Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: A plane stander goes off at us

Episode Date: June 22, 2022

We collectively went in on people who stand up as soon as a plane has landed and listener Donna set us straight. Jono's losing his job as bed time story reader and gets teased for liking new socksBen wants to know if it's to wake people when they're sleeping and we catch up with Stan Walker and Broadcaster Matai Smith for Matariki.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Hi, welcome podcast 23rd of June. Heading into New Zealand's first Matariki long weekend holiday. First time we're celebrating the Maori New Year in an annual day off capacity. Yeah, public holiday, right? Yeah, as a nation. It's been celebrated previously. No, but you're right, as a public, official public holiday, which is great.

Yeah, wonderful stuff. Doing anything special for the long weekend, you two? Going down to see my dad. Oh, nice. Down there, down for the weekend. Welly? Down, we're flying into Wellington, then going across the company coast, so it'll be good. Yeah, looking forward to that.

Old fam going down. KB will have you, he'll have you visiting everyone on the coast. It's like, yeah, I just don't plan it. I was like, I haven't planned anything, you know, these people, just because you just don't, yeah. Yeah, no. He's the tour guide? Yeah.

My wife's like, oh, because she's got good friends down there. She'll go, can we go? I was like, well, they're still planning it just yet, because you don't know. Dad's all, you know. Oh, we're going to go visit Bob and Denise down here. And you're like, who are Bob and Denise? Oh, you're here.

I don't know, but we'll be going to there. This is where the rosary happens. This is where such and such. It means so much to them, too. Like, he'll be so excited. Yeah, no, I'm looking forward to it. It'll be great. Thanks, see you.

Sometimes you, for work, if you sneak into a city and sneak out. Social media stitches you up, though. Yeah. We've done that before. We had passed through Wellington and didn't have time to see Dad, but we had posted something or someone posted something, and then Dad's like, oh, you're in Wellington, but it's finally the airport.

And I was like, we were only there on the way. But yeah. So you've got to. But he knows your word. I know who we are. He's an assistant senior at the Wellington airport. What are you? And I was like, we were only there on the way. But yeah. So you've got to. But he knows your word. I know. We were. He's an assistant senior at the Wellington Airport.

Oh, that'll be fun. Yeah, we're good actually. Family with dad around Carverley. Very busy weekend. What are you doing, Belle? Just to chill. We moved last weekend

so it's just been full noise. Yeah, relaxing. So I just came for a bit of home setting up but just chilling, some sleep. Once you move into a new place you've still got, I reckon,

two or three months of just figuring it all out don't you yeah stuff stays in but i've got so much so much stuff in boxes from when we moved into our house i forgot what's even in there two years wow yeah the thing too when you move is you put a lot of stuff in storage just get rid of it eh why do we forget what it all? You forget what's in storage Yeah, I know, you're like I don't need any of this stuff I get impulsive when I move in, I'm like, you know, my wife's really good and she's like, just wait, we'll put pictures up

on the wall, we want to see what, I'm like, just wait a while, let's get it done, take it off the list I'm really like, just get it done You'd be a whack it all up, get it all done Put a picture up there, that's where we want to put it, that's good over there, I've got it all get over, she's like, just wait, we'll just see If you want to do any little tweaks to a house Whether it's painting or whatever

Just live in it for about a year But I'm like, nah, just get it sorted We had this crazy blue Just a random blue wall In the bedroom of our old house We got the same thing, got in there Oh, I'm going to paint that, mate Get the roller out We lived with it for seven years That random blue wall of our old house. Yeah. We got the same thing got in there. Oh, I'm going to paint that, mate. What do you get out

to get the roller out? We lived with it for seven years. That random blue wall. We didn't paint it. Couldn't be bothered. Beech walls. They were a big vibe. They were big.

The 90s, they kind of, yeah. But you know, you just get used to your surroundings, don't you? Exactly. Fun show for you to listen to today. Stan Walker,

he's going to be with Dad soon. He joins us on the podcast. We've got some crazy stories about how people met other people, became mates or partnered. The one about the blind date. Wild. Yeah, started, yeah.

We won't get into too much detail because that's not what this part's about. You'll get to the detail. You'll get to the detail very shortly, so enjoy that on the podcast. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the heads. Now, I was talking to a mate yesterday And he came out to his car Which was sitting outside his house in the morning And there was a note on the car

Now that's always a bit of an unnerving thing Well you never know Don't park over my driveway Or you hit my car Or sorry I hit your car is another option Well that's normally the thing Someone's swiped into my car or sorry I hit your car as another option well that's normally the thing is oh no

someone's someone's swiped into my car someone's done something saw you on the southern motorway are you single that sort of stuff yeah but yeah well

so you went out and had a look at this note that was on his car he was like what's going on he read it and the note just said bro

it started with bro thought you might be interested to know I saw two cats doing it on your car. That was the note. That was the note. He was like, why?

And whether that was true or not. He's like, I don't know if someone sees this online and was playing a prank on him. Or if someone actually saw two cats doing it and just found, firstly, pen and paper to write it. Well, I mean, if you witness two cats doing it on one of your neighbor's cars, you're like, well, this is too good not to tell them. Yeah. Because you probably want to go to Washworld to take it through. Who knows what's on the bonnet? Well, true.

So, yeah. So he got that note, which I thought was very unusual. And he thought it was quite an unusual note that was on the car. Bro, saw two cats. And it's cold, too. So maybe the warmth of the engine might have acted as a, you know, sort of underfloor heating system for the felines. For the cats.

Very unusual. One of the very few facts I know is, and I won't get into too much detail here. This is the barbed. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know this fact, Belle Crawford? About cats. Yeah.

Yeah, it's awful. One of the, yeah. There's a barbed piece that is involved in the process. Barbed. Yeah. So it kind of gets trapped. Circular barbed or that is involved in the process. Barbed. Yeah. So it kind of gets trapped. Circular barbed or something, yeah. And a lot of the times I thought cats were fighting outside my window,

the neighbourhood cats, but no. They were. I was trying to dismantle. Oh, jeez. And it's terrible. But, you know, it's nature. It's nature. Well, yeah.

It's obviously designed there for a reason. It's what they do, but very, very unusual. Yeah. I said before, a friend of ours, Bryce, he got a note on his car many years ago, and he was parking outside a cafe or something, and he had been in a meeting, and he came back, he said, oh, note on the car. Have felines been doing it on my bottom? It's the first thing you jump to in this.

Well, now we are. How many cats are using our cars? And we would never know. We would never know. Maybe it's been going on for years. But he got his note and the notes read, bro, sorry,

crashed into your car. And he looked and there had been an incident in the back of his car, obviously been reversed into or whatever. But they hadn't left their details. Obviously they had done it in front of people who were sitting outside the cafe and they

needed to look like they were going through the process of note writing. But not actually saying, this is my name, this is my number. Wonderful hack. Wonderful hack. It's a gamble too because you never know if the car owner is watching. True, but you look like you've done the right thing. You look like you've done the right thing. And that's what we do as broadcasters.

All we want to do is we're looking like we're doing the right thing Have we got the intention of doing the right thing? No We just want to look like the right thing is being done Oh baby, I don't know Do we care? No Maybe, you can't put us all in there I mean, Tony Street, she's done wonderful things for the medical, you know Yeah, no, true

Everyone apart from Tony Street Scrolling through your feed Alright, if a lackluster news service is what you're after, well, then that's what we provide. What's happening, Ben? Well, a tweet has gone viral. You may have seen this floating around

and it's divided the internet on how to drink a juice from a juice box from a little carton the right way. Now, with a straw. Now, the tweet was captioned, my whole life has been a lie. And this Twitter user

has posted a picture of using, so putting the straw in with the bendy part of the straw going into the juice box. So normally, you know, you would see the straw popped up with the bendy part, the little L-shaped bendy part out of the juice box. But they're saying, put it in the juice box because that allows

you more mobility to get every part of the juice box to get all the juice in the bits. At the tail end, yeah, because there's always that sort of lingering layer that you can't quite reach. Oh, with the stiff end, I see. Yeah, so it's divided the internet. Firstly, probably because we shouldn't be using straws these days, but secondly, because some people think it's a great hack and other people think, no, it's not true and that's

not the way you should be using a straw. So yeah, I mean, I guess it does make sense on a lot of levels. I haven't tried it, but. Yeah, the plastic straws. I am the only public face that is willing to put their name behind keeping plastic straws on the market. The paper ones give you soggy lips. They go soggy too quick. They are annoying, but I'm not going to.

They are annoying. We've even phoned, like, I think we spoke to an EnviroLucky Green Party member once. I said, what's with these straws? They give us soggy lips. Chloe Swarbrick or something. I might be making this whole story up. I don't think. I don't think.

I'm sure. Definitely don't put her name involved in this. Yeah, she agreed. Only thing, though, I've tried that when I was a kid. It squirts the juice up. It's not strong enough to break the seal, that little aluminium seal. You might have to break it with the end and then put it in, I reckon. Gotcha.

Jeez, I love the joy of at school when you'd have one of those or like a zap milk or something. Zap? Remember zap? It would blast in the past. Zap! And then you'd blow into it. And then you'd put it on the ground and you'd jump up about three metres and boom.

Those were the days. Oh, you brought back a lot of joy with just saying the word zap this morning. And a new report has come out. It's the worst time for first home buyers in 65 years. How's that in New Zealand? So this report on housing, bad times to say, buying a house particularly your first you know first house it's probably a good time to get some bargains

but it's if you're buying your first house because of mortgage rates are high and people are basically locking in very high mortgage rates for the next 25 years

and prices have seemed to have dropped the market has cooled they reckon half of New Zealand suburbs have dropped in property value over the last wee while so yeah

so with those combination of things not a good time for first home buyers in New Zealand. Have you read your, have you looked at your KiwiSaver recently? Oh no, people say don't look at it. Don't look at it. He says don't look at it.

Did you do it? I looked at it. Don't look at it. I'm not going to touch it, but I looked at it. And it was, it was like, you're like, no, no. What can I do to fix this? Phoned up the bank. I was like, change it.

They're like, we don't change it, mate. It's doing what it's doing. But then you're like, no, no, we're not pulling it out until everybody, whatever, 65, couple of years away from me. But it's not good reading. Yeah, so don't look at it. You've looked into it. Yeah. Just ignore that part.

Like thousands. Thousands and thousands just gone. Yeah. But I guess that's investment, baby. That is investment. Isn't it? Yeah, it's a long game though, isn't it, the Kiwi Saver?

But if you're, you know, in your 60s, our parents, who are of that age where they're about to pull it out, they'll be going, oh, this is a raw deal. Why did Winston Peters

sign us up to this? We apologise in advance. Jeez, sorry. Sorry about that. Sorry you got roped into this. Jono and Ben. Sorry. On the hits.

But yesterday we upset someone. We're giving away a chance for people to go to amazing family holiday in South Australia. And we were talking about people on the plane yesterday. And I, guys, I led this. Have a listen. Yeah, what you did is you started a national conversation. Like Gower has got us all to talk about stop drinking. Ben has got us all talking about stopping standing.

Yeah, listen. Now tell me, are you one of those people that when the plane lands, as soon as you can, you stand up unnecessarily and just seem to be standing up, awkwardly hunched over for a long time, even though you know you can't leave the plane until the doors open?

No, they actually frustrate me. It does frustrate me too as well. It's like, why are these people standing up? There's no reason to stand up. It's like standing up, the doors haven't opened. You can't get out. You can't. I do like the person who stands, they're on the window seat and they've stood up.

But the other two next to them are refusing to stand up. They're like, what are you doing, mate? So it becomes a point-proving mission. Yeah, so we went in on people that stand up. As soon as the plane lands, they stand up. The doors aren't even open. They can't go anywhere, the people that stand up. What are these people doing? What are they trying to achieve? Very uncharacteristic of you to lead

a conversation like that. Going in on people. You haven't gone in on anyone in your life. I feel bad about this. You've upset someone. You have upset someone. Someone's reached out to the broadcast. Her name's Donna. Welcome. You're a huncher. You're a huncher to the broadcast. Her name's Donna. Welcome. Hi. You're a huncher. Pardon?

You're a huncher on the plane. I am, most definitely. She's a proud huncher, Ben. Okay, so you're getting up early. What's the reason behind it? We want to know. We want to educate ourselves. Well, because I have emphysema.

When the plane stops, the air conditioner stops, and then it gets really stuffy and I'm coughing and people look at me like I've got some disease. Plus, there's more chance of catching COVID. Right. So you want to move yourself. Do you wrap your lips around the air con up the top there to get fresh air in, or what's happening?

Yeah, when I book a flight, I try to get, obviously nobody can afford first class these days, but I try to get as close to the front as I can. Right, so there you go. Don't we feel like monsters now? Has everyone hunched over got emphysema? You've got a good reason. You could always tell them as well.

You know how they help people, like priority. You could have a priority to get off the plane. I've had plane rage. My husband has been embarrassed sometimes. I get shitty. I get shitty. I get shitty when somebody stands on my feet or elbows me, and I've had a few times where I've had words on the plane. Oh, talk us through your plane rage.

What has gone on mid-flight? Oh, my goodness. Well, there was one flight in particular that we sat behind two ladies, probably in their 40ss and all they talked about was their boyfriends and sex and I just got really I can't stand it anymore so much sex

what did you say to them? I said would you ladies just shut up I don't want to hear about your sex life and one of them gave me a dirty look I said you don't want to go there later because we can take this outside. You can't take it outside. You're going to wait. Well, you'll be first out, though, if you did.

You're so good. You're on the line. We want to send you something. You've really brightened up our day, all right? Oh, thank you. You're awesome. You're on the line. Spy.

Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. Chaka on your 95s. There's an outbreak ofco.nz Chaka on year 95 There's an outbreak Of gossip Bell what is happening Brad Pitt has done A very candid interview

With GQ magazine I love the cover You might have seen it On your socials Where he says He considers himself On his last leg When it comes to acting

So he's Going to be retiring Very soon After 30 years He's had a massive career Look at all the movies He's been in He probably doesn't need To achieve anything else years. He's had a massive career. Look at all the movies he's been in. He probably doesn't need

to achieve anything else. You know, he's a super successful amazing actor so he's probably alright. He could, 58, retire. Good time to retire.

Mind you, Tom Cruise is still bloody hanging off the wings of fighter jets. 60. How's his KiwiSaver though, Brad Pitt? You were just talking

about how that had taken a bit of a dip. Not a great time to be retiring. No. Yeah, look at Fight Club, Moneyball, he's done Ocean's Eleven,

so much more than that. That's just some of his big ones. Like, massive career. Huge career. Who's your favourite actor? Would Brad Pitt pick, like if you look at the body of work

and the body of his body, if you look... He's done a lot of great movies. He has. Would he be one of your faves? I mean, I like him. You liked Will Smith

up until... Yeah, I did. I was really enjoying his book too and I'm like, and I had a great pair of togs with Fresh Prince on it too

and I'm like, can I wear it? Didn't you have the full suit, like the shirt and the... Oh no, I didn't need to get the full, yeah, so I was going to.

Now he's backed out. I was a purchase away from getting the full suit. Sales of Fresh Prince. Now I'm like, can I wear those? Can I wear those? They've got Carlton as well and the fresh prisoner there.

Yeah. Who's your favourite actor, Belle? It's hard, isn't it? There's so many. Many people would have said Johnny Depp too. Yeah. Well, yeah, he's still got a lot of fans. Leonardo DiCaprio's amazing.

Yeah. Leo's great. Can we say, can we just, Dwayne Johnson, the elephant in the room, guys, come on. He's a great actor. Great, yeah. Like, he's an all-round, just a hard-working, motivational guy. He would be up there. Yeah, yeah.

And he knows he stays, you know, probably stays in his lane. He's not making movies that are going to be in the Oscars, but he's making blockbusters success. You know, we stay in our lane. You know, puns. Yeah, that's our lane. I think we don't veer off that motorway. Yeah.

He has quit something, though. He's quit smoking. Cigarettes. Has he? He's quit smoking Cigarettes Has he? That's what he's quit smoking Yeah Because he stopped drinking Didn't he?

Old bloody I hate it when I do this Start clicking And then wait for you to come up And then you point to me And I'm like Oh jeez I don't know what he's talking about

Old bloody Lady Gaga Him Brandy Cooper Brandy Cooper Helped him stop drinking That's right Yeah

Yeah Apparently Because Cooper's He's on a Patty Gower situation. He's sobriety, isn't he? Bradley Cooper. I think so, yeah. So he stopped, I think he was about age 50, and he hasn't drank for about eight or nine years.

That's awesome. Also, if you're needing some shows to watch this weekend, because I know it's overwhelming, there's just so much on our watch list, here's some ideas of some of the bigger shows so far this year, and some that I've watched as well and can recommend. At the moment, this is blowing up

on TVNZ Plus. It's now called Everything I Know About Love. It's based, it's a TV adaptation of a really popular book about these girls living in London.

It's pretty funny and yeah, I'm really enjoying it. The Staircase, which I know Behance might have started watching. Oh, but just Behance keeps banging on about the staircase.

Like, gotta watch the staircase. Oh, this guy's a doctor. He pushed his wife down some stairs or something. Yeah, there's a whole, they made a series about that. He was a doco, now they made a series, right? And he keeps talking about intricate details. I'm like, I have never, I don't know what you're talking about. I haven't seen that, mate.

But we go into a 10-minute conversation about The Staircase, and we sit there politely, Ben. Oh, no. So that's on Neon, and it's got Colin Firth and also Tony Collette in it also another really cool show that you might like is The Dropout

this one's on Disney Plus one of the best shows I've watched this year with Amanda Seyfried it's about Elizabeth Holmes who did this big start up over in America and tricked all these people

and it was all a scam in the end really interesting Miss Marvel's another one the kids are really loving on Disney Plus as well that's awesome I want to watch that yeah it's very cool

yeah bloody good there's heaps more where that came from but that's just enough for you for now yeah that'll do that'll do it gets overwhelming

especially when you get 10 minutes on the staircase from producer Ben Huffrey actually we've got after 7 o'clock Ben Huffrey producer Ben Huffrey we're giving him

10 minutes of air time to just talk about the staircase. Whether you've seen it or not, he'll delve deeper into all the intricate details. The Hits. This is the Jono and Ben Podcast. The Hits Boarding Call with South Australia Travel. You can win a family adventure to South Australia,

including flights, accommodation, rental car hire, ad activities. Listen out for your boarding call to get in the draw. And on Monday morning, 8 o'clock, another family will be announced to be going over to that amazing holiday. All thanks to SouthAustralia.co.nz. Let's go to Waiouru. Jackie, how are you? Good morning. I'm good. How are you guys?

Waiouru, we're the army campers. Exactly, yep. Although I don't work there. Kick hole through there. What's it like this morning? Minus two. Woo! Take us outside.

Go outside now. Bugger off. That was the correct response to that question. That'd be great if they did that on the news. You know how they make reporters stand out in the treacherous conditions. If they're like, all right, we'll cross live now to our reporter out in the middle of the snowstorm. There you go. Bugger off, Simon Dallow.

I'm staying in charge. Bugger off, mate. I'm staying in the office. Oh, Jackie. Well, you could go from the balmy minus two to a probably tropical 25 to 30 degrees. Oh, yes, please. South Australia. Sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it? Now, you need to claim a seat on the

plane. What seat number do you want to take? Let's go 7B. Any affiliation with the row 7? Oh, my birth date. Oh, you're on the 7th, are you? I am. Oh, 7B. Well, there we go. What a wonderful seat to choose from. Have you ever won

anything before, Jackie? What do you want? Not on here, no. What do you mean, not on here? What sort of prize-picked stuff are you up to on other stations? Yeah, other stations are giving you prizes. Yeah. They're not making her walk out into the minus two degrees, are they?

No, definitely not. I was thinking about this driving into it. The only thing I've ever won, legitimately ever won, was when I was about 12 years old and I entered a Sprite competition and I won an oversized Sprite T-shirt. T-shirt that went down to my wrists, the sleeves, thanks to Sprite. And I waited, I checked the mailbox every day for about two months until that Sprite T-shirt turned up.

Was it worth it? No. Did you wear it every day? I wore it every day. It was like a giant tent on top of my little 12-year-old body. But that's the thing I was thinking about. We go, oh, we'll send you our prizes. And a lot of the time, I don't follow through.

No, you're not. You know. No. And so these people must be checking mailboxes every day. He's a good job. Remember when we started here, Jackie, I promised towels to everyone on another radio station. I had an excess of beach towels,

and I didn't send them out. And then we came over here. It haunted us over here. Well, you never brought them into work for anyone to send out. You just promised you were going to give away your towels. Like you do, and then you move on with your life. Yeah, then producer, he was lumped with my towel, this towel scandal.

Towel gala. Jackie's like, great story, mate. Have you finished? Have you finished? Yeah, I've finished. Jeez, just woe, woe back. Hey, Jackie, you put up with Jono's stories. You're in the draw to go see South.

He's gone from a T-shirt to a towel story. Are we sending you, well, hopefully we'll send you to South Australia, but we're going to send you a couple of tickets to New Tuesday, the new Kiwi movie as well, all right? Awesome. Hold there, Jackie, till I've got more fun stories to send you a couple of tickets to New Tuesday the new Kiwi movie as well alright awesome cool hold there Jackie

till I've got more fun stories to tell you off here alright jeez once he gets started he just keeps going Kia ora I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B**** News

now Rachel Jackson-Lees wonderful newsreader she's not going to be with us much longer she's heading off to Doha yeah with her husband her husband Tom McRae who's going to be with us much longer. She's heading off to Doha with her husband Tom McRae. He's going to read news over there

for Al Jazeera. Why don't you go off to Doha? Why don't you take me to Doha, Ben? Read news for Al Jazeera. In a respected role. But Belle Crawford, you've found some stories. She's trolled the internet like an ocean, like a deep sea trawler. Looking for quirky stories and you beeped out

the headlines, Belle. Sure have. Here's your first one. Man uses a f*** to fend off a crocodile. What are you going to go there, Benjamin, boys? Well, I'm hoping the man's using some Crocs shoes to fend off a crocodile. I thought that would be great. He's like, ooh, I don't want to go anywhere near those.

Mind you, they've not even made a comeback. They're on Vogue, mate. They're very popular. No, I just thought the Crocs wouldn't probably like the name Crocs, so that's what I might be it is. I'm going to go man uses comical item to fend off crocodile, or else it wouldn't be featured in this part of the show.

You want me to play it to you? Yeah. Man uses a frying pan to fend off a crocodile. There's quite the story behind this one too. This guy looks like a real battler. Owns a pub in Darwin and he has like this pub that has, you can watch crocodiles around. He has a pet crocodile called Casey and then there's this other crocodile called Fred who comes in and he's just causing havoc, scaring people, like scaring Casey.

So he goes out there with a fry pan and he gives it a big whack on its nose and enough to get the Fred to go away. So that's all he's got, just a frying pan? Yeah, he just walks up to it in his jandals and everything. Nothing more Australian than that, eh? He says, hold on, his pub, the main hook for the pub is you're surrounded by crocodiles. Yeah, it's on an island. Wow. It's the only one in Australia, according to him.

Yeah, well, no wonder. What's the market like for people who want to go to a pub and be surrounded by hungry crocodiles. Get a little bit drunk and then stumble out towards the water. That seems like you're very irresponsible. A good old frying pan would be a great weapon, though. Next up, bizarre spirals of...

spotted above NZ. Oh, OK. I'm going to say bizarre spirals of pasta. The spiraled pasta. Spotted above NZ. I don't know say Bizarre Spirals of Pasta. The Spiraled Pasta. Spotted above NZ. I don't know why. It would be a known usual story. I'm going to go Bizarre Spirals of My Career Spiraling Out of Control.

Spotted above. Especially after the Sprite t-shirt story followed closely by the other story afterwards. The towel story. The towel story, yeah. Yeah, unraveling it. I'd forgotten it. It was so unrememberable. Bizarre Spirals blue light spotted above ANZ.

Yeah, you might have heard about this, where there was all this light above the sky this week, and stargazers, everyone was like, whoa, what is going on? We've never seen anything like this. And an expert, a university lecturer, has said that probably what's happened is it's the sun catching the exhaust fumes of this rocket, and that's what we've seen.

Oh, really? Yeah, so that's really interesting. Because, of course, you can see the Matariki cluster of stars this week as well. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's cold, obviously, but a beautiful sky at night, isn't it? Just stunning. So it's like basically we're just watching space pollution, are we? They call it refraction. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. It's kind of we? They call it refraction. Yeah.

Yeah. You're right. It's kind of like an affordable Northern Lights. Remember we had our boss yelling at us while he was at the Northern Lights? Our old boss was yelling at us on the phone? Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah.

He was over there. He was on holiday at the Northern Lights, but he screamed. I'm like, mate, do you know where you are? Yeah. We'd wound him up, mate. It was all on us. We'd wound him up. We'd ruined his all on us. We'd wound him up. We'd ruined his

Northern Lights experience. The most beautiful thing on the earth. Exactly. And that is your beeper news. Thanks, Belcroft. In 10 minutes time,

we're joined by Stan Walker. He's got a Matariki special on that you can catch tomorrow as well as a new series of his show The Walkers. We'll tell you more about it in 10 minutes on The Hits.

Scrolling through your feed. All right. Here's some news you can use. Ben was wanting to get that phrasing on our show. I love it. I love it. Another radio station, maybe just looking into it. He wanted to rebrand scrolling as news you can use. And here's some news you can use this morning.

It's negative 10 degrees. It's negative 10 degrees. It's a cold morning, but it's negative 10 somewhere in New Zealand for the second day in a row. Yeah, this is Omarama in the South Island. And producer Behumps, who's from Fairleigh in the South Island, has tracked down one of his fellow islanders. And I think on the phone from Omarama,

have we got hold of the Wrinkly Ram Cafe? Yeah. Oh, well, firstly, great name. It's the Wrinkly Jono Pryor here. It's Jono B from the Hits. Hey, how are you guys hey we're just we're good how are you this morning because we're here it's negative 10 degrees for the second day in a row oh my it was negative 7.5 on my car but um we're used to it up here

no no no no none of this we're used to it stuff we're the media we need inflammatory comments yeah you're gonna need to sex this up a little bit for us because I know what the South Islanders are like. They're going to talk again. Oh, my God. That's what we want. So freezing, beautiful. I bet there's still someone walking around in stubbies around town, though.

There'll be someone wearing shorts, right? Yeah, probably. Probably somewhere in there. We're pretty tough up here. Yeah. Is there a difference between minus 5 and minus 10? Can you actually notice the difference in cold? Probably not, really.

It's just cold, isn't it? You just wrap up warm and then you're all good. I reckon even once you hit zero, the difference between that and 9, you're probably not going to notice the difference. Well, where are you guys? Well, we're in Auckland where it's 9 degrees and it's cold. 9 degrees. It's freezing now

No don't you start You're being short It is freezing Yeah it is cold Oh you poor thing Yes us poor thing We're a second latte This morning you know

I can feel the judgement Don't worry But we're cold too Yeah not we're Let's just all agree We're all cold Yeah you're negative 10 Yeah that's right

And us 9 degrees Everyone's cold Everyone's cold Well you wrap up warm Nice talking to you this morning. Yeah, take care, guys. Bye. She was awesome.

Also, making news today, there's a brand new movie in cinemas. It's the new Elvis movie starring Tom Hanks as well. I saw it last night. Really epic. Yeah. I learned a lot about Elvis that I don't know. Tell me one thing about Elvis you didn't know. He never toured outside of America.

He never played a concert outside of America and they kind of go into that. Like it was huge worldwide. But he never played a show outside of America. He never played a show outside of America. Yeah, but basically

his manager, who's played by Tom Hanks, is a bad guy and he's kind of, yeah, kind of had like 50% of his, he was getting like. He was like the sergeant

or what's his name? Yeah, colonel. Colonel, yeah. He was the colonel. He didn't have any Military credentials either No, and he was working Like a hound dog

And he was animal But he pepped up on drugs And all sorts Just to keep Elvis through But he didn't play Outside of America And they reckon it's because The colonel was

An illegal immigrant In America And didn't have a passport So he couldn't He couldn't travel So if Elvis went overseas He couldn't be there To sort of

That's what they reckon In this movie But Elvis didn't know That the colonel was uh an illegal i think he found he discovers towards the end did he also discover he wasn't a real colonel and it's funny when you look back to it albus is you know they call him albus the pelvis because he was you know gyrating his hips and that was always obviously frowned upon i was like well imagine if they saw like whap and all the other stuff going on bring those guys up to 2022 i know how far and it's great that you know we've all moved on in the world but that was obviously they wanted to put them in jail and all sorts yeah i

know you think whap's great this guy he's always watching that video aren't you no i just think it's great that the world has moved from but wanting to put someone in jail so great we can see cardi b just you know what a world we live in. And, you know, it's not considered weird if I watch it at work. It's a music video. Yeah, a very epic movie, Elvis in cinemas today starring Tom Hanks. Proud to be Kiwi. Jono and Ben on the hits.

He's an actor, of course, Stan Walker. He's a singer. He's an entertainer. He's got a new single coming out. He's got a second season of The Walkers. There's a reality TV show about his family as well. And a Matariki special on tomorrow. He joins us right now.

Stan Walker, do you ever chill out? Well, hopefully I'm going to be chilling out for the next month or two. Yeah, even him just listing that off is getting me exhausted. I'm exhausted for you. It's all Sunday. It's awesome, though. Like, hey, just do all the mahi and hopefully reap the rewards.

Well, I mean, the last couple of years probably has been very hard for you to do your job, I imagine. Yeah, it's been difficult. But it's been, I mean, you learn to adapt real quick. I mean, we've got no choice. We still have, you know, the world's still turning. Even though we're all locked down. We just find new ways to do our

mahi and find new ways and new avenues to go down and try and, I don't know, do other stuff so that we keep going. Like, I can't really stop and I can't afford to stop. I think just because my brain, my brain when it stops, I don't know, freaks out. Yeah, plus your bank manager

freaks out too when the mortgage isn't being paid. Oh, heartache, heartache. So the reality show, The Walkers, I mean, what's the one thing that surprised you about doing the first series of the show? Was there anything that you were like, because you would have filmed heaps of TV and movies, of course, in the past,

but was there anything that surprised you filming that? I don't know if surprise is the word, but just like I think it was exposing in a lot of ways. Like not just me, like I'm all good with me. Like I've seen myself in every different light, every different angle, filmed in every different way, good and bad. So I'm not scared of what I say and what I do. It's just my family. They're like, they're untamed.

They're untamed. Wild. They're wild. Yeah, like they've got no filter. Oh, no. Far out there. Honestly, you know, what's it called?

The Game of Thrones and the Wildlings? That's my parents. Oh, we've met April, your mum, before, and she's a lot of fun. Oh, yep. That's another way of calling it. It was a lot of fun for us. Maybe not so much for you.

I always feel like when you two are in the same room, you're always like, Mum! Mum! It's another way of saying it. It was a lot of fun for us, maybe not so much for you. I always feel like when you two are in the same room, you're always like, Mom, Mom. Oh, no, she's shameless, man, and she don't care. Actually, speaking of parents, you're going to be a dad soon, which is just another thing to add, but that's pretty exciting. Yeah, it's been a real cool journey for us, my little family. We're just excited for this new one to come along and to change our world

and ruin our lives in the best way. Listen, if you're searching for any godparents... We're probably not the right people for it. Yeah, there's definitely better people out there. When's the baby due, mate? Soon, very soon. So I'm at home at the moment just looking after my wife and looking after son while we're just waiting for this baby to come.

And, I mean, the baby could come in a month. It could come now. Oh, wow. It could come right now. I'm doing everything. Like, I'm trying to dive on all the potholes. I'm trying to see. I'm potholes. I'm trying to... I'm like, do you feel anything, honey?

Is there anything happening? Well, even if contractions start coming during this interview, we want live rolling coverage. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Live rolling coverage. Can I just give you one bit of advice, Stan? Yes.

Is the biggest hurdle I had to overcome was inserting car seats. Oh, yeah, that's tricky. Oh, I've been doing that for years, bro. Oh, you know what you're doing. We've got three car seats here already, so we've got one in my car for fun, and then we've got two in Lou's car, so we're constantly playing musical chairs

where they're going, and we just had, honestly, 50 kids in the last week that we've been car seats all over. And different kind of car seats. There's the heavy ones. There's the ones you can't put your fingers through where the belt goes at the back. There's ones that you clip in, and I'm like, oh, nah. Yeah.

I remember a time, and you would have been in this era as well, when all they did was put a mattress in the boot, and we all just rolled around. Man, honestly, I didn't even have a car seat when I was a kid. Stan Walker, so good catching up with you, buddy. And looking forward to seeing everything that's coming up, including the new single, the new series, The Walkers, the Matariki special as well.

All the best, man. Okay, thanks, guys. They've got pranks. They've got puns. Now they just need some actual listeners. Jono and Ben on the hits. Tomorrow is the first public holiday for Matariki, which celebrates the beginning

of the Maori New Year. It refers to the cluster of stars which rises in the middle of winter, and it's a time for reflection and planning, and really good that we're having this in New Zealand tomorrow. Now, there's a lot of people over the world who celebrate it in different ways as well. The Greeks, I think they refer to it as the Pleiades,

the set of stars. The set of stars, yeah. In Hawaii, they also celebrate it as well plateys the set of stars set of stars yeah in hawaii they also uh they also celebrated as well uh makali uh but matariki here and uh tomorrow that's happening long weekend i won't lie ben boys i'm happy that the alarm won't be going off yeah we wanted to talk about some of the little things just those little things that give you life's little wins, that make you happy. And you're right. To go to bed and not have to put on an alarm

is a good feeling. It makes me so excited that I won't have to wake up tomorrow morning, but it also gives me another day to stress about work next week. Well, not at work. This is what a three-day weekend does.

You start worrying about all the work that you're not doing on the Friday that'll backlog next week, which will result in us stressing out next week. But tomorrow's not the time to stress. No, exactly. So we want to know this morning, you've got 0800 the hits or 4487.

What are those? Life's little wins. What are the little things that you really appreciate? Can I do another sleeping one as well? And I think it's been well-covered territory over the years, but when you go to bed and you wake up and you think it's time to start your day, then you look over at the years, but when you go to bed and you wake up and you think it's time to start your day, then you look over at the clock, it's 11.45pm.

It's like nature's way of saying, you know how good you've got it right now? It doesn't happen every night. But you've got so much more time to sleep. So much more sleeping to happen, and it's a good thing to remind you how good sleeping is. Because we live in a permanent jet lag. Yeah. You know one thing I really love, a little thing that I love doing, and it doesn't happen very often, but it's pulling the plastic off something new.

Like if you buy something new, the very few times if you get a new TV or a new phone, you get to peel back that plastic. You're like, oh, that's such a satisfying feeling. Just a satisfying feeling of ruining the environment. Well, yeah, now you say it. And then throwing that plastic in the ocean. Now you say it. What a feeling.

Actually, it feels really unnecessary. Maybe I won't feel that satisfied next time I do it. When you do break it down, why is the plastic thing there? It doesn't need to... No, leave it on because it's satisfying for Ben. It is satisfying, but now it's not because you've brought environmental issues into it. Thanks a lot, Green Party.

Will you light your incense after 8 o'clock, will you? I'm going to go with one that isn't going to ruin the environment. And it's driving to work when you get every green light. And it happens to me every now and then. Sometimes they're red, but I pretend they're green. Yeah, I was going to say, you never stop at the red lights. What's a life little win for you, Belle? Oh, that first sip of a coffee.

You know, like a really good coffee when you really want one. Oh, it's so nice. What about new socks? New socks on your feet. What do you mean, oh yeah. It's a great feeling. I don't know. To me, there's no difference between new socks and wash socks.

New socks? No, no. New sheets. Stopping into fresh sheets. Oh, new sheets. I'm not talking about new socks. I'm talking about new socks. No, I'm not with you on new socks.

New socks. Boring. Go peel some plastic off, mate. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. I hope you're on from Roamati South. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. What's the little thing for you that you love?

Nothing beats putting on my Huntington's Fishy fleece trousers after a long day. Oh, fleecy trousers. Yeah. Now, hold on. You're like, oh, I hope I like your one. I just said fresh socks on feet. New socks. You like new socks.

Same wheelhouse as track pants. No, I've turned trackies on, elastic out of trousers after a long day. It's nice. They're so soft and snug and warm. Nothing beats them. So are new socks. No one seems to be on board with it. No one's on board with your new socks.

Hey, thanks, Hope. You're going to have a great day, eh? Yeah, you too. Take care. Belle, you got one you'd like to throw in the mix? Oh, I just thought of it. When you take your bra off at the end of the day, just like putting your comfy trackies on. That is one of the best feelings ever

because they can dig into your back a bit and you just want to, it's just so much more comfortable. Full release. I know Ben's always going around the office going, hey, it's relaxing, guys. Oh, whatever. Honestly, you'll never know how good that feels. Well, Ben keeps telling you, thanks for

ignoring that, Belle. That was the right answer there. Ignore whatever John O's saying. Let's go to the phone. We've got Sam. Welcome. Welcome.

Thank you. Welcome to you. Welcome to Ben. Welcome to everyone. Oh, you've got a little bubba there. Yeah, I do. Is now a good time?

We can call back. No, no, it's all right. I'm just trying to get some food into her mouth and then she will be quiet. What's your baby's name, Sam? Jasmine. Jasmine. What a wonderful name. What's your baby's name, Sam? Jasmine.

Jasmine, what a wonderful name. That's cute. We're talking about life's little wins. What is it for you? Waxing men's backs. Waxing men's backs? In a professional capacity. Not unprofessionally.

It's not a hobby. So when did you start bringing sexy back? Oh, probably about 16 years ago. Oh, right. So you've been ripping hair out of men's back. How satisfying is it in your role? Oh, hugely, hugely. I don't know whether it's the removal of the hairiness

or is it their pain level? And you'd come across some hairy backs. Sometimes I see some guys' backs and I'm like that's hairier than my chest yeah yeah they're pretty brave

if they're going to do it when they're that hairy yeah and I imagine the satisfaction of seeing it all done must be yeah kind of cool it is very good

loves clearing a man's back of some hair yeah well yeah you know yeah it's great and then you might have

a bonus of some blackheads to remove after that. Oh, do you remove blackheads? I love doing that. Yep, yep. Generally, they come hand in hand, so it's great. Yeah, I used to Google pimples being popped on YouTube. Oh, yeah, you like that, don't you? It left you with an uneasy feeling but also satisfaction at the same time.

Exactly. Hey, Sam, will you keep on waxing but also satisfaction at the same time. Exactly. Hey, Sam, will you keep on waxing? You keep looking after that baby. I will. I will. All right, mate. Kate with us on 0800 The Hits. What's one of life's little wins for you?

I like to eat Kit Kats, but I like to eat them slowly. I like to take the ends off, and then I like to take the ends off and then I like to take the top off and then I go layer by layer which takes me twice as long to eat. It's the satisfaction of it. It's like torturing the Kit Kat. It just

feels wrong to bite into it. It just feels like it should be treated with more love. So the wafer layers you peel back one at a time? Yep, yep, yep. Wow. I do, I do. It's hard if you don't have very good nails,

but if you can, you can just, it just makes it last longer. So people watch you do this, what do they say when they see you doing this? They are just probably used to it now. I think at first they all stopped to watch, but I think they're used to it now. I think at first they all stopped to watch, but I think they're used to it. It's like sort of licking the salt off the chink and crimpy before you eat it.

I mean, it's just a thing you do. Is that another one of yours, licking the salt off the shapes? Yeah. There was a thing, I don't know if you remember, John, at school, we were at school with mellow puffs.

There was a whole craze where you used to smash them on your head first and then pick the bits off to eat your mellow puff. I tried it the other day with the kids, and they were like, why would you do this? They're quite hard. Head-butting mellow puffs. Yeah.

So how long does it take you to dissect a Kit Kat? You must be like 45 minutes for one piece. No, I'm quite a professional at it now. So, yeah, it's taken me years of graft, but I can get it down. It's quite good. It's just the hard bits on the end. I used to find them quite, you know, hard. So it's just easier just to knock them off, you know.

Surgical precision. She's dismantling a Kit Kat. Well, Kate, thank you very much for your call. You have a great day. No problem. Thank you. Hey, this is thank you very much for your call. You have a great day. No problem. Thank you. Hey, this is Ed Sheeran. John Wynn Benz.

Five words for five Eds. Yes, we've got five double passes to be won by one person if they match all five words with our five words in our game. Five words this week for five Ed Sheeran tickets. And his tickets go on sale today for his two new concerts on this Mathematics Tour in Wellington and Auckland from Midday Today. You can get those. Yeah, five double passes so ten tickets in total.

Ten different opportunities to impress people in your life, then make them owe you stuff for the remainder of life. Remember how I got you that? Remember that? She's odd, hang it over you. Welcome Rita and Tauranga. How are you this morning, mate? Very good, thank you.

Lovely to have you on, Rita. What do you do, Reets? I am a merchandiser in the supermarket. Oh, yeah, I see those people. And they often get confused for supermarket employees. I always hear, do you get asked questions about the supermarket all the time that you don't know the answer to? Yes.

Yeah. You're like, hey, where's the nappies? And I'm like, mate, I'm just stocking up some San Blanc here, mate. That's my role. Now, have you plans for Matariki? Just probably going out to watch the stars on the night. Oh, beautiful. Along the east there would be

a great vantage point. Yeah. Yeah, we... Yeah, it is. It's so cool living here in Corona. Oh, great place, isn't it? Beautiful place. Now, who are you going to send into the Soundproof booth to win 10 Ed Sheeran

tickets? Have you got 10 people you can take to the show with you, or 9 others? I have indeed. Alright well they're all hanging on the line right now. Who's going into the booth mate? Jono. Alright Jono's heading on in there for you Rita and he's in there now.

Your first word this morning, what pops into your head when I say teddy? Teddy. Bear. Teddy bear. Frame is word number two. F-R-A-M-E. Frame. Photo.

Photo. Poker is word number three. P-O-K-E-R. Poker. Cards. Cards with an S. Accommodation is the fourth word for five words for ten Ed Sheeran tickets S Accommodation is the fourth word Five words for ten Ed Sheeran tickets

Accommodation Hotel Hotel And finally therapist Therapist is the final word Oh, okay Therapist Therapist.

Therapist. You got there. Well, I don't want to, you know. First, beauty therapist, physiotherapist. There's a few options around. I know. And then, of course, counsellor. You know, there's plenty of options. Let's go beauty.

Beauty. All right, let's get Jono out of the soundproof booth. Let's go Beauty Beauty Alright let's get Jono Out of the soundproof booth Let's see if we can match All five words for you This morning Rita Here he is He's back

Oh hey Rita Hi Hi Yeah How'd it go It wasn't too bad Not too bad Yeah

We'll see if we can win These tickets We need to give these away Otherwise we'll be still Playing this game And Ed Sheeran will be like The concerts were It's done, mate.

Yeah. That's all on you, John. Our first word this morning is teddy. Beer. Well, well done. One from one, Reet. Let's find a quick game. Frame.

F-R-A-M-E. Picture. Picture frame. Aww. Aww. What did you say for frame? What else can you say for frame? Photo frame?

Oh. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny what pops into your head, eh? I'm sorry, Rita. I'm really near down there. Sorry, Rita. I'm so sorry. That's okay.

Go through the last few words, see how you would have gone. Poker? Face. Oh, cards is what we're in. Accommodation? Motel? Oh, we need a hotel. Oh, yeah.

And therapist? Beauty. Oh, you pulled it back at the end, but no, not quite there today. But enough. Rita, you're going to be merchandising and wondering about what could have been this morning. I'm really sorry. That's okay. Thank you so much.

No worries. Another chance for someone else to win these tickets. We need to give these away. That's happening on Monday. Have a great weekend, Rita. All right? She's gone, mate. She doesn't care about your crap.

She's sick of you, mate. Done. She's got stuff to do Are you allowed to wake Are you allowed to wake your partner up Like what was the rules Well like I said As we were talking over the Kate Bush introduction there Ben It depends on the importance of what the matter is

What was the subject matter Well I did it the other day Like I want to Because Amanda had borrowed my car and the keys she'd left somewhere and I couldn't find them and I had to go at four in the morning. Hey, hey, hey, keys, keys. And to her credit, she got up, she found the keys and went back to bed.

And hopefully thought it was all a dream. Like if you've got like a funny TikTok video of a cat dancing, that's something worthy of waking someone yeah all right hey look at this video of these people dancing because yeah because last time my wife managed she couldn't couldn't sleep and now that sucks when you're in that position you just can't you can't get to sleep and then but then she decided to wake me up to tell me that she couldn't sleep and i was you know probably not as sympathetic as I should have been in that particular moment. Because it does suck when you can't sleep.

I get it. He snapped and now he's got the guilt the next morning and he's wanting us to team up with him. You don't get a lot of sleep. Sleep is important. But I understand it sucks when you can't sleep. But then the thing was, well, now we both are awake. And I don't know what to do.

I can't go, hey, well, why don't you try this thing? You know? I'm not a sleep expert. I was just doing my role fine. I was asleep. She said the funniest thing she's said before was that I was all like, oh, now I'm awake. She's within three minutes,

I was back asleep story. It's like all that drama for me going, well, now both of us are awake. So I went straight back to sleep. Well, when also you have to wake someone up, you always start with, hey, sorry,

sorry. You're not sorry. There's no way you're sorry, are you? Hey, hey. Creepily almost, right?

That's how you do it. And you want, like if you need to do it, you want to do it in that sweet period where they're all dazed and hazy. You get your info out of them

and they go back and hoping that they don't remember the next morning or again, feel like it was a whole dream sequence. Or like Kate Bush I imagine she's coming in just ripping the curtains open for a teenager. You remember that when your parents

would come in and say I've got a number one single mate 30 years ago. Yeah but it's 11.30 in the morning. I tried, I said the other day, I tried to Prince Charming my wife as a goodbye kiss. Now, I'm not kissing her every time I leave for the morning radio show,

but I thought for this morning, for some reason, she'd appreciate a Prince Charming style kiss on the forehead. And I went close to my Sleeping Beauty's face and boom, she woke up at that exact moment and wow, panic stations, real flap. Imagine this face staring at you with his lips pierced out looking for an early morning kiss goodbye so yeah sorry sorry let's go back to sleep go back to sleep but uh yeah i i don't mind being i can wake up in an instant boom within three minutes i am doing stuff yeah but then you fall asleep within an instant within

matter of seconds you're asleep i've made a great s a great SAS soldier, but then also a shocking one at the same time. Where's Pryor? Oh, he's asleep in the trenches. He woke up quick though. An inseparable duo. Unless someone better shows up, he's just going to replace with Lee Hart and or Vaughan Smith. Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben, we did a podcast the other night, Between Two Bears.

Wonderful guys who host the Between Two Bears podcast. Yeah, it's one of the biggest podcasts in the country and i don't maybe they had someone not available that week they got us uh to be on it but it was really cool actually to be on it um but i find it weird we're talking about ourselves don't you know because we're used to kind of interviewing people and then you know they didn't be suddenly getting asked questions and you weren't easy with it it's hard for you to like not ask questions back too you were like oh yeah but it's like, yeah. Yeah, I had to refrain from firing questions back.

Back to. But it's cool. We talked about a lot of stuff. I reflected on a lot of things that we've done over the years. Some laughs, some tears as well. Yeah, there were some tears in there. So check it out if you want to check it out. It's between two beers.

You can get it on iHeartRadio. But then we were like, how did you guys meet? And we don't have a we don't have an exciting a sexy story it's just a work work yeah it wasn't like an underground cage fighting ring or something where we uh hit it off and it wasn't like that moment too that you know like it's like we met through work but it wasn't like you know this we are going to get you know like it was just like oh we got together it was a lackluster moment slowly became friends and then ended up hanging out with each other pretty much every day for over 10 years.

We need to make an emotional backstory about how we met, like if we were American Idol contestants or something. Yeah. Yeah, we wouldn't make good contestants. He rescued my grandmother from an online scammer and we hit it off. Yeah. But it was nothing like that. It was just, oh, we'll work, you know. And it was, yeah, it was like, oh, wasn't that interesting?

I was just doing some research to see if we could come up with a more creative way that we met. Yeah. And celebrities. Unlikely celebrity friendships. And there's a lot of them. Well, I knew he was friends with her. Ed Sheeran and Courtney Cox. Oh, yeah, from Friends.

From Friends. Very tight. I think Ed Sheeran even introduced her to her husband or partner now. I think so, yeah. But how they met is Ed Sheeran went to a party at her house and

he stayed the night and didn't leave for... He's Ed Sheeran. Why is he not... Get a hotel, mate. He crashed on her couch and didn't leave for seven months. Seven months? He didn't leave her house for seven months. Like, what a nightmare.

She would have been going around going, is that Ginger Guy? Is he still here? How long has he stayed here for? Not paying rent. Smelling musicians sleeping on the couch. You know, past that three-day mark, it gets awkward going, how do we approach it?

Have they moved in? So that's how their friendship started Diane Keating actor from many years ago and Justin Bieber are they mates thick as thieves

and it kicked off when she went on Ellen and said she had a crush on him and that's where I think she even appeared in one of his music videos that became so close

Martha Stewart Snoop Dogg oh yeah they're mates, aren't they? She's a celebrity chef, and he's a rapper. Yeah, Martha Stewart's kind of like the Alison Holst of America. If Alison Holst had gone to prison for felony charges. Tax fraud or something. Yeah, insider trading or whatever.

But anyway, they've got their own shows together now, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart. And that's all I've got there, Ben. Okay, so they've got interesting stories about how they met each other. So this is what we want to chuck open. 0800 The Hits, 4487. How did you meet your mate? Yeah, the coolest, the most unusual ways that you became best mates with someone or maybe a relationship sparked up.

Making dreams come true. If you dream of annoying guys talking at you. Jono and Ben on the hits. I want to know how you met your mate. Amelia, how did you meet your mate? Yes, hi. What happened? Well, I listed a lawnmower that I wasn't using anymore

on Facebook, I think it was. And a woman replied saying she needed it and she called, and we hit it off and became quite good mates since then. How do you hit it off immediately just from a simple lawnmower transaction? How did you know she was the one? You just know.

You just know that you're going to hit it off. You just start chatting, and you have things in common. And, yeah, she's a beauty therapist. So obviously the Lawnmower transaction was about to take place. You just got chatting. And then who said, hey, we should catch up again? Like, how did that happen? Well, it was actually like we agreed that she would pay a certain price.

And then, of course, because she's a beauty therapist, it's like, okay, well, you pay this much, and then, you know, I'll do your eyebrows or your leg wax or whatever. Oh, right, wax your bits for the Lord. We had two or three of those. Okay, so it was like an old-school bartering situation. Totally, totally was. Yeah, and we were like, did you have that moment where you were like,

did we just become best friends? Yeah, we laugh about it quite a bit, actually. Well, we met selling a lawnmower. Yeah, and we were like, did you have that moment where you're like, did we just become best friends? Yeah, we laugh about it quite a bit, actually. Well, we met selling a lawnmower, you know, I think, of all things. The most mundane of tasks. Because I like any stranger coming over to my house, I'm like, the less time you're here, the better. Totally. I totally agree with that.

It's like, do what you've got to do and get out, you know. You become best friends. Yeah, no, she's an awesome person. Isn't it amazing when you actually think about it? Like the amount of people you come into contact every day. Yeah. You could be passing a best friend by and not even know it. Yeah, definitely, definitely. So it helps, you know, be friendly sometimes

because you never know what could come out of it. Oh, well, listen, that's a lovely story. Thank you. Lovely lawnmower. A love made over a lawnmower. She still uses it. Still uses it. Still going strong. Thank you. Lovely lawnmower. A love made over a lawnmower. She still uses it. Still uses it. Still going strong.

Thank you very much for your call. You have a great day. No worries. Same to you. Andrew, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you, mate? Oh, mate, I'm good. I'm good.

Now, Andrew, how did you meet your mate? It was a while back, and I had split up from someone for a long time, and a friend of mine put me onto an online dating site. I was chatting to someone for a while. We agreed to meet. Then I got a text bailing out. And it was like, oh, okay, that was a bit of a bummer. And then got a message from a mate of mine trying to set me up on a blind date.

You're in town. Why don't you go on this blind date? Oh, hey, I've got nothing to lose. Went on the blind date. We got on well, awesome, clicked from the start. When I got back home, I thought a decent thing to do would be send this girl a message and say, hey, kind of met someone.

Sorry it didn't work out. Yeah, what a polite, what a polite. Yeah, that's a lovely thing you've done. And she happened to be online, and she sent me pretty much the same thing back. So I was like oh okay well I understand now why I got blown off having a laugh about it six months later or after we'd sort of carried on turned out she was the one I was actually talking to online who blew me off

so you had actually gone out on a date the one that you were meant to go on a date with and you both oh my goodness why did she blow you Oh, because she was set up on a blind date and her friend had sort of talked me up and I sounded better in person than I did online, I guess. Yeah, so she was always going to go out. That's amazing. Are you still together now? Yeah, yeah, yeah, still together, still as strong,

have a laugh all the time. Yeah, that is, what a great story. She was trying to avoid dating you, but dating you at the same time. Yeah, actually, that's one way to look at it. Yeah. I can use that now when I get told off. Yeah. That's an incredible story.

Hey, no worries. That's. This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Tomorrow is New Zealand's first public holiday for Matariki, and we're joined by broadcaster Matai Smith, who's hosting tomorrow's Matariki special. Morena, Matai. Hey, morena, guys.

Oh, we're very excited. Morena, Tim. Morena. We're very excited about Friday. You're going to be up early, aren't you, with the official broadcast? Oh, look, 6 a.m. That's a big ask. What does the official broadcast mean in the morning? What are you going to do?

So on Friday morning, we're going live from Te Papa Tongarewa, when I say we, myself and the gorgeous Stacey Morrison are co-hosting a live coverage for five hours. And I suppose the unique fact around this particular broadcast is that it's actually going out on all the channels. So TVNZ1, TV3, Māori Television, Stuff.co.nz, RNZ are all taking this live coverage. And basically we're going to have an opportunity to, I suppose, entertain and educate us a little bit more about what Matariki means. Because I think, I don't know about you guys,

but I think everyone's on that journey of really trying to kind of get the crux of why we we having a holiday on Friday? And what is the reason, if you could explain it to two middle-aging white guys? I know there's a cluster of stars which rises in the middle of winter, and so we can see the stars as well, right, this week? That's right. So Matariki is basically the Maori name for the cluster of stars that many around the world know as the Pleiades. So it rises in midwinter, which I'm actually in Tāmaki, Makaurau, Auckland at the moment. It feels like midwinter just quietly when I got up this morning.

And for many Māori, it heralds the start of a new year. So basically a time where it gives us an opportunity to look at the past. If we reflect on the past year, COVID has been not very cool. So it's been a difficult time, trying time for many whānau. So it's a time to reflect and keeping in mind as well that some of us lost loved ones and we didn't have the opportunity

to mourn them because of all the restrictions that came with COVID. So this is a time of reflection, but also a time to really take hold of the present. There's this little proverb that I heard the other day, and it goes something like, it's not about the present.

So it's not about buying presents. It's about being present. And I think, you know, that's an opportunity. I know it's deep. That is bloody good. I like that. Although it's a lot easier just to buy a present, isn't it? But that is a great saying.

Yeah. I hear you. It's about where you are at this present time with you and your kids or your whānau, and also looking towards the future. It's an opportunity for you to gaze to those stars. There's one star, her name is Hiwai Te Rangi, and Hiwai Te Rangi is a star that is all about dreams and aspirations.

So if you see her on Friday morning gleaming up there in the sky, then you need to kind of send her some messages and she might even give you the lotto numbers on Saturday. That's very cool. So are there different ways that people can celebrate a Matariki? Yeah, I think one of the most popular ways would be to have a feast, a kai, have a hakari and get the whānau around and just enjoy each other's company. I mean, there are traditional ways of celebrating Matariki

and getting up at 4.30am to try and see, you know, the stars in the east and et cetera, et cetera. But if you're not one of those, and I'm not one of those, just quietly. You are on Friday, though, aren't you? I do have to get up at some ungodly hour Friday. But, you know, just take the opportunity to spend some quality time with your whānau

and talk about, you know, have a kōrero, have a kai, and a kata kata. Kata kata is laugh. Have a good laugh and enjoy each other's company. It feels like such an important and momentous occasion for the nation to celebrate. So it must mean a lot that we are officially doing it now. Yeah, I think this has been in the pipeline for, you know,

a number of years. It's been kind of thought about, and here we are, it's now happening on Friday. And as I say, Jono and Ben, I think it's an opportunity for everyone to kind of embrace it. And I think once we get to understand it a little bit more, and I mean, you walk around town now and we're just absolutely bombarded with Matariki up on the telly, on the radio, in print media, etc., etc. So there's all this nice kōrero that's happening about Matariki.

And I think, you know, if you tune in on Friday from 6am to 11am via those various broadcast mediums, you'll have an opportunity, I hope, to be enlightened even more about why we are having the day off

on Friday, seeing the renaissance of Matariki and the kaupapa that it is for Aotearoa. Well, thankfully we are. And Matai, I'm just on your Instagram account, wild times in Las Vegas, it looks like, mate. Wild times. What went on in Vegas, Matai?

We can't talk about it. Let's just say I was present and I didn't get many presents. I love your work. Can't wait to watch you on multiple platforms and channels this Friday morning. And there's also going to be a concert on Friday night as well, isn't there? Broadcast on TikTok and TVNZ2.

Yeah, TikTok, there's Rob Ruha, there's a whole heap of them, there's King. I mean, you're going to be spoiled Friday when you tune into ours and then, you know, have a bit of break during the day and think, oh, I feel like a concert. So yeah, tune into the TikTok concert, TVNZ, I think 660 are in the mix as well.

Warning! Contained dodgy parenting advice. Shono and Ben on the hits. One of the great things about raising children, reading stories to them, isn't there? It's a lovely little moment where you can read stories and entertain them. Do you stay awake? Eh? Do you stay awake?

I imagine you're very sleepy. No, I get dozy. We talk about your sleepy conditions. Yeah, I do. I'm always teetering on napping. You are. My sort of Johnny Depp, where he goes off for his nod. But yeah, the novelty, I'm not saying it wears off,

but there's some reading sessions and nights where you're like, we need to get through this a bit quicker. You got into bed a bit later, so yeah, you flick through it. You'll read a page and you might leap ahead five pages. It's like David Williams paraphrased by John O'Prior. That's right. You're going to write a credit. On the fly ad-libbing, you're trying to connect point A to point B,

but you're two chapters ahead of where you were. You've done it before. I know you've admitted to it. I've done it before. Yeah, in the past. Worst thing is, though, if they like the same story over and over again, they get to know it inside and out. But you try and jump ahead a few pages.

I just summarise it. So anyway, he wants to do this, and they're not happy about it. And the apple at the end. But over the last four nights, I've noticed that my role, reading stories to Poppy, is becoming quickly obsolete. Well, they do that. They grow up, don't they? Yeah.

And they become better readers than you are. That's what I've found. And they're more prolific. So Indy, for years now, has been reading by herself. She takes a bit and reads. I haven't got the staying power to read for like 45 minutes. No. But she will.

You do it. You do it. Well, she's like, no, just leave me your phone. So I leave my phone now. And then I hear the Storyline Online brought to you by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. You know, the world's most famous people to read bedtime stories. I mean, I can't compete with Chris Pine. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Storyline Online brought to you by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.

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I'm Oprah Winfrey, and today I'm going to be reading... She's reading books. Oh, you can't get beat with Oprah. I can't read a bedtime story like Oprah can read a bedtime story. Your voice is probably, you know, you do radio, that's probably in your wheelhouse. This is my thing. But if I'm going to listen to Oprah Winfrey

or John O'Brien, I'm going to listen to Oprah all day. Yeah, or Selena Gomez reading The Witches or something. You're going to take it. It's a savage industry, the bedtime story industry. It's as ruthless as the showbiz industry. Ben, one day you're there, next day you're not. Next day you're replaced by Chris Pine and Oprah. Better parents than you are.

You and me, that's for sure. Here's an update about how the celebrities have been screwing up over the last 24 hours. What's going on, Bill? Well, Prince William, it was his 40th birthday yesterday and George Michael has told a story

about how he ruined his Christmas once in his new book. George's got a book coming out. I thought George Michael was dead. He's dead, isn't he?

Yeah, so maybe, yeah, maybe it's... Yeah. Is he still going? No, he is dead. He is dead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Someone else is

going to put out a book. His book's out, his biography. Oh, right. He wrote something and had someone release that. In 2016 he died. Basically what happened was there was this party at Buckingham Palace and Diana had invited George Michael and Elton

along of course and little William went up to him and said, were you and Uncle Elton singing? Play a song for me? And he just flat said no. And the truth was, and little William went up to him and said, were you and Uncle Elton singing, play a song for me? And he just flat said no. And the truth was, and in William's face, he just said the look on his face, he just looked like he'd ruined his Christmas. And he felt so bad about it all these years.

You don't say no to a future king. He wants you to sing and dance. You sing and dance. Yeah, exactly. If he wants you to clean the toilet, you clean the toilet. You do whatever you ask. Yeah, the truth was that George Michael was actually just a bit nervous about doing it in front of everyone,

and he felt so bad for all these years that for William's wedding with Kate, he actually wrote them a special song for it. Oh, that's nice. Good mate, good. I mean, I get from George Michael's point of view, if we were going to put it in our world, Ben, it would be like a little child coming up to you at a party and going,

do some radio in front of me. Yeah, true. It would be like a little child coming up to you at a party and going, do some radio in front of me. Yeah, true. You'd be like, oh, you're on the hits. Harry Styles. Ballasting, yeah. Tell you what, it's cold out there. Minus 11 degrees. Well, that's very interesting.

Hey, thanks, Bell. That was Spy. Check more out at thehits.co.nz. That is our show. Of course, tomorrow is the holiday in New Zealand's first ever public holiday for Matareke, which is really awesome. So enjoy some time with your family, times of reflection,

and we'll be back on Monday after a long weekend. We'll catch you then. It is the Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. The Hits. For more podcasts from the Hits Network, check out ihardradio.co.nz.