISA legend. Yep, I'm just in between that. The phone call actually woke me up. Sorry about that. Are you guys seeing each other at all? Because you must be working different shifts, different hours of the day.

Jack, he waited at the day. Check. He waited at the crossroads this morning for us, so we can say hello. We waited to say hello on the way. Well, thank you so much for what you're doing for New Zealand, you guys. We're going to reward you with a $250 GrabOne voucher. You can spend that on whatever you want after lockdown. There's some awesome things in there. Beauty massage and spa.

There's amazing food packs as well to feed the family. There's restaurant deals, all that and more from Grab One. So thanks, guys. Oh, fantastic. Hey, thanks very much for that. Really appreciate it. Good on you guys. You're keeping New Zealand running and we're not doing that. No.

You are better people than us. Well done. Thanks, of course, to Grab One. Your everyday essentials delivered today. And thank you to you guys for listening. It's been a lot of fun doing the ISA luncheon. I tell you what, just doing an hour of radio is a dream, Ben, and I think we should talk to management about continuing this cushy lifestyle. But we can't because Monday we're starting on breakfast, 7 a.m. Well, we'll be there from 6, actually.

Oh, no, actually, 6 o'clock. Yeah, yeah, sorry, I haven't talked to you about that. 6 o'clock is when breakfast starts. 6 o'clock, you agreed to 6 o'clock? Yeah, that's where it starts. We'll be there from 6 o'clock. I said 7. No, 6. 6 is when breakfast starts. Six o'clock? You agreed to six o'clock? Yeah, that's where it starts. We're there from six o'clock. I said seven. No, six.

Six has been breakfast start. Jesus. And I said, we were meant to finish at nine, but I said, nah, let's go till ten. So we're going six till ten. What? Six till ten on Monday. Why were you trying to kiss the arsehole? It's a new company, mate.

You've got to put in the hard lines at the start, then you can coast off. Anyway, join us for breakfast on Monday. I want to say, actually, take this time to acknowledge Laura, Sam and Tony, who have been doing a fantastic job. Dave and Bro, who have been doing a fantastic job. Dave and Brodie have also been doing a fantastic job in Christchurch as well. Our main goal is just to not lose every single one of the listeners that you have managed to gather. Yeah, we'll see how we go.

They're awesome shows, awesome people. And now you have yourself a great day, New Zealand. Stay safe. And stay sanitised. Good day, Aotearoa.