Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Reveals Why He Really Got His Dog...

Episode Date: October 26, 2022

On the Jono and Ben podcast today, we talk to Fatman Scoop the MC of Friday Jams live! Ganesh Raj is in to chat all things 'Cooks On Fire' his brand new BBQ TV show and Jono reveals the real reason why he wanted a new dog!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. Good morning, 27th of October. Now, Producer Joel, don't you walk out of the room. Come back here. We talked about, actually on the podcast today, how Producer Joel's been working for us for a while. Just, you know, had a snuffly, sort of snuffly nose,

occasional cough, you know, the whole time we're done. He's been coughing for six months. Like, not constantly, but just like, you know, and now he's doing it in studio. Mate, go home have some vitamin c and go to a medical professional do you reckon it has something to do with the fact i had a box of shapes chicken shapes for breakfast well is that what you ate this morning i don't know if it's i wouldn't blame the shapes for that shape so you're wonderful

all right but wonderful sorry guys we did a thing guys. We did a thing with shapes. We did a thing with shapes once. Are you going to cough again? You can. Sorry, guys. Just don't mind me. Your constant illness is an area of concern. You make Tom Hanks look healthy in Philadelphia. Doesn't he? He's bloody been sick the whole time. Yeah, I know. Sounds like a joke.

No, it's not a joke. You're right. Something that I had, I struggled a bit at the end of today's show to come up with a word. I was talking about James Corden and I came up with lambasting

is that a word or no well yeah I've just googled it thankfully it was I was bang on the money it's a roasting I was like James Corden's been lambasted

he's been public lambasting and I don't know where that word came from I've never said it before but I'm right he received he received a lambasting

from critics and fans as harsh criticism so correct but I did sound he received he received a lambasting from critics and fans as harsh criticism so correct but I did sound a bit weird lambasting is not a word that I should use

it sounded like a word that Mr. Lambasting give him a roast roast oh you should do a lambasting yeah so I don't know

you guys think we should use that word more or less when you said it it sounded like a word you'd either just learned or a word that you'd plucked out of thin air and you took a gamble and it paid off. Yeah, it was definitely the latter.

It was the second one of those two options. I gave it a crack and I was pleasantly surprised to Google it afterwards and go, oh, yes, I was correct. But I went, bleh, bleh, ble. But I went, beforehand for a wee bit. It does feel good when you land one of those, doesn't it? Doesn't happen often. It's just because the job requires just constant

words. Words, words, words, words. I like to stick to my warehouse. We could do something tomorrow to spice it up a little bit with words and we can say a word now. I don't think the boss listens to this podcast intro. So we could give Ben a word now. And tomorrow on the show, you have to slip it in there at some stage.

Okay. What do you reckon, Jono? I'm going to Google fanciest words in the world. Okay. Fanciest words in the world. I want you to slip in tomorrow. Pluvophile. Pluvophile.

You know how to say it. Pluvophileophile Give me one that I can knee spread What does it mean? Let's have a look at what pluvophile means It sounds terrible Sounds like something that Joel's had for the last six weeks Oh, just a person who loves the rain Oh yeah, so a bit of rain coming this weekend Pluvio-phile

If you're a pluvio-phile, you'll be enjoying that I could do that, a pluvio-phile Hold on, what? Why are the pedophiles going to enjoy the weather this weekend? It's not that. No, it's in pluvio-phile. What? Why are they?

Why are you giving a shout-out to them? It's the podcast. Making dreams come true. If you dream of annoying guys talking at you Jono and Ben on the hits This morning we catch up with Fat Man Scoop Who came in yesterday Friday Jams coming back to New Zealand very soon

He's got this He's a hype man but he's in so many tracks Yeah when you were playing them before the show You're like oh it's him Getting you wound up in the nightclubs Yeah Getting Ben Boyce's peeping at 3.30 in the morning Scoop comes on.

So, we're going to give him a wee ice cream challenge today. See if he can scoop 10 scoops of ice cream. If he can put them all on one cone,

we'll give away tomorrow on the show. Every caller will win tickets to Friday Jams. Every time we say the name Fat Man Scoop, I feel like we're dangerously close

to a fat shaming incident. But that's his name. That's his name. He embraces it. He embraces it. That's. But that's his name. That's his name. He embraces it. He embraces it. That's right. That's his name he's come up with. It's not like when you call me Fat Man Jono when I walk into the studio. Is that the same thing? I thought that was the same thing. I thought you were calling yourself...

Oh, have you not embraced that? Makes me cry inside. At a moment, because he came in yesterday, so we recorded it for later in the show. And I'm not cool. I know that. recorded it for later in the show and i'm you know i'm not cool i know that i know my place in the world and i play you know we play a middle aged white man we know our lane stay in it yeah you know i'd like to be cool at one stage of my life i thought maybe you know i know but that was the thing we all thought we were cool at one stage

and we probably weren't like a little back in my 20s and cringe yeah exactly but i came in and i screwed up the handshake. You know, he went for the cool handshake, which I should have predicted because he's cool. You know what I mean? Scoop and I went for the straight up the middle, you missionary. Hello, nice to meet you.

My name is Benjamin. Yeah, you did. That sort of thing, you know. And we ended up meeting in the middle, a little awkward, you know. I brought his credibility down so much in that one moment and Paul produced it

B-Humps got got roped into it as well B-Humps yeah B-Humps went with the flow now B-Humps is from Feely B-Humps he just went with the you just gotta go with the flow

he cupped it I heard the cupping bang hugged even did the hug around the back you did too you nailed it

I came in a bit late you just gotta relax you can't overthink it although Fat Man Scooby, he did apologise. He's like, I shouldn't have black handshaked you. He's like, looking at you, I know you're not able to. I should have picked up on your whiteness is what he said to me. And I was like, you're right.

You're right. So he joins us after eight today. And hopefully we'll be giving away a whole lot of tickets to Friday Jams live. So that'll be tomorrow if he manages to scoop ten scoops of ice cream. Friday Jams live. So that'll be tomorrow if he manages to scoop 10 scoops of ice cream Friday Jams tickets. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZV.

In the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. That was Katy Perry. Let's have a guess. Okay, let's have a guessing game. I reckon she was a 1981 baby. 40.

She 40? I don't know. What do you put your bets in? Producer Joel, what do you think? 38? The thing is, it's hard when you Google Katy Perry birthday because she has that song 40. Is she 40? I don't know. What do you put your bets in? Producer Joel, what do you think? 38. Ben Boyce? The thing is, it's hard when you Google Katy Perry birthday because she has that song, Katy Perry birthday,

and it all comes up about Joel. Joel Harrison, well done. 38 years old. Did you just Google that? Yeah. Goddamn Gen Zers. They Google before they even, you know. Did you actually Google that?

Yeah. Whenever you're having a conversation with them. And the time I was trying to Google. Exactly, yeah. Like, I was on the Google. Before I even asked what the time I was trying to Google it. Exactly, yeah. I was on the Google. Before I even asked what age, he'd already Googled it. This is Gen Z, mate. This is what you're competing with, Ben Boyce.

Time for our daily dose of vitamin C, vitamin current events. What's happening in scrolling? Rita Ora, pop star, UK pop star, Taika Waititi, New Zealand legend. Well, they're going to be hosting their 2022, that's this year, MTV European Music Awards. If you're wondering what year it was, it's 2022. And they're going to be hosting the MTV Europe Music Awards together. That's pretty awesome, the two of them. And they released a really funny video yesterday.

Hello, I'm Rita Ora. And I'm Taika Waititi. And we're extremely excited to announce that we'll both be hosting the 2022 MTV EMAs. And what are you doing? Don't do that. Sorry. We're extremely excited to announce that we'll both be hosting the 2022 MTV Stop Wobbling It. It's wobbling itself.

We're excited to announce that we'll both be hosting the 2022 MTV EMAs in Dusseldorf, Germany. You're going to break it. I'm not going to break it. It's designed to wobble. You need to pay attention. I think we broke it. I should have said that he was playing with a trophy, not it sounded like he was playing with something else.

We needed the accompanying visuals with that one, I think. That's going to be awesome though. Don't wobble it, mate. That's great, that's wonderful. Remember when we had Taika hosting the Aotearoa Music Awards a few years back? That's right, yeah he did. Then everyone roasted in the next morning. But it tarnished his career.

I don't think it's ever been the same since. It never recovered after that New Zealand Music Awards. Did it. What's he done since then? It's all been downhill. Just make sure you, one word of advice to someone who has hosted the New Zealand Music Awards like we have is,

well just make sure you bring your little lanyard. Because they wouldn't let Ben in. If you walk the red carpet, bring your lanyard. Also learn bring your little lanyard. Because they wouldn't let Ben in. If you walk the red carpet, bring your lanyard. Also learn how to say lanyard. Even though I was hosting, I still didn't get let in because I'd forgotten my lanyard. And a very hard word to say. But you keep giving it a go.

I lost the hosting gig because I couldn't say that word either. But that's a true story. They didn't let you in when you were hosting. No, I was like, hey, where's your lanyard? It's inside. I'd just be getting changed. I'd come back and walk. You were hosting. No, I was like, hey. It's inside. I've just been getting changes. Come back and recalibrate. They're like, mate, no.

That's why New Zealand is great. Everyone's like, you thought you were more special than anyone else? No, mate. Where's your pass? It's humbling. And there's a lot of talk about rugby this week. Black Ferns quarterfinals at the same time as the All Blacks take on Japan. Now, I thought it was controversial saying you were going to watch the lads.

They play a better game. I did not say that. Don't. Don't. I'll be watching the Black Ferns. I'll be watching the Black Ferns. More explosive footy or something you said. No, I did not say anything like that.

You're such a liar. But Rugby Union under fire from politicians and sports commentators for putting, because they should have moved it. They should have. I didn't realise they had the capacity to move it, and they've known for 12 months that it was a scheduling conflict. This was going to happen. But in other rugby news, Auckland's First 15,

the principals of the colleges around Auckland have got together and decided that the live First 15 games, the games won't be broadcast on Sky this year. Basically, they thought there's a lot too much pressure for the school kids. It becomes such a big deal. And sometimes they were saying, you know, it's not the kids. It's the pressure from the parents and the coaches and everyone else. That's fair enough.

There's 17, 18-year-olds. Honestly, there's 17, 18-year-olds. I drop my son off at school and I'm like, these guys have been through more puberty than I have. They look, their deeper voice is bigger, musclier. But that's fair enough too. Yeah, it does seem fair enough. A lot of pressure,

too much pressure at that young age, right? They do a lot of it in the States though, don't they? They're tracking kids from age like 11. I know in the NBA

they'll spot a kid at age 10 or 11, sign them up. Yeah, that's what happened to us at the Hits, mate. We were picked at age 10 and they were like,

one day they'll be old, washed up White men who can't do handshakes Struggling to say lanyard As well that's what happened to us That's why you want to hang out with us On a Thursday morning With a long and extinguished career

Jono and Ben on the hits James Corden he's from the UK Originally he hosts the Late Late Show In America does carpool karaoke Very famous very popular segment Very popular show but he's been under fire He's from the UK originally. He hosts the Late Late Show in America, does carpool karaoke. Very famous. Very popular segment. Very popular show.

But he's been under fire. I'm reading an article yesterday now saying probably very unnecessary fire. You know, out of all the things in the world, I think you said it, that everyone's going in on him for maybe making a snarky comment, from what we understand. To a waiter. Now, the restaurant owner called him a cretin of a man on social media. That's where you go to air all your dirty laundry. Now, Corden's been in the middle of this menu storm,

this ordering storm for the last seven days. He had to go on television and publicly apologise. He had to ring the place. He says, you'll go in and apologise face to face. So what happened? Egg whites were mixed in with the eggs. His wife suffers severe egg allergies. Corden said he sent the meal back three times, still had egg whites were mixed in with the eggs. His wife suffers severe egg allergies. Corden sent the meal back three times

still had egg whites in it. What's sort of, like, mate, he's a prima donna. Do you not want your wife to end up bloated in a rashy seizure with a shortness of breath? Just eat the egg whites. Feel what New Zealanders would do, right?

Pass out on the floor convulse have a seizure but it feels like you're dicing with danger anyway if you've got egg allergies even ordering anything

to do with eggs cross contamination yeah but apparently he just made a snarky comment but he has gone to all this lengths into apologising on national TV

that's the problem though this PR is going to rattle all restaurant attending celebrities. Ben Boyce, when you need to go to Denny's, when you need to take the family to your Valentine's seafood buffet, you're going to be

washing the dishes, just so they don't say he was a snotty customer. We talked about when you mix up the menu, much like James Corden and his wife do, when they obviously have to order something due to allergies that's not quite on the menu. But I issued you a challenge after the show yesterday to mix up the menu at a burger place.

Yeah, now this is going to get me under a storm of controversy. And your challenge was that I had to phone up a takeaway place in Christchurch and try and remove every item from a cheeseburger. Until you had nothing. Let's see how it went. CJ. Oh, hi. Hi. How are you?

Good. What's your name? Catherine. Catherine. Lovely to meet you. Jonathan. Oh, hi. Can I order a cheeseburger?

Sure. Double meat and cheese? Does that come with cheese? Funny enough, a double meat and cheese does, yeah. Am I able to remove the cheese if possible? You say you just want a double meat burger? Without one of the meat patties. So just a

single plain burger. Is there another patty there? No, there's one patty in the burger. Yeah, can we get rid of that? You don't want anything in it. Is there lettuce? Who's this? Is there lettuce?

Who's this? Is there lettuce? No, there's not bloody lettuce. Is there tomato? No, no tomato. Are there lettuce? No, there's not bloody lettuce. Is there tomato? No, no tomato. Are there buns? No buns. Great, get rid of them all.

I'll order whatever that is. You want to make it two? It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits Radio station. How are you doing? Good, thanks. Sorry to interrupt your day. We're just talking about people making unusual orders to things. Additions?

Do you get that all the time? Probably not as painful as Jono there, but do you get that all the time? We've had some unusual ones over the years, but nothing that I could probably repeat on the radio to be fair. What are they putting in their burgers? What are they asking to put on their burgers? Anyway, our imagination's gone to a weird place. What is the most common addition to a burger that people make?

Cheese. Cheese, definitely cheese. Everyone adding cheese, eh? Yeah, everyone likes cheese. Our most popular one is probably bacon, egg, and cheese. Yeah, right. Well, maybe this burger that I've just ordered as well might be popular on the menu too. I think yours could be very popular, especially with the no buns.

The nothing burger. Actually, because that technically is like a keto burger though, isn't it? Yes. Hey, well, speaking of nice buns, me. And I am saying goodbye to you. Cheers for that, guys. Have a good day. See you, mate.

The reason call screening was invented. Jono and Ben on the hits. We talk about mixing up the menu when you go into a place and you add things or maybe take things out. Yeah, Tash called through, actually. She mixes up the Macca's menu. There's not a whole lot of cheese on the Big Mac, so I'd get a quarter pounder with cheese,

add Big Mac sauce, extra pickles, and a steamed bun because, I don't know, the Filet-O-Fish has got it going on, but sometimes you just want meat. Oh, so you had the bun from the Filet-O-Fish has got it going on, but sometimes you just want meat. Oh, so you had the bun from the Filet-O-Fish on the meat burger, the meat option. Okay, so you've got steamed buns on a quarter pounder, with no lettuce, Big Mac sauce,

and extra pickles. Yeah, and cheese. And it's Max pickles, as many as they'll put on. I've had a handful of pickles squished onto the top of my burger once. It was the best day of my life. So are you mixing up the menu this morning and get hold of us for 487 on the text?

But we've got Nicola. Good morning. You've been to a restaurant or a burger bar where they actually tackle this problem head on. Absolutely. So on Great Barrier Island Island there's a burger bar called Swallow and they've got a sign on their

front counter that if you want to make changes to your burgers there's a low, low rate of $100 for a fussy burger. Or you can order

the fussy burger but you're charged, it's almost a penalty for being a pain in the ass. Pretty much. Take it as it comes or be willing to

pay. I've heard good things about Great I've never been to Great Barrier Island. Someone was saying the other day it's beautiful. It's a pretty good place. Just roll on up there, park the boat up. If you had a boat, I'd have a boat. But everyone gets weirdly suspicious about it. Much like you did. Like we're sort of sharing

a secret that shouldn't be spoken of. Maybe that's it. But I want an influx of townies, that's why. No, no, fair enough. Hey, well, that's great. And do you mix up any orders? Do you mix up the menu? Not really. I'm a bit of a play-by-the-roles kind of person

because I don't like to be too problematic. Yeah, well, that's the New Zealand attitude, isn't it? We don't like to be too problematic. That's the mantra of this country. Hey, listen, lovely talking with you. You go and have a wonderful day. Awesome, you too. Thanks, guys. See you, mate. Nicole, welcome. How are you? I'm good, thank you. You go and have a wonderful day. Awesome, you too. Thanks, guys.

See you, mate. Nicole, welcome. How are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you? Yeah, good. What do you do? I'm at work just making coffee.

Oh, yeah? Nice. Good stuff. Do you make a good coffee or are you just chucking a bloody Nescafe scoop in there? Oh, hell no. I make a good coffee, that's for sure.

I don't drink coffee myself, but I don't get complaints. So you're a barista, but you don't drink coffee? I don't, coffee, that's for sure. I don't drink coffee myself, but I don't get complaints. So you're a barista, but you don't drink coffee? I don't, no. Wow. I live on energy in a can. So, okay, this is baffling me.

So you're around coffee all day. You've obviously tried it many times, but just not for you. Yeah, I just can't get into the flavour really. It's weird. Yeah, it's the classic drug dealer approach to business though, isn't it? Never try your own stock. But it's not,

it's coffee. It's good, yeah, it means I'm not drinking them all day, that's for sure. Did you do the cool little patterns we went somewhere the other day that a guy put a dog

on my little flat white, which was nice. Oh, okay. Yeah, they're a bit tricky to do, but you can do some of them. He also did something

resembling like a rocket or something. I couldn't figure out what that was. That was a rocket for you, okay. Yeah. They're a bit tricky to do, but you can do some of them. He also did something resembling like a rocket or something. I couldn't figure out what that was. That was a rocket for you. Nicole not getting high on her own supply. Good on you, Nicole. Now, what are you adding to the menu? How are you mixing up the menu? Well, I always add garlic bread or add bacon and cheese to my garlic breads.

That was when I was at a restaurant. That started when I was working in a restaurant and we used to have it on the menu and now I've just sort of taken that everywhere. That is, and they happily oblige? Yeah, although a lot of them, surprisingly, a lot of them don't get the request often, which I thought would be a lot more common than it is.

I'd never thought of it until now, but I imagine it tastes, oh, Jono, this is just a dream now. I just love a garlic bread. Every place Ben and me go, I'm like, do you do garlic bread? Yeah, I know. Whoever decided to add garlic and bread together, gee whiz, they need an induction into the Culinary Hall of Fame.

Need a little shout-out on that one, that's for sure. Definitely a favourite. Well, good to get this word out there. Bit of cheese, bit of bacon, garlic bread. Great opener. I mean, I provided a couple of openers when we were on the road last week Ben Boyce you did

yeah a lot of breads a lot of like calamari chicken just fine the finest openers yeah do love an opener

and this has been a great a great ending to the phone call he loves a closer but that one was a disappointing close hey good on you Nicole

you go and have a great day eh you too thank you you're always getting listener compliments. You happy to be on the radio with your hero? So you. Yeah.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Morning, Jono and Ben. Hanging out with you? Hey, a really cool thing at the moment with Skinny. They've got a bit of an idea happening around the place where they've got posters on street walls and they've got on coffee cups little scripts that you can read and you phone up

a number leave a voicemail of you reading the skinny commercial they're all about keeping prices low they don't want to play some big highfalutin celeb like you know you've you're snoop dogs and you're you're martha stewart's they don't want to play them the first celebrities you thought of i love it how you thought of that uh yeah you're right so you can lend your voice to skinny's new campaign that. Yeah, you're right. So you can lend your voice to Skinny's new campaign if you see these around the place. But also you can lend your voice to voice the ad, our ad that we're going to voice for Skinny on the hits right now. And there's $5,000 if you become the voice of the ad for Skinny.

I made it publicly known. I was very disappointed with Ben Boyce turning down this offer. I didn't realise it was five grand. What would you have said now? Yes. Absolutely. Like, I've entered multiple times to be New Zealand's best voice and haven't got through.

But you can. You can head to the hits.co.nz 4487. You can also nominate someone if you don't have the voice. And joining us right now for New Zealand's best voice is Niall Morena. Morena. How are you? Morena. Morena.

Can you detect a bit of international flavour there, Niall? Oh, they're just made as I'll be. I think the clue is in the name, right? Oh, Jesus. This is not a horn. How are you? You're good. Well, you can't go wrong with an Irish accent.

It's so good, eh? Well, you know what they say. They say Irish accent is is one of the sexy ones in the world and they do say sex sells so there you go there you go and sex will sell cell phone packages that's what they've always said as well i'm pretty sure that's how they're showing people up to data plans is through sexual favors but uh niall how long you been in new zealand um nearly nine years hey yeah years, but still retained the mother tongue. So yeah, I'm really enjoying it.

Love Aotearoa. Yeah, we went around a lot of bars doing the Traffic Light Tour, having Traffic Light drinks at over 50 bars and restaurants a few weeks back. Tell you what, the Irish community, they are, and this is a stereotype, but they are in a lot of bars. There's a lot of Irish people in a lot of bars. Working in a hospital, aren't they? Yeah.

Well, you know, where you'll have music, dance, and perhaps alcohol beverage, you're bound to find us somewhere along those lines. What do you do? I work in financial services. Busting the stereotypes. Suited and booted, you know. Yeah, doing the 9 to5, but no, really

enjoying it. Does your action help you or hinder you in New Zealand? I've been told that it is potentially a distraction for some people, and I'm not sure if it's in a good way or a bad way, but, you know, I really embrace it. Well, you've been nominated. You've been nominated for the best

voice in New Zealand. We've had some pretty good voices come through so far. And so now, Skinny sent us a bit of a an audition script for you to read and you'll be in the drawer for the five thousand dollar voicing fee at the end of the week so i'm going to hit the music niall you take it away two key prices low skinny has published radio scripts like this one across the country in the hope that normal people like me will record on the mobile phones for free, saving Skinny thousands that otherwise would have been spent on some expensive celebrity. Not only am I helping Kiwis save money by using Skinny's incredible mobile network, I'm also live on the radio auditioning for Jono and Ban's Hunt for New Zealand's Best Voice.

If Skinny were judging, the best voice would be the one that doesn't cost money. Get to Skinny. Wow. It is like Bono, Conor McGregor, and the cause had a baby, and this was the result. Niall. Beautiful read. Do you know everyone who's read this week Hasn't made one slip up I know

That's what's impressing me the most I can't answer a question sometimes Without slipping up You're making our job Look very easy We're making it look very hard One of the two Hey Niall you're in that draw

Well done Congratulations And we could be making you The official voice Of the Hits Skinny Radio Commercial campaign Alright You never know

You never know Bit you never know. Bit of fun anyway. Thanks, guys, for having me. Appreciate it. With a Hillstar rating of zero, Jono and Ben on the Hits. Now, we've been talking behind the scenes, haven't we, behind someone's back on the show?

We have. And we're going to... That's what we do. It's one of our favourite hobbies and interests. Those are the ingredients for a good day. Just a good solid day of bitching behind someone's back. But producer Joel, who we've worked with now For a number of months

He pushes the buttons You know Answer his phones Does editing That's what he does Strapping Strapping It's not time to bitch

About him now Oh sorry Yeah no he's here He can hear everything Oh sorry Just watch you get started Watch you get on a roll No we love

No seriously We love having you on the show You're a great guy Joel Young Gen Z 22 years old once you get started once you get on a roll no we love no seriously we love having you on the show you're a great guy Joel young Gen Z 22 years old yep 22 prime of your life

could be the greatest day of his life yeah could be and you've got a lot of days left but one thing or does he because one thing

that really concerns us Joel is you have been sick like coughing and wheezing ever since we've known you for like six months his like what is wrong with he's about to cough now what is wrong with your immune system it's weaker than a zero percent pals just trying to get you know bring smoking cigarettes back into the community because you know how you got me onto them a few months ago John I reckon I just

probably might have lowered my immunity a little bit. Jono likes to get the kids into smoking. He's saying, mate, if you don't smoke, you're not going to have the million-dollar radio voice like me. You'd be coughing, but we're concerned for it. Every morning you have this sort of murky pink liquid in a glass that looks like jewellery cleaner. And you're like, oh, this is good.

You've got vitamins and stuff in it. It sorts me out, but I don't know if it does. If I didn't have that, I'd be in hospital, mate. That boosted immunity is saving my life. Have you sought the advice of a medical professional? $80 to go to the doctor. You know, yesterday you called me a tight ass. $80 to go to the doctors.

Kids, we can't afford the doctors these days. No. Because when people around the building knew that we were going to have Joel working with us, they're like, oh, you've got Joel. He's sick. And I thought it meant in a good way. Now it makes a lot of sense. Plowing on, though.

Haven't taken a sick day yet. Just keep plowing on. Another piece of advice you gave me. That was the advice two years ago. Well, maybe three years ago. Then COVID hit and everyone's like, don't you dare. Don't you dare plow on. But we've forgotten about that now.

Well, yeah, I think for the most part. Forget long COVID. Joel's got lifelong COVID, I think. But it part. Forget long COVID. Joel's got lifelong COVID. I think. But it's a pleasure. It's a pleasure working with you. So it's good. Well, I was up until Joel came along, the unhealthy one on the show.

But now I'm like, oh, man. He might be with us after seven o'clock. Looking for a pair of below average husbands? Ta-da! It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben, as I mentioned just before over the beginning of the Rob Ruha song, I've noticed something about you and the role, the specific role you play in our relationship.

Right. And you do. If you're in a relationship with anyone, friendship, marriage, whatever, people just assume roles, don't they? Naturally, it just happens. And something happened yesterday. It happened again this morning, actually. We did a photo shoot with our dogs yesterday.

We did. High profile New Zealand Crap Liberty photo shoot with our two dogs. It was fun. I thought it was going to be like, to be honest, I thought having dogs and photo shoot was going to be a shambles. But actually, it turned out okay. And who would have thought I would be the only one sniffing butts and crotches the whole time?

Yeah, I know. I would have been the dogs. I know. The only accidents wereiffing butts and crotches the whole time Yeah I know I thought it would have been the dogs I know the only accidents were from you I was like I had to clean up after you The dogs are fine my mate No way I was very impressed But ahead of the dog thing you're like Send me a text

Don't forget Oh because I read the call sheet You read the call sheet You know the three bring three different shirts Three different things They've all got to be crease-free and ironed. This is not me saying it needed it, but this is what I'd read on the thing. This is what you read, but you can pass on the information.

I was just saying just in case you'd missed it. Yeah, and thank you, because I had missed it. And you know I'd missed it. I thought you'd be like, oh, so where's the clothes? You'd be like, oh, here we go. So this is where I'm leading to, your role in the relationship. Get another text this morning. We're doing a thing

for the company after work today don't forget to bring your soup stuff don't bring your suits and shoes for their thing just gentle reminders

and they come in they come in they come in from a gentle place you're taking a long road in from like hey just a gentle when you really want to say

you're an absolute numb nuts I know you're going to turn up to the scene. You're going to forget these things. You haven't even read the email. Yeah, that's what you ought to say to me. But you're the organized one in the relationship. Yeah, well, yeah, most of the time, yeah.

You're very organized when it comes to the radio show. I think it's things that you're interested in. Anything else, you're like, eh. Like radio show, you're like, let's get on to the radio awards. I'm like, that's muds of a way. You're very organized in that regard. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, right. But this is what get on to the radio awards I'm like that's months away You're very organised in that regard Yeah you're right Yeah right

But I Like this When I open up an i800 That hits 4487 What role are you playing In your relationship Yeah Because people do it

I'm I'm naturally the overnight Security guard For The household Any noises Any bumps Sounds

When in the night I go down I'm the scaredest Security guard in the game Right I don't want to go down there. I'm also responsible for getting rid of insects. I hate that.

You know, anything that flies into the house or anything like that. That's your role. Overnight refreshments. It's also my specialty too. Anyone in the household needs to keep the fluids up. I'm dead. I'll go down and get your water.

What roles are you playing? Oh, look, to be fair, probably I do a lot of cleaning at home. Cleaning at home. The girls the other day, my Disney Plus account, they're like, well, put Cinderella as your avatar

because you love cleaning. I'm like, I don't love cleaning. No one loves cleaning. I just do it. I'm like, guys, it's like, oh, that's your thing. I love the backstory of the Cinderella. Because I was like,

who's changed my avatar to Cinderella? They're like, you love cleaning. It's your thing. So was like Who's changed my avatar To Cinderella And they're like You love cleaning It's your thing So I thought Again it's not my thing It's just This is my role in the household You just have to

You know Your Prince Charming Will come along one day One day Have you been invited To a ball yet No Nothing

So I'd have to If you are in a relationship Whether it just be a friendship Or you are in a Long term relationship With someone What is the role you've assumed? An inseparable duo.

Unless I'm on better terms. He's just going to replace me with Lee Hart and or Vaude Smith. Jono and Ben on the hits. We're on a no on 0800 the hits. What is your role in the relationship? What role do you assume? Well, I figured Ben Boyce is the organiser. You know, if we were running a shop, I'm front of house.

Yeah. The jazz and pizzazz, you're back there, you're balancing, you know, the balance in the books, making sure that if we get audited, everything's going to be in order. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. What would be happening? Bex, we're going to get you on from Methvin.

How is Methvin this morning? She's a little overcast, but beautiful as ever. Beautiful part of Aotearoa. Okay, what's your relationship role? What are you playing? I'm the driver. Oh, you drive around everywhere. Yeah, pretty much, considering my husband's a truck driver.

And he won't do any driving in his personal life? Oh, occasionally. I'd say one out of ten trips I understand why If he's driving all day, he doesn't want to come home and drive again Well, that, and he scares the crap out of me So right, so he's not, driving-wise you're like, hey, I'll do it I feel a bit more safe when you're doing it Yeah, he drives the car like it's a 50-ton truck.

Of course. Yeah. Yeah, right. You've taken over the role of household driver just mainly for safety reasons. Thank you, Bex. Appreciate it. We're going to give a couple of tickets to Black Adam, the new movie with Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

It's in cinemas right now, so enjoy that. Awesome. Thanks, team. She'll be driving to the movies. You know that. Karen, you're on from Dunners. Hi. Good morning.

Relationship role. What are you playing? I'm the money guy, the accountant. My husband has no idea what money we owe, to whom, how much. As long as it's paid, he's happy. So I get carte blanche to spend our money. It's the same in my household. Jen does all of that.

She's like, if I die, you're just going to be sitting in darkness, not paying the power bill. I think you could do it. I think you'd do it if you had to. The irony is he's actually an accountant by trade. That's his job. So he could definitely do it. When he gets home, he's just not interested in numbers.

It's like Jono doesn't talk at home. He's been talking all day. Yeah, just sit there in silence. Karen, we're going to send you and your accountant husband. You can do the numbers on this. It's going to work out well on your sheet. Well, he won't know if I've paid for the tickets or not, really. He doesn't care.

He doesn't care. I love it. As long as it's sorted. Thanks so much. Cheers, Karen. Stacey on from the Waikato. Morena. Morning.

How are you? Yeah, good, Stace. What relationship role are you playing?. Cheers, Karen. Stacey on from the Waikato. Morena. Morning. How are you? Good, Stace. What relationship role are you playing? I'm the mo... The moaner, did you say? No, the moto mum. Oh, the moto mum. Your phone cut out at a strange time there.

You're like, oh, what did she say? The moto mum. Moto cross family, is it? Yeah, just the son, yep. Right. Do you ride moto cross bikes? No, I don't. I knew nothing about about bikes so i've had to learn fast and i've had to learn how to reverse the trailer oh yeah how are you with that uh not too bad now not too bad couple of shaky couple of shaky

weeks i imagine at the beginning yes definitely still shaky weeks to be fair and i imagine there would be you know the, the dirt bike riding community to be watching on in judgment as you're reversing a trailer in. All the dads, yeah. Yeah. Oh, good on you. Doesn't sound like a cheap hobby though.

No, no. Thankfully just one child doing it. Yeah, I always like people with dirt bikers, you know, they've got an air of coolness about them, don't they? Yeah, that's pretty cool. I couldn't straddle a dirt bike. Ben, have you straddled a bike?

Oh, yeah, but it's not really my happy place, to be fair. Like I have. Like when we were going to the farm, I'd take it around, but it's very, very slow. Well, it's Stacey's happy place now, forced upon her. Good on you, Stacey. The Moto Mum sends you and your family off to Black Adam as well, the new rock movie. Thanks very much. This is the Jono and Ben podcast.

There's a brand new show on tonight, 7.30pm TVNZ1. It's called Cooks on Fire, searching for New Zealand's best barbecue team. And one of the judges is Chef Ganesh Raj, who joins us in the studio. It's great to see you in the flesh, mate. It's been a while. Absolutely, man. It's good to be back in the studio. You guys look good.

You do too. You've got blemish-free flesh as well. It's good flesh to see you in the flesh. Thank you very much. I look after you. And if I may say, you're looking fantastic. And I was like, what is your secret to getting younger? No, Ganesh.

To getting younger. What is that secret? Ganesh said to me, you're looking good. You've put on good weight. He's like, you've put on good weight. And I said, mate, I have been for two weeks Just eating burgers Chips Pizzas We've been on the road

A couple of weeks And you keep saying Oh you know I need to eat better Or you're having your It's a nice way to fat shame me To go you put on good weight Healthy weight

You look healthy Is what I was trying to say Maybe that's because In the past You haven't looked that healthy Yeah I feel like that's Where we were coming from

At least people care That's right At least people care My friend Ganes. At least people care, my friend. Ganesh Raj with us. Now, you've got a brand new show starting on TV in Z1 tonight, and it sounds bloody exciting. Bro, let me tell you, Cooks on Fire, 7.30 p.m. TV1. It is a barbecue show like you've never seen before.

Beautiful outdoor setting. But my favorite thing about this show is barbecue from all around the world. Flavors from all around the world. Plus vegetables. I know, John is looking at me like, what is that? Yeah. What is that? It's a green.

What are they doing? It's magic. It gives you blemish-free skin. Check it out. Right here. Right here, bro. Right? So it's a competition for looking for New Zealand's best barbecue cooks.

It is. And it combines all the different types of humans, you know, brother, sister, husband, wife, friends. And it takes away this kind of male barbecue-ness. Yeah. It's like an everybody barbecue show. Awesome. I can't hold mine in a barbecue situation.

But people want to see. Like, if I came to your house, I'd be standing behind you the whole time watching you going, can he barbecue? It's such a judgy situation. Or is this just all just a front? Yeah. You're like, turn that, turn that.

You're like, all right, all right. Are you going to turn that? The people cook some incredible things on barbecues, you know, the things they do. Was there one thing in particular without giving too much away that you're like, oh my goodness,

they cooked that and it was incredible? Wow, okay. The only way I can say this without giving it away is it is a vegetable that is also a famous emoji. Oh. Barbecue. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. Wow. Okay. Yeah. And that vegetable, all the teams nailed it. So you decide. Everyone's standing around. You decide what that is.

Were there raindrops after you ate the – I'm not giving it. You're asking too much of me now. What's a good tip heading into summer? Because everyone loves to barbecue around the place. What's a good tip? What's the one thing that everyone needs to remember? Here's what I like about a barbecue, right?

You can have something for everyone on it, right? You can have vegetables. You can have different types of meat. You can put a pan on it and fry something if you wanted to. So I like the idea of everybody getting to choose what they want and then putting it all on the barbecue together and let them come and hang out and turn it a little bit. Oh, so everyone comes.

Do you know what I'm saying? Don't own this barbecue and put a barbed wire fence around it and then you've got to have a password with a fingerprint ID to get past the first. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's nice. Relinquish some power. Because it is, I mean, it holds a special place in New Zealand's heart,

the barbecue. 100%. But it's a great social cooking environment. 100%. Because you can't linger around a kitchen. No. You know, but you can outdoors. Yeah, and the whole standing with the beer next to the barbecue,

you know, that's like at least two calendars worth of poses you two could do for a charity calendar. We'll do a charity calendar. Lingering with Jono and Ben. There you go. That's my gift to you. Barbecue lingering. Because I've had a bit of a shaky track record on the barbecue.

I gave my whole family camp a backup. Uncooked chicken that I didn't quite deliver enough deliver enough on what i do appreciate about the chicken though is the those that insert a beer can inside of it yes and i'm like hasn't the chicken been through enough already i know does the beer can well firstly i'm glad that you you know can shame those birds yeah i think it's in their will, though. I think that is where they ask to go out. That's the only time you would do that, right? It was in the will.

In fact, I'm going to put it in my will today. Both of you, when I go, can me. What's your favourite? A Heineken? A Heineken's in Spain? Heineken in a can. Sitting on top of a barbie. But, bro, have you tried the chicken cooked that way?

The reason why it works, two things. One is it holds the chicken up. But if you leave half a can of beer in it, the beer evaporates and steams through the inside of the chicken too. It is a beautiful flavor thing. You know, season the top, season the inside, put it over the top and then let the beer do a little kind of. A marinade sort of thing. Yeah. And that's how you get skin like this.

I'm just going to keep going back to that. It's good skin. Cooks on fire tonight, 7.30, TVNZ1. We've got Ganesh Raj. Press, press, press. What a legend. Blemish-free skin. All day, baby.

All day. 7.30 tonight, Cooks on Fire. Thanks for coming in, mate. Mature, responsible, and considerate. Three words we sadly can't use here Jono and Beam on the hits we did a thing with the dogs

yesterday photoshoot with the dogs yeah it was our first first magazine article like um as a family bit as a happy family

your dog my dog yeah the two of us sitting on the grass with the dogs it's probably not going to do great things for the rumours but anyway

we'll stick out there so we got home and uh there was a tradie who who needed some work done on the house, just fixing leaks and whatnot. Got home. Family went home yesterday and had little Milo the dog. Little Cavoodle. You've got Milo.

Tiny. He looks like a toy dog, eh? Yeah, he does look like a toy dog. Especially compared to my big monstrosity of a dog, Bo. You feel like you need to insert batteries into his backside just to keep him going. But yes, he's a tiny dog. Anyway, get out of the car. Trady goes, oh, that's a cute dog, mate.

And I said, thanks. He's like, man, that dog must pull the babes. And I was like, eh? He's like, you know, when you're out walking and that, all the babes must love that dog. Is that why you got the dog, John?

Well, this is what I said to him. I was like, oh, you know, I'm kind of married with a family. And I did say to the family, I was like,

listen, when I'm out and about, I need to be talking to more babes. And, you know, controversially, I didn't think the family

were going to go with me on it. But they're like, you know what, you do need more conversations with babes. Let's get a dog. I just thought it was a funny reason to get a dog, though. Yeah.

Have you ever bought a dog to talk to babes? No, I've not. It seems like something you would do. What? Don't throw me under the... No. No. Jono and Ben, just like family.

The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben. On the hits. Now, as parents, you know, a question that we've been talking about in the household is how competitive do you go against the kids? When do you stop sort of going easier on them in competition? Oh, go hardcore. Well, they need to learn a lesson, Ben,

and there's only a very short time frame in life where you will dominate children and you need to take full advantage of it because eventually they overtake you. You become old and decrepit. I already am. And they start beating you. you say go for it for the get-go because my wife and i've been talking about we play a lot of family board games and cluedo is a game we've been playing a lot lately my wife she's very very smart super competitive and she's super competitive like she is like she's like detective graham bell and this is police seven she is really into trying to solve the murderer the the object, the room. She's really into it.

I played a game of Operation with her, and it was life or death. She thought we were literally going to lose. She goes to the hospital and plays Operation. That's what she does. She's to the point where she's listening to everyone's guesses. She's writing down the things as well. And then throwing us off by guessing things that she's got. I'm like, hey, just chill.

I'm like, chill, let the kids win. You're like, chill. Yeah, like, in that situation with the kids, I'm like, I can just ease back here. I don't need to win the game of Cluedo. But she's like, no, if the kids are going to win, much like you, Jono, they should deserve to win. There's no easy wins in a game of Cluedo.

Yeah, I mean, there's a couple of years where you let kids have some easy wins. You know, get their confidence up up but then you rip their confidence away But I'm like, this is like, you take this, what we're doing right, what you're doing right now You take it outside, we'll play basketball, be like LeBron James with his kids Like rejecting them and slam dunking on them and all sorts I'm sure he would go easy on his kids if he was playing basketball Yeah, well he's LeBron James

Like Amanda's not a detective She's lebron james of cluedo but she is really she's got another vocation she is really into it yeah so now we're going to the game we're like how hard out are you going to play like how do you have to pull her aside oh look oh he's back oh you realize when you play monopoly you don't actually end up owning three train stations in queen street yeah i do remember my dad kept a boy swim. He'd play tennis as a young lad. And I would get a point every now and again. And I'd be like, yeah, this is cool.

Fist pumping and all sorts like that. Would you thrust your pelvis? Bam, bam. And I would think in my head, oh, this is good. And then the next serve, whew, it would come down fast. Just one serve. Just one serve from dad. And I'm like, sort of just a good leveler.

Put you in your place. You're like, okay, yeah. This is where it's at. This is what I could do. I was watching a Netflix documentary a few weeks ago. It was on the brains. I was just watching it to see if mine was broken or not. But they had a very short little sequence on the human brain playing board games.

And the human brain, once it starts playing board games, it can't tell the difference between a real competition and fake competition. So that's why Amanda would be going hardcore. Competition is competition to the human brain. Yeah. Whether it's just a fun board game with the family or an actual tournament. You're right. That's why she's approaching it with the...

Yeah, with the competitive. That's why she's probably succeeding a lot more than I am. Maybe a bit more of that here from you things wouldn't go astray. Might actually move up a few slots on the old ratings, eh? That would be nice. Oh, this is a competition. I don't like being number 15. I'm like, Ben, just dig it in a bit, buddy.

Yeah, everyone's going to have a word like the kids. The Jono and Ben Podcast. The world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats. So hard for a million different reasons You took the best of my heart Spencer Boone and the Stars, 8.27 Thursday The biggest party in New Zealand returns November 13 Friday Jams Live, Macklemore, a TLC shaggy

And hosted by Fat Man Scoop He's the ultimate hype man He's collaborated with artists like Mariah Carey, Missy Elliott, Janet Jackson. You know the shoot and you'll know him. Fat Man Scoop is with us in the studio. So good to have you here. Thank you, thank you.

I appreciate it. You know, this is one of my favorite places in the world. Oh, it's great to have you here. We love having you here. Thank you. It's the home of Serato. So like how... Like DJ equipment.

Of course. So you know, this is like the holy grail. You gotta gotta come can i just say that's the coolest i've ever looked when i knew what serato was i'm glad one of us did yeah yeah right right hopefully how could you not be in radio and not know what yeah well that's the equipment bro and actually it is a new zealand company and it's gone gangbusters in the dj world hasn't it listen man there's not there's nothing bigger than Serato. Great to have you here. We're very excited. You're the hype man for Friday Jams. We need some hype on the show. I mean, we're a little lackluster.

What kind of hype do you need? Just look at us. I messed up a handshake with you as a camera. No, no, no. Listen, listen. I should have gave you the white handshake. I gave you the brother. I gave you the brother. It's okay. You don't say that's more my fault than your fault. Don't worry.

Don't worry. Did I nail the brother handshake though? Yeah, yeah. You went right into it, but his was more of a hesitation. Like, wait up, hold on. Am I supposed to do the black stuff now? I'm very tentative. That's my problem.

I need more confidence. How do I get confidence like you? You know, to be honest with you, be yourself. There's no bigger confidence than being yourself. I don't try to be a tough guy. I'll be the first one to say I went to Catholic school. I had two parents in the household. I'm not trying to be something I'm not.

People got to meet you where you are. It's finally good to have another Catholic on the show as well. I'm the show resident Catholic. He is, he is. We'll say the Lord good to have another Catholic on the show as well. I'm the show resident Catholic. He is, he is. We'll say the Lord's Prayer at the end of the interview. Exactly. And I went to the school where if you didn't know the Lord's Prayer,

you got spanked on the head. Oh, really? This is old school. Man, I can't even go into Catholic school. It's old school. Some weird stuff went on at the Catholic system. It's old school. It is old school.

Got Fat Man Scoop with us ahead of Friday Jams. Obviously, the pandemic, that's where we've all been through. It must be nice to finally be able to go tour, do your thing on stage, because everything kind of flipped upside down for you in your life, right? I'm a man that makes a decent amount of money a month. I don't want to get into how much because I don't believe in throwing those kinds of things around because it's not a measure of who you are. But I went from making high five figures to zero within the span of a week.

I was on the road with Shaggy, Salt-N-Pepa, Nelly, and they said gatherings of five to ten people or nothing. That effectively ended my business. And that went on for two years. Wow. I didn't work for two years. So now you're what? You're a trucking business? Cannabis business?

Right. So here's the thing, right? In that moment, you have intense pain. You're a guy that's used to making money. You're on the road. You're doing stuff. Nobody has any sympathy for you because they're like, look, bro, you make money. You're not like regular people.

You make money. And I never asked for sympathy because I said, you know something, you're right about that. Because I went and told people, I'll drive a truck, I don't care, listen, I'll do whatever it takes to take care of my family. I don't care if it's sweeping the floor here and hits, I don't care what it is, I'm gonna do what it is to take care of my family.

So to say that is to say this, I would have never known about trucking if this wouldn't have happened. I would have just been head down doing shows. Congratulations. There's a theory that the universe did in some way reset the world and make everyone appreciate what they had in life with

that pandemic. Yes, because you know what it is? It made you look at what's really going on. That's what for me came my greatest discovery. And that was the trucking business. See, radio, entertainment, that is recession-proof. Transport, logistics, is depression-proof. It doesn't matter if we have a nuclear war.

Something got to go from A to B no matter what. You're right. So that just gave me clarity. And then what happened from there is YouTube University. That's how I learned about finance and stuff like that. Because here's the thing. We as people, and I'm guilty of it myself, we are more consumers than we're producers and investors. I learned in the pandemic about what to do with my money.

And I know this is going to a different place, but people, be smart with your money. I went, I got a small house, I paid it off. It's a fixer-upper, I fixed it up. And now any money that comes in after I pay my taxes, I'm gonna invest that. If I do that for the next two years, I'll be a millionaire on paper again. Wow.

Instead of driving around a Range Rover trying to prove to other people I'm rich. Be smart with your money, people. I am going to invest in a trucking business after this. That's a great motivational speech. Listen, bro. Everything in NZ got to go somewhere. They film in Lord of the Rings or whatever the hell they're doing. That stuff got to get over there, right?

Yeah, right. I didn't expect this. Thank you for this. What a wonderful conversation. Something got to get from everything. That bottle of water. These headphones. Everything got here by a truck.

I love that. You're dead right. Bro, this pen got here by a truck. That microphone, everything. It's a smart business to get into if you can. Famous Scoop's going to stick around. He's going to try and win you Friday Jams Live tickets next. And some more financial advice.

I love it. The Jono and Ben Podcast. Friday Jams Live, November 13. Macklemore, TLC Shaggy, hosted by Fat Man Scoop. He's with us this morning, along with some ice cream tubs that are coming into the studio. Why you do that, man? But we want to see if you can build more than 10 scoops of ice cream. If you do that, we'll give away tickets tomorrow.

See, but I'm not supposed to have this thing. You don't have to eat it. You don't have to eat it. Yeah, but how you going to put this? My name is Scoop, bro. Came from ice cream. Ice cream with pizza and my favorite things man. Your uncle gave you the nickname. Can I have one spoon?

Yeah you can have whatever you want. Just a small spoon. Just a small spoon. Mate you can do whatever you want bro. So the game is we gotta get you to do 10 scoops and then we get to give away tickets all day tomorrow. But you might not even make 10. I may eat this. I feel like we've broken it. That's sherbet?

We had such a good financial chat Can you forget this game? Can you get me a scoop please? No no no a spoon We'll give you that's your spoon Which one? I think he wants an eating spoon I want to eat a scoop

Get on it Producer Joel's sprinting out to... John, get on it. Pop on it, John. Producer Joel's sprinting out to the kitchen to get a spoon. Okay, so I've got to do 10 scoops? Can you do 10 scoops on top, and then we can give away... Every caller wins Friday Jams tickets tomorrow. Okay, here we go. You're starting with the orange chocolate chip there.

It's nice and smooth. There's one scoop going in. Delicate hands from Fat Man Scoop. Here he is. Oh, he's doing a little... I can make the scoop any size I want. You've found a loophole. Well done.

Like the pandemic, you've navigated your way through this. There's two. There's two with the French vanilla. Just a dollop of French vanilla there. Damn it. He's really easy. He's onto it. He's a smart man.

There we go. The Neapolitan goes in. Has three scoops. This is the smallest ice cream ever. You probably wouldn't pay full price for it at the shop. But you've really, you've nailed it. Another scoop. Number four.

You're right. You see how this man pivoted to trucking. Yes, you see. You see now. You've got to think about everything before you do it. That's fine. That's fine. It hasn't even come out the top of the cone yet.

He's nailed this. He's definitely nailed this. A master of ice cream scooping and also ticket giveaways. He delicately puts the last one on. And there is number 10, Fat Man Scoop. Guaranteed tickets for every caller tomorrow on the show.

To Friday Jams. Because here's the thing, you didn't say what size they had. We didn't, you're right. If you would have said 10 big scoops, then I would have had to say, I can't do that. But you didn't. Oh, mate, he's an idiot who would drive around in a Range Rover.

That's who he is. That's me, bragging about my money. You like the orange chocolate chip there, Scoop? Hold on, let me taste the other one. You should start it. Have you got an ice cream business? You were looking into it right I'm doing one right now

yeah in conjunction with Mikey's ice cream in New York I have my own flavour pineapple chocolate is that right you like that

I'm up for my ice cream getting angry at producer Joel for bringing so much ice cream in Friday James we're going to love it you've got to get this out of here you've got to put a little in there you've got to get this out of here ice You've got to get this out of here.

Ice cream for breakfast. So much fun hanging out with you. Thank you for coming to New Zealand. Thank you. I appreciate you guys. Make sure you're there. Listen, do you know the Prime Minister? Jacinda Ardern, yeah.

Well, yes. Are you cool with her? Yeah. Can somebody get me in touch with her? Yes. What do you want to ask her? I want her to DJ for me. She did some DJ stuff.

Yeah. Can she DJ? Who has her number that I can actually call her yeah we'll try and check we'll track down her details yeah yeah we'll get them i'm gonna give you her details and you let her people talk to my people and talk to her people and my people and they want to get this done and we'll get her there on a truck okay yeah i'm gonna get on the it get on a truck. It doesn't even care. I don't care. Fine. Famous Cooper.

So much fun. Thank you so much, mate. Get out with us. You can catch him at Friday Jams Live in a couple of weeks time. It is The Hits.

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