Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: OO AH RAZOR RAY! OO AH RAZOR RAY!

Episode Date: March 21, 2023

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Good morning or good afternoon Or good middle of the night Whatever you are Whatever time zone you're in in the world This is the Jono and Ben podcast Thanks to Dilma Making the world a better tea Do try it

Now Dilma, they're from Sri Lanka aren't they? I wonder what time is in Sri Lanka Time Right now 1.32am Okay so what's time here for people listening on the podcast? Oh, right now. Sorry.

Oh, that's interesting for you. But for someone listening, it's 9 o'clock in New Zealand time. It's 9.02, yeah. So they've got the half hour leap ahead too. Oh, the half hour? Yeah, 1.32. Because, you know, usually it'll be like 1.03am. Yeah, you're right. Why is it got the half hour leap ahead too. Oh, the half hour? Yeah, 1.32, because usually it'll be like 1.03 a.m. Yeah, you're right.

Why is that not the half hour? Blame the Greenwich Mean Time, mate. Yeah, well. There you go. So that's the time in Sri Lanka. I love Kim Jong-un, because I understand. So time in North Korea now, he just wanted to be difficult. So North Korea wasn't in sync with any other country in the world, time-wise.

So he's got it at a weird time. Time in North Korea right now. Time in North Korea. Oh, no. I ruined that. Oh, you know, he's Greenwich Mean Time plus nine. He's like plus nine minutes or something. Oh, right.

So he's gone a little bit. Your clock's gone slightly out and you haven't changed it. You're like, oh, just Oh, right. So he's gone a little bit, like your clock's gone slightly out and you haven't changed it. You're like, oh, just roll with that. Maybe that's it. Maybe he was like, I need to change the microwave clock. And then, oh, screw it.

Everyone else can change to mine, you know, to me. So, yeah. Since we're giving international shout outs, can I just quickly say we're in the top 200 of a brand new country. Well, not a brand new country to the world, but it's a brand new country

that we've never been in the top 200 before. Who's that? Can you guess it I reckon if you guessed 50 countries you wouldn't guess this one North Korea

Uzbekistan I'll give you a clue Afghanistan Kardashian oh Armenia yeah top 200 in Armenia top 200 in Armenia

oh that's awesome jeez let's should we call Armenia we can if you want mate let's call Armenia here's a number for want, mate. Let's call Armenia. Here's a number for a hotel in Armenia.

The Armenian Hotel, that'll do. There you go, Joel. I've put a number up there of a hotel in Armenia. The Armenia Hotel. Is it Armenia? Armenia. Is it Armenia? I don't know.

Oh, God. We can ask. We can ask. Yeah. Hello. Oh, now we're going through. It was a pre-ring before the ring. That's when you know you're dialing.

It's currently 12.05am as well. That's when you know you're dialing a faraway land. Oh, hello there. How are you? No, no, no. No, no, no. It. How are you? No, no, no. No, no, no. It's how are you? Um, fine. It's John Owen. We're calling from New Zealand.

Oh. We're calling from New Zealand. And guess what? Our podcast is in the top 200 on your charts. No, no, no. No, no, it is. It is. Top 200. Yes, yes, yes.

Big, big top 200. What number are we, Joel? Oh, 231. Oh, you're right. No, no, no. You're right. Yes, you? Oh, 231. Oh, you said top 200. Oh, don't worry about it. No, no, no. You're right. Yeah, she was right. Yeah, well, hang up on her.

We'll hang up on her. She's like, you're not top 200. I'm not talking to you. No, she was right, actually. She was like, no, she had the facts right. It was definitely not top. So we're not even top 200. Yeah, sorry.

But that's why she was like, no, no, no. Yeah, she knows the charts. She's like, you're lying to me. We were top 200, but we're top 232. No, no, no. I find myself when we call countries far, far away, I find that I'm turning into my dad trying to make an order at a foreign restaurant.

You know, when you're like, hello, it is Jono. And it's not that I'm trying to be condescending. It's because no one can understand the New Zealand accent. We mumble, we're lazy. Yeah, we do. So then you try and over-accentuate what you're saying, but then you seem like you're an out-of-touch, you know, 85-year-old, which I am.

All right. Well, enjoy the podcast today. Especially if you're in Armenia. Especially if you're there. Yeah, exactly. No, no, no. We'll get into the podcast. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Big news. Around about 4 o'clock yesterday, the brand new all-black coach was announced, Scott Robinson, Razor Robinson, Crusaders coach. He's taken over the job at the end of the World Cup, or 2024 for four years. 48-year-old. I reckon he only signed a couple of hours beforehand. Well, everyone felt like it was already

in the works, right? Well, he was competing against someone else. Jamie Joseph. Jamie Joseph, former Otago rugby player. Yeah. He did play for Otago. He's been a coach for many years. Great 90s NPC knowledge there. Yeah, you're right. But it felt like he was the main

two up for the job. Firstly, congratulations to Scott Robinson. I mean, that's awesome. I think he probably is the right coach from what little I know about rugby, but the way it was all handled, I feel for Ian Foster. Messy situation. He's still coaching. He's taking the All Black blacks to the world cup and we're worried about that we're worried about uh

you know 2024 onwards it's almost like we've written off the world cup hey good luck with your little campaign there mate and we'll we'll focus on the new coach which if you're fozzie foster yeah you'd feel you feel like i understand Like if he had decided That the World Cup Was the end of his coaching You know Fossey Foster had come out Then it would be fine

You'd be like Great he's finishing up there Scott Robinson's Going to take over But because he hadn't It just sort of feels A bit weird doesn't it Fossey and Razor

If you were If I was a rugby guy What would you call me What's my fun nickname Knuckles Knuckles I don't know where that came from. I don't even have good knuckles, but I'll take knuckles.

Your head looks like a knuckle. Yeah. What did I call you? Bones. Bones and knuckles. That sounds like it. Bonesy knuckles taking over the leadership of the All Blacks. We sound like a hip-hop group from the 90s.

But Scott Razor Robinson, one of the things we do love about him, firstly, his hair. Great hair. He doesn't pay much attention to it, does he? He pays less attention to his hair than Boris Johnson did. It's definitely for that Boris Johnson school of thought, the old UK Prime Minister, but also his breakdancing at the end of the game

where the Crusaders would win and everyone would get round and chant, Hooray, Razor Ray! Hooray, Razor Ray! Hooray, raise the ray. Hooray, raise the ray. Hooray, raise the ray. Hooray, raise the ray. Raise the ray. Do you think if he doesn't know how to answer a question in his meeting, you know, for the job, he's just like, Hooray, raise the ray.

And everyone starts clapping and he starts doing a turtle spin on the boardroom table. Just to bamboozle everyone but yeah congrats congratulations to him i mean it's awesome he's very emotional yesterday he said bringing his parents was awesome his wife and kids uh which is great it just you just feel for ian foster and and probably the other coaching staff that they have with them maybe they were in a bit of a fiddly situation with him because he was being offered jobs overseas and if he went and took those and you're probably not going to see him for five or ten years so they were probably like

well if he goes we lose him yeah gotta sign him now we know all about the complicated signing process being bush you run a you run a tough conversation at a negotiating table don't you yeah john just does break dancing do you remember your your skills? You somehow negotiated to pay more for an item when you thought you were getting a bargain. That was on Trade Me. Yeah, I went with my wife to the place and I was like, what do you want for this? Leave it to me.

I'll take this. One of us should come in. And I said, yep, we'll give you that. They went, okay. We're actually asking for a lot less than what you've just said. What do you want for this? 20. I'll give you 40.

They're like, done. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Ted Lasso, great series. If you haven't watched it, it's very, very cool about an American football coach who ends up coaching. He's kind of out of his depth, but he's lovable, and he kind of coaches an English football side, not knowing a lot about English football, but it's really cool. It's a really heartwarming, charming series.

And they're all, you know, to begin with, they're all like, who's this American idiot coming in? But he wins them over, warms their hearts. But then his assistant coach, or like the intern, he turns, oh, good series. And it's back now on Apple TV, isn't it? Yeah, it's back right now. And also Ted Lasso, all the characters from the series were in the White House with Joe Biden yesterday.

Now, a couple of days ago, if you've watched the series, Ted Lasso puts up Believe as like his big poster he puts up on the wall. And I was following Joe Biden on Instagram amongst other people when he put up like a picture of his office. Does Joe Biden run his Instagram account? Well, I feel like somebody else must be running it for him. I mean, come on. He's definitely forgetting the password.

And he had a picture of his Oval Office in the White House. He had Believe up on the wall, like from Ted Lasso. And I was like, well, this is weird. Is this a hashtag sponsored ad for Lasso? And then he had a photo yesterday sitting down talking to all the cast in his office going, great to meet some English football team. That was, I think it was obviously a jest. But what they were there to do and they spoke afterwards to all the press at the

White House was to talk about mental health. So like no matter who you are, no matter where you live, no matter who you voted for, we all probably, I assume, we all know someone who has, or have been that someone ourselves actually, that's struggled, that's felt isolated, that's felt anxious, that has felt alone, right? And it's actually one of the many things that, believe it or not, that we all have in common as human beings, right? And so that means that it's something that we can all, you know, and should talk about with one another when we're feeling that way or when we recognize that in someone feeling that way. So please, you know, we encourage everyone, encourage everyone and this big theme of the show is like to check in with your you know your neighbor your co-worker your friends your family uh and ask how

they're doing yeah some really great great words there uh from jason sudeikis who plays yeah really great words here bloody niall horan in a couple of days ago from one direction i feel like biden's like hey anyone's welcome. When are we getting our invite? Do you reckon it's one of those situations where you're like, yeah, pop time, and all these people are starting to pop around, and you're like, oh, I didn't really mean it. Hey, we've got this young guy who used to be in One Direction.

He has no idea who Niall Horan is, but he welcomes him with open arms. That's right. He's like a lonely old man who just wants a conversation in company. He's at the Ryman. He's like, just someone come visit me please that'd be nice the hits the Jono and Ben podcast now joining jobs fun game we do once a week where we connect like-minded people like-minded people who enjoy phoning up radio stations at an early hour and participating in competitions. But all you have to do is phone us up, tell us what your job is. We then start the 60-second timer. And if someone phones back with the same job, you'll win a prize.

What have we got today? We've got some Hell Pizza up for grabs today. Delivering beer and wine. I said delivering beer and wine. Oh, sorry. You said it at the same time. Yeah. Delivering beer and wine.

But we've had a lot of respected jobs, haven't we? Over the months. Had plumbers, teachers, lawyers, doctors, you name it, arsonists. Some of New Zealand's finest arsonists. Most prolific. Let's get David on the phone. Welcome. Good morning. How are you? We're good, David.

And listen, there's been multiple calls. So we're going to get Kate on as well. Bit of fierce competition, healthy competition. It didn't hurt Ray's array and Fozzie, did it? Wow. Okay, so David, what do you do for a job? I'm an elevator technician. Ooh, and we've got Kate as well.

What do you do, Kate? I'm customer services for a roofing company. Oh, roofing company. Now, as an elevator technician, all I've ever wanted to do is pick up that phone in the lift and dial it. David, where does it go to? It does go to a call centre and then it dispatches the calls out to us. Ah, OK. So it does work.

OK, well, that's good to know. It definitely does work. So go and push it so someone will get on the line for you. As a lift technician, what are the rules? Are we talking to strangers in the lift? Are we standing in the awkward silence? What's the preferred option? We're just trying to get them out of there firstly and safely,

and then we'll shut off the lift and then find out what's going on. Okay, all right. Okay, so under the hits is our phone number. If you are listening right now, these are jobs that, you know, great jobs, but it might be hard to find someone who's also an elevator technician or someone that works would you take customer service or we'll take roof no roofing okay roofing who works in the roofing industry okay the timer has started oh 800 the hits uh phone us up kate what do you love about roofs i love the people oh Oh that's lovely.

That's why you're in customer service, because you love people. Yeah true. What's one thing we could be doing better as people who phone up customer service centres? Knowing what you want would be great. I never know what I want. And then they're always like what's your credit card number and you're fossicking around trying to find it. We just like to have a moan.

That's what we bring up. A lift technician, anyone who works in roofing, oh, 800 the hits if you call us up. Kate or David is going to win Hell Pizza and you win Hell Pizza as well.

So far, as you can tell by this shocking padding I'm doing, no one's phoned up. We've got someone online too. Producer Humphrey's Oh, have we? Have we? We've got someone online too producer humphries have we we've got someone i don't know if they're a roofing oh yes jack what do you do elevator technician

i wouldn't have thought we'd have two elevator technicians listening particularly at this time in the morning but that's awesome oh you've got to be up early with this sort of job. Yeah, well, they listen to the show because it's an uplifting experience. Now, Jack, where do you work? Well, I build stairs. You build stairs? Yeah, well, stairs elevate people. When they go up them, I'm a technician that builds stairs.

Oh, you've got us on a technicality. Oh, he's got us. He's stitched us up on a technicality, which means, Kate. Come on, Rufus. Well, we're just going to give you hell pizza. Otherwise, you're going to lodge a protest. It's going to get awkward. You're right.

It'll be like the rugby union all over again. So everyone gets hell pizza today. Home of the best damn pizza. You guys have a great day. Thank you so much for calling. Thank you. Next, Robertson joins us. Kiwi singer Robertson.

Making it big worldwide as well. She's back in New Zealand. But she's doing something that's making me anxious. She just said before that she hasn't organised something and it's happening today. It's too late. You She just said before that she hasn't organised something and it's happening today. And I know. It's too late. You would have organised this in 2021.

Anyway, we'll get to that. We need to sort this out. It is the hits. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Kiwi singer Robinson is back. You'll know Robinson from smash hits like this. Such a great song.

Nothing to regret. She's got a new single out at the moment. Things Aren't Nice in Paradise. She's been touring with One Republic. How cool is that? And she joins us in the studio. Nice to see you, Robinson. Nice to see both of you.

It hasn't been too long. It's been an age. You've gone off, you're living overseas, you're spreading your wings overseas. Don't worry, we're still doing the same shit here, mate. We're still plugging away, plugging away live. And you're smashing it. You are smashing it. I mean, tuning fork you were headlining a show but you've also been touring with one one republic i

know which is pretty cool it's like such a surreal thing i step out on a stage like that and be like this is a lot of people do you seek you know when you're like with someone like one republic do you kind of seek them out get some advice try and you know, when you're like with someone like OneRepublic, do you kind of seek them out, get some advice, try and, you know, like get some information out of them of how to, you know, do what you do? At the end, it was really lovely. We all got invited to a party and so we got to chat. Oh, cool. Yeah, he just, I can't remember what he said.

I'd had a vodka soda at this point. It was good advice though. It was really good. I need to remember this. Yeah, it was really good advice. But I think just, yeah, him as a performer, he just, he crushes it. I don't know if you've ever seen them live. No, I've never seen them live.

It's really good. It's actually inspired me to like, I think I had as a kid that Beyonce would run on the track or run and sing at the same time. And I feel like that is my next goal. It's like running and singing. Yeah. Running and talking. But singing, it's hardcore. Everyone's doing it.

So you need to do running and singing. The last thing you want is someone going, oh, God. Literally. Give us a chance. That was literally me. There's a song that I've got called Oblivion, and that song does not stop. By the end, I'm like, please just clap for longer.

Give us a breather, just a quick moment. And you do that thing where you've got your hands on your knees and you're kind of... Is that why musicians go, now you sing the next bit? Absolutely. Is that why? No, not always. Sometimes you do, it's a great way to bring inclusivity into a set,

but I think there could be some times where you're like, this is a marathon and you just take the workload for a second, would you? Got Robinson with us. You're just saying you haven't been home in so long. You're based in the UK. Yeah. And you want to get home to Nelson. I do.

When are you going there? You said tonight. I said tonight. And you haven't booked your flights yet, though. No, I haven't. Well, I was going to book it last night, but then I was like, I don't know. I was trying to work out the airport timings.

This will be making Ben very anxious. I'm nervous for you. I feel like I need to get onto the app right now. And anyway, he's the most organized traveler. He'll pack three days before even at the airport. I'll be out there. Like, it's nice to be out there. We're relaxed and early.

How's this making you feel? Oh, this is very anxious. But see, the flights are there. They're just hanging out. You're not on them, Robinson. It'd be really awkward, though, if the flights all go, and I'm like, oh. Or if your mum should be like, we're coming back.

What time are you going to pick you up? Yeah, true. And I'm like, don't know. I haven't booked it. Hey, now we're going to play a game with you. One of your songs features a little bit of spicy wording. Yeah, nothing to regret. Obviously, do you regret putting the swear word in the song?

Because one of my daughter's favorite songs, and he loves that song. Yeah, she loves that song., do you regret putting the swear word in the song? Because one of my daughter's favorite songs, and he loves that song. Yeah, she loves that song. She listens to it all the time. But there is obviously the two versions. There's the one with the swear word and one without the swear word. Yeah, so we've got the one with the beep.

Here we go. So we'll beep that one out for you. And we just wanted to beep out some other songs and see if you can remember what the original lyrics are now these aren't your songs but you can have a listen see if you can work it out have a listen

I will try lovely song lovely song from Chris Martin sounds a bit dodgy it does I was like I'm getting a very interesting vibe here

so the original words it sounded a lot dodgier. It wasn't the intention at all from us. Okay, this is Sting. That was Fix You, obviously, yeah. Sting classic here. Watching you. Yeah. Watching you, yeah.

Stevie, you might have heard of Stevie Wonder. Yeah. Yep. Yeah, yeah. Stevie, you might have heard of Stevie Wonder. Yeah. Yeah. I just called to say I love you. Yes! There you go. Now, there's a 410 flight today. That's probably the best.

It's probably your best price. I don't know if 410's too early for you to get out of the airport. I did see that. There's a 410. Otherwise, you're paying a bit more to go a bit later in the evening. 5.25 or 8.15, you know, flight to Nelson. Well, it's just hard to know. You're like, I can see it in you.

You are. Very anxious. You're anxious and restless. On edge, Nermy. 410 maybe. For Robinson, so nice to see you. Thank you so much for having me. Congratulations on your success.

It's awesome. Thank you. You're going to have to send a photo when you land. I will. I did it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jono and Ben, celebrate your special date with Dilma. Yeah, you can text 4487 anyone having anniversary birthday,

starting the first day of work. Maybe it's the first day after losing your job. We'll celebrate anything. International goof off Off Day today Ben is it really? we've been doing this now for a few weeks and I could literally name any day

and you would assume it's probably a day somewhere in the calendar yeah they really feel like there's a day for everything World Finger Flirting Day World Lick Your Windows Day Date Your Dentist Day International Date Your Dentist Day. International Date Your Dentist Day coming up next week as well. And also, happy birthday, Reese Witherspoon.

Ah, nice. She's a famous actor, isn't she, Reese? She's great. Yeah, Reese Witherspoon, yeah. Got a game I'd like to play with you. Okay. It's Reese's Pieces. Pieces from Reese's movies.

Okay. You've got to guess what film it is, okay? Oh, jeez, all right. You're a big Reese Witherspoon fan. Well, I do. I've watched a lot of romantic comedies and cried with Reese Witherspoon, so maybe I might do all right. I don't know.

I don't know. Here's the first one. As president of my sorority, I'm skilled at making the attention of the room and discussing very important... Great movie. She played... Who did she play in Legally Blonde? She was the lawyer.

She became a lawyer. Yeah. Here's the next one, Reese's Pieces. And what about me, Charlie? Oh, Johnny Cash. What was the movie? It's the Johnny Cash movie. She was in Joaquin Phoenix.

What was the name of that movie? It was Walk the Line. Yes, that's it. Yeah, she was June Carter in Walk the Line. And the third one in Reese's Pieces. Go get them Yankees. People need a passport to come down here. Oh, well, Sweet Home Alabama.

Yeah, I couldn't hear it in the background, but yeah. She was, the song gave it away. She was a highfalutin fashion designer, went back home, she'd got too big for her small town, but then she rediscovered her roots. Everything worked out in the end It did be You'd be happy to know That's good

A happy birthday Sorry Happy anniversary To Elaine and Paul Cash Today Celebrating today And that's lots of love From Melissa

Fletcher Hodges It's your B day You know that You don't need me Mansplaining it That's lots of love From Taylor Congratulations to Debbie

And Gordon Celebrating their Anniversary in Wairarapa Today Alex is 22 And he's off to Bali tomorrow. That sounds like a world of trouble. Dad Gary has messaged us and you're like, oh, good luck, Gary. And happy birthday to Amy Burns.

Gary's definitely going to be bailing you out of a Balinese prison. I hope not. Happy birthday to Amy Burns from all your workmates at Plumbing World. And we've got Mel on the phone. It's a big day for you. Yeah. What's happening, Mel on the phone. It's a big day for you. Yeah. What's happening, Mel? I just got engaged.

Oh, congratulations. When, today? Yeah, this morning. You guys are up and at them early, getting engaged. What happened? How talk us through it? He just decided to take me to the beach. At what time?

We just got engaged about 20 minutes ago. This is all rolling coverage of the engagement. How did he do it? What's his name? Charlie. Charlie. So did he get down on one knee on the sand? Yep.

And what did you say? I said absolutely. She said yes. How long have you guys been together? It would have been bleak if she was like, I've said no, it's quite awkward now. We're in the car right on the way home. Just thought I'd read the radio, though, for $100.

So how long have you guys been together? About eight years. Charlie liked it, and he put a ring on it. Yeah. Congratulations. We're going to give you $100 and a Del Marti prize pack. Well done. That's so awesome.

Thank you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's Miley Cyrus, flowers. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben on your Wednesday morning at 10 past 7. Pink. The Hits is sending you to see Pink in London.

How incredible would that be seeing Pink in Hyde Park in London? Trip for two, flights and accommodation if you want to get in the draw. Now's your chance. Once in a lifetime experience, isn't it? Unless you come into a buttload of money and you can afford flights and tickets to Pink in London again next time she tours. Brie, you're on from Auckland.

Welcome. G'day, guys. How are you? You want to head to London? Yeah, it would be nice. The home of palaces, black cabs, lacklustre oral hygiene. They've got it all in London. You've seen Pinky.

And Madame Tussauds, yeah. Oh, yeah. The wax museum. You've been to the wax museum in America, haven't you? I have, yeah. Who did you have a photo with? Oh, Zac Efron was one of the ones I had a photo with. He's a good looking.

Even in wax form, he's very good looking, isn't he? So I thought you were a wax figurine for many years, Jono. Gave about as much personality to your oily complexion. Have you seen Pink before? Are you going when she's in New Zealand? I am indeed. I went to her last time she came to Auckland, and I've got my tickets already for next year.

So that's awesome. Wow. Organised. You want to double down. You want to Auckland and I've got my tickets already for next year, so that's awesome. Wow, organised. You want to double down, you want to catch her in London as well, we've got a pretty simple question for you, you've just got to tell us what this pink song is, okay? Alright, let's give it a go. Jagged little pill? Have another listen.

Have another listen, Brie. Only one. Sorry. Only one. Sorry. Only one. Only one I want. Only one I want? No. No. This is going to be the first person we can't put in the drawer.

Ben, Ben, it's the format. Only one I ask us. It's the format of the game, Ben. Only one I ask us. Sorry, I'm coughing in this chair. Sorry, Bree. That's okay. Thank you.

Oh, it doesn't feel good, does it? No, it doesn't feel good at all. It doesn't feel good. I'm sure she said only one last kiss. But anyway, maybe I'll, you know. Yeah. We'll blow her a kiss goodbye then, I guess. Yeah.

We'll put you on the draw anyway, Bree. Okay? Oh, thanks, guys. Thank you so much. I could see the disappointment on Ben's face. He doesn't like anyone walking away a loser from this show, apart from us two at the end of it. No, that would be awesome.

Thank you very much. No worries, Brie. You have yourself a great day. Thank you. You too. Listen, now for your next chance to get in the draw to see Pink in Hyde Park. That would be incredible.

As Jono said, once in a lifetime opportunity. Unless you come into a buttload of money, you can afford flights. That's true. You've got to put that in. It's Luke Scram, seven years. It is the Hits, Jono and Ben, 7.16 on your Wednesday. Yesterday, around about 4 o'clock, big news, Scott Robinson, Scott Razor Robinson, as they like to call him,

became the All Blacks head coach. He's going to take over at the end of the World Cup from 2024, and he's signed for four years. So congratulations to Scott Robinson. But as we said earlier, feel very sorry for Ian Foster, who, as the current coach, is taking them to the Rugby World Cup, and he never said he wanted to leave the job. No.

I feel very sorry how this has all sort of played out. But, you know, maybe the right decision has been made, but just feels like it's been made very messily and feel for Ian Foster as well.

You know, taking them to the World Cup, as you say, and then be like, oh, so I'm finishing up there even if we win the World Cup. I know he's a better person than I would ever be,

but I would purposely tank the awards at the World Cup because of Ian Foster. Or motivation to win, though. Or time high, you know, as well. So, yeah, Scott Robinson loves his breakdancing, doesn't he, purposely tanked your blokes at the World Cup. Or motivation to win, though. Or time high. I don't know, as well.

So, yeah, Scott Robinson loves his breakdancing, doesn't he, at the end of the game? Yeah, and we've all focused in on that, but he's also a very, very good coach, obviously. He's got a high percentage of wins, I think, in the 80s. 80% is worth of wins. You're right. But he does fun dances at the end of the game, too.

I like the fun dances. I like his hair, too. Yeah, he's got fun hair, too. But that's as much rugby chat as we can give. We're not experts, Ben, are we? To cover this topic, we have no hard-hitting opinion. What is your opinion? Oh, I think, as I said, I think he's a great coach.

I love his fun dancing. But I also think, and probably the right decision to be the next All-Back coach, but very, very sorry for Ian Foster, and I feel like it was handled shockingly. So you're sitting on the feds? No, I'm just saying, yeah, okay, I am. He couldn't be more at the halfway line if he tried. But we're going to play a little game that we like to do. It's the jargon game, which we do from time to time.

So, Ben, we're going to call a cafe in Temaru, and I've got a range of rugby phrases here on different bits of paper. Ruck, moor, halfback, scrum, that sort of thing. And you just need to weave them into conversation. So I've got to make these rugby phrases, okay, into the conversation? But make them sound natural. Okay. Don't force it.

I'll try. Every time I get one in. Don't force your opinion down my throat every morning. Your controversial opinion. Every time I do insert one into the conversation, we'll ring a bell. Let's give this cafe a call. Coffee Culture Timaru speaking with Laura. How can I help?

Oh, hi, Laura. Are you guys open this Friday night? We are until nine o'clock. Oh, awesome. I'm just looking for a place to kick it with my friends. Oh, well, you know what? You can kick it with your friends as well. Oh, great.

How busy are you going to be on Friday? Will there be like a line out? No, never usually a line out the door. Okay, well that's good to know. Your menu, what items could I tackle with my mates, you know, like get stuck into? You could basically, we've got like a bagel menu and we've got cakes and stuff like that. A bagel. I might pass on the bagel, but the cakes sound awesome. They sound really good. Yeah, the cakes are pretty mean, yeah.

You don't have to pre-order. You can just get along and wing it on the day, right? Yeah, just Jono and Ben. Just, um... I literally listened to something the other day. Yeah, well, like, the food sounds scrummy, that's for sure. What else are you going to throw at me? There's plenty I'd like to try.

If I eat, like, say, have a cake, I have my cake, and then I don't eat it all, can I give half back to you to give to me as a doggy bag situation? Well, I was thinking maybe you could give it to me as a full back, and then I can eat it. Oh, yeah. My mate Jono's a bit of a dropkick, though. Is he allowed in there?

Yeah, no, it's all right. I'm all over there like a bad rash. Ruck me, that's good. And finally, would you say, Jono and Betty, you proud of the boys? Yeah. I mean, they go good. I mean, you know, they could probably work on a few things. Jono was making me insert as many rugby terms into the conversation.

No, I'm going to say I'll give you a 10 out of 10 for that one. Not bad. Thank you very much. 10 out of 10. Give your business a plug. Where can people come find you? Timaru Copy Culture. You are a legend.

Thank you very much. Lovely to talk to you. See you later, guys. See you, buddy. Bye. There you go. Roaring success there, Ben. That's why I did the all-back coaching job, eh?

Too many puns. Too much pun-based application. I mean, puns win rugby games, don't they? That's what they've always said. It's the I did the all-back coaching job. I too many puns, too much pun based. I mean, puns win rugby games, don't they? That's what they've always said. It's the Jono and Ben podcast. New Zealand,

10th happiest country in the world. Didn't ask me. Yeah, I didn't ask the miserable people. Didn't ask me, we were waking up at 3.30 in the morning. Oh no, that's good.

It's always good to be in the top 10 happiest countries. Who's happier than us? Oh, Australia are happier than us, It's always some sort of free loving. Finland. countries. Who's happier than us? Australia are happier than us, mate. It's always some sort of free-loving. Finland. Finland's the world's happiest country, though. Experimental, sexually experimental European country always coming in at number one.

Yeah. Now, Ben, did you wake up this morning when the alarm went off at 3.30? Did you wake up and you go, wow, this could be the day I possibly, probably won't meet my hero Kevin Hart Well I did think about it coming into work today Because I'm going to Kevin Hart tonight At Spark Arena he's performing

And going on with my wife And you know I'm a big massive Kevin Hart fan He's one of my comedy heroes You've got multiple heroes He's got more heroes than the Marvel franchise Yeah I do have a lot of heroes Some people have their dads or mums Or Nelson Mandela or Anne Frank You've got multiple heroes. He's got more heroes than the Marvel franchise. Yeah, I do have a lot of heroes. I look up to people. Some people have their dads or mums or Nelson Mandela or Anne Frank.

Ben's got the guy who played Tooth Fairy in Tooth Fairy and the talking rabbit from Pets. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Kevin Hart, you're right. Some of my heroes, I love them, big fans. And so you got me to meet The Rock. We got his attention by getting a tattoo on my behind. Now, initially, when we got the tattoo, it fell on deaf ears. Months and months of silence. Nothing happened.

I felt terrible. You could see it was destroying my soul. But eventually, a year and a half later, it all paid off. Yeah, we got to talk to him. We got to hang out with him as well and interview him. And he knew it. He had seen it. He had the photo on his cell phone.

He ended up signing my behind. We got an extra bit of a tattoo as well. So now you've come up with an idea, because Kevin Hart's in the country, to try and get me to meet him, which involves me outside where he's going to be performing at Spark Arena, but on a scissor lift, like 12 metres in the air. With a sign saying, Kevin Hart, I'm hanging out to meet you.

Or don't break my heart, or some Hart pun. Yeah. And I know it's a long shot, but I've got a great track record of you meeting. Well, it's going to take a year and a half, judging by last time. But we will put it on social media

where we go today. And if you could help us, go to the Hits Breakfast and tag, you know, tag Kevin Hart in so he at least hopefully sees it and on his way to the hits breakfast and tag you know tag kevin hart and so he at least hopefully he sees it and on his way to the gig he might stop off he might get a photo now these always need to have a little bit of jeopardy don't they these little expeditions we go on but if kevin hart hasn't pulled over said hello had a conversation with you by the time the

show starts at eight o'clock i know you have tickets for it you're the time the show starts at 8 o'clock, I know you have tickets for it, you're going to miss the show. Why? I'm sorry, it's just how radio stuff works. You've been doing this game a long time. Well, we know clearly he's in the it's probably done at that stage unless you want to stay around, you know, why? Don't question radio, you know how radio works.

Why can't I go to the show? It's punishment. Unnecessary punishment. Oh, hopefully he stops out then. Backbone of this fine industry. Just punishing people for no reason. But yeah, so we're going to be doing that after the show today. But what we wanted to chuck out there. 448-70800, the hits.

Telephone number. Get in touch with New Zealand's Breakfast. Have you actually ever met your hero? Have you met your hero? Yeah. Because sometimes they're like, don't, don't. They'll just let you down. That's right.

I'm sure I've let many people down. Yeah, you have. But I wouldn't say any of them thought you were a hero. So that's great. So, you know. But I've disappointed many people. Oh, yeah. Countless.

Not in a heroic fashion. No. All right. So I'm under the hits. 4, 4, 8, 7. Ahead of me trying to meet my hero today. The Hits. The Jono and Ben fashion. All right. So I under the hits, 4487 ahead of me trying to meet my hero today. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Hopefully today I get to meet Kevin Hart when he's in the country.

A very convoluted plan that you haven't even organised permission to put the sizzle in. So we need to get to that after 8 o'clock this morning. Yeah, thanks to Hyerpool giving us a 12 metre high sizzle lift. But yeah, apparently the council always coming in with their rules and regulations. You can't just rock up with a scissor lift. So we're going to beg someone after 8 o'clock if we can park it there on the footpath. But while we sort that out at the back end,

let's get to your calls. Have you actually ever met your hero? Kel, how are you? I'm good. They say never meet your heroes, don't they? But in a lot of cases, do meet your heroes. Because your heroes turn out to be lovely people. Sometimes they do, yeah.

Yeah. Who did you meet? So my daughter met David Beckham when she was four. That's pretty cool, David Beckham. So was this when he came to New Zealand? Yeah, he came playing a football match up in Auckland and we went up and I only took her because I didn't have a babysitter.

Right, so she had no vested interest in David Beckham or the game of football? No, and he just said that she had a beautiful big smile and so he took his shirt off and gave it to her. And I was just buzzing out that he was taking his shirt off. He took his shirt off and then gave his football shirt to her? Yeah. You're like, how about you take the pants off too? I reckon.

Wow, so that was a great moment for her getting the shirt and a great moment for you seeing David Beckham shirtless. Yep, it's hanging on my wall. Oh, that is, what a great story. I love it. When you're a kid you always dream of the athletes taking off all their clothes and signing it and giving it to you. You know? Yeah.

I think this shirt would be worth lots more if he died. So you're just hanging out, let's not wish that upon him. But when he does... It'll be worth a whole lot more. Was it sweet? I mean, he's not playing anymore, though. I've been watching his documentary on TV,

and he's now coaching kids and stuff, so he's quite inspirational, really. Oh, he's pretty awesome. He's such a lovely guy, David Beckham, doesn't he? Yeah, and he smelled good, so that's the main thing. Even after a football game, he smelled good. He did, so he must have had lots of that Beckham cologne on. Oh, he's got his own colognes, of course.

Yeah. Well, you've got the real odour of Beckham in a shirt, and that is pretty impressive. Thank you so much, Lisa. You have a great day. All good. Thanks, guys. Angela, you met your hero.

Where was it? It was many, many years ago when The Last Samurai was being filmed in New Zealand. And I biked from one side of town to the other to go to the gym, rocked on up, didn't pay much attention. There was no one there, no one at reception. Went in, the gym was empty, and I was, like, working away, doing my thing, and

I looked over in the corner, and there was a guy in the corner with, you know, he can just tell wealthy, famous people they wear good quality clothing, without the labels. I spend the morning with Ben, I know what it's like. Wealthy, good-looking people. This was the day before internet and Facebook and all the rest of it. And I listened to the radio and people were saying, oh my gosh, I've seen Brad Pitt around town. I've seen him here, I've seen him there. And then someone said, oh, I saw him in the car going towards Ferrymead in the gym.

It was in Ferrymead at the time. Brad Pitt? Yep. So I'm sticking to that story that I was in the gym with Brad Pitt. But it was Les Mills when it was in Ferrymead and it was out the back. Brad Pitt's in town. You're doing some, what are you working on? What are we doing?

Is it leg day for you? Oh, probably the Stairmaster. And I think he was in town. He was in New Zealand visiting Tom Cruise, who was doing The Last Samurai. I was going to say, yeah, he wasn't in that movie, was he, from what I remember, but I guess. Yeah, he was coming to his own to visit his mate, and yeah.

The problem is you don't, and hey, I believe you. I believe you, Angela. I believe myself. I mean, you've got no reason to lie to us, Angela. No, but you don't have photographic evidence, and that's what people. Well, that was the day before cell phone disease. Yeah, true. Yeah, no.

You didn't have that stuff. And that's why Ben never believes that I sat down and had Burger King with Denzel Washington and Tarapa and Hamilton. You don't believe it, do you? What? It happened to me? I don't. Angela, do you believe me?

Absolutely. She believes me. No, I don't. It just happened to her. But no, that's a really great story. And so, Brad, was he sweating much out of his pits or was he? Well, I think he was hiding underneath his sweatshirt because he wasn't expecting anyone to be in the gym.

And, of course, if he'd taken off his sweatshirt and I had realised that it was Brad Pitt, I don't know what I would have done. Well, listen, you played it well, Brad Pitt, and you never want to be a sifty person with a hoodie on in a gym, do you? No, never, never. I mean, you're drawing attention to yourself. No questions asked from us.

We'll take your word for it, Angela. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Great news. Shania Twain, the country singer, has got a train named after her. Have a guess in Sweden what it's called. The Shania Express. Oh, God.

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to see Pink live in New Zealand in 2024. People with lisps are like, oh, that's what we've called it the entire time. Pink coming to New Zealand is going to be incredible. Dunedin and Auckland

are next year on a summer carnival tour and we've got five tickets up for grabs and cash as well. It's up to you to decide if you want to keep playing with the pink tickets or take the cash. The beautiful Moana. Welcome from Upper Hutt. How are you? I'm good, thanks. How are you? Lovely to have you on. You run an intern programme?

Yes, yep. Cool Pukana internship. Oh, good. And what do you do? What sort of internships do you do? Oh we do anything really from hospitality, security to your standard sort of trade apprenticeships any sort of career anyone wants to get we wrap around and support them and make sure that they get qualified while earning some money.

Oh good on you. Do us a favour. Keep them away from radio okay? We don't need any bloody young whippersnappers coming in here stealing the old dog's gigs. Moana, are you a big fan of Pink? Yes, love Pink. I hope so. Our whole family does, yep.

Potentially you're going to win five tickets. So what you need to do is send one of us into the soundproof booth to match five words with who's it going to be this morning. Could I please put Jono in the booth? Sure thing. Jono will head away to the corner of the studio. He is inside the soundproof booth right now. All right, Moana, here is your first word this morning.

Okay. Barbie. Barbie. Barbie? Doll. Yep, yep. Spelled like that, not like a barbecue. Earl Grey.

Earl Grey is the second word. Tea. Tea. Arachnophobia. I had to read that one a couple of times just to make sure I was reading it correct. Arachnophobia. Spiders.

Spiders with an S, yeah. Next word this morning is salon. Salon, hair. Hair salon. And wedding is the final word this morning. Wedding. Bride. Bride. Salon. Hair. Hair salon. And wedding is the final word this morning. Wedding. Bride.

Bride. Well done. Played a good quick game. We'll get Jono back out of the soundproof booth and we'll see how far you want to go to see if you want to get

all the way to the pink tickets or take the money on the way. Now Moana, are you going to make your family pay for these tickets if you win? No.

No. We've all gone in together. My mother-in-law and my husband actually got through as well. So we're all going together. Oh, you're all ambushing the phone lines to win these tickets. All right, well, good luck. Let's hope we can win you five double five passes to pink.

Okay. All right, here we go. Word one, $25 cash. First word I said to Moana was barbie uh doll well done 25 bucks you want to play risk it for 50 oh i'm risking it we're risking it all right here we go word two fifty dollars cash they're all gray t t yeah there we go 50 bucks now it jumps up to 100 do you want to go for it yeah we're gonna go going to go for it. Word three, $100 cash. Arachnophobia.

Arachnophobia. Spider. Spiders. Spiders. Spiders. Oh, wow. You're getting a shake of a head from producer B Humps, who is our official screener.

Spiders. Spiders. Always the S's trip us up from time to time. I'm so sorry, Moana. Let's go. Salon? Hair salon? Oh, you got that one correct.

And finally, wedding. Bride. No. Oh, no. No. Oh, no. One letter. One S away. Oh, no. One letter. One S away.

Oh, Moana. I'm sorry. You're going to have to call back up and play again another day, right? We'll get you back on. All right. We'll send you some hell pizza too, Moana. We're going to have to get redemption as well. Oh, Moana, I'm so sorry.

We were so close. You played an awesome game. We were so close. Yeah, thank you so much. Oh, jeez, man. Oh. The Hits close. You played an awesome game. We were so close. Yeah. Thank you so much. Jeez, man. Oh. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Congratulations to Scott Robinson, your All Black coach, announced yesterday.

Is it one of those ones we're just talking about, like I sometimes say Jennifer Anderson when it's Aniston. Is it Robinson or Robertson? Robertson. But sometimes I say Robertson. Oh, no, me too. Just mumble over it. Imagine if Grant Robertson was Prime Minister, because I say Rob, but yeah. Oh no, me too. Just mumble over it. Imagine if Grant Robertson was Prime Minister,

because he could have been, and it would have been a big year for the Robertsons, wouldn't it? It would have been all black coach and Prime Minister, but it wasn't. Almost, but not quite. And not great things for New Zealand's perception with the rest of the world going. They're all related.

Now, I love my dog, Bo. I've got a big, white, fluffy dog, a big Samoyed. But you know why I love the dog? He's awesome've got a big, white, fluffy dog, a big Samoyed. But, you know, why I love the dog, he's awesome. I would say a wee bit of advice, if you're thinking about getting a dog, maybe get one that your kids could walk because he's quite big and if he pulls and wants to go, he'll take the kids with him. He's like a big, giant cloud of cocaine, isn't he, when you walk along? Cocaine dog, not cocaine bear.

He's, what, 40 kgs, would you say? Yeah, he's pretty, yeah. He probably is gettings would you say Yeah he's pretty Yeah he probably Is getting up that way So he's double Ben's weight And so I have to walk him And sometimes When things get busy Like last night

It was like Oh it's about 8.30 at night And I'm like Well no one's walked the dog I'm going to need to go Around the neighbourhood And walk the dog I feel like walking the dog

Is always falling on you Yeah Are you the dog walker I am the dog walker In the house I need to just accept it And not moaning about it Because the kids can't do it and it's who's walked the dog i remember we got home late from my flight one time and you're like how'd you get home with the dog yeah so the dog needs a walk every day because he is he is big but last night i was

walking and walking down the street it was dark and there was a guy walking wandering down the middle of the road in the middle of the road i was like oh he's having a great time you always want to give them a wide berth. And he was about 30 metres away. And I just heard him go, oh, cool dog, bro. And I was like, oh, thanks. But we're still, it's dark. I'm wearing a cap 30 metres away.

And he's like, you're the dude off TV. Like, we weren't even that close. And I was like, oh, my God. I was like, wow, hey, I used to be the guy from TV as well. Then you're having to spell out how your career path's gone from a 50 metre distance. And then he said something from about 35, 40 metres away as he

was walking up. He goes, would you like the rest of this vodka? Which I thought was a lovely the whole vodka bottle, which I thought was a lovely, lovely offer at that time of night. And I was like, oh no mate, I'm all good. But you know, I thought, well, it was a lovely offer. But you've got a history of turning down cool stuff.

Remember when you were in Northland and you were at some reggae gig and the band invited you backstage and they handed you something and you're like, no, thank you, I'm fine. I'm fine. Yeah, I know. What we need to do is claw back some bloody credibility, mate.

Pick up bottles of random vodka from random people walking down the road. You know, chuck a dube in your mouth every now and then. Get us some street points out there. Get a bit more credibility back. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You're on The Hits. It's Lizzo.

Just announced this morning she's going to be in New Zealand in July, which is awesome. Also in New Zealand right now, today, Kevin Hart, one of my comedy heroes Jono mocks me he's like you've got too many heroes I'm sorry I'm sorry for looking up to people for admiring people wanting to make the world a better place I mean they're great people to admire but they're not like you know what don't get don't get into that fiddly territory all right just to say you know yeah I mean it's great I'm happy you have heroes and, well, I am

happy for one thing. It's given us a lot of content over the years. Yeah, true. What my bald head has provided for our little dynamic, your love of Hollywood movie stars. Yeah. It's done the same for us. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, a hero of mine. I've got the tattoo to prove it that he signed. And now, Kevin Hart

in the country, another one of my heroes. And you've come up with some convoluted way to try and get me to hang out with my hero, to meet my hero. And that's by literally hanging out 12 metres in the air on a scissor lift, thanks to Hypole. You want to put that by where Kevin Hart is performing

and hoping that when he drives past, you'll see it because I'm up in the air, he'll stop and we'll get to hang out briefly. It's a long shot I won't lie the odds the odds are stacked against us and life it stacks odds against you so you build character and you become resilient now is it gonna work probably not probably not I I if I was Kevin Hart I wouldn't stop if I saw some nimwit standing on top of a scissor lift with a sign. I'd be like can we please just even if anything drive faster to avoid but I'm gonna be there. I don't have to be there

I'm dedicating my day to your dream coming true, but you got a problem because the fact that We've got it. So we're gonna have permission to put it somewhere near spark. By the way, if it's raining I'm gonna go sit in my car. You're still on the sizzle. I just want you to know that. There's a line in the sand. Yes. But there is a snag, too. We have heard a snag that you can't just park a sizzle lift anywhere you want in a city.

Apparently, the council, they have rules and regulations. But what we've done is we've tracked down the owner of the old railway station so we can park it, hopefully, on his property. We're going to go through to our mate George now. Can we say he's our mate? Well, hopefully he is. Hopefully he'll let us park the sizzle lift there. Hello, George. George!

Is that George? Who's this? George, do you run the, you've got the railway station downtown? Yeah, yeah. George, it's Jono and Ben here from the Hits Radio station. George? How are you? Good. How are you going, mate? Awesome. Good, good, good.

Have you got a couple of seconds? Yeah, sure, sure. Listen, I don't know who I need to sleep with around here, but you just name the person and I'll do it because I've got a scissor lift that I need to park somewhere near Spark Arena. Apparently, you're the man.

You're the man to talk to, George. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that a yes? It's a yes, yeah. Oh! You guys, yeah. Oh, you heard about it. Oh, that's so awesome.

Well, thank you so much. Hopefully, it works. Kevin Hart, I'm a big fan of Kevin Hart, George. I'm hoping I might get to meet him or at least see him as he drives past. Yeah, no trouble, no trouble. We'll park you there for a day and then hopefully you'll catch him somehow. George, you're a hero. Kevin Hart's my hero, but George might be my new hero.

I could kiss you right now, George. Thank you so much. Thanks for that. Now, let's give the business a plug. What are you doing at the old railway train station? We have like, that's a student accommodation. We have lots of students

staying there. At the same time, we do have some, we do have a small hotel, you know, but it's called Grand Central Apartments and we have people

staying there. Good location. It's a beautiful old building, the railway station building. Yeah, yeah, it is. It is old lady, you know, it's quite beautiful.

Do you want me to make an ad for you? Yeah, please, yeah. Okay, great. We. No, it's quite beautiful. Do you want me to make an ad for you? Yeah, please, yeah. Okay, great. We'll make up an ad. I'll whip up an ad because George has come to the party here. He is. He saved us in our desperate hour of need.

Yeah. So, George, we'll whip you up a nice ad, eh? Yeah, yeah, that'd be awesome. That'd be awesome. Now, are you one of these people who likes to voice their own ads or do you want us to do it for you? You guys do it. You guys are the best.

You are my friend. I like you. Well, we like you too, George. We like you too. Well, thank you so much, and we'll see you. We'll see you shortly. Awesome. Awesome.

And you're going to help us too. Actually, before you move on, can you just read that line? What's that? Sorry? Just the line I put there in the… Oh, okay. Grand Central Apartments in Auckland, short-term accommodation right next to Spark Arena. Okay, we've got to do that for the next 10 years.

Okay. And you can help us out when we put a photo up today on the Hits Breakfast if you can tag Kevin Hart in it. Lots of time, so hopefully he sees it and stops off and you'll find out tomorrow if we have Kevin Hart on the show. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Huge swells, heavy swells battering the Wellington coastline this morning, which means the poor old Cook Strait ferries won't be running this morning.

It's a rough run at the moment, isn't it? You don't want to be out on the straight and rough swells, do you? Not a good feeling. It's not. Not a good feeling. That's a great segue into what you want to talk about. I was sitting you up and I pointed at you and you went. I was lost.

I picked it up now. Yeah. you up and i pointed at you and you went i was lost i picked it up now yeah uh i experienced what i believe is the greatest feeling in the world and it happened to me over the weekend i forgot to mention it on monday but um it's when you're deep in a slumber okay i woke up and i saw the clock and i was like oh no no, it's 3.40. I'm 10 minutes late. I've got to get up. Got up.

Yeah, because you get up very early, don't you? Started preparing for the morning. Went down to the kitchen and I went, hold on, something doesn't feel right. And then I realized it was Saturday morning. No need for me to go into work. Back to bed. You wouldn't get a bit, like the feeling only lasted maybe 30 to 45 seconds, like all of my good feelings do. You wouldn't get a better feeling. Thinking that you have to get up for work and then being able to go back to bed. The

other good one is too, when you think it's time to get up, but it's only like 10.30 at night and you know you've still got a few hours left of sleep right sometimes life at hand you small little wins doesn't it uh things that make you feel good like uh when i get a positive comment on my instagram account about my provocative outfits i like those is that one of your favorite feelings they may feel good uh nothing quite like the great feeling of having to have a difficult conversation with someone ringing them and then they don't answer going to the message is good when you have to pull out something you're like i called but i left a message that's great nothing quite like the feeling of being invited to something

you don't want to go you're dreading going but then you catch covered i'd rather have something already on that day rather than catching COVID. Nothing quite like the feeling I had just a couple of weeks ago. You think the toilet's going to overflow. Then all of a sudden, it flushes. Yeah, that is a good feeling. You're right. Nothing like the feeling when you're sitting on a plane.

You've got empty seats either side of you. Oh, no one gets on. And you've got those empty seats. Everybody walks down the aisle, you're eyeballing and you're like, this is it, this is it. And they don't. They shut the door, that feeling. That's a feeling. Yeah.

I don't know why, for some reason, that's a good feeling. We're just having that little extra space. Nothing like the feeling of peeling plastic off a cell phone. Yeah, the environment probably doesn't like that. The feeling of ruining the environment. Yeah, but you're right. That feeling, satisfying feeling of new technology. And since having a dog, honestly,

nothing quite like the feeling of arriving home and having this dog unreasonably excited to see me. Like, to the point where I'm like, are you taking the piss with me, you know? You think they're mocking you. Exactly. But there's nothing quite like that feeling, Ben Boyce. Oh, there's some good feelings for you to start your Wednesday.

Hopefully you're having a feeling good wherever you are around the country and you can be feeling even better next when we've got some Lewis Capaldi tickets up for grabs on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Play memory to see Lewis Capaldi live in New Zealand. It is a game of memory based around Lewis Capaldi's song Forget Me. He's going to be here. Don't forget he's going to be here in New Zealand

in July in Wellington in Auckland. We've got a double pass to see him at the Auckland gig of Lewis Capaldi. All the details at libenation.co.nz. Big fan of Friends apparently. Huge fan of Friends Lewis Capaldi. Loves that TV show Ben. Kylie we'll get you on

Palmerston North. How was it this morning in the Manawatu? Yeah not quite there at the moment. What are you doing? TV show, Ben. Kylie, we'll get you on Palmerston North. How was it this morning in the Manawatu? Yeah, not quite there at the moment. What are you doing? I'm in Wellington today. Oh, you're in Wellington. You sound very suspicious about what's going on. What's happening in Wellington today, Kylie?

Oh, just stuff for work. Just stuff, Jono. You still have your questions, mate. The work. Stuff, just stuff John, I'm sure you'll ask me so many questions mate I'm just, the investigative journalist in me wants to know, Kylie, you'd love to go to Lewis Capaldi? Yeah Hi. Yeah, we phoned

a pub he used to work at yesterday and he was still working there apparently Yeah, I don't know if that was legit, but they had a lot of fun with us. They handed us over, but Kylie pretty simple game, have you got a good memory? I'd like to think so. Yeah, I can't even remember if I brushed my teeth some mornings, you know, or put

deodorant on. You just slip into autopilot, but thankfully you have a good memory. We're going to list 12 things. You need to relay six of them to us, okay? Yep. New Zealand slang. Cheer. Bro. Sweet as. Jandals. Dairy.

Batch. Choice. Munted. Heaps. Wop wops. Inner. Awesome. All right, those are your 12 options for New Zealand slang.

Can you repeat back six of them? Go. Chair. Bro. Yenna. Choice. Awesome. One more. Heaps. Yeah, well done. awesome um um um

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whatever suspicious activity you're up to in Wellington, I hope it's successful. All right, Kylie? Yeah, hopefully. You're still a bit shy. Jono really wants to know, doesn't he? He definitely wants to know. Enjoy.

Well, you know, in July you'll be seeing a Lewis Capaldi. Have fun at that. Awesome, will do. Thanks, guys. Good on you, Kylie. The Hits,

the Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday, about four o'clock, Scott Robinson, Razor, as they like to call him, Scott Razor Robinson was announced

as All Black coach. He's going to take over at the end of the World Cup, starting in 2024, replacing Ian Foster, Fozzie Foster. I've said it a couple of times this morning, I feel very sorry for how it was all handled. Feel for Ian Foster, who's still got to coach the side for the All Blacks. But congratulations to Scott Robinson.

He's a great coach, and I'm sure he'll do a great job. Yeah. It's funny how this thing will be. Everyone's like, oh, he's treated poorly and oh, go raise him, go raise the biggest newsman. But life goes on. It does. And eventually people slide into jobs

and then you forget who was there before. It's a sad fact of employment, isn't it? We've all been through it, Ben. We've all been through it. Yeah, exactly. Unfortunately, we know nothing about this whole situation. We have no expertise.

So we thought we'd throw it to you, the people. Get the battlers' voices on the radio. Although they don't know they're going to be on the radio, and we're not sure if they have any opinion on the matter either. No, we're going to pretend that we're a sports talk radio station, a station that talks about sport and these issues, and we're going to call a random number, and we're going to make them think that they're live on the air in a sports talk

backstation talking about the All Black coach. Let's give it a go. Hello? Hi, it's Michael here for your interview for the sports talk show. Sports talk show? Yeah, I'll just put you through to the studio. Nothing

but sport. Call 0800 8010 80. It's Sports Talk. It is Sports Talking. Sports Talking. Sports, sports, sports, sports. And Scotty Razor-Robinson, new coach of the All Blacks, announced yesterday, and we're cross live to our rugby correspondent.

Come in. Your thoughts. Hello. Hello. Talk us through it. I have no idea what you guys are talking about. You've had the inside word from the New Zealand Rugby Union. What are they saying at headquarters?

I didn't watch them. I am absolutely flabbergasted. I don't know why. You're live on the radio now. I figured that out, yeah. I mean absolutely flabbergasted. I don't know why. You're live on the radio now. I figured that out. Yeah. I mean, it really was. It was shocking, wasn't it? I mean, the treatment a lot of people were saying of being

Fozzie Fossa. Are you shocked? No. What did you think of the games? Yeah, talk us through it. Your favourite moments. The key points in the game. I don't know what to say. Because I haven't watched the rugby game. I'm actually quite shocked at the moment.

Yeah, it was shocking. It was a bit shocking. I don't know what to say. I didn't watch. Some of the tactical decisions have been called into question by the people. Hey, it's Jono and Ben actually here. You're not in the middle of a sports talk radio show.

Oh, f*** you guys. What's worse, you're talking to us, but we just wanted some report on the sport. We thought we'd call a number at random, and unfortunately that was you so I'm so sorry about that. Of course you guys would have f***ed it. You guys wouldn't do that.

Hey mate, the less F-bombs you drop the better. We threw you out. That's fantastic. Thank you so much. You can watch that but you don't have to watch the sport. And next time we cross you for a sports report we'll give you a bit more warning next time, eh?

You're very funny. You're awesome, eh? I love watching Jono and Ben at 10 and the next factor and all that sort of stuff. Oh, thank you very much. And we love talking to you about sports. We love pranking you. Yeah.

Prank you guys, haven't we? Scott Robinson, there you go. Comprehensive coverage. You won't get coverage like that anywhere else about the new All Scott Robinson, there you go. Comprehensive coverage. You won't get coverage like that anywhere else about the new All Black coach, will you? For good reason as well. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Weeknd, officially the GOAT of music, according to the Guinness World Records, the most popular artist in the world.

How about that? As far as being in the charts, he gets over 100 million monthly listens. 100 million. Is that on streaming services? Yeah, streaming services. So Bank's probably about $25. Yeah, probably. But how's that?

That's incredible. That's pretty incredible. I know he looked up to Michael Jackson, didn't he? He did. That was his hero. And now he's surpassed Michael Jackson as the most. Yeah, well, currently, for people, yeah. So that's pretty awesome.

Because it's their song Ariana Grande did a remix of, right? An old song. It's kicked back into gear. Got them across that threshold. Exactly. Ben, you may have noticed, well, you have noticed too, I've been using an electric scooter. You have.

To transport myself, just purely for the fact that I don't like using my legs and I'm impatient, but I transport myself from three blocks away where we park our car to work every day Yeah you do I also like to be a menace on the footpath There's nothing quite like the pure fear on people's faces when they see someone hurtling towards them on a scooter at 30km an hour

and no one ever looks confident on the lime scooters or the electric scooters No true No adult ever does It just feels like something could happen at any time That's the thrill of it right? ever looks confident on you know the lime scooters or the electric no true no adult ever does no it just feels like something could happen at any time that's the thrill of it right yeah it takes a little rock and a little bump in the footpath a little bump in the road so yeah i sort of waltz along on the on the electric scooter yesterday i'm driving past a bar someone goes

cool scooter and i went thanks mate now as i drove off i thought oh that was a nice compliment but the further that i scooted down the road glided down the road gracefully you've been mocked do you think yeah you probably have i mean far back for me we've talked a few times about not being cool on the show there's a promo that's been playing about me getting crocs even my daughter indy the bless her she was like she heard that play yesterday she came and used to go i think you should get crocs you're cool i was like you know when someone like tries to overcompensate and i'm like thank you but it's okay yeah so have i mocked have i mocked you out of crocs already before you've even purchased them no you should get them because you wanted to mock me

so you were actually out of anyone you're the most encouraging towards them. You're like, do it, please, mate, for me, do it. So for you, you're the most, at the moment, you're the one really making me do it. Yeah. But yesterday I was like, do I turn around and go, was that a compliment? You know, because it left me thinking about it on the drive home too. No, I feel like you might have been mocked. But hey, just keep with it. Stick with it.

You do. You've got to stick with it. If you're happy with that. You've just keep with it Stick with it You gotta stick with it If you're happy with that You gotta ride it out don't you Yeah I mean you rode out your Ellen DeGeneres blonde hair Didn't you

A torrent A torrent of mockery I dyed my hair Once Dyeed your hair blonde once Tried to do something different For my hairstyle In the last 10 months

Looked like a lesbian from the 90s And I got a whole lot of grief