Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - December 04 - Nadia Lim, The COVID Announcement Dance Song, Work Christmas Party Stories

Episode Date: December 4, 2020

Kia Ora and TGIF! Today we debuted what will be New Zealand's hottest summer song this year to keep us all safe. Think Sandstorm by Darude mixed with the Covid-19 ad... It's brilliant. Last night was also our work Christmas party and we asked you guys who has had the best Christmas party and there were some stories! Finally, we caught up with Nadia Lim who has a new childrens book out and it's adorable! What can't that woman do!? Enjoy the pod!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I am now. We had our Christmas party last night. Yeah, it was fun. It was fun, yeah, it was a dress-up situation. Unfortunately, Ben lent me his Finding Nemo costume, which I appreciated. Yeah. You went as Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds. Yes, but yeah, and I had the same problem, not to the level that you struggled with.

Yeah, what I didn't factor in is when you go to the lavatory, you have to take off your costume. It was a full-bodied costume, you know. It was like a zip from the crotch up sort of situation. And what I didn't factor in is that when you go to the toilet, you need to unzip and sort of have it hanging around your waist, you know, or even below in some cases. And the gills,

the gills which were on the arms, they were sort of draped inside the urinal. And I was like, my friend Ben, I know how he likes to be sanitised, will not appreciate this. So I took it off and I said to the lady behind the bar, mate, you'll never get, I told her the story. She's like, that's devastating. And she just held up this giant bin behind the bar and she's like, chuck it in there.

So I'll get you a new finding. That's very kind of you. It's fine. Nemo found his way into the urinal. Fun show today, though. We had Nadia Lim join us in the studio. She's got a new project out, which is pretty cool. And we've got a new hit song.

The hit song, I think it's going to be for summer, right? It debuted on our show and got great response. It did, yeah. They released the top songs of the year already. LAB was number one, too. Number two, I think, Weekend Blinding Lights, wasn't it? The charts in New Zealand. But they released

those figures too early. They did not factor in a late run from your old mates J&B and a novelty song to do with COVID. I know. So that will be

on the podcast today. Have yourself a great podcast listening and we'll catch you again on Monday. The radio version of Morning Breath. It's Jono and Ben

on the hits. Close. It's LAB in the air. It is 8's Jono and Ben on the hits. Close. It's LAB in the air. It is 8.09. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. Now, that song was the biggest song in New Zealand this year, up against all the international songs in New Zealand. It was the most listened to song, LAB.

I think they've called it too early. They've called it way too early because we have a late runner in the race for the number one song in Aotearoa 2020. And I think a song that's indicative of the year that we've all been through, Ben Boyce. That's right now, the COVID-19 announcements. They've been on radio, they've been on TV. You'll know them. You'll know this distinct sound that they start the ad with.

This is a COVID-19 announcement. Yeah, but they do get out an important message. And we want everyone to be safe over summer, heading into summer, you know, particularly at the festivals and places where people gather. So we thought, why can't, why don't we create a song that is all about being safe, but that kind of sums up the year using that COVID announcement.

Yeah, now it combines our love of late 90s techno dance anthems and government pandemic responses. So we've teamed up with Darude. Who doesn't know about this? No, no. So please, no one tell Mr. Darude. And his song Sandstorm. We might have created another storm starting with an S.

With copyright reasons. Darude would be like, yeah, you've got another storm on your hands now, buddy. Let's not dwell on that too much. Let's just play the song that will be hitting the clubs, hitting the festivals and keeping you safe over summer. This is a COVID-19 announcement. When you're feeling unwell, isolate wherever you are.

Isolate wherever you are. Call Healthline about a COVID-19 test. By getting a test, you're helping keep your community safe. Keep your community safe. COVID-19 announcement. Isolate wherever you are. Keep your community safe. Oh, what a tune for your Friday, the COVID-19 sandstorm.

What a rollercoaster of a song, but it sums up the year too. It does. As if you couldn't chuck any more into this year when we have. This is your new breakfast health star rating still pending it's Jorowen

Manomahet she's a celebrity chef television personality you know her from Master Chef Dancing with the Stars and being one of

the founders of My Food Bag and now she's got an exciting new announcement to talk to us about it's Nadia Lim great to have you

in the studio good I feel like I haven't seen you both in ages we've spoken to you over Zoom and on the. I feel like I haven't seen you both in ages. Oh, we've spoken to you over Zoom and on the phone and stuff, but we haven't seen you in person because you live down south now. Yeah. Yes, I'm visiting the Big Smoke for a few days.

Do you like the Big Smoke? When you come to the Big Smoke, do you take up smoking? Just when you're in the Big Smoke. Do you find when you've come from a quiet rural farm to the city that it's too much? Actually, to be honest, in some ways, yes. I do find it quite stimulating maybe. There is a lot going on.

There's a lot happening. Yeah, you adapt fast. So I've been on the farm now just out of Arrowtown for almost a year. You adapt quite quickly to not seeing many humans and the noises. I think the noises is the biggest part. So the noises, like you literally just hear birds and the wind kind of, and sheep barring and kids screaming, of course. That one doesn't make sense, unfortunately.

But you don't hear any traffic or sirens or things like that, I guess, that you hear from time to time in the city. No, that's right. And then last night when we arrived here, I think on my way from the airport to my mum's place. It took you nine hours. Yeah, it did take quite long

and then heard all these sirens and yeah, so it's the sounds that's the biggest thing. Well, that's the good thing about the sirens is it drowns out the kids screaming. So true.

So there's a benefit to urban living. And so you do farm stuff. I think that's what they call it, isn't it? Yeah, farm stuff. That's what they call it. Farming or farm stuff is the other stuff. I think that's what they call it, isn't it? Yeah, farm stuff. That's what they call it. Farming or farm stuff, the other name.

I help out, but I'm not the farmer. My husband Carlos is, though. He co-farm managers with a lady called Michelle. They do all the farm stuff. And I'll help out every now and again. It's a relentless, it's a seven-day-a-week, 365. Totally. I mean, in a nutshell

like if you're looking after living things you know livestock you have to look after them every single day I'm sure the sheep don't go oh I tell you what

Nadia and Carlos look like they could do with the weekend off do they no feed me shave me whatever you do to me

put me in a paddock with it dag me there's a lot of work is it a proper farm like it's an actual proper farm it's not just one of those

1200 acres oh wow so it's not just one of those. 1,200 acres. Oh, wow. So it's not just like a little. No, lots of people I think think we've moved to a lifestyle block. Yes. But no, no, no.

It's like proper, proper. Well, good on you guys. That's very exciting. One of my jobs actually, I do look after the 130 chickens that we've got in a mobile. 130? Yeah.

129 come the 25th. Oh. Huh? What do you mean? What do you mean? One will go missing on Christmas Day. Oh, sure, no. Sure, no. What are you doing? Sure do you mean? One will go missing on Christmas Day Oh, sure no What do you mean sure no?

What do you mean sure no? What do you mean? Well, if I get desperate I can imagine you'd fall in love with animals though Yeah And you'd be like, oh, okay, you know Yeah, yeah Well, I do have, so I've got my pet ones

So I've actually got, so that's the caravan chickens, but then I have my pet chickens. Which has actually inspired the book that you're here to talk about today. Yeah, so one of them is called Marvin. So I hatched him, unexpectedly hatched him, like I was not planning it in winter. So one of my pet chickens, Tui, had laid some eggs in the middle of winter and in Arrowtown, winters are freezing.

Right, yeah. We have so much snow there. And I just knew they weren't going to survive. So I kind of took the last four eggs and put them, I didn't have anywhere, I didn't have an incubator, so I put them in my cake tin. It seemed like the best place to put them in. Lined it with hay and some muslin cloth and then built up a big stack of books,

put them on top and then put our big lounge lamp light on top to keep them warm. And Carlos, my husband, was like, nuts, we're dreaming. It's not going to work, trust me. They're going to start stinking, they're going to go off, just throw the damn eggs out. And I was like, no, we don't know, you know,

there could be a chance. A few days later, one hatched. And I called him Marvin. It was just such a miracle. I can't even explain how exciting it was and I thought I was going crazy because I heard cheeping when there was nothing happening in the egg and then I later found out that they actually do

cheep when they're inside the egg before they hatch. Yeah, right. And I thought I was going crazy. So you hatched a chicken and this inspired you to write a children's book about Marvin the marvellous Marvin. Insp inspired by a true story. Yeah, based on real life events. Which I love.

So it's a kid's book for three to seven-year-old kids. So Jono, you probably... It's a bit of arts for Jono. I can read it to you, Jono. Yeah, thank you. It's a little bit above my reading level. Because obviously Marvin is your pet and you have an attachment.

Are the other chickens who are out there battling it, doing the nitrogen pooping all day, are they looking over at Marvin going, oh, look at old... Sitting in his cake tin looking good. Yeah, in his ivory tower. I think they do think he's a bit odd. So he's, I think he's a little confused

because he definitely thought he was human to begin with, but I've tried to integrate him with my other pet chickens and they didn't accept him at first. They were really nasty to him. Chickens, the whole pecking order thing is a real thing. It's a hierarchy. It's a little pecking order. But now they've slowly started to accept him

and now he'll hang out with them, but always at about a one to two metre distance. That's a safe social distance. Yeah, exactly. He grew up in a COVID world, you know. He's aware of it. So the book is out and all the proceeds are going to charity as well. Yeah, so I decided with this one as well, I thought, you know,

what a beautiful story of Marvin's and this could be a really nice opportunity to do something cool with it as well. So 100% of my proceeds, so my author proceeds go, well, let's say Marvin's proceeds, go to Hoo-Ha, which is helping you help animals, which is a rescue and rehoming operation for animals. Awesome.

And also garden to table. So I'm splitting it between the two. Kids do that at school. They love garden to table. So good, isn't it? Teaching kids how to grow, harvest, and cook their own food. Yeah, that's awesome.

You must be busy. You've got so much on the go. Putting together those food bags every week. Yeah, still doing that. Doing the Christmas ones at the moment. Oh, yeah. Which I think have sold out. Yeah, they sold out.

We were looking at those the other day. They're gone. I went to order mine, and I missed out on the one that I wanted. I'm such a dear. Do you have to order your own food bag? Yeah, totally. Well, I thought you'd be like, oh, yeah. Well, I did email the office. I was like, can I get this one?

They're like, oh, they're all sold out. I was like, don't worry, I'll have this other one. Don't worry, I just own the company. It's fine. Don't worry. I don't get any special treatments. I still buy mine. Do you?

Absolutely. Of course. I would be rinsing that. Do you know the amount of free Hits puffer jackets I have stolen from this office? Do you want a Hits puffer jacket? I've got 30 of them. I'll swap youinsing that. Do you know the amount of free Hits puffer jackets I have stolen from this office? Do you want a Hits puffer jacket? I've got 30 of them. I'll swap you a food bag.

Yeah. Hey, it's lovely to see you, Nadia. Always nice to catch up. You too. And where can people find the book if they want to get it just in time for Christmas? It'll be in all good bookstores. And some of the not good bookstores as well, too.

Probably. Or online. I'm joking. And the dark web. You I'm joking and the dark web you can buy it on the dark web with some bitcoin and every time we see you you keep inviting us

to your house oh no you're so lovely yeah come down you're going to regret that because one day we're going to turn up hey I'm going to get you guys over and you're going to babysit

and entertain the kids with toddler rap oh yeah toddler rap ok we can do that while I go out and I'll massage Marvin good to see you, mate. Look after yourself.

Merry Christmas. You too. Some people skip breakfast, the meal, and also this show. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. Now, last night was the work Christmas party, so everyone's, you know, feeling a little bit tired. Alive. Feeling alive, that's right.

Poor Julia, look at you. I look like a ghost, and I feel like a ghost. She got us her alumsha, our overnight security guard, sent her a photo a ghost she got her she Alumsha our overnight security guard sent her a photo and it's her and Alumsha having a selfie at one o'clock in the morning

at one o'clock in the morning she's doing the peace sign and going ooh the lips you know and Alumsha's he's like hey

lovely thanks for the photo she's like what the fuck can't say I remember taking that anyway anyway it was fun it was a fun party

it was a dress up party wasn't it you get to see another side of your colleagues don't you like I literally saw Stu from Sales Backside It was a fun party. It was a dress-up party, wasn't it? You get to see another side of your colleagues, don't you? Like, I literally saw Stu from Sales backside. He was doing a party trick, the flaming flamingo. And it was quite impressive. Very impressive.

Everyone saw another side of you, apparently, on the Hits Instagram. There's a little bit of stuff going on in your onesie. Oh, yeah. What do you mean? Anyway, anyway. But you've got a confession to make apparently uh to me well thank you yeah because it was a dress-up party and uh ben you uh kindly donated me your uh finding a nemo costume it's like a nemo clownfish or onesie yeah yeah and i appreciate it but the

problem is because i had clothes on underneath and stuff and when nature nature called, I had to unzip Nemo and, you know, it would sort of hang around by my waist. But it had long gills, didn't it? Long gills hanging off the arms, which kind of drooped on the ground. And in the urinal. Oh. No.

Nemo went swimming. In an ocean of some sorts. You can keep that costume. No, I gave it to the bar. I took it off in there. I was like, I can't wander around in this. And I said to the bar lady, she's like, she just held up this big waistband.

She's like, dump it in there. So I'll get you a new costume, a new Nemo costume. And I apologise. But what we wanted to throw out this morning, 0800 the hits is the telephone number. What in the past has been New Zealand's best Christmas party? New Zealand's best work Christmas party? And we understand 2020 COVID, there might not be as many.

We were at a pub last night and it was bloody fun. Yeah, but you're right. There are a lot of companies that, you know, are going through some difficult times. So this year's Christmas parties may not be as big as, you know, another year. So we thought in the past, what's been the coolest thing? What's been the coolest Christmas party you've done as a work? Yeah. Did you go to Hawaii?

That'd be wild, wouldn't it? It would be. I don't think their business would be in operation now if they took all their staff to Hawaii. That'd be a night. That'd be a big waste of money. But that's just one example. Yeah, not a good one. But an old radio station, we used to have a Christmas party on the last day of work

and it became tradition that the boss would gift us all hams. You know, a big ham. You know hams? Have you seen ham before? No, explain more about it. Yeah, well, imagine a ham. You can't just say the word ham. You've got to say leg of ham.

Yeah. I don't think it is a leg of ham, is it? Leg of ham. Is it a leg of ham? I don't know. Anyway. But as the day wore on, you became less and less aware that you were in custody of a leg of ham, of a ham. And you'd end up just leaving it in the office.

And you'd come back at Jan and the ham had sort of slowly turned into bacon over the summer months and boy oh boy it festered Juliette stop yawning at me Juliette's yawning at me looking at me with dead eyes and yawning Wrap it up

I apologise Wrap up your story mate This is what I want to say The best Christmas parties in the past Can you beat Jono's ham story I apologise. Yeah, wrap up your story, mate. Oh, wait, I don't know. This is what I want to say. The best Christmas parties in the past, what have you had? Can you beat Jono's ham story? That's the bar. We've said it very loud. Can you not make Julia yawn?

Then you win. Hayley, you're on the air. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? Good, James. My one sounds really lame compared to that, though. Oh, listen. Shall we ramp yours up?

We went to the races. In Hawaii? Yes. Those Hawaiian horses. Hawaiian horses. What races? The Tarapa ones. Oh,

yeah, no, yeah, yeah, no, kind of. It's a fun day out. It's a fun day out,

but yeah, compared to the... Yeah, we should have talked about the Las Vegas one. La, yeah, Las.

Hayley? No. How was the, did you ever win? Yeah, I put a dollar on have talked about the Las Vegas one at the end. La, yeah, Las. Hayley? Yeah? Did you ever win? Yeah, I put a dollar on a Cornell, which I didn't even know what that was, and I won $104,000 or something. $104,000, Johnny. Yeah, that was. Wow, see, it was great.

And then she shouted everyone to Las Vegas, and they went there for a week. Is that what happened, Hayley? Yeah. Pretty much. Hey, you go and have a great weekend, mate,? Yeah. Pretty much. Hey, you guys have a great weekend, mate, and Merry Christmas to you. Thank you, you guys too. See you, mate.

Thanks for listening. Let's head to Christchurch. Sarah Morena. Hi. How are you? Mine's definitely not Las Vegas, but about five years ago, our boss brought about 15 of us up from Christchurch

to Waiheke Island, and we spent the day at the wineries and did a whole lot of activities. Oh, that's fun! Yeah, again, it's no Vegas. I shouldn't have started with Vegas. Why did you talk about Vegas? Everything's just downhill from Vegas. But a winery in Waiheke, that's lovely. That's a good day. Was it there and back in

a day? No, we got to stay overnight there as well. Oh, wonderful. See, that's fun. Better than the races. Yeah, better than the races, but not as good as Vegas. Yeah. You have a great weekend, Sarah. I really do appreciate it. Thank you.

Hey, good on you. Did you reckon Santa holds a Christmas party for the elves there in the North Pole? I reckon they have to do like one after Christmas. After, yeah, post. A celebration, it's all done. Jeez, they work their little, don't they? It's sort of a slave labour operation going on there with those elves. I'm sure they get good perks and stuff, aren't they?

Hopefully they're above minimum wage, the elves. Yeah, I'm sure he'd look after them, wouldn't he? Yeah. Well, he would come home after a big, like he'd be... It's like Rhythm and Vines. They'll build up to one night a year or one or two, you know, and it's all done and then next year you start all over again. Santa comes rolling through the door after drinking whiskeys all over the world.

And biscuits and carrots. What do you leave out for him? Normally a cookie and milk, the kids would do. I thought you'd be like celery sticks. Oh, no, carrots for the reindeer or celery for the reindeer and stuff. But yeah, Santa might eat a little cookie and some milk. But the beer, I feel like he's getting

enough beer and alcohol. He'd be quite bloated. He's quite bloated anyway. He really should look after his heart, shouldn't he? He's quite red. I know.

High blood pressure. Yeah. Yeah, no, the carrots, the reindeer always leave the carrots all over our driveway. Oh, do they?

If it's a carrot, it's a nightmare. I have to go and pick them up the next morning. All the ants are crawling over them. Wake up and smell them. Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd. It's Jono and Ben

on the hits. A friend of mine had a very embarrassing accident the other day. So his wife was running a little bit late for work and she was like, if I take the bus, I'm going to be late. Can you give me a ride into work? Can you drop me off? He was like, because he didn't have to be anywhere

until later. He's like, yeah, fine. And he just got out of the shower and he was like, well, it's only a few minutes up the road. I'll just get in the car with just a towel on, nothing else, and then I'll drive her up the road. Risky manoeuvre anyway. The time it would take you to put on a pair of trousers. Or a shirt or something.

I can sort of see where this is going to end up. Yeah, so he dropped her off. Fine, it was all good. Then he was driving home. He had a bit of a nose to tail. Oh, no. And then had to get out of the car. He was like, uh-oh, I've not only done this,

now I've got to get out of the car and have a conversation with this person. Just wearing a towel. And then obviously there was a waiting issue. The person was like, we're going to wait. We need to get the police down here to talk about this. He's like, oh, no, we probably don't.

You're like, I'll take responsibility. No, no, we do. So then, you know, waiting we're going to wait. We need to get the police down here to talk about this. He's like, oh, no, we probably don't. You're like, I'll take responsibility. No, no, we do. So then, you know, wait around for that to happen. And he was like, I'm just standing the whole time on the side of the road. He was looking like a person who was, yeah. Can we all just sit in my car and sort this out? Just wearing a towel, nothing underneath. I mean, you judge people who are wandering around town in a towel, don't you?

You shouldn't, but you do. Yeah, I think for the lady's sake that he crashed into, she'd be like, who is this guy? Why is he dressed like this? Speaking of accidents, you, Ben Boyce, I don't know if you know this, Juliet, is one of the few people in the world who has managed to write off his car in his own driveway twice.

Really? Him and Johnny Depp after nine bottles of wine. I wasn't drunk. No, no, no. No, you weren't drunk. No, no. Yeah. But you know, how did you manage that? Oh, the first time was

a long time ago when we was living in the Wairarapa and we had a long driveway because we were living on a farm and for some reason I decided,

because I just got petrol to reset the odometer, you know, to go, I don't know why, I just thought, I was like, see how long it takes

until I run out of petrol and I got my hand, I sort of pushed it and I got my hand I sort of pushed it I got my hand wedged between the wheel steering wheel and the sort of the indicator

and I don't know why I didn't think about putting on the brake but I just veered straight off into a tree I was like uh oh uh oh

crash and I was like and then his other one his car rolled down his driveway across two lanes of traffic oh that was so lucky and into the neighbour's fence.

No one's, yeah. Yes, it could have knocked on the door and it's like, do you drive a car like this? I'm like, yeah. And it's like, it rolled down through quite a narrow driveway.

The handbrake had obviously just clicked off and so it went straight down. Wow. The handbrake had clicked off? I don't think you put the handbrake on. I did put the handbrake on. He swears he put the handbrake on.

I did. Now he just takes photos. His photo stream's clogged up. I do now because I'm like, he takes photos of handbrakes. Yeah I did put the handbrake on. I did. Now he just takes photos. His photo stream's clogged up. I do now because I'm like, I take photos of handbrakes. Yeah.

Because I was like, I put the handbrake on and it malfunctioned and now I take photos of handbrakes everywhere I go. If I'm leaving the

car for a day or so, I take a photo of the handbrake. He always sends me the photos of the handbrakes. One time he sent me this photo of

something resembling a handbrake. It looked a little different to the other handbrakes. I thought I'd send that one to you. Sorry. That wasn't a handbrake. It looked a little different to the other handbrakes. I thought I said that one too. Sorry. That wasn't a handbrake, by the way.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Scrolling through your feed. Listen, if you wanted to tune in to a couple of schmucks and their millennial producer lightly dusting over the news stories they know nothing about, well, have we got the feature for you. This is Ben Boyce presenting the news.

I have copied and pasted this news from online documents. He's got his index finger and his middle finger of control seed and control V'd the crap out of this. I thought this was pretty cool, though. So if you're worried about Santa coming to New Zealand for Christmastime, well, the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern herself, she's given Santa border exemption so he can visit New Zealand to deliver presents this Christmas.

No, what? Hold on. Hold on. Why is he better than anyone else? Put him in the jet park motel, thank you, for two weeks. No, but he's kind of in his own little bubble. He's kind of travelling around and they reckon we're one of the first countries for Santa to visit, so there's minimal chance that he's going to pick up anything. Oh, yeah, and I'd be worried if he'd flown to Milan first and went through Italy and Europe and then came here.

But you're right, you're right. So he's got full clearance, so he'll be here for Christmas. I don't care what happens beyond us, as long as we're safe. Okay. Team of five million. Maybe they could get him a vaccine. Maybe he'll get him to be one of the first people to get the jab. Well, he's elderly.

He's in the demo, isn't he? Yeah, he's very susceptible. How old is Santa? He got to a stage and then he just stayed there. Did he come out like that? Did he come out of his mum like that? She's like, oh, this is an odd old man baby. Then he stayed like an old man. Why's my baby got a beard? They go, oh, ho, ho. That would be a disturbing child to birth. But anyway, no, he's doing well.

I'm glad Jacinda's giving him a pass. She won't let my cousin in, though. Oh, here we go. I just want to see my cousin for Christmas. And after 17 years, Auckland's Eden Park, they're relaying the turf on Eden Park, and instead of it going to waste, you can buy some of the hallowed

sporting turf for yourself so you can have that at your house. For 17 years it's been there? Yes. Oh wow. So now they're putting new grass down. So it'll cost you $49 for one square metre of Eden Park and if you wanted to buy say 100 square metres, you'd have $500. Now I have no idea how big 100 square metres

is. It's not my thing. I don't know. I always do. I get confused with square metres. I put the wrong picture on the lawnmower. You know, that's my... You know, Ben hates grass so much that he couldn't even grow a lawn. He just laid down artificial astroturf as grass. And I have not regretted it. Yeah, his backyard's like a tennis court.

Don't have to mow it. Oh, it's a beautiful thing. What do you do with your lawnmower? It still sits in the garage. You can pretend. I've got a berm. You know, and that's, you know. So I'm going to go mow the lawns.

It's like, yeah, it doesn't take me long. We filmed the Dog Almighty, the TV show that we're doing at the moment. We filmed on Eden Park, and jeez, the dogs did some dastardly things on there. That's probably why they're selling it. Why are there patches of this grass that are all of a sudden dying? The All Blacks had to play on that after those dogs had been on there. And that is why they're selling it. Why are there patches of this grass that are all of a sudden dying? The All Blacks had to play on that after those dogs had been on there. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning

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How's Hamilton this morning, matey? I'm on my way to work, so... Big sigh. Could be better. Big sigh. It's Friday. It's Friday, Megan. Yeah, it's Friday.

And you've got... She's like, yeah, you've named the day of the week. Hey, and you've got a $500 Sharesies gift voucher. That's pretty awesome, right? That's real awesome. Thank you. Hey, no worries. No worries.

It's a good way to control your investment portfolio. You can do that right down to the individual companies that you choose on Sharesies. Now, you've got the $500 gift voucher from Sharesies. Now, all we want to do is give one of your friends or loved ones a $500 gift voucher. Who do you want to do this to? My sister, please. I really hope she answers the phone.

Now, Producer Humphrey said your sister's name is Lurie with an L. Yes. Yeah, which I found unusual. An unusual instruction. I was going to go Lurie with an M. Hello. Hello, is that Lurie with an L? That is Lurie with an M. Hello. Hello, is that Lurie with an L? That is Lurie with an L.

Oh, it's Jono with a J and Ben with a B here from The Hits, which starts with an H. Hey. Hey, this is probably a very surprising phone call for you, but you've won a $500 Sharesies gift voucher. Oh, wow. Yeah, take that on board. And we've got your sister on the phone, Megan, as well,

who's on her way to work. She's not that stoked about it. Yeah, and this has been awkward. Well done. Is she on the phone now? She's there. Oh, hey, Megan. Thank you so much.

There you go. Awesome. Yeah, no, she thought, oh, that'd be a nice thing to do for my sister on a Friday morning. My sister's amazing. Yeah, no, she thought, oh, that'd be a nice thing to do for my sister on a Friday morning. My sister's amazing. Oh, why is she so amazing? Pardon? Why is she so amazing?

She's just amazing to everybody. She looks out for everybody all the time. Oh. Everybody else is doing good. Oh, that's so lovely. Well, listen, what a wonderful Christmas present, eh? A Christmas present of an investment portfolio. So well done, Marie.

Oh, look, Laurie. And I got her name wrong. See? That's why you need the L. Laurie with an L. You knew the instructions. I know. We're going to pop you on hold, you guys.

Have a great weekend and enjoy that $500 Sharesies gift voucher. Actually, more than 250,000 Sharesies investors are on New Zealand's fastest-growing investing platform. Keep up to date with your Sharesies wallet. It's easy to track. And if you want to head to sharesies.nz, you can sign up with the promo code HITS to get a $10 kickstart on your new Sharesies investment portfolio. Good stuff. That was fun.

That was a fun week with Sharesies. So thank you very much for coming on board. We apologise in advance. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Bye. Thanks to Sharesies, New Zealand's fastest growing share platform. Shares made easy. Tell you what, there's nothing this woman won't do to get you the celebrity news,

apart from actually going out and researching it. But she will work hard copying and pasting the snot out of the stories that other journalists have worked on. Here's Juju, a spy. Thank you. So George Clooney, and I know we've talked a lot about George Clooney over the week, but you know when celebrities do press, they go 100%. So there's lots of stories.

So what's he doing press at the moment for? Has he got a movie out or something? I saw him on Jimmy Kimmel because there was that unusual thing that he cuts his hair with. Yeah, a Flowbee or something like that. It's like a vacuum cleaner that's got little hair clippers inside it. So he brought it out on Jimmy Kimmel's talk show and then they had a crack at doing it.

Oh, so you just run it all over your head and it cuts your hair? Yeah, it sucks your hair up and then inside it chops it all off. So hair is something that you have... I'll explain it to you later. Where does it grow? Some people... Anyway, it's fine. What do you mean?

Nothing. This is a conversation I've never been a part of. It's very foreign to me. Yeah, yeah. You used to have long hair. Yeah, I used to, but then I stuck with it to me. Yeah, yeah. You used to have like long hair. Yeah, I used to, but then I stuck with it too long. Oh, really? And it always reminded me

of, I always say it looked like a wispy seaweed at the bottom of the ocean in its final. But you suit like a shaved head, you know, like you suit. Don't patronise me, don't do it. I feel like that would be... Like 90% of this man's comedy career has been based on mocking my lightbulb hair.

And now he's like, no, no, you shouldn't. Don't try to undo all the nasty work that you've created over seven years. If I could choose a hairstyle, any hairstyle for you, that would be it. So George Clooney, yes, he uses that word. Thanks, Julian. I'll move on, shall I?

No, but he has revealed that, apart from the fact that he uses a weird device to cut his hair, him and Amal have taught their they've got a pair of twins. They're three years old. They've taught them fluent Italian. But Amal and George don't speak Italian, so they're kind of like,

this is a mistake. We're just teaching them. How do they teach them Italian? As I was saying that, I was kind of thinking it as well. They must have got, obviously, someone in there. Daycare or something. It will translate, maybe. A friend of mine, his wife's Chinese, and he's European, and he's just got no interest in learning Mandarin, but she has taught their little boy Mandarin. And so he's like, I'll be sitting in the lounge.

Oh, so he's not really part of the conversation. No, he's just sitting there having a fluent conversation in Mandarin. It's awesome. They can continue. Oh, it's fantastic. And I tell you what, if there's not really part of the conversation? No, he's just sitting there having a fluent conversation in Mandarin. Which is awesome that they can... Oh, it's fantastic. And I tell you what, if there's any language to be learning, it's probably Mandarin, the way the world's going. But he's sort of like, I'm in my own house

and they're just having this conversation. I don't have a clue what they're talking about. He's like, I've got too much other stuff in my brain to learn Mandarin. I get it. You get to an age where you're like, oh, I can't. Oh, but then you become like, okay, booba, that's the... Yeah, yeah.

But anyway, so I mean, they can talk behind his back freely in front of him. That's so good. It's always one of those things you always regret not learning a language

when you're older. You're like, damn it, I should have stuck with it. And an instrument. I always regret not learning a musical instrument. Yeah, I attempted...

However... Oh, gosh. Oh, no, quickly, wrap this up before he brings out his recorder. He's gone to get his bag. Should I just turn his microphone down? Can you?

He still comes through on my microphone. That's the problem. Request a song. What do you want to hear? I don't know. You can't play any songs, though. You just play the same thing. I'm going to play the National Anthem.

Oh, God. Okay. That was really good. God defend New Zealand. That's what Juliet wants to hear this morning after the Christmas party. God defend New Zealand. That's what Juliet wants to hear this morning after the Christmas party. A PC recorder through her headphones. Totally. And Rihanna, her dating life has been a bit quiet.

Well, like, you know, she's not one to... She's never really been in any serious relationship recently. No, she was dating like a billionaire, wasn't she? A Middle Eastern billionaire. Oh, wow. I saw her frolicking around a pool in a hotel somewhere. Getting very physical in a public pool. The West

Wave Aquatics Center. West Wave Aquatics Center in the wave pool. Is that Rihanna making out with a Middle Eastern billionaire? Wow. But she is now rumoured to be with a Middle Eastern billionaire? Wow. But she is now rumoured to be dating a rapper called ASAP Rocky. And photos of them walking around with their big face masks have been posted everywhere.

Rihanna and ASAP Rocky step out. But the thing is, they're wearing these huge jackets, huge hoodies, face masks. It's like, how can you even tell that's there? Yeah, I know. It's a hard job for the paparazzi these days. Oh, my gosh. Or maybe it's an easy job. You take a photo. Oh, yeah, that's Barack Obama.

Oh, really? Yeah, it's just cold. It's cold in New York at the moment. I mean, Rana looks like, dressed like the Michelin man, the jacket's big, white, puffy jacket. And you can literally, you can't even see her eyes. She wouldn't even know. But that's it, yeah.

Yeah, it's great. Probably an easy job for the paparazzi. Just pretend anyone's a famous person. I just had to Google who the Michelin Man is. It's the same sort of jacket. Yeah, it is, it is. Now here's a fun fact about, you know how they've got like a Michelin star chef? Yes, yes.

You know that's based on the tyre company? What do you mean? Michelin the tyre company. But how is that related to restaurants? Because back in the day, Michelin wanted a reason for people to wear through tyres. So they created this restaurant thing. They're like, oh, you've got to go to this restaurant, but it just happens to be 290 kilometres away. So you'd go through your tyres quicker.

And then you have to buy new tyres. And they're like, it's a Michelin star restaurant. And that was apparently the history of things. So they'd give a Michelin star restaurant to one that's not necessarily good, but just far away. Originally. Yeah, but now it's a prestigious thing, right? Wow. The more you know.

And that is spy. For more, you can check out the hits.co.nz. Like starting your day with panda eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. We do this on a Friday, and it's fast becoming one of my favourite things to do on a Friday. I want to find out who's having the best weekend. Yeah, it's not a competition, but it is a competition, because we decide who is going to have the best weekend.

We have no credentials to decide, but we factor in a lot of things, don't we? The fun of the weekend, the jealousy that we have towards the particular weekend. So you can basically just phone up, and it's very un-New Zealand, but you phone up and you boast. You boast about how good your weekend's going to be

and you can make the rest of us schmucks feel like jealous little rats at the bottom of the ocean. We got some hell pizza vouchers up for grabs. I just went, jealous rats at the bottom of the ocean? The rats in the ocean. Oh, yeah. Is there anything in that? I was like, rats off the ocean? The rats in the ocean. Oh, yeah. I was like, is there anything in that? I was like, rats off the ship?

Yeah. Anyway, we've lingered on that. And I was like, I hate to pull you up on it. I was like, who are you saying? That was an unusual analogy. No, you were right to pull me up on it. Jealous rats at the bottom of the ocean. So give us a call right now.

Oh, Andrew, that hits. Why is your weekend better than everyone else's? And we'll judge you like jealous rats at the bottom of the ocean. So we'll go to Lynn. Hey, she's in Russell. What are you doing this weekend, Lynn? I'm going to Russell to see my grandson. Oh, Lynn.

Very exciting. It's our friend, Lynn. That's a good weekend. Russell's summer is such a great little place. Yes, it's beautiful. Ben always bangs on that they really hang their hat on being the oldest everything, don't they? Yeah, because they're obviously one of the first townships in New Zealand, if not the first.

It was the first capital ain't it? Yeah. And then they're like, oh, it's the oldest church, it's the oldest police station, oh, it's the oldest pub. It's like, we get it. We get it, Russell. You're old. Everyone's the first, the oldest, but anyway, it's lovely. Beautiful spot. And then you said you went to a restaurant and they were like, we can't serve you.

We don't have any clean plates. Yeah, they got too busy one night. Or could you wash one night? They get a lot of people in summertime, so it becomes very busy. Do they just use the plates once and throw them out or something? I don't know how the system worked. Hey, Lin, well, that sounds like a fun weekend. You say hello to your grandson for

us? I will. Thank you. I'm sure that'll mean a lot to him. Like who? John O'Bien Radio. Long story, we're going to give you a hell pizza voucher, alright? Thank you so much. Safe trip, safe trip. Let's go to Dunners. Actually, 0800 the hits if you want to tell us how good your weekend is going to be. We're going to judge them. Dunners,

Chelsea, come on down. Hi. How are you? Yeah, not too bad. How about you guys? Listen, we're doing fine. Ben, a little bit what are you today? I'm alright. What's going

on with you this weekend? I'm pretty pumped for our weekend. We've got five cubic metres of wood to stack all ready for next winter. Five cubes. All ready for next winter. Oh, five cubes. Already for next winter. How organised are you? Well, it's Dunedin. You kind of have to be. Yeah, you want that classic macro carpet to dry out,

don't you? Yeah. Over those summer months. By the time winter rolls around, you've got crispy, dry firewood, baby. Right on, yeah. Right on. Right on. Firewood chat. Yeah. I used to stack firewood It's just one of those jobs That you're like

I only do this once a year But this is the worst possible job ever Yeah, it's never ending Yeah Chelsea You and your firewood Go and have a great day Thank you

We're going to give you a help It's about your right To enjoy while you're stacking that firewood Thanks We're going to Taranaki Johnny, you're on the air. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. We're judging the best weekend so far.

We've got a wonderful trip to Russell, some firewood stacking. What are you going to come in with? You talking to me? Yeah, Johnny. What's going on? It's going to be a good weekend, mate, because I bought a car last year for $800, and I've been doing it up for a year. It turns out it's worth $40,000.

Oh, wow. That's amazing. I guess you could say I've won the car lottery. Yeah. You have? Oh, jeez. What, is it $400,

sorry, $40,000 now you've done it up or it was always worth that much? No, it's always been worth that. You've got it for $800? Oh, jeez. Yeah, I shorted it off of some random dude's front lawn.

Oh, don't tell them. They'll be like, what? That's amazing. We're going to give you a help each about your, well, not you need it, mate, you've got $40,000. So he's not going to give you anything? No, we are. That's awesome. You have a great weekend,

Johnny. Appreciate you listening, buddy. So good weekend. So Judge Ben, we've got, Johnny's got to win it. Johnny's got to win it. Yeah, great weekend, Johnny. Appreciate you listening, buddy. And so good weekend. So Judge Ben, we've got... Johnny's got to win it. Oh, I think he does. Johnny's got to win it. Yeah. Yeah, well done, Johnny. You get the best weekend

and we'll send you out a certificate that Ben will make on Microsoft Clipart after the program. Low in calories and low in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on the hips. Ben, I know your hand's no stranger to a sanitising program. What was that, my phone?

Sorry, mate. Just turn that off. Very unprofessional. Your hands are no stranger to a sanitising, are they? Even BC, before COVID, I enjoyed the use of hand sanitiser. You love a Japanese cherry blossom, don't you? It's actually his nickname. We call him Cherry Blossom.

Our little cherry blossom. Yeah't you? It's actually his nickname. We call him Cherry Blossom, our little cherry blossom. Yeah, it's one of the, well, you know, you've got the standard hand sanitizer, and then sometimes you see, oh, the Japanese cherry blossom. You're like, oh, mix it up. Yeah, people come in here. Harriet from the office comes in here and is like, it smells like a teenage girl's changing room.

I was like, don't worry, it's just Ben's hand. Cherry Blossom's hand's over there. But I was placing some hand sanitiser on my hands yesterday. And you will appreciate this noise, Ben, with your love of 99.99% sanitising. Yeah. This, I think you would pay good money to listen to on an 0900 line.

Okay, so this is just hand sanitiser being applied. Oh, that doesn't sound good. Even for me, it doesn't sound... It just sounds all squelchy and all... It's disgusting and cleansing in the same sentence, isn't it? Yeah. Quite a distinctive sound. Let's just hear it again. We have to.

Sounds like a make-out session or something, doesn't it? Oh, yeah. The noise of kissing is so disgusting. They've got romantic music on in the movies, but you take away the... That's pretty much it. Because you get air suction, don't you? I find that the hand sanitiser, we've talked about this before,

there's a view around work, obviously, in workplaces, but some of the velocity that comes out of the hand sanitiser... Oh, we went to Whangarei, the hit studio in Whangarei, in Charmaine's studio there in Northland, and Ben, when he sees a bottle, he needs to squirt, he needs to sanitise don't you? And you squirted this thing and boy, it came out

like a rocket lab spaceship But not directly down towards my hands off to the side, it went all over the wall like a horror film. Yeah, doggy didn't it? Sprayed it all over the and it was a lot of it too for one squirt, like at least half a litre came out. Yeah, I had the same happen to me at work,

but it went straight down towards my crotch and it went straight across and I was wearing like light coloured pants. You're like, oh, this is not a good look. It's sanitiser. Why are you sanitising now? Well, I'm not, but it came out of the, yeah. Yeah, so there we go.

And we'll take you out on that noise again. There we go. Just one more. What more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Everyone's happy to be here. On a Friday morning, it's always a good feeling,

but now we like to reflect. Sorry to be a down buzz on a Friday, which is a good feeling, because we like to look at Jono's worst moments of the week. Ben Voice Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Fryer's worst moments of the week. You'll be struggling to get some worst moments this week. Ben Voice Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Fryer's Worst Moments of the Week.

You'll be struggling to get some worst moments this week. It's probably been my best week on radio. It's what we leave, it's like, you know, it's the decision

of what you leave out, not what you put in. I mean, that's the toughest thing with us. Too much content. I mean, it's a three to four hour meeting. We all sit around

as a boardroom. Collectively, we play the stuff. It takes a while. There's a board meeting, you take it to the board, the NGME board, and they're like, ooh, it's bad moments oh yeah bad moments that one was bad that was i can't decide you know what was worse we have to narrow it down to our you know the final three or four shocking moments from you

and there's not many broadcasters who can you know confidently say at the end of every week well i've provided at least a dozen shocking moments to new zealand radio history uh one of my favorite moments was we were talking to a Hollywood actor, Kristen Milioti. She's in a new movie with Andy Samberg. You'll know her from How I Met Your Mother. And she... Now, can I jump in here?

This interview... What? ...was on a Sunday. Yeah. It was meant to be on the Monday. The date changed. You never told me. So what you did is you just came in...

It was a calendar invite. And you called me. You could have texted me and gone, hey, just a reminder, this thing's changed. You never told me. So what you did is you just came in. There's a calendar invite. And you called me. You could have texted me and gone, hey, just a reminder. This thing's changed. You didn't read the email. So we decided to call when I was talking to Kristen over Zoom. And we got her to call you and ask you where you were.

Hello. Hi, Jono. How are you? Good. Who's this? This is Kristen Milioti. Just calling to say hi. Oh, f***. Who's this? This is Kristen Milioti. Just calling to say hi. Oh, f***. I thought this was tomorrow. No, no.

This is today right now. We're in the middle of an interview. Oh, s***. Funny those moments, hey? It's like you try and think of an excuse on the spot. You're like, why am I not there? Someone's dead. It's almost worth killing someone, isn't it? Just so you can say, oh, sorry, someone died.

Don't provide it. We can't get that worst moment into this week, mate. No more bad moments. Another moment we're going to look at was when you were talking about your sensitive teeth. I do have very sensitive teeth. Look at my teeth. Don't you ever say a bad word about them and they'll get very sad. Very sensitive teeth.

I can feel the disappointment in my mouth when my teeth get sad. Well, this conversation left a nasty taste in my mouth. Have a listen. I went to the supermarket yesterday and I went and purchased some bloody Sensodyne. But I also picked up some Gaviscon. And two embarrassing products that you never want to be, you know, like I hid them under other things in my basket.

So you couldn't see. Like I would have been more comfortable buying pornography in the Sensodyne under a Playboy magazine. And I bought some as well. Just to hide the Sensodyne. That's why I was there if you had just seen me in the supermarket, to hide the

embarrassing toothpaste. We got talking also this week about the movies. The movies that you love and the scenes that make you cry every time you watch it. And we got talking about a great movie called The Green Mile and the scene. Hopefully this explains it. Kitty,

what's the scene that made you cry? The Green Mile when they executed John Coffey. And he grabbed Tom Hanks by the ghoulies and sorted out his problems. His problems, yeah. He sort of sucked it out and it came out like flies. Ben does that to me after the show. He's like, I've got John Coffey at you, you what?

And you do. I haven't had my daily John Coffey today. My cup of John Coffey. And that is Jono's immersed moments of the week. Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, yesterday we were talking about George Clooney, our actor.

We give George Clooney a lot of air time on this show. He gets a lot of lip service. I tell you what, George, you better be appreciating all the talk we do. If I'm not getting a Nespresso from George this year and a coffee machine, then I've been doing my job wrong for the past 12 months. I'd like just one single, even a singular pod. Just give me a Nespresso pod, I'd be happy, George. Just some sort of recognition single, just even a singular pod. Just give me an espresso pod, I'd be happy, George.

Just some sort of recognition of how much we talk about you. We do love George Clooney. I mean, everyone loves George Clooney, right? He's great. And you love him even more because him and his wife, Amal, she's a lawyer.

Humanitarian rights lawyer. Yeah, they've been together for seven years, we discovered. And they haven't, well, we didn't discover they'd been together for seven years. We knew that. We discovered they'd never argued,

not once in seven years, apparently, never had an argument. That's, and also someone texted in yesterday when we were talking about going, well, to be fair, no wonder George

doesn't want to argue with her. She's probably one of the world's best lawyers. You're never going to win. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's true. So yesterday we went, has anyone out there listening

not been in an argument with their partner? And Alex phoned through. Alex is on the phone from Rotorua. Welcome. Never had an argument with your partner, Alex? No, never had an argument. How many years have you been together?

29. No. What do you do? Do you want to let it out on the radio now? We don't want all that. Have a good scream. Go on, Alex. Let it out.

29 years of pent-up frustration. Crazy, eh? She was saying that when they do sort of have a disagreement, they just sit there in silence. And then it's slowly one of them starts communicating again. So, I mean, they're passive-aggressive. You were like, they haven't spoken for the past

decade. So, we want to open this up again. Really interesting. Have you not argued with your partner? I feel like we've only spoken, we've spoken to the only one. Surely there's no one else. There wouldn't be anymore. I wouldn't say there would be anymore. This feels like you're putting out a challenge, Ben. Yeah, I am putting out a challenge.

Alright, okay. Now Sarah's on the phone. Apparently, Sarah, you've never argued with your partner. Not at all, no. He's honestly the most amazing man I've ever met. He's very patient. He took me and my three older children on and we've since had two more children, so there's five children in the house. And maybe that's where all our arguing goes is with the children rather than with each other. Oh, you just yell at the kids. Don't yell

at them. So how long have you guys been together? Three years now. Oh, wow. Three years. Never had an argument. That is incredible. What do you put it down to? What's the magic? I reckon he's pretty patient, for sure.

He has a way of keeping me quite calm, because obviously five kids is quite stressful. Yeah, he's honestly just perfect. I can't speak highly enough of him actually Who is this man? I want to wrap him round with my white thighs And give him a good old cuddle Likewise

Well not if I'm on there Standard line John, standard line His name's Mark He's 10 years younger than me actually Well, not if I'm on there. Standard line, John. Standard line. His name's Mark. He's 10 years younger than me, actually. Maybe that's a bit of it as well. He's quite, you know, a lot of fun. We have a lot of fun together, and, you know, he's my best friend.

Oh, that's fantastic. Oh, that's awesome. Hey, well, you keep not arguing, and you go, and I'll see you tonight when it's my turn with him, and you can come in later on in the evening. I'm going to wear him out though. Wow. Have a great day. Thanks for phoning through. He's going to be like a prune once I'm done with him.

They all dried up. Nothing. Leanne, welcome. Is it more? There's more. You've had not one argument with your partner? No, not at all. Over what span?

Ten years. How many? Fourteen. Oh, fourteen. That's a long career of not arguing. Have you got close to an argument? Probably close, but not quite there. Yeah.

Yeah. I just don't understand how like, how you would... Yeah, what's the secret, you think? He's a very patient man. Okay, patience. And, um... And you're always right. No, no, he's not always right.

I just convinced him that it was his thinking that I'm right. Oh, you've mined it. Yeah, yeah, okay. Men, we're very simple and easily manipulated. That's right. Oh, well, that's okay. Men, we're very simple and easily manipulated. That's right. Oh, well, that's good. You keep on not arguing. If there was going to be one thing, one topic that would spark a debate,

what would it be? Probably finance and shopping. Yeah, shopping. Yeah, I'm a good shopper. Oh, you're a good shopper. Yeah, well, that's good. It's always good to have a good shopper in the house. I'm turning up at home. Every, you're a good shopper. Yeah, well, that's good. It's always good to have a good shopper in the house. I'm turning up at home.

Every day there's a package on the lawn. I'm like, oh, no, it's on sale. I was like, what? Oh, yeah. Every day. It's always something you need. And it's always miraculous. It's always on sale.

Yeah, it's always like how much we've saved. If you've saved that, how much was the original thing? Never get told that. But anyway, I'm not going to argue. No, because that's not... Because I don't do that. No, no, so we're doing it. Patience, patience.

Yeah, fair. Hey, good on you, Leanne. Leanne, you go and have a wonderful day. Thank you. See you. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The A to Z of New Zealand.

We are slowly making our way around every town and city in New Zealand. We call one a day. We do it alphabetically. That's how the A to Z works. Now, today we're here to Kaiwaka, and I go onto Wikipedia, and I spoke about this freely yesterday. The constant bombarding from Wikipedia

of just begging me for money. They want money, don't they? They do. This is the 12th appeal we've shown you. It's getting awkward, but we still need your help. We don't charge a subscription fee thanks to the donations of 2% of our readers.

Wikipedia remains open to all. If you just donate $2.75. Is that all they want? That's all they want. But I just keep, I'm like, no, no. It's principle now. It's a standoff. For some reason, the internet can be pesky and annoying.

If this was a human coming at me 12 times, and then down the bottom it pops up again and it's like, in bold, what matters this Thursday is not the amount of your gift. What matters

is that there is a future where knowledge is free for all. We just need $2. $2.75. Donate now in a big red box. I'm like, no, it's a matter of principle for me now.

It's a standoff. Are you going to donate to them? No, I hadn't thought about it. No. No. I don't love Wikipedia that much. I mean, it's good.

It's handy. And maybe I would miss it if it was gone. But you'd still find it somewhere, the information. So you just have to do a little bit more digging. But anyway, this isn't a hate fest. Well, the A to Z of New Zealand, we kind of find out information about the town without using Wikipedia.

Not that we have anything against it. No. We just want to find out. Sounds like I do. Yeah, well, you, Jono, maybe. It's got personal now. We're going to call up a New Zealand town or city. So under the request for my credit card and PayPal deposit

is Kaiwaka, which is in Northland. It's known as the little town of lights. Ben Boyce is known as the little body of bony broadcasting. So there is a connection there. Welcome to Kyle Clothingbrook speaking. Hi, is that Kyle Walker Clothingbrook speaking?

Yes, it is. It's the Hits Radio station Jono and Ben speaking. We're just Jono at the moment. Ben will speak soon. I'm here, now I'm speaking too. Oh, how are you? Good. How's things with you? Good, thanks. What are you doing in Kyle Walker at the moment. Ben will speak soon. I'm here now. I'm speaking too. Oh, how are you? Good. How's things with you? Good, thanks. What are you doing in Kyle Walker at the moment?

I will chant through to the right people. Oh, there's people. Yes. Oh, yeah. We'll go through to those people. Thank you, Brooke.

Awesome. Thanks. There's people, Ben. I know Kyle Walker. Oh, yeah. I know where we are. Hi. You're through to the admin office at Skywalker Clothing. How are you doing?

Hello there, how are you? Oh, we're okay, we're okay. We've been transferred through to you. You're the people to speak to about Skywalker. Are we talking the Welsh Skywalker, which means the holder of the keys, or are we talking about the Maori Skywalker, which is a boat full of food, and that's pretty much what we are here with,

full of biscuits and cakes. Oh, my God. You've got some information already. On Skywalker. Every time I go up north to visit my mum, all you have to stop by, there's a lovely cheese shop in Skywalker. How long have you lived in Skywalker for?

What, this company? About 48 years or something. 48 years of clothing manufacturing. What's your signature piece? Oh, hang on. Let me ask the team here. Hang on, hang on. There's a lot of great pieces.

Our hero piece is the Stormforce range. The Stormforce. Oh, sounds good. Sounds like you'd wear it in the storm. I was looking at you online right now. You do. You have great accessories for being out and about. Oh, yeah, we do stuff for everybody.

We do it for the farmers and the fishermen. Your average Joe who just goes out with the family on the boat weekend to that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's all pretty good. Oh, it's the Louis Vuitton of Northland. The Skywalker Clothing Company. Yeah, we're kind of proud of the quality of manufacturing. It's really hard to do that in New Zealand.

Yeah, good on you. Good on you. I like the little, someone's on the website, he's riding like a four-wheeler motorbike, and he's got some sort of, you put your arms in it to keep your arms warm, I'm guessing, sort of that come off the, I don't know, motorbikes. What are those things? The handlebars?

Yeah, handlebars, those things. Come off the, you don't know, motorbikes. What are those things? The handlebars? Yeah, handlebars, those things. Come off the, you don't even know the name of handlebars? Oh, look, it's not my thing. Everyone knows what handlebars are. Even motorbikes aren't your thing. I was thinking like a throttle and that was the way. Anyway, the lovely, lovely warm hands I'm sure he's got because he puts his arms through.

Yeah, it's kind of a handlebar cover. That's it. You keep your hands in there and keep them warm because you have to have your hands free. You can't keep taking gloves on and off when you're out working. Kaiwaka, well, if we're ever there, we will be sure to come into the factory.

Oh, yeah, please do. Our team here would absolutely love to see you. Oh, we'll do that next time we're coming up north, you know, if we're going to get some cheese in Kaiwaka. He'll knock on the door and you'll be like, oh, God, that's right, we invited that guy. The guy doesn't even know

what handlebars are. And he will take you up on that offer so you can regret that. Probably I'd say late December you'll be heading up there. Yeah, probably, probably, you're right.

Yeah. Hey, really lovely talking to you. You stay safe and have a great Christmas. You too, team. Thanks so much. Like starting your day without your morning coffee.

It's Jono and Ben on my heads. Bye. Thanks to Sharesies, New Zealand's fastest growing share platform. Shares made easy. Oh, sorry, you had your hand up there for me. I was just saying, will you stop? Because you always talk over the end of the Sharesies thing. Oh, it was just like a...

He kind of had his hand, his palm to my face. I talked to the... Talked to the hand. To the hand because my face certainly ain't listening. Listen, if you haven't had a sex scandal, then I tell you what, you're not good enough to feature in this bulletin. Here's Juju with some spy entertainment news. Well, not quite a sex scandal,

but another artist that is releasing a candle that smells like themselves. A sex candle. Oh! Ew, ew, ew. What is that? That would be so gross. Drake's sex candle, not sex scandal. Yes.

So Drake is releasing a candle that smells like himself. Oh, now I've really ruined this. I'm sorry. I thought I was doing clever wordplay. How did he extract that? It's got nothing to do with that. Yeah, so sorry. I've really made this bad. I apologise. This doing clever wordplay. How did he extract that? It's got nothing to do with that. So sorry, I've really made this bad. This is his worst nightmare,

having lowbrow content that he's created. I know. But it's without his knowledge too. It's even better. I thought it was clever and now I'm like, oh, that wasn't that. We'll probably get in a complaint for that too. I'm sorry, guys.

I'm sorry. No one's more disappointed than me. I am. This is the ultimate punishment. My self-loathing. But it's already sold out. It's $100. I mean, it's just a smooth musk fragrance

with notes of blah, blah, blah, blah, velvet suede. I don't know why... I'm sure that's how the company wanted you to describe it. But, like, seriously, no one really cares about what exactly... Drake would smell amazing, I would imagine. Yeah, yeah. And he also says... He's also just suggesting for the full experience

that you play the album that inspired his candle making over the first time you light it. Okay. For the full Drake experience so you can smell Drake. That just seems like a ploy for him to sell albums.

Probably. Yeah. He's got a great beard. And I feel like he's one of those people, I've got friends with great beards that put beard oil into their beards. I feel like Drake's the sort of person that would...

It looks very well manicured, yeah. Like he would go and get that tended to every second day I imagine, Drake. It would be soft and it would be, you know, it would be just good. He's also got a very good hairline as well. It's very straight. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, listen, guys, Drake's great.

He's great. He's doing well. Have you seen his house? No. It is insane. Yeah, it's so awesome. If you do anything this weekend, Google Drake's house. Pop over.

It's a Drake's house. Pop over. I'm sure you'll. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's so awesome. If you do anything this weekend, Google Drake's house. Pop over. It's a Drake's house. Pop over. I'm sure you'll... Oh, wow. Yeah. That's like something like royalty. Yeah, it is. He's got his own 747 plane.

Did you know that? Is a 747 like a Boeing 500 or whatever it means? Yeah, like a big plane, yeah. Really? A giant commercial plane. Whoa. Kitted out with lounges. That's what happens when you sell candles that smell like yourself.

Yeah, it's all down to the candles. Exactly. No, good on him. He's very successful wasn't he, Drake? Yeah, for sure. And Melissa McCarthy, she's in so many movies. She's a hilarious actress. She was in Bridesmaids, one of the cast members in that movie. And she had revealed that her and the rest

of the team, the cast members in Bridesmaids, to bond when they very first met, or quite early on before they started filming, they decided to all go to the male strip club and have a bit of a time there. The best part was they did like sketches. There was one from the Matrix that was my favourite.

So it was like the guys in suits and they were just running in place on stage and then we may have gotten each other dances afterwards and I do just remember Rose Byrne just with her hands up with someone dancing in front of her, and she just was saying, like, please don't ruin my blouse with all that body oil.

But that was me. She would be a consume, wouldn't it? No, they're very greasy strippers. My old strippers have got a sheen of olive oil on them or something. See, if I was Rose Byrne, I'd be like, ruin my top, come here. Yeah, I can put it in a nappy set. But it does create quite the grease mark. The rest of the night, you're like, oh, it's quite greasy.

And then you're like, why are you so greasy? Rubbed up by it. I'm sorry. They would have a shower, those strippers. They'd be waterproof. They'd be like a dolphin. They'd have the exterior of a sea lion. They really would. But how fun going to the strippers

for the first time. I know that I was going to say something that would be weird. So I'm just going to move on. No, say it. I want to know what weird thing. No, Ben started in a weird place actually. Maybe we don't need to make this weirder. So like the first time you work on a project or the first time you meet a new team, imagine going to the strippers with them. It's like you and I, us all three going to the male strippers.

We should have bonded though. We should have bonded, though. We should have done that. We'll do it next weekend. Okay, cool. And that's you. I'm wrapping you up now. That's all right. That's fine.

We can check out the hits.co.nz. Not a bonding person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Twice today going to be a good day. Love to hear from you on I 100 The Hits. Someone's texting, backing up your claims of displeasure towards massage. Ben, someone's saying, I'm with Ben.

I hate the thought of a massage. Well, I'm going to Akaroa for the weekend with my son, and we're going swimming with the dolphins. Oh, that's cool. How good is that? Sina's on the air. Welcome, Sina. Why is it going to be a good day for you?

Today is going to be my birthday. Oh, awesome. Carol Baskin's got something to say. It's your birthday. We're going to party Like it's your birthday We're going to sit Bacardi Like it's your birthday And you know, don't give a fudge

That it's your birthday Well, happy birthday What have you got planned for it? My mum's inviting me out for dinner tonight So it's going to be just girls night out tonight Oh, Sina, that sounds awesome Well, you go and have a great birthday, mate, and thank you very much for listening.

Thank you so much. All right, hold the line. We'll send you out something as well. All right, see you, buddy. Thank you. Good on you. Liz is on the air. It's going to be a good day for you.

Why, Lizzie? Kia ora. How are you today, guys? Kia ora, Liz. Lovely to hear your voice. You're going to have a good one? Yeah, kapa. Yes, thank you very much.

How about you guys? Yeah, good. What are you up to today, Liz? So we are a group of my team from Core Education, which is based in Christchurch. We're going to go volunteer at a dog rescue called Dog Watch. And so we're going to do some gardening for the rest area and just around the rescue itself,

just to make it look nice and tidy for the dogs, but also the people that come along too. That's lovely. What a good human being. I'm doing nothing with my day today, and you're a far that come along too. That's lovely. What a good human being. I'm doing nothing with my day today, and you're a far better person than me. You're going to have a good one. Yeah, hold the line.

We're going to send you out something as well. You guys have a lovely day. You too, Liz. See you later. Ka kite to you as well. And we're going to take you out with our COVID remix. We've teamed up with Darude. We only get a few seconds of it, but here you go.

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