Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Got Caught Doing Something At A Public Pool....

Episode Date: January 26, 2023

Jono got caught doing something in the pools... Ben had a wild animal encounter Ben almost said his mum was dead... Windy and wild weekend in New Zealand! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yeah, all good to go. Welcome along. This is the Jono and Ben podcast brought to you by Challenge Petrol Service Stations. I think we did good work around the old, the horn there of Producer Joel today. Perfect timing from you. Impeccable. Went back yesterday with a very fumbly start. I didn't know whether it'd come pre, over, after, but it worked well today. Ben Boyce, you've got a jacket on today. Yeah.

Braving the elements out there Braving the elements Yes Because it is A bit wet Around Well around a lot of the country Over the weekend See

I said before Summer's been awful Isn't it really It is I feel Who do I have to sleep with Around here To get a second stab at summer

Because whoever If it's you Ben I'm willing and able Yeah Get your money back on it But I want to play a little game On the podcast For you listening On the podcast audience Sorry I just willing and able. Yeah, get your money back on it. But I want to play a little game on the podcast for you listening on the podcast audience.

Sorry, I just thought, sorry, just before you do start your game, I was thinking halfway through my holiday that I wonder if we all, as a unified workforce, went to our employers and said, hey, listen, we'll come back early. We'll come back on the 3rd. We're going to work, but then we want our summer holidays when summer's ready for us.

Yeah, I feel like A lot of people When they can They take it later In February and March And that's often the time to do it I think Seymour David Seymour was proposing

That we do move The shutdown period to Feb That was his pitch So we all Have Christmas with your family Do that Blah blah blah Back to it

Back to the tools Then Feb You know sort of from Waitangi onwards Then you have a few weeks off Yeah That's not a bad way idea Because in America it's halfway through the year obviously They have their big

Yeah July Their summer holiday there So the Christmas time over there While they do have the holidays Over there They don't have that long off Cheeky Few cheeky days off yeah sorry now

okay so i wanted to do this uh game uh inspired by uh john bonjo v song dead or alive okay dead or alive uh are they dead or alive because the other day uh it was mentioned a buzz aldrin the astronaut. Yes. Dead. Definitely dead. Is he dead or alive? Are you going to put your mind in there? I'm going to say he's dead. Because this is no disrespect for anyone out there right now, but this is just sometimes you hear a name and you're like,

oh, is that person, are they still with us? Or have they sadly passed away? Every time, Bill Cosby. Okay, let's not go there. Still going? Korea dead. But Buzz Aldrin, the reason I say that, because he actually got married the other day.

What? How old is Buzz Aldrin? Buzz Aldrin, 93 years old, got married the other day. And so, yeah. And then my daughter. He put a ring on her at 93. Yeah. How long has he been with his partner?

Do you know any more? Yeah, and she's 63. He's 93. And they're happily married. They're loping like teenagers, apparently. Oh, well, good on them. I won't say what it's going to be. I will say. I will say.

If I'm in my 90s, I'm almost going, what's the point? Of the marriage. Oh, hey, Great things to live for He's been to the moon And now he's been married And got a lovely marriage Is he with the same lady He was with when he went to the moon

And he's just been putting it off For decades Like we get married this weekend Oh no Next weekend I'm going to the moon Are you going to the moon? Yeah

I'll tell you I was going to the moon Neil Armstrong That was the question From my daughter Sienna afterwards is he dead or alive sorry I

can't find that thing is he dead or alive Neil Armstrong dead yeah he died in

2012 so that's a little thing here's one for you the guy from

Willy Wonka the OG Gene Wilder. Oh, Gene Wilder. Dead or alive. Dead or alive. I'm going to say alive. You're going to say alive?

But I haven't seen anything from him because he's always on memes and stuff like that. It was great. Very funny. Oh, maybe he has sadly passed away. Gene Wilder. He's still kicking. He's still kicking. He still kicking He's still going There you go

Burt Bacharach Why do Burt Yeah I don't google him mate Because he did it real live Oh okay Burt Bacharach He's long gone Long gone

Let's have a look Burt Bacharach Alive Question mark Burt Bacharach How old is Burt Bacharach, alive, question mark. Burt Bacharach, how old is Burt Bacharach? 94. He's still kicking.

He's still going all right. Still kicking. It's a fun game to play. And it's not, like you say, no disrespect to these people. It's just they're away from the limelight. Yeah, they've had amazing careers and stuff like that. Many people are probably going, John O'Benton? Yeah. I admit that all the time. People are like, oh, you thought careers and stuff like that. Many people are probably going, Jono and Ben? Yeah. Yeah.

I admit that all the time. People are like, oh, you just thought you were dead. Yeah. No, just that. My kids said that to me the other day. I got home from work. Oh, I thought, what are you doing here? I thought you died. The guys who, oh, those guys.

Anyway, enjoy the podcast. It's a real fun one today. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jono, look, I've got to apologise for something happened yesterday. Now, you played some audio. This was Mike Tindall. He's a former rugby player. He's now married to Zara, one of the Royals.

And he had this to say where he got, he was on a podcast and he got his wedding date wrong. Yeah, in 2012, he married a legend. Who said that? I don't know. Didn't we get married in 2011? Sorry after the yes we did in 2011 you married a legend uh but so he got that wrong he got that wrong and you played that audio yesterday and it was funny audio but i i mocked you for the i was like where did you find this audio where did you go searching for it?

Why are you bringing it to the show in prime time is what you said. Yeah, that's right. This is what happened yesterday. Mike Tindall. Now, Mike Tindall is married to, is it Princess Zara? I don't know, mate. You've got this deep dive on some random podcast. Listen, we're laughing because I said,

hey, I've got this thing from Mike Tindall and Princess Zara. And they're like, what wrong turn on the internet did you take to end up listening to a Mike Tindall, Princess Sarah podcast? It was from a podcast. He was asking me these questions. I'm like, I don't care, mate. Yeah, that's what you said yesterday. And I took it on the chin.

I walked away and I'm like, a blemish on the broadcasting career. I sat at home last night about 11.30, just awake in bed going, have I chosen the broadcasting career I sat at home last night about 11.30 just awake in bed going have I chosen the wrong career do I need to

rethink my vocation well I want to apologise because not long after you talked about it and you mocked me and I mocked you

I mocked you let's not forget that it became news in New Zealand on stuff.co.nz like a headline came up Mike Tindall interviews wife Zara

fun chat about their wedding. He got the date wrong. And it became like newsworthy in New Zealand. And I was like, oh, dear God. Well, isn't this a turnout for the books? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It was great stuff.

You brought to the radio. And you were ahead. You broke that to New Zealand audiences. I don't want to say we're the news leaders. But when you are a leader, you're going to get your knockers. Let's take a look at history's great leaders. Putin. Trump.

No. Prime. No. Always. You want to put yourself in the category with those? The great leaders of the world, we all get knocked. And I don't want to say, Ben,

this show is a newsleading show. What? If I can take you back to December last year. So we're going to have to make 23 predictions for the year 2023, all right? What are you predicting?

Here's a wild one, okay? I'm going to chuck it out early. Ardern, she's stepping down before the next election. I'll leave that with you. You did say that

in the last one as well. I'm not sure if you can repeat predictions. Did I say it with that confidence though? Because that sounded bloody confident. You can't keep saying it. I just used your surname.

I was like, Ardern, she's stepping down next election. That sounded like I knew what I was talking about. Like I had an inside word. We lead, they follow, Ben. We lead, they follow. Is Hosking back on air? No. He's going to be coming back Monday and listening to this show and copying and pasting.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Jono, you're making me read Prince Harry's book, Spare, because I bought a copy for a silly little thing I decided to do on Instagram. And then I took the book back. Well, I got my kids to take the book back and swap it for something else. And you were like, well, hey, you owe Prince Harry. Yeah, you owe him an apology. And why else do you have kids except to, you know, not for to,

they can do things that you don't want to do, like awkwardly exchange books that you bought 24 hours for a cheap game. Now, the gag was quite good. It was like you buy a car and you're filming like,

where's the spare? I've got a flat tire, where's the spare? Open up the boot and there's a copy of Harry's book, Spare in the Boot. And then you were like, I'm never going to read that.

I'm going to return it to the bookshop. Didn't open the book. return it to the bookshop I didn't get my money back the bookstore still got $60 he always likes to get that out there I always go back and get money back

the world of radio this is what punishment has become I'm like Ben I'm going to make you read a book to say sorry to Prince Harry and you're like oh no not read a book and I'm like you've got I'm going to make you read a book to say sorry to Prince Harry. And you're like, oh, no, not read a book. And I'm like, you've got to read a book by Monday. Well, that's a short space of time, though. In the 90s, mate, I would be making you put that book inside you.

Yeah. So you're making me read all like 407 pages of this book by Monday. And you're going to quiz me on it on Monday. And every one I get wrong, what, I have to pay $60 to someone on 0800thets? Which is the recommended retail price of Harry's Spear, which is going in stores at the moment. But spoiler alert, Peter, I hate to spoil the book for you. He leaves his family.

Oh, don't. Oh, don't. I'll tell you what, I'm not happy about the fact that I've got to read this bloody book by Monday. So you started? Started last night, and someone who was happy in my household was my daughter, Indy. She loves reading. She's always like, do you want to read this bloody book by Monday. So you started? Started last night and someone who was happy in my household was my daughter Indy. She loves reading. She's always like, do you want to read together?

You call her a nerd, don't you? Yeah. And so last night she was so stoked. Bullying your kids and then you make them return books. She was stoked that I was sitting there and I was like, she's like, Dad's reading. I'm going to sit with Dad and we had a little time reading and she was stoked. I recorded her. Why are you so happy? Because we're finally reading together.

Yeah, but you want to read your book. I've got this Prince Harry book. It's 407 pages. I've got to read it by Monday. Well, it's going to be a task we can do. I love how positive you are. Yeah, it's fun reading. All right, here we go.

Nerds together. Woo! So it's bringing you closer with your daughter. Yeah, so it is nice. Thank you for that. It was actually quite nice. That's not what I wanted. I wanted to drive a wedge between you and your family.

No, I don't know what these questions are going to be all about. So last night I only read 35 pages because it was quite late. But I'm taking all these notes. I'm like, page six, he talks about Willie's alarming baldness. You know, like, so yeah. What does he mean by alarming baldness? know like so yeah quite alert what does he mean by alarming baldness I thought it was

shots fired looked up and it was alarming baldness what did he say about my baldness I was like jeez you want

to hang out with Harry some of the names I found interesting as well they often refer to him as Harold he refers to

his brother as Willie Mummy as well for his mum Pa that always makes me uneasy I know

Queen Victoria she was shot eight times on eight different occasions by seven different subjects. So one had to crack twice. What a gangster. Yeah. She's like Tupac. Charles does headstands in his undies, apparently to help old injuries or something like that. He does headstands and people go to open the door. He's like, don't come in here.

So that's something else I learned from the 35 pages. He was always referred to as the spear. It was always like the ear and the spear from early days. That's not degrading it anyway. It'll put you in your place when you're a toddler. So that's why they called it spear. When he got broken the news about Diana, Harry, his dad didn't even hug him.

I found that was kind of weird. It was kind of not really like showing emotions. He kind of called him I found that was kind of weird it was kind of not really like showing emotions he kind of called him a darling boy and stuff like that you know

he loves his son obviously but not really a huggy sort of situation not very British to hug yeah and the other thing I found interesting as well at boarding school

they were washed by the matrons all of them were just the kids yeah anyway I was like oh that's a bit

anyway so that's what I've I have to get washed by a matron that's just due to old age though but not at boarding school yeah well you've done well so I'm taking notes

like I'm randomly taking notes because I don't know what the questions are going to be all about on Monday so I'm taking notes to see you know trying to remember those well yes you will be

you'll be gruelled quizzed on Monday morning every question he gets wrong $60 goes to you out of his out of his own pocket. Yeah, yeah. This is not from the station, so that's why I'm actually making an effort to be a nerd with my daughter.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Mitch Dragons, you're on The Hits, Jono and Ben. I see cycling legend Hamish Bond, who retired from cycling, is now going to be joining Team New Zealand as well, which is awesome. To become a Team New Zealand legend. Yeah. He's done a lot. He has.

I know. Because then he did Eric Murray and him. They did the pairs rowing. And then he did solo. And then he went cycling. Yeah. I think he won a medal at the Commonwealth Games for cycling. And then he went back to rowing.

And now he's Team New Zealand. Don't even think about a career in radio, mate. Okay? Stop now on the boat hey took the kids swimming the other day and the changing room of the swimming pool i mentioned that i got caught doing something in the changing room of the swimming pool now i know you two you two producer joel and ben they were like oh mate you know lowbrow stuff the way you like and what you implied the way you implied it sounded lowbrow don't put it on us so i got caught talking to myself and in the bathroom again you're like come on mate a little bit more like when you're the prostate issues lowbrow lowbrow stuff Is that Ben's lowbrow brand of humour?

No, I was reciting what I needed to pick up afterwards. I was like, don't forget to get the meat. Don't forget to get the rice. Don't forget to get the milk. Because I like to talk out loud to myself. And I think it's collateral damage from being an only child. I had no one else to talk to. Do you talk to yourself out loud?

Yeah, now and again I do. What do you say to yourself? Well, you know, like just going through stuff, motivating myself for the day. Are you talking motivational stuff? No, and probably like yourself, I do sometimes talk out loud

if you've got things to do or, you know. But not usually in situations when you're around other people. You never want to be caught doing it. No. No, it's kind of like when the doctor says, how much do you drink? We all lie.

Don't you? We all talk to ourselves. You just don't want to be caught doing it. I'll tell you what you could do as a little hack, though, is just wear one AirPod in all day. Because people that wear AirPods just look like they're talking on the phone. You know, one of those little AirPods. So the whole time you're like, pick up the milk afterwards. Got to do the thing.

Come on, mate. You can eat a little bit more urine. You know, whatever it is. Well, then it sounds like I'm motivating a friend on the other end of the boat. Which is fine. Whatever it is, you've got to get by a lot of people. Like, what's he doing? He's on the phone.

Oh, he's just helping his mate Ben out. He's stuck at the urinal. Come on, mate. Little push. One, two, three. There we go. That's right. So that's what I think you need to do

Elton John has been in New Zealand this week He played in Christchurch He's got a couple of gigs Friday tonight And tomorrow at Mount Smart Stadium Which is going to be epic Although the weather's looking a bit sketchy We'll find out what it's going to be like before 7 o'clock And also the transport sounds like it's going to be a shocker as well.

The trains. What's going on? Trains. They've decided, the council has decided, you know, the trains. It's a light weekend. They've decided not to run the trains and do some work, some maintenance. And everyone's like, well, how are we going to get to the concert? And, you know, they've taken away one of the very good options of getting out to the concert.

Oh, that sounds fun. Yeah. And so what are they suggesting? Oh, like some, some, drive, drive., drive. Oh now we can use our cars. There's a few parks out there for four you know not quite enough for 40,000 people so good luck with that everyone. I'm very confused about what they want us to do. No. They're wanting us to drive, bike. Yeah. Catch trains. But Elton John is here and you've been doing a bit of a deep dive on Elton John. Yeah. Jonas Internet Wormhole. What a remarkable career this man's.

When you look at it all in a list, you're like, he's done some stuff, Ben. Yeah. Elton John, guess how many shows he's played in his life? Live shows around the world. Oh, it'd be in the thousands, wouldn't it? Over 4,000. Yeah. Over 4,000.

And he's still danding. He dill danding. Have you still got... And he dill danding, Producer Joel. Oh, no, no. He hasn't quite got that. He hasn't got dill danding.

Yeah. He's looking for dill danding. Elton John, also a vegan. Oh, is he? Okay. He stopped eating meat in 71. Oh, so quite a while. He still ate fish for a few years

and then went full... Yeah. Full vegan. It'd be a nightmare to go out to dinner with, wouldn't it? Oh, I hate more... quite a while. He still ate fish for a few years and then went full, full vegan. It'd be a nightmare to go out to dinner with, wouldn't it? No, I hate more. Like going out to dinner

with bee hunts. No, more places, more places, it's fine, it's fine, you know. Out in John,

in a relationship with David Furnish, so have you found I'm Dill Danning? I'm Dill Danning. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Thank you very much for this job. David Furnish's husband, they've been together since 1993. Oh, that's lovely. Isn't that so sweet? And especially in the entertainment game. Yeah. To have a marriage and relationship last that long.

Oh, probably pretty hard because he is travelling all the time. He's in New Zealand for a good week or so. And he's travelling right around the world. He is the third most successful artist in the history of music uh well particularly when it comes to the charts i don't know beethoven might have a thing to say about that he's like mate if you'd invented the charts back in the day i'd be top in those things but yeah behind alvis and the beatles elton john third most successful And hasn't touched A drop of alcohol Or shoved anything up his nose

Since 1991 He hasn't been drinking For as long as I have been drinking And that's why he's still danding mate Still danding Still danding He's just had it Yeah yeah yeah, yeah

Well apparently by all accounts in Christchurch I'm Dill Danning He smashed it out of the park Yeah, it looks incredible this weekend As I said, he's playing tonight and tomorrow night If you're going along or wherever you are in the country We're going to find out what the weather is going to be like next It is

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A lot of talk about the weather for the commute and over the weekend. He has one true love in life, and that's the weather. Apologies to his family. Philip Duncan from Weather Watch, welcome. I don't know if that's depressing or lovely. Thank you. It's nice to talk to you, Phil Duncan,

but we do need to apologize because we never really ring you when the's a nice to talk to you um phil phil duncan but but we do need to apologize because we never really ring you when the weather's going to be good no i know and people don't tend to thank me when the weather's good but they sure give it love giving me their opinion when it's not it's a thankless job isn't it watching the weather your producer joel was like we only have a phone philip duncan when it's shocking shocking. Maybe one week we'll mix things up and we'll go, hey, Phil, weather's been pretty good lately. And you're like, mate. But it has been shocking.

Yeah, I mean, and it's always around holidays or long weekends and things like that. Now, not over the whole country throughout the sort of Christmas period, but it was pretty, pretty terrible for a lot of it, a lot of rain. Yeah, unfortunately, it is the more popular parts of the Upper North Island, so that's half the country. Half the country are looking at getting some wind and rain over the next few days.

And today, Friday, and again on Tuesday, those are the two main days that look to be the windiest and the wettest. And so we're already seeing a couple of power outages in the Auckland area, and that could increase today as the winds pick up again. It's another one of these squash zone events where it's the same wind direction for sort of day after day after day.

They're talking about shutting down the Harbour Bridge. Yeah, I know. I think they're a little bit misguided with that because the times when we've had problems have been when we get squally weather. That's, you know, those sort of thundery showers that come off the Tasman in winter. They're the kind of ones that can suddenly blow a truck sideways. The general sort of strong winds all day long with gusts and them don't tend to be quite so problematic.

But they, I mean, I don't own a bridge, so they probably know something. It's true. Let's look at the whole country over the weekend. There's a holiday for the upper north on Monday from the half of the north upwards. A lot of people going to Elton John, but people travelling around the country. What do you reckon the weather's going to be like around the country?

So most of the rain is going to be in the top half of the North Island and the western side of the country, really. That's where most of the rain is going to be in the top half of the North Island and the western side of the country, really. That's where most of the wet weather will be. So Coromandel Peninsula, Bay of Plenty, East Cape and Gisborne, those areas in Northland and Auckland are going to get the most of the rain. And, of course, it's Nelson long weekend as well this weekend, and they've got pretty good weather. So the South Island's the place to be,

although there is a cold front coming in today, and those in Southland are going to have a daytime high that's 10 degrees colder than the one yesterday. Let's talk about Elton. Is he still going to be standing, or is he going to be too gusty? Oh, yeah, hair-walking pneumonia last time he was in New Zealand. He should be able to stand there still, I think, on Saturday night, but if the rain is still around, that's probably going to be more of a problem.

But the wind will be a little bit of a nor'easter, but it shouldn't be quite as bad as it is today. Now let's talk about Ed Sheeran in Wellington. He's playing inside at the Opera House. How's that going to be? I reckon that'll be pretty dry. Pretty dry. Good conditions on that one.

I know long-range forecast is very hard to predict, Philip Duncan from Weather Watch, but we've got long weekends, Waitangi weekend a week away. What's it looking like around the country for that? You know, I saw the best weather map for Waitangi weekend. Halfway mark of the Waitangi

weekend showed a huge area of high pressure right across the whole country and the shape of the high was like two eyes and a smiley face, which I thought was kind of good timing considering it was smack bang in the middle of Waitangi. So I think the weekend at this stage is looking good, that long weekend. He always gives us a little bit of hope, doesn't he? He does. Well, Phil Duncan from Weather Watch, while he's watching the weather, who's watching

his children? We don't know. But thank you very much for your time. guys have a good one the hits the jonathan ben podcast i got a swim in yesterday being my friend has purchased you know those pools that you can buy uh from the warehouse and you just they're temporary ones oh yes you put them up you fill them up and i'll let them go toxic green over the winter or you get rid of it. Yeah. They slowly transition from February through July from a pool into a swamp.

A mosquito fest. And yeah, you ride it out. So my friend's got one and he doesn't quite grasp the concept of managing the water pH levels. Oh, yeah. Because it's important. You've got to keep the water. Yeah. Because there's no filter in it.

It's just a body of water just sitting there. And so what he's done, and it just transported me directly back to my childhood in my para pool. Remember the old para pools? Yes. I always wanted one of those as a kid. We never had one. So good. Annie and John, never had one. So good. Annie and John, I had one.

And you've got all your friends over. Yeah, you could do the whirlpool. Yeah. Sometimes you get quite a velocity going there. You thought you were going to warp yourself into another dimension. Yeah. And then someone would stop and go back the other way, and oh, risky move, that one.

Yeah, it was funny. What are you doing going the other way? Yeah, no, but that filled up like nine hours back in the 90s. We didn't have to do fun classes on TikTok, did we? We don't want to sound like two old men rambling. We sat in a pool for about 10 hours and did whirlpools. But it was quite hot yesterday. He's like, I'll go for a swim.

The kids were swimming. And I got into the pool and I'm like, dear God, I feel the amount of chlorine in here is chemically peeling four layers of skin off my body. You know, you can feel the sting from chlorine. I do remember that distinctly as a kid often, you're like diving under the water of friends pools and stuff and coming up and you're like, my eyes are burning. I can't see. Like you've been maced or something. I felt like it was

20% water 80% chlorine yesterday and he's like oh mate I'm just hiffing a bucket in there getting the kids

in there like they get the kids in to mix it round the hits the Jono and Ben podcast the hits

with Shoreland Street and the chance to win $500 cash yeah 7pm TVNZ 2, Shorten Street, after the fiery end of the year episode, they're trying to rebuild the hospital as well. Looks very cool, all new Shorten Street this year.

Yeah, now Chris Warner, he was going to give a pay rise to the nurses, but he's decided to give the money to you for watching and winning the show. And every night there's a code word on there. If you see the code word, you phone us up, you win $500. Simple as that. And joining us from Taranaki, 10-year-old Emma. Welcome.

Hi. I imagine a lot of the storylining and, you know, the beats of the episode might go over your head, Emma. You're a big fan of Sean Street. Do you like it? Yeah. You're a big fan? Yeah. Hospital burnt down, mate. What are your thoughts?

Um... Great thoughts. I don't know. I don't know. You know, don't ask a question like that. The only question that's really important right now, Emma, is what was the special code word last night? Nurse. Nurse. It was nurse. Now, what on earth is a 10-year 10 year old gonna do with 500 smackers? What

are you gonna spend this money on? I'm gonna split it with my mum and dad and then I'm gonna keep saving for a swimming pool. Oh we were just talking about a swimming pool. Are you gonna get one of those ones from the warehouse? Yeah. Yeah nice. Just chuck 10 gallons of chlorine in there and you'll be away. Well that's amazing good Good on you, Emma. Now, Ben, I wanted to ask you, what's been your favourite Shortland Street moment over the years? Now, I'll chuck some out there just to spark your imagination.

Obviously, there's the iPad one. Harry's iPad incident. Nicole, Nurse Nicole married herself. That's right. There was the receptionist who thought she was in labour and giving birth, and then she actually had flatulence. Really? I don't remember that one.

So let's say those are the big highlights. Well, I didn't know about the... Oh, there was the Strangler. Shortland Street Strangler. Strangler. That was probably a storyline that even if you weren't, you know, everyone knew, everyone was talking about it. It was huge.

We call Ben the Strangler around here too, don't we? Why? Just because you're strangling my career, mate. Let me spread my rings. My rings? Emma. Yeah, I know she's gone. She's gone, mate.

She's not listening to us babble about our favourite episode. It's back again to tonight at 7pm on TVNZ2, Shortland Street. And you can win more money next week as well with the special code word. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. What we like to do on a Friday are no holds barred. Fight for the best weekend. Take no prisoners. It turns ugly sometimes. There's some big events on this weekend.

What have we got? We've got the Grey Mouth's Best Mouth Competition. Why do you make these up? Why would I make up Grey Mouth's Best Mouth Competition? The Under 7 Fire Breathing Tournament that's happening in Tarapa. No, it's not. The Burnout Nationals in Northland, which are just people who are overworked and tired already. Hey, it's not. It's going to be one of the burnout nationals in Northland which are just people who are overworked

and tired already. He wrote the burnout nationals. But there is a lot of amazing things happening over the weekend. Elton John as well. He's been in Christchurch.

He's now making his way up north as well. I have a theory about Elton John. Him and Ed Sheeran are the bestest of friends, aren't they? Oh, they are.

Both in the country at the same time. I imagine they are spending their... because they're here for a long time, both of them. I imagine they're spending their days in some exotic getaway, like the Jet Park Motel or something. Yeah. You can imagine. I can

just imagine as well, although it sounds like it's going to be a bit of a shambles if you're heading along this weekend as well, because there's going to be no trains running. And they're like, hey, just drive. And they're like, where are you going to be a bit of a shambles if you're heading along this weekend as well, because there's going to be no trains running. And they're like, hey, just drive. And they're like, well, where are you going to park? Anyway, logistically, it's not my... Any other time of the year, don't drive.

We don't want you in your cars. But this time, bring all your cars. So maybe your best option is just walking. No matter where you live. If Hamilton, just walk there. A lot of people coming up from around... Anyway, anyway, that's not our problem. We're not here to moan about council stuff

because the weather tomorrow night and across the country, we spoke to Weather Watch's Phil Duncan. Let's talk about Elton. Is he still going to be standing? Or is he going to be too gusty? Oh yeah, hair walking pneumonia last time he was in New Zealand.

He should be able to stand there still, I think, on Saturday night. But if the rain is still around, that's probably going to be more of a problem. But the wind will be a little bit of a nor'easter, but it shouldn't be quite as bad as it is today. Now, let's talk about Ed Sheeran in Wellington. He's playing inside at the Opera House.

How's that going to be? I reckon that'll be pretty dry. He also said Nelson obviously got a public holiday on Monday too, and the South Island looking beautiful this weekend. Yeah, so 0800 The Hits, we want to know who's having the best weekend. And Jono, you're going to judge because I don't like judging. Who has the best weekend and who's going to win the hell pizza?

He publicly doesn't like judging, but he judges a lot of people off here. Yeah, exactly. 0800 The Hits, the telephone number. We've got an early one through. Jess, you're on from Tauranga. Morning. Morning. Great to have you on this weekend. What's happening? You want We've got an early one through. Jess, you're on from Tauranga. Morning. Morning.

Great to have you on this weekend. What's happening? You want to chuck one out early? Yeah, we've got One Love on in Tauranga. Oh, that'd be awesome. Yeah, so you've got Stan Walker and all of them coming. So that'd be pretty awesome. Very cool.

Yeah, so Jess is going to One Love. I'm just looking like the weather in Tauranga. It's looking very cloudy over the top of the One Love Stadium. Yeah, it's pretty much supposed to be shitty this weekend. I don't know if that cloud's from the actual weather or from things that are going on within the... I don't know. It's just looking quite overcast, quite cloudy, quite misty.

That's the best reason to go. If you can beat Jess, 0800 The Hits for the best weekend, we'll get you to hold there, Jess. The Hits For the best weekend We'll get you to hold there Jess The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast The wild weather Around the country today

Could be some Commuter Commuter chaos On the way to work So take care If the roads are wet Where you are Love a bit of

Commuter chaos To start your morning You'll be upset though Because you get You get annoyed When there's lots of Famous people Or even a famous person

In the country And the weather's not good. And there's a lot of famous people here at the moment. Yeah, it doesn't matter. I like them to come and enjoy good weather. When, you know, the best of New Zealand's on display. We've rolled out the red carpet for the famous people and they're like, man, I could live there one day.

And you're like, well, mate, don't come here June, July. It's bleak as. Yeah, because this week, as you mentioned before, Elton John, Ed Sheeran, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Post Malone, Jason Momoa as well, he's filming a series.

Oh, see, but he's here for a long time and that stresses me out because we can't have consistently good weather for Momoa. No, you're right. And he's got to try

and film outside, outside scenes. He'll be like, oh, there's weather in New Zealand. Let's just try and keep it nice for Jason. Yeah.

That's, you know, it's all we can do because he's brought his hotness to New Zealand. All we can give and keep it nice for Jason. Yeah. That's, you know, that's all we can do because he's brought his hotness to New Zealand. All we can give him is hot weather. 0800, that's competition for the best weekend. We do have Hell Pizza to give away. I went to Hell Pizza last night.

Actually, you've got a bloody, sort of like a pee device that you can use now. Roll up a bit of cardboard. What? They're diversified. I don't know what you were talking about.

You know, it's like a cone and you can use it as a it's a pee yeah what is it they're diversifying mate

I don't know what I'm not making up it's serious look on the website a pee device yeah like a glass pipe no

like yeah like you roll up a bit of cardboard and it's branded and you can use it like, it's non-discriminatory. Anyone can use it. I don't know. Look on the website.

Are you looking at me like you're making this stuff up again? You're making it up like Grey Mouth's Best Mouth Competition. Well, you haven't got a good track record. You can't say Grey Mouth's Best Mouth and then suddenly go, they've got this. Why is no one believing me? Because you just spent the last five minutes lying about events

around the country. I have. Yeah, I've been tarnished with the Pinocchio effect, haven't I, throughout my career. But look it up. Look it up. Okay, I'll do the hits if you want to win some hell pizza. So far we've had Jess, who's going to one love over the weekend,

so she's the front runner. Can you beat Jess? Dan, you're on from Auckland, Morena. What's happening this weekend, Danny? Hey, guys. How you doing? Yeah, we're really well, mate. Lovely to have you on.

What are you doing this weekend? Yeah, love the show, boys. Yeah, this is it, mate. Did absolutely nothing this weekend. Zero plans. So, you know, we're going to stick the old Netflix on, put the fire on. Haven't got a fire, but we're going to try to keep warm.

And, yeah, can't really afford Hell's Pizza mate I'm normally the kind of Domino's $5 pizza guy I went into Hell's once I think it was $20 a slice so I just kind of pretended I left my card

in the van and yeah never went back so don't worry about that don't worry about that you've got Hell Pizza Dan boom

we're going to give you some Hell Pizza thank you very much and in Auckland too, of course, Elton, lugging his piano around the country. Jeez, you couldn't get

a more inconvenient instrument to lug around the world. I mean, there's probably some notches. I know, mate. I wish I played the recorder. Poor guy, and the weather

as well, eh? Been really nice this last week or so. And yeah, the boss is also getting married. That's why I'm doing nothing this weekend. Sticking my feet up.

No work. I'm calling him. He's not going to call me. Well, enjoy your weekend of doing nothing and lighting a fire in summer, Dan. Appreciate that. We'll go to Lee. Welcome. You're on. Best weekend, Lee.

I've been waiting three years to go to the John Ponset. Oh, you're going this weekend. Three years, yes. Since last time. What night are you going? Tonight or tomorrow? I've got tomorrow night. Oh, we just heard before the weather's looking better tomorrow night. I'm sure it'll be incredible.

What's your favourite Elton John banger? Oh, that would have to be Candle in the Wind. Would be one of my top three. Like a candle in the wind. Oh, you enjoy that. There in all her merchant. Now, Ben, someone else has texted in here Laura, she's going for a hike this weekend That's nice

That's a lovely week Does she deserve a Hell Pizza voucher? Yeah, sure, why not? Sarah, she is doing Do they all deserve Hell Pizza? We're doing a sink Hell Pizza Now delivering beer and wine For the home of the best damn pizza.

She's starting a new hobby this weekend. She doesn't know what it is. She's got to find out what the hobby is, but she's starting a new hobby, Sarah. So well done. Congratulations, all of you get Hell Pizza. And did you look on the website? No.

Look on the website. Now, my good name's been besmirched because you think I've made up that... I'm not backing up your story. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jono and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you.

Or play on to win more. You can feel the performance is already enhancing. It's enhanced. We're ready. We're all getting ready to go. And you can be too. I'll enter the hits if you want to play. It's five words for 5K.

You can win up to $5,000 with our Game of Word Association. Now, let's talk to Erica in Christchurch. How are you in the Garden City this morning, Erica? I'm pretty good, pretty good. Lovely to have you on. The weather's been lovely there lately. I think beautiful. Yeah, beautiful day yesterday, beautiful day today.

It's going to be a good start. Talk to me, babes, about the weekend. What's happening? Not a lot, unfortunately. But kids and housecleaning and catching up on life after Christmas. So that'll be the plan. You do reach that stage in life where you're like, not much, kids, housecleaning, work.

That's you. And that's me. That's me. Copy and paste. That's Erica. I'll stop asking you what you're doing this weekend. Yeah, no. Sometimes I like to mix it up, sometimes I might have eight Heineken instead of six.

But that's pretty much my life, Erica, as well. Hey, $5,000, it's a lot of money. Equates to about $72 American dollars. What would you do with this cash if you got it? Probably pay a couple bills and then put some money towards my husband and I by June 40 in March. Oh, nice.

Maybe do some special snacks. Birthday. Now, you need to send someone into the soundproof booth. Who's going to shut their face for a couple of minutes while you guess words? Jono, please. Oh, Jono again. A lot of people are picking Jono this week.

You've got to come through, Jono. You've got to come through for Erica. All right, Erica. He is in the soundproof booth. Here is your first word. What pops into your head when I say backstreet? Boys. Boys.

It was boys with an S, right? Clap is word number two. Clap, C-L-A-P. Clap. Hands. Hands, again with an S. Tie, T-I-E, if you tie, tie. Neck, necktie.

Necktie. Bunch is word number four. Erica, bunch. Bunch. Flowers. Flowers? Is that what you said, flowers? And steak is the final word.

S-T-E-A-K, steak. Steak. I'm going to go dinner. You're going to say dinner? Mm-hmm. All right, those are your five words, Erica. We'll grab Jono out of the soundproof booth and see how many of those you want to try and match

to win you some money. Now, it's been first week back. First week back, Erica. Let's whack the week off with the winner. What are we going to do? Are we going to go all the way? All the way.

Yep, absolutely. All right. Here we go. Well, let's rip into the $25 word. Word one, $25. First word I said to Erica was backstreet boys. Yeah, well done.

$25 is yours. Erica, do you want to risk it all for $50? Yes, please. Word two, $50. Clap was word number two. Clap. What do you think Erica said when I said clap? Hands.

Clap your hands. Well done. $50, Erica. Are you walking away or are you forging on? Forging on, please. All right. Word three, $100. This is the $100 word, word number three, and it's tie, T-I-E, tie.

Go like necktie. Oh, I didn't know you were going to go with that one. Yes, Erica. Okay, that's $100. What do you want to do now? Keep going, please. You know you were going to go with that one. Yes, Erica. Okay, that's $100. What do you want to do now? Keep going, please. You want to keep going? Keep going.

$500. Word four, $500. Okay, here we go. Try and win, Erica, $500. Bunch. Bunch. A bunch of grapes? Oh, grapes.

Where did you go? Oh, Joe. What's that? What popped into your head? Grapes. Grapes. I bought a bunch of grapes yesterday. Oh, I guess you can buy a bunch of grapes.

Why is everyone getting grapes? What's that say? Yeah, okay. Erica had flowers. It's a bunch of flowers. Oh, Erica. Mate, I am sorry. Erica and Christchurch, I have let you down.

You should send her an apology bunch of grapes. I'll send you a bunch of grapes in the mail to say sorry. Oh, I'm sorry, Erica. Oh, mate. Last word was steak. Was the last word. S-T-E-A-K, steak. Steak dinner?

Oh, Jono. FourA-K, steak. Steak. Dinner? Oh, Jono! Four out of five, Erica. No. Mate. Oh, no. Oh, Erica, I'm sorry. The idiot had just said flowers and not grapes. Erica, well, you have a great weekend,

and happy birthday if I don't talk to you between now and March. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Good on you. Enjoy Christchurch this weekend. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, you got in the hot water with your mum, Jenny Boyce. Well, yeah, I learned basically the importance of getting the word correct in a conversation.

I was talking to someone the other day. Well, how unimportant did you feel it was up until then? Well, I didn't actually realize how important. Getting one word wrong can really change the story. So I was having a conversation to someone when the weather was good. You remember when the weather was good and it was hot and it was sunny and we were talking about good weather and how harsh the Kiwi sun is when you're out there in the sun.

Really cuts through your skin, especially a pasty individual like me. Worst nightmare out there. Back in the day, we've often talked about how the parents were just like, it's 10 of you out there all day, out there in the sun, no real sunscreen, and out you go, and no wonder people are getting lots of moles and moles cut out. Mind you, they also smoked inside the car with you as well and drank Miami Wine Cooler while they were driving home. So I was talking about how I go get a regular mole map and things like that.

We were having this conversation about moles and all that. Did you get your mole map last year? Yeah, I got my mole map. How are the moles now? You know, nail my photo shoot. I like to, you know, part-time model is all I can put on my bio because I always nail my mole map photo shoot every year. But yeah, but I was talking about, you know,

the mole map and stuff like that. And the person I was talking to was like, there a couple people around going oh do you have a family history of that sort of thing and I said oh yeah my mum she had to get and I the word I was meant to say was biopsy but I said autopsy my mum had an autopsy and I hadn't realized that and everyone just kind of killed the mood of the conversation he was like and killed your mum apparently yeah exactly and everyone was like oh my god I'm so sorry and I'm like oh yeah well yeah it's one It just kind of killed the mood of the conversation. And killed your mum, apparently. Yeah, exactly. And everyone was like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. And I'm like, oh, yeah, well, yeah, it's one of those things.

You know, because I'm thinking, oh, a biopsy is one of those things. That does happen in my head, but not realising I'd said autopsy, that my mum was no longer with us and had to get... But then they must have been like, wow, he's really opening up here. But not looking too phased about it as well yeah and you're like oh it's fine yeah it's like it was good they're like well you know yeah so it wasn't till midway through that i kind of went did i did i get that how did you correct yourself well i kind of just why does everyone offer me condolences yeah yeah as well so biopsy autopsy very very different so this is a little psa a little thing I'd like to pass on.

Just get the words right. I don't think anyone else ever in the history of conversations has suffered the same. No. Okay. Sometimes I do find myself, I start talking, and I don't know where I'm heading. Every day you do that.

You know, and you kind of, sometimes I feel like if we're in a meeting, I'll start talking, and you look at me like, at me like, dear God, where's he heading? Where's he heading? Well, just so you know, the same thoughts in my head. Dear God, where am I heading? And I try and start chucking out big words. I try and start throwing out big words, not knowing if they sort of fit in the, you know,

the grand scheme of the conversation. I've often thought it'd be great to have a Jono remote. So you just start talking and I'm like, mute him for a second, there you go. And you can just keep talking. Just mute you. And then I'll be like, oh, back up. No, he's still going.

Okay, mute him again. You know, and then, oh, he's back up. He's done, yeah. My theory is if I am starting to lose my train of thought, like a dithery old man, just chuck out as many words with as many syllables as you can and it'll just bamboozle the conversation. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Wild weather hitting particularly the top of the north, right around the north at the moment. Ferries, bridges, a lot of chaos out there as well. A lot of stuff happening. Not much happening in the soundproof studio, though, at the moment. No. So I do take care of it. It's nice in here much like it's nice down south today.

Now, just moments ago, you said that a wild animal came bounding up your driveway. Yeah, yeah. Now, I maybe overshot the mark a little bit. What was this wild animal? It was a sparrow. It was a sparrow. It was a sparrow. Okay, because when you said wild animal, connotations of leopards, mowers coming and bounding up your driveway.

I know that. And you scaled it down to a sparrow. But it was a very unusual encounter. Now, my daughter and I, Andy and I, were about to go for a walk the other day, just to walk around the block. And we were standing out in the driveway and a sparrow sort of like flew. Well, he just sort of hopped up. He didn't actually fly. He just sort of hopped up.

Can I say the story would be a lot cooler if it was a leopard? Yeah. And we're like, oh, we're just like, oh, g'day, mate. You know, just saying that, expecting it to fly away. And it just kept hopping towards us. Hopped some more. And then I was like, oh, it's getting quite close. And Indy just sort of put her arm, my daughter, and it just kept hopping towards us hopped some more and then i was always getting quite close and indy just sort of put up her arm my daughter and it just jumped up and then sat on her hand i'm like well this is this is unusual maybe the sparrow saw the kiwi and thought oh is that how it's done yeah so it wasn't floating around or like oh maybe it's maybe it's a jump

back down it was so just uh walking around hopping around well oh maybe it's hurt maybe it can't fly i was like i'll go inside and gets you know maybe we'll get some bread for it you know give it a feed and then the dog came over my dog boom oh here we go he's sniffing around and you can see that he's quite excited by this sparrow sort of hopping around and he sort of bent down and sort of put his mouth around the sparrow he's like this doesn't happen often of bent down and sort of put his mouth around the sparrow. He's like, this doesn't happen often. This is a gift from the gods. Usually they're up there, mate.

It's like this is like KFC delivery. This is like a ride. And you tell he sort of looked at me, and his mouth was sort of around like, can I eat this? And I was like, no, mate, no, you can't eat it. And he didn't. Well, the restraint from your dog. I know.

To even look up at you and go, is this fair? Is this all right? I'm like, no, no, no your dog. I know. To even look up at you and go, is this fair? Is this all right? I'm like, no, no, no. So he did it. So he sort of walked away. And the bird just keeps hopping around. And we're like, oh, get some bread. And then it just flew off.

And it was like, well, mate, you've been five minutes. This bird had been sort of hopping around. Why did you not fly off when you were in the dog's mouth? Maybe the bird has spent way too long with its chicks over the school holidays and is like, I'm done. I'm done. I would rather live inside a dog's mouth, spend any more time with my children. Maybe that was the issue.

But Ben, did you know I've actually just Googled it? In many cultures, a bird hopping up your driveway signifies a lifelong curse of being stuck with a seven-year-old boy's body for the rest of your life. Who would have thought? Well, I do hear that some people believe that birds coming back are someone who maybe had passed away if you have an encounter with a bird or something like that. Like someone coming back to say hi or a message. And I was talking to my daughter about that. But very, very unusual. The bird who could fly was just sort of happy to hang out

and be in a dog's mouth and on my daughter's hand. Yeah, sometimes the animals do surprise you, don't they? They do. You talk to bloody old, what's his name? Noah. Oh, okay. He was just sitting there one day. They all started turning up to his house.

Oh, good. That wasn't who I was thinking you were going to go with, so I'm glad you went with Noah. He's like, Struth, what am I meant to do? He goes, are you coming in pairs? What do you guys want? So that surprised him. Well, Connor, when the boat was big enough for my family, oh, I guess you can all hop on. And imagine the smell

of the ark. Jeez, you'd be giving that thing a hose off when you landed back at the jetty, wouldn't you? Yeah, so unexpected animals just turning up in your home or you discovered in your home. That's what we want to know this morning on 100 The Hits. Yeah, have you had a surprise animal incident?

Maybe your dog started reading you the works of Shakespeare. I don't know. Pull it back, mate. Pull it back. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Just talking about surprise animals. Ben Boyce said a wild animal came bounding up his driveway. It was a sparrow, but it was a very unusual experience with a sparrow. It does.

When you see birds out of their natural environment, i.e. the sky, it makes me uneasy. You know, when they fly into a house, apparently what you need to do, I saw it on Instagram or something, if a bird is inside your lounge, shut all the curtains except for one so then they know because they're going around and they're like everywhere looks like

an exit point bang bang bang into the window go to the light that's good yeah I like that apparently that's the tip we had a

a pigeon we arrived home and there was a pigeon just sitting in my daughter's dollhouse oh you've told this terrific story don't

no it doesn't end well for the pigeon there you go let's just say the pigeon. There you go. Let's just say the pigeon, it made it safely out of our house. But the cat in the neighbourhood. It was a massacre that will haunt me for the rest of my days. It's haunting me now. I never saw it, but you keep bringing it up.

Yeah, surprise animals is what we're talking about this morning on New Zealand's Breakfast. Roberta Morena. Hi. Hi, Roberta. How are you? All right, mate? Yeah, I'm good.

Animals catching you by surprise. What happened? My old cat decided one night he would bring in a mouse. Yes, they do. It's like a gift, isn't it? Like, hey, look what I've found. Slobbery mouse for you. He let it go in my room and I managed to catch it,

but I only had a dressing gown on at the time. Nothing else underneath. Oh, okay, okay. Keep talking. I feel like we should be paying for this, Fogel. Is this safe for breakfast radio? And somehow the mouse got it managed to Caught up my sleeves and then up my back

Oh, so it went inside the dressing gown? Yep Did the mouse pay you extra for that? I get bestowed as the person who deals with those sorts of things in the household But I hate it It shouldn't be, you know, when you actually break it down the size ratio the ratio of us to them it's yeah it's all out of whack but we are terrified right you see yeah it's a very good point yeah hey you have a great day lovely talking with you thanks nikki welcome how are you hi good thank you

how are you guys good lovely to have you on the show, Nikki. Animals catching you by surprise. What was it? Where were you? In my friend's flat in London, on the ninth floor, and a grass snake. Did you just say, your phone cut out there. You said you were on the ninth floor, in the middle of London,

and a grass snake was in the apartment. Yes. Ninth floor? Nowhere near any grass. No grass. I can imagine. Mind you, Ben's a snake in the grass and he's always hanging around this office. Oh, that's true.

No grass in here. So where did you discover the snake? It was in my friend's bedroom. What do you do? Yeah. On the ninth floor, do you chuck it out the window? No, we managed to catch it in the bed sheets and then call the RSPCA.

They came and took it away from us. Clearly a better human being than me. I was like, did you chuck it out the window? And you're like, no, we gave it to the Royal Society of the Protection of Animals. Oh, that is really nice. I would have just shut the door and then called them. You went to a lot of effort to try and sort of... The other option is shut the door and move out of the apartment.

Yeah, that would probably have been a great option. No, we were changing the bed sheets when we found it. So we had one of the elastic ones. So we just kind of shoved up all of the corners and it folded in on itself over the snake. And the most remarkable part of the story is you managed to fold a fitted sheet at the same time.

Hey, thank you very much for your call. Thank you very much. Mike, you got a surprise. Animal interaction. What happened? Yeah, no. I had a fight with a polar bear and I had to kick him back in the ice hole. Has Mike, I love Mike phoning through from Tauranga Has he ever phoned through

With a genuine story Every time I'm like What They start to believe him And then Because our producers are like Oh we're going to Mike had an incident

With a polar bear The thing is The thing is mate Whether it's true or not It's a great story Hey Mike You have yourself A wonderful weekend

We appreciate you listening As always The Hits The Jono and listening as always I've been mentioning that I'd like to take down an exhibition That I paid good money for to go and see Yeah, which is very unlike this show, right? Well, sometimes you've got to knock small business, mate No, I've got to be positive, you know I was walking down the road with my kids yesterday

And there was a seven-year-old outside their house School holiday filler content I think parents are gone Get outside, do something And so this very creative seven-year-old Was like, do you want to come into an exhibition? And I'm like, what is this it's a dollar they said okay and it's an exhibition on the great wall of china and so the kids are like yeah we want to learn about the

great wall of china and i'm thinking you know i've been around a while a dollar entry you know an under 10 year old running an exhibition my hopes aren't high i'm not expecting like you know the museum or anything i was like okay we'll help out a struggling business and so we pay our we all pay our dollar and obviously no fpos facilities so i was like oh mate okay i'll go down to the dairy and i'll buy something i'll get some money on the way back we'll come to your exhibition the great Great Wall of China exhibition. Oh yeah, classic parenting. Get out there, do that.

So then he's like, oh well come on in, it's in his garage. Okay, so it opens up. I'm glad you had the kids with you. That was a very hard thing to explain. Oh no, he solicited me. He solicited me.

Honestly, tell me to go get money out, go into his garage. It was the Great Wall of China Honestly A broadcaster John O'Brien Yeah exactly But anyway

So we went in And there was a picture A printed out A4 picture Of the Great Wall of China And underneath that A handwritten fact That the Great Wall of China and underneath that a handwritten fact that the Great Wall of China took 2,000

years to build. So that was the exhibition. A dollar for that exhibition. Well good on the ingenuity of that kid and that family and the parents probably. I had the same situation a couple of nights ago. But he's not paying tax on that money either

walking down the street with a dog just me and the dog walking down the street and a little kid there was a couple of them out on the footpath they're like

$4.50 car wash and I'm like that's an affordable car wash firstly $4.50 is just a kind of annoying amount that was the first thing I thought of

they're like would you like a car wash and I looked at them I'm like I'm walking the dog so you want me to go home and get my car the kid's like do you like a car wash? And I looked at them. I'm like, I'm walking the dog. So you want me to go home and get my car? The kid's like, do you have a car?

I'm like, yes, but not with me. I was like, oh, yeah, I guess I might come back. Yeah, and you never expect, like, even when you see them out there, like, oh, you know, lemonade on the road. Lemonade, you're like, has the Food Safety Authority approved this? Yeah. That's what I was thinking. I thought, if I bring the car back,

they're probably not going to do that good a job. No. If anything, probably make it dirtier. Yeah, but good on them for doing all this. And who can you complain to? No one. See, all I can do is go on the radio and moan about some kid who charged me a dollar to learn the Great Wall of China.

It took 2,000 years to build. Well, good fact, though. But you're right. Thank God the kids were with me. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Went to the USA for a family. Thank God the kids were with me. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Went to the USA for family. Ben in the USA. Just to see family.

Stop playing this. Ben in the USA. But I did see a random item over there and I thought I'd play a little game. Hold on. Where were you? Sorry. I went to the USA. Ben in the USA.

Ben in the USA. So I have purchased a random item from the USA, put it in a suitcase here in the studio and if you can guess what the random item is, you'll win the item and $100 American dollars, which is about $155 New Zealand dollars. Oh, $800 that hits the telephone number. Here are some of the guesses that have come through so far. I reckon it's a Mickey Mouse clock. It's a little stand that you can put your teapot on. I guess that's a watch.

I think some kind of artwork, a picture frame, canvas of Mickey Mouse. Is it a lunchbox? No, it's not. So it's a Mickey Mouse something. Not a Mickey Mouse operation like this show, but it's a Mickey Mouse something Not a Mickey Mouse operation like this show But it is a Mickey Mouse something Now my grave concern for this competition Is it started on Monday

And then by Wednesday you're like I fear that maybe no one will get it It's so specific So now I'm thinking This competition might even outlast radio It might do It'll have a longer radio career than Gary McCormick. What's in Ben's bag?

Let's go to the phones, kick it off with Chloe. You're in New Plymouth this morning. How is Taranaki? Very rainy. Oh, well. It's great summer. Great summer. One for the ages.

One for the books this summer, Chloe. What do you think's in the bag? You can also ask Ben a question if you like. I reckon it's a T-shirt. I mean, you can't really go wrong with a T-shirt. Yeah. I do own a Mickey Mouse T-shirt, but this is not a Mickey Mouse T-shirt. I'm sorry.

Good try, Chloe. Shake it around in the bag. Go get your suitcase. Good try, Chloe. Shake it around in the bag. Go get your suitcase. It's Disney themed. Is it the corpse of Walt Disney? The frozen head of Walt Disney. Cryogenically frozen. Angela, you're on.

Welcome from Auckland this morning where it's hosing down. What's your guess in Ben's briefcase, suitcase, bag, whatever it is? A Mickey Mouse toy. A what it is? A Mickey Mouse toy. A what, sir? A Mickey Mouse toy. A Mickey Mouse toy. Toy. My eight-year-old

is convinced that's what you bought. No, but I do own a Mickey Mouse toy as well that's in the lounge that my wife does not like. Jeez,

you went drunk on Disney movies, didn't you? This was a previous Mickey Mouse toy, you know, like, yeah. Oh, good guess.

We thought maybe the obvious gift or the obvious thing was the one that you were talking about. No, it was a very good guess, actually. It does sound like

it could be a Mickey Mouse toy, but it's not a Mickey Mouse toy. I'm so sorry. The phones are blowing up. We're going to go

to Rolleston now. Emily, you're on. Hi, how are you guys? Yeah, good. How's Chicha this morning, mate? Oh, it's hot. It's hot already, so sorry about that.

Oh, no, don't apologise. Don't apologise. You laugh it up. What do you reckon's in there? I was just wondering if it was a Mickey Mouse snow globe, even though you've shaken it a lot and it probably would have broken. Oh, snow globe. No, it's not, but a good guess.

It does sound a lot like it could be a snow globe. All good, thank you. Emily, you do us a favour this weekend. Go and have a good guess. It does sound a lot like it could be a snow globe. All good, thank you. Emily, you do us a favour this weekend. Go and have a good one, mate. Alright? Oh, don't worry, we will be. Now, I'll give a clue so you can have a think of it over the weekend.

I was going to say, there's two more callers who have been politely waiting. You're looking at the clock going, have we gone over time? Let's go, let's get into it. Okay, quickly, we'll go to the West Coast. Jesse, you're on. What's in the bag? I reckon it would be cool if it was a giant mousetrap.

A Mickey Mouse mousetrap. That would, they should get into those. Yeah. A Mickey Mouse mousetrap. It's not a Mickey Mouse mousetrap, but that's something that they could diversify with. Great business idea. And Brad, Grey Mouth, welcome. Moneybox, Mickey Mouse Moneybox. chat but that's something that they could diversify with great business idea and brad grey mouth welcome uh money box oh no it's not a mickey mouse money box but a very good guess okay

quickly yeah here's a clue for the weekend it's something it's clothing related okay clothing related that's your clue mickey mouse clothing clothing related nipple tassels damn it you got it no you didn't that'll be back monday and it'll continue until it's finally been guessed