Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Dogs at work? YES / NO

Episode Date: April 13, 2022

Jono's never caught a fish, but can he catch a compliment? We have play some classic road-trip games and Ben has yet another awkward moment, this time in a bathroom!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast. Hi guys, 14th of April. Ben, you politely said, listen, I don't want to take your date. He's like, I... I did it yesterday, I jumped in, first time I've ever said the date and I know that... Yeah. It's something you've started doing on the podcast. First day of the 14th of April. And listen, to be honest, I'm not going to be precious about it. Like, if you want to say the date, you're more than welcome to say the date.

Who am I? I'm not the boss of you. If you like saying the date... No, I didn't, I just wanted to say it once, just wanted to feel what it than welcome to say the date. Who am I? I'm not the boss of you. If you like saying the date. No, I didn't. I just wanted to say it once. Just wanted to feel what it was like to have that thrill. Yeah, and Belle Crawford, what are you doing over Easter? Belle's been hanging out for the last couple of weeks. Very chill one. Just recently come back to Auckland after being in Wellington for a bit. What do you prefer?

Hmm. I don't know. I like both. I think Auckland the weather's a bit better. Maybe a bit warmer. On a good day. On a good day, Wellington. Oh, you can't. I don't know if you've heard about I think Auckland, the weather's a bit better, maybe a bit warmer. On a good day, Wellington. Oh, you can't. I don't know if you've heard about this, but you can't beat it. Wellington is a really cool city, and I did really enjoy being back there. What I love about Wellington is it's all kind of like,

the city is kind of the place where people go, you know? Whereas in Auckland, the centre of town isn't always necessarily the place that people go, because it's a big city and there's lots of areas, but it's kind of got a hub to it, you know, a vibe. In the centre of the town in Auckland too, you can get punched in the face. Yeah. Oh, Wellington too.

Courtney Place has been a few... Most places in New Zealand that can happen. Face punching. I mean, you can go anywhere in New Zealand and you can get a good old face punching. Especially if you're John or Ben, you know. People want to punch us in the face. Yeah, that's good.

Well, I would say Auckland was the far superior city. But I grew up here, you know. Yeah, I grew up in Wellington. We were the cool kids, you know. It's all right would say Auckland was the far superior city. But I grew up here. You know, I've kind of... Yeah, I grew up in Wellington. We were the cool kids, you know. It's all right. We won't hold it against you. But then I would grow up in Marston. He's embarrassed to say he's from Auckland,

so he always goes, Ira was originally from Marston. But he hasn't been back to Marston in... Beautiful wineries. 45 years, he hasn't been back to Marston. He was a state earlier in the year. Lovely. Martin Barrett.

Yeah. I mean, it's great. Yeah, lovely. But I was going to say, I be back to Marston. He was a state earlier in the year, lovely, Martin Barrett. Yeah. I mean, it's great. Yeah, lovely. But no, but I was going to say, I grew up in Marston, which, again, it's great. I loved growing up in Marston, but I wouldn't prefer it over, if you went, oh, we're going to have a night out in Marston or Wellington or Auckland, I'd pick Wellington or Auckland. We've had a night out in Marston, yourself and me.

Yeah, we have, yeah. What did you guys do? You got punched in the face, don't you? No. That was where John and John met. No, it was the pub quiz thing. Maybe we went to the pub quiz.

That's right, we turned over to pub quiz. And a bloody salt of the earth. You imagine the pub's a marston. Jeez, I tell you what. It was interesting going back there and, you know, turning up to a pub

and then seeing a couple of people that were like my teachers tell you what. It was interesting going back there and, you know, turning up to a pub and then seeing a couple of people that were like my teachers. At the thing. But, you know. At the pub. But you almost, you feel like you're a kid again. You know, you're like, I shouldn't be in the pub. Even though I was well, well enough to be in the pub.

You're still like, the teacher's there. Better behave. There are those moments where you still, you'll always feel like a child. Yeah. And it is when you bump into teachers. When you meet All Blacks. Yeah. Like, we met some All Blacks last week.

I still felt like a little child around them. And also when your parents bring their friends over. Yeah. You know, that really puts your place on the ladder, the pecking order, doesn't it? But, you know, Marston's got, and they've got the, in Marston, when you drive into Marston, because a very rich shearing history in Marston, shearing sheep, and they've got these clippers. Yeah, it's like the golden shears is the big event,

and so they've got the old-fashioned shears that they used to clip the sheep with. Yeah, but what they've done is they've designed... This is what only you would think of this. Well, OK, I'll show this picture to Belle Crawford, and then you can make a judgment. OK, so Masterton... Yeah, they get to sign the golden shares. It's like the home of the

golden shares. You've driven through Masterton? Yeah. You would have driven through to get here, wouldn't you? Did you stop? Now, what do you think that looks like? It looks like golden

shares, guys. Who designed't quite who designed that who designed that yeah what does that look like now the podcast audience you just imagine what we're looking at google it yeah yeah i lived in marston for many many years not once did i even as a like a childish you know kid did i ever go oh it looks that. But it took Jono coming to Masterton once as a fully grown adult to go, what's up with your sign? And I'm like,

what? So anyway, home of the golden shares. You guys doing much? Proud of it. This weekend, no good question. Ben's going up north.

I might go to Whangamata. We haven't quite decided. We're in that, which generally means we're not going to go. If you haven't made the call by now, you're not, you know, if you're going away, you need to make the call early. There's a lot of prep that is required.

Yeah, and it's the dealing with traffic. You feel like, oh, do I ever want to do that? Do I want to entertain that fact today and then again on Monday? Yeah, we've been R-ing and R-ing all week, but yeah. Have you packed? Ah, yes, we did. Yeah, packed back to last night. We haven't packed. We're not going anywhere. So people are going to panic because the supermarket's closed for like one day, right? Yes, we did. Yeah, packed back to last night. We haven't packed. We're not going anywhere.

So people are going to panic because the supermarket's closed for like one day, right? Oh, yeah. When are they closed? Friday. Friday? Yeah. Do they? Everyone will be out there like they're doomsday preppers. Yeah.

It's amazing when one thing shuts for a day and it really throws you out. You're like, am I going to be fine? Am I going to get anything? What if the milk runs out? You know there's more days coming. I know. Well, enjoy your Easter weekend and enjoy the podcast. Rated M for mildly amusing.

Jono and Ben on the hits. 607 on your Thursday morning. It is Kid Rock all summer long. And Donald Trump recorded a video message for Kid Rock. We actually had it. We're going to play it for you now. Before his concert the other day, have a listen to Donald Trump. Hello everyone. I love you all.

I know you're having a great time at the Kid Rock concert tonight. Quite frankly, he's amazing. All of you in attendance are the true backbone of our great country. Hard working, God fearing, rock and roll patriots.

At some point he goes, Kid Rock isaring, rock and roll Patriots. Patriots. At some point he goes, Kid Rock is the greatest entertainer of our time. Big cool. I mean, he's pretty good. I don't want to put anyone down, but it's a bit cool. It's a bit cool. Listen, Ben Boyce, you wanted to lead this program with some running banter. Oh, yeah. What you don't appreciate is someone who uh is not only a

good runner loves to demonstrate it i hadn't told you this but um it was last friday night went out to um and have a couple of drinks with the family and then we got dinner at a takeaway place and some other people were you know a couple of yeah younger younger crowd were there as well a hip hip audience yeah market they came up to call me Jono as they do and he politely answered and pretended to be me yeah yeah I get the same I always get where's Ben yeah like you'll be so you walk through the mall where's Ben I've left him in the car with a backpack and a burger rings yeah so anyway that you know we'd all be enjoying our Friday nights this to say and then one of the guys turned to me and he's like do you want to see me sprint do you want to see me run and I'm like

yeah why not and so if you're coming out with that you really do need to deliver on pace and he gave me his phone which i thought was very trustworthy and he's like you film me you film me running i'm very fast i'm like why does he need it on his own phone surely you need to capture this on yours so you anyway i caught this i ran commentary of him running like this and gz took off he like he had the jandals on took, took them off in bare feet. And then he just ran. And it was kind of like Forrest Gump. He ran out of sight.

He ran around the corner. And then I had to stop the video. I was like, I don't know if this guy's coming back. But I have his phone. Just a tremendous sprint. It was fast. Was he quick? It was fast.

But I probably saw the first 10 minutes. Then it got dark. There was no street lights. But he just kept going. He just didn't stop. He committed to it. And then sort of five minutes later, he came back and gave him his phone back. But it's one of those situations that I was thinking,

remember that time we went out in Taupo and you ended up going for a ride in a guy's car around the clock, a Tesla or something. Yeah, we went for dinner. And he's like, you want to check out my Tesla? And I said yeah I believe I was of the belief that he worked for NZMe

which is the company that owns the hits because there were a few of the sales team there so I thought that I was just going for a ride and one of the sales guys Teslas

that's what I had assumed I got back and you guys where on earth have you been I said well I've been driving all around Taupo in a tesla and it's been a wonderful experience i said i went with the sales rep and you're like what sales rep

and then i pointed to him like he's in no way associated with with the company but he's got a wonderful tesla yeah very silent now speaking of running too someone that we're really enjoying on the internet at the moment um is this gentleman i I don't know if you've heard of him, David Goggins. Now Goggins, I think he's like ex-military or Navy SEAL or something in America. Yeah, he's quite a motivational guy. He's kind of turned his life around.

He does a lot of fitness stuff and a lot of motivational stuff. I know he's just trying to motivate, but you feel like you're being told off. Don't you a listen it might be april where you are and you're expecting nice weather and but it's 20 degrees so you might be somewhere where it's too hot so you might have sore legs, sore back, sore shoulder. So the struggle is real. It never gets any easier. You've got to get harder. That's Gorgons.

Like, all of those things he's listing are a great reason not to go for a run. It's cold, I'm sore. Something doesn't quite sit right with me about Gorgons. He would have no qualms killing a man. He feels like, you look at him, he feels like he's on the verge. You say he's always on the verge of... Either crying or like... Yeah, it looks like he's intense, but geez, he motivates. He gets results, doesn't he?

Let's do some gossiping behind the celeb's back, shall we, Bill Crawford? Hey, let's be nice about it. And Hailey Bieber is the celebrity that's posted a video begging for people to leave her alone. What are they doing to her? Well, they just, every time she posts anything, they troll her.

You know, people who are fans of Selena Gomez, you know, Jelena, Justin's ex from like a long time ago. That was a while ago, right? So long. And like, Hailey and Justin are married ex from, like, a long time ago. Yeah, it was a while ago, right? It was so long. And, like, Hayley and Justin are married. She's like, what more can I do? I'm his wife. Yeah, every time they're just trolling her and she can't do anything without them commenting constantly.

Have a listen to the video she posted. Leave me alone at this point. I'm minding my business. I don't do anything. I don't say anything. Leave me alone. It would suck, wouldn't it? Especially if you're not going out there trying to antagonise anyone

or responding to comments. And you're like, oh, jeez, okay. I noticed a trend of every time we play celebrities, they've got dramatic music behind them now. Is it a new thing coming in Hollywood? I like it. It adds huge effect to it. It made her statement far more hard-hitting than it needed to be. But yeah, 42. I like it. It adds huge effect to it. It made her statement far more hard

hitting than it needed to be. 42.8 million followers, Hayley Bieber. Not too bad, Ben. Wouldn't you dream of 42.8 million followers? I'd be happily bullied by 48 million followers. It would be so annoying though because she's got really cool style so a lot of us look to her for what she's wearing

and her hair and everything and then every time she says anything, just trolling, constant her for what she's wearing and her hair and everything and then every time she says anything, just trolling constant commenting. So she's not Alec Baldwin's daughter. Niece. Right, so is her dad what, Billy or Stephen? I think it might be Stephen.

I think it might be Stephen. Who's Hayley? It's Stephen. Stephen's a nice guy, isn't he? He's an actor as well. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting.

Very successful family, the Baldwins. Yeah. Everyone goes a bit silent when you talk about the Baldwins. Well, I don't know where you're going with this, so I'm like, all right, move on to the next story. All right. It's a show to keep an eye on. I think some people might like this, especially if you love food and travel shows.

This is for you. Now, the actor Stanley Tucci, he's got a real treat for us. Releasing a trailer for season two of his show, Searching for Italy. He goes on the road in Italy. Does he find Italy? He's like... Yeah, eventually.

Spoiler alert, he ends up there. It's around here somewhere. I'm sure of it. The map says it's here. It's France. You're in France, mate. And he's just tried all the food. Now, this isn't the best audio for radio

But I thought you might have some fun with it Have a listen Oh my god Wow Oh look at that, gorgeous That's a revelation I'm literally starving now And finally we knew what he was looking at

It sounds like he's having fun I wasn't going to play it but you might like it It's a very good grab Now Stanley Tucci If only we knew what he was looking at. It sounds like he's having fun. I wasn't going to play it, but you might like it. It's a very good grab. Now, Stanley Tucci, it seems like one of those actors that he'd be an actor's actor. You know, the acting community would respect Tucci. But, you know, your mainstream, fast and furious attending audience, they wouldn't know who Stanley Tucci was. Well, you probably would know him when you saw him. You'd go, oh, he was in that.

You know, that was in Hunger Games. He's been in heaps. Yeah. The Devil Wears Prada, all that sort of stuff. Yeah. Wasn't there a song, Tucci Gang, Tucci Gang? No. Well, there might have been.

There was Tucci Gang. Yes, there was. And that's Spy with the Kardashians streaming tonight on Star on Disney+. Thanks, Belle. You're going to be watching, right? You're a big fan. Yeah. I'm keen for this. I've got some more Spy for you later about some things that have+. Thanks, Belle. You're going to be watching, right? You're a big fan. Yeah, I'm keen for this.

I've got some more spy for you later about some things that have been spoiled, though. Scrolling through your feed. Here's for the biggest news and information today. You should probably be listening to Newstalk ZB. For all the other stuff that doesn't really matter, here's Ben. Yeah, so the orange light is here. The announcement was made yesterday by Chris Hipkins

on behalf of the government, and it kicked in at midnight last night. That means no limits on gatherings in bars and restaurants, no masks required in bars and restaurants. Dancing? You can dance again, Jono, if you wanted to dance on the dance floor. It's been one of the joys of lockdown as a middle-aged white guy, not having to dance. It's been great. Not once have I been called into the middle of a dance circle over the last two years.

Well, now you can dance again. It's still compulsory to wear masks on public transport. Schools is interesting. Yeah, so this is the confusion. It's a little bit confusing where you're meant to wear masks or not. Schools, they look like they're encouraging it, but it's up to the schools. There's going to be more information. Now, even Chris Hipkins, he's meant to be across all this, right?

He's the COVID response minister. He got shipped in because the other guy went biking during lockdown, remember? That's right. They're like, Hipkins is a safe pair of hands. He doesn't like biking. He's not going to go biking. Doesn't like going outside and doesn't like rule bending. Yeah, but he was a little bit confused about these new mask laws

that are coming in around the orange light setting. And this was from Newshub last night. The rules have changed. So we're still encouraging them on flights and public transport. Oops, actually let's find a friend on that. Give me one minute, I've just got masks are still a requirement on public transport so including flights. Oh he fumbled retail too. For some reason I didn't bring the exact list. Saying masks were out for shoppers. So you don't have to wear a face mask to the supermarket anymore? No.

Wrong. You do. I do have the updated list now, and I've refreshed my memory of them, and I was incorrect on retail. Jeez. Yeah, so supermarkets, retail, you've got to wear it. If you're on public transport, you've got to wear it. And if you're in the library as well.

But as I say, if you're at school, then it's up to the school, and it's all in bars and nightclubs. I mean, you're probably never going to get people to listen in bars and nightclubs. Hippo, we love the hippo. We've been a big backer of the hippo through this whole thing. He would have taken himself to the bathroom and looked in that mirror and gone, pull yourself together, hippo. You had a shocker.

Shocker. He did. Jacinda was probably like,, hippo. You had a shocker. Shocker. Jacinda was probably like, send hippo out there. All you've got to do is deliver the good news. It's good news. It's orange, mate. Get out there. Take this one. We're in orange.

And then just walk off. That's all you need to do. Just walk off. And then he got into a weird mask. I'm no political expert, but maybe you might want to read up on the mask rules before you head it out to answer questions about it. They also got into some weird conversation about pashing on the dance floor.

Have a listen. So you can have people pashing on a dance floor, but I have to wear a mask to go to the supermarket. At the moment, you still have to wear a mask in a retail environment. That is correct. Where is your logic on that? Ultimately, it's a question of volume.

There are going to be a lot more people in the supermarket on a weekly basis than there'll be out and about pashing on a dance floor. Well, how's he know? There's not everyone. Everyone might be smooching with everybody. I'm desperate to get out and pash. That's what we live for.

But there we go. What was it? The driving club music behind there. Yeah, that was a little something from you, Bell, wasn't it? Just sort of added a bit of spice, you know? Oh, there we go. So where are we at? What do we do? Do we of added a bit of spice you know. Oh there we go so where are we at? What do we do?

Do we put on a mask or not? Do you think they should have just said if you want to wear a mask wear a bloody mask if you don't don't you know?

I feel like it'll get to that stage because as of today you're no longer required to show a proof of vaccination or a negative test to fly around

on Air New Zealand and as of May they're going to remove the no jab no fly on international policy so I feel like it's heading in that direction. And Hipkins was probably, yeah, you're right. He probably just got, oh, I don't know, do what you want.

And we'll get there. And then walked off. Yeah. It would have been a better result than what we just heard. Jono and Ben. Now on Tuesday, Jono, we're going to try and catch you your first fish. You've never caught a fish before. It's on your bucket list.

And if Jono does catch a fish, which we're hoping is going to fish, you've never caught a fish before, it's on your bucket list and if Jono does catch a fish which we're hoping is going to happen, everyone that texts FISH to 4487 someone will win $1000 and get four people on board one of the Seahawk fishing charters which we're going to be in on Tuesday which I'm looking forward to as well, they cater for groups, big and small corporate events, team building, take

kids and school holidays and all that at seahawk.co.nz Now I tell you what this has been dragging on for a while now. Hopefully catching the fish is the easy part. The hard part's been dragging it out for a few extra days because weather came into play. A cyclone threatened to come. Which wasn't as bad in Auckland as they were predicting.

It never is. When we build up these things, guys, we need to learn. When we give the weather too much credit leading into it, it never delivers it never comes through, does it? but then sometimes when you don't predict it, it just turns up out of nowhere if they know about it, they're going to tell you about it

rather than just going, well I didn't want to say anything because we didn't want to look like it was I suppose they're just doing their job they're like, honestly there was a cyclone and it was coming towards us so yeah, we were heading out first thing Tuesday morning, early Tuesday morning I suppose they're just doing their job. They're like, honestly, there was a cyclone. It was coming towards us. So yeah, we were heading out first thing Tuesday morning, early Tuesday morning. And we got a text when we started talking about this from a lady who's like,

I've never caught a fish either. I'd love to knock that off my bucket list. So we can make two dreams come true on one charter, Ben. I know. So we give her a call. This is Chanel. We'll head through. Hello, Chanel speaking. Good morning, Chanel. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits Radio station. Hello, how are you?

Well, we are good, mate. What would you say if you had the opportunity to wake up at 4.30 on Tuesday morning and jump on a fishing boat in the freezing cold weather and come and catch your first fish with Jono and or Ben? I would, um, um, Tuesday morning. Well, I've got the kids with me, but I have to rearrange something, but it could be done.

Yeah, so this is one of those ones where we've got you on the spot, you're trying to think of it, you're like, oh, Tuesday, Tuesday. I think something's on Tuesday. Bearing in mind you've come off the back of a big, long weekend, and you're like,

you probably want to get your head around the week. School holidays, potentially, if your kids are that age. I know there's a lot to juggle. I do have twins that are 11, so yep. Yeah, well, let them sleep in because you're coming early morning fishing. Bring the twins. Wake up the whole family. Bring the family.

You're like, John, okay, this isn't the moment. This is the big prize. This is the big fishing prize. You've never caught a fish before, right? Do you know? No, I haven't. I have been fishing a couple of times, but I've never caught a fish. I've caught some seaweeds.

Well, now is the time you catch your fish. I feel like your desire is not as strong as maybe Jono's desire to catch a fish. You know, you're like, it's an interesting story, you know, but I feel like you're not quite with Jono enough. Yeah. I didn't know if this was serious. I was like, is this real? Yeah, no, it is.

I tell you what, we'll let it all sink in. And you can have a think about it over the weekend. If you can make things work, we'd love to help you catch your first fish. Oh, that'd be awesome. And if you can't, you can just awkwardly fade out and don't answer our calls. Yeah. But we'll give it 10 minutes on the day.

We'll be like, oh, Janelle's coming down. But then after 10 minutes, we'll be like, oh, she's not coming. We're going to have to leave. Okay, that's what I'm going to do. No, I'll be there.

Oh, there we go. It's happening Tuesday morning. Bring the family. We're catching a fish. Sounds cool. All right. Oh, well, she may be there. She may be there. She may not. But if you want to win $1,000 when Jono catches a fish sounds cool alright oh well she may be there she may be there

she may not but if you want to win $1,000 when Jono catches a fish you've just got to text fish to 4487 F-I-S-H to 4487

and that's the only way text a spelling fish for us I don't know just to clarify what's up ok alright ok

that's how you can win a fish I hope you don't catch a fish now. Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, I'm a week away from welcoming into the fuddy a puppy, Ben. Yeah. I felt a lot of pressure from the voices, as I've publicly stated before. You've got a dog, and then as soon as you guys got a dog, it was, you know, look at the voices, they've got a dog.

Their dog's lovely. Bring the dog over every time you come. But then I talked to you about all the stories about what the dog's involved. Yeah, you have real talk. Real talk does it when you're trying to negotiate with children who just want a puppy. They're not hearing any of it. You're like, I know what's going to be happening in probably a month

or two months' time. It's on me. When the novelty wears off. You're out at 11 o'clock. You're still like a dog. Yeah, of course. But you're the one, Ben, walking your dog at 11 o'clock at night, aren't you? Yeah.

Are the kids out there walking the dog at 11? No. Probably for safety reasons it's not a good thing, but yeah. But no, it's going to be nice. It's good for a dog to be involved in a child's life, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. But my question is around bringing your dog into the workplace are you a bring your dog you have

brought your dog into the workplace before and it's been an absolute nightmare yeah yeah he's not he's not an office dog no he's a very social dog he likes to talk to everyone and you know he doesn't yeah it's. And he's clumsy. He's knocking over bins, bowled over the printer. Yeah, we only bring him in if we need him for something, like to announce something as a dog. Yeah, we bring him in, he comes in. He's our comedy dog.

He's a showman. He's the size of a polar bear and he looks like a polar bear. He loves it. He comes to the studio, but he wants to go visit everyone. So he wants to go out and roam the office and get into the bins and everything. And, you know. It's too much dog for this office. Yeah. but he wants to go visit everyone. So he wants to go out and roam the office and get into the bins and everything. It's too much dog for this office. Yeah.

But some people do bring their dogs into the office. What are your thoughts on that? How do you feel about people bringing their dogs into the office? Why does my opinion count? Well, I just wanted to know where I could sit. Am I going to be a bring your dog to work guy and everyone's going to talk behind my back and go, oh God, he's brought a smelly dog in. Yeah, I feel like, look, I don't know.

I mean, I feel like maybe they shouldn't come into the office place to work unless they have a day renowned again. You know, a dog day maybe, but otherwise it's just shambles. We had an old office that we used to work in and it got to a stage where there was about six or seven dogs. Oh, it was wild. It was like, what is this? Is this a radio station or a dog place? Yeah. Ben Humphrey, come was wild. It was like, what is this? Is this a radio station or a dog place?

Ben Huffrey, come in here. Producer B Humps was saying there used to be a dog that roamed the halls, bells are green too, roamed the halls of this very radio station, and what would it do? It was a very aggressive barker. It would growl at people and get its hackles up on its back. And start foaming at the mouth when you're just walking to get a cup of coffee. Yeah, like, maybe I'll give it.

Great for productivity, though. See why the company brought that dog in. Like Mr Burns with his attack dogs. So just when you're having a meeting or something, this dog would just be staring you down. Like that viral video, you know? Come bounding over. Is this the dog that used to shake?

Or is that a different one? Do I mention the name? No, they are. Maybe not. R.I.P. R.I.P. The shaky dog. Is he still alive?

I thought it died years ago, didn't it? I don't know, but he honestly would just shake. He even had his own little place, like his name on a desk and everything yeah and then one day he wasn't allowed in anymore yeah i mean the last thing you need in an office is someone sniffing your crotch something sniffing your crotch do you i mean ben's done it before and i'm like hey not appropriate but it's he's like let's bring your work to dog to work day he's like i'm being a dog uh but you know so i don't know if I will bring the dog in. Maybe I'll like a once off, get the dog to, and then that's, you know.

If it's toilet train. The dog as well, too. The dog wants to be outside. And, you know, there's only sitting in an office for eight hours. That's the other thing with office dogs. Obviously, nature does call. Has that happened around here? Yeah.

See that stain there on the carpet? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Megan, who works on 3PM Pickup, remember she brought her dog in before she was working at the radio station.

I stood in it and brought it in the office. I heard about that. I was like, I smell it. I'm like, it's by me. And I was like, where did I get that from? It was right outside the radio studio. It was like 4.45 in the morning. I don't need this in an office.

So yeah, you asked me again, should you bring a dog into work? No. Here's my answer, no. That's right, that was a great morning. Rise and shine, time to start the, who are we kidding? When are the both of you? Jono and Ben on the hit. Heading into a long Easter weekend.

Going on a bit of a road trip today. Going up to see some family up north. Are you going to go see your mum, Jenny? She'll be very happy. You haven't seen Jenny in a while, have you? No, I haven't. Well, not up there. Not up there for a while, yeah.

And my sister's back from Australia because now people can come back from Australia. So it'll be cool. I'm looking forward to that and going on a road trip with the family. And I was thinking about road trips and you know games we talk more about games and stuff that you want to play on road trips but road trip etiquette is something that comes in as well I've been on many road trips with you Jono Pryor and something that I wanted to ask Bell Crawford if you think it's okay is he often uses petrol station toilets bathrooms without, without buying an item.

That's just... And I'd like to say also, Bell Crawford, what's the alternative? So now you've got both sides. The alternative is buying something to use the facility. I go in and buy something because I feel guilty. What would you buy? He buys like a paranoid pie or something. Yeah.

An apology pie. Yeah. A sorry sausage roll. Yeah. Johnny Pryor loves to, you know, you're a good driver, you know,

a little erratic, but you like driving. But if you're not driving, you always sleep. That's the other thing as well, don't you? Yeah. I do like to play a game in the car

is how long can I stay awake for? If you're not driving straight away, he's asleep as well. I sleep, I sleep like a baby in a car. It's like, you know, when you take your good newborn out

and drive them around the block at 3 o'clock in the morning? It's like me. As soon as the movement and the rumble of the tires, I'm out like a light and sleeping like a baby. Sometimes I wake up in nappies. I have to start feeding off Ben's chest. But I don't know how many road trips, many we've put the wrong petrol in cars before.

We've done all sorts of stuff like that as well. But the other thing I like as well is how you don't have the radio on. For someone who works in radio, you've never got the radio on. No, it gives me... I don't like listening to other radio shows because I go,

oh, they're doing that better than we would do that. You know, it gets in my... I'm like, oh, that's a really good show. So I'm like, well, just do your own radio show. If it's good or bad, you don't know because you can't compare it to other radio shows. Which is fine. I get that.

I'm not aware of who's in the market out there. But when we're not talking, it's just silence. It's just like, okay. Yeah, I know. You do like entertainment in the car, don't you? But you also put your feet on my dashboard. Yeah, I know. I leave Apple Cores sometimes in your door and stuff like that.

Not on purpose. I just forget to take them. I know that. But not even in the door. Sometimes in the drink cup holder. Oh, there's a half-eaten apple sitting in there that he hasn't pulled out. So we wanted to just talk about road trip games, which we're going to try and play a couple of the big bangers on the radio today, aren't we?

Now, this is a new one, and I'm going to give full credit to Aaron, who's a wonderful production engineer He actually came up with this and I think you should play this while travelling to Northland today Ben Okay So it's alternative names for popular You could give it any category but this is popular musicians or artists Okay You could do it with movies or whatever

So it's alternative names You need to try and figure out who the artist is I'm talking about. Okay, give us an example. Okay. Woman, baby noises. What would be the alternative? Woman, baby noises. Do you know, Bill?

Yeah, I worked it out. Oh, you have, really? Lady Gaga. Woman, baby noises. Yeah, woman, lady, Gaga. Oh, yeah, that's cool. Okay. Okay.

Two letters of the alphabet, 16 letters apart. Oh, Jay-Z. Jay-Z. Yeah, Jay-Z. Two from two. I was trying to think of alphabets. Okay. Busy body canine.

Busy body canine. Something dog. Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg. Yeah. This is fun. This is fun. This is fun.

It's a good game. It takes a lot for you. You're doing the heavy lifting as well. I mean, it does take. I'm not just coming up with this off the top of my head. It takes a certain amount of preparation before you depart. It's like for the road trip. You're like, okay, but nine hours of just coming up with these.

And then I'm set to go. Go to thesaurus.com. Okay. What's the? It's dog. All right. Okay. Here's a good one. Doris.com. Okay. What's the, it's dog. All right. Okay. Moist.

Here's a good one. Moisture on the grass jumper. Moisture on the grass jumper. So there's moisture on the grass. That'll be one part of the band. Moisture on the grass. But then jumper is the second part. Frost, dew.

Am I close? You got close with dew. Oh, dew. Jumper. Oh, dew lipper. Dew lipper go close with Jew? Oh, Jew. Jumper. Oh, Jewel Eeper. Jewel Eeper. Jeez, you're really... Okay, okay. Okay.

Commuting rocks. Commuting rocks. Rocks of... Oh, Rolling Stones. There you go. That's good. It's a fun game, but like I say,

it does take probably about half an hour. If you've done all your packing and you can spare half an hour, then go online and create your own game there. I love it. Now on Tuesday, we're trying to make one of Jono's bucket list dreams come true and it involves him never being able to catch, he's never caught a fish before, and here's how it's all come about. I want to make the news.

I also want to be on Shortland Street. And finally, I want to caught a fish before, and here's how it's all come about. I want to make the news. I also want to be on Shortland Street. And finally, I want to catch a fish. Rebecca Randall plays Dawn on Shortland Street. No. We are going to have you go on a fishing charter. I see what you've done here. Still a dream, right? Going to call a fishing shop.

We want to see if you can weave some fishing puns, as many as you can, into the conversation. Do you think, like, tomorrow's would be, you know, a good opportunity to go? It shouldn't be too bad. Punderstruck! You've been punderstruck! I don't exactly know if puns would be the way I'd go.

First man of fishing, Clark Gayford. Welcome. So, Jono, you've obviously never been on Tinder then either. Well, I mean, because every New Zealand bloke seems to be on Tinder with a picture of a pig. What happened to you? I got attacked by a shark. You got attacked by a shark?

Yeah, it hit me on my shoulder. Oh, you poor thing. Jeez. My brother actually catched John Dorey, skews it up onto the boat ramp, and flopped around and pressed you, and he grabbed it. And hurting the fish like sheep sort of thing.

Yeah, man. Now we're joined by a very young fisherman. Cole Delamore is his name. Any advice? Just be patient. Fiddly hard. Oh, the other thing, does he need a fishing nickname? The Rodfather.

Hello, the Rodfather. And the Happy Hooker. Moby Dickhead was another one. Hello, Moby Dickhead. There's some wild weather coming to New Zealand. We thought we'd talk to a weather expert from weatherwatch.co.nz. Philip Duncan, we're meant to go fishing tomorrow. Yeah.

Do we just plough on? My suggestion is give it a pass this week, move it to next week. It'll be more settled next week than it will be. Mad dog, Phil Duncan. What does mad dog, Phil Duncan, want to say to us? Go out there, give it a bash? No, he can't. So it's happening on Tuesday.

We're going to hop on board the Seahawk fishing charter and you're going to try and catch a fish. And when it happens, someone will win $1,000. And if you want to be that person, text FISH to 4487. Yeah, and it's been delayed, the trip, thanks to weather. But it's still a lot of anticipation. The most highly anticipated fishing trip since Maui went out to fish up the North Island Bend.

Right. A lot of street talk out there about this one. And also, we're not only making my bucket list dream come true, but also Chanel, who you got hold of. Chanel has never caught a fish either. She had messaged in over the last couple of weeks wanting to tell us that. And we surprised her this morning and the joy was astounding.

Come and catch your first fish with Jono and or Ben. I would, um, Tuesday morning. Well, I've got the kids with me, but I have to rearrange something. But it could be done. Yeah, see, this is one of those ones where we've got you on the spot. You're trying to think of it. You're like, oh, Tuesday, Tuesday. I think something's on Tuesday.

Bearing in mind you've come off the back of a big, long weekend. And you're like, you probably want to get your head around the week. So I don't know if she's coming yet. Tuesday, Tuesday. What did we say? 4.30 Tuesday.'s coming yet. Tuesday. Tuesday. What did we say? 4.30 Tuesday. Oh, 4.30. Yeah, so we'll see if we get hold of Chanel over the weekend

and she'll be joining us on the fishing charter. But like Ben said, text FISH to 4487. And if we do catch one, you're going to win a grand. The annoying ones talking between the songs. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now we mentioned before a lot of people going on road trips. School holidays are kicking in. Easter's kicking in.

I'm going on a bit of a road trip today, and we thought we'd play some... Are you going separate cars? You're all in the same car? How does the voices... Well, I think we're all going to go in the same car with all of us, so yeah. Sometimes we like to, we go separately. We go one kid each car. Right.

Because I'm like, why have we got so much stuff? We're going away for a day. But the boot just fills up. That's the problem. I'm like, oh there's bikes in the back. I'm just like the transport, the stuff car. Yeah. I know what you mean. You're just like, we don't need all this stuff. I feel like sometimes it's

harder to pack for a small amount of time than it is for a long amount of time. Because you like to be a what if packer, don't you? You want to be ready for any scenario. Yeah, what if it's sunny? What if I swim? What if it's raining? What if I have a cyclone feeling?

You know, all those things. What if I want to go deep-sea diving? I don't even dive, but I'll take a wetsuit. There might be a black tie function that I need a tuxedo for. You know, all these things. I don't know. You know, I want to go, hey, you can come along tonight. Have you got a tuxedo?

No, I don't. No know what i go hey you could come along tonight have you got a tuxedo oh no i don't oh we're at the beach i don't usually but wow you're you're gonna miss out on a great black tie tuxedo event yeah so hey just in case i've got my tuxedo it's pressed it's ready to go but we wanted to play a wee game that we sometimes like to play in a and on car trips it's called 20 questions where someone picks you guys would have played it before you pick a famous person and then everyone gets 20 questions to work out who it is. So we want to play this with the audience too, with you guys listening.

So 800, the hits you can find through with 20 with a question for 20 questions. Now I was going to get you to pick a famous person. And then I had a little thing overnight thinking about it. And I was like, Oh no, he's going to go down. There's going to be people that we're going to mention.

You know, you're going to pick someone that we can't talk about because you'll find that funny. Oh, so I'm not allowed to pick somebody? No, you're not going to pick. Why? I'm going to pick the person because there'll be a list. I'll email you a list of people that you can't mention. People that have got controversial things about them.

And I don't want to say their names. He's getting all jumpy even thinking about these people. Because we'll play 20 questions for 10 minutes and then you'll be like, oh, it's such and such. And we're like, oh. So you're what? You're picking the person?

I'm picking the person, yeah. So have you got someone in your head? Well, yeah, I can. I can pick it. Okay, first question, are you Bill Cosby? Oh, no.

See? See? And you've just wasted one of your questions. Okay. Now you have 19 more and a no. I'm not Bill Cosby.

All right. My guess. Next guess. No. Are you Rolf Harris? No. Okay. Two have gone.

Stop. Stop. This is why, Bell. Okay. This is why. Please don't. Please don't mention these names. Okay.

So you've wasted two of your questions. Now 18 questions. You look like R. Kelly. Okay. No, no, no. No. Okay. Okay.

See? Stop. Okay, Bell, an actual legitimate question? Yeah. Have I wasted three? You've wasted two. Okay. You've got 18 questions I'm going to say.

Are they an actor? Yes. Okay. Can you describe your first and last name? Yes. Okay. But I'm not going to because it's just yes or no for me, name. Yes. Okay. But I'm not going to because it's just yes or no for me, mate. Okay.

People are phoning through on 0800 HITS. If you manage to figure out who it is, you're going to win a prize. We'll start with you, Grace in Tauranga. How are you this morning, Grace? You doing well? Yeah, I'm doing all right. How are you guys doing? Yeah, good.

Ask Ben a question. Who is he? That's 20 questions. Okay. Are they male or female? Okay, they're a male. Okay. Can I keep going? Okay, go one more.

We'll leave one more, Grace. Okay, are they Kiwi? No, not a Kiwi. All right, so there we go. 800 of the hits. We'll leave it there. I think we've got about 14, 13 more questions left to go. Someone's texting, are you OJ Simpson?

Okay, okay. Oh, jeez. He's even somehow made this controversial, and I was trying to avoid that. I'm so sorry about him, guys. Sometimes I wish there wasn't a nan between our names. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben.

Keep those questions coming through. We'll guess who the person is next. Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Playing questions coming through we'll guess who the person is next breakfast with Jono and Ben playing a little game a little car trip game that you might want to play over the next couple of days if you're heading away

20 questions I've thought of a famous person you've got to work it out I've been muzzled you're sabotaging they've cancelled you because you keep bringing up people that are cancelled

and so we've got 14 questions left to work out what you do know seriously so far after squandering many good questions. It's a male, and the question was, do they act? And I was kind of like, yeah, yeah. It's one of the things that they do.

So we can confirm it's not OJ Simpson. No, and it's not OJ Simpson who has acted, but no, it's not OJ. Okay, someone has texted in there, and I think this is a really good guess, saying you're obsessed with The Rock. Is it Dwayne The Rock Johnson? No. Too obvious.

And it's not a Kiwi either. That was the other thing. We've got 13 questions left. Can we get the famous person? We'll get Pia on, shall we? We'll get Pia on there, Bill, from Tauranga. Morena, Pia, what's your guess for 20 questions? Morning, boys.

Morning. I want to know if your person is British. Yes. So they are... Oh, I don't know. I don't always ask questions. So you've said actor. You've said actor.

That's not their main profession. They act, but one of the things that they do. Yeah, I would say. Yeah. Would you say this person, when you instantly went, oh, that's an act? Yeah, maybe, but not the generally. If I was filling out the customs form,

maybe they wouldn't go with actor first. Okay, all right. You want to guess, Bell's got an idea who it could be. Yeah, I don't want to ruin it. Oh, have a go, mate. Are they in a boy band? No. So it's not how you thought it was Harry Styles.

Yeah, he acts a bit. He's a musician. Getting down to about 12 questions left and then 20 questions. Okay. 0800, the hits of telephone number 4487. We can continue this on very shortly. Has someone texted? Has someone messaged in?

Yeah. Who? I don't know who the person is. Don't mean to say who. Yeah. Go. Have a guess. Someone's guessed on 4487.

Ed Sheeran. No. Go, have a guess. Someone's guessed on 4487. Ed Sheeran? No. Oh, good guess. Yes, it's British. It does act as alive. I'll give you that one as well, as currently alive. Do they model? Another text on 4487.

Do they model? Have they modeled, you know, like for, I guess, like a Calvin Klein campaign? Without Googling everything, I'd say no. It's not David Beckham then. All right. Should we go to Claire who's phoning through on 0800 The Hits? No, I don't know. She's just hung up.

So no, we won't go through to Claire. We'll go through to Shelley. Shelley on from the capital in Wellington. Shelley, your question for 20 questions. We've got about how many left? I want to say 11 questions left if you need them. Take it away. Is it a comedian?

I would say, yeah, funny. He's very funny. He's very funny. Yeah, he does multiple things, I guess, in this job. But yes, I would say a comedian. Yes. Cool. Is it Rick?

Is it James Corbin? It is James Corbin. It's James Cushilly. Wow. The texts are going nuts. You did well. How did you get James Corden out of all that? She's not going to tell you, mate.

It's not our Shelley questions. Sorry, Shelley. He did a few acting gigs and he's British and carpool karaoke. So yeah, funny guy. Listen, I love that we've just used car filler content as radio filler content.

And it works so well. And it's been a dream game. We should do this again sometime. I was thinking James Corden, you know, he played Peter Rabbit. I thought it was an Easter Bunny reference in there somewhere. So, there you go. Well done. And I will say there's a lot of people on the text 4487 trying to sabotage your game, Ben, too.

Oh, really? So is Michael Jackson. Okay. Not British. Not British. All right guys. Come on. Play the game

properly. If we're going to play this game again everyone pull your socks up. Pull yourself together and we're going to do it

properly next time. All right? I mean there's some names. I won't be back. There's some names on this text machine I can't even read

out. Well I won't be back. Okay? You ruined the fun for everyone. Okay? It ruined the fun for everyone. Okay? It's a fun car game.

Dad on the car trip. Are we there yet? Jeez, it's just like a car trip. It is the Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Playing a little game, a little car trip game that you might want to play over the next couple of days.

If you're heading away, 20 questions. I thought of a famous person. You've got to work it out. I've been muzzled. You're sabotaging. They've cancelled you because you keep bringing up people that are cancelled. And so we've got 14 questions left. Work out what you do know seriously so far after squandering many good questions.

It's a male. And the question was, do they act? And I was kind of like, yeah, yeah. It's one of the things that they do. So we can confirm it's not OJ Simpson. No, and it's not OJ Simpson, who has acted, but no, it's not OJ. Okay, someone has texted in there, and I think this is a really good guess, saying you're obsessed with The Rock.

Is it Dwayne The Rock Johnson? No. Too obvious. And it's not a Kiwi either. That was the other thing. We've got 13 questions left. Can we get the famous person? We'll get Pia on, shall we?

We'll get Pia on there, Bill, from Tauranga. Morena, Pia, what's your guess for 20 questions? Morning, boys. Morning. I want to know if your person is British. Yes. So they are... Oh, I don't want to ask questions.

So you've said actor. You've said actor. That's not their main profession. They act, but one of the things that they do. Yeah, I would say, yeah. Would you say this person, when you instantly went, oh, that's an actor? Yeah, maybe, but not the generally...

If I was filling out the customs form, maybe they wouldn't go with actor first. Okay, all right. You want to guess?, maybe they wouldn't go with actor first. Okay, alright. You want to guess, Bell's got an idea who it could be. Yeah, I don't want to ruin it. Oh, have a go, mate. Are they in a boy band? No. So it's not how you thought it was Harry Styles. Yeah, he acts a bit. He's a musician.

Getting down to about 12 questions left and then 20 questions. Okay, 0800 the hits the telephone number 4487. We can continue this on Very shortly, has someone texted in? Someone messaged in? Yeah Who? I don't know who the person is Don't mean to say who

Go, have a guess, someone's guessed on 4487 Ed Sheeran No, good guess Yes, he is British Does act Is alive I'll give you that one as well, as currently alive Do they model? Another text on

4487. Have they modeled, you know, like for, I guess like a Calvin Klein campaign? Without googling everything I'd say no. No. It's not David Beckham then. Alright, should we go to Claire who's phoning through on 0800 the hits and she's just hung up

so no we won't go through to Claire. We'll go through to Shelley. Shelley on from the capital in Wellington. Shelley, your question for 20 questions. We've got about how many left? I want to say 11 questions left if you need them. Take it away. Is it a comedian? I would say

he's very funny. He's very funny. He does multiple things, I i guess in this job but yes i would say a comedian yes cool is it james corbin it is james corden it's james wow the texts are going nuts yeah you did well so how did you get james corden out of all that she's not gonna tell you mate it's not you know it's not going to tell you, mate. It's not, you know, it's not our Shelley Twins. Here I am, sorry. Oh, sorry, Shelley.

I did a few acting gigs and he's British and carpool karaoke. So, yeah, funny guy. Yeah. Yeah, oh, listen, I love that we've just used car filler content as radio filler content. And it works so well. And it's been a dream game. We should do this again sometime.

I was thinking James Corden you know he played Peter Rabbit I thought it was an Easter Bunny reference in there somewhere so there you go well done

and I will say there's a lot of people on the text 4487 trying to sabotage your game Ben too Michael Jackson not British alright guys

so come on play the game properly if we're going to play this game again everyone pull your socks up pull yourself together and we're going to do it properly again, everyone, pull your socks up, pull yourself together and we're going to do it

properly next time, all right? I mean, there's some names on this text machine I can't even read out. Well, it won't be back,

okay? You ruined the fun for everyone. It's a fun car game. I'm dead on the car trip. Are we there yet? Jeez, this is just like a car trip.

It is. I actually got John on bed. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. Let's get to it. Let's try and win someone $5,000 with our simple game of word association. See if we can match up all five words to win five grand.

Tax-free cash, Toe. Toe, Grant Robertson's not getting his filthy hands on this money. Alex, do you want that? Yes. You're from Tauranga, and I can guess the five words you're thinking right now. Can I have five grand? Am I right? Yes.

What are you doing this weekend, Alex? We're going away tramping. Oh, tramping. That sounds cool. Now, when you tramp, are you camping at night, or have you got a place to stay? We're bringing tents, so we'll be putting up a tent. Jeez, you're really going outdoors, aren't you? Yeah.

I wouldn't back myself in that situation. It'll be all good until it got dark for me and then I'll be a little scared. But anyway, that's just me. All right, who do you want to send into the South Perth booth? Jono. All righty. I'm heading in. Jono is heading in there.

We've got an Easter edition of Five Words according to producer Bee Humps who comes up with the words. So this morning, what pops into your head, Alex, when I say hot cross? Buns. Buns with an S? Yes. Yeah, okay, hot cross buns. Long is the second word this morning.

Long. Short. Short. Short. Bearing in mind, this is an Easter edition. I'm not saying I'm not trying to sway you anyway. Yeah. If you're thinking long weekend or anything like that. But long short is probably the obvious one.

I'm just talking this through. Okay, I'll go weekend then. Now I've changed it for you and I didn't want to do that. I just wanted to at least plant that seed in your mind as well. But anyway, we'll come back to that one. Egg is the next one. Egg. Easter.

Okay. Because again, normally you might go scrambled or boiled, but then with the Easter in mind, you might change it. But again, I'm saying too much and I need to shut up. Next word is bunny. Oh, I see.

Can I do Easter again? You I do Easter again you can do Easter again I don't think we've had Easter twice but why not and resurrection there we go the resurrection is the final word

Jesus Jesus well yeah that's what Easter's all about so there we go okay hot cross and we've got buns we've got long Jesus. Jesus. Well, yeah, that's what Easter's all about. So there we go. Okay, hot cross. We've got buns.

We've got long. Are we going to start with short or are we going to go with weekend? Weekend. All right. I feel like I hope I haven't changed this one for you, Alex. Let's get Jono out of the soundproof booth and we'll see if we can match $5,000. Big tramp over to the soundproof booth there. You'll appreciate that, Alex.

Now, this is an Easter special. Oh, an Easter special. An Easter special. Get Easter in your head. Get Easter in your head, all right? Think about Easter. Why are you getting so aggressive? He's like pointing at me with his finger. All right.

First word this morning, hot cross. Buns. Well done. Well done. Yes. We'll debate Whether it was bun Or buns

Okay Now think about Easter Easter They were long Now think about that In relation to Easter Short Why are you looking

At me like that Weekends Long weekends She said short And we talked about Because it was Easter Because everything Yeah It was the first thing That came into my head She said short and we talked about it because it was Easter. Because everything, yeah.

It was the first thing that came into my head. The first thing as well for Alex. Yeah. And then we talked about thinking it was all Easter special. So why would you say short? Oh, Alex. Now I feel terrible. I feel terrible.

I'm sorry. So we'll keep going through, see how you would have gone. Egg. Egg. I feel terrible. I'm sorry. So we'll keep going through, see how you would have gone. Egg. Egg. I was thinking scrambled. Okay. But I would go chocolate egg. It wasn't chocolate, it was Easter.

What was that one? Bunny. Bunny. Easter bunny. Yeah. And resurrection. Resurrection, God. We didn't quite get there.

I don't feel quite as bad now. But Alex, I'm so sorry. That was tricky. It was actually almost trickier to try and theme that one. No, Alex, I'm sorry, mate. You enjoy your tramping. Okay, thank you so much. I love your work.

If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history. Jono and Ben on the hits. Next Tuesday, we're going fishing to try and catch Jono his first fish. If you want to win $1,000 and four people on a fishing charter on Seahawk, then just text FISH to 4487. And when Jono catches a fish, someone will win that. Now, you feel bad that we haven't gone out this week because the weather has delayed things.

So you wanted some form of fishing to take place on the show. Now, what you're about to do is put me in a very awkward position. You love this, though. Where Ben wants me, but I love it when people know it's just a joke. Yeah. You know, not when... He wants me to fish for compliments.

Yeah, so we're going to call a number at random and you've got to see how quickly you can get a compliment about you. So there's a timer running on this. You can say it's Jono here from Jono and Ben TV, radio, whatever. You can, you know, and see if you lead them into a compliment about you. So there's a timer running on this. You can say it's Jono here from Jono and Jono and Ben, TV, radio, whatever. You can, you know, and see if you lead them into a compliment. See how quickly you can get a compliment about yourself, which is tough because some of the

street talk out there is not great about us. Okay. All right. We'll go through Bill. Good luck. Revive Espresso speaking with Corey. Hi, Corey. Hi. It's just Jono here. Revive Espresso speaking with Corey Hi Corey Hi It's just Jono here

Hey Jono, how you doing? Good, how are you doing? Pretty good I was going to come in and come to the cafe Oh yeah, awesome Would you like to book a table? Yeah, yeah Awesome, for how many people?

That'll be for just me and my friend Ben. Lovely. Jono and Ben? Mm. And what time are you, Jono and Ben, coming in? Well, sort of 2.30. Oh, we close at 2.30. Oh. Yeah, kitchen closes

at 2, so if you want lunch, you kind of need to be here before then. Okay. What if I was to tell you it's Jono and Ben? Yeah. Do you want me to stay open for you, Jono? Is that what's going on here? Just from the, do you know the radio, TV? Now that you mention it, yeah, I do.

I have been out of the country For most of my adult life So Yeah Is there anything you'd like What's going on Why are you coming in here Is there anything you'd like to say I don't know

You're awesome Is that what you want Yes Minute 15 He's trying to get a compliment He's fishing for compliments Talking about minute 15 You really jumped from

Like I've been out of the country to, you're awesome, pretty quickly. No, but I had to bully you into it, though. You totally did. You coerced me. I'm sorry. Can I get a prize for that or anything? Yeah, of course you can get a prize for that.

We're going to send you some hell pizza, okay? Okay. You're a legend. You have a great day. You're a legend too, mate. You're awesome, in fact. Oh, there we go. See, compliments all around.

Compliments all around. I love it. I'll take something extra, please. There we go. There you go. You got compliments. Haven. Compliments all around. I love it. I'll take something extra, please. There we go. Oh, there we go. Got compliments. Haven't caught a fish this week, but caught a... Well, no, I didn't really catch a compliment, did we?

Really forced that. You forced a compliment. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben on the hits. We got talking about road trip games, some of the things you play. There's always the standard ones. There's I Spy.

Car cricket's one I like to play, but no one else is quite as into it as i am yeah but that's generally in life though cricket doesn't it you know you come into a room and you're pretty safe to say everyone else in that room is not as much into cricket as you are yeah most times yeah you're right uh hold your breath remember hold your breath over bridges yeah wonderful game a lot of children passed out due to lack of oxygen with Hold Your Breath. Not recommended for drivers over long bridges, but yeah. So we want to play, we did before 20 questions, Ben. That was fun. It was actually really fun, apart from you trying to sabotage it.

Ben had thought of a celebrity, and we had to try and guess who the celebrity was, and you can only just imagine the names I was throwing out. I can't even repeat the names. But despite that, I'm thinking of bringing it back another time. Oh, you want to come back again? Yeah. He likes danger.

It's like sticking your hand in the Gurgler. The Gurgler could bite at any time, but it could be safe as well. So we're going to play a game now. It's sort of derived from that yellow car game, which I've never played yellow car. You seem to be a fay with it. The only thing I know about yellow car, Belle, you probably know,

it's just like you see a yellow car and it's like, yellow car, yell it out. And then some people have the, you can punch someone in the arm roll when you see a yellow car. But I don't know if that's generally played widely by the population. So what you need to do is call us on 0800THEHITS now.

We're just going to talk to you and we're just going to try and guess the colour of your car. If we don't land it, you're going to win Hell Pizza. They're now delivering beer and wine Hell Pizza. And if we do get it, well, then that's a win for us. And we keep going, Ben, until we guess the correct color. So if we don't get it, they win?

Yeah. And we get one guess? Yeah. Oh, my goodness. This is really, the odds are stacked in your favor. And the game does not stop until we have a winner. Okay? We could still be here at 11 o'clock.

No music. No music. Just asking. Is your car red? Oh, no. Is it green? All right, we're going to kick it off with Scott, who's in the cab this morning.

How's Wellington today, Scott? Hi there. How's Wellington, all right? Yeah, good weather. Okay, now the few moments we've spent with Scott. I feel like he could be approaching a midlife crisis. He could be in a MX-5. I'm going to pick you're in a blue MX-5.

That's wrong, mate. That's wrong. What colour's your car? Red. Oh, red. And we have no way to prove it. No, we don't. We don we have no way to prove it. No, we don't. We don't have any way to prove it.

There's flaws all through this game. We've done some things on radio, but this is up there. We'll take your word for it, Scott. Well done. You got Hell Pizza. Jodie, you're in Auckland. Ben, you can have a guess here. Colour of your car, Jodes.

Take it away, Ben. Good morning. I got two questions for you, Jodie. One, is the colour of your car blue? No, it isn't. And the second question is, were you lying when you said, no, it isn't? No, I wasn't. Again, we'll take your word for it.

Take your word for it. An honest audience that hits audience. How well did you win? Trust your work. Oh, it's our mate Hayley in Hamilton. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Hayley. Hi, how are you guys? I was so excited that, you know, you said you needed someone to be in a car.

And I was like, I qualify. You're in a car? You're on your way to work? You're a veterinarian, aren't you? No. No? Okay, I just made that up. Well, it's not guess your profession.

Don't really get the colour wrong, too. Okay, I'm going to go... You sound like a silver fox, Hayley. I'm going to say your car's like a silver fox, Hayley. I'm going to say your car is silver. No, it's white, but if you ask Mazda, it's a 25D Snowflake white pearl Micah Supreme. Oh, okay. Oh, 25D. That's the correct answer.

Snowflake white. Well, there you go, Hayley. We keep going, Ben. No one goes home until we guess the correct. Okay, I've got to throw it back to you again. You keep rolling with these. Rachel, you're on from New Plymouth. We're playing car games into this long weekend.

Talk to us. Hello, how are you? You sound mysterious. She sounds rusty. Oh, yep. Yeah, rusty. I'm going to go, are you in a red car? Rusty red car or just a red car?

Yes. Thank God. Even if you weren't Thank you for ending this It's an Easter miracle Oh well done We'll see you Some hell pizza anyway Just for ending that game

I don't think That game may not Be back again What was wrong With that game Your bell's The idea of it was cool But it was a bit boring

No offence Oh thanks This is like management We're not a lot on honesty, you know? Yeah, I know. But we'll talk about this in the show meeting after, guys. Okay. You have some wins and losses in this game.

Scrolling through your feed. All right. The only thing that is more alarming than those frightening graphics that scroll along the bottom of the screen on the news is this man right here. He's always on high alert. Ben Boyce. The orange light setting is here in New Zealand. That's great.

Heading into a long weekend in the school holidays. No limits on gatherings and bars and restaurants. And there's a lot of talk about where you need to wear masks these days because of the orange light setting. And Chris Hipkins from the Labour Party, who was out there, COVID response minister yesterday, and he didn't quite have things nailed as he would have liked. Have a listen. The rules have

changed so we're still encouraging them on flights and public transport. Oops actually let's find a friend on that. Give me one minute, I've just got, masks are still a requirement on public transport so including flights. Oh he fumbled

retail too. For some reason I didn't bring the exact list. Saying masks were out for shoppers. So you don't have to wear a face mask to the supermarket anymore? No. Wrong. You do. I do have the updated list now, and I've refreshed my memory of them, and I was incorrect on retail. He's had a bloody shocker.

Yes. For a simple announcement of we're going to Orange. Yeah. He's just gone out there and gone gone Maybe they won't ask me about the masks I know, so that was from News Hub Obviously you had that lady's voice in between It felt like when you went over to your friend's house When you were younger and you'd play tag or something And they would make up the rules as they went along

But then they would change the rules back When things didn't go their way So you do need to wear a mask In shops, in retail, and on public transport. And schools is an interesting one. It's going to be up to the schools. It's encouraged. It's still encouraged, but it's not compulsory as well.

Now, for all of you pashing enthusiasts out there as well, if that's one of your favourite hobbies, pashing, that's not off the cards. That's the good news. So you can have people pashing on a dance floor, but I have to wear a mask to go to the supermarket. At the moment, you still have to wear a mask in a retail environment. That is correct.

What? Where is your logic on that? Ultimately, it's a question of volume. There are going to be a lot more people in the supermarket on a weekly basis than there will be out and about pashing on a dance floor. Poor Hippo. Hippo was flustered, wasn't he? What if I like pashing in the supermarket?

Well, I don't know. Well, can I pash someone in the supermarket? I think you'd have to pash with masks on. I don't think you can take your mask off in the supermarket. Well, you know, if you want to wear a mask, wear a mask. If not, don't. You know, that should just be the rule. Well, maybe we'll get to that.

Obviously, public transport in supermarkets. Because it feels like if you're wearing them in one place and not in another, it sort of renders them pointless. But you made a good point when we were talking off-air, Bell Crawford, about the fact that some places, you know, you can choose to go to a nightclub, right? Yeah. So, like, say someone's maybe elderly or immunocompromised, they're probably not going to a bar and passion randoms or going to a concert. It's really stereotyping grandmas who don't like passion. There may be some out there. If they do, Betty can do what she likes.

But people like that, you get to choose whether you go to a concert and put yourself at risk, whereas a supermarket, everyone has to go. It's kind of a central service. Yeah, right. Maybe you should have been out there yesterday and said to the hippo, you explained it a lot better than the Minister for COVID response.

Final chance for someone to win on our show, the Hits Fuel Grab, all thanks to Gas Petrol Service Station, supporting gas, just supporting Kiwis, 100% Kiwi-owned. It's an awesome competition, this. It is, but the madness had to stop at some stage, Ben. We can't keep paying for your petrol. Our bloody hits promo car broke down on the motorway yesterday, ran out of gas.

We can't afford to fill it up. We've given so much away. It's starting to affect our bottom line at the radio station. It was nice for a while, but guys, you've had enough. You know, the petrol has run out. The free petrol's run out. And Kath, you're going to be the second to last person to play this game. It's obviously back to Savo with the wonderful Brad and Laura.

But welcome, Kath. Thank you. Nelson. Oh, talk to me about it. Beautiful day. It's always sunny in Nelson's, what they say, right? But I'm off to be the cleaner. Are you going to do some cleaning today, Kath?

Sure am, for other people. Oh, you're a cleaner. Now, what is the worst part of someone's house to clean? Well, basically the usual, the bathroom. Yeah. People are pretty feral. You don't even want to clean in your own house, really, do you? Yeah, that's the thing.

You know what gets me about the bathroom is when I'm pulling hair out of the plug. Yeah, that's it, man. Yeah, and I'm like, well, I'm not responsible for one strand of this. That's right. So that's me. But I do enjoy the clean. Once you've done a bathroom, oh, it feels good, doesn't it, Kath? Well, for other people, yeah.

Yeah, not for you. You're like, I do it every day, you twit. Hey, hey, let's get you some petrol so you can drive around Nelson cleaning houses, Kath. Awesome. Now, it started at $100 now, so you've got $100. You're walking away with pretty much a full tank. Awesome. Now, it started at $100 now, so you've got $100. You're walking away with pretty much a full tank. Okay. Alright, you've just got to

yell stop before the petrol pump runs out. Let's take you to the pump right now. $100. $105. $112. $122. $128. $132.50.

$332.50. $332.50. Stop. Oh, well done. Cleaning up houses and cleaning up in the fuel game. I'm so excited. How much did you get? $322.

Yeah, that was a massive jump from $100 and something. Let's see where the fuel pump would have run out, but that's an incredible amount of petrol. Oh, yay. Thank you so much. $500. $500. Wow, Kath still walked away with $300. $322. You've got

massive kahunas, Kath. Big, juicy kahunas you've got on you, mate. Well done. You're awesome. Well done, Kath. You enjoy that and you ignore whatever Jono's saying right now. big juicy kahunas you've got on you mate you're awesome well done well done Kath you enjoy that and you ignore

whatever Jono's saying right now love your work Kath final chance to play with Brad and Laura this afternoon at 5.20 it's been really fun

thanks so much for gas petrol service stations supporting Kiwis 100% Kiwi owned yeah well that was fun fun game

felt good giving away free petrol Ben sorry I made it weird at the end with the old kahunas reference. You did make it very weird. Hey, something else was very weird for me a couple of days ago, and I'll fill you in.

In three minutes, it is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. The sure-weather masks make them look a whole lot better. Jono and Ben on the hits. Heading into a long Easter weekend, a lot of talk about mask use and all the new rules. Chris Hipkins, who's the COVID response minister for the Labour Party, he was a bit confused by masks.

Yeah, we just played that audio before. He was live in a press conference trying to figure out what the rules were around masks. But pashing is all go, and that's the takeaway. Even if you weren't into pashing, get into it. Because it's an option now, it's available and free rate. Free pashing. If I could pashing right now, I would, Ben.

But we're talking on the radio and the sound effects would be weird. Nightclubs are open. People are out dancing as well. But something that happened to me a couple of days ago, I actually didn't tell you about this, but we were filming something. It's another business. We're filming an ad for the hits.

And this was obviously the time you've got to wear a mask. You're in a new office. They were very safety conscious about wearing a a mask and I had a wee incident which kind of rivals what happened to you a few weeks back where you were brushing your teeth in the morning remember what happened then oh yeah and I missed you I brushed my teeth with Voltar and Emu Gel yeah and my teeth and gums never felt more relaxed couldn't feel a thing very stress-free yeah, I was actually thinking about also the other thing. You've had two toothbrush incidents. I was thinking about the one where you dropped the toothbrush in the bathroom.

Oh, in the toilet, yeah. In the toilet, but also you did. I had a nightmare with my oral hygiene over the last month or two. That's the reason why we're not passionate right now. Only for that reason. I'm like, what's he been putting in his mouth recently? But obviously I had to wear a mask in this office, and I went to the bathroom, and I did the thing that you've been doing for a time to time

where you just kind of had the mask dangling from one ear. Oh, yeah, because you never know. And there's confusion. You've got people who want to wear masks and people who don't. And I don't need any more confusion out in public. I'm a white guy. I'm already confused about handshakes. Now mask usages.

So I just have it dangling off my ear. So it's ready to be strapped on if someone feels uncomfortable, if I don't have a mask. And if I just want to blend in and look like a cool person who's not wearing a mask, I can have it dangling off my ear. So it's ready to be strapped on if someone feels uncomfortable, if I don't have a mask. And if I just want to blend in and look like a cool person who's not wearing a mask, I can have it dangling. Yeah, that's the thing. So I walked with the mask on to the bathroom. This is not our office, so you need to wear a mask.

And then I walked into the bathroom and then I was like, oh, I'm not the only one in there. I can sort of do this. Dangle. Dangle. You look like a surgeon off the clock who's in between operations. Not a great idea because as I was using the urinal, the mask fell off the ear and you know where it fell, right?

And then I'm in a situation where I'm like, well, I've got to wear a mask where I leave this bathroom. But do I really want to pick this mask up? And you know me, I'm trying to be very hygienic at the worst of times. So did you have to put on a soaking? What did you do? How did you get your way around it? I was in there a long time

and I was thinking, what are my options? Doing a little brainstorm session with yourself. So in the end, I sort of fished it out with something, I had a packet of mints in my pocket so I sort of fished it out.

Not premium beef mints, like breath mints. So in a metallic container, I fished it out with that then I took it over to the washroom and I washed it and took it up to the hand dryer to dry it, just to put it back on my face.

Because I had to put it back on my face again. I was like, oh, this is, yeah. Just go out and give everyone COVID. Like that was the best option. Go out and spread. Be a super spreader. That was better than anything else you were doing in there. Because as you walk out, you know, I feel awkward.

No one else knows why I'm feeling awkward, but do they know that this mask just moments ago had been... Sometimes I love people, you see them in the petrol station, you can tell they've forgotten, but they've just put their T-shirt over their nose, just like they're about to rob the place. It's always a good option. I thought about wrapping around toilet paper or something.

Like come out like a zombie. I was like, oh, that's very funny. Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946.