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Kia ora, it's the podcast. It's the 1st of December today. Gosh! Gosh!
This year has gone so fast.
I was about to bring the Lord's name in vain there, but that's not my thing as a practicing Catholic.
Gosh, but yeah, no, crazy. We've said it multiple times on these podcast intros, the year has flown by.
Yeah, it has flown by.
You know it's flown by when kids are saying the year's flown by.
Yeah, it feels like the last couple of years with COVID,
you think for some reason time was slow,
and then other times it's gone really, really fast.
Now, Producer Joel, you've got your Spotify, what do they call it?
The Wrapped.
It's kind of like a Christmas innuendo, not innuendo.
Is it?
Reference.
Reference, yes.
It could be.
It depends what you're wrapping it on.
Yeah, it could be an innuendo.
Your endo
Is it a
I don't know
That was something
Yeah
And you guys
Look
Congratulations
You made it into my top five podcast this year
But that's
Now has that got anything to do
With the fact that you have to load the podcast
Check that it's working
No it's normally just me listening back to my bits
I normally just go
Cut your guys bits out
So we made
You were like
Hey guys you made it into my most popular Into the top five the top five yeah and then john i was like well we fifth
and you're like yeah yeah hey you're up there the likes of madden jerry hodiki big show our good
friend lisa adams has just humiliated me yeah she is at least adams you'll hear that on the uh on
the podcast today actually lisa adams she's awesome won gold at the paralympics for shot put
uh does discus as well but yeah she we met yesterday at the Paralympics for shot put. Does discus as well.
We met her yesterday at the Weetbix Kiwi Kids Triathlon.
We talked to her before. She was awesome at MIQ.
She called you out, Producer Joel, for not
doing something you hear on the podcast very well.
Yeah, I'm having a problem with handshakes because Alan
Carr as well, he came in when you guys were away
and I shook his hand and had a bit of a
dampness, a bit of a clam to my hand because
it was quite an overwhelming situation.
It was just me and him in the studio.
And then I saw him walk out of the studio and like wipe his hand and look back and like
disgust.
Nothing unsettles a person more than, sometimes if you go, you know, you washed your hands
and they're still just a little bit wet or you put hand sanitizer on, you shake someone's
hand, you know in your head, you're like, this is going to be wet conditions, clammy
sort of, and they kind of go.
Moist hands are not enjoyable. They're not enjoyable if you've got them or you feel them the more you
think about it i feel like the more like you've like i've read don't sweat don't sweat i used to
go to church when i was i went to catholic school john and i both catholics i mean um and uh there's
a thing where you go and you offer kids through school for another year that little lady you offer
your piece of service to someone in the room next to you and i remember all the time before i do i
be like don't sweat don't swear you go you pull your hand out service to someone in the room next to you and I remember all the time before I'd do it I'd be like
don't sweat
don't sweat
you go
you pull your hand out
it's just dripping
I was like
oh yeah
oh is that like a thing
like you
it's a part where they go
peace be with you
so you go around
shaking everyone's hands
and you're wishing
everyone peace
but you're right
clammy conditions though
did you ever like
oh my grandparents
he was a reverend
so he was you know
they were
they were
yeah I love the church
but they would hold the hands
at the dinner table
and would sing
but they would
she's done for life and health and, but they would really get into it.
But that was another clammy hand situation where you've got an auntie and a cousin on there.
You're like, we're all holding hands.
And holding sing-alongs.
But I am going to introduce that to the prior dinner table.
They were falling into it.
They loved it.
Would you have to sing along?
Sing along. I shall remember it as a kid. they were falling into it they loved it what would you have to sing along sing along
and I found out
that daily
we give you thanks
oh lord
I still remember it
as a kid
if you sit next to the right people
at church
that people will grab your hand
for prayer after that
as well
that's just like a worst nightmare
for someone with sweaty hands
like myself
sweaty hands
all I was worried about
was my clammy hands
at that moment
hey well you guys
have a wonderful day
enjoy the podcast today
we're off to field days
the farming expo farmer palooza and we'll be back guys have a wonderful day. Enjoy the podcast today. We're off to field days. The Farming Expo.
Farmapalooza.
And we'll be back tomorrow. Have a good one.
It's brand new. Megan Traynor.
That's A Major Look. It's a really cool song
there. 604 is the time.
Inspired by a therapist, actually.
She was, after giving birth, she was going through a few,
I guess, not feeling that great about her body, she said.
And a therapist encouraged her to look at her body for five minutes a day
to find positive things about it.
And that's how she wrote that song, which is really cool.
An empowering song for everyone.
Maybe that's what I need to be doing in the mirror.
Five minutes naked, apparently.
Five minutes naked.
At work. Look at yourself five minutes naked in the mirror. Five Minutes Naked, apparently. Five Minutes Naked. At work.
Look at yourself five minutes naked in the work bathroom
and then write a song.
I want to see what that song turns out like.
I don't think it'd be quite as empowering as that one.
It's a really cool song.
What's Jono doing?
He's doing his five-minute ritual.
Staring at himself naked in the bathroom.
Imagine people coming to the work bathroom.
Oh, oh, oh.
Yeah, I'm just trying to empower my body.
Yeah, well, good on you.
I'll encourage you.
I'll encourage you, mate.
I'll be in there with you.
Laughing, pointing.
No, mate.
Encourage you.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
It's brand new, Meghan Trainor, that's I Made You Look.
It's a really cool song, that.
604 is the time.
Inspired by a therapist, actually.
She was, after giving birth, she was going through a few,
I guess, not feeling that great about her body, she said.
And a therapist encouraged her to look at her body for five minutes a day
to find positive things about it.
And that's how she wrote that song, which is really cool.
An empowering song for everyone.
Maybe that's what I need to be doing in the mirror five minutes naked apparently five minutes naked
well i'd like at work look at yourself five minutes naked in the work bathroom and then
write a song i want to see what that song turns out like i don't think it'd be quite a tear jerker
quite as empowering as that one a really cool song what's jonah doing oh he's doing his five
minute ritual staring at himself naked Imagine people coming to the work bathroom
Oh, oh, oh
Just trying to empower my body
Yeah, well good on you
I'll encourage you
I'll encourage you mate
I'll be in there with you
Laughing, pointing
No mate
Encouraging you
Now yesterday
we were doing some encouraging
of a different time
very hard thing to segue from
that conversation
to the Kiwi Kids
Weet-Bix Triathlon
which was awesome
It was a really, really awesome time to get down there.
What a night.
God, someone send that off to the radio awards.
How you name me another broadcaster that could segue from me naked in the bathroom staring
at myself to the Weet-Bix Kiwi Kids Triathlon.
I didn't want to segue between the two.
What a legend.
It wasn't intentional.
I was trying to talk about an empowering song and somehow we talked about you in the bathroom. But it was.
We were there yesterday at one of the Kiwi
Kids Weebyx Triathlon events.
Really, really great event, eh? Oh, it was.
And some fantastic people there
behind the scenes too, running the event.
There's free breakfast for the kids. It's just a wonderful
day. And we caught up with Paralympian,
gold medal winning Paralympian,
Lisa Adams. And she had a bit of an issue
after meeting producer Joel
We're at the
Weet-Bix triathlon
producer Joel is just being rinsed out
by Lisa
what did he do?
He just didn't give me a very firm handshake
but he has a
nice soft supple hand
So can you judge our handshakes? I'll shake your hand now
Oh pretty good both of you I'm trying to do the eye contact thing as well nice soft supple hand so can you can you judge your handshakes i'll shake your hand now oh pretty
good both you and the eye contact i'm trying to do the eye contact thing as well but you never know
how strong your own handshaker well this is true and i usually have calluses so i try not to scratch
thinking that as well you know doing shot put discus and stuff does it actually mess up your
hands a bit um more the bar you know in the gym that's more than i've seen people use those
it's awesome that you come down and do
this, supporting the kids. It's pretty awesome.
It's a great achievement when they get across the line too.
It's great to see their faces. Yeah, it is.
It's pretty incredible. So I'm really honoured
to be the Sanitarium Weepers
Kids Triathlon ambassador
and just being down there, even with you guys,
seeing them come across the line. We didn't even disappoint people
for a change. I saw someone ask you for a photo.
What was that about?
That was the police.
But no, just seeing them finish,
and you can see that, you know,
you watch them do their big sigh,
and they're so proud.
I just heard this kid go,
oh, yay, there's another medal to add to my wall.
And yeah, they're just so proud of what they've accomplished,
and so they should be.
It's massive for them.
You're training so much at the moment.
You're saying summertime's your busy time, even through Christmas.
No real days off.
Not so much a holiday as other people would, you know, spend Christmas holidays,
but that's just what we do.
So, yeah, our season goes through there.
That's our training time.
So on Christmas Day, will you be training?
Not this year because it's a Sunday, but usually I go to the gym, yeah.
On Christmas Day? Yeah, but that's by usually I go to the gym, yeah. On Christmas day?
Yeah, but that's by choice I go to the gym on Christmas day. You could go
to the gym on Christmas day.
I should know, make them gains.
I'm small enough to compete in the Kiwi Kids
Weet-Bix Triathlon, I mean size-wise.
Yes.
I'll probably fit into one of those t-shirts, I'll be good
to go next year. Now do you get free Weet-Bix?
So when do you get your Weet-Bix around here?
That's why I turned up, mate.
I buy mine.
Oh, you buy yours?
Oh, wait, there's a kid's brickie.
We can't sit up and have the kid's brickie.
It's awesome what Weet-Bix do, you know, supporting the kids.
It's awesome that you're here today.
As Jono said, we're big fans.
So, thanks for hanging out with us.
Thanks for having me on.
Yeah, she's cool.
Lisa Adams down there supporting the kids.
It's such a great,
look,
the kids,
their faces,
the achievement of them
doing the Weetbix Kiwi Kids
Triathlon where they
go across the line
was awesome to witness.
And the confusion
and when you and me
were handing medals to them
and they're like,
who are you?
Are you guys war veterans?
Why are you here?
Why are you here?
Yeah,
whether there's people
like legends like
Lisa Adams here.
Relief and confusion
all in the same emotion.
It's Brennan Mars, When I Was Your Man, 6.12 on New Zealand's Breakfast.
Jono and Ben with you on the hits.
Mobile phones, pretty much everyone's got them.
We all use them.
I was reading this morning, the survey done,
a lot of people admitting to the fact that they use it while on the bathroom as well.
The guy who was writing the article said there's probably two types of people people that
say they use their phone in the bathroom and people that lie about using their phone on the bathroom
well it's the equivalent of reading a newspaper on the you know it's the same it's the same thing
and then everyone's oh you know we all ignore each other on our phones you don't you when you
were growing up was kevin boyce head deep in a newspaper at breakfast, ignoring everyone?
He loved it.
He still loves the newspaper.
My grandparents had a full bookcase in their bathroom, like next to the toilet.
A full bookcase, just there, ready to go.
Just what we have learned over the last three years about bacteria.
I know.
That's the thing as well.
And it was carpeted too, wasn't it?
Yeah, a carpeted bathroom with a bookcase.
I mean, they were doing some wild things
when they were out there in North Canterbury.
Controversial putting carpet in a bathroom.
Soggy can do it like it.
I know.
I mean, to be honest, I had some accidents there as a young kid.
You would have.
Yeah.
Things happen.
Yeah, so everyone's using their phones these days.
But something that freaked me out on my phone yesterday,
and I showed you guys this,
we were looking up something,
because later on we're going to bring away tickets to the
ASB Classic.
You can win those after 8 o'clock this morning.
And we were looking for a photo of us because we'd been lucky enough to go to the tennis
before and I went into my photo stream on my phone and I just put in ASB Classic.
You just put in ASB to see if we could find that photo just as a search.
And it's funny, all the photos that came up had ASB logos in the background
that I didn't even know was there,
like at Eden Park,
when I had my kids down at Windyard Quarter,
a place in Auckland,
there's an ASB logo above a building in the background.
The phone recognised the ASB logo.
Yeah.
So how does it do that?
This is one of those moments in technology
where it's blowing our mind now,
but in 10 years' time,
they'll mock us for getting excited about it.
Yeah.
It is incredible.
I didn't even know ASP was in it.
I was like, why has that photo even come up under the ASP search?
And then it was my kids sliding down a hill,
and in the background was the ASP building.
I'm like, how does the phone recognise that?
If it's doing that, imagine all the other stuff it's doing
that we don't know about.
I know.
Oh, don't start me on that.
I'm going to buy some monofoil.
Don't, there's time.
Time for me to make a hat.
But it's great.
You know, the internet is just farming so much information out of us, isn't it?
Our cell phones are our devices.
One day, the internet's going to air all of our dirty laundry.
I mean, the cookie question, you know, when you get the cookie,
do you want to, you know, you're like, yeah.
What are cookies?
Yeah, and we come onto the site, it's like, we're going to,
you're like, whatever, mate, I just want to read this article.
Oh, the I accept.
Will you accept our cookies? What if I accept it every time?
Yeah. Do you take cookies from a stranger?
No, but you gladly accept them from websites.
Accept them from the internet.
He's the Gordon Ramsay of news.
Quite shouty and abusive at times,
but he's cooked up another delicious bulletin.
What's going on, Ben?
The Prime Minister just had a bit of a big day yesterday.
She was catching up with the Finnish Prime Minister, Sana Marin.
Now, she's called the party Prime Minister.
Now, she's the one.
The accusations were thrown around of her partying.
I think she had one party.
She had a good time once.
And there was photos that came out about it.
She just looked like she was having a good time.
I don't know my politicians to have good times.
It was during, I think, a lockdown.
I don't think she was actually doing anything really wrong.
But anyway, she's the party PM now.
Well, she's in the country right now, the Finnish Prime Minister.
And I guess they're around about the same age.
They're leading the countries.
And there was a question from a New Zealand reporter about that.
And Jacinda quickly shut it down.
Yeah, a lot of people will be wondering, are you two meeting just because you're similar
in age and got a lot of common stuff there when you got into politics and stuff, or can
Kiwis actually expect to see more deals between our two countries down the line?
My first question is, I wonder whether or not anyone ever asked Barack Obama
and John Key if they met because they were of similar age.
You could tell the poor reporter was losing confidence in his own question.
Getting into politics and stuff, as soon as you chuck an and stuff in there.
It's something I would do.
I felt like that was me asking the question,
trying to be sensible and growing up.
Would they do it like, yeah, you're right.
Would they do it to Obama and John Key?
Would they do it to Biden?
Probably not because no one else is his age. No, but they're not young women.
But that's what they face, you know, a lot of the time.
And so then you've got to give it up.
You've got to give it up for them and good on them.
So do they have a good chat?
Yeah, they seem like it was a joint press conference.
They seem like they, I don't know,
I just watched that part of it i thought that
was interesting for the news uh because she said she had a busy day she went off to field days
we're heading there later today and i wonder if we'll get the same reaction when we head there
dodging showers jacinda ardern had a little time to press the flesh today and just as well
she was in slightly uncomfortable territory go home home, no one likes you here, you go home.
Go home!
That's probably what we're going to get when we get there as well.
Was that Jacinda saying, you effing go home?
Did she come back with it? I hope so.
Another retort like she did to the Annabella reporter.
Wouldn't that be great?
Did anyone decide who was going home there?
Because Jacinda's probably like, I'll happily go home.
I haven't been home in weeks, to be
honest. This is the
last place I want to be. Anyway, we are heading
to field days today. Looking forward to it. It's always a fun day,
isn't it, Ben? It is a lot of fun, unless you're
the Prime Minister at the moment, trying
to get climate change emissions
into the farming, the backbone
of New Zealand right now. So you can see why things
are a little frosty there with the Prime Minister turning up.
I'm surprised she even turned up, to be honest.
Good on her for turning up.
Don't do it.
Yeah.
I mean, if I was Prime Minister,
is there a fun thing we can go?
Can we go to Rainbow's End or something?
Somewhere where people might like me?
I'll stay with those Finnish ladies
the same age as me.
We've got something in common.
The Hits,
the Jono and Ben podcast.
We want to join some jobs.
We want to get someone
on our 100 The Hits
that has a particular
job and then we'll see if we can find
another listener that has that same job within
a certain amount of time. Yeah, it's all part of the 6 o'clock
club. I'm sexy and I know it.
Sexy and you know it. That's right.
So if you're a mafioso debt
collector, you phone up and you go, hey, I collect debts
for the mafia. Another debt collector
who's also listening phones up
and hey, how many neck caps
are you taking today?
Oh, you know,
a bit of banter.
Yeah.
And we move on
with our day.
Do you know,
speaking of the
Six O'Clock Club,
which we like to do,
back in the day
it's got a rich heritage.
Back when it was
Classic Hits as well
they used to issue cards
as well with numbers
for the Six O'Clock Club
which is pretty cool.
We saw one the other day.
In Tauranga.
Yeah.
Yeah, Brian Kelly
who hosted the show in Tauranga. The lady came in and she's like, look at this, I've got the third card of the Six O'clock club, which is pretty cool. We saw one the other day. In Tauranga. Yeah. Yeah, Brian Kelly, who hosted the show in Tauranga.
The lady came in, she's like,
look at this, I've got the third card of the 6 o'clock club.
We should reinstate the card.
I think so.
Nowadays, it's probably more of a QR code or something.
Yeah, we could probably modernise it a little bit.
But I think it's a great idea.
Well done, you've won a QR code.
Yeah.
Well, no, but then you can win from having that
and be part of the 6 o'clock club,
the 60 and I know it club.
So, yeah.
Yeah, maybe we should definitely get into that admin
yeah
because I won't be
no no but someone else
I'm producer B Hums
oh now I've got to create
some sort of loyalty scheme
thanks team
let's get Karen on
from Christchurch
morning Karen
good morning
good to have you on Karen
okay welcome to joining jobs
it's like job tinder
isn't it
basically we join you
with someone else
who's also got the same job.
You have an awkward conversation,
then we get on with our day.
What do you do?
Work at a checkout at a supermarket.
Oh, okay.
So what we need now is another checkout operator
to call up 1-800-THE-HITS and we'll join jobs.
You'll both win a hell pizza.
Karen, while you're there,
what's the most annoying thing we do as customers
to checkout operators? Annoying thing. jobs you both win hell pizza karen while you're there what's the most annoying thing we do as customers to check out operators annoying thing um most of them kept saying that time yeah there's
nothing on the shelves is probably the main thing nothing to do with us but time yeah obviously
stock we can't always get the stock i did one the other day where i uh got all my groceries through
and then i forgot my my wallet wasn't with me.
I'd left it at home.
I mean, that's a little bit annoying, right?
Yeah, that does happen as well.
Yeah, yeah.
What about when I get buyer's remorse and I'm waiting in line and then I'm like,
oh, I don't need these Magnum ice creams and I couldn't hide them up beside the chewing gum.
Does that frustrate you?
Well, it gets cleared out now during the day
and then some of them put
them back. Obviously if it's frozen, well
obviously we can't put it back. It just has to be wasted
so unfortunately.
Well, we've been filling in time here, Karen, and no other
checkout operators have phoned 0800
the hits. It's only till I sleep.
You've got 30 seconds to go, checkout
operators. Even if you work at a supermarket at all?
You'll take a supermarket worker?
Yeah.
Anyone?
Oh, 100 of the hits?
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, sorry, Karen, 5, 4.
We're going to have our first no-show.
I thought that we'd connect today.
Yeah, it's an easy job.
Yeah.
Well, not an easy job.
No, but it's a job that a lot of people
have around the country. Oh, now we've got a late bloomer.
Let's join them up. Who's
this on 0800 The Hits?
They just dropped off. Oh, they're back.
Who's this? Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast.
Are you a checkout operator?
Yes, I am. Oh, where were you for the
last 90 seconds?
I was getting ready for work. Oh, it was getting
ready for work.
Oh, fair enough.
Well, I'll tell you
what you should do
now is go and find
a mirror and check
yourself out.
You know what?
Ben Boyce, I'm going
to take a page out of
his playbook.
He doesn't like any
losers on this show.
The only losers he
likes are him and me.
And so you're both
going to win Hell
Pizza.
Oh, well done.
I was going to do
that behind the
scenes.
I know you were. Like a loyalty card that I was going to issue. But anyway. Well done. I was going to do that behind the scenes. I know you were.
Like a loyalty card that I was going to issue.
But anyway, well done.
I'll save you the trouble of sending a sneaky email.
We'll do it live on the radio.
You both win.
Karen, you're going to have a great day at the supermarket, both of you.
Okay, thank you.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
A lot of people around the central North Island overnight
are woken up by some big late-night earthquakes
that happened just after midnight.
They kept on rumbling through the night just out of Taupo.
Yeah, 5.6 magnitude, so hopefully everyone's doing all right
around that area this morning.
Yeah, it'd be unsettling to wake up to that, wouldn't it?
Yesterday, I'll tell you what was unsettling.
I was doing some shopping, Ben,
and all of a sudden I could hear producer Joel.
I could hear his voice coming from my trousers.
And I was raising some eyebrows from fellow shoppers.
You never want Joel coming out of your pants, do you?
No, I've always said that, right?
And he's like going, hello, hello, hello.
Producer Joel, this was you?
Do you want me to tell my side of the story?
I was driving to work and I was in the car
and I got a call from Jono P, the hits.
Why is he FaceTiming me?
That's weird.
We don't normally FaceTime at work together.
And then, yeah, I just see a black pocket
and he's talking to someone at Bunnings.
I was like, yo, Jono.
That's what I could hear.
Yo, you there?
Hey, yo, coming from my trousers.
The person at Bunnings would be like, what the heck is going on down there?
Hey, yo, is he trying to get me to look at his pants?
Listen, I don't wish anyone to be inside my trousers.
It was dark, mysterious, the moisture content very high down there.
Last place you want to be.
And I picked out my phone.
I was like, Joel?
I was like, oh, Boomer Pryor, he's done it again.
And it was a FaceTime.
It was a, how do I, what moves did my buttocks make?
What detailed maneuvers did they make to dial and FaceTime?
In fact, Joel, that's a skill.
That's a butt skill that would only be on the dark web.
And also you had Bunnings.
I was like, haven't you been to Bunnings enough in the last week?
You did most of your shopping throughout New Zealand as we travelled around,
picking up items.
Now you've gone back again, mate.
You love it.
I can't get enough of it.
Had the barbecue, eating a sausage.
Well, I feel like we're addicted now.
We've just got to wean ourselves off slightly.
The big green got inside us, Ben.
Back to like a Neville that everyone else is at.
You said you got swept up in bunnings merch madness
i love the bunnings merch we're very fortunate to be given a couple of uh great bits of bunnings
merch as well you got straw hats fedoras you got i bought them in the office and gave them out
because some of them are like i'll definitely wear these others i was like oh look i need to
like you know like i don't need two bunnings t-shirts once enough it's like when you go to
a concert and you're like i'm gonna I'm going to wear this Taylor Swift tank top
forever
and you never wear it,
do you?
Although you wear
your Taylor Swift
crop top every Sunday.
I do and I wore my Bunnings
out over the weekend as well
so we Bunnings hard.
We Bunnings hard.
No, I apologise
for FaceTiming you
with my bottom.
No worries, no worries.
I'm Bunnings hard as well.
Oh yeah,
we get Joel Top,
didn't we?
He's worn it two days in a row.
Oh, sorry. Sorry. You meanp, didn't we? He's worn it two days in a row. Oh, sorry.
Sorry.
You mean?
Okay.
He's a young guy.
He's still trying to impress people.
Field days on yesterday.
Jacinda Ardern went across to field days,
and she was told to go home.
Dodging showers, Jacinda Ardern had little time to press the flesh today,
and just as well, she was in slightly uncomfortable territory.
Go home, no one likes you here, you go home.
There you go, so Jacinda yelled, you go home.
I don't think that was Jacinda saying, you go home.
I hope it was. Wouldn't it be so cool if she was like, you go home.
And we never got to the bottom of who went home.
I think everyone went home at the end of the day, didn't they?
We're going to field days today, looking forward to it.
I can't wait, it's going to be great.
Ben.
We have been working with someone out in the office, I'd say for about a year and a half or so.
She's a wonderful lady.
And she came up to me the other day and said,
Hey, I need to tell you something about what's happened with us in the past.
And I'm like, what?
That's not what you want to hear, right? No, it it's not i think there's a website for those sort of complaints yeah and she said you and your
family you came into a restaurant a couple of years ago where i was the bartender and i was like
okay all right what happened she said now there was an incident while you were dining,
and the poor, poor waiter, I felt very sorry for him, we all did,
he had some drinks, and he spilt the tray of drinks down Jen,
my wife's, her back, and he wasn't bringing sexy back,
he was bringing savvy back
it was dripping down
I could look her back
actually
and I actually
passed out on the floor
there was so much
alcohol there
didn't want to let it
go to waste
but anyway
she was saying
what you didn't know
it was that
poor guy's
first night on the gig
first day on the job
and she said
we can just
never let him
they never let him
forget it
they were fantastic about it dry cleaned the jacket you know on the job. And she said we just never let them they never let them forget it.
They were fantastic about it.
Dry cleaned the jacket
you know
gave a voucher
or anything.
We didn't go Karen on it.
We went full New Zealand on it.
Didn't want to make a fuss.
It's fine.
It's fine.
It'll wash out.
You see that roast meal
over there?
Chuck that on my face.
You know I don't want
to cause an issue.
That's what you do
in New Zealand right?
But you're in the firing line
aren't you when you go
to any sort of restaurant? You are in a position
where there's food flying
everywhere, your collateral
damage, if there's any spillage. I
was a waiter, and the amount of stuff I
spilled on people. In one session, you only
did one thing, didn't you? And you walked out.
One day. Actually, no, you did spill some
stuff. Remember when we went to America
and there was that roller skating restaurant?
Just made me think of that. And we got to be and there was that roller skating restaurant just made me think of that
and we got to be waiters
at the roller skating restaurant
but two things
that should never go together
no
you know
waiting tables
and roller skates
and you spilt some drinks
over some people
yeah
and it was always
going to happen
you came barreling in
on your skates
slid over
I didn't
it wasn't intentional
no it wasn't intentional
no I wasn't trying to do it for
was it a comedy fall
or anything like that
and you felt awful afterwards?
Well, you do.
Yeah, oh, you would.
And then they go, oh, no, no, it's okay,
and it's not okay.
It's a huge inconvenience.
They're dripping in gravy.
Not ideal.
First day fluff-ups is what we want to know.
That obviously happened to someone,
unfortunately, on their first day.
It doesn't have to be in the food and beverage industry.
It can be anything at all on your first day. Maybe sitting, house sitting. We'll take any sort of calls. Ben, you worked in the food and beverage industry. It can be anything at all. Maybe sitting, house
sitting. We'll take any sort of calls.
Ben, you worked in the plug factory. Are you going to regale
us with any exciting tales of you assembling
plugs? No, nothing happened exciting
once at the plug factory, mate.
No, no,
nothing. Nothing. I did.
Did some hard months at that plug factory, didn't you?
Yeah. No, nothing at all. Nothing at all to talk about.
Every time I talk about it, your eyes glaze over and you're like, shut up, mate.
You're losing me as soon as you mention plug factory.
All right, over to the hits.
First day fluff ups.
FDF use.
Almost sound like I'm swearing there.
You can text 24487.
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Just doing first day fluff ups this afternoon when you've, yeah, yeah.
You go into a workplace, you've got nerves, don't you?
You're all new people. You're intimidated. You don't know who to, you've, yeah, yeah, you go into a workplace, you've got nerves, don't you? You're all new people, you're intimidated,
you don't know who to, you know, some,
I can't even remember who told me,
but they said whenever you start a new job,
what you do is you walk around with a manila folder
everywhere you go.
No matter if you're getting a coffee,
if you're going to the lavatory,
if you're going to reception.
Just go, do you look busy?
You look busy.
Always have a manila folder like that guy, he's doing some busy stuff.
He's just doing laps, wandering around with a manila folder.
We don't even use manila folders now.
Do you remember the poor person that we were working at another radio station,
unfortunately drove into the garage on the first day,
but with a trailer behind with a big sort of mobile billboard,
and unfortunately didn't, forgot the billboard was behind the car.
And it got wedged
in between in between the ground and the concrete beam like so i think they literally well they had
a word of life from memory they walked out they got out of the car and just continued walking
they didn't even go upstairs they were like whatever happened to that person or they wedged
and it was a major i probably would i maybe i'd hand the keys to someone i go hey the car's in
the garage and then just go.
There was a story, I think, from here where there was a young intern who had just started on day one,
and they were running very late.
And so they parked in a car park in the garage, and they were a little bit flustered and panicked.
And someone came up to them and said, oh, I think that might be someone else's car park.
And the intern was like, well, threw the keys in the light. You move it for me.
Thanks, mate.
Ran off.
And it was the CEO's car park.
And it was the CEO saying, I think that might be someone else's car park. Oh, great play from there.
So threw the keys to the.
Who does that on day what?
Threw the keys at the CEO.
And the CEO moved the car for him.
You move it for me.
What?
That's a boss play.
It is.
That's moving you straight up to the exec team.
Yeah, you're right.
Middle management on your first day. Sarah, good That's moving you straight up to the exec team. Yeah, you're right. Mental management
on your first day.
Ah, Sarah, good morning.
How are you?
Good, thank you.
Oh, bloody good to have you
on the show this morning.
What are you getting
ready for today?
You tell us.
Oh, I'm off to preschool soon.
Oh, you're starting
your schooling career?
You've been held back
a few years?
What's going on?
No, no, I've been doing this
for over 20 years.
So I'm not new to preschool. That's awesome. That is no, I've been doing this for over 20 years, so I'm not new
to preschool.
That's awesome.
That is amazing.
I always wonder
about teachers
being your wife's one
and, you know,
preschool teachers.
If you've got
your own kids,
can you be bothered
with other people's kids?
Like, that's what I respect.
I do not have
my own children.
There you go.
So you haven't lost,
so you don't have to go home
and deal with more children.
No.
Oh, what a
really rewarding job now we're talking about first day floppers that does this did this happen uh
while you're preschooling or at another occupation oh i was asked to have sit for some friends
so i went round and i closed up all the doors of the rooms that I did not need to interact with. And by mistake, I closed the son's bedroom door
and forgot about his fish for about two weeks.
Oh, no.
And then they rang me the night before they were due to come home
and asked about the fish, and I just about died.
Quick trip to the animal store.
Luckily two were alive
and then we lost one
but I managed to replace him.
Oh, so you bought a...
He came home to three fish.
You bought a stand-in goldfish. I mean, goldfish
are much like their memories. Very forgettable.
You can forget that there's fish in the
environment. Oh, well, this family
had a cat at the time,
and I thought it was just as easy just to keep the cat away
and shut the door,
and I completely forgot about this poor little fishy.
Anyway, that was my great big stutter.
Yeah, well, they're not going, they're not meowing,
they're not barking when they're hungry.
No, they're not calling for assistance.
There you go, that was the first day of house-sitting.
And were you asked back again?
Did they ever find out?
Oh, yes, they found out.
They actually brought me back a present,
and it was three fish to put on the wall.
Oh, that's nice.
I mean, fish.
I've forgotten it.
No disrespect to fish.
Well, it sounds like you're going to disrespect fish right now.
That's what someone says.
But you can happily lose one and replace it with another.
You know, it's not like you go, that fish has got an electric personality.
Unless it's an electric eel, maybe.
And then literally has.
Good on you, Sarah.
Have a great day.
Okay.
Cheers.
You too.
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We cross live now to the Hits News Bureau, 1.2 metres away.
Ben Boyce, come on in.
Well, Kiwis, streaming choices have been revealed
in the annual Spotify Wrapped Reveal Awards.
I don't know if they're awards.
I just chucked that in there for the sake of it.
But the songs, artists and podcasts Kiwis have been streaming the most on Spotify
all has been revealed.
Producer Joel, I know you've been very excited about Spotify Wrapped coming out today.
I love it, yeah.
It's like a highlight of my year.
The highlight of your year?
Not the highlight of my year.
It's got a very bleak, a-highlight of my year.
A-highlight.
Bleak existence.
We even sent us a pretext last night saying,
guys, the Spotify list coming out is going to be big.
It's going to be big.
And I imagine social media will be flooded with everyone's playlists today.
Yeah, it's going off.
I actually put a poll on my Instagram saying yes or no to sharing it,
and 80% of people said yes, which is good so people love sharing it taylor swift took out
the title overall in new zealand's most streamed artist on spotify harry styles song as it was was
the the most streamed track here in new zealand 660 the most streamed local artists but lab took
out four of the five top local songs as well, which is pretty awesome. What bloody vape-inhaling,
hemp-wearing, trendy hipster artists
were topping your list?
Let's see how many you know, genuinely.
In my one, you had Markle Road.
I only know that because you've mentioned them.
Lime Cordial.
I only know that because you said they were for 660.
Disclosure was in there.
DJ?
Yeah, Two Door Cinema Club.
Who doesn't know the Two Door Cinema Club? Actually, Rod Stewart was in there as well. What, club who doesn't know the two door cinema club
actually Rod Stewart
was in there as well
what you got all of those
and Rod Stewart
yeah
that's the only one
we really know
that can name songs from
but hey
what Rod Stewart song
Maggie Mae
that's a beauty
that's a Maggie
good song
jeez you must have
loved the crap
out of Maggie Mae
that was a big one
we're trying to come up
with Jacinda's playlist
at the moment
we're trying to go
you can text her
you can help us out creatively what have we got so far so Jacinda's playlist at the moment. You can text her. You can help us out creatively.
What have we got so far?
Jacinda's Spotify end of year playlist.
This is obviously a gag.
This is just us having a bit of a laugh.
She has literally posted her.
Old Macdonald had a farm.
Yeah, because of the farming thing.
Old Macdonald might not have his farm next year.
Icy Red.
Yeah, I like that one.
New York, New York.
That's where she's heading, the cushy UN job.
I liked Boyz II Men End of the Road.
Question mark, question mark.
Mo' money, mo' problems.
Cost of living.
If you want to add to that.
And then we've got to do Luxon's one as well.
Yeah, to balance things out.
Yeah.
Oh, blue.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Is there something about a big shiny head or something?
We'll have a brainstorm.
You can text 4487.
And if you're looking at sending some parcels away for Christmas,
deliveries in the lead-up to Christmas could be delayed
after New Zealand Post revealed that it's going to pull a fleet of electric vehicles.
You know those little electric little cart things that they drive around?
Apparently the rear suspension and some of the delivery vehicles,
the delivery vehicles, there you go, Ben.
Ironically, you couldn't deliver that line.
I couldn't.
Have been playing up, so it's taken them off the road.
So that means it may be causing delays heading up to Christmas.
Now, I know you probably see those and you're like,
let's travel the length of the country in one of those.
I've wanted to.
That's what you want to do.
I have wanted to travel the length of the country
in a post buggy, one of those little buggies.
We've just come back. We've travelled the length of the country. We can do it again. There's no more country to do. I have wanted to travel the length of the country in a post buggy, one of those little buggies. We've just come back.
We've travelled the length of the country.
We can do it again.
There's no more country to see, Ben.
Oh, mate.
Like everyone you've ever wanted to shake hands with in New Zealand
has shaken your hand.
How good was it, though?
So next year we'll be travelling on one of those
where they get suspension fixed.
You know, the end of the camp.
Jono Benz.
So that's going to put it on the couriers then, I guess.
The deliveries.
The Christmas. Yeah, and I think they're going to put it on the couriers then, I guess. The deliveries. The Christmas.
Yeah, and I think
they're going to be using
bicycles and e-bikes
and stuff,
but it won't be as
efficient as before.
And also they need to
put one aside
when we travel from
the north to the south
delivering a letter
that someone hasn't got.
You know,
there'll be a reason
why we need to go
down to the country.
I did used to love
the battler posties
on their bikes.
You know,
just carrying 68 kgs
of mails traipsing
down your suburban street. They had wonderful
legs. Big calf
muscles back in the day, the posties, didn't
they? Don't get big calf
muscles sitting in those electric things.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
First of December,
just 24 more sleeps of Christmas this
year has gone so fast. Yeah.
It's exciting December
Isn't it
I know people are like
Oh Christmas
Christmas music
Oh the ads
All the commercialism
It's a great time
It's the most wonderful
Time of the year
I think I'm the first person
To ever say that
It's a good phrase
But it is
It is awesome
But there's a lot of things
Not great about things
In the world
In the country right now
But hopefully
But you can ignore those at Christmas.
Find time for one day.
Deal with them in late Jan when we get back.
They'll still be around, won't they?
Yeah.
I met a lady yesterday who's from Germany,
and she's fairly new to the country.
She's only been here a few months, right?
And she shared something with us that she'd been learning
from this radio show,
which is disturbing to know that this show
could potentially be teaching anyone anything.
Well, yeah.
Yeah, have a listen.
I don't know.
It was quite interesting.
Now, you moved to New Zealand how long ago?
In mid-August.
From?
Germany.
And she's been listening to us to help, you know,
get to know the New Zealand way of speaking.
Yeah, for quite a few years, actually.
Seems like a shocking idea, really. So were you listening to us in Germany? Yes.
Were you? And this is how you learn how to speak New Zealand?
There's far better shows you should be listening to RENZ, the Hoss Mike Hosking.
We probably talk way too fast, too quickly so I'm sorry about that. No that's all good.
Yeah. Seriously wasn't a good way to get familiar with the Kiwi accent.
So did you understand most of what we're saying when you were in Germany?
Germany?
Can I say Germany?
Germany.
Oh, my goodness.
And she learned how to speak from Germany over here.
Germany.
Oh, my goodness.
So you go, we can't even speak English correctly.
No, when you listen to that, it's incredible.
So for a couple of years, that's dedication to go,
I'm going to that country,
I'll find a podcast.
Listen to it.
And then become, you know,
and then before you even get to New Zealand.
Well, you know, can I just say back,
guten tag and danke.
Yeah.
Because that's an honour.
That is a real honour.
That was awesome.
I was flattered.
And that, you know,
the Germans, they gave us schnitzel.
Oh, yeah.
And this is what we're giving back. Yeah. We're teaching them New Zealandese. It was really lovely I was flattered. And the Germans, they gave us schnitzel. And this is what we're giving back.
We're teaching them New Zealandese.
It was really lovely to meet her.
And it was great to know that we were part of something for the last couple of years.
She was actually a lovely lady.
We've got some good people in this country, don't we?
We do.
There's a couple of crappers, but hey, for the most part.
See, you do like traveling around the country.
I knew you did.
I knew you did.
Deep down, it warms your cold, cold heart, doesn't it?
It does.
I've done enough of it.
My heart is full.
I'm not thinking of squeezing one more trip in before Christmas, mate.
Yes, you are.
Have your Christmas.
Have your Christmas.
Enjoy that.
Because next year, you're touring the country 28 times.
You can't wait.
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Jono and Ben with five words for 5K.
Stop any time to keep the cash.
Thank you.
Or play on to win more.
It is our Game of Word Association.
We do play it every time, every morning around about this time.
You can match all five words and win $5,000.
But stop along the way.
Play it strategically.
$50 was given away yesterday.
Yeah, it's the only part of the show that really matters, Ben, isn't it?
The rest is just unashamed filler content.
All just working around this game right here.
Michelle, you're on from Auckland.
Morena.
Hi, Morena.
Good morning.
Good to have you on.
You're just coming home from a night shift as a nurse.
Yes.
I just got home, so I'm sitting in my car
outside my house.
You must be ritz.
What time did you start work?
At 10.45 at night
and then finishes
at 7.15 in the morning.
7.15 in the morning.
What's the grimmest thing
that happened overnight
in the hospital there, Michelle?
Guts and blood.
We do desired sections every night, but yeah.
Yeah, right.
I imagine you've seen some things.
You're dealing with a lot of stuff,
so thank you very much for everything you do.
Now, Michelle, it's a pretty easy game.
There's 1,171,646 words in the English language, okay?
You just need to match five of those with one of us,
so who are you going to send into the soundproof booth?
I'm Jono, please.
All right.
Did you know there's also
over 47,000 obsolete words now?
Oh, words that have been missing.
Words that have been cancelled
probably too as well.
All right, Michelle.
Here we go.
Jono's inside
the soundproof booth now.
And what pops into your head
when I say camomile?
Camomile.
T. T.
T, that's exactly what I was thinking.
Strum.
S-T-R-U-M.
Strum.
S-T-R-U-M.
Guitar.
Strum the guitar, yeah.
Seat.
S-E-A-T.
Seat.
S-E-I-S.
E-A-T. Seat. Yeah,-I-S. E-A-T, seat.
Yeah, like take a seat, seat.
Take a seat.
Chair.
Chair.
Clothes is word number four.
Clothes.
Clothes.
Clothes.
Shirt.
Shirt.
And cub is the final word.
C-L-U-B.
Club.
Club.
Club.
Night.
Club.
Night.
Club.
Night club.
I like the sound of that.
Some of you probably won't be hitting two right now after a night shift.
Let's get Jono out of the soundproof booth.
He's running back round.
He's back on.
Michelle.
Okay, let's do it.
How did you feel that went?
I don't know. I didn't know.
She's been delirious. This is my first time on the radio too.
I think you did alright.
There were some tricky ones thrown in the middle.
It's your first time on the radio. What's it like being on the radio
for the first time?
I'm actually
glad to go through because I've been trying
for a while, but yeah,
I was like, oh, I wonder how
people go through life.
It happened. It's happened. This is you.
You're living a life dream right now. You're just tired
and delirious. Let's win you $5,000.
No one said it was a life dream, Jono,
but I'm glad you jumped to that conclusion.
All right, here we go.
It's $25.
$25 word.
Cam and mile.
Cam and mile. Tmon Mile. Tea.
Yeah.
I'm just not sure if I'm pronouncing that correctly.
You said Cammon Mile.
Cammon Mile.
Cammon Mile.
Cammon Mile.
It's a C-H-A-M.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But it's not Chammon Mile Tea.
No, it's not Chammon Mile.
I've never once heard anyone go, would you like a cup of Chammon Mile Tea?
Chammon Mile Tea.
Well, well done.
You've got $25.
What do you want to do, Michelle?
Do you want to risk it for $50?
Yes, please.
Word two, $50.
Strum.
Strum.
Strum a guitar.
Guitar.
Yeah, well done.
$50, Michelle.
We make the leaping.
Are we making the leap to $100,
or are we going to take the $50 and walk away?
Go to $100.
Okay.
Word three, $100.
Seat.
Seat.
Well, I'm only going to say this because I know Michelle mentioned
she's in her car at the moment,
and she'd be looking at one seat belt.
Oh, I see why you
thought of that, but no, you idiot.
Would you like a cup of
chamomile tea?
I'm the idiot, to be honest.
I'm so sorry, Michelle. Well, you both
have a great option. She went with chair.
What were the last two? Clothes.
Clothes hanger. Our shirt and chair. What were the last two? Clothes.
Clothes hanger.
Our shirt and club.
Club nightclub.
Well, you pulled it back at the end.
I'm so sorry, Michelle, but it was lots of fun playing for the first time.
Give us another call when you're back from night shift.
Will do.
See you, mate.
The weather forecast for summer has just been announced.
In general, things are going to be a bit warmer, but a bit disjointed.
Some tropical rain sort of coming through.
It's been a shocking November.
I mean, the rain is, yeah.
I mean, Guns N' Roses had that song about it.
Yeah, they summed it up beautifully, didn't they, really?
There you go.
So the forecast for summer is going to be a little bit warmer,
so thank you very much there, Ben. See,'d say it's going to be warmer than average,
but periods of wet weather as well.
So, yeah, the disjointed is what they're calling it again.
So some fine spells, and then the rain will come and annoy us.
Well, yesterday we were out in the rain, weren't we,
at the Wheatbugs Kiwi Kids Triathlon.
It was awesome, actually.
You're seeing the sense of achievement.
Some of the distances that the little kids are running
and swimming and cycling are incredible,
and they're coming across the line.
And we were very fortunate enough to be some of the people
handing them their medals as they went across the line
with a whole lot of athletes who deserved to be there,
and we probably didn't deserve to be there.
No, I could see a child, you know, multiple children
running across the finish line.
They're puffed.
They're exhausted.
They've just done a triathlon.
Then they look at us and we're handing them a medal.
And they're like, oh, did you guys serve in Gallipoli?
Like, why are you here?
And so they're kind of puffing, but also like kind of sideways,
trying to figure out who you are and what you've got to do with anything.
Olympians were there.
Luca Jones, a kayaker.
We had Lisa Adams as well, a discus thrower.
And Sarah Kelly Ross, it was just some of the people there as well.
She's an Olympic athlete.
You would have seen her on the news, sorry, on one coverage of the Olympics.
She does a great job.
And one something I noticed that she was incredible.
Across the line, people would come in and she'd hand a little medal to a little kid.
She'd go, well done, Kelly.
You did a great job.
That boy would come across, Marshall, that was incredible. I'm'm like how does she know so many people's names she's good at
this medal thing yeah and she was like we were just like good on you buddy well done yeah yeah
and she was a little tip uh just on their bibs with their number there's their name very small
at the bottom you can see their name so i told you this straight away uh a little girl can't
remember exactly her name.
Let's call her Holly.
She came through.
You're like, good on you, Holly.
And she just stopped in her tracks at the end of the race and looked you in the eye.
She was like, where do I know you from?
That's what she said.
She was like, well, how do you know my name?
Where do I know you from?
And I said, Holly, I'm mates with your family.
I was at your house for Christmas last year.
I know your dad.
I know your dad.
And she's looking at you like you what
Christmas last year
you're like
I'm coming for Christmas again
alright Holly
have a great day
we'll see you on Christmas day
and she kind of walked off
she was still like
staring and walking off
five minutes later
get a tap on the shoulder
that's a concerned father
he taps
he's like
how do you know my daughter
she says
you know me
and you know the family
and you're coming over for Christmas?
So then I had to go, I had to come clean.
Yeah, which she probably could have done in the first place
and just go, the name was on the bib.
And then when you did reveal it to him, he was like, oh, that's hilarious.
He found it very funny.
I love, kids are just so easy to bamboozle, aren't they?
Especially fresh off a triathlon.
Easily befuddled.
Something else that happened to us
where we're heading away and
it was really cool. There was a couple of the kids
and the families listening to the show, so thank you very much
for everyone that does listen. We even met
little Jono and little Ben who are mates
and talk about us a lot as well.
They're like, we want to grow up and be like you. I was like, mate,
just get new dreams and aspirations.
Get into real estate. As we were
walking away, someone was like, hey, can you sign
my Weetbix Kiwi Kids
shirt? They all get given these shirts when they
go on the race. And we're like, sweet, we can sign the shirt.
Nothing like two unathletic radio
hosts signing a triathlon
t-shirt. It was a real honour, even though we felt like
we were going to annoy mums and dads around the country
by signing this person's shirt. We're like,
do it. And then we noticed that kids,
they kind of see someone else getting something signed
and they're like, hey,
maybe I should get my thing signed as well.
And so we then, a crowd,
like I felt like Justin Bieber for a bit.
And I'm pretty sure 90% of them didn't know
who the heck we are
and why they were getting it signed.
But for an hour, we were signing nonstop.
I know.
Like I said, 90% had no idea.
They got swept up in the madness.
I did it as a kid as well.
People would come to school and I'd be like,
will my school shirt sign?
And mum would go, do you even like Pat Lamb?
I'd be like, yeah, he's one of my favourite rugby players.
No disrespect to Pat Lamb.
No, he's a great rugby player.
Wonderful group.
But did you need them all over your shirt?
All over my school shirt.
That's what Jenny's saying.
Do I have to nappy sand Pat Lamb's name out of your T-shirt?
I imagine there's some furious nappy sanding going on today
on those Weet-Bix T-shirts.
I felt like, you know that scene on Talladega Nights
where Will Ferrell's just signing stuff?
And he's like, I'm in autograph mode.
I was signing four heads.
You did.
Jono twice on a shirt.
I had to sign twice because you're like.
I was in the zone, mate.
Signing away.
I think I signed a couple of mortgages.
Some car rental agreements.
You put it in front of me, I'll sign it.
It was lots of fun.
So thank you for everyone that came along and met us.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
I ran into someone and I was like, Jono, you have to come over and talk to Gus, because
Gus was doing something pretty incredible in
the summer staple that we all wear,
jandals. This is Gus, this is Jono,
Ben. Now Gus is in
jandals today, and you're doing what in jandals
as well? Ah, the Great Jandal.
So I'm walking all the great walks in
jandals.
So what are you talking, what are all the great walks,
like from Bunnings to the car,
or are we talking a little further than that?
A little bit further than that.
No, we've done the Milford, the Kepler Track.
All in Jandals?
Raki Ora, Paparoa.
How many kilometres are the biggest walks you're doing in Jandals?
About like 60, 80 kilometres.
How's that, 60 to 80 kilometres that Gus is doing in Jandals?
He's making the great walks of New Zealand less great
by having to walk them in jandals.
I looked down at his feet and I was like,
jeez, I feel sorry for those clobbers.
Poor feet.
I mean, I love wearing jandals,
but they're not the sort of support that you need on those big walks.
And something else about jandals that we just discovered yesterday,
maybe they're not the footwear that you should be wearing
in like a first date
or when you're trying to impress someone
or a formal environment.
Or work.
Yeah.
Unless you're a lifesaver.
They cause a bit of a,
what they say is an ick for some people, right?
Don't they?
Yeah.
Some of my best memories have been in jandals.
Oh, those memories.
Wonderful memories.
Do you remember any of them?
What's that, sorry?
Do you remember any of them? Vagu that sorry? Do you remember any of them?
Vaguely.
I do remember
going into a urinal
once in Jandals
and the gentleman
getting some splashback.
Yeah.
That's the downside
to Jandals.
But if you're on a
date though what
would you know like
is that okay to wear
to wear Jandals?
If it's a summertime
date maybe you're
going to you know
a pub but you
you know you're
sitting outside.
Oh I thought maybe it was okay to wear jandals.
Well, this comes from a guy who got married in jandals.
I did.
We got married on the beach.
I was very nicely dressed up the top half.
You had jandals and dreadlocks.
I'm surprised you didn't last at the rock longer.
True, I should still be there.
So were people frowning upon you?
No, because it was on the beach.
I guess the environment was fine.
It was fine. I mean, everyone was okay the beach. I guess the environment was fine. It was, you know, it was fine.
I mean, everyone was okay with it.
My wife was okay with it.
Okay, this is what we want to throw open
because we're heading into these summer months now.
Can you handle the jandal?
0800 the hits.
Are you for or against the jandal?
Are we talking in a formal setting?
I would say so.
Like if someone turned up, if you're going on a date
or it's date night in your relationship
and they're wearing jandals or someone comes into the workplace,
are you thinking differently from them?
Everyone's got an opinion on it.
Or do you keep your feet hidden like my family kept me hidden for the most of my childhood?
Heading into summer, 1st of December today.
And jandals, it's a popular bit of footwear for many Kiwis.
Yeah, but we just found out yesterday, not for everyone.
Not for everyone. A lot of people don't like the jandals out in formal settings.
I mean, I'm not, I'm pro-jandal, but I'm not turning up to a board meeting in jandals.
Yeah, right.
In fact, I'm not turning up to any board meetings.
And shoes are in, I'm just never invited to board meetings.
But 0800, the hits is the telephone number.
Can you handle the jandal?
Producer Joel, you went round the office yesterday. But 0800 the hits is the telephone number. Can you handle the jandal?
Producer Joel, you went round the office yesterday.
Bit of a Colmar Brunton poll.
Bit of a Colmar Brunton poll here with the results.
I think it's okay.
I'm not too fussy.
I'd probably want him to wear something different next time.
I mean, I'd be a little put off.
Who am I to judge, I guess?
Unless we're going out somewhere like nice, and in which case, I'm leaving.
I think jandals are a perfectly fine piece of footwear um I've worn them and I've had successful dates it's a no I'm having a drink and then I'm leaving no there's no go definitely
a no go no thank you unless he's got really good feet I'm fine with wearing jandals for me it's uh
it's not what you're rocking down below it's what you're rocking up top I'd be fine with jandals for me it's uh it's not what you're rocking down below it's what you're rocking up top i'd be fine with jandals i mean yeah i mean where are we going are we are we out at a fancy
restaurant are we are we uh on a look if it's a date on a work site and you're operating heavy
machinery no i think that's impractical but look if you're if you're just going out for a casual
date somewhere no problem with jandals.
It's Jeremy Wells.
We get the big dogs around here, mate.
What was the water in the background?
Did you accost Jeremy Wells in the lavatory?
No.
Put him next to him in the lavatory.
Also, sorry, that was in reference to would you wear jandals,
or what would you do if someone on a date with you was wearing jandals?
Formal setting, though, isn't it?
Yeah, formal setting.
Okay, 0800, that's the telephone number.
We're going to go to the phones.
Nicola, you're on.
Jandals, can you handle the Jandals?
Hey, how are you going?
Yeah, good.
So my partner turned up to our first date,
and he was in jeans and Jandals,
and so I hadn't really noticed the Jandals until we got up to leave the date,
and I saw them straight away,
and kind of gave him the benefit of the doubt,
but by date two, it was down to jandals
and jean shorts okay and then hot pads date three date three was jandals and stubbies and it's been
like that ever since wow it just revealed more and more of his legs as your relationship grew
a little bit more each day absolutely most of the time it's Singlet and Stubbies,
but I guess if it gets cold, he puts a swanny on too.
Oh, he dressed up, I guess, in a lot of ways, didn't he?
Wearing jeans, but he still had the jandals on.
If you play your cards right,
I could turn up to the next one in a G-string.
Just see how you go, Nicola.
Oh, God, no.
Nicola, so you're pro-jandal.
You can handle the jandal.
You don't mind it?
Yeah, totally fine with the Jandl.
All right.
I'm glad, because as you said before, I got married in Jandl's,
now I'm like, was that a big mistake?
You're not the only one, because Nikki from New Plymouth,
can you handle the Jandl?
I can definitely handle the Jandl.
You got married in Jandl's too?
I sure did.
Yeah, very cool.
Much to my family's disgust,
I think, and my husband.
It was also pro-Jandall.
So your husband wasn't on board with it. Where was the
wedding? Because I was on a sort of, you know,
beach setting. So where were you?
Yeah, we were just sort of by
the beach in New Plymouth, just by
the Tureweriwa Bridge.
Oh, so you're by the beach.
I think that's fine. You're all business up top and you're vacation down the bottom.iriwa Bridge. Oh, so you're by the beach. I think that's fine.
You're all business up top
and you're vacation down the bottom.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Good on you.
Well, there we go.
We've had pretty much a resounding yes for jandals,
particularly heading into the summer months,
and location is pivotal, though.
That seems to be a big sticking point for many,
and they're a great piece of footwear.
You know, they're fine.
It's like barbecue chicken.
Most of the time you're going to be fine,
but when it goes bad with a jandle, boy, it goes bad.
You can go really wrong.
Thank you for your calls and digs.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
Jono and Ben with the ASB Classic, January 2nd to 14th.
Yeah, not too long to go, just over a month.
The ASB Classic, the superstars of international tennis live in Auckland. If you ever get
the chance to go along, it is incredible
being lucky enough to go along once before.
It was awesome. So tickets on sale now.
Get the details at thehits.co.nz.
You can win a double pass with our game,
our tennis-inspired game called 30 Love.
Tell you what would be ASB Classic if ASB
had put a bit more money into my bank account.
That'd be pretty classic.
Is now the time to talk about that?
No, no, it's not.
Let's get Andrea on from Auckland.
Morning there, Andrea.
How are you?
Good, thank you.
We could be getting you off to the tennis.
Magnificent legs in the tennis community, aren't they?
You look at your Djokovic's, your Federer's.
You look at their pins.
Well-crafted legs.
Wasn't going to name any female tennis players?
Yeah, I was like,
where's he going here?
It's not 2022.
Andrea, if you feel like
naming any of the other
tennis players, you can.
But I won't be engaging
in that banter.
So, Andrea,
we're going to ring
someone in your life.
Who are we going to call?
My husband.
Okay, we're going to do this.
This is live on the radio
right now,
so this could go awfully wrong.
But you've got 30 seconds
to get him to say I love you back, okay? Okay. Good this. This is live on the radio right now, so this could go awfully wrong. But you've got 30 seconds to get him to say, I love you back, okay?
Okay.
Good luck.
Does he love you?
Yeah, he does.
Okay, well, that's a good start.
Yeah.
Will he vocalise it?
I know my mum refuses to say she loves me on the radio.
You're right.
But she loves you.
Oh, really?
No.
Morning. Morning. It Just a private number. Oh sorry, must have changed it on my phone, my setting.
Oh.
How's your day?
Yeah it's alright.
Oh.
Just called to say I love you.
Oh.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you say I love you.
Oh, I love you too.
Oh, wow.
It is Jono and Ben here.
You're live on the radio right now.
You've just won a double pass to the tennis with our game 30 love.
Oh, wow.
Listen, I didn't know to be in it.
If I could pull back the curtain, when you answered the phone with y'all,
I wasn't holding out much hope.
But hey, we really work things in 30 seconds.
Yeah, we're from y'all to I love you.
I love it.
Oh, awesome, man.
ASB Tennis, the classic ASB classic.
You guys are going to be the double pass, so enjoy that.
Oh, great.
That's wonderful.
Yeah, thank you so. Oh, great. That's wonderful.
Thank you. And a lot of valuable seconds wasted up in the admin around
the private number.
It's us bamboozles
people. I get it.
Good on you both. Enjoy that tennis. Have a wonderful
Christmas and New Year, okay?
Thank you.
So good. If you want to get in tomorrow
for your chance to win to the ASP Bank Tennis,
you can text 4487 and you can be going to see the tennis in Auckland.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
Bit of a wild night in central North Island as well.
A lot of people woken up by a big earthquake during the night.
A few rumblings after that, a 5.6 magnitude earthquake just out of Taupo.
Yeah, so hopefully everyone's
doing all right down there yeah thoughts with you guys i don't know what my thoughts will do
so you know when people go i have my thoughts with you it's like oh thanks for your thoughts
how long are your thoughts with me sometimes it's all you can do though yeah so i really
struggle to have the right thing to say in those situations that was nice but just don't say don't
come back afterwards going on what do you want what my thoughts are going to be. What did Jono Pryor's thoughts mean to anyone?
It just means you're thinking of someone.
How long do you have to keep thinking?
Just keep doing your thoughts.
Just keep doing your thoughts.
Don't forget like day-to-day stuff like putting your pants on and stuff.
Sorry, I had other thoughts going on.
But, you know, at the same time, just keep people in your thoughts.
Or someone who's still in my thoughts, a gentleman that I met yesterday,
and it's just amazing what Kiwis end up doing around the world.
Stuff we don't even know about.
Some big gigs overseas for New Zealanders.
Doing some great things over there.
But I was sitting next to a gentleman
who was on his way to the airport,
and I like to talk to people, Ben.
You love it.
That'll fall asleep.
They're your two favourite things.
If he's not talking
he's asleep
he's not asleep
he's talking
well just having
so many thoughts
about this stuff
it really takes it out of you
he doesn't have time
to think about stuff
he's either talking
or sleeping
he's a prolific napper
talking or sleeping
those are my two options
on or off
if you're on a plane
sitting next to someone
you're either asleep
or you're talking
it's full on either or
that's pretty much it
you won't watch a movie you won't do anything else,
you won't talk or sleep.
But before I fully engage
in conversation, I like to ask
people what they do. Just in case
they're a bloody undercover cop or
I incriminate myself or there's someone who
works for Parliament and then I can lay out my five
year plan for the country sort of thing.
But I say, what do you do? And he says, I'm about to
go to the airport, I've got to fly over
to have a meeting with the bosses.
Classic, as I always do. I turn
it into an Oprah interview.
What's your job? He said,
I work for Apple.
You heard of Apple? Pretty successful
company, Apple. And he lives in
rural New Zealand.
He is running a
team of 600 people around the world.
Wow.
And do you know what he's in charge of?
Safari.
He's the big boss of Safari, their internet explorer.
And Apple.
He's a New Zealander just working out of his house in rural New Zealand.
That's crazy.
Isn't that crazy?
Don't worry, Ben.
I did ask him how I can clear your internet history.
Oh, good.
That was my next question.
He's got some good intel on that.
Yeah.
It's just incredible.
Did you ask him about the charges?
You know, like they keep changing the phones and the charges.
I should have.
I said, hey, why are you heading over to all...
Just stick.
I know your Safari's your thing, but just get the charges the same.
Every model.
Yeah.
That'd be nice.
That would be...
Jeez, I should have got his number.
I did start asking him what free stuff does he get.
Yeah.
You name an Apple product, I'll tell you if he gets it free
oh like a MacBook Air
free
like iPhone
free
now I'm kind of
Apple Watch
Apple Watch yeah
didn't get that for free
had to pay that
discounted value
no but it's incredible
there's a lot of great
New Zealanders
doing a lot of good things
out there
and that was the point
of this conversation
yeah it's awesome
the hits
the Jono and Ben podcast
Jono's like oh
I've got a wee
a wee fun game
we can play
I do have a fun game
makes me a little
nervous but also
excited at the same
time
yeah you're
wildly underprepared
for this game
yeah no but it's
good throw it
throw it my way
it was introduced
to me by my
daughter Poppy
oh okay
so okay it's a
safe game to play
Ben
yeah
I'd like to have
you in your safe
place okay
and it's a game
about how in sync we are as a couple.
Okay.
Okay.
It's scientifically proven by science.
Yeah.
So if this doesn't work, well, then it's a slap in the face to science.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's the one to ten game.
So what we need to do is I'll go three, two, one.
You name a number.
I name a number at the same time.
Got to try and name the same number.
They do say it's a numbers game. This is literally a numbers game. Okay, one. You name a number. I name a number at the same time. Got to try and name the same number. Okay.
They do say it's a numbers game.
This is literally a numbers game.
Okay. You ready?
We can keep going though.
Three, two, one, six.
Oh!
Oh!
What?
No way!
What?
Oh, we didn't plan that.
Oh, no!
You guys are planning that off air.
No!
No, we didn't!
Jeez!
We're in sync! No! Mate, we didn't. Jeez. We're in sync.
No.
Mate, we should be
flatting together, mate.
Oh, my God.
Sync up our body costs.
Did we just become best friends?
That was long.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh, jeez.
Well, it took me about half an hour
to sync up with my daughter last night.
Oh, wow.
So it's disturbing that I'm more in sync
with you than I am my child.
That was a fun game.
The numbers game.
You can play that with your friends
and colleagues today.
That was very good.
Hey, sad news just to hand.
Fleetwood Mac co-lead vocalist and keyboardist Christine McVay
has sadly passed away after a wee illness.
So we're going to play everywhere right now.
Fleetwood Mac, such a great song.
Very sad news.
R.I.P.
It is the hits.
John on Ben. calling out your name
calling out your name
can you hear me calling
out your name
The Hits
The Jono and Ben Podcast
Jono's like
ooh I've got a wee
a wee fun game we could play.
I do have a fun game.
Makes me a little nervous but also excited at the same time.
Yeah.
You're wildly underprepared for this game.
That's good.
Throw it my way.
It was introduced to me by my daughter Poppy.
Oh, okay.
So, okay, it's a safe game to play, Ben.
Yeah.
I like to have you in your safe place.
Okay?
And it's a game about how in sync we are as a couple.
Okay.
Okay.
It's scientifically proven by science.
Yeah.
So if this doesn't work, well, then it's a slap in the face to science.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's the one to ten game.
So what we need to do is I'll go three, two, one.
You name a number.
I name a number at the same time.
Got to try and name the same number.
They do say it's a numbers game.
This is literally a numbers game. Okay. You ready? We can keep going though. and name the same number. Okay. They do say it's a numbers game. This is literally
a numbers game.
Okay, you ready?
We can keep going though.
Three, two, one, six.
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
What?
No way!
What?
Oh, we didn't plan that.
Oh, no!
You guys are planning
that off air.
No!
No, we didn't.
Jeez!
We're in sync.
No!
Mate, we should be
flatting together, mate.
Oh my God.
Sync up our body costs.
Did we just become best friends?
That was long.
Oh my goodness.
Oh, jeez.
Well, it took me about half an hour
to sync up with my daughter last night.
Oh, wow.
So it's disturbing that I'm more in sync with you
than I am my child.
That was a fun game.
The numbers game.
You can play that with your friends and colleagues today.
That was very good.
Hey, sad news just to hand.
Fleetwood Mac co-lead vocalist and keyboardist
Christine McVay
has sadly passed away after a wee illness.
So we're going to play everywhere right now.
Fleetwood Mac, such a great song.
Very sad news.
R.I.P.
It is the hits.
John on Ben. Calling out your name Calling out your name
Can you hear me calling out your name?
You know that I'm falling and I don't know what to say
I'll speak a little louder, I'll even shout You know that I'm proud and I can't know what to say I'll speak a little louder I'll even shout
You know that I'm proud
And I can't get the words out
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I wanna be with you everywhere
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I wanna be with you everywhere I wanna be with you everywhere
I wanna be with you everywhere
Something's happening, happening to me
My friends say I'm acting peculiarly
Come on baby, We better make a start
You better make it soon
Before you break my heart
I wanna be with you everywhere
I wanna be with you everywhere I wanna be with you everywhere
I want to be with you everywhere
Can you hear me calling out your name?
You know that I'm falling and I don't know what to say
Come along baby, we better make a start
You better make it soon before you break my heart
Oh, I want to be with you everywhere.
Oh, I want to be with you everywhere.
Oh, I want to be with you everywhere I want to be with you everywhere
I want to be with you everywhere Thank you.