Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Mike Hosking Reviewed Our New TV Show...

Episode Date: September 15, 2021

The harshest critic in the game spared us 5 minutes of his time to chat to us about our new TV show. We sent him a couple of episodes to watch, did he like it? Is it worth watching? Hear from the Hosk himself! We also spent a bit of time brainstorming a name for the new potential vaccination bus that'll go around giving people the jab. Australia have called theirs Jabba The Bus, but Jacinda reckons us Kiwis will be able to think of a better one, and we ALREADY HAVE! Finally, if your wedding invite list is full, can you start culling the plus ones, or the partners that you don't really know, in order to invite more friends!? Is this acceptable!?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Hi there, it's Jono and Ben here back for the podcast, Māori Language Week, Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori.

This week is, and what was Wednesday, Ben? Rā apa o whenare. Two ways you can say Wednesday in Te Reo. I like it how they've got two versions for each day. There's one more casual, like, because, you know, I've noticed that every day, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Yeah, well, even the one is correct, apparently. I've been doing Te Reo classes, yeah, just once a week.

So it's a very, very small step on a long journey, but it's actually really interesting hearing about the island. Not just about the language, but just about the history and customs and stuff like that. It's awesome. Is it hard learning a new language? Yeah. I feel like I'm good at the time.

You go, oh, yeah, I get this. And then coming back a few days later, you have to get your head back into how that all works. Particularly even with numbers, you know, you go, oh, yeah, I get this. And then you're coming back a few days later, you'll have to get your head back into how that all works. Yeah. So particularly even like with numbers, you know, writing out, everything's written out numbers, you know, like you basically have to write them out. There's no such sort of thing as symbols or anything like that. You're writing them out as the words.

Oh, as the words. As the words as well. Right, I see. So you get to words. We were writing out like millions and, you know, hundreds of thousands the other day, and you've got to break it down. It takes a while to get your head around that as well. Well, so if I'm writing 992,000, how many words is that going to take?

It'll take a while. Yeah. Because you basically have to write out the 992,000, and then you have to break down how many things. Yeah, so it takes a while. Let's just hope you're never earning that amount of money that you need to write it out in today. Yeah. Hey, I was just reading something really interesting about,

did you see about this Nicki Minaj thing at the moment? So she didn't go to the Met Gala because you have to be double vaccinated to go to the Met Gala this year in the UK. Sorry, in the US. Did anyone go dressed as a COVID patient? No, I don't think so. But she says she's not anti-vax. She's just doing a bit more research on it at the moment.

But she had a very interesting tweet, and I'll try and find that tweet for you right now. It's just about swollen testicles. She said a friend of her, or cousin, or something like that. It's always a friend of a cousin. Also, you've got swollen testicles from the vaccination, so she's looking into it. And now that's become news in the UK

because Boris Johnson got asked about it. vaccination so she's looking into it and now that's become news in the uk because boris johnson got asked about it yeah nicki minaj has been sitting in one of those press conference situations and he was like well i'm not really that aware of nicki minaj's work as much as i should but they even asked the basically the dr ashley bloomfield of the uk over there as well have you heard about the swollen testicles rumor that's going around yeah yeah and um he well, no, there's a lot of things going around on the internet like that. I feel like this is one of the ones that maybe is in the false category. Has anyone ever seen the testicles in question? No, no, no.

Has she seen them or was this just word of mouth? It seems like word of mouth. And if she's like my friend's cousin, you know, she's too removed from the story. So it could have been, you know know the chinese whisper system too would just sort of lend itself to you know maybe he was like oh i had they were swollen going into it might have been part of the story yeah he went in there with swollen ones well yeah and then she did a really interesting thing back she um she did a lovely english accent back on her twitter as well um so yes i'm from eng. Yeah, just as a little,

not really saying either way, you've been, yeah, so it was very unusual sort of. Correspondence. Yeah, but anyway, she made news in the UK, and now we're talking about the cousin's friend's swollen bits. Yeah, you never, jeez, I imagine swollen ones would be a nightmare,

wouldn't they? Yeah, yeah. They're an inconvenient body part. Yeah, they're unusual. They're not attractive. No, they're a nightmare, wouldn't they? Yeah, yeah. They're an inconvenient body part. Yeah, they're unusual. They're not attractive. No, they're very unusual, aren't they? Yeah. Like, if you look at them, you're like, what's the point of those things? You know, what's that whole little area about?

Yeah. You know, if I was staring at one, you know, I'm like, well, that's a work of art or anything. Yeah, yeah. Who's, Michelangelo did David, didn't he? The famous statue. He did. He did his with, those were on display. David, didn't he, the famous statue? He did. He did his with, those were on display.

Yeah, they were on display. Was he on good form? Yeah, David? I always remember looking at David going, would David be happy with that?

Was David at, yeah. Was he at, you know? Well, yeah, because I mean, yeah.

Like someone's making a statue out of you, back in the day, there would be no photos. It's not like you go, here, quick, quick,

take a photo, and you'd be probably standing there for hours. Well, looking at day, there would be no photos. It's not like you go, hey, quick, quick, take a photo. You'd be probably standing there for hours. Looking at David, you'd be like, hey, Michael, can you add, you know, just. David was ripped. David was ripped, yeah. David was working out. I mean, looking at his, maybe he was vaccinated. He was doing CrossFit. No, you're right, they're quite swollen. In comparison

to him. But you're right. But the thing on top of it would have been, hey, Michael, I know you've seen what you've seen, but no one else has. Yeah, we'll come back for the big unfailing. You'll be like, and there it is. You'll be like, mate, come on. We had a conversation about this. Just another couple of, yeah.

A bit of a stitch up there on poor old Dave, I think. But he does look magnificent. But don't worry, no one's ever going to see this, mate. It won't be around for thousands of years. It's still around. I've seen the statue of David, too. Yeah. Yeah.

Spare a thought for David. Oh, in statue form. But he was ripped. He was definitely working out. Yeah. He was shredding. He was, yeah. He was definitely working out. Yeah. He was shredding. He was, yeah. He was.

I mean, he could have left some shorts on or something. He still would have looked magnificent. Well, he was confident. Everyone was ripped back in that day, though, weren't they? A lot of ripped people wandering around. Yeah, they were. I don't know if it was through lack of food or whatever it was, but they looked magnificent back then.

Hey, the podcast today, Mike Hosking. Michael Noel James Hosking III. It's actually his full name from Newstalk ZB. He reviewed our show, Ben, our TV show, Good Sports. Yeah, not the review that I thought we were going to get from Mike Hosking. Yeah, and he watched a whole lot of it. Like, this was him just watching the opening titles. Yeah.

And that's it. He watched two episodes and said it felt like seven. I don't know if that was a compliment or not't think it's a compliment but uh yeah he will be uh with you on the podcast new zealand's breakfast this is jono and ben on the heads it is uh jono and ben with you just gone eight o'clock on your wednesday morning uh very shortly uh mike hosking you know i'm from news talk zb a better a better class of radio station in person he's a better class of person you know let's. He's a better class of person. Yeah. Let's not pull any punches. We had a dream that Mike Hosking would review our new TV show,

which is on Thursday nights at 8 p.m. TVNZ2. You wanted to get a slot on Hosking's number one rating. Yeah. Great publicity for us, right? Great for show. And he said, well, send me the episodes, and I will decide whether you can make the cut for the show. So we spoke to Mike before our

program this morning. Obviously he's on air at the moment and this is how it all started. Now what is this? So this is us just Was that part of the review? The great man himself Michael Hosking. Welcome. Ben good to see you.

It's Jono but it doesn't matter. Oh sorry mate Welcome. Ben, good to see you. John, it doesn't matter. Oh, sorry, mate. John O, good to see you. It's not important which one's which. We answered them both politely. Now, Mike, we wanted to get on the biggest radio show in the country, and surprisingly, that's not ours. That's yours.

That's correct. Why is that surprising? Well, it's not surprising at all. Either way, why is that surprising? Why is it surprising yours isn't, and why is it surprising? well it's not surprising at all either way why is that surprising? why is it surprising yours isn't and why is it surprising mine is? do you feel like you're always talking to a headmaster

yeah I get really quite nervous around him so we sent up a copy of our new TV show John Owen being good sports we wanted to get some publicity talk about it on your show

and apparently you were going to watch some of it to deem if it was worthy of the Mike Hosking breakfast guys well first of all let me just know me, I'll cut to the chase. You're not coming on my program.

You've never been on my program, you're not going to start now. However, words of encouragement, I watched what seemed like seven or eight episodes. I think it only turned out to be two. We'll hold Mike there. We'll find out what his thoughts and feelings were about Jono and Ben good sports. It left us speechless. It did. It did.

And we'll have that next. We'll do that after Sia. It is the hits. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Now, you had a wish that we appear on Mike Hosking's show, number one rating show on Newstalk ZB

and as you just heard he has no interest in putting us on the show but we got him to review the program to see what he actually thought so this is Mike Hosking's genuine thoughts on good sports.

I think I watched two. I don't know. I didn't get to the part. Now, here's the part I really want to see. I want to see the wrestling. Oh, yes, that comes up in a later episode. We actually learn how to wrestle and go in our first ever event. Yeah, a wrestling event. Yeah.

Yeah. So what I saw so far, I saw some. So is the program made to sort of to lure you into some of the sexy stuff in the latter part of the season and just to give you some of the soft stuff up front? So the chili eating, was that really that difficult, the chili eating? It was. It was. You've actually watched it?

Yeah. I'm a working professional here. I'm here to review you from top to toe. This is actually going to take quite a while, guys, because I've got a lot to say. So the chili eating, was it that difficult or not? It actually was. We weren't putting that on for TV. That was genuine pain, wasn't it?

It was. It was. Okay. As far as a contract is concerned, I mean, I know you're keen on being on television and all that sort of stuff, and some of the other projects haven't worked that well. So you're at a point in your career where you're looking for an element of success.

So I understand that part. But contractually speaking, did you draw any limits on what you would or wouldn't do we've never drawn limits on our dignity yeah we did in all seriousness we did talk long and hard about going in the wrestling ring because obviously accidents can happen and insurance needs to be paid up but we're like it would be a lot a lot better of a story if we were involved in a wrestling match and jono reminded me of that when I was nervous about going into the ring. He was like, you wanted to do this. Well, I didn't want to do this, but you know deep down it's going to make better TV to put yourself through that.

Is the wrestling the highlight of the series, do you think, or are there other highlights in there? Do you not think you've seen any highlights to date? Well, okay, so let me come to the high points of what I've watched. The chilly, fair enough. The smoking up was fantastic. I love that. But, John, I haven't been around at your house and seen your car. That's just you on a Friday night, isn't it?

I mean, that's just you in your driveway, so there's no great thrill there. But what I did admire you on was the water ski because that's genuine speed and without skis and with i mean i would have liked to have seen you fall off with skis on but barefoot is hard work yeah and you you look like you i mean there's must be pain on that if your legs just jono think about this you're holding you're holding you're holding you're holding you're holding your legs split your legs split your legs split your leg go into the water. That's got to be open to at least an insurance.

Chris Hipkins would have been like, wow, you spread your legs well when you're doing that with barefoot water skiing. But yeah. When your ankles are by your ears, you really do start to question your career decisions. What about when that happens when you water skiing? So I'm surprised that you've either watched a lot of it or someone has summarized a lot of it for you, Mike Hosking.

I saw it all. So I sat down on, you've got to remember we're in level four. So literally, I'm literally bored out of my breath. So I sat down over the weekend and I thought, oh, God, it's an awful dinner. What do I do? And then I thought, I know, when I'm really down, I watch a bit of Jono in bed.

And that'll drag you through to dinner. Exactly. But the water scene was fantastic. I tell you what I do like in all seriousness. I love the New Zealanders who are out there doing that stuff. You know, you never hear from them. And there's always a community, isn't there? It's not just Roger and his pink ute.

There's a whole bunch of them out there. You know what I'm saying? I love that part of it. And it was genuinely good meeting those people as well. There are some wonderful New Zealanders out there doing stuff that, well, really doesn't matter in the long term. Yeah, they don't get paid for any of this stuff. They just do it because they love it, and that's their passion,

and it's an unusual passion, much like us doing TV. You're like, why are we still doing it? But we're doing it. And you're not getting paid, are you? Were you paid for this? I thought it was just like a community project or something like that. I actually, honestly, in all honesty, I thoroughly enjoyed it. And I think the wrestling I will be back for,

that alone will get me back in whatever episode it is because something has got to have gone wrong yeah well it was a lot of lycra too much lycra yeah and uh too much pasty white bodies in lycra as well i noticed in the lycra neither of you are well built how do we end this so it's a positive review but it's not good enough to get on the show no it's not no it's not and you know you were good enough to get on the show. No, it's not. No, it's not. And you know you were never going to get on the show.

And, I mean, you've been around long enough to know that the Hosking Gate is permanently closed in terms of publicity for you two. But in my own small way, I'm happy to, you know, come on your program, your small radio offering, and to just uplift the audience with a bit of help and advice. And I'll do that for you guys anytime. And you can chalk this up with your accountant as your charity work for the year, Mike.

Oh, indeed. I get the money back because last year's charity work with you worked a treat for me. And people momentarily saw me as genuinely nice and kind. So as long as I come across as a half-decent bloke and you get your review. Thank you, Mike Hosking. Mike Hosking.

Wow, you watched a lot of the show. Yeah, unbelievable. You can catch it tomorrow night yourself. 8 o'clock, TVNZ2. It's John Owen being Good Sports and you can win $500 just by watching the show. And yes, we are bribing you to watch the show. That's as good as it gets with Hosking, isn't it? Even if it was for tax purposes.

Won't get on the show, though, will we? Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there, then I backed out. John Owen Baird, New Zealand Breakfast. Got a bit of a scenario here And we brought Sally on Friend of a friend of a friend of the show I don't know if she's directly friendly with the show Or we've manipulated our friendships

In order to get her on the radio But regardless she's here Morning Sally, how are you? Good morning guys, don't worry Friend of the show Now oh great, so now you're about to get married. Yep, that's right. What I love is the bone of contention that's currently sitting between you and your fiancé, you explain further Yeah, so we're currently going through the making our

invite list, which is, everyone knows it's super hard so we've got to the point where we've maxed it out, but we've still got plenty of people that we actually need to invite. So my husband, well, my fiance, nearly husband, has said we need to cull off some of our friends' partners that we don't know. So some people won't get a plus one. I just feel a bit savage about it. So, yeah, I'm just not too sure what to do. I feel a bit savage about it So yeah, I'm just not too sure what to do

Feeling a bit uncomfortable So you're saying you invite one person You invite their partner And he's saying, well if I don't know them Why are they at my wedding? That's the debate? Yep, yep, that's the one I can see it from his point of view

Because you know, in some ways You'd probably rather have another friend That you do know at your wedding I know it can be tricky But there has been occasions where amanda my wife has gone to weddings without me a couple times and i have not for a second thought like i should be there at all i haven't known the person on one occasion i was like why would i be there it saves you the awkward banter too doesn't it yeah i know you're a fan of uh turning up to somewhere and having to have awkward banter yeah uh so it uh you've avoided night of that, which is also a bonus.

But don't you feel like you invite one, you've got to invite them both? No. It's like if they come to dinner. Someone invites you around to dinner, you go, oh, no, your partner can't come because I don't know them. Well, dinner's probably, I don't think it would. Same scenario. That was a champagne, that was a wonderful argument from prior. Put me on a debating team.

Sorry, you can't come because that's a good chance to get to know someone. Yeah, no, but on your theory, you're not inviting the person over for dinner. It's a wedding. It's a wedding. So, Sally, is there a reasonable option you meet down the middle and call off the marriage? Yep, that's the one. That's an option? That's a reasonable option.

So how are we going to have a winner here? These guys are at a stale, mate. Oh,'s the one. That's an option. That's a reasonable option. So how are we going to have a winner here? These guys are at a stale, mate. 0800 The Hits. This is how we're going to get a winner in this debate. You phone through 0800 The Hits, the telephone number, 4487, and force your opinion on a couple that you don't even know. Yeah, well, friend of the show. They've come here for your friendly advice.

So let's get to it next. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Like getting your news From the internet Half truths And false information Jono and Ben

New Zealand's breakfast Sally and Matt They're getting married Now Matt Doesn't want to invite People he doesn't know To his wedding So if he knows

Someone from his work Well he doesn't want To invite their partner Well I think When it gets down to the Down to it You know Down to the cull list

Yeah when you're like Well I could invite this person, this partner that I don't know, or I could invite another friend of ours that we've known for, say, 20 years. Yeah, now, it's not about them, though, is it? It's about inviting these people that you hardly know. They come and drink on your dollar, eat on your dollar, and then leave, and you never see them again for the rest of your life. Well, that's so true. Half the people who went to our wedding I don't see again.

But I don't mind. It's just a snapshot in time of your life at that moment. You don't have any regrets about inviting anyone to your wedding. And they were just people you knew at that moment. But what if you didn't know them? Hey? What if you didn't know them? There were some people there I didn't know so well.

But what if you didn't know them over another, let's say, Juliet? You're like, oh, you've got to invite someone else's partner that you don't know over Juliet. And you really want Juliet there, but you're like, well, now I've got to invite the partner. What decision are you making prior? I've got a new wife. Why am I having a second marriage?

You've got a second marriage. I've got a new wife. You've got a new wife. Okay. And I haven't met your new wife. But it'd be great to have her along But you know Juliet Do I invite Ben and his mistress?

Or Juliet? Have I made this weird? I've made this crazy, haven't I? I'm trying to give an example I'm on a second marriage, Ben's now having an affair We've got through the awkward parts Oh listen I'd love to meet

Your new mistress Bring her along Okay well Juliet Sorry you can't come Sorry mate I'll leave then Yeah It was out of intrigue Juliet

I already know you I know what you can bring Yeah that's fair I haven't met this new Mysterious lady in Ben's life So I'll wait 100 with the hats Is it okay to just invite

One of the two When it comes to a couple But good things come in two. Ben Boyce and Nerves. Wonderful thing. Jono Pryor and Caps. Kerry, you're on from Tauranga. Morena, how are you?

Good morning, team. I'm doing good. How about you? Yeah, good. If you invite someone to a wedding, do you need to invite the other, the significant other? No way. No.

No. You don't need to. They might just, you know, you don't want randoms in your pictures, photobombing you, making stupid faces. You want the moments to last, eh? Well, not every random comes on and makes a stupid face in a photo. This is stereotyping. A random would do, though, right?

Yeah, probably. Well, they're not going to really know anyone else, so they're just going to sit at the bar, get drunk, and then, yeah, be stupid stupid and you don't want that ruin in your night. Again we've tarnished randoms with a shocking brush here What I do like about a random is a wedding is you can pin anything

on them. Like the following day is oh who tipped over the table? Must have been the random. Yeah we didn't know that person Shouldn't have invited them. We'll get Chris on who's called through on 0800 the hits Chris is in Nelson. Chris is a wedding celebrant and would be well-versed in this. Do you have to invite the partners, Chris?

No, only the partner that you're going to get married to. Oh, that's the only one you need to invite. What about Ben's new mistress over Juliet? Who do I do invite in that situation? Probably not. If you want to follow up to the wedding, do it, but I suggest not to. Yeah, right, okay. So many weddings that you've been to and you've organised,

have had people just invite friends and not so much a partner they didn't know? Yeah, it's actually becoming increasingly common that, you know, people that you don't know don't go to your wedding because you've got to remember this is your wedding. It's your intimate moment, really. So there's no point, you know, inviting someone that you don't know, really. It's common.

It's not all about the happy couple, though. It's about the obnoxious fighting family members and friends who want to invite other friends and plus ones to weddings. What, wedding fight club? Wedding fight. Do you know, I went to a wedding once and someone bought people that weren't even

invited. Really? Really? Like it was a 21st or something. Have you seen that before, Chris? I have had one wedding. I can't name the couple, but other family members just turned up uninvited, but they did still have respect for the people on the day and they stayed back a wee bit.

But it was quite awkward. You could see the couple up there sort of twitching a wee bit. What's going on, guys? Oh, my wayward uncle's turned up. Have you ever seen any altercations at a wedding, Chris? Boy, you must have witnessed some stuff. Oh, yes, you do get that

because it's the old alcohol blanket, which is quite naughty. But, you know, you're there as a celebrant. You sort of try and calm the situation down as well, but we get that. What's the most wild situation you've had to deal with in your job? I've had a bride that was an hour late, but you know, she was staying right next to where the ceremony was being done, so that was probably the most wild thing, you know, guests are getting a bit twitchy and kids are sort of crying and running around.

But nothing massively wild, which is good. No, okay, all right. You could have made up something a bit more salacious. A unicorn broke through a tent and jumped over the wedding table. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. They'll do that. Yeah, you got it on you, Chris. Thank you very much for your call.

There we go. And on the text as well, a lot of people saying, listen, if you don't know them, you don't have to invite them. It's your wedding. No hard feelings. So ego on my face. I regret taking that start. Tested safe for listening from home.

Keep safe. And that's all I have to say. Thanks, Dr. Ashley. John Owen Mann. New Zealand's breakfast. A lot of anger out there at the moment, isn't there, in Aotearoa about this Auckland couple who fled Level 4 to... They were just wanting a cheeky getaway to their holiday home in Wanaka,

and I can understand that. They used their essential worker form to get past the border at Hamilton and then jumped on a flight and went to Wanaka, and everyone's, you know, we're all up in arms, aren't we? It's what we do here in New Zealand. We're really good at getting up in arms with stuff. And I mean, you do understand the anger for people right now who would love to be down in

there, you know? Who are the Naki neighbours? Who are the Naki neighbours in Wanaka? It's going to be awkward when they go back to their holiday home in Jan, isn't it, for a bit of a summer getaway? Yeah, that's true. We're a nation of Narks. Oh yeah that was true yeah another nation of narcs oh i don't stand right now because everyone doesn't want to be stuck in lockdown you know and they did they made a mistake and they've apologized for that and their names are out

there and they're copping a lot they are copping a lot and we're just talking about it before going or should we you know should we talk more about it should we get some calls on the air and i guess uh you know it's interesting because we i don't know. I don't want to make excuses for these people. They did a really dumb thing. And I'm sure they know they did a dumb thing by their – Well, if they don't, we're all telling them they did. Press release. But, yeah, but I'm kind of always a bit on the fence with these sorts of things

because having done a dumb thing before in the past, many dumb things over my life, I mean, hey, we're all human. We do dumb things. But I made a particularly bad choice a few years ago to do with a going to the airport and a pilot uniform for a TV segment many years ago. And it was the worst moment of my life. And it became front page news. Yeah.

And so I, I guess I'm not making excuses for them, but I also feel a touch of sympathy for anyone that going through the eye of a media storm like that as well, because it's a horrible place to be. And you deserve, I deserved it. I put my hand up be. And you deserve, I deserved it. I put my hand up and say,

I was, I was dumb. It was dumb decision. It cost me jobs. It cost me a lot of money. It cost me, you know, a lot,

a lot of stuff, you know, relationships. Yeah. Well, yeah, my family got a lot of, yeah,

a lot of things. I know they dragged your mom into the foray, didn't they? It cost, you know, it cost, you know, but I deserved it all.

You know, I deserved it all. And you got to take it. You got to take all the hate and you got to take that. But I guess now I try not to judge anyone else. And you want to judge them, that's fine. You can do what you want. That's everyone's right to.

But I kind of now just go, well, hey, I've made a dumb thing. And so these people right now will be feeling that, I would hope. What is the eye of the storm like? It's horrible. What do they do? Yeah, horrible. It's just people turning up at your doorstep, journalists, people calling your family, their phones ringing, to yeah my mum's you know my family

getting called and as i say it was all deserved it was all deserved i'm not going to say there it was so it wasn't deserved because i did a dumb thing but yeah it's a horrible position to be in with the worst worst moment of your life you just want to try and move on and be a better person and not make those decisions again but yeah yeah, you caught in that. You caught everyone commenting on it. Everyone's giving you hate and rightly so, you know, I deserved all that.

Yeah. I'm sorry for that, mate. I, uh, I went out publicly. I did an article how much I hate Ben Boyce. Uh,

he's a shocking friend, make shocking decisions. Uh, but the other thing is too, I think there's a responsibility from the media too. You know, these are, they're just human beings.

Yes, they screwed up but to name and shame them and hang them out to dry in such a public platform when really thankfully they didn't they don't have covid yeah you know there's no harm no foul in this instance yes they made a mistake and they'll probably get punished to some degree you know like i got punished for community service and and you know things cost me a lot and fines and stuff and you know he went to community service at a school uh athletics day didn't you and i was filming it some stuff and he just think of something and everyone went up to him thinking oh you're so nice turning up here for charity work and he didn't tell him the real reason people yeah he's like can you sign this form by the way

the people knew i was there but yeah it's hard when people go, this lover, you're giving your time. You're like, well, you don't want to correct them. When you're like, you know, really kills the vibes when you say you're there for community service, doesn't it? Yeah. But I think you just need to be careful. You know, these are real people. Yeah. And if you want to be angry about it, I understand why.

But sometimes it's interesting to go, well, hey, I don't want to, I'm not going to, I'm trying not to judge right now. And I do feel a touch of sympathy for people in that position, even though they know they did wrong. No one's perfect, mate. Look at this. I know you look at me and you're like, that is the picture of perfection, don't you? Even I've made mistakes.

It's happened. You wouldn't think so looking at this face, would you, Juliet? Really? What do you mean, really? I'm not trying to make excuses for anyone. I don't know anyone as well but that's probably why we decided not to open up the phone lines this morning and get more you know more calls and texts there or everyone's opinions are out there and you can put your opinions out there

and that's fine but it was just probably now and we're like well hey let's for the record i wanted to open the phones yeah i was like open them up let's bloody get this bear eyes on you'd be right to do that as well you'd be right to do that as well. Yeah, you'd be right to do that as well. No, but we should be nice in these times. I think there's two words that the Prime Minister likes using. Be kind. Yeah, be kind. Except to people who have fled Auckland and gone to Wanaka. They're exempt from being kind.

It is a hit. She got Jono and Van. Jono's internet wormhole. You might find me on Police 107 this Thursday as a missing person because I am a loss on the internet. Clickbait article on what your leg positions say about you as a person. So you know when you're sitting, and people have various ways of sitting, there's apparently a lot you can tell about a person's personality.

Oh, really? By the way they sit. So let me just look under the desk at the moment. Yeah. What are you doing at the moment? I'm wearing my legs crossed at the moment. You're a cross-wedge. Same. Yeah, right. look under the desk at the moment. Yeah. What are you doing at the moment? I'm wearing my legs crossed at the moment. You're a crossword. Same. Yeah, right.

You're both crossing at the moment. Yeah. Well, that's interesting because that's quite a common one, isn't it? So the first one I will tackle is your champagne leg cross. This is a vibe that they have a type A personality, the leg crosser. They can be interpreted as being organized, prompt, and reliable. And I would say both of you are all three of those things yeah now i personally i'm more of a chris hipkins spread your legs kind

of guy right i'm not i'm not a folder and so the uh the leg spreader as it's uh as it's known uh they tend to be more observant in a situation, more relaxed approach to life. Yeah, right. They're not judgmental, according to this. Have you ever seen anyone sit with their hands, but they've got their legs spread, but they've got their hands kind of held together in the middle? Oh, yeah.

And they're resting in the middle. Well, that says that someone is passionate. They're emotional. And they're willing to hear your side of the argument. Ah, but I would mix it up from time to time. Like, I don't always sit with my legs crossed. Yeah. But it is a comfy go-to, I guess.

There's two options for your legs crossed, isn't there? There's the one which, if I ever do it, I'll just go straight over, fold tight to the leg. But then you've got the one where you put your foot and it ends up on your knee, and you've got kind of a... Oh, yes, yes, I know what you're talking about. It's kind of a wider version of that. More obnoxious.

And you put your hands behind your head, lean back in your reclining chair, less tall business. No, I'm definitely like the closed off of the two. You're not the, yeah. Feet on the table is always a power move in an office too, like the kick back, put your feet up. We used to work for a guy who did feet up on the table is always a power move in an office too isn't it? Like a kickback put your feet up.

We used to work for a guy who did feet up on the table. Head behind the head. Just a hand and he did hands behind the head. How did he get

any work done if his feet were up against the table? I know it's just when he's talking to you about business and you're like it became a game of us

how long for the time to set until the feet go up on the table. There we go. But it does all of a sudden you just respect that person. So I'll tell you what I'll tell you how it's going to play out you feet go up on the table. There we go. But it doesn't. All of a sudden, you just respect that person.

Yeah, yeah. So I'll tell you what. I'll tell you how it's going to play out. You're like, ooh. He's got the gall to put his feet on the table. It's an office. Yeah. And he's got the talent.

Yeah, you're right. You're confident in an idea there. Because as soon as you put your feet on the table, no one's going to go, yeah, crap idea, John. All right. Because you're already in a position that you're like, listen to me, sort of. Yeah, and where do you do it? Is it a a boardroom meeting do you go feet on the table at

the top of the board all right guys here listen to this i've got it i've got it i've solved the world i've solved the pandemic here's how it's gonna run uh but yeah that's how um that's how what's quite interesting yeah interesting observation who knows if there's any truth to it whatsoever but i thought you two with your legs crossed sums you up beautifully. Love it. Yeah, I'm just saying it's more of a comfort thing lately. It's just a comfort, you know. Legs crossed. It wasn't always a big leg crosser,

but you're like, this is just very comfortable. Yeah, so you kind of get to an age, it's like when you start enjoying cheese. Same time you start enjoying cheese, it's the same time, round about the same area where you start folding your legs, isn't it? Yeah, exactly. Zealand's Breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Ate marie, na mai, harimai.

Welcome along to the show, Jono and Ben with you. Good to be with you this morning. Yeah, lovely to see your shining faces. No, not shining, your faces aren't shiny. A little greasy, a little shiny. I've got a shiny face. Your smiley faces. And I'm sure for you it's lovely to see my shiny face today. Big show this morning. We say that every for you, it's lovely to see my shiny face today.

Big show this morning. We say that every morning, but there's nothing bigger in radio than Mike Hosking from Newstalk ZB, and he reviewed our TV show. It's been a bit of a journey that we embarked on this week, was to try and get a slot on his high-rating Newstalk ZB show. You wanted, what, Thursday to interview us the day of our TV programme? I want to interview on the biggest radio show in the country. So he has watchedB show. You wanted, what, Thursday to interview us the day of our TV programme? I wanted an interview on the biggest radio show in the country. So he has watched

the show. Apparently he's watched two episodes of the show to see if it's worthy of us getting on his radio show. Do you have that audio, Ju? Not just yet. So we've just spoken to him because obviously he's on air this morning. Interesting. Yeah. Interesting, I would say.

Yeah. Not what I expected. Yeah. Interesting, I would say. Yeah. Not what I expected. Yeah. Look, I don't know how I feel walking away from this. So we'll play that for you just after 8 o'clock this morning. Yeah, also got five grand up for grabs. Don't forget it. Quarter to eight this morning.

And we'll be going in on that Auckland couple who went to Warnocka. We'll be doing that for three hours nonstop. I am going to just mow in on them. I'm shining my pitchfork now. Boy, I'm going to. Isn't it? I feel sorry for them. I mean, yeah, they obviously screwed up. And they know they screwed up.

And I think everyone knows they screwed up. But you do feel like, as a human being, I feel sorry that everyone is, well, they've got death threats. And as I, has everyone never made a mistake in their life? Yeah. Yeah. So I can't throw stones, Ben. The dastardly things I've been up to. Jeez.

Thank God they're not on the front page of the Herald. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe we'll get that out there tomorrow. Oh, jeez. It is the hits. You've got John O'Byrne, 606. It's Mitch James, Old News. Kia ora, good morning.

It is ten past six after eight o'clock this morning. Mike Hosking from Newstalk ZB, New Zealand's harshest critic. He's watched two episodes of our TV show, John Owen B and Good Sports, and we're going to find out if we're deemed worthy to go on his radio show this week. Here's a small taste. Well, first of all, let me just, you know me, I'll cut to the chase. You're not coming on my program. You've never been on my program.

I was trying to make it suspenseful. Why did you play that bit? I don't know. I told him to get it. I thought it was funny. So we're not going to go to the program, but you'll hear his full review and why we're not going to go to the program after 8 o'clock this morning.

Did you really think we were going to get on there? There was a small part of me that hoped we would. This is a show that Jacinda's too scared to go on. And you were like, oh, put us on. As soon as I started talking to him, I got very nervous. I could tell. I was like, I get very like, yeah. He's quite intimidating.

It's always like you're talking to a detective. Yeah, like we needed to like corroborate our stories between each other. You're like, oh, you've got to say this to detective. Yeah, like we needed to like cooperate our stories between each other. You're like, you've got to say this to him. Yeah, you get all flustered. Yeah. Anyway, we'll play that for you after 8 o'clock. Mike's honest review, and it is his honest and raw review of the TV program. Now, some friends of ours, they just live up the road, our neighbours,

they said last night that they pulled something out of their freezer and they were going to have it for dinner. But the problem being, they didn't know what it was. It had been in the freezer, they reckon, for about a year and a half. So it's like a bag of sort of... You know how you wrap stuff in plastic and it sort of freezes over and you're like, it's a bit of a mystery as to what sort of meat that is. This is tonight's dinner, but we don't know what it is.

Yeah, and you never want it to be like a medical sample, like an appendix or some lungs or something from a transplant that you put in the freezer. So they've got a big deep freezer, just a normal freezer? Just a normal freezer, and so I don't know what the result was. They were going home, they were a little nervous but also excited.

To see what the mystery meal was going to be. I mean, that's lockdown, to tell you that. And you never know what to accompany it with either. Yeah. You don't know what's going on. You're not a fan of the deep freeze, are you, B-Hubs? Come in here, producer B-Hubs. No, it's not like, you know.

He was going in on the deep freeze yesterday. We lived on a farm for a few years in the Wairarapa. The deep freeze got us through many, many weeks, you know. Why aren't you a fan of the deep freezer? Oh, my mum's got a deep freeze, and I just think it's the biggest waster because what happens is you go to the supermarket and you come home and put all your goods in the freezer, and the stuff on the bottom doesn't see the light of day for years.

Yeah, but then it's fun when you do pull it out and you're like, what are we eating? And then Mum's like, oh, the freezer's getting down, and she's off to the supermarket and off to the butcher and fills it up again. And it's like, the stuff down there that expired in 1997. When you get a power cut, oh, geez, that's a race against time. Well, that's when it does get an empty out.

Once you have a two-day power cut and then all the meat defrosts and then you start looking at the labels going, oh, God, this is. That should be an Olympic sport, like having to cook and eat the stuff. Eat the entire deep freeze in two days. As it's expiring. I never know how long things stay for in a freezing situation. That always confuses me. Is there a rule?

Well, because sometimes you'll see something that's got a best before date, but you'll put it in the freezer and obviously it feels like it's frozen that bit in time. This is like 2004. It's like cryogenic freezing, you know? So how good is that now when I take that out of the freezer? Can you still eat something from 2004? What's your flat freezer like Jewel? I imagine that's a wonderland.

It actually used to be a wonderland. We used to live in another flat and when we kind of took everything out of the fridge and the freezer when we relocated flats we were like good lord there was just the most shocking like things were mouldy at the back of the fridge um which shocked me and then our freezer just had a lot of um you know when you

get to the end of a bread a loaf of bread and there's just the crust so many bags of just one and the other one is um bags of um peas yes you like small Twisted up at the top. And you've got about 14 bags of peas all half empty. You buy more peas the next morning. You're like, I don't know if I've got peas. Yeah, you've got 12 peas in a bag. Yeah, so there we go. Freezers, hey? We've all got them. We've all had them. This is some relatable content

for you this morning. It's like another storage facility in the house that you forget about. Next, some more unusual news from the world, it's that... I kinda hope it's gonna stop I'm not going to lie to you, Juliette. This game's way too much for my brain at this early hour of the day. I barely managed to wrangle a sentence together between 6 and 6.30. But anyway, we put ourselves through this. How does this work? So I find some headlines that I think you might enjoy from around the world.

I beak out a couple of words. You guys have to guess what the real headline is. But usually you go for a quirky answer, which I quite like. That's good, because you do the heavy lifting on this. You do, you do. And then she does the heavy lifting in spy. Yeah. And then she pushes all the buttons here.

I give you guys a bit of a break sometimes. Yeah, I don't actually know what we do on this show. Julie is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. All right, the first news headline. Airline introduces perfect solution for passengers who hate... I'm going to go for passengers who hate being judged by other passengers for grabbing fistfuls of lollies from the basket when they're handed out.

I'm going to do, they found a perfect solution for passengers who hate being woken up by their friend climbing over them when they're trying to go to the bathroom when you sleep. Oh, yeah. You know, I was driving in this morning, because I think of these when I'm driving, and knowing you send them through Juliet, and I thought, I bet he's going to bring up the groin incident. The groin incident, yes. The groin gate. The groin gate. The groin gate.

So was Jono's groin in your face as he was climbing over you? Yes, as I woke up. I was asleep. He was like, oh, sorry, mate. I was just trying to go to the bathroom. I thought this was a polite way to do it. What politer way can you get? A man willing to risk his safety by climbing over.

I had a foot on either armrest, groin straight in the face. Oh, my God, that's commitment. What's the better option? Is butt first the best option or what? I don't know. It's like when you're in the movies. How do you pass someone? Yeah, that's true.

Well, unfortunately, that's not the real headline. Airline introduces perfect solution for passengers who hate sitting next to kids on flights. So Japan Airlines is giving customers the ability to check where children are sitting when you go to book your seat online. So you know how often it says which seats are taken and which seats are free? It'll have a little sort of baby emoji on the seat

so you know where the kids are. But my only issue with this is you will have to be sort of one of the last people to choose your seats because what if a kid then goes near you? Yeah, it's true. But it's a pretty good step in the right direction. They should also have, you know, indications of people who take their shoes off. Put their feet in between the seats as well.

That's a very good point. 101-year-old woman still **** with 78 and 79-year-old sons. I'm going to go 101-year-old woman still wondering why she is here. 78 and 79-year-old sons. Yeah'm going to go 101-year-old woman still wondering why she is here with 79-year-old sons. That's kind of what I was thinking. 101-year-old woman still hating life with 78 and 79-year-old sons. 101-year-old woman still

working dangerous job with 78 and 79-year-old sons. So she works as a lobster trapper. So she'll go out to the open rough seas and fish for lobsters every day, wakes up at 3am, goes to bed at 10pm with her elderly sons,

and I watched a video of her doing it, and she looks very, very frail, but she's clipping the lobsters, putting their little pincers together, making sure they're the right size. Oh, she's adorable! She's 101 years old, which is actually a pretty hectic job for someone of that age.

Is there a theory in, you know, I'm starting to do it at my old age, just not doing anything, just sitting and not doing anything, and I'll slowly wilt away. Yeah, I feel like that's a thing, yeah. If you keep active and keep doing stuff. Yes, that's her theory as well, I reckon. Totally. And the final news story.

World's largest aircraft mocked for looking like a giant... OK. I'm going to say for looking like a giant waste of money. I'm going to look at the aircraft maybe looking like a giant Met Gala outfit. World's largest aircraft mocked for looking like a giant butt. So it's been nicknamed the flying bum. It's basically like a giant blimp looking aircraft and so

from one angle it looks like a blimp and then the other angle it does look like someone's behind. And it can fly for five days straight. It's run on helium and electricity so it's looking like it might be the future for aircrafts. Search the flying bum, Jono.

I'm trying to find it here. Do you know, I think where the groin gate actually took place, Ben Boyce, if you do cast your mind back, I think we were on board an A380. And those are enormous. Are those the big ones? The double-decker ones. Oh, yeah. You know how many people, this just makes no sense sense to me that you can have that many people.

And it fly. In a plane. Like it was. Yeah. When you think about it too much, you're like, how is this flying right now? You suck yourself out. Oh, yeah, no, it does. It does.

Yeah. That is. Would you fly on that? It's a wonderful taut bottom, isn't it? It reminds me of Ben's. Wow. It just doesn't look like it should be in the air, does it? I know, I know. You know, it looks like something that grew from...

Yeah, Despicable Me. Despicable Me would use as an evil aircraft. Yeah, it does. Very good comparison. And that is the news and beeps for you this morning. Thank you very much, Producer Juliet. Very shortly, we're doing a nationwide brainstorm. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wanted it.

A new name for something very important, and we'll get to that shortly on that. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. 6.29 on your Wednesday morning. Now, if you're a fan of horror movies, I'm not. I love horror movies. Well, you could get paid overseas in the UK to watch some horror films at the moment. They give you basically $1,300 New Zealand dollars is what it comes to.

You watch 13 horror films made with varying budgets. It's kind of like a scientific study. And then they test your heart rate to see if the bigger budget will give you more scares or if the smaller, you know, just depending on where you get more frights. The one they're auditioning at the moment is called Jono and Being Good Sports. If you can sit through it. I can't sit easy through those things. No, I'm very awkward.

Because you always have some things that's bound to go wrong. Do you know what I actually, on that, I did it in media studies. I studied horror films and we studied ones from different decades. And it's actually quite interesting. The ones from back in the day are hardly scary now because people weren't used to scary movies. And then people just got desensitized to those sorts of movies. So they had to make them more scary, more scary, more scary, more reaching to like give people fright. Yeah.

I know the Saw franchise. I mean, what are they up to now? Saw 90. Yeah. And the guys like basically cutting off their arms and legs, leaving them in a room going, good luck getting out of here now. Yeah. You made me do that once. Me and Laura, when we did the TV show, we sat in the movie theater watching something like it was like halloween the movie

the new one and for every fright i think we it was some consequence or something we're going to give away money if we didn't get scares and you were scaring me in costumes and all sorts through this dark and jeez it was scary yeah no that was not nice you know i wouldn't have liked that if i was in your position it's so intense like watching the movie and then going at the same time something's going to happen behind me

you know that was yeah frightening experience all sorts of people involved in that listen I apologise I'm sorry

like a Wanaka couple I'm going to apologise to you that was bad form hey coming up very shortly scrolling through your feed the Prime Minister's issued us all a wonderful job to do

to smoke screen us from the fact that we're in lockdown. Yeah. It's come up with a name for a fun vaccine bus. Yay! I've forgotten about everything else. We'll get to that next. Scrolling through your feed. Here to give you the good news, the bad news, the sad news and the glad news,

Ben Boyce, what's been happening with scrolling? Well, as you mentioned before, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said, let's brainstorm something. Let's all get together and come up with an idea, an idea for a mobile. She's described it as sort of like a Mr. Whoopi style sort of van, small bus going around giving vaccinations to people. So you don't have to go to a clinic. This thing will come to you and come to areas.

And you're trying to claim that you came up with this idea. Well, I don't want to revert back to yesterday, an interview with an epidemiologist, and I think also, is he consulting the government? Yeah, I think he does advise the government. Also a government consultant through this pandemic, Michael Baker, Professor Michael Baker. This took place.

Why don't you have a mobile van going around, bang, jab it in the arm, door to door. Have I just have a mobile van, go on round, bang, jab it in the arm, door to door. Have I just solved a massive problem, Michael Baker? I think you have. I've been taking notes. I think that would be a great approach. I'm good.

I'm hoping you're taking notes. I think they do it overseas sometimes, so you can get it outside of Walmart or a supermarket and things like that. Mmm. Mmm. So, yeah, this is yesterday morning. Mmm. But, hey, okay, alright

This was moments after you said this Have a listen to what you said also to Professor Michael Baker Could you jab in the neck? Can you jab anywhere? I'm glad you're not giving my injection In the neck I'd rather have the arm I want you in the neck

You've got the choice You've got the choice Yeah, no, you're not going to get up with that Unorthodox needle techniques But can you jab anywhere? have the arm, wouldn't you? The neck, you've got the choice. You've got the choice. Yeah, no, OK. Followed that up with that. Unorthodox needle techniques. But can you jab anywhere? Why the arm? Why do they always pick the arm?

I guess that would be... He never answered my question. Because he was too busy taking down notes about the mobile band. No, it's been used overseas. It's been, as Jacinda Ardern said, it's been going around Australia for a while. They've got a similar one. And they've got a quirky name for it in Australia. Have a listen to what the Prime Minister had to say.

I know in Australia they've started operating something similar and have named their mobile outreach clinics Jabba the Bus. I'm sure that we can do better. Yeah, so Jabba the Bus is the one over in Australia. So now she's like, hey, let's come up with some ideas. She said she wanted to rule out Busy McBusface. This is also the same press conference. I'm not lying.

This is what she said. She said, I know that'll come up. Let's just rule that out. So online right now, there's many, many creative solutions going around. Then we've got the Vaccinator or the Covernator. So I guess a nod to Terminator is quite good. Vacinder, or Vaxinder, sorry, Vcinder is quite good for a van as well. But maybe we can come up with some ones as well.

Producer Humphrey had a good one, Mr Pricky. Mr Pricky. Like Mr Whippy, and it goes around playing the Greensleeves music. Yeah, that's good. Vax to the Future could be another one. The Jabulence. Oh, yeah. Bo Van Barrett, does that work?

Bo Van Barrett. What was that for? I don't know, just trying Bo Van Barrett. Does that work? Bo Van Barrett. What was that for? I don't know. Just trying to name it after. We could call it Sir Graham Henry. He's one of our greatest coaches. So surely this coach would be quite good as well. Yeah, the Pfizer truck, like fire truck, you know, could be another one.

I thought like the vaccine bus is coming and we can be branded branded as Boss Todd suggested, the Benga Boys. So Ben Boys. Oh, I'm involved in this, am I? Yeah. Yeah, okay. The Benga Boys. Yeah. And we do the Pfizer buses coming or the vaccine buses coming. Yeah. Da da da da da da da da da. No?

Hey, I love the pun, but I don't know why nationwide they'd be calling it the bingo bus. It works well for our show. It probably doesn't work as well nationwide. Because you came up with the idea. You've got to be credited with it. We should release the bingo bus today.

Sounds like a lot of work. What do you mean it sounds like a lot of work? It does. I mean, we can't sing. All we need to do is get someone else to sing. That's what I mean. It's a lot of admin. It's, we can't sing. All we need to do is, oh, we'll get someone else to sing. That's what I mean. It's a lot of admin we're going to be. Yeah, I like it.

It's a two-day turnaround. We're going to send it off to our singer, Aaron. Our producer's going to have to pre-year. We could, though. We could. So the full result of this, you won't get to enjoy until Friday, you're suggested. Two days too late. It's too late.

And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. It is the hits. You've got John on bed. Spy. The What's Up Spy. It is the hits. You've got John on bed. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz All right. It's a very special job, isn't it, for Juliet every day to come to work with her two heroes.

She loves Stacey Morrison and Anika Moore. Yes. In the meantime, she stuck with us in the morning. Sorry we couldn't give you that afternoon gig. That's okay. That's okay. So you may have seen all over your feed yesterday photos from the Met Gala and all

the celebrities dressed in very simple to very outrageous outfits. It's an amazing fashion show when you look at the red carpet. It really is. So basically the Met Gala is basically the fashion equivalent of the Oscars. So it's held at the Metropolitan

Museum of Art in New York. And so everyone comes in quite hardcore designer outfits designed specifically for the Met Gala by these, you know, by YSL or Louis Vuitton or whoever. They walk the red carpet and they go into the Met and look at the exhibition of the fashion. And then they go down, have dinner. Apparently the dinner was quite measly this year, I don't know

we'll get to that soon if we want and then some artists perform and then they all go to the after parties, have a lovely time but the red carpet is kind of what everyone loves to see and the tickets to go are $30,000 US each

Well I imagine the Metropolitan Museum of Art isn't cheap to hire out for the night. You've got to make your cost back. What I love is when you see someone walking down dressed as the Empire State Building or something. There's always like a team of 7 to 15 minions having to sort of

run around and rearrange the outfits. I saw I think Simone Biles who's the gymnast apparently her one, her dress was 40kgs heavier and about four people carrying it. It was crazy. And then there are some artists who sort of started with one

outfit, then revealed another outfit, and then revealed another outfit, you know, just to keep the photos coming through. I was literally, I spent my whole afternoon refreshing Twitter just looking at it. It's pretty incredible. Kim Kardashian, a lot of people talking about her because she was almost like looking like Kanye has been looking recently, right? Yeah, she was in sort of like a full body morph suit, a full black one that kind of turned into a dress down the bottom. There were memes going out being like, tell me you're back with Kanye without telling me you're back with Kanye.

How could you prove it was Kim Kardashian? That's a good point. That is a very good point. Meet Gala with Jesus, your sweet spot. The amount of costumes you have in your garage. Yeah, true. I could do that, yeah. Mine's more novelty though.

Mine's not really that. We've got one that's a hypodermic needle. You could wander down the red carpet and look at me, it's the needle. Yeah, that's true. You've got some beauties. Taika Waititi, our lord as well there. Yes, I did see. There were some funny photos of Taika Waititi and Rita Ora with Jimmy Fallon.

They were kind of posing for jokey photos because usually everyone, you know, poses quite seriously. And seeing Taika do his, you know, classic comedy was quite cool. I saw Billie Eilish who looked incredible. Like she had this massive dress that flowed all the way down. Apparently she, because the designers obviously want to give their dresses to people like that because they're going to get great exposure and stuff. She's like, yeah, great, I'll wear your dress, but you can't sell fur anymore in your stores. And they're like, yeah, okay.

And so now they're no longer making anything or doing anything to do with fur. That's really good. That's the influence she has, which is pretty awesome. Do you know, I just look at all these costumes and a nightmare for the toilet. Oh, yeah. A nightmare for the toilet. You know, if someone's having to drag 40 kgs of dress behind me and I'm trying to squeeze into cubicle too.

Yeah that's true. How do you, logistically how does it work? That's so true. It is very very true. Do they have a pair of comfy shoes or something in there that they leave? You know when you go to a wedding? When they go to the after parties they actually come changing to completely different outfits which we don't actually see as much as we see the ones from the red carpet.

The party outfits are they? Yeah the party outfits. Also, you might not have seen, she kind of kept it low-key, but tennis sensation Emma Raducanu attended after her US Open victory. She looked gorgeous. I was like, whoa, that would have been a last-minute invite after she shot the paint. She should be like, well, there's only one reason I'm being invited here, but yes, I will come.

You're not going to say no to that, are you? It's like a late call-up to a wedding. We're like, well, clearly someone's dropped out. But yes, I would love to attend. But it is a really cool event. It's usually held, I think it's the last or first weekend of May every year, but because of COVID they had to postpone it. Every year has a different theme.

So this theme this year was American fashion. So it can be interpreted in many ways. One girl wore a dress that had all the official flowers from each state in America all down her dress. So that represented, you know, America. And so it's all quite creatively interpreted. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah, it's really cool.

And then a spy from where you can head to the hit stop, KotoNZ. Thank you, Juliet. After 7 o'clock, we've got $5,000 up for grabs. And then after 8, Mike Hosking from Newstalk ZB, his brutal takedown of not Jacinda Ardern or the Labour government of our TV show, Jono and Ben Good Sports. We'll find out what he says after 8. New Zealand's breakfast.

It's Jono and Ben. Got me in love. Morena, a te ao rā. Welcome along to the show. It is Wednesday or Rā Apa o Wēnārei. Two ways you can say that in Te Reo Māori. You've done really well with describing the days of the week for us. I'm trying to work in, I'm just trying to do something.

It's always good to try and to insert more Te Reo into everyday conversation. And I think it is becoming more and more common now too, which is wonderful, isn't it? You see it in the news quite a lot now and a lot of TV shows on O'Shaughnessy Street running a fully Te Reo storyline this week. Yeah, which is really, isn't it? You see it in the news quite a lot now and a lot of TV shows. I know Shortland Street's running a Fully Today-O storyline this week. Yeah, which is really, really cool to see. Now, at the airport they have a drive-through vaccination centre.

And they've got a new incentive, which I absolutely love. It's a $70,000 prize giveaway if you go and get vaccinated now. It's like a Lotto Father's Day promotion. Really? $70,000 prize giveaway if you go and get vaccinated now. It's like a lotto Father's Day promotion. Really? $70,000 worth of prizes.

They've got phones to give away. Cash giveaways. Wow. I guess they're doing everything they can to get the country vaccinated. Gift card vouchers, whiteware appliances, you name it. It's all got to go right now at the airport at the vaccination drive-thru centre, get out there today, plenty of parking fun for the whole family, not only

do you get the lifelong prize of not getting COVID, the Delta variant, but you can also win a fridge I love the little thing going around on social media we were looking at the other day going well I'll see how you can open up the drive-thru vaccination but not the drive-thru KFC yeah, awesome and see about that.

And do you know what the ultimate prize is? If you go out and get vaccinated today, Aucklanders, a trip for two to Wanaka. If you head out to the airport today, the drive-thru vaccination centre, it's all good. I actually did go out there the other day. I mentioned it a couple of times. And it couldn't have been a more friendly, supportive environment.

Which is awesome. It's the opposite of media out there at the airport. So if you do want to go along, if there's any hesitations, you'll just be made to feel so comfortable and it's a flawless process. It's really well run. Although I didn't win a fridge or a dryer. You might be up for that.

Kids, keep up that learning or you'll end up like these guys. Trono and Ben New Zealand's Breakfast. Tomorrow we'll be watching win. Yeah, now we've thrown up a couple of episodes to Mike Hosking. Ben had a great dream to end up on Hosking's show on Thursday. A bit of an interview, review segment.

We spoke to him before this morning's broadcast and here was one of his initial reactions. I mean, I know you're keen on being on television and all that sort of stuff and some of the other projects haven't worked that well. So you're at a point in your career where you're looking for an element of success. So I understand that part. But was it successful?

We'll find out 8 o'clock this morning. Mark Hosking's brutal takedown of John Owen being good sports. But one of the sports we try this week is barefoot water skiing. So imagine water skiing, and then imagine taking away the skis. And just barefoot. Yeah, it's wild. As the name suggests, you're water skiing barefoot. It is wild.

And there is a wonderful family of people who do it in Otaki, just out of Wellington. And we're joined right now by Georgia Groen. Lovely to meet you the other week. Georgia, how are you going? I'm good. How are you guys? Yeah, good.

Oh, nice. Well, it's nice to talk to you again. Now, I don't know if I'm looking forward to seeing myself attempt barefoot water skiing on the TV show this Thursday night, but we went to your family's home. You guys have got an amazing setup. First, explain to everyone what you've got there. Yeah, I'm pretty lucky with the setup we have. We've got basically a private lake specifically built for

water skiing and can use it anytime we want. Now, my private lake, I don't let other members of the public come in and use mine, but you let us come in and use yours, which was very cool, and you taught us about the wonderful sport and very unique sport of

barefoot water skiing, which generations of your family have been world champions in. Just explain more on that, Georgia. Oh, not quite world champions. Okay, well just pretend they're world champions. Just lie and say they've all been world champions. Okay, yeah, there are plenty of world champions out of my family. So how did your family get the bug for the sport? So I think my granddad first picked it up on Wellington Harbour one day

with my dad and my uncle, and then they just got hooked. And since I was born, that's all we pretty much did on the weekends. Now, the boat's hoofing it along. How many k's an hour would the boat be travelling along the water? When I ski, it goes about 72 kilometres an hour. Too fast. You're hanging on to a rope out the back. You're barefoot along the water? When I ski it goes about 72 kilometres an hour. Too fast. You're hanging onto a rope out the back, you're barefoot on the water. How young

did you start this? I think I first had to go when I was about four years old. Yeah, that seems wild. We have a look at our young Wyatt as well, who's around four or five years old, is that right? Yeah, he's just turned six. And so he joins us on the TV show this week how young

is too young for this violently dangerous sport you're never too young as long as you can swim yeah i would say four was too young but hey maybe i'm a bit of a maybe i'm a smother mother it's so impressive the younger you are the slower you can go it's not as dangerous yeah but you guys it's really what watching watching it in real life, it's something to behold. Need to watch it Thursday night on TVNZ2 on Good Sports. But you would start off, and I don't know how I describe this in words,

but your feet would be hooked onto the rope and the handle. You're lying down in the water and you kind of get dragged through the water, underneath the water, almost like a mafia torture technique that they would use to someone who owes them a lot of money. They would tow them through the water backwards. But that's how you start off. Yeah, it looks more spectacular than what actually happens.

It actually creates an air pocket and you can completely breathe and see everything. Underwater? Yeah, yeah. Well, because there's other ones where you guys start, you're jumping off platforms and then you're jumping over jumps as well. It's just a wild, wild sport that your family does. And everyone seems to do it in the family, particularly your dad and your uncle and your brother and obviously yourself in the relations. Yeah, all of us have done it.

Every single member of my family has represented New Zealand. That is something very special and you're a very special family and very hospitable. We loved meeting you all. Your brother, he's based over in Florida and he does this in Florida and we keep seeing videos of him pop up on

ESPN and things like that. Yeah, he's started going hard out on the new TikTok, gaining a bit of traction on that. Yeah, the old bloody TikTok, eh? He's taken a blowin' up on TikTok. So why barefoot as opposed to having skis? I mean, what's the

advantages and, in our case, disadvantages as we went cartwheeling through the water? But yeah, why barefoot? I think it's just a little bit more different it's a bit more challenging yeah you don't have to buy any skis to carry along with you that's always a bonus did you just turn up to a normal water skiing event and forgot your skis and you're like well no this is a new sport we can do this i do i do cast my mind back to that wonderful day that we

did spend with you in otaki and Georgia you and me were crying, like crying with laughter, you know when you're laughing so hard you can't actually breathe, as we're watching Ben Boyce hold on for dear life and he was like a piece of washing on a windy day

wasn't he? That was probably one of my highlights of the year It's making me smile now You start on the lunar bar and you hold on to the lunar bar and the boat is just fanging along and I'm just getting windswept and I'm just, I don't react

I felt like the demonstration we did on the land with you Georgia was brief it was very brief You were ill prepared for it nothing had prepared you for what was about to happen and it was spectacular wasn't it Georgia? It was very brief. You were ill-prepared for it. Nothing had prepared you for what was about to happen. And it was spectacular, wasn't it, Georgia? Oh, it was great.

I can't wait to re-watch it, to be honest. Yeah, I'm going to play it back in slow motion. And, you know, there was parts of your body I didn't even know they could manoeuvre in that fashion when you hit the water. But one thing I did find out after spending a lot of time in the lake that you guys built to do the sport find out after spending a lot of time in the lake that you guys built to do the sport, apparently there's a lot of big eels in that lake.

Yeah, there's a lot of eels in there. That's why we stay on top of the water. I was like hanging out in the water, and I was just bobbing around somewhere afterwards. I was telling him about it. He goes, yeah, I've been in that lake. There's a lot of eels. You didn't front foot with the old eel information, did you?

You kept that from the town folk? What you don't know won't nip you. No, well, I might nibble you. Thank you so much, George. You keep safe. Yeah, you too, boys. See ya. And you can catch our attempt, and I say attempt,

at barefoot water skiing amongst other sports tomorrow night, and you can win $500 just by watching. John, I'll be in good sports, TVNZ 2, 8pm. It is the hits. It's Sharon Bad Habits. It is the hits, John Owen Ben. I was driving home yesterday, and have you seen the walkers?

They look like they're on a big, long expedition. They look like they're disappearing for three days, but they've got two sticks in their hands. Have you seen those walkers? Oh, yes. You really want to back your walking game if you're running with two sticks, don't you? What are the sticks for? Do you know?

No, I don't actually know. No. I assume balance. Yeah. Climbing up hills or something, but you know, it's like where you wear skins, isn't it? Like if you're turning up to a football game or the gymnasium

and skins then you've really got to be bringing your a-game don't you it's kind of that equipment well i think particularly on when i used to play uh sort of touch rugby anyone that brought skins to the touch i was like well they've got to be good you know i'll wear them to the gym but i'm definitely a shorts over the top yes type of person but your poor skins they're just like they look like a pirate's arm sleeves down the legs, down your little flamingo sticks. They're just begging for something to cling

onto and they've got nothing. Your legs are giving them nothing back. Normally they're like, I'll try and work hard and keep it all together but they're like, no. We're meant to be another layer of skin. That's why we're called skins and we can't even find any skins. It's a cushy job for my skins, isn't it? It really is. The only man to wear skins they look like mc hammer pants they're doing well but you

know the walking sticks i found quite interesting um and it's uh you know it's looks like people who are just they're just walking along the footpath with it well you'd think they'd be used if you're you know you're traipsing across the Antarctic, maybe even climbing Everest or something. Yeah. I know that when you're going for a tramp, they say having those sticks makes you two-legged to four-legged. So basically, it's kind of insane. Yeah, like a horse.

It really helps you out when you're doing hard hikes and stuff, but on your footpaths. Yeah. It's like you're prepared to go skiing. You're ready to go skiing, but you don't have the benefits of sliding down a hill when you're walking along with those sticks, so yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, you don't see it too often, but you're right. You do know. When you do see it, it hits a big impact. I reckon you'd be a stick walker when you... I'm not a stick walker. Like in 20 years, you'll be holding those sticks.

I barely walked my car from here. Yeah, how many mobility skaters do I have? I will. The one clogging up and using the horn on it as well. Yeah, how many mobility scooters have you got? I will. The one clogging up and using the horn on it as well. Yeah, that'd be good. Anyway, they go, why would I walk? Why don't I just chop on this thing? Absolutely.

It's like when I went to Disneyland. The whole place is full of people on mobility scooters. Really? I'm sure there can't be enough, this many people needing mobility scooters. And then what I found out is you get your way to the front of the queue that's why there's like a car park full of them it's a wonderful life hack

so I might buy one today and I'll live the rest of my days out on a mobility scooter, taking up a large part of the footpath and not moving over for walkers or cyclists Next on the show we've got a very interesting debate that we want to bring someone onto the program to talk about a wedding in particular and the invite list and we're kind of classic radio but we're kind of torn on this both of us so whether this uh well you've been

in the situation yeah and you didn't turn up no and i was no i was cool with it i was totally i think you invite one you invite them both okay we'll get to that next that is the hits you got john and ben five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our Game of Words Association. We do it every morning on the show, around about this time. Five words. You've got to match all five to get $5,000.

No matter what alert level you're at, we are always at alert level winning on the show. We're going to welcome to the program, who do you want to go with today, Bee Humps? Take line five. Heather, it's you, Lucky. Come on down. Hi, how are you?

Great to have you on, Heather. How's cha-cha? Yeah, good. Yeah, it's a lovely day here. Now, talk to us about all the fun stuff you've been doing in level two. Talk? You want to know? Yeah. Oh, not a lot, really. Oh, okay. That was underwhelming. level two. Talk you want to know? Yeah. Not a lot really.

No. Okay. That was underwhelming. Pretty much what we'll be doing in level four. Yeah, well that's it. Hey Heather, you want to win $5,000? Of course. It'd be awkward if you said no right now because that's what you've called up for. You need to make the big decision. Who are you going to send into the sound proof booth this morning? Juliet.

Back again two days in a row fan favorite raffle uh you got this producer julia played the game before heather yeah yeah oh you know how it works all right well we're gonna say you five words you're gonna tell us the first things that pop into your head and hopefully they match up with what producer julia has to say and here is your first word this morning. It is butcher. Meat. Meat. Good option, I think.

Celsius is the second word. Celsius. Degree. Degree. Sorry, did you say degree or degrees? Degree. Degree. Okay.

Without the S? Okay, well, no, I'm going to put the S on it. I'm not pushing you towards the S. I just want to make sure I write this down. Degree. Okay, all right. You might regret that S. You bullied her into putting an S on it.

I didn't. Champagne boys. I was just trying to clarify what you were saying. Because we've had competitions not won by an S before. Just a simple plural. All right, on to word number three. Good luck. it is donor this morning donor d-o-n-o-r donor cream oh no i think uh d-o-n-o-r

oh yeah i don't know if there's a cream oh you could be a cream don't know who knows how they make babies blood yeah it's all right donor Blood donut. Yeah, that's good. I just was very confused by that, and I just pretended I knew what you were talking about. See, she was saying cream donut. Oh, donut. Donut, yeah. Now I get it.

It was a fumbly little sequence, but hey, we'll brush it. We can laugh about it. We'll laugh about this in 10 years when we catch up, Heather. Quiz is word number four. Quiz. Can I come back to that one yeah sure and wedding is the final word this morning wedding dress wedding dress and now we've got to go back to quiz quiz q-u-i-z quiz night quiz night oh yeah well done well played you did well, Heather.

You did really well. We had that weird little donut sequence, but we navigated our way through it, babes. Isn't that embarrassing? No, no, it's right. Don't be embarrassed. It's actually hard. I put that all on our pronunciation. Yes, yes.

I would have also thought, anyway, Juliet's back here now. Welcome, Juliet. Kia ora. Welcome. Fresh from the soundproof booth. Heather is ready to win $5,000. She was going to use it to rescue 19

puppies, okay, Juliet? There is no pressure. 19 puppies will perish if you don't win, Heather. I love puppies. We all love puppies. We all do. We all want these puppies to live. Here's the first word. Butcher. Meat. All right. Here's the first word. Butcher. Butcher. Meat.

Well done. Well done. Celsius is the second word this morning. Celsius. Degrees. Oh, no. Johnno. What happened there?

I pushed the wrong button is what happened there. Oh, you scared us all. I was like, degrees, yes. You said the yes because we debated over degree and degrees. Oh, right. Okay. Heather, I'm sorry. Jo was ready to eject you from the game. My heart sunk. It's two from five.

This is good. Okay. Donor is not donut. Donor. D-O-N-O-R. Donor. Oh, excuse me. Sorry, you haven't answered yet. Donor. Blood. Was that right? Yes. Sorry, you haven't answered yet Donut Blood Was that right? Yes, well done

Three from three either This is good Those puppies are just looking at you with their eyes Going, thank you Quiz is word number four Quiz God Team

I don't know That's quite hard Oh, um, God. Team? Oh, I don't know. That's quite hard. It is. It's a very hard quiz. It was quiz night. Oh, okay. Yep.

And we're so close. And finally, it was wedding. Uh, ceremony? Oh, you started well, and then the wheels slightly fell off. Damn. Heather, I'm so sorry. That's okay. Sorry, Hez. I apologise on behalf of everyone in this room right now. That's okay.

Okay, what do you do? What do you do? Okay, all right, let's wrap it up, Jono. I don't know what happened. I was just asking you what you did, and for some reason we've all made this. Yeah, that's right. I didn't want money. I was just asking you what you did. And for some reason we've all made this. Yeah, it's like I didn't want money, I've moved on. Welcome to Two Half-Assed Dads to a Half-Assed Job.

Official title, Tuna and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. Jacinda Ardern yesterday was talking about what you just heard on the news with Rachel Jackson-Lees about the... A distraction bus that we can all name just to fill in time in our various levels. So a bus going around there that will basically give jabs, like a sort of mobile Mr. Whippy, but giving Pfizer jabs to people. And she's placed right into our sweet spot. You know, we love as a radio show, you know,

naming unusual things, having a competition. Will it pull us out of a pandemic any quicker? Who knows? Who cares? At least we've got a fun name for a bus. She talked about the Australian one, and this is what that was called. I know in Australia they've started operating something similar and have named their mobile outreach clinics Jabba the Bus.

I'm sure that we can do better. There's a few online. A few online are really Vaxi Taxi. That's quite good. Jab and Wagon. Jabber Wocker. Jabber Dabber 2. That was really good as well.

You came up with, oh, producer Behump's going to come up with more. Mr Pricky. Mr Pricky. Yeah, I like that. And the Mr Whippy van. And you get a free ice cream afterwards as well. That's a wonderful promotion. I know they're giving away $70,000 worth of prizes out at the drive-thru vaccine centre at the moment. You can win washers, dryers, cell phones, cash. That's a wonderful promotion. I know they're giving away $70,000 worth of prizes

out at the drive-thru vaccine centre at the moment. You can win washers, dryers, cell phones, cash. That's a really good idea, because you sit there for sort of 20 minutes afterwards. Have a free ice cream. That may be, I don't know, can you hand out ice cream to this current environment? Oh, yeah.

Do you want the same people giving you vaccinations also working the self-serve? Yeah, is Mr. Whippy essential? I don't know, can he fly to Wanaka? Who knows? But I've been pitching one to Ben, which he's less than enthusiastic about, the Benga boys,

mainly because it looks like it's all on him. The Benga boys. But, you know, the vaccine bus is coming. It's coming. Everybody's jabbing. From New Lynn to Te Ao Mutu, here's a jab for you too. You know, there's better lyrics that we can sing.

Yeah, I see. That was very good on the fly, by the way. That was good. Listen, no one was more impressed with that than me. Put me in with a battle of M&M. But yes, the vaccine bus is coming. Yeah. Let's get that out there. Pitch that to Aunty Cindy.

Vaccine bus, yeah, I'm not sure. It can play over loud speakers When it comes down the street Yeah The Vaccine Cup Anyone comes dancing out Gets jabbed in the arms Everyone loving it

So if you've got a good name I don't know what Is there an actual Is there a competition Is this like a referendum Is this like the flag referendum Where we don't end up with a result Are we all going to vote on stuff

Are we Yeah I really like the Has it distracted from the real issues at hand Yeah It probably has played arduino well done well done i see what she's doing there and we fell for it it is the hits you got jonah and ben these show producers were nominated for a radio award because when you work with these guys you deserve a medal jonah and ben new zealand's breakfast now we've noticed something about producer Julia We had Juliet having worked with you for over a year now You're a wonderful person Juliet

Thank you But your avocado consumption is beyond comprehension For both Ben and myself Every day, same meal, what is it? Vogel's toast with smashed avocado and some feta on top Couldn't get more millennial than this, could you? Don't own a house either, so again, it's more millennial. Put an unaffordable house on top of that toast and you've got the ultimate millennial.

It's a real struggle, isn't it? But you do. What I love about that is you ride it out through the times where avocados are cheap, which is great, and then when they're expensive, you're still riding it out. Yes, yes. And sometimes avocados in the winter season can be quite hard to find, but I like to compare myself to a lion hunting out down an antelope in in africa i'll literally go to where they are there are facebook pages that are

like yeah out west we've got avocados on the side of the road oh you know you're part of a group are you like an online group and when they're of good price she boy she she stores them up like a squirrel with walnuts doesn't she how do you eat them over the because i will buy them yeah i will love them at home you buy them then you won't be able to eat them for a few days because they're too hard they're not ready and then suddenly it's like we've got to go we're gonna eat them all now you know that's what happens but how do you have them that how do i stage them yeah through the week yeah so um chucking them with avocados ripens them quite quickly so sometimes i put a couple with some avocado sorry with some bananas sorry uh them with some bananas. Do they like the bananas? They like bananas, yeah.

They sort of lighten up with the bananas. Yeah, they loosen up. If you track them in a brown paper bag with bananas, they love it. Really? Yeah. It's a bit like giving Ben a few beers. It just loosens up a little bit. Loosens up.

Hey, you're saying some weird stuff now. Okay. Yeah, you're doing bananas. And then sometimes if I want some to ripen at a slower rate, I'll put them in the fridge. Right, so it's kind of you stage it throughout the week. Yeah, so there's a technique. Stagger it, yes.

You have more green running through your veins than Chloe Swarbrick from the Green Party at the moment. You really do. It's something that we admire. Consistent same meal every day. We witness it because you have it after the show every day, after the radio show. Around about 9 o'clock, you go have your avocado and feta on Vogel's bread.

Yes. So what we want to open up, 0800, that's 4487. Have you had the same meal every day and you never deviate from it? Ben Boyce, I know you're a big fan of Lisa's beetroot hummus. Yeah, I do love the hummus. He goes through to the drive-through hummus centre and gets it mainlined into his veins on the way home, don't you? But I wouldn't have it every day, but I do enjoy hummus.

Yeah, I do. You have fish and chip Friday every week, don't you? Yeah, but not every day. Although I saw on the news before someone in Level 2, a restaurant providing restaurant-quality fish and chips, and I could taste them in my mouth just watching them on the news because we can't have them at the moment it's funny i saw mcdonald's ad last night they had a big mac ad yeah they just actively put the big mac you're like what

are you doing it was a slow-mo shot across the buns i was like this is torture the whole family's like we're gonna go to mcdonald's we going to buy this, we're going to do this. Pixelate those burgers for Aucklanders, please. That's right. But air them in level two. We don't need to see that right now. You're teasing us. You're dead right. So I ain't out of that.

So have you had the same meal every day? Let's get your calls on. You can text her if you like. 4487. It is New Zealand's breakfast. You got it, Jono and Ben. That is i mo iiroa at a Drax project, Wiki Aotearoa Māori

Language Week and it's awesome to be playing some waitas like that on the radio. Yeah, it sounds so much better than the English version. It's really, really kawaii. It's awesome. Anyway, in the middle of Juliet's an intervention about her eating of avocados every day, you have the same meal. Yeah, Vogel's avocado

feta breakfast. So good. I tried the feta and avocado the other day because you said Yeah, Vogels, avocado, feta, breakfast. So good. I tried the feta and avocado the other day because you said it, and it was really good. And if you have pesto, add a little drizzle of pesto on top. Game changer. Or if you don't want feta, put halloumi on. Oh, my goodness.

Jesus, you couldn't get a whiter conversation than this. Just place a cold plate. You got some cold plate? Put some cold plate in the background. Then hop on our yacht and sail down to Wanaka. There we go. They're playing another Big Mac ad on television. That's the Big Mac ad.

It's so young. Don't you just want to sleep with that Big Mac? Yeah, they keep playing these. They're taunting Aucklanders with these Big Mac ads. Start an OnlyFans account, McDonald's or something. So have you had the same meal every day? 0800 the hits hits the telephone number. Producer Humphrey was saying,

Stano, who works upstairs, has had the same tuna lunch every day for over 15 years. Brings the same can. You know how you can get flavoured tuna? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brings the same can. The same one.

The same flavour. This is my flavour. I like this one. Every day for lunch. No deviation. It becomes like, I guess it's easier. This is my flavor. I like this one. Every day for lunch. No deviation. It becomes like, I guess it's easier. It is easier. And if you like something, then you haven't stopped loving it, I'm guessing, Judy.

No, I love it. I don't know if I'll ever get over it. Catherine, you're on from Hamilton. Welcome to the show. It's good to have you with us. Cool. Yes, hi. Same meal every day for you, Kath?

Yeah. Every morning tea is the same. My husband and I were trying to figure out a meal that we could make that was easy enough to make, but, you know, not too hard, but you'd be happy to eat. So, yeah, we came up with it about a year ago, and we make it up on a Sunday night, so it does the whole week, and banning it in the microwave for about a minute,

and it's pretty delicious. What is it? So it's rice, beans, lentils, pepper, sriracha sauce, soy sauce, jalapenos, and then every now and then I have sour cream with it as well. Oh, that's so good. A medley of sorts, a rice medley. Yeah, so we tried to come up with a name for it,

and we sort of asked a few friends, and we thought, I guess Rice Medley kind of does the trick for naming it. Yeah, I love the word medley. You can just buff anything under the umbrella of medley, can't you? Yeah. Rice Rice Baby would be... Rice every day. Wowee, that's commitment to rice.

Thank you very much. Appreciate that, Catherine. You know what I am eating every day at the moment? I don't know if you've discovered these things in the supermarket. Those bloody pea crisps. Oh, yeah, they're really good, eh? Oh, listen, I can't, now I can't figure out if

they're good for me or bad for me. They seem like they're good for you, but at the same time, you're like, oh, I don't know if these are. Yeah. It's like skinny-dipped almonds. Oh, yeah, they're good. They are good, yeah.'re good. I figure it's probably the better of the two peas I can put into my system. So I'll stick with the pea crisps. We'll get Lucy on from Trichet.

How are you, Luce? Morena to you. Same meal every day. What's it been? Yes, so for dinner every night chicken thighs and steamed broccoli. Chicken thighs and steamed broccoli? Oh, so no potatoes, no anything on the side?

You just have them? That sounds very good. What are you, Dwayne the Rock Johnson? It's just easy, and I like it. And just, you know, steamed broccoli, and it's done, and it takes up half the plate in full shot. Every night? Yep, every night.

Sometimes if I want to, I can spice it up with a bit of sweet chilli sauce or something, but that's only on the occasion. Seven nights a week, chicken thighs and broccoli. I feel it's my duty as a human to introduce you to other foods out there. There's a lot out there. There is a lot. Hey, thanks, Luce. Appreciate it.

We'll end on Scott and Wayuku. How are you, Scott? Howdy. Good, how are you? Howdy to you, my friend. Same meal every day. What has it been? Yeah, probably since the start of last lockdown, just been eating Weet-Bix every day.

Oh, Weet-Bix every day. How many Weet-Bix are you having each day? Probably about seven or eight. That's a lot for... And morning tea, so yeah. So you're doubling down on your Weet-Bix? Yeah, so it's kind of like It started off as a way to save money

Buy a box of Wheat Bix at the start of the week And that will last me until the end of the week It's like you're pouring cement Just into your digestive system every day Yeah, pretty much And how it comes out, no one knows There we go, Scott nailing 8 Wheat Bix a day Well thank you, that was really interesting

Someone's saying they have a roast dinner every night They work on a farm no one knows. There we go. Scott nailing eight Wheat Bags a day. Well thank you. That was really interesting. It was. Someone saying they have a roast dinner every night they work on a farm. Every night. Every night. Once a week. I mean every night.

And a lot of preparation for a roast. Yeah. They're good. They are good. But geez that's a lot. You're right. I appreciate your calls guys.

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