Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Low Budget Weather Reporters & Fake Trophies...

Episode Date: August 17, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast, the guys chat to their low budget weather reporters around the country, Shaggy joins the show and Jono chats about his fake trophy store...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kia ora, welcome, podcast, it's the 18th of August today, now producer Joel we've started a tradition where you ask a question from Cosmopolitan magazine Can I change it up today? Can I change it up today? Because I just was, you know, we're just talking to Jin Wenmore who's awesome, a New Zealand singer which is going to be played next week And made things a bit weird because I deep dived into a lot of stuff. Very thorough research. And Gin halfway through said, oh wow, you've gone quite deep into my life. But it felt like you didn't get half your research away. I just thought there was an interesting thing at the end. Gin's

quiz on gin, the drink. Oh, you didn't do this? I didn't do that because I got a bit weirded out. That's a bit weird. Ben was like, oh, I don't want to ask the rest of my questions. So then going to a quirky quiz on gin, the drink. Step too fast. Yeah, I thought maybe a step too fast. I thought maybe I could do that with you guys.

Yeah, okay, all right. Multi-choice. So the name gin, the drink, is a short version of which word? Is it ginseng, gin-a-ver, or ginger? Well, I'm going to go gin-a-ver-ver. Yeah, gin-a-ver. What is gin-a-ver? I don't know.

Yeah, but it's G-E-N-E-V-E-R So it's not even G-I-N Which is crazy G-E-N-E-V-E-R Geneva? I almost thought it was Juniper berries Yeah

Yeah that's what I thought as well The juniper I was waiting for you to say juniper Oh yeah Is that right? There you go Bee Humps is waiting for you to say juniper Juniper yeah

Juniper known as In Holland as Oh yes Okay right? There you go, B-Humps is waiting for you to say Juniper. Juniper, yeah. Juniper, no one is in Holland. Oh, yes. Okay. Okay. So there you go. Okay. Which country in the world has the highest consumption of gin per capita, Australia,

England, or the Philippines? Philippines. Oh, wow. I was going to go England. I thought the Queen would have, you know, she would have bolstered the UK numbers up. Yeah, they do like their gin. I think that was more because it was like Aussie, England, Philippines. It was quite a wide stretch.

I got this from online. But anyway, which alcoholic drink is the base spirit of gin in gin? Is it vermouth, whiskey, or vodka? Vermouth. Whiskey. Vodka. Vodka. Vodka and gin are very, very similar.

In the 1800s, the use of tonics and gin helped prevent which pandemic? Malaria, plague, or polio? Polio. Plague. It's plague? Plague. Maybe the thing to COVID was gin. And the final question.

The gin and tonic originated in which country? India, Bangladesh, or Pakistan? India. Bangladesh. John is correct. It's India. There you go. Yeah, because they've got the Indian tonic as well, don't they?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Bombay Sapphire? Yeah, there you go. There's my gin questions for you guys because I didn't get to ask those. Well, someone else came up with those. I just thought that was interesting. It's good we got to use those.

Yeah, for me, it wasn't 20 minutes wasted that's the thing because we did record an interview with Jen Wigmore she was great she was incredible we didn't need it

she told great stories about Barack Obama filming with Daniel Craig James Bond owning a hotel and all the crazy things living with a nun all that

so we had so much gold so much content we didn't need the gin quiz but you're right you do a lot of work for these and sometimes you don't get to use yeah which is fine apparently Mark Hosking So much gold. So much content. We didn't need the gin quiz. No, we didn't. But you're right. You do a lot of work for these. And sometimes you don't get to use.

Yeah, which is fine. Apparently Mike Hosking, prestigious broadcaster Mike Hosking, he will have screeds of notes for every show. He throws 75% of them out at the end of the show. He would. They're just there. We should use them for the podcast intro.

Do a gin quiz at the podcast intro. Yeah, well, maybe we should get Hosking to email us his leftover notes. And we'll just do at the podcast intro. Yeah, well maybe we should get Hosking to email us his leftover notes. And we'll just do it at the start. Yeah, that's great. You'd have to in a job like that when you're... because you just have to know everything, didn't you? Yeah, you'd have to be across everything. Imagine it would be shocking. Prime Minister... oh no, he doesn't interview

Prime Minister. Christopher Luxon, I love you so much. Obviously we're all going to vote National. But secondly, sorry, just looking at the 1997 you... hold on, hold on, I've got something. Oh no, hang on. Is it Jennifer? I love you so much Obviously we're all Going to vote national But secondly Sorry just looking at the In 1997 You Hold on I've got something Hang on Is it Jennifer

Jennifer Jennifer Jennifer Jennifer Berries Hang on I was just googling that You know like we You know

We couldn't get Through that quiz Are you happy today You know It would be a tough gig It would be a tough gig Hey podcast today Shaggy

Shaggy Thankfully we didn't stumble Around with notes for Shaggy Yeah no Did I I think I asked Did you have a Shaggy Let's go through your Shaggy. Shaggy. Thankfully, we didn't stumble around with notes for Shaggy. Yeah, no. Did I? I think I asked him. Did you have a Shaggy? Let's go through your Shaggy questions. Okay.

No, I think I got through a lot of Shaggy questions. I'm just seeing here. Shaggy, Mr. Bombastic. He's got an honorary degree from Brown University. I didn't talk to him about that. For what? I don't know. That's the honorary degree.

So I'm not in touch. What is it? Is it just like jacinda ardern got one communications oh no communications she sorry i thought she graduated with communications no no oh did she yeah yeah no but you're right she went to a university over in america and they're like hey you want to honor your degree harvard or something and you're like i didn't attend here but okay and all the people that mean you went went there for four years to do a degree. You'd be like, hang on.

This person just shows up. And gets a certificate. Yeah. Real name Orville Shaggy. I was wondering how many people would ever call him Orville in his real life. R-V-I-L-L-E. I imagine there's still friends and family aren't calling him Shaggy. Yeah, well, Shaggy's not actually after his use of his hips.

No. He's not doing a lot of shagging. It was his hair he told us. Yeah. He's not doing a lot of shagging. It was just his hair, he told us. Yeah. It was his hair when he was in high school. He had sort of shaggy hair, and they went, oh, we'll call him Shaggy. Yeah. And it sort of just caught on.

I didn't realize that until he was watching Austin Powers have a shag that he was like, oh, that's another thing. A whole other connotation. Yeah. Do we have a game for Shaggy, like Saggy or Shaggy or something? No. No, we used that one. Remember, I had the products from the New Zealand products. You'll hear that.

So I was like, what do you think hokey pokey is? What do you think pineapple lumps is? What do you think ginger? And he had a guess and then showed them. So that's on the podcast. That made it through. That made the cut. That made it through.

So there you go. I think, yeah, so you can enjoy that on the podcast today. A-grade celebrity chat with C-grade celebrity hosts. Jono and Ben on the hits. Holy smokes. This is surreal looking at Shaggy. Are we in your house at the moment, Shaggy? I am in, yeah, I'm in Jamaica, my home in Jamaica. Oh my God.

It's so nice to see you. We are big fans and New Zealand are big fans of you. You're coming here. We're pretty exciting. Do you want to stay at my house? I've got a lovely bathroom floor. Or have you got accommodation sorted? I have a lot of friends in New Zealand, man.

One of my favourite places to go. I've played concerts there so many times. And the big Ragamuffin Festival is always a big festival. It used to be down there. I've been there a couple of times. And I always say the thing that hits me is right as I get off the plane in New Zealand is that sulfur smell that hit me. Oh, yes, in Rotorua.

Yes, of course. Yeah, Rotorua. At Rotorua, yeah, you just go right in. It's like, bam. I'm like, oh, yep, I'm here. I thought something else would be going up your nostrils at Ragamuffin, not the sulfur. The smell of something else.

I was reading that some fans have called themselves or their kids Shaggy and Boombastic after you. Is that true? You know what? There's a woman that actually told me that her son was called Boombastic. That's a cool name. And said that the kid was actually

conceived to Mr. Boombastic. Oh, really? She said, just so you know, that means you were there. I looked at her and I said, no, it wasn't me. Yeah, it wasn't me. You're like, I'm not paying any child support for this kid. We love also your new album. We were listening to that at the moment.

You've got you singing Frank Sinatra songs produced by the legendary Sting. Sting came up with the idea when he was on tour. I mean, you can't say no to Sting, I imagine, as a mate. But that's pretty incredible. It just makes you feel good listening to you sing Frank Sinatra. It's incredible. Obviously, we've all been raised on the repertoire of Sinatra. But Sting and I, when we get together,

we cook up these really crazy ideas. And then I'm on this, we're on the fields i'm on this boat and i'm i'm singing it and he's looking at he's cooking an idea while i'm just having a beer and having fun and he's cooking a whole idea yeah and uh earlier this year we decided to make it happen and i never really bought into it until when i started to sing it and it's coming in and I'm hearing myself on these radio tracks. Wow, this is hot. That's cool. That's really good.

I mean, this thing we hear about his, you know, like his lovemaking maybe taking days. What about him in the recording studio? Like, does that take days as well? I don't know about lovemaking. Does he take days to make love? Because it feels like a huge calendar appointment. Shaggy, you've lived an amazing life, you know,

with all the success in music, the Grammy Awards, the millions of albums, but you're also in the U.S. Marines for four years. Yeah, I did four years in the Marines. I did six and a half months in the first Gulf War. You know, all of that was something that just kind of shaped me for who I am, you know, and it really kind of prepared me for music. I didn't even think it would, but, you know,

in music, you have to get up early morning, you do early morning shows, you do clubs at night, and you jump on a plane and you're on another continent doing the same thing over and over again. It takes a lot of discipline to do that, and the military was really... I'm skeed now. He could kill us military was over it. I'm scared now. He could kill us.

Shaggy could kill us right now. Don't ask the wrong question to Shaggy. Even though he's in Jamaica, he could end us right now over Zoom. Hey, Shaggy, I feel like we're getting on. I feel like we're mates. We want to scoop. I mean, it's been a lot of years now,

and you've said it wasn't you. Can you admit to us that finally it was? That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Thank you very much. Because we had the it wasn't you. Can you admit to us that finally it was? That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Thank you very much. Because we had the... She caught you with her eyes. You're on security camera. She even walked in the bathroom.

There's a lot of evidence stacking up. The big thing about it is deny, deny, deny, deny. I mean, we've been saying it. You know, the funniest thing about that song is not even a cheating song. It's an anti-cheating song. Y'all just never listened down to the end of the song where the guy actually apologizes and says,

okay, I'm not listening to this idiot, right? Because he's wrong. Shaggy, before we go, it's been so good catching up. We can't wait to have you in New Zealand. It's not too far away. But a quick quiz about some New Zealand food for you. If I said hokey pokey, hokey pokey, what do you think that would be?

Hokey pokey. I'm thinking something naughty. When I hear said hokey pokey, hokey pokey, what do you think that would be? Hokey pokey. I'm thinking something naughty. When I hear hokey pokey. Ice cream. There we go. We've got some ice cream. Hokey pokey is a flavour of ice cream. It is naughty for your hips and waistline. Okay. Pineapple lumps. What would pineapple lumps be? Slices of pineapple.

Pineapple chocolate. Yeah yeah with pineapple inside the chocolate so there's some pineapple oh there's chocolate and oh that must be really good

yeah we'll get you a packet of those when you get here yeah that must be really good I've never heard of that that's pretty good and the final one

are ginger nuts ginger nuts yeah I would figure that your nuts are gingery yeah there's some biscuits called ginger nuts Oh yeah cookies

Yeah you got some cookies But also actually while you're there It's a huge highlight for us to talk to you You are awesome we love your work And we can't wait to have you in New Zealand Take care of yourself man Alright my brother thank you very much man We apologise in advance.

Jeez, sorry. Sorry about that. Sorry you got roped into this. John and Ben. Sorry. On the hits. School balls. We got talking about them after the show yesterday,

and it reminded me of being your school ball at age, what, 17, were you? Yeah, I think it would have been around about there. I bore it. It was very, very embarrassing. I think it's on the Hits Breakfast Instagram on the story. There's photographic evidence. I know. And can I just say, before we get into your story,

the school ball was a wonderful event. It deserves to be in every teen's life. But let's not photograph it. I agree. We're greasy. We're pimply. We're awkward. We're not making sound decisions at that age.

No. Particularly when it comes to fashion. So let's just all agree as a nation that our first official photograph of our youth should be at something sophisticated. Like when you're vomiting after your yardie on your 21st. Something like that. But you're right. Because you all look back. And looking back, I was like, oh, maybe I'll do a real statement piece.

Maybe like you said before, like the Met Gala, they have all the people come out and they're like, wow, Harry Styles is wearing that, Kim Kardashian's wearing that. Someone's wearing the skin of some poor homeless person. So I wanted something a little bit unusual, and I had a duvet set with all the Looney Tunes characters. You've got your Bugs Bunny, you've got Daffy Duck, you've got Sylvester, Tweety Bird.

Now, this is now bearing in mind, too, he's knocking on the door of adulthood here at age 17, and he's still got a full Looney Tunes set. So did you have the fitted sheet, the sheets, the pillowcase? And so then, you know, Mum made it into some pants, a waistcoat, and a bandana. Yeah, so that was all the material could stretch for. And I don't think a mum could make a jacket.

Well, I mean, it stretched maybe too far, in my opinion. Once you've got a Looney Tunes bandana on your head. Looney Tunes bandana with Looney T Looney Tunes bandana with, you know, Looney Tunes waistcoat, pants, and the whole outfit, the whole ensemble. You would have looked like... Oh, God, what was I doing? You would have looked like one of those... What was I doing?

Those magicians that you hire for your five-year-old's birthday. What was I doing? So I turned up the ball with that. I think I even had, like, I had a white shirt underneath that I buttoned all the way up, and I think I had a cane,

like a cane that we had lying around the house that I took along as well. What was the cane for? I don't know. It was just there. It was just, I don't know. I don't know. Looking back, I'm like...

You're like a cartoon Snoop Dogg. I'm like, what were you thinking, man? It's just, it's embarrassing. It really is. I mean, but the good thing is you haven't grown up since then. Like, this is, you love, you've loved that stuff there.

I do, I do. And he still loves Toy Story 4 backpack. Yeah, I know. Young at heart. Okay. So anyway, that's my embarrassing story. Do yourself a favour. Go look at the hits on Instagram this morning.

Oh, jeez. Who did you take? I don't know. But to her credit, on her gloves, we had little Looney Tunes characters in the last little bits as well to sort of tie us in together. But I was like, oh, I'm so sorry to her right now.

I apologise. I apologise. So she wore like, you know, Daffy Duck gloves. Yeah, but they were not black gloves, but they had like, yeah,

one of the faces on each. Yeah, I can't remember what they were, but I apologise. I apologise. You don't need that in your life. Don't you say. Hey, I'm thinking we go as a themed couple.

She's like, okay, yeah, yeah, what are you thinking? And you're like, well, I've got Looney Tunes too, buddy. My mum's going to make an indoor suit. And she'll make you some gloves. Sorry, what? Yeah, I guess I can tell you. What was her reaction to that?

She is a Kiwi hero. Far too polite. She needs to learn that no's an option. Oh, I under the hits. Four, four, eight,

seven. I've shed my embarrassing story. What happened at your school ball? I don't know if you can beat mine. That's next after

Sugar Babes. If you're here for advice on life, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. School ball season, not too far away, and I just shared my embarrassing tale of what I wore to my school ball. Just to recap quickly for those who are just joining us. Just go check it out on the Hits Breakfast Instagram. It's on the story, and it's not.

He made his mum, Jenny Boyce, make a suit out of a looney tunes duvet cover oh god god the more you say it doesn't get any better it doesn't get any better even when you're like oh you still like kind of any stuff now yeah i do but that's still not getting any better anyway what did you sleep in after that i was ready for bed yeah interesting you do make cover do make cover. But anyway, 0800 the hits. And listen, I'm having a laugh, but I was no better. I like walked into Frank Casey and went, give me everything you've got, but make sure it's two sizes too big. Yeah.

Which was kind of the style of the time. I want a waistcoat. I want a top hat. You know, just. Yeah, I know you do. An absolute idiot. I kind of look like the Monopoly man. I'm surprised I wasn't wearing a monocle.

Well, let's go to the phones on 0800. The hits. Hayley, what did you dress up as at your ball? I was a very classy pirate wench. You're a pirate wench? I love it. Yeah, you would. Now, Ben, you would love this.

With your Looney Tunes duvet suit and Hayley's pirate wench costume, you would have been the perfect couple. It's a match. I had a bandana on, too. So,ch costume. You would have been the perfect couple. It's a match. I had a bandana on too, so hey, that would have worked with the pirate theme. Definitely. Did anyone else go dressed as a pirate wench to the ball? No, just me.

But the partner that I went with, he went as a pirate, so we weren't too out of place. We had one another to rely on. Oh, I was going to say, like, if you're the only person who went and dressed up to the entire ball, but you had a partner. I did. So what was the idea behind the pirate theme?

The ball theme was Pirates of the Caribbean. Oh, okay. So there was a theme. This all makes perfect sense. But no one else really went with the theme? No.

To be fair, you don't want to go to your ball dressed as a pirate, but you got swept up with the theme. Yeah, I did. And it was fun. It was a good time. Oh, good. I don't want to go to your ball dressed as a pirate, but you got swept up in the theme. Yeah, I did. And it was fun. It was a good time.

Oh, good. I was just going to ask that. It's like when Ben was told by his wife to turn up to Halloween, all the adults are dressed up, trick-or-treating, and you turn up in your skeleton costume. No one was dressed up. No adults were dressed up. Yeah, only the kids.

But, hey, you roll with it, and I enjoyed it. Exactly. That's what counts, right? Exactly. Oh, very good. Well, nice to talk to you. But hey, you roll with it, and I enjoyed it. Exactly. That's what counts, right? Exactly. Oh, very good. Well, nice to talk to you. Likewise. Thank you.

Natalia with us on New Zealand's Breakfast. Now, Natalia, it wasn't what you wore to the ball, but your neighbour. Yeah. So I grew up in a smallish town, and the neighbour's 16 years old. His parents were really wealthy wealthy but we didn't realise how wealthy they were until he turned up at the ball in a custom made tux. You're not

going to the bloody suit hire shop with pants that are four sizes too big for you. No and it was weird because I was helping my friends go down and hire theirs and everything like that and then he just bowls up looking, he looked amazing. Well Ben you had a custom

made suit as well. Yours was custom made. Yeah it was custom made from a duvet. You didn't quite look like James Bond though like this guy. No I was a Looney Tunes duvet. So you know not quite as cool as a custom but it's their own you know. Custom made you're right one of a kind. Bespoke custom made suit. Thank

you very much Natalia appreciate that. Okay have fun suit. Thank you very much, Natalia. Appreciate that. Okay. Have fun, guys. Thank you, mate. You have a great day. Thank you. You too. Bye. Marcella, welcome to the show. Good to have you on. Thank you. Good to be here. Now, we're talking what you wore to the ball. Now, it wasn't necessarily you, but it was your friend's

boyfriend who wore his heart on his sleeve. Oh, he sure did. He was completely in love with her. And they were on the dance floor dancing along to this lovely slow song, which happened to be It Must Have Been Love. Oh, It Must Have Been Love. But it's over now. It must have been love.

But it's over now. Heck of a jam. Let's say a ballad for the ages. Yeah, and perfect timing on her behalf, not. She decided that precise moment that she really should break up with him. Oh, so it must have been love. But it's over now. Maybe she was inspired by the lyrical content.

Very possibly, Very possibly. But he was absolutely heartbroken, and that was the end of the ball for him. Oh, and what a song to go out on as well. Did they dance out the rest of the tune? It's 3 minutes 48. I think they might have, so that he could get a little bit sad

and she could console him, and then that was it. Oh, that's sad. It is sad. But at the time, it means such a big thing, but then later you probably look back and go, oh, it was probably for the best. Next one was something like moving on up, moving on up.

Hey, good on you. Thank you so much for your call, Marcel. Appreciate it. No worries at all. If you're here for parenting advice, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. A British lad, he's from Man United, and he realized he'd left his headphones, his AirPods, on the plane in Bangkok when he got off.

And then he went back to try and get them. And the people were like, well, no, you can't come back on the plane. So he thought maybe they were going to bring them to him. They didn't. And he ended up following, because you can track them. He can track his, he ended up following them for the next couple of months. These Apple AirPods were going all over the world. Someone had taken them.

And he was like, he was watching them go to all these other countries. Someone was, he's like, this is having a great holiday, these AirPods. He was like, these are my AirPods. So he was like, I'm going to go track them down. On their oi. Yeah, so he did.

And he went and tracked them down and he finally tracked them down. It took him ages. And he ended up going to many countries around the world. I don't know why he did it. He spent a whole lot of money he flew over 4,000 miles spent over 2,000 pounds

to track down the thief who stole his earpods and he was pretty pumped up when he finally got them back yes yes we got them back we got them back

we got them back so basically we knocked on loads of doors went into loads of people's apartments and we were getting shown around and we're getting closer and closer and we can see it clicking and clicking We got them back. We got them back. We got them back. So basically, we knocked on loads of doors, went into loads of people's apartments, and we were getting shown around, and we're getting closer and closer, and we can see it clicking and clicking.

Apple finds my works. It was within, like, within 15 feet, so we knew it had to be that apartment, and no one's opening up. Everyone's saying no. We went and sat outside, and we got them back. They got returned. 4,000 miles travel.

When I say I'm elated, ecstatic, I cannot believe we got them back. I did not in a million years think we would have done it. He's so excited he's not even saying a lot of words. I know, he's so excited. Yeah, so a lot of effort to go for, but I... Did the thief just go, oh, you got me? Yeah, that's what I wanted. Why did he give up so easily?

Like, the first rule of thieving is deny, deny, deny. It wasn't me. That's an awkward, yeah, in the words of someone we're talking to after 8 o'clock this morning. It wasn't me. But that's a really awkward handover, isn't it, to go, are they mine? Oh, yeah. You know? But anyway.

If I was that thief, I would have gone, no, no, I would have just lied. It would have been mine. You'd track them down into the room. But I was saying as a parent, that's the best hack. I've been using it recently, putting on Apple AirPods or just AirPods or headphones in particular, walking around the house. You don't even have to have them plugged into anything. Don't have any music on.

But everyone presumes that they can't hear. So if there's an argument going on between the kids, they're like, oh, well, I can't sort it out because I'm listening to music. Or pretend you're on a phone call as well. Oh, g'day there, mate. Good to hear from you. You can just wander around talking to people. People never look fully sane, do they, with AirPods on and if they're having a conversation in public.

No, no. If you're having one of those conversations, you're like, well, who's this person talking to? Yeah, no, get the files over to Greg. It looks like if someone had just landed on Earth and they saw these people just wandering around talking to themselves, we'd have a lot of explaining to do. Yeah.

So I reckon that's a hack as a parent if you don't want to, you know, like get the dog out of the rain or get the washing in or anything like that, just wear headphones. And everyone goes, hey, Ben, can you? And you're like, I've heard. I've clearly heard my wife Amanda, but I've got headphones on. So that buys you a little bit of like for them to go, oh, I'll just do it. You know, sometimes it doesn't work, but other times you get a win.

And you don't hear her when she goes, hey, Ben, I'm moving out with the kids. You're like, thumbs up. Sorry I didn't hear that. Have a good one. Have a good one. Have a good one. Scrolling through your feed. Now with all the latest from Ladbible. Here's Ben Boyce.

Not particularly today. I know he feels like he dies inside when he goes onto Ladbible to get stories, but it's always got great stories. I've got another one coming up before 7 o'clock that I've got from Ladbible, but not right now. It is. It's a great story. They have stories that you're just like, oh, my God, this happened, and we need to talk about it but not right now. It is, and it's a great story. They have stories that you're just like,

oh my God, this happened, and we need to talk about it. But right now... What is it that makes you feel like a lesser of a journalist by getting your content from Ladbible? I feel like they're doing all the work. I like to try and find these stories myself. Get a scoop, yeah.

And then I just go there, and I'm like, that's great. That's great. That's great too. I'll steal that. It's like, well, thank you, Ladbible. But right now, they're not talking about this, but we are. The All Black coach, Ian Foster, is keeping his job.

That was announced yesterday. They reckon it's all thanks to a combination of the All Blacks' brilliant win over South Africa last weekend, a little bit of player power, and the addition of coaching mastermind Joel Smith is in the mix as well as part of the coaching staff. And they reckon a combination of those things has seen Ian Foster continue until the next World Cup. You wonder how close he was to losing his job.

It felt like a couple of weeks ago he was out. It felt like that already made the decision. Yeah. And then the public backlash. The good thing about backlash, gets results, doesn't it? Sometimes it does. But the bad thing about backlash is everything can just have backlash nowadays. We've got too much access to backlash. Yeah, you're like, backlash on this, backlash on that. You're like, isn't it? Sometimes it does. But the bad thing about Backlash is everything can just have Backlash nowadays. We've got too much

access to Backlash. Yeah, you're like Backlash on this, Backlash on this. Isn't there? Is there? What? What justifies Backlash?

I know. One person getting upset with something? But yeah, the poor old NZ, well not the poor old NZRU, but they handled it

shockingly, let's be honest. But you can imagine they had a bit of a brainstorm sheet of, you know, legitimate reasons how we can get rid of Ian Foster. It felt like they wanted to roll him a little bit a couple of weeks ago.

Even though he had won the game, they're probably like, oh, maybe his name Ian's too boring. Is that strong enough? Is that sticky enough? No, I don't know if that'll work. What else you got? He didn't win by enough. Good, but maybe not great. The trophy they bought back's too big for the cabinet, so it doesn't count as a win.

Yeah, that's good. That's inconvenient. He doesn't have sideburns. He doesn't have sideburns. That weirds me out. We can't have a coach who doesn't have sideburns. He really does shave his sideburns up. He's not breakdancing enough?

No. We'd like to see him do some more breakdancing. Yeah, no, we're going to have to keep him. Yeah, let's keep him. Well, I'm good. I'm pleased. I felt really sorry for Ian Foster, so I'm pleased he gets to carry on. It seems like the players are behind him, so that's good.

And Adele. She's made an adorable confession about her relationship with sports agent Rich Paul. Now, Rich Paul, he's the agent to many, many NBA players. LeBron James, who's like my hero, he's his agent. He's getting tickets. He's getting to go along. He's getting tickets. He gives free tickets to the Lakers.

Yeah. Yeah. But she said that she's... He gets to hold basketballs that LeBron's touched. He gets to hold LeBron's basketballs, Ben. I know. I'm jealous. She said she's totally smitten with him,

and she's set on walking down the aisle with him again and hasn't ruled out having more kids. So that's really cute. That's lovely. Why not? She's getting tickets to the basketball. Can you get tickets to the basketball? Free tickets to the basketball.

Go see LeBron play. I saw a funny thing the other day. LeBron James is one of the reasons why he's my hero. He earns a billion dollars, and he was sitting there courtside watching a game, a preseason game, and he had bought his own little bag of nuts from home, like an unknown little carry bag of nuts.

Because he's a well-renowned tight ass, isn't he? He doesn't use his data on his cell phone when he's going from the airport to the hotel, and then his first thing he asks when he gets to the hotel is, what's your Wi-Fi password? But you know stadium food prices are quite expensive, so even for LeBron, he's like, no, I'll bring my own prepackaged nuts from home. I was like, oh, my hero. There goes my hero.

There's a scene in that movie with Bill Hader. Oh, yeah, Amy Schumer's movie. Yeah, Trainwreck. Trainwreck. And I thought he was just playing a character, but they were obviously playing on a real trope of his characteristics. And he went to dinner with Bill Hader, and Bill Hader's sitting opposite him, and LeBron James is itemizing what they've eaten.

He's like, OK, so you had the spaghetti bolognese and we'll split the bill. He's like, you're LeBron James, you're paying for this meal. You're like a billion dollars a year. Just a couple of dads screaming on the sidelines of their kids' sports games. Jono and Ben on the hits. Sidelines of sporting games.

They can be quite dangerous, can't they? Some plays basketball and that is probably one of the most wild spectator sports. of sporting games. They can be quite dangerous, can't they? Some plays basketball, and that is probably one of the most wild spectator sports. When you watch the NBA and stuff, people are sitting on the court. You've got to pay attention. I mean, those are the most prestigious seats,

though, aren't they? They're the most expensive seats or the seats that the celebrities sit in. But jeez, you can get a ball to the face at any moment. Or a player falling on your crotch. That's right. You're right in the line of, well, they don't necessarily have to fall on your crotch.

You'd love LeBron James to fall on your crotch, wouldn't you? You're just talking about your love of that. But, you know, you're right. There's a 200kg basketball player there that can come 10 foot tall hurtling in. They crush old ladies. It's like maybe five metres back from the court. It's part of the adventure, isn't it? It is part of the adventure.

You never know when you're going to get a basketball to the face. You've got to concentrate. You don't go in those seats. You've got to pay attention the whole time. You're more invested in the game than the players are. Yeah, they can switch off and sit on the bench. Well, this is what happened to me, Ben. I turned my back.

I lost concentration on the game at hand. And I turned my back to talk to another parent. Hey, the team's doing well. Turn around. Oh, bang. Oh, really? Basketball to the side of the face. And it's that situation where everyone's like, ooh.

You know, you can hear, ooh. Yeah. But people, they're concerned. That's what happens with humans. We'd want to be caring. And they're, are you all right? Are you'd want to be caring and they're are you all right are you all right are you right and you're like yeah yeah and i want to all i want to do is start crying okay and you can't cry you've got to hold it together my face feels like it's it's numb

can't feel anything but you've got to hold it you've got to you've got to hold your own in that environment don't you but also the people you know when you're around that and you witness that you want to know that they're all right. Because then you kind of want to, you almost want to laugh a little bit. Yeah. You know, like, because it is a bit funny. But, you know, obviously you don't want anyone to be badly hurt. That's why you're like, you're okay, you're okay.

And you're like, I'm good. You're like, geez, that was good. I got here right the first, you know, like that's the. But the problem is you're saying, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. And there's this big red welt covering up half your face and your face is starting to swell up yeah yeah but everyone started laughing regardless have you ever had a ball to the face mate uh well yeah many many times i remember like playing uh rugby uh though i remember like it wasn't quite a ball to the face but i remember like trying to tackle someone as they went to score a try in the corner and the embarrassment of not being strong enough to stop them from scoring,

but they scored it. And then the flag, you know, they had those sort of flags. That sort of bent down. And as they sort of got up, they went whack back into my face. Catapulted into your face. Not only did I let it in a try, but I got the flag back in my face. I remember everyone at the game going, ooh.. And I remember running again, going, ooh. Yeah.

And I remember wanting to get off from the game. I was in a lot of pain. And they were like, what up to you? I got the flag in my face. The only player ever to be injured by the flag. It was about the same weight as me. You've never seen the All Blacks getting flagpoles to the faces, do you?

No, I heard the flag technology's changed. Back in the day, it was like a plastic PVC piping, wasn't it? Yeah. Very flexible. It just sprung back. Don't know how it happened. Like a catapult.

Bang in the face. And everyone was like, ooh. Did you have a vocal? It was Kevin Boyce and Jenny Boyce when they were on the sidelines. Were they loud? Were they like, come on, Ben. Try not to get the flag in your face as supporting parents. Yeah, I mean, that's a humbling moment for a parent, isn't it?

When the kid's getting subbed off because he's got a flag in their face. Some get very vocal, don't they? On the sidelines. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of try and hold back, but inside I'm like, possible, you know. Yeah, yeah. You don't want to like, you know, because they've got to learn,

they've got to have fun, but sometimes you want to. I just love abusing the other team. No, you don't. You ain't got nothing. You're useless. You're just getting inside their heads. Even the playing field. He's useless.

No wonder you've got a ball in the face. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. Wild weather around the country at the moment, particularly in the South Island. And as I said earlier, we're really feeling for those in Nelson. Around about 200-odd homes have been evacuated after the river burst its banks yesterday. So hopefully things are looking a little bit better today.

The bridge between Blenheim and Nelson, you basically can't drive across it at the moment. There's no direct link. So yeah, feeling for everyone down that way this morning. Yeah, especially having to move out of your house as well. It would be so, you'd be very anxious packing up going, you're not quite sure what's going to happen to this place. What do I take? What do I take?

What would you take? One thing you'd take. Oh, I'd probably take my little figurines. Yeah. Little figurines. Yeah, I'd probably take my family, eh? Oh, okay. Oh, okay.

Right. Okay. You can take your little Simpsons figurines. I can take my Simpsons. Well, I'll make my choice. I'll stick with them. Probably go, probably go, kids, wife. Can't put my kids kids wife in a backpack though

can I take my little figurines I don't know I was trying to think of something off the top of my head I wasn't pre-prepared for that one

but your figurines are very important to you you look like a better person than me but that's fine but a lot of a lot of time walking under an umbrella

recently have you have you under an umbrella recently. Have you? Have you got an umbrella in the car? I've got one, a Warriors umbrella that I've had for many years. And much like the Warriors, it's very leaky. It doesn't quite do the job. I love it. I bought you some Warriors tissues the other day at Chemist Warehouse.

I must bring them in because why does a rugby league team have tissues? Well, the Warriors, I mean, that's kind of heartbreaking sometimes. So I see why. But special brand of throughput. It's unusual. You're right. Maybe there's a few tears being shed by fans or something. But anyway, I'll bring those in for you.

But yeah, umbrella. And especially this morning walking with the umbrella. When it blows inside out. And it happens to every umbrella user. Doesn't matter who you are, how good you are at your umbrella using. And umbrella using and you always and everyone's like i feel your pain when you see it and you have to try and push it then against the wind yeah to try and resist it back into place and it's uh it's very annoying the other thing with the umbrella too is when i pick my daughter poppy up from school if it's torrential rain there's never enough room for two under an umbrella no well some of the ones

right yeah the ones you can carry and sort of you know put down inside a backpack much like i can put my simpsons figurines um yeah you're right there's never really enough room for two yeah and she's always trying to shunt me out and she's you've got half your bodies in the rain i'm trying to shunt her out as well so when rihanna said you can come stand under my umbrella oh it's not legit oh can we get two umbrellas but probably better right Rihanna said you can come stand under my umbrella, it's not legit. Can we get two umbrellas? Probably better, right? Rihanna, you're worth a billion dollars. Why don't you buy a second umbrella and we'll both be covered?

You do feel like the penguin, don't you, from Batman, walking around with an umbrella. It's good for you. You don't have to push buttons. Do you use it to push buttons? I know you don't like germs. Yeah, you're right. You can push that little button when you cross the road with an umbrella. It's kind of one of those things. Very distinguished just walking around I know you don't like germs. Yeah, you can do it. Yeah, you're right. You can push that little button when you cross the road with an umbrella. Yeah.

It's kind of one of those things. Very distinguished just walking around without it open. Just walking around with an umbrella, aren't you? Yeah, well, I don't know. Maybe you feel it. I don't know if anyone's going, well, there's a distinguished individual carrying around an umbrella. It's not like wearing a cane or having a cane or anything like that.

I always wanted to do the show Bumbrella, where we have an umbrella, but there's a bum printed on it. Oh right, so we open it up and there's a big bum. Oh God, okay. We'll use your bum. You got a good one.

Okay, that's enough. What's the raise of the plug submitting? I'm nervous. Now I take photos of the handbrake on in my car. Don't even get me started

on whether I left the iron on or not. I turn my phone off at night I just don't know what it's doing It makes me nervous Yeah, but what if we run out of hand sanitizer? I'm nervous So nervous There we go, the wonderful Ben Boyce

One of the most nervous characters in New Zealand radio And the good thing about nervousness If you're nervous about something but you get over that Then the great thing about anxiety is it makes you nervous about another thing. You can always be constantly nervous. Yeah, no, actually, occasionally I wanted to bring back this segment because I took the kids to the park after school yesterday. And I had an occasion that made me quite nervous.

So I was sitting there, you know, sitting there on the seat, watching the kids, you know, we're playing around in the park, and I was sitting next to a guy, you know, there was a guy sitting next sitting there on the seat uh watching the kids you know we're playing around in the park and i was sitting next to a guy you know there was a guy sitting next to me on the park bench and i was like hey how's it going he's all good oh he doesn't like he doesn't like engaging in banter with strangers well i kind of had my phone he had his phone we were kind of just sitting there obviously he was watching his kids i was watching mine and then his phone rang and then he was he turned to me and goes oh that's work can you keep an eye on my kid and then i was like what what and then he put his and he was like and he answered his phone and he walked off and then i was like oh my god which is his kid firstly which is his kid

there's 12 kids out there yeah i was like i think it's this one am i gonna be a weird guy watching all these kids and this was the thing i was like now i'm responsible well this guy's on the phone for his kid he's left me in charge but you don't know who his kid is like i think it's this kid and this kid was starting to climb up towards the slide and you don't know i mean the kid was younger than my kids i'm like what is this kid okay to climb up this high do i want to be the weird guy going over and go hey i'll just help you down from here in the park and they're like who are you oh it's okay your dad said for me to look up where is he he's just on his phone over there so he was sort of talking

must have been a business call you know talking loudly on his phone very very nerve wracking situation to just just sort of throw someone in

were you minding did you have an eye on the correct child do you know yeah at the end did he come back and say hey thanks yeah yeah

nothing went wrong with any of the kids on my watch but I felt like I was responsible for the whole well he owes you a favour you should but I felt like I was responsible for the whole. Well, he owes you a favour. He should have gone,

oh, you can watch those two for the next three hours. I'm just going to go and do some stuff. There are errands I need to run. So yeah, the kids seemed to be all fine, but I had a moment where I was going to help some kid down from up the slide because I thought maybe that was their kid, and it was their kid, but the kid was fine in the slide. But I'm just the weird guy sort of watching on

as this kid sort of hops up the slide. very unusual made me very nervous hey it's weird you somehow care more about other people's kids than your own well you don't want to come safety wise yeah you don't come back and they're like oh my god the kid just injured himself meanwhile sena's lying on the ground with a broken leg you're like hold on mate i'm looking after this guy's kid i had an occasion when my mate went into town a wee while ago and I did know in this instance what his kids were. He's like, can you just keep an eye on my kids while I walk into the shop? I'm like, yeah, fine. Why are you the keep an eye on kids guy?

I've never once asked you to keep an eye on my kids. I'm happy to do it. This occasion I was happy to do it. Maybe you're trustworthy. But their kids were quite young. The little boy was quite young and there was those sort of fountains downtown. It's down by Britain, Martin Auckland. That sort of spray water up into the air. And his little kid, about three or four years old, little boy, thought,

this is a great occasion for a swim. Before I knew it, he'd whipped off all his clothes, full nude, and was running through the water. And I'm like, oh, dear God. And now I'm chasing a naked child around. Yeah, it was not my own kid. Not yet. That's not a great position. They must have been peak nervousness for you.

That was very high on the nerves levels, that's for sure. How did you tidy up that one? I just had to go get my mate out of the store and go, mate, you can never grab your kid, because I cannot chase a naked kid around here. He's not my own. Mature, responsible, and considerate. Three words we sadly can't use here.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben, yesterday I had to go to the Royal Oak Mall, which I'm a big fan of, a local suburban mall. And in there they've got a shop. It's a key cutting shop. You know, like you see them in malls and things like that. It's kind of like a Mr. Minute sort of shop. But I had to get some things engraved, like little tags engraved for the dog

to put around the dog collar, you you know you put your details on so they do that at the key cutting shop but what i've noticed about the key cutting industry as a whole uh and to be honest this is probably the most exciting part of my week going to the key cutting shop okay you need to get out more yeah bleak life you do um but somewhere along way, all of the key cutters and across the board, across the market, they decided that they were not only going to nail their foot to the floor with key cutting, but also do shoe repairs. Yes. So they're doing two.

Those are two different shops in my mind. Shoe repair and key cutting. But they've blended two together. And then not only that, they've also thrown a third into the mix. They're like, we'll chuck trophies into the game as well. So you've got key cutting, trophies, and shoe repairs. They're covering a lot of bases. Yeah, I don't know if the technology, as you say,

maybe they have three very different things. Well, they don't go hand in hand in my mind. I'm either going to a trophy shop, going to a shoe repair shop. But I see the trophies because they engrave stuff. You know, they engrave trophies. That makes sense. You know, they engrave on a trophy, they engrave on a key cutting and a little tag.

But also, oh, but the soles are falling off my shoes. You can get that. Where does that come into the mix? You want some shoe polish? We've got that too. You know, we've got shoe polish, which is always handy. The other thing I thought was great about the trophy key cutting shoe repair shop is no one's stopping you from buying and engraving your own trophy.

There were clones of the Academy Awards in there. There's nothing stopping me going, John O'Prior, best Oscar for set design on Avatar. And in 20 years time, that's sitting on my fireplace. No one's going to second guess it. Yeah, true. I mean, if you get set design, you maybe go, oh, maybe he did.

Behind the scenes? You're like, oh, you know, I won an Oscar. Like, I could get you an award. Best radio dude ever. Legitimate sounding award. I think it's up at the radio awards each year, isn't it? Yeah, the best radio dude ever legitimate sounding award I think it's up at the radio awards each year isn't it yeah the best radio dude

and you can and you know there's not there should be laws around how you print trophies well yeah I don't know

if anyone's gonna well maybe you're right maybe people will think they're an actual Oscar but yeah friend of mine friend of mine

dating a guy many years ago and he'd go over to um thailand or somewhere some other country and said he was a boxer and then he would come back with trophies oh look i won the won the boxing tournament engraved and everything but he had a whole other life going on over there oh was he just going he had an affair over there but he wasn't boxing i wasn't boxing no so every time we go over there he'd go was he just going? He had an affair over there, but he wasn't boxing. Oh, he wasn't boxing? No, so every time he'd go over there, he'd go to the trophy shop

and he'd go, jeez, I'm mainly going to be first place in the boxing tournament. He'd pick up hundreds of trophies. She was like, jeez, he's good. He's a great boxer.

Can I watch him fight? No, no, no, I'd rather you didn't. Why don't you have a box in New Zealand? Why don't you fight overseas? That's my thing. Coming up,

what else do you refuse to do in your relationship this time? The Heads with the Jono and Ben podcast. Looking for a pair of below average husbands? Ta-da! It's Jono and Ben on The Heads. Anything you refuse to do around the house? Well, I don't know if it's refuse to do, but again, much like you,

I'm not as practical as my wife. She's very, very good at, you know, if anything breaks down, if anything should be put up with the hammers, nails and stuff, it's, you know, like I've given it a go in the past, but I very, very good at, if anything breaks down, if anything needs to be put up with the hammers, nails and stuff, it's like I've given it a go in the past, but I'm not very good at it. So she's out there. She'll be putting things in. She'll be drilling things

and doing all sorts of stuff and I'll be making dinner or all those sorts of things. You get the cups of tea ready. Mate, yeah. When a trade person comes over to your house, you're like, how can I help with food, drinks?

Yeah, that's my forte. Keep the fluids up. As I say, I've tried, but it's just not really my thing. My wife's very, very good at that. So I'm probably better at, you know, like I'm cooking dinner, going to the supermarket. That's probably where I'm, you know. It's your happy place. Yeah, it's the place I do.

John Pryor, my dad, refuses in the household for any commercials to be played on television. The mute button goes on immediately. Drives the boomers nuts, doesn't it? For some reason. It's so much louder. It's like, well, they're just coming at a higher volume. Because you've been watching a show that's gone up and down in volume. And this is coming at a...

Oh, it's louder. They're trying to shove commercialism in my face. So his way to beat commercialism is using that powerful mute button. He thinks he's having a win. Having a win over the commercial. It's awkward though, eh? It does.

Because he ever sings... He doesn't mute and start talking. It's not like mute, let's have a conversation. It's just mute. Sonnet. Okay, someone want to say something? I'd rather hear the beat post.

What specials they've got on at Bunnings this week. But I guess the equivalent is we get to skip now, don't we, on YouTube. Yeah. And, jeez, those are five painful seconds. Who has ever said, the history of YouTube commercials gone, you know what, I'm going to stick it out for those 30 seconds. Don't you let me skip.

I don't need that skip button. I'm going to stick it out. Yeah, so you're not doing any relationship. What are your roles? Yeah, a friend of of mine i've told you about this before he always fills up her car like she's never once filled up the car which is yeah but pretty incredible gesture making us you don't like it yeah you don't like it because it looks terrible yeah it's like well that's you know you're driving a car that's you that's your responsibility but you keep saying you've told the story multiple times you keep saying it makes me look terrible

but not once have you tried to rectify it by going to fill up amanda's like i will do it if i'm in No, that's your responsibility. But you keep saying, you've told the story multiple times, you keep saying, it makes me look terrible, but not once have you tried to rectify it by going to fill up Amanda's car. Look, I will do it if I'm in Amanda's car and it's low on gas, I'll do it. But he'll make a special, it's Sunday, time to fill up the cars and do two round trips. Like, brilliant. Anyway, he's doing it. Well, while Amanda's building a house out the back of yours, why don't you just go fill up her car?

All right, I'll go do that as well. It's probably, again, something I can do. The Jono and Ben Podcast, the world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats. Just talking about what you refuse to do around the household. There was a generation, probably our fathers, their fathers' fathers, who never even saw a nappy. Never even saw one that didn't change a nappy once.

They only go to the birthing suite, some of them. like yeah come on come on i know i mean with this when you're at the pub you know you're in you're in the zone aren't you back in those days i mean my dad didn't even change my nappy until i was 18 18 years he went by without doing it once so we're just going to go to the phones what you refuse uh to do around the house on new zealand's breakfast right now uh hello hayley, thank you. Hi. At home with a couple of sick kids. There's kids that are sick all the time at the moment.

Yes, pretty constant, eh? Good old winter time, eh? Yeah. Always given. Happy times in our house. We were saying the other day, wouldn't it be great if you could just schedule in your sickness? Like if everyone knew, okay, over a 12-month period,

you've got to have three weeks of sickness. Like sick days were actually scheduled days. You're like, I'll take 10 sick days, these are the days. Yeah, this would be convenient for me. It works in between this date and this date. Yeah, that would be ideal. But anyway, we're talking about what people are refusing to do in your household, and as your husband, we understand.

Yes, yeah. We've been married for almost 11 years, and he just refuses to get a cup out to pour milk into to drink. He just prefers to kind of aim and pour it into his mouth and he insists his lip doesn't touch it, so it's fine. Oh, the no lips, big sips policy.

Yes, because I'm like, you can't do that. Other people drink out of that, you know? But if you're not touching it with your lips, I can see his argument. He's like, I haven't put the goobies on it. How much milk is he consuming at once? Oh, maybe like, I don't know, a quarter of a cup or something.

All right, so it's like a good three to five second pour? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he just likes the idea that he can just aim and, you know. What if he has to put it into coffee? Does he pour it into his mouth, then spit it into his coffee cup? No, no, I make the coffees now. Oh, you make the coffees.

There you go. As an adult, you must have very strong bones drinking a lot of milk, a lot of calcium. Yeah. So that's good. I can't remember the last time I just had straight milk. Can you? Now and again, I'll have it a little bit with the kids. It's the kids' like.

You know, the kids like it from time to time. You're a green. You like the green milk for some reason, don't you? I don't know why. Yeah. It's gone on to basically just the green milk for some reason, don't you? Yeah, I don't know why. It's gone under basically just the watery version of normal milk. If you like milk with 70% water added to it, good on you,

Sarah, I really appreciate it. Maybe your husband's just thinking of the dishes. He doesn't want to do the dishes. Actually, he says that every time. I think that's just his backup, the reasoning. Yeah, this is why I try to implement paper plates in our household. Eat dinner, throw the plates in the cutlery out after. That's why I love a barbecue when people come over,

because you get out those paper plates, and you're like, swoop it up into the big black sack, be done with it all. Hey, good on you, Sarah. You're going to have a great day. Thanks, guys. Yeah, I hope the family gets better. Louise, welcome to the show. What are you refusing to do around the house?

Well, this is something that's a little bit more outdoors. So what I'm refusing to do these days is to go to a playground at the park with my children while wearing lycra in the rain. Well, very specific. Okay, it feels like an incident took place. Yeah, it did, yeah. I was trying to

prove to my kids I was still young enough to play on the playground with them and it had been raining really heavily so everything was wet and everything, there was puddles everywhere and I was wearing some Lycra pants and went flying down the slide at speed and flew right off the end and landed on my backside of the puddle. Oh, wow. Now, because, yeah, I guess with the Lycra mixed with the slippery nature of the slide and moisture, you would have been hurtling down. Yeah, yeah, I went down pretty fast.

It was a bit unfortunate because I ended up fracturing my tailbone when I landed. Oh, damn. Probably about a three-month recovery from that. Oh, I see why you're not going on the swings and slides now. No, I've learnt my lesson. I'm nearly 40 now, so I've passed it. Yeah, now, adults in playgrounds, sometimes they don't. We spoke to someone once

who tried to get in, you know, not the normal swings, but the toddler ones. That's right. And they got their legs through, but then they couldn't get their legs out. They were kind of... Someone at the playground had to call the fire service, and I think they had to get the jaws of life or something to release his thighs.

Oh my, that's embarrassing. Yeah, well, Louise, refusing to play on the playground with the kids and fair enough too. You're going to have a great day in Waihi. Will do, see you later. See ya. Bye.

Oh, bye. Well, there's a lot of kids there. Bye. Let's go. Jono and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. It is our Game of Word Association.

We do it every morning on the hits. Your chance to win $5,000 by matching all the words with us. Yes, the Game of Word Association brought you an association with Jono, an association with Ben, and an association with Jamie and Kaikoura. How's it going? Good, matey. How are you? Good. Shocking weather along the coast, we understand.

Yeah, she's got a few whitecaps out at sea, but we've got none of that horrible rain at the moment, so that's holding off. Hey, well, good on you. We were in Kaikoura a few weeks ago, actually. Yeah, we did. We were filming the seals along the coastline there. Oh, pretty awesome.

Hey, if you had have been here yesterday, there was a southern right whale and a newborn carp along the coast. A wild carp? People were just watching it from the beach, so that was pretty special. Wow. Yeah, they're good. That's amazing. It's an amazing coastline on there.

It's a wonderful place to drive along. It's a lot bigger than you think, Kaikoura. Yeah. When we went in there, I was like, oh, there's a lot more here than I had imagined in my head. Yeah. And you work at the mechanical garage? Yeah. Yeah, just on the admin side of it. do you reckon ben's got a new new car he's wondering if he goes

electric or sticks it out with petrol and you're a hybrid or what does he do what do you reckon what's the call oh i don't know about this electric thing i'm not quite there yet it's very pricey it does sound good in theory but it's very pricey. It does sound good in theory, but... It's very pricey. All right, Jamie, not a hundy on the old electric movement just yet. Okay, who are you going to send into the soundproof booth this morning to match five words with? We'll go Jono this time. All right, Jono, you can head on in there,

and we'll see if we can match up these five words, get you as much money as you want, so you can tap out at any time. Let's go to the first word today. What pops into your head when I say Colby? C-O-L-B-Y, Colby. Cheese. Yep, that seemed like the only option to me. Sting, S-T-I-N-G, sting.

Ray. Sting Ray. Oh, nice. We've got the coastal water theme. Merrill, M-A-Y-O-R-A-L. Meryl. Candidate. Candidate.

Alcatraz is word number four. Prison. Prison. And membership is the final word this morning, Jamie. Membership. Gym. Gym membership. Great options.

I think you played really well she might not be sold on electric cars but there's an electric energy this morning you can feel it in the studio let's try win you some cash jmo thank you it's here to word number one word one 25 for 25 bucks colby is the word colby cheese Yeah Colby cheese You've got $25 Jamie Do you want to risk it all for $50 Or take your $25 We'll carry on matey

Word two $50 Sting Sting Ray Sting the guy who makes love for three days From the police. From the police with his tantric approach to lovemaking. But you went Sting, right?

Okay, Jamie, do you want to go to word number three for $100 or do you want to take your $50? I don't know. $50 would get me a quarter of a tank of gas. You wouldn't have to worry about an electric car. No, you'll be gone 100 bucks on that one, will you? Yeah, I'll go for the full tank. We'll carry on.

All right, $100. Word three, $100. Yeah, that's wrong. Jamie gets nothing. Jono, she can't put anything into her tank. Word number three, Meryl. Meryl. Isn't Meryl candidate?

Isn't it correct? Oh, Jamie, we're driving you in full tank there. All right, what do you want to do now? Now's the decision. You've got $100. Do you want to risk that $100 for $500, or do you take your $100 and go? We're going to put the foot on the accelerator and carry on.

Ah, I like it. We've done well carrying on this car thing. Beautiful work. There you go. Word four, $500. Word number four, Alcatraz prison yeah five hundred that'll buy you a lot of crayfish yeah we'll do okay so you got five bucks now that is yours uh you can take it or you can risk it for $5,000 for our next word. What do you want to do? Oh, my gosh.

That could buy me a lot of native trees. Native trees? You want to buy native trees? Yeah, yeah. I really do. Yeah, we want to start getting the bellbirds and tuis around. Oh, wow. The last word. There was some options.

Yes, there is. I thought you had a pretty good option, but there were some options. I'm going to go for it. I'm going to go for it. Word five. $5,000. Come on, Jono. All right.

We're going to pop Jamie on hold so she can't. There's no careless whispering going on. This is for $5,000 for Jamie this morning if you match up this word. If you don't,

you get nothing. You know how it works, Jono. Word number five. Membership. Membership. Oh, Jamie. Why'd you go this yeah i'd go membership fee jamo jamo jamo Mate, I am so gutted for you. Oh, Jamie, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

Oh, sweet. No, it's good as gold, mate. Hey, thanks so much. You know, sometimes it's not the money, it's the thrill of the ride, isn't it? Although the money's probably a lot better. Let's do this again, Jamie. You're a lot of fun.

Make sure you call back next time and play again, all right? Cheers, bud. Thank you. See ya. New Zealand's most successful unsuccessful show Jono and Ben on the hits Wild weather in Nelson Yesterday some big flooding going on

Jeez it's more miserable than talkback radio After an All Blacks loss And we're joined by Skip from Nelson Oh good morning Jono and Ben, how are you? Oh good to have you on, you're a bus driver Skip Out there in the elements Yep, normally drive a school bus, but all the schools are shut, so I've come home. What's the weather like today?

Is still rain continuing? It's still raining. I'm in Stoke myself. It's probably not what you'd call a heavy rain, but it's consistent, yeah. And on the road, are people out and about, or has everyone just been told to stay at home? What's the deal? Oh, there's quite a few people out and about.

A lot of people, especially in dark cars, don't have their lights on. And in this murky weather, very hard to see. I don't know why they wouldn't put their lights on anyway in this weather. Oh, there we go. A bit of a public service announcement. If you are driving around Nelson, put your headlights on. No, that's fine.

I enjoy listening to your show. I have the radio on in my bus in the morning and I don't know whether the kids like it, but I like it. Thank you so much. A bit of punishment for the kids on the way to school. That's right, mate. Yes, yes.

Good on you. Thank you so much. You keep safe and keep dry. Thanks a lot.