Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Is Jono's Daughter... Actually Ben's Daughter?
Episode Date: September 22, 2021Jono's daughter very casually said something in passing, but it was something that made his ears prick up. What she said was so bizarre and is something Ben has said many times in the past! We also de...lved into what's making Ben nervous today. Finally, we played a game of "tell us where you're from without telling us where you're from", and Jono blimmen ruined the game within 30 seconds! Enjoy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast.
Hey guys, welcome Thursday the 23rd of September.
It's Jono and Ben here back for the podcast, the Thursday edition, and
we were just talking today, Ben, about
your anxiety around
watching a DVD and then getting that threatening
old ad that would
pop up, you know.
You wouldn't steal a car.
You wouldn't do this, you wouldn't do that.
You wouldn't steal a handbag.
You wouldn't commit human trafficking. You're like, yeah, no,
I wouldn't do any of those things. And you also
wouldn't download
an illegal movie. Yeah, steal
a movie. It used to scare me that. It was
kind of an ominous ad, didn't it? Have you got the music
there? I was just trying to find it on my laptop here.
The other thing that really sticks into my mind
before I'm watching old school sort of
VHSs and DVDs
was that sort of FBI warning
that would come out real seriously.
It was like, you can't play this without the legal permission to do this.
And I remember reading it at oil rigs.
I remember you couldn't even play it on an oil rig.
And so if I was ever on an oil rig and someone was like,
let's slap this on for the team, I'd be like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
The FBI could be watching.
And why are the FBI patrolling oil rigs?
I don't know.
I just remember it was oil rigs as part of the places that you couldn't pay.
Why wouldn't you watch it?
Surely on an oil rig there's nothing else to do after you shift.
You're in the middle of the ocean.
So should we flick on a movie?
Oh, I don't know.
No, no, no, no.
Not publicly.
We can't be doing this.
Oil rigs.
Here it is.
Yeah, it's the one.
You wouldn't steal a car.
No, you wouldn't. There's a guy breaking into a car with a car. You wouldn't steal a car. No, you wouldn't.
There's a guy breaking into a car with a car.
You wouldn't steal a handbag.
Would you steal a handbag?
No.
You wouldn't steal a television.
Would you steal a television?
No.
You also wouldn't steal a movie.
Well, I wouldn't.
No, I wouldn't.
But some people do, yeah.
Have you ever watched anything illegal, be honest?
Oh, no. You used to want anything illegal, Ben? Be honest.
Oh, no.
You used to want me to go on the dark web.
You were fascinated with the dark web. I still am fascinated with the dark web, but I don't back myself to go on it.
It scared me even going on it.
Yeah, I feel like as soon as I went on the dark web, I was like, well, they've got all my details.
They've got all my critiques.
They know all my dark secrets.
You know, why have I done it to myself?
You know, it's like opening a box in the beginning of a horror movie
that you've been told not to
I know but it's very
I can see why you've got temptation for it
yeah but yeah so back to the question
have you watched anything
illegally downloaded content
oh not on an oil rig
that's for sure
I haven't been on an oil rig
I don't
I probably have at some stage
not intentionally
no not my thing
but yeah but we all have we all have and let's be honest the FBI rig. I don't... I probably have at some stage. Not intentionally. No, not my thing. I'm pretty...
We all have. We all have. And let's
be honest, the FBI,
they're out doing manhunts. They're out
catching people who've committed genocide.
You know, they're out catching proper criminals.
They're not going to come busting
into my lounge because I have an illegal version
of Legally Blonde. But here's
Illegally Blonde in that case.
So I'm just reading the warning.
The definition of home use
excludes the use of this video recording
at locations such as clubs, coaches, hospitals,
hotels, oil rigs, prisons and schools.
So that was part of that.
They're really covering their bases
with the oil rigs, aren't they?
Yeah.
How many people are living on oil rigs?
It felt like a brainstorming meeting
amongst the anti-piracy people.
All right, guys, no idea is a bad idea.
Where can people illegally play movies?
And then, no, Jim, who they just keep there because he's a nice guy.
Jim puts his hand up.
Oil rigs.
But you're like, how many things?
Thanks, Jim.
Do we want to really put this on?
Yeah, no.
Jim said he's a good guy.
Let's just make him feel part of the team.
Because people could have found a loophole, you're right, and hire a boat.
Bungee jumping.
Yeah.
To sail out in the middle of the ocean just to watch it on an oil rig.
Yeah.
When walking across hot coals.
I mean, they really could have come up with a few more scenarios.
But yeah, that's the thing that doesn't really matter now, does it?
Because we all pay for streaming services.
That's right, yeah.
So in the end, the industry won.
Well, true.
They probably haven't in a lot of ways.
They saved the industry.
Yeah.
They pivoted.
There was a wild time there when the computers were becoming more prevalent.
It was ripping off music, ripping off movies.
It was the wild west.
Remember Napster?
Oh, yeah.
You could download everything onto bloody Napster.
It was a crazy time.
And the industries, and rightfully so,
have found a way to still earn money.
It's there.
It's found back.
We're not here to steal off the artists, are we?
No, that's right.
We're just here to steal cars, handbags, and televisions.
Yeah.
We had a fun show this morning, didn't we, buddy?
Yeah, we did, actually.
Yeah, it was a really fun show.
We, we, we.
My favourite thing
of the day
is doing the podcast
with Joe.
They're throwing to Ben
to do the menu
of the podcast
and he can't remember
what we've been doing.
We talked to some
great New Zealanders
to coin a phrase
from another radio station
about our TV show.
I do remember that.
They were great.
Our TV show,
John,
on Ben Good Sports
and Catch Up On Demand.
No matter what time
you're listening to this,
TVNZ On Demand.
So I do remember that.
I remember the conversation about you wouldn't steal a,
because we just had that.
Yep.
And all the other stuff I remember.
So much.
Remember how long we had to wash something was interesting.
Yeah, that was interesting.
Yeah, you're right.
A friend of mine hasn't washed their bed sheets
for the entire period of lockdown, over 35 days.
So the longest time you've washed anything.
And the lady called through with her jeans, which I found
interesting. And someone else
with the bed sheets. Even worse than
my friend. I know, I know.
So, yeah, enjoy that on the podcast.
The show where the masks make them look
a whole lot better. Can't say
this battered up old face.
Jono and Ben.
New Zealand's breakfast.
And yesterday was the first day of Level 3
and Auckland and people went a bit crazy
for takeaways, didn't they? There was so many
people out and about. And then the rest of Aotearoa
had to live with the punishment
of photos of burgers
and pizzas all across social
media, people taking photos. Food has
not been photographed as much
since Shrek the sheep was
alive and got follow around follow around by the paparazzi oh true yeah like all over my social
media yesterday and probably the same for you producer juliet was people like taking photos
of their flat white or their coffee yes there's so many photos of that and i was just like it was
one of those things was like well tell me you're from auckland without telling me you're from
auckland that was one of those moments you're like is it another flat white it's another flat white i was like well you're from auckland you're from auckland telling me you're from Auckland. That was one of those moments. You're like, is it another flat white?
It's another flat white.
I was like, well, you're from Auckland.
You're from Auckland.
I mean, no one else.
Someone should have written, imagine a coffee in a cup.
That's what I'm having right now.
I had one this afternoon.
I was like, do I need to post this?
Is this what you do?
Is this what we do now?
Do they not exist?
Yeah.
So you wanted to open up a game.
You need to tell us where you're from without telling us where you're from
and we need to try
and guess what region
of the country
that you're living in.
So we're really going to
tap in and play on
domestic stereotypes here.
Yeah.
Just like that.
You know,
if someone takes a photo
of a flat white coffee,
they're most likely,
particularly yesterday,
to be from Auckland.
Especially if it's coconut milk.
Yeah, well, that's true.
I can have a meaningful conversation
with nine words and three syllables.
Oh, South Island?
Yeah, I'm a farmer from Gore.
Yeah, that's good.
I got mocked by my wife the other day.
Now, yeah, I'll back it in.
Okay, I don't like mowing the lawns.
I couldn't get grass to grow.
I just could not get grass to grow.
But doesn't nature just get grass to grow? How could you not get grass to grow. So I was like. But doesn't nature just get grass to grow?
How could you not get grass to grow?
There's patches.
Doesn't sun and rain get in there?
It was like your hair follicles.
There's patches there.
So I was like, all right, get rid of it.
Get rid of it.
And I was like, I'll get AstroTurf.
I'm going to do it.
I'm going to put AstroTurf in.
And then I get.
This is what a tennis court is made out of too.
I haven't got a very big lawn, but it's just like AstroTurf.
Don't have to mow it.
But then I got upset during autumn because there was a lot of leaves on it.
And then I was picking them up on my hands and knees going around the garden.
And Amanda, my wife, is like, look at yourself.
Look at what are you doing right now.
You're on your hands and knees picking up leaves, putting them into a bucket.
And you're like, shut up and get me my mocha.
I'm mowing the lawns, Auckland style.
She's like, you couldn't be more of an Aucklander. I'm like, I'm originallyowing the lawns Auckland style I know She's like You could be more of an Aucklander
I'm like
I'm originally from Masterton
It's like
Yeah
He tries to pull that off
Masterton's like
Please don't say that
Please
You're on your hands and knees
On your AstroTurf lawn
I know
So you need to call us up
0800 the hits
We've got some prizes to give away
You tell us where you're from
Without telling us where you're from
Another one could be
I am judging Anyone from Auckland Who comes to my town which could be the rest of new zealand
yeah particularly probably uh wataka yeah my house burns incense and there's dream catchers
hanging off my wall nelson well done you're good at this game you going to have a hard time beating us. That's how it works.
You've come up with a really fun game.
Tell us where you're from without telling us where you're from. And this is inspired by the abundance,
the torrent of
photos on social media yesterday from
Aucklanders just posting food like they'd
discovered it for the first time.
Up 89% apparently
economic activity in Auckland yesterday.
Wow.
I was reading, so.
Well, when you go from zero.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, you're always, it's going to be an impressive.
Probably from the week before, right?
Yeah.
Why did they even release that stat?
I don't know, but I read it out.
Yeah, we're good on you.
Thanks.
Yeah, this is some facts and figures.
So the game is you try and tell us where you're from without telling us where you're from.
If we can't guess it, then you will win.
We'll start with Kerry in Mount Timonganui.
Welcome, Kerry.
Morena.
Morning, team.
How you doing?
Great to have you on, K-Dog.
All right.
You tell us where you're from without telling us where you're from.
Should I just tell us where you're from?
Oh, shit.
I'm looking at B-Hub
It's the producer
Through the wall
He's raising his hands
Like what you idiot
Oh yeah
Why did I just
I've just ruined the game
Let me guess
Kerry's from
Mount Maunganui
Yeah
Kerry
Yeah
Something like that
Unfortunately you don't win
Because we guessed
What were your clues
Well it was going to be
I daily go up
medium-sized
hills.
Got it. Got to take a photo at the top of
the mountain, the mount, right?
Exactly, the selfie with
the beach in the background.
It's a wonderful shot, isn't it? I love
the mount because everyone looks like they've
stepped out off Love Island.
All very good. My problem would be of living there is you'd always feel like you off Love Island. You know, all very good.
And my problem would be of living there is you'd always feel like you're on holiday.
I wouldn't get anything done.
Very unproductive.
Well, listen, I'm sorry for ruining the game with Call of One.
Kerry, I blame that on you.
That's all your fault.
You can take the hit on that.
Okay.
All right.
Let's not just do the name, maybe, if you want.
All right.
You just walk up there.
Behemoths the take the locations
off the phone he's taking them all off now which is good oh good because the other ways you're
going to know i'm going to know that i'm going to have to act like i don't know so now we're
going in cold with morgan who's from unavailable morgan welcome to the show hello tell us where
you're from without telling us where you're from the The bridge that stops State Highway 1 in South Island. The bridge that what?
Stops State Highway 1 in the South Island?
Yeah, the traffic flow.
I'm going to go.
I don't know.
Bridge Canterbury somewhere?
It's in Canterbury.
It's in Canterbury.
Bridge that stops.
I don't know if I know this.
Is it North Canterbury?
No.
South Canterbury? No. South Canterbury?
No. West Canterbury?
No. It's got to be
definitely East Canterbury. I'm going to go
what would stop State Highway 1? Rangiora?
No. Where is it?
Ashbriden. Oh,
well done. There you go. You could have gone
we've got a panther
but that's the bridge that stops State Highway
1. Is it a one-lane jobby?
It's a flooding.
Oh, the flood.
Oh, yeah, right now.
You outsmarted us.
And just judging by Jono saying where the lady was from before,
it's not hard to do.
I liked it better when I knew where they were from.
Congratulations, you win.
Hold the line.
We'll find something for you.
Good on you, Morgz.
We'll head to Martin.
Welcome, Martin, from New Zealand.
Good morning, guys. How are you? Yeah, great to have you on, Marty. Tell us Martin Welcome Martin from New Zealand Good morning guys, how are you?
Great to have you on Marty, tell us where you're from without telling us where you're from
I'm from the gateway to the Alps
Oh that's
Is that Fox Glacier?
Are you locking in Fox Glacier Ben Boyce?
I feel like this is showing how bad I am at geography
I'm going to lock in Fox Glacier
If you could tell us the answer.
Nope.
Marty?
They said no. Okay.
I'm going to go
Fox Glacier.
Jeez.
Where to the Alps?
It's Darfield?
You bugger.
You got it.
Nice work.
What?
Well, your mum was from the Alps.
Yeah, that's the only reason I know around there.
Yeah, Annie Pryor, they called her the long legs of Darfield.
The legion.
Gateway to the Alps is what they called it.
Is that what they called it?
Is that a bird on your mum?
I don't know.
Annie Pryor's legs were the gateway to the Alps.
Oh, I didn't mean it like that. Oh, you did. Don't be like, oh, I didn't mean it. Annie Pryor's legs were the gateway to the Alps. Oh, I didn't mean it like that.
Oh, you did.
Don't be like, oh, I didn't mean it like that.
That's exactly how he meant it.
Why else would you say it?
We all know why you said it.
Three out of the four of us are laughing.
One of us is offended.
I want you to call Annie and say that to her face.
Your legs are the gateway to the Alps.
Martin, please tell me you haven't been to see my mum's legs,
the gateway to the Alps.
No, definitely not.
Oh, jeez.
All right, Martin, you...
No, you don't win, actually.
You sort of got it right.
Yeah, well, push on home.
No one wins from what we've...
What sort of raise are the plugs emitting?
I'm nervous.
Now I take photos of the handbrake on in my car.
Don't even get me started on whether I left the iron on or not.
I turn my phone off at night.
I just don't know what it's doing.
It makes me nervous.
Yeah, but what if we run out of hand sanitizer?
I'm nervous.
I'm so nervous.
Yes, what's making Ben nervous today?
The most nervous man in New Zealand radio.
He's more nervous than my milky white skin in the middle of January.
He's always on edge.
You said you've got something today.
We don't do this every day.
No.
Well, I could do it every day if you want me to.
But they're like, give it a break.
Give it a break.
We want him to have some level of credibility.
So, yeah, this is something that happens.
Well, because over lockdown, I talked about this the other day,
you know, you start delving into things you wouldn't normally do.
Like one was bringing out the photo albums.
Yeah, you know it's bleak when the photo albums come out.
And the second one I did was bring out a DVD and watch something on DVD.
I was like, I've got a DVD of that.
We'll put that on.
The kids are like, what's a DVD?
They don't even know what a DVD is.
Well, they kind of do, but they were kind of like. Do they know what a a blu-ray is because i still don't know what a blu-ray is
can someone tell me what a blu-ray is uh but they put on a dvd from uh from a while back and it
started with uh what you remember this iconic thing that was on the dvd about you wouldn't steal
a car remember this music. Remember this music?
It was on VHS's,
it was on DVD's as well.
And they had like people
in balaclavas with crowbars
getting into cars.
It's like you wouldn't steal a car,
you wouldn't steal a handbag.
You wouldn't steal a TV.
And then you wouldn't steal a movie.
Like the movie was up there
with all those other things.
Well, you're right,
I probably wouldn't steal a car,
no, I wouldn't steal a TV.
But yeah, I would illegally download Legally Blonde all day long
They could have had, you wouldn't go to prison for stealing a movie
But you would for the other things, they could have changed that ad
But it always made me nervous
This music just makes me nervous
Watching this on a VHS or DVD made me just like
I always got paranoid from that moment on
Watching that so many times that
Am I, is this a paranoid from that moment on watching that so many times that,
am I, is this a legit copy that I'm watching?
Yeah.
And so you worried that you're going to get caught for burning or get burnt?
Oh, totally.
Like, I don't.
Still now.
You're still now.
Like, I don't, I won't watch a pirated movie.
I'm like, no, I don't want to watch it if it's not legit.
Like, John, I used to give out a website.
Oh, yeah.
It was totally a legal website.
Project Free TV. Sell it, sell it, sell it. Don't do that. You're like, any show, anything in the world. You a website. Oh, yeah. It was totally a legal website. Project Free TV.
Sell it.
Sell it.
Don't do that.
You're like, any show, anything in the world, you can stream it on this website.
It's all illegal.
It's all illegal.
Look, I'd be worried if I clicked on there, my computer would shut down, and then the FBI would be like, on the door straight away.
If as soon as I clicked on that, I was like, oh, well.
Did you never go to Project Free TV?
No.
Didn't even want to Google it.
I think it's run out of the eastern back blocks of Russia.
But even our show was on there.
I was like, how has this got on here?
It was a wonderful website.
It was not legit, though.
It made me very nervous every time I mentioned that website.
It's making me nervous now.
It's probably not even functioning now.
But you keep saying it.
You're like, oh, what a wonderful website.
It is a wonderful website.
No, it's entirely illegal.
The irony of it, and this was very funny,
I sat down without a word of very funny, I sat down to
without a word of a lie, I sat down to
watch a DVD with mum and dad
in Christchurch and they got Thelma
and Louise. That thing came
on, you wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't
rob a bank and then the irony is you
end up watching a movie of two people who are stealing cars
and robbing banks.
But hey, they did not illegally
download a movie. That's right.
They're not monsters.
That's the main thing.
Welcome to Two Half-Assed Dads to a Half-Assed Job.
Official title, Tudor and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast.
Ben Boyce, you have publicly announced your love
for two people in the past.
Who would they be?
My wife, Amanda.
Is that what I mean?
You've never publicly announced your love for her.
Actually, you've said you've loved these other two people
more than you've ever said you've loved Amanda.
It's a bit of a contention too,
because I know who you're probably going to be talking about.
The fact that I've got an iHeart Dwayne the Rock Johnson tattoo
on my behind and not anything like that for my wife.
It's a bit of a contention in the boy's household.
I can see why it would be a bit of a contention.
Yeah, but at all, my wife makes big money at the box office,
until she has a successful wrestling career,
turns to actor, she motivates, she's the hardest.
No, I'm kidding.
She knows what she needs to do.
I've laid it out for her.
There's a pathway, you know.
Until you can enjoy your own bodybuilding competition,
then I'll announce my name.
And there's another person as well.
Yeah, Kevin Hart as well.
I feel like, you know,
I've often said that Kevin Hart and Dwayne The Rock Johnson,
love them both.
Do you love more?
Well, currently Dwayne The Rock Johnson,
because he talked about the iHeart Dwayne The Rock Johnson tattoo,
didn't he?
So he was pretty excited about that.
So Kevin's got some work to do.
Yeah.
He's got to eat.
But he was up there for a while
because we were lucky enough to interview Kevin Hart once,
the two of us.
And then a couple of years later, I went and interviewed him again,
again lucky enough to do that separately.
And he was like, hey, where's your other guy?
I was like, what?
You know, the other guy.
So he remembered us.
He remembers you.
I was like, oh my goodness.
Was I the other guy?
Yeah, you were the other guy.
I was the other guy.
And he was like, see, these guys do bad jokes.
They do terrible jokes.
And I was like, well, if you want to be known for anything,
it's probably good jokes.
But secondly, it would be bad jokes.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
And that's all we try to do with our interviews, isn't it?
Just try and get people to like us.
Yeah.
That's our main goal.
We just want people to like us.
Julia, do you like us?
Yes, I do.
Thank you.
Yeah.
That's our main thing.
That's what gets us out of bed every morning.
Just try and get people to like us.
Yeah.
Very shallow people.
But anyway, so you have publicly announced your love
for both Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Kevin Hart in the past.
Now, something happened in my household last night
and it came completely out of the blue.
And so what I did is I pulled a Ben Boyce
and I illicitly recorded my children.
Yeah, I like it.
This is my daughter Poppy. Have a listen.
What's your big news that you'd like to share?
That my favourite actors are Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Kevin Hart.
Do you know they're Ben's favourite actors?
No.
So she had no idea that these were your two favourite actors.
We weren't even watching anything with Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Kevin Hart.
Really?
Just out of nowhere?
Just out of nowhere.
Great taste. great taste.
That's awesome.
I thought hers would be like some Disney star.
I have a serious question.
Eight years ago, did anything untoward happen between you and my wife Jennifer?
Don't you think this is the voice genes?
She's also using
an excessive amount
of hand sanitizers
and is on edge
about everything
now over to you
hey
that's the hits
you got John on
bear what's the time
oh yeah time
we're wrapping
to wrap up that break
we've been over
three minutes
you know
boss Todd likes to say
three minutes guys
cut it off
move on
move on with the show
something coming up next in his that as painful as entering a password
on your tv remote one letter at a time new zealand's breakfast now netflix apparently
bought uh the whole roald dahl a story uh company and collection and And the rumoured price is somewhere between US $500 million to $1 billion
is how much they bought that.
$500 million to $1 billion?
Is what they reckon they paid somewhere in between.
That's a big scope.
Wow, that's incredible.
So the Dahl estate will get all that money, right?
Yeah, and they'll get to make a whole lot of movies
based around Roald Dahl's iconic box,
which is pretty cool.
I used to think that the witches used to terrify me.
That is a very, yeah, very scary movie.
It's actually, ironically,
the last full book I've ever read, The Witches.
It sounds like a joke.
It's no joke.
I haven't read a book since then.
I'm not a reader.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
I love how you're just like, that's me.
I'm not.
And you just carry on.
You don't even delve back in and go, maybe I'll give it a go one time i don't have time for reading i'm like
you if i started it would just weigh on my mind that i haven't been starts a book he's awake for
48 hours just finishing it finish it now yeah it's gonna get i've got a ticket off the to-do list i
don't want another thing that i start and don't finish in life i've already got enough of those
uh but what i was actually wondering about netflix and technology in general is it's it's just getting
too smart and it's getting kind of a little bit creepy.
Like the other day, because we were watching movies with the kids we went through and they loved Jim Carrey movies.
And then there was The Truman Show came up, which is a really, really good movie.
But we started watching it and it's quite, it's not your traditional Jim Carrey, Ace Ventura, liar, liar movie.
It's a bit more serious.
It's a really good story.
But we started watching it More like Oh maybe we'll
Maybe we'll watch something else
It's probably you know
A little bit too advanced
The kids interest levels
Were waning
Yeah
And so
Like John O with the book
We sort of put it down
And stopped it
That's me
I'm never watching that again
But then I get an email
From Netflix the next day
From Netflix going
Enjoying the Truman Show
Question mark
Either way
Let us know
Like it's
Like
What didn't you like about it
Why'd you pull out early It's like Why are you starting to sound Like you's like, what did you like about it? Why'd you pull out early?
It's like, why are you starting to sound like you're a little bit insecure about it?
I watched that Nightbox I was saying with the kids the other day,
the movie that terrified me.
And then they were like, how did you enjoy the Nightbox?
Question mark.
Love to know.
This is for Netflix.
Well, I'm more creeped out now after you've done a follow-up email of a scary movie.
It's almost like it's an insecure partner.
Just go, hey.
We noticed you didn't stay until the end of the credits watch the whole is it something that i've done you know it's a really weird thing it feels it sort of creeps you out it is my trust levels
with technology they're starting to maybe it's just age becoming an old boomer juliet but they
really are starting to wane and the one that really scares me is when you leave work and your
phone goes it will be 11 minutes travel time to home.
Yeah.
And I'm like, how do you know I'm going home?
Sometimes I don't go home just to prove a point.
I drive in the opposite direction.
You don't know where I'm going.
But then eventually I have to go home.
So it actually took me double the amount of time that you suggested.
It's really clever, eh?
Technology getting too clever.
The only thing that's not getting clever at the moment as far as technology is
Jacinda Ardern's computer. Did you see this the other day?
She came out for the press conference and there was a bit
of a delay. Have a listen.
I want to apologise everyone for the
slight delay in us joining you
for this afternoon briefing.
I'll be frank, my computer
froze. It's something that happens
to all of us at the best of times.
How's that?
And you can tell she's talking slow, but also trying to fix the problem at the same time.
Yeah, like, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Ah, yeah, I want to go back to a simpler time where it took 45 minutes to get onto the internet.
Remember that? Remember this noise? The dial-up noise?
Yeah.
Oh.
Yeah, that was...
We had to listen to that every time we wanted to go on the internet.
That is horrible That would dial you up to the internet babes
And it would take at least half a day
And you'd get on there and you'd look at
Some very slowly downloaded pictures of
Some boobies or something
It was enough to get me bored
Oh dear
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Kia ora, good morning.
Welcome along to the show.
It is a Thursday morning and jeez, everyone went crazy yesterday for takeaways, didn't they?
They did in certain parts of New Zealand, other parts of New Zealand alike.
Hey, listen, we've been dealing with this for a couple of weeks.
We're fine, we're chill.
We've got a pretty sensible approach to it.
Others let it get away on them.
I mean, I understand the excitement.
It's been five weeks of, you know, everyone's home cooking and no takeaway coffees, no pies,
no, you know, no burgers.
It felt, I went and got a coffee yesterday.
It felt unusual paying for something.
It felt unsettling.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot of people are out and about too, you know, like Like, yeah, interacting with people kind of feels a bit weird again.
You're like, ooh, ooh. It feels like it's just gone back to level one.
Am I the only one?
I feel very busy.
Yeah, it was very busy.
Even this morning driving to work, I was like, well, there's a lot of people on the road.
I mean, it's good, though, for the economy, guys.
It's good for the economy, you know?
Get it rolling again.
It seems like this level three for Auckland, anyway, seems a lot busier than the last level three we approached
last time round. And it's probably because
we've been locked down for longer that
people who work or have businesses are like,
we need to get back to it. There's a lot of
fast and loose with the old essential workers at the
moment. I'm tired of that. Good, get the economy going
as long as everyone's safe and it doesn't
escalate those numbers
then it's good to get the economy going.
I say open the borders.
Are they shut?
Yeah, they are shut.
Open them up.
Why have we shut them?
James Shaw can get home, though, so it's the main thing.
Scrolling through your feed.
Research into that song, which is the Fleetwood Mac song
from, like, the 70s.
It's been remixed by a New Zealand slash Australian DJ.
Joel and Pitch.
Joel and Pitch. Joel and Pitch.
Hey, we didn't claim him when he was here,
but now we're going to claim him.
He's in Australia.
He's done a great job of that.
And I was thinking, you know,
to Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks,
Mick Fleetwood get money from that song.
No.
They both sold their rights,
their publishing rights to a record company.
She sold hers, Stevie Nicks, for $100 million
just after that viral
video on TikTok of that guy skateboarding
to dreams. Sold it for $100 million
so that was all her catalogue gone.
And he sold his for $150
million. So they get nothing
from that. Yeah, I guess in a way
they did. $150 million is pretty good
though, right? It's not
bad. It's not a bad deal
Ben Boyce.
Now, also I wanted to look at some other international news.
New Zealand is making big international news at the moment.
So, well, this first one, let me just explain the story.
So a few days ago there was a police bus
and it was a couple of gang associates coming back through the border into Auckland
and they remember they got busted with a whole lot of money and some KFC.
Contraband, yeah. They laid out all the KFC on the
police car. Yeah, they laid it out like your
champagne sort of drugs bust that you see
on the news when they catch them at the border
don't they? Got all the cash neatly
and tidily laid out. I don't know who that
falls on but they do a wonderful job
and then all the drugs are just nicely
displayed as well. Same with all the
buckets of chicken and the coleslaw
and the potato and gravy, all neatly displayed on the bonnet.
The police are neat and tidy.
Yeah, so this made international news,
the likes of CNN, The Guardian, The New York Post,
Nine News Australia and The Mirror all covered the photo.
They all found it quite interesting in the story.
And then it also featured on a US talk show, Jimmy Fallon.
But have a listen to this, guys.
And finally, two men in Australia were arrested
after they were caught crossing the border
with $100,000 and a trunk full of KFC.
Say what you want, but that cash will never not smell like fried chicken.
Australia!
Yeah.
Where's my pitchfork Where's my shining cloth
I'm polishing it up
Australia
Come in and nab our novelty
Quirky KFC news story
Do your research Fallon
Come on
Come on
And finally
We are making international news in the UK.
This one's been credited to us.
Now, there's a British TV show that we like to see clips of from time to time.
They have puppets of famous people.
It's called Spitting Image.
And a while ago, there was one of Jacinda Ardern doing like a Mary Poppins sort of song about COVID.
Well, now they've done one with Jacinda Ardern talking about the latest COVID lockdown here in New Zealand
with a sort of sound of music twist.
Kia ora, good people of New Zealand.
We have heard another single case of the deadly COVID,
so Nanny has no choice but to impose a full lockdown.
But Prime Minister Ardern,
New Zealand can't keep doing this forever.
You must learn to be strong my child
And then they go into a whole song
Very specific
Comedy
For people on the other side of the world
There's a lot you have to know
Yeah true you'd be like did they?
Because we're probably not really on their radar
And when we are they probably think it's Australia
They're getting all the foot of the coverage
I mean it works well here But we can't watch the show.
But we're talking about it, and we love the clip here.
We do love the clip.
Because they did it before, and they treat her like a,
call her the nanny, don't they?
Yeah.
That she's looking after her.
It's kind of a little condescending, isn't it?
Yeah.
I wonder what Cindy thinks of it.
They laugh at us because we go into lockdowns over one case.
You know, I hate to say this, but I think they might be mocking us.
Yeah.
Well, quick, pretend we're Australian, guys.
Pretend we're Australian.
Because we were just happy to be mentioned in the UK,
but now I think about it further, they're making fun of us here.
Just in their idea of the Prime Minister of Australia.
She'll continue to do great work for Australia.
We love her.
Morning.
This show contains traces of Jono and Ben.
The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast.
Tonight on Jono and Ben, Good Sports.
That's our new TV show, 8 o'clock TV in Z2, right after Police 10-7.
We take part in wrestling, sheepdog trials,
and we learn about the sport and history of waka ama.
And actually, before we get into this, you can win $1,000 tonight
with a watch and win on the TV show.
Just watch.
And you can win.
Yeah, some stage there's a little pop-up.
Just text your name to that number,
and tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock we'll go through
and we'll look at people texting at that time.
You've got a Songs a Call up at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning,
and you could win $1,000 just by watching our show.
Wonderful prize.
And tonight we do waka ama,
which is essentially like rowing, isn't it?
Yeah, it's the sport of outrigger
canoeing uh which is you know to come from a traditional sort of background in the maori uh
the world and and then you know we've become a new sport now and we tried to row row row our boat
gently down the stream but it ended up being frenetic uh erratic splashy and a lot of capsizing as well but we had a wonderful coach in
Manawa Irwin who joins us right
now. Manawa, welcome. How are you?
Hi, good. The self?
Did you get over us burdening you
for a whole day?
Man, I forgot it but
Now he's having to live it back
post-traumatic stress disorder
Yeah, that's what's happening right now.
Well, yeah, that's such a great day with you.
We went and learnt about waka ama and got to compete.
It's a sport that you've been doing for quite a while.
Yeah, I've been doing it most of my life,
like since I was seven or five, around then somewhere, yeah.
Now, you had the unenviable task of teaching us two novices what to do.
Not only train us, but also then put us in a race within the space of half a day.
Like, the pressure was on.
And you were having your own races at the time.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was.
I mean, I'm used to training little kids.
So it was pretty much the same thing.
We got in.
You taught us at the start and we got in
the waka and within a matter of minutes we were capsized
in the lake. Does that normally happen? Nah, it doesn't normally happen
but that was the first time
He's like, you were shocking. I can't find any
words to describe it. It wasn't even a comedy one
No
Sometimes you'd fall over on purpose
We didn't, these were just
Genuine falls
And the boat really whacked you on the head
Did you have concussion from that?
A little bit, maybe
But I feel like later on we got put in the team
And we actually did a lot better than I think anyone thought we were going to do
Yeah, nah, you guys did better than I expected as well.
But that probably went down to the four actual paddlers you guys had in your group.
Yeah, no, you're right.
No, you're right.
We were in a boat of six in total.
There was Ben, me, and four professional paddlers,
and they pulled us across the line.
Yeah.
Yeah, and so would you invite us back?
Yeah, of course. Welcome anytime.
Just, yeah, once you guys are level two,
I don't want that stuff down here.
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough, yeah.
But it's a wonderful, it really is a wonderful
sport, and you know, hundreds and thousands
of people are competing in it
right across the country,
Waka Ama. What would you say to anyone who wants to get into it?
To anyone who wants to get into it,
I guess just, you know, there's a lot of local clubs,
I mean, up in Auckland and pretty much anywhere.
Just have a go, give it a crack.
We're currently getting into,
most clubs are getting into their season now
and looking for new paddlers.
So yeah, just give it a go
and it's fun more than anything, yeah.
That is a lot of fun, a lot of energy you exert out there.
And it's awesome that it means so much to the community
and to everyone that was there.
It was awesome.
Yeah, yeah, it's real family-friendly vibes, Wakama.
They've enjoyed it.
Are they still talking about the great day that two novices entered a race and ended up winning?
Do they still talk about that around the lake?
I think most people forgot, but I'm thinking of the TV.
Well, maybe you could spark up a conversation.
It's on TV tonight.
Remind everyone to tune in and see it.
Yeah, I might.
I might.
Yeah.
You're definitely not going to.
And then maybe next regatta, maybe you just spark up a conversation and go, Oh, geez, I'll tell I might. Yeah. You're definitely not going to. And then maybe next regatta,
maybe you just spark up the conversation and go,
oh, jeez, I'll tell you what,
there was this one day these two guys turned up and try and get the street talk going.
Yeah, yeah, that'd be good.
Yeah, yeah.
I might do that then.
You're a bloody legend, Mano.
It was lovely to meet you, mate.
You keep safe and we'll see you on the telly tonight.
All right.
Yeah, have a good one.
Mano U and Waka Ama specialist.
And we actually, if you've got the audio, Juliet,
we first got on the boat and just, it was unintentional.
Yeah.
But we managed to capsize twice in 10 minutes.
Yeah.
Are we meant to be in time?
Am I meant to turn?
Yeah, you're turning.
You're turning.
Don't turn.
Yeah, rather.
Oh!
Hey, is the Waka Ama meant to hit you in the head?
Yeah, that big donk is...
Yeah, my head.
Taking quite a hit.
From the waka ama.
So you can see that tonight on the TV show.
It's the worst thing to happen on the water since the Titanic.
Us two and that thing.
$1,000 up for grabs with the Watch and Win.
That's John on Ben Good Sports. 8 o'clock tonight.
Love you to watch. It's lots of fun. It is the hits.
Rise and shine.
Time to start the...
Who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you.
Jono and Ben. The hits.
Suzanne Paul,
infomercial queen. Wonderful, wonderful
lady. Had a bit of a health
scare over the last couple of days.
She was on a zoom call and uh
for an event it was like a zoom event and sounds like um she uh she kind of collapsed during the
zoom call which is very very scary she's um apparently in hospital being monitored but the
family say she's she's fine and she's uh in typical suzanne paul style she says she's mortified for
not being able to finish the zoom call oh so she's, she's so lovely. Lots of love towards her.
She's awesome.
She's done a couple of things with us over the years.
She's wonderful.
She is.
And what I really admire about Suzanne Paul, her tenacity.
She just keeps going.
She arrived here in New Zealand with nothing.
You know, Suzanne Paul's not her real name.
Is it not?
No, when she got here, she started an infomercial business with a dude named Paul.
So it was Suzanne Paul Business, but she's
kind of stolen his name
and ended up becoming
Suzanne Paul. I forget what her actual name is.
Yeah, you're right. So brand now
is a wonderful lady.
Wonderful New Zealander, Suzanne Paul.
So we wish her the best
and the speediest of recoveries.
She's jammed in a room with us every morning,
and I feel like Juliet has given up on following her dreams.
So you may as well just ask where your dreams are going
and say I'll catch up with you guys later on.
And here's Spy, Ju.
So you may have seen yesterday some really sad news
that Willie Garson from Sex and the City, who played Stanford,
passed away at the age of 57.
It was from pancreatic cancer, which he didn't seem to have for a very long time.
It was quite a quick diagnosis between when he had it and then when he passed away.
They are, I was trying to figure out whether, because they're in the middle of filming the
Sex and the City reboot, which is called And Just Like That.
But I was trying to figure out if they've wrapped up filming or if they're in the middle
of it and what's going to happen to his character, because he was part of that reboot.
Oh, was he?
But I can't seem to find any information on that.
But it's really sad.
Everyone, all the cast and people he's worked with, including his son, sort of have written
tributes online.
He's appeared in over 75 films in his career and more than 300 episodes of television,
which is insane.
Very sad.
Did they say he was working on it?
So maybe they had started filming with him.
Also, they'd started filming,
but I'm not sure if they've finished.
So it would be an interesting thing
on how they deal with it
if they haven't finished filming
and he's meant to be in more scenes.
I tell you what,
one of the most emotional things, and I never thought I'd cry in a movie
like this was Paul Walker in Fast and Furious.
Oh yeah.
When they did that scene him and Vin Diesel and they drive off.
Oh my goodness.
It's been a long day.
Oh I'm so sad.
It's really sad eh.
It's so sad.
But really well done.
Yeah.
For the passing of one of the cast members.
And it was his brother who was like the body double, right?
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, Paul Walker's brother.
Wow.
Which even filming that, that would have been emotional for him.
Yeah.
For the whole cast.
Yeah.
Yeah, totally.
So I never thought I'd cry in a Fast and Furious movie.
No, but it was really, really sad.
I certainly didn't cry in the last one when somehow they strapped a rocket to the top of their car and ended up in space.
What? No, but then they had a a rocket to the top of their car and ended up in space.
What?
No, but then they had a little nod at the end to Paul Walker's character because they had his character's partner's got the baby and they left a space at the table
and they're like, we're waiting for Brian.
And then the car pulled up at the end for the dinner party, but they didn't show him.
But I guess in the film franchise, they've kept him alive, which is a lovely tribute.
Yeah, totally.
And in some other news
I always find it difficult
to segue from things like that
because this
this next story
is a little bit
what I do is I like to go
I find it difficult to segue
from things like that
you've acknowledged it Juliet
I've acknowledged it
let's put a full stop
on that emotional little segment
so Nicole Ritchie
has turned 40
which is you know
everyone
everyone has birthdays
but
which
that's not the story that's not the story.
That's not the story.
The story is that she posted a video on Instagram of her at what looks like a dinner party,
celebrating her 40th birthday, and she's blowing out a bunch of candles on a cake.
But her hair is sort of, as she leans down, her hair catches the candles,
and her hair starts lighting on fire
and she kind of screams and
tries to, you know, get it out, but then
it continues and then the video cuts.
So you don't really know what happens. Oh my goodness.
But her hair lights on fire. But they posted
it anyway. Yeah, she posted it anyway.
Can we get a follow up on this? Is she in the
burns unit? It seems like she's okay
because I feel like if she wasn't okay, she
probably wouldn't have posted it.
But my hair's...
This exact thing has happened to me before as well.
You're caught fire.
At a birthday candle-blowing session.
Yes.
So I wasn't blowing out candles on a cake, but there was a cake with candles that had just been lit on the bench.
And I sort of turned around and leaned back on the bench, chatting to someone.
And my hair was out.
And my hair was longer than I thought. And it the candles and my hair lit on fire and it felt like
my hair was sort of lifting up above me it felt really weird and in the room and I you know I
just sort of patted it out and panicked but the room what you don't understand about when hair
burns it stinks yeah it's very distinctive odor isn't it burned hair yeah disgusting that's
actually what happened to me at my 21st birthday.
I went to blow out the candles and the cork float all just disappeared overnight.
And that's the tragic story of my hair loss campaign.
But again, blowing out candles in this COVID environment.
I don't know what she was thinking.
True.
High vaccination rates though.
Hopefully they're fine.
Yeah. You're not a fan of the cake blowing out are you?
Even before COVID
Really?
BC I was always
No just watching
Going to kids parties in particular
Oh yeah
And sometimes the kids are
All over the cake
Bits of Cheerios on there
And the people are like
Do you want a bit of cake?
And I'm like no we all saw it
We all witnessed what happened
That spitty child just did that
No I don't think it.
That's fair.
That is actually very fair.
And that is Spar this morning.
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Jono and Ben just got 7 o'clock on your Thursday.
Now, Family Guy, the adult animated cartoon.
Yesterday, they released a clip that you may have seen on the social media.
And they kind of explained how the vaccine works.
And it seemed to be an advertisement for pro-vaccination.
And they had a little bit of a burn at Wonder Woman star, Gail Gadot.
Because a while ago, you remember, she got a bunch of celebrities to
sing a bit of a song.
I forgot the song that she got together.
This was at the start of the pandemic.
There were people like Will Ferrell, Jimmy Fallon, Kristen Wiig.
They were all there, and they were singing the John Legend classic.
Imagine there's no heaven.
It's easy if you try.
No hell below us
Now you can tell John Lennon instantly gets writing that song.
And what I love about it is I've just watched it back
and it brings me a lot of joy.
It's got a montage of 20-odd celebrities each singing a line,
but all looking a little uncertain about the project
and going, oh, I hope this doesn't get used.
But, you know, doesn't get used.
But, you know, she's asked, she's emailed everyone.
I feel obliged to do it.
Zoe Kravitz is sitting by her fire and she just looks like it's the last thing she did
before she went to bed.
But Family Guy had a wee bit of a bird
on that particular video in their clip
that went and circulated yesterday.
If the virus is allowed to spread
through an unvaccinated population, it could
mutate into a variant that the vaccines
might not protect against. And then we're right
back where we started. Gal Gadot
singing Imagine. We cannot let
that happen.
And to her credit, the
Wonder Woman star has
put the full Family Guy video
on her Instagram and she said
I promise I'll never do that again if you get vaccinated.
So there you go.
So good on her for having a sense of humour through the whole thing.
Well done.
And who would have thought we'd be looking to Family Guy
for sensible information about the vaccine?
Yeah, they actually explained some things,
and I was like, oh, I didn't realise that.
Yeah, I know, and I'm learning this from a cartoon character.
What does that say about us all?
Yeah, exactly.
Intelligent, thought-provoking, stimulating. Three terms that say about us all? Yeah, exactly. Intelligent,
thought-provoking,
stimulating.
Three terms that
will never apply here.
Jono and Ben,
New Zealand's Breakfast.
Just watching a little,
a lovely little video.
So it's in Canberra
and a couple of men
were out walking
around a lake
and there was a kangaroo
standing about 15 to 20 metres
from shore on the lake
and it was just kind of still, it was obviously so cold and freezing in the lake.
It got into shock.
So they went out there and they sort of helped the kangaroo to shore.
And as it sort of warmed up and went to go away, it sort of put its little paw up on them to say, sort of like it was saying, oh, thanks, before it sort of headed on their way.
Oh, there's hope in the world.
And I was like, oh, that's lovely.
I thought you were going to end it and then end up punching them in the face or something. No, no. It just seemed like he was sort of, you know, the kangaroo was taking a little bit to get,
regather itself like you after the work Christmas party.
It does.
Yeah, it takes a couple of days.
And then sort of put its little paw up.
I was like, oh.
So, hey, thanks, guys.
Sorry, I let that get away with me.
I don't know what I was thinking going in that lake.
Yeah.
You really see it.
Well, that's lovely, isn't it?
That's lovely, isn't it?
I didn't know kangaroos swam.
Well, I guess they don't.
I don't know how it ended up there.
But it seemed like it could have bounced its way back because it wasn't that deep.
But I don't know, maybe it just got into...
It's like when a bird gets into your house.
And they just lose all sense of direction.
It's like Google Maps without an internet connection.
It's like, guys, just go out the way you came in.
Because I'm petrified.
I hate birds in enclosed spaces.
One almost, I swear to God, one almost flew inside
my driver's window the
other morning. Oh really? When I was driving to work.
Jeez. And I was like, oh dear God.
I don't know. I think I would have pulled
over and burnt the car.
Just walked out. We've got $5,000 up for
grabs in 15 minutes time. Did I just say
I'd burn a car with a bird in it?
Yeah, I think so.
And I mean every word of that, okay?
It was a sparrow, they didn't count.
John O'Byrne.
You're only five words away from a massive
payday. It is our game of word
association. If you match all
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the next Team New Zealand America's Cup here in New Zealand.
I mean, that could happen, right?
We'll put you in touch with Dalton.
Yeah.
And welcome to the program, Annabelle from Danny Burke, the Viking capital of New Zealand.
Who knew we had one?
Who knew we needed one?
But we have one.
Annabelle, welcome.
G'day, guys.
Good to have you on, Annabelle.
$5,000.
Imagine what you could do with $5,000.
Well, anything up to the value of $5,000. Imagine what you could do with $5,000. Well, anything up
to the value of $5,000, basically. What would you do with it?
Oh, it's a dream. I don't know. To be honest, probably buy a ride-on lawnmower.
I love it.
It's a wonderful purchase.
I love it.
Have you got a lot of lawn to mow?
Yeah, we do. It's hard work with a push mower, so a ride-on would be a dream.
Stop bragging about all your grass.
So much grass.
You must have been judging Ben just 15 minutes ago when he admitted publicly that he has astroturf.
Yeah.
But not a very big lawn.
A ride on lawnmower wouldn't have been helpful for me.
He has to go on his hands and knees and pick up the leaves off his astroturf.
But let's not talk about that because that's not what we're here to do.
We're here to win you $5,000, Annabelle.
Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth this morning to match five words with?
Can I send you away, John Oates?
Oh, you want to send me away?
Yeah, to the soundproof booth.
I'd like to send him away too.
So I just shut up for a couple of seconds.
Yeah, away he goes to the soundproof booth. Annabelle,
obviously you know how the game works.
Yep. Alright, I'm going to say
a word. See what pops into your head when I
say this word.
Casper. C-A-S-P-E-R
Casper.
Ghost?
Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well.
Produce Juliet, you heard of Casper the ghost?
Yes.
Stuart is the second word this morning.
Stuart.
Island.
Matching so far, 100% with you.
Barcode is word number three.
Barcode.
Scanner.
Scanner.
That's good.
That's good.
So far you're playing a good game yeah nuts is number four
nuts nut oh nuts with an s oh nuts oh god um this is where it gets tricky words four and five
nuts um peanuts, like it
Peanuts
And captain is the final word
What pops into your head when I say captain?
Oh, captain
Cook
Yeah, well, yeah
Nice
It's a good option
There we go
We'll see if it all matches with what Jono's about to say
We'll get him out of the soundproof booth
But we all enjoyed that quick reprieve from Jono Prytor.
It was awkward in there.
There was a couple having an argument in the soundproof booth this morning.
How did you go this morning, Annabelle?
To be honest, not confident, but...
No New Zealander is confident.
We need more confidence.
Yeah.
We need more cockiness and arrogance in this country,
but five words, Let's do it.
Let's get you that right on, Lawnmower.
All right, let's rip into it.
First word I said to Annabelle was Casper.
Jono, Casper.
Ghost.
Well done.
One from five.
Stuart was word number two.
Little.
Where did you go?
Island. Stuart? Island.
Stuart Island.
Oh!
Have you heard of Stuart Island, mate?
I've heard of Stuart Island, mate.
Why are you saying it like
have you heard of Stuart Island, mate?
Oh, yeah.
Stuart Little.
Have you heard of Stuart Little, mate?
I'll come back at you.
I'll clap back.
I have, I have.
What do you like better?
Stuart Island.
Yeah, I like Stuart Little. Adorable little mouse. Sorry, Annabelle, I have. What do you like better? Stuart Island. I like Stuart Little.
Adorable little mouse.
Sorry, Annabelle, couldn't do it for you this morning,
but we'll go through the motions, shall we?
Yeah, let's rip through them quickly.
Barcode.
Scanner.
Oh, nice, well done.
Nuts.
What pops into your head when you say nuts?
Peanuts.
Oh, and Captain was the final one.
Captain Cook?
Oh, Annabelle!
If only you'd gone with Stuart.
If only I'd done it.
Have you heard of Stuart Lawrence?
Annabelle.
Part of our country.
We bowed out early.
So close. So close.
So close.
Well, it looks like you're still going to be pushing that lawnmower around, mate.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I really wanted to win that for you.
Another chance for someone tomorrow.
Same time, same place.
We've got Spy on the way.
Spy.
Know what's up?
Spy.co.nz.
Mike, when I was seven years old and had to drive my dad home from the pub,
it's time for our radio daughter, Juliet, to take the steering wheel.
All right, what's happening in SpyJew?
So Prince William has broken a royal protocol.
I say that with the inverted commas.
Listen, no one's broken royal protocol more than Prince Andrew.
So I think whatever he's done is going to pale in comparison.
Very true.
So one of the rules, so royals have a bunch of rules that they sort of need to abide by.
One of them is to avoid taking selfies with people.
This is basically seen as...
A pain in the ass.
Well, if you're thinking about like if you're going and taking a selfie with someone,
it's essentially turning your back on someone.
So the Queen's like, we don't want the public to turn their backs on us,
is apparently the meaning behind it.
That's a watery excuse.
Yeah, I know.
It's kind of strange.
But Prince William has posed for a selfie.
He was at a charity event
and there was a selfie that's emerged of him
with someone else.
And people are like,
oh, he's broken royal protocol.
But did you know that also,
they're not supposed to,
they're not allowed to sign autographs
because for forgery reasons as well.
There's another rule that they're not meant to do.
They're not meant to.
It's interesting that you imagine it will change a bit.
Maybe this is, you know,
photos like this.
Totally.
There's a new king or queen at some stage
that might go,
huh, the selfie thing's probably a little outdated.
Now you clasped the hand of Meghan Markle when she was here.
Your hand was wrapped around her hand.
Yeah.
You would think that that was a wonderful opportunity for a selfie?
I know.
My priority when that happened was I just filmed the whole thing.
I had one hand just sort of by my chest, holding my phone, filming it.
And the other hand was, you know, giving her a handshake.
Megan! Megan! Megan! You can imagine Jew, eh? Jew would have been peeking at the walkthrough
with Megan and Harry.
But in hindsight, I wish it was like, I think I wish I met Harry instead of Megan.
Remember when we got Hayley, we were doing the TV show at the time, we got Hayley Sproul
who was working for us, with us on the show. Remember we got that massive bouquet of flowers?
Because we'd seen in Australia
another radio station had got
a huge bouquet of flowers to Megan and she'd
grabbed it. So we were like, we'll get an even bigger one
twice as big. That's right, it was ludicrous.
It was ridiculous. It would have been 25 kilograms
of flowers. And in the end Jacinda Ardern
ended up taking it.
That's right. It was a photo of the Prime Minister
lugging this massive bouquet of flowers away.
She was trying to like,
yeah, she was trying to get it out of the way,
wasn't she?
Because I can't get close enough.
She's like, oh, just try and take it.
They were huge.
That is so funny.
She's probably still working her way
through those flowers now, Jacinda.
I did also read,
this is a really interesting royal protocol,
they don't eat shellfish
because of the increased likelihood of food poisoning
And then they also have to travel with an all black outfit
While they're on tours in case there's a funeral
And they need to appear at a funeral
So they're ready for everything
No, that's always handy
Well, I wonder if he takes his own suit pants
Because I took Ben's to a wedding once
And I didn't squeeze into them
And it was ugly, ugly scenes. And in other news,
the Tally Tubbies have put their
feelers out to do a collaboration with someone and it's a very interesting collaboration.
Lil Nas X, the guy behind Old Town Road.
Imagine the Tally Tubbies and this guy getting
together, that'd be interesting.
So basically Lil Nas X, he recently released his debut album Montero.
And the Tally Tabbies photoshopped themselves into the album artwork,
asking Lil Nas if they could be on the next album.
And he's keen.
He replied to it and everyone's like,
is this going to be a legitimate thing?
And to be fair, it does seem like something that this Lil Nas X guy would do because he does seem quite comical and creative.
Even watching, I remember as a child watching Teletubbies going,
this is, creatively, it's on a whole other level.
I mean, I'm not even on this level.
There was that weird, creepy baby who was the sun.
That's right.
But his face was the sun.
Have you seen the photo of the baby grown up?
No.
Photos have gone viral.
I think it's been a few years ago now,
but what the Teletubbies baby in the sun looks like.
Oh!
Fully grown up.
She still looks like the baby, though, from the sun, doesn't she?
Yeah.
Look at her.
She looks probably 21.
Yeah.
You can still recognise that face.
If I saw that face, it gave me nightmares for many years.
She's got her own baby.
Yeah, she's got her own baby now.
That's crazy stuff.
How the world works.
That baby turned up every day for those shoots.
Religiously.
To play the sun.
And that is your Spy update this morning.
For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz.
New Zealand's breakfast.
This is Jono and Ben
on The Hits. It is The Hits. Jono
and Ben just gone 8 o'clock. Of course
it's day 2 of Auckland being in level
3. One of the things we'll chill out a little bit today with
the fast foods. Because jeez it was
We let it get away on us didn't we? We played
a very eager game. Did you go
to any fast food proprietor yesterday
Benjamin? No I got
a coffee in the
afternoon
I got a frappuccino
from Starbucks
and geez it was good
Yum
Now Julia
you were googling
last week
images of burgers
and fries
and pizzas
and things
just to get your fix
did you?
I didn't go last night
I'm going to go tonight
I thought I'd just
skip a day
She had quite a good
theory June
Oh yeah
because I was like
well if food places
are opening up,
you know, as of yesterday in Auckland, are they still using, you know,
did they freeze the stuff from before lockdown?
Is it not as fresh?
Now she's coming in for the fresh Thursday.
Another question I wanted to ask you yesterday was,
in KFC and places like that, could you go inside or not?
But we'll click and collect.
You know, we're not in through the drive-thru.
Surely the Uber Eats drivers and things would...
Because we went, why was the person in the tent overnight?
Why didn't they just stay in the car?
But maybe they didn't have a car.
Maybe they were waiting to click and, you know, basically click and...
You can wait at the door.
I don't know.
That was the thing I thought about last night.
I was like, maybe we've gone, why are they not in the car?
Maybe they had it right all along.
So...
Hey, well, the Colonel.
The Colonel's diversifying.
You've got to come in at different angles, don't you?
Now, someone told me something yesterday, a friend
of ours, that they haven't done for the duration of
lockdown. This will amaze
and disgust you simultaneously.
I've told you what it is.
Unless you're from Dunedin and living on Castle Street, then you're
probably like, oh, it's nothing.
We'll get to that next. It is the hits. You've got Jono
and Ben.
Single ladies, it is the hits.
Jono and Ben, 808.
Now, I was talking to a friend of ours yesterday,
and she confessed something to me that for the entire period of lockdown,
she hasn't washed her bedsheets.
And if I did the maths in my head, you know,
we're looking at 35, 36 days, aren't we?
So over a month.
Five weeks.
Yeah, I mean, she's really pushed the limits of those bed sheets.
I mean, I said, you're probably going to put that bed into managed isolation.
And the confusing thing was, I said, why?
She said, oh, I just haven't done it.
But it's like there's literally nowhere else you could be.
You weren't allowed to go anywhere else.
Well, that's true.
You had no excuse.
All you could do was hang around your house.
And you couldn't be bothered taking the sheets off and putting them in the and i get it because
putting a duvet cover on is probably one of life's you know it's like satan gave us a chore isn't it
yeah oh god that's the worst but yeah a month a month is really pushing the boundaries what's
your uh mine's i've changed mine every week but that i actually used to be every two weeks but that
was purely because my bed was against a wall and i hate changing sheets when a bed is against a wall
now it's not because you're gonna lean over into yeah i know you're saying ben what do you yeah i'd
be i'd be weekly yeah change yes but i was actually because i knew you're going to be talking about
this so i was like i'll look online and i but i hate reading stuff that i shouldn't read because
and i won't go to because
there's someone in australia was like these are all the things that can you know that can breed
over and i don't want to know don't want to know about that but a lady was saying uh an expert in
australia you should change your pillowcases a lot more regularly than a week because they're
the one you got your face on she said every every couple of days you should be uh washing your
pillowcases is what she said i'm i like my pillowcase to turn the color of a road cone
before i change because i was like once a week's turn the color of a road cone before i before i
change because i was like once a week's fine for that you know that was the thing we did something
not so long ago where i admitted that i was using the same towel for uh you know your five-day work
week and uh people were funny you can't do that there's bacteria you've got to change your towel
every day and it got inside my head every day like to be honest my towel when it came to friday
i was like boss i've had a tough week.
Like, he looked, my towel looked depressed.
He's like, I want to retire from being a towel.
So now I do my towel every second day.
Right.
But I used to do the bed every fortnight like you do.
But once that towel thing got in my head,
I was like, oh, I have to switch to a weekly regime.
Yeah, well, so what are you doing?
Andrew, that hits a 4, 4, 8, 7, 7.
Is that what we want to know this morning?
Yeah, yeah.
What is the longest time you've gone without washing something?
You know, it could be jeans.
It could be towels.
It could be yourself.
You're here.
You're here.
I mean, for you, John, I mean, it's been a while.
I just do it so I feel like I'm part of the team.
Just put some shampoo on there for me.
And Jen's always like, why are you using my shampoo?
Because I want to feel like a...
I'm a team of five million, guys.
Let me treat myself.
Yeah, I feel like Auckland compared to the rest of five million guys let me treat myself yeah i feel
like auckland compared to the rest of the country right now uh so yeah oh 800 the hits what have
you not washed in a long time and we want to be impressed all right and disturbed yeah at the same
time no judgment okay a little bit of judgment a lot of judgment let's not hide that fact we're
gonna be judging your essential listening for non-essential banter i thought i was saying
something meaningful there then then I backed out.
Jono and Ben, New Zealand breakfast.
I think it's interesting you just said you need to change your pillowcase every two days.
Well, that's what I was reading online.
There's always an expert that contradicts what we all think, right?
Someone in Australia.
So do you want to listen to an Australian expert, guys?
But anyway, they were saying every few days because you're putting your face on there and your sunscreen and all that sort of stuff.
Now I guess it makes sense.
The great thing about the internet is if you look hard enough, you get the answer you're wanting.
Yeah, that's true.
I've just been looking at how often should you wash your bedsheets.
And the sequence of questions is really funny.
The first question is, how often should I wash my bedsheets?
The answer is, once per week.
Second question is, what happens if I don't wash my bedsheets once a week? Then the third question is, what if I wash my bedsheets? Is it acceptable to wash my bed sheets? The answer is once per week. Second question is, what happens if I don't wash my bed sheets once a
week? Then the third question is, what if I
wash my bed sheets? Is it acceptable to wash my bed sheets
every three months too? So you can see the
thought pattern there that's gone into it.
But welcome to the show, Mary
from Masterton, the home
of Benjamin Ross Boyce. Do they still talk about
their favourite son there, Mary?
Yeah, all the time. He's a local
star. He's a legend. He Yeah, I know you're lying.
He's like the Loch Ness Monster.
Mary, how often have you not washed?
Sorry, I've really stuffed that up.
When was the last time you washed a certain item?
Well, I washed my sheets a couple of months ago.
I kind of do it four times a year every three months.
Four times a year?
I have a shower every night Before I go to bed
So I'm clean before I get in
And you know
It's such a hassle
To have to make
Change your sheets
It is
So you know
I'm nice and clean
When I get into bed
So I just do it
Yeah every three months or so
I think your sheets
Have just turned into
Dead skin cells now
You're just sleeping on
That's impressive
And why did you get into this three-month regime?
Why did you pick three?
Well, it just makes it nice and easy.
You know, four times a year.
Every time the season changes.
So do Mary's sheets.
She changes the batteries in her fire alarms as well at the same time.
Thank you very much, Mary.
Well, that's great. Three months, she's
washing her sheet every three months. Janina, welcome
from Kaipoi. Morning, how are you?
I'm good, thank you. Alright, long time
since you've washed what? Oh, my
good pair of Levi jeans.
I wash them a couple times a year
because otherwise they fade and they lose their shape and colour.
Well, actually,
I think I read something a while ago. Did you read the same
thing, Producer Juliet?
I think Levi Strauss himself was saying here, you don't wash them.
You basically put them outside in the sun to air out or something.
So you might be onto something there with jeans.
Oh, it seems like a cheeky little ploy from a jeans manufacturer to have people wear jeans
until they decompose and have to buy more jeans.
But does it work well for you?
Like, do they smell?
No, they don't smell.
Nah, they're all good.
A friend of mine used to put his jeans when we were at radio school. He didn't wash them, but he put them in the freezer.
Oh! And thinking that was
helping some sort of cleaning process.
So they would freeze and then they would defrost
them on the washing house.
Very cold.
It would put them on my cold legs.
Oh!
I have heard though that if you get gum stuck on clothes,
put the clothes in the freezer,
and then it's easy to take the gum out afterwards.
All right.
Well, dirty legs, Janina.
Thank you very much for your call.
Good on you, mate.
Keely, welcome.
You're in Auckland.
You haven't washed something in a long time?
No, I'm pretty good with cleaning.
I'm a nurse, so I work in infection control.
And I change my sheets weekly,
but it was something I picked up from my mum on a Sunday.
She would change everyone's bedding and air out the house.
She said that it was good for, you know, not just cleanliness, but it also helped release energy that built up, you know, around you.
In the bed.
Yeah, exactly. Bed energy.
I tell you what, bed boys will tell you about bed energy.
It's a hot bed.
Hot bed of energy.
A lot of electrics.
I do change my pillowcase every second day.
I'm kind of horrified hearing some of the people that have spoken before me.
I would think that they would be thinking about all that, you know, poo particles.
She's pulling no punches here, Keely.
You're going to go there.
Yeah, I tell Keely.
And Keely, hey, we said we would cast no judgment, and you've just been judging everyone.
No, no, no, it's not judging.
It's more, you know, caring about their health as a nurse.
Good on you, Keeley.
Well, you're a wonderful person,
and thank you for all the hard work you're doing out there on the front line.
You're very welcome.
I'm enjoying my McDonald's after night shift.
I bet you are.
I bet you are.
Keep safe, Keeley.
And actually, a professional cleaner's phone through,
Joe from washdryfold.co.nz, one of my favourite websites.
Joe, how often should we be washing?
Well, it depends how dirty they are, I guess, boys.
The reality is a lot of the people
that deal with our service are doing it
pretty much every week they use the service,
get a bag of washing picked up,
washed, dried and folded and delivered back, really.
Joe, I want to kiss you, Joe.
What a wonderful business idea.
Yeah, it's something we've been working through for a couple of years now,
and we've had laundries and other things like that.
But, yeah, the old online service, wash, dry, fold,
people love to get online and book it in and never a problem after that.
Good on you.
Did you know Ben Boyce was actually, he was meant to do
the washing and folding but he was secretly taking it to
a laundromat and he did not tell his family.
And they were like, well this is exquisite
folding. Suddenly my folding got really good.
That was the thing because I could never fold
a fitted sheet.
I've got to admit, I'm not very good
at the folding either.
Scrunch those fitted sheets up.
Good on you Joe. Hey, washdryfold.co.nz
Great, nice great business idea and actually someone
has texted in, I'm a dermatologist
and I recommend showering every
second day. What?
Oh see, it seems that you only shower two or three
times a week. Contradicting, oh
it's so hard to know what to do, isn't it?
We're just navigating through this whole thing
We're everyone airing their dirty
laundry literally on the air.
Thank you very much for that.
And getting judged for it.
We appreciate it.
That's you got, Jono and Ben.
These show producers were nominated for a radio award
because when you work with these guys, you deserve a medal.
Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast.
That's a hit.
Jono and Ben, 8.27.
Now, a lot of burgers consumed yesterday right around the country.
But what I didn't realize is the emoji for burgers is different between Apple and also on the Google, basically.
Don't call it the Google.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah, it's bad.
Oh, is that really bad, is it?
Yeah, no, Google's no good, yeah.
Okay.
So, yeah.
So, Google's burger emoji places the cheese underneath, pretty much underneath at the bottom of the burger,
while Apple puts the cheese at the top.
And everyone's been debating going, where's the cheese meant to go?
So the emoji, the layout is different of the burgers.
You would have to opt cheese at the bottom.
It offers a layer of protection between the moisture and the bun.
Juliet, don't shake your head at me.
I would say I'd go cheese on top of the patty.
I am very passionate about the cheese being on top of the patty,
but the cheese being on top while the patty's still cooking,
so then it melts and drips over the patty,
and it's just the greatest thing you've ever put in your mouth.
My main concern, you just want a layer of protection.
You want a layer of protection between the patty and the bun.
I don't care what's in between, and I'm sorry for offending you, Juliet,
by saying put cheese on.
It could be a bed of lettuce.
That's fine. Just something.
Just insurance.
You don't want soggy buns, Ben.
If you're 4487 on the text,
where's the cheese go on the burger?
I'd like to know. We're getting to the biggest issue today.
This is probably the most popular thing we do.
Top or bottom. Cheese at the top or the bottom
of the burger. Very shortly we'll tell you how you can win
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show, Jono and Ben Good Sports. It is the hits.
From the socially distantly
safe two metres, stay away.
This is New Zealand's Breakfast
with Jono and Ben.
Hey, listen, just on your text poll that you started
out, your rogue text poll. Oh, sorry about that.
Not pre-arranged. You know, we have a pre-show
meeting for a reason, Ben. I chucked it out there.
I thought it was something. I know I've been pushing that one all week.
So guys, we should do this around the fast food.
Everyone's like, oh yeah, I think it's done. We've done enough. We've filled that
bucket. That's all Ben's saying.
But anyway, the differing emojis
on Apple and
Google. The Google.
The Google. The order of
the contents of a hamburger.
Google have got the cheese on top. Apple have got the cheese on the bottom of a hamburger. Google have got the cheese on top.
Apple have got the cheese on the bottom of the burger.
And a lot of people saying, agreeing with you, Juliet,
the cheese needs to be melted on top of the patty.
But they all do agree that there needs to be a layer of protection
on either sides of the contents from the bun.
Okay.
So there we go.
Thank you.
Was it good?
Yeah, it was good.
I enjoyed that.
I did.
Awesome.
Now, I got scammed yesterday.
And my problem with the scammers is they've checked out.
Oh, really?
The scammers have really just, they're ticking boxes, you know.
They're doing polls on what order of the ingredients.
The hamburgers, you know, run-of-the-mill stuff.
Do you find that?
I got a text the other day, and it was just so sloppy. It was kind of like, your stuff has been delivered
to collect, send through your credit card details.
That was the text.
Your stuff has been delivered.
I mean, guys, this is like a marriage 40 years in.
There's no spiciness.
There's no trying.
They've just checked out.
I got one.
I think there's a scam going around
with obviously couriers going.
Same sort of thing.
You need to pick up your thing or pay extra to release whatever you bought online.
But in the subject of the email, it's like the cases were lowercase, uppercase, lowercase, uppercase.
It was like, what would a legitimate courier company write something?
Like Jono would write it all in caps.
I would do that.
I nearly scammed you
i nearly got your deets but it was a real mixture of like why why do they do that yeah they need to
try harder and then i think details was like dilates or something send through your credit
card dilates d-l-a-t-e-s and it's the my wife jennifer about four or five weeks ago got a
voicemail message now some of of them have just resorted to,
I can't even be bothered personalising it.
Just firing off automatic voice messages.
I got one of those too.
Basically like, hey, we're here to rip you off.
If you can be bothered being scammed,
you may as well just send us your credit card details
because I can't be bothered putting any effort into scamming you.
There was a time where it was like,
I'm this mysterious Nigerian prince.
Here's a photo of me shirtless.
I've come into an abundance of millions of dollars of fortune.
There was a backstory.
There was effort being put in.
Although I did hear on another radio station yesterday afternoon
some poor fellow in Christchurch, I think it was,
got scammed by some people.
They were going around door to door with,
and they had Ministry of Health badges on that looked legit,
saying if you pay $100 right now, you should secure your vaccines.
You don't have to wait.
And so it was like, oh.
That's going to the extra effort just to scam poor people.
It's very sad, but, you know,
you've got to appreciate the effort they've gone to.
Like, I feel so, don't get me wrong,
I feel sorry for the old gentleman,
but it's like, that's effort.
Thought has gone into it.
How do we stitch up this sweet old man?
Okay, we'll say we'll get a vaccine.
He hasn't got a vaccine yet.
Bit of a hot topic at the moment.
Wonderful, wonderful backstory.
You know, more brainstorming.
Don't just go with the first idea, scammers.
Because I feel it's turning into like a franchise.
You've got employees who don't care.
They've got no passion for the project.
Put some effort. If I'm going to be scammed, want to know some efforts unless they put the evidence hey next how you can win a hundred a hundred dollars a thousand dollars
with our tv show uh jonathan being it's on tonight how we could be trying to scam you by watching it
this is legit people this is legit it's not a good time to be talking about it off the top
of the scamming topic but it's legit. We'll tell you next.
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That is November next year.
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And it's not where you get dressed in lycra.
Body hugging lycra
and do professional wrestling.
And that was honestly terrifying.
Probably one of the more terrifying things we did because
you're like, I could get some serious
spinal damage from this. And
what they didn't tell us too, when we turned up
in lycra, it was like, have you got a spray
tanned? Oh yeah, I didn't know about that.
Tell us about spray tanned. Apparently they all spray tanned? Oh yeah, I wouldn't know about that. Apparently they all
spray tan, that's why they look magnificent.
Then these two pasty, you know,
winter white
skinny, oh it's
just pathetic. Tonight
as well as wrestling though, Waka
Ama and Sheepdog
Trials as well. And a lady who taught
me the art of sheepdogging
is the wonderful Robin trials as well. And a lady who taught me the art of sheepdogging is
the wonderful Robin
who's with us on the phone.
Oh, g'day. Is that you, John?
It is. We haven't spoken in a long time,
Robin. Oh, no.
I've been hearing you from time to time
on the hits, so
yeah, no.
I've thought of that recording
session we did down there with Danny Burke, and it was a lot of fun. Oh, a lot of fun. Listen, I've thought of that recording session we did down there with Danny Burke,
and it was a lot of fun.
Oh, a lot of fun.
Listen, you've lived on in my heart forever.
Robin and me struck it off.
I've been thinking about you often, Robin.
I've been writing Robin letters, dreaming of Robin.
You guys were a team, weren't you?
Oh, we absolutely formed a bond.
I have no doubt about that.
The chemistry was electric.
You're already quite a lot into it, I think.
Am I reading too much into it?
Maybe.
Yeah, right, okay.
So it wasn't like a Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper situation.
No, no, no.
Oh, okay.
Just disgusting, wasn't it?
Yeah, right.
So Robinson would be disgusting, she's saying. Okay, all right, sorry. Anyway, you were there. just disgusting, wouldn't it? Yeah, right. So Robin's saying it'd be disgusting, she's saying.
Okay.
All right.
Sorry.
Anyway, you were there to learn about sheepdog trials.
And it's something that your family has been involved in for many, many years, Robin.
Well, yes, absolutely true.
My dad, he was quite phenomenal in his day.
Now, Ben, you had to learn the art of the dog whistle,
the plastic device that you put in your mouth.
A very feeble attempt on the dog whistle in a 24-hour learning period,
but that made it a bit trickier.
Oh, there was a lot of spit coming out.
What I really admired was just how obedient the dogs are.
They are just tuned in.
And Ben, when you were controlling your dog with the whistle,
firing off all sorts of wild demands that the dog hadn't heard before,
it was almost like the equivalent of going,
left, right, no, no, right again, left, left, back, back.
Really confusing them because they actually live by the whistle,
don't they, to be controlled by that whistle.
They know exactly what
each command means
and that's how you
guide them around the stock.
Do you still have that whistle?
I have it at home.
One of the kids picked it up
and it actually was quite good on her. Probably better than me.
I was like, alright, stop showing off.
You weren't trying to stop the kids with the whistle. No. You've been trying to stop the kids with the whistle.
No, no, I wasn't trying to stop the kids with the whistle.
They were playing with the whistle.
He now controls his entire family via whistle.
The aim of the sport, and people will see it on the TV show,
John Owen being good sports,
but it's to try and get the sheep into the pen
in the quickest amount of time, right?
Not necessarily.
Did I not pick up anything from that day?
Okay, you tell us what the aim of this one is.
What I'm saying is it's not a speed event.
You just have to complete it without losing too many penalty points.
And the object is to eventually get them into the pen,
which is the same on the farm.
If you must bring sheep in,
you'd have to eventually bring them into a yard to, you know,
whatever you're doing.
Have we got to the stage, though, where, you know,
through genetics and stuff, the sheep must know what to do now.
Yeah.
Surely they're like, oh, this guy's going to bully us around for a little bit.
He's going to get us into this little box.
Why don't you just follow me sort of thing?
Yeah.
Well, in a situation like that
they would have been handled a bit
beforehand so that they weren't
leaping over fences and running down
the street.
The attitude of a sheep always
is on edge.
Someone's coming. Something's going to happen to me.
It's like me.
Fair enough. I understand how that works. Well, you've got the... Yeah, yeah.
Fair enough.
I understand how that works.
Well, Robin, it was so nice to meet you
and learn about the sport that you are so passionate about,
and I can't wait for everyone to see it on the TV show tonight.
Well, I'm looking forward to it, too.
I don't know what you've...
Oh, mate.
We have stitched you up in the edit
Don't you worry about that
It was lovely meeting you Robin
Well I tell you what it was an absolute pleasure guys
And watching you on
The Good Sports show
I mean you really are good sports
Because I've watched you
Nearly drown a few times
Oh yeah
And hey Jono Really great to see you nail the barefoot skiing.
Yeah, well, thank you.
Thank you, Robin.
That's lovely of you to say.
We left our dignity at the door when we embarked on that show,
that's for sure.
There was a coat rack, and it said,
hang your dignity up here, and that's what we did.
Yeah, well, I admire you.
Good on you.
Hey, well, love your work, Robin.
You keep safe.
Thank you. Want more you. Hey, we love your work, Rob, and you keep safe. Thank you.
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