Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Pryor... Or David Attenborough?

Episode Date: February 22, 2023

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Kia ora, welcome the John O'Bien podcast. That was a good one, you did a good reading. That wasn't me the first one. Try your best one with your mouth. That was his best one with his mouth. What did you think I was doing it with? I'm like, jeez, I don't know what other part of the body I'd be doing that with. If you could do it with another part of the body, that would be, I'd put you on a Got Talent show.

This is brought to you by Challenge Petrol Service Stations. Sorry, we're slowly losing our minds just a little bit driving around and around Mount Smart Stadium as I'm sure you've heard us bang on about raising money for an amazing cause, Red Cross. We're trying to do something, do our bit to help out so many New Zealanders affected

but we haven't, we're running on fumes. Now, there's no fumes in this electric car. Are you meaning metaphorical fumes? Yes, yes. Of our systems, yeah. And 24, like, to be honest, it's 24 hours to go, at least. How? Why?

What? Well, I don't think we've ever gone this long on one of these. And if there were one you were going to go long on, it would be this cause, Ben. It's a worthy cause. Red Cross New Zealand Disaster Relief Fund. But yeah, I don't think we've ever sort of gone... 30 hours we've sort of gone around about there, give or take an hour or two for some of these things we've done like this in the past.

So you're right, going through the second eight, trying to get to 53 hours or so on the current speed we're going in the golf cart and then we'll just be giant pieces of crap for our families we get home on yeah that's how they like it that's how they like it uh but no no to be honest don't feel like it's not going to be achieved oh we're gonna do it but yeah but it's not gonna be you know it's not gonna be pretty hey, as we keep saying, it's a very small thing in comparison to what so many Kiwi families are going through right now. And that's what you've got to keep in mind. And you said that before. I think it was really heartfelt when you said it before.

What was that? What did I say? You said that, yeah, obviously there's people going through so much more, and you've got to keep that in mind. Use that as motivation. We're doing it for it, trying to raise as much money and part of this amazing fund that was... What other heartfelt stuff have I done? Well, that was probably it, to be honest. That's all I could think of.

Just one. Just one. But the New Zealand Herald, other radio stations where we work, and of course the Hits listeners have all come together, and it's over $7 million so far, which is awesome. That is a wild amount of money. I can't... Could you imagine...

Hey, I'm not across the fundraising history in this country, but I couldn't imagine a bigger fundraiser than $7 million. Well, that's... Unless, you know, like Team New Zealand, they rustled up a bit of cash. Yeah, true. Government, you know, I think maybe a Metallathons back in the day. I don't know what they got to.

They wouldn't have. They wouldn't have topped seven. Well, let's have a look. Let's have a Google. How much did a Telethon pull in back in the day. I don't know what they got to. They wouldn't have topped seven. Let's have a Google. How much did a telethon pull in back in the day? If there were an event that you needed to raise money for and they needed the most money out of any fundraising, then it would certainly be this one. But let's go. Telethon

NZ money raised. Jesus. If this is online, then we've really got everything on the internet. Okay. In 81. raised. Jesus, if this is online then we've really got everything on the internet. Oh, okay. In 81. Shit, 5 million bucks in 81. Jeez, that'd be like 4 billion

now, wouldn't it? That is wild. 5 million dollars. It was a 24 hour television spectacular for St. John's they're raising. 5 million bucks. Speaking of St. John's, now we are driving, obviously, the golf cart, as you've heard us bang on about many, many times.

But we drive past, you know, here at the Warriors home ground. We drive past another golf cart, a St. John's one. They've got their own golf cart, an ambulance golf cart. And they've got in it a stretcher. Now, it's been sitting there since we arrived because there's no games going on at the moment. I could drive for a bit. You could lie on the stretcher, have a snooze. Then we could alternate.

It looks so comfortable. Every time I drive past it, I'm like, it's almost worth breaking a leg for, just so I can lie in that thing. But the second thing I think about is, well, St. John's haven't left the key in it, have they? No, you're true. That would be very, very irresponsible of them to.

But let's have a look. We're about to drive around next time around if they have left the key in. Because it'll have a siren on it too. Oh, it will. Yeah, it'll have all the bells and whistles. Producer Joel, he's back in our Auckland HQ. You doing all right there? Test, test.

Yeah, all good, all good. I was thinking if you want, I can come down and hot wire that car for you. He's good at hot wiring, Joel. Joel came down yesterday. Hungry, Hungry Harrison. Joel Harrison's Joel's surname. We call him Hungry Harrison. 22-year-old, loves to, you know, eat.

Eats, big eater. And it goes nowhere, Joel. Yeah. I don't know where it sits on your body because you're a thin beanpole. That's the metabolism of a 22-year-old. Yeah, I know, yeah. You know, that's the joy. Now, they left the key in this thing. We've just pulled up to the St. John's the metabolism of a 22-year-old. Yeah, I know. You know, that's the joy. Now, they left the key in this thing.

We've just pulled up to the St. John's one. Oh, no. Give it a go. No, it's not in there. No, it's not in there. That should not come as a surprise, though. No, that's definitely not in there. I mean, I don't park my car in there.

I could just lie there. Yeah, you could lie there. We should probably get a photo of you in it. Just sleep on it. Jeez, that stretcher looks quite thin, doesn't it? Yeah, it doesn't look super cuppy. I don't reckon it would handle me. It's only about 50 centimetres wide, that stretcher.

Well, yeah, I guess it's just a temporary thing, but some of the players are big. Yeah, big rigs. Yeah. No, you know, 120 kgs plus. There you go. Oh, well. And on that, we might end our podcast on that high note there

oh well oh well yeah it was like trying to wrap up a dinner party when you got people people over

you're like fuck I've got work in the morning which you guys just leave oh okay oh well you start cleaning up dishes and stuff like that

I always start I do get like that I love having people over but then I get to the stage where you go oh if it's a big party or something, you're like, I'm going to have to deal with this. And if it gets late, you're like, I'm just going to start dealing with it

because otherwise I'm going to have to do this tonight and I don't want to wake up in the morning and have to deal with this. And so I'll start doing it and my wife's always like, don't leave, it's rude. I'm like, but I've just got to start. Otherwise I'm going to be up at 12.30 doing dishes. People don't have to leave, but I'm just going to start doing this. So I'm here, I'm getting some stuff done for me.

I don't want to wake up to this in the morning and I don't want to be up at 1 in the morning to start doing this. So I'm here. I'm getting some stuff done for me. I don't want to wake up to this in the morning, and I don't want to be up at 1 in the morning. Yeah, so I'm starting to do that. I get the ball rolling. You can stay around. You can talk. I'm not saying you need to leave, but I'm just going to get going into this. It is like it is.

I see it in my head. Yeah, I see where Amanda's coming from. It's making a statement, but I completely am at your camp. It's like get the chores done. They can talk amongst the clattering of dishes, the wash, scrubbing, cutlery and all that. You're like, do you need a hand? No, no, I'm all good.

Ignore me, ignore me. Just do what you're doing. Oh, yeah, no, I hear you on that one. What's your trick? Because, Joel, you've got a flat. Now, flats, they run by a whole other set of rules, don't they? Like, how do you, if you've got people over, how do you get rid of them at a flat?

Because it feels like when I used to go to flats, that you left when you wanted to leave, all right? People come to a flat and they come on Thursday night. People come around tonight and they won't leave till Monday morning. Like, Sunday night. Right, so they're just not leaving. So you could just go, go to, hey, I'll see you guys, I'm going to bed, and that's fine because they can just stay or go.

Most weekends, I either have to go back to my parents' house or go to my girlfriend's place as well. It's honestly just easy to leave and try to ask people to leave. Or your girlfriend's parents' place too. I'm sure you could go there. It's lovely.

They're very generous. Grace's parents' place? Yeah. Isn't that a funny commentary that you just leave people in your house and you move out for the weekend. And then I come back on Monday, we start cleaning up and I was like, none of these are even my

bloody dishes or rubbish and stuff. I'm literally a cleaner for my own flat and I'm not even getting paid, I'm paying to do it. But that's probably a story for Ovi. But that's not... It sounds like there's a little bit of bone in contention there. Really open up some things. Let's talk through it. What's going on?

Are you doing all the chores in the flat, are you? No, no, no. Everyone, all my flatmates are all very responsible and all good. But it's the people who come over. Sometimes people come over and they don't help out as much as they should for free riding. It's probably what parents, my parents do things as well. When I was at home, they were like, you're the biggest free rider, freeloader of all time. You don't even help out.

Do you know, I was in a flatting situation, and someone who was flatting there, their friend came to stay. But eventually, they had stayed so long past the point where they thought they were then in control of the flat. They took over, they were like living on the couch, then all of a sudden, they're there all day, they're there more than anyone else. Oh, so they're calling the shots. And they're like, hey, who's left like living on the couch. Then all of a sudden, they're there all day. They're there more than anyone else. Oh, so they called. They're calling the shots.

And they're like, hey, who's left this out on the video? You're like, hold on. Hold on. Yeah. Like it was a, yeah, two or three month period. They really took over. It's sort of a, yeah, like a dictatorship. The longer, you know what they say,

the position is nine tenths of the law. The longer you stay there, it all becomes yours. Bloody like Russia trying to move into the Ukraine. Trying to take over, isn't it? All right. Well, all right. I was trying to say before. I did the rap before.

No, and then we got another. We kicked into gear. We got more life. And now we're there. Here we go. I need to do the dishes. All right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

It's Thursday morning. Good morning. We're here at Mount Smart Stadium. We started 24 hours ago in an easy-go golf cart driving around and around Mount Smart Stadium. Are we going to keep going? Well, the carts will keep going until we've driven the equivalent of the length of New Zealand.

We're doing a course with the Red Cross, raising money for those affected by the extreme weather events over the last couple of weeks. And if you want to donate, you can go to the hitstockcode.nz or you can just text CYCLONE to 3493 for an instant $3 donation. Yeah, how are you feeling? We're nearly at the sort of 800k mark now. We would probably be a lot further if I wasn't so leaky.

A very leaky bladder, a lot of toilet stops. How are you feeling? Oh, look, I need a bit more pep in my step this morning. You go through sort of waves. One of us throughout the night would always keep the cart going. And, you know, I tried to get a quick bit of sleep. But, hey, that was, you know, when you're like, this is a chance to sleep and your mind's just racing a million miles an hour,

even though you're tired. It's never an ideal mindset to get to sleep. I've got to sleep. This is my chance. I've got 15 minutes. Don't screw this up. Don't screw this up. I think 100% of the time it always gets you to sleep to sleep. I've got to sleep. This is my chance. I've got 15 minutes. Don't screw this up. Don't screw this up. I think 100% of the time it always gets you to sleep, just perfectly. While I was driving around and you were sort of bullying yourself to sleep,

I had nothing else to do but to talk to myself. Okay, it's 3.08am. John O'Pryor reporting from Mount Smart Stadium. I feel like I'm the only living person in the stadium right now, mainly because I am. It's just... Jesus. It's just me and these terrifying bird noises that they play over the loudspeaker 24 hours a day

to warn off birds from nesting in the grandstands. Frightening. Noises that will haunt me for the rest of my days. It feels like I'm at the start of the Squid Games, if you can remember that reference from a couple of years ago in lockdown. Just cast your mind back. Dear God, there goes that bell. It sounds like the beginning of a game where I have to

fend off other human beings in a race of survival of the fittest. There we go. It's you at 3 o'clock in the night. I don't want to say you could have, like, I could have tightened that up. A bit more pep in your step, mate. Yeah, I don't know why I sounded almost half David Attenborough,

half pervert, half pervert just driving around the stadium. But it's amazing how lonely a stadium gets when you remove 40,000 people, Ben. Yeah. Doesn't it? It's 3 in the morning. We've been driving a golf cart around Mount Smart Stadium. We're doing it for the length of New Zealand,

the equivalent of the length of New Zealand, 1,600 kilometres. We've just done the maths, or we continue to do the maths because there's not a lot to do through the hours. There's ongoing maths happening. We're 24 hours down. Now the rate we're going, it'll be another 27-odd hours. And they will be odd hours. We'll be doing some stuff,

especially through the 3 to 5 in the middle of the night when no one's here. Very odd. Very odd. Now, Harry Styles is here in a couple of weeks. He'll be here. He won't be driving a golf cart around and around, though, will he? No, he'll probably get whisked in from backstage on a golf cart, I imagine,

then whisked away in a golf cart. We could drive him. We've got plenty of golf cart experience. No one will probably have more golf cart experience over the last couple of weeks than us, right? Now, the amazing people here at Mount Smart, and we need to thank Mount Smart Stadium for turning this around so quickly. Producer Bee Humps, Harriet, who works in the office as well.

Yeah, you're right. It takes a lot to organise something like this. Us two idiots go, let's just jump on a golf cart and do some stuff. But, you know, there's a lot that needs to be organised. Easy go, the golf carts need to come to the party. And so thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to make this happen. But the team at Mount Smart have even come, they're already at the party. But now they're at the party.

They've become the life of the party, Ben. What are they doing? Harry Styles, if you want to see him when you're here and the tickets are on hot demand, well, they're giving away four tickets to go see Harry Styles in a corporate box. And we've put an auction up. You can get all the details at the Hits Breakfast on social media right now. And if you make the highest bid, you can get four tickets to Harry Styles and enjoy seeing Harry Styles in a corporate box where you get hospitality, your food and drink.

It'll be incredible. Now, it's just at the Hits Breakfast Facebook page. We're running the auction, so put your bid in there. It can be like one of those passive-aggressive ones, you know, where people just could have slightly bid under false names and things. And we'll draw the winner out just before 9 o'clock this morning. So the highest bid by 9 o'clock wins these tickets. Now, this is a bloody money can't buy.

Well, no, it's a money can buy experience, actually. But you're going to be fed, drank with you and three of your friends. This is going to be... I wouldn't be surprised, I can't make promises, if Harry Styles himself lays on the table shirtless and you're eating sushi off his bare chest. And you're pouring the soy sauce into his belly button and dipping the sushi in there.

We can't promise that, but we can promise that all the money goes towards Red Cross for the highest bidder. Red Cross, of course, doing amazing work to help out those affected by the cyclone. If you want to make a $3 donation, you can text cyclone to 3493 and you can donate as well. We'll continue driving around Mount Smart Stadium.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We're at Mount Smart Stadium driving an easy-go golf cart around and around to try to drive the distance, the equivalent of the length of New Zealand, 1600 Ks to raise money for the Red Cross. We're currently in the bowels of Mount Smart, aren't we? Under the Southern Grandstand at the moment.

Ben Boyce going past the Warriors gymnasium. The doors are open. Please, today, don't look in every time. No, no. He couldn't help himself. I know. Big fan of the Warriors and big fan of Mount Smart, say. And we're now getting to know this ground like the Warriors.

And I'm getting to know the golf cart. We're on a rotate system with the golf cart. We charge one and then we use another one. And discovered after many hours of being on it that it had a horn. Ben, I can't believe it. We are eight hours down and we've only just discovered. Well, you've only just discovered the. Well, it's packing a lot of punch it's really loud

i can't see that getting annoying can you no not at all not at all it's the most obnoxious horn for the smallest vehicle. For an electric sort of golf cart that is very quiet, you're right. That horn's making out for something. So, yeah, it did get a bit annoying after a while, though, didn't it? After three, four hours. But it came up with a game for us to play. Now, 0800 the hits. If you would like to take on Ben, we've got some hell pizza up for grabs. If you would rather not take on Ben and just sit there in your car

and play passively, that's fine as well. That's fine. We're not here to bully you onto the radio. No. But it's called Jono Pryor's Hornography. Oh, God. Okay? Not the hardcore hornography.

They're not difficult horns, okay? Now, producer Joel has loaded in a range of horns. You're right. And you have to tell me where the horn has come from. So, Joel, can we do an example with Ben? Yeah, here we go. Oh, is that like a ship horn? Like a big boat sort of thing?

Oh, yeah. Well done. So, there you go. So, you're playing a guy who knows his horns. Oh, yeah. Well done. So there you go. So you're playing a guy who knows his horns. He's horned up. He's horned up and he's ready to go. So 800 of the hits. Liam from Hamilton is on as well.

Oh, good on you from the Waikato. Liam, how are you? Yeah, good, mate. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well. It's just the automatic reaction to say, yeah, good, mate. No, we're not, yeah, good, mate. Yeah, he keeps, we're doing well. It's just the automatic reaction to say, yeah, good, mate. No, we're not, yeah, good, mate. Yeah, he keeps saying we're doing well.

I'm like, are we doing well? But anyway, it's a very little comparison. It's an easy answer, isn't it? It is an easy answer. And you don't want to really hear how we're going. You just want to play hornography. I know why you phoned up. Okay, all right.

So it's between Liam and Ben. Next horn, producer Joel. Oh, no, no, sorry. Crown horn. Liam between Liam and Ben next horn producer Joel Crown Hall That's that's the one I know that one from also the Drix of Hazzard yeah The general Lee, oh, yeah, we're gonna give that one to be Ben. Okay, you're up 1-0. Next horn. I don't know what that horn's from, mate. It's a hooger horn. I don't know.

It just says a hooger horn. That was there. Sorry. Well done. You won a hooger. Ben's up 2-0. He's smoking hornography.

In your head, did you have me winning this game? No. I never wanted you to win this game. I wanted Liam to win. Okay, next horn.

All or nothing on the final horn. Train horn. Ah, there we go. Liam, I'm going to go with Liam, the hardcore horn fan. The winner of hornography. Well done, Liam.

I don't know if I can take that. Are you going to give me some hell pizza, my friend? No, thank you. Thank you. Hey, in return, you need to text Cyclone to 3493. $3 donation, all right, for the Red Cross. That's fair. Hey, have a great day.

We'll continue driving around Mount Smart Stadium, raising money for the Red Cross. As Jono said, you can text Cyclone to 3493. We're trying to raise as much money as we can throughout the next 26 or 27 hours on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're in the middle of our non-stop mission to drive from one end of the country to the other. Well, the equivalent in a go-kart around and around Mount Smart Stadium.

Yesterday. Golf cart. Oh, sorry. I keep saying go-kart. That's all right. No, don't applaud, Josh. I'm sorry. You've been up for the largest part of 24 hours.

I'm sorry. Just don't tune into our show tomorrow. We're not going to get you enter that into the World Radio Awards. Oh, tomorrow. What state are we going to be in tomorrow? But the awesome thing is New Zealanders are coming together to support New Zealanders, raising money for the Red Cross. Yesterday when we started, because we're part of a fund run

with the New Zealand Herald, other radio stations as well, it was at $5 million. Now it's $7 million. Incredible. And that's all thanks to the charity Drive. So thank you so much for your $2 million with the donations that have come through. You can text Cyclone to 3493. We really do appreciate all of those $2 million.

So that's going to go to a really worthy cause. Now, Trade Tested have said we would love to help people out who are affected by the Cyclone. We've got a whole bunch of generators. We just want to give it to people so they can get their lives back together or have some form of normality. So we're going to phone a worthy recipient now. Hello, Trish speaking. G'day, Trish speaking.

It's Jono and Ben speaking from a golf cart at about 32km an hour speaking. Hi, how are you? We're doing well Trish, listen we're just on our charity drive at the moment trying to raise money for the Red Cross. Yes. We're travelling the length of New Zealand in a golf cart round and round Mount Smart Stadium. Oh I heard, yes. We just thought we'd take time to call you because you've nominated your son

to receive a helping hand from Trade Tested in terms of a generator. Absolutely, the poor sods have still got no power down there. Oh jeez, how long's that been now? Well from day one, so it's over a week, yeah.

Over a week. And any signs soon of power coming on? Indications late last night was it could be another two or three days. So they're surviving on just a little wee fridge that he's got in his truck that he drives to keep their milk and things cold. So, yeah. So a generator could be, they could have a generator. That would be awesome. Well, we'll pass on one of those.

Thanks to our mates at Trade Tested. We'd love to give one of those across to you and your family. Thank you so much. That is absolutely awesome. Really, really appreciate that. They'll be truly, truly grateful. No, that's all good. And hopefully they're all safe and sound.

Must be a nervous time for you as a mum. It was very, it's awful because you're so close to get so far away and can't get there and can't do anything for them. So this was the best, closest thing that I could do to help them down there. But, yeah, just too far away. And no roads to get in, really. Yeah. Oh, well, yeah, we're thinking of everyone affected.

And, yeah, send our love to your family. Thank you very much. Thanks, guys. I really appreciate your help. And if you know someone who needs a generator, you can head to thehits.co.nz The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast Sam Smith, Normani, it is The Hits

Jono and Ben, 643, we're at Mount Smart Stadium, we're in our golf cart, not a go-kart as I keep calling it it's a golf cart, we're driving around, thanks to EasyGo we're driving around and around Mount Smart Stadium. And we're not going to stop until we've traveled the length of New Zealand, 1,600 k's.

We reckon we'll still be going at least 24 hours time tomorrow. But we're doing it for a good cause. We're trying to raise money to help out Kiwis by raising money for the Red Cross. High drama yesterday, though. We didn't think we'd be able to complete the journey after being boys. A little erratic, a little erratic. I was trying to get the k's up, you know, get a bit of speed up. Here's what happened. Okay we've hit a snag. Yeah. Uh I don't know, did I do something? Just stopped. I don't want to say you're driving quite erratically. Well, yeah. Well I'm glad you don't want to say it

but I ended up saying it it was quite jolty was it about jolty I think we topped 50 60km an hour there I just thought we want to get there yes the problem is

we're not going anywhere now so the cart Yes. Yeah. The problem is... We're not going anywhere now. We're not going anywhere now. Start putting the accelerator down. So the cart, it just wouldn't turn on, it wouldn't go, it wouldn't accelerate. And then, I don't know what you did, no one knows what happened. Just after about 15 minutes, you just pushed it down and it went again. And it hasn't stopped since. Well, yeah, the only thing that stopped is us momentarily, but the carts have been going throughout the night.

Maybe the cart was like, hey buddy do you know what I am actually designed to do? I'm designed to take you from the 15th tee to the 16th. Something else has been quite hazardous as well something we've had to contend with because it's a lovely, lovely field here at

Mount Smart Stadium. Obviously the Warriors season starting in a couple of weeks. And the sprinklers just pop up from time to time. And they go right across the field and right across the little track that we're driving around the outside. Oh, Trevor Mallard would be having... He would come here and froth at their sprinkler system. He would, you're right. He's like, jeez, if only the Parliament grounds had these when the protesters were there.

We could have ended that protest on day one. Could have doused them. But gee, it's beautiful looking grass, isn't it? It really, it's like, almost like you should vacuum it. It's so perfect. You're not allowed to walk on the field. Have you set foot on the field? No, no, I'm too scared to. No, I'm too scared

as well. Even in the middle of the night by myself, I was too scared to. I think they have snipers hidden on the roof if you set foot on the field. So we'll continue on this journey. If you want to donate, just text Cyclone 3493. And I'm wanting to... Who's this bald... This other famous bald...

Other famous bald person like I'm famous. This other bald person that you want on the show. Oh, well, you said Parliament. There's a wee clue. Who is it? They're next on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A lot of people have been

supporting us as we try and travel around the distance of New Zealand in a golf cart and joining us on the phone right now Christopher Luxon, National Party leader. Good morning. G'day guys how are you? We are doing well. Lovely to have you on. Are we doing

well? Yeah, pretty much. So we reckon it's probably at least another 24 hours to go. So this time tomorrow, who knows what we're going to be like. But as we keep saying, it's very little in comparison to what many canvies have gone through and are going through. And you've been down there firsthand and seen it. Yeah, look, I mean, I've been to a lot of the places that have been really badly impacted. And certainly you've seen the best Yeah, look, I mean, I've been to a lot of the places that have been really badly impacted

and certainly you've seen the best of New Zealand, right? You've seen people doing incredibly tough, displaced from their homes, cut off communities. You've seen people's livelihoods destroyed and people clearly have lost loved ones and our thoughts are with those families adjusting to that. But also you've seen amazing community responses. You've seen incredible rescuers and first responders and emergency management, civil defence folks. So, I mean, there's been tremendous tragedy

and great sadness and brokenness in many ways. But there's also been a fantastic response from New Zealanders helping their fellow New Zealanders. And I even went out of Muriwai and just met Red Cross volunteers, and they've just done an exceptionally great job as well. Up and down the country. It's been fantastic. So good on you for what you're doing. 24 hours into it, that's amazing.

What's happening with the golf cart? Does it need recharging? Yeah, we've got a couple on rotation. There's a bit of a rotation policy going on. They last about four hours, then we hop in the next one. We're riding these things until they run out, Chris. The way we've projected, our projected forecast

we'll finish round about hopefully lunchtime tomorrow mate now if you get into power I don't want to put words in your mouth but are we talking a knighthood for Jono and Baird I just love the fact that with your old age you're just doing something sitting down. And that's fantastic.

It's good for health and safety. We can't do any physical activity. Drop him off at the Ryman in a minute and I'll run the golf cart. You kind of like our sort of Olympic rowers, don't you? We sort of win a lot of Olympic medals sitting down. So you're carrying on a great Kiwi tradition. I like that. I think it's fantastic.

Well, basically we've done so much dastardly stuff in our lives, we have to do this to make up for all the terrible things we've done. Hey, I wanted to pitch something too. It's election year as well, obviously. A song for National. They've remade the bloody I'm Blue Dabba Dee Dabby Doo. Could that... Now, I know there's history with the National Party and popular musical artists.

You've got to get the rights first, I think. Yeah, I think getting the legal rights, making it more than just fairly legal would be good. Yep, that would be a good first point, I think, for the campaign. So we'll make sure we do that this time. I'll leave that with you now. I'll leave that with you now. How do you think old Hippo's going? Chris Hipkins, do you think he's doing a good job? Oh, look, I mean, it's been a really tough start to the year, hasn't it? I mean, for the whole

country, we had a very wet summer. We had a series of weather events, and then we've been hit with Cyclone Gabriel. And so, you know, people are doing it really tough. And on top of that, we've got a big challenge around the cost of living crisis, and obviously a new Prime Minister as well. So, look, I mean, you know,

we want New Zealand to do well. So, you know, as I said at the beginning, I wish him well in the job. But obviously I wanted his job on October 14th. So it's one long extended job interview for both of us up until October. But, guys, honestly, like what you're doing is just fantastic. So, you know, thank you so much for what you're doing, raising funds for the Red Cross. They are an awesome organisation. They do amazing work at the front line.

You know, as I said, I sat down and actually, you know, chatted to two volunteers who are in Muriwai doing really hard work. And, you know, amazing people, actually. They'd come from France and from Canada, respectively, and volunteering for the Red Cross and just, yeah, really giving comfort to people when they needed it. They are a great organisation. We didn't realise everyone was a volunteer, so they stop what they're doing, stop their works, leave their families and come to the disaster zones and help, which is incredible. It's just amazing, eh?

No, it's just amazing. And, yeah, it's incredible what they do. And so really committed, passionate people who care deeply about us, and that's just amazing stuff. Oh, Christopher Luxon, really do appreciate your time. Thanks for getting up. Well, this is probably not early for you now. This is probably just a normal day for you now,

but you're going to have a great day. You do, you guys. Good luck for the next 24 hours. You take care. We're in the middle of our charity drive. We're trying to raise as much money as we can for the Red Cross. You can text CYCLONE to 3493 to make an instant $3 donation. Now, one of the rules of radio broadcasting, Ben,

you never want to overload the audience with too much information. OK, but I'm throwing that rule out the window. This is for charity. We've also got an auction going on. Thanks to the fine people at Mount Smart, they've put up four tickets to Harry Styles. But not just four tickets to Harry Styles. Four tickets to the corporate area.

Oh, yeah. You'll be fed. Harry Styles will pick up little canapes and put them inside your mouth. I can't promise that. Can't promise that. I'm saying it's a possibility. He will also pick up a glass of whatever you want, pour it gently into your mouth. So you can bid for this on our Facebook page, The Hits Breakfast.

The auction's going to close at 8.30. The highest bid by 8.30 is going to win those tickets. Incredible stuff. Too much information? Yes, I know. Will I hear about this in a post-show meeting? Probably. Yes, you will. We are heading around Mount Smart Stadium, the equivalent of the length of New Zealand, 16 kilometres.

The Warriors are here. They train here. They play here. They're my favourite team and I got quite excited yesterday, particularly because they were like, would you like to speak to some of the Warriors? I was like, oh, I'd love Sean Johnson to come along, favorite player. It'd be great.

I saved him a seat all day, didn't I? Yeah, Sean Johnson is one of your heroes. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Sean Johnson. A lot of Johnsons. A lot of Johnsons. And my job is to keep your Johnson away from the Johnsons. As far as possible. But, yes, yesterday you kept saying every 10 minutes,

oh, Sean said he'd be here. Sean, they've told me Sean will come. And you made me sit in the back of the car. You're like, this seat's for Sean. It was like a lonely kid waiting for his dad, his negligent father to turn up to the school play. But, anyway, we got the wonderful Marcelo Montoya. Game as we see Montoya.

Montoya. Oh, yeah. The big don't argue from Montoya. Take that. Yeah. Take that. A winger sent to a place for the Warriors as well. He did a lap with us. He sat in Sean Johnson's seat on the Cal Golf cart.

He did, and we brought up the fact that he was bulldozing over the top of other players in that clip you just heard. I thought I'd pledge like $10 to the cause if Jono runs it straight at you. 100%. I'll cut that in as well. I don't want to injure him before the season. We ought to look after him.

Yeah, 100%. I can see him looking at me in the rear-vision mirror going, I can't take that guy. No, 100%. Yeah, so Sean Johnson, one of my favourite players, apart from yourself, of course. He's going to come along at some stage. I'm keeping a spot for him at the back of the car.

You think he's going to come along? What, today? Yeah. Is he coming? I don't know. I can't take Sean. Sean's sitting in the back, so we'll wait for Sean. Yeah. he's going to come along? What, today? Yeah. Is he coming? I don't know. I can't say. Sean's sleeping in the back, so we'll wait for Sean.

Yeah. We'll try and get him on here, eh? Hello, Sean. Hey, mate, are you upstairs? No, no, I'm left, left. Oh, you're already left. All good. You're coming back, no way.

You're coming back, eh? Hey, I'm just with Jono and Benny, and I want you to go in the back of the cab here. Have a chat. But you're already left. Yeah, I've already left. I'll keep it a spot for you, a seat for you. I'll just say, any time between now and Friday.

You've literally caught us on our, we're on days off now. Yeah, we've literally got three days off now lads. Well don't worry Sean, we'll be here mate, we'll be here. We'll go in random circles. Enjoy boys, enjoy. Alright mate, I'll leave you to it. Enjoy the three days. So what we actually had to do, and I didn't tell you this yesterday

because you would have been devastated. We actually had to put a toupee and a moustache on Sean Johnson and sneak him out the back door of Mount Smart. He was getting weirded out. But he got away safely, and that's's good. That's the main thing. Hey, the show continues on. Much like the golf cart, we are trying to travel the distance of New Zealand, 1,600 k's.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Someone won $10.5 million on Lotto Powerball last night. Pretty cool. Not bad for a Wednesday. Not a bad Wednesday. Not a bad Wednesday. Hey, well, I had a shocking Wednesday, if you want to know the honest truth.

We're driving around on this golf cart, thanks to Easy Go and Mount Smart Stadium. 1,600 k's the length of New Zealand, but then I got a message from the bank, Ben. Oh. And it wasn't, you've won $10.5 million. We're putting that into your account. Someone fleeced...

Will they give me the inside of the new cash rate? Will they, hey, it's going to go up. It's not going to be good. The OCR. Is it the OCR that they call it? Yeah, the OCR. It's never a good chat, is it? No, no.

And that's all the chat we've got on the OCR. It really isn't a good chat. We know nothing about it. But no, someone took my credit card online. Oh, really? And they're using it for exotic purchases. Exotic European purchases, like some snazzy high-end leather goods. Oh.

Yeah, we're talking belts. Yeah. Talking leather handbags, pair of leather pants. So all these purchases have been racked up on your credit card? On the credit card. Now, clearly this online scammer has the legs of a supermodel to slide into some leather pants. I can only dream of getting these into some leather pants. I tried wearing leather pants for a couple of years and it didn't go well.

So, yeah, now the issue is, because you had the same problem, didn't you, a few months ago? Yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've signed my credit card to fund half the internet. It's joined up to so many 29 streaming sites, one of which I sometimes watch. Well, that's the thing. When you cancel your card, which you have to do in this instance, you don't realize how many things that probably affects until you're actually going, oh, I'm in an Uber. I can't pay for this right now.

I'm in this because it's on the old credit card. I'm pretty sure I've got monthly payments for some white rhinos in Africa I'm trying to save. So, well, thanks, leather-pant thief. You've just killed nine white rhinos because my card's going to decline now. And I suppose you just have to slowly find out over time because you'll get a message from the website saying, hey, your card's declined. Is that how you found out? What did you do? Oh, yeah.

Well, the kids would go tune on something and be like, hey, Netflix is not working. You're like, oh, that'll be the credit card. But the annoying thing about someone, you know, taking your card is they've always had so much more fun with my money than I ever do. Yeah. You know, I'm not buying leather pants.

I mean, jeez, I would kill it. Imagine just going online now and just buying some leather pants. Just going, I don't care how much they cost, I need some leather pants. Yeah, imagine that. Oh care how much they cost, I need some leather pants. Yeah, imagine that. Oh, yeah, we could do it, but I probably won't. In all honesty, I probably won't because they're quite expensive and very sticky during the summer months, aren't they, leather pants?

Not good for driving a golf cart. No, you really have to peel those leather pants off. Well, maybe this leggy online thief has done me a favour because it's probably going to cut off half the payments to stuff I don't, I shouldn't even have the card signed up to anyway. So there's a lot of bad press around online scammers, rightfully so, but they've got some positives too. I mean, in the long run, yes, they've spent some of my money,

but they're probably going to save me some as well. We're driving a golf cart around and around Mount Smart Stadium. We want to do it the length of New Zealand, 1,600 kilometres. We reckon it's going to be at least another 24 hours of us doing this. Raising money for the Red Cross. You can text at any stage, cyclone to 3493 to make a $3 donation. But we wanted to see if we could get some pledges on here right now on 0800THATS, people that want to maybe donate a bit more.

Now, Brad and Laura, the wonderful Brad and Laura, who host the afternoon show here at the Hits, they did this yesterday. They racked up bloody 2K. 2K of generosity from you, the fine Hits listeners. So, Producer Humphreys, though, if Brad and Laura can get 2K... We could probably get $500. What do you think, Producer Humphrey?

What are you putting in? Rock it up, mate. Rock it up. So, 0800 the Hits. This is wild stuff. This is live pledging. High risk, high reward, or high risk, no reward. This is what we're going to find out. 0800THEHITS, you phone up.

You just say, hey, I'm going to donate X amount of dollars. Let's just say we'll go with a small figure, $22,000 to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Well, that's incredible. And then afterwards you go on. You go and do it. That's the code of NZ in today. Now, we're placing a lot of faith in you actually going through that part of the process. Yeah, but I think you need to.

If you go on the radio and say you're going to do it, it's for the cause you're helping out New Zealanders. Personally, I would probably come on and go, Hey, guys, it's Barry here from Barry's Mechanics Tyres. We're doing a special on wheel alignments at the moment. I'm going to give you 10 grand and you'll go, thanks. And then I probably wouldn't put the money in. But that's Barry and he's a mechanic. He's running a shady auto dealer.

Yeah, so 0800 is the telephone number. You can text 24487 if you'd like to make a pledge. Live pledge. Producer Joel, tell us, how packed are the phone lines? I think the phone lines might be broken at the moment. I'm not sure. I think Brandon Lawler might have crashed them last night.

Yeah, okay, tell me. Talk through. No, we don't need this. We started driving golf carts at 6 o'clock yesterday. We're a little tired. We don't need this. We do have a caller coming through right now. I'll chuck you through to them.

Okay, $22,000 Barry from... Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Who's on the phone? It's Patrick. Patrick. Okay, Paddy, what are we donating to the Red Cross? Okay, so I'm from Low Pilot New Zealand, and I'm going to give you guys $10 an hour for your challenge.

Ooh, you're getting an hourly wage. Ooh, you're an hourly wage. Okay, below minimum, but anyway. $10 an hour. Thank you, Patrick. That is wonderful. Give your company a plug again. What are you doing? So, Low Pilot New Zealand.

So, we pilot over-dimensional loads around the country. So, we're all over-dimensional loads, you know, wide loads. Oh, big wide loads. Ben's looking at me like he's like you after lockdown. Yeah, he's looking at me. So $10 an hour. So if we go 53 hours, which we're thinking roughly that's $530. You're okay with that?

It's $530. Yep. And I'd tell any other low pilots out there to match it or better it. Patrick, you are amazing. Hey, were you on moving houses with Clark Gayford? No. No? All right. That's a great show.

I love when they take the house and they move it. That's very much so. I don't know if you've seen it, have you? Yeah, no, no. It's fun. I enjoy it. It's a good fun and challenge, but no, not with Clark.

Oh, well, hey, listen, you are very generous, and Patrick, listen, even more generous than your donation is you saving this radio break. That's the true generosity coming through right now. That is a money can't buy gift you've given us. Thank you, thank you, we won't have to talk about this with our boss after the show. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Let's make it 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 is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning at this time on The Hits. Just because we're driving a go-kart, a golf cart, what are we driving? Something around and around.

I'm losing my mind. Around Mount Smart Stadium. Doesn't mean we don't stop playing this game. No, and I know this is the home of the Warriors, isn't it? And also the home at the moment of the Warrior, Ben Boyce, the Warrior, who's generally quite worried about things. Are you worried about us finishing this 1,600-kilometre journey? I feel a little bit better knowing it's probably only one more night to go.

But we'll see how we go. We'd better pick up the pace a bit this morning. Okay, let's welcome to Five Words this morning, joining us from Otorohonga. Who was it, Joel? Sorry. Is it Sarah? Sarah.

Sarah, hi. Sarah. Apologies, Sarah. Early Alzheimer's kicking in here as we've been awake for too long. Listen, we are at the home of the Warriors and this stadium has been magnificent luck for the Warriors over the years. I can't remember a time they've lost here Ben. So this will hopefully

bode well for you Sarah for five words this morning mate. What were you to spend 5k on? Oh gosh I don't know, the kids probably Yeah it's probably one of those things when you're a parent you're like ah it just all goes to the kids they just they turn up and then they just suck every last dollar out of you don't they hey well the good news is we are going to donate a

hundred dollars one hundred dollars to the new zealand red cross disaster relief fund from you sarah in otorohanga. All right, you can brag about that one to all your friends and family. Now, who do you want to send into the soundproof sin bin this morning? I will send Ben. All right, Ben's heading off. He's departed from the cart. Decarted, the daily decarted. And we're going to get five words out of your mouth this morning, Sarah.

I'm just realising, Sarah, probably don't tune into tomorrow's show if we're still going. Really, it's going to be a shabby operation. It's starting to fall apart at the seams now. First word you think of, Sarah, when I say skipping? Rope. Skipping rope. Let's go to word number two this morning. It's cappuccino.

Coffee. I had that one as well, mate. Third word, guard. Guard. Palace. Yeah, palace. Yep, no worries. You've also got your security guards.

You've got all sorts of guards, don't you? Tattoo is word number four this morning. Guns. Guns. And emergency. Services. Emergency services. Sarah, we're locking in those five words.

We'll get Boyce out of... He's served some time in the sin bin. Sarah, what do you do? You're heading to work. What do you do for a job? I'm a teacher. Oh, good on you. Good on you.

Teach us something now. What's one thing you'd teach us? One thing I can teach... Oh, good. Oh, there's plenty of things. Can't think of anything off the top of my head right now. Yeah, it's a lot of things you can do. Yeah, it's a tough question. Like, as a teacher, I teach so much stuff. Maybe don't ask a question like that on radio.

Maybe that's something we can... I've learned that lesson. All right, let's see if you can match words with Sarah this morning. Here we go. Word one, $25. that lesson. Alright, let's see if you can match words with Sarah this morning. Here we go. Word one, $25. It's worth 25 NZD, this. Skipping. Rope.

Ding. Well done, Sarah. $25. What are you going to do? You're going to move forward to the $50 round? Yeah, we'll go to the next round. Word two, $50. Cappuccino, Ben. What would you say when I say cappuccino?

Coffee. Love it. There's $50 into your bank account, Sarah. What's the decision? Oh, that's good. I don't think I was happy with what I said for the next one. Well, listen, the next word was guard. And this is smart.

This is what I've been trying to instill in the audience, that they play smartly. If you're nervous about the next word, I would take the cash, but, hey, I'm not your financial advisor. I will go for one more. All right, she's got one more. Word three, $100. I clearly just said,

I would take that if I were a fighter. Listen, it's your game, Sarah. I'm not the boss of you. Guard is the third word. Guard. Security. Security. Now, I don't...

No, no, just, you've had a win. Sarah has had a win. You just, you know, nothing next to me, Sarah. Hey, we'll go through the final two words, Sarah. Tattoo. Gun. Ooh. An emergency was the fifth word this morning.

Ambulance. Our services. Sarah, not bad. You did three out of five, mate. Played a wonderful game. And you go and teach those kids all the stuff you know. Let's not focus on one thing. All the stuff you know in Otorohongo today. Thank you for listening.

Awesome. Thank you guys. You're doing an awesome job. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. It's Lady Gaga romance. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben, 756, driving a golf cart around and around Mountain Smart Stadium. We are to raise money for the Red Cross. Oh, around and around.

We started at 6 o'clock yesterday morning, and we reckon we'll still be going tomorrow morning at some stage, right? Yeah, and just the longer you're on here, the more you have to do, the harder you have to work to fill the time, don't you? To make the time pass. Yeah, it's great now to work to fill the time. Don't you? To make the time pass. Yeah, it's great. Now we're on the radio. It's awesome. We get to talk to you guys on all our hundredth hits. It's great. There's little milestones, aren't there? So you get to the end of this, you're like, oh great, there's three hours that have disappeared.

And so we've been filling in our time with silly little games. We've named the cart Cart Green, after Art Green. And we've come up with cart songs. So we'll go one for one, Ben. Okay. Okay.

These are all cart themed songs. You can kick things off if you want. Okay. Well, let's go a little Billy Ray Cyrus, Don't Break My Cart. My achy, breaky cart. Oh, okay. It's not. Oh, okay.

This is not. Hold. Joel. Just Joel. Sorry. I thought you meant the UB40 version of Don't Break My Heart. Sorry. When in the history of anyone ever referencing Don't Break My Heart, my every heart will go, actually, we'll go to the UB40 version.

I'm sorry. The version in the system was the UB40 one. No. Fair enough. Great song. UB40. Don't Break My Cart. Every time I request that song, I hope it's the UB40 version.

You've broken my cart by playing the wrong version of the song. I've gone with Elton John, Cold Cold Cart. Actually, no, can you play the UB40 version? Give the UB40 version of that song, I'll tell you. I like one of my favourite kart songs as we drive around in the golf cart. It's the Total Eclipse of the Kart. Another beauty. Don't know if UB40 do a version of that song.

And Billy Joel, We Didn't Kart the Fire. And just to round things off, a bit of a test for you, Red Red Wine, which is a great song by UB40. We actually want some actual UB40 on now, Joel. If we can get that at some stage. You've got about three seconds to get UB40 on. Red Red Wine, not planned for us. There you go.

Oh, yes, we are slowly losing our minds. I said to Sarah and Ota to Hongo, don't tune into the show tomorrow. We've got ugly scenes on the radio tomorrow if we're still going. We have hardly slept. We're driving a golf cart around and around Mount Smart Stadium until we get to the end of the country, basically 1,600 k's. It's all for the Red Cross. It's all for a great cause.

But you're right. Tomorrow, who knows how we're going to be. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Hits, cash and card. As I try and read a laptop while driving a golf cart around Mount Smart Stadium. Multitasking at its finest right now. Well, it's not really at its finest. You're swerving all over the footpath. I almost dropped my laptop before. Now he doesn't even

have his hands on the steering wheel. We have a fantastic scooter and all that cash in the back of the car. You can guess how much cash is in there. If you get it correct, you'll win all the cash and the car. Now, if you don't win it this time around, as a consolation prize, you win a ride around Mount Smart Stadium on our cash and cars.

We'll give you $2 and we'll take you for a ride around the field here at Mount Smart. Let's welcome the wonderful cash keeper, Alex, to the show. How are you, Alex? Good, thanks, guys. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well, Alex. So busy keeping the cash, she's forgotten about her family. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, there's only one thing in Alex's life at the moment,

and it's protecting this money. Now, Alex, we understand there's going to be a little surprise this afternoon. We won't get into those details now. No, no, no, need to, because this person, Pat, might guess exactly what it is. Yeah, but there's a planned surprise this afternoon with cash and car. The best kind of surprises. All right, well, let's get Patty on. How's New Plymouth this morning, Pat?

It's good, thank you. A bit overcast, but otherwise it's good, thank you. Well, bloody succinct weather update there too, Patty. Love it. You didn't ramble on. It was bloody beautiful. What do you do with your life there, Pat? Mainly work.

However, today, if I were to win the cash in the car, I would donate 25% of the cash in the boot to the Red Cross. Oh, Pat. If I was there, if I could be transported to New Plymouth, do you know what I'd be doing to you right now? Giving you a big hug. A big hug, and I'd give you a European-style kiss on each of your cheeks.

And I'd make the noise. If you're okay with that, of course. Yeah, consensual. I'd go, but I wouldn't actually kiss your cheek. You know how you just make the noise? That's what I'd do to you. Oh, that's very, very generous of you. I'm hoping that you win, but I don't know how much it is. I'm hoping

you do, so then we'll throw you over to cashkeeper Alex for your guess. Thank you. Hi, Pat. Good morning, Alex. How much cash do you think is in the car? $20,349.81. Pat from New Plymouth with a guess of $20,349.81. That is incorrect. I'm sorry.

That's all right. I was privileged to have a chance to have a go. Thank you, Alex. I wish I could have given that to you because 25%, that's amazing, Pat. You're a wonderful woman. Well, I hope the other people jump on board as well. I hope so too. Good on you, Pat. And listen, I'll tell you what, I'll give you that European-style kiss now over the radio.

You're a great lady. Pat, make sure you keep listening. There'll be more clues along the way and you can have another chance when we play Cash in Car next. And I've got a little surprise for this afternoon. If this doesn't go at 11am, which I hope it does because let's get it

over and done with, eh? Every hour with Brad and Laura this afternoon someone can have a guess. So that's 3, 4, 5 and 6. Why's the bloody Brad and Laura show giving a kiss every... We're out here on a golf cart. We need filler content like that.

She'd give us one every hour. You're right, you're right, actually. Hey, now, Alex, too, just a bit of behind the scenes. When you were talking to Pat and she was making her big decision, did we drive past the lawnmower at that exact time? We did. I don't think you did this time, but I've heard it a few times. That lawnmower is really doing you guys dirty.

Yeah. Yeah, well, they say the grass is greener. Well, it's greener here at Mount Smart Stadium. Lovely grass here on the field. Beautiful grass. Hey, good on you, Alex. Next chance, 11 o'clock, Cash and Carl with Škoda. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

It's Cady Perry. You're on The Hits, Jono and Ben. 8.17 on your Thursday morning. Thanks to Auckland Stadiums and Live Nation. We've got four tickets to Harry Styles. Now, this is not just seeing the amazing Harry Styles from the comfort of the stands. This is from a corporate box. Food, beverages, four people.

The auction closes in 15 minutes' time. And right now, amazingly, all the money goes to the Red Cross, which is awesome. But $1,100, I think, is the winning bid so far. Yeah, and these tickets, these Harry Styles tickets, they're $4,000 plus. So it's all thanks to Live Nation, Auckland Stadiums. And we've mentioned before, Harry Styles will probably be personally making you cocktails with his own hands. I can't promise that, but we can promise you the tickets. Harry Styles corporate box. Go to the Hits Breakfast

on Facebook and you can find out how you can make a bid right now. You'll be eating his watermelon sugar, like a literal piece of watermelon, provided on a platter. That's how good that is. Now, Ben, so many things to see and do here at Mount Smart Stadium. And we've seen and done them all.

Yeah, and now I'm ready to go, but I can't because we made a commitment to raise money for those affected by the cyclone and the terrible weather of the last couple of weeks. So we've got to drive 1,600 kilometres. We'll be finished maybe 26 hours' time. Yes, on this easy-go golf cart. We're about 840km's in right now so we're making good time.

We're making good time. Some very bleak moments in the middle of the night. Yes. Won't lie, I saw a lonely Ben Boyce as I was just having a breather drive round and round. What were you thinking? You had headphones on what was going on? I was deep into some sort of basketball podcast or something reflecting

on my life choices right now. But whatever we're doing, it pales in comparison to what some people are going through right now. And that's what we have to keep remembering as we go through that. That is actually, when you do feel tired and run down, you're like, well, geez, we could be doing it way, way

worse. So that's actually doing a lot of motivating. I hope we're going to get a bit of money too. And something that we did yesterday here at Mount smart stadium they have a uh go-kart track here as well i've been open since september i didn't even know it was here it was awesome and you took me along in our golf cart and you drove around the track you're like let's clock up some keys here while people were go-karting around us it was petrifying there's a go-karting around us. It was petrifying. There's a go-kart track. Look at this. They are racing us.

Oh, God. We've got the inside lane. We've got the inside lane. Why are we doing this? We should be back down there. I guess it's blocking up K's. Oh, my God. I reckon we'll get him in the next lap.

We'll get him. So I'm trying to get me. Actually, that was footage from our Christmas party last year. The one we didn't speak of. We refused to speak of. No, very cool. What we did learn, though, with the Easy Go Golf Cart, not that great at handling corners.

Like, every corner... I hope you were working it. Every corner you take, you feel like it's about to turn. Oh, I was like, oh, here we go. You were genuinely like, okay, now, let's. I had to get you on one of the go-karts just to get a breather from you trying to fang your way around the course. Yeah, no, but very fun.

And if you want to go and have a crack, it's open. It's called Ace Motorsports. Really fun. Really fun go-karts. They've got Lily World here, bar, restaurant, you name it. They've got everything. Everything. And we've seen it all.

We'll continue to see it all. Probably could go away and then maybe come back another time and do it, but we'll be here until tomorrow until we hit 1,600 k's. I'm finished talking. Sorry, sorry. It was one of the ex-warriors. I just saw it. I'm very excited about it.

And as the hits, you've got Jono and Ben. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We're driving a go-kart around, a golf cart, sorry, around and around. You took me to a go-kart track yesterday, but we're in the golf cart

driving around and around Mount Smart Stadium, going the length of New Zealand, 1,600 kilometres, raising money for the Red Cross, those affected by the cyclone and other severe weather. Joel Harrison,

producer extraordinaire back at the studio. Can I ask a favour of you today? Yes. Just if we can montage every time Ben has said, we're driving a go-kart. Look, I've hardly had any sleep. No, sorry, it's a golf cart. I know, we've been going through the night. And yeah, it's ugly scenes.

It's ugly scenes, I'm sorry. And yesterday there was high drama as well. I was trying to make up some Ks because we've got to drive 1,600 Ks in the golf cart that we're driving. There you go. There you go. I'm bickering like an old boomer cover, aren't we? I know what we're doing. I know what we're doing.

I know where we're going. That's not how the story goes. No, D'Angere wasn't there. But yes, you see the high drama yesterday. There was a breakdown um yeah uh i don't know do i do something just i i i don't want to say you're driving quite erratically what yeah so don't say oh good i'm glad you don't want to say it. But I ended up saying it. It was quite jolty in parts. Was it about jolty? Yeah.

I think we topped 50, 60 kilometres an hour there. Oh, you know, I just thought, you know, we want to get there. Yes, yes. Yeah. The problem is... We're not going anywhere now. We're not going anywhere now. So somehow I broke the golf cart that we were driving yesterday, but it's all good now? It is. It started up about sort of 20 minutes later just for no reason.

The whole time we were just pushing the accelerator, and then 20 minutes into it it decided to kick into gear. So it did delay our trip by a little bit, pulled us back behind, but we did make up some time, and we're about 850, 860 k's into the journey right now and got to reach 1600. That's the goal tomorrow. But with the gold card breaking down,

we thought we would break down your breakdowns. Yeah. Okay, you phone us up. Tell us what happened with the breakdown. We'll figure out whose fault it was, what happened, where it was, how you got through it. Breaking down breakdowns.

I love it. 0800 the hits. 448. Joel, montage that tomorrow. Put that in my montage. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. 834, it is the Hits. Jono and Ben driving a golf cart around and around Mount Smart Stadium,

raising money for the Red Cross. So far, as far as this funding drive with our radio station and the New Zealand Herald, over $7 million raised by New Zealanders, which is incredible. Incredible. And it's even more incredible to think yesterday we started with $5 million, now $7 million. Yeah. $2 million raised on this charity drive. Well, it's been $2 million raised over 24 hours, yeah.

Can we say that's thanks to the Hits audience? You're alluding to it without saying it. It's probably the best thing to do because we're a part of a bigger thing, but it's all going to a great cause. And that's the main thing. $7 million, that is a phenomenal amount of money, which is going to help a lot of people. So breaking down breakdowns.

Ben yesterday accidentally broke the golf cart, the easy-go golf cart. It was purely operational error, wasn't it? It was all on me, yeah. Anyway, we've got it back working. And we're breaking down your breakdowns this morning. Let's go to the phones on New Zealand's Breakfast. We're going to kick things off with Rebecca. How are you?

Good, thank you. How are you? Oh, mate, we are exhausted. I bet. A little delirious, a little bickery. Wait till tomorrow's show. It'll all be spicy. Some

laundry will be aired tomorrow. Some home truths. But breaking down your breakdown, what happened? So we were on the way to my sister's wedding and one of the groomsmen's old Holden BK Commodore and we stopped at the local dairy to fix up the ribbons that had come loose, and we stopped at the local dairy

to fix up the ribbons that had come loose. And as we went to leave the dairy, he tried to do a skid, and something blew on the car. So we're just a couple of minutes down from the venue, and we completely broke down on the side of the main road. And the three of us bridesmaids ended up having to get out and try and push start the car on the main road and the three of us bridesmaids ended up having to get out and try and push start the car on the main road we must have looked so crazy all of us dressed up ready for this wedding pushing the car this is the the most bogan wedding story i've ever heard i love it

swinging by the dairy to pick up some supplies someone does a burnout and then car breaks down we push it to the venue. Oh, I love it. Hey, good on you, Rebecca. That's a beautiful story. You're going to have a great day, okay? Thank you, you too. You're good on you.

We'll get Renee on. Renee, welcome to the show. Breaking down your breakdown. What happened? Where was it? Oh, my goodness. Well, I was in the car and we were running late to school, so I thought it would be perfectly fine

to put the kids in the Naughty pyjamas? Mid-intersection. Oh, you're like, oh, I do not want to get out of the car. I was hooting and getting impatient, and I just didn't want to hop out. And then people were trying to help me push. Oh, little Miss Naughty was little Miss Embarrassed. They had to push me down to the garage. And then, so I'm still at the garage and my little Miss Naughty's down as well.

I love it. And then I had to walk home because I had no way to get home I can't even remember this humiliating event you're very welcome thank you for sharing that's so awesome thank you very much for your call Liv you're on the air welcome how are you

I'm good how are you yes doing really well thank you very much you're heading off to the surf nets at Mount Maunganui. Yes, I am. Oh, you're a surfer. Well, this is probably a stupid question. You're a surfer?

Yes. I'm a surf lifer. Oh, good on you, Liv. Now, breaking down breakdowns, we understand this is when you were 12 years old. What happened? We were in quarantine, and we decided to go take the kids, me, out for a drive in a different country. So we were out, and I got the turn to drive, and we were with my dad's friends.

Can I just ask, what wild country were you in where it's okay for 12-year-olds to drive? It was in, like, a... It was in the desert. Yeah, the desert. Different rules. Yeah, different rules in the desert, yeah. And what happened?

So, my dad's friend is a principal, so he came along with his kids too, and I was driving, and I freaked out. Instead of pressing the brake, I pressed the accelerator and took my principal's car door off. Your school principal's car door off? Oh, my God. See, this is why generally we don't let 12-year-olds drive cars.

What was it to your school principal? What did he say or she say um i was very very scared but he just calmed me down and said that he'd just gone insurance and god bless insurance god bless insurance hey live good luck for the surf nationals and you're going to have a great day all right thank you you too