Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's Wife Has The Most Hilarious Reaction To Watching Mr Bean

Episode Date: September 16, 2021

We bet you've never heard a laugh quite like Amanda Boyce. Ben subtly recorded her laughing while watching Mr Bean, and he's been in negotiations all week with her as to whether he's allowed to play the audio on air... 4 days later and she agreed, and it's the best thing you'll hear. We also came up with another suggestion for the vaccination bus AND even made a jingle for it. Well, Jono did. Ben's not so keen. Finally, we played Liar Liar, where we had 2 people on the phone with outrageous stories and only one is telling the truth. Charlotte claimed she was there when Taika Waititi and Rita Ora met, and Don claims he's eaten over 30,000 Big Macs in his life. Who's telling the truth?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Welcome to Two Half-Assed Dads Do a Half-Assed Job. Official title, Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. Now, we've got a TV show that's on tonight, Jono and Ben Good Sports. But, you know, my wife enjoys watching that show, but I've never heard her laugh like she laughs at Mr Bean.

Now, Mr. Bean, it plays in the weekends. I think we've called it the last couple of weeks. I think on TVNZ. They're playing it on Sunday nights, aren't they? That's when you know poor old TVNZ are in the midst of COVID with us pulling out Mr. Bean from the trenches. I haven't seen it for many years. I'm sitting there watching it now with the kids.

It is a show that everyone just seems to laugh at. It's a funny part. He was really good. He probably still is really good, Rowan Atkinson. He's wonderful. But no one loves it more than my wife, Amanda. Like, she loves Mr. Bain. Now, I recorded her laughing.

Which is not surprising because Ben's house, it's like he's like the Alexa in the house. He's recording everything. It's like a big brother house with hidden microphones everywhere where he records his family, and then after they do something mildly interesting, he will go, can I use that for radio? He likes to get consensual audio.

I do, and I said to Amanda, can I use it? She's like, no, no, my laugh. I don't want my laugh. I was really enjoying it. It sounded like a cackle. I was like, no, it sounds so good. So this is the negotiation. After day three negotiation where we finally got there.

You find that people who don't work in radio, It was so good. So this is the negotiation. After day three negotiation, where we finally got there. Do you know, you find that people who don't work in radio, they have a level of wanting to retain their respect and dignity. Yeah, I don't stand for that. You know, and you're like, because we're just in this world of like, yeah, put it on the radio.

You're a knob. Yeah, put it on the radio. But then you're like normal people who aren't in this wild industry. You're like, no thanks. I wouldn't like, you know, every part of my private life exposed through microphones. So this is our chat where

Amanda finally said it was okay to play the audio. So can we play you enjoying Mr Bean on the radio? It's funny. You were really enjoying it. I was. You want to put it on national radio? Well, we're not national radio. It's a better station station they wouldn't play that

I see you like that one that was up there with Mr Bean Mr Bean's very funny he is funny I was enjoying it too but no one no one was enjoying it more than you don't you just love Mr Bean

he's just the best. I should have married him. What's your problem with your ear enjoying? His laugh is terrible. I've got a terrible laugh. Don't you ever laugh at me when I do that. We can't tell where you're going now. All right, well, fair enough.

So in conclusion, can we play a little bit of you enjoying Mr. Bean? Yeah, all right. Yay. But my name is not a man. That's not a man. And I have a different voice. So negotiations. That was negotiations.

She did the closest thing she could do to marrying Mr. Bean was marrying Mr. Ben, who's one letter removed. And you kind of look like him. If I had conjunctivitis, she would come up and say, is that wrong? It's not quite as funny as Mr. Bean, but this was my wife, Amanda. She was loving Mr. Bean. Have a listen.

That's so naughty. And then there was more There was more She was just laughing Mr Bean It's so good We've made comedy shows for years But not once Nothing like that Was that your real laugh the whole time? Did she know you were recording that?

No, no, the kids worked out pretty quick I was pretty obvious about it Because she was sitting behind me We were on the couch And I was holding my phone up Behind Oh my goodness Towards her to record

it the kids cottoned on they're always recording um that laugh is nothing to be ashamed of that's a great that's a hearty laugh oh she was loving you know all you hear on this show is fake laughter yeah that is real stuff yeah so there you go so thank you I don't know if I'm gonna get a lot of trouble for playing that but hey it's just her laughing what I love is about even when you're trying to convince her she's still laughing about Mr Bean, and Mr Bean's not even playing. I know. Just when you say Mr Bean, it sets her off. He's so funny. I was like, yeah, he's

very funny. He is funny, though. He is really funny. Coming up next on the show, we're going to speak to a lady we've got on our TV program tonight that Amanda's going to be heartily laughing at. I'll be checking now to see if it's a real laugh of Mr Bean laughing at her. Why don't you record it tonight and see, we'll compare the two.

The Bean versus the John and Ben Goodsport show. What else is not full comedy? Mr Bean doesn't even say a word and he's getting that result. We should be, we've got a huge advantage. Here's some stories that journalists, real journalists have done some hard work on.

We'll swoop in and take it from here, thanks. We spoke about this yesterday, and Jono, you kind of thought it was a bit of a smokescreen from the Prime Minister to get us focusing on something that didn't really matter in the big picture, but it was nice to... It reminded me of December at school when the teacher just starts playing movies. Yeah. Just to drag you across the finish line. It was a distraction. And we had to brainstorm the name for a bus, a vaccine bus.

Yeah, that's right. There's a bus. So basically these park and ride buses that they usually use at the airport have been turned into sort of mobile vaccine units driving around the country to places that maybe people are finding it difficult to go get a vaccine and she was like, hey, let's brainstorm a name because in Australia they have these sort of vaccine buses and this is the Australian name.

I know in Australia they've started operating something similar and have named their mobile outreach clinics Jabba the Bus. I'm sure that we can do better. I've got an idea. Why don't we brainstorm a way to get Auckland out of level four? No, no, we brainstorm with the bus, mate.

Oh, the bus. Okay, yeah. Come on, it's a funny day for a bus. We've got plenty of time to do that. Yeah, so yesterday she shortlisted, the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern shortlisted the final four names for the bus. She ruled out Bussy McBusface.

She said, I'm not even going to go there. So she's put on her social media the four final names. Okay, what are the big bangers? So you've got Jabberwocker is the first one. Shot Bro. Shot Bro. Nice Shot Bro.

Jab and Wag. And Vaxi Taxi. So, yeah. The Vaxi Taxi you're a fan of, weren't you, Julia? I love Vaxi Taxi. I think it rolls off the tongue. It's clear what it is. You know, it's really good.

Well done. Shot Bro works quite well for New Zealand, though. Shot Bro, you know. Well done to all of the finalistsists and well done on distracting us from what's really going on. Yeah. That's what I do. But we had one too. The Benga Boys. No, this is yours.

So we want to Ben Boys to front a campaign. You know the Benga Boys song, the Venga Bus is coming. The Benga Boys too, producer Humphries just said. But the name works. It's all fitting well. And Aaron, our wonderful technical producer, has made a Benga Boyce original instrumental

which is kind of like the Mr. Whippy theme. So when it comes, when the bus comes down a street, you know it's there. Everyone comes out jumping, hands in the air, arms out, ready to be stabbed. And just imagine this. The vaccine bus is coming and everybody's jabbing. New Lynn to outside briscoes.

Don't come out if you're sick, though. You're streaked, we are a-heading. Chris Hipkins' legs are spreading. We can all go to Wanaka if we vax against the Delta. Bingo boys, it's coming. Mate, it's your thing. Don't put it on me. It's my thing.

You've worked hard on that. I have. It's my thing, but my name doesn't work. So you have to front me. Why would they be like, the bingo boys? Who's been in this whole vaccine fight? Just front the campaign. Put your good name to it.

You know? Do you want to cure the community or not? I do, but I don't know if my good name is really worthwhile of that. I can't do it. I can't. I'm a ghostwriter. You can take all the credit. That's very impressive.

And that is Scrolling VFB this morning. It is the hits. You've got John on bed. You're essential Scrolling VFB this morning. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there, and then I backed out. Jono and Ben, New Zealand breakfast. And to really enjoy this little segment we do from time to time,

it's called Liar Liar. We get two people on the phone, and we don't know either which one is telling the truth and which one is telling a lie. They both say unbelievable statements about themselves and you we all have to work out together the lie and the truth yeah that's right uh so lila not only uh a wonderful piece of jim carrey cinema it's also a wonderful segment on this show so we need to welcome to the program charlotte how are you good to have you on good to have you on good to be here yeah she sounds a bit

hesitant this is uh saying good to be here. Yeah, she sounds a bit hesitant. This is saying good to be here is something I think what a liar would say. But anyway. What's your statement? So I used to work in Sydney as an event party planner for elite customers and clients. And I introduced Taika Waititi to Rita Ora. Ooh, okay. Yeah, playing into the show's, the cockles of our heart.

I love this so much, to be true. Yeah, we're very committed to this relationship. When? When was this? Back in 2019. Okay. So he's there filming Thor. Yeah.

That's what he was over there for. And she was doing, what was she doing? Some TV show over there, wasn't she? She was in The Voice over there. She was one of the judges in The Voice. So the's there filming Thor. Yeah. That's what he was over there for, and she was doing, what was she doing, some TV show over there? She was in The Voice over there. She was one of the judges in The Voice. So the timeline works out. And what, was this at a party that you organised? Yeah, so I was working for a client,

and we put on an event, someone in the film industry over there, and Taika attended, and Rita Ora was also there with the cast of The Voice. And right, and so how were you responsible for joining them? Well, I just kind of happened to be like right place, right time. So we had a photo booth kind of situation. They were both in line. And then I was going around helping us out, glass and champagne.

And they just happened to be there at the same time. And bam, I'm just going to take full responsibility for the meeting. You, okay. okay well you're saying this story with a lot of confidence now you're either lying to us or you're an incredibly good liar which would make me very concerned if i was your friend or family member so what we're going to do we'll put you on hold and we'll go to the second caller and we have uh don on the phone don what is your statement uh my statement is uh i've eaten more than 32 000 big macs over in almost 50 years 32 000 did you say yes i did how many big macs is that

on it you know on average uh it comes out to 1.8 a day 1.8 so when did you start doing this i started doing it on May 17th, 1972. What I like about Don is he's got a lot of detail. He's got a lot of detail with the story. Okay, all right. We'll put you on hold, Don. We'll be back very shortly. Liar, liar.

Who do you think is telling the truth this morning? You can text 4487. We'll get to that next. We'll find out together. New Zealand, it is 8.11. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram.

Now, we're in the middle of Liar Liar. We get two statements from two people. One is telling the truth and one is telling the lie. They're unbelievable statements. So let's recap right now. Let's go to Charlotte. Charlotte, what was your statement? I introduced Rita Ora and Taika Waititi. That's one right now. Let's go to Charlotte. Charlotte, what was your statement? I introduced Rita Ora and Taika Waititi.

That's one of them. And we had Don on the other line with an American accent. I don't know if it's real or not. No, it's hard to know in this segment. He claimed this. I've eaten more than 32,000 Big Macs in almost 50 years. The votes have come in. And they're swaying towards Charlotte.

You introduced Rita Ora and Taika Waititi. Yep. You did? You did. I did. Did you? Did you really? No.

You know you can stop the lying. Yeah, this is the point where you need to reveal. You're too good. You're too good. I really wanted that one to be true. Yeah, very convincing. Well, thank you, Charlotte, for lying to our faces. You're too good. I really wanted that one to be true. Very convincing. Well, thank you, Charlotte, for lying to our faces. Appreciate it.

Anytime. All right. Very good. Very good at lying, which means, Don, we're getting the nod that you have eaten 32,000 Big Macs. That's correct. Wow. Okay, so talk me through this. When did the love affair with Big Macs start?

Well, my love of Big Macs started May 17, 1972 when I got my first car, and then the first place I went to was McDonald's. And then I had my first three Big Macs, and I've been eating them ever since. Has the flavor of the Big Mac changed over the years, or has it remained consistent? The Big Mac has pretty much stayed the same. Lettuce always tastes like lettuce, and beef always tastes like beef. So I think it really changes the sauce, and the sauce, they haven't changed at all. So it's always been pretty much the same. You'd be a bit concerned if lettuce and beef started changing flavor, wouldn't you?

So you go every day, or just on average a few times a week? Okay, I go twice a week. I get six Big Macs on Monday, and then I get eight on Thursday, and that gives me my 14 a week. I eat two fresh Big Macs every week, and then the other 12 I'm microwaving, and I eat those when I'm ready. Oh, you're microwaving them. Do you put them in the freezer or something?

Oh, yes. I keep them in the freezer because where I live, you've got to worry about the weather, so I don't ever want to miss a day of eating Big Macs. I do keep some in the freezer because where I live, you've got to worry about the weather so I don't ever want to miss a day of eating Big Macs, so I do keep some in the freezer. Wow! I've got four in the freezer right now. Is it something that you've started

and now it's just become a giant burden on your life, having to get Big Macs every week? No, it's not a problem at all. Like I say, if you would come to my house and you watch me eat a Big Mac, you would think I was eating a Big Mac for the very first time. That's how much I love them. Really?

You obviously tried other burgers. What is it about the Big Mac that you love so much? It's just the perfect sandwich for me. Like I say, for me, I love hamburgers so much, and then for me to find the best hamburger sandwich was the Big Mac, and it's just the one that I want to eat all the time. Okay, if Big Macs were not available for one day, what's your backup burger on the McDonald's menu? I really don't have a backup plan for that.

I'm not worried about them not making Big Macs. Like I say, I keep some in the freezer and stuff, so I don't plan on missing days. If McDonald's ran out of Big Macs, it's like KFC running out of chicken, isn't it really? Yeah, that's the thing, right? You'd almost go a quarter pounder could be a good alternative, but hey, Don, I don't even want you to have to think about this devastating situation. Okay. Do you know how much you've spent on Big Macs over the years? Right, it's probably quite a bit of money, but you've got to realize when I first started eating Big Macs, they were only 49 cents, and now they're $4.29.

So, yeah, you probably can say I probably spend $100,000 or so on Big Macs, but the thing is, people spend that much on groceries, at least. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. And do they know you do go to the same store, the same McDonald's? Yes, I go to the same one all the time. And, yes, when I walk in the door, they just yell, Gorski's here, and they start making Big Macs.

Gorski's here. Get him his eight Big Macs. Surely you should get them for free. You should get them for free by now. But, anyway, that's not up to me. Yeah, to me, it's like I don't mind paying for them. Like I say, I want to be like everybody else that has to pay for their food and stuff. I'm just another customer as far as I'm concerned, and I just enjoy them,

and so I'm just glad I can afford them. Mate, you are more committed to McDonald's than Ronald himself. He hasn't even shown this level of commitment to the Golden Arches. And so this must be a record, surely? Yeah, yes, it is. Yeah, I've been recognized a couple of times by Guinness, and they just recently did a video and stuff with me in it and stuff like that. So it's kind of cool having a Guinness World Record

and still enjoy the greatest food in the world, you know? Wow. So the plan is to do this every week as long as you're around? Right. I plan on eating Big Macs every day until I die. And my wife says, though, that when she's got to put them in a blender, it's over. When you're sucking a Big Mac through a straw,

that's the time is up. Does she partake in Big Macs with you? My wife's only had 11 Big Macs in her life. She's not a big fan of them. Apart from the Big Mac, what other foods do you enjoy? There's not much I eat besides my Big Macs.

In our state of Wisconsin here, they have a lot of perch dinners, which is a fish. Like I say, I have that about once a year on average. So it's not something I'm going to eat every day, but it's also a good tasting food. Gee whiz, this is phenomenal. A man who's eaten over 30,000 Big Macs, Big Mac a day.

Well, lovely to talk to you, Don. This has been a real treat. Oh, it was great talking to you guys. You got some good questions. Good questions, Ben, finally. Someone's here with some good questions. That's good. I love your work Don

You keep safe over there Right Oh we'll be safe Yes And you guys Be safe over there Okay Oh my goodness

How incredible is that Don How awesome is he He's eating a Big Mac On average Every day For the last Just worked it out

49 years 49 years It is a hit So you got Jono and Ben Another day at home with the kids little tip it's called parenting

not babysitting Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast yeah well yesterday actually yeah we are in lockdown my daughter Sienna was jumping on the tramp

came inside and she was like oh I've hurt my toe and just kind of landed funny and as a parent you have a you always have a look at it.

That's kind of what you do. And then I'm like, well, maybe you put some ice on it. That's my go-to. It seemed like she wasn't crying. You could kind of, she seemed like she could bend it a little bit. I was like, yeah. My mum was always like, go and have a bath.

I was like bone poking her mum. Have a bath. Have a bath. I was like, what's a bath? It's funny the parent go-to thing. I had a look at it and I was like, and she wasn't, yeah, she wasn't crying. It was a bit sore.

And I was like, put your foot up, we'll put some ice on it and I hope you're alright. But the thing is, Sienna's kind of like me, she's a bit, she likes the attention. She's a show pony.

So there's always that running through my mind as well, like I would be in a situation like, oh, could I milk this? Could I limp around the house? Could I get some sympathy?

Put me in ICU. No, there's COVID patients in there. Take one of them out. I've got a sore toe. Yeah, and then, quickly afterwards, I was getting some them out. I've got a sore toe. Yeah, and quickly afterwards I was getting some washing. I was like, can everyone grab their washing, put it in their room and then

see this little limping and you're like, oh, look, you know, is this a play to get out of? But then I actually had a look at the tone. It was actually getting quite swollen and quite sort of bruised, sort of, you know, discoloured and stuff. I was like, I better call the doctor because these days you can't. And they're like, please don't make me, you know, make one of us take her to the A&E and they're like, I better call the doctor because these days you can't. And they're like, please don't make one of us

take her to the A&E. And they're like, you better go to the A&E. So my wife Amanda took her to the A&E out. We kind of went for one away from the hospitals. Went to a lovely one in Wanaka. The A&E is quite good down there for all clippers. So that's why she has, long story short, broken her toe.

She broke it? Yeah, a little break on her toe. Oh my God. Yeah. But there's really nothing they can do about it, to be honest. No, toes just have to heal themselves. And there's the bonus for poking out and then maybe take a bath. Yeah, maybe that's what you do.

But also parents never believe their kids when they say they're sick or injured. Oh, get out there. You're just interrupting my day. I'm glad I didn't leave it like days and days or anything like that. Because I would have felt bad that you were like... Yeah. Broken toe. So she's just got to what?

Sit around? Yeah, it's probably kind of, yeah. Didn't she recently break her arm too? Yeah, yeah. But you know, listen, I've seen CNN. She is risky. Yeah. On the trampoline.

She's doing like... Yeah. Simone Biles kind of stuff. Yeah, I know. There really, there's a whole lot. There's a whole... She's really good and it's all self taught

from like YouTube oh my goodness you could put her like if you put her in a gymnastics program she could probably make the New Zealand Olympic team

she's that good yeah well because she wanted me to teach her how to do a backflip and I was like I can't this is I can't even do a frontflip

and land it I was like oh we're going to have to go to YouTube YouTube the greatest parent of them all it's amazing what you find on YouTube a front flip and we'll land it. I was like, oh, we're going to have to go to YouTube here. YouTube. The greatest parent of them all. It's basically what you find on YouTube, eh?

Everything. They've got it all. I've said it, and I'll say it again, we don't need an education system here. We just need YouTube. Yeah. And anything you want to know is on YouTube. Well, you're probably right, actually.

It's a wonderful service. Oh, well, there you go. That's a bit of drama at the boys' household. A bit of drama, there you go, at lockdown. Intelligent, thought-provoking, stimulating. Three terms that will never apply here. New Zealand's breakfast. Now, they're looking at bringing in some changes to

the learners and restricted licences in New Zealand right now. Looking like they're doubling. Is that correct? Yeah, I think they're going to double from five to ten years because they're finding that people who, for example, are on their restricted, a lot of people aren't bothering going up to the full. They're saying five years isn't long enough. Five years seems like quite a substantial amount of time.

You'd think they'd be shorter. They'd go, try and get it done in a couple of years. If anything, five years is probably too much already. If someone can't be bothered going to get the licence for five years, there's another five now. Potentially, they're proposing to act on to the back end. So a ten-year gap. From Waka Kotahi, the Land Transport Authority.

Do you know I failed my licence on three occasions, producer Juliet? Did you? It's not surprising. Have you ever driven with him? No, I haven't, but I've heard stories. I'm surprised he's got a licence. Me too, to be honest. I think the third time the instructor

just was out of pity, just gave it to me. And if she saw me today, she'd be like, well, that was a huge mistake. That was a regret in my career. You're like, dude, just stop for red lights in the morning. Yeah, no, you do. Oh, you can't drive over the roundabout. Yeah. But the first time I, failed

three times. First time was due to excitement. Really? Yeah, excitement levels, because it was the morning of the day First time was due to excitement. Really? Yeah, excitement levels. Because it was the morning of the day that I was going to a big festival. Oh. You know. And what should you do if you see a van broken down at a roundabout?

That's not front of mind when there's a festival on the horizon. You would know. Imagine you're sitting in your driver's license before you go into Northern Basement. I know. I know. No,'re sitting in your driver's license before you go into Northern Basement. I know, I know. No, I don't blame you. Did you preload before your driver's license? Got on a festival, got a preload. Just came in.

Woo! Woo! Give me the scratchy desk! Yes, I failed that time and the other two times was just pure incompetence, really. So now I'm a menace on the road. We wanted to basically open up the phone lines, 0800 the hits. Tell us anything to do with that, you know, that would like a wow us about your driver's license.

The license line. Have you failed more than three times? Have you never had a license? My nana, when she was alive, she went her whole life. Never drove. Really? Wow. Did not.

She just loved bickering with my granddad in the car. And that was enough. And I think after all the bickering, my granddad in the car. And that was enough. And I think after all the bickering, it was like, well, she couldn't sit in the passenger seat. Couldn't sit in the driver's seat because she was just... But that is a huge advantage when it comes to bickering. A big bickering advantage is she's not concentrating on the road. Oh, I know.

So her brain is just full bicker mode. Whereas her partner, he's like, I'm concentrating and bickering too. Yeah. Which is a hard game to play. They used to have in the little compartment they had those big mints. Oddfellows. Oddfellows, they'd have those ones. And so you used to have an oddfellow

and I'd sit there with my cousin in the back just going, this is a great show. Oh, I told you it was. Yeah, it was wonderful. Yeah, you'd walk away with a minty fresh breath and satisfied with the entertainment. So 0800 the hits. We're going to open up the licence line. Anything that would surprise us about driver's licence?

I don't reckon anyone would be listening right now that doesn't have a driver's licence. No, or maybe you've been only restricted for 30 years or something ridiculous. Okay, give us a text too. 4487, get a hold of New Zealand's breakfast this morning. We'll find some hell pizza for you as well. If you're in level two, you can enjoy that 0800 The Hits.

Talking about driver's licenses right now as they're looking to double the time between your restricted or even your learners before you can get to the full, right, from five to ten years. Yeah, and when I actually think about it, I was thinking about it during that song, is when you're 15 years old, putting admin and paperwork on a teenager. Yeah, true. I mean, it's like a drunk adult in a bar at 11 o'clock at night. Any promises they're making of stuff they're going to do the next day,

it's not going to happen. It's the same as a 15-year-old. Yeah, so we opened up the licence line. What would impress us, or maybe not impress us, to do with your driver's licence? Yeah, let's get Angela on from Hamilton. Welcome to the show, Ange. Hello.

Hello. Your licence line, how are you going to impress us? Unrestricted for 10 years. Well done, a decade of on the restricted licence. Is it laziness that you haven't made the step up to the full? Yeah. So a month before I was due for my full, I decided to go for it. Failed four times.

Finally got it and they only had six instructors. Hold on. You were on your instructor for 10 years. Then you failed your full licence four times. How are you on the road? One-handed on the wheel. Isn't it meant to be two?

Hey, Andrew, we're going to send you out some hell pizza. You can get that delivered. Maybe that's the best way to get someone else to bring it to you. If anyone knows Angela, please go around to her house and take her car keys off her. No, Angela, you're awesome. For the safety of the Waikato. Appreciate you sharing that with us.

That's awesome. Hold the line, buddy. Yeah, thank you for calling through. Appreciate it. I remember your friend went to Raro, and you can just get a license in about five minutes in Rarotonga, right? Oh, yeah. And then their drink driving system they have in place over there is interesting.

Well, yeah, I think they've changed it now, but this was many years ago, and it was more of an honesty system. Oh. Like they'd pull out and it was like, have you been drinking? No. Okay, well, yeah. But, yeah, I think they've changed it now, obviously, at the time. No, I will take your word for it.

You seem like a stand-up bloke. Yeah. Hello, nice man in a balaclava. Did you rub that back? No, it wasn't me. All right, we're going to have a nice day. Maybe we should be more honest, you know? I've just got a cold face today.

Let's get Vicky on from Christchurch. How are you, Vic? The licence line is open for you, Vicky. Impress us. Good morning. Yeah, what happened? Well, I'm more after some advice from Jono. Oh, here we go.

What's the advice? My son is going for his restricted this morning for the third time, and it made me nervous. Oh, well, yeah, I failed mine three times, yeah. That's what I said. I'm just coming down. I'm at the beach walking the dog. Yeah.

And I was listening to you guys on the way down, and you said, I failed it three times. Oh, gosh. He's going this morning for his third, and I'm going, I'm the support person. So can you give me some advice? How do I get him, you know, how do I, you know, get him pumped up, ready to go?

Listen, what you need to do is, you are level two in Christ, you job, is you swing by Paper Plus, purchase an envelope, put Purchase an envelope. Put some money in that envelope. Slide that to the instructor before the test. That's bribery. You can't do that.

And just give a cheeky little wink. That's what John Pride did for you. I think that's what Dan did for me. Maybe a couple of scratchies or something like that. Yeah, a cheeky wink will either insinuate that you've got some money in there for him or that you want to hook up with him. Hey, Vicky, good luck for your son's third attempt. It's a third attempt, yeah.

Let us know. Tomorrow, how he goes. Hopefully he has a pass. Oh, God. I mean, it's just more for me because I'm just having to handle the aftermath if he doesn't pass because it's all their fault. Well, we will call you. We'll keep you on hold.

We'll get your number. We'll do a follow-up tomorrow to see. I hope he passes. He's got this. He's got this. He's got this. He's got this. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Vicky. Have a great day. Shelley, you're on from Wellington. The licence line impress us. So I have my restricted for 21 years and just got my full licence this year. Well done. 21 years. Wow. So it was due year. Well done. 21 years, wow. So it was due to expire and if I didn't get it,

I'd have to reset all three again. Well, and fair enough too. Like, you know, to the Land Transport Authority, just, you know, they're looking at you, and they're like, 21 years, how much more? Well, you don't need a full licence really when you can stay within restrictions and stuff. Well, it turns out you do.

And you just scraped in there after 21 years. Well done, Shelley. We're going to give you some pizza as well, some help pizza coming your way. And someone who's going to impress us more than Shelley is someone who's been on their learners. Martin, come in from Christchurch. How long have you had your learners for?

I've had my motorbike learners licence since 1995. 1995? What's that? Is that like 26 years? That is indeed 26 years. Wow. And just don't need to upgrade to the full? Well, you don't need to.

You can ride on a motorbike licence with a new LAN system. I mean, I've had a 550, and that's legally, I was legally able to ride that. Yeah. It's just every time I sort of thought, oh, I should go up for my licence, I haven't had a bike, because I keep selling the bloody thing. 26 years on a learner's licence.

That is impressive, Martin. Really appreciate it. And thank you for all your calls this morning. It makes me very concerned to go out after work and drive home on the roads. Good thing we're in level four lockdown. It's pretty quiet. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits.

Morning. Welcome along to the show. It's Jono and Ben with you. No mai, hari mai. It is Thursday or ra pare or taitai. Now, yesterday you were wondering why there was two versions. We were wondering that, right? Yeah, we chatted about that in the podcast intro.

There seems like there's a formal and a kind of more casual one. I asked my tutor last night because I'm doing some online, you know, Te Reo weekly course and stuff, and he said, yeah, there's the more traditional version, and then there's also a translated version of more like the Te Reo version of what the English day of the week would be. So that's the two versions. Both are correct, but your more traditional is the one

they've been using for many years, and then the other one is the more translated version. The white man's come in and gone. Can we have a more casual approach to the day of the week? Yeah, and that's why, like, yesterday, when are they, was the version of Wednesday, you know. Gotcha. That's interesting.

Yeah, so there you go. Now, doing the te reo course. How many people in the class? Well, it's about 30 in my class. Oh, you really got to back yourself to ask a question in front of 30 people, don't you? Did you go over Zoom as well, too? Did you go, hi, Ben boys, here I have a question? Oh, risky. Mate, I like to just blend in in that situation.

And then the whole time you're thinking, please don't be a dumb question. Please don't be a dumb question. You know, that's the whole thing. Because everyone's probably judging you, because you've got to turn your mic, because you mute your mic. If I could take the floor for a second. They're like, oh, here we go, what's this guy got to say? But did he treat it as...

No, he didn't, he did, he goes, yeah. Good question, did he say good question? He didn't say good question, but he explained it to her, and I was like, I walked away going, oh, good. I went away going, I've learnt something here, I don't know if everyone else was, you know. And often when you think you're asking a dumb question, a lot of other people are wondering the same thing. So it actually helps out a collective group. It's harder.

I found it harder over Zoom when you're in the room with someone. You can kind of just go, hey, what about these such and such? But when you're over Zoom, you're like, I've really got to go for this. You know the fatal mistake too is if you ask a question and they've explained it previously. I've done that many times. You're lying. That's what I've said before.

Yeah, you need more of that. Jacinda pulls that out of the press conference a lot to the journalists, as I just said before. I love Jason at the press conferences. Jason winds her up. Oh, really? I love Jason. Thanks, Jason.

Yes, Jason. It's Jason from upstairs? Behemoths are saying Jason's from East Oak ZB. Oh, really? Or the Herald. Is he a Herald? No, he's the Herald. Oh, there you go.

You can tell whenever she has to go to Jason, she's like, Jason? Oh, here's Jason again. I want to meet Jason. Hey, we've got a big show for you this morning. We're catching up with the star of the new Marvel movie, which is pretty exciting in cinemas right now. Yeah, we actually spoke to him over Zoom, and these things, they're tight on time,

but this was the tightest one I think we've even had. I would have loved to have longer with him because he seemed like an amazing dude, but yeah, you are. And time to wrap it up. Yeah, the clock is ticking on those. We'll play that after seven. He was a lovely guy,

and that looks like a really good movie. Yeah. The A to Z of New Zealand. We're working our way right around the country, calling every town and city. The A to Z of New Zealand, learning about each place that we go. Yes, so today we're heading to Mosburn, which is the dear capital of New Zealand, Mosburn. Located

113km south of Queenstown, 59km east of Te Anau and more importantly 1647km away from level 4 Auckland but Mosburn, you can go and look at a statue of a stag in the main road you can stay at the railway hotel

you can drink at the railway hotel then you can go back outside and look at a statue of a stag in the main road of Mosburn and yesterday we spoke to wonderful Tom, who's the proprietor of the Mosburn Railway Hotel. That's right. How are you? Jono and Ben here from the Hits radio station. Tom? Hey, how you doing? Yeah, good. We're just a couple of Aucklanders looking for a little getaway at the moment.

Do you think you could house us? Yeah, no, polite. No, in all honesty, we're actually phoning every town and city in New Zealand. Just to see if you can get away. No, we're actually just to learn about each place. We're doing it alphabetically. We're doing it in alphabetical order, obviously, because that's what alphabetically means.

And each place we get to, we just like to find out about the place. What would you like to know? Can you just confirm you do know what alphabetical order means yeah yeah i do i do it's been a while since i went to school but yeah right he's got it he's got it now tom yeah we do fight we're up to the m's at the moment uh given our reason to for calling moss burn and the moss burn hotel population of what's there tom oh anywhere between 260 and 320 at any given period depends on what's happening in town. We have a bit of a transient population when it comes to the shearing and comes to milking so yeah.

So are you running your classic country pub? What's a classic country pub? Well you probably just call it the pub. We're running your quintessential country pub, yes. Yeah, quintessential. What else town folk would call your pub? But imagine how big the meals are, Tom. Are they enormous? Yeah, well, yeah. Most of our clientele tends to be hungry at the end of the day. But, yeah, we also deal with a lot of truckies and contractors.

So, I mean, for us, it's big meals. Tourists take photos and then take half of it home with them. Oh, really? They're that big, are they? Yeah. The further down the country you get, the bigger the appetite for some reason, isn't it? Yeah, but she's seen some of our locals as well, so it's bigger than locals. How long have you lived here, Tom, in Mossburn?

We've owned a pub about 18 years now. Longest serving publicans in Southland since the guy in Winton sold. Oh, wow. That's a record to be proud of. All scared of, one of the two. And now, being there for 18 years, you must know some wonderful trivia about Mossburn. Yeah, probably.

Follow-up question. Could we have some? Yeah, what can you tell us about it? What can I tell you about Mossburn? It's a cool town, actually. The best thing about Mossburn, and I've said this to people many a time, the good thing about Mosbyn is everyone in town has your back. The bad thing about Mosbyn is that everyone in town has your back.

It's a small town with its small town issues as well as, you know, but you couldn't find a better place to live. You know, if anything happened to anyone in town, the town actually gets round, and you're need for nothing, but in saying that... Everyone's up in your business. Everyone knows what's happening in town. I do know you've also got a cricket ground called the MCG, the Mossburn Cricket Ground.

The MCG has actually not been used for a very long time, unless you're talking about the paddocks down the road that belong to Rex Carter. Yeah, Rex Carter had a Swede paddock and he mowed out a cricket pitch in the middle of all the Swedes. No, somebody mowed out a cricket pitch in the middle of there. I'm not sure who it was, but yeah, we had the official inaugural game

last year. Some of the locals got together and had a game. I don't know how many balls they lost in the Swedes though. So they were playing cricket in amongst this field of all these Swedes growing a game. I don't know how many balls they lost in the Swedes, though. So they were playing cricket in amongst this field of all these Swedes growing around them. I love the great name, MCG. I don't know if it's taken, but it's a great name. It's like that movie The Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner.

They hit a baseball over into the crops. The ball was gone. Yeah, true, actually. You're right. Very inconvenient. Hey, listen, Tom, really appreciate your time this morning. No problem. Enjoy it, guys. If we're ever in Mossburn, we'll swing by and we'll have one of your ginormous meals. Yeah, pop in for a beer, too.

Beer. Now, the Marvel movies, they're huge. I mean, you've got Black Widow, Thor, The Avengers. There's so many to name. And there's a brand new movie in cinemas today. We can go to cinemas. And I'm very jealous. If you can go to cinemas around New Zealand today to see this, it looks awesome.

It stars Simu Liu. He plays a martial arts master, and the movie's called Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Throughout my life, the Ten Rings gave our family power. If you wanted them to be yours one day, you have to show me you are strong enough to carry them. There's a lot of rings to look after. Ten of them.

I've got one ring, the wedding ring. You've lost your wedding ring. You don't even have it. You couldn't be responsible for ten rings. No, I couldn't. But it looks amazing. The special effects, as you'd imagine with Marvel movies, look incredible.

Yeah. A couple of days ago, we had the opportunity to catch up with Simu Liu. And it was over Zoom and a very high-pressure situation. The clock was ticking down. Because we only had about three or four minutes, which is understandable because he's doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews. He's the star of the Marvel movie.

But you can feel the pressure from everyone involved, can't you, to keep things quick. Oh, yeah. And you even get little messages popping up on the screen as well, going, your time starts now. It's all part of the Zoom world that you do interviews in these days so we're sitting here at our studio we're talking to him uh over zoom and some messages actually popped up during the interview which was quite fun and here's our chat with the star of the new marvel movie shang chi and the legend of the ten rings there you go you're connecting to audio

hello can you please introduce yourself, names, and all that? Hello. We're Jono and Ben from New Zealand. Nice to meet you. Oh, it's so great to meet you guys. I love the energy already. Oh, well, congratulations on the movie. We're very excited about it. And I understand we've got a short space of time, so I'll rock right into it. Not your first superhero role because you were a Spider-Man for kids' birthday parties. Is that correct? That is absolutely correct, although I will say the fanfare that I received for that role was a lot different than the fanfare I'm receiving for this one. I got physically assaulted by kids pretty much every party that I did because nobody

believed that I was Spider-Man. I had what must have been a $20 version of the Spider-Man suit. It fair, you know, the zipper was like completely showing and it just wouldn't, it wasn't fooling anybody. You know, how many times I did backflips and I did a lot of backflips for them. I thought maybe that would. That's the thing, as a teenager, you taught yourself how to do a backflip.

How many times did that go wrong? Many, many. Yeah, I remember almost smoking my, in my backyard when I was like, when I was like 16, me and my mates would, uh, take, take turns flipping it off of each other's knees. But that was the kind of stupid stuff we got into, you know, when we thought like, you know, if we, if we could backflip and break dance and all that stuff, then maybe we could get girls to talk to us. And as it turns out, um, not, not the way to do it. Sense of humor is, is way more important than

athletic ability you you can print that if it's one takeaway from this interview guys let that be the advice and jokes will never break your neck and paralyze you too which is always they'll only break your spirit break your spirit now uh the kids you just mentioned kids birthday parties kids are brutal did they thank you by sort of kicking you in the nuts every time you turned up to a birthday party? There were kicks in the nuts. There was like, you know, one kid in particular was real bad. He was like, I'm going to, he literally tried to climb me

to like try to rip my mask off. And that kid's parents, by the way, did absolutely nothing. They were like day drinking in the patio and just looking over and being like, oh, we're just so happy that he's not our problem right now. Good training. And I got through that hour. Great training.

It's good training. Yeah, for this movie. I mean, you know, you do a lot of amazing fight scenes in this movie. There's one on the train or the bus, sorry, when you split your legs. It's awesome. I mean, great training. Thank you. Yeah. Great training. Thank you. No matter how much pain I endured on this shoot, it never came close to the emotional pain

that traumatised me as that birthday party Spider-Man. There's only one way you can put that strain on your genitals, splitting your legs, and that's by attending children's birthdays. You actually sent a tweet, didn't you, to Marvel saying that they needed to have an Asian superhero. And lo and behold four years later look at us baby i'm riding your success i don't know why i am but look at us

i i i am going to be starting a life coaching uh business after this um because clearly that is the one thing that i can do is is manifest destinies and predict the future. No, seriously, I mean, I sent that tweet to like 14 followers. I mean, I was nobody when that tweet was sent. And I think more than anything, it just gave me the permission to, you know, keep going and pursue the career. But, I mean, nobody ever read it. I talked to Kevin about it, and I was like, hey, did you read my tweet all the way back when? And he was like, what are you talking about?

You got this role and you're acting now. It was more, so if you're going to tweet it out into the universe, do it for you. That's my advice. Listen, we keep getting messages flashing up on our computer screen here. Two minutes, one minute, please wrap. This is the last question. Thanks.

I think we're out. I think we're out. It was short. It was sweet. It was a lot of fun. You don't want to you don't want to make it to the next one

the next message is like you know that one's way now that's three exclamation marks though so yeah okay we'll tap out here so lovely to meet you

I wish we could add longer but I understand that's how it is you're a popular man we can't wait to see the movie you look amazing in it congratulations oh man

thank you guys thank you so much really appreciate it see you bud, guys. Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. See you, bud. Thanks, guys. Bye. See you, mate. That was cool. It was awesome, actually. Yeah, lovely guy. The movie looks really good, too. $259 million

in the box office already. Already? Already. You can go and look at all the boxes in this office, Ben. You wouldn't find anywhere near that. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. If you can see it, if you're in level two and you're lucky and you're in level two,

you're lucky enough to go to the cinemas, go see it. It looks amazing, the new Marvel movie. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. These show producers

were nominated for a radio award because when you work with these guys, you deserve a medal. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Great to hang out

with you this morning, Altair. Thank you for chilling with us. Chilling with us. What a dick. I said it and I was like, you sound like a dad trying to blend in with the kids. It is funny though.

Every now and again I catch myself doing that. I know I heard Juliet go... I think I'm just giving up at this point. Yeah, thanks. You know what we've done really well with Jude when she's got her head in her hands. That's a proud moment for me. It's the only joy I get of coming to work

is just making Juliet cringe. Her two radio dads. I've got my real dad. The internet, you've heard of it? We've all heard of it? Yeah, thank you. I'm slowly turning, speaking of dads, I think I'm slowly turning into my father

where my trust levels for the internet, they're depleting. I'm starting to trust everything I'm seeing on the internet less and less and less. And I don't know if you're the same as me, but you get fed like a website ad and automatically assume

it's just a scam website trying to rip you off, get your credit card details. Are you on the same boat at the moment? Well, not all the time, but I do get the odd scam, you know. I'm very suspicious. I feel like I'm glad I had a shot of the vaccine because I think I'm one week away of starting to be dubious about the vaccine. It's how suspicious I'm growing with things online. But then I go to a website and I then go,

hmm, this doesn't seem right. Minus 25% off these tweed trousers and then I go and google the name of the website and then go legit question mark and then you go through all the feedback of the website so you're sort of cross checking

but then in the cross checking process I'm like well the people from the website could have just gone on here they could have written glowing reviews for the website. It's funny, my daughter the other day was wanting to buy something online, and then she was reading all the comments, and she was like, see, great thing, great thing, all the comments. I was like, you know that they could have written the comments themselves.

Nothing's stopping them. She was like, oh, could they? Could they have done this? Because they're all like, these arrived on time, these are amazing, and they probably are all legit. But the moment, that was the moment you lost a child's innocence right there. She's like, look at all these amazing comments. I was like, no, they could have.

It's just to see the internet of the most untrustworthy people, isn't it? It's like when a New Zealander goes overseas to some exotic European country and we've got a money pouch strapped to our genitals because we don't trust because we've read on TripAdvisor about all the You were really worried when we went overseas. We travelled to Europe together and he was very, very worried about getting pickpocketed. I'm the same. And so he had this little money. There's the

paranoid pouch. They labelled it the paranoid pouch. Because he's got to have all the money in the paranoid pouch. You put everything in there. I put it inside my body. But I loved it. It was one moment because you're keeping it, you know, and we'd travelled around Europe and then you're like, keep it safe, it's in the paranoid pouch, got to put it in the paranoid pouch.

It's on me at all times. And then we were walking off the plane, we were in the airport, you're like, the paranoid pouch, it's on the plane. It's a run back. I left it on the plane. And we were like, in France. And it just sprint back. It shut the doors.

I was trying to smuggle something through you know like what's going on with my body I don't know where it is yeah and I was having to shut the plane door and I was having to

explain to those French guys like my paranoid pouch is in there and I don't know what that means yeah anyway I think we need to all treat the internet

and go back to primary school you know the popular the popular stranger danger theory the internet's just full of weirdos in vans, rusty vans trying to hand out fruit bursts to everyone. We've got $5,000 up for grabs very shortly.

It's a game we play every morning. Five words for 5K. You could win it in about 20 minutes' time on the hits. Skinny. Working with me. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It's a wee game we play every morning around about this time. Five words, $5,000 and it's probably due another win, aren't we?

Well, the winning doesn't stop on this game. Unless we don't win, then it stops and it comes back tomorrow morning at quarter to eight and it takes a break after Friday, doesn't it? Needs two days of R&R over the weekend, then it returns. Yeah. Apart from that, the winning doesn't stop. And Amelia, 11 years old from Christchurch, come on down. Hi. Potentially our youngest competitor, Amelia. What do you do at 11 years old? I dance and I do school.

You dance and school? If you said you were a stockbroker or something, it would have been unusual. So, Amelia, $5,000 to an 11-year-old. You'd be like the Jeff Bezos of children if you won this money. Yeah. Yeah? Are you going to play by yourself? I'm going to

have my mum help me. Okay, alright. We've got parental guidance through this. Now, the big first decision you need to make, Amelia, is who are you sending into the soundproof booth to match your words with? Ben. Oh, no pressure. It's an 11-year-old as well.

As soon as you chuck a child into the mix. I've got an 11-year-old, you know. He's got an 11-year-old. He knows what they look like. Yeah. He knows how much $5,000 would mean to an 11-year-old. 11-year-olds love cash. Amelia, you've heard the game before.

Mm-hmm. You know how it works, mate? Have you ever matched up while playing along with the radio? You have? Yeah, right, a couple of times. Okay, so hypothetically you've won $5,000, but let's see if you can do it for real

right now. Amelia, the first word that comes into your sweet, sweet 11-year-old noggin when I say page. Book. Capsicum. Capsicum. Pepper.

Pepper. Nice. Pony. Horse. Pony. Horse. Microphone. Singing. And the fifth word is snail. Slow.

You've done well, Amelia. What do you reckon, Ju? I reckon she's done really well. Let's get more 11-year-olds on playing this game. Gee whiz, you feel confident, Amelia? Yeah. Can I change microphone to sing? Sing?

Yeah, certainly you can do that. We'll change microphone to sing right now. Not singing. Is that right? No. Okay, sing. All right, okay. Let's release the voice from the booth

as he emerges out to win an 11-year-old $5,000 cash, a life-changing amount of money at age 11. Jeez. Okay, think of all the audios she could buy. What are you going to spend the money on? I might put it in my bank account And I will give my mum some She's going to save

And give her mum the cash Ben Don't stop Is your mum there Amelia? What would you spend the money on? What would I spend it on? I don't know Maybe a wee shopping spree? Shopping spree, Ben. She's shouting at mum a shot they do deserve it. Alright, Jo, let's do it. First word that we need you to match

with 11 year old Amelia. I know, I know. Paige, first word that comes into your head when I say Paige. Book? Amelia. I know, I know. Page. First word that comes into your head when I say page. Book. Great start. Great start, great start, great start. Capsicum. Pepper. Talk us through your thoughts and feelings Amelia. Oh Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Come on, we got this.

We got this. We can do this. Pony. Horse? Oh! Oh, I almost said ride. Pony ride. That was a talk of the town pony ride.

Heavy breathing going on. they need some ventolin fourth word microphone oh there's options this one talk sorry i was looking in front of my microphone going, I'm talking into a microphone. What did you go, Amelia? Sing. Sing.

Singing, sing. And then what would you have gone for snail? Oh, jeez. I'll give you my 50-50, either shell or slow. One of them was right. Why would you give 50-50, either a shell or slow. One of them was right. Why would you give 50-50, you monster? I don't know. It's past the game now.

I don't know. I just wanted to cover my bases. It was slow. It was slow. Well, that was it. It was in there. Amelia, one of the greatest games we've seen played over the last few weeks. Well done.

You were awesome. You played really well. They were really good choices. Thanks, guys. No worries. You can tear the disappointment They were really good choices. Thanks, guys. No worries. You can tear the disappointment in their voices, Ben. I'm disappointed. I'm taking my headphones off.

I'm no longer talking into my microphone. Yeah, well, they're still talking, and you can't hear them talking over you. It's messy. Hey, thanks, guys. Go and have a great day, eh? Cool. Thank you, guys, too.

Appreciate it. Ju, what are we doing? No spy? No, run out of time, unfortunately. Too much jibber-jabbering from JMB, eh? They're proud of New Zealand. Woo! Go New Zealand!

If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Speaking of New Zealanders, we love any New Zealand connection we can get. So Prince Harry, you mentioned this earlier this morning, Juliet. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been named two of the 100 world's most influential people. So congratulations.

That's awesome. The 100 world's most influential people. So they've got subcategories now too, like musicians and sports players. And what category do they slip under? I think they slipped under icons. Yeah, right. Yes. Which is awesome.

It's great. But we love a New Zealand connection. And I got kind of click baited in a way. It's like, oh, it's the nod to New Zealand and how we're part of this. I was like, oh, we're part of this. How are we the most influential? How do we get involved? So what's happened is.

How do we tenuously link ourselves to this? It was a photo taken of them when they were in New Zealand. And they were walking through, I think, the Redwoods Forest. They're holding hands. Beautiful photo. I was like, oh, maybe they've used that photo. But no, Redwoods Forest, the Holding Hands, beautiful photo. I was like, oh, maybe they've used that photo. But no, they haven't. They've used a photo very similar to that photo of them holding hands

through another forest. But we've now – But it's not the one that we have. No, but it's similar to the one – Where's this forest? Well, I think maybe – Does it look like the forest we've got? No, it's similar.

Yeah. For Time Magazine, they've used a similar photo. It looks similar, but it's not – So it could be our forest. It's not, but it's similar to us. So that's our connection that they've used a similar photo. It looks similar, but it's not. So it could be our forest. It's not, but it's similar to us. That's our connection that they've taken a similar photo here in New Zealand. So therefore, New Zealand helped them get the most information. So they've walked through another forest?

Holding hands. So they cheated on our forest? Yeah. But with another forest. Yeah. Is it a better forest? No, it's a better forest. It's a nice looking forest though.

Our forest in Rotorua is very nice, though. But hey, that's our connection. Why wouldn't they use our forest photo? Well, I don't know. Maybe there's time down to the rights of the photography. Do you think that was the poor journalist who's like, Charlotte, I need you to do a story on the information. Get a New Zealand connection.

And Charlotte looked and she's like, Oh, that looks like the Rotorua forest. Oh, it's not. But it's similar to the final they took here. Yeah, but I still need to hand in a story. So I'll make a connection. It kind of looks like the one we've got here. So well done, New Zealand.

There's another claim to fame. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Ben, 8 o'clock tonight, our new TV show, Jono and Ben, Good Sports, back on the telly. You can win $500 just by watching it and then listening to our show at 8 o'clock tonight our new TV show Jono and Ben Good Sports back on the telly you can win $500 just by watching it and then listening to our show at 8 o'clock the next day

and tonight we go barefoot water skiing which is wild we also go to the Burnout Nationals and we also go to the Rural Games Rural Games

hard one to say to learn about timber sports now we just heard Amanda your wife laughing at Mr Bean which is pretty impressive yeah just loving Mr. Bean.

Will she laugh like that tonight? I tell you what, Ben did something on the show as he was barefoot water skiing there, so I can't even remember the last time I laughed that hard. Yeah, you were definitely laughing like Amanda was at Mr. Bean at that, right? Yeah, I was thankful I was wearing a wetsuit at the time because a little bit came out. I won't lie, it was pretty impressive. But the timber sports tonight as well, we met some wonderful people from the New Zealand Timber Sports community. Who knew there was one?

Yeah, it's awesome. And Darcel Apelu is one of our champions in Timber Sports. How are you? Good, how are you? Not too bad. Now, we spent a couple of days with you filming for our TV shows. It was a lot of fun learning about the world of timber sports. Yeah.

You guys enjoyed yourselves? Yeah, it was fun. But tell me the honest truth, because I felt like, you know, for a large part of this television series, we were just burdening people with our presence. And so was it a niggle to have us in a television crew with you? No, it wasn't.

No, it was great fun. Yeah, but a little bit like... Yeah, especially on competition day as well, I'm sure it was great fun. Yeah, but a little bit like... Yeah, especially on competition day as well, I'm sure it was a pain. Hey, what are you thinking? You've got these two idiots trying to chuck puns at you and you're like, guys, come on. No, it wasn't too bad. I was just thinking with Soaring with

Hugh Jono, that was actually a lot easier than I anticipated. Oh, thank you. You guys did really well in that you did the Jack and Jill which we've learnt is the two-person Soaring, right? Timber sports, there's a whole subculture of people who compete in timber sports. In some cases, generations and generations of family who have been competing in timber sports. What is it to the novice? Oh, it's basically it's a race.

So it's a race to cut through a piece of wood as fast as you can. So there's different ways, obviously, you can do it in competition. There's people that do it with chainsaws. There's people that do it with saws, like the misery whip, and there's axes, right? Yep. So all the events are based on what you would have had to do way back in the day when selling any type of forest,

before chainsaws were even invented. So you're using double cross-cut saws and then axes. So each of those events replicate what you would have had to do in the bush. Now, you got into this when you were very young, sort of 14, 15, didn't you? Yeah, yeah, I got into it through school, funnily enough. I'm sure there's probably a few parents that would have been scared to know that their children were wielding axes on their lunch break. What did you love about it? Like did what attracted you to the sport i think i think there's this sense of physicality that comes that's really challenging and that's

what i enjoy about it that i can challenge myself it's exhausting though it really is and what i really admired about the history of the sport is it was created by people who were out in the forest and working in forestry so So they did this all day as a job and then they turned it into a sport outside of your nine to five hours. Yeah, suckers for punishment, right? Yeah. Now how are New Zealand

at it? I don't want to go home and do another radio show after this. Do you, Ben? Are New Zealand good at tall poppy chopping? What are we like on the world stage at actual chopping? So yeah, there's really tight competition between New Zealand good at tall poppy chopping? What are we like on the world stage at actual chopping? So, yeah, there's really tight competition between New Zealand and Australia. So, you know, between one and two in the world consistently over many decades. Now, you wouldn't know that, would you?

Well, we do now because we hung out with you. But, you know, most people know how high up the ranks New Zealand are. Where are you on the world stage? Oh, it's really tricky because we haven't had any international competition pretty much for two years now because of COVID. I was probably ranked in the top 10, top 15 in the world at that time. In the world. So now you're probably, let's just say you're number one

because they can't prove you're not. Well, travelling though, when you can travel, obviously, what's it like travelling with swords and axes and things like that? Oh, it's definitely an entertaining process when you're trying to get through customs. I can imagine. I've had a couple of instances where they've tried to, you know, basically, well, they said it's a weapon,

and you're like, yeah, but it's kind of not. So, yeah, it's a weapon, and you're like, yeah, but it's kind of not. So it's definitely an interesting process. Because people don't know, if they don't know what a sport is, I remember having to show a video to try and prove what it was for. Even just to check my luggage onto the plane, it was quite a difficult, really. But people are generally pretty good. Well, the good thing is, too, if you smoke screen with your axe in your suitcase you can get all your apples through and all that

other stuff that they're meant to be catching. It's awesome. It was awesome to meet all you guys and to take part in it. It really was a lot of fun, even though we were terrible at it. It really uses every muscle in your body and it was amazing to watch you do what you do and everyone involved in the sport.

So you can catch it on Good Sports tonight, 8pm, TVNZ 2. You can see Darcelle do her thing. You can see Jono and Ben just there, you know, just with air. You wouldn't really want us to chop your firewood for winter, would you, Darcelle? No, I think I'm sorted for that. It was lovely to meet you, and you keep safe. You too. Kia ora.

That's Darcelle. You can catch her tonight along with Timbersports, as well as Barefoot Water Skiing and Burnout Nationals. That's all tonight. Jono and Ben, good sports. 8 o'clock, TVNZ 2. She can spy a bargain on the internet when I watch her internet shopping, and she can also spy a celebrity when they're up to all sorts of nonsense and

shenanigans. Juliet, what's happening? So we all love a TikTok challenge. Whenever one rises, we all are very fascinated in it. Like the milk crate challenge. I'm still not sure why that ever started. Is it still going? I don't know. Shouldn't be. No. But a new one has kind of

taken over. There was only a few spinal injuries with the milk crane challenge. It was like just watching a slow train coming to hit you. You're like, something's going to go wrong. Totally. You want to stop watching, you're right, but you just can't. But Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell have taken on this new TikTok challenge beautifully. It's basically an acapella version of the song Grace Kelly by Mika.

So it starts with Ryan Reynolds just with a microphone looking at the screen and then you see Will Ferrell pop up in the background. I could be brown, I could be blue, I could be violet sky. I could be hurtful, I could be purple, I could be anything you like. I could be brown, I could be blue, I could be violet sky. I could be hurtful, I could be purple, I could be anything you like. I could be brown, I could be blue, I could be anything you like. I could be brown, I could be blue, I could be violet sky. I could be hurtful, I could be purple, I could be anything you like.

I could be brown, I could be blue, I could be violet sky. I could be hurtful, I could be purple, I could be anything you like. So good. It's really good. You've got to check it out on Ryan Reynolds' Instagram because when Will Ferrell comes in, he just makes you laugh. Will Ferrell just has to put his face in a room and you start laughing. Which would be annoying if you're Will Ferrell,

like if you're just coming in for a serious meeting and everyone's like, oh, cracking up at your face. Imagine him popping over, he's annoyed with the neighbours because they're mowing the lawns early. You'd be like, hey, here's the guy, he's going to be funny. It's your face, mate, honestly. Look, it's 6 o'clock in the morning. It's a Sunday morning. The kids are asleep.

He's so good. Will, you're a classic. Whatever you say is great. You can shut off the lawnmower. They're also not bad singers. They're quite good. They're quite really good, aren't they? I think you get that level of fame.

They're more than triple threats, aren't they? The movies, they're singing, dancing and all sorts. Yeah, they're gifted, aren't they? And in that's true. They're singing, dancing and all sorts. Yeah, they're gifted, aren't they? And in other news, I've been reporting a little bit recently on the fact that we hadn't seen Kate Middleton for over 60 days. You were quite worried about it, right? Yeah, I was like... Day 69 of Kate Watch?

Yeah, I know. So she hadn't been seen. There was speculation because of this that she could be pregnant and hiding away from the limelight. But no, she was just taking a summer break. She's back. She's been seen meeting up with some people who helped evacuate 15,000 people from Afghanistan

when the Taliban took over. Oh, wow. Looking as beautiful as ever. I'm shopping online at the moment for the blazer she was wearing because I really like it. Were you inspecting her stomach? Were you zeroing in on her stomach to see if there was any? Yeah, it looks flat as ever.

Yeah, she just looks, you know, she doesn't look pregnant. Why didn't she tell us if there was any? Yeah, it looks flat as ever. Yeah, she just looks, you know, she doesn't look pregnant or anything. Why didn't she tell us where she was going? Yeah. That's what I want to know.

Yeah, she's worse than the guy Steve from Blue's Clues, right? Oh, I know. He just left us. I know. He's only just come back into our lives.

I know. Don't do me like that. Yeah, exactly. And that is your spy update for this morning. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Well, thank you so much

for listening to the show. Thank you, Juliette, for that professional piece of broadcasting. Back tomorrow, we are with $500. If you watch the TV show tonight, 8pm, Jono and Ben Good Sports on TVNZ2. You can win $500 tomorrow on the show. They call it a watch and win in the biz, don't they? Yeah, it's bribery.

Don't forget, it's not too late to vote for your favourite of all the, basically, the bus that's travelling around, the vaccination bus at the moment. The finalists that Jacinda Ardern has put out there, Jabba Walker, Shot Bro, Jabbin' Wagon and Vaxi Taxi. So if we're quiet now before we end the show, what are you going to go for? If you've got those, I know you like your comedy. I like the Venga boys.

The Venga, the vaccine bus is coming. I like the Maxi Taxi. If I'm going to put my name to my good name to anything, it's the maxi taxi. All right, catch you tomorrow. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast.

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