Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Can We Go Buy Coffees In The Space Of A 10 Minute Song?

Episode Date: November 25, 2021

Taylor Swift's 10-minute version of All Too Well is officially the longest song to reach #1 in the charts. Today on the show we challenged ourselves to play it, leave the studio, buy coffees and see if we could make it back in time. Did we? Was it a shambles? We also spoke about a TikTok couple's crazy rules they have in their relationship... And we spoke to relationship expert Bridgette Jackson from Equal Exes to see if these sorts of rules in a relationship are totally necessary. All that and a bunch more on today's poddy, including our new parody song dedicated to Judith Collins. Enjoy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint, Kiwi made since 1946. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Friday the 26th of November, who would have thought following this announcement Ben, this public announcement, that we would have three working weeks left in the year that was 2021. Your thoughts? Yeah, well, 2021, it's not going to be a year

that you look back fondly on, is it in many ways? 100 days, three months of the year we've spent in lockdown. Well, it depends what your situation was. Who would be looking back fondly at the moment? I imagine if you owned a supermarket. Yeah, true.

You'd probably look back and go, gee, that was a bumper year. I'm Ben Pfizer. I'm doing all right. We sold a few. Yeah, Pfizer guy. A few of my. Pfizer guy, old girl. Yeah, the Pfizer people.

Yeah. The Pfizer people. Yeah. They'll be happy. No, we've had a good year. Hey, guys. As here at Pfizer, we've sold a few units. I mean, Jessica and Tova, they've never had so many shout outs. You know, Jessica and Tova. Yeah. They've had a good year. Hey guys, as here at Pfizer, we've sold a few units. I mean, Jessica and Tova, they've never had so many shout outs.

You know, Jessica and Tova, they've had a good year. Yeah, sorry, maybe I'm looking at the cup half empty. We'll be looking at the cup half full. What's been the best part of your year?

Let's not focus on the negative. Oh, jeez. What has been the best part of Benjamin's year? I, yeah, I enjoyed some family time. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy,

you know, the family time with lockdown, but I enjoyed that part where you slow down for a bit and you spend time with the family when you have to, but then, not saying have to in a bad way, that sounds really horrible, but then it got to the point where 100 days is a long time for anyone to be like. Because you started this going,

I love spending time with family, and then halfway through you then went again, not that it's a bad thing. No, I did. You're almost overcompensating for it. Yeah, I did, didn't I? No, I did. Yeah.

There was moments that I really enjoyed. That was cool. And then it was like the novelty of lockdown. Definitely. It does. It does. And for everyone. Not hanging with the family.

You're wrong. Not hanging with the family. I love hanging with the family. Hang with them in lockdown or no lockdown. Yeah, all the time. But yeah, you're right. It feels like that sweet spot's about two weeks. Two weeks.

The initial, oh, this is fun sweet spot's about two weeks two at the initial well this is fun yeah two weeks yeah you know our radio shows are fun for the first two weeks oh look you know what are you doing oh you know we have you know then we start to run out of lockdown content too and everyone's like just get back out there and then we end up just doing normal shows again so you know okay so that's a highlight for you. I'm going to say a highlight for me. What would be a highlight for me? Actually, before we, well, I'm trying to think of a highlight. Do you know what a highlight for me would be, Ben Boyce? Yeah. Ben Boyce is slowly becoming accustomed to waking up at an obscene hour of the day.

Right. Yeah, I think my body's slowly adjusting to that. Gotcha. That if I didn't do it now, I'd be getting up at that time regardless. Oh, right. Yeah. Don't you find even though you're getting up early, you're still going to bed around about the same time?

Yeah, I know. And you're still getting the same amount of stuff done? Yeah. You're like, we're not doing any more stuff but we're up for longer we're starting the stuff earlier yeah i know and you run out of time some days as well you're like how did that happen like i was up so it's literally like what it has done is it ruins uh your body clock though because even when you're like oh it's saturday morning uh you know like a oh i might say saturday morning because it's a sunday morning i don't like a – I won't say Saturday morning because we're – it's a Sunday morning.

I don't have work today. Your body clock still was naturally like, oh, wake up, wake up. Oh, no, look. You know? Yeah, and you can forgive your body for that because six out of the seven days you're making it do that. Yeah, but it didn't do it on those other days if the alarm didn't go off. People are like, why did you wake up? You'd be angry at your body.

Yeah. So I see why you're doing it, body clock. But sometimes you're like, have the day off, mate. Have the day off. We can wake up at 8 today if we, you know. What is the latest you've slept in of recent time? It's, as I say, I always

wake up somewhere around 4 or 5 o'clock even when I don't have to, but then it's kind of getting back to sleep and kind of dozing and stuff. Will you go into bed till 10 o'clock in the morning? Is it a bit worse? No. No. I can't either. No. I respect the people that can. Yeah.

You know, some people are like, oh, I've got to do a bit of one o'clock. I'm like, Jesus, how did you do that? Because I want some of that. Yeah, I know. But, you know, there's people who could stay in bed.

Because I just went. It was like we had breakfast, we had things. You stayed until one o'clock. Yeah. That's incredible to me. Yeah. But then generally

the same people are night owls as well, so they'll push it at the other end. Hey, well, you guys have a great weekend. What did we have on the show today? Oh, a lovely winner for themarket.com. A really deserving winner who won $5,000 for Christmas, and she was awesome, Nina.

And Judith Collins, a fitting tribute to Judith Collins' tenure as leader of the National Party. Musical tribute. Something you wrote, Ben. You penned this, and it was wonderful. Well, it wasn't originally mine.

Yeah. Some other famous people had a lot more to do with it than me. But anyway, enjoy that. New Zealand's Breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome along to the show. It is a Friday, and how are you guys doing? You all right? Yeah, doing well. Thanks, Ben. This is Jono and Ben on the Hits. leader. So if you told me. It's better when I say you're the leader. If you told me maybe I

would have done more leadership stuff. Well your leadership has been shabby to be honest because you didn't know you were leader. So do I get another chance?

No you're gone. I'm rolling you. Juliet you're the new leader. Oh sweet. Okay we'll see how it goes. Alright that's how it

works. We've got a very exciting show coming up today. Chance to win $5,000 from themarket.com. What you need to do is head on from themarket.com. Yeah. What you need to do is head on to themarket.com, fill up a gift, not gift basket, a shopping basket full of all the items up to $5,000.

Go to thehits.co.nz, register your name, and we could be calling you and Christmas covered like red on Santa. Yeah, it's a great day to go to themarket.com because it is Black Friday today, so lots of sales. Imagine people will be at the malls all around the country. Busy, busy day for shopping. Yeah. Ripping each other's throats out over a cheap duvet set at Briscoe's or something. As well as that, we've got $5,000 like we always do.

That could be yours at 7.45 this morning. Can I chime in on Black Friday, sorry? Yeah. It feels like Black Friday's been going for about four weeks. They do have quite a long lead up into it, don't they? It's not just one day. No. Why do they call it Black Friday?

And then on Monday, they've got Cyber Monday, which is like just another reason to have a sale. Yeah, well, it was the one day, and I think they just thought, and we'll get a run up into this every year. They just still extend the savings. Well, retail deserves a run up. Yeah, well, true.

We'll give them a run up this year, but next year, just back to the savings. Well, retail deserves a run-up. Yeah, well, true. We'll give them a run-up this year, but next year just back to the solo Friday, okay? That and free fish and chips somewhere in New Zealand today. We'll tell you how before seven. It is the hits. Rise and shine. Time to start the, um, who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you.

Jono and Ben, the hits. So a very unusual scene on the way to work this morning. So it's 4.45 a.m. You know, there's not much life gracing the streets at that hour. But I saw a gentleman in a park flying a kite. Oh, this time? Quarter to five in the morning. And I thought, well, these are, you know, far be it for me to create a jurisdiction around when you can and can't fly a kite.

Yeah. But it feels like 4.45 in the and can't fly a kite. Yeah. But it feels like 4.45 in the morning is almost psychotic kite flying hours. It'd be very hard to sort of see. There was light. There was street light. So he could. And the only thing I could think was he was an avid flyer of kites. Yeah.

He's looked at the wind gusts chart. And gone, now's the time. Do you want to be find a kite today? Sorry, Mavis, I'm out. You know me. When you hooked up with me, you knew my love of kites was my first love. Wow. Crazy.

I've got a checkered history with kites. They're fun for about 25 minutes, aren't they? And then you're like, ah, you wrap it up and you just sham it away in a cupboard. Yeah. Next time you want to get it out, it's always tangled up like, you know, charging cables or pods, earphone pods. Christmas lights. Yeah, and then you have to spend 25 minutes untangling the kite.

And, yeah, you're a kite guy, mate? You like kites? No, I fly on a lot of kites. We tried it. Remember we went kite falling for the TV show we filmed? And we thought, i don't know why we thought we were going to be able to get out there on the water and in an afternoon and get out there and actually kite foil um but yeah but they were like well no the people that did it well it took us at least six months to be able to nail this and then we just did the kite flying part we couldn't even nail that yeah and these well then i nearly took

out an old lady with a sweet little dog, didn't I? You did, with a kite. And it was coming down, because you have to sort of figure out the kite. Yeah. And it kind of picks up quite a bit of pace as it's coming down back over the loop.

Yes. And mine just came down. It kept going down towards this lady walking along the beach. Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. She gave me a, she gave me a look, and it landed on the ground right next to her. Bang. Yeah.

Dog got a fright And she looked at me And I was like What I can I'm sorry I'm sorry a kite nearly Rented you unconscious It's amazing

Because the people That were teaching us They're going to the Olympics Yeah the next Olympics Because kite falling Is in the Olympics But then they're spending Their afternoon teaching us

How to fly kites You're like This is a big waste Of your time It's their charity If they don't get on the podium at the Olympics. It's our fault. It's Harris 2024.

It's got to be our fault because they spent half an hour trying to teach us to fly a kite for no real reason at all. Yeah. But when you do see a good kite in action, you appreciate it. Yeah.

But just not a quarter to five in the morning. Yeah. Live free. The Summer Holiday Edition with Škoda. We have your chance to sort out summer It's all thanks to Škoda And of course the hits giving you $5,000 For a sweet summer holiday

And the use of that brand new Škoda for a couple of weeks We'll get Emily on from Taranaki How are you this morning Em? I'm good thanks how are you? We are doing well it's lovely to have you on now uh thanks to our partners at skoda i think it always makes it always makes the show sound more professional when i say thanks to our partners yeah you know thanks to our partners at globe investments thanks to our partners jen and amanda uh but you are in the drawer for 5k

and a car for a fortnight to drive around like a queen. Awesome. All right, once the free cash and the free car runs out, don't come crawling back to us, though, okay? Make sure you fill up the tank when you return it as well. Yeah, that's when it stops. What are you up to this weekend, Emily? Just working.

What do you do? I'm a dairy farmer running a little 170 cow farm. Just a little 170 cows. Sounds like a lot of work. Yeah. Yeah, we've dabbled in the old milking the cow game over the years. Well, once we dabbled in it. So it means you guys are experts.

So when I win this, you can come milk my cows so I can have a week off. We can come and milk your cows. That's awesome. Are you using the automatic suction cups or are you still doing old school by hand? Automatic, obviously. Yeah. I'd say for 175, you know, in my experience, John, I ate 175 cows. You wouldn't want to be doing those by hand.

Yeah. Yeah. To the cows, is it true that the cows, you milk them in the morning and then they're full again by the afternoon? Is that why you milk them twice? Yeah, yeah, that's true. Crazy amount of milk they produce every day. Oh, they do.

I mean, my girls probably do about 25, 30 litres a day. A day? For one cow? Yep. Jeez. Mate, you could milk me, Ben. You would not get 25, 30 litres out. Okay?

Guarantee it. Now, that would not get 25, 30 litres out. Okay? Guarantee it now. That's really impressive. Yeah. Thanks to the cows. Yeah. You know, shout out to the cows, get a lot of bad press with all their methane and stuff, don't they? Yeah.

But 25 or 30 litres a day. You know, you're having a coffee or, you know, you're putting some milk on your cereal, you know, unless, of course, you're having oat milk or goat milk or something. But anyway, that's, you know, I digress. Hey, Emily, you are an absolute Kiwi hero. Good luck for that drawing. Good luck today milking the cows. Thank you, guys.

And if you want to get in for that sweet prize for summer, then listen out for your cuticle. And it's all thanks to the new Skoda Kodiak. We're all going to take you to listen for your cuticle on the hits. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right. And at the end of the day, Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right in at the end of the day.

Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, just when you thought every sport was played competitively, there's another sport that's coming out. So basically they're saying step aside, UFC. There's a new craze taking over the boxing ring. And the first pay-per-view pillow fighting championships is actually going to be happening uh in january that is wonderful although a pillow i imagine fighting a professional pillow fighter it would be coming in at a rate of knots too it would feel like a concrete slab smashing

you across the face so it's just what you imagine it's uh well you know no maybe it's not what you imagine maybe you're imagining like a sort of teenage uh sleepover don't get that out of your head because that's weird in the first instance yeah yeah yeah so you imagine a couple people in a boxing ring with a pillow each just go going for it and how do you win are you do you get points through each hit yeah i'm guessing it's similar to boxing you know with knockdowns and points for hits but it was uh on cnn and what i loved about this uh was the lady who was introducing the uh the pillow fighting was very confident in her own sporting ability.

This is the newsreader. Yeah, have a listen to this. Now, I'm trained in quite a few martial arts, but there is one that I haven't tried yet. Pillow fighting. The CEO of PFC says you won't see any feathers flying though. Rather, they use specifically designed pillows

for the fights with the ceo celebrating the fact that no one gets hurt then again i haven't started yet hey uh katrina uh can we make you know when you do the news can we make it less about news about you and more about the news if possible it's It's like Mike McRoberts going on saying, it's Budding Allblack who decided to pursue a news career. Things would have been very different in Paris over the weekend if old McRoberts was taking the field. But enough about me. I do love it, though.

Hey, next, the latest in the National Party. Jeez, that's a shambles at the moment. And we have a wee song to celebrate Judith Collins. As a former politician, things would be very different if I was there. He's here to deliver you the news. He also delivers courier packages and babies if required in case of an emergency. Ben Boyce, welcome to Scrolling Through Your Feed. Well, today is Black Friday, which is, well, technically it's the day after Thanksgiving in America, but

Thanksgiving is actually happening in America right about now, because we're of course a day ahead but you wanted to investigate a bit more about Black Friday, because we know it's about amazing shopping deals online and in stores Yeah, it started I think is our equivalent up until the last couple of years

would have been the Boxing Day sales, but in America so the day after Thanksgiving Which is a huge holiday in america yeah you're saying it's bigger than christmas day well and in a lot of regards i just uh because the nba which i follow and i don't want to bore anyone about the basketball you already have don't worry just by saying nba switch off nba or cricket anyway move on but they don't have any games on uh on thanksgiving and but when they a lot of the teams play and it's quite prestigious to play on christmas day you know and people go to the games on christmas day and like it's a big event so that kind of goes on maybe they're like oh we can't play on thanksgiving i don't know maybe that puts it where the significance is

well it started you know it's only been a term since sort of the mid 90s black friday really and it started and originated in Philadelphia in the 60s. And they rolled with it for, you know, 35-odd years, sort of describing the madness on the day of those sales after Thanksgiving. Black Friday, you know, police would be called out to shopping malls and stuff because brawls over a toasted sandwich maker or something that was half price.

And it's meant to signify, I guess, the run into Christmas too, isn't it, right? It's like Thanksgiving's done, let's get your Christmas shopping started from here. Yeah, so that was the origins of it. But it's still not the biggest shopping day. Biggest shopping day annually all over the world is the Saturday before Christmas Day. Oh, really? Really. Which is a couple of weeks away, a few weeks away, right?

Done your Christmas shopping, Benjamin? I've done a little bit online, because we haven't been able to go to the malls. But yeah, everyone's like, you've got to go early this year. You've got to go early. I hope you've got me nothing. Yeah, I have. That's our agreement. That's our agreement.

I won't be getting you anything, and you won't be getting me anything. Juliet, you've attempted your Christmas shopping? I haven't actually bought anything, but I've been brainstorming. Like, when it comes to Christmas, I want to- Brainstorming doesn't bought anything, but I've been brainstorming. Like when it comes to Christmas, I want to... Brainstorming doesn't help. No. I've been brainstorming.

Come Christmas Day, you've got nothing. You'll be like, don't worry, I did some brainstorming though. The thing is... I love brainstorming for presents. I got two of them

because I got... Everyone's like, you see the news though, like you've got to get it, you've got to get it, it's not going to arrive. So I sent a present to my sister in Australia.

She's like, it arrived. And it's like, this was six weeks to Christmas. She's like, what's this for? I was like my sister in Australia. She's like, I arrived. And it's like, this was six weeks to Christmas. She's like, what's this for? I was like,

it's Christmas. She's like, oh. So I opened it. Oh, okay. Well, Merry Christmas. She wasn't thinking a Christmas package

would arrive that early. I was like, well, that's it. You were in the mall yesterday, Ju, when I called you. Yes.

No Christmas shopping while you were actually at the location? No. Just more brainstorming. I was actually just shopping with my mum for clothes. We were just having a mother-daughter day out.

Oh, lovely. Yeah, probably should have done some Christmas shopping then, though, actually. Anyway, good luck, team. And, of course, yesterday the big news, which we'll touch more on later on, was the National Party. And a lot of turmoil. Judith Collins no longer leader. Who's going to be the new leader?

We don't know. We won't find out until next week. But it's sad that judith's no longer there but we've got some great memories and we'll put it together into this song hey judith it's not that bad raise an eyebrow to show you're glad when my eyebrow goes up, it's a joke. No more hard questions from Tova. I think, Tova, you want to actually understand a joke when you hear it. You can still say my husband's Samoan. Talofa.

My husband is Samoan, so Talofa. Talofa Maybe I tried to cancel diamond. Maybe that was just, just, just a bridge is too far, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. Hey, do, do, do, do, do, do that. Na, na, na, na, do, do, do, do. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Spy, know what's up? Spy.co.nz.

If you don't have Taika, Adele or Kardashian in your name, then no need to worry. You're probably not going to be talked about in the next three minutes. But Juliet, what's happening in Spy? So speaking of Kardashian, actually, Kanye West has given quite a passionate speech saying that he's really wanting to restore his relationship with Kim Kardashian while she is still going on dates with Pete Davidson. This is kind of what he said. In all these relationships, we've made mistakes. I've made mistakes. But I need to be back at home. Why is that? I'm saying it's odd because if the enemy can separate Kimye,

there's going to be millions of families that feel like that separation is okay. But when the kingdom brings Kimye together, there's going to be millions of families that are going to be influenced and see that they can overcome the work as a separation of trauma.

Right. And he goes on to say he's bought a house next door to her so he can be next to his kids. Oh, really? Which would be awkward when she's got Pete Davidson over there. Oh, yeah.

To tell her ex-partners they're across the road from each other. True. To co-parent their son. Co-parent, yeah. Who was that person living there before? They must have been offered moon money. Oh, true.

Mate, if you're sitting in your house, Kanye comes knocking on the door. Wow. Hey, Ben, Kim Kardashian's living next door, and you're like, oh, is she? I didn't realise. Yeah. I want to buy your house. Why is she living in a suburban Auckland anyway? Yeah, but I want to buy your house.

You're going to, jeez, you're going to ask for a lot, aren't you? Yeah. I want to say, why do you want to buy it? Oh, I need to be close to my kids. Oh, okay, okay. It's important to you, is it? Well, you'd take it, wouldn't you? I want to say, why do you want to buy it? I need to be close to my kids. Oh, okay, okay. It's important to you, is it? Well, you'd take it, wouldn't you? Because otherwise they'd go and ask the neighbour on the other side.

So you'd be like, you'd definitely take that one. Go and ask Gary at 23, see what he says, then come back, eh? Have you seen the photos of Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian's latest date they went on? People are speculating with the Pete Davidson. Is he a hickey? Pete Davidson's got a little hickey on his neck. You wonder if it is or it isn't.

Everyone's really zoomed right in, you know. Sheesh, your prime hickey years are definitely 15 to 19, aren't they? I know, I know. Who's getting a hickey as an adult? Maybe Pete Davidson is, maybe. That's what the rumours are. But then he might be just, you know, it might be me. I get blotchy skin, so, you know.

Yeah, true. That's true. Is it blotchy skin, Ben? No, I can't say that. Are you demanding hickeys? Yeah, turning out to work with a hickey would be... Oh, my God. Has he got a...

Has Ben got a hickey? A hickey? How old is he? I know. That is so funny. A hickey. What is the name? Hickey.

It's so funny. I know. It is a weird name. Word, isn't it? Just some leeching. Is something like a leech onto your neck? Yeah. Just suck my neck until the blood rises to the skin, thanks.

That'll show you love me. And kind of quite a sad story next, but Jessie J has revealed that she's suffered a miscarriage. She decided to have a baby by herself because she always wanted one and I don't think she's with anyone at the moment. She posted on Instagram a photo of her with the initial pregnancy test when she obviously found out.

And in the caption, she was like, I have a show tonight that I'm meant to be performing. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do it, but she ended up doing it and she spoke a bit more about it on stage.

I decided to have a baby by myself. And by a miracle, it worked for a little while. And yesterday, yeah, yesterday was f*** it the things that people say to you in moments like this some people said congratulations because they didn't read the caption which was intensely awkward but also made me laugh

because I have a sense of humour and then yeah it was a lot longer the speech but it is worth a watch but I just thought yeah it's important to share that sort of thing

because you know people celebrities are normal they go through this stuff and something like that is so heartbreaking poor lady yeah

did you feel awful if you were the congratulations oh my goodness. I know. Because, I mean, the first photo was her with the pregnancy test, and that was probably her announcing she was pregnant but no longer, and people just saw it and were like, congratulate. I would have done a congratulations.

Oh, you would. I only ever read the first paragraph of news stories. You would be that person, aren't you? Yes. Oh, what a vulnerable thing to do on stage the day after. I know. I know. But she probably knew that it would help a lot of people. And people did comment saying. I know, I know. But she probably knew

that it would help a lot of people and people did comment saying, you know, thank you for sharing your loss because everyone deals with loss in some way. So very good that she did that. And that is Spy for this hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. After seven o'clock on the show,

we have $5,000 up for grabs with our game Five Words for 5K. But don't forget, you can go to themarket.com, share your basket, your shopping basket with us at the hits up to five thousand dollars and before the end of the show we'll pay for someone's entire

basket on black friday it is the hit broadcasting live and mostly awake jono and ben new zealand's breakfast on the hits now our producer bee hunt sent through some content on the electronic mail system yesterday being voiced i thought it was just quite interesting. It was a couple who posted on TikTok the rules of their marriage. Now, I don't know. I'll list off these rules and you see if you agree. They kind of front-footed it. I noticed she was saying that these may not work for everyone and may get some bad comments.

You may disagree, but these work for us. Yeah, right. So this couple, they have the rules that they're not allowed to be friends with a member of the opposite sex. They're not allowed to text a member of the opposite sex. They're also not allowed to talk ill of each other in front of their other family members. They can't bitch and moan about each other to anyone else. That's one of the best parts.

I mean, you come in here every day, I'm in here. We're all just, you know, hey, hey. Taking the fun out of the relationship. And it's a pretty tightly run ship, this relationship. But you were saying, hey, if it works for them. Well, yeah, you don't want to judge other people if it does work for them. But obviously it seems a lot stricter than a lot of other relationships. Some of the things that they're saying, though, they're not allowed to look at adult content.

They're saying because it leads to a stronger relationship, stronger intimacy and things. You're like, okay, I can kind of see those sorts of things. Expectations, you know, they're out of control. It's like, mate, I can't do this. Have you seen my core strength? I can't of see those sorts of things. Expectations, you know, they're out of control. It's like, mate, I can't do this. Have you seen my core strength? I can't pull that off. Yeah. But it poses the question of like, do you have rules in your relationship?

Because it's not something that I would have thought many couples in New Zealand would have sat down and sort of made sort of rules. Yeah. You kind of just assemble them over time. I remember going to Fight Club, my first day at Fight Club. They were pretty clear outlining the rules don't talk about it we have a rule Ben, no kissing on the lips at work but that's in the off, not the garage though

the garage is a different story but I can't think of spoken relationship rules there's obviously the unspoken ones that you're like well that's not appropriate to do if I'm with someone. You work it out over time I mean one of our biggest rules Amanda in my relationship is if we're watching a show on Netflix

and it's a combined show don't watch your head, don't watch your head without the other person and that's probably our most serious of all the rules maybe we should be, because other things you think would be common knowledge but maybe it is good to come up with rules. Yeah, well, I know Jen was like, in the rules she set for me, I don't drink the toilet water

and I don't eat food out of the rubbish bin. Sounds like a dog. Chris Rock, I was watching him, very, very funny comedian yesterday. I was looking around for rules and he did a whole bit, which you should watch. It's really funny about relationships and rules. But here we were talking about the different roles you play in a relationship. Have a listen. When you're in a relationship, you're in a band.

And when you're in a band, you have roles that you play in the band. Sometimes you sing lead, and sometimes you're on tambourine. And if you're on tambourine Play it right Play it right Because nobody wants to see a mad tambourine player

That's very true Very good But you're going to be a bit annoyed if you're playing tambourine, aren't you? I'm probably going to get into tambourine But next time you might be lead singer, I guess is what you're saying You don't want to be demoted to triangle That's the lowest of the low. But next week, we thought we'd just get a relationship expert on Bridget,

who we've spoken to previously from a company called Equal X's. Get her thoughts on it. Do you need rules in a relationship? Do they need to be as black and white as sitting down and listing off what they are? Yeah. Are these rules that this couple have set Completely out of the question Yeah well we'll find out If you're in a relationship or you're thinking about being in a relationship

You'll want to hear this next It is the hits you got Jono and Ben Jono and Ben the hits We're talking whether you need rules in a relationship Because there is something going on On social media A couple overseas have put out their rules And they seem to a lot of people

Maybe these are quite strict rules Yeah not allowed to be lot of people maybe these quite strict rules. Yeah, not allowed to be friends with the opposite sex, not allowed to text the opposite sex, not even allowed to think about them. If they've got different body parts to them, don't even think about it. Yeah, so I'm kind of like, well is this too far or is it whatever works for them works for them? So we thought we'd bring

on an expert. She's our resident I'm going to say resident because it's the second time I've spoken to her. Resident relationship coach from Equal X's. It's Bridget Jackson. Welcome back. Thank you.

Lovely to be back on radio with you again and I love that I'm resident. You are resident. You impressed us so much with how she gets a residential slot. She can get some real estate

on this show. Oh, well, look, I'd love to be on absolutely whenever you need me. Don't say that. We're going to be bugging you lots. You shouldn't say that. In fact, the more you're on, the less we're on.

Probably the better for everyone, Bridget. But, Bridget, we were just talking about this story that we sent to you. We sent you now these quite extreme, some would probably view, relationship rules. What's your view on them? Yes, well, it comes down to people asking themselves, are these expectations realistic or unrealistic? And I think, you know, from my perspective, they're absolutely unrealistic expectations. I'd be very interested to see if they're still together, you know, in two years, five years, 10 years time.

Should we be judging? Should we be judging them? You know, if it works for them? Oh, absolutely not. Absolutely not. But the biggest thing that people have got to realise is that you can't expect your partner to meet all of your needs. Oh, really? Yeah, absolutely. You may need a friend who can actually offer you what you can't get from your partner in

a certain area and I think another aspect is that you can't expect your partner to change a core part of who they are. One of the most important things I think is actually sitting down before you make a permanent decision to be together is actually ask each other 50 plus questions before you get more serious. So, for example, how do you cope with people who disagree with you? Or would you prefer to go out with friends or stay indoors? Right.

Yeah, right, because you don't actually do that. I was just saying to Ben during the song, at the beginning of a relationship you don't go, okay, here's our list of rules. I've never had that conversation with Jennifer. I'm sure you haven't with Amanda. No, I haven't. Amanda. I'll email you. I'll email you questions, and you can certainly sit down and ask them. So one that is really important that I think really relates to the scenario

that we're talking about is how much do you want to maintain your individuality? Why cohabitating? Yeah, right. And I suppose if you put it into a professional example, if you're heading into something, professionally speaking, in your line of work and everyone knows where they are from the get go, then no expectations are let down the further down have, you know, should have. And that's honesty and obviously that mutual trust. Conflict is good in relationships. Arguments are necessary. You know, they can be a really good thing. So what do you do if you hit to this stage?

You're going through these 50 questions, you get to 42 and you're like, geez, we disagreed on 39 of these. What do you do if done at that stage? Well, you've really got to think hard and sort of reflect on it and think, really, are we actually compatible? And, you know, is there something that, is there room for us to change? Can we actually meet each other halfway and compromise on where we might have our differences?

Interesting, because you go, hey, everything was going fine in the relationship until you had those goddamn 50 questions. Would you recommend, though, people even in existing relationships have some rules, set some rules? Is that a good idea to have? Oh, absolutely. Like, for example, you know, I mean, the trust factor is very good. And I know people in relationships who actually, for example,

share their Facebook and Instagram accounts, or they show each other that people are allowed access to phones. So you're able to, at any stage, to look at each other's phones. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, hey, hey. But how can you get away with stuff you don't want them to know about if they're looking at your phone, Bridget? Like their Christmas present, for example. Yeah, exactly. That sort of thing. What's the strangest relationship rule you've come across in your line of work?

Well, you know, I think that when there's, you know, more than two parties in a relationship can be very interesting, how that works. And you've come across this a couple of times as a relationship expert? Yeah. Absolutely. Does those relationships last? Well, it depends. I mean, once again, it comes back down to setting rules down that actually are realistic and being able to reality test those.

That's when things certainly are going to fail. Very interesting. Bridget, thank you so much for your time this morning. I guess rules are a good thing and don't judge other people's. What works for one relationship may not work for the other and I'll make an appointment for Ben and his nine wives to have a chat with you next week great, and I'll email you those 50 plus questions

please do we'll share on the weekend can we put them up on our social media too? absolutely no problem at all I'll get my team to send them through to you. Thank you, Bridget. Appreciate your time.

Happy weekend. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Katy Perry firework.

And there was fireworks yesterday. If you want a segue, there's a segue in the National Party. Jeez, worse. Because Judith Collins ended up stepping down. It seems like she made a bit of a play to oust Simon Bridges from his roles in the party. She gave it a good old crack. You know, she felt like clinging on for dear life

to the leadership and, you know, the final hurrah. She heard that Bridges was winning a role on Wednesday night, so then she came out with this thing from five years ago and then the next morning she's like, oh, you got me. I gave it. Can't blame a gal for trying. Yeah, so now who will be leader? We'll find out next week.

Simon Bridges, Christopher Luxon, Mark Mitchell, Chris Bishop, Nicola Willis, some of the people that are eyeing the challenge, apparently. So some options there for the National Party. One thing I really enjoyed yesterday was TV3. Now, after the AM show, they went live. They pulled a rolling coverage. Live coverage. Rolling live coverage.

Now, the problem is when you go rolling live coverage on essentially an office meeting. Which you can't see the meeting because it's behind closed doors. Yeah, and you weren't sent the invite as to when the meeting was going to start and finish. You're not involved in their Google calendar. The problem was TV3, gee whiz, they just didn't know when they were going to come out. And we were watching poor Ryan Bridge, who's a wonderful broadcaster, still going 90 minutes deep and talking about nothing. A rolling commentary of a door, the meeting room door.

Waiting for something to happen. And in the end, they came out and said, oh, look, we're not going to announce it until next week. So nothing really happened other than Judith Collins stepping down. But you got, we got talking after the show about politics. Whether I'd run for politics, you asked me. I was like, no, no, I wouldn't. Yeah. And then I said, no, you do have a place in politics. And I thought, you know, Ben's wheelhouse, if he was going to dip his toes into the political landscape, would be, you know, small town, local mayor.

He would make a really good mayor. Would you agree, Jenny? Yeah, I reckon. Yeah. You know, not a big city banger. You know, he's not. Yeah. Don't give him the super city Wellington Christchurch.

No, no. That's not as, you know, rangatiki or something. I couldn't fix a housing crisis or, you know, a traffic problem or something like that. But I'd go around and cut a ribbon or, you know. Yeah, I mean, you would visit the hell out of a primary school with your mayoral chains at the assembly. Yeah, yeah. Give it up for the mayor, you know. You'd be wonderful.

You'd shake a good hand, Ben Boyce. Yeah, I don't want to be me. I don't think I would. You'd be on the back of a ute at the Santa Parade. Yeah, and so the radio show had finished, and I was like, well, let's call Masterton, which was his hometown, and see if they'd accept you as mayor.

And you're like, why are we doing this? Radio stopped. Yeah. I was like, radio never stops. This is what happened when we called Masterton's mayoral office. I'm going to call the council. Masterton council. See if. I'm going to call the council. Masterton's council. See if you'd even be in consideration.

You know, because if this is a serious... But I'm not going for it. Who's the... It's Masterton District Council. Yeah. What are you hoping to achieve by this? I'm going through to the mayor. Good morning, Deborah speaking.

Hi, Deborah. Is this Lynn Patterson's office, the mayor of Masterton? Yes. It's Jono and Ben from The Hits. How are you, Deborah? I'm good, thank you. I'm sorry about this, Deborah. It's Ben here.

Look, I grew up in Masterton, and we were having a conversation, and Jono was like, would you be a mayor? And I said, oh, no, look, I could never be a mayor, but if I did be a mayor, I'd want to be mayor of Masterton, because that's where I grew up. Right. So, Deborah, no, look, I could never be a mayor. But if I did be a mayor, I'd want to be mayor of Marston because that's where I grew up. Right. So, Deborah, my question is... Are you planning on running?

No, I'm not. Yeah, this is my question. I know he said sorry for this call. I make no apologies for this call. Because, Deborah, would he be a serious candidate? I mean, Lynn's been there for a long time. I don't want to roll Lynn. She's doing a great job. Would you,

would Debra seriously consider working with Ben Boyce as Mayor of Masterton? I'd consider anything. Oh, okay. The door is open. The door is open, but I'm not running.

It's not me you have to convince. Yeah, it's the people of Masterton. It is. Yeah. They're the important ones. That's right. Oh, well, Debra, who knows, you could have a new mate New mates come next election

Okay, I'll look forward to it Just get your annual leave in early, I've always got to sort that out over Christmas Alright See you mate Thank you So Ben, hey, political aspirations Maybe this is how it all starts Get the ball rolling, get it out there

Here you go Ben Boyce, could be Miramar be Miramarston, you could never be an MP. He'd be an MP that'd be disgraced, you know? And then from that day forward, he'd be like, disgraced MP, Benjamin Boyce. Stop saying disgraced every time I come into the room. Please welcome to dinner, disgraced MP, Benjamin Boyce. Hey, listen, you're my family. Five words for 5K on the hits.

You're only five words away from a massive payday. Time to do our game of word association. We play it every morning. We say five words. You tell us what the five things that pop into your head after those words. And if all five words match with our five words, you win $5,000. Well, put that in your pipe and smoke it. And not the cash, because I don't know, that may have some long-lasting health effects.

But let's welcome from the Waikato,y how are you good thank you i feel like we've met before casey um we have um been in a couple of competitions and things oh i just love it not this one before uh well it's great to have you on, Casey. Friday, baby. How are you feeling? Oh, so good. Yeah. What's up for this weekend? We're off to Kent to pick up our Christmas tree with my family. Oh, nice. Which is very cool. Oh, you go au naturel when it comes to the Christmas tree.

Oh, you've got to have a natural Christmas tree. Yeah. I've always gone prosthetic. It's just no good. It smells good, eh, the natural Christmas tree. But then you've got the needle, you know, Ben,

you said it was a nightmare getting rid of your au naturel Christmas tree last year. Yeah, but it looked good, smelled good. And you don't think about that when you get the tree,

it's just afterwards when you're cleaning it up and you go, that's right, this was really annoying. Before that, it's okay. Yeah,

and then 12 months you forget about it and do it all over again. Casey, let's try and win you $5,000, eh, and get you a free Christmas tree. Yes, please. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth this morning to match words with, Case? We're going to go with Producer Juliet.

Oh, Juju. Nice. She's going in. All right, Producer Juliet goes inside the soundproof booth right now. That means, John, you're behind the radio desk. Yeah, that's right, which is always a nerve-wracking time for me. So thank you, Casey, for putting me in this position. That's fine.

I feel 50% confident that we will continue to be on the radio. All right, Casey, here is your first word this morning. What pops into your head when I say whistle, whistle? Whistle. Oh. Not much. No, not much No, it's a tough one, whistle Can I come back to that?

Yeah, of course, of course Scissors is word number two, scissors Cut Cut, yep, that's a good one It is a good one What's your bank account number, Casey? Because I need to deposit $5,000 in very shortly Come on, we're a bit soaked.

A bit soaked. Pepperoni is word number three. Pepperoni. Pizza. Pepperoni pizza is exactly what I was thinking. Dirty is word number four. Dirty. Washing. I don't agree with you.

Ben was giggling away there with his immature mind wasn't he? Dirty mind was another one that popped into my head. Dirty washing seems like a much more PG version. It was hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. And clothes is the final word. Clothes. C-L-O-T-H-E-S.

Clothes. Oh, clothes. Outfits. Outfits. Outfit. We're going to leap back to word number one, don't we, Case? Yeah, that's quite a hard one. Whistle. Whistle, I'm going to have to go noise.

Noise, yeah, yeah. You're locking in noise. Yeah. That's what we're going to go with. That was a tough one, Whistle. That was a tough one. You're right. There we go. All right, we'll going to go with. It was a tough one, Whistle. It was a tough one. You're right. There we go. Alright, we'll

release Juliet from the Soundbrew booth which sounds like we've held her in captivity for a long time. Alright, Juliet. This was tough. This was tough this morning. Some tough words for Casey. She did really well, but we'll see how you do. It's all on you. Whistle was the first word this

morning. Whistle. Ooh! Yeah. That's hard. Do you want to come back to Whistle? I'll come back to Whistle was the first word this morning. Whistle. Ooh. Yeah. That's hard. Do you want to come back to whistle? I'll come back to whistle. Okay. Let's get the drama out.

Suspense. Scissors. Word number two, scissors. Cut. Nice. One from one. Well done, Casey. Pepperoni.

Word number three, pepperoni. Pizza. Oh, that's good. Okay, I see why you moved on from that first one, Jolly. Nice work. Dirty. Dirty, word number four. That'll mean nothing to you, Juliet, but it was fun for moments ago.

Okay, you'll have to fill me in. Washing. Oh, nice. Oh, my goodness. Okay. All right. Casey from the Waikato. Now, I asked for your bank account number just moments ago.

I think now it's time to hand over those digits, mate. Yeah, I reckon we're getting close. Okay, Jono, we're going to go final word and then go back to word number one? Yeah, I feel like. Okay. Clothes. C-L-O-T-H-E-S. Clothes.

Hmm. Fashion? Fashion? Oh! What was it? Outfit. Clothes, outfit, which was a good one. That's quite harsh. Yeah, and whistle was a tough one too.

Okay, so whistle. What would you have said with whistle? Maybe blow? No, we went noise. Noise, yeah. Oh, there are some tough words in that one. I'm sorry, Kasey. No, that's alright. Kasey, God bless you.

Yeah, it's a good effort. Not bad. Wonderful human being. Great New Zealander. As I always do, I'll be nominating you for Kiwi Bank New Zealander of the Year. Have a great weekend. Enjoy putting up your Christmas tree, all right? Thank you so much. All the best, Case.

And before we get to that, I'm legally obligated to tell you the following stories about celebrities, so not entirely factual, but we don't care because we're irresponsible radio hosts. Juliet, take it away. So the Jonas Brothers family roast is now on Netflix,

and this is basically where they just sit there, listen to their family and other celebrities roast them. It was quite good fun. I started watching it last night. Some funny jokes, some funny comedians. Yeah, there were a lot of gags about how nobody knows who Kevin is, that Nick broke up the Jonas Brothers back in the day

and there was a joke about their purity rings that they used to wear as well. But a couple of my favourite moments, one of them was Priyanka Chopra, who is Nick's wife, said this. Nick and I have a 10 year age gap. We teach each other things. He showed me how to use

TikTok, for example. You know, and I showed him what a successful acting career looks like. Oh! He's like, you're my wife! She is, you know, hugely popular all over the world. She basically made a gag that all three of the Jonas Brothers combined social media are still less than hers.

Really? Oh, that's so good. That is great. Not so much a joke, just facts. Yeah, it's more facts. She said it more in a funny way. I just said it more in a factual way. And one of the other moments that we all love,

we've listened to it during the songs and ads here, was John Legend. He performed a song dedicated to the Jonas Brothers. Working class lives growing up with the dream They made a lot of money, made a lot of girls scream The music they created took over the globe Sold out shows wherever they go. All I wanna be is their favorite fan.

I wrote a song to tell them they're my favorite band. I wish they could hear it, but they're not here today. No John Paul George or Ringo, just Joe Nick. And I wanna say say, Keith, you're not quite the Beatles. Not quite the Beatles, though you're really nice guys. You're pretty darn handsome and better than handsome. You'll never be the Beatles' nice try. No, not the Beatles Nice try No, I'm not the Beatles

Not quite the Beatles And I'm telling you why You could take them home to granny They'd never won a Grammy They'll never be the Beatles Never, not in this life Oh, that's very good. Very good.

Funny. That's a good weekend activity if you haven't, if you've got no plans for the weekend to watch the Jonas Brothers family rise. Jonas sounds like

he's swallowed velvet. No, he's amazing. It's such a good voice, isn't it? So smooth, you're right. I know. I feel like if I had his voice,

I just like would be set for life. You don't want to talk. You just want to sing everything. Yeah. I feel like I'm nine months voice, I just, like, would be set for life. You wouldn't want to talk. You'd just want to sing everything. I feel like I'm nine months pregnant just after listening to that. Actually, speaking of not wanting to talk, Kevin's wife, I think her name's Danielle, she had actually lost her voice for the roast. And so she had to hold up big cue cards to basically give her roast.

Because I was trying to find clips of her, and I was like, oh, she had to make her speak. Nice to have her voice. We need to read her roast. Yeah, someone else has to read it out for her yeah yeah she just stood there with big cue cards but no very good and that is spy for this hour for more you can head to the hits.co.nz two dads just trying to fill some airtime so I might say it's pointless but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us that is the main thing breakfast on the hits I think we're gonna do like a radio first right now. There's not many times we can say that on the show, right, Jono?

I'm trying to think if we've done any. No. No, radio tenths, elevenths. We've done a few of those over our careers. It's as high as we've got. Never a radio first, Ben, you're right. And it's off the back of Taylor Swift, who's re-recorded a lot of her old music, and she's really released a song which is about Jake Gyllenhaal.

And the crux of the song, I think the core content is he didn't return her scarf a lot of talk about that he's held on to her scarf and uh she wants it back it's a 10 minute song and it's the first time a 10 minute song it was the longest song ever to get to number one on the billboard charts this week yeah yeah so it's American Pie uh as you know that was the longest song previously that was number one now it's that was number one. Now it's got to number one. Is it 10 minutes exactly on the dot? So in the radio it's 10 minutes exactly, but on Spotify it's 10 minutes 13.

Oh, we didn't need it. Radio, man, it's not 13 seconds off. But ironically the song is anything but swift. It is the longest thing that anyone has ever released and got to the top of the charts. It's kind of a shame she went to all that effort because it'll never play on radio. Well, no. No. Now, B-Humps, this is where you come in.

This is where you come in, my friend. You're like, we can't play a 10-minute song on radio. It is not the 1980s. And we're like, well, we can. And we've never been able to do this before. What we're going to do is, you know, because we play a song normally about three, four minutes at best. Yeah. This is like a 10-minute song.

It's like a public holiday for a radio host in the morning. What they don't teach at radio school is tasks that usually take you four minutes. You need to get done in 30 seconds when songs are playing. That is the stress behind the scenes. You know, expelling things from your body. You have to do it at a rate of knots. So we're going to play Taylor Swift's All Too Well. First time I think anyone's probably ever played it on radio uh it's the 10 minute version

and we're going to see if we can go across the road oh we're going to leave you too me you're coming to the studio will be better in md yeah you can stay here i'll make and stay here and we're going to go order some coffees get the coffees and see if we can come back before the end of her song because we've never been able to do that. We've never left the show while songs play. You guys will take us off here. Listen to the Grinch of Swiftness over here. We're going to take this moment. If we're not

back in time, if there's a delay with the coffees, well then so be it. It'll be dead air or Producer B Humps will be Hey guys, I'm from Fairleigh. You can fill in time. I don't know how to drive the desk. I don't even know why I'm here, to be honest. You're talking great now.

Just keep doing what you're doing. It's great. Oh, my God. We'll be back in 10 minutes. I mean, at least it's a busy year. It's a poppier place we're going to. Should we live stream it on the Hits Breakfast Instagram? Okay, yeah, we can do that. What we'll do is Juliet will call my phone,

so we'll leave the phone up so we can give updates to people. We could do, get a coffee, or we can cook two-minute noodles five times. What do you want to do, guys? Oh, I'm shaking. We're not actually doing that. Well, we could do it six times and they'd be a little underdone. But, hey, you can still do it. I think we should do it.

Okay. Okay, Drew, can you call my number? Do you know my number? Yes, I'm getting it dialed now. Is this a prank on me? No, it's not a prank. It's a test. It's an experiment.

You know, it's like a Mythbuster. We'll get you a coffee. You like a long black? Long black? Yeah. Please, please. I know you want a coffee. Okay, this will be fun. Okay, so you should be able to hear me now. Okay, cool. Can you get the live stream? And then we'll see if we can get back.

Oh my goodness. Okay, shall I start the song? Okay, start the song. Here you go, Taylor Swift. Will we get back in time with four coffees, but all too well. Looks like a big line outside the cafe. This might take a while. So we're just about to order the coffees. Just ordering the coffees. Ben's just ordering the coffees now.

There's quite a line, about half a dozen people. I'm not sure how many minutes we have left on the song. We're still on air. God bless you, Taylor Swift. From the bottom of our commercial radio heart, thank you for this 10-minute gift from the gods. It's been about six minutes since I was dating on the radio, apparently some of the live shows.

It's been six minutes. Ben, how's the coffee ordering gone? Well, it was fun. It was a bit of a queue, so I've only just ordered coffee. Oh, dear God. Oh, dear God. Coffee.

So cute. Back to you, Taylor Swift. The song's still playing. I can still hear the song. We're still here waiting for the coffee. A crowd of about 15 people. And I think we're in a backlog of about eight flat whites with only one barista.

So time is of the essence. It's a bad time to come here because it's busy. It's peak. It's peak coffee time. Back to you, Taylor. The copies are coming The copies are coming They're arriving They're placed on the desk

We've got the copies We've got the copies We're returning to the building the mad rush turn on the mics we did it sorry we made it it's fading, slow fade out We just literally ran back into the studio Here we go Oh my god That was Taylor Swift That was great Yeah we started out with slow and steady wins the race

Bad theory, bad theory Because then it was rushed, panicked and stressed by the end To get to the finish line That was a lot of fun I really enjoyed that How was it for you producer Behubs? It was stressful. Yeah.

I won't lie, we all got a little stressed over the road. We all got a little frazzled by how long it was taking. We were the only people more stressed out than Jake Gyllenhaal about that song. Well, thank you for watching that on the live stream, the people that tuned in, and thank you for being part of our little experiment. That was fun. There was too much going on. There was a live stream, there was phones. You weren't talking to people. Yeah, no, it was a part of our little experiment. That was fun. There's too much going on. There was a live stream.

There was phones. You were talking to people. Yeah, no, it was a lot, so I can't handle all that. All right. Hey, well, we've got an amazing prize next in the market to give away very shortly. If you want to win that, actually fill up your shopping cart at themarket.com, share it with us at The Hits, and we could be paying up for $5,000 from your shopping cart next. It is The Hits.

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to get a new co-host on there. Thank God he hasn't found that in the deep dark corner of themarket.com. There's even a category for Ben Boyce to get a new co-host on there. Thank God he hasn't found that in the deep, dark corner of themarket.com. But, yeah, we're going to go through to this week's recipient. Her name is Nina. Let's dial through now, Juju. Hello? Hi, is that Nina?

Speaking. Hey, Nina, it's John. I'm being called in from the Hits Radio session. Hi. How are you, mate? I'm good, thank you. Lovely to have you on. Did we catch you at an inconvenient time?

Not at all. I always want someone to go, yes, you did catch me. I mean, I was having a coffee with a friend. Does that count? Yeah, that's inconvenient. This is probably the most inconvenient of times, really, isn't it? You're too polite. People are always too polite when you're like, have I caught you at a bad time? Everyone goes, no, no, that's inconvenient. This is probably the most inconvenient of times, really, isn't it? Yeah, you're too polite. People are always too polite when you're like, have I caught you at a bad time? Everyone goes, no, no, it's fine.

But, you know, you could be in the middle of open-heart surgery right now. Yeah, probably. Hang on, guys. Being from Aotearoa, we're all too polite to say otherwise. Hey, Nina, we understand you have a husband. Yes. You have four beautiful children. I do.

Are you getting creeped out that I know so much about your family? Yeah. A little intrusive. Yeah, yeah. We know your FPOS pin is 98. You had a bit of a rough time lately with the family. Yeah, yeah, we have with our daughter. What's been going on?

Back a couple of months ago, daughter she's three um she got sick and uh back and forth from the doctors for a few weeks no one could tell us what was going on we were told it was basic stuff like an ear infection or a UTI, just little things. No one knew what was going on. And this is a three-year-old toddler who's quite active, who ended up sleeping almost 18 hours a day, headaches continuously. And she stopped eating. Oh, geez. Yeah, it was quite bad.

And two weeks into it, I took her back to the hospital three times in one week. And the last time they tried to send us back home, I refused and said, no, I need her to be seen properly. And the next morning, she had a 25-minute long seizure. Oh, dear goodness. So she's been diagnosed now? Yes. After a couple of months now

she has been diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder called ADEM but they also found that she was MOG positive which is even rarer and then she also had TM which is transverse myelitis which is even rarer than that.

So we were flown to Starship Hospital and there for almost two weeks while we figured out how to get her back on her feet. Hard too when you guys, you know, obviously there was COVID going on as well. You're being able to travel. It was terrifying. Yeah, having also three other kids as well. I imagine that's a juggle. Yeah, three older boys and my husband doing all he could at home with some help from family as well to look after all our boys

while I was doing our girl. Wow, geez, you guys have had a hell of a 2021. And is she doing better now? She is. She is a lot better. She's about 90% back to herself, but we still have, because it's so rare, we don't know whether it's lifelong. We don't know if there's any sort of life expectancy.

We don't know if that's it, if it was just a one-off. We have no clue. Oh, jeez. Thank God you refused to leave the hospital. Mothers always know. Mother's instinct. You always know. Well, listen, you've been on to leave the hospital. Mothers always know. Mother's instinct. You always know. Well, listen, you've been on to themarket.com,

and there was some stuff on there that you put in your basket, an Xbox, Lego. A tent for camping. It was up to $5,000 worth of stuff. And guess what, Nina? Thanks to themarket.com, they're going to pay for your entire shopping basket. Oh, my God. Thank you so much. $5,000 worth. thanks to themarket.com they're going to pay for your entire shopping basket oh my god

thank you so much $5,000 worth thank you guys so much after the year you've had I'm sure it's going to help out

with the cost of travelling and stuff yeah it really will right on Christmas we've got more appointments to go to fashion oh jeez

I couldn't go to anyone more deserving than you guys for what you've been through so yeah on behalf of the market it's really cool for us to be able to give this to you and hopefully help out Christmas after such a tough year oh my god thank you guys so much

I don't even know what else to say that's alright Christmas is covered mate it's all right. Christmas is covered, mate. It's all sorted. Thank you. No, you're very welcome. And we're sorry for inconveniencing your coffee date. I'm going to go back to it before it gets cold. Yeah, you're going to be like this weird guy

started rattling off about my husband and my four children. I do a lot of stuff. Well done. You have a beautiful Christmas, you and your family. Lots of love. Oh, we will now. Thank you so much. You're welcome.

You're welcome. That one's really getting me. That was emotional. Yeah, getting me. Jeez, you're making us cry in here, Nina. Sorry. That was beautiful. You have a lovely day, eh?

Thank you. You too. And thank you so much for the market. There's another chance next week for someone to win $5,000 worth of shopping. Just go, basically, fill up your basket, share it with us at thehits.co.nz. And because it is Black Friday today on themarket.com, you can get 10% off across the entire site and discover thousands of deals. It is the hits.

You've got Jono and Ben. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Now, one of the most confusing and unsettling things one human being can do to another human being is FaceTime them without any prior warning. Yeah. Don't you always get suspicious when a FaceTime call comes through?

Yeah. Well, especially if you're not expecting one. You're like, oh, okay, FaceTime. Yeah. Remember once we were meant to call someone back for a meeting and they were like, oh, give us a call, we'll talk you through some stuff.

It was an important thing. And you decided to FaceTime them. And they were like. He actually answered the phone. He went, oh, okay. He was like, what? And it was, yeah. And you were like, are you okay with this?

He was like, well, no, not really. And I was like, no, I'm not either. So it wasn't a FaceTime sort of. Yeah. What is a FaceTime situation? I feel all barriers are down with family. You know, they can take a FaceTime. Yeah, I feel like that's the sweet spot for FaceTime.

It's the grandparents calling up the grandkids. I want to see the grandkids. Here you go. Have a look. But anyone outside of that sanctum, it's just a no-go. And yesterday, I've had a shocking history with facetime being you just highlighted one of those moments but uh it was an accidental one because i was in here and uh my son he facetimed me he loves a facetime you know kids they just for some reason

they need to see your face yeah uh and i don't know what part of our cell phone history we all decided that we needed to see our faces do you do you know because i love to do stuff when i'm on the phone i hate things that are stuck still so i'm like i wonder if you guys have seen me i like pretty much you like to not concentrate on the call i like walking around i'm doing stuff i'm folding washing you know but if someone's on facetime and i'm walking around doing you know they're like oh he's definitely not paying attention to what's going on he's not involved but yeah yeah so my son FaceTime. So obviously my FaceTime window was open once I ended that FaceTime call.

And then as I was driving home, I hear this familiar noise of, oh, just pops up. Oh, from in my pants. Okay. Weird. Now, it doesn't usually make that noise. No, the response though is ooh. It's more like oh. And so then I pulled the ooh out of my pants

and I was greeted with a real estate agent we had dealt with in the past. Oh my God, no. Whose name also starts with O, so it's next to her. Oscar, my son. And so then she was like, oh, hi. And then my face was greeting her face. She looked bamboozled. She's like, can I help you?

And I said, oh, listen, I don't know what's happened here. It's been an accidental FaceTime. But then whatever reason, once you see someone else's face, you feel like you need to engage in some form of conversation. It's like, okay, well, we're both now in this situation she's like oh how's how's things been how's the family and then so i ended up facetiming a real estate agent oh no i had no i had no desire to talk to you bought three houses it's a bit awkward now yeah i'll I'll take three of them. What the hell? Yeah, just to end the phone call. Now, you just mentioned this before,

and we've managed to track the person down. Someone who's going to be attempting to break a world record over the weekend. Yeah, that's right. And I just saw him on television before. Producer Bee Humps is like, I'll get him. Five minutes later, he's on the phone. Yeah. Wonderful producing, Bee Humps.

Yeah. And wonderful answering of the phone. His name is welcome to the show sam hey how's it going guys good to have you on now uh as an artist you're a rap artist under the the name sensor fence in this weekend 40 hours what are you doing so i'm going to be freestyle rapping for as much of that time as humanly possible hopefully the entire thing um yeah, we're doing something called 40 for 4. It's like 40 hours of freestyle to raise money for four different charities. What a wonderful thing to do.

Now, you said you're freestyling, so you're not doing covers. So you're going to have to make all of this up as you go along for 40 hours. Like, by hour 36, you're going to be, and there's a computer, and a server, and a TV. Are you going to attempt to rhyme? I mean, obviously, that's the goal.

Normally, I'm rhyming. But yeah, as Jono said, after an hour, it's going to be tough. There's a tree and a leaf. It's not the coming up with rhymes that I think is going to be the challenge. I think it's going to be the lack of sleep that will be the challenge. Actually, staying awake. I think as long as I can stay awake, I can keep rapping. Jeez.

So do you get breaks? What's the longest time you can have between words rhyming? So the Guinness records, they allow a five minute break every hour and those can accumulate. So if you take, you know, you have a free sign for two hours, then you can take a ten minute break.

Ah, right. So you could bank those up and get, you know, a lovely 25 minute sleep. Oh, wow, that'd be great Exactly a little power nap in the middle So it's just you doing it trying to rap for 40 hours Yep that's right Can people watch this? Yeah so the whole thing is going to be

Live streamed on Twitch Under my channel Sense Offense And also you can find the stream on my website At senseoffense.com Well we now you know this is obligatory. I saw bloody Ryan Bridge do it on the AM show to you. You're going to have to take us out with a freestyle, mate. You know what this is about.

Oh, we're doing this, aren't we? We're going to have to do it. I'm just going to drop the beatbox for this one. Yeah, I'll drop the beatbox. Okay. I've never done it before, but I'll drop it. And hopefully I don't break it. He's very clumsy, so that's appropriate.

And if you could include Ben, Jono, and Juliet in your freestyle. Ben, Jono, and Juliet. Juliet's our wonderful producer. Okay, ready? Are you ready, Sam? Here goes the beat. Boom, chick. Boom, chick.

Oh, wow, that's a nice beat. Let's keep going. Yo, I'm going flow with Ben and Jono Every time I go, I've a rap as like Geronimo Yo, you know we gonna flow all of the time We blowing your mind with every rhyme, it's so divine Yeah, you know that I'm not an illiterate We rapping here with Jono, Ben and Juliet

Yeah, you know I've been a threat to Apple rappers on internet That was awesome! Wow! Thank you! And, you know know a sea of saliva over the studio as well yeah that was really impressive and you're gonna do that for 40 hours yep 40 hours straight oh good on you if people want to check it out obviously you said before and that's how they can donate to the charities as well yeah 100 so that's on the website at sanspence.com forward slash world record. There's the donation page on there. And also if anyone watches the Twitch stream,

I got a little chat bot that'll keep spamming the link in the chat. That's Sam. Well done, mate. If you don't mind, can we call you on Monday to see how you went? Yeah, absolutely. No problem. As long as I'm not asleep, there'll probably be a lot of sleep in that day. No rapping on Monday.

We promise not to make you rap on Monday. All right, that sounds good. I hope I still have some sort of voice left. Well, good luck. What a wonderful thing you're doing, and have a great weekend, Sam. Thanks, you too. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on the hits

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