Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Honest Feedback From Honest Kiwi's On The Heartland Tour..

Episode Date: October 17, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast we chat to Kiwis who have tried our chips and they give some very honest feedback... who is the most famous person you have sat next to? and Ben Bell the 23 year old mayor from gore joins us!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben on The Hits. Welcome to the podcast. Good to have you on. Yeah. Goodie, sir. We're just in the cafe in Wellington. Mojo Cafe, number one, Willis Street. Come on down.

Lovely, lovely day in Wellington today. Yeah, you always give Wellington grief because Wellington likes to say, oh, you can't beat Wellington on a good day. Today's a good day, but you're like... The one day, the one good day we've managed to land. Last night was a bit cold, wasn't it? But the wind was chilly. It was, it was, but today is stunning, you know?

And you look across that harbour, Oriental Parade, Ben. Oh, look at that. Local references. Look out to that Blue Bridge. The Blue Bridge. The Blue Bridge Ferry. You love the ferry.

We took the ferry last time we were here. You had a good sleep on the ferry, didn't you? I did. The trucker cabin. Because obviously long-haul truckers, they... That's your ideal. Now is their time to rest

when they're on the ferry between islands, so they have little cabins. And so, you know, I've got a trucking cabin. I could see you being a good... A trucker? Yeah, I could see... No, you'd probably... Yeah, no, I could see.

I think a lot of your personality, you'd love the little RT. G'day, guys. Talking around that, and they'd be like, oh, prize on the RTs again. We can't, you know, because you love to talk, you know. You also love to drive. You love driving love to talk you know you also love to drive you love driving you know

and you also love sleeping I imagine you get good sleeping hours in as well so I could see you doing you know being a good trucker

a long haul trucker yeah from the top of the north to the bottom of the south I did think you know great place for

sex workers don't you reckon if I was a sex worker well that's what I might do? If I was a sex worker, well, that's what I might do after this. I was going to think you could be a trucker, but you could be all over the place. I'd rent a room on the ferry and go,

hey, I'm here. Because no one's got anywhere to go. I don't know if the ferry's okay. I mean, everyone, you know, it's a profession. I'm not saying, yeah, but... We're not judging the profession. All I'm saying is there's a lot of money to be made on the ferry. What about

truckers in committed relationships? They don't use them while they sleep. There'll be single ones.

They'll be single tourists. Just so you know, you're not forcing it down people's throats. You wouldn't get the captain

to... No. You wouldn't get the captain. No You wouldn't get the captain You wouldn't get the captain We're going to talk about scones Anyway We're in this cafe Mojo Cafe

It's a beautiful cafe Part of a huge high rise building In Wellington A lot of very Suave looking corporates Yes Hopping in elevators Being all morning long

They've got seven lifts In this building Seven lifts ABCD I noticed in the hotel this morning You popped up in a whole other lift Was it the service elevator? I came in the service this morning you popped up in a whole other lift. Was it the service elevator? I came in the service elevator, yeah.

Yeah, it was great, you know. I slept downstairs in the basement, the service basement. And one of my favourite moments this morning is we were met down in reception at five o'clock at the hotel. Producer B helps myself and Harriet, you know, who works with us at the Hits.

And there was another reception here behind. And you just go, G'day, how's it going, mate? And I'm like, not Harriet. Because I could only see the back of her head Harriet so she, oh I did find it odd because I walked into reception, Ben you were sitting on one side of reception and who I thought was Harriet

was on the other side. You're like oh Ben's not seeing Harriet, something's gone down. It was just the back of it, you've got a doppelganger for someone with the back of your head She didn't turn around when you went G'day Hazza. I said good morning Hazza and got nothing and then these guys laughed and they're like you idiot that's not Harriet. But then you both thought it might have been too. When you walked in.

I did have a wee moment when I walked down and went, oh, the Harriets. No, it's not Harriet. Yeah, I thought Harriet and Ben have had a tiff. That's what I thought. I can't even look her in the eye. Anyway, so we're in this cafe, Mojo Cafe. Beautiful. Do you know how many scones Mojo Cafe makes a day?

I'd say 6,000. Son of a bitch. Stole my thunder. Just had a bitch. Stole my thunder. Just had a guess. Thank you, Joel. A bit late with the beat. Stole my thunder. 6,000 scones a day they make. Because Mojo's around the place.

Yeah, it's not just one cafe. They've got multiple ones. But they're hoeing into 6,000 scones. Do you like a scone with some jam? A little dollop of cream? It's lovely. It's not something you have regularly, is it? But when you have it, you enjoy it. A scone.

Yeah. I love a cheese scone, melted butter. Oh, yeah. Lovely. That's good. Lovely. But 6,000 scones, that's one. And they've been wonderful here at Mojo Cafe today.

We mow on to New Plymouth. We're about to hop onto a plane. Although, we're going to leave early to the airport. Bloody pesky protesters have closed the tunnel. Mount Vic Tunnel. Yeah. Dangling off the tunnel. Minto and his mob.

Is it Minto and his mob? You know, actually. Is it? Yeah, it is Minto and his mob. I don't know. You keep saying that, but I don't know enough about it. It is Minto and his mob. I don't think it is.

They want more rail. It's not Minto and his mob. I love the way you just say stuff. He was just on the AM show last week because he's just like the go-to activist. But I don't think it's his mob. I think Bill is saying he's going down there. Like, John, I just. I mean, you might be right,

but you just love, you say stuff with conviction, you're like, bloody, you know. Wellington protests tunnel. Let's have a look. I'm pretty sure it's Minto and his mob. Wellingtonians warned of traffic disruption. Thank you. Simeon Brown clashes with John Minto.

They've clashed after activists... Oh, hold on, hold on. That was last? Was that last week? Last week. So Minto was there. Was he there last week? Speaking on the AM show.

He's calling them reckless idiots. Okay, well we're live Googles. I'll tell you what's on the show today. A lot of fun stuff today. Sorry, Minto's not there. It's not Minto.

Minto was just sticking up for the protesters saying they've got their right to protest. So my apologies to Minto. Are you on the radio today as well too? Is that part of the podcast

or not? Did I say? I might have said. So my apologies to Minto. Are you still on the radio today as well, too? Is that part of the podcast or not? Did I say? I might have said. Actually, I met Minto. He's a lovely gentleman. Well, you can't say bloody Minto and his mob and then be like, oh, yeah, lovely gentleman now that you've, like, besmirched his name. There we go.

We're going to tell you all some dirty cool. Yeah. We're talking a bit about Boney M today for some reason. Joel was like, they're from your era, aren't they? And they're like, jeez, Joel. Producer Joel. So yes, they were. A story we tell today about who sat next to us.

A pretty incredible story. A huge international celebrity sat and had a conversation with us for 10 minutes. That is on the podcast as well as New Zealand's youngest mayor. And we went to the football with Kim Kardashian. It's all there to enjoy. Enjoy. We apologise in advance. Jeez, sorry. Sorry about that.

Sorry you got roped into this. Jono and Ben. Sorry. On the hits. Good to have the boys back, isn't it, eh? The lads back on the radio. Mojo calls us the lads. Why didn't you say, you know?

We're not lads, lads, are we? No. I don't think anyone has ever gone, oh, check out the lads doing their thing about us, at all. Not at all. That's fine. I'm comfortable with that. When we were on the Rock Radio station, we were the most feminine of all the shows, weren't we? We're at Mojo Cafe this morning, broadcasting live, number one, Willis Street,

Wellington. If you want to come down and see us, please do. Free coffee for the whole family. Yeah, we've got free cold brew in a can until 9 o'clock this morning. So come on down and see us this morning. I don't know about the children, though. Coffee for the children? No.

Coffee for everyone. If it's free, just give it to anyone. And we also, I know this is a lot of information to download at this time of morning, but also on our chip tour, we released some chips with Heartland potato chips yesterday, so that's why we're travelling throughout the country doing taste testings, aren't we, Ben, at various supermarkets? Yes, our new chips are a crazy mix. So this is all in one packet of maple bacon, sour cream and chives sprinkled with salt and vinegar. So it's out of this world, we're saying, as a flavour. And we went around, and I found it a little nerve-wracking,

like, getting people to try it. It felt like MasterChef, where you get someone to try the chips in front of them. You're like, oh, this, you know, people, and people are honest. Yeah, they are. They are. And we did spend a bit, mind you, we spent a large part of yesterday sort of accosting innocent shoppers. Well, I did, and bullying them into buying our chips, sort of extorting them.

Yeah, well, I even started, you know, doing that. Hey, hey, try some chips. They extorting them yeah well I even started you know doing that hey try some chips they're free we're not trying to sell you on anything and then producer Behumps comes up to me and goes you know that's exactly

what we're trying to do we're trying to sell I was like oh yeah hundreds of thousands of packets of chips and you're going to be hearing about it every day until

every last packet I would love to know what you think though so 4487 on the text if you have tried our new chips. Thanks to Heartland. They're around the country right now in supermarkets.

But something that we encountered yesterday. Went to a bathroom in a cafe. Not going to mention the other cafe because here we are. We're loyal to Mojo this morning. You don't talk about other cafes in a cafe, man. That's right. It's like Fight Club. Talking about Fight Club.

Disrespectful. And I went to the bathroom and then I was standing. You get two coffee beans shoved up your nose if you do that. Standing there washing my hands, I was like, what is that noise? Now, over the loudspeaker in the bathroom, I was like, maybe it's a more sophisticated radio station than we would do. It felt like

sort of English sounding, talking. I'm like, maybe they're listening to like a Radio New Zealand or something like that. And then I'm like, no, actually it sounds like Harry Potter being read as an audible book out the speakers in the bathroom. Have a listen. I recorded it.

But just then, Krum tapped Harry on the shoulder. Could I have a bird? Yeah, all right, said Harry, slightly surprised. Did he walk this way? Okay, said Harry, seriously. Very unusual. Yeah, Harry Potter being read to you in the lavatory is disturbing and comforting at the same time. And he's got a very settling voice, doesn't he?

He's got a very easy sort of... But the problem is, it's not like you're going to hear the whole book or even the whole chapter, depending on what you're in there to do. Well, I stood there and I sort of held my phone up, you know, to record it. But again, recording with a phone, I was the only one. That must have been an exhilarating experience. Yeah, it was like you would often film me coming out of the bathroom when we were drinking traffic lights that one day.

And you filmed another, someone else come out. I did, yeah. People don't take too kindly to phones to being filmed in bathrooms for some reason. No. Do you know I was getting changed in a bathroom recently? We had to get changed and it was a public bathroom. Now that's a thrilling experience. Standing in your underpants.

Like I'm not even in the cubicle. I'm in the area where you wash your hands. Sitting just me, these white, these milky white thighs just in their underpants. And I was like, please dear God, don't anyone walk in right now. I've got a lot of explaining to do. Making dreams come true. If you dream of annoying guys talking at you. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Scrolling through your feed. Listen, Jenny Boyce, that's your mother, Ben. She dreamed of you becoming Jack Tame. She did, actually. And this news bulletin is the closest thing she'll get to it. Jack Lame, here he is. Ben Boyce with Scrolling. Now, when items come on the McDonald's menu,

they often disappear in a few weeks' time, and people are like, why were they only for a limited time only? Why can't we keep the Georgie Pie Pies around forever? Well, geez, we got on a campaign about Georgie Pie Pies. Then we got them back, and no one bought them. Yeah, and this is the thing. The CEO of McDonald's...

Ronald. Also, I guess Ronald's right-hand person, Chris Kemski. He's revealed what happens, and it makes total sense. He gets asked all the time. He's like, why don't you have this item on the menu before? And he says, well, because you didn't buy it when you needed to buy it. That's why it's not on the menu. It's pretty straight up.

He says, if you bought more of it, we'd have it on the menu forever and ever. But there's some very unusual items that have been popping up over the years on McDonald's around the world. A shrimp burger. A shrimp burger? This was the limited time only? They took it. Well, no wonder that was the limited time. It's always weird when McDonald delves into seafood.

Yeah. Like, I like the fillet of fish, but that's where they should sit. Just that. They had the shrimp burger for a while. They had a taro pie in China, kind of like your hot apple pie. They had that made out of taro. McNoodles in Australia, for a little while there they had that as well. Rice burger in Taiwan where the buns at McDonald's were rice.

I did love the kiwi burger when it comes out. Yeah, the kiwi burger's a good one. Sometimes that was there for a while. But then it does pop back every now and then. It comes back, but the demand mustn't be there. I see what you're saying. When you tease and you're like, the real reason why the items don't stay on the menu at McDonald's, and you're like, just because they don't sell enough.

Well, then I'm like, well, yeah. That's the real reason. It makes sense. There was the McCurry Wurst in Germany, like a sort of hot curry situation they had at McDonald's, and the McDoo in the Philippines, which was fried chicken with a side of bolognese. Yeah. They really did. Fried chicken with bolognese? Yeah, like a sort of a bolognese.

Separately, but sort of as a side. You're offending simultaneously the Colonel and the Italians. All in the same thing. At the same time. And now where is New Zealand's cheapest house? Where would you say? Bluff. Well, not far away from Buff. Ojai, which is currently well, it's always been actually located between Invercargill and Te Ano. It's New Zealand's cheapest house currently for sale in the country.

You want to have a stab in the dark to see how much you think it would be available for. $25,000. Oh, damn it, you've gone too far. Is it $25,000? No, no, you've actually, $135,000. $135,000 for New Zealand's cheapest house at the moment. That doesn't impress me. That's still an expensive house.

Yeah, it sold in 2015 for $36,000. So that's not even 10 years, and it's already got up by pretty much $100,000. It's a bit of a DIY lover's dream, you know, get amongst it. It's a crap hole, is that what you're saying? Yeah. It's North Fasting, though. It's a two-car garage, but it's a population of about 300 people. And the first shop actually opened up in the town, because it was a mining town,

not all close down. First shop actually opened up recently, a sort of milk bar. First time a shop has been opened for 12 years in the town as well. So, yeah. So if you want to buy New Zealand's cheapest house, currently it's in the South Island, just out of Invercargill for $135,000. Jeez, sometimes you do. We're driving around at the moment throughout the country and you're like, where were we

the other day? Oh, the Salmon. Rakaia. Yeah. The pub's for sale. Yeah. $600,000 you can buy the pub in Rakaia, right? We thought about it.

It was like wild buck. We were like, maybe we can, yeah. Although we did... But then we're like, who's walking into that pub? How's that pub turning a profit? I don't know. Maybe we could do that. Do the show from there.

We could run a pub. We thought we'd have like Tattleting Tuesday and karaoke nights. It would be a fun frothing Friday where everyone comes and dances to house music. Knitting. Knitting nights. We saw some people knitting next to us last night at dinner, didn't we? In a bar. Yeah.

Yeah, it was a knitting team. A dozen lovely, motherly-looking ladies knitting away. And then we were like, knitting looks harder than it is. They'd make it look easy. It's like surfing, isn't it? Surfing, mate. Probably nothing like surfing, but I know what you mean. With a long and extinguished career,

Jono and Ben on the hits. We're in Wellington today at Mojo 1 Willis Street, come down and grab a Mojo on the go, free coffee free cold brew in a can until 9 o'clock this morning, someone will pay for $5,000 at 7.45, it's like a coffee and water in a can

wild, well come down and grab it it's all free this morning until 9 o'clock and we are continuing our tour around the country because we've got these new chips. A very exciting collab with Heartland Potato Chips, out-of-this-world flavour. Maple bacon, sour cream and chives with a sprinkling of salt and vinegar.

Now, Ben Boyce, we're chip salesmen, bouncing from store to store, hustling, moving units, shifting years. I'll stop at nothing to sell a bag of chips. I extorted an old lady, a sweet elderly lady with some incriminating photos of her that I got off the cloud. And I said, these will get out, lady. And she said, I'll buy a bag of chips. And I said, thank you.

That's the hustle week. We've got these sort of very bright, obnoxious space suits. Not suits that you'd wear to space. Ben was like, well, buy some space suits. And this is what we got back from Wish. They're like, they're suit and ties. With planets on them and solar, they're very loud. Oversized as well.

We wore them on the plane, travelling around the country. Everyone's like, what is going on there? You get so many compliments when you wear out there clothing. I had to walk into the supermarket last night and I was like, I'll just wear this suit. And people were like, hey, cool outfit bro. I couldn't tell if it was sarcasm or was i was being bullied by teenage kids vaping uh but it's like thanks guys that's good we're rolling with that uh so if you want to grab yourself uh some of our chips you can do so they're

in supermarkets all over the country ten thousand dollars you could win as well uh there's a qr code on the back that'll tell you how you can win ten thousand dollars it's all at the hitstock.nz now when we're handing out the chips too uh because we are doing taste testings uh today we're heading to taranaki uh to do one uh as people when you're handing over chips just given our rich prank history ben yes what's this where are the cameras what are you pranking me with yeah and it's hard to convince it's hard for us to convince someone to put something in their mouth that we're handing them. Yeah, because for years our branding has not been good,

the two of us, and now we're going, hey, no, these are great. These actually taste amazing. And everyone's like, oh, this is a prank. But here we go. This is raw, honest feedback yesterday. We recorded some. Well, it's not so raw.

I did edit it a bit. I just tidied up the loose ends. So this is slightly edited feedback yesterday as we went around supermarkets getting people to try our new chips with Heartland. All right, Hayden, you're trying the chips. What are you thinking? Be honest.

Be honest. It's fine. We'll look away. I like the blend of flavors. Love it. Sounds like we made it. Say that. The real crunch is would you go and buy a packet or 10?

I plan on buying a packet right now for the kids to try. Oh, the chips for the kids. Do it for the children. Do it for the kids. How do you think it's going? Hustling. I'm hustling hard. Yeah, you're working hard. I just gave chips to an old man.

I said, you look 20 years younger instantly. Yeah, you try to give it to a baby, and the mother's like, the baby's not on solids yet. No, but they love the chips. The babies love the chips, Ben. Hello, my good lady. Hello. Would you like the gift of eternal youth? Sure. Then you need to try the chips. The babies love the chips, Ben. Hello, my good lady. Hello. Would you like the gift of eternal youth?

Sure. Then you need to try some chips. You're overselling the, yeah, but. It's quite tangy. That's a good thing, though, eh? It's out of this world, man. You just read that off the bag. So there you go.

That's the people. John, I'm being with the people. Raw, unedited, but also very edited. Yeah, just tidied up footage. So 0800, this is what we want to do. The people. John and Ben with the people. Raw, unedited, but also very edited. Yeah, just tidied up footage. So 0800 the hits. This is what we want to do. Live feedback on the chips.

Oh, don't do live feedback on the chips. Live feedback. We had the feedback. That was the feedback. No, that was sanctioned feedback. You know, that's stuff you just let through the goalie. You deleted all the real stuff, Ben. So 0800 the hits.

You can text 4487. Have you bought the chips? Have you tried the chips? What do you think? Our feelings, put those aside. Don't worry. Don't think about our feelings. Don't worry about our feelings. Think about our feelings.

Give it to us straight, Altiero. It's New Zealand's breakfast. We need New Zealand's f***ing back on the chips. Damn, Microsoft. Can you please make order correct for audio? Jono and Ben on the hits. We're travelling around the country. We've got these brand new potato chips.

A collab with Heartland Potato Chips, made in New Zealand. Good New Zealand company. Kiwi company. Yeah, it's great. And we're getting a lot of reviews, just getting some honest feedback, and it's, you know,

putting ourselves in a very vulnerable situation. It is. You know, when you put a piece of you on the shelves, you know. Out of this world, the flavour we've claimed they're out of this world. We've sent them to space on a giant weather balloon and they haven't returned.

Well, we, yeah. We sunk a lot of money into that space mission, Ben. I always said space would be expensive. We said for many years,

why have people not gone back to the moon? Well, now we know it's very pricey. Tell you what's expensive when you send up two GoPros and a bag of chips to space. It's landed somewhere, we think, in farmland,

rural farmland in mid-Canterbury, but as of yet, we haven't retrieved the footage. Please, if you find this balloon and two GoPros, we need the footage. There's a lot of conversation, I'll be honest. Because at the moment, it just looks like we've just thrown a giant balloon into the air. It's just sailed off into the distance. Well, we'll go to space.

Technically, it's gone to space, but anyway. It's not about that right now. We're having a lot of intense conversations behind the scenes about that, we'll go into space. Technically, it's gone into space. But anyway, it's not about that now. We're having a lot of intense conversations behind the scenes about that. So let's not bring those ones to the airways. Well, let's go to the phone, shall we? Some raw, honest feedback on the chips. We've got Richard with us on New Zealand's Breakfast.

How are you, Richard? Yeah, good morning, guys. How are you? Lovely. Oh, we're doing well. Lovely to have you on. You've tried the chips, we understand? Yes, I have. I tried them on Friday.

Oh, Friday. Oh, Friday. We're not even out until Monday. So, yeah, a lot of people got them out early. The rush was there already. Okay. So, do we want to ask? Are we going to ask, Jono? Are we going to ask what we think? What do you think? What do you think, Richard? They're okay, but they could do with a little bit more sour cream.

Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. That kind of leaves you a bit deflated, doesn't it? Okay. They're okay. As deflated as our Wither Bloom. Okay. They're okay.

Yeah, well. Does okay mean you'd buy another 100 packets? Yeah, more than likely. Oh, great. Well, that's all we care about. We can add a bit more sour cream to it. Okay. So, yeah, because they are a mix of maple bacon, sour cream and chives and sprinkled with salt and vinegar all in the one packet.

Did you find that you got a bit of all the flavors as you were eating it? Yeah, but I got more of the salt and vinegar. Hey, mate, you want sour cream? Go and buy a bag of sour cream chips. Stop it. Stop it. They're not our chips. I'm getting all defensive. I shouldn't. I shouldn't. Just buy some of of sour cream chips. Stop it. Stop it. They're not our chips. I'm getting all defensive.

I shouldn't. I shouldn't. Just buy some and then sprinkle it into our packet. Mix it around. Hey, Richard, we're going to hook you up with a prize, alright? We'll hold the line. Appreciate you buying our chips and the feedback. They're okay. Yeah, yeah. I think we've got some texts coming

through. A lot of people have messaged on our social media as well. Pretty positive too. Yeah, someone's texted in here saying, John and Ben, tried the chips. My life has become three times better. No, that's... Show me that.

Eh? Show me that. Yeah, over here. On the screen. You've written that into a Word document. I copied and pasted it from the text machine. Okay, all right. You can win $10,000 when you buy our chips. There is and pasted it from the text machine. Okay, all right. You can win $10,000, though, when you buy our chips.

There is a little QR code on the back. Upload your chip pic, all the details, right? The hitstock.nz, and you win $10,000. You need to say that clearly, too, chip pic. We're getting a few other pictures that... They're still great as well, but yeah, we prefer the ones with chips. We're always getting listener compliments.

You happy to be on the ones with chips. 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 Ante Yes, from the bright lights of Hollywood To the disturbingly bright lights of this high-rise building we're in at the moment Ben Boyce Broadcasting

Ante, come on down How are you in Los Angeles? You guys, how was vacation? Do you know what? We flew to LA and we were there for about two days. We had to do a junket interview with The Rock and it was amazing. And the whole time Ben and me were like, should we call Enty?

Should we go and meet him for a coffee? Because, you know, it's a secret, your identity. You'd be letting us into the inner circle of entity if we caught up. But we didn't know if we wanted to do that to you. You take a 15-hour flight and you don't even want to have a cup of coffee? Now I'm hurt. I'm going to cry tonight. You don't even want to have a cup of coffee.

Okay, next time. Next time we're there. Yeah, we were very worried about, like, because you know when sometimes people, they phone you and they're like, hey, I'm in town. Let's catch up. And you're like, oh. We didn't want to do that to you. If I came to New Zealand and I didn't call you guys, you'd be upset.

Oh, you're dead right. We would. We apologize, ENT. Do you know something else that we found interesting over there, particularly for what you do? Everyone we see on the street looks like a celebrity. You walk past someone and you're like, are they famous? Particularly around the Beverly Hills region. Everyone just looks like a celebrity you walk past someone you're like are they famous particularly around the beverly hills region everyone just looks like a superstar i think it's because everybody's just like they either want to be a celebrity or they want to look like they're celebrity or they just

maybe they're instagram famous it's just it's a it is a extremely it's a it's a strange thing it's an obsession i think uh where everybody is just always wanting to to look like something one of the most important things that you can learn in L.A. is it doesn't necessarily matter where you live. You could live with 10 people in a ratty apartment, but you need to have a nice car, and you need to always look Instagram ready. Well, I just wanted to take a selfie with everyone I saw.

That's how famous they were looking. Now, N.T. Kanye West, we've spoken a lot about Kanye. It seems to me, and I'm no PR expert, that his wild claims, him going off the rails, just saying stuff that comes into his head, he could be nearing the end of his career. It feels like people are starting to have enough of it. I would think so.

Here's the thing. Let's say he's trying to sell this merchandise or whatever. If you actually go buy the merchandise, everybody's going to say, why are you supporting him? You're a toxic person. So who exactly is buying that? And then that brings us to Adidas, who was like, well, I mean, nobody's going to wear Yeezys or whatever because of the fact that nobody wants to be associated with that brand. But what I've said before, and I don't know if I told you guys, but I've told other people, is that Kim Kardashian owns most of Yeezy. There was a time when Kanye West was dead broke, and he had to sign over a bunch

of stuff to Jay-Z, a bunch of his royalties and things like that. So Jay-Z owns most of the recording royalties and things like that. And then withZ owns most of the recording royalties and things like that. And then with Kim, he signed over most of his companies to her, or large percentages of it. So if he wants to get back at her, the best way to do that is to destroy the company. Oh, sabotage it, I see.

But it does feel kind of sad because, you know, Kanye West is obviously creatively very very smart. People call him a genius. And to have all this happening right now and people's feelings feel a bit mixed towards him, you know, it kind of changes the way you feel about Kanye. It feels like he's reached a level of fame where he doesn't comprehend the amount of devastation he's causing. And that's a level of fame I want to get to be. Where I can just say wild stuff, do wild stuff, and I don't care what impact it has on me.

You do say a lot of wild stuff, that's for sure. Hey, actually, Yente, speaking of Kim Kardashian, which you just were, we went to, I'm going to say this is going to hurt you some more, we went to a football game in Los Angeles. We went to the Rams, which was incredible, the LA Rams. And she was there on the big screen and people booed. And I found that really sad that she was there with her kids. She came on the big screen and a lot of other celebrities on the big screen got cheered I shouldn't have started the

booing it was I found it really really you know she's with her kids it felt like even if you don't like it don't say anything at all but do you think that would worry celebrities I mean like Kim Kardashian millions of dollars do you think she would care at all I don't think she cares at all but you know she probably you know she planned out that whole day where she's going to be there and she thought I don't, maybe she thought everybody was going to cheer. But why on earth would you cheer for Kim Kardashian? It's just why even put yourself out there? Because she must have known that the odds were 50-50 at least. So you're saying that Kim Kardashian doesn't care about that. She drowns out the sound

of the hate with the sound of money piling up. And good on her. Because it would affect me. All that sort of abuse towards 70,000 drunk football fans booing you. That wasn't the 70,000, we weren't part of that. Nearly 70,000. Now I heard a rumour too that Drake did the bum dugglies with Kris Jenner. Who? What? Drake.

Who did? Kare said this. Drake, she's like hey, I'm not here to judge the gap, the age gap between the two. But Drake would be what 40 and she's like, hey, I'm not here to judge the gap, the age gap between the two. But Drake would be, what, 40? And she's nearly 70. I think that Drake has had sex with Kim Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian. Possibly, possibly Kylie, but not the mom.

Maybe he's going for the whole family. Oh, jeez. Maybe he's working his way through the whole family. I'm moving on. And that's a great mountain to climb. He would not be the first one. He would not be the first one to make his way for the whole family. Oh, jeez. Maybe he's working his way through the whole family. I'm moving on. And that's a great mountain to climb. He would not be the first one. He would not be the first one to make his way through the whole family. Really?

But, you know, I, yeah. Who knows? Even for Indy going, yeah, you know he's not going to come. He's backing out. It's so good to talk to you again. We apologize again for not reaching out. We will do it 100%. We'll be there next time.

We're New Zealanders. We don't like to be a burden on anyone. Especially because we're not meant to know entirely who you are. We were worried about that, but we apologise, and hopefully we will catch up with you one day if we go back there. Hey, that sounds great, you guys. Hey, I hope you have a great week. Experts in giving out inexpert advice.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, Ben, we've dipped our toes into the retail sector baby it's been a you know turbulent two years for retail but don't worry john and ben are here to save the day okay we've got chips heartland potato chips and we're going around the country this week doing taste testings at supermarkets and whatnot and um it's just got me it got me intrigued you intrigued into production costs, Ben. What it takes to produce something as opposed to how much you sell it for. Are you looking at the bottom line, are you? Yeah, I like to get my spreadsheets out, my big spreadsheet. But how much you mark up

the price on a product. So how much it costs the company to make it and how much you're selling it for. Gotcha. You understand that. It happens. I think I mansplained that like four different times. What a product. So how much it costs the company to make it and how much he's selling it for. Gotcha. You understand that. It happens. I think I mansplained that like four different times. What a legend. But sometimes when you

find out these details you're like, oh really? It does disappoint you and what I'm about to do is really going to disappoint you. Staying away from chips

obviously. Because we make those high quality chips at premium price and we sell them for the same. We're not making a profit on those chips. No, I don't think so.

We're not. So look at this. A Louis Vuitton handbag, okay? Yeah. How much are you paying for one of those? Harriet, you're here with us. What are we, $1,700 for a Louis Vuitton handbag? Yeah.

She's saying up to $5,000. $5,000, some of them. Maybe more? They cost $170 to make. Catching. Thank you, Producer Joel. So Louis and his Vuitton making some good money on that. And it's all marketing.

Imagine how many places sell $170 handbags. They're probably making them for $0.17. But it's all just branding and marketing. It's all about the branding and marketing. Perception. I guess the market that you're aiming for there with Louis Vuitton, they probably want to be buying expensive things as like a flex. Yeah, yeah. And marketing. Perception. I guess the market that you're aiming for there with Louis Vuitton, they probably want to be buying expensive things.

It's like a flex. Yeah, yeah. Airline tickets. Do you know how much of a mark-up they're making on airlines? Oh, don't worry about the airline. Let's not have a shot at the airline industry, mate. No, don't worry about the bloody airline industry. They've been fleecing us for years. They haven't been flying for the last couple of years, though.

Their profits are soaring higher than an A380. I don't know. Don't you worry. They're going to be just fine. They mark up 389% on your average airline ticket. So what it costs to put you on the plane

and fly you from A to B, they're making 389% market. Well, in the past maybe they were, but I think at the moment it's not... But anyway. Bottled water.

Oh, yeah. It's free Bottled water. Oh, yeah. It's free. Yeah. Water's free. They're making 2,000% markup on bottled water, those people. 2,000? 2,000%. Batteries.

Oh, batteries. Now, you know batteries. Yeah, I know batteries. They charge, and they charge a lot, too, for batteries. They make 100% markup on batteries. So what it costs to make a battery. They double it. They pretty much double it.

Cell phone charges 700% up. Pair of Jordans, you know, Jordan shoes. Yeah. Some of these are selling, I know the Travis Scott ones sell for $3,500. They make a pair of Jordans for $16 to $25. Stop it. Shut the hell up. Michael Jordan, the Jesus that's a slam dunk from Nike.

Yeah. $16, and how much are they selling them for? Yeah, hundreds and hundreds. Obviously, they're making them en masse, and it probably brings down the cost per unit, but man, I'll tell you what that is. We're getting fleeced. Radio, free.

Free. Giving you this for free. Radio is free. It is. We're out fleeced. Radio, free. Free. Giving you this for free. Radio is free. It is. We're out here giving it free and we still get complaints. Nobody complains. Yeah, well, it's us, though. A-grade celebrity chat with C-grade celebrity hosts.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, it's a big week because on Thursday we've got our exclusive, our New Zealand exclusive with Dwayne The Rock Johnson. He's got a brand-new movie out called Black Adam, and we got to meet him. It was incredible and what happened like I'm a huge Dwayne the Rock Johnson fan but what happened in the interview

I couldn't have imagined it going any better. Well probably the only thing would have been if he said afterwards, let's go, you're coming on my private plane, we're hanging out forever. That would have been Please don't tell me you walked into that room hoping he was going to invite you on his private plane and you're going to hang out forever well are you willing to phone your family and go i'm sorry guys yes me and duane johnson forever

yeah yeah yeah but he's in this the novelty of that's going to wear off for duane pretty much as the plane takes i was like oh god why did i got this guy out forever i said forever uh so duane john Johnson's in Black Adam. It's a new DC comic book movie, and it stars Pierce Brosnan. Now, he was James Bond. Yeah. Like, a distinguished actor, you know, a great actor. You know Bond, James Bond?

Thank you, mister. The name's Bond. James Bond. There we go. That was back in the very sexist days of Bond, wasn't it? He was running quite a sexist operation back in the day, James Bond. He was also in Mrs. Doubtfire as well. He was the one who Robin Williams' ex-wife moved on with.

Yeah, very famous actor. And he's in the movie Black Adam. And we had an interview with him coming up that day. And we were waiting in a room with a whole lot of media from around the world, just sitting there, just minding our own business. And who walks into the room out of nowhere? Pierce Brosnan. Bond, James Bond.

And he walks up to the buffet. There's a buffet there, and he grabbed himself a chocolate parfait, a chocolate mousse in a mini little jar. Yeah. And he turned around, and in my head I was like, uh-oh, James Bond's walking directly towards us. Yeah, are we in the wrong room? Yeah.

That's what I was thinking. And he's walking in slow motion, you know, and he's eyeballing us. And I'm like, uh-oh, Bond's coming right towards our way. And then the next thing you know, he's standing there. And he goes, excuse me. And he shuffles past Ben and myself, sitting next to Ben. It us james bond in a big white table i know he's like hello hello chaps can i sit there hello chaps yeah hello chaps and then he was like looked at us and we had jackets with jono and benny's so what is jono and ben and i was i was like are we allowed to talk to you mr brosnan you know we're in the

wrong room what would you like to do he's like no you, you're fine. And we had a wonderful conversation for 10 minutes and everyone was watching us jealous that we were sitting there with Pierce Brosnan having a chat. And I just couldn't take my eyes off him spooning that parfait, just eating it like a... My mum, Jenny Boyce, she would have changed places with me. Jenny Boyce loves Pierce Brosnan because he was a mum of me.

She'd like to Pierce his Brosnan. Don't even know what that means but yeah Pierce could have been your stepdad we talked about you know he's got chickens on this place

that he's got in Hawaii we talked about New Zealand we talked about him being James Bond travelling around the world it was a wonderful free flying conversation for 10 minutes

we were just the whole time I just wanted to take a photo but I was like no play it cool Ben play it cool let's not ask for a photo and at the end he got up

and he goes lovely to meet you I'll see you in the interview the whole time I was like get a photo get a photo but I was like no play it cool Ben play it cool let's not ask for a photo and at the end he got up and he goes lovely to meet you I'll see you in the interview and he left. The whole time I was like get a photo get a photo secretly film him maybe I was trying to put my phone down by my crotch and just get an up angle shot of him but I didn't so we'll just have to remember it we can't even put it on social media Ben we'll just have to stay on the social

nature's social media our memories it was an incredible incredible experience he definitely took a wrong turn, though. There's probably a more important room he should have been masticating in, but not with us. But it was incredible. So, I'll under the hits. 4487. We were lucky enough to sit next to Piers Brosnan, James Bond, so we wanted to know

who have you sat next to? What would be the most impressive person that you've ever sat next to, whether it's on a flight, at a restaurant, whether you were somehow in a media room and James Bond walked in, we'd love to hear from you on 100 The Hitch. Jeez, the celebrities when they get on planes must hate it when people sit next to them. Oh, here we go.

Yeah, I'm the same. When I'm on a regional flight. You just sleep, mate. Nelson to New Plymouth. You chat a lot and then you just fall asleep. Oh, here we go. Here's a fan. They're going to run over.

You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on just fall asleep. Oh, here we go. Here's a fan. They're going to run over. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. As we mentioned before, the most surreal experience of our lives, Piers Brosnan, who's in the new movie Black Adam with The Rock, just randomly sat next to us and had a conversation for 10 minutes. It was pretty incredible.

I'm still trying to get my head around it. And so we wanted to know on Eye 100 of the Hits, who sat next to you or who have you sat next to? He didn't just sit down to talk to us, though. He sat down to eat chocolate desserts as well, which, you know, there was a reason he sat down. But still, there's a reason. We weren't the sole reason.

But there's a reason you sit down. Oh, I've got tired legs. Oh, I'm on a plane. I'm whatever, you know, there's always. I'm in a restaurant. Yeah, so it was amazing just even watching him eat. You know when you watch famous people, you're just like, oh, that's how they eat.

You know? Just like the rest of us. Just like the rest of us. He might have to die another day from clogged arteries from his chocolate dessert. Let's go to the phones. Whoever you're sat next to, see you, mate. Have a good day. We're live at Mojo Cafe this morning.

Sue, you're on, Sue. How are you? I'm good. It's lovely to hear your dulcet tones, Sue. Have you tried our chips yet, mate? No, not yet, but they're on the list. Hang up on it. Hang up on it.

Hang up on it. No, there's no pressure on that. There's no pressure. Hey, Sue, who did you sit next to? I actually met Neil and Tim Finn in Cambridge at the fish and chip shop. Wow. Both brothers getting fish and chips at the same time. There's not a more New Zealand thing, really, you could do. The Finn brothers, fish and chips at the same time. There's not a more New Zealand thing really you could do.

The Finn brothers, fish and chips. Unless you're deep frying a kakapo, that's the only way that whole scene would get more New Zealand. Did you talk to them? Neil wrote on a piece of paper, the best fish and chips in the world, and signed it for me. Do you think he got swept up?

The world? What did they order? Oh gosh, I can't remember. I was quite young then. Now, were you working at the shop? No, no. My dad had been out at the deer farm in Cambridge, and he came home in a tractor.

And so then, because the tractor was bucking the car, he took the tractor down to the fish and chip shop and I went with him. And I happened to be in the ordering and I turned around and here was Neil Finn and they just happened to stand behind me. So I was like... And you're like, hey now, hey now.

Yeah. Maybe they were selling the fish they caught from six months in a leaky boat. Maybe they were selling that. But anyway, hey, thank you, Sue. I appreciate your call. That is incredible. Let's go to Richard on 0 they were selling that. But anyway, hey, thank you, Sue. I appreciate your call. That is incredible. Let's go to Richard on 0800 The Hits.

You there, Richard? Morning, mate. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well, Rich. You're sitting next to who, mate? I was down in a place called Lesotho in Africa when Paul Simon was making the Graveland albums, and I walked into a riverside lodge,

and this guy was out at the bar, and I sat next to him, and, like, all right, mate, how are you, and all that sort of blather, you know. And it was Paul Simon and I just sort of stood in conversation. What do you do, mate? He said, oh, I'm an artist. And I sort of gave him a shove on the shoulder and went, oh, artist, what are you? Draw pictures, mate.

And this big bruiser come over and he goes, is it all good? And Paul Simon turned around this big bruiser and he goes, hey, mate, no, it's all good. I was like, what's going on here, mate? He goes, Paul Simon. Yeah, like it's all good. I was like, what's going on here mate? He goes, Paul Simon. I was like, oh shit. What's going on here? Yeah, artists like draw pictures. He's like, no, I record songs that are

incredible. I mean, to be fair to Paul Simon, he probably doesn't want to go I'm multi-platinum selling artists. I'm a Garfunkel. He doesn't want to give his biography to you. Thanks, Richard. Appreciate it.

And finally, let's go to Selena really quickly on 0800 The Hits. Selena, who did you sit next to? Well, I actually sat across the aisle from Jack Black on a flight, and behind him was Jason Segel. So, yeah, just casually. What is a celebrity plane? Are you traveling on Celebrity Air or something? Yes, that's me.

No, so I had, basically, it was the first time I'd ever left New Zealand. I was going to Utah to visit my family. They upgraded me to first class. Never been on a plane, so excited. And it was a Sundance festival. So I was sitting on the plane and then Jack Black walks on and then he kind of just casually sits across the aisle and then Jason Segel

sits behind him and you know, Kiwis trying not to be too excited and fangirling, I just pretended I didn't care but totally staring just the whole time We think we're playing it cool but we're probably just like staring dead into their eyes,

looking at their every, like I was staring at Brosman, chewing every mouth load of that chocolate dessert. Oh, Selena, amazing call. This magazine was amazing. Thank you for sharing that with us. We really appreciate it. An inseparable duo. Unless I'm on better shows up,

he's just going to replace with Lee Lee Hart and or Vaughan Smith. Jono and Ben on the hits. That is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Time to look at some big news. Small town, town, town, town, town, town. This is an incredible story. A 23-year-old, 23, has made news of becoming New Zealand's youngest mayor.

Which is wild. I mean, at 23, he should be drinking out of a shoe and running amok at some obscure drum and bass festival with the likes of producer Joel. 23 years old. Yeah, his name is Ben Bell. He's the mayor of Gore down south at the moment. There is a bit of a recount going on at the moment because it was very tight. But at the moment, he is the mayor. He's 23 years old. And Ben Bell joins us right now. Congratulations. Thanks, guys. Good to be here.

Now, New Zealand's youngest ever mayor, 23 years. Why did you want to do this? Well, originally I wanted to be a councillor. And then I was standing with a team called Team Hokanui, and there were four of us looking to be councillors. And we thought, you know what, maybe one of us should go for mayor. And because my business was the smallest, and I had the most political experience somehow,

I threw my head in the ring, and yeah, the rest is history. So the mayor of Gore. The 23 years I can't, like, I just learned to tie my shoelaces at 23 years old. You're running. I still don't know how to tie my shoelaces, so it's fine. You celebrated with KFC, though, I understand. Yes, KFC and cake. So, yeah, dinner of champions, as they say.

Now, what's the first thing that you've gone, oh, I've got one of these now. Like, have you got a PA? Have you got someone who drives you round? Have you got a credit card that the council give you? I don't have the credit card yet. We'll probably need it with me still. But, yeah, I have a PA now who's helping me with media

and just getting to places on time because, yeah, as you can imagine, my life has just gone nuts in the last couple of days. A 23-year-old with a personal assistant. Mayor of Gore. It's incredible because Tracy Hicks, who was the previous mayor, he's been mayor for 18 years.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a great time. He wasn't just liked around the community. It was just that he'd served for so long. So I think it's a pretty cool legacy to leave behind. I'll be shocking in a debate. They're like, what are you going to do about the overspending and the waste department?

And how do you answer those questions? Well, it was pretty easy to me because I didn't have to be accountable for things that had been done, right? I just had to actually agree with the community and be like, yep, I think that's wrong. Whether I can promise to fix it or not, I've got to get my hands on the books and see what we can do, but I can definitely say I'll have a crack at making it up, yeah.

Is it okay, because 23, we all know what we're doing at 23 years old. Stuff that you wouldn't be... Well, we were, but he's not. He's not. Is it a case of keeping your nose clean now, Ben? Tell me to say no comment, but that's probably what I'll go with On that answer

Yeah no comment Because it's a seven day a week It can be a seven day a week job Five days a week if you're Wayne Brown But seven days a week For you Yeah yeah absolutely I mean you've got to

It really depends on the community And what events they want me to go to But yeah it's pretty much 24-7 at the moment. Well done. Congratulations. 23 years old. You're already a mayor. You've achieved more than us at 23.

That's incredible. Well done. Well, that means a lot coming from you guys. I've looked up to you guys for a long time, watched all your stuff, was a big fan of Jono and Ben. And, yeah, when you guys ran that political party, that's what made me get into politics.

That was the inspiration. Well, listen, Ben, John and Ben and yeah when you guys ran that political party that's what made me get into politics well listen Ben I don't want to be too arrogant here now an arrogant Aucklander swooping into town if we came to gore keys to the city are we talking are we talking keys to the city oh yeah and if you guys yeah we'll uh we'll sort you out yeah absolutely okay he's like I don't know what I can say to that now if I can hand out keys to the city. Hey, congrats, man. Yeah, huge achievement, and good luck for the job. No worries. Cheers, guys. Appreciate it.

There you go. Ben Bell. Yeah, New Zealand's youngest mayor. Well, we had Jacinda as New Zealand's youngest prime minister. We've got Ben as New Zealand's youngest mayor. Next, we're going to have a toddler as the governor general. It's the way New Zealand's going. Proud to be Kiwi. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, we's the way New Zealand's going. Proud to be Kiwi.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, we're looking for New Zealand's best voice. Now, if you think you've got the best voice in the country or someone that you know, you can nominate them right now at the hitstockcode.nz because we're paying them. We didn't know how much this was going to be, but $5,000 if you voice our ads for Skinny.

I'm not entirely happy about it because that was meant to go to us. Yeah, because you might have seen Skinny have got advertising out and about on posters, coffee cups. They're looking for people to ring up and leave a message to voice their ads. You can just leave a voice message. And someone who took a punt, someone that gave that a go was Richard. Now, he's on the phone right now, and we'll make him listen to a wee bit of his ad that he rang up for Skinny. The key price is low. Skinny has printed this radio script

on the side of local dairies in the hopes that someone like the bro will call the number provided and record it on their mobile phone for free. Why pay big bucks for a celebrity voice when you can have my incredible voice for nothing? I love you, Skinny. Even if you are potentially taking advantage of me, it's a skinny my father.

Happy, happy, happy, oh. There, and Richard, you could hear him cringing. Laughing. As he's laughing, as a rollercoaster of emotions have tracked him down. Welcome. How are you, mate? Yeah, I'm good him down. Welcome. How are you, mate? Yeah, I'm good. I'm good.

How are you? We're good. You gave us a crack. You left a message thinking you've got a great voice. You know, I like that. I can see why you backed yourself in. Thanks. Thank you.

So where was it? Was it outside of Derry or something we understand? Oh, it was outside of Derry in Wellington, Upper Hutt. And what were you picking up? What were you going into the dairy to buy? Oh, I actually went into the dairy and bought some washing liquid. So I was sitting there just hanging out, waiting for my washing to finish at this random laundromat.

So I'm travelling the country. I'm down in the South Island now. But I was just hanging out. Yeah, and then I saw the ad, read it a couple of times, and then I pretty much just sat there for like, you know, 40 minutes waiting for my washing, and I was like, I'm just going to bang through like 10 ads. You called them back 10 times.

They got 10 different reads. Yeah, they got a couple. They got a couple. Jeez, I was thinking the poor person from Skinny who has to trawl through the voicemail Oh, clear the voicemail They must be hearing some bleak content No one ever likes clearing a voicemail

But imagine having to do it for thousands of phone calls Yeah, hide out, hide out Well, good on you for doing this And on our show We were meant to be voicing something for Skinny But now we've decided to give the fee I don't know why. We didn't know.

No one asked me, actually, if they'd said, do you want the fee or do you want to give it away? Well, I would have taken option A every time. Yeah, and I didn't even know the fee was this impressive. But for voicing the commercial on our show, we're going to compensate someone, the two of us, to $5,000. Five?

We've turned down five grand. I didn't know it was five grand when we turned it down. Otherwise, we wouldn't have turned it down. I didn't know we'd turn it down. So we're looking for New Zealand's best voice. Richard, it could be you, mate. Whoa, that'll be epic. That'll be epic.

What sort of voice do I need to have, guys? Just the one you've got. It's perfect. What Mother Nature gave you, you roll with. Oh, Richard, I'm going to talk to you. And good on you for giving Skinny a call, lending your voice to their campaign. And who knows, you could be our voice, voice our ads for Skinny and get $5,000.

Have a great day, my friend. Thank you. Thank you. The Jono and Ben podcast, the world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats. 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. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning at this time on The Hits. You can win $5,000 if you match all five words with ours, but you can stop along the way and take home some money. That's right. It's the most popular word game in the country.

Wordle? What about Wordle? No, Wordle's gone. Wordle is a flash in the pan. My wife's still the only one playing it, I think. She's still playing Wordle? What about Wordle? No, Wordle's gone. Wordle is a flash in the pan. My wife's still the only one playing it, I think. She's still playing Wordle. Yeah, every day. I'm like, oh, gee.

Is she? Yeah, I know. She's keeping the Wordle dream alive. Yeah. Well, this has been consistent all the way through. Set a low bar, and we've stuck with it. And we're live this morning from Mojo Cafe, number one, Willis Street in Wellington, the capital city.

City of bureaucracy, Ben Boyce. Yeah. And we're joined by Sarah. Welcome. Hi, thank you for having me. Thanks for being here. Sarah is a graphic designer now. Without getting too graphic, what does the job entail?

I usually say to people when I brief them, making things look pretty. Oh, yeah. Good. Can you do anything with this face? Photoshop. How much Photoshop? Photoshop, yeah. Can you Photoshop some hair on the head?

A few less wrinkles? I'll be pushing Photoshop to the limit.? Photoshop, yeah. Can you Photoshop some hair on the head? A few less wrinkles? I'll be pushing Photoshop to the limit. All right, Sarah, you need to choose one of us to whip away and to hopefully match up some words when they come back. Who do you want? Do you want Jono or do you want Ben? I'm going to pick Jono. All right. I'm going to go off.

All right, so Jono will head away outside Mojo Cafe here in Wellington so he can't hear us. He can't read lips, can he? Hurry up. Hurry up. Okay, so here we go. So you can't hear us. You can't read lips, can you? Hurry up. Okay. Okay. So here we go. What pops into your head?

I think these are Wellington words this morning. So hopefully this will help you out. Bucket. Cuba Street. Cuba Street. Do you know what? Fountain. Can you just pick one word?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fountain. Joey Fountain. That's what I was thinking as well. I like you. Yep. Lyle. Bay. Lyle Bay. Yeah. Cuba. yeah. Jogger Fountain. That's what I was thinking as well. I like you. Lyle. Bay.

Lyle Bay, yeah. Cuba. Street. Street. Hurricanes. Rugby. Rugby. And Beehive.

Government. Government. Very good. I think you did well. You reckon? I don't know where Jono's gone. He's gone outside chatting to some people. I think you did really well. Okay, thanks, Ken. So now we's gone. He's gone outside chatting to some people. I think you did really well.

Okay, thank you. So now we'll get Jono back, and we'll see how we go along the way. Let's rip straight into the $25 word, because there's no choice on that one. Let's go word number one. Word one, $25. Wellington-related words. Okay. Why?

Because we're in Wellington today. Okay, that makes sense. Okay. Bucket. Fountain. Yes. All, that makes sense. Okay. Bucket. Fountain. Yes. All right, we have $25. Have you urinated in the bucket fountain?

No, do you know what I have done, though? I sang the national anthem while standing in it. Oh, okay. For a team building activity. Do you know what people do inside that fountain? Yeah, a bit questionable. Okay, so now you have $25. Do you want to go to the $50 word?

Yes, please. Bearing in mind, if we get this wrong, we're going to get nothing. But let's go. $50. Word two, $50. Think Wellington, think Wellington. Lyle. Lyle Bay.

Yeah. So I didn't know if you'd know this. No, Lyle Bay. Okay, all right. I picked my map. Yeah, you did. All right. Okay, so now $50.

Jumps up to $100. Are we going to do it? Yeah, why not? All right. Let's see what's going on. Word three, $100. Cuba. Cuba.

Oh, there's two, isn't there? Two very distinctive ones. Is there? Yeah, is there? Is there? Gooding Jr., the actor from Jerry Maguire. Oh, yeah, Cuba Gooding Jr. Here's an option.

I'll go Cuba Street. Yes! The mall was the other one. Cuba Mall. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. You picked the right one. Yeah! The mall was the other one. Cuba Mall. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. You picked the right one. Yeah, you did pick the right one.

Okay, now we've got $100. That's yours. We can take that away, though. Okay. But you've got $500 for the next word. We jump up. You're going to do it? You're going to go for the $500 word?

If you walk away with $500, it's pretty good, right? Yeah, definitely. All right, let's do it. $500. Word four, $500. Jono, right? Yeah, definitely. All right, let's do it. $500. Word four, $500. Jono, what pops into your head, hopefully the same as what Sarah says, when I say hurricanes?

Hurricanes. Say rugby. Yes! Sarah! $500! Yes! So that's $500. Now the decision.

It jumps up to $5,000, which is a huge jump, but bearing in mind mind You get this wrong You get nothing So do you want to take your 500 bucks Start your morning with 500 bucks Or do you want to go for 5,000 Yeah what is it Can I hear the final words

There was definitely options in this one When you said it I was like Oh yeah It wasn't a bad guess No I agree Yeah It's up to you

What are you going to do Sarah Um Your friend over there Watching on She should take the money Oh, yeah. It wasn't a bad guess. No, I agree. Yeah. It's up to you. What are you going to do, Sarah? Your friend over there watching on. She should take the money. $500. What do you reckon? I think she should take it. You reckon I should take it? Take the money?

You're going to take $500? Oh, my goodness. You got $500. It's more than you had three minutes ago. Yeah, very true. But it would be a cooler story if I got $5,000. Oh, sure. The thrill of gambling. minutes ago. Very true. But it would be a cooler story if I got $5,000. Oh, look, Sarah.

The thrill of gambling. This is why Gambler's Anonymous is in society. I can't do this. Oh, yeah. We hardly match five words, but it's over to you. No, let's do it.

Oh, Sarah. Oh, okay. Word five. $5,000. Shano, don't let us down. We're looking dead into your eyes right now. The word is beehive.

Beehive. Beehive. I'm listening. I can't even watch it. He looks so stressed. Let's say Parliament. So close. I see Government.

So close. Sarah, I'm sorry. That's okay. Sarah, that'm sorry. That's okay. Sarah, that was so much fun. You played so well. It's pretty good. You did well. We matched 90%.

If it was a relationship, we'd start off well, and it would sort of get a bit fractious and a bit snippy towards the end, but you did well. Five words is back again tomorrow. Someone else could be winning $5,000. It is the hits. You got a shot on, Ben. Oh, so close.

We're in Wellington today. We're heading around the country with our Out of This World mashup. Chips with Heartland chips. They're in stores everywhere. And we've been taste testing it, taking them to supermarkets, getting raw, honest feedback. Yeah, we have. Have a listen.

The flavor's really good. I'm really a salt girl. Oh, so you're... Is that all right? Yeah, it's good. Oh, it's good. My husband's going to love it. Oh, okay. Oh, that really good. I'm really a salt girl. Oh, so you're... Is that all right? Oh, yeah. It's good. It's good. My husband's going to love it. Oh, okay.

Oh, that's good. So have we turned you from a salt girl into a whatever-this-is girl? I could work on this. Hey, there we go. That's good. Your honest reaction? It's okay. It's okay?

Okay. Okay and a head on. Do we have that? Yeah. Would you come back for more? Would you buy more? Probably not. To be honest. No, I that? Yeah. Would you come back for more? Would you buy more? Probably not. No, I like the honesty.

That's good. But hey, but no, you know. Will you eat the rest of that sample we've given you? No. Okay, well,

let's wrap you up. And we hired a disposer before. I mean, there's some wins and there's some losses in the chip game, Ben. I think they really

got a crazy mix of maple bacon, sour cream and chai sprinkled with salt and vinegar. They're in supermarkets right around the country. You can win $10,000 by buying a bag as well. As we've been saying, it's been one small step for man and one giant leap for 23 pronouns. We're trying to bring that saying into 2022

because these chips are out of this world. And if you want to try them, you can for yourself. We're heading to New Plymouth today, Taranaki. Pack and save New Plymouth on Leach Street. We'll be there, hocking off chips, bullying customers from 5 till 6pm tonight. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB.

In the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits. But Jono, we had a couple of weeks off, and over the break I ran into Ryan Bridge, who is a respected journalist. He's on the AM show in the mornings. He's great. Love Ryan Bridge. Yeah, no, he's a lovely guy. We worked in the same building as Ryan for many years.

And handsome, very handsome man, Ryan Bridge, isn't he? Tall and handsome, yeah. I feel like we're not using him correctly on the AM show front in the news. He should be in gq magazine or something modeling yes far too good looking ryan bridger i was talking to him for a wee bit and then later on he came up to me and he was like hey ben can can i have a moment i'm like oh okay you never want to hear can i have a moment yeah because it can mean so many things he's like can i ask you a personal question as well and i was like oh okay a personal question then a personal question. Then I started to go, oh, what's this personal question?

What is this question he wants to know? Do you regret saying yes, of course, you can have a moment at this point? Well, yeah, a little bit. I was a little bit like wanting to just run out of the room. When someone says, can I have a moment, do you actually have the option to go no? Yeah. I was like, a moment, personal question. And he said, yeah.

And we went across, away from everyone else. Oh, you went into a quiet corner. Yeah, and he said, it's about Jono. I was like... Now I'm not liking this. And I was like, oh, instantly I was relieved. You're like, yes, fire away. I will tell you everything.

What do you want to know? I will dish the dirt on Jono Pryor. I will tell you everything you need to know. Don't even ask me the question. I'll just tell you everything. Yeah, you tell me when to stop. I'll just keep going. Record it, get your phone out, whatever. Put it on TV. Don't even ask me the question, I'll just tell you everything. You tell me when to stop, I'll just keep going. Record it, get your phone out, whatever, put it on TV, don't care.

He was like, okay, what's Jono's personal situation? This is his question. As in what happens in my personal life? He was like, are things okay? And he was concerned. This was coming from a place of concern. It was genuine. And I was like, what do you mean?

What do you mean, are things okay? He's like, well, Ryan Brid I was like, what do you mean? What do you mean are things okay? He's like, well, Ryan Bridges was like, I've met you. I've met yourself. You've met your wife. See, I've met your wife. I've got your kids. But I just don't know much about Jono Pryor. He's an elusive character.

He is. And what is going on behind that deep, dark exterior? He's like, I've only ever just met Jono. You know, he used to be on TV. We used to hang out. You know, he does radio. But I don't know anything about him. This is what Ryan Bridges used to say.

And I saw a photo of him the other day, you popped up on something and you were out and about, and it was online, and Ryan Bridges had seen it, and you were out walking your dog, your little Milo, your little dog, and you were dressed probably similar to what you're wearing now. You had a beanie on and some oversized clothes, you were out and about. And he said, I saw this photo, I saw Jono out there in his neighborhood walking his dog. And I just went, what is his personal situation? Does he live alone with his little dog? And is he half her wife?

And I just felt like, is Jono okay? Is he okay? I was like, no, Jono, he's fine. That's how he dresses, firstly. That's how he dresses. I do give off a lonely, disheveled, single man living with a dog vibe, though. Don't I? And I was like, no,

but he's got a family, he's got a wife, he's got kids. I think on this occasion the family were away and when he got photographed there was a long backstory that all made perfect sense. I do look homeless, but I didn't think I looked homeless and lonely. Yes, you can add that to your Tinder bio now. Homeless and lonely.

So yeah, he was quite concerned. I'm honoured that Ryan Bridge would be so concerned. Was he wanting to do an intervention or something? Just make sure you're right. It was like, take some money, take some money, give it to Jono. Whatever you need to do. Buy some new clothes. Get a new dog.

Mature, responsible and considerate. Three words we sadly can't use here. Jono and Ben on the hits. We really are enjoying being back on the radio, and we thank you so much for listening. We missed it when we were away on holiday, but we did have a couple of days in America because we interviewed my hero, Dwayne the Rock Johnson,

which you'll hear on the show on Thursday. New Zealand exclusive interview. They're going to be playing it on The Project 2 this week as well. Yeah, it's about Black Adam, his new movie, but of course we got to show him the tattoo that I have dedicated to him, and jeez, wow, it really took a turn, but a great turn. And you'll see it on the project and you'll hear it on Thursday. I don't know if they can show it.

They'd have to pixelate it on the project, wouldn't they? Maybe. They might. They might. Especially at 7 o'clock at night. Public nudity. Yeah. All right.

But we went to a football game. You're going, what on earth did you do with the rock? You'll see what it is. Now, we went to a football game over there, American football game. You're going, what on earth did you do with the rock? You'll see what it is. Now, we went to a football game over there, American football game. The Rams were playing the Cowboys, and what an incredible stadium. It was the one they had the Super Bowl last year. You know that epic one with Eminem and

Dr. Dre on the field at SoFi Stadium? It's incredible. 70,000 people. It was. I mean, I walked in there, and I was still getting high off the secondhand smoke from Snoop Dogg that he left from the Super Bowl performance. But it is surreal. Honestly, if you ever get the chance in life to go to an NFL game, it is truly surreal. Americans are extra.

Americans are 120 all the time, but Americans jacked up on NFL. If I just started a USA chant, 70,000 people would have started chanting you. Oh, there was high fives, there was booyahs, there was all going on. It doesn't get any more patriotic. It was such a fun environment to be in for sports. It really shows us up for what, you know, for crowds, you know. When you're, yeah, when we're there, we're like, this is, you know, it's a life memory.

We remember that for life. Like, you know, when you do your first ram wave when you're 12 years old, it stays with you. And it was a memory-making event. We met some friends. Did something, made some friends. I think you recorded the guys we were talking to. Everyone's your friend in a football game. Have a listen to this.

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Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo? Woo! That's awesome. We're from New Zealand. We're still in the house. Hey, New Zealand! Woo!

Woo! Woo! We got you all right there. Woo! Not a wooing going on. We were high-fiving. We were wooing. Because he's going, who's house?

And I didn't know what you had to say to that. But you mean to say, it's the Rams' house. And I didn't know what you had to say to that. But you meant to say, it's the Rams' house. And I didn't know what the answer was. Whose house? I didn't know. Do we need to ask to be invited? Do we take our shoes off in the house? It was pretty incredible.

I mean, as you say, what a surreal experience. Don't convert the prices of tickets or beers, the oversized giant beers that you're buying back to New Zealand dollars. Because that was expensive. We kept doing that. And we were like, no, stop converting it back. Because it was an amazing experience. Let's just say the dollar's not doing well against the USD.

But Kim Kardashian was there. A lot of celebrities, they popped up on the screen. There was John Legend, there was basketball legend Magic Johnson all popped up on the screen. I felt it was the one tiny blemish and complaint that I would like to have about it was the fact that when Kim Kardashian got displayed on the giant jumbo screen that goes around the whole roof of the stadium,

some people started to boo, and I thought that was a bit crap, because, you know, it'd been such a fun atmosphere, it'd been a fun time up until there. I apologise for starting the booing. I thought, I got some momentum, I'm like, I'm feeling popular, I started a lynch mob here. I felt bad, she was there when I was a kid, so I was like, hey, it felt like

commenting online, it felt like commenting online. It felt like it's unnecessary. If you don't like something, don't say anything. Well, that's the thing. I mean, it's quite a humbling experience. I imagine 70,000 people booing at you. We know what it's like to be booed out on the screen, don't we? We actually did when we learned how to wrestle.

Remember that time? And in wrestling, it's a bit more, you know, people do get booed if you're the bad person or if you're the good person. We were meant to be the good guys coming out. They're like, Jono and Ben, we're just a bully. So we know what it's like. It was the first time in wrestling with the refs I started crying in the ring. Numeracy, literacy, and idiocy. They've nailed one of those things.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. If you wanted the perfect thing to put you back to sleep this morning, welcome to our news bulletin. Ben. So the bird of the year is something in New Zealand. We get wildly crazy about the bird of the year every year, don't we? The competition to vote for the favourite bird.

It feels like we were just finished talking about the bird of the year two weeks ago. Now we're starting talking about it again. But they've taken one of the birds out of the running this year. The kakapo has been taken out because it has won twice and the organisers are like you only won twice mate, we need to give other birds a chance to have their time to shine. This is what's wrong with Aotearoa

these days. I blame the left-leaning government. Give everyone a go. Every bird's got to win. You can't eliminate a bird just because it's won too much. Well that's it and I love there's a headline I was looking this morning. The Washington Post overseas in America, they've got a headline. They've got an article on it.

Do you know what the headline says? This is without a word of belie. Fat parrot ineligible for bird of the year because it keeps winning. Now, not only have they taken the kākāpō off, you know, off the bird of the year, now they're shaving the bird worldwide. Worldwide of the bird of the year. I they're shaving. The fat, shaving the bird worldwide. Worldwide of the bird of the year. I mean, it's a little chubby. It's a little chubby.

Granted. Cute, though. Cute birds. They're also called a kiwi, the shitty flightless bird. The kākāpō. Okay, so now what are they saying is going to be? Well, they're just like, you're out of the competition, mate. We can put something else in there.

You've got enough certificates on your fridge, kākāpō. Yeah, so that's what's happening right now. Okay, now I'm going to ask you a question. Out of all of our native birds, if you were to try one, if you were to eat one, what would you eat? No, because that's not... The kea? I don't think mentally you could stomach any of this. If I didn't know it was a kiwi or something, or a pukeko, then I would probably happily eat it.

But don't tell me it's pukeko. Well, no one knows because you're not going to be eating it anyway. And Ed Sheeran... Text us if you've tried any native birds. No, no, no. Ed Sheeran has been in the headlines lately because he's been doing a thing where he sends other celebrity people large sort of six foot two marble statues shaped like male genitalia. Now he's been sending these as gifts.

Sam Smith, the singer, got one. He's like arrived and he's like, I thought it was a prank. And then he had to get a crane to lift it into his property. Ed Sheeran just sends these around the world. It weighed over two tonnes. It all started because Elton John likes to send Ed Sheeran strange gifts. So Ed Sheeran got him one of these, a big large marble phallic symbol to send back, and now Ed Sheeran says everyone, every radio station, every interview,

everything's, everyone's like, oh mate, you need to send me one of those. So now he's sending a whole lot of these around the world. He's like, Ed Sheeran is... And this is what you do when you've got too much money. You invest in giant marble, marble men's appendages, and you send them around the world. That's when you've bought everything else and your life is fully satisfied. You're like, what else do I do with these billions of dollars?

I'll send one of these to my mate Sam Smith. He'll love this. You would love one of those in your backyard. Yeah, well, I kind of, yeah. It would be nice if he took it to the next level and he's got the money to do so, whereas if a water feature that comes out, you know, sort of just out of the top. Yeah. The Hits.

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