Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Have We Discovered NZ's Next Big Broadcast Talent...?

Episode Date: November 30, 2022

Whilst on the road we ran in to a very cute kid in Hokitika and we need to get him on every week! we have a 5 Words winner and the boys recap the week that was the Bunnings tour!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kia ora, 30th of November, welcome along to the podcast, it's great to be here. Now, we must send a shout out to someone we met, who listens to the podcast every single day and she said, can you please say hello to me in the podcast intro? Grace, Grace, Grace, we met her in Wellington, right? At Bunnings Warehouse, just by the airport in Wellington. She's like, I listen to your podcast. We had a few people come up and say they listen to the podcast as well. Well, why are we still sitting at 182 on the charts?

When did we go up to 182? Jesus. Yeah. I think, you know, we like to have people listening during the show as well. You know, that's the thing. Joel, I like it when you scour the international charts to see where we're sitting. Sometimes, you know, we're sitting at like number 11 in Mozambique or something. No, we've never been that high in Mozambique.

I think we're number 111. 111 in Mozambique, latest stats. I can give you a bit of an update on where we're sitting currently around the world at the moment. Okay. Around the world? Shooting for the stars. Maybe not on the global charts. How many categories do you have to zero it down to

until it looks like we've made it onto a chart overseas Well we were in the top 100 For the comedy charts in Indonesia We've dropped out of that though Poland no longer No longer Mozambique no longer New Zealand we're in the top 100 though

For comedy Oh that's good Yeah for comedy Comedy question mark 99 Yeah We appreciate it Thank you to Grace

for listening if you want a shout out for our podcast you can text us at 4487 that's a great idea yeah we'll do podcast shout outs every morning

yeah yeah that's good does your mum Jenny still binge it or has she given up on the show yeah she does but she does

she loves to drive she loves she's in that generation that just loves to drive everywhere so she's got she's got five or six hours or something she's like I she's got five or six hours or

something she's like i'll put on five or six hours and it's almost like she's punishing yourself uh during during the drive by listening to the podcast loves to drive loves driving everywhere and the other thing she loves doing she at that age just loves calling in to see people to say i'll go visit them and can i say the night she'll let no beforehand she'll say but i'll drop in and say the night and she's she's great at doing that. Unannounced. No, no, she will go, hey. She'll text you the day before, go, hey, Jono, it's Jenny here.

We're going to my mum's day at your house. She's more than welcome to. Coming through Auckland, driving from six hours away. Do you mind if I stay the night? What do I have to say to that? Well, that's what everyone's like, oh, yeah, sweet. They just go around and their friends stay. That generation, it's like well just

book a hotel it feels like a little bit of an inconvenience that's what I think but hey it's great I love Jenny she could come and stay at my house

if she wanted to but if she did phone me the day before and go hey I'm coming to stay I'd be like but she's very giving as well people come

say stay grab yourself some food or whatever it is some people love that stuff don't they? And I think those people, they mix in the same circles. Yes, that's what I'm thinking. She would fraternise with people who would be more than happy to have her stay.

Yeah. But, jeez, you must struggle with some combos along the way. I know. It's like Jeremy was such and such, but vaguely. We met once on a cruise ship in 2002. How about I come And say the night And you can come

When you were A groomsman You and your wife Were a groomsman bridesmaid For a couple's wedding In Fiji That's right You could phone them

Next time you're in America And go Hey guys Thought we'd swing by We did actually We went to America And we went to a theme park With them actually

Oh you did We did actually Because we were like How awkward was it It was actually alright Because it was the theme park But I think if we had did? We did actually because we were like how awkward was it? It was actually alright because it was the theme park but I think if we had gone like on Hake and We Say

the night it might have been a Oh you'd be battling with the banter. It would be lovely lovely people but now I wouldn't have a way of getting hold of them.

So right. Maybe if you went to dinner you'd be struggling wouldn't you? You'd run out of conversation. But we had a lovely time we're in their wedding photos, so that's lovely. But you don't know who they are.

And you can't remember their names. I was just trying to think of that. I can't actually remember. But it is lovely. You're right. So lovely. Reid and... I want to say Brit.

I think it's Brit. Yeah, they were lovely. They were awesome. Hey, today on the show, we caught up with Ante. He's from Hollywood. And just talking about Will Smith Who is mentioned And apologised I think Did he apologise or not?

We'll talk a bit more After we heard that audio Going Well he kind of did But then he also talked about Which is very true You don't know what's going on In other people's lives

But then it didn't I don't know Did he He just wasn't trying to make any excuses I just want to get that out there No excuses No excuses He just didn't want to make an excuse

Followed by A rough childhood Yeah he did have a rough childhood, but then... It felt like, I'm not going to make excuses, but it followed with 10 or 12 excuses. Yeah, yeah. In those situations, you just kind of, unfortunately, just own it, really, don't you?

But no one wants to own anything, mate. I don't want to blame stuff. I want to blame stuff on other stuff. Yeah, that's true. Owning stuff sucks. It does. You're right. It makes you feel bad about yourself.

You're right. You're bloody right. So the fact that we're not in the top 100 in Poland or whatever it is. I blame the Polish. It's not on us. No. It's not on us. It's on them for not having better, you know, better.

Choices in podcasts. You're right, Ben. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And our childhoods. Yeah, yeah, all right. So anyway, enjoy the podcast. The H right, Ben. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we've... And our childhoods. Yeah, yeah, all right. Well, so anyway, enjoy the podcast. The Hits,

the Jono and Ben podcast. 25 sleeps till Christmas. 25 sleeps until the big day. Yeah, and I hadn't really put too much thought into it until we came into work this morning and, you know,

you're Fletch Vaughan and Haley's, you're Tony Streets of this world. Because they're all in the same building as us, a lot of other radio stations, right? They've all decorated their studios, Ben. We are still running a bleak, stark, sterile

environment in here. But in our defence, like, can I just say in our defence, we have been away, I mean, this is the first day back in the studio for probably 11 days. Because we've been away eating sausages around the country. But even then, I don't know if I would have put up a piece of tinsel or something. No, we wouldn't leave you up to do it.

The last thing we're going to do is, hey, Jono, can you sort this out? Do I look like a safe pair of hands to decorate? No, absolutely not. So if you want that done, I can produce some V-ups myself. My thing is, I think we're too late. We're too late. It's not even December. I know, but then not everyone else.

Have you put up a Christmas tree? Have you put up a Christmas tree at home? It's personal. It's personal. It's not even December. I know, but then... Have you put up a Christmas tree? Eh? Have you put up a Christmas tree at home? It's personal. That's personal. It's not too late to do that. Sorry, kids. We're too late. We're too late.

Tony Street's got a bit of tinsel up, mate. We can't. She's got Christmas covered. She actually does it very well, Tony Street, doesn't she? She puts on like... It's almost like a Santa parade inside that studio.

Speaking of Santa parade, we went down there on the weekend, didn't we? We came back from seven days of sausage fest and uh and then we hosted the after party at the Santa parade Santa's party yeah nothing screams Christmas like two haggard radio hosts turning up after eight days of sausage eating really fun it was really really fun it was awesome to see people still down there braving terrible weather as well and getting into the Christmas spirit yeah and uh but the stage was very slippery wasn't it very wet and we had like acrobatics on the air and I saw at any moment this could go you know there's that part of

you when you go to the circus you're like this is why I come to it because something could go wrong and I was on the side of stage going one of these bloody hand standing back flipping gymnasts is gonna I think that's why people stuck around not for us i mean we definitely didn't get them and there was amazing entertainment and some of the choirs and things like that were incredible it was fun but you're right at any moment and then you at one stage were like hey why don't we do an acrobatic i was very delirious and tired and well because we're the acrobatics act had just been on stage i was like who wants to see john oh and ben do some acrobatics and

it was like i guess so yes so then so i lay on my back and then i was like who wants to see john oh and ben do some acrobatics and it was like i guess so yes so then so i lay on my back and then i was like ben you come here and you had the fear of jeez you had the deep seated fear in your eyeballs and so i put my feet up and they were you put your waist on my feet and then we held hands and you were above my body we tried it a couple of times on a saturday night and it worked well it actually worked a lot better than i thought again i could have gone wrong at any moment one of my favorite things about um hosting things like that is you got we had some prizes to give out and so we'd given out a couple of prizes then a gentleman calls me off to the side of stage just a punter in the crowd and he's like you got prizes i prizes? I said, yes. Farmer's vouchers. Farmer's vouchers.

I said, yes. He said, next time, you will ask my daughter a question. I was like, eh? He's like, you will come down. We're over there. You will ask my daughter a question, and you will give her a prize. And I was like, okay.

I don't know what's going on here. He came back to me. Okay, next time we do the prizes, I'm going down there. And I'm like, all right. Gets results, eh? It does. It gets results.

I don't know what to say to this man, but if you don't ask, you don't get. That's why Karens always get what they want. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Bear Grylls. You know Bear Grylls? He's the survival guy. He drinks his own pee, goes out there and does it. I feel like poor Bear Grylls.

He's done a lot of great stuff, but we really zero in. Well, I'm guilty of it. I did that once out of desperation. He's the guy that drank his pee. Zero in on the urine consumption. He's done all this other great stuff. You're right. He's a motivational speaker.

Oh, you drink your own pee, mate. Classic stuff. But he's revealed now. He's a bit more into a routine at home right now with the family he's not doing as much survival things

as much you're on drinking no he's he's sort of one to two glasses at night you know just take her up with his wine

she has a wine he has a he has a glass of beer this is a vintage beer vintage beer you don't want to have too many you know like

yeah but he's revealed some morning hacks For helping you get up in the morning earlier This is things that he uses And so instead of calling it his alarm clock He reckons that words have so much power He calls it his opportunity clock Oh shut up beer girls Shut up

Opportunity He's like when that thing goes off That's my new opportunity to start the day it's not the alarm clock I'm setting the opportunity clock to get up there and to attack the day tell you when my alarm

goes off at bloody 3.30 I'm not going here's an opportunity yeah but it's a good one he's his family he said take the take the mickey out of him

as well but he reckons it's important he reckons it's good to find those things that you do that maybe are chores or things like that and turn them into try and turn them into positive things and better for your mental health.

I was watching some inspirational shirtless muscly person on Instagram and they were like, the people who succeed in life are the ones who do the things they don't want to do. And then they get results. Opportunity clock, baby. Opportunity clock. Even blast himself with 30 seconds of cold water at the end of a shower just to give him, you know, that wake up as well. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.

Scrolling through your feed. Forget CNN. We cross live now to BNN. What's happening, Ben News Network? Well, a lot of headlines around this morning that the party PM is in New Zealand. Now, this is the Finnish Prime Minister. Her name is Sana Marin. She arrived in Auckland.

She's here now to catch up with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. But she made a couple of clubs. She made world news. You remember during the whole wild COVID time that we look back on. She's just 34. The youngest Prime Minister ever in Finland. But she ended up partying with her friends and that became big news because she was partying.

I think she even left her phone in the office while she was partying and she didn't realise that someone was trying to get hold of her to say that someone she'd been in touch with had COVID and she was a close contact. But she sort of made news of partying up. Well, we were talking just moments earlier about Bear Grylls being tarnished with his urine consumption.

You know, he did it once. Yeah. And now this finish. She's now the party peep. She's now the party peep. She's like, guys, 99.9% of my life is being a prime minister and running a country. I hung out with some friends in the house. I had one party.

She wasn't even drunk or anything. No, no. She just had people over. Now she's the party peep. The news story is, lady has people over to her house. Takes some photos with friends. And they had a good time? Oh, yeah, can't be having a good time.

It was a wild time to look back on that whole lockdown time, wasn't it? Buddy, her and Gayford will have a blast, mate. He's a DJ? Prime Minister's a DJ? Jacinda? Yeah, he's party party first man, isn't he? Party first man. That's what they'll call him. What is she doing here? What's the point, Jacinda? Yeah. He's party, party first man, isn't he? Party first man. That's what they'll call him.

What is she doing here? What's the point of the visit? Oh, look. I think I'm, hey. I think I saw her yesterday. Oh, come on, mate. She wasn't at Westfield Mall. I was in traffic.

And then there was this huge motorcade. Must have been her. You might have. It was huge. They stopped all their things. I was like, oh, here we go. Who's this? Who's this disrupting my average day?

Was she getting dropped off at a club or getting picked up outside a club at that time? Take us straight to K Road, mate. And Southern Cross Pet Insurance has done its annual list of unusual insurance claims for the year for New Zealand pets. More than $22 million has been given out in claims. Over 61,000 animals have made claims. Well, the owners have made claims for insurance, for pet insurance. A lot of dogs eating things that they shouldn't have eaten.

That seems the most common one. A Labrador cross ate 17 socks. Well, you've pulled a sock out of a bow before, haven't you? Like a very small child's sock. It's 17. You said it was like a tug of war. Imagine doing it 17 times. I'm trying to get a tug of war. Imagine doing it 17 times. Trying to get it out of the...

Yeah, so 17 times. It also ate several rocks as well. Japanese Spitz needed a trip to the vet to help after it ate beanbag beans. They look, you know, those things out of the beanbag as well. It's a trial and error process for the dogs, isn't it? You never know what's going to land and what's not going to land. And you can't communicate to them about what's good and what's not good for their diet. Another Labrador,

sounds like our producer Joel here, he's very hungry, he always eats anything. This Labrador ate a blanket tie, a rope, a tea towel and another blanket within the first eight months of its pet policy. It's just morning TV, Joel. Breakfast, mate, breakfast. Hungry, hungry Harrison, we call him.

Other dogs have eaten cuddly toys, they've eaten pills as well, ibup Breakfast. Hungry, hungry Harrison, we call him. Other dogs have eaten cuddly toys. They've eaten pills as well. Ibuprofen as well. A lot of that. Entire pill box and hard plastic gloves and fish hooks. So some very unusual things that dogs just give a try. I had to take my dog to go and get de-sexed yesterday. Oh, the poor guy.

He didn't know what was coming. Yeah, mate. He walked out looking at me going, what't know what was coming. Yeah, mate. He walked out looking and going, what did you do? Thanks for that, mate. What was the point of that? He's got this miserable cone around his head. Cone of shame. Poor guy. Because he never knows what's

coming next. No, they don't know, do they? He's all going on a fun car ride. And the whole time I felt guilty. I was like, oh, mate, you do not know what's coming. But yeah, no, he didn't uh he's walking around still he's side eyeing me going I thought we were tight he did that to me too I didn't try to trust you again no more car rides with you the hits the Jono and Ben podcast now we went on a mission to eat a sausage at every Bunnings warehouse store in the country there's 41 41 stores, and we went around. You would have heard it over the last week or so.

We completed it, and I assume paperwork is underway for the New Year's Honours, Ben. I assume those proceedings have begun. I don't know if you can nominate yourselves. No, I know. I assume other people are doing that. Wouldn't you imagine? Yeah, it was a heck of a journey.

There were some highs and some lows. Have a listen. It started with Ben. Josh Eastwood from Australia. I got a sausage in brand from every Bunnings store in the country. What if you and I, Jono, became the first people to go around every Bunnings warehouse store in New Zealand and had a sausage? But Jono wasn't keen. All of a sudden he's like, oh, I need to emcee a real estate.

Real estate awards in the years of dinner, you know. Tony Street. Very happy to take over. So giving. How about you fill in for me, filling your stomach full of sausages? I'm no good handling wieners, I'm sorry. Jono sorted, the tour kicked off. Went to Kaikohe.

You've given us free hats and free sausages. Then you were a little worried, a car pulled up and they said, how much of the sausages? I said free and you're like, do you know what you've done? On to Auckland and the tour heated up. Chris Mack from 660 bought us a wheat treat. Yeah, found this hot sauce in my fridge. For the next three hours,

it felt like my lips wanted to divorce my face. Jono is with the Cook Island cultural group right now, wiggling his hips. Magic Mike step aside. Just going to name items, you've got to tell us what aisle they're in. Water blasters. Aisle 20. Paintbrush. Aisle 14. You want to buy me two?

I'm free. And everywhere they went, the crowds went wild. How are you kids going today, alright? We'll get a bigger reaction there. How are the kids going? It's the same reaction. A celebration of Kiwi generosity. What have you just done, Ben?

I wanted to give back to the community and made a donation. Of $50. $50. We're here with Sapphire. How old are you, Sapphire? Five. You have us a lovely present. Reindeer poo.

Did you make these? Yep. Or did you pick these up from a reindeer's bottom? No. But then, as they took a small plane, the weather turned. I'm terrified. You are sleeping through this. But our heroes were rewarded.

Lovely family have turned up with... Get us gone. You're eating a lot of sausages. Control the indigestion. Maybe you get some push through. As people came from far and wide. We're in Christchurch and you guys have travelled how far? From Hokitika.

I didn't go to school on Friday and... Muncie, don't say that. Seven days of sausage. Just been to the shop and bought myself an enema. That's my Saturday night. I hope I'm not running with you. A truly epic journey. This is sausage number 41.

Who are the Kiwi heroes sausageing their way throughout Aotearoa? Seven days! It was a heck of a trip, but thank you to everyone. People came down. We're only at the stores for a very short amount of time because we're trying to do 41 stores over the week. And people came down, especially to see us,

to support the local community groups as well. People came and ran sausages all day. It was amazing. The Bunnings Warehouse store, the team's incredible, you know, so it was really, really great. So thank you to everyone for helping us get through a week of eating sausages.

Met some truly wonderful people, didn't we? This country's got some great people. Couple of questionable ones. Probably you and me. But there were some wonderful people. Now, as we went throughout New Zealand to every Bunnings store

eating a sausage, we gathered an item at all 41 stores. Not shoplifted. No. No, we were told we could take it off. Again, Bunnings, we asked if you could grab an item. So we've ended up with $3,124.23 worth of items.

Big items. Big items. We've got toolkits, you've got drills, you've got drill bits, you've got all sorts of stuff. Oh, ranges. There's a whole range of stuff that we got today. So we're going to give that away just after 8 o'clock this morning. So we're going to get people to text in.

If you want to win that, you can text a sausage to 4487. That's sausage, 4487. Then after 8 o'clock this morning, we're going to ring someone, but they have to answer the phone with, what are you thinking? Hello, you silly sausages. Okay, that's it. That's the first thing they've got to say. Shouldn't have put me on the spot there.

That's good. I like that. Hello, you silly sausages. If you don't, we'll go on to the next caller. Okay. So just text sausage4487820 this morning. We could be calling you, and you could be winning all of that loot. And there's a lot of great stuff in there.

41 items. I know. The biggest issue is going to be, like, where are you going to store it all? Yeah, you're going to need to open your own Bunnings warehouse. Text through sausage4487 on the hits. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. As we mentioned before, we travelled around. We had a sausage in 41 stores over a week.

It was a wild, wild week, wasn't it? It was, and what I admired about you is you were very conscious of trying to cancel out the sausage with some fruit, veg. Vitamin C. You were keeping all that side of things up. I was trying to in between. I was trying to eat a sausage, trying to have a piece of fruit. Whereas I had foregone that for a full sausage diet.

And what had happened is things weren't easily expelling from my body. You were backed up like the Southern Motorway will be in probably about an hour's time. You did right. That's exactly how I felt. And so I had to buy some enhancements to help nature's course, you know, help kick nature in the bottom, so to speak,

and so stuff could come out of mine. And I came back from the chemist and you said, show everyone what you bought. Yeah. And it was an enema and that's how I was planning to spend my Saturday evening there's no

lonelier place in a motel room by yourself a Saturday night he knows how to party but we actually spoke to a lady, it was actually the most romantic evening of my life, it was in final store Bunnings Warehouse store 41 she's one of the great team at Bunnings. Her name is Yasmin

and she was from Argentina and we spoke to her because we often hear about the Argentinian, especially like the rugby players. They come here and they consume a lot of meat

like we were doing so we wanted some advice. Queenstown, Bunnings, this is the final one. We're about to eat our final sausage and we met Yasmin.

Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Now you're originally from Argentina. Argentina, yeah. That's true. Now we have just been eating nothing but sausages for seven days straight. Now, Argentinians, they're heavy meat based guys. It does seem like that.

They love it, right? Yeah, yeah. We love the meat, the barbecue. So would you, as an Argentinian originally, would you be impressed that we've had 41 sausages? Or is that just a normal day for you? Is that just breakfast in Argentina? How do you get the meat out of your body? That's a big issue for me at the moment.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I saw you had a plunger. Would the plunger work? No, no. You're going to have to walk through it. Now, football will come on at the moment. You love football to have to walk through it. Now, Football World Cup on at the moment. You love football? I love football. Yes, like Argentina is very important for us, the football, no?

And today is a big day because Argentina win. Yes. Mercy scored a goal. Mercy, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. In order of importance, what's bigger today for you, us eating the sausage or Argentina

playing in the World Cup? You guys here are amazing! So not much advice there. I was just really just sharing a story with a lovely member of the Bunnings team. She's like, this is not my problem. You can sort that out yourself. But as we said, texts

are rolling in. If you want to win over the $3,000 worth of products from Bunnings, huge range of stuff we collected from all 41 stores. Just text SAUSAGE to 4487. We'll pull out a winner at 20 past 8. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers.

Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals. Because she's not a good person, but either is he. Digging the dirt. Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes yelling at cast members yes it was a script no his identity is a secret but his stories have been proven right time and time again this is empty yeah it's big week in hollywood fashion label balenciaga is in hot water thanks to a very questionable kids photo shoot and we cross now i

think jono to our to our Hollywood insider. It's been a while and we've missed him. Like Balenciaga missed the mark on that weird children bondage photo shoot. Come on down, Auntie. Oh, my goodness. Yes, that's the introduction I wanted right there. How are you? I'm in the same sentence as Balenciaga.

Oh, that was a shocker. What was going on there? Some really bad decision making. Some really bad oversight. I'm not sure what was going on there because Balenciaga had this fashion campaign. They decided

to use children for it. They decided to have BDSM gear with the children in front of the children. Wine glasses, things like that. It feels like it would have gone through so many people to get approved, and not one person went, hey, this is a little weird. It's not even just the concept, right?

Before you even get to the photos, so those are good photos. That's fine. Just the concept. What I'd like to do is I'd like to put some kids with all of this and everything. Oh, that sounds like a great idea, Bob. Why don't you get on that? Okay. Kim Kardashian's very heavily associated with the fashion brand.

She's now, like she did with Pete Davidson, Kanye, Chris Humphries, reviewing the relationship. Yeah, she's reviewing the relationship, which means that she's just like, no, I'm not giving up the $10 or $20 million a year that they pay me to wear their stupid clothing. I'm going to keep, you know, doing it because it's a lot of money. The stuff that they make sends shivers down your spine. It's fashion, darling. It's fashion. Give me shorts and a t-shirt, guys.

Speaking of Kim Kardashian and relationships, Pete Davidson, he seems to have moved on. He was courtside at the Knicks with his new relationship. Yes. What is it about Pete Davidson? He seems to be, yeah, I mean, I don't know. What's going on? He seems to be very, very popular in that department.

It's the nine inches, guys. That's all I can tell you. I wondered that. There you go. I still wondered that that it's a short answer about a very long answer actually yeah yes i well look i saw the photos of him and emily ratajkowski they left at halftime i was not convinced that they were a couple they never touched each other through an entire half of basketball basketball's on you basketball's on, ain't he? Basketball's on. You know, it's not the time for canoodling. It's the time for watching the NBA.

You're courtside. I know, but if you look like next to them was Christine Taylor and Ben Stiller, and, like, you could tell that they were a couple because she was trying to talk to him and Ben was trying to ignore her. And you could go, oh, they're a couple. And he's like, the basketball's on, darling. I'm trying to concentrate. Yes, and she's like touching his arm and saying, look, I want to talk about this.

I want to talk about this. And he's like just trying to ignore her. Now, breaking news just come through. Will Smith back on the promo circuit tour there. He's been on Trevor Noah's show. Is that the Daily Show? Yeah. And talking about the Slapgate, mate.

Yeah, that was a horrific night, as you can imagine. You know, there's many nuances and complexities to it, you know, but at the end of the day, I just, I lost it. I guess what I would say, you just never know what somebody's going through. You know, he's know, he's got to do something to get back. So I think that Will really had no choice at this point. He just has to come out. I guess this seemed as good of a time as any. Yeah, well, I mean, he's got to get back out there and do it at some point, doesn't he?

And like you've always said, as soon as he does get on the promo circuit, the first question's going to be about the slap at the Oscars. But, you know, nip it in the bud. Get it done with. Move on. Have a great life. Yeah. I mean, look, it was a slap, right? I mean, it's been almost a year.

I'm ready to move on from it. I'm ready to move on, really, from talking about Will Smith and Jada and all of this kind of stuff. And the only thing I'll say is, like, Jada Pinkett Smith, on her little talk show on facebook or whatever she whoever her producer is they get some really good guests at a very crucial time in that guest life so i would like to have that producer thank you i mean ours is great i was gonna say so would we but producer b hums does a great job for our show so that's not we've got

that producer let's just just say. We do. We do. But the Jada Pinkett Smith one being us. Yeah. But Will Smith, do you think it will affect his movie? The fact that, you know,

that people's perception of him may have changed a bit since Slapgate. Yeah. I don't think people are going to go, go see his movie. Really? I don't think people like Will Smith right now. I, you know,

movies are very, very fickle right now. Unlessies are very, very fickle right now. Unless you're Marvel and you're guaranteed a certain amount of money, and it doesn't mean that you're going to make a ton. Not everybody can be Wakanda forever. It's so messed up how everything is right now that I think that any kind of dent, people go, do we really want to go see Will Smith? I think it's going to affect him.

You're just going to go see Will Smith or Johnny Depp? Those are your choices. Who do you want to go see? I know who I'm picking. NT, thank you so much for your time, mate. You keep safe over there in the States, and we'll speak next week. All right, you guys have a great week. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Next, we're going to play you some audio of someone that we met who lives in a very interesting location. Yeah, growing up as a kid, this would be, I reckon, one of the coolest places to grow up, particularly at this time of year. I think the novelty of it would wear off, though. Eventually. If there was so many of them placed everywhere,

because you didn't know where to kick a... You can't run around or do anything fun like that, so we're going to play you this audio very shortly. But we'll open on 0800 the hits is where you grew up. You can text 24487 because the person that we spoke to, it impressed us to no end. And it's a farm of some description. Taylor Swift, I think, grew up on the same location you were saying. She did. We've made this quite mysterious. Taylor Swift I think grew up on on the same location you were saying she did

we've made this quite mysterious are we gonna are we gonna be allowed to play the the mysterious audio okay okay we'll play it next

because it's not quite ready yet okay okay I see why you made it I see why you made it mysterious I was like why is he dragging this out it's like

it's a far so I know what it is why can't we say it? I was trying to do a good job. I haven't got the audio quite prepared. Okay, we'll put it in the clip. Now I'm with you. Sorry, I thought we did.

So I was like, why is he making this so weird? There is some audio to play. But old Japes over here, JAPE has got it ready. Okay. I was trying to lightly go. I'm sorry for asking questions about that. Do you know where I grew up? Anyway, do you know where I grew up?

I grew up on the air base at Funua Pike. Oh, you're telling us about that now, eh? My dad was in the Air Force, and all I can vaguely remember is a flying fox that i got to ride on they used as training oh that's cool yeah but how your health and safety these days when you do that with a and a lot of scrogging so many nuts and raisins so they had a lot of scrogging today a lot of the soldiers i guess would do you know people who are they you know who work in the air force and stuff where did you you grew up on a primary school i did grow up on a primary school it's

a pretty unusual place uh you know in the holidays you, you had a lot of area to play around in by yourself. This is the way you could, like, bowling cricket balls by myself into walls or, you know, like riding my bike over there. What a fun guy. Did you get the key that was attached to the giant bit of wood that you could use to get into the pool? Yes, we could do that, you know.

We could go along there, which we found out later on that was because it floats. It's got a functional purpose, that giant bit of wood. Why is it always on a giant bit of wood? But who's throwing the key into the pool? But anyway. And who can't dive down and get it? Yeah, so 0800 the hits.

We're going to check this open. Where did you grow up? And you'll hear this mysterious audio very shortly. I can't wait to find out where she grew up. Maybe you grew up in an African jungle and you were raised by apes and you had to mould yourself back into society. You can text us, 4487. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

We want to know right now, in our 100 The Hits though, where is the coolest place you grew up as a kid? Yeah, I mentioned before that I grew up on the Whanauapai Air Base. Got to fly the Hercules, got to fly the Skyhawk fighter jets, you name it. It was an absolute blast of a time. But we're going to go to Andrea very shortly in Invercargill. First up, we caught up with Holly, who we met, and she grew up on a blooming Christmas.

She still lives on a Christmas tree farm. That's what her family do. That's their business. How long does it take to grow from a little seedling to an actual tree itself? Well, we actually start planting between June and July and then it takes about one and a half to two and a half years to grow and then we sell them. And on the farm do you grow the same things that Ben likes to grow? He also sells things as well. Don't answer that question, I'll answer that one as well. Do you grow yours in your roof like he grows his? Christmas trees.

For a guy who says he doesn't, he gets very uppity when I bring it up. I do. But as you mentioned before, Taylor Swift also grew up on a Christmas tree farm. Yeah, so can you beat that?

Amazing smell, that. I love the smell of Christmas trees. Yeah, and like I said, the novelty would wear off, though. You're just living in a pine forest, aren't you? Yeah.

Andrea, you're on from Inver's House of the South today, mate. Beautiful, sun is forest, aren't you? Yeah. Andrea, you're on from Invers. How's the South today, mate? Beautiful. Sun is shining. Another gorgeous Southland day. Beautiful. And just as beautiful as you are, Andrea. Where'd you grow up?

I grew up in a Southland police station. In the police station? In the police station, yeah. What, so like, what, is your bedroom in the cells or something? No, but that was my playhouse. My father was the local country cop, so, yeah, we grew up in a police station. The station was at the front of our house, and the cells were at the back. Oh, so you'd actually play in the cells if no one was in there, I guess.

Yes, if no one was in there, yeah. You'd be the only child in New Zealand with a playroom that's got blood smeared down the walls. No, there's no blood, no blood. That's amazing. Does it get awkward when you've got prisoners there? It can get rowdy at night sometimes, but my father soon convinced them to quieten down, so, yeah. That sounded like he handed out some justice.

It was a different era back in the 60s. I'm going to sort that out. We're going to hook you up with a $50 farmer's voucher. The farmer's Santa Parade was on in the weekend, so enjoy spending that for Christmas.

Thank you so much and Merry Christmas, guys. Merry Christmas to you too. A lot of text coming in, 4487. I grew up in the USA, then South America, and I moved to four

different countries in the space of 10 years. Wow. That's pretty impressive. Let's go to Warren. You're on from Auckland. Waza. Good morning, guys.

Morning. Where'd you grow up, Warren? I grew up in Papua New Guinea. Oh, that's awesome. They do some wild bungee jumping over there, don't they? It's where it originally came from. It's the story. Have you seen it?

Yeah, it's on with vines and stuff. But they're bungee jumping. came from, the story. Have you seen it? Yeah, it's with vines and stuff. But they're bungee jumping. They always hit the ground. I think it's like a rite of passage over there or something, right? Yeah, that's correct. Did you do it? No. It's a huge tower.

I was a bit young. What was it like growing up in Papua New Guinea? Well, I spent four years in the islands, and yeah, my mother was a schoolteacher, my father was a Bailey Bridge engineer, so basically most of the time it was just meeting locals, doing stuff, and yeah. And then four years after that I spent on the lowlands,

which was mainly in really beautiful beaches. Oh, Warren, what a lifestyle. Lifestyles of the rich and famous. Good on you, mate. Oh, Warren, what a lifestyle. Lifestyles of the rich and famous. Good on you, mate. Thank you for your cool text here. I grew up on a go-kart track. Best place ever to grow up.

I lived in a fire station growing up. My dad was a firefighter. Some beautiful locations out there. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jono and Ben with the ASB Classic, January 2nd to 14th. It's back again. The superstars of international tennis live in Auckland, January 2nd to 14th.

It is incredible if you ever get the chance to go along. It is so good. And we've got your chance to win two tickets to the ASB Classic every day this week. We're going to get someone on the phone, and then they have 30 seconds to get the other person that they know from their friend or the ones from the family. Boss. Or it could be the boss as well. It doesn't have to be a loved one.

Just say, I love you back. If you can do 30 seconds to say I love you back, you'll win the tickets. Now, Emma Raducanu coming to the tournament too, British number one. She was the youngest ever US Open winner. Yeah. She's a top gun. There's some fantastic players there. I always like going to the tennis because everything has to be so quiet.

Oh, yeah. And you feel like at any moment I could ruin, you know? You don't. You've got to behave yourself. You do. But at any moment you could. And, Michelle, it could be you yelling out and getting escorted off the premises at the ASB Classic. How are you?

Good, thank you. Yeah, it could be me. It could be you. What would you yell out? Okay, it's deathly silence. could be me. It could be you. What would you yell out? Okay, it's deathly silence. She's not going to yell out anything. What would you? What's one thing?

Just go. No, I think. Yeah, but you can yell it when you're allowed to yell. Otherwise, you get escorted out. Okay, so we're going to give you 30 seconds. This is our game 30 love, just like in tennis. 30 seconds to get someone to say I love you back. Who are we phoning, Michelle?

Phoning the husband. Okay, as soon as he answers, the timer starts. 30 seconds to say, and you can't go, tell me you love me. Okay, you've got to try and work it into conversation. Yes, all right. All right, what do you think? Good chance of this happening? Well, I hope so.

Where's he going to be, work? Yep yep he'll be on his way to work okay hello hi ben good morning hi i'm just on my way to work oh okay just ringing to tell you that i love you love Love you too. This is too easy. It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station here. Oh, crap. Good morning. You're part of a very savage radio game that had a prize hanging on the line. You came through.

It's the 30 Love Tournament. You're going to go to the ASB Classic. Oh, cool. That sounds good. Well done. You're quick back with a response to saying that ASB Classic. Oh, cool. That sounds good. Well done. You're quick back with a response to saying that you loved it. It was love. Now, you've got to be silent at the tennis.

If you were going to yell out something, what would it be? Stop asking this, Jono. Look, I think it's quite a confusing conversation. There's been a lot of backstory about the tennis that you haven't been part of. I'm very sorry about that. Hey, good on you. Well done. You're both going to go to the ASB Classic.

Have a great Christmas and enjoy the tennis in Jan. Awesome. Thanks, you guys too. I love you guys. Bye. Love you guys too. Yay! Yay!

We got one. It did. It worked for me as well. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We've just been on the sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand, travelling around the country, 41 locations. Yeah, we've sampled every type of charitable sausage this nation has to offer.

You've even got a head of yourself saying we should be head judges at the Sausage of the Year Awards next year. I did. That's what he was pitching. He's already getting Producer Humphrey onto it. Get us on the judging panel. I think no one has eaten more sausages than us and probably the Mad Butcher over the last year.

We did it all in a week i feel like we've given ourselves three years credit when it comes to sausage consumption if you want to text though you can text sausage to 4487 because every bunnings warehouse store that we travel to we got an item uh and so we're giving away 41 items after eight o'clock this morning we're going to call someone back that text through but you have to answer the phone with hello you silly sausages it's huge range of items too. You've got power tools, you've got tools that don't require power, you've got little plants, you've got everything.

It's basically going to fill out your entire house, so we'll be doing that at 20 past 8 this morning. But one of the amazing people that we met as we travelled around the country was little Kogan, who had travelled quite a long way to see us in Christchurch. Have a listen. Now we're in Christchurch. Have a listen. Now, we're in Christchurch, and you guys have travelled how far? From Hokitika. She's actually from here.

She lives in Rolleston. Okay, so you haven't travelled that far, so you're done. We're done with you. Yeah. So, me and Mum have organised, and I didn't go to school on Friday. Oh, don't say that. Mum says don't say that. Okay, so you went to school on Friday. we... Oh, don't say that, Mum says don't say that. OK, so you went to school on Friday,

went to school after school, what happened? Too much honesty. After school we came over and it was all fine. I totally went to school. Everything was fine. Don't you worry. And then you drove how far to get here after school, of course? Three hours.

Three hours to come and see us? Yeah. And have a sausage? Mm-hm. Oh, well, that's very kind of you. I've had a sausage but I'll have another one. Do you know the most important thing is that everything was fine at school. Don't you worry. Everything was fine at school. Did you go to school yesterday? Yeah. Yeah everyone went to school yesterday that's good, oh that's good. If the

producers are listening you need to get Jonathan ben to do another dog show okay we're talking to the network execs dog almighty uh season one we need to do season two do we okay okay okay the program was really good and i enjoyed it sounds like we made you read that off a script we loved cogan he was hard. Then after we recorded that, he pulled me aside. He's like, you tell whoever edits that bit of audio to leave the school stuff in. Yeah, because we were like, we don't want you to get in trouble. He's like, I want it in there. We needed it.

So then we were hanging out with him for quite a while. He was awesome. And he was a little character. And he was having a go at me about his radio battle in the morning with his dad. So Kogan, we hear there's a battle for the radio in the morning. Yeah. Yeah, what's going on? What's the battle? Dad loves listening to Mike Hoskins, but it's all political stuff and it drives me nuts.

Hoskins driving you nuts? Yeah, it drives me nuts too, mate. So I rush in in the mornings because Dad usually me, cos I forget when I'm eating my breakfast and I get up and go and turn it on, cos we have a very small house. Yeah? Yeah. And you can hear Hosking sort of spouting off anti-Jusinda propaganda? Mm-hm, yeah. Yeah, right.

So what are you like listening to, then? Um, you guys. Oh, great. And what does Dad think about that? Um, Dad... He calls you guys Bono and Gene. That's probably out of all the things I thought you were going to say. That was actually quite good, so I'll take that. Definitely the lighter end of the scale.

Yeah. So we... Kogan, I reckon we get him on once a week. Hell, once a day. Let's go Simon Cowell on him. He's too young to know that he needs to be compensated for his talents oh it'd be nice

to track him down we actually said genuinely as we drove away how awesome he was and we didn't actually get his details his number so Kogan if you're listening

call us 0800 the hits we want to sign you up no we just want to talk for a 20 and make millions of dollars off your talents

it'd be great to have Kogan's thoughts every week on the show, we thought. So we're trying to track him down this morning. Get him on and replace me. That was part of the plan. Get him in early. Phase you out, mate.

We'll give you one of those things. You're leaving in the year. It won't be going to April. Where's he going? He's off to talk radio. It feels like the time is right now. It does. You've had a good run, mate.

I have. Had a really good run. It's probably a good time to announce it right about this time too. Yeah. So this is all part of it. So, yeah. Yeah. Anyway.

Kogan. Oh, wait, I don't know. It's cool. Nice, buddy. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Let's go. Jono and Ben.

With five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. It is our Game of Void Association. We play it every morning at this time on keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. It is our Game of Void Association. We play it every morning at this time on The Hits. You can win up to $5,000 if you play the game correctly. Catherine, let's get you on from Blenheim.

Morena, how are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you both? Yeah, we're good. Great to have you on, Catho. $5,000, a lot of cash. Oh, it is. It is, yep.

I did say to Producer Ben that if I did win anything, I'd donate it to our son, Ms. Mulver, who I work for. But we cooked you the sausages last on Saturday. Oh, yes, we did. It's going up at 5am for you guys. Oh, lovely. Don't make us feel guilty, mate. You loved getting up at 5am. You tell mate. You loved getting up at 5am.

You tell the people you loved getting up at 5am on a Saturday. Just to see you two. Yeah, it was great. Oh, that's lovely. What a worthy cause. Alzheimer's, Marlborough as well. I'm sure if people want to donate like yourself as well, they can do that this time of year too.

Oh, definitely. Just give us a call and we can provide bank details. Good on you. And also, you can give me a call too. I can provide you my bank details. Thank you. All right, Catherine. It was. Good on you. And also, you can give me a call too. I can provide you my bank details. Yes, thank you. All right, Catherine, it was lovely to meet you. Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth this morning?

I've had instructions from my son, Jonathan, that Jono has to go in. Oh, a Jono from a Jono. All right, we'll send him on in there. And as soon as he's back into that soundproof booth. Hasn't seen a lot of action, that soundproof booth, in the last week or so. So he's back in there. Here we go. All right.

Your first word this morning, what pops into your head when I say Oprah? Winfrey. Yeah, Winfrey. That was exactly what I thought. Seven is word number two. Seven, S-E-V-E-N, seven?

Days. Seven, days. You said days, correct? Yep. Days, yep. Yep. Soc soccer is word number three soccer she's almost like a swear word for for people that I know I know what I want to say um World Cup World Cup I can't think of a player. No, no, that's a good option. Monopoly is word number four. Monopoly? Oh, no, the New Southland edition, but

What is it? Yeah, yep. Game. Game. And finally, beauty. B-E-A-U-T-Y, beauty. And the beast. And the beast. And the beast. You want to go and the beast?

Yes. And the beast. All right. Well played. Some tricky words. Catherine, I think you navigated that really well. We'll get Jono out. He's back in.

I'm just talking to the booth in there, Catherine, telling me you had a hard year. I can't wait to spend some much-needed time with the booth far and over the Christmas period. So only a couple of weeks away, isn't it? Knocking off a hard year. Can't wait to spend some much-needed time with the Booth whanau over the Christmas period. So only a couple of weeks away, isn't it? Knocking off for the year. 25 sleeps till Christmas, Catherine, and let's win you $5,000, shall we?

Oh, definitely. Thank you. Word one, $25. Here is the $25 word. It is Oprah. Oprah Winfrey. Yes. Well done.

Here you go. One for one. You got $25 for Alzheimer's Marlborough then. What do you want to do? We'll try one more. Okay. Word two. $50.

Seven. S-E-V-E-N. Seven. Seven days. Yes. Well done. Wonderful television program. It is a great television program.

$50. 50 slides going into your bank account, Catherine. What are we doing? Seven days. Yes, well done. Wonderful television program. It is a great television program. 50 bucks, 50 slides going into your bank account. Catherine, what are we doing? I can't remember what the next word was. The next word was soccer. Oh, gosh. Do you want to take the money, or do you want to risk it all for the next amount?

I'm going to take the money. No, take the money. What play? $50 or $50. I'm just not sure. It's not often. It's not often that people play the smart game, Catherine. People get greedy and they try and get to $5,000,

but she's walking away with $50. What would you have said for soccer? I would have said football. Oh, well, there you go. You played a really smart game there, Catherine. Well done. Well, thank you. Thank you very much.

Good on you. And then what were the other words? What were the other two words? Monopoly. Game. Oh, nice. And beauty. Beast.

Oh, no. And the beast is what we're looking for. So you're in the same ballpark, but not quite so well played, Catherine. Oh, thank you very much. It's much appreciated. Love your work, Catherine. It was great to meet you on Saturday. You go and look after Blenheim for us, will you? We'll try. Have a Merry Christmas. The Hits, the Jono and Ben

podcast. We're going to be at Field Days tomorrow, which is always a lot of fun. Now, last time you went mad on swan dry purchases. I definitely got swept up in the merch madness at Field Days. Came back looking like a bloody South Island farmer. But promise me tomorrow, because we've been travelling around the country

meeting lots of great people, sometimes in the rural areas of New Zealand, but you playing a new game, just for yourself, not even something we're recording for radio. You just do it for chatting. Chatting is people. Please don't play that game with the rural folk tomorrow at field days. I have started a new game.

And you're right, Ben. It's all for off-air enjoyment. Like, there's no entertainment value in it for... You're like... So basically what I do is we go into a small rural area. And if I get talking to anyone... Like farmers, the backbone of the country, you know all those people

out there doing great work and all I say is five simple words. You'll be voting for Cindy next year and boy oh boy does it get a reaction because I know I know the

what's this music for there? Just jump. Game show music. The rural game show music. What I like about it is I know the profile of my victims. I know what they look like and what will give me a reaction or not. And tell you what, old McDonald in his farm, very easy to wind up at the moment, isn't it?

As soon as you say, oh, you'll be voting for Sydney, I witnessed it a couple of times. Someone will go, oh, I work on the farm, I'm a milker, whatever it is, and you're like, oh oh you'll be voting for Sydney I witnessed it a couple times you know and someone will go oh I work on the farm I'm a milker whatever it is and you're like oh you'll be voting for Sydney

and you're like what and they just the heckles in the back you can just see them like oh well bloody not you know it's kind of what that will come

another guy came back he's like she's your girlfriend he came back with she's your girlfriend a classic from the comeback textbook there she's your girlfriend straight from the schoo comeback textbook there. She's your girlfriend.

Straight from the schoolyard. That was actually really good. But it's a fun, and if you want to play it too, it's a game the whole family can play. Maybe not the kids. They might get to hear some words they don't want to hear. But just go up to a rural person and go, you'll be voting for Cindy next year. It's just a simple, you don't have to say it aggressively. You just deliver it.

And I guarantee 100% of the time you'll never be disappointed with the reaction. They'll be disappointed though. I don't know if I'll be able to restrain myself tomorrow at field days. It'll be a you'll be voting for Sydney.

I might get on the stage. Where am I? Pants up. Big chair. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast. Just travelled around 41 Bunnings Warehouse

stores in the country eating a sausage everywhere we went and also collecting an item that Bunnings Warehouse stores in the country, eating a sausage everywhere we went, and also collecting an item that Bunnings Warehouse gladly gave us from each store, putting together a Bunnings Santa sack prize. 41 items, over $3,000 worth of products. As we were doing this, going through every store, having a photo, holding up an item,

could be a jumbuck barbecue, could be a drill set as well. You list off some of the items there, Ben. Oh, well, yeah. Craftright 78 piece toolkit, valued at $34. Ryobi pressure washer, valued at $199. There's Tactics Bluetooth Air Muffs. There's a Jumbuck 4-burner BBQ, valued at $395. Ryobi

miter saw and stand combo, that's almost $400. Some great items. Now, as we were holding every item, having a photo with it, I was like, jeez, who's sorting all this out of the back end? Who's got to gather all these 41 items and send them out? But that's someone's problem.

One of the wonderful team members at Bunnings will look after it. So if you've texted in sausage to 4487, we could be calling you now and all you've got to do is answer the phone with Hello, you silly sausages. And you win big.

I was going to ask you, when did you pick up? Oh, no! What? It's Jono and Ben. Oh, shit! Oh, we didn't get a hello, you silly sausages. No, you didn't. Oh, I'm sorry. You didn't you didn't. Oh, I'm sorry.

You didn't text, though. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh, well, listen, you have a lovely day, though. You too. All right. Okay, on to the next one. Okay, here we go.

This is always the risk with the hello, you silly sausages game. And it's a risk, too, you know, because you don't know it's us. Yes, if it's a business call. Hello, you're telling sausage? Hey! Who are we talking to? Vicky. Vicky, you sound like you're in the middle of some sort of storm.

There's a lot of wind going on, but you have won our Bunnings Warehouse prize pack. Oh, wonderful. I'm actually on the track driving a horse. Oh, you're driving a horse. There's a lot going on in your life. Where are you taking this horse? Are you leading it to water?

No, no, definitely not leading it to water, but all my work colleagues will be hearing that right now in the stable. Right. They'll probably all be having a really good laugh at me. She's straddling a horse. She's winning prizes. My gosh. Will you go and enjoy that? I feel like we should probably hang up from this call now because a horse

and a phone call, probably not the best thing to be juggling. But well done. We'll go through all the prizes that you've won. You can have a listen to that, but be safe and thanks so much for listening. Wonderful. Thank you. See you later. There we go. Thanks so much to Bunnings Warehouse for all those 41 amazing items that we're going to be sending out in that Christmas gift pack.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Back from seven days of eating sausages around the country, then we had a couple of days off, Monday, Tuesday off, which was nice. Thank you to the bosses at The Hits for giving us a couple of days off to recover, get the sausages through our system. They were like, there's probably been too much of you on the radio to be honest just need to peel it back for 48 hours well what i did notice because obviously we're not part of the morning routine in the family uh you know

because we come into work in the morning we meet and at work just about around about five o'clock you sort of miss the organization of you know everyone getting up in the household and the breakfasts and lunch and making lunch for the day and sorting out the animals and stuff, when you come in as what you wanted to be as an impact player off the bench, like I wanted to be like two days of like, here I am, guys. I can help out. I can do some stuff. I know there's hundreds of other days in the year,

but for these two, I'm here and I'm going to make them count. I'm ready to go. Put me on, coach. I want to play. But I've just felt like for those two days, I was just such a big pain in everyone's behinds. You know, because everyone's kind of got their systems. The mornings, they've kind of got their routine.

And I'm coming along trying to help out and try to do things. They're like, no, we don't do that. No, they're such and such. And Indy wants that. And they're like, no, I do that. They've just got their stuff sorted. And they don't need me. You're an extra cast member in the morning that they don't require.

Exactly. I know what you're saying. I just felt like. Because you don't want to sit around doing nothing they don't require. Exactly. I know what you're saying. I just felt like... Because you don't want to sit around doing nothing. But you do want to help out, but you're dead right. You throw everything out away. Everyone's just like, just go back to work. Just go back to work.

The other thing I did... It's disturbing how used our families have got to operating perfectly fine without us. The other thing I did too when we got back from eating nothing but sausages was buy lots of fruit and vegetables. I'm like, I'm just going was buy lots of fruit and vegetables i'm like i'm just gonna buy lots of it and so i made lunch for my family and myself as well you know while we're away and then i made it up to been doing that and then i gave it to my daughter and he came back to me uh five minutes later and she was like hey dad um are we on a diet i was like no what no you'll never be on a dot what just there's just so much fruit in my

lunchbox i'm like oh yeah sorry it's probably me trying to cram fruit back into my system you're very erratic when you feel like there's something that needs to be done like two weeks ago producer just a flipping a flippant comment oh we should clean up the studio and then for some whatever reason that really set off a switch it triggered triggered you. Everything was getting out of the room. You were throwing away the computers, the microphones. It all had to go. Everything, one hit. I know.

When I do it, I resist for ages, and then I just get involved. Comes home with half a fruit world in the boot of the car. We're all living off vegetables now for the rest of our lives. The other thing I did notice, too, in the morning routine as well, is I put the radio on. I put the radio on. There were some replays of us, but how little anyone is listening to what we're saying.

Like, guys, guys, guys. Yeah, I mean, it's a stressful time of day, isn't it? And all we do is we come in here, we talk a bit of nonsense, but you do... We're just background noise for most people. You do need to be aware that people don't care about the radio.

You're like, you're there, you're not, you're there. Are they still talking? I could list 30 things that are more important in people's mornings than listening to us on the radio. In fact, okay, here's a fun text poll. 4487 will keep you up to date with the results. Are we just background noise right now or actually are you listening? Oh, that's

good. You'd have to be listening to text us, wouldn't you? Yeah. 4487. Or are we just background noise and what are the soundtrack to your morning the hits the jonah and ben podcast our lips always moving some say they're moving too much every morning ben you just threw out a a bit of a scenario you were at home the last two days and your family they have the radio on but it's background noise and it disturbed you it disturbed you that the show wasn't the sole focus it's a good bit guys it's a good bit it's a good bit but no they're like yeah great and then background noise and it disturbed you it disturbed you that the show wasn't the sole focus I was like

it's a good bit guys it's a good bit it's a good bit they're like yeah great and then they go back to doing the morning stuff just say

well people have got to get ready I understand that there's deadlines they can't stop and listen to all this you know they can't have

the full attention I thought it would be everyone pausing listening and then back to their stuff but no it wasn't it was just

it was just I'm in the background so we did check out a poll snap poll are we just background noise in your morning or are you actually listening first text

sorry what was that just sounded like a bit of mumbling in the background that's from Gary who we met last week oh Gary's great you upset Gary

by calling football soccer I did I did we've got, I'm listening most days working on the road. We're listening at the moment, driving to field days. Sorry bros, you're just background noise. A lot of background noise. Oh, well that's

the general consensus. There's no background noise. We're just background noise I guess. So definitely a 60-40 split. So people won't obviously hear this before, but I talked about a cute little girl from Christchurch she's six years old her name is Daisy Dawson now can I just say I don't even know what's about to play but already a cute name she's already won me over with the name now when you buy weekbooks at the moment you get the stat attack cards now they have been you know your favorite all black players the cards. And Daisy, like we all did, loves the Black Ferns now.

They won the World Cup. And she found it annoying, the fact that there was no Black Ferns in these cards. So she wrote a letter. Because it's the boys' space. No, no. That's what the cards are for, the boys, the lads. So she wrote a letter to Weet-Bix. Have a listen.

Wait, where's this year's world champions? Portia? Ruby Tui? Or my all-time fave, Kendra Coxage. She's small like me. Oh, my God. Sorry, Daisy, it's for the lads. No, that's adorable.

So Weet-Bix have responded to it as well. They said, yep, they're going to bring out Black Ferns as well as all blacks in the Wheat Bix packs, which is awesome. And she even on 7Sharp got to meet Kendra Cox as well. So that's pretty cool. Oh, that's awesome. Good on you, Daisy. And good result.

Well done on coming to the party there, Sanitarium. Sanitarium Wheat Bix? Yeah. Yeah. Sanitarium. Yeah, well done, Sanitarium. Well, I think so. We're going to the Wheat Bix Kiwi Kids Triathlon today.

Today, actually. I should probably learn that before we head out there.