Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's Wife Has A Problem With Their Anniversary Present...

Episode Date: December 7, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast , Ben's wife chats about her drama with the Jack Johnson concert tickets, Jono can't stop breaking things and we have a 5k stonka!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Challenge Petrol Service Stations, this John Owen Bean podcast brought to you by Challenge Petrol Service Stations. Challenge! Why don't you challenge the norm? You've made up, you keep making up slogans for the best fun, I'm sure they appreciate it. So, thank you for coming on board for the podcast. Yeah, it's great. We were just actually Talking about podcasts Weren't we In the world The competitive world Of podcasting nowadays Ben Boyce

And actually producer Joel You dip your toes Into a basketball podcast Every week How's that going Oh we do it John's number one Is it

I saw another thing Someone else had a number one Podcast Well they're lying mate It depends on what time Have you released I mean you know So everyone's at number one

At some point Yeah You just need to strike At that goal Not John and Ben Depends on what time you're released. I mean, you know. So everyone's at number one at some point. Yeah, yeah. You just need to strike at that golden hour. Not John O'Byrne. We're not number one anywhere. We've been teetering around sort of 125 on these charts. A lot of people do listen to it, though, which is awesome.

We get a lot of messages through, and we're saying we're giving shout-outs now to people that DM us on Instagram at The Hits Breakfast or send a message on 4487. Yeah. Leonie, who we shouted out to yesterday. She gave us great – I mean, we've had two days of amazing stuff on the radio, all thanks to what she offered. Yeah, thank you. A gift to me.

Thank you, Leonie. Jono, you'll hear it again. We reflect on it again today. You'll hear it on the podcast. Something happened poolside at a hotel, and I was – you just think you're in your own privacy don't you not not publicly by a pool but but like i'd imagine if you were sitting in the bathroom or something and this happened yeah absolutely but no or on the step outside your house if you don't know what i'm talking about i was cutting my toenails beside a pool it made it sound A lot worse actually And I just

I told you I was like What's the People have to cut Their toenails But not by the Bar What's the deal

Why does it make it So grotesque Doing it in public In public It's just not So what if I was Cutting my fingernails It's slightly better

But still no So just no nail cutting Happening in front of strangers Is that what you're saying In a public setting By a pool. I mean, imagine that. We've got a meeting, a company-wide meeting,

and an old mate pulls out his feet and starts clapping his toenails. Imagine that. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it in a boardroom. But you're doing it in a public, by the pool. Well, my feet are out of the pool. Well, people are out with it. I could see my feet more.

And I was like, you know, when you're in a border, you've got your shoes covered. So I'm not going to start cutting my claws there. But anyway, so apparently you're not allowed to do that in public. Any shout outs there, Joel? You know, there was someone that invited us to the graduation, the biggest theology graduation in the world. 100,000 people graduated. 100,000? Yeah.

It was in November, though. So we might have. It was on Zoom, but yeah, we missed that. It was in November. Yeah, it's a shame when you check the DMs and you're not over them and you're like,

I checked one from you, it was how many years past it? Five years. Yeah, and it was a video message you asked me to do and I'm sorry I missed that message. There's actually one here, it could be big for you, Ben.

They're trying to get us to promote their alcohol brand for festive season. Oh, yeah. What's the alcohol brand? Do you want me to say it yeah uh rinse vodka soda it's actually a really good and quite reputable vodka soda brand unreputable ones yeah sometimes we do talk about a lot of unreputable uh things you've got some bootleg stuff guys yeah okay let's all play a game let's check our dms because i never check i'm shocking on social media check our ds and read the first message that pops up. I've got one here from Susanna Gillies.

Hi, is this genuine with a link? Okay, this is dangerous. Don't click on that link. I'm going to click on it. Oh, yeah, no, it's me saying that Susanna's won $100. All she needs to do is contact me. Yes, it is. It is genuine, Susanna.

Please, your credit card details and your three-digit pin on the back. And we will deposit that money at Jono Prior Enterprises into your account. Oh, I've got one from Joel Harrison. I sent you a funny video. What was it? The guy getting crushed by a tree. I'm watching it. Did that just go to your request?

Yeah, I'm watching it. At least you don't follow me, John. That's probably why. I don't follow you. Oh, no, I don't. There you go. I'll follow you, John. Oh, there you go.

You've got a nice one. Can I just say, a video of a guy getting crushed by a tree. Yeah. Hilarious. No part of that The best thing If you like it You get all of them on your algorithm as well

So just Give it a like Share it around to a few people But yeah No it's Sorry I haven't really got anything I've also I've also seen on here

I've sent a lot of famous people messages On my Do you want to Do you want to talk Who I've sent a message to Oh you Yeah Okay

Let's go through The famous people you've sent messages to Israel Adesanya Same here I've sent a message to. Oh, yeah. Okay. Let's go through the famous people you've sent messages to. Israel Adesanya. Same here. I've sent Israel Adesanya four messages. Four messages. You DM him? Yeah.

Oh, okay. Oh, no, he doesn't follow me. No, no, that's what I mean. But, yeah, so you DM him. Yeah. Okay, you don't just comment below, this is a private. I said this is before his last fight that he had a few weeks ago. Good luck luck champ.

You make us proud. Oh that's nice. The good luck champ sounded a bit condescending but the make us proud sounded lovely. But he's the champion. Oh he is. He is. You wouldn't lose whatever he is. He is a champion. I love him. The day after the fight I said proud of you mate. You're a legend. Keep up the good work.

So that was pre and post fight. He's awesome. Famous person you've DM'd there, Producer Joel? I actually DM'd Israel Adesanya on the 22nd of July 2018. This is a while back. I said, happy birthday, mate. Can't wait to see you at the top of the game. Keep killing it, brother. True story. 2018.

Didn't get back? No, no, didn't. No, well, he's busy. I mean, he's got millions of followers. This is before he was a champ. I think I might have predicted something big here. And if they're not following you back Unfortunately it slips into the section That they don't see They have to You know it's a bit of admin

To go out and Yes Another one here To Stacey Flula Who was the In the Black Ferns Black Ferns yeah She said congrats legend

A lot of mine are just Congratulations Legend Congrats legend You make us all so proud I basically I am just like Copy paste.

Ruby Tooey, mate, so happy for you and the team. You're a bloody legend. You make us so proud. They don't reply to you. No, again, they're probably getting a lot of messages, but essentially my messages are just of the tone of a very proud parent. And the kids don't text me back. Yeah, well, that's lovely, though.

There are lots of people making you proud today. I did the same thing you mocked me for with KJ Arpa a few years ago. Got home, watched. I had a few drinks, but I got home, watched some Riverdale, and I was like, jeez, he's good in this, like a Kiwi actor. He's really good. I'm going to DM him, probably along the same lines, like, good on you, champ.

You make us proud or whatever it was. It was along those lines, yeah. Nothing bad. That's fine. But you brought it up whatever it was. It was along those lines. Yeah. Nothing bad. That's fine. But you brought it up the next time we talked to him on radio going, yeah. And he still gave you that. He still didn't message you back, did he? Oh, no.

He waved through again. He's millions of followers. That's the thing. You know, he's not going to wade back through looking for his good luck champ sort of message from me. So, yeah. So, yeah. But lovely thing you're doing. That's lovely.

You've just got to wish. You've got to be positive on social media. I did that on Twitter for a while. I tried to turn the tide of Twitter because I found Twitter a very negative spot and I was like, hey, I'm going to do a year of positive tweets. Every day I'm going to tweet about someone that I think is awesome. Publicly, like, same thing you're doing.

I'm like, Israel Adesanya. I'm like, if it was someone like that, I'd tag him in going, he's awesome. Proud of you. Proud of you. And I did that for a while. People would even start bullying me for that as well. You got mocked out of doing a positive thing.

Everyone's like, who's going to be you? I was like, mate, I'm just trying to turn that in. But to be fair, Ben, why did you think you, Ben Boyce, would turn the tide on the tone of Twitter? It wasn't probably turn the tide. It was just to be a small little beacon, a ray of sunshine in an otherwise bleak environment. That's right. You got mocked and bullied out of it.

You didn't even get past two months, did you? No, people were like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Oh, you've done such and such. Oh, you're thinking of the daily thing. People around the office, man, he faced the face bullying about it, too. I was like, oh, I'll retire. I tell you, I know you made no impact on Twitter. I tell you who does, though. Elon Musk. He's making some stuff. He's making waves at Twitter, mate. I don like, oh, I'll retire. I'll tell you, you made no impact on Twitter. I'll tell you who does though,

Elon Musk. He's making some stuff. He's making waves at Twitter, mate. I don't know if I'm coming back. All right, enjoy the podcast. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Good news.

If you're in the top of the South Island after seven long weeks, the main road between Nelson and Blenheim is going to open this weekend. This weekend? That's a lot earlier

than they predicted, isn't it? $15 million. It costs an emergency repairs, but it's good to open this weekend this weekend it's a lot earlier than they just then they predicted isn't it 15 million it cost an emergency repairs but it's good to know that's uh that's opening because it takes a lot longer to drive there now two hours or so isn't it uh and it was through slips wasn't it that it happened i think so yeah yeah good news good news great news yeah we we know we well that know that too well been from the bunningistle Tour, we had to fly over in light aircraft for a show. You were clinging on for dear life. Oh, yeah. I wish that road was open. That's for sure.

And then the pilot was like, oh, there's the road down there. And you're like, I don't want to look down. I don't care about the road. Just get me there. Land this thing. Jeez, how's everything going? All right?

Yeah, all right. Yeah, good. Had a spillage this morning in the car. Like a giant bottle of water. Oh, right. And there's no, like, water's probably, you know, if you're going to spill anything. Yeah, it's not a bad thing to spill, really. Not a bad thing to spill, you're right.

But I did, as I was cleaning it up, I was like, there's no convenient time to spill something. No. You know, there's no moment in your life where you're like, well, we could do with a spilling here. You know, every 100% of the time, it's a pain in the ass. Yeah. Having to clean up a spill, especially in the morning. The morning's the worst time. Yeah, you're right.

Every second counts in the morning. Or maybe if you're outside in your togs or something, you had some water and you're about to get into a pool. Yeah. But again, you're like, oh. You know, like if it was water, it wouldn't matter. No, it wouldn't matter. Yeah. But it's still not convenient. Yes. Yeah, you're right're like, oh. You know, like if it was water, it wouldn't matter. No, it wouldn't matter. But it's still not convenient.

Yeah, you're right. Yeah, producer B. Humphrey, speaking of convenience, got up at 10.30 last night thinking it was the morning, didn't you? The baby woke up and you started getting yourself coffee, got up into the kitchen, you started getting baby formula ready. Autopilot mode and just, yeah. It was a relief once i realized what it's a good feeling it's a good feeling it's not it's probably not as good as like if you just wake

up you look at the clock and you're like i've got a few more hours and then once you've got up and started your day you're like was there a part of you like oh well may as well i had an adrenaline kick so it was quite hard to get back to sleep right like i hit panic mode once i realized and i was like oh my gosh things almost yeah i'm glad i didn't wake the baby up and like go it's time to get dressed well that's the thing we did that as a family when we're getting late for the bus back with mom's like tomorrow we're all gonna get up we're gonna wake everyone up okay and she woke us all up we're having breakfast we're like it's real dark and it was like three in the morning were you late for the bus well ironically we all went back to bed i went back to bed my school clothes i think we were late for the

bus it's a mad rush the hits the jonah and ben podcast it feels like a lot to jam in before the end of the year but um but that's all right there's this imaginary finish line to i know a lot of trades have to deal with it too. Oh, God, I can't. All this plumbing and deck and building done before Christmas. Those poor people are just running ragged at the moment trying to get to the finish line that we've just, you know, we all need to just remember that it's going to roll on.

There's going to be more days next year. If you don't get it done this year, just sort it out in Jan. Oh, no, but people want everything done before Christmas, don't they? Also, a spare thought for the airline industry. They've had a rough few years, obviously, with COVID. Now there's a jet fuel shortage in New Zealand. A recent shipment of fuel was contaminated, so

they reckon they can't use that. So now they're rationing off their fuel over the next couple of weeks. At this stage, they say, don't contact your airlines and see if your flight's on or anything they'll let you know and they hope that all the flights will be running on time but you'll find out when your plane runs out of fuel halfway through like oh oh yeah sorry guys it's surely there's more jet fuel you can order is there a shortage it's coming no it's coming in a

week and like the 18th after the 18th or something like that so yes so i think the shipments you know there's a war in Ukraine, there's a lot of oil and fuel and stuff that's not coming over as quickly as possible. So you just can't chuck your unleaded 91 in there? I don't think so. Swing down to challenge. Hey, I'm no expert in that department, definitely.

But also, actually speaking of planes, I saw this on stuff.co.nz this morning. There was an article saying that Christopher Lux and Andrew Cinder Ardern have both been spotted not paying attention to the safety video. Oh, who's been narking on there? Who does pay attention to the safety video? And in the fairness of the reporter,

they'll like to be honest, I've done this many, many times. But it was just interesting. But then... Once you've seen it once, you've seen it... And Christopher Luxon probably signed off on it many times. He ran the airline. He knows what to do.

If anything, he probably could recite it word for word, all the things to do. He well knows in the event of an emergency, we're all screwed. What's the point of watching the video? Were people secretly filming them? No, I just think it was just noticed. He was head down scrolling through his phone or something like that. Well, whoever noticed, clearly they weren't paying attention to the safety video.

They did mention that as well. We're certainly letting you know it's Christmas time. Yeah, we've ripped the band-aid off, haven't we? Literally with band-aid. Loving the Christmas, shoving the Christmas songs down your gob. Oh, why not? It's always a tough year around the country again, so it makes you feel a little bit better

to have some Christmas cheer. There's always a good feeling this time of year isn't there? Now, we do Joining Jobs. It's a fun game

where you just tell us what you do for a job and then someone listening has 60 seconds to call up and say, hey,

I do that job as well and you guys have a good conversation. You can potentially discuss sensitive contract points, who's on a better salary, hourly wage, we listen well. And you guys have a good conversation. You can potentially discuss sensitive contract points, who's on a better salary, hourly wage. We listen in.

You can do all that. Or you can just ring up and say you've got the same job as someone else. And if you do so, of course, every caller that we put on the air wins a ham thanks to Farmland Foods. Which is going to, yeah, it's going to be a hurdle because the phones are going to be blocked with bloody ham pigs trying to win hams. You know, if you're trying to anyway.

Little ham pigs. Let's head to Christchurch. Shanley, you're on. Welcome. Hi. Good to have you on, Shanley. How's Christchurch this morning? It's okay.

It's a bit windy and cloudy, but hopefully the sun comes out. Oh, hopefully. Yeah, it's a bit of a wet day around the country for a lot of it, so hopefully you don't get that there. We'll see what the day brings. Here we go. That's some casual winter. We're the banter to kick things off.

That was good. Great from all of us there. We all contributed to that. We did. Now, Shanley, let's find out what you do for a job. I'm a registered nurse. Oh, okay. So we're looking for another registered, or will you take an unregistered nurse as well?

I know 100 of the hits. I reckon any will do. Any will do. Registered, unregistered, legal, not legal. If you just fix people for a living, you're a nurse, then you need to call up 0800 the hits. The 60-second timer has started now. The phones.

We'll just get to Mo through them. Producer Joel, let's go line one. You're on. Are you a nurse? Hi on. Are you a nurse? Hi there. Are you a nurse? Oh, no. Get the hell out of here.

Sorry, we're looking for a nurse right now. More hams to be won for non-nurses soon. You've got Lauren, line two. Are you a nurse? Is this me? Yeah. Yeah, I am a nurse. Yay!

Registered or non-registered? Registered. Yeah. Good, that's all you wanted. All right, now you guys can have a chat about your job. Take it away. It's pretty rough at the moment, nursing. Yeah, I'm pretty glad I don't work in the health board at the moment.

I'm in a private seat it's quite nice good stuff good stuff that's what we love hey well thank you so much both of you for calling we really appreciate

you listening to the show and you both won a ham for Christmas thanks to Farmland Foods awesome thank you and thank you for everything you guys

do for people the nurses work so hard as all the medical industry at the moment in New Zealand And thank you for everything you guys do for people. The nurses work so hard as all the medical industry at the moment in New Zealand, so thank you for everything you're doing and I hope you do get time to have a great Christmas with your family. That's right, damn right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now yesterday, a great

call that let us all know something that Jono Pryde been up to on a holiday. Yeah, well Leonie, well you started some topic about what have you seen Jono do in public? Well after on a holiday. Yeah, well, Leone, well, you started some topic about what have you seen Jono do in public? Well, after you got your eyebrows trimmed in front of everyone down at like a public place. Yeah.

Well, I walk around with my own eyebrow trimmer. We've reached that level, guys. But yeah, so Ben said, what have you seen Jono do in public? And Leone phoned up. She saw us both on holiday in Fiji, Ben. And this is what she had to say. You, Ben, were wearing like banana and pyjama kind of swimming toes, something like that.

I do have some toes. See, true. Toes with bananas on them. And he's got a Toy Story 4 backpack. He's got little mini figurines. That sounds like something. Yeah, okay, that's true. Okay, and what about John O?

And then John O may have been clipping his toenails by the pool. By the pool? What? By the pool. Oh, Jono. I must admit, it wasn't me that seen it. I was, you guys know what I'm talking about. We're talking about that infinity pool down the end.

Yeah. And I was planning to meet my family there, and my daughter actually texted me and said, don't come down yet. Jono's clipping his toenails by the pool. They know that I hate toenails. Why was he clipping his toenails by the pool? Ew, monster.

Why did, what? I can't remember. I did ask the girls, did he pick them up? And they said, no, he just got up and walked away. Jono, Jono. It's a new low even for you, mate. I can't remember that. He's probably ate Heineken's dick.

I was about to say, yeah. I was in the middle of balancing quite a complex drinking arrangement every day there. So, Jono Pryor, cutting his toenails by the pole. Well, was I? Was I or was I cutting blades of grass one at a time with nail clippers bent? I didn't realise cutting your toenails was a shameful act. You had to do behind closed doors.

At a public play. I don't know. The location's wrong, you know. It's all wrong. Something you were doing should be. Anyway. Sorry for cutting material. Buy a pool.

It just seems all wrong. Everyone's relaxing. You know, it's holiday. It's a hotel. Snip. What's he doing right now? Is he shaving his face? What else is he doing?

Yeah, okay. So I want to keep this going because we had so many calls and texts through. What have you seen Jono do in public? Producer Joel just read one out. Someone saw me doing something on the Bunnings tour. I didn't even know it happened. They saw your Bunnings down the line

and you were taking a photo with a kid and your ass crack was hanging out. His builder's crack at Bunnings. Yeah. Pry. Pry. Pry, pry, pry. All right, so that's... No one's more disappointed than me.

Let's continue this character assassination of my friend Jono. What have you seen Jono do in public? And you could win a Christmas ham thanks to Farmland Foods next on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're going to continue our character assassination of Jono. What have you seen him do in public?

Now, this has spawned off yesterday's snowball. I see how a political scandal unfolds. You know, one little narc comes out and it all happens. Someone caught me cutting my toenails by the pool at a hotel. And, you know, that's the sort of rumor that's going to come back to bite me when I do become a politician eventually. Yeah. And so they keep rolling through, Ben Boyce.

Producer Joel said someone saw the top half of my buttocks on the Bunnings tour in Whanganui, so I apologise. In front of kids this way? Yeah, OK. Children, they were there. I'm sorry. So joining us on the phone right now, who have we got? We've got Vanessa, is it?

Good morning. Hello. Hey, good to have you on. I'm looking forward to these calls. What have you seen Jono do in public? Just remember we are on Radio Vanessa. Yeah. And this whole thing makes me a little uneasy, this topic, but continue on.

Well, it was a year or so ago in Kaupo, and you were doing the golfing over the water. Oh, I remember we were trying to get a hole-in-one in the Taupo, yeah, hole-in-one thing down by the water. I think we spent two days down there hitting 10,000 golf balls, yeah. Yeah, and you know, it was a long time that you were

there. None of you were doing very good at all. Okay, yep, yep. It all sounds true so far, yeah? I'm going with the story? At one point he was like I thought he was going to throw like a two year old tantrum and a little bit of the scuff of the soil and I thought

he was going to roll around on his back and pull that. He looks like a big baby doesn't he? You're throwing a tantrum when you're not getting the ball in the hole. I was probably having a tantrum. And I'm sorry you had to bear witness to those ugly scenes, Vanessa. Were there small children around?

Oh, a dozen. Yeah, no one needed to see that. It doesn't work. We have a little naughty step. We put him on here some time out for 10 minutes and then he comes back, you know, but it's like a toddler. Now, my fear is, you know,

a low-rent crap liberty in this country is how many people have you told that story to? It's kind of a party story. Oh, God. It's not a Christmas party. Yeah, you know, the thing is, like, oh, that guy, I met him once. Do you know what I saw? You know?

You sort of have a tantrum. Yeah. Oh, such a good call. No, like Leonie. That guy, I saw him cutting his toenail. Oh, that's good call. No, like Leone. That guy, so much cutting his toenails. Oh, that's terrible. That's terrible. You're doing these things.

I know. Terrible. Good on you, Vinny. You're serving good wine. We're going to send you our ham thanks to Farmland Foods. Thank you. Merry Christmas. Enjoy that.

Hannah, you want to throw me under the bus as well, Hannah? Sure. What have you seen Jono do? So we were in Thongamata one holiday, and we'd seen you a few times. We'd seen you at the beach. But as we were leaving, you were going for a run, and that was obviously normal, but you were running in your tux.

Even now, my husband and I are like, that was really weird. We weren't sure if you decided to go to the shops and then decided to go for a run, but we were like, they were the most impractical shoes to run in. I think maybe in that instance it wasn't running for fitness purposes. It might have just been

running away from authorities, maybe. I think I dodged a bullet there. I was worried about, because I can't remember what I do in a lot of places. We're too bad in the grand scheme of things, I guess. We're going to hook you up with a ham for Christmas, thanks to Farmland Foods. Thank you.

Good on you, Hannah. Have a good one. You too. Take care. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I just mentioned before, Watt has 124 names. Someone has 124 different names and aliases around the country. Not Jason Bourne.

No. Not around the country, sorry, around the world. Santa Claus world Santa Claus Santa Claus is known 124 is a lot It's a lot for him To even remember Like when Santa comes

To your country He's going to go Oh god I'm in Norway What's my name in Norway You know It's a lot of He's got a lot of stuff Going on anyway

On Christmas Eve Who are these cookies for Oh no that's me That's me Who's Gary Gary I don't know if he's named Gary anyway But yeah around the world In England Who are these cookies for? Oh, no, that's me. That's me. Who's Gary? I don't know if he's named Gary anywhere. But yeah, around the world.

In England, Santa Claus, Father Christmas, obviously. Yeah, my mum loves saying Father Christmas. That's her thing. That's her. Kris Kringle. Oh, I've heard that before. In America. I've never heard of Kris Kringle.

I've heard of Kris Kringle, yeah. In the US, Pierre Noel in France. Spanish Papa Noel. Niccolo in Austria, El Nino Jesus in Central America. He's got them all. El Nino Jesus. That's like the weather pattern, isn't it? The weather genius. The weather genius. Ash Man in Germany, so he's running a busy operation.

I mean, that is, when you have to fill out the, because he comes into every country, he probably has to do the customs declaration card too. That would be quite a task. A lot of passports. Exactly. So we wanted to open up this morning a nickname game. We've got some hams to give away. So I'll under the hits.

You tell us your nickname. And then we try and guess how you got the nickname. Because in the weekend, I met someone. Now, his nickname was Man Bat. Man Bat. So how do you think he got his nickname, Man Bat? Joel, you can jump in. Was he the man that ate the bat in Wuhan to start COVID?

No, no, no, he wasn't. Good guess. Is it a cricket player? No, it's to do with Batman. Batman. Man Bat. So he went to a dress-up party once? No.

Okay. So what would Man Batman be? This took me a while to get to as well, but when you get it. So Man Bat is like Batman. Backwards. Yeah. So what would his real name be in real life? Matt. No. What's would his real name be in real life matt whatever the batman's real name oh bruce wayne bruce his name is bruce wayne backwards in real life uh yeah well that is

complex yeah so yeah man bat is his nickname because his real name is wayne bruce which is like bruce wayne backwards so he he's like Batman backwards and it stuck with him his whole life. Okay, I have a friend called Grubby. How do you think Grubby got it? I'll add it to the hit. It's just a phone number. 4487. What's your nickname? And we'll try and guess it next.

I was going to say if we can't guess it, you'll get a ham but if you get on the ear, you'll get a ham anyway. Anyone gets a ham. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We want to play a nickname game. You tell us your nickname. We'll try and guess how you got it. Yeah.

This is kind of like Ancestry.com, isn't it? Except for your nickname, how they trace the origins back. We've had a couple of texts coming through, Ben. We can get the ball rolling with you. Kylie, her nickname was The Whizzer. Now, why would Kylie be called The Whizzer? Oh, I can think of going to the bathroom. Yeah, no, it's not bathroom related.

Okay. The Whizzer, I don't know. The Whiz around the netball court. Oh, yeah, okay, The Whizzer. Unfortunately. Unfortunately. Yeah. My dad was KFC.

You'll never get this. He was KFC because he lost two fingers in a lawnmower accident and his finger looking good. When I first saw that, I was like, where's your dad, Colonel Sanders? Started a multinational chicken empire.

Or maybe his initials are something, you know, Kevin, you know, Frederick. Oh, what? You know what I mean. I know what you mean. Let's get Coke on from Kaipoi. Morena Coke, how are you? Hello, I'm good, guys.

How are you doing? Okay, now we know you're doing well. It's lovely to have you on. Merry Christmas, Coke. Merry Christmas. This all started with me being called Coca-Cola. So you've got to guess why it's Coca-Cola. And I don't drink Coca-Cola.

Oh. Okay, that was my first guess. When I saw Coke, I thought thought what product you're importing from south america that's why that's why i thought i'll just clarify that for you coca-cola but it's nothing to do with coca-cola did you spill did you ever oh jesus nothing to do with coke so how did you get the nickname you don't like coke i don't drink coca-cola no how did you get the nickname? You don't like Coke. I don't drink Coca-Cola. No. How did you get the nickname? So Coca-Cola, then it was short for Coke because my actual name is Nicola. So C-O-L-A is in my name.

Cola. Cola, yeah, Nicola. They kind of slowly form over time as well, don't they? All right, well, we're going to get you a ham from Farmland Foods. Enjoy that one for Christmas. Oh, thanks, guys. That's really awesome. Thank you.

Merry Christmas again. Have a great day, mate. Morgan, welcome to the nickname game. Yeah, so my nickname is Morgasm. I know. I don't know if I want to. Mum, I'm going to go purely based off, for rhyming reasons, some cheeky little blighter said Morgan, Morgan,

and then it kind of morphed together. I see, yeah. Yeah. Or you were very vocal in a public setting one day and it stuck with you. Something got you quite excited. You know, who knows? Yeah, do we want to know the reason behind this?

Yeah, well, pretty much, I guess it was just someone sort of rhymed it together. It seems like the basis of a good schoolyard nickname. Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty much where I picked it up was in high school, so. Has it stuck? Has the name stuck? Well, it did find its way into my first job. Okay.

Yeah, that's when you want to keep those things at school where they're like, someone comes along and they're like, oh, I didn't realize everyone called you that. And it's a turning point, isn't it? It's like, are you going to continue with this throughout your career? Yeah. I'm not too, actually, fussed with it. What about Morgan the Organ?

Nah. No, you don't like Morgan the Organ? Nah, it's not as cool. Oh, we couldn't guess it. We're going to give you a ham for Christmas, thanks to Farmland Foods. Oh, awesome. Thank you. You're right. Enjoy that on Christmas Day. Not too much, though. I don't want to hear you vocally enjoying it too much. I mean, it's

great. Teabag, you're on from Hamilton. Teabag. Hi, how are you? Good to have you on, Teabag. Now, the origins of tea bag. I do want to say I've never been tea bagged. Okay, all right. What's that?

You needed to clarify that. Okay, so I'm going to guess you're a lover of cups of tea. No, no. I reckon you went to school with a backpack in the shape of a tea. Oh, no. Maybe you used... I reckon you went to school with a backpack in the shape of a tea. Oh, that's great. No.

How'd you get the name? It's pretty boring. My name just starts with T. Oh, that sounds like something Jono would call you. Well, tea, tea bag, Tessa, Tessa, you know. Oh, well, you would.

We couldn't guess it. We couldn't get the origins of your nickname, tea bag. Well done, you win. Oh, well, you win. We couldn't guess it. We couldn't get the origins of your nickname, T-Bag. Well done. You win a ham thanks to Farmland Foods. Awesome. Thank you. Good on you.

My favourite nickname for Ben was you were publicly ridiculed by Paul Henry on his show, the AM show, and he was talking about people who wore their pants below their bottom. They low-rided. And Paul Henry said he saw you in the work cafe and he said what's his name is it Boyce? Boyce yeah

and he was calling you Boyce but doing it in a sort of a patronising manner wasn't he I don't think I've ever been called Boyce but you know that was Paul Henry giving me that and Hilary Barry was going on you as well

for wearing your trousers so low I know yeah I was like the boomers they were having a crack, weren't they? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Kind of wrapping up the end of the year. That's what people were doing right now. We had the most Googled things yesterday in New Zealand. I love it. I love it when we hit this point

in our radio show, Ben, of the year. We're like, this is the filly gear that'll pull you through till Christmas. Time Magazine, though, announced their person

of the year. Let's have a guess oh sorry sorry I was going to play a game sorry I thought you told me didn't you

it was on the AIM show yeah no no I wanted producer Joel to have a guess Zelensky well you weren't it was Zelensky you didn't win

person of the year last year though bit of controversy because Elon Musk won person of the year last year why is that controversial well you know

Elon Musk has some things that not everyone agrees with as far as a person goes but what is a person of the year is year. Why is that controversial? Well, you know, Elon Musk has some things that not everyone agrees with as far as a person goes. But what is a person of the year? Because you could argue Donald Trump, when he was in presidency, you would go, well, was anyone else in the world more talked about and more influential that year than Donald Trump? That's true.

But when you think, in my mind, person of the year, you're like, they should be celebrated. But maybe they're not. Hitler was person of the year once. That's a fact. Was he? Yeah. Back in the day. Yeah, I'm not making that up.

But, you know, again, at that time, shocking things he did. Don't get me wrong, but you'd go, at that time, was there anyone more? Maybe it's just the way it's worded or something, because you feel like it should be an accolade, not just, oh, this person's been talked about as much. Yeah. Anyway. Well, you could subcategorize them to person of the year hero of the year yeah d-bag of the year exactly but uh the word of the year oxford oxford dictionary always releases its word of the year just to make dictionaries feel relevant in 20 whatever year this is as well

the word of the year guys'll put it in the dictionary. We've still got words. We've still got words. So the word of the year, goblin mode. Now, I hadn't actually heard of goblin mode as a term before. Producer Joel, you and me got the finger on the pulse with these sorts of things.

Have you heard of goblin mode? I'm gathering not because he's panic googling right now. No, it's all right. Yeah, I can explain what it is. I've never heard of it. Maybe it's a lot more overseas. Have a few drinks, like let's go goblin mode tonight. Well, no, it's to do with people coming out of lockdown, you know,

so people and still kind of using some of the things, some of the bad habits they picked up during lockdown still. It's kind of like going, oh, that was my lockdown thing. So the goblin mode's kind of like that. It was the goblin mode where you're living kind of in your house and you're not seeing anyone and you're doing all those bad habits. Yeah, oh, so you're not showering regularly. Struggling to shake some of those things they were doing in goblin mode.

Yeah, right. I'm permanently operating in goblin mode. I could tell you were smiling. I was looking too. You know, every year there's around about a thousand new words that are added to dictionaries. I thought we're done with words i thought we had enough words to pull us through and probably a whole lot of words that are taken

out because you're like they're not appropriate anymore or things you're like oh okay that's you know so there's probably that as well i wouldn't say a thousand but there's probably a few i uh i was thinking of a new word where you have a lunch, but the lunch is so filling that dinner's not even an option. Dunch. Oh, because you've got brunch. Yeah, you've got brunch. That's what you've got, a wild feast. Christmas is kind of a dunch.

Christmas is dunch. You know, maybe you snack on something a bit later. You're not going to have a full dinner, are you? Yeah. You've been dunched. Dunched? All right, we'll see if we get it for Word of the Year next year. Here we go.

The thing is you need to get momentum on it. Radio Hauraki, very good at starting words and phrases. Ben, you, none. None. What have you started? I've already forgotten what the word was that you just said before. We've said dunch. We're like, we'll turn this into a thing.

We won't. We won't. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday I had a situation which I'm sure many listening have probably found themselves in the middle of, where I was walking along the road and I waved at someone full confidence thinking I knew them. And they reacted by looking around, which alarm bells start ringing then, when they're looking around going, oh, is that wave directed at me? And then they kind of sort of half wave back.

Yeah. And I'm walking towards them. They're walking towards me. And I can tell, well, both of us are about to engage in conversation, not knowing if we fully know one another. So at that stage, did you still think you knew them? I did. Right.

Yeah, but then there, I could see the confusion in their eyes. Their reaction meant that maybe you were like... There was a seed of doubt there. And so then once you start engaging in the, you know, being the waver,

I felt like the engaging of the conversation, it fell on me. You've initiated this. I've initiated it. Yeah, you're right. And so then you dart around and I figured,

she's in the CBD. How's work? Oh yeah, good. It's a good vague one. Oh, good. Yeah, no, good, good. And this time of year, it's great. We used to have it with COVID

where you could talk about COVID, lockdowns, righty, righty, right. This time of year is great. When are you knocking off? You know, it's a great topic of conversation. How long have you got off? Do you go away? Where do you go?

You know, there's the three conversation points there. All answered and I'm still going, I don't know who this woman is. Have you been in this scenario? Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's great when mid-conversation you do, it drops and you're like, I do know the person.

And then you really, sometimes you overplay your hands. You're like. That's right, Denise Rogers. Who works for such and such. Who we met two and a half years ago. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're right. So you've got to play it cool.

Because the whole time you're in your head going, do they know that I don't know? And I'm trying to play detective and piece things together. But you don't want to give up too much, do you? But also, Garner, enough information to figure out who you're talking to. And eventually, after about three to five minutes of vague conversation um we figured out we i she dropped a name and i was like yes oh you got it we had a communal name yeah we had a boy did we talk about that person that was one interest what are they out oh yeah how many kids

have they got too because you can chuck out the how's the family, another good vague one. Yeah. But then you don't want to go zeroing in on how old are the kids now? Where are they at? Because you don't know. But, yeah, once that bombshell drops, that's a good time. The conversation really ramps up. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Let's go. Jono and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. Let's try and give you a, we'll give you some cash heading into Christmas. That's our aim this morning as we try and match five words for $5,000 with our Game of Word Association. Kendall, let's get you on from Taranaki this morning, Morena.

Morning, how are we going? We're doing really well. Kendall, you've got your umbrella. Sorry, what was that? Have you got your umbrella? No, I don't actually, but I'm hopeful I'm not going to need it. Guess where he's going with this.

Just check the Met service and there's a chance of raining cash right now, Kendall. I like the sound of that one. Yeah, now, you're a nurse. So many nurses we've spoken to on the show today. There is a lot of us. I tell you what, my husband always says, you're done a right if you marry a nurse.

Doing a lot of great stuff for New Zealand right now. The nursing community, are they listening to this show? Have we got them all? Have we got them all? I would love you to have more nurses on board so we can all win the $5,000, to be honest. Oh, yes. Let's do it.

Yeah, OK. OK, right. You need to send someone to the soundproof booth to win $5,000. Who's it going to be? I will send Ben, please. OK. OK. Imagine this.

Where do you want to stop? Where's a comfortable place for you to stop? Kendall? I'll probably just see how the words go and then go from there to see how I feel. But I mean, I would love to go for the 5000, but I want to try, play it smart. But I play every morning and I never get there,

so we'll see. Alright, well let's have a crack. The first words. Tokyo. Japan. First thing that comes into your head. Hopefully that matches with Ben Boyce. We'll get on to chorizo for word number two. Sausage.

You know what? I'd even started writing sausage before you said sausage, Kendall. Yes, sir. Podcast. Bye, Heart Radio. Bloody good company. Good company, woman. You are, Kendall.

The exec team will be happy with that. Word number four, vegetable. Soup. And the fifth and final one for you, Kendall, snap. Chat. Snap what? Snapchat. Oh, Snapchat.

I don't know. No, no, Snapchat's a good option. You've done well. Get Ben out of the booth. The app. I don't know. No, no. Snapchat's a good option. You've done well. Get Ben out of the booth. Kendo. First time playing? It is, yeah. All right.

Well, on to Boo and Ben Boyce comes out of the soundproof booth. How are you feeling today? Because Kendall played a rock solid game. Oh, okay. You feeling quite good? You feeling like the words will flow out? Oh, I hope so, yeah. Let's see how we go.

We got it. All right, Kendall. She just wants to get to Fiji for a family holiday. Okay, that's all she wants, Ben. Okay. Do you want to get Kendall to Fiji? Oh, yeah, I do. Okay, let's try.

Word one, $25. Tokyo. Tokyo. Japan. Yay. Good start, good start. Do you want to go to the $50 word, Kendo? Yeah, yeah, keep going. Word two, $50.

Chorizo. Chorizo. Did you say chorizo? Chorizo. Okay you say Chorizo? Chorizo. Okay, Chorizo. What is he talking about? Sausage? Yes. $50 in the bank account, Kendall.

Yeah, we'll keep going. Keep going. All right, here we go. Word three, $100. Podcast. Podcast. No clues. No clues No clues You're trying to look at me for clues

I am, well I'm trying to work out if we're company people Or we're not, but you know who's going to be any close iHeartRadio Yay Great placement podcast No one gave me anything there. I was like, that was the first thing that popped into my head. Hi, Art Radio.

There we go. We made the answer on the top. Both of you two will be getting your Christmas bonus from Bogsy, the CEO. Great place to go for podcasts. I didn't think you were going to put that. We better keep going then, actually, then. Word four, $500. Vegetable.

What would you think of when I say vegetable? First thing that pops up in my head. I'm just going to go with it, just like I did before. Soup. Kendall. Oh. $500. You got $500.

Oh, my goodness. Now what do you do? That's a lot of money. That is a lot of money. It is. I'm so tempted, but, you know, I'm going to risk it because I want to try. I want to try. Yeah.

Word five. $10,000. I would have pussied out there if that's true. Yeah, me too. Okay. Okay, let's go. Snap. Oh, there's a couple.

There's a couple. Photo? No! I had fitness in my head for some reason. Oh, yeah, that was the other one. Snapchat. Kendall said Snapchat. Yeah, I had three going through my head,

but I went with my gut instinct on all of them. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You'll just have to enjoy Fiji through Google Images. Oh, that's okay. Last time I've been clipping my toenails on the billboard side. Oh, God, is that spreading out there, is it? Bit of street talk about the nails.

You also walk away with a Farmland Foods ham as well. Every caller on here gets a ham this week. Kendall? Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Love your work. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks for listening in.

We really appreciate it this morning. It's four minutes away from eight o'clock. Now, I organized something for my wife Amanda at our anniversary a few months ago. Now, we're going to be using that this week, and I feel like in the past, my gift buying, it's missed the mark, and I feel like I have again. Have a listen.

This is a recorded Amanda. I thought she could tell what the issue is. Have a listen listen so what are we doing for our wedding anniversary that I organized our very romantic well those are romantic why wouldn't I say romantic okay well it could be very special romantic yeah wedding anniversary to celebrate our love together right how long we've been together and how important we are to each other. Right? And what? Get to the point.

We're going to Jack Johnson. There, I said it. So that's great because that was our wedding song, right? We are all going to Jack Johnson. As a family. All. The whole family. Two children.

We love, you know, it's great. It's a great family. I love my girls so much. But I'm like, there's wedding time and then there's children time. Well, we've combined the two. There we go. You are so good at that. So that's what happened.

So I bought a gift for Amanda for our wedding anniversary because Jack Johnson, Bearded Together, was one of our wedding songs as well. So I love Jack Johnson. My daughter, Indy, is learning on guitar. We listen to it a lot at home. So I was like, hey, we'll take the whole family. Yeah, right. So I see where her issue lay there.

Yeah. Yeah. But when did you say you'd got the tickets for Jack Johnson? I gave it to her on our anniversary. Yeah, so it was a while ago? Yeah, yeah, September. It feels like the complaint period's worn off. Yeah.

It's expired. If you had an issue, bring it up within the first three or four days. Yeah, because I didn't really gauge the issue on the time. I just know that we've been getting closer and closer to the Jack Johnson concert which is this weekend and she's like oh yeah we're all going and you said at the time hey here's four tickets the whole family

full disclosure you weren't hiding no surprises from your end I wasn't like here's a single ticket oh by the way three of us are all coming with you you're right I gave them all of that it seemed like it was a good experience on the night. She was happy. A++ would trade again, you know, sort of situation when I gave over the gift.

But now it feels like maybe I have misread it. You've just turned it into a family night out. I have. I have. Which I thought was nice. So what are you going to do for your anniversary? Well, we're done. The anniversary's done.

This is part of it, you know, but we're going to Jack Johnson. Although if you're feeling, if we're going to Jack Johnson. Although if you're feeling, if you're listening right now and you're like, oh, maybe you're feeling, you know, like you're on Amanda's side, just having to listen to this in regards to Jack Johnson and her fans of Jack Johnson. Next question. When we saw what you thought was Jack Johnson in Fiji, who was it? He's still hot.

Kelly Slater. Yeah, so that shows how big a fan of Jack Johnson you actually are. They're both beautiful boys. They are. They're both beautiful. Yeah, beautiful men. But that shows how big a fan you are. I was really into surfing.

So she confused one for the other. Yeah, that's right. In person. So there you go. How big a fan are you, really? So then what do you say? I was. In person. So there you go. How big a fan are you, really? So then what do you say? I was on your side.

You had my backing. Oh, no. Have I lost it now? Have I? Kind of like that crazy lawyer that Amber Heard hired. You know when they brought that crazy guy up and looked like he was on meth? Oh, so I stopped after the first bit of Exhibit A. You were fine. I was with you.

I don't know what the point is you're trying to make. Who are you? I don't know. I know you've confused me. is you're trying to make. Who are you? I don't know. I know you're confused, but I'll come back to you on that one. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Christmas, a couple of weeks away, so we wanted to help out people. We've been doing it every day this week, looking at different sections and what people want for Christmas.

Yeah, Santa's Little Helpers. So we tackled the kids, not literally, on Monday. Yeah, the Santa's's little helper line. Romy, you're on from Wairarapa. You're 14 years old. What are the new teens wanting this Christmas? Well, personally, I want some new Nike slides or maybe some Crocs either. Yeah, a lot of Crocs coming through, motocross bikes,

things like that for the children. Then the mums phoned through on Tuesday. They wanted to go to vineyards, have massages, facials. Yesterday we spoke to the dads. Guys, I have a very big fetish for watches. That's all you need to hear of that. Yeah, well, hey. They have a lot of watches.

They're incredible, from $10 ones to $10,000 ones. Hundreds of watches. That's awesome. So Janae and Hamilton just wanted to watch. So this is your chance to phone up and tell your friends and family what you want for Christmas. And it cuts out all the awkwardness, doesn't it? Now, we're going to throw it out to the grandparents on 100 The Hits. You get a Farmland Foods ham if you get on the air next.

But we thought we'd get one of our favorite grandparents in the country on right now. Keith and Sally, they live up north. Yeah, they're in Kittikitty. We stumbled across Keith a couple of years ago because there was a news story about him going around Kittikitty picking up all the rubbish. Every day he does it. So we went there and met them and they were lovely people. Adorable, aren't they?

Yeah, and Keith joins us now. Good morning. Oh, how you doing? Very good. How are you? I often think of you, fellas. Oh, we think of you too. Long time no speak. How's things? Oh, not good because my wife had a fall.

Oh, no, Sally's not. What happened? We smashed the hip. Oh, no. Sorry to hear that. Yeah, absolutely shocking. We're just getting over the stage now where she can walk around the house with the walker. Yeah, the walker.

Yeah. Oh, that's no good, mate. No, absolutely rubbish. And how's your fellas doing? Oh, we're doing all right. End of the year. So we wanted to call everyone and find out what people wanted for Christmas. And we thought today, you know, Keith and Sally, what do Keith and Sally want for Christmas?

Oh, goodness gracious. Good God, I know. Our kids are coming up from Auckland. So that's really good for us, you, goodness gracious. Good God, I know. Our kids are coming up from Auckland. So that's really good for us, you know? Yeah. So you just want all your,

all, isn't it? And that's probably most grandparents. All they want to see is their family. Yeah. Absolutely. It's the same for you,

isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, well. Yeah, we do. Our family probably don't want to see us. That's the thing. The less time we can spend with those two, the better, really.

And that's because I imagine, Keith, you've got everything in life. Is there anything you need in life? No, no, no. I just want Sally to get better. Oh, adorable. Yeah. We could try and get her a new hip. No, she's got one.

Oh, she's got one. All right, I was going to buy her one, but anyway. You don't want two, do you? We could have a backup one. A got one. Oh, she's got one. All right, I was going to buy her one, but anyway. You don't want two, do you? You can have a backup one. A spare one. Yeah, like the tyre you keep in the car. Lovely to talk to you. And everyone that we talk to on the radio this week is getting hams.

A ham for Christmas, thanks to Farmland Foods. So we'd love to send you a ham for Christmas for Christmas Day. Wow, wow. Brilliant. Especially with the kids and that coming up, you know. When I say the kids, they're all families. Yeah, no, you. Brilliant. Especially with the kids and that coming up, you know? When I say the kids, they're all families. Yeah, no, you need a big old ham, so you've got that for Keith. Oh, brilliant.

Oh, thanks very much indeed. I'm dying to see you fellas again. It's been a while. Are you still going around picking up rubbish around the neighbourhood? Well, I haven't been in for the last two weeks because of Sal. Prior to that, she had a moon boot because she tripped and broke her ankle. Oh, no.

She's been in the wars. Oh, absolutely. It's awful. But now this is the best it's been and you've made a big difference. Wait till I tell her that you're right. She's absolutely stoked. Oh, well, send our love to Sally, and have a great Christmas with your family.

Thank you very much. Oh, he's adorable, isn't he? More of him, less of us. Yeah. I don't know if you two were... It's a contract thing, a job thing. Yeah, four years, wasn't it? Yeah, we've got another two years.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're doing Santa's Little Helpers. Doing it every day this week. We're just, you know, zeroing in on a certain section of society, certain demograph and seeing what they want for Christmas to help you out. Because it's hard to buy. The trick is listening, isn't it? And it's hard to listen to people because sometimes I'm like,

I don't care what you're saying, you know, sometimes. But if you listen throughout the year, you can pick up little tidbits of information of what people need. And what they're into. Yeah. Some people are very good present buyers. Don't get me wrong.

I'm not one of them. No. I imagine. I imagine. How do you imagine I do my Christmas shopping? Am I prepared? Is it last minute? Oh, it'll be last minute.

Frantic. It'll be frantic. And it'll just be a ball of stress. Yeah. It's just, yeah. Like 24th and maybe 23rd if you're going early. One time I did it on

Christmas Eve, the night, late night shopping. I don't know why I do it to myself but let's get the grandparents on this morning. We're going to kick things off with Lizzie and Picton. What do you want? Lizzie, what do you want this Christmas? A direct dial line to Newstalk ZB?

What is it? I would like to have a candle, a scented candle. They're so expensive. You can pay about $50 for this candle. You can. You can. You want a Gwyneth Paltrow's one? Or you could get a lovely Akoya candle as well. I mean, they're all good options.

Yes. So that's what I'm after. And if you can get them in the sort of like a whiskey-type glass, then you get to sort of have the glass that's not terribly wasted. But that's something I can't bring myself to buy. Fair enough. I know what you're saying. Lizzie, it feels like you're talking to us.

Are you expecting us to buy this for you? Or is this a message for your whānau? That's definitely for my family. For the family. All right. Well, we will give you, though. We'll give you a ham. Thanks to Farmland Foods for Christmas.

I haven't done my Christmas dinner shopping, so that's fabulous. I've looked at them. I've picked them up, put them back in the freezer. I haven't. I've been waiting for it. Now you don't need to. It won't be sent out to you.

Fondled the ham. Put it back. Touched it again. Looked at it again. Now you've got a free one. That's what I mean to you. Fondled the ham, put it back, touched it again, looked at it again. Now you've got a free one. Like me with the avocados at the supermarket. Very handsy. Have a good one, Lizzie. You look after yourself. Merry Christmas.

Love you. Bye-bye. We'll head to Team Aru. Paula, you're on. What are the grandos wanting for Christmas, mate? Oh, what are the grandchildren wanting? No, you. We'll deal with them another day.

Oh, fair enough. Look, they're only little. So I love chocolate and they love chocolate. So I think Nana would love a box of chocolate. Just a Cadbury Roses. Do you do like that? Because that feels like maybe, I don't know, is it enough thought going into that?

Absolutely. I think so. Okay. We're talking three and one and six weeks old. I mean, they love. You're just happy to see the family, aren't you? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.

Hey, I listen to you guys every morning and you just make my morning. Oh, that's very kind of you. I absolutely love you guys on the radio. Oh, that's very kind of you. I love you guys on the radio. Oh, that's very kind of you. You've just made my ego bigger. Thank you, Paula. That's a wonderful gift. Paula, we're going to give you the gift of ham for Christmas.

That sounds fantastic. Enjoy that. Here we go, Paula. Thank you very much for listening, Paula. You have a wonderful Christmas. We'll take one more, shall we? We'll get Vanessa on from Ham-al-ton. Let's just say you've already won a ham just from where you're from.

I won a ham in Hamilton, yeah. Oh, thanks, guys. Thanks to Farmland Foods. What do you want this Christmas? What do the grandparents want, Vanessa? I want a big bottle of perfume. Oh, a big bottle. Sort of commercial size.

No, no, as you get older, you start needing things that, you know, make you smell a bit better. I think at any age that's probably... Do your bodies start rotting or what's going on? No, no, no, you just look after yourself a little bit more.

Fair enough. A big bottle of perfume and how about a big old juicy ham as well? That'd be amazing. I'm only just recently a nan-nan. My little girl was only born on the 6th of September. Oh, so your first Christmas. Yeah, I consider myself way too young to be a grandmother, but, you know, hey.

Hey, well, you sound young at heart. Happy 21st. Enjoy that ham. Yeah. Thanks, guys. Hey, well, you sound young at heart. Happy 21st. Enjoy that ham. Yeah. Thanks, guys. Have a great day. Producer Joel, you said a wonderful gift that you used to get your grandparents,

or you still do. Yeah, you go and print out a photo of you and your grandparents from like a while ago. You put it in a $2 picture frame from the warehouse. Costs about 20 cents to print out. $2.20. Life's made for them. They love it.

Nice card as well. Some beautiful words. Yeah, they love it. They do love it. You probably didn't have to stipulate the price. $2.20 life's made for them. Nice card as well. Some beautiful words. Yeah they love it. They do love it. You probably didn't have to stipulate the price. $2.20 $2.20 Cost of living That's good. I like that. The Hits. The Jono and Ben

Podcast. You know how they go you're going through seasons in your life and you go through this chapter in your life and this season. So I'm going through a season which i'm sure you've gone through as well being the eyebrow cutting season ouch unnecessary especially for those who just joined the show uh i will have to bring you up to speed now we had to do something for the hits which involved camera work makeup hollywood big big stuff, yeah. Big stuff. And the makeup and costume department saw that my eyebrows had grown out to almost to the length where I could lasso someone.

And she was very put off by it. And previously, six months earlier on another show, had tended to my out-of-control eyebrows. Your wayward eyebrows. So they've now been trimmed in a public place. So you've got those sorted. And they've got little scissors and little sort of tweezers. She does a little.

And it's the only haircutting experience I get to. You enjoy it. Yeah, I did enjoy it. You enjoyed it too. You filmed it. Mocked me on social media. But no, that's not the season, Ben. It's the breaking stuff.

She's like, well, I'm breaking so much stuff at the moment. Oh. And it's just like yesterday. Reverse the car into a wall. Oh, did you? You know how you just have that period when you're like, and then broke the washing machine, and I had to get another part for the washing machine.

I never know where to start to get parts, and then I kicked the kickboard off the dishwasher. Don't know what the kickboard is there for if it's easily kicked off. Yeah. And that was just three things. Another half a dozen things, and I'm like, I'll get it. I said to Jen, I'll get on to repairing those things

leave it with me and the problem is I don't know I have any skills to repair anything so it's basically you need to

organise someone to yeah and I like to think that I can repair things so you phone like the the parts place and they're like what party after

I'm like oh after this thing I kick the bloody button bit off the the dishwasher and then you sort of spend 15 minutes trying after I'm like after this thing I kick the bloody button bit off the dish and then you spend 15 minutes trying to figure out what is this thing

and then eventually they have a very helpful lady she's like oh that's the kick board and she's like what's the serial

number and they all want to know the serial number of stuff and I'm like yeah I guess it makes sense

it's a good starting point and you want someone to you just gotta get someone to come in as soon as you

accept that you can get someone to come in, it's a wonderful thing. Like, I have no place doing any of that stuff. No, you get hire a hubby, don't you? Anyway. Mates that do it all the time. You know, whatever it is, I'm just like, it's great. I'll make a cup of tea.

I'll have small talk. I'll do whatever. But you do your thing that you're good at, and I'll just stand on the sidelines. Well, for some reason, I don't know why, maybe it's just arrogance, like to think that there's a part of me that can fix stuff don't worry don't worry i'll leave it with me i'll get i'll sort all the parts and i'll screw it on then i go to screw it on i go on with a negative

attitude i'm like this is never gonna work you know and like literally i got the part for the dishwasher the killer it's taped on with gaffer tape oh really it's meant to be screwed on i was like i don't know how to screw this thing on so then i don't tell anyone but i did tape it it's taped on with gaffer tape oh really it's meant to be screwed on i was like i don't know how to screw this thing on so then i don't tell anyone but i did tape it it's holding it's been it's holding the air right at the moment but you do have those periods you just go around like this is a costly period of just breaking clumsy idiot breaking stuff my mum always says stuff happens in threes which is like if i so if i like crashed the car into the side of the things you go oh it happens in threes which seems to like put a curse over you you're like there's two more bad things coming on the way things just happen in one exactly yeah so i think you've you've done your three now right yeah hopefully you go to bunnings you're like i need to get a screw what

sort of screw do you want jeez they've made a lot of screws a lot of different types of screws guys like charger cables let's just have one screw. It works for everything. Yeah, it's good. And one size screwdriver. Anyway, we'll sort all that out later. Anyway, probably the big thing I'll have to repair is my marriage. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Scrolling through your feed. If it's news and information you're after, then you've come to the wrong place, that's for sure. But Ben, tell us what you know. Well, McDonald's, Maccas have announced they'll be trialling in New Zealand chocolate-flavoured soft-serve ice creams next year over summer for a trial period. This is like, you know, if you're good, you get to keep it. If not, it'll go away. And it's not everywhere around the country, but it will be in a select few McDonald's restaurants.

It's been trialled in Australia. It seems to be a hit over there. So chocolate soft serve ice cream. Oh, you know, you'd probably back that chocolate ice cream. It might last the years. You'd think so, particularly in summertime. People like chocolate ice cream. I was looking around the world.

Ronald's really dipped his toes. He's got adventurous around the world with some other menus on the item, that big goofy clown. McChoco potato chips. So they have the fries, but just sprayed in chocolate sauce in South America. Oh, okay. McWonton soup.

Massive big bowl of soup in China. Wow. McCurried sausage in Germany. Basically any food with Mc in front of it. It's now a McDonald's delicacy. They've got Mick noodles in Austria. They just look like Mick two-minute noodles. But we'd biff the salad on the menu, didn't we,

to just try and cancel out the guilt of going to McDonald's. Yeah, there's a salad option there for you. Also, caramel hokey pokey was introduced as part of the summer range yesterday at McDonald's as well. And also making news overnight, now people, big fans of Marvel movies, you know, The Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America. There was a Spanish quiz show. It was kind of like, who wants to be a millionaire?

And a contestant was asked a Marvel question. So there was three minutes left on the clock. He was asked, Steve Rogers goes by, which title does Steve Rogers go by in the Avengers franchise the Marvel movies and his options were Dr. America Mr. America or Captain America now he got it wrong okay no shame in that he got it wrong he said Dr. America but the thing that everyone's pointed out that he was wearing a Captain America t-shirt now he was wearing a Captain America T-shirt that had Captain America on it, and he got asked a question where the answer was Captain America,

and the poor guy, he got it wrong. Right for a mocking. Now, I've been involved in a T-shirt scandal before. Have you? Yes, remember we were working over in the States, and I kept seeing all of these T-shirts that had, in a square box, Kelly for NIA. And for the life of me, for a week, I was like,

what is Kelly for NIA? What are they standing for? I didn't know what it was, NIA, like some sort of narcotics program. Then I went up to someone, I was like, can you please explain to me? I was there as well. It was a great moment. What Cali for NIA stands for? And then the person kind of stood back and said, well, that would be California, the state.

Just split up into California. Oh. Well, and they just write it all the way anyway. Well, it's the font size. It could have been right. They could have put California left to right. You're like, oh. Well, didn't they just write it all the way? Anyway. Well, it's the font size. They could have, you're right. They could fit California left to right. Yeah, smaller font, though. Yeah, so hey, my thoughts and condolences

with old Mr. Captain America over there. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Farmland Foods, we've got hams to give away all this week for every caller that gets on the airways. Yeah, now we did say I just wanted someone deserving to get a ham. So many people have been texting and phoning through. We're going to go through to our winner. Hello?

Hello? Terry Lee? Yes, speaking. Terry Lee, it's Jonathan and Benjamin calling from... Oh, I knew it was you, you big bugger. How are you? How are you doing? I'm doing well.

Terry Lee, you doing well? I am, I am, if I could get my box of bloody heartland chips, because my whole basic town is out of bloody stock. Oh, we had sent some emails behind the scenes to work on that. There had been promised, someone had promised us that they were going to get some chips your way. So hopefully that's happening. I know they'll eventually turn up. But it's like, yeah, like if you read the text, yeah, we've just been let down this year by a couple of organisations.

And I'm really worried about these addicts. What do you do, Terri-Lee? Well, I bring them into my home, and we just, there's no expectations, and we just, if you can bring a plate, you can bring a plate. But it's basically just a place where you can come and be, I mean, I'm a recovering addict myself, and I don't have family here.

Oh, that's lovely what you're doing. Well, hey, we'd like to. Everybody's struggling this year, you know, to help, and I totally understand that. Well, Terry Lee, okay, shush your wonderful mouth. Yeah, what you're doing is amazing. Opening up your home for people in the community that need it, so that's awesome.

And we are going to give you a Farmland Foods ham for Christmas. Oh, you are. Oh, you beautiful people. I knew you'd come through for me. You were just, I mean, I know you probably, you know, I don't know if you do remember me. No, we do. We met you at Bunnings at the Bunnings store.

It was great. Yeah, that's right. And you love the chips. You love our Heartland chips as well. I just can't get enough of them. I mean, I am actually at the moment, because I just, like I said, I couldn't find them. So I had to go down and get the separate flavors and mix them all together.

And they're just not the same. You got the same. Oh, well, hey, we had promised we'd send you down some of those as well. I'll follow up on that. And I know I'll get them. I know you'll come through. No, well, chances are we probably won't, to be honest. But we'll send you a ham.

You have yourself a great Christmas, Terry Lee. I love it. Thank you, and you guys too. And enjoy. Thank you very much. Bye. Good on you, Terry Lee. Love your work.

More hams tomorrow to give away thanks to Farmland Foods.