Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Kiwi Man Gets Stuck In A Retail Shop Overnight....

Episode Date: August 25, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast we chat to a great New Zealander Noel who was stuck in Hallensteins overnight.... Laura Mcgoldrick chats the weekend sport and Angus Ta'avao chats about life in and out of rugby!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, welcome, 26th of August, it's the podcast intro. Jeez, I've ploughed through four cans of soda this morning. I'm a dam about to explode. It's not like Coca-Cola or anything, like you're not drinking Fanta's or anything. No, like literal cans of Schweppes soda. Yeah. Do you know one of the most enjoyable things about drinking out of a can any can

is the crushing of the can yeah you do like doing that don't you it doesn't annoy me no it doesn't no you do I know the satisfaction of doing it

so yeah I just saw somewhere that apparently if you crush the can it doesn't recycle properly at the plant oh god oh really

I don't know if it was a US thing or a new thing the young one comes in with well we've been crushing cans the wrong way Ruining the environment by crushing cans Hey I read it It wasn't me it was on Facebook

They used to do a thing back in the day The cash for cans Oh you could collect them You'd go around all your parents drunken parties You'd be taking all the cans Sifting through beer cans I did it once and I got heaps, you know, parties in these rubbish bags full

of them. I was like, I'm going to make a fortune and I think I ended up with something just like the smallest amount of money for what it was. I was like, this is taking me so long and you walk away with... It was like two cents a can or something. Yeah, it was something I was being disappointed. I was like, you know,

going on... It was a machine, wasn't it? You took them to a machine and it was like a conveyor belt into the machine. And the machine would crash them. Yeah. So why don't you have a word

to the machine there, John? And the machine was crashing Yeah, it was. It was a big thing. It would go down into the machine and then they'd go, oh, here you go, kid.

Here's your $4.20, whatever it was. You'd be like, mate, I've been trailing around for seven days. No sleep. I'd be staying awake till 11, 12 o'clock at night at these parties just to get these cans.

So, yeah. The trick is, though, the can crush can go badly if you've just got your foot off just a little bit. So you need to get it in the middle. I'll do one now. I'll try and aim in the middle. And that was textbook. Yeah. And I love it when it shuts the lid back into itself.

Oh, now you're making a lot of mess out of it, though. Oh, it's a little of it though yeah going on now producer joel you've usually got a hypothetical question you'd like to chuck i've actually got a question you're really good uh topical one here um can we address the uh the elephant in the room yeah um you're dressed up nice today exactly it's formal friday but you didn't give us a heads up well i told you last week in the podcast first week of the month formal friday flannel friday second week of the month. Formal Friday. Flannel Friday. Flannel Friday.

Second week of the month, party shirt Friday. Third week, formal Friday. Next week, the last Friday of the month. I believe it's actually the start of September as well. Oh, the start of September. Yeah, so next week, flannel Friday. So next week, flannel Friday. We need to start putting it into the calendar. Could you remind us?

I'll put an email out Thursday night for you guys. So that's flannel shirt. Flannel shirt. Well, it could be flannel pants. Joel is going to town. Shoes on today. Nice button-up shirts. Yeah, good.

You should have on full blazer and tie-necked. I was going to wear a blazer, but yeah. You knew we weren't going to come. I had no faith. We'll come back to the next formal Friday. Well, that'd be good. Yeah, flannel Friday next week. Is John wearing a flannel today?

Obviously got the dates mixed up. That's right. But your rotation of the themed fridays is really it's throwing a spanner in the works yeah so okay flannel friday next week anyone get involved in that one you get involved with your listing as well yeah okay send it into the hits breakfast okay sorry back to the question back to the question uh it's a bit of a on the spot one because i don't really think of it but if you were in a room with vladimir putin no cameras no lights what no lights, what would you do?

That's a Tovar O'Brien question. We literally, just before recording this, we were watching a Tovar O'Brien interview with Zelensky. Yeah, in Ukraine. And she asked that exact question to Zelensky. And he gave a good answer. He was like, oh, look, I'm not going to give away. If that ever happened, why would I put that out there,

what I would do? And Jono was saying if he was in there, he hedge, go full hammer and tongs, beat him up. If I was in a room with Putin, how have I ended up in a room with Putin? In what world? Let's just say that he's coming to work here, you've worked in the bathroom, you've ended up washing your hands next to him. Oh, Vladimir. But you're like, that occasion, you're like, oh, I was, yeah.

What would I do You'd probably just I'd probably introduce Yeah I'd probably not say anything Come back out here And be like Vladimir Putin

This guy looks exactly Like Vladimir Putin Would you do a selfie Do you think No no I wouldn't get it No I'd definitely

Not in the bathroom either But I wouldn't I'd do the New Zealand thing And you know Not say anything To Vladimir Putin Come back out not say anything to Vladimir Putin. Come back out here and be like, bloody Vladimir Putin!

And I'd talk about it on the radio. You did the same to one of the Gallagher brothers, right? Yeah. Liam. Was it Liam? I didn't see who it was. Yeah, it was one of them. I can't remember.

I don't think you said anything at the time, but you came back out and go, oh my God, and the toilet just then was one of the Gallagher brothers. I did the exact same thing with AJR yesterday. I saw them standing outside the Enzimere building

I didn't say anything and I was like message stormed from Flava I was like holy crap that's AJR but I was like but you didn't say anything just get a photo

it's New Zealand baby so back to your question what would we do if we were in a room with Putin nothing nothing but anyone

that would go for anyone but just AJR one of the Gallagher brothers you know anyone you see and ideally when he walked out of the Gallagher brothers you know anyone you see you know and I definitely when he walked out of the bathroom

I'd be staring at him Putin you know yeah that's what I do I remember once we went to LA we were filming

and I can't even remember who the actor was but it was an actor I knew kind of off a TV show you know at that level it wasn't like a Brad Pitt or anything like that

but going up like and the director was like go get a photo get a photo it'd be good for the social media I was like oh up, and the director was like, go ask for a photo, get a photo, it'd be good for the social media. I was like, oh, okay. So I was like, I did.

And then you go, hi, from New Zealand, can we have a photo? One of the times you do, and they went, no, I don't do photos in public places. And you're like, oh, okay. That was, you know, and from there, that kind of rocks your selfie career, doesn't it? But it was very polite.

The person was very polite. Sorry, I'd love to, but I don't really do photos because other people get photos. And you're like, okay. You know, and once you do that, it's a hard job to pick yourself up and just. Do you know my favorite selfie experience? Sharon made me do it. So a friend, we were over in the States for work and we saw Cash Me Outside. How about that?

You remember that girl? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was popular. She was on Dr. Phil. She we saw Cash Me Outside, How About That? You remember that girl? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was popular. She was on Dr. Phil. She said, Cash Me Outside, How About That? How about that? And she was everywhere. She was like a ratbag teenager.

Yeah, and it was like the sangha. Everyone was going around sangha. Cash Me Outside, How About That? It was outside the hotel. We caught her out. Literally, we caught her outside. How about that? And Sharon was like, I've got no makeup on.

Ben, you've got to go and ask for a photo. Because I don't know where you were at the time. But anyway, I was like, oh, but it was, and there was nothing weirder than me, like a fully grown adult going up to someone who, She was 16, 15. Hi again. Hi, I'm from New Zealand.

We don't see many celebrities around. Do you mind? And this was playing in my head the last time I'd asked for a photo with someone. And she went, you took a photo with her And she looks dead inside Yeah I'm like smiling Like yeah

Thumbs up Like this over enthusiastic 30 something year old man She's like He caught me outside How about that I was like Came back

I was like thanks for that Sharon Yeah The audience are a bunch of hoes Yeah outside. How about that? He came back and was like, thanks for that, Sharon. For the audience who are a bunch of hoes. Yeah. Catch me outside. How about that? How about that? There you go. Catch me outside. And that became a saying.

Oh, there we go. Enjoy the podcast today. Really interesting chat with Angus Tova from the All Blacks, which is actually going to be its own podcast as well, too. It was such a really, really good chat with him. He's such an awesome dude. As well as that, a guy who got stuck inside a changing rooms. He came out the store shut. How did that happen?

You'll find out on the podcast. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits. We're joined by a man who's made news for unfortunately getting stuck inside a clothing store after hours. It happens in Rotorua. Yeah. His name is Noel. Good morning.

Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Good morning. Who am I speaking to? This is Jono and Ben. Oh, g'day, Jono. How are you? Yeah, good. Lovely to have you on, Noel.

Listen, no one can tell us apart. We politely answer to both, Noel. But an amazing tale of survival. I remember that movie. That movie was 127 hours with old Franco. Yeah, he ended up getting his arm stuck in a rock while he was out there. But you got stuck in a changing room in a clothing store. Yeah, bizarre.

Yeah, yeah. I'd been looking online for a nice light linen jacket, you know, for summer. And our Helenstines popped up on the computer. So I thought I'd bowl in and I'd rock up the Helenstines. And I'm looking around and I go up to the jackets and I see a couple. And anyway, they weren't really what I was looking for. It wasn't the light linen job you were after, Noel? No, no, no, no, it wasn't, eh?

Maybe they've still got their winter stock in, you know? Yeah, yeah. Might want to go back sort of November. Yeah, it might have been a bit earlier. They probably haven't got it in yet. But anyway, regardless, I thought, well, I'll just go back and try the jacket on just to see how they fit, you know, just see the cut of it and everything. So I fall into the changing room.

So I'm in there and I try it on for size, and it fits well, and bloody blah, but I didn't want it, so I walk out, and I'm in my own little world, and you had my head down, and just want to walk back to the rack, and chucked it back on the hanger, and next thing I turn around to walk out and shit I noticed the bloody shop's a bit darker and there's no one around and I'm thinking shit what's going on here and I thought I was having a senior moment

you know I was getting a bit confused Is this how it ends? So the doors have been locked they roll the door and come down I get a bit confused. He's like, is this how it ends? Is this how it ends? So the doors, they've been locked. The roller door had come down. Yeah, what happened is obviously when you bowl in there, there's big open glass doors, but they were closed and their big roller door had come down.

And anyway, I'm just standing in the middle of the shop there. First of all, I yell out, is anyone there? And, of course, there's no reply. So you're going, well, geez, I'm going to have a lot of time to try on jackets now. Well, yeah, well, exactly, you know. So I'm standing there and just, you know, those thoughts go through your mind. I think, Jesus Christ, what do I do now? How long am I going to be here?

My bloody phone's out in the car. I was just about to say, where was your phone? It was out in the car, mate. Yeah, it was on me top, you know. So what happens? What do you do in that situation to get out? You're locked in a store. It's closed. What do you do? Well,

the only thing I... Well, I'll tell you what I was thinking. If I was there for the night, I was in the right store. I wouldn't have gone cold, you know. There was enough jackets to try on. But I'm just standing there, and I'm quite sort of surreal, really. Here I am standing in this dark shop. Anyway, next thing, while I'm standing there, I see the owner-operator of the store.

I can see him. Yeah, it's all blurry, but I could recognise his clothes and stuff. And he's coming over and he's bending down to open up the door. And he's got two security guards with him. And I'm thinking, oh, Christ, I've set off some alarms or something, you know. They're like, this is the oldest ram raider we've ever seen. Oh, jeez. Anyway, he rolls the doors up and, shit, I can still see the look on his face,

eh? I said, shit, mate, you're bloody locked in. And, you know, because even when I was standing in the bloody shop, I'm thinking, Christ, they're bloody not going to look good if the cops come. What is he doing? What is he doing? So they were very good about it, we understand. They've given you a voucher.

They've apologised for the mixer. Oh, they've been amazing. You know, I just, the poor guy, I mean, he was, he didn't check the changing room. I was going to say, they'll be doing a sweep of the changing sheds before they lock up now. Well, yeah, I think that'll be, that's probably, yeah, they're probably having staff meetings about it now, you know, buddy. So as it turns

out, you went down to buy a jacket, now you've been given vouchers to get free jackets, Noel. I know, I know, yeah, it's very thankful and grateful, they were very nice to me, I have to say. Oh, good on you, Noel, what a tale

of survival. Yeah, yeah, it was a bloody to say. Oh, good on you, Noel. What a tale of survival. Yeah, it was a bloody hoose, hey. One of those, as I say, quirky little life experiences. Good on you. You've been very good-natured about it. Well, Noel, thank you very much for your time this morning. You go and have a wonderful day and try and stay out of shops. Hey, cheers.

You guys are a couple of characters, aren't you? God. Love your work, Noel. You have a great day. You too, man. Just a couple of dads screaming on the sidelines of their kids' sports games. Jono and Ben on the hits. Big weekend, including the All Blacks game.

They're taking on Argentina in Christchurch. And we're joined by one of the ABs right now. Angus Taubao, more dinner? More dinner, lads. How we going? We're doing all right. How you doing? Yeah, not too bad, not too bad.

A little bit of an early start on a Friday, but no drafters. Sorry about that. What time does your average, well, you're not the average All Black, you know, what time does your high-performing All Black usually get up? Friday's your day to sort of have a little bit of a sleep, and, you know, you've got captains run, which starts a bit later. But usually during the week, you get up around 7 o'clock, but, you know, you take the extra couple of hours.

But, hey, I'm speaking with you guys, so happy days. It's nice to have you up early for us. You guys as the All Blacks, obviously a big game this weekend, but it must be nice to have the whole coaching, you know, drama all over in Dunworth. You know what's happening now. It must be good to put that all behind you. Yeah, I mean, it's sort of been going on in the background.

We've tried to shut it out. You know, there's been a lot of noise. Some of the guys that have come in, there have been real positive changes, Joe Schmidt and Jase Ryan. And, you know, I think it's good now we can just focus on playing footy and we're just trying to move forward in a positive light. I know you're trying to move forward,

but I want to move back. I want to talk about Ian Foster. I want to talk about him. All right. Where are his sideburns? That's probably something I've never, I've never actually taken note of, mate. But now that you've brought it to light, I'll have to approach him and ask him. He shaves them above his ears.

Oh, that's all right. That's a good option, right? That is a high... I know he's just getting a nice little fade option, you know? Next time you're at training, Angus, just have a little side glance and go, whoo, he runs that razor high. But you of all people, Jono Pryor, shouldn't be throwing stones about haircuts

and hairstyles. Where's your lid? Angus, what we got noticed about you, because obviously you see you in interviews after the game, you know, you're wearing glasses, but when you play on the field, was it a contact lens situation, or are you kind of going around not quite seeing everything?

Oh, yeah, more the second option. I've got astigmatism, so like my shape of my eye is real weird and I tried to do contacts. But one, it took me about 40 minutes to get one in. And two, it was only like half my prescription. So I just thought, well, I've done it my whole life. I'll just keep doing it. But if there's any like a high ball, that's when I'm terrible.

You can't even see it. Yeah, luckily, I don't need to. My depth perception is terrible, so I'll just leave that to the backs. And if I drop a ball, you know, I might blame the eyes every now and then. Can I tell you a horrific contact lens story, Angus? I'm an eye guy. I hate eyes. And I had to put a contact lens in for something we were doing for work.

And the guy who was putting it in, it took him about half an hour to get it in. Because you're fighting around like a toddler. I had to go back to his shop to remove it and it's just a pinch of the eyeball apparently gets the contact lens out. All of a sudden, 10 minutes in, I've been squirming and moving around, he's had to tie me to the chair and he goes, uh-oh. And I said, what does uh-oh mean? And he said, I've lost the contact lens behind your eyeball.

What the heck? It was behind my eye. And I said to him, they dissolve, I imagine, don't they? Surely they just dissolve. He's like, no, I'm going to have to scoop it out. I said, dear God. He got his finger, put it in between my eye socket and my eyeball, and he had to finger out the contact lens.

Absolutely true. That is why I don't use contact lenses. That is it, mate. Angus Talvell with us from the All Blacks. He headed the game tomorrow night. I saw something on the project a couple of weeks ago with you, doing really good stuff with Starship now. Yeah, it's something that's

pretty close to my heart. My young boy he's got a genetic disorder and spent a lot of time at Starship and I just, you know, for a while now, I've been wanting to give back a little bit and got in touch with them to try and, you know, be an ambassador for them and raise some money for such a great cause. Not a good idea.

What a great thing to do. And your son, he's OK now? Yeah, he's come a long way. He'll have things going on. Like he's developmentally behind and he's five and a half now. He's non-verbal. So he'll go to a special school. But from where he was to where he is now, like, we're in hospital, like, every week, sometimes two to three times a week for the first few years of his life.

And he's in a pretty good space now. He's come a long way, so we're bloody proud of him. But very thankful for Starship and what they do. That probably puts things into perspective for you, you know, and for, you know, where the rugby fans are getting up in arms about things the All Blacks not winning enough for, you know, by enough, you know, probably puts everything into perspective as well. Yeah, it's definitely been a massive rock for me,

all that outside noise and just ignoring it and, you know, sort of going back to my rocks at home and my why, why I play rugby, and he's a massive part of why I play, and, you know, the sun still rises, I still get up in the morning, I still going back to my rocks at home and my why, why I play rugby. And he's a massive part of why I play. And, you know, the sun still rises. I still get up in the morning. I still get to see my family and they're massive for me. Well, that's awesome because you're bloody inspirational.

You're a top dude. And also the fact, you know, like, you know, you kind of didn't have a contract a few years ago. You went to Australia. You were playing for the Waratahs, you know, and to come back and to be playing for the All Blacks is incredible. Yeah, I mean, it's been a hell of a journey, but it's sort of, I don't want to get all like philosophical, I don't even know if it's philosophical, but you know, it's just like

things have happened for a reason, you know, I broke my leg and my son was born and he was in hospital for three months and I would have gone to Africa otherwise. So yeah, it's all these little things along the way that sort of just felt like it's meant to happen. So, you know, I just keep grinding, keep doing what I can do and let things fall into place. You are a wonderful human being, mate. And quickly, I just wanted to next time you play, it would be a

dream of mine if you could be so kind, if we give away your used rugby socks on the Monday morning. Oh, wow. Okay. Used rugby socks. I'll chuck in a pair of shorts as well, but hopefully I'll play soon. I'm not playing this week. Yeah, but next game.

The next game you play. It could be anything. Just a bit. And we'll say, on Monday morning, you've got Angus's sweaty socks and sweaty shorts. We're giving them away.

I don't know if you'll get many calls for that. I'll have to go for you. I love your work, mate. All the best for the boys this weekend. Great to catch up. See you, mate. There you go, Angus. Toe of Al from the All Blacks.

What a wonderful guy. He's awesome, mate. Who's having the best weekend? Cheers to Karcher Window Vac. Clean any smooth surface like a champ. Yeah, you can shop for a Karcher Window Vac in-store and online at your local DIY store. It's worth $249 to make your windows look amazing. And we've got one up for grabs right now to decide who's having the best weekend.

I just love this window cleaning technology. Up until now, I've been licking my windows clean. Now you've got a device to do it. That's the key, isn't it, when you invent something. You find a task or an activity that people find mundane and tedious and you just provide a solution to it. That's how you get rich, Ben.

I haven't done that yet. No, I know we haven't. That's why we're here doing what we do. find mundane and tedious and you just provide a solution to it that's how you get rich yeah i haven't done that yet no i know we haven't that's why we're here uh doing what we do but we are giving away this window vac which does just that and we want to you know we have to decide and it's a little bit awkward who's having the best weekend because everyone's having amazing weekends yeah that's right and you can make the rest of us all feel miserable about our bleak weekends we have coming up but this is a no-holds-barred showing off of who's having the best weekend. We're going to kick it off in West Auckland with Andrea.

Great to have you on, Andrea. Morning. Morning. How are you guys? We're doing well. You're pitching it. Your first cab off the rank for the best weekend. Okay, right.

I've got the day off work today, and I'm going to see my cousin Karen from Canada. In 13 years, I have not seen her. I've spent the day with her and today and I'm going to see my cousin Karen from Canada in 13 years I have not seen her spend the day with her and shop till we drop and then tomorrow we're having a party at our house

playing beer pong watching the All Blacks and also Hawke's Bay are going to keep the shield because that's my home team Karen from Canada 13 years

that sounds like one egg of a weekend wow shopping till you're dropping beer ponging till you're dropping well that's a front runner that sounds like one egg of a weekend. Shopping till you're dropping, beer ponging till you're dropping. Well, that's a front runner. That sounds like an amazing weekend. So far, the window vac is hers, but now we need to see.

We head to Morrinsville. Stacey, good morning. Morena. Happy Friday, guys. How are you? It's great to have you on, Stace. Wonderful, bubbly Stacey. Why isn't it your best weekend?

Why are you having the best weekend, Stacey? Well, today's my birthday, so I've got the day off. And we fly today to Hemna Springs for the weekend. So lots of gambling, cocktails. Oh, birthday! Who's going to the springs with you, Stace? My fiancé and I are going away for the weekend. Oh, what are you guys going to be doing?

Cocktails. Don't spare any details. Cocktails, eating. Yeah, yeah, and? Hydra sliding, stuff like that. There's all that sort of stuff going on.

All that R18 stuff. Two great weekends to start. Oh, great weekends. All right, Johnny. In Christchurch where the All Blacks are playing this weekend, you're coming in third and final.

You think you've got the best weekend. What are you doing? Oh, I definitely do. So this weekend I've got a basketball final on Saturday, which we're going to win, and then I'm absolutely going to lose my mind and do something strange for a little bit of change involving some drinks. All right, Johnny, so he's already won the final.

He hasn't even played it. He's already celebrating with some drinks already. Wonderful confidence. Okay, and Saturday night, what's it going to involve? Oh, Saturday night, it's going to involve drinking out of the trophy. Maybe a couple of shoes. Drinking out of the trophy, I love it. He's in a basketball uniform until Monday morning.

He's in a basketball uniform until Monday morning. He's in a basketball uniform until Monday morning. And he's drinking out of shoes and drinks. This is a tough one. Okay, so we've got Andrea, we've got Stacey, we've got John. Get them all back on. We love it. We're going to make the decision. Don't bring them back on.

With a raw emotion. We've only got one Karcher window vacuum. And it's going to Stacey, who's having a filthy weekend in Hamner Springs. Stacey, well... Oh, thanks so much, guys. That's awesome. Do you know what? You'll be some cleaning up in Hamner Springs afterwards.

You know what, Andrea, John, I'm going to talk to the people at Karcher. I reckon we can get you guys a window back as well. I reckon we can sort that out, because you guys are having an amazing weekend, so why not everyone work? What? This is what's wrong with this woke So why not? Everyone work. What? This is what's wrong

with this woke world. What? It's beautiful. It is lovely, isn't it? But we're not here for beautiful. Thanks so much, team. No, no, seriously. You're welcome. You're welcome. I saw that out with Karcher. They're amazing. You're not happy about that? Why does everyone win?

You can't have everyone winning. What was the point? Should have just gone, Andrea, stay here, Mike? You can't have everyone winning. Well, why not? This is not how the, what was the point? Should have just gone Andrew stays here, Mike. Well done, you'll get a window back and just play some more pink. Well, I'd love to do that. I have. So there we go. Hey, well done.

Enjoy your weekend, everyone. This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Wall-to-wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. Time now for our weekly catch-up with Laura McGoldrick from the Hits Drive show. It's sports with Lazza, Jazza and Baza. Come on in

Laura McGoldrick. Oh jeez. Hello. The eye of a hurricane. I can't find my contract. I can't believe this is still happening. Why? Speaking of your husband Marty Guptill, great win by the Blackcaps. Their first ever series win against the West Indies. Is he home yet? Has he brought you back something duty-free?

And does he do his own washing when he comes home? Like, is he washing all his smelly cricket gear? Yeah, the hard-hitting questions, which I appreciate. Guppy is home. Great to see him. I'm hoping there'll be gifts. It was kind of a quick cross over the other day when he arrived home. So I'm letting him deal with the jet lag, and now I'm going to hammer him with questions about what he brought home to me.

I don't want to destroy your dreams. If he hasn't given you the gift now, I don't know. I don't know if it was brought overseas. Imagine when he comes back from tour, he opens the door, and you hand your children to him and go, here, you take these. The exact conversation was, so there's milk in the fridge, and, you know, 10 weeks the fridge, have a great week. You know, 10 weeks is a bit of a stint, so

I'm thrilled to have him home. I bet. Now, massive weekend of sport. The Warriors playing the Panthers, and I don't know why I'm talking like this, but that's tonight. Yeah, I'm a Warriors fan, but really, the season end probably can't come soon enough. Yeah, how's that

been for you? Because I love the Warriors, sure, but really the season end probably can't come soon enough. Yeah, how's that been for you? Because I love the Warriors, sure, but I'm comfortable enough with my position as a Warriors fan that I can just dip in and out. What's it been like if you're a die-hard fan? Because that is a hard season. The commitment has waned a little bit, to be brutally honest,

towards the end of the year. Do you know I went to Chemist Warehouse, actually, the other weekend? I haven't given them to you yet. I purchased Ben Boyce some Warriors Ultra Soft 3-ply tissues. They literally have their own brand of tissues. That's how sad their fans are. Is that for the fans?

Is that for the fans? It's for me. Enjoy. So we've got the All Blacks this weekend. Big game against Argentina in Christchurch too. Now Ian Foster obviously coach. Scott Robertson territory. You're from Christchurch Laura. Now, Ian Foster, obviously coach, Scott Robertson territory. You're from Christchurch, Laura. I mean, how's the crowd going to be? Oh, hostile.

I'd say pretty hostile. No, I don't think so. It's the first time there's been test rugby back in Canterbury for a long time. So I know that everyone there will be out in full force. Do you think Ian Foster will bust out a dance? I mean, he's probably not a break dancer, but if he was going to do one post-match, what do you think he'd do in Christchurch? Raise the roof kind of guy, you know?

To the roof, baby. I think that'd be where he lives. He's not down there twerking, is he? No. He ain't getting low. He ain't dropping it like it's hot. I know that. I had a question, too, and it was not a bad one.

Oh, the Argentinians. Every time I see an Argentinian rugby player on TV, they are enormous. And they have a very meat-heavy diet. It doesn't look like any of them have had one vegetable in their life. Just solid meat. Are they a good rugby team? They are a good rugby team. They just walloped the Australians at the Wallabies a couple of weekends ago.

They are ginormous human beings. And no, they don't know what broccoli is, but that's okay. They would have the most congested colon. That's for sure. Oh, yeah. And finally, Laura, one last thing I wanted to throw at you.

I don't know if you saw this. It was going around, but you've been to a lot of sporting games over the years. There was a guy in America at the baseball. He had a beer and he had a hot dog. And what he did, he had a perfectly good straw, but he kind of poked the straw through his hot dog, through the wiener, and then used the hot dog wiener as the straw to drink out of.

Now, I don't know. He's never used the sentence, he put his straw through a wiener again. I'm going to get you stopped, babe. Well, yeah, I was just like, you had a perfectly good straw. Why were you doing that? I don't know what benefit to use a hot dog as a straw. Have you ever seen anything wild like that happen in a sports game? I was once at the Basin Reserve watching a game of cricket.

It was a test match. And, look, I love the Basin Reserve. But some stuff went down. It was very exciting. And I watched a grown man throw a cooked chicken into the crowd, like as part of a Mexican way. Oh, my God. I'm looking.

Ben's just actually playing me the video of this man drinking out of a sausage straw. Tell you what, the Argentinians, they would have sausage straws, wouldn't they? They definitely would. Okay. I'm not mature enough to have this conversation. Quickly, before you go, we'll just rattle through the scores. Warriors, Panthers tonight, who's winning? I couldn't comment.

I'll go with this one. As a Warriors fan, it's the Panthers. All Blacks, Argentina tomorrow. 1812 to the All Blacks. Oh, 1812 to the All Blacks. And then finally, the Black Ferns are playing Australia 245 in Adelaide. Who's winning that? We are, obviously, and I'd say 32-10 to us.

Scrolling through your feed. He's fresh from hacking your phone and scrolling through your feed. What's going on, Benjamin? A bit of a scary situation in Auckland, just a hand. A major incident this morning, an explosion at the wharf with five people injured, it's been reported. It happened around 6.30 this morning. Firefighters, ambulance and police are in attendance along Halsey Street.

Yeah, they're reporting it as a major incident, five people injured. So we're really hoping everyone's okay. Oh, jeez. Yeah. Was it a construction site? I wasn't entirely sure there was talk around the big explosions. You may want to avoid the area if you're driving to work. And, you know, police happen to deal with a lot lately.

I was just reading also this morning, 129 ram raids since May. 129 ram raids. Those are bloody big ram raid stats, aren't they? Yeah, and almost all the people that are doing it are under 18. 15, age 15 is the median age for all the people. The youngest, I think there was one under 10. That's crazy. Ram rating under 10.

This was horrible for the shops and all the situation, you know, out there and the livelihoods of everyone. So, yeah, really, really scary. You know what, like, I'd be petrified to ram rate. Even now I'm 40. You know, maybe when I hit 45 I'll be in my ram rating years. But 9, 10 years old. Yeah, it is. Why would you not be frightened of. It's more than one a night on average, you know, maybe when I hit 45 I'll be in my ram rating years. But nine, ten years old. Why would you not be frightened of...

It's more than one a night on average, you know, it's happening. It's like 40 in the last month or something. Oh, you hear the police helicopter at night. It never goes down, it never leaves the sky. It's just flying around permanently. Yeah, terrible stuff. So your ram rating that you're getting away with... I'm not doing any of that.

I'm not doing any at all. Let's not go there. Like he gets up, it's weird, he gets up he's like yeah I'm up at 2am, I'll just do a bit of stuff before I get to work. I'm like what are you doing? That's you, that's you. If anyone's going to do that we're like why are you getting up so early? No one can get their head around it. You're like it's quiet, it's peaceful

but now it's making a lot of sense. And the Pumas, the Argentinian rugby side, they're playing the All Blacks. It's going to be a big game in Christchurch this weekend. And as the report goes, they won't be lacking any protein when it comes to the game because they devoured 170 kgs of meat at an Argentinian barbecue in Christchurch. The team, that's a lot. We were talking about it before 7 o'clock with Laura McGoldrick, our official sports reporter,

and just saying, they'd have some busy colons, wouldn't they? They would be, how is their body working through all that meat? I've seen the photo, and it's spectacular, the 170 kilograms of meat. There is not one tomato, not one bit of lettuce. There's no vegetables inside. Just meat. There's some giant meat fest Yeah

Well there you go So I feel that'll work That way through the system In time for Sunday In reality They probably only weigh Like 35kg each But they're 120kg

Just of meat Yeah so it's going to be A big game by this weekend We're going to have a meat crisis After Argentina leave The reason the mute button Was invented Jono and Ben

On the hits Now yesterday I was in the mall Because I was telling my daughter at the mall she was doing something. And as I was sitting around waiting for her out there, I was sort of on my phone. And I was like, oh, let's see if I can connect to the wall, to the mall Wi-Fi. And what popped up, it was quite busy around me, was Justin Bieber's Wi-Fi popped up as an option. I was like, oh, my God. And you find yourself just looking. You're like, well, it can't be Justin Bieber's Wi-Fi popped up as an option. I was like, oh, my God. And you find yourself just looking.

You're like, well, it can't be Justin Bieber. But then you're like, well, maybe it could be Justin Bieber. Ben, Justin Bieber is not wandering around Sydenham, the Westfield in Sydenham, let alone naming his own Wi-Fi network, Justin Bieber's Wi-Fi network. Good name for a Wi-Fi, I thought afterwards, because it does make you think. It gives you that, oh, is Justin Bieber's Wi-Fi network Good name for a Wi-Fi I thought afterwards Because it does make you think

It gives you that Oh Yeah Is Justin Bieber around? Too much trust Has been placed On the average Member of the public

To name their own Wi-Fi network Like You know I'm not for communism But the government Should take the power back They should be like

We're going to name them All from now on There's some good ones I was looking online A lot of ones That I love Because they're puns For Wi-Fi names

Drop it like it's hotspot Pretty fly for my Wi-Fi Keep it like it's hot spot pretty fly for my wi-fi uh keep it on the download it hurts when i ip uh you know so these are good tell my wi-fi i love her oh yeah so these are these are some good options you've got out there i like it so i came into one one day which was like the mongrel mobs wi-fi was the name of it now you know a large part of you thinks well this is clearly for comedy. But then there's that bit of you like, you don't want to go tapping into the Muggle Mob's Wi-Fi.

Same sort of thing in America. They have a lot of people put FBI surveillance van and stuff like that. So you're like, oh, do I? There's just that little bit of you like, no. Do I actually go to this or not? Yeah, it keeps you away from it, doesn't it? Producer Joel, do you have something to say? Nacho Wi-Fi, that's a good one as well.

Nacho Wi-Fi. That's really good. That is beautiful. My friend, who I've met before, he's had an ongoing feud with his neighbour. I think it started during lockdown. Tensions were high. This feud, it could be on an episode of that show Neighbours at War.

It's been tit for tat, back and forth, back and forth. But now it reached a state where my friend would rename his Wi-Fi network. Now, I won't name and shame, but he started out by renaming his Wi-Fi network, Tony's a Dick. So this is for the neighbour to go, oh, hang on. So the neighbour's name's Tony. And so whenever he logs onto his Wi-Fi, it comes up with Tony's a dick. So this is for the neighbour to go, oh, hang on. So the neighbour's name's Tony and so whenever he logs onto his Wi-Fi, it comes up with...

Petty, but I do like it. Yeah, and then Tony came back with, you know, I'll call him Michael. Michael's the worst neighbour in the world. So now they're kind of passive-aggressively renaming their Wi-Fi. And then my friend came back and said, Tony's stealing everyone's mail in the street.

And then he came back and he's like, Michael probably ran over your dog. And it's just tit for tat at the moment. They're changing it weekly. That's very good. It's a great way to do it. A lot of suppressed emotions there. Look out!

Scary dinosaurs. Not Jurassic Park. It's these guys. Jono and Ben on the hits. Hey, looking forward to the weekend. I was in that mood this morning, Ben. I was getting out of the car, peeping my step. It's Friday.

Friday, feels good, doesn't it? Can't feel bad on a Friday. Then I hear the voice in the darkness of a younger member of staff, you know, sort of 22 years old. And they're like, hey, you've got your phone torch on right and you know it's the light you know the phone torches i don't need to over explain it yeah but for some reason nothing makes you feel more embarrassed and defensive than when someone has to point out your phone torch is accidentally on be honest was it so you didn't trip over anything were you actually using it

no but that's why you start coming up with excuses. You're like, oh, no, I was looking for something on the ground here, or oh, I was doing, you know, dentistry or something. I needed some light to sit inside someone's mouth. But the person who says that you've left your phone torch on, they've got great joy in it, don't they? Yeah.

Yeah. But you feel like an absolute schmuck, don't you? But sometimes it's just, you know, it's a simple button to knock, really, isn't it? To go Yeah. But you feel like an absolute schmuck. But sometimes it's just, you know, it's a simple button to knock, really, isn't it? To go on. But yeah, for some reason, you're like, yeah, your torch, your light's on. You're like, oh, sorry.

You feel like you've been boomed. Yes. Or don't know, you know. Because then you're trying to turn it off in a flap, in a panic, and it doesn't go off quickly. No. Because then you're trying to find it, and they're looking at you.

They're like, look, yeah. You should need a license for that telephone. Yeah, the phone torch. I mean, it's a great function sometimes, but it, yeah, you should need a license for that telephone. Yeah, the phone torch. I mean, it's a great function sometimes, but it really can put you wrong a whole lot of other times. When's the most exciting time you used your phone torch, Ben? You tell me. I don't know if I've ever gone, oh, this is exciting.

Oh, no, I tell you what. A concert? A concert, yes. They look great. They look great in a stadium, the phone torch. Yeah, when you put it up, you're like, oh, I love it. Yeah. Yeah. You know, people used to do the lighters, you know,

but these days not so much. So now it's your phone torch. That's an exciting time, yeah. That's okay, right? That's okay. Yeah, that's okay. That's okay. That was a good one.

No one's going to boom me here and that's it. Oh, phone torch is on. Great play by the artist. But imagine how many people walk out of those concerts with their phone torches accidentally on. Then they'd get phone torched after the event, wouldn't they? Yeah. The lighters back in the day were a good one too,

but you'd always burn your thumb because you're waving the lighter and the flicker of the flame is kind of going. It's not good. Phone torches really changed the game. Phone torches has changed the game. Yeah. Big shout out to the phone torch. The other one that makes you feel like a boomer

is when you take a photo and it's a video. And you're like, oh, sorry, it's a video. And people are like, oh. You can never come back from that. But even when people prank it to you and you think you're posing for a photo and they've been filming you the whole time in a video form, there's no coming back from that, ladies and gentlemen. No coming back from that as well.

Warning. This show contains Jono and or Ben. Jono and Ben on the hits. Talking this week about people snoozing or getting straight up. Do you snooze the alarm or not? And we're trying to find the people that snooze the most amount of times. Yeah, now are you listening? You're a sixie and you know it in the six o'clock club.

Well, you've got no option. You've got the B-div. Oh, there we go. You're a sixie and you know it. You're a sixie and you know it. We've got no option. We've got the B-Div. Oh, there we go. You're sexy and you know it. You're sexy and you know it. We've got no option. It's sexy. You're on the Six O'Clock Club, yeah.

You really got to accentuate that, don't you? Yeah, yeah. Everyone's like, why are you singing sexy and you know it? You know, from seven years ago. We've got no option for the snooze button. Getting up this early. You can't factor it in. But we're after New Zealand's biggest snoozer right now. Liz is with us on the phone. Do you think you are the biggest snooze button getting up this early yeah you can't you can't factor it in but we're after

new zealand's biggest snoozer right now liz is with us on the phone do you think you are the biggest snoozer i'm very much a snoozer yes yeah right so what do you do like how many times a morning are you snoozing uh at least two probably close more like three times so do you do you allow that into your thinking when you go to bed? Because this is a question I have. Do you say, okay, what time do you have your alarm set for? Yeah, I definitely plan ahead. So I'll set one at, my husband and I both do it actually,

but I set mine for maybe six, and he'll set one for 6.05, and we end up hitting it until about 6.30 or sometimes later. Wow. So why can't you just go, why don't you just go 6.30, that's where I'm going to get up

and you give yourself that uninterrupted sleep from 6 o'clock. It would be better, I'm sure. Definitely is better. It is better because you feel worse. I probably feel worse but but i understand it's what some people do do you sort of like in your mind go okay well if i give myself five more minutes i don't need to do this in the morning and just save yourself that

time do you sort of have that mentally going on uh yes all the time yeah if i give myself this i could eat breakfast at home instead of rushing out the door and eating at work. You're going for the slowly rip the plaster off approach. Do you feel like you're behind in your day when you do a snooze session? Not really, no. It's been a really bad habit for a really long time. To be fair, my husband tries to rectify it and change our bad habits, but I'm the one that's bringing us down.

Liz, that's incredible. Rabid snoozer, Liz. Terrible. She's like, I'm terrible. I shouldn't do it, but I can't stop. I shouldn't do it, but I can't stop. Listen, there's worse vices out there, Liz. You go and have a great day, mate.

Thank you. You too. Appreciate your time. Let's get Sanjay on. You're a snoozer as well, Sanjay. Yeah, mate. A pretty bad one, to be fair. A pretty bad one.

What are we talking? How many snoozers in the morning? Mate, mate. My first alarm goes off probably about 4.50 in the morning. I don't get out of bed until about 6.30, 6.40. Well, that's an early first alarm. Nearly two hours of snoozing, hitting the snooze button. Mate, mate, that's not my only alarm.

There's one set for 4.50, 5.30, so I'm snoozing about five, six alarms at once. So why not, again, why not just give yourself till 6 or whatever you need to just get up there? If I set an alarm for 6, I'll probably get up at 8, to be honest with you. So this is your sensible option. You work back from when you need to just get up there. If I set an alarm for six, I'll probably get up at eight, to be honest with you. So this is your sensible option. You work back from when you need to get up and you're like,

okay, I need to allow two hours of hitting a snooze button. Yes, pretty much. And you know it's bad when you start taking screenshots of your alarm going off and then you look back at your photo gallery a few hours later and you're like, oh shit, I think I'm going to buy a screenshot. Try and turn it off. So what would you, let's say one morning you actually got up at 10 to 5, what would you do for that time? Were you intending on going to the gym? Were you intending on what? I think the

intention was previously to go to the gym, make a breakfast, you know, start to eat properly. That happened for a solid two days and then for the past year and a half since I've actually been in the office, back in the office, I've been stooping. The funniest thing was I can't go to work with a mate of mine and if I'm not picking her up then I'll probably stay in bed until about 8am

and just say I'm working from home for the day. That is well. I love that the intention to get to the gym at 4.50, it's still there. It's still there. If I do, I'll get to the gym, make myself a nice breakfast and arrive at work on time for once. Do you feel better or worse than if you just woke up at 6.30? Probably worse.

There's a satisfaction of pressing the snooze button, you know? And how many minutes snoozing does it get you? I think every five minutes. And I will actually snooze for those five minutes and press it again. It's, what do you call it, muscle memory of, you know, hitting the lock button on the iPhone and it just goes off by itself. So I've just done the maths. You're sleeping in about 15 or 16 five-minute increments.

Yes, that is correct. Over that period. That's incredible. Sanjay, he's addicted to snoozing. You go and have a great day, mate. Really appreciate you phoning in. Cheers, boys. Have a good one.

You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. Thanks for hanging out on New Zealand's Breakfast. The car boots, my car boot, it's a wonderland, isn't it? You always think that I'm always fossicking around in my car boot. You do love fossicking around in your car boot. You're always fossicking. You always got rubbish or something in there or put your bag.

You love the boot. Yeah. Every morning Ben sees me buried in my boot. You always are fossicking around. We park out somewhere, you're fossicking around, put your bag in, you put your thing in. Yeah. It's a treasure trove, though, I find. Of the most bizarre items in my car boot, and I don't know if it's the same for you listening as well,

I kind of treat it like, you know, it's another storage facility. Stuff that I don't know where I'd put it in the house, leave it in the boot. Because your car's always so clean. Like, it's always immaculately clean inside, but your boot is a shambles. Like, it's a mess of just full of just everything. It's how you treat your drawers at home.

Yeah, exactly. It's the same thing. You find items sitting on the table, you're like, I don't know what to do, everything it's how you treat your drawers at home yeah exactly you know when you're like you find items sitting on the table you're like I don't know shove it in his drawer yeah yeah I do the same with the car

yeah but every side is not a speck of dust only the apple cores that I leave in the door you've been it comes in my car Joel just Joel

I forget I don't do it on purpose he eats banana peels and then just shoves them down the side of the car and I'm like five days later I'm like

why does the car smell like banana cake? And this guy's shoving his produce down. I'm not doing it on purpose. Well, I'm putting them there on purpose, but I'm thinking I'll take them with me. Sometimes I don't. You put a courgette in my exhaust pipe. I didn't do this.

One day. It was an eggplant. But anyway, so the car boot. And it's become a treasure trove of the most bizarre items I find. And I've gone through them. And if I ever get pulled over, there is a lot of explaining to do. Like an Elvis wig and Elvis glasses, which were used for something we did here. How did that end up in your car?

It was at work. How did you end up taking it with you? I still had it on my purse, and I was like, I don't know where else to put it. I'll put it in the car boot. I've got a tub of Vaseline. Yeah, right. What's the backstory there?

Well, that was from the marathon you made me run the top of the Scotia. You're going to need this Vaseline. You rubbed some Vaseline into my thighs, I think. Yeah, it does. So I've still got the remnants of that. A Kindle. A Kindle is in there as well. Two frying pans.

Okay. Now, I actually brought the frying pans in there as well. Two frying pans. Okay. I actually bought the frying pans in for Producer Joel. I thought you were a young guy in a flat. Do you want some frying pans? Yeah, they'd be perfect. Thanks, man. Yeah, great. I'll give them to you.

I haven't done that transaction yet. He'll say that, but they will live in this car boot for months. But the problem is, you know, individually the items can be explained away, but together, collectively, it's not a great look. I mean, I'd rather be caught in a clandestine laboratory than my boot. At least that can be like, oh yeah, I know what you're doing here.

The cops are going to be like, how does this all connect? Well, you talk a lot recently about how you like to spend a lot of time parked outside the schools, early, sleeping in the car and stuff like that, where you get there so early for your kids. You're going to get knocked on the door from police one day. They're going to check in your boot and they're going to be like,

what is going on? Are you fit to be out in public, sir? And the answer's probably not. But mind you, you had a dummy. We used to have a dummy called Kevin. Yeah. Affectionately named called Kevin that you would use in stunts and things for TV skits. Life-size dummy.

Yeah, it was like a soft mannequin that we'd use. You're right. We'd throw off buildings and all sorts for TV. It would do the stunt work that we couldn't do. One morning, very early before radio, you had to bring it in for someone else, and you were shoving this body in the darkness. It looked like a body.

Someone was running past, and you could tell they were looking like, oh my God, what is this person doing? And you try and do the, morning! That thing is like, oh my God. Well what is this person doing? And you try and do the morning. Like, they're like, oh, my God. Well, he seemed like such a charming murderer, but he's very charismatic. Yeah, wouldn't have looked like a dummy at like four in the morning. So how was your day yesterday? Not too bad.

Just quickly, you know, we're talking about Tupperware yesterday, how Tupperware is going to close the lid on production overseas, which I thought was quite clever. Yeah, beautiful reference. But now it's the most trending thing to sell on Trade Me, as of yesterday, because they said they're no longer going to be manufacturing it, so it's not coming to New Zealand.

And now, it was yesterday, it was the most searched thing, it was trending, there was a full set for $310, a 700% increase on Trade Me, so everyone's going crazy for Tupperware. Do you reckon the Tupperware manufacturers are like, where have you been for the last 20 years?

You know, where is this passion? This is what we do. I know. It was like with Georgie Pie. We're like, bring back Georgie Pie. McDonald's, they own the right street. Okay. They caved in. Okay, we will listen to the consumer.

They bring it back. You know, we enjoy it for a week. And then they have to slowly phase it out of the middle. And I'm like, like guys we're burgers you know what Ronald he's just he nailed his foot to the floor on burgers we've opened up this whole pie manufacturing plant you guys went crazy

you won't even eat them anymore are they still on the McDonald's menu I don't think they are we get swept up you remember Marmageddon as well oh my god we might run out Remember Marmageddon as well too? We were like, oh my God, we might run out

of Marmite. But we didn't and everyone sort of had Marmite. I've had the same jar of Marmite for 17 years. I love Marmite and you often buy it

but we were fine. You know, like Marmageddon was running out of New Zealand and we just won a big Springfield. Yeah,

we are Springfield from the Simpsons. Were you the dentist yesterday? Yeah, I was the dentist yesterday. It was a great dentist. I've never gone to the dentist, but... Great dentist, love. Oh, no, they're great.

But one of the things I noticed yesterday is when you're sitting in the waiting room, they're playing the hits, which is awesome, all day long. Oh, that's great. And then you go up to get, you know, the hygienist was doing stuff on my teeth. She's like, we listen to you all day, every day. I mean, as a commercial radio station, once you get into the dental surgery market, you know, the doctor's surgeries, the petrol stations,

you've hit the big time, mate. Yeah. When they're playing you in the forecourt of the Z. It's quite an unusual feeling, though, being at the dentist and then hearing yourself through the radio because they have promos that play all through the day. And I was like, for poor people that go in, it's like a root canal plus us.

Do you think now, do you think they're just pandering to your sensitive ego? Do you think they turn it on? Yeah, maybe they're like, oh, he's coming in tomorrow. We better make sure just before we flick the radio station across. They probably do. We've got to go to Tony Street and for a 3.30 filling, change it over in tomorrow. We better make sure just before we flick the radio station across. Yeah. They probably did. They were like, we've got to go to Tony Street and put a 3.30 filling.

Change it over to coast. Oh, we love the coast. Yeah, no. McCormick's coming in to get his false teeth replaced. Flick it onto him. Mate. You of all people. You of all people.

That's why I can't throw stones, man. Because look at me McCormick looks 20 years younger than me You can't pull it back now So good An inseparable duo Unless someone better shows up He's just going to replace with Lee Hart and or Vaughan Smith

Jono and Ben on the hits Time as Ben said back by unpopular demand Jono Pryor's guessing game I was actually explaining the game to Jen my wife Last night I was was oh we're doing this new fun game you know for the six o'clock club you're six years and you know it and uh i said oh what i do is i you know i find things the most most populous countries you know the most talked languages in the world and ben has to guess what they are in order i was like you could turn this into a TV game show. And she said, what, like Family Feud?

Yeah. Because it's like they've got to name the list of... Pretty much have you. Yeah. So essentially, John O'Brien's guessing game is just Family Feud. Yeah, it's kind of Family Feud. But yeah, you're right. Just sort of filling out a list of... Yeah.

Yeah, I thought I was onto something there, but I'm not. But today, I reckon you're going to have a tough one today. Okay. The most viewed music videos... Oh, music videos. Music videos on YouTube. Now...

YouTube music videos. Yeah, I'll let you just... You can spitball it a bit at the moment with Producer Joel if you want to, although Producer Joel is going to play the hook,

so he probably knows all of them. I'll probably start with this one, yeah. No, you you can help that'd be great uh but you can have let's just have a thing okay so we're talking like well there's so much youtube so what what is a music video is it obviously pop songs songs you hear on radio or is it like you know because every song is has been thrashed to death on radio? I would say every single one of these songs has been thrashed to death on this very radio station. Really? The top five. I just need the top five, not top ten. Okay, so we're looking at people that have been thrashed to death

on this radio station. Thrashed to death? You're talking your likes of Ed Sheeran, your likes of Pink, your likes of Justin Bieber. That's probably thrashed to death, but I wouldn't say Pink would be... Two artists you've named there are in the top five. Oh, so Biebs, okay. He's in there. Sorry, what would be in there?

Sorry is number six. Okay. At 3.3 billion. Now, I think I've given you enough time to banter, but 3.3 billion people have seen Sorry. Now, that's number six. That's number six. So you've got a song higher than that. So, sorry to Justin Bieber, you came in at sixth place with only 3.3 billion views.

Wow. I will give you a clue. The number one song has 7 billion views on YouTube. And it's not the artist that I've just said before. Although there's a tie-in. There's a tie-in with Bieber to the number one song. Oh. Not an English-speaking song.

And I'm starting the timer now 60 seconds So he was You've got to name them in order Despacito Despacito is number one 7 billion views Okay then

Should we go Ed Sheeran next Just because we're talking about Ed Sheeran Yes What song would be Thinking Out Loud Thinking Out Loud He likes the shape of you Oh shape of you He likes the shape of you. Oh, shape of you.

He likes the shape of you and the shape of the number five billion at number two. Okay. And then where are we going from number three? Harry Styles. No. Fast and Furious 7. Think that.

Oh, Wiz Khalifa. What's that? Yeah. See You Again or something. 3.4 billion at number three. Okay. You've only got two more to go. There's 20 seconds left on the clock here.

I don't know where to go from here. I'll say it's a Bruno Mars song. Oh, thank you. Uptown Funk? 3.9 billion at number four. He's on fire, the guessing game. You're helping me. Okay, number five.

You know this one. It was a fad song. Pretty much he only had one hit. He tried to back it up. Five seconds. There was a dance. Korean. Oh, what's it up. Five seconds. There was a dance. Korean.

Oh, um, what's that? Gangnam Style. Oh! It's a lot easier when the host of the show gives you clues. Goddamn gangnam. It's 3.8 billion. Wow. Billion. I'm not even saying millions.

That's one of the top five YouTube videos of all time. Yeah, they're rounding out the top ten. As I said, sorry, Bieber. Sugar. maroon 5 at number 7 3.3 katie perry roar at 3.1 billion uh ed sheeran again thinking out loud right 3.1 billion and uh craig and counting stars their old mates bloody one republic number 10 how much has got to do with the video as well i mean katie perry's video was really cool with the animals and stuff. Does that help out the song or is it just like a banger of a song? Yeah. Isn't it crazy

though? Despacito, 7 billion. 2 billion more views than number 2. Ed Sheeran. 2 billion more views. Like, no one's catching up with you. Despacito's run. That horse is bolted. Wow. Proud to be Kiwi. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Time for some big news. Small town, town, town. This is making big news out of Bay of Plenty, where a father, he's with family, and he's decided that he's not going to shop at the supermarket anymore. He's not going to go to the supermarket, and he joins us right now. Papa Faruwera, welcome to the show.

How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm awesome. Thank you. Thank you very much for having me. Oh, it's nice to talk to you now. How long ago did you decide I'm done with supermarkets?

When did this happen? This was probably last year. A bit of a decision made within an instant. I told my wife, yep, I'm doing this and cracking straight into it. And so is it one of those things where you're like, oh, why did I commit to this? No, it was actually my body. It was actually kind of telling me what I needed to do.

And part of my journey leading up to that point was about following your intuition and your gut feelings and all those things that we sometimes go against, or most often we go against. What an interesting proposition, because you've played rugby for the Manawatu Turbos. You're a captain in the army. I wouldn't say a captain, but I was just one of the baggies. Senior sergeant or sergeant corporal in the army.

I was still chopping wood with the boys out the back watching grass grow. And obviously now, well, yeah, not going to the supermarket, you would save money, but how did you go about finding kai? You know, where did you get your food from? I mean, there's kai everywhere, everywhere we go. Urban, in the urban environment, there's fruit trees everywhere. All it takes is just a knock on the door. Where we are in Tikaha on the beautiful east coast of Te Pauna Whenui,

we have an abundance of food both sides of the road. We're talking metres of each other. On one side, you've got the big blue cupboard over there, and then on the other side, you've got the bath ngahere of the Raukumara. Is the ocean the big blue cupboard? Is that what you're talking about? That's what I'm talking about, man. We know more about the stars and the universe than we know what's under the water. So it's a big playground.

So all of your food, you're getting from Mother Nature. Exactly. You know, we are what we ingest. That goes across the board with, you know, what we see, what we hear, social media, and in particular, what we eat. So if we know where that food comes from and the wholeness and the love that it took to grow that food or to gather that food, it's only going to benefit us holistically.

And I imagine it tastes better too when you know, oh I've had to go out to the big blue cupboard and catch this. Absolutely, the food is delicious and because I had no condiments or anything, no sauces, no butter to fry anything in so a lot of the food to begin with was either

steamed, raw or boiled. So you're getting the true taste of vegetables or fish or whatever. No tomato sauce. No tomato sauce. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. It's crazy. The days you're going a little bit hungry, you're like, oh, geez, I could just open up

a bag of chips from the pantry or anything like that. I mean, temptations were everywhere. Yeah. It was often hard at times because I'm such a big foodie. I love food. I'm that type of person that when I put my mind to things, I'll kind of stay to it. And the family, they're coming along for the ride, are they?

Or are they like, oh, mate, can we just swing by the dairy and get some chips? As always, you know, it's a work in progress. But as a whānau, we learnt a lot. We got to spend quality time together, being able to teach my kids you know, hand down the kōrero tuku iho or the knowledge that my father passed down to me on to them

which is awesome. It's an awesome thing you're doing, I really respect it. What's the technicality, would it be like, what if I left you a sandwich outside on my deck and you came around like, is that, you know, like you haven't, you know, like you haven't paid for it. Like is that okay or where do you draw the line?

Well, put it this way, a few of my relations from down the Cape giving me a bit of a hard time around, you know, they're going, oh, how's it going, cuz? How's the scavenging going? I had to make it quite clear. There's a difference between scavenging and foraging. Scavenging. Now, because cost of living is wild at the moment, Papa.

You must have saved thousands. Yeah. Cost of living is just skyrocketing through the roof. And I totally feel for our whānau, everyone, you know, with the pressures of life. It's just an added pressure to that. You know, you were talking about trying to be a parent, a mum, a husband, a son, whatever job you're doing, there's all these pressures that amount to take people and push them over the edge.

Doing a foraging lifestyle actually requires a lot of time. So the question that was asked to me was, did it actually save you money? And we all know that time is money. So in essence, it's really costly, but in the sense of time. That's awesome. How's he convinced you, Jono? Like today, Jono? I've still got to go to Pack and Save this afternoon.

Well, maybe you can do it. But while I'm wandering through Pack and Save, I'm going to go. I don't need to be here. Get a sea kayak and we can go out and get some fish, all right? Oh, well, we're down your way. We'll have to come out foraging, not scavenging with you. Foraging, yeah.

Yes, yes, you're more than welcome and I mean this is transitional, it does take time, so in order for people to step into something new and break new boundaries and step out of fear, it takes time, it really does. Listen, what a special life you're leading and now, is it too late to say that this was brought to you by our partners at Countdown?

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