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Episode Date: February 23, 2023

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Cool. Kia ora, welcome to the John O'Bien Podcast. Thanks to our friends and partners, colleagues, and they're more like family, aren't they, the people at Challenge Petrol Service Station? Oh, it's been amazing. Yes. Love you all like family. So we, well, we're wrapping up, we've wrapped up the show.

We haven't wrapped up our driving around Mount Smart Stadium because we've probably got another hour and a half, judging by the speed we're going right now, before we've reached 1,600 kilometres and driven the length of New Zealand in a golf cart. Yeah, so you've done all the great information. No, it's good. No, no, it's good. You can still text, though.

Text Cyclone to 3493. We're currently watching on Mount Smart two gentlemen with paintbrushes. Now, they're preparing for a Super Rugby game tomorrow, but painting the field, it's raining. How does the paint stay on the grass? I want to walk up there and ask them. Yeah, but don't go on the grass. We'll wait for them to come on over.

Keep off the grass. Yeah, because, well, yeah. But then they are on the grass. I don't know. It seems like double standards. And they're using, they've just got handheld brushes. Surely, surely those sponsor's symbols aren't painted by hand no sure because that is some craftsman or woman ship a nice save for 2023 hey um you know here as you said the

concerts go on rugby games go on one this weekend warriors go on i don't know if it's pulling about the curtain too much but uh producer jo Joel's trying to organise a dinner out with one of the Warriors players. Guys. He's definitely pulled back the curtain way too much. Too much? Okay. Guys, I'm sure.

Look, I'm happy to share it, you know. We don't have to. We can edit this out from the podcast intro. We'll be leaving it right in here. We'll be leaving it. You know me. I'm an open book. You and your partner,

Grace, wonderful couple, holiday in Hawaii on Grace's family from time to time, which is great. Poor Joel. He's like,

I want to just get into radio, be a broadcaster, and come on for a daily roasting, the poor guy. I enjoy a daily levelling. It's good. It's good.

We love you, Joel. It's, yeah. But, yeah, you're a love it, Joel. It's, yeah. But, yeah, you're a big fan of the Warriors, like me, and Taylor, who produces the drive show on the hits, Brad and Laura, she's married to one of the Warriors players. She is. And, look, they've come from Australia, Western Sydney,

and they don't know anyone in New Zealand besides, like, the people from Marcello's work, which just happens to be an NRL team called the Warriors from Marcella's work, which just happens to be an NRL team called the Warriors that you and I both love Ben. And also I guess like Taylor's friends at work. And I was like, why not, you know, be a nice guy? She was saying she doesn't know that many people. I was like, maybe I could go, we could go out for dinner or something. There's a, we'll go for a drink or something just to, just to make them feel welcome here in our friendly country of New Zealand. And you guys just

roasted me, called me a fan boy. Oh i was i was just saying you need to play it cool because we know what your agenda is you're gonna want to be friends with a warrior and that's fine that's right i do i've come on too strong in the past with sean johnson but you even started to throw ben under the bus here too joel you were pitching this to us and we were sort of trying to strategize ways that you could approach it without it being weird yeah because you're saying your heart's in the right place you want to actually do a nice thing as hard as in the right place you want seasoned warriors tickets and one of the players jersey like a training jersey or something but ben you said well how about i turn up to the dinner you leave a spare seat i'll turn up to the dinner wearing my warriors

jersey and then go oh guys and guys! And sit down. Yeah. Which may be a bit much. Yeah. But you guys are in the same age bracket. It could probably work. A little bit older. A little bit older. Are they a little bit older? About four years older. Three, four years. It doesn't matter. You know, age

doesn't, you know. Age is just a number. So you can still have some weird older guy from work in the Warriors top who just turns up. Oh, me? Oh, now I'm involved. Turns up at the table. Look, I won't be there, but I think what you're doing is a nice thing, but I know how you don't want to make it seem like you're fanboying out.

Yeah, I really hope none of them listen to this podcast. Well, that's why as I got into it, I said I might be pulling back the curtain too much. Okay, well, let's talk. If they are listening, okay, what sort of night are we planning? Okay, let's pick a restaurant. into it, I said I might be pulling back the curtain too much. Okay. Well, let's talk. They are listening. Okay. What sort of night are we planning? Okay. Let's pick a restaurant.

Can I come or am I not coming? Well, it's over to Joel. Oh, yeah. Well, you decide and then decide if it's okay to bring our old mate in the corner in his warring suit. Okay. Well, let's design the evening then you can decide if Ben is worthy. You don't want to go too pricey.

You don't want to go too cheap. You don't want to go too pricey. You want to make a good impression. So you've got to go middle of the line, maybe a little bit above average. You reckon? What do you reckon? Okay, so let's go to the cuisine. Are we talking Indian?

Are we talking steaks? Are we talking seafood? What are you doing? I'll have to find out. Well, I don't know. They're from Australia. They might be into, like, I don't know, maybe Asian food? Is there something cool in Auckland that you're like, hey, that's cool.

You know, where would you take someone? Maybe, like, the Lily World Cafe down at Mount Smart. They do good burgers down there. It's great. Because if I know him, he'd probably want to spend more time here at his work. At Mount Smart. It's great here, though.

Don't get me wrong, but you're right. He does work here every day. Okay, so that's, so you're going to go, so that's burgers. Burgers is good. Oh, no, actually, I reckon we go a little bit, we up it a little bit. Maybe like a nice place in Pondermere or or something you know okay set a false standard of reality pretend we're

better than we actually are okay the dinner's the dinner's been eaten there's been a wonderful night of conversation it's been free-flowing the bill comes what's happening here what's happening i reckon it's probably bearing in mind you're dinnering with an nrl player yeah we'll just be like oh we'll just we'll just I just you just do the do the right thing and Marcel and I

both go up we just split the bill although he's probably on about 10 times what I earn but um we'll just be the gentleman and you split the bill

for your for our lovely our lovely kind partners are you having that passive aggressive dig you're like oh we'll split the bill even though you're on 10 times

someone I love it someone always goes oh it's about even and it will split it and i'm always like but you can't even say that that situation yes this is why you can't bring ben to a dinner because he doesn't like splitting the bill he likes to itemize things yeah so he would sit down and go oh marcella you had some prawns joel i saw you eat two hash browns. And he would add up accordingly.

That's why you don't bring me along. All right, so I'm not coming. I'll let you know how it goes. I'll let you know how it goes. Are we going out afterwards? We're going out afterwards. You know how the Warriors players know how to party, Matt. It's in the season.

We'll keep you up to date. See if Joel even asks. All right, join the podcast, we're losing our minds. I feel like Grace and Taylor are really, they're kind of a surplus of requirements on this dinner date, Joel. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. As we drive around Mount Smart Stadium, 48 hours we've been going around and around here in our easy-go golf cart,

trying to drive the length of New Zealand to raise money for those affected by the cyclone. I mentioned before, more bad weather on the way. The report at the moment, the North Island is set to be hit with some bad weather over the next couple of days. It was just the last thing New Zealand needs. Auckland and Coromandel have strong rain warnings and thunderstorm warnings. And again, Hawke's Bay and Gisborne look like they might be hit. Hopefully not as bad as what we had a week or so ago.

But just, you know, just go away. You said that's the last thing New Zealand needs. What's the first thing New Zealand needs? I was going to say a hug. A hug would be nice. Maybe it's me that felt like a hug. So Jesse from the office came down last night. Now, that's weird to say, the segue from hug.

But it was just having a person for a moment. You're like, oh, hey. You know, seeing human, you know, human, no contact. There was no contact. It was all, you know. He's getting quite defensive about the touching here. There's no touching. I wasn't witnessing this.

There was no touching. I was just witness to this. There was no touching. I was just saying, you know, maybe I'm just lacking a bit of human company. Well, don't look for it in Jesse. Made it sound weird, didn't I? Jesse's spoken full. Yeah, I know. We know Fipsy, your partner. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, great. There was nothing like that. Stop inviting people down for hugs, Ben. I wasn't. There was no hugging involved. Hey, thank you so much for all the donations so far to the Red Cross Fund. It has been a wonderful journey. And I don't know why I'm starting to do was no hugging involved. Hey, thank you so much for all the donations so far to the Red Cross Fund. It has been a wonderful journey. And I don't know why I'm starting to do a thank you speech, you know, five hours out from the finish line.

It's like a rugby player at halftime going, hey, you know what? I'm going to start thanking the team now and say how proud of them I am. Yeah, well, you reckon on the current mass, the rate we've been travelling again throughout the night, throughout the last 48 hours, around about 11 o'clock this morning. Hopefully we'll hit our 1600 kilometres. But it has been one heck of a journey. Can I reflect? You can.

Well, yeah, because I can't remember much. So I need something to refresh my hallucinated mind. Well, here, have a listen to this. 20 hours or so of no power for some people. After we've got five bridges out, people are isolated and cut off. So obviously no cell coverage out there and all the power is done. We talked to Cam a few days ago, who was out all night with his tractor, helping out, doing such great work.

If you've got gear or ability or you're able to help your neighbour and stuff, then you just got to do it. Jason, your neighbour, who we understand is in a wheelchair. Yeah, yeah, I've been looking after him since day one. His family are in Gisborne, mate, so he has, yeah, I've been looking after him since day one. His family are in Gisborne, mate, so he has no one here helping him. Patrick. I'm from Lofala, New Zealand, I'm going to give you guys $10 an hour.

If we go 53 hours, it's $530. You're okay with that? It's $530, yep. From HRV, the wonderful Norman. We're going to give away one of our HRVS essential ventilation systems to one of your listeners who puts in the highest bid for this awesome cause you guys are busy with. They actually get communities back on their feet.

It's years of recovery. It's really hard to put a dollar figure on that, but it's in the millions in regards to Red Cross, without doubt. That's Shano from the Red Cross. He's going to be doing... I keep calling him Shano, but we've spoken to him once. I'm not on a Shano terms.

Shane from the Red Cross. Shane from the Red Cross. He's going to be joining us later in the show. Red Cross. Red Cross. It's John O'Byrne with you. We're at Manslut Stadium. You know, we're losing our minds a little bit, to be fair.

It's going to be a very fun few hours of radio, that's for sure. Next, I actually want to have a competition. Longest time anyone listening has spent awake. Okay. Let's have a think about that, and we'll get your calls and texts on shortly on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. This is The Hits, Jono and Ben, on your Friday morning

as we're driving a golf cart around and around Mount Smart Stadium. During the night, we put up a little message to see what songs we should be playing on a Bluetooth speaker. It was really cool to have so many people get involved, send us suggestions, songs that work for what we were doing, and also someone made us a playlist as well, which was incredible. Oh, that was Oscar. Yeah. Thank you, Oscar, for taking time to make a playlist. It was a fun idea of yours there, Ben.

You said, let's do that on social media, didn't you? And I thought, oh, I guess we can. To be honest, do you want my honest truth? I was like, this isn't going to get any traction. But then I looked at it and you did really well on it. Good insights. Yeah, lots of comments. The people getting involved, even Kotori, the New Zealand band,

was like, oh, come on, guys. You know what songs you should be playing. Oh, yeah, of course. One of these, yeah. Cool me down. Yeah, exactly, yeah. So we are driving around. We're a little delirious.

So just over 48 hours we've been traveling around. We've tried to get, well, one of us keeps driving. The other one tries to get sleep from time to time, maybe a pocket or two of sleep, but not much sleep over the last 48 hours. No, no, and we wanted to open up a competition. Who's had the longest time awake? Now, no. And we wanted to open up a competition. Who's had the longest time awake?

Now, I'm going to design this. There's going to be two categories. Assisted and non-assisted. Like my idea for the Olympics. We have the steroid Olympics and then the nerd Olympics. The ones who don't want to take steroids. The nerd Olympics. So yeah, we'll take all calls. 0800

the hits. 4487 is the text number. There are prizes up for grabs. 264 hours, the longest time anyone has spent awake continuously. 11 and a half days. Without sleep. That's the Guinness World Record. I don't think you'd want to be within a 5km radius

of that person. No way. After 11 and a half days. That is that would not be good for you. No, I'm surprised they're still alive after that. That's a crazy amount of time. I mean, there's probably parts of New Zealand, you know, where they're like, oh, that's just a week for us in some areas. It's a festival for Producer Joel, maybe, you know?

Now, Producer Joel, please tell me someone is calling. I think the phones might be broken again. Don't you guys suppose they're broken? No, Mike. Mike's coming through right now from the neckie. Mike is on. Good on you, Mike. Mike, Mike, welcome. It's lovely. Thank you for calling, firstly, Mike. I mean, we needed someone. How are you? Not bad, not bad. You boys are doing an awesome job up there, eh?

Keep it going. Oh, thank you, thank you. We're probably doing an awesome job of driving around, not so awesome job of radio this morning, but, hey, we're there. It's real. We're getting through this last couple of hours raising some money.

Did you stay awake for a long time, Mikey? Yeah, 72 hours, brother, working. Oh, non-stop? Non-stop, bro, non-stop. Jeez, OK. What was this? Like assisted, non-assisted? No, no, non-assisted.

We're on a pipeline, so we had an open area that a cold would open in the middle of the road that we couldn't shut down and we couldn't work at night because of the people around. So, yeah, I had to stay awake. Oh, my gosh. 72 hours, Mike. That is impressive.

How long do you sleep for after a stint like that? I slept for, I got home at 6 o'clock at night and I was back up at 5 o'clock the next morning. What a Kiwi battler. Mike. Mike, thank you for joining us this morning. I really appreciate it, buddy. Producer Joel, you were saying on the text machine? Yeah, someone said they've

sat up for 107 hours whilst running an election and counting hub for national elections. Oh my God. 100 hours? Is that how Labour got in? Because they had delirious people counting the votes. Like, another one for that,

another one for that. A hundred and seven hours! It's four and a half days. Let's just give it to this person. Are we the taxpayer making these people say I'm a hundred? Have a breather, come back to it in a day or two. Actually, speaking of politicians, we were joined by a politician.

It just came down out of the blue yesterday. Who was it? If you were to pick any politician to just turn up out of the blue for our show, you can put your money, you can guess on the text machine. Yeah, see if you're right next on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's 6.60. You're on The Hits.

Jono and Ben, on your Fridayiday morning over 20 over 48 hours sorry we've been traveling around in our golf cart trying to travel the length of new zealand raising money for those affected by the cyclone going around mount smart stadium you can take cyclone to 3493 to make an instant three dollar donation and yesterday act party leader david's if anyone was going to come down. Yeah. It would have been. Uninvited, just popped on down. Uninvited. He was a bit jealous because we'd had another politician on. It was David Seymour.

Well, well, well, look who's popped down. It's our friend David Seymour. Well, guys, I saw on your Instagram, I listened, tuned into the radio at 6.55am and you were cheating on me with Luxo and I thought, I thought he must have, it can't be the hair. So what has he got that I don't? So I came down here to check in on you boys. Oh, we've got Chris Hipkins tomorrow too. Jeez, as well, it can't be his hair either because, you know.

Now, you've been talking to people, you've been to these affected areas from the cyclone is it a hard is it a hard watch when you're there yeah it is actually because like you see people there that have got an orchard they spent like you know the last year planting up they were actually going to start picking their apples like last week and then all the money went in to get them there and then no apples come out no money and then their trees are ruined and that they're basically got to plow them into the ground plant new trees wait four years till they

get any more income if they can afford to do the replanting and they don't know if it's worth it because what if it floods again so you think about people like that totally it's shocking it is and it's was there something the uh soil is going to be spoiled is that true? Honestly, it's this silty stuff. It's super fine and it's just the worst stuff ever because it turns into a sludge and it's basically like cement so it dries out, it turns into powder and then

once it's solid, it turns into concrete so it's got to be one of the worst things that could possibly happen and it's toxic to trees and it's got sewage in it I mean, it is the worst. it's it's got to be the one of the worst things that could possibly happen and it's toxic to trees and it's got sewage in it i mean it is the worst it's just heartbreaking seeing you know the obviously you've been there as john i said but it's just heartbreaking watching those images families losing everything yeah it is and like it's not like it was sort of a good time already a lot of people already under a bit of pressure different things you know crime the

economy and all that stuff um and then you sort of say okay well that was all bad but you've just lost like half a million or a million bucks and maybe you're insured maybe you're not insured enough you've got to start again so yeah no you can understand all that and that's why you know everyone's got to put aside their differences and just sort of what what's the practical kiwi way through here now uh have you seen the red cross working because that's who we're raising money for and they do an amazing job yeah i haven't you know what they're doing just bringing people provisions and supplies and and even just not when they're bringing provisions and supplies and stuff but the actual listening and the human side of it because you got to remember a lot of this stuff's emotional you come out of the canterbury

quakes you know the mental health out of the other end of that was huge so i reckon that you know having these um red cross charities and plus the thing i like about it, everyone's giving, you know, they're not forced to give by the tax man. They're doing it out of the goodness of their heart, and that's real kindness for me. So David Seymour, thank you very much for joining us in the cart. Before you go, are you missing your friend Jacinda? Oh, look, I really do miss Jacinda. I mean, I tried, you know, winding up Chris Hipkins at question time,

and he just doesn't snap with quite the same sass. So, obviously, I take some responsibility for that. I'm not going to blame others. I'm going to get better at winding him up too. But, yeah, I miss Cindy. What are you finding as hot buttons? Do you think there's anything you can push on further? Oh, look, there's a lot of potential there.

I mean, he's a raging wrangler by birth, and I think you'll find that as time goes on, you know, he makes the odd mistake, and he doesn't have Jacinda's warmth. He's going to get a little bit nasty. You're going to have more on about that when you've got him on the show. Every time I talk to you, I'm like, why have you not been embroiled in more of a scandal?

You say some wild stuff. Yeah, but it's all true. I mean, he does get very angry, and you will see it. You heard it here first. Some people over there listening to Mike Hosking for the news, no no no that's a mistake. The hits with Jono and Ben, that's where it's at, you heard it here first. Political analysis, the raging wrangler will rage and at that point you'll all realise that it's time to give your party vote to ACT. Turn it around to an ACT party vote.

It's not the sort of gear he gives Hosking either is it? No you do play here like, play whatever is in front of you, right? You know, like I've heard you on other interviews, and you're like, oh, that's not the David Seymour we get on our show. No, no, no, no, you get the real deal, because, you know, I mean, with Hosking, Hosking already knows everything, so you don't need to give him the gear like you guys.

You guys are open-minded. You're the true intellectual culture of New Zealand. Sometimes you hide it quite well, I admit that much, but nevertheless, this is where it's at, the hits with John Owen Baird. Oh, hey, well, thank you and Carl for coming down and supporting the cause today, David. We appreciate it. Hey, look, you guys are absolute legends. You don't have to do this, but you go out of the way, and that's why people love you.

David Seymour, geez, a rollercoaster yesterday as he came down and took a couple of laps with us. We weren't even on a rollercoaster, it was a golf cart. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I have a question, a DJ-related question for you Ben, because I'm not holding out much hope

that you'll be able to answer it. No, I'm probably not the right person to ask. Maybe someone listening to this. David Guetta, if you're listening right now. Yeah, David Guetta, okay. So, Kygo's come in there, and he's gone, I'm going to remix Whitney's song. Whitney had obviously recorded the song. It's got its own music underneath.

Oh, how did they get the vocals? Has he just got Whitney's raw vocal on its own, acapella, and then he makes music behind it? Or is he working with her music, jazzing it up, remixing it? I think he must have got the vocal, but I don't know if he's got a program that can strip the vocal, the music out from it or not.

I don't know. That's something for someone who's a DJ listening right now, give us a text as well. Actually, Harry Styles is going to be where we are in a couple of weeks' time. March the 7th, he's going to be in New Zealand. Mount Smart Stadium, it's going to be in progress going to be amazing and in Australia We talked about this the other day. They kind of bullied him into doing a showy on stage This is one of the most disgusting tradition

Feel like a different person. Such an intimate moment to be shared with so many people. I'll be discussing this with my therapist at length. Yeah, so this is what Australia did. They got him to drink something out of a shoe. They got him to do a shooie. I'm like, what's New Zealand? What are we going to bully Harry Styles into doing?

What's our thing? Well, guess what? It's the census. That's what I'm going to make Harry Styles do when he's in New Zealand. You thought the lowest point of your life was drinking out of a shooie. No, no, it's filling out a 29-page census, my friend. Yeah, so everyone in New Zealand on March the 7th has to fill out a census. And someone on the official account for the census replied, because someone asked them the question, and they said, this includes tourists, visitors, and former members of One Direction.

Everyone is required to do a census when they're in New Zealand on March the 7th. He's definitely getting a minion to fill that out for him. Yeah, you're right. There is no way on earth Harry Styles is telling us what ethnicity he is, what language he speaks, how old he is.

Why would he, you know? No, you're right. Someone else is filling that all for him. Oh, he's too famous to fill out censuses. Before 7 o'clock, a generator. Thanks to our mates at Trade Tested. A lot of people need those right now, so if you know someone who does,

you can head to thehits.co.nz. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's Jono and Ben at Mount Smart Stadium. Over 48 hours we've been driving around in a golf cart trying to drive the length of New Zealand to raise money for those affected by the cyclone. And the weather, extreme weather over the last couple of weeks and it's caused a lot of power outages.

And so many people need their power back on and we're giving away generators thanks to Trade Tested. And they mean a lot to people. Have a listen to Jason. Thank you. Thank you so much, Matt. It's the very least we can do. Everything that you are doing for the community and helping out.

Yeah. Oh, thank you. Because he needed it for his wheelchair, mate. There was enough battery for like five days. Oh, that's amazing, mate. Thank you, guys. And that was for his neighbour. Yeah.

Well, not even for him. He's so kind and selfless that he was just so happy his neighbour could have a generator. So we're going to phone this morning's winner, which is Amy. Hello, Amy speaking. Amy, it's John and Benno from the Hits. How are you? Good, thank you. How are you?

Yeah, well, we're just trucking away on a golf cart here, mate. Yeah, I heard all about that. Yeah, well, that's because we keep banging on about it. Yeah, we do. Hey, it's for a good cause. We're raising money for those affected by the cyclone. But your family's also been affected. Yes, they have, yeah.

A lot of talk about the Hawke's Bay and Gisborne, but there's still people in Auckland without power. Yeah, there is. So they're up in Henderson, my parents are up in Henderson Valley, and they had the whole side of the driveway come down, and it's actually blocked the whole road. Oh, jeez. Oh, damn.

And so what's their situation at the moment? So they're OK. We can get up to their house, but anyone up the driveway further up from theirs, because it's on a shared driveway, they all have to walk all the way up to their houses because they can't drive on the driveway because it's pretty much a waiting game

to see if the driveway gives way. Oh, that's a fun waiting game to play. It is. It's a great game. Yeah, trade tested. They came to us and they said, we want to help out some people who are really struggling with power because, geez, you don't realise

how much you rely on it, do you? No, you don't. Yeah, they want to help your parents out and hand us in there with a free generator. Oh, that's awesome. Thank you. You're very welcome. That's all right. So, yeah, tell them that.

I'll give them a ring and let them know soon. Well, I hope that generator helps them out, mate, and wish them the best of luck, and I hope the driveway holds up, and I hope you hold up, and I hope we hold up, and wish them the best of luck and hope the driveway holds up and hope you hold up and hope we hold up and hope everyone's holding up. Cool. Thank you Jono and Ben and good luck with your drive

on the golf cart. Thank you, Amy and can I just say, Ben, it's great to have a genie giveaway that hasn't resulted in an HR complaint when you're usually like, hey, we should give away my genies. People get their hands on them. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

The $100 hat. We're raising money for Red Cross, of course, over the last couple of days. And I thought I'd throw it out there. Oh, $800, the Hits. We take one call, and the person for $100 for Red Cross gets to decide what song we play next on the radio. This is a great revenue stream, too, for the station. I think you've just, you know, times are tough out there for the media industry.

So, I mean, if we open up $100 per request, you've just got to hold, you know, Bogsy, the CEO, Michael Bogs, he'll be, you've made it to the exec team, my friend. When we charge for requests, we just don't talk about music streaming services. No, that's right. We've got Zoe on. Dewey, how are you, Zoe? Good morning. Kia ora.

Hello. Kia ora. Hello. Kia ora. Hello. Kia ora. Lovely to have you on, Zoe. $100 you're donating to the New Zealand Red Cross Disaster Relief. This is exciting. Well, not exciting. Now, make sure you guys, we're placing a lot of faith in you to go there and donate.

Yeah, you do that online at the hitstockcode. Don't you do us like a dog, mate. Don't you do us dirty. Okay, Zoe, there's a lot of pressure right now. The whole country is wanting to know what song we're going to hear. It's on you for the next song we're going to play right now on the Hats. What's it going to be? Well, there's a lot of pressure by Wagon Wheel by Darius.

Have we ever played Wagon Wheel? I don't know if we have. The South Island will be loving the crap out of this right now, won't they? But they won't show that they're loving it. They'll just sort of bop their head a little bit. They're not going to dance. Yeah. They've got their arms crossed, but they're going to enjoy the song.

Darius Ruckert, that's a good version. He was hooting the blowfish. Oh, was he hooting? Yeah, he was, yeah, Darius Ruckert. All right. How are the blowfish now? I don't know. He's left them.

He's still in country. Okay. All right. Here we go, Zoe. This is for you. Thank you so much for donating for Red Cross. And we're them. He's still in country. Okay. All right. Here we go, Zoe. This is for you. Thank you so much for donating for Red Cross. And we're going to play it in its entirety, a song we wouldn't normally play here on the hits.

Enjoy. That's a good one. 7.17. 7.17. Walking to the south out of Roanoke I caught a trucker out of Philly, had a nice long talk But he's headed west from the Cumberland Gap To Johnson City, Tennessee I gotta, gotta move on before the sun

I hear my baby calling my name and I know that she's the only one And if I die in Raleigh At least I will die free So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel Rock me, mama, any way you feel Hey, mama, rock me Oh, rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain Rock me, mama, like a sailboat train

Hey, mama, rock me So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel Rock me, mama, anyway I wanna feel Hey, mama, rock me, rock me anyway I wanna feel, hey, hey Mama, rock me, mama, rock me, mama, rock me Rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain Rock me, mama, like a southbound train Hey, hey, yeah

Mama, rock me, mama, rock me, me, around me. That is Darius Rucker, Wagon Wheel. That's for Zoe. That was the $100 hit. And as the hit, she got John O'Byrne. I enjoyed that. It was fun. Now I'm going to stand over Zoe until she goes online and donates $100 to the Red Cross.

Now, you've got to do the follow-up on these things, Ben. There's follow-up administration that needs to take place. Still in a golf cart. So we started 6 o'clock Wednesday morning. We've been going for over 48 hours now. Many, many k's. About 300 k's we have to go until we've driven the equivalent of the length of New Zealand. It's been big.

It's been big. It's been big. They're painting lines on the field at the moment, aren't they? Oh, sorry, that distorted. Painting lines on the field. How are you guys? How's the line painting? Good? Thumbs up there?

They're painting lines for a rugby game tomorrow, Ben. Yeah, it's all going at the moment as we sort of get to know the stadium really well. Vic, we just thank Mount Smart for having us at such short notice because, you know, they're already preparing for Harry Styles. They've got rugby games they've got to get ready for and then they've got us two idiots cruising around on a golf cart 24 hours a day. So thank you.

It's lovely they've had us here. It's so lovely that Scotty, Luke and the team. So many people have donated to help the Red Cross. Cyclone 349 on the text for $3 donation. And also, you know, we thank other people like even the New Zealand Herald came down yesterday and they did a little feature on it.

Got the word out there, a little article on us, a little video as well. Got the word out there about what we're doing to try and raise money, which is lovely. But then I was reading this article last night. I haven't read the article. And it's great. It's great. It's all stuff that's factual until one point. One point right there. He claims he's been stitched up by fake news.

I've been stitched up. And it says the pair take turns in driving between you and me, Jono, which we do on the golf cart. And then it says, so who's the better driver? Boyce admits he's probably more aggressive. Now, would I say that? You know me as a driver. No, you're nervous, apprehensive. So, if anything, this is coming from your mouth.

But I've been attributed with something that you've said. Yes, OK. So, this is Boyce admits he's probably more aggressive, and he proves it when the cart we're on nearly tips over and plunges the Herald's reporter and cameraman down the hill. Oh, beep, he said. We're going to have to go slow now. None of this is me. This is you. This is prior. This is not, he said. We're going to have to go slow now. None of this is me.

This is you. This is Pryor. This is not Boyce said. This is not Boyce does. This is Pryor does. Well, listen. I've been stitched up. Fake news.

I will take this on the chin. This was you. But you've already taken it on the chin publicly. I have it publicly, yeah. Primately I'll take it on the chin. It was me driving. And, yes, we took a corner a little sharply while the reporter and the camera operator were on the back of the golf cart.

And it tipped up on two wheels. It almost rolled. But they're telling me I've spilt them down the driveway. No, they're telling him I've spilt them down the driveway. No, we're just spilling down the driveway. Hey, bit of showbiz drama. And to be fair,

I have taken a lot of heat for you over the years. What? Can I take you back to your pilot scandal? Oh, okay. Where you dressed up like a pilot. All right, we're going to wrap him up here. I go through the airport now, and they're like, airport security, they're letting you back in.

And I'm like, I've never once corrected them. I'm like, yes, they have. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A lot of Kiwis having to deal with so much stuff at the moment, but showing a lot of resilience. And we've got someone on right now who's actually written a book to help families, and particularly kids, through some difficult times. Dr Emma Woodward is her name.

She's a resilience doctor. Good morning, Emma. Good morning. How are you two? We're doing okay. How are you? It sounds like you've had a pretty full-on last 24 hours. Yeah, it's been pretty full-on. It's all good. We're still without electricity, but, you know, just trucking on.

There's lots of things you can do to manage that. It's just a bit tiring at the moment for lots of people, isn't it? Yeah, you've got to book what to Do When You Don't Know What to Do. And I imagine you're having to implement a lot of your own strategies at the moment, Emma. Well, that's exactly why I wrote the book on Monday. It was really scary at our house. I live in the Whitehackerees, surrounded by lots of trees. And on Tuesday, and we were really, the power went out, but we were really lucky.

On Tuesday, I just felt really helpless and overwhelmed and I thought right if I'm feeling like this other people are going to be feeling like this so what can I do so I wrote a little book called what to do when you don't know what to do and um it's for parents to read to their children and it's kind of packed with strategies on how to manage your emotions because none of us have ever gone through this before. Well, I was thinking that in regards to, you know, kids. I mean, obviously, Jono and myself, we've both got young kids. And over the last couple of years, going through COVID, there's disruptions with school, with all that, you know, the lockdowns,

the scary weather of late and affecting so many livelihoods and families. It feels like the world's quite messed up for the kids over the last couple of years. It does. And the kids are pretty resilient, I think, you know, and they'll take their lead from us. They'll watch what we do and how we manage situations. And I think as parents, you always have that extra lens.

Not only are you worried about yourself, but you're worried about your kids too. So I think, you know, as long as we are gentle on ourselves, we remind ourselves that we're allowed to feel anything that we feel right now because there is no rule book for this and we just slow down and we be curious acknowledge our feelings and use some of those strategies in the little book to manage them and teach them to our kids too because actually if the last few years have taught us anything it's that we don't know what's going to come next.

Yeah, a lot of people have lost everything. What's one thing they can concentrate on over the coming weeks? Community. Coming together with their local community and reminding themselves they're not alone in this situation and reaching out. Human beings need connection, and when things feel really overwhelming, the one thing that is proven through science and through what we know in our own bodies and hearts and minds too

is connection with other people. And it's community resilience rather than individual resilience that shows how well people get through adversity like this. So communities coming together to support each other and come up with their own solutions. What about two idiots sitting in a golf cart, traveling the distance of New Zealand round and round a stadium? Because I was reading yesterday your book, and one of the things was like breathing.

Breathing was one of the first things. I mean, obviously, I'm doing that now, but there's probably a better way I could be doing that. So there's lots of different ways. What you two guys are doing at the moment is one of the strategies in the book, is helping others, reminding yourself that there are things that you can do when you feel really overwhelmed and helpless. You've decided to get your bottoms in that golf buggy

and move round and round and round and do something for other people, and that makes us feel good. And it also helps other people, so it's a win-win. So breathing is a really good strategy to help us feel regulated when we're feeling really overwhelmed. And that helps calm our brain down. And it really, I mean, there's so much, so much terrible news that does come out of an event like this. But it does, if you do look at the silver lining, it puts other things in perspective.

It definitely does, you know, and it kind of, it is a leveler. It kind of really does ground things. However, just because other people may have had it worse off than you, kind of something may have been more impacted than you, doesn't mean that you're not entitled to your feelings. Any feelings that anybody is having at the moment are valid. So don't try and kind of deprioritize or devalue your feelings because you don't think you've had it as bad as somebody else. Well, I don't know. Ben's

giving me a feeling right now. Am I? Are we? I don't know if that's the feelings that Dr Emma's talking about. Am I reading the situation wrong? I don't know. You need to read the book, What to Do, when you don't know what to do. Thank you very much for your time. You keep safe out

there and have a good one. You too and carry on and don't know what to do. Well, thank you very much for your time. You keep safe out there and have a good one. You too and carry on and don't get dizzy and apparently if you clap in front of your face really quickly when you do, it makes you undizzy. My kid told me yesterday. Oh, that's good to know. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast.

The Hits. Cash and Card. You can win a fantastic Skoda and all that cash in the back of it, the Skoda is here. I was trying to pop the boot open before, but Cash Keeper Alex, the boot's not opening. You've got to know your way around that car

and I tell you what, all you have to do is press that fancy little lock button under the hazard lights and then boom, you can do anything. Well, there we go. I've just told everyone how to break into the Škoda.

And get that cash. Excuse me. I've got a mouthful of granola at the moment. I'm not usually a granola consumer. That's pretty good granola. It is. I know you do. So I followed your lead.

And, Jesus, quite the jaw worker. My jaw's working harder than producer Joel at Rhythm and Vine. All right. Carolyn is going to join us from Nelson this morning. Good morning. Good morning. How's it going? Oh, Carolyn, we're a little...

That probably sums it up. Yeah. We're going to hand you over to cashkeeper Alex. She can do the heavy lifting on this one. Awesome. Hi, Carolyn. Hi. How much cash did you think was in the car?

I'm guessing it's $20,177.30. Carolyn from Nelson with a guess of $20,177.30. That is incorrect. I'm sorry. Oh, no, that's fine. Look, you've got to guess somewhere, don't you? You do, and you can keep on guessing. You really can.

No, thank you so much. Thanks so much, Carolyn. Carolyn, you sound adorable. Yeah. What a point. Every guest gets us closer, someone closer to that skoda, right? You know? We eliminate things one by one. You have a great weekend.

Thank you so much for listening. Thanks, guys. And great what you're doing as well. Fantastic. Thank you so much. Thank you, Carolyn. You have a great weekend, mate. Now, Joel, speaking of Producer Joel, interesting fact that we found out about Producer Joel. Thank you so much. because I would have thought that the new generations coming through, the new motorists, manuals won't be a thing.

No, I can see why Joel doesn't drive manuals because you're right. There's not too many manuals out there. I'm not judging the fact that you don't because our kids probably all have no idea. By the time our kids are driving, Elon Musk would have designed something to drive them. They won't even be touching the steering wheel. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It is Bruno Mars here on The Hits, Jono and Ben.

We're at Mount Smart Stadium driving a golf cart around and around. We started, what, 50 hours ago. We've ticked over 50 hours as we try and drive the length of New Zealand, the equivalent of the length of New Zealand, 1,600 k's. I reckon we could be done within probably the next three hours at the rate we are going. Jono, if you can just pick up the pace just a little bit, mate. If I can pick up the

pace? Yeah. I'm just here cruising. I've gone into, this is not running as fast as it could be. Okay, we are in autopilot mode and I will say that, you know, last night, the second of the two nights was a combination of probably the bleaker

of the nights in terms of tiredness, but also you knew there's light at the end of the two nights was a combination of probably the bleaker of the nights in terms of tiredness, but also you knew there's light at the end of the tunnel. Yeah. That tunnel was there at Mount Smart Stadium, and it was these field lights that they have. The Warriors run out of the tunnel, right? That tunnel. You're right. Hopefully, we'll be done around about 11 o'clock this morning.

All going well, but still plenty of chance to donate Entex Cyclone to 3493. Now, we've been having a couple of hour breaks every now and then, and we've been in a room in a grandstand, and that's been able to, you know, it was designed to let us recharge the batteries, wasn't it? Yeah, well, one of us keeps going, the other one sort of goes away and tries to force themselves to sleep, which doesn't really work even though you're exhausted. Yeah. You can't. What we have figured out over the last three days is bullying yourself to sleep is not the best technique.

It never ends up with you sleeping. Just stressing out about sleep. No, exactly. And then getting up and looking at your phone and going, God, I've only got 28 minutes left. And then going, well, there's no point now. Yeah. And sort of just bickering with yourself great rest yeah uh but we have to get changed obviously hygiene standards a priority

here at jonah and ben expedition are they the backbone of what we do hygiene and uh so i've been getting changed but i've been getting changed that there's a massive glass ranch slider which looks out onto the field now i've been getting changed freely you know like you name it uh more naked than a streaker on the field and i've been doing that for two or three days and then i look up what's pointing back into there what is pointing back into that ranch slider what do you tell me what you think oh is there a camera is there why do you sound so good why do you sound so anxious now what have you been doing yeah there is and it's pointing directly in there so i hope for your sake that there's no

there's no ben boys gets cancelled moments that have taken place because it'll all be recorded on cctv footage but in fact if anyone is listening at Mount Smart, the wonderful people at Mount Smart, my public players, whoever does have that CCTV footage, please release it. The people need to see it. They need to get it out there. The big white panther of Mount Smart.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. What do you say to a family? Like, when you're on the ground and you're talking to these people who have just lost everything apart from the clothes on their back, like, what words can you offer? Look, it's always really hard. There's not a lot that you can say really other than just to let people know that you're thinking of them

and that, you know, you feel what they're well, you don't necessarily feel what they feel but you certainly feel for them. It's really tough. I think people have got amazing support around them, though, and that is one of the things that I've taken some comfort from. Now, when Jacinda handed over the reins,

did she mention all of these catastrophic events she had lined up in her calendar for you? Jeez, yeah. Yeah, no, those weren't really included in the handover notes, it would be fair to say. But she sent me a few messages along the way. Yeah, like a new job being Prime Minister. It must be, you know, have you had a chance to reflect

on how busy it is and all the things you've had to do? One of the weirdest things is, you know, it is a big job and it's a pretty amazing job to have too, but haven't really had a lot of time to pause and to reflect on that yet. You know, largely just been straight into it and kind of consumed by the events that have happened since then. But, you know, it's got a lot of challenges with it, but there's a lot of upsides too. I get to see some of the best of New Zealand. Yes, well, obviously the Red Cross is some of the best of New Zealand. Just a great organisation and a lot of people we didn't realise,

actually volunteers who are on the ground helping those people. I think people in New Zealanders often underestimate when these times of adversity hit us, when these emergencies happen, it's actually often volunteers that are the first on the scene and doing that hard work. When a fire happens, you've got a reasonably good chance that there are going to be volunteer firefighters and they're helping to put it out. A lot of the emergency workforce are self-defence volunteers. They're often the first ones on the ground. So we're really lucky that we've kind of got that volunteer culture in New Zealand.

The Red Cross are a really good example of that, of people who just pitch in and help out. Now there's murmurings of crime. There's crime there. People are saying their houses are being broken into and ransacked. She sounded like Mike Hosking there, didn't you? Is that good, Chris? Is that good delivery? Yeah, you're not quite as belligerent.

I haven't finished the question yet either. Sorry, I really interrupted. I was just like, whoa, this is... Mike Hosking doesn't have someone going, geez, that's a good question. I was going to ask Chris Hapsgood about his love for Coke Zero, but OK, we're going with crime, OK? What's the deal?

There's people saying we don't have crime. There's others saying we do have crime in the Hawke's Bay. Look, the reality is in any situation like this, if people are committing crime, that's going to be really, it's even worse for the victims of crime because of everything else that's happening. So my message to them is make sure that you're reporting any of these incidences to the police.

We've got 145 extra cops on the ground to make sure that we're dealing with any people who are engaged in opportunistic offending. So get in touch with the police and they will be following up. They've been arresting people. And I guess your message to New Zealanders right now, as we've said, a lot of people doing it tough because of the cyclone, cost of living, the weather events.

What can you say to Kiwis listening right now? My message to Kiwis listening right now is there are some tough times around us at the moment and there are some people whose lives have been turned upside down. But we will get through this. We'll band together as a country as we have done in past type events, as we did after the Christchurch earthquake, as we did

during the global pandemic. And we will support our fellow Kiwis through. Now, I hate to push my own agenda here, Prime Minister, but you know, Ben and myself on this golf cart for three days, what are we looking at? New Year's Honours, knighthoods, public holiday in our honour, over

to you. We haven't done it for that. We'll see what we can do. I might print you up a certificate. Oh, thank you. Microsoft clip art or something like that. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, we know how busy you are. We really appreciate your time. Take care of yourself.

All right. Take care, guys. All right. Take care, guys. Thank you, Chris. Chris the hippo. Hippins. Hippins.

Hippins. Oh, jeez. It was going so well until that moment. You sounded like Mark Hosking for a while there. Yeah. Not quite at the end. Next, speaking of losing the plot, I was talking to something yesterday. I think I was hallucinating.

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