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Episode Date: February 1, 2023

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Welcome along to the podcast. Gee, that one caught me off guard there, Producer Joel. No, no, no intro, just... This is brought to you by Challenge. My name is Jonathan over across the desk there, 1.5 metres away. How's it going over there, Ben Boyce? Yeah, I'm going all right. Yeah, good this morning.

Producer Joel, you had a little debate there you wanted to bring to the podcast intro. What was it? Did it with footwear? Oh, Crocs versus Stocks. The debate that's splitting the nation at the moment. So this is Birkenstocks versus Crocs as far as footwear goes. Yes, yes.

Do you guys own any of these? I don't actually, no. Just more Jandals, I guess, has been the old school, you know, thing. But I noticed both are very, very popular, Birkenstocks and Crocs as well. I own some sensible footwear. At my age. No, I don't, Birkenstocks and Crocs. I own some sensible footwear at my age. No, I don't have Birkenstocks or Crocs.

I don't know. Crocs, I wouldn't be able to pull those off. Yeah, like my daughter, Sienna, who's in here right now hanging out on holiday, she just wants a pair of Crocs. She's like, yeah, that's what, you know. You can add a little, you know, vajazzling to it. Vajazzle your Crocs. They were sort of like a bit. Jazzle your crocs. Yeah. That was sort of like a,

a bit of a joke crocs. And I feel like this generation of like younger people have really, have really pushed it through. And now it's seeping through. No one told them about the joke. I honestly think now like the 20 year olds are getting amongst it as well. That's hugely popular. Right.

I was at a festival of summer. There's like a whole croc stage. You could only go in there. If you had crocs on, it was like the cool kids. So the crocs now they've turned to them. We had always dreamed of, we've said it time and time again,

of doing Croctober. But every time we went to Crocs, they're like, you're just going to take the mickey out of us. And we're probably not cool enough. No, we're not cool enough. But you're right. They're right on both counts. Yeah.

Because Croctober, yeah. Great idea. We wear Crocs for the whole month of October. Croctober. I think the nurses do that as well. Yeah, well, nurses. That was our idea. We're raisingcs for the whole month of October, Croctober. I think the nurses do that as well. Yeah, well, nurses. That was our idea. We're raising money for nurses.

But, I mean, Croctober seems like it goes all year round now. It does. 12 months of the year. People love it, so Crocs, very cool. But you like your Birkenstocks, don't you? Yeah, maybe Birkenstocktober you could do. It doesn't really roll off the tongue as well. Like Woodstock, the music officials.

Birkenstock, yeah. Yeah, no, they're very good. I've worn them I've got some in November They're a little bit expensive But they're well worth it They're like kind of You can wear them to work

And it's like getting away With wearing jandals to work Now let us into Your inner sanctum No one else has to work Your age group No but they They're acceptable

They're an acceptable form Of sandal or jandal For the office What's that? The Birkenstock Yeah You're not going to go if i'm turning up in my warehouse rubber jandles yeah right you've been like prior mate yeah yeah because i seemed a little

bit more like you could dress them dress them up a bit more yeah you only want to show a certain amount of foot in the workplace too much foot yeah yeah people get uncomfortable but yeah what is your because you're you're early 20s. Yeah. Does your age group pull off Crocs? Or that's the generation below? Oh, yeah. There are a couple of people.

I think a lot of girls and stuff are pulling off at the moment. And there's a couple of guys. The black ones, they go well. You can flick the strap back, put them into sport mode. That's the saying at the moment. Like the slides as well. Or the scuffs, we used to call it back back in the day but the slides are popular too but they've sort of been overtaken by the crocs they kind of have yeah i also feel like you probably they're just a less

acceptable thing to wear in a more formal situation yeah yeah maybe crocs for stocks what's your thoughts on uh like i noticed some nba players sometimes wear socks with the slides as well. And they pull, I mean, NBA players pull off anything. I used to love that when I was in my teenage years, I used to love that. My dad always be like,

that's embarrassing. You cannot wear your socks and slides out. Yeah. Yeah. But it is a, yeah, it is a confronting look, but I'm gathering the NBA players are doing it for,

well, they don't want to wear their basketball boots. Yeah. And they're probably got a size 24 shoes or something. It's just easier if I just slide these in. I completely forgot what I was going to say. I'm not going to lie, Ben. I had something.

Oh, sandals. My mum bought me some Roman sandals back in the day. I used to have to wear some of those to school, promise girl. I went to school on the Roman times. We didn't build Roman today, But we gave it a good crack And they were just well She bought me the wrong kind Of Roman sandals day one of school

And I turned up in Roman sandals That like a toddler would wear And gee boy oh boy The mockery But you've got a form of Roman sandal on And you're mocking me for Roman sandals No one's winning here. We're all in Roman sandals.

I found I used to stub my toes quite a lot in the Roman sandals for some reason. You run in them, you do that, and they kind of shift, and you kind of end up just dragging your toes along the concrete. So that wasn't fun. The Roman sandals, are they still in the game? I actually saw a couple of people. Bring them back, hey. Let's bring them back.

A couple of people were in them. They're not really any different to a Birkenstock. So I was thinking, I was like, I could get my head around a few of them. No, but they have a bit more maintenance though, because you had to pull the little strap through. They're just not as, they're just a buckle, just a buckle through and stuff. You can get Birkenstocks that have the strap at the back as well, which are pretty much the version of them as well. But yeah, look, I used to think they were so uncool, but I'd pull them off now. I thought about Crocs and Slides, particularly on a plane.

You know, when you're like, if you take your shoes off overnight or whatever it is, and then you've got to go to the bathroom, wouldn't it be easy just to slip your feet into something? Because you don't want to be that person wearing socks or no shoes to the bathroom. Yeah, I did do that when I was on the plane. I was wearing Birkin socks on quite a long flight, and I took them off recently. And then I was like, I went to sleep, and I sort of woke myself up by the stench in my feet. So I was on the way back. I was i'm definitely not gonna wear burks again do you

know the roman sandal too when you got roman sandals en masse in a classroom on a hot january day has a very distinct odor when 30 students have all got their roman sandals on they've been out running for the bull rush and whatever they've been doing. It really has that. It's the only smell that that could emit is the smell of 30 pairs of sweaty feet and Roman sandals. We've covered some ground this morning, as we normally do on the podcast. Enjoy the podcast. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Crazy scenes over the last few days.

The weather seems to have subsided for the most part through Tamaki Makaurau, but Coromandel looks like it might get hit again there. Yeah, so a lot of wild weather yesterday caused a lot more flooding, damage, a bit of chaos, the traffic and stuff, really feeling for everyone affected. And then there was sunshine in the afternoon for a lot of the upper north, which was very unusual. But you're right, our Coromandel Peninsula, Bay of Plenty and western parts of the South Island are now under a thunderstorm watch.

So it looks like that massive storm is kind of reversing and coming back to the Coromandel over the next couple of days. It's because there's so much rubbish and debris from people's houses that's just sitting on the footpath. Now, we're going to have to throw all that rubbish away. Therefore, we get blamed for climate change, chucking out all this rubbish. This is Mother Nature's fault.

She fired the shots from the get-go. She started right... She's to blame for climate change. No, but we did it first, and then this is the... You know, you can't... If she's firing shots at us going, you've ruined the environment, well, we get the message. you know you can't if she's firing shots at us going you've ruined the environment well we get the message okay you can button off now you've made you've made your point we all understand there was a friend of ours who i don't know if you saw the footage of that

bus hooning through a giant lake so our friend lives pretty much there it's at the bottom of a very steep hill it wasn't it was flooding it was flooding the bus was going through. It looked like a lake. It looked like a lake. So that's just usually a road. And his house got flooded on Friday and he was just checking yesterday morning making sure nothing was happening and the water

had risen to three quarters up his driveway and he was coincidentally filming at the same time and as he's filming this giant tray comes hooning through creates a tsunami wave and he's like no no no and it just goes all through his garage into his lounge real time he's caught it all on camera the swearing the panic it all sets in and you just feel so sorry for people who have been affected because he's like, the water's halfway up his walls,

the jib soaks it up, the underlay under his carpet's going, oink, oink, oink, oink. Oh, that's heartbreaking. A friend of my wife's, I think I mentioned the other day, but I didn't realise the great line that the kid said to her. So her house was flooded. Unfortunately, it came from underneath the water and the water came up through the toilet.

It came back up through the toilet as part of it, all through the house. Awesome. Yeah, which is just great. And it went out towards the street. And then she was like, uh-oh, there's kids swimming around out there. I'll go out.

And I'm like, oh, stop, stop. It's full of crap. And the kid apparently replied, you're full of crap, lady, which is a great call. Dived his head under, took a big mouthful, did it. Squirted it out. No, don't do that. Stop.

Stop. Stop it. So we are really thanking everyone affected by this horrible weather, and hopefully we get a little bit of a respite for it, but it's circling right back this morning. We'll keep you up to date throughout the morning on The Hits. The Hits. Ed Sheeran, he's playing tonight in Wellington,

which will be amazing. It'll be incredible. And we're talking to someone at 7 o'clock this morning who is touring with him, currently playing with him and touring with him. Invited on the road by Ed himself. I don't know if himself invites. I'm sure he actually will. He seems like quite across a lot of that stuff

as far as who he wants I mean because it's his concert so he probably is going well who's going to work well with what I want to do

he's not probably firing off the email from edi62 at gmail.com is he no although we did talk to Mitch James

who's an awesome Kiwi singer at that time and he was talking because he was playing before Ed Sheeran in one of his concerts previously. And he was like, hey, I've got this album looking at,

you know, bringing out soon. And Ed's like, here's my email. Send me it before you send the album out. Straight to spam. Yeah. Oh, I didn't catch that, mate. Oh, cheeky spam folder. I hope this email finds you well.

Here's the stuff. Oh, you didn't know? Ah, sorry to get back. Didn't get it. Of course, wild weather causing a lot of disruptions, traffic, work, and schools around the stuff. Oh, you didn't know? Ah, sorry to get back. You get it. Of course, wild weather causing a lot of disruptions, traffic, work, and schools around the country. Now, Auckland schools in particular were meant to, a lot of them were meant to be starting this week,

and then they announced the Ministry of Education were like, not until Tuesday. And then yesterday it was like, oh, no, you can open it up if you want to open it up. So it's very, very confusing. The consistency is wonderful. The consistency of inconsistency is wonderful but uh i guess no one knew what was gonna eventuate what damage was gonna happen and it's all fun

fun and games to mock them now isn't it yeah i have a jab at the ministry and there's obviously yeah but but at the same time it feels like you could have put it down to the schools um because that's what they have done now so kind of a little bit confusing my daughter sienna was meant to start school today. Then they moved it to Tuesday because it was after Waitangi weekend and now it's tomorrow. So it's very...

And a rollercoaster of emotions for the kids. They're like, yay! Oh, yay! Depending on what side of the fence they are. Exactly. Other schools not going back till Tuesday. It's a real mixed bag. Some may start even up again today as well. I reckon you just take the year off. Let's kick it back till Tuesday. It's a real mixed bag. Some may start even up again today as well.

I reckon you just take the year off. Let's kick it back off 2024. Right on off. Yeah. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Good morning. Now I brought back an item,

a very unusual item, back from the USA. I want you to keep referencing the USA just so we can keep playing that. I don't. I want to stop. I'm sick of saying it now. What are you sick of saying? What are you sick of saying?

Saying I came back from the USA. We're on a family holiday over there for Christmas to see some family that we've got. And I brought a random item back. And if you can guess it on 0800THEHITS, what the random item is, we've got it in the studio right now. Inside a suitcase. It's a Mickey Mouse something to do with clothes. That's the clue.

That's the clue. And people, you know, I don't know if it got as close as we would have hoped by now. Well, actually, John, you hoped the whole competition would be done by now. You came back here like, I've got a one-day thing. It'll be over and done within one day. Here we are, days and days later.

We're about 10 days in, aren't we? Is it a Mickey Mouse flick knife? No. No? Is it a Mickey Mouse rodent poison pack to get rid of unwanted? Oh, that would be quite good if Mickey Mouse was getting into that. Yeah, kind of. Hypocritical? Yeah, you're right. to get rid of unwanted... Oh, that would be quite good if Mickey Mouse was getting into that. Although a little... Yeah, kind of...

Hypocritical. Yeah, you're right. Is it a Mickey Mouse operation kit? Stethoscope? No, it's not. Scalpel? Good guesses, though, but under the hits,

or 4487, you can text as well. What is the item? If you get on the air and guess it correct, you'll get $100 American dollars and the item itself. We'll go to Taranaki, Emily. Now, I air and guess it correct, you'll get $100 American dollars and the item itself. We'll go to Taranaki, Emily. Now, I feel like we've spoken to you before in this competition, Emily. No, you haven't spoken to me in this one.

Plenty of other ones, though. Oh, well, I knew we had a lovely connection somewhere. You've been milking cows again, have you? Absolutely. Now, the cows, because the last time we spoke, the cows were, what were they doing? You remember it well, Jonathan. Carving, yeah, that's right. That's right.

And what are they doing now? Still milking. Yeah, good on you. They're doing good. Well, what's in Ben's, you know what's in the cow's bags? A lot of milk, but what's in Ben's? I'm thinking it's one of those like a Mickey Mouse fan that you clip to the front of your cap

to keep you cool. A hat fan? I've never seen a hat fan. It sounds amazing. Is it a hat fan? No, it's not. I would have bought a hat fan just because I've never seen one of those but it's not a hat fan.

I don't know what would look cooler, a GoPro on your head or a hat fan. Good on you, Emily. You're going to have a wonderful day, OK? We'll head to Palmerston North. We've got Ken on the line. How are you this morning in the Manawatu, Ken? Yeah, good, buddy. How are you, Sal?

Yeah, we're doing really well, mate. Lovely to have you on. What is in Ben's bag? Um, I didn't really think I'd get through, but has anyone got a t-shirt yet? Have we said a t-shirt? I don't think anyone has said a t-shirt, but it's not a t-shirt. That would have been

something you would buy over there. A sensible guess? A Mickey Mouse something? No, it's not. I'm sorry, but thank you for calling through. All gravy in the Navy. All gravy in the Navy, the new show slogan. Thanks to our West Auckland weather reporter yesterday. All gravy in the Navy. All gravy in the Navy, the new show slogan. Oh, I love it. Thanks to our

West Auckland weather reporter yesterday. All gravy in the Navy. Thank you very much, Ken. If this competition goes much longer, I feel like you're

going to get a call from TVNZ going, do you want to turn it into a 5.30 game show? And all the contestants are like, is it a Mickey Mouse something?

And you're like, no, we'll be back tomorrow for Watson Ben's Bag. Marie, we'll get you on from Rotorua this morning. How are you? I'm good, thank you.

How are you guys? We're good. What brings you up at this hour of the morning? I'm on my way to work over in Redborough. What do you do? I'm a tomato picker in the Redborough glasshouse. Oh, love me a tomato. So when's the best time for a tomato?

So when's tomato season? Is it now? It is, well, tomatoes are getting cheaper now, but we've still got tons of tomatoes on our vines and we have an enormous glasshouse. So, yeah, we're picking daily over in Redboro. Now, just out of interest for a friend, Ben, the glasshouse, can he grow any other stuff in there?

Here we go. He's got tomato plants in his ceiling. I'm like, don't put them in the ceiling. Well, ours reached the ceiling when I first started back in August, but they've come down now, of course, after picking. I think the answer, you probably can, but they don't grow that particular thing there, and neither do I.

Is that what's in Ben's bag? Mickey Mouse is divisive. I mean, it's legal in California, but no. Marie, what is in there, mate? I believe it is a tie of some sort, even one of those ones that you put around your neck and you take a drink from a drink bottle, there's those tie

type ones that you do that while you're walking along. We've learned about hat fans and ties with drink bottles is it a tie with a drink bottle? No, again it sounds like a wonderful, wonderful invention but it's not that, so we'll have another day Jono. It's back for another day, we'll need It's back for another day.

We'll need to apologise to Caleb and Paul, who we couldn't get to this morning, but Watson Ben's back. Lives on. It's going to outlive our contracts here at this radio station. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I hope you're doing okay. After that wild weather that hit the country yesterday,

a wee bit of it again today. They're talking about around the Coromandel Bay, plenty in western parts of the South Island under a bit of weather watch today. And well done to you there. You're just a devoured half a muesli bar. Yeah, I kind of left a bit late too, you know. It's always a gamble, isn't it, when you're doing breakfast radio, is trying to consume breakfast while doing the radio.

It doesn't work together. But Jono has been lost in an internet wormhole. Jono's internet wormhole. That's right. More lost than Wayne Brown in a weather crisis, Ben Boyce. I got into a hole yesterday about things that are shrinking. A lot of stuff is shrinking.

Not my stomach. I wish my stomach was on this list, but it hasn't made the top 20. You're right. So... Why were you... No, I don't... Yeah.

Why were you... Why is it shrinking? Internet history? That's all I can think of. I should push you back. Maybe it's always been. No, I'm sure it's shrinking. It couldn't get any smaller.

What's happening? And then they give you this list. You're talking about your back balance, right? Yeah, that's it and then they give you this list talk about your back balance right yeah they give you this list of other stuff that's shrinking

to make you feel better about yourself but stuff you wouldn't have even noticed like chocolate bars

over the past five years chocolate bars are 28% lighter than they were four years ago now this is actually not due to the chocolate bar industry trying to rip us off.

It's just ingredients have become more expensive. And so then they have gone, well, we don't want to make our bars more expensive. We've got to reduce the size of the bars. Reduce the size of the bars. So there you go. And no one had noticed until pesky radio hosts had copied facts from the internet. So I thought that was interesting. Another thing that's shrinking that you probably didn't know, animals.

Are they? In general, animals. And it's due to rising global temperatures and obviously us, what we have done to the poor animals. 10,000 years ago, sloths were as tall as giraffes. What? Shraffes. What? Shrunk down. Really? But how come giraffes haven't shrunk down?

Well, giraffes would have been the size of Tyrannosaurus Rexes. Or the Skytel. I see what you mean. Imagine how tall giraffes were. I see. So everything's Shrinking down They're pretty tall right now But yeah no

We don't need sloths The size of drafts do we If we're going to Downsize any animal Probably Ben's dog Might be a place to start Yes yes This might come as

No surprise but Islands Are shrinking Okay yeah Five islands In the Pacific Ocean Completely disappeared Gone Gone Oh Now We islands in the Pacific Ocean completely disappeared.

Gone? Gone. Oh. Now, we're in the Pacific Ocean. Yeah. Yeah. That's scary. What does that mean? I don't reckon anyone would even notice if we were gone.

The world? No, probably not. Pretty sad. Brains. Your brain is shrinking, and it's due to people not getting enough sleep via b12 deficiency vitamin deficiency um i fried my brain years ago yeah yeah okay brain's getting smaller brain gets smaller and is that so that's with generally like for for humans overall well you can do things to try and look after it yeah but none of us do like there's a lot we could do to keep our brain and

great i mean joel everything you're doing on the weekend mate come on man Yeah, but none of us do. No, no. There's a lot we can do to keep our brain in great. I mean, Joel, everything you're doing on the weekend, mate. Come on, mate. Producer Joel's like, don't drag me into this. Come on, leave me out of this one. Leave me out of this of all things. And also a three-year study of cereal. Breakfast cereal has shrunk down.

15 types of cereal from 2013 to 2016. We're slowly getting to the point where you're going to get a single Cocoa Pop in a packet. Stuff that's shrinking you didn't even know was. Do they need a three-year study for that? No, because then you look at bags of chips. Yeah. You know, bags of chips. Eventually we're going to end up with one Dorito in the packet, aren't we?

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A lot of wild weather has been hitting the country over the last week or so. And the wild weather has also brought a whole lot more bugs sticking around and a bug bonanza, they're calling it at the moment as well. Because normally summer, summertime is a big time for bugs. It's a big time for you to go to the beach as well. Don't you love going to the beach?

I go to the beach, but I have no place at the beach. My skin tone doesn't have any place at the beach, Ben. But the only person happy about this would be Rude the Bloody Bugman. He'd be frothing at the moment. Yeah, so Bugman answer, flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, is meant to be a whole lot more because of the wet weather as well around the place. You imagine the mosquitoes hanging around the damp conditions and more flies. Every year I'm like,

there's more flies. If you were a bug, okay, let's get to pick each other if we were bugs. I'm picking you're just a mosquito. Oh, okay. Just always doing stuff. Erratic.

Erratically flying around. Flying around. No, that would probably be right. Yeah. You'd be like an annoying fly always sticking around cockroach oh yeah

radio the radio industry is like the cockroach he's still here we've squashed him we've sprayed him with mortine should be gone by now

he looks almost dead but he's still cracking on still sticking around so yeah I don't know as much he can do with the bugs well I know because you get your house

sprayed for bugs too we've got the same bug guy comes over and he does a wonderful job too So, yeah, I don't know as much you can do with the bugs. Well, I know because you get your house sprayed for bugs, too. We've got the same bug guy. Comes over and he does a wonderful job, too. Apparently a big rodent population burst, too, at the moment as well. Yeah, a lot of rats hanging around. Time to move out, mate, and just let the bugs and rodents take over. Let's get bloody Musk and Bezos onto these rockets and just leave this place.

Yeah, I think maybe that's what they're doing. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. He's the brand new Prime Minister of New Zealand, and he's with us in the studio right now. Chris Hipkins, good morning. It's fantastic to be here. Now imagine, we were just saying to you before, off here, your schedule would have changed quite a lot over the last couple of weeks.

Yeah, look, as I said, I finally got an hour or two last night to just sort of sit back and go, what just happened? You know, like, it's been, it was only two weeks ago yesterday As I said, I finally got an hour or two last night to just sort of sit back and go, what just happened? You know, it's been it's been it was only two weeks ago yesterday that we all headed up to Napier for our first meeting for the year. And it was two weeks ago today, actually, that Jacinda Ardern announced to her that she was standing down. And, you know, it's been a pretty full on couple of weeks. I can imagine. Looking at you, I think you've done more work in seven days than I've done in seven years. Like, it's been what errands, what personal errands

have you like, oh damn, I need to, I haven't got that done. Funnily enough over the summer I thought, right, you know, I'm going to get my life in order because it's election year. And so even before I knew that Jacinda was standing down, I thought right, I've got to get everything sorted out, got to get the house sorted out, got to get the lawns done, cut the hedges, you know, do all that stuff. So I did

all that over the summer holidays so that I could just forget about that for a wee while. And so those lawns are just going to grow for 12 months now? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Be like a wildlife park. Now, obviously, you've gone from the guy creating a lot of memes with Spread Your Legs and also recently with your sunnies and your hat as well. And now you're Prime Minister.

It's quite a change. Yeah, yeah. Well, look, I've had some amazing messages. You know, I got a, after I made a comment about Ashley Bloomfield's eyebrows the other day, he sent me a very, very nice message, you know, saying his eyebrows are available in the national interest whenever required. But, you know, look, it's been an incredible couple of years. And, you know, I'm just, it's an amazing opportunity to take it up. What happens with the transition? All of Jacinda's stuff just go boom out of the office one day and then yours is in by the afternoon.

Yeah, well, I was in the car on the way up to Government House to be sworn in by the Governor-General as Prime Minister and Jacinda, by protocol, she goes up before me and she tenders her resignation. And as I was driving up the driveway, I got a message from her that said, tag, you're it. And that was pretty much the transition. That was it? That was it. And then we got back to the building and her office was

more or less cleaned out and my team was starting to move in. Do you message her at all or is it all on you now? Like you don't get to go, hey, what would you do in this situation? Yeah, it's mostly all on me. Look, she's still a good friend of mine. And so, you know, she's checked in on me just a couple of times to make sure, you know, see how I'm landing and how it's going. But it's pretty much down to me now. What was the most surprising thing so far that you found about the job? Imagine getting even used to the security would be something totally different. Yeah, that's actually probably the thing that does take a bit of getting used to.

You're never by yourself anymore. And so having people follow you around, that can be quite good too. You've got people going ahead of you and stuff but um but yeah that takes a bit of adjusting to looking you're looking at your walk and i was like he looks more important you know you can tell you can tell the people around you look you look maybe that's what we need we need more people hanging around with us you just need those guys with the air pieces you know sort of yeah now uh obviously a tough couple of days for the north. I saw footage of you in a helicopter. Was that the first time you'd been in a cool helicopter without a door on it?

Yeah, it was kind of a weird feeling, actually. It was an Air Force helicopter, and I sort of jumped in, and I thought, oh, this looks a bit small. So I sort of went into the corner thinking, you know, I'll be in the corner, it'll be all good. And then we got strapped in, and then we flew up in the air, and we're looking out the window, and next thing you know, the wall just sort of disappeared.

And I thought, well, that's quite a long way down um but it actually did it provided quite a vantage point for looking at what's exactly happened across auckland yeah i think the damage is more extensive than people might see if they're just looking from the ground when you look at it from up high you know particularly some of those slips they're pretty dramatic and a big thing for you to have to deal with in the first seven days as well how do you think uh wayno handled it oh well you know look i've said that i'm not going to provide a commentary on on uh on other elected officials but what i can say is you know from seeing across auckland i reckon disasters like this bring out the best in kiwis you see kiwis just supporting each other and looking out for each other and doing what needs to be done yesterday i visited

a couple of the places where people are being encouraged to go to get information. And you just see everyone just doing what needs to be done. They're providing food, they're providing clothes, blankets. They're working with the insurance companies, the power companies. We've got volunteer armies out there just helping people to clean out their houses. It's just really fantastic to see the way Kiwis just do this. We saw it after Christchurch. We saw it after March 15. We've seen it through all of these things we've been through. We definitely saw it during COVID. Kiwis just do what needs to be done. Have you had any messages from overseas since taking the job? Like anyone, like Obama texts you or Joe Biden or anything

like that? You're like, wow, they've got my number now. Look, I had a great phone conversation with the Prime Minister of Australia, Albo. Albo, yeah. I think we're going to get on fine. And I've had a few sort of written messages from other leaders wanting to catch up, and we'll try and do that in the next little while. So that's going to be interesting. Who's the one lady in the hall?

Can't wait to shake their hand. It must be a big banger. Hey, look, I admire Obama enormously. If I get the opportunity to meet him, that'll be fantastic. I'd love to sit down and have a chat with him. But there are some amazing world leaders out there which I may well have the opportunity to meet, and that will be great.

And a good opportunity to push New Zealand's interests. Yeah. Now, it's been an election year, obviously, and you coming into the Labour Party seems like it's helped you out in the polls. Look, I think it's good to have that opportunity to sort of really refocus in on the stuff that Kiwis want us to talk about. I think we needed a bit of a reset. I think after the last few years, you know, we were really, really focused on getting the country through COVID-19. And I think by sort of middle of last year, particularly by the end of last year,

people were kind of like, we're a bit over this. We want to move to move on we want to talk about the future so we've got an opportunity to talk about the future now i think you know people want to look forward and of course election year as john i mentioned before and i imagine there's going to be lots of slinging around conversations had about opposition and stuff but what's something nice you could say about chris luxon obviously the two chris's are for the main job hey look i mean i spoke to christopher luxon when he was the chief executive of air new zealand I was doing some education reforms and I went to talk to him to talk about, hey, how does business view this? And he was really great. You know, we had some really good conversations about that.

He helped to connect me up with some other people in the business community, heard strong views about that. In the lounge? On a personal level, I've gotten on pretty well with him. But, you know, I'm still not in that little elite private air New Zealand land. You're not in that land. You're the prime minister when I get into there. Well, you should be able to get in there now, surely. You're the prime minister.

No, apparently not. Hey, well, congratulations on the new gig. And good luck for this year. It's going to be a very busy year. And thank you very much for coming in this morning. Great to be here. Thanks, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Kids going back to school. A lot of them going back this week. Auckland schools, well, they weren't going to go back, and then some are going back, and it's all very, very confusing. My daughter, Sienna, as I mentioned earlier, she was meant to start on Thursday, then they went, no, Tuesday, and now they're like, Friday. So, yeah, at least the kids are going back.

At least it's a consistent start for her. Obviously already a big step in her education career. And it's always fun not knowing when you're going to start, thinking you're going to start on a date. No, no, we'll change that. It's a wee bit of a mystery. There we go. Well, speaking of which, actually,

a lot of families, I think, around New Zealand have been watching the footage from the north on the news. And there's very dramatic footage. And a lot of people have been severely affected, and it's been terrible. Yeah, houses and slips and all sorts of damage. It's just, yeah, it's heartbreaking. And many, many parts around Auckland,

Coromandel and Northland, have been severely affected. But also, also many parts haven't been severely affected. But then your family members call up, a.k.a. my mum, Annie Pryor, and she's like, oh, my God, you were right up there. I'm like, Annie, thankfully, we're not too bad. We're very, very fortunate not to be flooded, and a lot of people have been.

She's like, all I'm seeing on the news. And I'm like, well, the news isn't going to put a bloody nice, nice dry street on there, isn't it? It's not exciting to watch. Oh, that seems like that drainage system is working all right. They've got to put the traumatic footage up. And so she is like, well, whatever you do, if you're two things, was her big message. If you're driving your car and you get caught in a giant flood puddle, have your window down.

Have your window down. Have your window down? Well, so you can jump out. Because then if the car starts filling up with water and all the windows are shut and the electric stopped working, it was like great advice, Annie. I probably should have told that to you yesterday. No, no, okay, yeah. And her second one was,

if you have to walk through stormwater, make sure you come home and dry your creases and crevices now creases and crevices are something that she referred to parts of my body when I was younger gotcha and you know a lot of parents do don't they they make up cute little nicknames for your private parts yeah don't they yeah and they're doing it in order to not make things awkward but I think ultimately they make things awkward but just call think ultimately they make things awkward. But make it, yeah, you're right.

Just call it what it is. And I think there's a lot more research these days saying that you should just call it what it is because it kind of messes with kids as well. I mean, I'm going around as a fully grown adult calling them my little love nuggets. And people look at you strange, don't they? But the creases and crevices are a big thing.

We're always keeping them dry. That was always a big thing. They're more like sort of caverns and caves now, my creases and crevices. Even my mum, Jenny, would be for other things as well. You know, even someone passed a wind, it was a windy pop. A windy pop, you know, which is a cute way of saying it, but at the same time. You still call it a windy pop, don't you, around the house? Yeah, I know.

It doesn't make the, like, the act is horrific, Jenny. Like, giving it a cute name isn't going to save it. That's true. Let's just call it what it is. That's my point. Okay, Annie, I'm a fully grown man. You don't need to call them my creases and crevices anymore. You can just say, if you caught in a puddle, dry your, you know.

Yeah. But I won't say the word on the radio. No, you almost did. No, you didn't. And that's why, I guess, she says, that's why. Draw your squish minute

on the radio. That's what I'll say. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You've been teasing me, Ben. You've been tantalizing me with this. Who's this Hollywood couple

who refuse to watch movies together? Yeah, well, Sarah Michelle Gallo and Freddie Prinze Jr. Yeah. They've been, you know, a Hollywood couple for many, many years.

They were massive with movies like Scooby-Doo. She was Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well. Yeah, and so they've not only been in movies together, but the unusual thing is that they don't watch movies together. Now, this is for 15 years because Sarah Michelle Gellar spoiled The Sixth Sense, that movie, for Freddie Prinze Jr. This was her explaining more on The Graham Norton Show.

Did I tell you the most embarrassing story ever? Oh no, did you tell that name? No, no, not of that movie. Which one? Spoiler alert! Yeah, it's gonna be hurtful. No, I mean to my relationship it almost was, but no, it's a Freddie Prinze story. We've all seen Sixth Sense here.

Oh my god, don't do that! I'm not gonna give it away! What did he just say? I'm not gonna give it away! almost was, but no, it's a Freddie Prinze story. We've all seen Sixth Sense here. Oh, my God, don't do that. I'm not going to give it away. What did he just say? I'm not going to give it away. Give me a little credit here. We're all going to see a dead person in a minute. We're about 20 minutes into the movie, and I said something just like it popped out,

like, oh, is that... Uh-huh, uh-huh. And my husband didn't see a movie with me for 15 years. 15 years. Spoiled the end of Sixth Sense. Refusing. I also refuse to watch movies with my wife as well, but it's basically because I fall asleep 10 minutes into the movie.

Yeah. I won't watch a Channing Tatum movie with my wife because he's just too good looking. And I know there's something going on between her and him, and I'm like, hey, he's just Magic Mike. Not for me because she can enjoy that without me. He's just too good looking. Do you feel like outmanned man oh yeah he's he's a handsome guy he's a handsome handsome guy but we want to know this morning on oh just all the thrust stop with the thrusting too

you know we don't need to see the thrust you know lowbrow stuff what do you refuse to do with your partner uh is it something that you maybe you won't do or they won't do uh I know 100 the hits four four eight seven like my wife Amanda she refuses to watch cricket with me on telly but she'll go to a game, happily go to a game but when it's on the TV she's like nah, let's just watch some of it. It's like you come to the game, you had fun but no, she won't watch it. Somehow the world's most boring sport becomes more boring

when it's on television. Is that a theory? I think it might be that. It's a lot more interesting when you've got people cheering around you and they're drinking your hand or something. I refuse to go to the toilet with my wife. I've never been able to go once. I made a meal of it. That's a big no-no in our household.

Love Island. I refuse to watch Love Island. No, but do you? Yeah. But then I secretly watch from the kitchen. You know a lot about it for a person that doesn't watch it. You're like, oh, yeah, what's this? I don't know if she can see me secretly watching from the kitchen, pretending not to watch it.

I was trying to think of another one. I refuse to fully wash the pots and pans. You know, when you leave them soaking, which is an important part of the washing process. Soak the debris off. And I like to soak it overnight. 24 hours soaking. I see, yeah.

And I feel like the pots and pans turn out cleaner when she has to do them in a mad rush in the morning. Once you've gone to work. Once I've gone to work. I've done the soaking. It's like the drip dry situation. I love a drip dry situation. Leave it overnight.

Drip dry the dishes. That's fine. Drip dry. Sometimes I'll sit there for the whole week. Dripping dry. They're just dripping dry. They're not quite dry. And you can use it from there.

You know, it's just as easy to get a pot from there than it is to get... Have you just got all your knives and forks and plates just sitting on the bench, dripping dry? They're dripping dry. Easy access. Good to go at any stage. Another one I do is when the toilet roll is nearing the end.

I'll do anything. I'll just use one square at a time. Just because I don't know what psychologically it is in my head, but about changing the toilet roll seems like the worst. It's not a hard job, though. No, it's not a hard job. I'll even go to the depths of even using the roll, the cardboard roll, just not to change the toilet roll.

So those are some things that we refuse to do in the household. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. What do you refuse to do with your partner? That's what we want to know this morning on 0800 The Hits. Got some great texts rolling through here. I refuse to play with the kids on the playground, not necessarily a partner. I went down the slide wearing Lycra, fractured my tailbone.

Oh, jeez. Now, do you place more blame on the slide or the Lycra in that situation? It's a dangerous, obviously a dangerous combo, isn't it? Lycra and slide. Very slipperier than a used car car salesman so we're going to go to the phones right now kylie what are you refusing to do in the relationship well i refuse to let my husband uh touch he's redeemed himself a wee bit but he wasn't allowed to touch the washing machine or any plumbing in the house oh okay so what did So what did he do? When you led with touch, you didn't quite get into the washing machine and were like, oh, okay.

Where are we heading? Yeah, true. No, we moved into our new house and the plumbing in the laundry always looked a bit dodgy and I insisted from day one, let's get a plumber to look at it. And he was like, no, no, he's a man's man. So it's a multi-story home

and he put the washing machine in, but the drain pipe at the end, he didn't check properly on the back of the washing machine. So when the whole washing machine emptied to bring all the empty water and everything out of it, it poured all the way through our floors, all the way down, down the wall, through the floors. It leaked absolutely everywhere.

So I said to him, look, let's just please, for the love of God, leave the washing machine and let me call the plumber. He insisted again, no, and he did it again. And this time he tried to tap into a different pipe, which he thought was the waste pipe, and it exploded.

And again, for the second time, ruined all our floors, run down the wall, dripped everywhere. So he went to a point where he's not allowed to do any plumbing or even to touch. Touch pipes.

Into the laundry. No touching whatsoever in your relationship. Exactly. He's redeemed himself a bit since then, and he's put in a brand new laundry. Got a plumber to come and do it for him, though, all the plumbing stuff. He has redeemed himself.

Well, I see where he's coming from, because when you do get a plumber over, you're like, well, this job's just 80% butt crack and 20% plumbing skills. I can do that. Good on you, Kylie. You're going to have a great day. Awesome, you too. Thank you.

Craig, you're on. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. What are you refusing to do in the relationship, mate? Really, it's my wife refusing to watch Star Wars with me. Oh, she won't do it? No, I'm too obsessed with it. It's a commitment though, Craig. Yeah, there's a lot of movies.

Now there's series, Mandalorian, there's a lot there today. Oh yeah. She knew what she was signing up for, Craig. Usually anything and everything. So Mandalorian and or Obi-Wan Kenobi. Yeah, it's all there. She's not jumping on board the Star Wars train. Daniel, we'll get you on from Taranaki.

Welcome. What's your part? What are you refusing to do in the relationship? Oh, share blankets. Oh, share blankets. So you've got your own separate blankets. Yeah. Yeah.

Same bed, same bed, separate blankets. I've heard of some people doing. Yeah. Same bed, same bed, separate blankets. I've heard of some people doing that. The same bed, but all have two sort of single duvets. Apparently it works, works,

works for them, which I think kind of makes sense. I'm not telling you it's a blanket hog or a blanket piece or something. Yeah, that does happen. You sort of end up in a UFC type wrestle through,

you know, three in the morning fighting over the, over the duvet. I get that, Daniel. We had some great texts coming through here, 4487. I never get fuel, Sarah says.

I refuse to get it and make my husband do it on the weekend. She's like, I'll drive around on an orange warning light. Her husband's like a car valet that she kisses on the lips every now and then. My husband refuses to get a cup out for a drink of milk. He pours it directly into his mouth from the bottle So it doesn't touch his lips Oh no, lips, big sips More importantly, why is a grown man drinking copious amounts of milk?

When was the last time you had a glass of milk? I don't mind a little occasional glass of milk Yeah, not all the time, but I don't mind it He must have wonderful strong bones Yeah, very good for your bones. Hey, thanks for your call. It's Jono and Ben. I was going to talk about the petrol tank,

but I just smashed myself in the face with my headphones. Oh, I've seen it before on the radio game, Ben. It's not pretty. There's not many things you can injure yourself with in radio, you know, doing this job. But I really got myself quite good with headphones. It's the equivalent to a builder knocking their hand with a hammer. Yeah, but in their game, there's a lot of dangerous things around.

For me, it's just putting on headphones and talking into a microphone. But they really have some spring, don't they? Yeah. It launches at you. Really, yeah. And it launched at me right now. I think your eyes are starting to flare up there a bit. Yeah, right.

Let's try and get my five words before I go to hospital. Let's go. Jono and get my five words before I go to hospital. Let's go. Jonah and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. It's a game of word association. We do it every morning.

It's really, really fun to play, but it's quite hard to match up all five words if you're thinking what the other person is thinking. Yeah, if we had our way, we'd hand over your unmarked bills in an envelope to you. No questions asked, but management want questions. That's why we do this. And Mike, you're on from Tauranga.

Hey, how are you guys? Hey, Mikey. Yeah, Mike. I finally got on. Hey. How have you been, buddy? I've been okay. I've had my prostate surgery.

I've had my prostate surgery. I've had my hand surgery. And this year's going to be a good year. Oh, well, there you go. Jeez, you're an open book, aren't you? It all went well. Successful surgeries. Yeah, I won't go into details.

I'm not that open. All right, Mike. Well, who do you want to send into the soundproof, both Jono or Ben? It was a tough one, but I'm going to go with Jono. Okay, let's match, Mike. What would you do with the money if you won? A sizable amount is going to go to the Auckland Relief Fund. Auckland Relief Fund. Oh, that's lovely.

It's not all of it. But if you won it all, that's a very nice thing. Alright, Mike, well let's head into the first word. What do you say when I say YouTube? YouTube. Oh, YouTube video.

Yeah, that's a good one. Frock. YouTube. Frock. Frock. Dress. Dress. Ambulance.

Ambulance. Oh, this is harder than what it is. Ambulance. Emergency. Emergency. No, I think you're playing a really good game, Mike. Ambulance. Emergency. Emergency. I think you're playing a really good game, Mike. Pocket is the fourth one. Pocket.

P-O-C-K-E-T. Rocket. Pocket rocket. And roll. R-O-L-L. Roll. Over. Roll over. All right, Mike.

We'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth. That's hard, man. There was a couple of tricky words in there for Mike. Jono's back at you. You know what he's going to do, Jono? You might have missed it as you're heading into the soundproof booth. If he wins, he's going to give a sizable amount to the Auckland Relief Fund, which is awesome to help some people out.

Jesus, Mike, why did you have to throw charity into the mix? Mike. You're under pressure now, Mike. Yeah, I'm under pressure. Oh, my God. There's a lot of pressure on those shoulders of yours, Jono. To single-handedly save Auckland from the flooding. Yeah, okay, here we go, here we go.

Let's head into the first word. Word one, $25. YouTube was the first word. YouTube. Yeah, video. Yeah, well done. Well done, Mike. You've got $25.

Are we risking it all for $50? Absolutely. Word two, $50. He's like, $25's not going to solve the flooding. No. Second word was frock. Frock. I'd say like, top?

Oh, what? Look at, top. Isn't a frock a top? A frock's a dress. It's a frock a dress. I think a frock's a dress. Yeah. I always thought it was a top.

I always thought it was a top. I always thought it was a top. Isn't a frock a top? A frock's a dress. It's a frock a dress. I don't think a frock's a dress. Yeah. I always thought it was a top. Yeah. Oh, well, it's fine.

Oh, Mike, I'm sorry. I'm devastated. Do you know what, though? Yeah. For GCP Humps, is it okay if we donate $500 on behalf of Mike to the Auckland Relief Fund? We'll do that for you, okay, Mike? That's very kind. $500. We've let Mike down.

I'm sorry. Well, I let Mike down. Is a frock a whole dress? Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a dress. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. Sorry. That's all right.

Jono, if anyone should know that, what do you do on the weekends? You've seen me at my performances. What were the other three words? The other three words were ambulance. Like emergency. Oh, what on? Pocket. Pockets.

Pants. No, rocket. That was a tough one, pocket. And roll, R-O-L-L. Sausage. Oh, my God. Mike, I'm sorry. Well, we got some money towards...

I thought we were in sync. I thought we were in sync, you know. Mike, you have yourself a great day. We got some money towards the Aucklander Fund, which was a nice thing. But, yeah, we'll have another chance to play tomorrow morning, same time on 0800 The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Schools are back open this week. Many kids going back today. Auckland kids weren't meant to be going back, but now it's all back on the schools, so it's a range of times and dates that kids are going back. Just when you can be bothered going back, go back. That's the general message from the Ministry

of Education. And speaking of kids, we are sending along a seven-year-old to ask our one quick we had one question we were allowed to ask Ed Sheeran ahead of his show tonight in Wellington and we've seen we're sending along seven-year-old Grayson who auditioned for us yesterday and he sent through his question yeah because we can't get there we can't get to Wellington today and all the media there get to ask one question. So we're going to send Grayson along. And apparently he looks like a young Ed Sheeran.

So we're going to send him along as a mini version of Ed Sheeran. And this is what Grayson sent through for the question last night. He was like, this is what I want to ask him. Hi, Ed. My name is Grayson and I am seven years old. Jono and Ben sent me here from the Hicks. And what advice would you give to a seven-year-old to be like you? Oh.

That's it. You know, what do you think? I think you can pick the pace up a bit on the question. Mate, he sent you. It's so cute. It is very cute. It's adorable. It is very cute.

You know, someone who wanted to be like you. It's a good question. You, Glass It is very cute. Someone who wanted to be like you. It's a good question. You, Glasshouses, mate, do we need to listen to you as an 18-year-old kid trying to be on radio? Well, if I... Listen. Little Johnny Pryor. If I was going to give any advice to my younger self, it would be, don't get involved in community radio, because your friend will

relentlessly bully you in your older years. This is John O'Pryor. Have we got it? Access Community Radio, HMO AM. Hello, you're with Johnny Pryor. Have we got it? Access Community Radio HMO AM. Hello, you're with Jono Pryor. Okay, that's enough. Hello, hello, hello. Hey, that's my lot. That's what I tell my younger self.

Don't go to get that job at the community radio station. Hello, this is Jono Pryor. Oh, that guy. Yeah, but what would you tell your younger self? That's a great question. It is a great question. I reckon, like, don't try and be cool like you're not cool

and that's okay that's okay like looking back and the people that you think are cool back when you're young often aren't cool you know

you look back you look back as a filter like am I going to be honest I'm like mate you were never cool so why did you even try all the things you're like

why did I try and do that why did I do that I did it to try and look cool I'm not cool it's fine I accept even try all the things? You're like, why did I try and do that? Why did I do that? I did it to try and look cool. I'm not cool. That's fine. I accept it now. That is the thing. The quicker you can, you know, some people are cool.

Yeah. Some people pull cool off. Yeah. And the people that pull cool off do it effortlessly. Yeah. Effortlessly. But if you're having to put effort into being cool, you're not going to be cool. And I think the quicker you can come to terms with the fact that you're not cool.

Yeah. And you don't have to be with all the cool people. You can come to terms With the fact that You're not cool Yeah And you don't have to be With all the cool people The majority of people Aren't cool Yeah Don't worry There's a lot of uncool

People in the world Yeah You're listening to Two of them right now Exactly That's very good advice What would I also tell My younger self

Probably stop Stop the breastfeeding By age nine Oh man You got a bit awkward, eh? It makes people, I didn't realise at the time,

but it made people feel uncomfortable in public. Yeah, mum would turn up to school, you forgot

your lunch and she'd be there. You're like, what, is there a lunch box or something I need to

handle? No. That's great advice. So what do you want to tell your younger self? Yeah, this is good advice. Well, we need to road test Grayson's question.

Yeah. Because Ed Sheeran needs to have an answer. Yeah, and what would you tell these young people listening right now or maybe other people, you know, listening? What would you like to say to your younger self? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A lot of wild weather around the country yesterday, particularly in the north, caused a lot of flooding and damage.

More than 30 roads in Auckland closed this morning, so take care out there if you're driving. And it's meant to come back around Coromandel Peninsula, Bay of Plenty and western parts of the South Island as well. It had such a fun time the first couple of times round. What a great summer, right? What a great summer we're having here right now, but we are thinking of everyone affected today

and please take care out there. Now we're sending a seven-year-old along to interview Ed Sheeran today for us. We've got one question limit and the adorable little Grayson, he thought about his question, he sent it through on the voice memo. Hi Ed, my name is Grayson

and I am seven years old. Jono and Ben sent me here from the Hits and what advice would you give to a seven year old to be like you? Great. He's a mini version of Ed Sheeran. We're sending him along. Is Ed Sheeran going to go Who's Jono and Ben

Who is this kid He might be a little bit Confused He might be confused But it's a great question He seems to kind of Remember everyone It's a lovely thing

About Ed Sheeran He seems very personable The problem is When we send along This adorable little child It's bad for our Career longevity Because management

Are going to go Well the people Love the kid a lot more than they love you. There's one of them. He doesn't know about the minimum wage. You know, he's going to do a wonderful job. So we'll hear what the response is tomorrow on the show from Ed Sheeran. And the question's interesting.

What would you tell your younger self? Or tell a younger person? Some advice, some simple life advice. Ben, yours was, don't try and be cool. You're not cool. And that's okay. That's okay. He's yours was don't try and be cool. You're not cool. And that's okay. That's okay. He's not saying all young people aren't cool.

No, but there are a lot of people, including myself, you try and be cool and you're just, you're not. You're not. And you know, that's fine. One of my favorite conversations with you was you'd go back to your younger self and say, stop swearing so much. Yeah, things like that. Yeah. Knock it on the head, mate. That fringe you had over your face. I mean, what? You know what? There is not one person who doesn't look back on their years. Yeah, things like that. Yeah. Knock it on the head, mate. That fringe you had over your face.

I mean, what? You know what? There is not one person who doesn't look back on their years ago. No, I know, and that's probably the thing. No matter where it is,

that's to do with fashion as well because fashion, what was in, and then will change a couple of years later and you'll be like, why was I wearing that? Life is just,

you do a whole lot of stuff in the moment thinking this is the best thing in the world and regretting it 10 years later. Yeah, that's life. That's basically life.

So we'll go to the phones. What would you tell your younger self, Alicia? Hello? What would you say? Boring, but I would say save your money and buy a house early. You don't need to keep going out. All those meat on chips can wait until you buy a house. Yeah, and young Alicia's like, shut up, old lady.

Yeah, but you're right. If I've just bought a house, will I just, you know? But no one's doing that. No one's thinking about that. Yeah, it's a really sensible thing, isn't it? Now, thank you very much for your call, Alicia. Someone's texted in saying, I would say to my younger self, don't do anything over the next 10 years that you hope your own kids won't do.

Oh, that's good. A.K.A. everything you're about to do. Yeah. Also posting stuff. Don't post anything that you wouldn't want your mum to read. That's a good thing for the kids, I think, too, you know? Because technically, once you post something, it's out there in the world, you know? You know what I'd say to my younger self?

Enjoy your thick golden hair while you've got it. Because strap yourself in for 20 years of a torrent of mockery from a guy who says he's your friend that bullies you every day. That's what I'd say to my younger self. You look good back there too, don't you? McCann, welcome in Wellington where Ed Sheeran is tonight. What would you tell your younger self? To not worry

about what other people think of you. That's a great one. Yeah, because that is a book. It's even harder as an adult, you know, to stop worrying. It's even harder as a shallow radio announcer. That's what we thrive on. Loving what other people think about us. They don't have ratings, it's ratios

on what other people think of us. You know, they do surveys. We don't see it, but it's like, what do people think of us. Yeah, you know, they do surveys, they do surveys, we don't see them, but it's like, what do you think of Jono and Ben? It's like, don't ask that question.

Don't ask, you're never going to get a good response. No, no one is. To be fair, they don't show us much of the response.

No. But that's a good bit of advice, mate, you're going to have a wonderful day. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Kaylee Bell, she's a Kiwi country singer. She's shot to international stardom. She's played with 660, Keith Urban, and now playing tonight with Ed Sheeran in Wellington. She has over 40 million streams and is the most streamed female country artist in Australasia. Kaylee Bell joins us on 0800 The Hits.

How's things? Good, thanks, Ben. How are you? We're doing alright. Now you're a country singer, you met Matt which is massive all over the world, countries all over the world. Getting more and more popular it seems in New Zealand. How did you fall in love with country music? I actually started when I was four years old so I kind of feel like I didn't really get a lot of choice. You were bullied into country music. Like what

serious decisions can you make as a four-year-old? I kind of started when I was four and never really stopped. Now, blink twice if you want to get out of country music. You've had no choice. If you want to escape the shackles of country. It's your thing.

It's awesome. It's seen you travel as you say all over the world and open country. Hey, it's your thing. It's awesome. It's seen you, you know, travel, as you say, all over the world and open for some amazing, amazing artists, the likes of The Chicks, 660 as well, Keith Urban a couple of times. You and Keith have got a bit of history, shall we say? Yeah, so Keith is someone that I have idolised my whole life. You know, seeing someone born in New Zealand go and crack Nashville was kind of like the ultimate goal um got to jump up on a couple of tours with him and it was just one of those kind of things where you're like that's definitely like bucket list

one of the greatest things he's the nicest guy and yeah just an amazing user he does seem like a really lovely guy did he tell you if he feels like he's a New Zealander or Australian? That's all we need to know, right? It's all we want to know. You'd have to get a lot of money for me to answer. All right. I'm just wanting the official answer because they're laying a lot of claim to him over there now. Aren't they?

I'm just always going to say New Zealand. I'll answer for him. You performed, you wrote a song called Keith, about Keith, and then you performed it on the TV show, the reality TV show, The Voice in Australia, to Keith Urban, who's one of the judges alongside Rita Ora as well. I mean, that must have been a pretty surreal moment. Yeah, that was pretty crazy.

That was, because obviously The Voice, you know, they've got their backs to you. So nobody knows who's on that show. It was amazing. Keith turned first and then like kind of had this like realization um and then all the other coaches turned so it was just had a life of its own which has been awesome well that's what did he did they ever tell you on the voice do the judges get motion sickness from those chairs that are spinning around all the time i did see rita aura with a c bag at one point. Yeah. There's a lot of spinning around. Well, you're about to perform with Ed Sheeran.

I mean, how did that come about that Ed Sheeran was like, hey, come and join me on tour? Yeah, pretty nuts. Ed is like, for me, he is like the absolute king of pop music and songwriting. And so just to have the chance to be part of that tour, which I don't know the stage is like next level um and around 360 it's insane every time like is this really happening it's

pretty amazing to be part of something like that but i will say you know since we've started we've had a few nights with him and he is the most hospitable kind funny hilarious just the best human as his team. Like, such a joy already just to be on it. Because you did a couple of nights at the Opera House with him. Yeah, which was amazing to be back in the theatre. And, I mean, I hope New Zealand realise what they saw because it was pretty amazing.

You know, he was very vulnerable and like, I'm going to muck up. And he did. And it was like, even better, you know. And for him, he hadn't played for four months. So, I mean, I can fully see why you would do something like this. But also from an audience standpoint, it's probably like one of the best concerts you could possibly see, you know?

Now we've got Kaylee Bell with us, a wonderful artist, opening up for Ed Sheeran on his tour. Ben, you wanted to play a game. Are these country songs or not country songs? Yes, because you know country music well. You talked about having CDs from a very early age, listening to a lot of music. So maybe you'll know if these are

actual legit, well they seem like legit, or country songs or not. Drop Kick Me Jesus through the goalposts of life. I'm not one that I've heard, but... Well... Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life.

Yeah, Ken. End over end. Dropkick him through the goalposts of life, Jesus. There you go. That is phenomenal. Holy moly. That's an actual country song? Flushed you from the bathroom of my heart.

Country song or not country song? I'm sticking with no. I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart. Just the voice too, right? So beautiful and deep and legit. I feel like you're getting songwriting ideas from this. This is a nice little brainstorming session. You're so helpful, thank you.

She thinks my tractor's sexy. Oh yeah, this is definitely a song. She thinks my tractor's sexy. No, she doesn't. Oh wow. Lovely to talk to you. Congratulations on all your success so far. And we can't wait to see you when you play before Ed Sheeran.

Thank you, guys. Thanks for having me today. Appreciate it. Weirdly, yesterday there was, you know, a lot of terrible weather. And then there was sunshine. All of a sudden there was a burst of sunshine where I was in the country and so i hadn't seen sun for a while um so i decided you know like i like you know how i like to do youtube workouts in the afternoon and so i watch you know there's like 20 30 minute workouts and stuff you get all the exercises you don't need

any equipment and i was like do those on youtube and i was like let's take it outside because it's sunny how do you lift up all 26 kgs of your body? That's why I do it without any exercise equipment. How do you do it? I couldn't do it with weights. I could barely do it with my own body. He has to sit down all morning because he can't bear the weight on his legs of his body.

So yesterday I went outside and I was like, it's a sunny day, I'll do a workout outside in the sun and I'll you know, I'll play something off my phone and I'll connect it to my Bluetooth the sun and I'll you know off off I'll play something off my phone I'll connect it to my Bluetooth portable speaker I don't know what it is about the Bluetooth system I never really seem to crack it even when stuff has been synced before when you go to play something You have to rethink it. I'm with you. I mean it seems so simple on the surface. Do you want to join this thing?

Yeah, yeah, I feel like I've done my part. Yeah. When did the Bluetooth thing do its best? It was not working. I'm outside of a backyard. It was not working. Couldn't connect it through. And then you have to disconnect.

I'm like, disconnect this thing. Forget about it. Forget this device. I'm like, forget this device. And then waiting for the devices to pop back up again. And then I was like, oh, cool. Here is something. It's popped back up.

Now, remember this device again. Here it is. Popped back up. And I'm like, I'm on the device. It says I'm back up. Now remember this device again. Here it is, popped back up, and I'm like, I'm on the device, it says I'm connected, and I can't hear anything. So I start cranking it up some more, can't hear anything at all, crank it up more, I can't hear my YouTube workout,

and then the neighbour pops his head over the fence and is like, hey, are you trying to play something? I'm like, what? He goes, it's coming through my portable speaker. Why is it coming through his portable speaker? Because it came up as a device on there that he's got synced up

in his lounge. So I came up with it and I was like, oh, I'm so sorry. And he goes, yeah, what are you watching? I'm like,

it's a YouTube workout. He's like, okay, whatever. But then I listened back to it and this, without a word of a lie, was the Joe Wicks YouTube workout that I was listening to

at the start. let's do it. So he started here. Let's get it over with in three, two, one, let's go. So 45 seconds on the exercise. Come on. This is what the neighbour had.

Knees up. Bursting through from me. And I was like, it's a YouTube video. You definitely need the accompanying visuals. Yes. Without the visuals at all, that sounds like it's a YouTube and he was like yeah you definitely need the accompanying visuals yes without the visuals at all that sounds like it's a place that you yeah yeah so anyway so did you go all the way to the beeper I've never made it to the beeper the hits the Jono and Ben podcast weather that caused a lot of flooding and disruptions to traffic work and schools are meant to do it bit of a U-turn and come back around the Coromandel Bay of Plenty region today,

just a little bit out of Auckland as well. So that's some bloody great news, isn't it? That's some cherry news for your morning, for your Thursday morning. Generally, you know, we were just talking about insurance before. Generally, the times you're stoked you have insurance, the insurance companies aren't stoked that you've got insurance. Exactly. The other times of the year, they're all trying to sign you up for insurance, aren't they?

Oh, you all want to sign. Oh, but then when this comes along. But weirdly yesterday, there was a lot of terrible weather, and then there was sunshine. All of a sudden, there was a burst of sunshine where I was in the country, and so I hadn't seen sun for a while. So I decided, you know how I like to do YouTube workouts in the afternoon. And so I watch, you know, there's like 20, 30-minute workouts and stuff.

You get all the exercises. You don't need any equipment. And I was like, do those on YouTube. And I was like, let's take it outside because it's sunny. How do you lift up all 26 kgs of your body? That's why I do it without any exercise equipment. How do you do it? How do you have that strength? I couldn't do it with weights.

I could barely do it with my own body. He has to sit down all morning because he can't bear the weight on his legs of his body. So yesterday I went outside. I was like, it's a sunny day. I'll do a workout outside in the sun. And I'll play something off my phone. I'll connect it to my Bluetooth portable speaker. I don't know what it is about the Bluetooth system,

I never really seem to crack it. Even when stuff has been synced before, when you go to play something, you have to re-sync everything. I'm with you, I'm with you. I mean, it seems so simple on the surface. Do you want to join this thing? Yeah.

I feel like I've done my part. When did the Bluetooth thing do its bit? It was not working. I'm outside of a backyard. It was not working. Couldn't connect it through. And then you have to disconnect. I'm like, disconnect this thing.

Forget about it. Forget this device. I'm like, forget this device. And then waiting for the devices to pop back up again. And then I was like, oh, cool. Here is something. It's popped back up. Now remember this device again.

Here it is. Popped back up. And I'm like, I'm on the device. It says I'm connected. And I can't hear anything. So I start cranking it up some more. Can't hear anything at all. Cranking it up more.

I can't hear my YouTube workout. And then the neighbor pops his head over the fence. And he's like, hey, are you trying to play something? I'm like, what? He goes, it's coming through my portable speaker. Why is it coming through his portable speaker? Because it came up as a device on there that he's got synced up in his lounge so i came up there and i was like oh i'm so sorry and he goes yeah what are you watching i'm like it's a youtube workout he's like okay whatever

but then i listened back to it and this without a word of a lie was the joe wicks youtube workout that i was listening to at the start so he started here let's get it over with. In three, two, one, let's go. So 45 seconds on the exercise. Come on. This is what the neighbour had. He's up. First thing he threw from me, and I was like, it's a YouTube. And he was like, yeah.

You definitely need the accompanying visuals. Yes. Without the visuals at all, that sounds like it's a place that you... Yeah, so anyway... Did you go all the way to the beeper? I've never made it to the beeper.