Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Has Ben Got A New Wife???

Episode Date: July 13, 2021

Kia ora! Today we broadcast from Nelson, SUNNY NELSON! Although it should be renamed FREEZING NELSON after the temps we experienced this morning! Today we discussed a situation that happened while on our trip away, that resulted in Ben potentially having a new wife. Awkward. We also caught up with PM Jacinda Ardern and discussed the fact that Ed Sheeran wants to play at her wedding, what she's doing about funding for the mental health sector, and when more vaccines are coming our way. Finally, we caught up with a couple of Olympians, Maddie Davidson (trampolinist) and David Liti (weightlifter) ahead of the games in Tokyo. Enjoy the poddy folks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John O' and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of John O' and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the John O' and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. It's John O' and Ben here. Welcome to the podcast, Warehouse Nelson.

They couldn't beo and Ben here. Welcome to the Podcast Warehouse, Nelson. They couldn't be more electric atmosphere here. Oh, it's a podcast intro. We're just dealing with a bit of a chat that you'll hear on the podcast. A wee proposal that happened yesterday. An indecent proposal. Now Ben Boyce is wearing a Hits Puffer jacket. We're on tour at the moment. Lads on the road, lads, lads, lads.

And it could be further from a lads, lads. We had a lovely meal last night. We're all in bed in our rooms by 8 o'clock. It was lovely. I watched a wonderful rom-com. You know, dozed off. You're right, it's the opposite of lads, lads, lads. But anyway, Ben Boyce is wearing a Hits Puffer jacket,

and he found a wedding ring inside it. Yeah, like an engagement ring that was inside there, because it's like, I think it's a female size 12 jacket. And I'm wearing it, it fits me, it's probably, as you said, a real little big on me, and I gave it to Harriet, who's with us from the office. I was like, oh, Harriet, I've found this. And everyone went, oh, ring, oh, he's doing it. And then he followed through, he got down on one knee.

No, but that was the act that we were just doing on the radio. You know, showbiz stuff. Yeah, yeah, showbiz stuff. It was really just like, hey, here's the ringer, found it. You guys did go, oh, you know. But that was it. But now you're dealing with the fallout of you pretending to get married on the radio to Harriet.

Harriet, from all angles. Harriet's partner's already texted Ben, producer Humphrey. Yeah, Riley. He's like, you're always a bit worried that your partner might hook up with a colleague when they go on a work trip and well marriage is a whole other game

you never thought about that no one had no one had thought about it and Harriet's getting bombarded with congratulatory messages so that's it's really escalated

hasn't it here on the road just from one from one yeah innocent like I found a ring thought I'd hand it over

to the responsible person in the party and there we go. But the thing is, you put this on yourself. You put it in the run sheet. Yeah, I did. You were like, I'm talking about this to be funny. Pretend I got married, and now. Now it's come back to really. The fallout. The catastrophic devastation he's left behind. But anyway, we're at the warehouse. Nelson, mate, how are you? What is your name?

Harley. Harley. Geez, I tell you what, the mullet nowadays has made a wonderful resurgence. Where are you, Ben? Look at this mullet over here. Harley's mullet. How many years growth on the back end of that one, Harley? One.

That's only one year. That's what happens when you can grow here. It's a wonderful, wonderful mullet. You could grow a mullet. No, you could. I mean, we jest about you. I could try a mullet. You could. You were talking about you really wanted a rat's tail back in the day, didn't you? I should try a rat's tail. Maybe not.

We're trying to grow up and look responsible now. A rat's tail probably is, you know. I could look like a warrior. All the warriors have got rat's tails, don't they? Well, yeah, some of the league players, they can pull off a good rat. But I do appreciate that Mullets made a wonderful resurgence among the youth demograph now. There's going to be a whole other generation of Mullets coming through.

I know. We met some people from your hometown, Masterton. Oh, they had. I was like, look at these riffraff. Where are they from? They went to the same school as me. Their Mullets were ending like three quarters of the way down their spine. Yeah, that was a wonderful, wonderful mullet.

A lot of mullet action. All right, well, anyway. The podcast was fun. We sat inside a warehouse and we just talked. The show. Yeah, we had Jacinda Ardern on. You're talking about the podcast. That's what we're doing now.

Yeah. Yeah. The show, sorry. Yeah, yeah. Sorry. It was lots of fun. We did talk to Jacinda Ardern. It was a real rollercoaster with her. Being your wife, Harriet, standing by. Oh, yeah. Sorry. It was a lot of fun. We did talk to Jacinda Ardern. It was a real rollercoaster with her.

Being your wife, Harriet's standing by. Oh, yeah. She's, what do you want, Harriet? Do we need to go? We need to go. Oh, really? Okay. The old ball and chain.

Is that what he's saying? I told you. Oh, sorry. I'll do it again. Whatever to the land, so I'll do it. Now you bring your wife along, mate. Just having a watch. Apparently we've got to wrap up the podcast intro because Ben's wife says so.

All right. Sorry, I'll be there in a minute. Enjoy the podcast. We're at the warehouse in Nelson this morning on our Torch Tour of New Zealand. Have I told you that Nelson is the second oldest popular... Nine times this morning. Sorry. Now listen, we're sitting at the front door of the warehouse.

As the doors come sliding open, you're greeted by two lonely radio announcers just barking at you through microphones. And I just got talking to this wonderful gentleman. I didn't catch your name. Flynn's my name. This is Flynn. I said, Flynn, welcome to the warehouse. What are you here for today?

And you said. Togs. Togs. It's minus two degrees out there. Where are you swimming today? Well I was going to go sit in the spa actually. Oh that's a much better option. Yeah a bit of a compromise for the togs. Okay well

listen you go try those togs on. Give us a little show after. We'll see if they sit. Oh yeah you've got to try them on and walk past. Like a catwalk sort of situation. They haven't got the heaters on high enough so might pass on that. A little disclaimer, he's like, just so you know. Good luck shopping this

morning. Hey, yesterday I had a wee moment that you guys made into a bigger moment, because we're wearing uniforms here at the moment, Hitz branded puffer jackets. Jeez, I tell you what, it was, we've been working at the Hitz a long time, and all I've ever wanted is a Hitz puffer jacket. Never got one until yesterday. They're lovely warm, and I got one yesterday. They're presented to you what, we've been working on the Hits a long time and all I've ever wanted is a Hits puffer jacket.

Never got one until yesterday. The lovely woman, I got one yesterday. They're presented to you like an all-black jersey. And I was given one that was a size 12, I think a female size 12, I think, which fits me perfectly. Yeah, well you fit children size 4, so if anything the female size 12 is a little baggy on you. A little bit big. Yeah, a little roomy. But yesterday I sort of put my hands in the pocket and I was like, oh, there's something in there already,

someone to be wearing it before. And it was a ring, a ring in the pocket. And so I went to Harriet, who's on the road with us here, and I was like, hey, Harriet, I found this ring, and I handed it over. And then you guys, as I pulled out a ring and gave it towards Harriet, all went, oh, he's doing it, he's doing it. Another one. Here we go, another one, number it. He's doing it. Another one. Here we go.

Another one. Number nine. He's cutting my nine. Harriet's here right now. You didn't deserve this. You don't want no part in this. Oh, I'm still wearing it. Oh, God.

We're married on the road now. She's now legally entitled to half of everything you own. This is going to be a really awkward one. How was your trip away when I get home? Oh, well. I got married. This is Harriet. You might have married at work. Now she's not at work. She's married in the warehouse

store at Christchurch as well. And you can be like one of those couples that do documentaries on TV too. My two wives. And you're all just like happily living together in cohabitation. Give it up for Harry and Ben, the happy couple. Lovely stuff. Thank you, guys. Warehouse Nelson going off. This guy in the black hoodie, he could be your best man. We have a wedding.

It's right here. I love the wedding, don't they? So by the end of the show, should we plan a wedding? Have a wedding. Have the reception over in the entertainment section or something. Yeah. I've got a gift. Get you a wedding dress over there, Harry.

It's a wonderful registry for all the gifts that can be bought here at the warehouse. We've got it all planned. Wonderful've got a gift. Get you a wedding dress over there, Harriet. There's a wonderful registry for all the gifts that can be bought here at the warehouse. We've got it all planned. Wonderful stuff. Wonderful stuff. Anyway, Ben. I don't know why I'm getting

grinned by the all-for-the-spray storming session now. I feel like you might be having a conversation after nine o'clock with your wife on the phone. Which one?

Harriet or the new one or the old one? Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. So once again, we catch up with the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern. Good morning. Good morning.

How are you going, mate? All right? Not bad. Not bad. I'm on my way to Palmerston North. Oh, yeah. We're in Nelson this morning. Very cold.

Very cold here. What's it like in Parmy? Well, I'm just on my way there, but I've been told over on Good Authority that it is a little bit, a little bit crisp this morning. So I guess everyone needs to get warm today. Well, you definitely win out of who's in a cooler location

right now. We're inside a warehouse in Nelson and Jacinda's going to Parmy. I think she wins this one, Ben. Hey Jacinda, while you're in Palmerston North, can you sort out the clock tower? Because the clock tower in Palmerston North at a different time on all four sides. I know that I have control over many things.

The clock tower in Palmerston North is not one of them. Okay, all right. These are important issues affecting New Zealanders, mainly in Palmerston North. We can't tell the time. They're running 15 minutes late. I'll raise it with the mayor, I'm sure. Yeah, please do.

Please do. Actually, I wanted to know, because, of course, why would I know this? Because I'm not Prime Minister of New Zealand. But every night, wherever you are in New Zealand, you get handed like a brown folder full of sort of papers and notes for the next day. Is that right? A briefcase. Yeah, a briefcase. It's a briefcase.

Very James Bond-y, isn't it? Very espionage. A briefcase yeah a briefcase it's a briefcase very james bondy isn't it espionage a briefcase of info it is um and on a weekend it's so big it has wheels so yeah it's a suitcase on the weekend wow so what's it when you get a suitcase full of documents you're like oh my god yeah please make it stop it usually arrives at about 9 9 30 on a friday night clack clack's usually the first one to pick it up, and he'll give me a judgment of how long I'll be inside reading papers for. Well, there goes the weekend. Hey, now, last time we spoke to you, we were about to talk to Ed Sheeran, and you said, we were like, oh, should we ask Ed Sheeran

if he wants to play at your wedding as a wedding singer? And you said, under no circumstances could you see Ed Sheeran wanting to play at your wedding. That's right. But we actually asked him this question, and he had a very positive response. Have a listen. Would you want to play a wedding, the Prime Minister of New Zealand? You know, I think that she is the best human being on earth. I know politics and people in New Zealand will have a difference of opinion,

but in England, she is seen as just it. When is her wedding? She hasn't said. Yeah, she hasn't said who it is. We keep trying to, we're trying to find out. I would make myself available if I was free to play her wedding. There you go. There you go.

What a wedding gift from your friends. I can't get in there right. I would make myself available if I'm free. Hey, it's our gift to you, Jacinda, for your mates Jono and Ben. There's our wedding gift. We've booked your insurance. We'll leave you to tidy up all the details. Next time we talk to you

we'll have the catering sorted. It'll be all good. But don't expect anything from us at the wishing well. I mean, we just got your insurance. Yeah, exactly. On a serious note, Mike King has been a wonderful advocate for mental health. Over the last few weeks, he's, you know, vocally and publicly not very happy with the way the government has been responding to mental health issues. I know $1.9 billion you guys put aside in the 2019 budget for mental health.

Mike's saying he's not seeing any of that money he's not seeing much change what has happened to that money why isn't mike getting funding yeah so a lot of questions wrapped up in there i'll give you a very brief version and one of the things that we we wanted to do was improve primary mental health care and basically what that means is you know we were so reliant on acute services in new New Zealand that once people are really in a crisis situation, we wanted to make sure that we have services even at your doctor's clinic or your local medical centre. So that's what we've been working really hard to roll out.

And one of the reasons we've been doing that is that's where we also have the ability to build the workforce for it. Unfortunately, we don't necessarily have all the trained individuals we need to suddenly overnight just rapidly increase all of our mental health services, but we could do this. So we've started on that. We're now getting 10,000 sessions a month being provided to people that didn't exist before. But it is not to say everything is perfect,

and I've certainly acknowledged that with Mike. It's not. We are still trying to rebuild our system. What Mike's asking for and what many more charitable organisations do seek funding from the Ministry of Health for their particular programmes, I personally, I'm not meant to be involved in those negotiations. And so the Ministry of Health, I know, are in contact with Gumboot Friday, and so I'm just letting them go through that work together. Okay. Are you happy with the vaccine rollout? I am. I am. As fast as it's coming into the country, we're getting it out and into people's arms. You know, over half a million New Zealanders now vaccinated. And it really, this month, we get

a million doses coming in. And that's what's been holding us back is just there's so much constrained supply at the moment. Everyone's trying to run their vaccination programs, but this month we get a million doses. Do we relax once we're all vaccinated? Well, we need as many people as possible to be vaccinated. So I just ask New Zealanders that if you do that, that helps us reduce down our need for things like lockdowns. And I know we're all desperate not to have that hanging over us. So the more people are vaccinated, the less likely it is we'll need to use that. Then the more choices we have at our border.

Now, my view is after 9-11, our borders changed forever. And there will be a new normal after COVID. But it won't always be that we all have to use managed isolation. We will start to see those changes at the border. When you're waiting for the vaccine to arrive, is it like when I order something from Culture Kings in Australia? I keep refreshing and keep seeing where the courier is and I keep kind of following it and

track it. Is it like that for you, but on a bigger scale? As ministers, we're all like, do you want us to go and pick it up? We can do it at the airport. Will you let us know when the ship arrives, and I'll let you know when my Shaquille O'Neal t-shirt arrives from a bar culture gang as well, alright? Yeah, exactly.

Maybe you can pick it up at the same time at the courier place at the depot at Highbrook. At Highbrook, I'll do that for you. You need to bring a free set of pick-up hours, I think. Listen, Prime Minister, you go and have a wonderful day in Palmerston North. Those things go hand in hand all the time. Yeah. And don't look up the cocktail because it's the wrong time, all right?

I know it's not part of your jurisdiction, but it's the wrong time. Have a great day. Appreciate it. Thank you, guys. Bye. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shona and Ben, breakfast on the hits.

Ben from the warehouse in Nelson this morning on our battery-operated torch tour of New Zealand. Come on down and get a photo with the torch after eight this morning, and you're in the drawer for $10,000. That is a pretty easy way to win $10,000, just by holding a torch that thousands of others have had their hands on. Don't worry, we sanitise the torch. Ben takes it to his room and he wipes it down with dead-hole wipes. So you know what?

We've been in Nelson since around about lunchtime yesterday. And what I've discovered about Nelson, beautiful spot, lovely spot, but asking people where anything is, they just say five minutes away. Everything is conveniently located within a five-minute radius. You're right. Where's the warehouse? Five minutes away. Where's the hotel?

Five minutes away. Everything has been five minutes away. Five minutes away. Yeah. It's so handy. And it literally is five minutes away. Where's the hotel? Five minutes away. Everything has been five minutes away. Five minutes away. Yeah. It's so handy. It literally is five minutes away. If anything, it's four minutes away. Sorry, don't shake your head.

I'm going to the security guard now. Now you need to introduce yourself to Aotearoa. What is your name? I am Celeste. This is wonderful Celeste who's here and hating life that she had to get up at four in the morning. And every time we go to one of these things, everyone pins it on us. They're like, I had to get up because of you.

Yeah, you did, Celeste. And I make no bones or apologies about it. Is there anything in Nelson that is not five minutes away? Oh, Richmond. They always like to say it's 45 minutes away. Oh, Richmond. Yeah, OK. That's the only thing that's not five minutes away in Nelson.

Everything else, the hotel, the warehouse, whatever you want to go to, five minutes away in Nelson. But I'm a bit worried about you, John, on this tour. Why is this? I feel like you've lost touch with the common person in New Zealand. I lost touch with the common man years ago. Because yesterday we went to the airport, we were checking out of Christchurch, and we went to, you know, you have to go in and check in yourself these days. You go on the screen, you touch it, and take your bags up.

You just walk straight up there to put your bag straight on. I was like, oh, what's he doing? What's he doing? Yeah, because we haven't got a bag tag. We haven't checked in for the flight. You're like, oh, that won't take me back. I'm like, oh, yeah, no, you need to go to the machine. And he goes, oh, the person at the counter normally does that for me.

And then you walked off to premium. That's right. That's right. I was like, well, yeah, no, you need to go to the machine. And he goes, oh, the person at the counter normally does that for me. And then you walked off to premium. That's right. That's right. I was like, well, who is this guy? No apologies. I've lost touch. I was waiting for someone to carry me out onto the tarmac and place me in my earpiece. This guy just walks up arrogantly with his bag.

Take that for the plane with me. So they don't even know what plane it's on. It's got no tag. You've got no ticket. You're like, oh, a person normally does that for me. People do it. The problem is, my thing is, use the people. Because the people are being put out of jobs.

You don't use the people. Now I go to the supermarket, I'm expected to do the job of the checkout operator, and they should not trust me to do that because I'm swiping avocados through as onions. And I'm making an absolute killick. And I'm teaching them a lesson that automation should never do people out of a job. Thank you, thank you. Anyway, I told the fine lady behind the counter, take this from me.

You know where I'm going. And if you don't, figure it out. We'll see you on the other side, babe. Yeah, you did that. Yeah. The home of, yeah, no, she'll be right and at the end of the day... Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hit. We're on the road for the warehouse.

They are the proud sponsors of the New Zealand Olympic team, and we're catching up with one of those members right now. Jono and Ben's Torchlight of Tokyo. Hi, guys. I'm Maddie Davidson, and I'm a trampoliner. Well, great to talk to you, Maddie. Congratulations on making the Olympic team. Thank you very much.

How do you find out you've made the big O, the big Olympic team? Is that what they call it, the big O? I don't know if anyone's ever called it the big O. I don't know if I've heard that one before. Yeah, yeah. Because you were the first New Zealander to represent New Zealand at the Olympics in trampolining. Yes, first female, yeah. So we go through a full qualification process, kind of tracking your own progress, I suppose. But otherwise, it was just a wee phone call to say that they had confirmed the team.

Is it a good phone call? Are they like, hey, guess what? How do they deliver the news? It was definitely a very good phone call. A little bit soft, actually. It was a no-caller ID one, so it was a little bit weird when you pick up those oh yeah you thought you were getting pranked yeah who's this gonna be it's guys but that was awesome and who delivers the news is it the New Zealand Olympic Committee no it was our CEO of Gymnastics New Zealand so that was pretty cool oh that's lovely and so how were you qualifying

for this Olympics because I imagine it would be a bit different to previous years. Yeah, so it actually spans over about a year and a half. So we started in 2019 in about February, and you go through a series of World Cups, but then obviously COVID happened, so we stretched out over to 2021. Is it quite a lot to do? Like my daughter, she's really good at that. She even watches YouTube stuff and teaches herself to do stuff

that kind of freaks me out to do. But is it all about confidence? It feels like it's all in your head. Well, not a lot of it is to do with just having the confidence to do something. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I would almost say it probably is more than a mental sport, more than a physical sport. Jumping like five, six meters into the air,

so you kind of have to be quite confident in your ability to land on your feet again. So yeah, definitely. It seems like one of those ones where you wouldn't want to lose faith halfway through. Yeah, absolutely not. Most people would. You've got to commit. Oh dear God, I'm upside down, five metres in the air. Stop, stop, stop, stop.

Panic would set in. I see that. So how is the competition judged? Like what are the things that you need to do? And so when we're watching you over there in Tokyo, supporting you on, what are we looking for? How do we become experts? So we're judged on a few different criteria.

First one is execution, so just how nice it looks, how tidy and clean it looks. The next one is called our time of flight, so it's how much time we spend in the air, how high you're jumping. And then we do a difficulty, so how hard the skills are and then we do something called horizontal displacement so we have a big red cross in the middle of the trampoline and your goal is to stay on that the whole time and any movement that you do around that they start deducting

points i have a question is double bouncing uh a category in the olympics the old double bounce i wish it was it would probably help with some of the skills that we do, but no. Crack the egg? Crack the egg's another good one. That's a goodie. Have you ever bounced so high, and you're like, uh-oh, I'm coming down,

but I'm not heading for the trampoline? Has it ever happened? Have you ever bounced off the trampoline? Yeah, absolutely. It happens probably a bit more than I'd like to admit, to be fair. Oh, really? I've got a lot of faith in the boys that I train with and my coach

that they'll catch me on the way down. Oh, right. So they're there waiting to catch if they've got their arms out. Yeah, absolutely. A lot of blind faith there, so that's all right. And it's a big catch. It is a big catch. It is a big catch.

Hey, my daughter, as mentioned before, she likes to do these moves on the tramp, you know, like aspires to be someone like yourself one day. She had a question I recorded her last night for you. Can I play it for you right now? Yeah, absolutely. So I have a backflip, but I was just really wondering, how do you get a 360 backflip?

Like, it's really confusing. You can't. You can't do it. You just can't do it. I can. I know I can. It's just so hard. I just can't figure out how't do it. You just can't do it. I can. I know I can. It's just so hard. I just can't figure out how to do it.

Listen to the hater in the background. You can't. I get nervous watching as a dad, too, because she can do backflips and land on her feet, and now she wants the 360 backflips and all that. I mean, what's the skill for that? There's a lot of progressions in between those two skills, but if she can start off by doing a wee turnaround,

looking at the trampoline and ducking under for it, then she'll probably be all right starting off there. But it is a tricky skill. She's really moving up. Yeah. No, she is amazing, that her gymnastics. It's all self-taught. I know.

Well, yeah, because there's things that I don't know. So you're going, well, here's YouTube. YouTube's coming through. So where do you hope to end up at the Olympics? Are we looking at a gold, Maddy? I try not to put too much pressure onto places. I want a gold. Because it's my first Olympics.

I want a gold. Ben wants a gold from you. Gold would definitely be nice. But yeah, I'm just going to do routines that I know I can do through training. And yeah, seeing where it places me against everybody else. I imagine focus would be the big thing. Because there'd be a lot of noise going on. You could easily get distracted and swept up in the fact that you're at places against everybody else. I imagine focus would be the big thing because there'd be a lot of noise going on. You could easily get distracted and swept up

in the fact that you're at the Olympics. And just focusing on what you do every day would probably become the hardest part of your job. Yeah, absolutely. And it's quite often that you'll get gymnasts and trampolinas to work with sports psychologists. I have worked with one since I was 13. And you kind of just settle into a process that you use at competition,

learn how to bring your nerves down. So it's actually, yeah, like we said before, just a real mental game. Could you tell Ben how you do that? Because he's quite... I'm quite nervy. He gets rattled on the radio. Maybe I need one just to watch my daughter on the tram. Yeah, absolutely.

Not really fair. Hey, listen, hey, good luck over there. New Zealand's behind you. We're backing you. And, hey, hopefully you bring home gold because I demanded one. No. Cheers. Thanks very much, guys.

Lovely talking to you. All the best. And we can't wait to watch you over there in Tokyo. Sweet. Thanks. Cheers. She was lovely, Maddy, wasn't she? Yeah, she was awesome.

And hopefully she goes well at the Olympics. And if she doesn't, she'll always bounce back. Oh, jeez. I got five words from $5,000. You know you she'll always bounce back. Oh jeez. I got five words for $5,000. You know you loved it. I did. I really really did. I just gutted I didn't say that. New Zealand, this is your breakfast.

With Jono and Ben's battery operated torch tour. Broadcasting live from the Warehouse St Vincent store in Nelson. Good morning New Zealand. Jono and Ben here this morning. Broadcasting as I like to say the guy with the nice voice just said. John and Ben here this morning broadcasting as I like to say the guy with the nice voice just said. We're in Nelson this morning on our battery operated torch tour.

Thanks to the warehouse we're taking a torch all around the country because there's no real Olympic torch relay this year. Now we noticed, now Juliet started, sorry to interrupt here Ben. Juliet you started this just seconds ago going wow you're both very loud. Are we still very loud? No it's better now. It's better now. It's better now. Well done. Juliet, you started this just seconds ago going, wow, you're both very loud. Are we still very loud?

No, it's better now. It's better now. It's better now. Well done. Because, Ben, I noticed you were coming with a gentle voice because you were conscious of the fact that Juliet had said it. And it's first thing in the morning, so, you know. He's into it. Hey, yeah, we're sitting here at the front door of the warehouse,

so when you come down and see us, you'll see two idiots barking at you as the sliding doors open up with headphones on. And it's a pleasure to have my big red head in the big red shed this morning. Yeah, 8 o'clock this morning, the warehouse in Nelson opens up. And if you want to pop on down, get a photo with a torch, you can go on the draw for $10,000, as well as plenty of spot prizes this morning. Yeah, it's been fun so far.

We've met some wonderful, we have met some truly wonderful people and some despicable ones as well. We met an elderly lady yesterday who said to Ben, I could take you. She's like, I could fight you out the back of the Manchester department right now. And I was like, lady, come on. But, you know, each to their own. We have got a big show this morning

catching up with more Olympians heading off to Tokyo, which is very exciting. Yeah, David Litty, who's a weightlifter. He's going to join us before 7 o'clock. I understand he was training during lockdown in his suburban cul-de-sac, lifting 232 kgs above his head in the street. Yeah, because they can't do it in the garage

because the roof's not high enough. Literally, they either had to raise the roof or do it outside, and he did it outside. So he joins us before 7, as well as after 7, your chance to win $5,000. As always five words for 5k. It is the Hits John O'Ban coming to you from the warehouse. Nelson. It is the Hits. John O'Ban

scrolling through your feed. Now this is a news bulletin that would be the result if proper news bulletins didn't care about what they were doing. And that's what we like to display every morning. Ben Boyce does a panic goog and presents us with some overnight news. What's been happening?

Well, Hamilton Mum did what a lot of new parents have done for many, many years, is when a baby can't go to sleep, well, often you take the baby for a bit of a drive in the car. I'm sure you would have done that with your kids. Many times. You do laps up and down the motorway, don't you? Yeah, well, she was doing it in her neighbourhood and driving around the block. And then on the neighbourhood sort of group Facebook page, they're like, there's a suspicious car that's doing laps around my property. It's been doing that for the last 10 minutes.

And then someone else jumped in saying, I saw the same car yesterday. It was circling around. What's going on? Should we call the police and stuff? So they get quite worried that the cars were circling around, not knowing why, maybe scoping out the area. And then fortunately, this lady was also on the Facebook group as well and replied going, oh, sorry, guys, that's my car, that's me. I'm just trying to get one of my kids to sleep.

What a neighbourhood of Mrs Mangels. Oh, that's good, though, isn't it? That's good. How's your neighbourhood? You'd be all nosy, wouldn't you? No, I try, no, no. Are you not a nosy neighbour? No, I try not.

I try not to be. I am. I'm a bush pairer. Are you not a nosy neighbour? No, I try not. I try not to be. I am. I'm a bush pairer. Are you? I look through. I just like to make sure that, you know, if no one's home, I just peer through the bush. Put my face through the bush to make sure everything's okay. And if someone's home and I look through the window, hey.

That's just a bonus. No, not a bonus. I mean, that's just, what is that? No, it's actually really good to have neighbours like that, though, isn't it? Yeah. To know that, you know, if you're No, it's actually really good to have neighbours like that, though, isn't it? Yeah. To know that, you know, if you're away, everything's going to be fine. If there's a pervert circling around the neighbourhood in a Toyota Corolla, then it'll be displayed on the Facebook page.

Well, yeah, I thought it was really good. And, yeah, you found a bit of unusual news out of the USA. Someone, maybe, well, they thought they overreacted, didn't they? Well, this guy went and got chicken McNugs from McDonald's, drive-thru operation, got home and realised they had not provided the sweet and sour sauce. Frustrating. It was hugely frustrating. So he phones up McDonald's and said, I'm going to come and blow your restaurant up.

And subsequently was arrested. Yeah, because it's a threatening thing to say that to a business, right? And then he was like, oh, listen, I may have gone a bit overboard. And he calmed

down. When you chuck a bomb threat in for a lack of sweet and sour sauce. I understand it's frustrating. It's not bomb

threatening. No, no. It's like maybe light a fire frustrating? Drive a car through a front door frustrating?

No, maybe just go back in and get the sauce or just go back in and, frustratingly go back in and get the sauce, or just go without. But frustrating. But chicken McNugget without sauce is like just eating a spoonful of sand, isn't it? Saps every bit of moisture up from inside of your mouth.

But, you know, that was the result of that. I accidentally said something at the airport yesterday that I shouldn't have said. Did you? Remember? No. We were waiting for the bags, and you were like, oh, you ran and got your bag off the carousel very quickly.

And I was like, oh, yeah, I was worried it was going to explode. And you're like, oh. Everyone went, oh. Don't say that at the airport. No, you can't. Why were you worried it was going to? It was just a, I was just saying it. It was a banter.

And I was like, oh, I killed the room here. Yeah, no. Everyone's still, you're still, you're steps away from me. No, jeez. You can't even mention it. But outside, I killed the room here. No, you can't. Everyone's still using your chance. You can't say that. You'll step three steps away from me. No, jeez. You can't even measure. But outside the airport you can, but inside you can't. I don't know why.

You probably shouldn't. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning before 7 o'clock on the show, catching up with one of the Olympic stars heading over to Tokyo, a weightlifter from New Zealand. He's going to join us before 7 o'clock. We're looking at a photo of David now. David Letty is his name. And he is lifting a bar with weights on it.

But the weights are so heavy, the bar is literally bending. And that's a bar that's probably like 15, 20 kgs on its own. It's incredible. We're going to talk to him before 7 o'clock this morning. It is the hits. The Google Game. This is a fun game. It's like the Olympics of radio

games, isn't there? Just as much drug testing as well. And unfortunately, Juliet, you've shown up another positive test. Hey! We've got your sample. My reputation on this show has just gone downhill. Basically, it's a simple game. You call us up, you ask us a question. We've got 10 seconds to Google the answer.

And you have an advantage today because we're all tethering off Producer Humphrey's phone. I'm not currently at the moment. Yeah, I need to be. So we're going to have watery Wi-Fi connection so there's a huge advantage to the callers this morning. And we've got a great prize. Thanks to our friends at the warehouse. We've got a $50

warehouse voucher to give away right now. Jesus, do we? Yeah, we do. I just found that out right now. Have you asked Stephen Tindall about that? Did you just phone Tindall and say, mate, can we give away a $50 gift card? He just texted me. He said, all good? He said, all good.

That's lovely of him. Yeah, so $50 from the warehouse. If you want to win that, well, of course you do. So, oh, under the hits right now, ask us any question at all, and we have 10 seconds to Google the answer. If we can't Google the answer, we'll play it properly today

because it's a big prize up for grabs. Yeah. We'll give you the $50. we'll play it properly today because it's a big prize up for grabs. We'll give you the 50. We'll play it properly today? Oh, sometimes I'm a little... Oh, yeah, you meander just because you feel guilty about not giving people prizes. It's like the one, the player of the day where they hand it around to every kid.

You know, I feel like that. So you'll turn this... That's the problem with our competitions. We've got no jeopardy. Thanks to you just wanting to be a nice guy and giving anyone prizes. Yeah, I know. I don't even know why we do them half the time.

Okay, 0800. That's in time. That's why we do them. That's right. 0800, that's the telephone number. Give us a bell right now. We'll get you on for the Google Games. Stephen Tindall sponsored $50 warehouse gift card up for grabs.

Thank you, Sir Stephen. It is the hits. You got it, Jono and Ben. It's Rhianna. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. It's Rhianna. It is the hits. Jono and Ben. And we're broadcasting from the Warehouse store in Nelson this morning. Come on down and see us after 8 o'clock.

Get a photo with our battery-operated torch we're taking around New Zealand. And you could win $10,000. Yeah. Now let's get into the Google game. The Google game. This is where you phone us. You ask us a question. We've got 10 seconds to Google the answer.

Now, my wife's constantly saying 10 seconds is not that long. And I'm always like, it depends how many breaths you take between the numbers. We're talking about the Olympics. 100 metres is, you know. 10 seconds. You can run 100 metres. You're right. That's a distance.

They can do a lot. They can do a lot. Now, I've actually got lost in an internet hole. Highly publicised face of being lost on the internet I am. And the most Googled questions. So per month, people Google what is my IP? Three and a half million times. Oh, really?

What is my IP? I've never once Googled that. Yeah. Well, the people wanting to know what is an IP, maybe? Oh, what is an IP? Yeah. Okay. And what is an IP oh what is an ip yeah okay and what is an ip now i want to google it i've heard it i know it's an ip address find us the answer to that second most google question what time is it toddy our boss at the moment is stuck in new South Wales, and for whatever reason, the man is 50.

I don't know how he has gone through 50 years of his life, but he somehow thinks that New Zealand is in a different day to Sydney. He's like, oh, it must be the weekend over there. Yeah, and I was like, no, it's the same day as you. He's like, I can't get there. I can't get my head around these time zones. You know, it's two hours difference, isn't it? I love it, though.

Oh, you must lose a day in the plane. All right, well, let's get to the call. I think we've got Chrissy on the line right now this morning. You there, Chrissy? Hey, yeah. Morena, how are you, Chrissy? Yeah, not too bad. Just battling Auckland traffic.

Oh, already? Yeah. 6.30 in the morning. Yeah, that's what happens. Tell you what, down here in Nelson where we live There's no traffic Everything's five minutes away, that's what I love about the place This is why I'm proudly from Nelson We moved here yesterday and we'll

Be here until probably at one o'clock today Well then we'll pretend we're from Wellington Exactly Alright Chrissie, we've got ten seconds Ben, you can do the Googling What is the question? We've got ten seconds to find it from the $50 warehouse card. What are the names of the 50 strongest people in the world? Oh, she's done a number on you.

50 strongest people in the world. Okay, 50 strongest people in the world. Oh, now I've got the Forbes most powerful people list. That's not what I want. 50 most powerful people in the world. No, I can't even get what a name of any of the strongest people in the world. Oh, now I've got the Forbes most powerful people list. That's not what I want. 50 most powerful people in the world. No, I can't even get what a name of any of the strongest people in the world. Is that powerful in terms of business on a

metaphorical level? Okay. Well, Chrissy, I tell you what you've done there is you've found a ginormous loophole in our game. I would say... Listen to that evil laugh. You're loving it, aren't you? The laugh of a lady who's going to spend up large at the Wadi Wadi.

What are you going to buy from here? I'm going to buy some toys for my son and maybe put them away for Christmas. Oh, that's smart. Well, you've got a $50 warehouse voucher. It's coming your way. Thanks, our mates at the warehouse. You have yourself a great day battling traffic in Auckland. There's no traffic where we live here in Nelson, but you enjoy that

in Auckland. Thank you. Next on the show, we're going to talk to Olympic weightlifter David Letty. He's used to dealing with dead weights, so an interview with us shouldn't be too much of a stretch for the guy, but he can lift 232 kilograms. I know, that's incredible.

He's 970 pin voices. He won a gold at the Commonwealth Games. You'll know him. He's awesome. And we're going to talk to him next. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben? It is the hits.

Jono and Ben, 6.35, Tuesday morning. Good morning. We're shining the spotlight on some of the Olympic athletes heading to Tokyo to represent New Zealand, and here's one for you right now. My name is David Litty, and I am a weightlifter representing New Zealand. Yeah, well, nice to talk to you, David.

Are you excited about the Olympics? For sure. It's a one-of-a-kind Olympics, but at least it'll be in that part of history, and it'll be my first Olympics, and it's exciting one-of-a-kind Olympics, but at least it'll be in that part of history and it'll be my first Olympics, and it's exciting to get out there and compete against the best in the world. It must be quite hard as a professional athlete

to just stay focused with all of this noise essentially going on around you. And a delay too, a huge delay, and that would be hard for training. Yeah, for me, over and everything, you know, it was normal. I'd still work up in the morning and train in the garage. Or if I was lifting, I'd lift out on the road with some mats.

Hold on, you'd lift out on your street outside your house? Yeah, yeah. We'd just put some rubber mats down and lift on the road. Would your neighbours look over and go, what is that man doing? Oh, he's lifting weights again. Yeah, yeah. They actually used to come around and sit around and watch and chat and stuff. So it was kind of cool to see the neighbourhood come around.

Oh, and watch you train? Yeah, yeah. Even the kids came and, you know, tried to lift the bar and stuff like that. Oh, that's wonderful, though, mate. It's so cool that the neighbourhood could come around and then they'll be watching you on TV. And they're like, oh, that's the guy who was cleaning and jerking in our cul-de-sac. Yeah.

What are your mental hopes like, David? It's a long shot, you know, to be realistic. But anything can happen. With weightlifting, anything can happen on the day. So we'll just see what we can do. There's quite a lot of the sport, obviously you need to be really, really strong. But is there a lot of the mental aspect

that comes into it as well? Oh man, like the mental side of it, it's really huge. As soon as you doubt yourself, you're not going

to get the weight. Like 70 kilos wouldn't care about your feelings. It's the same as 100 and the same as 190. It doesn't give a shit about your feelings.

I'm about 70 kilos. Do you care about David's feelings? I actually do. He seems like a lovely guy. What are you eating on a day-to-day basis to keep fueling your body for this? I was actually on a protein diet before until three or four weeks ago. My coach started talking to a dietician and she said, she reckons I need more carbs.

So you need to put on weight? Yeah. I've just been like eating a lot more carbs and protein now. Wow. All right. Do you think you should have maybe spoken to this dietician two years ago? Not three weeks before the Olympics. What?

What? Yeah. Should have done that The Olympic Games Kind of like my gym Where you have to clean up after yourself And put away the weights and stuff Make sure you wipe down equipment Or have they got someone that does that sort of thing I think they're about to call you guys

To come clean up We can do that I don't think we can put the weights back. That's the only problem. Do you know what the protocol is going to be over there, David, in terms of social distancing and how they're dealing with COVID? It started off with vaccinations a few months ago. We had to get vaccinated.

Next week will be our first testing. Three days after that will be second testing. Three days after that will be second testing. Three days after that will be third testing. Testing on the flight and then testing when we land. We get a three-day active quarantine over there. And then you're only allowed in the country in Japan five days before you compete. And then you get 48 hours to leave the country once you're done. Wow.

And then you spend most of the time with a rod up your nose, by the sounds of it. Yeah, yeah. Wow. Gee, well, I suppose they have to be that strict, don't they? Yeah, exactly, yeah. It's going to be a surreal experience, isn't it? Well, yeah, because it will be quite surreal,

but obviously everyone will be back home here cheering you guys on. And your family, are you one of 11? Yes, I am second youngest of the 11 kids. 11, yeah. Have you forgotten some of the 11 kids. 11, yeah. Have you forgotten some of the names of your brothers and sisters? Yeah, I don't actually really know who they are. That's a lot of names to remember, David. Funny story, the first time I met the oldest in my family,

I asked my mum who the hell he was. Really? Because your parents, they live in Tonga, right? Yeah, yeah. Oh, so your family's over in Tonga? Only my parents and two of my sisters. Oh, right. So the first time you met, you were like, who's this guy? She's like, well, he's your brother.

He came back from university, and he was walking through the house like he earned the house. And I was like, yeah, you know, I love this guy. He's like, I'm part of the family as well. That's brilliant. Oh, David, you are a wonderful person, mate. Listen, we wish you the best of luck. Truly, you're a gentle giant, my friend, and hopefully it all goes well for you over there in Japan.

We're all going to be cheering you on from back here, mate. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm actually moving house this weekend, so I'm wondering if you can give me a bit of a help with lifting some stuff. Can you fill in the schedule? Oh, I'm busy. Oh, okay.

That's all right. I thought I'd just ask while you're there. You seem like the guy for the job. You're going to have a great day, David. All right, you too. Sorry, John, I rudely interrupted. Whatever he was going to say was nearly as important as live free travel edition with South Australian tourism, unless that. Whatever he was going to say was nearly as important as Live Free Travel Edition with South Australian Tourism,

unless that's what you were going to say. Potentially it was going to be the greatest thing ever ushered from these lists. Hey, no, no. And I've forgotten what it is now, so the moment's gone. Well, the hits Live Free Travel Edition is back with South Australian Tourism. Your chance to win a $5,000 travel voucher every week. That's drawn by Stace, Mike and Anika on a Friday. So let's chuck someone else in the draw.

Hey, now, you tell us, honestly, Jenny, how is Porirua this morning? We want to know. It's a beautiful day. I know it's that, but it's still going to be a beautiful day. Oh, Jenny, she's got one of those attitudes. She reminds me of your mum, Jenny. Yeah, yeah. Your mum,

Jenny, is a very positive lady, isn't she? Although you refuse. Now, do you have a son or any children, Jenny? I've got three children, two girls and a boy. Three children. And so if you call them on a phone, they will generally call you back? Oh. No, not necessarily.

Maybe it's a thing with mums called Jenny Because Ben never returns his mother's calls We'll get there in the end It depends if they want something or not If they want picking up from somewhere Yeah Ben Boyce He's a savage son But anyway we're not here to talk about his relationship with Jenny

Hey guess what Jenny Yes We could be giving you $5,000 worth of travel vouchers thanks to South Australia Tourism, far out Cobber. That would be fantastic. Where do you think you'd like to go when you can travel? I don't know. What, do you mean in Australia or just in the world?

Oh, hey, anywhere, anywhere at all. You name a place in the world. Yeah. I'd like to go to Greece then. Oh, Greece. Oh, very nice. Yeah, Ben, you've been to Greece, haven't you? Yes, yeah.

Greasy little man you are. Didn't you propose in Greece? No, I've proposed in Islay. Islay. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Jenny, well, hopefully you can be greasing yourself up in Greece as well with that $5,000 travel budget. You're in the draw.

It's all thanks to South Australian Tourism. You have yourself a great day, alright? Yeah, thanks a lot, guys. You too. Bye. Good on you, Jenny. Keep safe. Spy, the what's up by doco.nz Listen, she's here for a good time. Not a long time. Actually, probably

she's here for a long time. Yeah, actually we want her here for a long time for employment reasons. I don long time. Actually, probably she's here for a long time. Yeah, actually, we want her here for a long time for employment reasons. I don't know. I feel like she's not going to though. What do you mean? She'll be gone soon.

You'll be gone. You'll be gone. You'll be a better show will come calling. Oh, we'll see about that. Are you having a good time though? I am.

Yes, I am. Yeah. Well, let's hope it's good and long. I said that in an unusually high voice which probably makes it sound like I am. Sound like you're not but anyway, let's talk about this off and long. I said that in an unusually high voice, which probably makes it sound like I out.

Sound like you're not. But anyway, let's talk about this off the radio. I am. So the bizarre couple, we talked about this, I think, a couple of weeks ago, was Angelina Jolie and The Weeknd. They were spotted having dinner together, but they've now been spotted at a private concert in L.A. together. Who's doing all the spotting?

Who's the spotter who keeps knocking to the media? There are some eyes around the place, Jonathan. But she brought her kids along to the concert as well, which is kind of random. It's quite quick to meet the new boy. Listen to you old judgy pets.

Sorry, I'm notorious for this. It was probably either you spotting or Brad Pitt. They were the two options. They're spotting. Oh, look at them. They're spotting, oh, look at them. They're out again, are they? Well, that's a lot of kids to ferry to a concert as well.

You're definitely in a people mover situation, aren't you, with the van? Well, true, you would be, yeah. Maxi cab. Yeah. And they talk about stepdads. I was going to say, they talk about stepdads often. They have the kids on the weekend. Well, literally, the weekend would have the kids on the weekend in that situation, I'd imagine.

That would be so cool. If I was her child, I would make that joke all the time. Every weekend, in fact. And in other news, Lorde has talked about the positives and the negatives on not being on social media. So she used to be on social media. Pretty sure she's only got like three posts on her instagram um she updates her fans through like a subscription service on her website and they get emails um but she's like an email letter isn't it like a newsletter yeah like those ones you're like straight to spam sort of such so once to the kids school that i never

read and then i'm like why didn't i know about this day when i turned up they're like it was in the newsletter you're like i should read, I should read it. No one reads newsletters. I should though. I know. I recently did a culling of all of my emails that I don't want, like hitting the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the email. And when you try to unsubscribe from clothing shops or anything that you're just not interested in, the unsubscribe button is very hard to find.

It's so tiny and at the bottom. And you're just wasting half an hour trying to find this goddamn unsubscribe button. Anyway. It's like a game of Where's Wally, isn't it? Yeah, true. True. And I just keep getting fed ads for Grammarly, like the Grammarly spam.

Do you? Yeah, it's a goddamn Grammarly. If I see YouTube pre-roll ads of Grammarly, Grammarly.com. I don't care if my Grammarly's dumb. Maybe I need Grammarly.com? I was like, I don't care if my Grammarly's dumb. I said, maybe I need Grammarly. No, you do. What was the other pre-roll that came up during a live stream as well recently? Oh, yeah.

That was the colour of my fecal. Yeah. I think you need to go to the doctor. Anyway, I don't know how we diverted onto this topic. We were talking about Lorde initially. So she's talked about the positives and the negatives on not being on social media. She said initially it was like a lot of information. She was just pummeling herself with headlines and thoughts from other people all day.

And it didn't give her much room herself to kind of be creative, have ideas or brainstorm things. So she took the break. But now she's realized that the one thing that she has underestimated is how much she misses out on her friends lives and so people nowadays, which is so true, they don't really tell you what they're up to. They just kind of update everyone via an Instagram story or an Instagram

post and that's how people find out things these days and so now she actually has to make you know, like an old school effort and call up people on the telephone and say, hey, can I pencil you in to see you? And that's how she has to, you know, make the effort to keep up with her friends now. But the problem is, though, you've got when you see these people in real time, IRL is being keeps trying to get keeps trying to put that into the show to make it seem. But then you've got nothing to talk about because you know everything that they've been up to.

So it's more like a post-analysis of, oh, I see you did this, I see you did that. As opposed to, what have you been doing? And giving them the chance to tell you. Oh, I saw you had a meal on the beach sort of thing. And so that conversation's died. True, you're a wise man, Jonathan. It has.

But you still get to have that conversation of like, how was your day? Yeah, it's like in a reflective way. But then you, as the conversation receiver, you don't get to get surprised. You're like, oh, you went and bloody had a meal on the beach. What was that? Was it sandy? You know, all that stuff's out there.

I don't know. Anyway, I'm very confused by your argument, Ian. You know what? So am I. But I said it in a convincing tone. You did. That made me seem like I knew what I was talking about. No, I was only there for a bit.

Then I'm like, oh, I don't know. I mean, Julie even said I'm a wise man. Yeah, she does. Well, you are. She's very wise coming to me. Wise man. See, I don't know what he's saying. Alrighty. And that is five and more. You can head to the

hits.co.nz. New Zealand, this is your breakfast. With Jono and Ben's battery operated torch tour. Broadcasting live from the Warehouse St Vincent's store in Nelson. Good morning New Zealand. Just gone seven o'clock here with Jono and Ben. The Warehouse is proud to sponsor

today's Olympians as well as tomorrow. And we're on a tour, a battery-operated torch tour, thanks to the Warehouse, going around Warehouse stores around New Zealand with our own torch, a battery-operated one, because, of course, there was no Olympic torch going around the world this year. So we thought we'd take it to the people of New Zealand. If you get a photo with the torch, come down and see us after 8 this morning. You go on the draw for $10,000.

We had to get a battery-operated one because Ben's not allowed around open flames. He's got a little bug inside of him that we have to deal with. But we've suppressed those feelings. But you can come down. Bring the whole family down. No, the whole family. And if you don't have a family, go and adopt one. And bring them down.

Plenty of parking. Fun for the whole family. Come and have a photo with the torch. Spot prizes as well after 8 o'clock this morning. Yesterday we were in Christchurch, and it was really cool. We recorded a few messages to send over to the Olympic team, because, of course, as I said before, the warehouse sponsors the New Zealand Olympic team. And we were recording a good luck message with some kids, like this one.

Kids, I'm going to bully you into saying something. What are you going to say? Good luck! Jono's also leaving work as well. He's lost his job. What do you want to say to him? Good luck! Good luck, mate.

Good luck on that one. Good luck, loser. And another message, one of my favourite ones. It was meant to be the kids. You were meant to get the kids together and yell really loudly. You know, like get the kids to yell loudly. But all you can hear is pretty much just you yelling in this one. We just won a medal.

What do we want to say? Yeah! Yeah! I'm screaming over the kids. The kids are meant to be louder than me, but it's just me yelling. Come on, cute kids. Why don't you yell as well? All right, what do I want to say?

Yeah! Mainly you. What an obnoxious moron you work with, Ben. Sometimes I hear myself back and I'm like, mate, you are a horrible human being. But anyway, if you want me to yell in your ear this morning, come on down and see us. There's a lady that wants to get in the front door, guys.

She's knocking and waving. Let the poor lady in. Come in! Oh, Jesus. Hey, next on the show, thanks to our friends at the warehouse, we're going to do a little game with the warehouse, snatch and grab. You can control Jono around the warehouse door. You tell him where to step, where to go, and he will grab items.

You will win those items next on 0800 The Hits. It is The Hits. We're travelling around New Zealand thanks to The Warehouse, and they are proud sponsors of the New Zealand Olympic team. And right now we've got a game. I don't know if they've sanctioned this game, but we're going to do it anyway. Yeah, this is The Warehouse Games. Usually the only Warehouse Games are to not find a bargain at the warehouse.

Can't do it. Because there's too many bargains. You'd have to look long and hard to find not a bargain. But today we're going to do snatch and grab. Now, is this just a hugely elaborate plot for a shoplifting scam? Maybe. Are we going to wheel these products straight out the front door after the show? Probably.

Yeah, but right now on 0800THEHITS, if you want to play, give us a call, and you can control Jono around the store. You obviously don't know where he is because you can't see him, but that's part of the fun of the game. You can control him around. He's got a trolley, and he will grab items that you direct him towards. This is the trolley. Yeah.

Why don't you get in the trolley, and I'll push you around too. Okay. This will be fun. I can get in the trolley. It'll be fun. Now, you could win a mattress or a doormat. Please don't win a mattress because it would be a nightmare for Producer Huffrey to send out.

But who's the first caller we've got, Ju? We have Hannah from Cambridge. Hello, Hannah from Cambridge. One of my favourite Hannahs from Cambridge. There are many good ones there. Hiya. Now, Hannah, your job is to direct us left, right, straight, forward, back, whatever,

and then tell us to grab items. We'll have 30 seconds on the clock to do so, okay, mate? Okay. All right, let's start the timer, Jew. I've got some baking powder already. I've just gone past that. I'm just going to grab stuff. Okay, what do you want us to go, Hannah?

Forward? Forward, yes. Oh, yeah, Macona Caramel Latte is coming. I'm going right. Yes. Grab something, Donna. Okay, I've got a bag of Tuck's dog food, 20 kilograms of Tuck's dog food. Oh, yes, that's perfect.

Keep going, Ford. I hope you've got a big dog. Oh, that's heavy. What else? Oh, I've got a Sorry You're Leaving do. Oh, that's heavy. What else? Oh, I've got a sorry you're leaving card. Oh, and a card that says sorry. Yes, and another card that says sorry for your loss. So if you lose your car keys or something, you've got an appropriate card.

Or you know someone who loses their car keys. Well done, Hannah. Osh, thank you. Nah, Ben's microphone's not working, mate. Hello? It's because I've slammed 20 kilograms of dog food on him. Yeah, there's a lot of dog food right now. I'm in a trolley, there's dog food on top of me.

Should we do one more, Patricia Julian, or should we move on from this? No, we can absolutely do one more. Let's go to Rachel in Auckland. Was that a query about how well this is going, Ben? A little bit. Julia, he wants an honest response. Now, should we move on from this, or is there more life in this? I think we should absolutely give it another shot.

Have faith. Okay, all right. Sorry, who was the person we had on, mate? Rachel from Auckland. Rachel. Rachel, morning. How are you? Morning.

How are you? I'm good, thank you. All right, I'm pushing Ben around a giant empty warehouse right now in a trolley. He's got bog food, 20 kilograms of dog food on him. He's got a peeing pup toy already. Yeah, I've got your peeing pup toy, if you know a kid in your life and wants a peeing pup toy, we've got one of those. This is all up to you now. The 30-second clock starts, and we'll just follow your instructions.

Take it away. Okay, you've got to run. You've got to run for 20 steps. Run, run, run, run. Yes, running, running, running. 20 steps forward and eight steps to your left and grab, please. Grab. You have a 26-inch bike tyre.

A what? A 26-inch bike tyre. Okay, great. And then turn to your right and grab, please. Now you've got a frozen skateboard with Elsa and Anna on it? Yes. And then go to the bottom shelf and grab, please. Bottom shelf and grab.

And you've now got a scooter. Yes. A Paw Patrol scooter. Yes. Thanks, guys. Best day ever. Are you a big fan of Frozen and or Paw Patrol? I'm all about it. I'm all about it.

I'm all about it. I'm not, but my niece is. Well, your niece is going to be looking like a boss. She is going to be looking like a boss. Thanks very much, guys. Well done. No worries. Hey, congratulations.

There you go. All my microphone's working. I'm back in range, guys. Well done. Thanks, of course. Hi. Hi, I'm here as well. Sitting in a trolley with a lot of dog food and toys on top of me. But that's all right. That's what I'm back in range, guys. Well done. Thanks, of course. Hi. I'm here as well, sitting in a trolley with a lot of dog food and toys on top of me.

But that's all right. That's what I'm doing. It's my commitment to this warehouse torch tour. Hey, next we're going to catch up with... I don't want to say there was an absolute shambles, but it felt like a shambles. Leave that to the boss to say in our meeting after the show. We're going to catch up with some more of the stars from the New Zealand Olympic team next, including a trampolinist, New Zealand's first female trampolinist who's heading off to the Games.

She joins us in a few moments. It is the hits. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.

The hits. The hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben broadcasting out at the warehouse in Nelson this morning. Come on. Woo-hoo. Woo. One person very passionate about Nelson.

Thank you, Bethany. Beautiful. Anyone else want to say woo, Nelson? Woo. Yeah. Nelson. Nelson. Listen, we are in Nelson's population of around about 50,000 people, Bain.

Did you know that it's New Zealand's 12th most populous city? Nelson, it's the centre, the geographical centre of New Zealand. And what else have we got here? Ranked as the ninth largest city in New Zealand. And those are all my Wikipedia stats. One of my favourite Simpsons characters. But we are here. We're on the battery-operated torch tour with the Warehouse Proud sponsors of the New Zealand Olympic team.

Come down at 8 o'clock, have a photo with the torch here in the drawer for $10,000. Now, what I have noticed is, travelling the road with you, Ben Boyce, is you're not a fan of fully connecting a seatbelt until you're out of a car park. I was finding it difficult yesterday because there was a lot of bags and stuff in the back. He starts off and goes, bing, bing, bing. You're like, Boyce, he's not connected.

He's not connected. And then he lets it reach maximum point where the alarm is like, mate, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. The alarm's not going to stop. And I recorded this yesterday. I think it's trying to tell you something, Ben. It really got in there. I found it in there. It starts off going, hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. I knew it's trying to tell you something, Ben. It really got in there. I found it in there.

It starts off going, hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. I knew it, though. I was trying to find it. And it's like, hey, buddy, hey, buddy, hey, buddy. Put your seatbelt on. And I did. And as you say, we were in the car park at the time.

Yeah, it's to the point where the car wants to explode as Ben leaves it. But those are the joys of being on the road. The lads on the road. Up to all sorts of nonsense. Not putting on their seatbelts in car parks. Jeez, wild. That's about it. It is a hit.

I think we were in bed by 8 o'clock last night, the lads. It is a hit, Jono. It is a hit, Jono and Ben Nelson this morning. It's wonderful to be here. You know, we were talking about streaming accounts now. It seems like there's 39 different streaming services that you can sign up for, can't you? And you forget you've signed up for them as well. That's my problem.

Well, Ben Boyce is on a constant cloud that hangs over his head, an iCloud that hangs over his head. Constant plate spinning system system aren't you where you're just going from free trial to free trial you're having to meet remember what free trial you're on when it's when it's going you know it's you can't find it it's like a bomb that's about to go off every time and you're just keeping it at bay but um we've got talking about people who sign in on others accounts now a friend of ours on the weekend thank you tiff gave us her password for neon which we're now recklessly using not legal now why is that not legal well i guess it's meant to be in the same household i think that's probably

in the t's and c's then why would they even give us as humans the option to go have six friends on here six friends or family you really get to know who your friends and family are don't you same household but yeah everyone's pushing that system right are they yeah i mean i can imagine you're signed on to all sorts who's sky counter you saw i'm not actually i get i get a bit on my own head about getting like i would like a pirated movie or something like that but i'd be worried about it i'd be such a bad knock and do you remember pirated movies and they were like it's funding terrorism. How's me just downloading a movie off the internet

funding ISIS? You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't fund a terrorist organisation. Are they making these DVDs for us? But anyway, Ben Humphrey, our producer, Behumps, he's signed on to all sorts of people's different accounts, aren't you?

Are you actually paying for any streaming services, Behumps? I think we pay for one, legitimate. Out of how many? Oh, we've got, there must be eight. Jeez! Yeah. Wow. Are you worried about the FBI banging on your door?

That's what I'd be worried about. I'd never click the box, you know, no one knows where I am at any time. He's like Jason Bourne, He's just keeping it all over. He's always incognito in real life. I don't think the FBI, Ben, are going to come knocking down on your door. If the FBI come knocking on your door and go, guys, surely there's a better door you could be knocking on right now than me who signed into my Aunt Dorothy's Netflix account.

I just love it, and I've talked about it before, but I love the fact that the kids have signed me. You know, hey, you change your names, you change your profile pictures under like a Netflix. Well, mine is, they've put Daddy under mine. But Netflix emails me all the time with, here's some movies you might like, Daddy. Hey, Daddy.

Hey, Daddy. You know, it's kind of weird when Netflix call me that. You are a Daddy. Yeah, I know, but when Netflix said, hey, Daddy, here's the movies you might like. How do you know Netflix are going, hey, Daddy? Netflix might be like, hey, Daddy hey daddy either way it's like hey daddy is uh what's the one you'd like dwayne john he's tooth fairy recommend you're like you're damn right i'll watch it a friend of ours actually

won't let anyone uh watch gets really annoyed if you if someone watches something under his profile because it ruins his algorithm because you know later it has that the recommendation stuff that you might like but as soon as someone watches something else you know if i came over and watched the backyardians or the poor patrol on your thing you'd be like oh well it just messes up what yeah you know so he's like he's very frustrated by that now actually you what are you you were coming in here all high and mighty you're like oh i'm worried about what they're gonna think if i sign into other people's account you just said this minutes ago yeah you were on a 24 month plan signing into my hot spot without even telling me oh that's you hold on you had no blatant disregard plugging his bits into my hot spot you plugged it you were using it so much it became a cold spot and then he tells me

24 months later oh by the way i've been tethering off your phone for two years no worries about that where's your moral compass buddy yeah it's all over the place five words for 5k on the hits you're only five words away from a massive payday we're standing here at the front door of the warehouse in nelson with a can-do attitude and two functioning mouths. Ready to win you some cash money. Still one of my favorite parts of the show. Word Association, a game we play every day. Five words for 5K.

We'll win, hopefully, someone $5,000 right now. Well, the only five words I can think of right now, Ben, are where everyone gets a bargain. Oh, that's great. Those are five great words. Those are great five words They work really well today What better bargain than $5,000 free dollars? Who we got on the phone?

Who wants to play five words this morning? We've got, oh, I wrote the name down, Juliet Don't tell me It was Kate from Invercargill Yes Good morning, guys How are you? Even backed it up with the location as well

How are you, Kate? I'm well, how are you? Good, you sound like a wonderful human being what do you do i work in retail oh you would be a good retail person as well what's the biggest bugbear with us mere mortals coming into a shop for a retail person oh i'd say it would be when you know you're closing up and they can clearly see the doors are coming down and they still try to come in. Yeah, I've done that before. I always like when I hold up, like if you're looking at, say, for a T-shirt, for example,

that's nicely folded and you hold it up to see if it fits and doesn't fit and you just put it, scrunch it back in a pile. Does that frustrate the living bejesus out of you, Kate? It does, really, but hey, it's my job, so I've just got to get on with it. So if I went around everywhere and just did that to everything. Oh, God. Yeah, it'd be like, get out of the store. That's what I'd say.

All right, Kate, you want to send someone away to not to hear. We don't have a soundproof booth today, but you're going to go. I'll go to the toy aisle. Yeah, I will. Who would you like to send away? I'd like to send away Jono, please. Okay. All right.

For good? Yeah, me too. All right, Jono, you. Okay. All right. For good? Yeah, me too. All right, Jono, you head away. Take your headphones off, obviously. And we'll get right now to Kate. And your first word this morning for five words for 5K is lozenge. Throat. It's very hard to type and hold the microphone up right now this morning.

Magazine is the second word. Ooh. Magazine. Oh, that's hard. I'll come back to that one. You can come back with that one. No worries. Energy is your third word this morning, Kate.

Energy. Energy drink. Energy is your third word this morning, Kate? Energy. Energy drink. Energy drink. A good option. Watch is the fourth word. Watch, watch, watch. Clock. Clock.

Nice. And ticket is the fifth word. Ticket. Ticket. Ticket. Ticket. Plane. Plane? Like a plane ticket?

Yeah, plane ticket. Yeah. Okay, plane. Yeah, I like that. You're agreeing with me. That's good. And we're going to go back to magazine. Any ideas on magazine? So, I'm thinking maybe book.

Magazine, book. All right. All right. Can I change? Sorry, can I just change the ticket one? Yeah, you can. Yeah. I changed it to bus.

I think bus is probably better. Bus ticket. All right. So, we've got, okay, throat, book, drink, clock, and bus. I will go and try and find Producer Humphries. Can we find Jono? There he is. Oh, yep.

I'm going to bring him back from, he was in aisle two. I was in aisle two, which was. Hair care. You have no business being in hair care. But I did get Kate a little treat. Oh, right. Kate, if you don't mind me asking a very personal question. Yeah.

How sensitive are your gums? Not very sensitive at all. Not sensitive? Okay. If they do start to get a bit sensitive and, you know, they get hurt feelings, I've got you some Oral-B, sensitive gum, all-day protection.

Oh, that's nice. Okay. All right, we've got that for you. All right, John, let's see if we can match up. No thanks from Kate there. No, my mate, she just wants you to win her $5,000. All right. First word this morning we sent to Kate was lozenge.

Lozenge. Did you say lozenge? No, I said that actually a bit clearer before. Lozenge. Would you go throat lozenge? Yes, you would. Yes, Kate. Well done, well done.

You and your sensitive gums could be winning some cash. I'm going to mix things up this morning. I'm going to go to word number three, and we're going to go energy. Drink. Yes, well done. Yes, Kate. Well done. All right, let's go watch.

What do you want to say, Warehouse Nelson? You, you, you. Don't do that again, well done. Yes, Kate. Well done. All right. Let's go watch. What do you want to say, Warehouse Nelson? Yew, yew, yew. Don't do that again, Jono. People are here, but they're all quite spread out around the store. There's only five of them. Yeah. Watch. Would you go like a clock?

Like a clock would be correct. Yes! All right, you're two away. This is where it gets tricky. This is where it gets tricky. That's why I left these two ones for last. We're going to go magazine. The last magazine I saw was at your house, Ben.

There we go. I would go... There we go. And I don't know... The answer I'm thinking of... There we go. It was a Woman's Weekly that I saw at your house. I know, that's the thing.

Here we go. The la... I don't want this to be like a misogynistic answer, but the word that I have in my head which pops out, and I don't even know if it stacks up in 2021, is woman's magazine. No! Take your dated views and get out of the warehouse.

What is this, mate? 1962? Okay, unfortunately we went with book this morning, which was far less controversial. Kate, I'm sorry. Why don't you go to the kitchen and fix up the lads a bit of a spread, eh? Oh, jeez. Jesus, what are you saying?

I'm sorry. Kate, I let you down. I'm so sorry. That's okay. Mate, what was the fifth word? The fifth word was ticket. Okay, bus ticket. Are you serious? Kate, my misogynistic views

let me down and also you down. Oh, mate, I am so sorry. Listen, you don't walk away with nothing. You've got some oral B-sensitive gum relief, okay? Hey, thank you. Thank you. It's not $5,000, but hey, it's

the next best thing. If I could say to you, you can have one other thing apart from $5,000. I would say Oral-B sensitive gum relief. You'd want your gums not to be sensitive. Spy the What's Up by Docco.nz Look, we had to leave Producer Juliet at home.

We were just too scared that the South Island wouldn't be able to handle her. So she's back at Hits HQ with some spy. What's happening, Ju? So Kiwi director Taika Waititi has hit a bit of a nerve with some English fans. So after the Euro 2020 football final where England lost to Italy in a penalty shootout. He tweeted simply the words, lol and then shared footage of a huge brawl breaking out at

Wembley Stadium between Italian and English fans saying yeah, cool country mate and the English are not happy because he's almost kind of you know, saying lol to something like that, it really winds you up, wouldn't it?

Is he riling people up? Yeah. Is it like when someone's so angry and you're like, calm down. Yes. Calm down. Yes. I found it quite interesting because obviously Rita Ora, she was posting this today. She grew up in the UK and was a big football fan, big English football fan.

And then for him to come on and go lol. I know. They're in a relationship, you know, it would have him to come on and go, lol. I know. They're in a relationship. You know, it would have been an interesting sort of like, oh. I know. That's what I was thinking too. But then obviously Taika weighed in on some stuff, which is pretty horrible, where some of the fans, the racial abuse towards some of the players.

Oh, that's shocking. So sad. I know Prince William came out today and said he's disgusted. Yeah. Yeah. At the end of the day, it's just a game. Totally. Yeah, totally.

I felt sorry for the last guy, 19 years old. I know. I mean, that's such a huge pressure at 19 to be on the world stage. And he missed the free kick. Yeah, and that's just what happens in sport, you know, all that pressure. And it can happen. One way you can be a hero, one way you're not. But the team did really well.

I think the message is that they did England proud, which is cool. Totally, totally. And England hadn't made a final in years and years and years and years on any major football tournament. So, I mean, regardless, they've got a lot to be proud of as well. And in other news, Symphony is back, which is basically the world's biggest electronic dance anthem show. So you're mixing like a live orchestra with dance music.

There'll be DJs, vocalists. It's going to be featuring the music of Daft Punk, Calvin Harris, Wilkinson, Dizzy Rascal, The Killers and more. It's going to be happening at Spark Arena in Auckland on Friday the 17th of September. But tickets are on sale next Thursday, 22nd of July. And I think we have a double pass. So if people want to... Well, I tell you what, slap a glow stick in my hand and Ben, boys, give me some of that stuff

that you can get your hands on. It's going to be a wonderful evening. Friends of ours have been to one of those before. I said that was awesome. Really cool. Really, really cool.

They sell out really quickly so go along and see it. Double pass right now, Juliet? Yeah, I think so. People can just text into 4487 if they'd like to snatch up a double pass

and we'll choose someone. Feels like a wonderful, it'll be a great night, but you'd be feeling the effects of it for three or four days after, wouldn't you? You'd be like Wednesday, you'd be like, never again. Friday rolls around, let's do it again. So true, so true. And that is Spy.

For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock on the show, we're joined by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, and we need to play her. We need to play what Ed Sheeran said about performing at a wedding. We spoke to Ed Sheeran, and what was his response when asked would he perform at the Prime Minister's wedding? We'll play that after 8 to her.

It is the hits. Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. It is the hits, Jono and Ben, and we are live at the Nelson, we are live and alive at the Nelson Warehouse. Come on down and see us at the warehouse. Proud to sponsor today's Olympians as well as tomorrow's.

And we're taking a battery-operated torch around New Zealand. If you come down and get a photo with the torch, you go on the drill to win $10,000. But there are spot prizes as well. We've just been given an amazing spot prize to give away. We've been given the Nighthawk Huffy. The Huffy Nighthawk, which is a top-of-the-range bicycle. Value. Do you want to know the recommended retail value of this?

It'd be a couple hundred bucks, wouldn't it? It looks awesome. Let's have a go. Mate, it is $269. So we can give that away. So how are we going to give that away? What do you reckon? Well, I reckon if you come down to the warehouse in Nelson and say,

Hi, Jono and Ben, can I please have that free bike you're giving away? Then we'll give you the bike. Okay, the first person to come down to us. But they need to be those specific words. Hi, Jono and Ben, can I please have that free bike you're giving away? Okay, the first person to say those exact words to us will Jono and Ben. Can I please have that free bike you're giving away? Okay, the first person to say that, those exact words to us,

will win the bike. Just like that. Did you have something you wanted to say, Goodman? The lady's just walked in the door. Did you have something you wanted to say?

I said, it's Jono and Ben. Hello. Oh, you didn't say the magic words, though. Lovely to meet you, though. You have a good day. See you, mate.

I was doing some research about Nelson, Ben. Yeah, right. It is doing some research about Nelson Bend. Yeah, right. It is New Zealand's second oldest city. Second oldest city. Oh, really? The oldest would be up where you always bang on about. Oh, Russell always bangs on about.

Well, it's not technically a city, but it was the first place. Yeah, the oldest police station. The oldest pub. The oldest, yeah. And Captain Cook first arrived here in 1769. He landed on these shores and spread many exotic diseases throughout our land

ones we'd never even heard of so thank you Captain Cook what a wonderful gift we passed through Christchurch with the torch yesterday and I took you to a place that was very dear to my heart why, because of the clogged arteries? you met the lovely lady here she was awesome

you make those jokes think of that She was awesome You make those jokes Think of that lovely lady It's a personal touch I will tell you what this place was And why it means so much to me next They're proud of New Zealand Go New Zealand If only New Zealand was proud of them

New Zealand's breakfast On the hits Thanks to the warehouse Proud supporters of the New Zealand Olympic team. And we've got our battery-operated torch we're taking around everywhere. Come on down to Nelson today, get a photo with it, and go on the draw for $10,000. The doors are open now. Up until now, it's just been two lonely radio hosts talking to themselves with a security guard who'd probably rather be in bed. She's a lovely lady, though.

But Ben Boyce, yesterday you took me to one of your youth haunts, wasn't it? A place where you spent a lot of time that fueled you and made you the wonderful broadcaster, the all-rounded broadcaster that you are today. People say, surprised when I say I studied radio. People are like,

oh, really? And then I'm like, for four years? It's sort of. I don't know if you're four or five. Maybe I should have gone for four years. I keep saying four years. Yeah, I should have gone for four years? It's sort of. I don't think it's four or five. Maybe I should have gone for four years. I keep saying four years. Yeah, I should have gone for four years. Maybe I should have. But anyway, when I was studying in Christchurch, there was a place. It still exists called Dumplings in Christchurch that would sell $2 rice.

Now, this is $2. Rice, a big plate of rice, and you get with a special sauce, special secret sauce that they would make. And I kept saying, $2 rice. It's the thing. Quite strange people. If you know, you know. And I was like, hey, John, I need to take you there.

But at 10.30 in the morning, and, you know, 10.30 in the morning, my palate is not in the mood for, you know, that's out of my usual rice consumption hours, 10.30 a.m. Yeah. So I took you in there yesterday, and I was still so, so happy that they still had $2 rice available, and we spoke to the nice people in there at Dumplings. How are you going? Good. How are you guys?

I've brought Jono in for a Christchurch specialty, $2 rice. I always bang on about this. It's so good. I have no interest in trying it. He doesn't. This is so good. Like $2 as a student. Look at that. Look how much rice and the amazing sauce. I guess you'll get one though.

Oh, okay. Well, look how much, if you're not me, you might not quite as much. What is the sauce? What's the secret sauce? I can't tell you that. Come on. Like, does Santa's go around telling everyone what's in there? He's dead.

But when he was alive, did he? No. And so how much of this do you sell a day? Oh, I don't know. Maybe just over a hundred, a couple hundred maybe. How many litres of mystery sauce are you making? Oh, so we have pots about that big.

So it's about 10 litre pots maybe. 10 litres. Do you call it mystery sauce? Secret sauce. Oh, it's not secret? Well, it's a gravy. It's a gravy, yeah. But $2, it stayed $2 for how many years?

For 32 of the, for 34 years. Hasn't even risen with inflation. Well, we can't because people will kill us. They get really angry when we put up prices. You couldn't put up, what about $2.50? No, it doesn't have the same ring to it, you know? Yeah. But is it sinking you now?

Like, are you making, are you losing money on this $2 rice? Oh, no. Almost. I mean, even $3 rice is a nice. It's still cheap. But when no one has $2 rice. Like, our name's Dumplings, but everyone calls us $2 rice. Yeah, I've never had a dumpling from Dumplings.

Exactly. Probably never many times. Exactly, see? Maybe if you bought more dumplings. Yeah, the dumplings aren't $2, are they? No, they're not. They're still $1.50. They're even cheaper.

How are you still in business for 34 years? That's why it's only a family business. I'm on minimum wage, James. Wow. Well, thank you for having us. No, thank you so much for coming in I'm on minimum wage, James. Wow. Well, thank you for having us. No, thank you so much for coming in. Nice to see you. So there we go, $2 rice.

Yeah. Now, just imagine a mountain of rice with what looks like a gravy volcano exploded on top of it. And that's the meal. And Ben, you ate it, didn't you? Oh, it was good. It was good. It brought me back. It took me back there.

And, you know, thank you for taking me back it took me back there and you know thank you for taking me back there literally to the place because it's one of those places you know when you go to a town you're like I need to go there I need to go there This is what we want to open up right now 0800 the hits okay if we come to your town or if anyone comes

to your town what must they do? Now this is stuff that's not you won't find this in a brochure at a motel. I don't even find it on TripAdvisor. You know, like this is the stuff that you know about and the locals know about. You're like, you've got to go there. Small town secrets. Now, we're not talking about outing the local used car dealers affair.

No. No, just small town things that we're going to, like for example, if you go to Huntly, you must inhale some of the smog from the coal factory. You've got to do it. If you go to Invercargill, you must, you know, use the shared drinking fountain at the public pools. I don't know. I'm making stuff up. If you come to Nelson, for example, we must burn some incense and hang up a dream catcher.

Or maybe it's a little hack that you know. Like when we used to go to Queen Elizabeth Park in Marston growing up there, and you'd go on the pedal boats, and you'd have like 15 minutes back in the day, but towards the end of 15 minutes, you'd always go to the other end of the pond. So the person could go, hey, your time's up. You know, that was a great little hack. So you could just sort of... So you could do more pedalling.

More pedalling. Yeah, exactly. Get another two minutes in that sweet, sweet boat. Yeah. That's a great little hack. Yeah. Okay, 0800, that's the number. 4487, we'd love you to join us on New Zealand's Breakfast this morning.

Your small town secrets. Let's get them on the radio, eh? All right, we'll do that next. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben? It is the hits. Jono and Ben are broadcasting from Nelson this morning at the warehouse, and they kind of gave us a bike to give away, and Jono, you were very specific with how we were going to give it away.

Yes, we needed the first person to come to us and say, Hi, Jono and Ben, can I please have that free bike you're giving away? And don't deviate from the script. No, that's exactly what I had to be saying. Exact words, and even if the delivery page has just turned up, the pressure's on. She knows what she needs to do. She knows the words. It's all on you, Paige.

Well, now I feel like I'm not going to do it right. Oh, Paige, come on. You did it right before. You came up and actually said that to us. And we're like, oh, we have to do this on radio. I didn't realize I had to do it again. Okay. Hey, John or Bing, can I please have that pre-bike you're giving away?

Yes, you can, Paige. That is all yours. Well done, Paige. What a thrilling competition. Geez, I should come up with more fun formats like that. The bike is yours. You can literally just ride that out the door now, whatever you want to do. You get to work. All you need to do is pop a sick wheelie now out the door. Wonderful. Where are you going to take that bike?

Hopefully it fits in my car. Oh yeah. Now this is the problem. Bikes are niggly to transport. Otherwise you're going to have to bike to work now. Maybe I'll just leave the car here and take that away. Hey Paige, lovely to meet you. Paige works at Spa World, an entire world of spa pools. Yeah, who knew? Who knew there was a whole world? It is. It's all over the world, too. Well, that could be one of the places that you need to visit when you come to Nelson, because that's what we're doing

right now on 0800 The Hits. When you come to your town or your city, what is the one place that you're like, hey, you really need to check out? Yeah, your small town secrets, what have you got for us on 0800 The Hits? That's the telephone number. You can get in touch with us any time, except after 9 o'clock, where we won't answer your calls.

Someone else will. But Renee joins us. Welcome to the show, Renee. Hi. You're from Ho Hora. Yeah, Pukanoe. Oh, lovely. What must we do?

The small town secret, if we come and see our mate Renee. Okay, you hands down have to go to this little caravan that this nana owns down there. And they sell the best power homemade pies in the country, I swear. Homemade power pies from a nana in a caravan? Oh, it does sound good. She sounds adorable as well. I bet she doesn't even have an EFTPOS machine. She probably...

Oh, she's got an EFTPOS machine. Oh, she's got an EFTPOS machine. Oh, that's good. I bet... Oh, imagining a sweet lady, like, handwriting out receipts and things. Yeah, yeah. And selling it for way too cheap,

I imagine, as well, too. It's like, you can sell, like, 12 bucks... She's like, these are only 50 cents. 50 cents? Yeah. She's like, I just do it because people love it. Well, we will do that next time, Renee. You go and have a

wonderful Tuesday, eh, mate? Lovely to have you on the show. Lucy, welcome. It's Jono and Ben here. What are your small town secrets? So, mine is the Monster Ice Creams at the Rob Roy Dairy in Dunedin.

Oh, as in they put too much ice cream on the cone? Correct. Like the cone struggles to hold it up. Oh, structurally. Oh, because there's a place just out of Auckland that does like 16 scoops. Oh, in Pocono. Yeah, that's where it is. That's right.

A 16 scooper. Rob Roy one's better. Oh, it's better. All right. Oh, you're laying the smack down. The ice cream's smack down, aren't you? I see. How many scoops is Rob Roy getting on his dairy ice cream?

You can choose how many scoops you want, but they just call them monster ones and you can choose. But I like the 12 scoops. That seems very reckless. It does. Yeah. People would be pushing that to its absolute limit. It's like when you go to the Valentine's buffet

and you are filling up every last millimetre of that plate. I know. With a combination of cuisines that make no sense. They should go together. A tikka masala with a pancake. Yeah. All great on their own, but why put them on the same plate? That's what you do.

It's the pressure you feel when there's a deal going on. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. It is the hits.

Jono and Ben, we're coming to you this morning from Nelson. Lots of fun being in Nelson. We said earlier, everything's five minutes away in Nelson, which is pretty cool.

Yeah, and did you know Nelson, have I said that it was the second oldest city in New Zealand? Yeah, did you? Not long ago. Oh, really? Yeah. I've run out oldest city in New Zealand? Yeah, you did. Not long ago, Tony. Oh, really?

Yeah. I've run out of Nelson facts. That's a good one, though. That's a really good one. Yesterday, a lot of people around New Zealand were watching the football. It was very, very exciting, a bit heartbreaking for the England supporters who really, really wanted it. But my daughter was watching at home, and she's on school holidays, and she was quite torn as to who to support.

And this is what my wife sent through. This is Indy. This was her. She wasn't sure who to support, England or Italy. Hi, Indy. Who do you want to win the football this morning? That's hard because I want Italy to win because I love their pasta. But then I want England to win because I like the Queen.

So it's just a hard decision oh i see so she's the the conundrum was the battle of the you know the italians a wonderful cuisine probably up there with the top three cuisines in the world on the international market yeah but then you've got on the other hand a sweet sweet elderly lady lady who's going to be disappointed if they widow as well oh, who do you go for? If the England team loses. I mean, it doesn't mean you can't have pasta. But, you know...

But, I mean, the team with the better cuisine won on the day, didn't they? And the kids are fair-weather supporters, aren't they? I like pasta, but I like old ladies as well. That's right. It's like me with the America's Cup. The whole of New Zealand with the America's Cup. Exactly. I never watched a game of New Zealand with the America's Cup. Exactly. I never watched a game of football from start to finish until yesterday.

Have you not? No. That was so good. It was exhilarating, wasn't it? Yeah, heartbreaking stuff though, wasn't it? I know, especially when it goes down to penalty shootout. There's so much pressure on those ball players. I couldn't be a goalie.

I couldn't. I reckon a goalie is probably easier because you're probably not expected to save it, you know, whereas being that person that's stepping up to kick the ball, I'm like, oh, please choose someone else, not me. It's not for the pressure, I just couldn't be a goalie. I haven't trained in it. I've never played soccer. So I couldn't be a goalie. You couldn't even watch

one game, and that was yesterday, so you're right, you couldn't be a goalie. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, that is our show for a Tuesday. Been a lot of fun this morning broadcasting out of the Warehouse store in Nelson. Yeah, it has been really enjoyable. We've met some lovely people along the way on this journey. Now, if you want to come down and see us, you can do so.

I have a photo with the battery-operated torch, which we're taking on tour because the Warehouse are proud sponsors of the New Zealand Olympic team. For once, I'd just like a sponsor to go, you know what, we're a little embarrassed about this partnership. But not this occasion, they're proud. No, as you would be. Maybe if someone was sponsoring us, embarrassed sponsors of John Owen Beb. Now we're going to be, the tour continues tomorrow in Wellington.

We're going to be at the Lyle Bay store, the warehouse, tomorrow morning. The doors will open at 8 o'clock, so come on down and get a photo with the torch. Plenty of spot prizes as well. It's going to be loads of fun. And if you do get a photo, you're in the draw for $10,000. Yeah.

And I tell you what, in anyone's language, that's a lot of money, except if you're Jeff Bezos. That's just a parking ticket. The warehouse, affordable sports gas, easy to make your start. And we'll catch you tomorrow from Wellington. Have a great Tuesday, New Zealand. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on the hits. Catch you tomorrow from Wellington. Have a great Tuesday, New Zealand.