Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Loves Sifting Around Movie Theatres

Episode Date: February 21, 2022

Can you imagine it? Jono took his son and his friends to the movies and sat a few rows back, just peering at them and making sure they were behaving! Yes, we can imagine it. We also spoke about a friend who accidentally left a voicemail on their bosses phone after they didn't pick up. But what happens when you accidentally b***h about your boss without realising YOU'RE LEAVING A VOICEMAIL!! Nothing worse! Finally, we spoke about embarrassing injuries after our producer Bhumps tore a ligament while talking on the phone. Enjoy the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's with the Jono and Ben podcast. G'day guys, 22nd of Feb, it's the podcast. Big shout out to Annie Fryer, big listener to the podcast, maybe the only one. But thank you mum, tunes in. She gets, much like Jenny did, she gets all of her updates from your personal life from the podcast. She was texting me this morning, how's your tooth? Because I mentioned that my tooth had fallen out on Friday through the building. She gets to enjoy the, oh god we we just rinse our personal lives, don't we?

We do. Every facet of, you know, you finish one show at nine o'clock and you're like, geez. It's one of those things now that if something does happen, then you're like, and even if a frustratingly bad thing happens, the small bit of, you know, the brightness is there. I'm like, at least I get to talk about this on radio. That's the small thing sometimes. It is the win. It's the win. You're like, this is shocking. It least I get to talk about this on radio. That's the small thing sometimes. It is the win. It's the win.

You're like, this is shocking. It's costing me thousands of dollars. At least I get to talk about it on the radio. You still get three minutes of talking about it. You just mentioned the date before. It's the 2nd of the 22nd, well, basically 2-2-2-2-2. Tuesday they're calling it. Yeah, Tuesday online they're calling it.

It's great. It's all the twos Today Second of the 22nd Are you a fan of the May the 4th be with you? No Well I'm not against it

I just You're not anti You're not going to start A protest outside Parliament Yeah But you're not going to You're not going to wander around Going May the 4th be with you

Yeah You know Like I might repost A photo of us In Star Wars costume Or something That's as far as I'll go. He'll have a topical take on it.

I'll dip my toes in, you know, for a photo from years ago where you were in Star Wars costumes. But yeah, that's about it. That's about it, to be honest. But, you know, I do like it. You know, it's clever. I've never watched Star Wars. No, right. No, my son's binged the whole lot.

Yeah. Back to the 70s as well. He went to the whole thing, yeah. It's very underwhelming for a child of 20, 22 to go back and watch movies made in the 70 lot. Yeah. Back to the 70s as well. You went through the whole thing, yeah. And it's very underwhelming for a child of 20, 22 to go back and watch movies made in the 70s. Yeah, or some of the... Oh, it's just...

You know. And I warn them too. I'm like, this is not... You know, you've become... You're numb to all of the technology that is in front of you. Good on them for doing it though.

That's awesome. And I'm like, well, just imagine back in the 70s they were probably having to drag these spaceships along on string and go close up and they're like, I don't care old man.

Why does a spaceship not look realistic and like it's flying through my living room right now? You're right. The technology's really moved on. Yeah, your kids, do they watch old school movies? Oh yeah, we do.

How far do you take it back? We do try and do, you know, like some old school movies. We watch some of the Back do you take it back? We do try and do some old school movies. Watch some of the back to future movies with them. Watch the franchise. And they're probably at that age now where they're just getting to the end of the kids. They still like a kid's movie, but you can go, oh, I remember watching this and watch a movie that you hadn't watched for a long time since you were sort of their age.

And sometimes they stack up and other times you're like, okay, this is a lot better in my memory. So like in Glorious Bastards or something? Not quite. There's Mr. and Mrs. Smith we watched the other day with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. How'd that go down? Pretty good. Yeah, it was actually quite a good movie. Was there any raunchy scenes you had to kind of...

Every now and again, that's nothing too... They were doing it all off camera, weren't they? Yeah, I think they were, right? So yeah, that's the only problem is sometimes you're like, is this movie all right? Then some start watching it and you're like, okay, no, it's not. Yeah, and also there's some boobs on the screen. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't quite to that level, but it was probably happening off camera, as you say,

because that was the one where they. They hooked up. In real life. But they were still also in, he was with Jen, wasn't he? I think that's where it all, yeah. All unraveled. Well, at least we know they? I think that's where it all, yeah. All Unraveled. Well, at least we know they'll be together forever and ever. Right, yeah.

So yeah, that's us talking about movies and stuff. What's your one movie? If you could, you're only allowed to watch one movie for the rest of your life, what's it going to be? Oh, jeez, that's tough. I really don't know because there is so many good movies out there. Well, they've made an industry out of it, haven't they? Yeah. I've seen Happy Gilmore a lot of times. That's a movie that I enjoy.

I can still watch and I still enjoy even though I've seen it so many times. It's just fun. But yeah, some of the movies you like. There's some ones like intense thrillers and things like that you like. I've watched it but I probably wouldn't watch it again. It was good but you wouldn't watch it repeat. You never come out of a movie theatre with a negative review.

That's what really annoys me. He's never gone, I hated that. He's never said it. You should be doing Kate Rogers' job on three. But I'd be too positive. Yeah, I thought this was good. It was great. It looks like they captured everything on camera.

All the movie companies would love me, wouldn't they? Yeah, because you'd be afraid of not getting free movie tickets. So even if you detested the film, oh, they were facing the right way. Yeah, yeah. You could hear all the lines the actors were saying. The shots were in focus. The credits, I couldn't find any spelling mistakes in the credits.

I couldn't see a single one. So you look for the positives, guys. And they're like, well done, Ben. Here's your Fast and Furious 18 t-shirt. And you're like, thanks, guys. This was a cinematic masterpiece. Exactly. Especially the bit where they flew a car into space. I give it five stars. And today's podcast

I give it three and a half to four stars. Three and a half for this? That's one of you. But enjoy the podcast. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. I went to the movies and witnessed something at the end of the movies

which I'd never experienced before. Staying awake? I did stay awake for an entire movie, which was a first for me. I've been to movies with you, and as soon as the movie starts after the previews, he's like, you're gone. No, but they send us a look, because if you interview someone,

you have to see the movie beforehand. So they send Ben and me along to the theatre, and it's like this reclining couch. Oh, sorry. It's so hard sitting in a comfy chair, isn't it? We've been up, so you go there at 11 o'clock in the morning, and you're like, this is the cosiest. I'm on a sweet date with my dear friend here.

Some time for us to rebuild the relationship. And then I just start snoring and slobbering. Yeah. But I went to see Uncharted. Tom Holland. Mark Wahlberg. At the end of it, someone stood up and started clapping and applause. And then that

obviously, as soon as one person kicks it off, which granted takes a lot of confidence. Like, you've really got to back yourself if you want to lead and applause. And then the rest of us all feel obliged to also stand up and applause. But I'm like, who are we clapping to? Well, yeah, was it Mark Wahlberg?

Was he there? He's not there. Tom Holland can't hear you. It's just some greasy teenager cleaning up all our popcorn who's receiving all this applause. So you get to the end of West Side Story and everyone's like, Steven Spielberg can't hear that.

He doesn't know. Like, imagine like at a premiere if the people were all there. That would be fine because they could- It would be awkward if you didn't do it. Yeah. But for no one around. The other clap I love is when the plane lands. And it's been a bit bumbly. would be fine because they'd be awkward if you didn't do it yeah but for no one around the other

clap i love is when the plane lands have you like and it's been a bit bumpy and someone starts a clap in the plane and everyone joins in yeah and you're like well well done pilot for doing your job to an adequate level you got us all to the tarmac where we're meant to be yeah there's only a few jobs where you can receive applause it It's not like when, you know, Karen from HR, she does a great job on solving an HR issue and we're all like, goddammit Karen, you're the best in the biz.

The other one that I find interesting with clapping is when you go to awards, you know, awards show, like the radio awards or something, and people will start clapping at the start after every nominee, and then after like five nominees everyone fades out of that, you know? It's like you can't the start after every nominee. And then after like five nominees, everyone fades out of that. You know? Yeah.

It's like you can't do it after every person. And I must take my hat off to Poppy, mate, her primary school principal, Minnie, who she's got a wonderful, wonderful role when it comes to applause. Kids, come up. No one applauds. No one applauds. Once they've all got them, then you give them a, you know.

Yes, yes. Just save your hands because after a while, by the end of any show, if you're sitting there for a long time, you're kind of half-heartedly just smacking your hand on your thigh. Yeah. You lose all, you're sick of clapping for people. And you feel sorry for the kids at the end.

It's not like you're not happy for them. You've just, you're right, you've given your best claps to the first lot of kids. Yeah, the best kids. Yeah. Yeah, and to be honest, you only want to see your kid go up there. You know, the rest of them are irrelevant, aren't they?

Tested safe for listing from home. John Owen Bean, on the hits. From the Humble Yum Yum podcast on iHeartRadio and Eat Well for Less, of course, thanks to Countdown. Good morning, gentlemen. How are you? How do you get up early in the morning?

Are you a morning guy, Ganesh Raj? I am, brother, I am. I'm a 4.45 a.m. person. Oh, yeah, you like to seize the day. I have to, bro. I have to smash it all out while the brain cells are still working. Now, the podcast this week, you catch up with our famous Kiwis. You talk to them about their food, their life,

and all things to do with that. Who's on this week? Oh, we've got Mitch James, mate. Oh, nice. Love Mitch James. We always sort of thought of him as our younger brother, Mitch James, Ben. Absolutely.

I mean, you know, he was so cool. His energy is so good, so strong. And he's such a brave young man, too. Like, his journey is pretty cool, the way he actually followed that Ed Sheeran playbook, which no one knew was an actual playbook until someone used it. That's a beautiful story.

Ed Sheeran's playbook available now at Whitcalls and Gould, all the good booksellers. But you're right, Mitch James, pretty much he went to the UK with nothing and pretty much I think he was sleeping in a tent in a park at one stage just to try and make it.

Yeah, literally he was so brave. He was like, I'm packing everything up I'm heading over to the UK I'm gonna do what Ed did I guess you know he backed himself right he just backed himself

he said like my music hopefully I'm good enough that someone's gonna hear me and send a message back to a record company and they did and he got an email

one day and he was like yo would you like to sign with us I mean look not those exact words but you know what I mean it was a bit more formal that's amazing didn't he get and he was like, yo, would you like to sign with us? I mean, look, not those exact words, but you know what I mean.

It was a bit more formal. That's amazing. Didn't he get beat? He got badly beaten up in a park in the UK. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he did it the old-fashioned way, but his attitude

is so uplifting, man. It's so uplifting. He's got like this relentless attitude and he's got the cookiest things that he loves to have on him. You've got to hear what his rider is, the stuff he has to have in his dressing room before every gig.

I'm not going to tell you. No, because he, and I'll tell you what else he's got. He's got a wonderful set of pectorals at the moment, doesn't he? Just his body. I bet you could eat that up, Kinesh Raj. It's a hell of a pectoral. Now, Mitch James, he was saying to you on the podcast that he was a fussy eater growing up, wouldn't eat his veggies.

And I imagine that's a problem that a few households have around the country. Oh, Jono. Oh, Jono, you've put him past the button, haven't you? Yeah, well, that was bad, but anyway. I can't tell the difference between us. We sound the same, so it's fine. A vegetable and a mineral. How do you get veggies into kids?

Well, truthfully, from the very beginning, don't try and shoehorn vegetables into a child when the child is eight or nine, if you haven't started early. Now, if your child is someone that hasn't had a vegetable for a while, you've got a bit more work to do. So the easiest way that we've always shown people

is to grate the veggies into the bolognese. That's a simple one, right? Yeah, I've heard about that one. Do you do that? He still does that for himself, I think. I do, yeah. I have to get my little mashed up veggies all delivered to me on a plastic plate.

We've created, I don't know why, but society with vegetables, They get a bad rap I do, I love vegetables You do, you do He loves carrot sticks and hummus and celery My kids love them too I don't know We luckily didn't have this problem

But I know it happens a lot Yeah But they're not that bad People do struggle with this whole idea And I mean, look Bottom line is, bro There's a whole generation of parents Who didn't get taught how to

cook and they've now had kids and they're like what? I remember Annie Pryor she just used to love boiling the crap out of some silverbeet you know and just chucking it in a big wet mess on the plate. Putting it on when you put on the roast chicken or whatever like so two hours later it was

still cooking. Everyone's got these horror stories, right? We all know this, and it's because there's a whole generation that didn't know, but you know what? There is hope because you can learn how to cook.

That's what I'm trying to do. Yeah. How people learn how to cook for the silverbeet doesn't turn into a nightmare story. Yeah, well, the silverbeet, I mean, if there was any flavor in it, it was boiled,

it had the life boiled out of it over two hours. Draped on like a wet blanket. How's your veggie eating these days, Jonah? I'm doing well. I'm getting... I know Ganesh is also... I still have to grade it up for him and put it in the bolognese.

Look, if that's what it takes... Thanks to Countdown, they sponsor the Humble Yum Yum podcast on iHeartRadio. And if you want to win a $200 Countdown voucher right now, 0800 the Hudson, you can text anytime, 448487 if you've got a question for Ganesh. You have a great week, mate. Take care, team. Have your vegetables. That's all thanks to Countdown.

Every day's a fresh day to enjoy Countdown's fresh summer produce. Next, what happens when you're upside down on a roller coaster and you get a bird to the face? We'll find out in three minutes on that. Scrolling through your feed. All right, now to the skinniest and most nervous newsreader in the market. It's Ben Boyce. What's happening?

It's very true. Now, Australia yesterday opened up its borders. Travellers touching down in Australia were welcomed by lifeguards, drag queens. They put on a bit of a show when people came back. And they gave out gift bags, including Vegemite and stuffed koalas as well. Geez, they whirled out everyone, didn't they? Well, lifeguards and speedos and... Yeah, they were all holding up signs and, yeah, all sorts of...

I reckon across the week, Qantas say they're going to have about 14,000 passengers on their airlines arriving back into Australia. Oh, well, isn't it all coming up Australia? Oh, you can look at us. You can fly in here. No questions asked. I'm sure customs will ask questions if they suspect anything. I've seen Border Patrol

or whatever they do over there. Yeah, they ask a lot of questions. So many people always just trying to sneak in produce. Jeez, we're obsessed with sneaking in food and produce to another country. It's almost like a challenge for us travellers, isn't it?

We're very hot on a New Zealand day. You don't ever come to New Zealand with an apple. And then I love the routine. It's like whenever you are caught with food or produce and they're like, well, you've clearly said on your declaration card you don't have any. And you're like, oh. Almost happened to me once because hotels sometimes put out

a bowl of apples when you check out. And I bought the thing. And so I grabbed one, put it in my bag, and I didn't realise until just as I was about to go through at the airport. I'm like, oh, my goodness. I didn't realise until I got out of the thing. I was like, oh, my goodness. I almost went through with an apple. Oh, you'd be better trying to ship in 15 kgs of meth than one apple into this country.

We frown upon it. And everyone was talking last week about the Super Bowl. It was epic. The halftime show had Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Dr. Dre. There was fans in the crowd. Everyone from J-Lo, Prince Harry, Justin Bieber, even Taika was there. Tickets, you know, they were worth thousands and thousands of dollars. You said $6,000 for seats at the very top of the stadium.

Yeah. You could pay up to like $100,000 for some tickets. But someone has gone viral from a photo in the crowd. And so there's a Rams player. They won the Super Bowl. His name is Andrew Whitworth. He's 40 years old. Oh, the bald guy. Yeah, and he's got the big beard

as well. So he won his first ever Super Bowl, which is pretty epic. But the photo that's gone viral is of his daughter, a seven-year-old daughter sitting next to her mum. And she's in the middle of the Super Bowl just reading. She's reading a book.

She's like, just having a read and he's actually talked about it and said it's really cool. He's like, that's what makes her special and why we love her so much

and the article I was reading kind of puts it out. It's like, well, it's just kind of dad's work to her. Yeah, you're dragging me

along to work for the day. You know, the novelty of coming to your parents' work wears off really quickly. Yeah. It doesn't. I know when you bring Sienna and Indy, your daughters in here, all they care about is the vending machine.

Yeah. Can I have something from the vending machine? And you're always like, no. And they're like, well, use our own money. And you're like, no. I mean, they're coming up with alternatives here. And you're still so anti-vending machine. That's the big hook about this place for your kids.

Yeah. It's this wonderful. It's a vending machine. And I guess for his daughter, it was a chance to read a book that she was enjoying. Catch up on Harry Potter or something. Yeah. He thought it was pretty cool though. I love this guy.

I love this guy. He's still 40 battling away. And you know, he looks, and I can say this, my body's not in the greatest shape. He looks like. Oh, so just because you think it's okay to. I can body shame because I've got a shameful body. That is the rules. Is that the rules?

Yeah. Oh, okay. It's like if you're a bald guy, you can make fun of other bald guys. In Ben's case, if you're not a bald guy, you can still make fun of bald guys. You know, that's how it works. So coming up next in Spy...

The unusual beef that Kanye West has got. It's to do with a children's program. I'll tell you what it is next on the hits. Spy. No what's up. Spy.co.nz Ah, Juliet's away. So that means Ben has all the gossip from the Queen to Kanye to Karen and co. Copa Copa. What's happening

in Spy? Well, speaking of Kanye, obviously he's infamous for having a few feuds, public feuds with celebrities. Pete Davidson at the moment, who's dating his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. What I love about Kanye is he's just going on a rampage on Instagram, but he's treating Instagram like a whiteboard. So he'll throw some stuff out there,

there'll be a barrage of stuff, then his whole Instagram account, he'll delete everything, and he'll clear it, like erase it all. So it's like a live brainstorm session going on, and then he's reset, rethought, and he goes down a different angle. One of the tweets that he's, sorry, one of the posts he's done recently

on Instagram actually, involves some of the beefs that he's had over the years. So he's posted some people he's had beefs with and one includes Peppa Pig, the children's cartoon. And now I didn't even know about this, but last year when Kanye West's album Donda came out, one website basically gave it a 6 out of 10.

Peppa Pig got, there it, the Peppa Pig album got 6.5. That's a great record. It's probably some of Peppa Pig's best works. Yeah, so Peppa's Adventures, the album got 6.5, Kanye's received a 6. And official Peppa Pig account threw some shade at Kanye West at the time, saying Pepper didn't need a host party at a stadium to get their extra.5. So Peppa Pig started the beef, or bacon as it may be, with Kanye.

And he hasn't let it go. No, he hasn't let it go. A fascinating doco on Netflix at the moment about Kanye. Watch the first episode. It's really, really, you know, to see his passion and his drive and, you know, he's creatively very, very genius. He's on another level. I mean, I always go back to, you know,

if the likes of Michelangelo and Nostradamus were around now, where'd all be going? Oh, look at you, you idiot idiot on TikTok and Instagram. But really, probably Kanye will pass and he'll be one of the greatest creators that have graced the earth. Well, it's interesting because he's got a new album coming out and he's not releasing it on mainstream streaming services, right?

So he's saying, if you want to get this new album, you've got to sign up to the STEM player and it costs you about $200 to sign up for it. And I was kind of thinking, oh, well, who's going to sign up for that? Why is he doing this? It's not going to make any sense. But by releasing his album already for a $200 stem player,

he gets 100% of the revenue. So he's already generated $2.2 million in 24 hours, where it would take, according to this post I saw, it would take over 200,000 copies for him to make that amount of money by selling

a $10 album on another streaming service. And that's not taking into account the record company's fees and all that stuff as well. So we're already in 22 hours. He's sold the equivalent with only 11,000 people signing up for it of 200,000 people buying it if you put it on Spotify or Apple Music. So there you go. Well, I'll just wait till you illegally download it. You can share it with me as you do with all of our content, Ben. It's the best way to get it. Well, that is genius

because OJZ started up a platform, Tidal, didn't he? It didn't quite take off. But even if it didn't quite take off, just get it to that extent, you know, 11,000 people, you're still making $2 million. Maybe we should do that

for this podcast. Yeah. You know, I don't know, what would you call your service? Be honest. No. That's half the problem.

Maybe. We need to come up with a cool name before we start talking. Not Brainstorm Live on here. And that is what's making Spy Entertainment headlines

after seven o'clock on the show. Great fade out there. We're talking boss goss. Boss goss. Have you gossed about the boss? My friend accidentally left a voicemail on her boss's phone. It's a shocker.

It's a shocker. Could get much worse. We'll tell you after seven what happened. The annoying ones talking between the socks. Jono and Ben on the hats. Okay, so I was talking to a friend of ours, Ben, you know her, yesterday morning She was driving to work with her colleague, a carpool And the boss called

And she missed the call, so she's like, I'll call the boss back And then thought that the boss hadn't answered the phone And so just went on with the drive. But then proceeded to get into, she got the suitcase out and did a full unpacking on the boss. So management style, I think clothing choices. Oh no. So they're talking in the car together.

They're talking in the car. And then they all of a sudden hear, message recorded. And they had been on the boss's voicemail the entire time. Both of them. What are you doing? Going at it. So this was yesterday morning. I mean, the only advantage that she does have is that no one's cleared a voicemail since 2009.

The boss she gathers throughout the day hadn't cleared the voicemail. She's sitting in the office nervously, going back in there this morning, not knowing if there's been an overnight. Oh my goodness. It's so, yeah, because you can't really like go, hey, can I borrow your phone for a second?

Well, I'm thinking what are the options here? It's either come clean or steal the phone, send it to Elon Musk and put that thing in space. That's your only, that's the only thing I can think of. The only sensible decision. Yeah, unless you're weirdly asked to borrow the phone and call the messages, but

that's a, you're really being a bit dishonest there. But then I guess you're helping yourself out of a horrible horrible situation. She reckons it's going to be a firing situation. They're on rocky roads anyway. Oh, so that bad what they were saying. Don't you feel awful when you do that? Like when I'm bitching behind your back,

I make sure that you're certainly not within earshot. You have it sometimes at work though, don't you? When you do walk in and people are quiet and you're like, are they having a conversation That they don't want me to hear Or are they talking about me? Probably talking about me, I imagine As insecure broadcasters, that's what we think

Everyone's talking about us the whole time No one else spends time doing anything else Always talking about her being voiced Now, what we wanted to open up is Boss Goss Have you been caught gossing about the boss? Or maybe you are the boss and you've caught the goss? Right.

I don't think we'll get a call or text as good as that one, though. Surely. Surely not. But 0800 the Hits is our phone number, 4487 on the text. Standard SMS charges still apply. I love it when you say that. Yeah. Because it makes me feel comfortable about what I'm sending and what I'm in for.

I don't want to be caught with any surprise charges on my phone. Well, those same charges apply if you're sending a text about the boss and you accidentally send it to the boss. Standard SMS, guys. Standard SMS charge. I'd love to hear from you this morning. Boss Goss, have you been talking about the boss? Have you been caught at work?

I'd love to hear from you next on The Hats. It's Jono and Ben, but FYI, Ben is open to other options jonathan ben on the hats just hear a story about our friend she uh was moaning about the boss and it turns out all of the full performance review of her boss's management style was being broadcast into the boss's voicemail after she had called him and thought that he wasn't there and so i don't know what's worse bitching about the boss or leaving a so I don't know what's worse, bitching about the boss or leaving a voicemail. What's worse than the crime stakes?

Well, there's definitely doing it on the voicemail. Yeah. So this was yesterday morning. Obviously the voicemail hadn't been cleared throughout the workday yesterday. She's going back in there cold today. It's almost a resign situation, isn't it? Well, producer B Humps is like, lie and say you've got COVID.

That's an automatic 10-day stand down. You've tested positive. You're waiting for some results. And then slowly fade out and get a new job and move to another country potentially is the option. So we're talking on 0800 the hits. Boss goss. Have you been gossing about the boss or maybe you are a boss?

I wish I could participate in this, but I only say that our management is nothing but capable and have the foresight to take this company into the future. Oh, do you? Do you? So it doesn't really make for interesting radio fodder. It's funny. I hang out with it quite a lot and never heard you say that. Yeah, I know.

I do that all the time. We've got Carmel on 0800 The Hits. Good morning. You busted someone talking about you. Yeah, I certainly did. Take us to the scene. What's happening, Carmel? I was at work and I was their manager

and they were gossiping, as they do, and then I had told them later out of group of duties that I needed them to complete. I work with people with disabilities and as I walked away, I forgot something. So I spun around and walked back towards the office. And they're bagging me out thinking that I'd already gone. What are they saying about you, Carmel, behind your back?

Oh, a lot of words that I can't repeat on the end. Oh, you heard it. Wasn't that one of those conversations where you used to walk in and everyone goes silent? They were full flight. Yeah, but I stood there and I just heard the whole thing and then I walked in and asked them what their problem was. Oh, you called them up on it. Good on you. Yeah, I called them up.

Oh, they didn't see you standing there. So the whole conversation was going on? Yeah, the whole conversation was going on. They didn't see me standing in the hallway between the door. Let's do it. Okay, we'll do a reenactment. Ben and me will be the employees. We're moaning about you, and you walk in, and then you bust us.

She's a caramel nightmare. Riding me like a racehorse. I mean, give us a break. I mean, I've had managers, but she's the worst. Once they stopped walking, I said, what the F's going on? Have you got a problem? Tell it to my face. Oh!

Oh, sorry. Didn't see you there, boss. Sorry, we weren't talking about you. No, we were talking about other stuff. Yeah. And so did they, I imagine the relationship at that point on was a little awkward? For them, not me. Oh, good on you.

Good on you for doing that. You know, like it takes a lot to actually call people out on stuff like that, doesn't it? So, yeah. Yeah, and I was working in Australia at that time, and we all know they like a good whinge. Don't we? Bloody Aussies. Bloody Aussies. You wouldn't have that in New Zealand.

They wouldn't be bitching behind your back, Carmel. Oh, no, the group I work with now, they know better than that. Oh, good on you. Oh, sorry you had to go through that, but I'm glad you came out of it looking, you know, you handled it well. I would have been crying in my car. That's what I would have done.

It's a sad sight every day in the car park. Yeah, I do that every day. Ben voices daily sob. You look after yourself, Carmel. Thanks for tuning in. You're very welcome. Thanks. Have a good day.

Very good. Appreciate your call. Next, we talk to one of the Moss survivors who's about to embark on an incredible journey for charity. That's in five minutes on The Hits. The Hits. Tuesday morning, Jono and Ben with you on The Hits. Now, we're joined by one of the survivors

from the mosque terror attacks this morning. Bit of a real chat this morning for the show. His name is Tamal Atakokugu. Good morning. Good morning. How are you guys? Lovely to have you on the show this morning. Tamal, how are you going?

Good, thank you. I'm very well. Now, you're about to embark on something pretty special and it's going to take you a long time. What are you about to do? I'm going to go to the Peace Walk from Donating to Christ Church, remembering the 51 person who lost their life in the terror attack in 2019, March 15. And then I'm going to do that peace walk against the hate and extremism and racism.

I am doing the same route of terrorists from his house to the Al-Nur Mosque and Linwood Masjid. So I'm going to do the same route and same distance by walk. And then he did this journey for hate, and I do this journey for peace. Oh, what a wonderful cause. So you're going to walk from the terrorist's house to the mosque. It's a big journey, Dunedin to Christchurch. I imagine it will bring up a lot of emotions

as you're doing this. Yes, it is because of, as you know, I am the victim of the terror attack and then I was badly injured and I got shot nine times. So it's going to be a big challenge for me physically, mentally and emotionally. And then, of course, five bullets was on my legs

and then a couple of them all one each knee. And then that's going to be a big challenge, but I want to show all these along my strength. You're an inspiration. That is truly an inspiration. After being shot nine times. And you've had, what,

is it 10 sort of major operations since? Yes, yes. Actually, I lost count of my surgery

and then I know that one of the doctors made comments in two weeks I had already, you know, more than 10

surgeries. Oh my gosh. Now, from what I understand, you had metal teeth in your mouth, and those teeth actually saved your life. A bullet ricocheted off your metal tooth. Yes, yes, that's the truth. And then I get first bullet in my mouth anyway

when he started shooting inside. After he prepared his gun and then shooting inside. I was thinking, I'm his target. What's going through your mind at this point? I was thinking, you know, everything's going to be over. And then that's it. I feel something in my mouth and then I feel there's something like a broken, cracking sound.

I didn't feel the hurt but it was very very funny feeling and then I said I think I'm dying now you know when I you know everything's in the very uh mini seconds you know you know this all taught yeah and luckily you know I had a breach on my top jaw, and it's all metal-based, but ceramic-colored teeth. And thanks God, it just, you know, slowed down to the bullet's force, and then changed the direction, which is, you know, it can go straight to my brain, then break it, my jaws. Wow. Imagine having lived through this traumatic event.

I mean, it must still affect you today, right? Yes. You know, I have a PTSD and then it is, you know, that's the mostly flashbacks I remember

sometimes I see in my dreams, etc. Mainly this first moment, what I witnessed. Oh, it's like a nightmare, just constantly replaying, I imagine. It's worse than nightmare. Exactly. And the traumas, you know. Yeah, well that's the thing. It was just speechless. I don't even know what to say to you. All I can say is you going on this walk from the terrorist's house in Dunedin all

the way to Christchurch with obviously the injuries, the long-term injuries that you have suffered from being shot nine times is truly selfless and it's an inspiration Tamal. Yes. Yes, because of after all this, my experience,

I am challenging physically, but mostly I'm challenging with mental. Yes. Mental health is, I'm actually trying to be fit physically, but I'm also trying to be fit mentally. Well, you're doing this to raise money as well for a mental health charity, Mike King's I Am Hope.

Yeah, you can follow every update from Facebook page, Tamal's Peace Walk. You are a legend, mate. Well, listen, we'll keep up to date with you and you keep safe and just keep being awesome. Yes, okay, thank you. Thank you. Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, Ben, you're going to mock me for this because I started the show with some movie theatre content and now I'm coming back after 7 o'clock with more movie theatre content. So you went to the movies over the weekend for probably the first time in a long, long time and now twice during the show.

Yeah. You want to talk about it. I'm bragging about it. Well, it's been a long time since we've been able to go to the movies. You know, lockdown and stuff and something,

it's a special event. So I got two bits of content out of it. In the same show. In the same show. Yeah. They'll be like, jeez, he's a movie theatre guy.

First observation I had, which you might have missed at six o'clock, was the movie I went to, someone started applauding at the end of it. So we all felt obligated to applaud. For no one, for no reason, apart from the movie theatre staff who were having to clean up all the popcorn and stuff off the floor. Right. Now, what happened is my son was going to the movies.

This is why. I wasn't there by choice. Right. Okay. And he was meeting some friends. But given these crazy wild times, Ben, he's under 12 and so has to be accompanied by an adult. Because if you're over 12 and you're vaccinated, you're fine.

But if you're under 12 and you don't have a vaccine pass, you've got to be accompanied by an adult. That's the rule. So you're looking at me like this. Oh, I know. Yeah, yeah, okay, right. Don't ask me why, mate. Okay, gotcha.

These are the rules. None of the last two years makes any sense. Yeah, yeah, true. The rules will probably change tomorrow, though, to be honest. So under 12, it's apparently part of these silly government mandates that all my friends are trying to sort out down in Wellington at the moment. But I'm aware that I don't want to be a style cramper. I mean, I've been cramping your style for 10 years.

Right, yeah. So I was very aware that I didn't want to cramp his style with his friends. I was like, hey, well, listen, you go and hang with them and I'll be a few rows back. You won't even know I'm here. Apart from the times where you take your mask off and there's just this random guy in the back going, put your mask on!

Put your mask on! So you're sitting by yourself in the movie theatre. Yeah. Like I imagine in a movie theatre. Yeah. Like I imagine in a movie that probably, yeah, somehow makes yourself

look worse in this situation. You're like, who's that guy at the back? Like, who's he sitting by himself?

Yeah, I mean, you never, you know, whenever you see anyone in a movie theatre by themselves, no matter what the movie,

judgements come, like, you shouldn't though, you shouldn't really. You do question the motivation of that person. What are they doing?

You know, they're either a pervert or someone who's on a Tinder date and their date didn't turn up. Those are the conclusions I jump to. And well, I was that person. No one ever thought it was just a loving adult trying to give his child some space. No one ever thinks that.

No, sure. Is that weirdo? He'd be tarnished with a horrible brush. But yeah, so that was me sort of sifting in a movie theatre and I tell you what,

there's no lonelier place in a movie theatre by yourself because you don't even concentrate on the movie. All you're thinking about is, oh God, what are these other people

thinking of me right now? Of you, the whole time you're questioning that. It's like when I'm on my laptop in my car outside your house.

Outside your house. Yeah, why are you doing that? Well, I was working. I was waiting because I was there early and I was, you know, legitimate work. One time I give you the Wi-Fi and he comes back and parks outside. And your neighbour came out, remember? Yeah. And he was like, what are you looking at? And I was like,

just my Gmail. He's like, you like I've got some sites? I was like, oh, just because I'm on my laptop in my car. And I mean, same guy, so it could have come between the movie theatre. What are you doing here? Oh, we've got $5,000 up for grabs next to 5 Words 5K on the Hats.

If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history. Jono and Ben on the Hats. Listen, I'm going to play the wrong one. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. If you don't know, Juliet's away today, and I'll be doing a bang-out job of taking us off air

at least once every half hour. It's all part of the rollercoaster. It is part of it. Yeah, we're all enjoying it. I don't even know if we're on air right now. You want to keep people listening in radio, and that's what people want to listen to. Is it going to go off air?

Are they going to play the ads over the top of the song? Who knows what's going to happen? Well, Lorraine, are we even on air at the moment? Can you turn your radio up for us, Lorraine? Yeah, turn it up nice and loud. It goes against the area. Nice and loud. Just make sure that we're on the radio.

Can you hear us, Lorraine? Unfortunately, I'm in the car. All right. Who knows that we're on the radio. Can you hear us, Lorraine? Unfortunately, I'm in the car. All right. Who knows if we're on here or not. All right. We've got Lorraine here to win $5,000. Hi. Oh, Lorraine.

All right. What would you do with the money if you won? Oh, my daughter's keen for a dog. Oh, aren't they always? Same with mine, Poppy. She's been chipping away at us to get a dog for many years and we've been putting her off with battery operated ones. Have you tried that, Lorraine?

Yep, but no, it has to have a heart, she said. Has to have a heart. I see what she's saying. Yeah, well, battery operated ones, they don't provide feces which is the main win. I mean, Ben, you're having to deal with this. A lot of the time. There's nothing more degrading than,

I did it last night on a walk. Anyway. And then you try and get the kids to do it and you said your daughter Sienna's like, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh. Yeah, just dry reaching. All right, well, you're going to send me into the soundproof booth today.

That's your only option because Jono's pushing the buttons, okay? No worries. We'll see if we can match up. I'm not pushing them well. Liz Ben Boyce dusts off the cash boots for the second day in a row. Yesterday, he devastated a mother-son combo who desperately needed that money to rebuild their relationship. Today, Lorraine and her daughter Alana desperately want a dog to rebuild their relationship.

Isn't that right, Lorraine? Yeah. I might have over-dramatised that a little bit. First word that comes into your head then. Do you need to match with Ben, Lorraine? Yep. I might have over-dramatised that a little bit. First word that comes into your head then. Do you need to match with Ben, remember? Hydrant. What are you thinking of when I say hydrant? Fire.

Fire. Rightio. Word number two, pepper. Salt. I'm going to come in with lion now. What does Lorraine and Alana think about the word lion? Alana says tiger. Oh yeah, good call Alana. Playing a good game this morning, really

wants that dog. What sort of dog would she have? A Labrador, but she's happy with anything. Anything we drive past, she finds cute. Yeah right, as long as it's not operated by batteries. It has to have a heart. Yep. Yep. Metal. Fourth word this morning for you guys. Cold. Cold metal.

Okay. All right. Chord is the fifth and final word. Electrical, Alana says. Electrical, Chord. That is really good. You guys played a wonderful game. We'll get Ben Boyce out of the soundproof booth.

See what this man can do to win you $5,000. How was it in there, Ben? It was actually cold coming out. Yeah. It's quite cold in this studio right now, but hopefully we'll win some cold hard cash. Yes, I said that yesterday. You couldn't come through for a mother-daughter combo,

desperately trying to rebuild their relationship with that money. Some cold, hard cash. Yes, said that yesterday you couldn't come through for a mother-daughter combo, desperately trying to rebuild their relationship with that money. Today, will he let down another mother-daughter combo? We'll find out very surely. Ben, you're in the hot seat. Lana, parting words. What do you want to say to him? Good luck.

Thank you. Good luck. Touching words. First word that comes into your head when I say hydrant. Fire. Yeah, there we go. Well done. That's one from one, Ben.

You'd be happy with that. Good start. Second word, pepper. Salt. Oh, I must have said pig. That would have been okay, but you were... Two from two, Lanaana alana that dog looking good lion lion the third word this morning mate lion yeah as in the animal tiger oh yes all right. What other lion is there? Oh, like lying around. He's lying about.

Oh, lying to me? Yeah. Yeah, I see what you're saying. The fourth word this morning was metal. As in metal. M-E. Thank you. Heavy, as in heavy metal. Oh, there we go.

Two relationships in tatters in two days. Lorraine and Alana, I'm so sorry. Totally all right. Oh, we were so close on that one. Three from five. You say it's totally all right, but we all know it's totally not. Fifth word was cord. Ben, what would you have said with cord out of interest?

Electrical. Electrical cord. Wow. Oh, is that what you said? said with cord out of interest? Electrical. Electrical cord. Wow. Is that what you said? Oh. Four out of five. Oh. So close.

So close. A little girl nearly had a dog. I'm so sorry, but hopefully we get another chance to do this again, and I'm sure we can match up five next time. Yeah, hopefully. All right. Love you both. Have a great day.

Thank you. Sorry for saying I love you. Next, bye. What's coming up, Ben? Prince Harry won't go back to the UK. We'll find out why. It is the hits. You've got John on. I remember conversations.

It is pink. You're on the hits. Jono and Ben, four minutes away from 8 o'clock. Why did you start talking so early? I was used to mic songs. I was like, all right. You talked all over Pink. Mate, when she ended that song,

she didn't imagine Ben in New Zealand talking all over her. I just wanted to provide some backing vocals. Spy, no what's up. Spy.co.nz. All right. Now to some stories that'll probably have zero impact on your

day-to-day life. But anyway, we'll read them out to you. Ben, what's happening in Spy? Big week for the royal family. As someone pointed out on social media, Prince Andrew paid 12 million

to a lady he'd never met. The Queen has unfortunately got COVID, but seems to be a light sort of illness at the moment. And Prince Harry isn't planning on returning to the UK with his kids as he doesn't feel safe. So they used to have the Metropolitan Police.

They used to protect him when he was part of the royal family. But obviously that doesn't happen anymore since they've stepped away from royal duties. And he reckons the sort of security they need when they go back to the UK is too costly. They reckon they pay at the moment about $2 million to $3 million a year on security costs. In the States. In the States. Megan and Harry do.

And so if they go back to the UK, he's saying the royal family should front up the bills. Well, he's just saying it's too expensive to get that sort of cover, the sort of security that they would need to feel safe in the UK. It's like why you don't return to Mars today. You can't afford the red badge security guard to follow you around. Don't feel safe in Mars today. Everyone's like, you don't return to Masterton. You can't afford the red badge security guard to follow you around. I don't feel safe in Masterton. Everyone's like, oh, there's that dick.

Mainly because they tried to chase you out with pitchforks. And Chrissy Teigen, now she has given a shout out to a New Zealand cake maker, which is pretty awesome to her 37 million followers. The Caker, which has a store in Auckland, now has a store in LA

And they sell recipes and books And cake mixes And Chrissy had a crack at doing one of the cake mixes Thought it was amazing And gave a shout out to The Caker Which is pretty incredible Listen, I was honoured to be sent a cake From my godmother from there for my birthday

And it was Hands down The best thing I've ever had inside my mouth, Ben. And I put some stuff in here. And when you're eating it, you don't want it to end. And then when it ends, your life is never the same.

She's like the Willy Wonka of cakes, isn't she? Without the unusual factory. Yeah. The caker. Well, it's pretty incredible. So obviously doing really, really well. She's trying to play it cool At the moment Trying to

Yeah play it chill Make it look like It's much of a big deal But inside she's like It's pretty awesome actually Maybe we should try and call it Yeah And see how much of a big deal it is

She's based in LA now Which is pretty awesome But store store We can afford a toll call Yeah store store in Auckland I was just thinking How amazing it would be You'd love to hang out with

You know John Legend Chrissy Teigen Because you call everyone legend Yeah G'day legends and most people look at you like why is he calling me a legend but on this occasion you'd be like every time we get around the house and like g'day legends and you'd love that wouldn't you and they'd be like it's us you used to read out the list of uh 10 signs you're a bogan That was number one on the list Legend or champ It's one of your favourite hobbies

Hey thanks for spying Ben You did an okay job Thank you We're not missing Juliet at all Apart from the fact of taking us off air nine times this morning Coming up after 8 o'clock Our producer Bee Humps has torn a ligament And it is a heroic tale

Of how he got this injury. You'll find out in 10 minutes. And not afraid to use the F word. Be family, friendly, fun. Jono and Ben on the hits. It is Miley. You're on the hits. Jono and Ben, 10 past 8.

Good morning. I just brought our producer in, Bee Humps. Hobbling. Hobbling. He's had an incident. And probably one of the most Hardcore injuries I think you'll ever find

What happened to your ligaments? Well I Yeah Basically When I'm on the phone I'm a bit of a pacer Yeah Ben's a pacer too

Yeah And yesterday I was I was out walking And my phone rang And I Went to go answer it. And as I answered it, I did a spin around to pace in the opposite direction. Oh, do you go back and forth when you're up there?

I go back and forth, yeah. Well, yeah, otherwise you don't know where you're going to end up. I'm like, I could be 10 k's away from my house if I keep going in one direction. Exactly, exactly. So I did a Yui, and it was a violent Yui. And I keeled over, and I've torn the ligaments in my ankle. Just from talking on the phone. Oh, my goodness.

You'd almost be embarrassed to fill that out on the ACC floor. Yeah, so when I went in to get it looked at, they said, oh, what were you doing? You're like, oh, this is it. I didn't want to say I was answering my phone. No, you've got to lie Well I broke my tooth the other night On a hamburger

The softest food Known to cuisine My brittle Lifeless calcium deficient teeth Are we already at that stage where we have to Put it in a blender for you now Is that what's happening now Suck it up

I was like geez how useless is my mouth yeah but you have you oh embarrassing injuries i do remember when one of the door of my daughter's got a bee sting and i ran across to check you know to help them out and then i got a bee sting as well and that was quite embarrassing the irony of like helping someone with a bee sting and also getting a bee sting yeah and then so that was quite embarrassing. The irony of like helping someone with a bee sting and also getting a bee sting. Yeah. And so that's a prolific bee too. Yeah.

He's only got one sting, didn't he? No, it was another one. Oh, another one came. Oh, we get two here. Two for the price of one. So this is why we want to open up this morning, 4487. There was actually some news about this yesterday. 59 people claimed injuries thanks to fitted sheets at ACC.

Yeah, that was in New Zealand in the last 12 months Last 12 months 59 people from putting on fitted sheets Seems like a lot Maybe you're one of those You're embarrassing injury You can come clean You don't have to use your real name

It can be like a support group Text as well 4487 I'd love to get you on New Zealand's breakfast Embarrassing calls up next in the hits Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion to get you on New Zealand's Breakfast Embarrassing calls up next in the hits Hard hitting interviews and informed opinion, Mike Hosking on New Sox at B, in the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits. Embarrassing injuries

injuries that you don't want to give the full truth to as to how you got them, some great texts here, 4487 I broke my tooth sucking cream cheese Oh right so you got a hamburger, broke your tooth on a hamburger. Yeah, which I thought was the softest food to grace the year.

But cream cheese. That's even softer. Yeah. That's very soft. Let's get some falsies in. I'm teetering on the falsie stage now. I'm at the dentist every 10 minutes at the moment. We'll kick it off with you, Sarah.

Welcome. Injuries you're embarrassed to say the cause of. Morning, team. How we going? Oh, listen listen we're doing well ben's doing fine yeah uh me not so much a little flustered this morning in all honesty but what was yours oh that probably would have been me when i was driving and i injured myself so i was driving i got the sun glare in my eyes quickly grabbed my sunnies and you know i was rushing too much and i got the sun glare in my eyes, quickly grabbed my sunnies, and I was rushing too much, and I got the end of my sunnies right into my eyes. And, yeah,

bloodshot for at least a week. Yeah, not the best. But easily done. Those arms, they're just like little knives, just waiting to stab into your eyeballs there. So thank you very much, Sarah. You have a good one. You too. Thank you very much, Sarah. You have a good one. You too. Thank you, Jeff.

Sorry. Speaking of that, someone who actually dislocated their testicle has just texted in 4487. I don't know how you did that. Paul said, my wife, here's one for you, ripped the ligaments in her knees, swatting flies. Oh, jeez. Mason, you're on.

Embarrassing injuries. What was it for you? What a long story. Well, I was trying to make my bed. Had the fitted sheet. Got two corners on. Put the third one on and the top corner popped off. So, you know, I was like, okay, that was the first time.

Second time, did the same thing. So I flipped the sheet off. Bit of a rage. I was already stressed enough for the day, you know. Yeah. Well, a fitted sheet is a frustrating experience, putting that on, yeah? Yeah, I pulled the sheet off, threw my hands back, and managed to smash my knuckles on my thumb

and my index finger on the door. Oh, okay. So in a fit of rage, in a fitted sheet of rage, you've thrown your hands up in disgust and you've smashed your hand against the wall. Was this an ACC claim? Yeah, I managed. I don't know how I got ACC,

but yeah, I ended up having two weeks off work and had a broken knuckle. Oh, because we were talking about this yesterday. There was news that... 59 people last year alone injured themselves in New Zealand just trying to put on a fitted sheet. And I imagine 100% of those people, it was all thanks to frustration with the fitted sheet.

Yeah, well, I've never told anyone the actual story. We do embarrass to lodge that one with ACC. That's the only people that know what really happened. Oh, so ACC know, but everyone else, you're like, oh, it was a bar fight. I love how you've told ACC in privacy, and then you thought, well, the next person I'm going to tell is John O'Bien on Nationwide Radio. Yeah, well.

Oh, well, Mason, there we go. Injured fitted sheet injury there. Thank you very much. Doesn't get much more hardcore than that. Appreciate your call, mate. No, that's all good. Thank you very much. Text here, too, from Hannah, who strained her neck watching Netflix

at a bad angle for too long. Jeez. It can happen. Coming up within the next 10 minutes, if you play Word or I'll tell you, the two words one person reckons are the best two words to start off with. That's within 10 minutes on The Hits. I'm getting in trouble for something at home, and I don't know if you have the same sort of rules

that are thrust upon you on the household i try not to have rules thrust upon me too many so let's say okay hypothetically speaking people come over to your house to visit you have some people come over friends of yours or whatever or family and i love it how you put it hypothetically for me because as if it never happens so pretend you've got people who want to come and visit you and then they're like all right right, it's time. I'm going to go. I'll see you later. So at this stage, let's say you're in the lounge.

At this point, I'm always like, okay, great to see you. See you later. But that's not good enough. Now, in my household, it's waving goodbye to them, saying goodbye in the lounge is not good enough. So are you, hold on, are you saying goodbye, let yourself out? Well, I'm just like, they've come in the door. They've come through the door.

They know what the entry and exit point is. They know. It's not like a plane where I have to point it out and the thing. They've come through the same thing, same door that they've come through. They can leave. So are you waving saying, all right, thanks, good to see you, let yourself out, shut the door behind you? Well, that's what I would do.

But I'm like, my wife Amanda's like, no, we need to go walk to the door. So it's not good enough to say goodbye to someone in the lounge. We've got to now walk them up the hallway to the door. And so then you're like, at that point there, I feel like that's enough. I've walked them to the door. I've got the door. He's even got up off the couch for them now. Yeah.

So he's gone well beyond the call of duty here, yeah. So I'm like, okay, great to see you. To me, that's a point where you could easily go, okay, great to see you. That's, you know, to me, that's a point where you could easily go, hey, great to see you, it's been great. Then you could shut the door and they could go about their business and I could go back to my business. Yeah, right, let yourself out of the gate. Yeah.

You walked in through that, you know where that is. But no, my wife's like, we've got to see it. We've got to stick this out. We've got to see these people get to the car. Oh, no. I'm like, oh, okay. So then you're waiting around, you're standing there, you're watching them get in the car.

Sometimes they've got kids, they've got to buckle the kids in. I'm like, can, okay. So then you're waiting around. You're standing there. You're watching them get in the car. Sometimes they've got kids. They've got to buckle the kids in. I'm like, can I just go back inside? It's like, no, we need to wait until these people have gone. I'm like, they've gone. They're in the car. They're going.

And then you do this thing that my grandparents, they loved this as well, where you wave. You wave when they're in the car. And again, I've got to keep waving. Until they're out of sight? Until they're out of sight. I'm like, why? That's when you don't want to live on a big, long, straight road. You know, that goes on for 10 kilometres.

Because the wave can never stop. You never know when to pull out. Some people do like to stand on the deck of their house or the balcony by the front door. As you're pulling out of the driveway, wave, wave, wave, wave, wave. It's just some sort of a tradition we've instilled in departures. And my wife's like, it's rude if you don't see the people out, see them in the car, and then wave until they're out of sight. I'm like, why is it rude?

Like, I've said my goodbyes. I've said thanks. It's great to see you. Oh, he doesn't like us. He's not waving. He's not a waver. Yes, they're driving away and looking back. I go, oh, he stopped waving.

I knew it. We won't be invited back. But it's an interesting thing. My grandparents loved it. It seemed to be that generation, and stopped waving. I knew it. We won't be invited back. But it's an interesting thing. My grandparents loved it. You know, it seemed to be that sort of, that generation, and now it's been passed along. You know, it's still going. We spoke about this recently, too. I love it when one human is on a piece of novelty transport and another person's not.

And they're on the footpath in a big double-decker bus with no roof when it drives past. And they're like, look at us, we're on the bus. They're waving. And you wave back going oh my god you're on a double decker bus. You know it's kind of a you do. Like an aqua duck or something. Look we're on an aqua duck and if you're on the land you're like yeah look at you

over there. Even your boats you're waving and you're waving at other boats. Yeah we just love waving don't we. Not enough people wave from car to car like I'd like to see that more often. Look at me, I'm in a car. We're driving. We're going to work.

That's what we need to do. Maybe do that this morning. Might brighten up the slow rider. Yeah, you could do that. Hey, next, if you're playing Wordle, two words that are great to start Wordle, apparently. We'll tell you what they are in three on the hats.

It's 8.46, Tuesday morning, Matchbox 20, Unwell, still waiting for his COVID test to come back at the moment. Rob Thomas has been waiting a long time

for that PCR test to come back. I think it must have been, it kind of went awry. He took the rat test, he just needs the confirmation. He's sort of waiting 10 days to 6 months I think at the moment. Long queues of waiting 10 days to six months, I think, at the moment.

Long queues at the moment, aren't they? Wild stuff, isn't it? And I can't help but thinking we could have prepared a bit better for this. Yeah, I agree. We were all told it was coming. We were all like, get two shots for summer, fam. Don't forget to get your booster, fam. We all did it.

Oh, no. Hey, good deeds. 28 of them we're doing over the month of Feb, over 28 days. And this is an attempt to sweep under the rug a lot of the bad stuff Ben's done in a previous life. Because you can be like, oh yeah, I did that. But look at me now. I did 28 great things in a month. We're doing some nice things at the moment.

If you've missed some of them, well, here's a couple of our faves. Yesterday we did our first deed. We went and mowed the lawns at Lana's place. And I noticed a car there with a bit of the grass growing up on top of it too. So do you want us to work around that? Yes, please. Is there anything that we need to look out for? A cat.

A cat. Day two. Okay, so we're here with Dave from off the ledge. I'm going to tuck you guys off the building. You're going to wash some windows for us. Workplace accident. His bucket, full of soapy water, somehow landed directly on top of me. I don't know how this happened.

What are you doing? Rowan. You've got a school camp that you need to pay for. $250 this year. We want to pay for your child's camp. Oh, I'm crying now. So yeah, that's some of the generous acts that we've taken part in over the month.

Selfless acts, haven't they been? We have discovered, we had the conversation that it feels like a month of just washing. Just washing things, dogs, cars, windows, grandmothers. We've washed a lot of stuff. And it continued again yesterday where we went and washed some fire trucks. Yeah, so the Afitu Community Fire Service

an hour and a half away from Auckland. For all volunteers, right? Yeah, and if you want to volunteer I'm sure there's a website you can go and go I was like oh he knows where he's going with this no he didn't. But you're right they are looking for volunteers. Yeah I'm sure if you google volunteer firefighter

something will come up that will take you to the right place. I mean we can't do all the heavy lifting for you in this game but we arrived and fire trucks they're a lot bigger up close than when you drive past them oh yeah so my plan here is just to stand at the front and look like i'm doing some stuff and i hope that jono uh does most of it hey you don't realize how big a fire truck is no you don't and uh sometimes you come to these you're like oh you know we'll turn up we'll just

get a photo for social social media that's what we hope Oh you know We'll turn up We'll just get a photo For social media That's what we hope really You know Just maybe Wash a door Look like you know What you're doing Look like you've helped out

And you're like Oh good on those guys But that's what you know That's what soulless Soulless radio's all about Turning up Having a kiss on the baby They're buggering off

You know Doing the deed Looks like they want us To do the whole truck Yeah We're like Do we actually need to do it They're like yeah

The good thing was The cool thing was we got to live out a childhood dream and dress up as firefighters yeah and we would make shocking firefighters and shocking strippers too if either either job ever came up but then we got to get got to the end of the first truck ben i did notice and i didn't hear you say that at the beginning on the day that you were going to hide around the truck i was just busy doing stuff around the front of the truck. I did notice you were missing through a large part of it. Anyway, we got through one truck. Then Billy from the fire service was like, there's another one.

There's a whole other truck. And then you just completely disappeared. I was like, oh, John, I was over there doing another truck. I think Ben was off trying to call 111 and send them off to an emergency. But thankfully, only sort of a quarter of the way into the second truck, this happened to call out.

That's it. We're all done. We're done. We're done. We're about to get the cat up the power pole. Jono and Ben. Another good deed. Jono and Dustin. So Ben Boyce wasted a huge amount of time and resource saying there was a cat up a power pole,

but the main thing is it got us out of washing that second truck. If you've got a good deed for us, though, you can hit us up at thehits.co.nz. We'll continue doing good deeds until the end of the month of March, and then we'll slip back into our bad habits after that. It is Avicii, hey brother. When you hear that song after 9 o'clock, you can call 0800 THE HITS, and hopefully you'll get through and get in the draw to get your rent or mortgage paid for an entire year thanks to OneRoof.

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and I want to send a shout out to the entire population. And there's only certain professions where you receive applause in your job where people clap after you've done your job sometimes when a plane has landed someone starts a clap well done yeah it happens when it's often when it's a bumpy flight like you land in wellington or something well done we won't hear about this on the news yeah that's one of those but not every profession demands applause, does it? Stand-up comedy does.

An artist performing on stage, a musician gets applause. But not your everyday battler. You know, we're not talking about Hamish in accounts. When he's balanced a spreadsheet, does the whole office stand up? Yeah, go. And I witnessed the other day at the movie theatre where the movie ended and someone confidently kicked off a slow clap and once one's doing it you don't want to leave them in the lurch do you think they had any association with the movie whatsoever or they're just like i enjoyed that movie i'm gonna clap i think it was just a pure

enjoyment it's just a pure enjoyment what they don't realise Is no one from the production Is there No To receive the applause So this is my message Why don't you get out there And just give a big round of applause To your everyday battler Doing their job Just give them a clap You're right

It brings You know A bit of like Oh good on you for doing it I mean no We never walk out of the studio We're not We're not creative

If people came out of the office And they were like I'd be like Oh we're getting fired You know I'd feel like the opposite I office and they were like, I'd be like, oh, we're getting fired. You know, I'd feel like the opposite. I'd feel like something was happening. Or have I forgotten Jono's birthday? Yeah, like, why are these people clapping?

A weird one I remember happening as well, I went to the Pokemon restaurant in Japan. It's all Pokemon themed. You're a fun guy. And then they're like, let's bring out the chef. And it was someone in a Pikachu costume. And everyone clapped. It was like, compliments.

Michelin star chef Pikachu. But you're clapping, you're like, well, he wasn't, clearly he wasn't the chef. What food are they serving at the Pokemon? It was all designed by Pokemons. But then sometimes the taste had gone out the window because they were all trying to make it look like a Pokemon, like a Pikachu.

It was incredible. What a wonderful chef he is too. Standing around to applause. Well, thank you so much for listening to the show. Back tomorrow with $5,000 up at 7.45. And don't forget, listening out for Avicii after nine o'clock to get your mortgage paid for an entire year.

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