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Episode Date: November 14, 2022

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Kia ora, it is the 15th of November, it's Jono, it's Ben, it's Producer Joel, we're fresh off a show and currently watching the league team, the Kiwi league team, playing England at the moment, 6-4 to England Yeah, World Cup semi-final right, Producer Joel? World Cup semi-final, yeah, when it takes on Australia in the final Now, before the show, you were looking at the paper, the New Zealand Herald, and the star signs, the horoscopes were up, and you started reading Jono's horoscope, and I was like, well, save it. Save it for the podcast, the podcast syndrome, because, Jono, I think you will be pleasantly surprised

and happy with this horoscope. Well, it's just vague, sweeping collections, aren't they? So you can kind of read into what you want from it, I feel like. Yeah, you're dead right. But if people, you know, get joy out of it and guide their life through it, well then, you're an idiot. You're right. That's what I was going to say.

All right, Jono Pryor, here we go. So Jono, your birthday, November 13th. Obviously, you turned 50 the other day. Heavy 50. Scorpio. He's a Scorpio. Scorpio. Stinging the tail.

As you tune into the people around you and take in the humor, interest, and beauty that's going on in your surroundings right now. He's a Scorpio. Scorpio. Sting in the tail. As you tune into the people around you and take in the humor, interest, and beauty that's going on in your surroundings right now. That's me. That's me. You're the humor, beauty, and there's a lot of it. Yeah, that's me. That's what I'd like to read into your horoscope.

See, you can read what you want. That is going on in your surroundings right now. You'll get the very accurate sneaking suspicion that these really are the good old days. The hits, mate. You thought it was the back in the John O'Bennett 10 day. The hits, breakfast show. sneaking suspicion that these really are the good old days the hits mate you thought it was the back in the John O'Bennett 10 day

the hits breakfast show these are the good old days these are the ones you'll remember well these will be the good old days because then there's

the next phase of life is going to be retirement you're like those were the good old days you do have to appreciate the good old days don't you

when you but you don't know they're the good old days. They don't know. Yeah, my friend Andy said that to us. At a speech. Yeah, and he was like, you know, this could be, you know, we say, oh, when people look back, the good old days. Well, this is, you know, the good old days.

And he was like, oh, don't say that. You know, because you always feel like there's more. I thought it was a really, you know, I thought there was a really lovely speech from Andy. He had a leaving party. People cried. Then he left, and he returned two and a half weeks later.

He did. He did. Yeah. He did. You're right. And everyone was like, well, we cried for you.

We cried for you. It was a bit awkward when he came back. You're like, oh, he's back. But we thought you were going for it. Yeah. Oh,

you know, I decided to come back. It was a really quick turning around. Two and a half weeks might be an exaggeration but it was it was quick certainly within a month

yeah we cried for you there was cake there was speeches you told us these are the good old days yeah we're like yeah yeah yeah

and then he came back and then we're like oh oh okay it was a bit awkward for a little bit but we got back into it so yeah it was good

oh okay Virgo what am I I think mine wasn't that exciting was it Virgo yeah your love of rooting. Sorry. Your love of routine.

Apologies. And the aforementioned. Will lead you back to. Relentless. Your love of routine. Must be French or something. Will lead you back to the activities, meals, people. I do love routine, yeah.

Activities, meals, people. And it works until it doesn't't you realize when the restlessness sets and it is time to introduce new elements don't wait until it's a rut okay you love a routine i do love a routine and you love doing stuff yeah so has that summed you up what are you reading into that i don't know what it kind of did and then it was like well don't let the it set in like just don't get into maybe you need to add more rooting to your routine just to fill in the days. Producer Joel, what was your star sign?

So I'm a Taurus. It said, this is a good day to accept invitations regardless of the details. What you do will end up being much more interesting than what brought you there in the first place. That's a good one. So that opens you up to like whatever could come your way. So I'll just say yes.

So you can say whatever you want, guys. Invite me to anything. I'll be there Joel I'm going for a vasectomy today it's a two for one deal I thought would you like to join me

well as I said through the process yeah whatever what you do will end up being much more interesting than what we did so you know

I'll be able to just go on a we can both get it done I know you haven't had a family yet I'll never have to worry I'll never have to worry of having kids ever again. It'll be perfect. Oh, that was interesting.

Interesting Tuesday. I've actually got a good one here for producer Bee Humps as well because he was saying that he is an Aquarius and it said, many things can be bought with various currencies,

but love will not be one of them. You shouldn't and don't have to earn love with accomplishments. You were not born to serve another person's agenda. Oh, that is deep. That is deep. Hopefully everything's going well. Technically love can be bought though, can't it?

Yeah, all the time. The richest people in the world look the happiest. It's very interesting. The horoscopes made me back at the start. Well, probably very specific for us. We've probably got into it, but anyone else listening right now going, oh, I'm a Leo

where's mine oh you're a Leo before you put too much energy into solving problems you make sure they're worth the effort negativity will pass play the long game

what about our boss both our bosses Matt and Emily they were both born in October how do you know everyone's birthday on stuff

I remember we had we had a party we had a party. We had a massive party when you guys were on holiday. Oh, okay. And so they're Libras. So they said, you and a friend

will occupy the same moment and have a vastly different experience of it. Investigate, push your empathy into the scene. Words are inferior indicators of what

you're all learning through science. See, that one to me is like, that's just a lie. I checked out on that one. Anyway. Because it's not about you.

Yeah, exactly. You just continue on with your routine, mate. More routine, mate. That's right. I'll get into a rut. Yeah. Join the podcast. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Jono Pryor, you want to come on in here, mate? He's working away. We're on. We're on, mate. We're on the radio right now. Just watching some scary, scary footage this morning on the news. In the middle of the day, another ram raid at a shop, a jewellery store in Ellerslie. Three people with masks go onto the store.

People trying to stop them as they try and get across the road. I thought I was going to get away with it. In the middle of the day, scary. A lady got hit by the, like she was grabbing onto their car, just a citizen trying to stop her. I think people are sick of it now, aren't they? And a lot of shop owners are fighting back I saw some guy

attack is this the one where the guy was attacking the windscreen with a chair that he was sitting on

in the cafe oh no this must have been another one so yeah very scary stuff that's going on how do you stop it

though like unless having bollards on every single shop which is probably not well this is in particular

I think they just ran into the store with hammers too so they're not putting the car through the thing so particular I think they just ran Into the store with hammers Too So they're not Putting the car Through the thing So that's

Yeah They just run in In the middle of the day too Daylight It'll be like Some parts of America Where you've just got Bars on the shops

Yeah it's really really sad What's going on out there Sad stuff Sad stuff Happier times though Being boys To spend time With my parents

Over the weekend I forgot to mention This to you I don't know if you're A genie boys is the same, but it seems like mothers never stop being mothers, no matter how old you are. And every time I go and see my mum,

it's like they're trying to fatten me up for some sort of sacrificial, oh, what's going on? You've lost weight. I haven't lost weight. I've put on weight. You're looking tired you're looking I'm like this is

Annie I'm 41 you know I'm not you don't have to change my nappies anymore but I worry about you because you don't eat during the day and you get up

ridiculously early compared to us all even getting up an early job so I worry so let alone I'm not your mother if I was your mother

I'd be like he's not eating he's up at 3 for some reason just for crazy times yeah I would be I'm worried about you as a up at 3 for some reason just for crazy times yeah I would be I'm worried about you

as a mate so your mother must be she must be she's panicking you're the only one too yeah and I'm not even

the favourite but it is it is a mother thing to do my mum's always the same yes Kenny you need to oh but that Friday

I went over there after we went to the MP show brunch lunch afternoon tea pre-dinner, dinner, dessert. I was like, what is this? What is this feast?

Oh, you're looking worn down like you've lost weight. You must be overtired and working too hard. And that's just what mothers do. Jenny Boyce once said you got tired and you got offended. She said, you look tired. Thanks, good to see you too, Mum. If I had stayed in that house any longer I would have been

one of those people on the documentaries where they have to crane them out of the roof you know they lift the roof off my grandma was the same her favourite saying

was finish it up finish it up so we always we're doing it oh jeez I've had like three helpings that was our thing we were like

when you die we're going to put on your tombstone all finished up. She's like, do it. But we didn't at the time. All finished up. Because that was her favorite saying.

Finish it up. Finish it up. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. T20 Black Clash in association with Heartland coming back to Christchurch next year, 2023. It looks incredible. They have team cricket, team rugby, a whole lot of ex-players are taking on a game of T20.

It's a lot of fun for the whole family. And I thought I'd got, just on the quiet, a pretty amazing family trip to Christchurch. Two adults, two kids, flights, petrol vouchers, accommodation, a whole lot of activities to go along and see the Black Clash. And I was like, this is great. I love cricket. It's my happy place.

Yeah. And, well, what you've done is your family have put up with your cricket addiction for a long time now. And now he's got to the point where he's trying to disguise it with a holiday. But really, he's going to a cricket game. Yeah. He's like, look, we're going punting on the Avon. Yeah. Well, I think you should pay for your own punt on the Avon.

We're going to the Riverside Markets. We even got a voucher to spend at the Riverside Markets. I'm like, these are great. These are things some of the family are on board. I was going to have this trip. And now you're like, well, hang on a second. We could give the Riverside Markets. I'm like, these are great. These are things some of the family are on board. I was going to have this trip. And now you're like, well, hang on a second. We could give this away to someone else. Ben has a family trip booked to the Hot Springs Bar T20 Black Clash.

Jono wants to give it away. It's Jono and Ben's hit him for six. Yep. All this week, I'm going to bring on a player from either team rugby, team cricket, part of the Black Clash. Now, you have to try and figure out who they are. If you don't do it on one of the five days, boom, we give away the trip to the next caller. I've got six questions, yes or no questions, to work out which player playing in the Black

Clash has joined us on the phone. And I am trying for this. I don't want to give away this trip to someone else, so I'm playing my hardest to keep this trip this week. Yep. Mystery Sportsperson, thank you for getting up early. Welcome. Thank you for having me okay so i've got six questions yes or no questions to try and work

out who it is i've got the team list in front of me all right are you playing for team rugby no no okay all right team cricket yeah yeah well thank you thank you johnny are there any other teams uh anyway that're not playing, anyway, that's not a question. Are you a bowler? Hmm. Sometimes. Oh. Yes, yes.

Are you a batter? Sometimes, yes. Oh, the well-rounded individual. It's an all-rounder, right? Yes. Okay. I think I've got it. I think I've got it. Okay. I think I've got it. I think I've got it.

Already? I think I've got it. Looking at the team list. Was one of the commentators' favourite things to say about you that you were a former football goalie in school? Yes.

Jacob Orem. Yeah, that's me. Well done. Former football goalie, Jacob Orem. Geez, they loved saying that in the commentary, didn't they? He was a former high school football goalie. I think they still do.

And in fact, I think my kids actually take the piss out of me with that still as well. Former football goalie. Were you good at football? I was all right. Look, I mean, I'm tall. I'm only two meters tall, so I'm nearly at the crossbar. And I used to be a lot wider than i was so i uh then i was tall so i basically took up half the goal and that obviously helps when you're trying to stop a goal jacob oram ben boyce has saved his

trip again yet another day he's got three more days to go as soon as he fails uh we give it away to the first caller the black clash looks like an absolute blast. Oh, look, it's great fun. Yeah, this will be my fourth year, and I think I get halfway through the text or email when it comes through, you know, six months before to see who's interested, and I'm already replying back with yes. Oh, actually, you maybe probably should have read the back half of that email, too. You don't get paid this year, too.

Yeah, but you said yes before you... You replied too early. There you go, I'm in. Since playing for the Black Caps, you've been quite involved with the White Ferns for a while there as well, so you must be still keeping up with some of the cricket skills.

Absolutely. I mean, I love the game. That's first and foremost. And I mean, I do have another job. I work at Massey University, and that's awesome. But Massey's very flexible so yes, I've had great opportunities

with the White Ferns over about a three or four year period. I've done some other bits and pieces of coaching and even commentary so I do some radio and might even delve into the TV this year so I just want to be involved because I love the game and you want to still be a part of something when it's your passion. What are you doing at Massey?

Great question. He replied yes on another email. No, my official title is Sport Advancement Manager, but I always tell people to picture like a director of sports. So it's across our three campuses. It's good fun. It challenges me because it's away from batting and bowling and what I did, but I've been in this role now for about five years,

and it's pretty cool. It reminds me that as athletes, you've actually got some unbelievable skills you learn during your time. So I've enjoyed putting that to work in another field. Now, one thing I took away from my years working with former New Zealand cricketer Simon Dool is he said when they were playing for the Blackcaps,

they were taught social etiquette, you know, when you're attending functions and things. He said if you want to remember a person's name they introduce themselves to you you just segue their name into conversation three times in that conversation you'll never forget their name that's the one thing he told me good tip well i had a rule with my wife um that uh you're wondering where this is going probably but no when we function because i'm not great with names, I try and keep business cards as much as I could. But if I started a conversation and within a minute,

if it's just general chit-chat and I'm calling said person mates or whatever, that's probably mean and I have no idea who this person is. Can you blame me and say, Jacob, you're so rude. Hi, I'm Mara. And then that guy will give me the name and we're away. Oh, beautiful. It's a great tip. What that's done, though, is ruin any future interactions

you and your wife are going to have. Is this live? Oh, Jacob Warren, big fans of yourself. Can't wait to see you back there on the field. It's going to be awesome, as you say. The Hot Spring Spas T20 Black Clash in Christchurch this year. Thanks for your time, buddy. All good.

Thanks for having me, guys. Appreciate it. I'll try my best to hold on to my family holiday, but you could be winning it all this week on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. If you like news, then apologies for what's about to happen. What's going on, Ben? There's no such thing as a free lunch.

That's a saying that people often say. I've been to many free lunches. Yeah, well, that's all right. That's okay as well. But Tesla founder billionaire Elon Musk, he's taken over Twitter, and he obviously believes there's no such thing as a free lunch because apparently in the Twitter offices, not only has he wiped out pretty much half of the company's workforce

since he's got in, half of them are gone, he's now got rid of the free lunch that the company would always have. They always put on a lunch every day for the company and breakfast as well. For everyone. For everyone. He's saying that... Geez, they've had a good ride at Twitter, haven't they? He said the program that's been running is costing a lot of money and to be honest

half the people aren't even in the office anyway. They haven't been coming back into work so now he's saying everyone's got to come back into work and we're getting rid of the free lunch as well. Spare a thought for the person who was making the lunch as well. They've lost their job too. He's doing a lot of koskies, trimming a lot of fat at Twitter, which makes you wonder who was the generous soul

that was running that company before, didn't have the heart to fire anyone, was clearly overstaffed. This free lunch thing, the person's probably like, oh my God, we've committed to free lunch, can't pull this away from them. One of the employees say which i thought was quite interesting that the free lunch uh would allow a lot of people to work through uh that was kind of the theory behind it so people would just continue to keep working through if they wanted to work through the lunch break because they would be provided lunch which i guess would maybe help

out with productivity but musk is coming there going, mate, get rid of it. Get rid of it. You can go across the road to the subway or something. Joel, producer Joel, the young 20- Hungry, hungry Harrison. Hungry, hungry. The guy, he's just got a ravenous appetite. Will eat anything at any time of day if it's put in front of him. Imagine you're at a free lunch.

Because at the moment, what you're doing is you're air frying some old sausages we used for a promotional video last week. You're doing that in the kitchen every morning. Imagine free lunch, John. I'd stay here all day. I'd have no reason to leave. I guess it does create more loyalty, potentially, you know, from staff if they have those little perks.

But, yeah. The mask is getting rid of it. And just quickly, Taika Waititi and Rita Ora, we love hearing news about them. And yesterday they hosted the European MTV Music Awards together. Did a great job from everything I saw online. She had multiple, multiple outfit changes. Taika had a couple herself, including wearing a grey skirt,

sort of a dress-like thing as well, which got a lot of great love on social media as well. And I even saw a bit where they went backstage, they handed a bottle of champagne and an award to Taylor Swift, who was there as well. I mean, when people say they've gone to a better place now,

you know, normally it's about them passing on, but for Taika, no, he's gone to a better place now. And he's still alive. And he's at the MTV Europe musical. He's at the better place. This is life.

Forget about New Zealand, mate. You have gone to a better place now. What place are you in? I'm definitely not hanging out with Taylor Swift and stuff. I'm hanging out with you bleakly coming in here at five in the morning. I just saw you detail wiping down the desk. Tyke doesn't get to detail wipe a desk. Producer B-Hup basically told me to calm down

because I was wanting to get rid of everything. Get rid of this, get rid of this. All the text need that. I know because Ben Humphrey producer of Behemoth has come in and said this studio is a mess so Ben Boyce is just like let's throw everything out

he's like mate we need those microphones I do that at home my wife's like it's my laptop bag yeah right it's all cluttered mate it's all gotta go

this is what happens I hold back for a while I don't do everything but when I do mate it's all gotta go we're literally just sitting in an empty room right now thanks to Ben Boyce's

you're out of here's frantic cleaning. The Hits Boarding Call with Visit Anaheim, House of Travel and Fiji Airways. Yes, it's all thanks to House of Travel, Fiji Airways and Visit Anaheim. You can visit housetotravel.co.nz for more details. It is the trip of a lifetime, a family holiday to Anaheim. Flights, passes to Disneyland, 10 grand cash and a whole lot more. Let's get Leonie on from Auckland.

Welcome, Leonie. Hello, hello. Now, we understand Leonie, Ben. She works upstairs from us in the same building. Do you get to look at us through that? Our window looks out into the foyer area. Do you get to see us from time to time? I do sometimes. I often want to sort of pull faces at window looks out into the foyer area. Do you get to see us from time to time? I do sometimes.

I often want to sort of pull faces at you guys working behind the glass, but I try and restrain myself. Oh, hey, pull the faces. We can do that thing where you blow fish on one side of the glass and we'll blow fish on the other. Sounds like a deal. Now, you work for a shipping company, Mersk Shipping Company. I do, that's correct.

Would you like to ship yourself and your family off to Anaheim? What a trip, eh? Oh, friend, nothing would make me happier. Have you been before? Once, about 10 years ago. Hubby and I on a bit of a trip before the kids ended up there and sort of absolutely

fell in love with Disney. So when I heard about this competition, I've been sort of obsessively listening and trying to call in. So when I heard about this competition, it's been sort of obsessively listening and trying to call in. So super excited to get through. Oh, well, I'm glad you've got through. Well, you've got to answer a question, a very low-hanging fruit question.

Ben Boyce looking a bit confused. Look, have you got a question? Yeah, I have got a question. Here we go. What was the latest land to open at Disneyland Resort in California? The latest land to open up. Was it the Avengers Campus?

Oh, there you go. I thought it was a tricky question today. It was like, they're too easy. That was tricky. I opened in June 2021 Avengers Campus in Disneyland Resort in California. So well done. You're in the draw. Mind you, the lady yesterday

no worries answered a question about, you said, how long did it take to build Disneyland? Oh done, you're in the draw. Mind you, the lady yesterday, no worries, answered a question about, you said, how long did it take to build Disneyland? Oh damn, we're here? Yeah, that was so surprising.

12 months, only took a year to build it until when it opened. Tell you what, supply issues, not a problem back then. I imagine they've done

a few sort of upgrades since then. The old shipping containers were arriving on time then, weren't they, Leonie? I'll keep quiet about that. Well, Leone,

all the very best. You are in the draw and hopefully you'll be going to that family trip of a lifetime. Awesome, thank you. We'll see you through the glass. It's like you're visiting

prison inmates, okay? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, we spoke to a guy yesterday, Josh Eastwood is his name. He's from Australia. Now, I found out what he did online, and he achieved something. I was like, this is pretty incredible.

I got a sausage in bread from every Bunnings store in the country. So this is off your own bat. You financed your way around Australia and had a sausage at every Bunnings. Now, how many sausages in total? How many stores did you visit? It was 300 or something like that. It was quite a few. Every now and then you'd grab a cheeky second snag.

So how's that? So he travelled around Australia and he got a sausage and bread at every Bunnings warehouse in Australia. I said, that's impressive. Let's move on. And I was like, yeah, I agree. And I was like,. I said, that's impressive. Let's move on. And I was like, yeah, I agree. And I was like, I agree with the that's impressive part, but I wasn't ready to move on. That's impressive.

Well done to Josh. What a great achievement. We'll get on with our lives. You get on with yours. Well, I thought it gives us the opportunity right now. And I even asked Josh, I was like, hey, what if we, you and I, Jonah, became the first people to go around every Bunnings Warehouse store

in New Zealand and had a sausage? How about that? Well, I started to get anxious when you asked for his sausage-y blessing at the end of our conversation with Josh. And he did give his blessing. He did? That's your territory. That's your field.

You can play in that pool. So he's given us his blessing, but you haven't given us your blessing at the moment. So after 8 o'clock this morning, we want to put it to you guys because it's your show and we want to decide if we should go on this little journey around the country, visiting every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country. Now, before you come in with your, oh, no.

I know what you're going to say now. I know you're going to try and guilt me into it. Well, you know, I want to celebrate, you know, the famous Bunnings Warehouse sausage sizzle, but I also want to meet the community behind the barbecue, local sports teams, schools, kindergartens and more. That's who benefit from the sausage sizzle around the country. Have you had a backdoor meeting with Bunnings and you've gone,

we need to get this bald idiot across the line, what can we use? And they've gone, let's come in with our community group. Because they do so much great work for the community. They do and keep doing it. And we can help the community. I don't. We can put on extra sausage sizzles throughout the week in each place. It's raising more money for the community. They do, and keep doing it. And we can help the community. I don't. We can put on extra sausage sizzles throughout the week in each place.

It's raising more money for the community. If you don't want to do this, then you don't like the community. I don't. So, you know, they support, help support me in my mission to help support the community, mate. I've done community service,

court appointed many years ago, but this time it's off my own bat, okay? No courts are telling me to do this. The court of public opinion is the only court I'm in there right now. Well, after 8 o'clock, we're going to get you to decide whether we go on this sausage madness. Because I don't know if I need to eat my summer's worth of

sausages in seven days. Fawzi stores around the country. I know, it's a lot. Yeah, we'll get to this. You decide, it is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals.

Because she's not a good person, but either is he. Digging the dirt. Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Killing a cast member. Yes. It was a script.

No. His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. Like Botox to a movie star's face, he's here to inject us with our dose of gossip. NT. Do you write these every single week? They just come to your head. Week in, week out, NT.

Consistently low bar, that I like to see. How are you being made, alright? I'm great. I hope you guys are great too. We're doing really well. Now, Nick Cannon. Our audience might not be familiar with Nick Cannon. He hosted America's Got Talent. He's hosted about 220 television shows. The Masked Singer, I think

in America he hosts. Yeah. Very successful TV host, Nick Cannon. Has just had baby number 12. Now, I'm looking at this, I'm going, Nick, you need to put your cannon away. Lock the, cut the cannon off, if anything. Here's the thing. Wasn't it like six a year ago?

I need to go back and look, but I think it was six a year ago. I was reading he pays $3 million a year in child support. Wow. I saw that, and I thought to myself, okay, well, that seems high. And then I did the math. That's only about, you know, not even $200,000. Well, it's about $250,000 a child, $250,000 a child, which is about $20,000 a month.

And that's probably about right. I think he actually pays less than that, because I don't think he's just paying $20,000 a month. But that's got to take a chunk of his change because if he loses one of the big shows where he's getting paid many, many millions of dollars a year, that's going to be tough to come up with that kind of money. And he probably needs to think about, well, how long is my life in this industry? And am I going to be able to provide for these kids for the next 18 years? No wonder the guy's hosting so much TV. Actually, speaking of extravagant purchases, Drake loves his UFC. In New Zealand, there was a few fighters fighting in the weekend, but he put $2 million on Israel

Adesanya, who spends a lot of time in New Zealand from New Zealand. That seems like a lot of money. But for Drake, is that just like five bucks to him? He's bet big on other things. I'm no offense to the Kiwis or whatever, but he's won money on Israel before, but never against this guy because Israel had already lost twice to this other guy. It was in kickboxing, not UFC. But that's not maybe the bet that I would have made for the $2 million to a guy that he's already been beat by twice.

But, yeah, it happens a lot. I don't think they like to flash it as much, but now because we have legalized sports gambling, it's fine to show your betting ticket and it's a flex. Oh, look, I bet $1 million on this, or I bet $500,000 on this, or, oh, look, I bet a million dollars on this or I bet, you know, 500,000 on this or, Oh look, I just won $4 million off a thousand dollar bet. People do that kind of thing. And also we just had the world series. And there's a guy from Houston who we call mattress Mac and he gives away free mattresses in his store to almost, I mean, just all the time. Oh, just come into the store. You can have a free mattress, a free mattress,

free mattress. And he gives away a ton. Like every time the Houston baseball team wins, he gives, you know, here, come have a free mattress. But he has to figure out a way to pay for that. So he makes extravagant bets. And he just won $75 million. Wow. Because he set the Astros to win earlier in the season.

And it's the largest sports gambling payout ever. But now he'll be able to keep giving free mattresses to everybody in Houston. The free mattress guy, shocking business model. Like, every time the baseball team wins, he gives away free mattresses. Yeah, and they win a lot because they just won the World Series.

So, yeah. He's like, guys, you're sinking me in mattresses. NTR, it's been great talking to you as always you go and have a wonderful week and we'll speak this time next week mate

all right you guys take care the hits the Jono and Ben podcast doing in the studio right now by Cherie Kinnear nice to have you this morning

thanks very much having me now you've got a fun name to say yeah Cherie Kinnear is a fun name some people just have fun names to

say I'm honoured thank you you do a podcast with your mate Katie and it's called In The Loop you can get it on iHeartRadio Katie Kinnear is a fun name. It is a fun name to say. Some people just have fun names to say. Oh, I'm honoured. Thank you. You do a podcast with your mate Katie, and it's called In The Loop. You can get it on iHeartRadio, wherever you get your podcasts.

But a really interesting debate that you've taken to the podcast this week. When do you brush your teeth? Before, after breakfast. And who knew so many people were divided on this? I think the New York Times originally was talking about this this week, right? Yes, and that's the article that we saw first

and we thought we've got to talk about this on the podcast and we didn't realise until we actually started recording we had different views which is great because we definitely had to butt heads on it

and we stole a couple points from that article as well about sort of the arguments before all the arguments for doing it afterwards as well. And where are you sitting? On what side of the fence are you on?

Are you pre or after breakfast? I'm actually pre-breakfast are you i am do you think it depends on the circumstances of your morning this is my thing because you know getting up in the morning as they do for the radio show i'm kind of like unlike hovard there's no close contact close contacts for me in the morning you know so you get up you don't have to deal with anyone so maybe you're not brushing your teeth first thing where you might do if you're having to interact with family members and loved ones. I'm the same as you because I start my day so early. I don't eat my breakfast till a couple hours into my shift. So it makes more sense to brush at home.

But in saying that, into the weekends, I still do the same thing, even if I'm eating shortly after. So it's kind of become a habit for me. But my argument was that if you wake up in the morning, you know, often you've got either like morning breath or like maybe like a taste in your mouth i just i can't i can't have my breakfast i don't know what crimes take place inside my mouth but then you do say circumstantial there is that period in a relationship i don't know if you're in one sheree where you're hyper aware of your breath first thing in the morning. Then eventually you check out. And you sort of get some sort of sick joy on going hi, good morning.

So they have to take it in. You know, eventually they hit that stage. So you're right about circumstances. I love brushing my teeth though, you know that. He is a furious brusher. He'll brush his teeth at the intersection while we're sitting in the car. I'm like Matthew McConaughey, remember he'd roll around without a shirt in LA for many years brushing his teeth. teeth well I could probably

give him a run for his money with the amount of times I brush my teeth I take one in my bag I brush it do you brush before and after that I'm brushing all the time

like after like snacks after whatever so I'm probably not the right person to enter in this debate but we want to know this morning

on 0800 the hits or 4487 brushing your teeth first thing in the morning or after breakfast you guys put it to your audience what happened what was the results we had about sort of roughly around a 60 to 40 uh split on our poll for brushes so the 60 to brushes after 30 to brushes before yeah i'm after yeah get rid of the debris blow out the debris but before but what about before

and after what is anyone doing it before and after? There were a few people that said we brush before and after, but then taking your toothbrush to work or like, I don't know. I don't know. Shorty is brushing off all the good enamel that you need to have on there. Yeah, that's what people say. All right, so I'm 100% support. You've over water blasted your teeth like your dick.

Do you have a conclusive result of what the New York Times has said? Yeah, well, they actually said that. Oh, do I hold it back? Okay, wait, wait. Okay, let's put it to you, and then we'll get the conclusive result next. 0800 THE HITS of 4487. Brush your teeth before breakfast or after breakfast. We want to know that this morning on The Hits.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're in the middle of a debate. Cherie's brought it to our attention. She does In The Loop podcast. You can get it on iHeartRadio, wherever you get your podcasts. It's to do with brushing your teeth first thing in the morning

or after breakfast and under the hits. Or 4487, if you've got an opinion, we've got a double pass to Lorde, her second gig in Hawke's Bay. It's going to be happening

in March next year. All the details at the hits.co.nz. Now, Cherie, I have to ask you, as a pre-meal brusher, my thing about brushing before a meal is it makes everything taste like jewellery cleaner after you've brushed. Do you find this?

I don't know. I think I just don't mind that taste as much. It doesn't feel like very overpowering for me. Well, and you can work through it. You know, two minutes of chowing down on orange juice straight after toothpaste, it eventually finds its flavour, doesn't it? Yeah, and depending on the break, obviously, between when you've brushed and you eat, if you've had, like, enough time between.

Well, that's true. The flavor's kind of gone. It's a huge topic. The New York Times have been covering it as well. It's international. It's what they're talking about overseas. This is my little, my handy little, portable little toothbrush thing I carry around everywhere. It's got a little case.

Yeah, it comes in a case. It's like it's a little sleeping bag I keep in a bag. So there you go. Can you believe he's married? What a catch, eh? What a catch. Hey, I have great oral hygiene, I think. That's good. Let's get Katie.

Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast. Morena, Katie. Hello. Pre-breakfast, after breakfast, when's this brushing taking place, K-Dog? Definitely after breakfast because I don't brushing taking place, K-Dog? Definitely after breakfast, because I don't want my breakfast tasting like toothpaste. Oh, that's what you were just saying before, Jono. Those are the conditions that many people don't enjoy, Katie.

And also the flossing afterwards. Oh, flossing's in another story, isn't it? I won't start flossing. Don't bring flossing into the mix. But after breakfast, is this the tradition in your household? Is it for everyone? Not actually. My partner does it before.

Okay, so you're mixing it up. Does it drive a wedge between the pair of you? No, I wouldn't say it would. It's not so bad. I think it's a bit weird. Can you just say it does? Don't try to over-dramatise this. Can you just say it does?

I'll ask you that question again. Katie, surely this is driving a wedge in your relationship. Yeah, it definitely is. Yeah, I can understand. Things are tense at home. but thank you for your call. We appreciate it. We're going to send you the Lord, her Hawke's Bay gig in March next year. It's going to be awesome, so enjoy that.

Now, we have a dental hygienist joining us on the show. Friend of the show, Ben. Friend of us, actually. Sam Smith, not the musician. Also a friend of the show as well. The more famous Sam Smith, the dentist. Sam, welcome. Hello, how are you guys?

We're well, mate. This is a debate that you just couldn't ignore. You have a definitive answer. The absolute definitive answer on this is that if you brush your teeth before breakfast, you are an absolute maniac. That is crazy to do that. Why? Is Cherise someone that does that? Why is she crazy to do that? She's absolute maniac. I see myself now. She's crazy to do that.

Why? Is Cherise someone that does that? Why is she crazy to do that? She's a maniac. She's an absolute maniac. She should be put in prison. Why? Why?

Explain yourself. When you brush your teeth, what you're doing is you're getting food off your teeth, basically. And so if you do that, and the other part of it is you're actually painting the fluoride in the toothpaste onto your teeth basically and so if you if you do that and the other part of it is you're actually painting the fluoride that's in the toothpaste onto your teeth that's soaked into your teeth and makes them strong and protects them throughout the day so if you are doing that and then eating immediately afterwards

that's going to wash that fluoride off it's like painting your house and then getting a water blaster out straight away. What an analogy. Sheree, you're a maniac. Ben, what do you think about Ben Boyce's regime? He's brushing his teeth in his car at the intersection. Is he a maniac? He used to do that when I was writing on the TV show with you guys. He used to brush his teeth all the time with a little kid's toothbrush, and I approve.

Good job, Ben. There we go. Nine out of ten dentists approve. There's a time for oral hygiene, and that time is always. Always. There you go. Cherie, what was the New York Times of the day? What did they say?

Yeah, well, I was going to bring up a point because one of the main points that the dentists that they quoted said was when you wake up in the morning, the bacteria in your mouth is at its peak, and then if you're eating breakfast, which has a lot of often sugary carbs, that can feed off it. And that's a question I've got for you actually as well, if you can tell me. Is that accurate? Is that one of the key points? Apparently that can lead to cavities. It can if you then don't brush your teeth.

I like thinking of the bacteria, you brush your teeth the night before so you don't have too much on your teeth to start off with. And then in the morning, give them a little feed of your breakfast and then murder them by brushing them away. What a lovely analogy. Very cute, but also murderous. And I think we can all agree everyone's a maniac. So thank you very much, Sam Smith.

Thank you, Sheree, for coming in. We appreciate it. You can catch In The Loop podcast on the New Zealand Herald, wherever you get your podcasts as you, Shari, for coming in. We appreciate it. You can catch In The Loop podcast on the New Zealand Herald, wherever you get your podcasts as

well, on iHeart Radio. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. He lost to a dog and Britain's got talent.

We love reminding him about that. But we still catch up with him all the same. We don't know what happened to that dog.

It's Callum Scott. How's it going? The dog's dead. But that dog deserved to die, beating you. I know, yeah. I look at our careers and I go, well, at least I'm still alive. The dog's dad Oh shit But that dog Deserved to die Beating you I know I know yeah

I look at our careers And I go Well at least I'm still alive Amazing amazing We've spoken many times About you know Britain's Got Talent How it blew up

But even the video count For that has just Jumped up again It's 370 million views For your audition Bro it's like Really hard for me To accept those

Kind of numbers Yeah Because I remember When I Before Britain's Got Talent I put my version Of Dan Samoan Upon my YouTube channel audition it's like really hard for me to accept those kind of numbers because i remember when i had before britain's got time i put my version of of dance on my own up on my youtube channel right i had when i got to a thousand views i celebrated like there was no tomorrow i was like thousand views and now like you tell me a number like that and i'm like my little brain doesn't fathom who's monet's monetizing that? Is that Simon Cowell? Oh, somebody's monetizing it. It definitely isn't me.

Cowell's got a sticky mitts all over that video, doesn't he? Do you still keep in touch with Simon Cowell? Yeah, me and Simon had a little chat, a little catch up before I came out to start my world tour. Yeah, so hopefully we'll be doing some bits and pieces together in the UK. Does he still mean to all you?

No. Simon doesn't have his own phone, you see. So it's hard for me to be in touch directly with him. Oh, really? Yeah, because when we sat down, he said, look, he said, if I can recommend you to do anything, it's get rid of your phone. Really?

I mean, I'm not going to do that. Because I need my phone. But his wife, his missus has a phone. So obviously, if anybody needs to get in touch with him, they can go through her or his assistant. But yeah, he said it's one of the best things he ever did it feels like simon cowell's just shifted his problem onto his wife yeah his wife's like i'm getting all these calls for god's sake simon but the song i mean dancing on my own you've got many other great songs as well but that

song's just had another life i understand in america with the phillies the baseball team embraced it as their sort of song. I was watching footage. It's like, what, thousands of people singing it before the Major League Baseball games? It's just insane. I mean, obviously when I go out and I do my performances and people sing the songs with me, it's an incredible feeling.

But then to have that, to be used as like a victory song, that's all you can wish for as an artist and as a songwriter. I mean, obviously it's a Robin song, but for them to be using my version of it it's just such a massive honor you know has robin like because i think a while ago you hadn't actually heard from robin yeah whether they're into the song or not yeah no she is she is oh that's good we we bumped into each other by chance uh in uh in london we was at the same radio station and she walked by me and I was like, and then my radio lady was like,

oh, I used to work with Robin, I'll go and speak to her. And she came over and like the whole time I was thinking, is she going to come over and be like, I hate your version. I hate you, but thank you for making me a lot of money. She came over and she was like, look, the version is incredible.

I love that it's come out to a whole new brand new audience. And she was really gushing about it. So, yeah, it made me feel a lot better to have her tick of approval rather than thinking in the back of my head, she hates me. She wants me dead. She wants me dead like that dog off Prince Got Talent. We've got Caleb Scull with us in the studio now. You've been touring around Australia with our very own Mitch James.

Oh, my God, guys, I love him. I love him down to his bones. He's just so passionate. us in the studio now you've been touring around australia with our very own mitch james god guys i love him i love him down to his bones he's just so he's so passionate he cares about his his music and his fans so much and every night he comes up to me he's like i'm just so grateful bro i'm so grateful i'm like i just want to adopt him he's so lovely he's very adoptable isn't he he is very adoptable yeah and like he's like i've listened album. I mean, he's got some great songs on there, man. And for me to be able to hear it live every night is just such a pleasure. I only realized this recently,

but the people who come to my gigs, they're all the same sort of people. They're all made up of the same sort of thing. There's nobody throwing bottles of urine up on the stage. It's not that kind of- I did it once. Yeah, you did, yeah. But you know what?

They're all the same people. Everybody know really in touch with their emotion real like you know real real real sensitive people and i think the the people that have come to my gigs have fallen in love with mitch just as much as they've fallen in love with the the new music i've made as well speaking of people throwing things on stage last time you're in new zealand power station which you're playing you've got a soft toy sheep or something throwing up on stage yeah or something like that yeah or something like that expecting something like that in new zealand i mean i'm done i'm i'm expecting uh toys to be thrown up on stage if not i'm gonna just stop the gig there and then people still throwing underpants on on stages is that still a thing

yeah as as an artist what happens to those items because you see it all just yeah where does it all? Does it go on the road with you? Yeah, I mean, the pants probably stay in situ on the stage. At least you're an old size.

Yeah, I remember these. But no, I am actually a really sentimental person. I mean, shocker, but I'm a really sentimental person. So I had to have this

like pirate's chest made that I have in my house that all of my stuff that I get from fans goes in it's all of my fan mail all the toys and things that they give me it's great it's quite nice to know that it's interesting to know from a very famous person what you actually do with fan mail because I thought you'd just ignore it oh no I love it I love it man and I try and respond where I can but the family I get as well it's so personal and so deep and stuff I'm like i cannot just put

this in the bin like this is somebody's like heart and soul and i'm like cool throw in the bin i don't do that i keep everything i keep everything oh what a lovely man yeah we throw our stuff i had a dog it was pretty talented he did the show it died we're like get it out of here lovely to meet you face to face, mate. Yeah, man, absolutely. Thank you for having me, boys. Let's go. Jono and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash.

Thank you. Or play on to win more. It's our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning on the Hits Match. All five words, you get $5,000 a week and win a whole lot of money on the way. Now, let's welcome in Hope from Romati South. Morena, Hope, how are you?

Good morning. Thank you. Yeah, good to have you on the show. What are you doing today? Going to Wellington to get my hair done. Ooh, stop rubbing it in. Not all of us can go to Wellington and get our hair done. What will you do?

$5,000. Hope, it's a lot of coin. Yeah, probably take my son to see my brother in Perth. I haven't seen him in a few years. Oh, that's a wonderful trip. Now, we actually just had a call from the bank manager who said, guys, you need to get rid of this $5,000 or else we're going to put it into KiwiSaver

or something boring like that. So we'd love to give it to you, Hope. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth this morning, mate? Jono, please. All right. Jono, we'll head on in there. We have an actual soundproof booth

in the corner of the studio. People are surprised when they actually see that's a real thing. He's in there now. Here we go, Hope. What pops into your head when I say the word cuppa?

Cuppa. Tea. Cuppa tea. Check. Turn my mic off there. Check is word number two and that's C-H-E-Q-U-E. Check.

Check. Like the old school. Check, isn't it? Yeah, I'm guessing. Check. Yeah, I was going to say checkmate, but no, check. I'm guessing like the old school checkbook back in the day. But there might be some other options that I can't even think of right now.

Yeah, check. Money. Yeah, money. Yeah, want to look up money? Yep. Is that what you want? Yeah, money. Okay.

Disney. I think so. That's what I can think of. Disney is word number three. Disney. Disney. Walt. Walt. Walt.

Here is word number four, and it's H-A-I-R, here. Here. Here. We've got some ones with some options here this morning. We do, yeah. Can I come back to that one? Okay, and legal is the final word, legal. Legal. Oh, that's a that one? Okay. And legal is the final word. Legal. Legal.

Well, that's a hard one too. Legal age. Legal age. Good. And back to hair. Something that Jono's got no part in. He will have no comments on. Yeah.

Hair, hair, hair. Hair brush, hair tie, hair dresser, hair stylist. A few options. Hair brush. Why not? Okay. All right. Just giving you some options. Hairbrush, why not? Okay, all right. I'm just giving you some options. I don't know what Shona's going to say.

We'll get them out of the soundproof booth and we'll see how we go, try to match up some words. Guys, just took a rat test in there. Tested positive for winning, so here we go. I'm holding out hope for hope. All right, here is the first word we're going to riff into it, the $25 word.

Word one, $25. Cuppa, tea. Yeah, $25. Hope, you want to go to the 50 word yeah go on risk it all here we go word two fifty dollars now i'm gonna spell this one for you as well because it's check c-h-e-q-u-e check thanks for mansplaining oh no it could be C-H-E-C-K it's fine it's okay not mansplaining it's a big difference between check and check check account

ah I didn't think of that one what did you go home what did I say money money checkbook was what

I was thinking as well we'll just quickly run through the other ones Disney Walt oh hey hair hair brush and legal tender as well. We'll just quickly rip through the other ones. Disney. Walt. Oh, hey. Hair. Hair.

Hair. Brush. And legal. Tender. Oh, we're not a bad way of it there, I hope, but unfortunately not quite enough to win some money, but thank you so much for playing. No worries, thanks for having me. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast. Now, we spoke

to a guy in Australia. His name was Josh yesterday on the show. Now he achieved something that caught my eye. Something pretty incredible. Have a listen. The whole crux of it is I got a sausage in bread from every Bunnings store in the country. So this is off your own bat

you've financed your way around Australia and had a sausage at every Bunnings. Now how many sausages in total? How many stores did you visit? It was 300 or something like that. It was quite a few. Every now and then you'd grab a cheeky second snag.

Yeah, so pretty incredible. He went around every Bunnings warehouse store in Australia, had a sausage, took him over two years. Australia's a big country, and he went there in the weekends. Well done him. Congratulations. Let's move on with everything. Move on with everything.

By everything I say, our lives. That's what you thought. But it got me thinking when I was talking to Josh that we could do the equivalent here in New Zealand. We could go around every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country and have a sausage and bread at every Bunnings Warehouse. And I was like, that's a shocking idea. No, it's a great idea. It's nearly Christmas. 41 stores around the country.

I asked Josh for his blessing. I said, you do Australiaia can we do new zealand he's like yeah go for it it's your territory man yeah you know so he was happy i was happy and john are you like oh yeah you know yeah well ben i'm gonna bring on someone close to your heart okay uh are you familiar with your daughter oh i was gonna say your daughter johnson but oh yeah my daughter you know i love Okay Are you familiar with Your daughter Dwayne Oh I was going to say Your daughter Sienna Dwayne The Rock Johnson But oh yeah My daughter Sienna

I love her too I don't know How close is she to your heart Compared to Dwayne The Rock Johnson Let's not get into comparing Let's just say I love Dwayne The Rock Johnson I love my daughter Sienna

Sienna I think you should get Those tattoos removed And get my name printed Yeah I've got your name on me Me too You know

Like my love for all You know Your daughter I know There should be There should be just a picture of me. It needs to be your daughter's name on your bottom. What a wonderful tribute. But Sienna, I've brought you on because you have had previous experience

with sausage consumption. Oh, yes. Yes, I have. You were the adorable little child devouring sausages on a tip-top bread? Or was it Nature's Fresh? Nature's Fresh bread campaign. Nature's Fresh bread. I ate so many sausages, and they were really good.

If you have too many, they make you feel sick. And I got known as Sausage Girl. So you guys will get known as Sausage Man and Sausage Man. Sausage Man and not Sausage Men? Just Sausage Man. Sausage Man and Sausage Man. Sausage Man and not Sausage Men? Just Sausage Man. Sausage Man and Sausage Men. I'll be the Sausage Man. I'll be Sausage Man and Sausage Men.

Yeah, you did. Because you had to eat for the Nature's Fresh Out. I remember you had to eat a sausage and bread, and they were like, oh, this is delicious. But then you ate quite a lot of sausage throughout the day of the ad. And I had to have a spit bucket in the end because I ate too many. Did you not pace yourself, Sienna? No, I was like, oh, this is really good.

So I ate the whole thing and then I ate like five of those and then I was like, oh, I'm feeling sick. Shit, that's only five sausages. We've got to do the entire country's worth. 40 sausages. And so what would your advice be? Do we go on this tour or not?

I think you should, but I've just got to warn you. You're going to be sausage man and sausage man. Well, you can hear it in her voice, her sweet little child voice. She knows this is a bad idea. Well, I know she says you do it, but you don't want to be called, are you all right with being called sausage man and sausage man? It would be confusing when people ring up, they go, can I talk to sausage man?

Well, which one do you want? Listen, I'm going to pitch something to you, Ben. Yeah. Why don't you take the mad butcher on this holiday with you? Well, which one do you want? Listen, I'm going to pitch something to you, Ben. Yeah? Why don't you take the Mad Butcher on this holiday with you? Oh, jeez, he'd love it. It would be his dream. We're giving away a trip to Disneyland. This is the Mad Butcher's Disneyland.

He would love it. A week of nonstop sausage consumption. Yeah. All right, well, see, you've made me think about it some more, but I think we should still do it. But we're going to throw it out to the audience right now and I'll enter the hits. See you, sausage girl.

Bye, sausage man. Bye. Should we go on this journey travelling to every Bunnings warehouse store in the country? Now he's trying to get the people behind him. And I've got a really good reason why I think we should next. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I have a dream to go around every Bunnings warehouse store

in the country and eat a sausage and bread from their wonderful sausage sizzles that they operate. 41 stores around this great nation of ours. It was 40 10 minutes ago. 41 stores around. There's a new opening that's happening this weekend. And so I want to take my mate,

because there's a man between my names around, and he's indifferent about the idea. So we want to put it to you guys, because you're shy. Should we go around? Now we've got a couple of good reasons as we go, but right now we'll take questions from the lot. Well, Ben, I would like to fire a question. I'd like to put a spanner in your works. Okay. And that works being the barbecue. Come at me, come at me with a question. Jordan, we'll get Jordan on

from Wellington. You've got a great question which could get me a pass out of this whole madness. What is it, Jordan? Well, I'm wondering how you'll get through 41 stores in a week when sausage sizzles only tend to be in the weekend. Bam! Great question.

You're right. Traditionally, the sausage sizzle at Bunnings is in the weekend hours, but I've spoken to my mates at Bunnings, and they have said as we go around the country, if we do this, they will open up a sausage sizzle, especially for us, to go have a sausage, and open up a literal meet and greet for other people to come down and have a sausage as we go around the meet and greet for other people to come down and

have a sausage as we go around the country throughout the week thank you for your question but i think i just answered it yes oh man i have a question okay yes come at me can the other guy not do it well okay let me let me say this now the bunning sausage sizzle great iconic we all love it but it's a great way of celebrating the community because, you know, you pay to go along to the barbecue. It supports local sports teams, schools, kindergartens is more. So by doing this... I feel like you're reading me a brochure.

So we are supporting communities around New Zealand. Do you not love the community? Do you not love supporting local sports teams, schools, kindergartens and more? As we go along, we're raising money for the Bunnings Warehouse sausages that they provide to the community. No. Sorry. Was that a question?

No, that was when you went to turn it. Because they're doing a great job of it anyway. Yeah, but now we're going to do extras. They don't need us out there. As we go around, the people will come down and buy a sausage. Someone is texting. Another great question here. Would you like me to read this one out to you?

Yeah, yeah. Ben, it seems like you don't like spending time with your family. Every two or three weeks, you're wanting to go on some road trip. What's going on at home? That was from you. It's not from me. It's a legitimate text. We just spoke to my daughter before.

She thought it was a wonderful idea. She just said pace ourselves. So over a week, I'm hoping that will happen on Sunday. If Jono can agree to this within the next 24 hours. Ange, welcome. Hi, old mate Ange. How are you? Good, good.

Your thoughts, Ange? Are we going on this thing or not? Yes, we are. And I'll be at my two Hamilton stores waiting for you. And I'll bunk my child off school. Oh, there we go. Okay. Well, there we are. And I'll be at my two Hamilton stores waiting for you, and I'll bunk my child off school. Oh, there we go. Okay. Well, there we go.

The ministry education might not be at that stage. She's off school for a wee bit. But it's for a great cause because it's supporting the community. And in a way, you're supporting schools, kindergartens and local sports teams with the Bunnings Warehouse Sausage Sizzle. How long is it going to take? We're compacting it. We're not doing it weekends.

I know how you like to do nothing on the weekends. So I was like, we'll leave you. It's going to take? We're compacting. We're not doing it weekends. I know how you like to do nothing on the weekends. So I was like, we'll leave you. It's going to take seven days, I think, if we have worked out the schedule. Yeah. From when? Sunday. That's the weekend.

You said it's not going to take... So Sunday to Sunday. Hold on. You're just not going to take your weekend. It's Sunday to Sunday. It's not going to take 14 weekends to go around 41 stores. It's going to take... We're going to get it done in seven days, mate.

It's going to be an amazing adventure. This is the last thing I'm doing this year. Okay? Not doing any more talking, nothing, after these seven days of sausage. Good, that's what we'll be trying to do, break it down. No, it's going to be a lot of fun. Hopefully we'll be doing it, going around supporting the community with the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Tour of New Zealand.

Stay tuned. It could be happening on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Bit of a nerve-wracking moment yesterday. Gang member approached me, Ben, in the street. Always nervous times when a gang member walks up to you, says, oi. And I'm thinking, how much money do I owe them? Or what's Ben said now?

Those are my two things. I haven't said anything. What wild things has Ben said on the radio? You're the only one saying some wild things. I'm like, all right, okay, Take it on the chin here. Anyway, he approached a lovely gentleman. Says he listens to the show every morning. Listens to Five Words.

Plays Five Words with the kids. Drops them to school. You're never really truly relaxed when you're talking to a gang member. You're never like, you know, look at me. I shouldn't be in a conversation with a gang member. You love a conversation. I shouldn't be in a conversation with a gang member. Oh, you love a conversation.

I do love a conversation. We had a great conversation. Now, we're both waiting for Ubers. So I was like maybe not fully concentrating. And then I assumed my Uber had pulled up. See you, mate. Lovely to meet you, mate. Thank you for listening.

Appreciate your time. And then I got onto the Uber, drove off 10 metres, well probably Half a k down the road, sorry, Uber driver goes Why did you cancel the Why did you cancel the ride? I said I didn't cancel The ride, and he said What's the registration of the car

You're meant to be in? And I read it out, he said Yeah that's not my car, and there is No, if you have never seen the face of disappointment, well, then look at the face of an Uber driver of a vehicle they've hopped in that you're not meant to be in. So what happens in that situation? Because obviously the person who awarded you.

He didn't even say anything. He just did a U-turn in a fit of rage. And he's like, mate, you've got one job to do. You've just got to read the license plate when I pull up and match it with and normally they're very good at saying Uber for Jono and you say Uber for Jono none of that transaction you didn't say it, you didn't front foot it, you didn't lead that conversation

no I just got in the car thinking well it was a great conversation I'll just exit and I'm driving back and I'm like there were a few people waiting for Ubers there but my luck would be that I've taken the gang member's Uber. And I pull him and I see the poor guy. He's looking confused.

He's wandering around. He's checking other cars. He's wandering around. And I get out of the car and go, hey, was this your? And he's like, you know what? I saw you driving off and I thought I should probably say something. He said, but I didn't want to make a fuss. So I was like, lovely you didn't want to make a fuss.

The problem is I've caused a fuss for you now because old mate's cancelled your trip. You're going to have to hop on another Uber and there's my Uber there, so I'll jump in there. See you later. Bye. Oh, later. Bye. Oh dear. So just watch your back,

Ben, okay? We've opened up the X-Files for stories about your ex after we just found out that famous Americans Tom Brady and Giselle Munchen, they've separated but they've moved in

basically across the road from each other. Yeah, and Drink, she's just bought the mansion across the road from his place. Yeah, and Drink, she's just bought the mansion across the road from his place. Dream if you owned the mansion before she purchased the mansion. Yeah, you're right. You're like, you're really needing this mansion.

Yeah. So Ben, when you ever find yourself in a situation when you're in Hollywood and you own a giant mansion. Just wait for that opportunity. Conveniently, you're across the road from a famous person. I always try and buy my mansions opposite famous people in Hollywood. So we'll open up the X-Files, because that's an interesting living arrangement with the ex-partner.

You can text 24487 on New Zealand's Breakfast. Tony, how are you? I'm good. How are you? Yeah, good. The X-Files are open. What happened with your ex? So basically, I went to go out for dinner with another girl and we went to this restaurant and it was real nice and got there and the waitress came along

and it actually turned out to be my ex-girlfriend. Oh, like as the waiter. Yeah. Now, did your ex-partner, was she having to wait on your entire meal, entree, main, dessert? Yeah, she did the whole thing. So she came up and gave us water at the start and realised it was me.

Oh, no. Did you guys acknowledge it? Or did you just kind of leave it unsaid? No, we definitely just left it unsaid. We didn't actually finish on the best kind of terms. Oh, God. And who ended it? Oh, it was me.

Oh, God. You must have just wanted to. Yeah, I just wanted to leave, to be honest. Were you a little worried if your food was contaminated in any way? Oh, it definitely ran past my mind. Jeez, yeah. That wasn't the best. So you just pretended you didn't know her?

Oh, I had to, yeah. I was like, holy. She would have been thinking the same, too. Like, oh, and pretending nothing went. I like it that you're both great acting, holy moly. She would have been thinking the same too, like, oh, and pretending nothing went. I like it that you're both, great acting from both of you. Thank you very much for your call, Tony. Appreciate it. No worries.

Yeah. Robin, welcome. How are you? Yeah, not too bad. X-Files, that's what we're talking this morning. How many X's have you had there, Robin? A few. My, yeah, well, a few years ago,

my stepdad passed away, and he was very well-known and liked by a lot of people. So, yeah, so I had three of my exes show up. At the funeral? Yeah, I'll get along with two of them. Yeah, what about the third? What's going on there, number three? Yeah, no, they're...

Yeah, a bit shaky, a bit shaky a bit shaky i couldn't imagine a more awkward setting well the good thing with a funeral is you can't ignore people can't you yeah and there's a big there's a big crowd you can everyone's wearing black you all blend in yeah yeah well robin thank you very much for your call. Awesome. Yeah, what do you want to say? I don't know. Sorry, that was a very strange way to end the phone call. You've said all you wanted to say. Yeah, well, I kind of did it.

Pretty much. Yeah, well, and it was good too. You're going to have a great day. Yeah, you too. See you, mate. Now, we just had a text come through. A story that involves an ex-partner and winning lotto. Yeah.

We'll get it on next. And as the hits, you got John O'Bien?