Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono's new neighbours do what every night?

Episode Date: June 21, 2022

Jono's got new neighbours and they do karaoke every night. Ben's wife won't quit something, hint it's not him thankfully. We chat with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about kids keeping you up at night and healthcare and Kiwi who ran across America.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast. Kia ora na mihi o Matariki ti tau hou Māori, which is Happy Matariki. Yeah, Matariki, first public holiday for Matariki tomorrow, which is pretty awesome. Exciting times, isn't it? Apparently it's the first, we're the first country in the world to acknowledge a traditional celebration, annual celebration. Might have a public holiday for it. Isn't that wild? Events, so it's great that it's happening this year.

Crate Day? Yeah, that's not a holiday. It's just a day. It's a day. Oh, it's not an annual day. It's not an annual day. It's up there with Matariki, isn't it? Crate Day.

No, it's not. Hey, we're just going in live. We're welcome. We need to record these fresh off air. You know, this is the raw Benjamin Boyce in all his glory. But you were just going in on the radio, Ben, about people who, when the plane lands, they stand up immediately.

The plane doors haven't opened. They're hunched over their seats waiting for the doors to open. And we all went in. We're all like, what's the point of it? It doesn't get you out of the plane any quicker. Yeah. You know, shocking for your chiropractor. And we all went in. We're all like, what's the point of it? It doesn't get you out of the plane any quicker. Shocking for your chiropractor. Your back's bent over. I understand,

as you said, when people need to get off for a connecting flight or things like that, you want to get out quickly and no one wants to be sitting around. It feels like that's the slowest part of the journey.

Just waiting. Just let us out of the plane. Just waiting. Otherwise, you just look like a punisher. You really do. And when you're up early and you can't get out, the plane. Just, you know. Yeah. Otherwise, you just look like a punisher. You really do. And when you're up, you're up early and you can't get out. The doors aren't even open.

Do you know what I did notice? Because you fly Air New Zealand the majority of the time into New Zealand. We flew American Airlines once, remember, Ben? And you don't get priority when you're on another. Like Air New Zealand gets priority. You're in, you're out, doors are open, you're gone. On American Air, we're sitting on the tarmac at Auckland International Airport for about 40 minutes on that flight, remember? Oh, yeah.

You moved down the queue, mate. When you're not from here, mate, you're way out of your plane. But we had a text in regards to the hunching over, who I just want to call. This is a self-confessed, loud and proud huncherer over a... Hi. You're a huncher. Pardon? You're a huncher on the plane.

I am, most definitely. She's a proud huncher, Ben. Okay, so you're getting up early. What's the reason behind it? We want to know. We want to educate ourselves. Well, because I have emphysema, when the plane stops, the air conditioner stops, and then it gets really stuffy and I'm coughing,

and people look at me like I've got some disease. Plus, there's more chances of catching COVID. Right. So you want to move yourself. Do you wrap your lips around the air con up the top there to get fresh air in, or what's happening? Yeah, when I book a flight I try to get, obviously nobody can afford first class these days

but I try to get as close to the front as I can. Right, so there you go. Don't we feel like monsters now? Has everyone hunched over got emphysema? You've got a good reason but you know, you can always tell them as well and when you know how they help people like priority, you can have a priority to get

off the plane, you know? I've had plane rage. My husband has been embarrassed sometimes. I get shitty. I get shitty when somebody stands on my feet or elbows me, and I've had a few times where I've had words on the plane. Oh, talk us through your plane rage. What has gone on mid-flight?

Oh, my goodness. Well, there was one flight in particular that we sat behind two ladies, probably in their 40s, and all they talked about was their boyfriends and sex. And I just got really sick of it. I can't stand it anymore. So much sex. What did you say to them? I said, well, you you ladies just shut up?

I don't want to hear about your sex life. And one of them gave me a dirty look. I said, you don't want to go there, ladies, because we can take this outside. You can't take it outside. You're going to wait. Well, you'll be first out, though, if you did. You're so good.

You're on the line. We want to send you something. You've really brightened up our day, all right? Oh, thank you. You're awesome. On the line. Jeez, buddy. Oh, they're great.

There you go. Emphasis. Look, I take it back. Not everyone does it as a punisher. There's obviously people who have reasons to feel bad now. Joy, the podcast. I think we need to put her on the radio tomorrow. That was great.

She'll be at the show tomorrow if you're here listening. Some feedback. She was great. It is the hits you got, John. No, it's a podcast. So that's you've got Jono and Ben Two semi-competent dads Handing out semi-competent parenting advice Jono and Ben on the hits

Lovely to see everyone, Belle, you doing alright this morning? Good morning, yeah good thanks, how are you guys? Yeah no, good, good, Ben you feeling all good? Yeah I'm all good, had a short week this week too Which is always a good feeling, always good for the motivation Oh Matariki, yeah But the problem is, we've had so many long weekends This motivation, isn't it? Oh, Matariki, yeah. But the problem is we've had so many long weekends this year. Don't get me wrong, loving them.

But you get used to them. And then so when you actually have to pull a five-dayer, you're like, ooh. A lot tougher, isn't it? Yeah. I had last night one of my favorite meals, and it takes me back to my childhood, spaghetti and sausages in a can.

Oh, you're rolling with the sausages in the can? Are they sausages? I don't know what they are. and sausages in a can. Are you rolling with the sausages in the can? Are they sausages? I don't know what they are. And I don't like to think about their tiny little sort of cylinder meat rolls. Who knows what's in them? Who knows what's in them? It's probably, oh, yeah, I'd better not defame.

But I enjoy it. I don't care what's in it. And I don't even know, what is the spaghetti? Like, what are you eating? Yeah, it's spaghetti and some sort of saucy. I don't know. It's a staple. You know that? Baked beans is a staple.

Did you make any vegetables or anything? Like, is that all you had? The sausages are the vegetables, aren't they? No. Your greens and your diet? It's the past the vegetables. But, you know, you couldn't get a more. Was it dinner?

It was dinner, yeah. You couldn't get a more. Oh, and toast. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. I take it all back. White toast. Super thick white toast. I take it back. But you couldn't get a more on toast oh sorry i'm sorry i take it all back white toast super thick white toast i take it back uh but you couldn't get a more balanced meal you know spaghetti and sausages

is both pivotal in the food pyramid but i was thinking as i was eating this you know if i flew to italy and i took a can of this over and they're like what on earth have you done to our cuisine what is this have we bastardized? I think it's worldwide they've done it. I don't think it's just us. So that's not just a New Zealand thing, spaghetti and sausages in a can. I don't know about sausages. Yeah.

Yeah, we do like to transform international cuisine into our own. I've seen bacon and egg sushi before. You know? Bacon and eggs. We've bastardized. Yeah, it looks like spaghetti in a can you can get I don't know about the sausages but you can get it worldwide

you can get it in America you can get it all over the place mate they're putting spaghetti in a can yeah I was just thinking like if I went over to Italy and I said

check this out mate ripped open the lid slopped it in a microwave put on a bit of toast would they go mamma mia what on earth what on earth is that

what have you done it's probably a staple meal. I was actually reading something interesting. They were talking about flats yesterday at stuff.co.nz, and they did an experiment with the cost of basically people buying the food together and cooking versus individually, if it's cheaper to get your own individual meals or if it's cheaper to go as a group.

So actually, they found out it was cheaper to do it individually, but they ate a lot better. 30 cents more expensive as a group, but they ate a whole lot better and they had a lot more leftovers when they did it as a group. As you go as a team. Because you've got more options, more variety, you have vegetables, you can have, yeah. So as a team, it was a whole lot better, but it was slightly more

cheaper to go individually. If you're flatting with 12 people, you can afford one block of cheese. Exactly, but they were talking that spaghetti was one of the meals that one of them was having by themselves. So it was obviously quite cheap. But when they went as a group,

they didn't have things like that. So they had a lot better. You just came out of a flatting situation. Were you individual eaters or group? Individually. I think everyone's different,

but I did that more like at uni days when you're all like flatting. Would you label your food in the fridge? No, I didn't, but some people do, and it's kind of funny because it's like, I'm not going to steal your milk, mate. I love a food label.

Yeah, I know. There's food labelers here at work in the kitchen. Rightly so, though. I mean, otherwise it's the Wild West. People just get involved. But who on earth is going in there going, oh, there's some leftover bolognese. People do.

It's so strange. They take other people's leftovers. Yeah, I know. Who does that? Like, if you sat down next to Sue in accounts, you're like, are you eating my lasagna from last night? Oh, so the fridge was unlabeled. It's just that I'd give it a go.

Free range, isn't it? Very ballsy decision. If you're here for advice on life, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. Yesterday we were talking about the little things that really wind you up. Unreasonable rage. hits yesterday we're talking about the the little things that really wind you up unreasonable rage now i had an exact moment after the show yesterday i was like this is perfect for the topic and i've got to bring it back i was waiting in a waiting room for an appointment i checked in made my

presence known and i sat down and started reading magazines from 1997. Yeah. Do you hear what happened to Princess Di? Oh, jeez. Not pretty, mate. And someone else walked in after me. They check in. They sit down. But they get called through first. Oh.

Doesn't that wind? And it shouldn't wind you up, because I don't know the specifics of their booking. Yeah. What time they were meant to be there. They might have been there before. Come back. But you're like, oh, I've been sitting here first. And someone else skulks in and...

Yeah. It's one of those things. Especially when you're waiting in an A&E or something. You're like, I've been here for 35 minutes. Person just wandered in. Yeah, their leg's falling off, but they get to go through first. Yeah. See, there are lots of examples.

Yesterday we spoke to some great listeners who had some great examples of things that really wound them up. Oh, I can't when people are chewing food nearly it just drives me nuts and the worst thing is like pork crackling. It's like, we've got a family thing in my house. If we have pork crackling

we've all got to eat it at the same time because it just makes me so... I can get it because once you start thinking about someone chewing, you can't notice anything else but the sound of them chewing, right? Oh, it's awful. That was Tracy. How much crackling are they consuming? Yeah, exactly.

Elise had this to say. My pet peeve, coming up to a T-intersection, there is a vehicle in the middle at the front of the T-intersection indicating to go right. But hey, there's space for two cars. Why don't you move over to the right so I can go to the left and turn left? I get it.

I know Flatmate used to flat with for a while. The bath mat was his thing. So if you jumped out of the shower and you put, I used to make the bath mat too wet apparently. I'm like, well, that's what the bath mat's there for you. Well, you're not drip drying off in the actual shower. You'd like your dry, I was standing on the bath mat. You dry them all on the bath mat?

No. No, you don't. You drip dry. I mean, I like, I'm not coming out like with a whole like. Tsunami. Yeah, but I'm coming out standing on the bath mat. But there's water running down your legs. Oh, like a little bit.

Soaking them. But I'm not. Yeah, but why have a bath mat? You were doing it in there, dude. Have your towel accessible. That's why we can't flat together either. Pull your towel. This is why our Sesame Street situation, Bert Nooney never worked out.

You just towel off in the shower. Not the whole thing. Get out. Oh, come on. I don't want your soggy feet towel. That's what he said as well. That's a good one. So, unreasonable rage. This is what we're getting into this morning. 0800 the hits, telephone number 4487. The tiny thing that sends you into a fit of rage.

And it shouldn't. When you step back and you pull yourself out of it, you should be calm about the situation, but you're not. Warning, this show contains Jono and Orban. Jono and Ben on the hits. Just what gives you unreasonable rage. We've got onto this topic. Ben Boyce, hotbed of towel debate raging on the text machine 4487.

The bath towel. Do you need to dry yourself off inside the shower before you even set foot, lay foot on the bath towel? This seems like a debate for another day, but we're here now, so go on. Yeah, a lot of people raging in. It's a 50-50 split at the moment. A lot of people in your camp are like, what else is the bath towel designed for, apart from soaking up the moisture from your legs? I understand people

get annoyed if you didn't hang it up afterwards, but I'm doing that. But it was just too wet and sod. But in your flatting situation, you've got a high turnover in the shower. You're out and another person's in. That's true. 0800, that's the telephone number. What is giving you unreasonable rage? Julie, what is it for you?

When you have nice hot toast and it makes condensation on the bottom of your plate and I have gluten-free toast and it goes soggy and it's already soggy toast. What's your Julie? Not with you. It's annoying, yes. You've got to be quick. Once that toast

is out of the toaster, you need to give it a quick earring. Or you can put the butter You've got to be quick. Once that toast is out of the toaster, you need to give it a quick earring. Give it a quick earring. Or you can put the butter on while it's sitting on top of the toaster, but then you have to watch that the butter doesn't drop down into the toaster and start a fire. You're putting butter on on top of the toaster. That's a whole other move.

Yeah. Well, you sit the toast on top so the condensation doesn't have a chance to form on your plate. Right. She's got a bigger shoe with condensation. Believe me. Believe me. I've tried everything to avoid the condensation.

Hold your breath as well. Maybe you need like an HRV system for your toast. Oh, yeah. Something like that. Oh, Julie, I'm with you. Unreasonable rage. Thanks for your call. See ya.

Derek with us on 0800 The Hits. What gives you unreasonable rage, mate? Oh, look, I get unreasonably enraged when you're following a car and you approach the passing lane. You indicate well in advance that you're pulling out to pass. And then just as you approach that car,

it's out in front of you. But then decides that it doesn't actually have enough power to do the overtaking, so then you've got to make a decision. Do I put my foot down and try and get the last laugh, or do I have to back off and retreat back behind the other man? Yeah, yeah.

Or you go along a passing lane, you go to pass, and they speed up, all of a sudden they hit the passing lane. You're like, wait, what? Definitely, definitely. But, hey, listen, your lady with the toast, I've just got a quick solution.

Yeah. I always put my toast on the edge of the breadboard so that it's not laying flat and I just let it dry off for a minute. You let your toast dry off? I let it in a shower. Then it's good to go. Oh, lovely.

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Wow. That was awesome. Very, very low grade. Well, that's why you keep telling me. Yeah, you've got the script. I me yeah you've got the script i can see you got the script in front of us i only got given this this morning hey now match fit such a great show um yeah did you think twice about being part of it or did you see the first series and go i really want to get involved well the first series they asked me but i had a bit of buggered

shoulders i had operation on my shoulder and then my good mate asked me he's the executive producer bailey mackie and i'm looking at and i I'm thinking, hang on, I have watched the show and all the other boys are quite fat. Just being honest, yeah, they're big buggers, you know, they're quite fat. And I'm thinking, well, I'm not the fattest sort of person at the moment. You look match fit to me now. Oh, I am. Yeah.

Jeez, you're giving hope to me. Look at me. I've distilled some life left in me here. You have the strength on the inside. You're certainly not on the outside. But the boys reckon, well, I think Ozzer's got a few problems, so I think he'll be great on this show. Because it sort of looks, it takes the iconic All Blacks

that we all know and love and sort of looks at them maybe after their career. And I imagine that was, it's probably quite a hard adjustment for players to make. The biggest thing the show is based on is the transformation from being an ex-Orblick where you're right up to being just a dad at home. And a lot of the boys struggled

in terms of finding work as well after. They certainly do a lot better job these days where they have academies and they teach them about finances and getting other jobs and stuff like that. But a lot of the boys struggled and they didn't talk about it back in those days you know it wasn't the thing to talk about you were called a sissy and other things like that and it wasn't until John Kirwan Sir John Kirwan yeah started bringing it out in the open and it's a good thing that we express and we talk about these things because it's the only way to heal. Now, we cannot always find a solution for depression,

but we can manage it. And the emotional trips and the transformation in some of the boys is amazing. And obviously we lost one of our good mates, Inga, through the show. And a lot of it was based around Inga because he had probably the most weight to lose. And he had been fighting a bit

of a struggle with his life as well so it's a beautiful show and my biggest thing about this show is that it is authentic. Now had filming finished when Inga passed so the show was in the can? It was, yeah we were basically come to

the end of the show and he was such a inspiration for us watching him. He couldn't run. When we first did the test, he could walk fast, but he couldn't run. You know, and I, everyone wanted to be Inga Tuigamala when he first burst onto the scene, you know. And I saw my mate there, and it was a bit of a struggle for me to actually watch him because my mate couldn't run he couldn't even jog properly you know and i was just thinking man we have to change his mentality we have to change how he is to get him better but hopefully we can

express that to others out there when they watch the show. And that's the key point of why I got involved, to make sure that other young tamariki that are going through this don't have to be in that situation. And I'm sure for his family as well, getting that story out would be important for them, I imagine. Oh, mate, their family, they love the show. And I look at you two And I think Wow

Even you two Could change I don't know If that show's that good I mean it's good It's a good show But hey These miracles

Could happen you two Now something I do need to ask Before we go Now I read Eric Rush's book When I was younger Now you You get a hard time

Through the book Now are these stories He's telling about you Are these all made up or what's going on? Well, I could... They are not made up. The thing is, I think that's why the boys got me on the show. It's not because I was unfit or I was quite fat or anything like that.

It's because they all reckon I'm struggling mentally. A lot of the stories are true. It was like the All Blacks were checking in for a flight with everyone had their bags or something. And then they were like, does anyone need to pack your own bags? Yeah, that was a sevens. Yeah, it was a whole lot of the stories are true. Someone was like, the All Blacks were checking in for a flight with everyone had their bags or something. And then they were like, does anyone here, though, like, do you pack your own bags? Yeah, that was a sevens. Yeah, it was a whole lot of that.

Everyone's bags, they'll pack your own bags. Anyone touch your bags? And you're like, oh, no, hang on, the bus driver. And then as soon as they heard that, everyone's bags got locked into it. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Was that you? Yeah, we were flying to America.

We were just coming into New York. And obviously, the security guard goes, did you pack your own? Yes, we packed our own bags and all this. And Rushie's looking at me saying, just say yes. And then I, oh, could someone else had packed your bag or check your bag? And I just thought, oh yeah, the bus driver could have got our bags when he went and got it. And that was it. We were there for like a couple of hours. They searched us, they searched the bags, everything. Yeah, they weren't very happy with me at that time.

The next minute, we marched into a room, all stripped off. The clothes were off and the bags were checked. And, man, my mate was not happy with me. Oh, so good. Glenn Osborne, love hanging out with you. Match Fit tonight, TV3. Make sure you catch it. Very important show. Yeah.

Really appreciate you coming in. Nah, thanks, boys. She's the matriarch of misinformation about celebs. What's going on, Belle? Well, Kim Kardashian has responded to the fact that she damaged the Marilyn Monroe dress, and she's denying it. Her and her team are saying, no, we made sure that we had the protocols in place.

We worked with Ripley's. You know, she didn't have it on for very long. They were wearing gloves. It sounds like something someone would say who damaged a dress. In saying that, the unfortunate thing is, you know, if you were to borrow a dress or something, no one's going to see what was happening when you put it on and how you damaged it. There is video evidence I've seen on TikTok, because of course they film everything, hello,

of them squeezing her into it and it's just not working at the back. So that's how the seams have all torn near these. Look, my mum, Jenny, would say, don't ever loan anything to anyone. Expect something to come back not quite in the condition you gave it to them. That's part of loaning it. Annie Pryor had a similar saying. Never borrow nor lend a bee. I was just of loaning it. That's the risk. Annie Pryor had a similar saying. Never a borrower nor lender be.

Yeah. I was just like, well, she was wearing the dress. If you didn't want nothing to happen to it, don't lend it to someone to go to a function. There has been a big debate online about this. I know it probably seems trivial in the scheme of things, but people are very passionate about whether she's at fault here or they're at fault for lending it to her.

Does she get her bond back? That's probably the big question. It would be like me trying to squeeze into Ben Boyce's trousers. You did that once at a wedding, didn't you? I did, and it was, you know, catastrophic. Catastrophic circumstances. Couldn't do the zip-up bell. Wandered around with my guts out at a wedding.

Damaged those pants. Damaged those pants. I was raging online about it. No, really, they're like, Marilyn didn't want anyone else wearing this dress. How dare you, Kimberley? Who asked Marilyn? That's fine, but that's not on Kim.

That's on the people that loaned it, I'd say. He's team... I'm team Kim on this all the way because it was on the people who lent it. Those are people that you should be upset about if you're not Kim Kardashian for wearing it. Can I tell you what team I'm on? What?

I'm on team I don't care. That's a good option too. Yeah. And reports that Chris Rock and Dwayne The Rock Johnson were asked to host the Emmy Awards. The latest. Care about that one? Yeah. Care about that one.

Can I keep going? Is that they've both declined the opportunity. They weren't interested. I guess they were. The Emmys were like, right, we're going to, you know, bank off this whole Slapgate thing, get Chris Rock up there, we'll get us some attention. But he's not keen. Jimmy Fallon also wasn't interesting in hosting either,

and the awards will be held in September, so maybe we could send them your guys' CV, they might be, you know. We can tag the Music Awards in New Zealand. I was looking at the salary, $15,000 to host the Oscars. $15,000 for the host. You think you're dealing with people

who get millions of dollars to film movies and things. Yeah, I guess it's about the prestige, isn't it, hosting the movies and the Oscars? But now the ratings have declined in those ones, so maybe it's not quite as sought after as it once was. Dwayne The Rock Johnson's like, $15,000 won't even buy me a day of protein. Thanks,

Bell Crawford. Mature, responsible, and considerate. Three words we sadly can't use here Jono and Beam on the hits

producer B Humps you just said something to us off air that has rattled me a little bit

you haven't been to the movies in how long it's 2018 I had to I had to go back and see when the movie

that I saw and the god the last movie I saw it's embarrassing to even mention it pornography

super troopers too super troopers too even worse horrific I don't even know that I mean God, the last movie I saw, it's embarrassing to even mention it. What was it? Pornography. Super Troopers 2. Super Troopers 2. Oh, Super Troopers 2. Even worse. Horrific. I mean, I think I've seen Super Troopers. I didn't know there was a second one. Yeah, there was a second one.

I think they put it in cinemas for about a day or so. So after that, you're like, never again am I going to the movies? Or are you just... No, I've just been busy. He's just had a baby. Him and Caitlin. A pandemic, obviously. People are just starting to get back into the movies again.

There's a whole lot of great new movies out, though. I know, yeah. We just haven't really had the opportunity, to be honest. I get it. I get it. Life gets in the way, and it's a rigmarole. Getting dressed, getting in the car, going to the movie theatre, sitting down, watching a movie.

You made up none of this. It sounds like a rigmarole. Two hours, though, you know? That sounds amazing. Two hours. Two hours to shut away from your problems. Yeah. Do you want to get a sleep?

I sleep in the movies. That's the problem. When I'm always treading a very fine line between being awake and asleep, a movie is not a conducive environment to keeping awake. And the thing is, new parents, you know, go on a date night to a movie, they're going to ask you how the movie was, you and Caitlin are going to go, oh, it's great, we didn't have to look after a crying baby,

but we slept through the sound of fighter jets and Dolby Digital surround sound for 90 minutes. Well, that's the thing, my partner Caitlin loves going to the movies. But yeah, we just haven't had the opportunity, it seems. So now would you go on a date night to the movies? I'd love to take Caitlin to the movies because she misses it. She often goes to me, oh, I'd love to watch Top Gun.

And you're like, yeah, whatever, mate. We saw Super Troopers 2. That was enough to last me for 10 years. It's all the movie I need in my life. 2018. What a movie, guys. What a movie. He's been illegally downloading films, though.

Don't worry about that. Well, that's Isaac. Would you go to the movies in the next few weeks? Yeah, I mean, if there's something. Is there something worth watching? Yeah, there's heaps worth watching. He doesn't seem that enthusiastic. You're bullying him into going to the movies.

Belle, do you go to the movies a lot? I love going to the movies. You saw Jurassic World? Yeah. That one wasn't my choice, but I did like it. I want to see the new Elvis movie. That's out this week. You can go see that.

Yeah, that's out tomorrow. I've actually seen a bit about that. Would you go see that? He's not going to. He's doing that thing where he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll go see it. He's not going to do it, okay? I don't know why we're persisting with this.

All right. Well, no, that's right out there. 0800 The Hits is our phone number. 4487 What movie Like if you're going to go to one It needs to be a banger right It needs to be a banger

Because I don't want to go through Super Troopers 2 again No He's not going to go to the movies For another four years after this So it needs to be the one movie That you can satisfy him Like you might wait for a bit

There's one coming out Later in the year That's fine Yeah no that's fine What's the movie That he needs to go see 0800 the hits 2026

This is next viewing Okay If they were the movie that he needs to go see? Oh, 800 The Hits. 2026 is his next viewing, okay? If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history. Jono and Ben on The Hits. Producer B Harms hasn't been to the movies in four years, so he's going to go along with his partner Caitlin, and we're trying to decide which movie he needs to go to. Lots of text coming through. There's a lot of great movies around.

Elvis movie, Jurassic World, Thor's coming up, Top Gun, Lightyear. There's heaps in there for him to go see. Buzz, Lightyear kind of feels like a movie that you need to be accompanied by a child with, though. Doesn't it? You don't want to be turning up to that by yourself. Yeah, true.

And you're on from Hamilton. What's the movie that producer B. Hump's got? The first movie he's going to see in four years. What's it going to be? Top Gun. Oh, Top Gun, you think? Are you a big fan of Top Gun? Yeah. Was it good? It was. It was awesome.

It was my bucket list. I went to Queenstown with my siblings. They did wineries and I just wanted to do Top Gun. So you went away from the family to go watch that? Wow. Your bucket list was to fly to Queenstown with your family then go to wineries and you go to Top Gun.

I love it. Yeah. No, we grew up with it and they're all into streaming and stuff and I said, nah, I've got to sit on the big screen and they're all still fizzing about it. And I need to fly to Queenstown for that to happen. Oh, that's great. Thanks, Ange.

We'll get Julian from Auckland. First movie that producer Bee Hphs is going to see in four years. What are you putting forward? No Tuesday. Oh, local movie. Jackie Van Beek's. Yeah.

Yeah. And it looks, I haven't actually seen it, but I'm seeing it tonight, but it looks hilarious. I've seen the previews and I laughed all the way through the previews.

Apparently you get to see all of your favourite New Zealand comedians' private parts in that movie. And every part. So, yeah. Support local. All of your favourite New Zealand comedians' private parts in that movie. And every part of them, yeah. It's a gibberish as well. It's high-concept stuff. It looks very, very funny. Yeah, it looks hilarious.

So, yep, that'll be it. Support local. All right, appreciate it. You ever wanted to see Jermaine Clemens' bits and pieces, mate? It hasn't been a high on the priority either. You can do it now. Hey, look, it's an option. To make the final decision right now,

we've managed to get up entertainment reporter Kate Roger from News Hub. Kate, good morning. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. What time is it?

Is it like 3am? For goodness sake man, you know I don't get up any time before midnight and midday. It's after 7 o'clock. This is a reasonable

time to be up and out of bed. Alright, alright, alright. You know I love you if I'm getting up this early. Well, thank you, Kate. We need to help our producer, B Humps,

because he hasn't been to the movies in over four years. And there's so many good movies. They've come through on the phones. Elvis, Top Gun, Jurassic World, Thor. I mean, what movie should he go to if he's going to go to the movies either now or over the next couple of months? This is an emergency situation.

I cannot believe it's been four years for this dude. He needs help. He needs serious help. He needs my help. And your listeners are absolutely bang on the button. I think the best film of the year so far, which is incredible that we're saying this, is Top Gun. Have you guys seen it? I haven't yet. What? I know.

I need to go see Top Gun. It looks incredible. Even people that haven't seen the first one love it. The only thing I can't get my head around is how magnificent Tom Cruise looks. I mean, he's signed a deal with Scientology to look like he's 35 for the rest of his life. He's incredible. I know.

He's ageing backwards. But you guys, you're probably a little bit like that too, aren't you? You guys are ageing pretty well. Jesus, Kate. You haven't seen us in a few years. We haven't been working in the same building for about three or four years, mate. Yeah, maybe I am getting up too early. Let's move on from that. I make Joe Biden look in a few years. We haven't been working in the same building for about three or four years, mate. Yeah, maybe I am getting up too early.

Let's move on from that. I look like, I make Joe Biden look like a kindergarten child. The key is you just, you put out the same publicity shots from like 10 years ago. They're like, oh, those guys are still looking great. Oh, yeah, I do that too, so don't knock that situation. No, Top Gun is absolutely worth going along to. I absolutely loved it. Now, you got to speak to Tom Cruise on like a,

what was it, an aircraft carrier or a Navy ship or somewhere overseas? Isn't he insane? He basically hung on to the film for two years during COVID because he wanted to wait till the screen was ready again. And then he thought, you know what, I'll do a world premiere. And because it's a film about planes, I'll do it on the USA's Midway flight deck. And I'll land on that flight deck next to the red carpet in a helicopter because

he's Tom Cruise. Did he come in flying his own helicopter? Well, we thought he was flying it, but I think they were a bit nervous he was going to land on 250 International Entertainment Records. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up, back up. Yeah, what a way to go though. What a way. Imagine your headstone, you know, landed on, whoa. Back up, back up. Yeah, what a way to go, though. What a way. Imagine your headstone landed on by a helicopter,

piloted by Tom Cruise. No, he didn't pilot it, but he did come by helicopter. They had F-18 flyovers. It was, you know, that man knows how to market a film. So that's the movie that you're saying Producer Ben needs to go see, Producer B Humps. Producer Ben needs a blimmin' good sit down and a good talking to

he's missing out on an amazing experience and so many other the movies are the best it's freezing it's winter you don't have to talk to anybody

the lights go down you get your popcorn it's heaven noted he's got another amazing experience he's dealing with a baby at three o'clock

in the morning I don't care what he's dealing with at three o'clock in the morning take the baby with him. Okay, Roger, love catching up with you. Take care. Producer B, how does it go to Top Gun? Top Gun it is.

Alright, sounds good. It is the hits you got, Jono and Ben. With a long and extinguished career, Jono and Ben on the hits. Now we got on the phone someone live from New York, a Wellington man, Nick Ashall, who set out to run across America a few years ago, across the entire America, over 5,000 Ks,

and then was left for dead in a hit and run. He's now completed his journey, and he joins us right now. Good morning, Nick. Thank you so much. It's very, very grateful for the invitation. Oh, well, congratulations, firstly, on completing what has been an epic journey in more ways than one, running across America.

Yeah, it's hard to believe that it's all over. I think I will hold the world record for the longest time that it's taken to actually run across America. So I had a bit of a blip in August 2017 with a hit and run, but managed to get my body and mind back in a good space and, yeah, finished it the day before yesterday. So it's still sinking in. Day 81 of running over 5,000 kilometres across America.

And as you just said, a hit and run. That seemed like, were you targeted? I mean, what was going on? Yeah, sadly, the case was closed 12 months after it happened. So it was a hit and run. The driver did not stop. The place was closed 12 months after it happened. So it was a hit and run. The driver did not stop. I was hit at about just under 100 kilometers an hour,

thrown into a ditch, found approximately 50 or so minutes later, flown to Ohio State University Hospital where I spent the next few months and multiple surgeries, learned to walk again, eventually got back into running, and 16 surgeries later, I've managed to go back and finish just under the last 1,000 kilometres. Now, so you said you were hit, and then you fell into a ditch. 50 minutes after being hit by a car at 100 kilometres an hour, are you conscious? What are you feeling?

What's going through your mind? I was to begin with, but my phone, battery to my phone, died after about 30 to 35 minutes. So I was on a Skype call with my wife and two daughters at the time in a different part of the world. So sadly, they heard my screams when I was hit, but the phone was still working. So my wife in Cyprus was able to alert the state troopers and authorities in America to track me down. Wow.

So I was really, really, really... Yeah, it's an incredible story. That is someone was looking over you. Well, not really looking over you too much, letting you get hit by a car at 100 k's an hour, but to have your family on the phone at that very moment. Yeah, it's still quite raw, even though it's nearly five years on, but it's still raw for me, and I think I'm still processing the whole thing,

but having completed the run, I think will help with the closure. I could imagine it must have been pretty emotional going back to America and picking up where you left off and completing the run. What were the feelings like when you managed to run and arrive in Coney Island in New York? Yeah, starting the run from the exact spot that I was hit in 2017 was certainly very symbolic.

I had a few words with the ditch where I was flown and where I was hit. I won't repeat those words on air. You can probably imagine what they might be. Son of a ditch. Son of a ditch. Son of a ditch. Yeah, something like that. Were you abusing a ditch?

Hey, I would be. So you went from one coast to Ohio where the accident happened. You picked up from Ohio, ended up in New York. How long does that run take you, Ohio to New York? Yeah, so I started west of Columbus, which is mid-Ohio. It was 19 running days, 972 kilometers. So you were pretty much, I was reading doing a like uh over a marathon a day yeah yeah about uh 52 53 kilometers a day yeah now listen nick i don't want to talk down your little

run across america but a couple of weeks ago my friend made me run an unprepared untrained marathon on top of the sky tower now there's only room for one novelty marathon runner on this show. And it's clearly you because you ran across goddamn America. What was the thing that you encountered the most that was the hardest to get through? Because I was reading there was rattlesnakes, there was hill climbs, there were thunderstorms,

there were extreme temperatures. I mean, you got it all. Yeah, certainly did get it all. I think a really magical moment was just over a week ago in Pennsylvania where we came across this big black bear in somebody's driveway. That was pretty magical. Fortunately, it didn't come in our direction, but that was really, really cool. Magical. You described a big black bear.

Meeting a big black bear is magical. Wow. Yeah, I know. I know. It was a big black bear. Meeting a big black bear is magical. Wow. Yeah, I know. I know. It was a big bugger. You would have run across all of the different political divides of America. Yeah. I mean, I've seen some incredible signs from, you know,

they're very derogatory towards Hillary Clinton, the current president, Joe Biden, Pennsylvania and parts of Ohio are still very pro-Trump and Spence. So you've certainly seen it all. You name a sign, you've seen it on your run. Forrest Gump, obviously, a popular runner across America. Taking out your incident, if you had run directly across America, who would have had a better time, you or Forrest? Oh, well, I think Forrest will probably have me on the sprints.

Yeah, but I reckon if we'd travel from, if we run from L.A. to New York and then back New York to L.A., I think I would have the edge. You'd have the edge. But you didn't grow a big beard, I see on the telly like Forrest Gump either, so you must have had time to shave along the way. Yeah, well, certainly in 2017 I did, but my daughter shaved it all off in hospital. And so your next run, what are we doing? Africa?

Where are we going? Well, I've talked about, again, with Paul, a member of the support crew, we're sort of thinking about toying with the idea of Alaska to Florida. Have a breather, mate. Have a break. Oh, Nick, listen. Congratulations. Absolute honor to speak to you.

What a great New Zealander. Ran across America, hit and run along the way, completed it two days ago. You're a Kiwi legend, and you go and keep safe. Oh, thank you so much. It was really lovely to have closure on it now.

This is the only thing more awkward in the news than the banter between the sports host and the news anchor. Welcome, Ben. The health care system under the pump at the moment in New Zealand. Official information released yesterday. Nearly 3,000 patients waited longer than six hours to be treated at New Zealand's busiest ED last month.

That's a long wait. And this is coming off the back of two years of just madness for the health care workers, you know, nurses and doctors as well. And it just continues on. I was seeing on Tony Street the adorable, lovable Tony Street pen. Why can't you be as adorable and as lovable as tony street can't you know yeah no you're a monster compared to tony street she did something she took her child i think to a doctor who'd seen 62 patients in a day and all these comments on tony's instagram post is like i'm a nurse i finish a shift every day I get called back

to do a double shift on my days off I'm being asked to come in there's just no reprieve for these poor people yeah there's a combo of sort of flu

going around which I think has surpassed COVID cases at a hospital in Auckland at the moment there's also COVID

and an overflow of patients diverted from you know obviously during lockdowns and all that stuff as well

so you're really thinking of everyone having to do all those long hours for everyone else. And also the patients who have probably been waiting for surgeries for some would be upwards of two years, I imagine. Some patients on the waiting list for surgery. What are you looking at? You're looking concerned, staring at your computer. Oh, no. I'm all good. You look disengaged. You just zoned out.

No, I was just preparing for the next one. I was like, oh, this is a good little angle on the surgeries and I lost them. No, sorry, I was just preparing for the next one. I was like, oh, this is a good little angle on the surgeries, and I lost him. No, sorry. I was just preparing for the next one because I want to kick the music off with friends. Jennifer Anderson. So for every year, every day, sorry, where she was on Friends for 10 years, she ate the same lunch for 10 years. She ate the same Cobb salad for 10 years.

Apparently her, Courtney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow all ate the same lunch, all ate together for 10 years. And it's blowing back up and Lisa Kudrow all ate the same lunch, all ate together for 10 years. And it's blowing back up again on TikTok because apparently there was a recipe going around saying this was the Cobb salad that she ate

every day for 10 years. It's meant to be amazing. And she has now responded saying that looks amazing but that wasn't the Cobb salad that I would eat. But how cool was that? Then what did she hand out

the recipe to the cook? She kind of did. She explained what her one did. Yeah, had a bit more. She said hers was totally different. It had lettuce, chicken, egg whites, beans, bacon. Yeah, sometimes cheese in the dish as well. But every day for 10 years.

Consistency's always key, isn't it? I know there's a guy here who's always eating tuna, a can of tuna, every day for lunch. Our boss, Jason. Yeah. 10 years of tuna, mate. Every single day. That's a healthy lunch. Jobs eat.

Steve Jobs wore the same uniform Apple founder Heard of him? Yeah Black skivvy Blue jeans New balance sneakers Every day

That's right You don't have to think about anything It's just what I wear Get on, do business What am I doing? I'm eating my tuna I'm doing my business Eating my Cobb salad

Filming some more friends Don't let that distract you, Ben The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast Hey, this is Ed Sheeran Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, this is Ed Sheeran, Jono and Ben's five words for five Eds. Yeah, Ed Sheeran coming back to New Zealand

on his mathematics tour. His first two concerts in Wellington, Auckland, already sold out, so he's putting on two more gigs and we've got five double passes to give away. That's ten tickets to someone if we match all five words. That is an entire netball squad plus reserves, Ben.

You could take the silver ferns to Ed Sheeran with you. They probably wouldn't really want to come with me, but you're right. Hi, Myer Smith. You want to come to the... Why are you inviting me? Is this a date?

What are you doing? Angela, you're on from Auckland. Morena, how are you? Morena, great. Thank you. You work in the medical industry, we understand, and a lot of news at the moment. You're under the pump, you poor people.

We are, we are, and we're just top-staffed everywhere. Yeah. What do you want to say? Say something to just say something. That people need to appreciate these people who are giving their time. And even though they're paid, it's really hard because they are overworked and under pressure. Yeah, we really do appreciate everything you're doing right now. You're needs some long hours.

Yeah, it sounds very trying conditions. Very trying. Well, you could be taking you and nine of your colleagues along to Ed Sheeran for a night away. If we match five words with you, Angela, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? I would like to send Ben, please. Yeah, Ben. Being from the medical industry,

do you know actually I performed a circumcision on Ben inside that booth? Oh, my gosh. You really had to say that? Homemade one too, Angela? Kind of weird. Oh dear. Alright mate, five words, match them with Ben's. You're off to Ed Sheeran.

First word that comes into your head when I say risotto. Rice. Yeah, me too. Scuba. Diving. Trout. Tr, me too. Scuba. Diving. Trout. Trout? Yeah.

Fish. Road is word number four for you, Ange. Works. And the fifth and final word, lolly. Scramble. Wow, I matched four out of five with you. I just didn't match with the last one. That's not going to say Ben won't.

We'll release him from the soundproof booth. Actually, can I change that last one? What do you want to change it to? Lollipop. Damn, I would have won you $5,000. But you didn't choose me. Ben Boyce, fresh from the booth. The booth, the chamber of circumcision. Welcome back.

I was saying what I did to you in there. Yeah, medical procedure. What? Yeah, you missed it all. Okay, gotcha. Angela, you ready to win Ed Sheeran tickets? That would be fantastic. Ben Boyce, first word that comes into your head when I say risotto.

Rice. One from one. Scuba is the second word. Dive. Oh! Diving. Diving. Oh, Angela.

Trout was word number three. What would you go for trout, Ben? Fish. Rose. Road works. I don't even want to ask the fifth one. Lolli. Hop.

Oh, we went that close. An ing. Stitched up by an ing. Oh, give it to me. Oh, Ange. I'm so sorry, Ange. You're so close. Scoop of time.

Mate, you hold there. We're going to sort you something out, Ange. You don't get much closer than that. It won't be money, by the way, but it'll be. We'll sort you something out. I've got a can of Glen 20 over there or something I'll send you. It happens. I'm so sorry.

Hey, you keep on doing God's work, you guys. We really, all of the country appreciates what you're doing. Keep safe, all right? Okay, thank you. Tested safe for listing from home. Jono and Ben on the hits. New Neighbours moved in last week. Always love new Neighbours coming in.

More people I can punish over the fence, Glen boys. I can imagine. Bit of chin wagging. But what I have noticed about an evening activity that they get up to, they do after dinner karaoke. Wow. Yeah. You were saying this to me before, but not just in the weekends.

Because I work time to time. I do karaoke at home or at mates' place. But they do it during the week. During the weekday karaoke. They love their karaoke. They do. I mean, I don't know if it's professional or personal, whether it's training for singing or it's like,

because it feels like there's, it sounds like there's different voices, you know, singing, if I could turn back time. Oh, great tune though. Great tune. So I'm getting my own like special little talent quest. I was going to bed last night and they were singing away karaoke

it just feels like a I love it like I say there's a time and a place for karaoke it's on the weekend it's like having a kebab in daylight hours

you know it's a late night fun thing you do you wake up and you go were we singing in a bar last night oh yeah we were yeah you're right you always get

sometimes get a bit more courage when you've had a couple of drinks but obviously they are. They'll do it whatever the occasion. I respect that. They're very talented singers. Very good singers

but yeah, if I said to you, can you put some karaoke now? Now? Not the conditions. Not now. No, no, but if you're like,

you know. Even after dinner, if you came to my house, sat down and then afterwards I was like, karaoke? What would you say?

Oh no, we've got mates to do it. Maybe not on a weeknight. i would say it would be a bit like oh he's busting out the character now but you know like we do have mates that have a karaoke thing machine set up and i've played you some of my terrible recordings that at the time i thought were great and then later it's not great what's your go-to karaoke song i don't know like i always think i can sing a song that I can't sing. I'm like yeah I'll do that and it turns out to be something really epic and I'm like no I can't do it. I can't nail it I'm not a singer. Whenever I'm doing it I put on a strange voice of like

Erica here I am Alright Chad Kroger Have you got a karaoke song Belle? When I was a kid I used to love all the Grease songs or like some Britney but I get shy doing it even when we're just, you know, in front of your mates I don't really do it much. It does take a lot of

courage. Well, the worst thing is when someone who can sing gets up and you're like, oh, you've killed it for everyone because Beyonce, Halo or something and you're like, oh, well, I can't go after this person now We're just sitting here eating some sushi. You're singing.

The kids are like me. They're like, you've got this vein in your neck that just pops out. You look very strained and into it. I'm like, I was giving it everything. No one was singing Journey harder than me. Don't stop believing. They're like, hey, baby. Don't stop.

Don't stop breathing. You're like, take a breath. You're looking quite red and veiny too. So that's, yeah. And that made me feel more self-conscious as well. I mean, no one wants to go to a Justin Bieber show and go, oh, he's quite red and veiny. Is he on the verge of a heart attack or a stroke or something?

He's really giving it everything, but he is awful. Mature, responsible and considerate. Three words we sadly can't use here. Jono and Ben on the hits. The communal work kitchen you gotta love it. It's a hotbed of all sections of society meeting in one very bacteria laden location

isn't it? We love to talk about the toasted sandwich maker that is used for multiple purposes around here. Cooking steaks. Cook a steak on the toasted sandwich maker. There's a wonderful story about a man who would bring in mince. Just mince. Hot mince. Just microwave mince.

No sauce. No sauce. No, no, no. No pasta. No cheese. The mince was great. That's your jam if you like mince. Protein. Fuel and produce. Microwaved mints. Interesting in the work kitchen. Yeah, but all sorts.

All sorts happens in the work kitchen. Now there's a sign. There's a new couple of signs that have been put up around the building. One involves this TLC song. And it says, TLC don't want no scrub, but your plates, your dirty plates do. I thought that was very clever. That's good. It's a give them a scrub.

It's comical and pedantic at the same time. I do like that message. Photo of TLC. And there's another one that was saying upstairs with Snoop Dogg around this song. And it says, when there's dishes in the sink, Ma, wash them like they're hot. So again, wash your dishes. Another way of saying wash your dishes. And look, to be honest, I've noticed those things.

I wouldn't have noticed those notices had they not been comical. Until then, you're just throwing plates in the rubbish bin. You don't know what to do with them. Yeah, I don't know what to do. What do I do with this dirty fork I was putting in the recycling? No, it's straight. Is that recycling or general waste? Do you know I'm ashamed to say I have done that before at a previous workplace?

Sorry, Bell Crawford's looking at me. You look like you want to see. Yeah, yeah. And you're an environmental woke person, aren't bill i don't know i'm just like this just seems a bit lazy yeah it was it was like well it was it's trying to be cool in front of his mates yeah yeah exactly oh they had kitchen duty and so it was my turn for kitchen duty i was like there's a lot of knives and forks here let's just put three of them in the bin why are you you're watching the others what's the lot of knives and forks here. Let's just put three of them in the bin. Why only three? You're washing the others.

What's the point of not three more? He's trying to be confident. He's trying to show off a bit of a base. Oh, okay. I see what's going on here. Didn't work. Not like that's huge wastage. So they put us on notice in the work kitchen,

but we thought we could open up the phones and say, who do you want to put on notice in your kitchen? Be it work, be it home. Sometimes there are things that you would go, oh, look, I get annoyed by the family or my husband or my wife doing these things. I know a pressure point across a lot of kitchens in

Aotearoa. Cups up or cups down? Do you have the rim facing down on the shelf which obviously protects it from falling debris. But then how clean is the You've got to compromise the cup rim in that incident. So I prefer cups up. I'm willing to risk

a rogue moth piece of asbestos falling down or something. You don't know. Yeah. So that's what you ought to put on notice. People that put cups down.

Yeah. I'm going to put people on notice. My family who I like, when I wash dishes, I'm happy to wash dishes but I have a sister. And when I'm washing dishes

and people come bring and just chuck it in when I'm washing, I'm like, and just chuck it in when I'm washing I'm like look I wash it from the least dirty to the most dirty I go through things

they just put the plates in with all sorts of scraps and the thing I'm like just leave it on the side I'll deal with that that really just that gets me that gets me

do you want to also get me too well you're just unloading now when you're like yeah no one rinses the plate before putting in the dishwasher yeah I'm like this is

you're asking for a clogging in the future yeah you know a month down the track you're going to yeah, no one rinses the plate before putting in the dishwasher. Yeah. I'm like, this is asking for a clogging in the future. Yeah. You know, a month down the track, you're going to have to call the plumber. Yeah. Rinse the dishes. So these are the sort of things you want. Who do you want to put on notice? My wife would put me on notice because I like wiping the benches.

And sometimes I wipe the crumbs into the dishwasher. I'm like, it goes through the system. She's like, you don't know that. I'm like, well, yeah. So sometimes it happens. It's like when he can't find the other sock, he just puts it back into the washing cycle. Yeah, just kidding.

These same three socks are the cleanest socks in New Zealand. Okay, I'll wait under that. Who do you want to put on notice in your kitchen? If you don't want two guys talking at you all morning, too late, they're here. Jono and Ben on the hits. A whole lot of new notices have popped up in the work kitchen, the communal work kitchen.

So we want to know this morning, who do you want to put on notice in your kitchen? They've used Snoop Dogg and TLC, their imagery, to coerce people into washing their dishes around here. When your dishes are dirty, put them in the thing, wash them like they're hot, wash them like they're hot. Yeah. And TLC, don't want no scrubs, but your dishes do.

Great messages too. I don't know if TLC and Snoop Dogg have given them permission to use their imagery in our work kitchens. No. So, yeah, who do you want to put on notice in your kitchen? Belle Crawford listing off about 15 during that big yellow taxi song. Probably makes me sound a bit neurotic, but it's just common sense. Like, people who don't rinse things, like you guys have said,

people who don't know how to recycle, and I've just moved out of a flat share, so this is going to be, oh, God so this is going to be so nice now. But yeah, you've got to wash your recycling first and then put it in. I haven't washed recycling. What do you wash recycling for? Do you leave the yogurt in a pottle? Yeah. We're not meant to do that.

You need to rinse it. It makes their job harder. They're not paid enough to deal with that. No, actually, in saying that, I remember my son went to landfill, and they said one of the biggest issues is because obviously they're putting a lot of stuff in the ground is this toxic sludge, which is a combination of all the remnants of

the leftovers in containers. I'm remembering that story now. But not doing anything about it. Every time you put something in the recycling. I shelf stock. You make sure you get everything out of your green bottles though, don't you? There's nothing. There's no remnants of any liquid in those.

It's not hard. It's just people just don't do it. No, it's not hard to finish a bottle of Heineken. No, no, no. You're doing that. You're recycling. You're doing a lot of recycling. You have to wash out a sour cream container, though. Tell you what.

Can't drink that, can you? Okay. Oh, 800. That's the telephone number. Who do you want to put on notice in your kitchen? Paula, are you putting your husband on notice? Absolutely. He's disgusting, my husband.

What's he doing? Let's hope he's not listening right now. We love you. Yeah. He just eats anything that's really old and gross out of the fridge, even week-old curry. A week? No, please don't like chicken or anything.

Yeah, chicken curry, one week old. He's pushing it. My mum, she'd do the same, but I just couldn't do it. But your stepfather's fallen victim to food poisoning. Does your husband reheat the week old chicken curry? Yeah, he does reheat it, but I just don't know how it doesn't make him sick. Oh, it's just revolting. If I ate that the next day, I'm sick.

I can't eat anything like that. He will, yeah, one week old chicken curry doesn't eat anything like that. He will, yeah. One week old chicken curry doesn't good as gold like it's fresh for him. He can eat out of the gutter and he'll be okay, I think. Gee, well, he's got the stomach of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, this man. What else is he eating in the kitchen? Old bolognese one time. How old was the bolognese?

I reckon it was probably over a week, maybe two weeks old. Two weeks old? It got stuck behind something else. Yeah, my mum was the same. We had ham, I think, in February from Christmas or something she was trying to put out there. I was like, Mum, let it go. It's done. Send it over.

My husband will love that. In fact, I think your husband and Ben's mum might actually be a match made in leftovers heaven. He'd make it last to next Christmas. Dust off the ham from the year before.

Paula, lovely talking with you. You go and have a wonderful day. See you, mate. See you. Bye. Good morning. Good morning. You speak of America. You went to the White House. You've been traveling everywhere. What's it like inside the White House? Oh, it's actually surprisingly small. It's quite a, yeah, it's quite an intimate space, which, I don't know, it's a little misleading when you see it through your TV screen. No, because I know you obviously went to the White House. Did you extend an invitation to the President to your leaky house

that you have in Wellington to come and visit? We've mostly repaired that. No more leaks? No spiders? Well, the last rainfall didn't come inside the house, so that's a vast improvement. Yeah, well, something else keeping you awake at night at the moment is your daughter, Niamh. You posted something a couple of days ago,

basically a shout-out to other parents who are having trouble sleeping through the night because of their kids. Oh, and I was just looking for hot tips. What was the hottest tip? Was it like, let Clark do it? Probably, this is the thing, mostly he does, but he's away filming at the moment. Oh, so it's all on you.

It's all on me, yeah. Now, you did also, in your video, you were like, oh, I've just made a nice cup of tea. A strong tea. Do you not drink coffee? No, I do. I do, but not until a little later in the morning. I try and pace my caffeine intake. Yeah, I do drink much more tea than I do drink

coffee, though. Do you drink wine? Yep, yep. Not at 10 a.m. Or 7.30. Fair enough. Fair enough. So you've been travelling. You're about to go off to Europe. You've been to Australia.

You've been to America. Are the rest of the world, do you feel like the rest of the world is kind of moving on from COVID? No. No. No. Shut your mouth, Ben. Shut your mouth.

So, look, I mean, everyone's still got a mishmash of rules still. So in the United States, it varied from state to state. In fact, while we were away, we, of course, had a delegation of people who were with us. Quite a few people got COVID while they were in the States. So it's definitely still, it's not absent anywhere else. It's still there. We've been banging on for two months saying the rest of the world's moved on. We've moved on.

We'd say, wrong, missing information. I mean, Japan in particular, it was very, you know, you didn't go anywhere without having your temperature checked. We've, a lot of places that we visited, even in the United States, we've had a lot of testing before we've gone to do things. So, no, it's still very present. And, gosh, cost of living is present as well in America. It was particularly, particularly noticeable.

A lot of conversation now at the moment, Prime Minister, about health care workers. They're under the pump. They're worn out. They're exhausted. One article in the Herald today about a doctor who saw 62 patients in one day. Is there anything you can do to fix that? Well, it is definitely a really, really difficult period for our healthcare workers. I remember at the time when we, in summer, we started saying we're worried about winter.

We know it's going to be really tough. Probably felt a bit odd to be talking about that in the summertime, but we wanted to gear people up for doing their bit, particularly on flu. So, yes, there are things that we have been trying to do. Of course, we've increased the number of nurses that we have, but we're still trying to increase that again. We're carrying a lot of vacancies at the moment, so trying to make it easier for us to source nurses overseas.

But we're not the only one looking right now. There's a global shortage and short supply of health workers. So it is putting the pressure on. But my ask is of everyone, we've been so focused on COVID, rightly so, but we need that same focus on flu. It's outstripping our hospitalizations now in Auckland. There are more people in there for flu than COVID in some places. So please get your flu vaccine. Keep using your mask. It helps with flu as well.

And if you're sick, stay home. Even if it's not COVID, it could be flu, which is equally really tough on our health system. I promise to just say, I didn't think if you're tying me off to Europe this week, have you fixed your plane? Is the plane all back up and running? Look, I'm very defensive of our plane. So, yes, it is fixed, but no, we're not taking it.

Oh, damn it. I'm sure you're not disappointed about that at all. No, it's just it's for long haul. If you want to go somewhere as far as Europe, that's a lot of stops. Do you know the Defence Force who look after us on those flights? They're great. They're really good.

So I'll always defend them. You're the Prime Minister. Buy yourself a new plane. Get a new plane. Look, did you do? It was a front page story when a fence went up at Premier House. Imagine the story of a plane. I'd buy the most obnoxious double-decker plane if I was in your position.

That's why I'm not Prime Minister. Jacinda, thank you very much for your time. You go and run the country and have a great day. Thanks, you too. Look after yourselves. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Lots of people love binge-watching shows and watching a full series now. There's so many places you can do it. But my wife, Amanda, she loves it. But she commits and just has to, once she starts series now, there's so many places you can do it. But my wife, Amanda, she loves it. But she commits, like, and just has to. Once she starts a show, she's like, I need to get to the end of the show. Not all at once, but I'm like,

the other night she was like, I'm not really into that show anymore. And I'm like, well, just stop. She's like, no, I've started. I need to get to the end of it. I'm watching a 12-part series on the world's deadliest snails. I'm up to number six, and I get it. There's deadly snails, but there's another six to go.

And she's like, we'll need to get to the end of that series. I'm like, you can just walk away from the series, but she's like, no. No, this is the difference

between you two, Ben. You'll just walk away from anything. Better option comes along right now at this moment, up sticks, you're off. You'd unplug your headphones, you're out.

Exactly. I mean, that's probably the thing. I mean, yeah, like there are shows that we watch, shows that she watches by herself, shows that I watch, and there are shows we watch together.

But then the shows we watch together, because we work, obviously we get up early, sometimes we watch it late at night, I'll fall asleep and I'll miss stuff. So then they'll become the shows that she just ends up watching the end of by herself. I'm like, it's too far ahead now. I'm done.

Oh, so it's like a marathon. She keeps running. You're like, oh, me at the finish line? Yeah. Yeah, but anything. And there's some of the shows she'll be watching. I mean, Orange is New Black. that that's uh it's over 90 hours that's 90 hours it's a good show yeah and she loved it but that's 90 hours worth of tv takes

you three days 18 hours and 21 minutes to binge if you're watching the whole thing from start to finish that's a huge chunk of your life isn't it 90 hours vikings is another one 89 episodes she watched all that three days she even like Vikings? I've never heard of it. I've never heard at all about Vikings before. But yeah, I was like, oh, it's a Viking show. Yeah, she went to Danny Burke once. She's like, I love Vikings. 89 episodes they've made of Vikings.

Has she watched all 89 episodes? Did she cheat? Yeah, I think so. I was like, you're still watching Vikings. She doesn't look like a Viking person. But then it becomes like a binge watch too. She does the binge watching and I do the whinge watch. And I'm like, oh, this bloody Vikings thing again.

Still Vikings. Enough of the Vikings. 89 episodes. Friends of ours do an interesting thing though. And I read someone on stuff.co.nz did the same thing. They're a reporter. They only get one of those streaming sites for a month. So they get Netflix.

And then they're like, what shows do we want to watch watch we've got one month to watch everything before it runs out before and then they get another one like neon the next month or disney plus the next so it's like an unnecessarily race against time to binge everything and those people got jobs well other things going on in their life so i said my friends are so stressed they go we got eight more episodes before it all runs out. I'm like, just get it for two months. They're like, no, we just only want it for one month. Belle Crawford, your mum, she's a huge binge watcher.

She won't sleep, will she? Yeah, she'll stay up all night watching new seasons of The Crack. All sorts, everything. I have to be careful not to tell her about things, otherwise she won't sleep and watch it. She's full on, right? Yeah, she'll stay up all night watching. They have to go to work the next day.

Not always, but just, yeah, she just can't stop. Yeah. There's something that's like an addictive part to your brain. I was reading about it, that basically, that it's kind of that thing, you're like, I've got to get to the end, I've got to get more. And you feel good about watching it and you want to watch the next one.

And it's kind of like a nicer form of addiction. Yeah. Isn't it? No, same thing with Patty Gower and alcohol, isn't it? Yeah, well, it's not like that. Maybe he's now binge-watching Netflix shows and month-long stints for some reason. I've got to get the end of Vikings.

He's got a new vice. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. Now hands you over to our Queen of Kardashian news. Welcome, Belle. Well, Beyonce has mic drop. Well, she's dropped a new song anyway.

It's called Break My Soul, and it's from her upcoming album, Renaissance, which is set to come out later next month. And it's her first release in two years, and her first full-length album release since Lemonade in 2016. So Beyonce fans have been waiting a while. They'll be very happy.

It is a bit different from what you've probably heard, but hey, look, she's allowed to try new things. Described as, like, house sort of vibes, vibes So you know We can put this on In the club Have you heard it? Yeah I've got it here for you

Oh you've got it Oh great we can hear it Yeah It's a bit different Okay Here we go All she's saying is You won't break my soul

Over and over again Yeah Oh then you say Everybody over and over again. It's obviously other parts, but that's the... A little teaser for you. It seems like it would go off in the clubs, wouldn't it? Scott Robertson would be breakdancing and that all over the dance floor. But quite different sounding from Beyonce's other bangers.

I was reading an article the other day that she wrote that song Crazy in Love in under two hours. I love that song. And Love in under two hours and she was hungover. Wouldn't be watching your documentary Panna Gow. She wrote her biggest hit in two hours. That's incredible. You always hear those stories but I suppose if it's coming to you in that

creative space it would just all flow out wouldn't it? Dysentery. Also big birthday today. It's Prince William's 40th birthday. I know we're all, obviously time goes on, but it's kind of wild to think when he was, we were all kids and he was a kid and now he's 40. But yeah, so big birthday for him.

Okay, so Prince William and me both 40. Yep. Who's winning? Who's winning and what? No, well not in life because he's got a huge advantage. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Which ways, though? Yeah, which ways?

In youthful exuberance. In looks. To be honest? Be honest. Probably William. Why are you saying William? I just say he looks. He's got lots of people doing nice things for him, yeah.

You know, like he's, you know. If he had a full head of hair, you're right. He would look. Yeah. What are you saying about you? Like, let's say both of you, let's imagine you both are flowing locks. He just looks a bit less tired than you. Less beaten down.

You know, and his uncle's Prince Andrew. Oh. You know, he's all, and he's Oh. You know, he's still winning. No, he does look fantastic. He's got his mother's, like if you just look at his face, it's like Princess Diana, isn't it? Yeah, there was a lot of photos the same before. They put out in the tabloids of him, you know,

coming out of nightclubs in his wilder, younger days. There could have been a few photos of that of you. They didn't have cameras back in those days. Yeah, Prince Charles done the classic thing a parent does. You know, they love to put a photo album up on your birthday. Baby photos, all sorts, which you can see over the years as well. What is the, I'm just, I lost an article here. The Queen's very charming present she has given Prince William.

Oh God, no, it's a paywall, mate. Can only read the first three. She gave him a paywall? No, no. I was like, it's a paywall, mate. I can only read the first three. You can't read a paywall? No, no. I was like, what? I clicked on the article. It's like, if you want to support journalism, pay $4.99 a month. Oh, you don't.

You clearly don't. Anti-journalism. Well, thanks, Mel. That is your entertainment news. For more, head to thehits.co.nz. And that is our show on a chilly Wednesday. Have yourself a great day. We'll catch you tomorrow from SAC.

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