Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Peeing In The Pool... A Deep Dive..

Episode Date: November 9, 2022

Today on the JAB podcast we take a deep dive into one of the oldest conspiracies... do you pee in the pool? Tune in to find out what we discovered...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's the 10th of November today. Kia ora, welcome along to the podcast. Jono and Ben here. Christchurch this afternoon. Yeah, giving away some chips. Chip sampling. We love to sample some chips, but also AMP show. Can't wait for that tomorrow. Yeah, so if you listen to this podcast and you can make it to New World, Hallswell this afternoon, 4.30 to 5.30. As I say, Hallswell that ends well. That's what I always like to say. Actually, I've never said it before. Thank you, Joel. That definitely deserved that one.

All's well will end well today with free chip samples today. Now, I noticed we were originally five to six. Producer Humphrey, you've bumped it back 4.30 to 5.30. Are those the prime time hours? Just travel time. Ah, travel time. And also, like, you're travelling with a family. So, you know.

So is this not to work around feed time for Jono and your baby yeah this is incorporating nap times and Heineken time for Jono a bit of time to change alright

that's yeah there's nothing to do with producer Humphrey's baby that's your nap time you'll have a nap time I look forward to watching you nap on the plane I definitely will nap on the plane

yeah there's no there's no two ways about it so yeah but I don't know if I because when I nap my mouth goes open and I look deceased and you're like is this man next to me just died no two ways about it. But I don't know if I, because when I nap, my mouth goes open. Yeah, you do. And I look deceased.

And you're like, is this man next to me just died in the middle of a flight? One time we got the knife, the fork, and the spoon from the flight. Remember that?

And balanced, well, you don't remember it because you're asleep. Balanced in your mouth. It was a great social video. It was a fun game. It was a really fun game to see while you slept

if I could just get the... Inside my mouth. Yeah. The spoon and the knife and the fork. I felt violated. It balanced them there beautifully. It did. I hope you're not sitting next to me today. What shenanigans you're full.

Can't an old man just get a few wings, 40 wings here and there? How are you, Joel? Good, good. I actually got a question for you today. For you both Both This is just to see how much

Of an elitist you guys are Right We had a bit of a dilemma In the work office yesterday There was milk in the fridge But it was like Two days past its best before And it was the only thing

And I wanted to ask you guys Would you drink milk If it was Do you smell The smell test? Because I've done it, like, not knowing it's past the date. You're doing it before. Yeah, yeah.

But would you willingly do it two days past the date before? It smelled right, and it was okay. I have. Yeah, I have. Once lumps start ending up in your coffee cup, that's when you need to pull out. That's a good point. Did you do it?

I did, yeah. I did do it because I was like, I'd rather have this milk have this milk it seemed it seems fresh enough didn't smell to be fair best before used by it's a big big difference there is one in the fridge though still from the 9th of august though and we're currently sitting the 10th of november so 60 days old would you drink that jonah oh no that's pushing it that's pushing it would you do it tomorrow on the show glass glass right now see if it's lump it. Would you do it tomorrow on the show? Should I go get a glass? Should I go get a glass of it right now? See if it's lumpy. What do you reckon your best before date was?

If someone stamped you when you first came out. When was it in Prime stuff? It was Prime Jono Pryor. When have you, or has it sort of come? I'm not saying that you've gone, you know, it could be like. Are we talking health wise? Are we talking, you know. Just the best before year?

What year do you like? Oh, that year was 1994. It was 2008. Well, because if you're riding, you know, the JP Express,

you probably would have, you would have wanted to hop off at age 21 because there were some wild years. Oh right, early on. Yeah,

but you know, let that train go away then maybe fly and catch up with it at another station. get back on there. Yeah, maybe at age 30. Yeah, right. Yeah, but you know, let that train go away then maybe fly and catch up with it at another station. Oh, get back on there, yeah. Yeah, maybe at age 30. Yeah, right.

Yeah, and then you go, 32? Yeah, yeah, alright. How about you? Yeah, yeah. I'd say November 32. Yeah, no, that's probably a good time

when things have gone sweet, you know, in that period. So now everyone's experiencing the expired versions of ourselves. It's still good when you still give it that sniff test and you're like, yeah, it's still good.

I find this job, I find this job, now Producer Joel's just brought the milk in, is it? What do you think? So it's been out of date since the 9th of August. 61 days. The seal is still on though so it's it doesn't look bad it's not lumpy. How much would we have to pay you to just have it? Have a smell it first. Smell it. Smell it. Oh, God. Yeah, that's quite, that's quite, yeah. It's definitely not good.

I'll produce me house of food out the fire. No, I'm not going to drink it. Don't drink it. No, don't. It's 60 days old. There's no way I'd explain it. I wouldn't make you do that. There's 100 bucks. It almost smells, oh, gee, I can't even describe it. No, don't. It's 60 days old. There's no way I wouldn't make you do that. It is. 100 bucks.

It almost smells, oh, gee, I can't even describe it. It smells like sweet. It smells like a yogurt. It's like, oh. I'll give it another week. It will be yogurt. Gee whiz, that was a great science experiment. That's, yeah.

So there we go. We've got the answer. Not good. Should I go put that whole bowl of milk back in the milk fridge and see if anyone drinks it today? No, maybe get rid of that. Enjoy the podcast. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Good morning. Black Caps have just woken up this morning out of the T20 Cricket World Cup. Disappointingly lost to Pakistan last night. Didn't Pakistan disappointingly lose to the Netherlands? I think it was. No, they lost to Zimbabwe. It was a shock loss. But it's the thing with 2020, anyone can beat anyone.

And unfortunately, last night wasn't the Black Caps. Well, they're all good teams, obviously, to beat the World Cup, aren't they? So you're right, being any team on the given day could take it away. How's everyone going, all right? Yeah, going not too bad. My daughter had a wild touch tournament a couple of days ago, I didn't tell you guys about. Now, she was like like first time playing touch,

you know, touch rugby along. And she was like. Where did I see you? I saw you. No, it mustn't be the first. I remember I saw you at a touch rugby tournament. She was playing there. And both our kids had no idea what touch rugby was.

And both their teams just got decimated. Yeah. They spent a lot of time doing TikTok dances on the sidelines. Very frustrating watch. Yeah. Well, so we're back again with a little bit more more knowledge a little more practice but you know going into it she's like you know is this one that we're going to get hurt doing you know or anything like that i'm like nah it's touch mate you'll be fine but geez it was wet conditions terrible conditions

one one of their team ended up in starship with a snapped ankle surgery having to require surgery another one got concussed when two of them collided. They came back. You're like, it's the safest version of rugby you can play. It was like, weak conditions and poor muscles. They came back like the walking dead. I was like, oh, my God. I was like, yeah, you'll be fine.

Get out there. And I was like. Concussed? How did they get concussed? They just collided. They collided. One was like, they thought they had to check your neck because they thought maybe there might be a broken neck.

I was like, oh, my God, they came home. It was like she'd just been part of a horrific accident. I was like. You said it was going to be safe. I was like, it'll be fun, mate. It'll be fun. So, yeah, social sport. I do like the old social sport because when you play,

it really does bring out the true competitive nature of some of your colleagues, doesn't it? Producer Joel, can we talk about that? Now, he's in the semifinals of his his social netball no one plays more social sport grand final well you were in the side you are in the grand final i'll get to that but they were playing in the semi-final during the week now this is social sport and you're up what by one or two right at the end there yeah yeah about about we're up by four points so like two shots yeah and 45 seconds to go oh mate starts holding people back, intentionally fouling people to stop the clock, to delay.

He was like, to delay tactics, just to get penalised, to slow the clock down. I love that because, you know, there's people who are playing on your team going, wow, wow, because, you know, sometimes you play netball with, oh, Sarah from HR is a real monster. Yeah. You know, she's like punching an elderly lady in the throat. Some people really get carried away, right?

Did Sebastian from accounts just throw a ball on the referee's face? And then after that, good game, everyone. Good game, everyone. You're like, no, actually, no, I think differently of you now. It's a fine line between social sport and professional, isn't it? Yeah. We used to have at the Rock, actually, Simon Dool, former international cricketer.

Competiting last night in the Black Caps game. He refused to partake in the social cricket team that we had at the Rock. I think that was the main reason they employed him. It was, yeah. Brad the Blossom was like, geez, we'll get Giulio, he'll be great for the social cricket team.

Until we played the grand final. And then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, former international cricketer Simon Dool turns up in our cricket team. Who played the grand final and then all of a sudden out of nowhere former international cricketer simon tall turns up and it works it works to the rock he does but but you're like you've really held this ace card back the entire season and he's always in a difficult he says he hates playing social sport and i imagine this is the same for him many former professional athletes is because they can't look like they're going too hard yeah because they could really annihilate everyone on the field. But everyone wants to go hard against them.

Correct. Don't they? And go, oh, he's nothing. Bloody Dooley's nothing. And then he doesn't also, he doesn't want to lose either because anyone's going to be like, oh, smash him, mate. He's useless. No wonder he's retired.

So it's a fine line for him. And when, you know, when we needed to win the game, boy, oh, boy, did former international cricket assignment really step up. Boy, oh, boy, did former international cricket assignment door really step up. Boy, oh, boy, did the complaints flood in after that game as well. The Hits Boarding Call with Visit Anaheim, House of Travel and Fiji Airways. It's all thanks to House of Travel, Fiji Airways and Visit Anaheim.

You make sure you check out housetravel.co.nz for some amazing deals right now. But we need to get someone in the draw for this incredible, incredible prize, a trip to Anaheim, you get passes to Disneyland, $10,000 cash, accommodation and more. Dream trip of a lifetime, isn't it, Nick from Waiuku?

Hey, how's it going, guys? Lovely to have you on. Nick, you're potentially in the draw, you've got to answer a question. I don't even know why we do this dance, because I don't think anyone in the past two and a half weeks has got a question wrong. It's all to do with Disneyland, Anaheim, California, the home of the original Disneyland. So your question this morning is, what is the name of the boy who refuses to grow up? Jeez, you guys are putting pressure on me.

That'd be Peter Pan. Yeah, or Jono Pryor was the other one as well that I would have taken. Is that a correct answer this morning now Nick when you go over to Disneyland

you're going to encounter Donald Duck aren't you I did some research into Donald Duck very erratic quite volatile he was quite grumpy

at times wasn't he he would get into cartoons and stuff wouldn't he do you know his character trait was

his backstory was they'd sent Donald Duck to war and so he suffers from PTSD. Oh, no wonder. It explains a lot now, doesn't it? He's got a lot of wild flashbacks happening. Doesn't wear pants.

He's a Duck to war. Yeah, he's like a war veteran who returned. Salute Donald Duck there. Give him the respect he deserves. Mickey took him under his wing and he's a bit unpredictable. Doesn't wear pants, but it'll be fine. Ignore him. He fought for our country.

Who would you take over? Sorry, Nick. I'd take over my wife and my son. Oh, what a trick. You've got one more, too. You've got a plus one. Who's that going to be? Yeah, you can take another kid.

Oh, I could take another friend maybe, eh? Yeah, if you take another kid, it's a long time taking another kid away. Especially if you don't know the kid. You just pick the kid up on the way to the airport. You're a swimming pool installer. Yes, that's correct. Now, we had a debate yesterday after the show

about an urban myth surrounding the public swimming pool. And you know if you pee in the pool, and there's always that frightening threat that a blue dye will follow you around. I'm not going to dispel that myth because you've got to keep people on their toes, right? That's, well, yeah.

We're going to try and get to the bottom of it and the bottom of the pool after seven anyway. You're going to have a wonderful day, Nick. We appreciate you listening. Thanks, guys.

Cheers, hey. Really appreciate it. See you, mate. Your next chance to get in for that amazing, amazing prize to Anaheim Disneyland could be at any stage. Listen out for the boarding call on The Hits.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Time to look at some of the big news that's taking shape around at the moment. What are you panicking about over there, Producer Joel? He's pointing fingers. He's got his mouth. What's he getting nervous about? Scrolling through your feed. Oh, the intro.

The intro, mate. It dropped out of the system, but it's here now. You can't do scrolling through your feed without the intro. And we can't do scrolling through your feed without our shaky Wi-Fi connection, which is proudly bringing you this bulletin. What's happening, Ben? Well, there's an event in Wellington, Sky Stadium, which the tickets are getting snapped up for,

but no one is actually going to attend. So there's going to be no attendees at all. $1010 for a ticket $2,000 for a corporate box but no one will be able to go to the venue no one's allowed to attend and it's called silent night it's raising money for the Wellington City mission really cool idea so I'm glad I didn't start mocking yeah I should have started with that because I could see you go I was I should let you go I should let you go so proud of myself yeah cuz I have let you go. I should have let you go. I was so proud of myself. Yeah. Because I would have,

yeah, you're dead right, Ben. I would have mowed into it and you were like, and it's for the city mission. Yeah. So it's a really cool idea. So basically people can go on and like you would be booked

if you're going to a sports game or a concert, you can pay for a seat at Wellington Stadium and all the money donated goes towards the city mission. What a wonderful cause. I have nothing further to say about it.

How's it selling? Actually really well at the moment. Lots of tickets have been snapped up already. The charity is saying a lot of people, especially through the Christmas period, see a real demand for a bit of help with the City Mission as well. So if you can get on board, if you can give something, you can help out the City Mission by getting a ticket

for an event that you won't attend. We did once, you know, we're very charitable guys, Ben. It was public, so that's widely known. We went to the shelter here, the City Mission here, and we helped serve food one Christmas, didn't we? When people wanted us to do that sort of stuff. Nowadays, they don't want us to. Nowadays, if we went in there, they'd be like,

oh, would you like a meal sir? You know Yeah actually it'd be nice. You know we went around there and it was lovely. They were all lovely people. Beautiful human beings. But the whole time I'm thinking, because we're shaking a lot of hands the whole time I'm thinking Ben Boyce all he wants to do is dive into a pool of hand

sanitizer. Not at all What did you do straight after that? Mate I don't know I don't know. No, nothing. I don't know. Speaking of hands, speaking of hands, speaking of hands, a US man has gone viral on TikTok for the biggest thumb in the world.

Now, we'll put this on our story right now. Jacob Pina is the name. He's from Massachusetts. And he can extend his thumb up to 12 centimetres long. So he's got, look at the picture here. I'll show you right now. So this is the same guy over here. He's got what looks like a normal thumb.

How can he extend it? And he's just got, apparently one day he just noticed it. He's like, oh, I can sort of pop that out and extend it. Oh, so it's not like, that's not the length of his thumb. Oh, I don't know. I don't know how that works. So that's why he hasn't got that all the time, but he can extend it out like a go-go gadget thumb. That's an impressive thumb. Oh, I don't know. I don't know how that works. So that's what, he hasn't got that all the time, but he can extend it

out like a go-go gadget thumb. That's an impressive thumb. It's probably the size, it's like the size of a cigar, isn't it? Yeah, we'll put it on the Hits and Scram. It'd be inconvenient though if you had a thumb that big, Sean. Our story as well. Well, it would be, but then it can pop back in normal.

Like, you get a bit normal, and then you can just sort of pull it out if it need be Which is pretty Great for like Just poking people in the eyes And the thumbs up You know you're like Oh He's really into that

Yeah that is a That is a big ass thumb That's a big thumb Have you got any Abnormal body parts What would be the strangest one No no no Nothing to

To impress people like that You and our friend Sharon You always thought I had a third nipple In fact Joel Oh yeah he does Is there a third nipple there In fact, Joel. Oh, yeah, he does. Is there a third nipple there? Yeah, it's hard to...

You need to point towards it, yeah. See, then that means there's... Something about 14 nipples. Well, you've got like a... I'm very moley. I can't see the third nipple. Oh, yeah, because you've probably covered it up with a tattoo, mate.

Because you're like, oh, you know. I'm so embarrassed of this third nipple. I've got a chest load of questionable tattoos. Harry Styles got four nipples. Four nipples? Four. Google. Four.

Four nipples. Harry Styles, four nipples. He's like a bloody cow, mate. There you go. One, two, and then the other two kind of sit on. He's trying to come up with some tattoos as well. Much like you, I see what you're doing. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers.

Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals. Because she's not a good person, but either is he. Digging the dirt. Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes.

Yelling at cast members. Yes. It was a script. No. His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. Time for our show ponies to talk showbiz

with our Hollywood insider, NT. Hey, just before we get into all the gossip and things floating around Hollywood, you guys are in the middle of the midterm elections right now. What the heck does that mean? The midterm elections just means that every four years we elect a president, but every two years we have an election,

so it's the midterm between the last presidential election and the next presidential election. So what are the results? Well, it depends. You know, we were a two party system here for the most part. And, you know, every two years, our House of Representatives is up for election. People of Congress, there's 435 of them. And then every six years, our senators are up for election, but one-third of those is every two years.

So right now, both party, both chambers are held by Democrats and the president. But if one were to flip, then, of course, it would be a divided government and nothing would happen. Well, that's because the president many times, I know Obama faced this, didn't he? He was in power as a Democrat, but the majority was Republican, so he could never get anything across the line. Yeah, so the first two years, I want to say, because it's been a while, the first two years Obama actually had both houses of Congress

and had a super majority in the Senate where he could pass anything he wanted to. And then in 2010, there was a huge wave against it. And so from 2010 on, he wasn't really able to get much forward. Well, it seems like you're sort of sitting in a stalemate in that position. Surely the president should be able to make the call on everything. Well, there are such things as like executive orders that they can do, but it's limited to how far that authority goes. But most of the time you need to have Congress be on board.

All right. And Joe Biden, will he even be around in the next two years? As in alive? I don't know. He's an older man. So, yeah. I mean, I always think about those kind of things. You know, when you have, like Aaron Carter died over the weekend,

he's 34 years old. Now Joe Biden's not a drug addict who huffs stuff, but I mean, you know, seriously, you never know. I felt sorry for Aaron Carter. Life hadn't treated him well. Well, you know, his sister also died of an overdose.

You know, the mom has admitted that you know, that she's had some issues too. Yeah, he's had a rough life. I think when you start off such at such a young age and you have such success i mean like sold like three million records or something all before you're 14 years old then and your older brothers and backstreet boys you just kind of think oh well this is going to be easy and then you know you start doing some drugs you start drinking and your 14 15 16 year old self can't handle that.

And if you don't get help, you know, you're in for a long downward spiral. And that's basically how he has spent the last decade. Yeah. I mean, you probably see it sadly firsthand over there being a lot closer than we are reading some of Matthew Perry's book at the moment. Obviously, he talks about his struggles with addiction. Why does some people manage to avoid these sorts of pitfalls and others don't? I mean, how does that work out most times?

I think that if you're young, that if you have a really good parental system and they're actually, you know, care about you rather than the paycheck, I think that helps a lot. Can you imagine if you had unlimited money when you were 15 or 16 years old and you have girls throwing themselves at you and they have free drugs and all this kind of stuff, how do you think that you would have turned out if you had nobody to say, hey, don't do that? You just described my Wednesday afternoon. I'm doing not bad. I'm plowing on through. But, you know, you look at Bieber, who did head down that sort of rabbit hole, but pulled himself out, which is remarkable. I'm not sure that he has pulled himself out technically.

I mean, I think maybe, okay, fine, you know, he told before that he had problems with some stuff. But think about he had to cancel the rest of his tour. He didn't, you know, he canceled the tour before that. Just because he's maybe not manifesting it with substance abuse or something, it doesn't mean that it didn't affect his mental health and that he can't handle being out on the road and stuff. I mean, you don't just cancel two tours or especially halfway through them if you don't have some kind of issues that you are struggling with. Well, then he must know the signs, the triggers, and he must get halfway through the tour and

go, geez, I want to party. I want to do whatever. And so pull himself out of that situation. And good for him. You know, and Scooter Braun be damned. You're not going to make your buck off, Justin. You know, so that's exactly what it is. Thank you very much for your time.

Hey, you too, guys. I'll talk to you next week. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. This afternoon, Heartland Chips, Jono and Ben's Heartland Chips. We're going to be doing another in-store, Ben. Thought we'd get out there. Back out with the battlers. Get some more chip tastings around the country.

So that's what we like to do. In Christchurch this afternoon, aren't we? Producer B Humps, what was the name of the supermarket today? Haweswall New World. Haweswall New World. Love accosting people at the front door of supermarkets. Because they try to avoid you, but they can't reverse back out of those bars that you have to push the trolley through.

They don't go backwards, so they're stuck. We've got them. And we've got our sales game down pat, don't we? We play a little two-person sort of... Sometimes Bee Humps is in there as well. It's sort of a velociraptor attack on the customers. Oh, you just try to get people to try the chips that they want to buy.

That's up to them, but it's quite fun. And one of our favourite lines is, doesn't work on paper, but works in the mouth. trying to get people to try the chips that they want to buy that's up to them but it's quite it's you know quite fun and we always one of our favourite lines is doesn't work on paper but works in the mouth yeah there's a lot going on with the taste

much like our suits but you have to see us because we're wearing these space suits flamboyant suits anyway we'll be there this afternoon and tomorrow

very excited the New Zealand Cup and Show Week is on all week in Christchurch and the A&P show tomorrow which is going to be awesome so we're going to be broadcasting from the showgrounds 6 till 9 Cup and Show Week is on all week in Christchurch and the A&P show tomorrow which is going to be awesome so we're going to be broadcasting

from the show grounds 6 till 9 what time do the gates open? well the gates don't open until a little bit later but we'll be there we'll be the first there because it's going to be great

there's a massive three days you know offers a mix of entertainment agriculture education you know the rural community fun day out for the family something for everyone,

A&P show across. Look, who's going to be there when we're there? Some poor person. A security guard in a hiver's vest. We actually did that at a field days one year we were doing the afternoon show,

weren't we? And no one told us that because the afternoon show went till seven, but no one told us the field day shut at 4.30 or something. Everyone just left. Just disappeared.

And it was just us in a giant mystery creek just talking to ourselves. We started off in a marquee in a paddock and then people just started dismantling

the marquee around us until I think they left us the chairs, three plastic chairs and we were sitting in a dark paddock. We couldn't see,

like you were a metre away from me, I couldn't even see you and we were broadcasting the show. As they packed out everything, everyone left,

they're like, lock up on the way out guys. Make sure you just turn it and they gave us a really long extension cord just a bit, we're going to do a plug yeah so New Zealand Cup and Show Week on now you can get all the details of the hits .co.nz, I should wear my, I got

swan dry mad at that field days didn't I bought like three swan dry so I'll wear them all all three of them to the AMP show tomorrow to blend in The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast, now Zootopia such a good movie when it came out. And now it's back in a short form animated series on Disney+. Return to Zootopia so you can check out all the characters you loved,

including the parents of Officer Judy Hopps. They basically star in this new series. Remember the parents? Very funny. Hey, dearie. Call Judy. Oh, I cannot get the password. Oh, hun. Face scan. Oh, nice one.

And we got to catch up with the rabbit parents over Zoom, played by actors Bonnie Hunt and Don Lake. Yeah, the Hollywood voices, eh? Join the nasally voices of Jono and Ben. Yes, we are rolling, so please state your name and outlet, and then you may begin. Jono and Ben. Yes, we are rolling. So please state your name and outlet and then you may begin. Jono and Ben from the hits in New Zealand.

And Don and Bonnie, or as we like to call you, Donnie, welcome along. Thanks, guys. It's nice to talk to you guys. Now, you're obviously the parents of Officer Judy Hopps, who's one of your 275 children. You guys are prolific, prolific breeders. Yeah, and I had the hips for it. We had no twins and no triplets.

Oh, really? No triplets, geez, yeah. Well, go light rabbits, go light rabbits, literally. But you see that population sign in Zootopia? That's one of the things that always made me laugh, how it's gone so fast. It's you guys, because you run a carrot farm, but I really, I mean, who's one of the things that always made me laugh. Oh, it's gone so fast. It's you guys because you run a carrot farm. But I really, I mean, who's concentrating on the carrot farm?

Because you guys are up to all sorts of other stuff. We've got staff. Yeah, what is in those carrots? Who knows? It must be pretty cool. This animated series looks, it's incredible. We watched it yesterday on Disney+. It's really, really cool.

But did you think when you were first voicing for Zootopia, I imagine you're doing it in your PJs, did you ever think it would be Oscar award winning? Well, you know, you're with such a talented team and you're so lucky to have the safety net of character-driven writings, you know, a nice intelligence and humor and heart. So it's the ultimate combo platter.

So yeah, you think you feel safe and plus they let Don and I improvise. So it's the ultimate combo platter. So yeah, you feel safe. And plus they let Don and I improvise. Don and I love working together. And that's just so much fun for us. My daughter, as I was watching it with my daughter, she really liked how everything was different themed. Each episode, different themes.

She was a big fan of that. That was probably Pryor's review of it. And she would recommend it, she said, to anyone age zero to 100. So huge demographic. Because obviously you're concerned parents in Zootopia, you know, your daughter's off to join the police force. Let's do some role play. You're our parents and you're concerned we're going to be radio broadcasters.

Hey, guys, we thought we'd get into radio, an industry that's going to be around for years to come. What do you think, Mum and Dad? Why don't you go for the big bucks and become a poet? Oh. A poet? Are they making big bucks these days, Bonnie? No, I mean her kids.

She's like. She's a concerned parent. Okay. I was like, wow, really? Hey, Bonnie, obviously you're a big fan of rabbits. You voiced the rabbit. But are you a bigger fan of rabbits or cubs? Because I understand you've been to every opening game of the Cubs every year in baseball.

And most importantly at the greatest game ever played on a Wednesday night in Cleveland, uh, game number seven. And when we won the world series in 2016, I was right behind home plate. It was on the field with the guys right afterwards celebrating. Uh, yeah, I'm a big fan. Oh, I'll never forget that Wednesday innesday in 2016 never it's a special place in our hearts as have you guys right now but uh we had to we had to wrap this up apparently we've been rabbiting on literally too too fast and too long uh so uh we're gonna have to say you didn't

get to be a concerned parent oh yeah don don what would you say about your two idiot sons wanting to get into radio, Don? Oh, man. I dream a little higher. I dream a little higher, fellas. Okay. Go for broke. You got nothing to lose because you know what? The radio thing is probably not going to work out. Yeah.

Okay. All right. Well, we'll go back to doing our job. Love your work, guys. Great talking with you. Be well. Thanks. See you.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. But something else that I'm a little bit upset about. Now, S-H-I-T, I don't know if I can say that word on the radio, you should care about. It's a great, great social media site. Can you spell it? Well, you're saying, I don't know if I can say it, but I can spell it. You can spell it.

For those that can't spell. Yeah. They won't understand what you just said. So it's a great social media platform. It's gone worldwide. It started out in New Zealand and they have polls every day. They're followed by millions of people, isn't it?

Big famous celebrities follow this and they just started at university in Canterbury. And they put a poll up there as one of the things they do each day. And the poll they did a couple of days ago was as an adult, do you pee in the pool? And this has obviously gone to all their fans worldwide. And I was thinking, well, as an an adult do you pee in the pool and this has obviously gone to all their fans worldwide and i was thinking well as an adult nobody pees in the pool and the majority

don't but there isn't enough people on there going yeah why not why not yeah is it there is it their response why not if i need to go i'll go but like surely this does not happen and you know the ocean maybe is a whole other thing. Oh, the ocean. Did you know, fun fact too, I looked on Google, but the ocean is actually made up of 75% urine. Nature's toilet, isn't it? Really, we all go to the ocean.

And if we don't go there, then we pump all our other stuff from our houses in there anyway, don't we? It's the best dumping ground we've got. But the public pool hasn't sat comfortably with me for a number of years, and it's when you start overthinking about what's going on. You're bathing, and you're in a giant bath with 30 strangers. You don't know their habits.

You know what's going on above the surface. Below the surface is a whole other game. I'd be too scared to do it anyway because there's that urban myth about the dye that if you pee in a pool, then there's a liquid and a colour that kind of floats around you. So we wanted to find out. The watermark of shame.

Yeah. I've been too scared to even let a droplet emerge. Yeah, so we wanted to find out if that was legit or not. Because that would really get results for the public pool industry. Yeah. If it is a thing. Yeah. Because then why would these people want to do it in the pool if they're going to get

the watermark of shame? Shall we call the public pool right now? Works for me, Paul. Lisa speaking. Lisa, it's Jono and Ben here from the hits. Oh, hey. Lisa, it's lovely to hear your wonderful voice. Oh, that's nice.

We're coming through. We're trying to get you to settle an age-old urban myth slash conversation we're having right now. Okay. The pool. Yes. You work at one. Correct. Is there some sort of secret dye in there that if a liquid were to expel from my body,

that would follow me around as a blue, big blue sort of watermark? Leave a trail mark, you reckon. Yeah, not that we're, like, wanting to do this or anything, but we've always heard the urban myth, as John, I said before, that that would happen. So not true. It's not true. Is there even such a substance?

Not to my knowledge, but then I'm not a lifeguard. Oh, you're not a lifeguard. You're in the lifeguards. They might be doing that. Yep, the lifeguards would know a thing or two about the water quality. Oh, so you said not true, but now you've planted a seed of doubt in there as well. You know, I reckon it was started by the public swimming pool community to stop people from doing it.

Fair enough. Fear of God of them. Well, it would be nice if they did stop. Yeah, well, true. Well, there we go. There's no such thing according to you? Not yet. According to me, to my knowledge.

To your knowledge. Okay. Well, thank you very much. You're welcome. You have a great day. You too. So there you go. To her knowledge, it's not a thing.

Well, it definitely probably should be a thing. I can put up with the suspicious hairs, the plasters floating past, and the old guy in the Speedos that probably shouldn't be wearing them, which is me, actually, but not peeing, Ben. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Spencer Boone and the stars. It is The Hits, Jono and Ben, and we've got our chips out at the moment. Of course, we've been talking about them all wee bit.

Our collab with Heartland Chips. Out of this world mashup chip. They are a mix of flavours all in the same bag people will often get one and go what flavor have i got and they're like no mate they're all together maple bacon sour cream and chives salt and vinegar that is the flavor all mixed together and it works yep and we're going to be uh new world this afternoon we go around uh new world halls will this afternoon uh doing chip testing so if you're doing your shopping between five and six tonight uh give us a wide berth because we like accosting people with free chips.

I do also like going into the supermarkets in my own personal time when I go, you know, do the weekly shop or pop in and get something and seeing, going to various supermarkets around and seeing how the chips are going. Oh, absolutely. I've never been more, there's never been more anxiety walking through the chip aisle. The last time I had that anxiety was I think during lockdown

when they said there was a potato shortage and there were going to be no chips. Yeah, well, my mum has been staying, Jenny, for a couple of days. She's like, I want to try your chips. Can you get me a pack? You're like, go buy a pack, Jenny. Well, yeah, she's like, I saw them in the supermarket. I was like, oh, good, just buy it. No, no, no, I didn't.

I thought you'd get me a pack. I was like, just buy a pack. What's your son? They're only a couple of dollars. Two for five, I think, is some of them. She's like, oh, no, I thought you'd get me a pack. So I didn't have buy a pack. What's your son? They're only a couple of dollars. Two for five, I think, and some of them. She was like,

oh no, I thought you'd get me a pack. So I didn't have any in the house. So you went down to. So I was like, I'll go get a pack. And then I went into

the count down there and I went along the chip pile. Is it weird? Now, I experienced this too. Is it weird when you walk into the supermarket

and you're like, it feels like Harry Styles if you walk through the front door of a stadium to the stage you know people are costing you you're the guys for the chips the chips

can I have a photo with you can I sign your autograph no it hasn't really happened it's the life of a chip superstar and it's what we have to deal with we can't even do our supermarket shopping now

in peace actually with us to be fair there's not a lot going on but I did go along the chip aisle and I went along and I was like oh

and I looked along next to all the and went along and i was like oh and i looked along next to all the heartland chips and there was an empty row next to the jonoh and ben it's a sellout are you thinking we've so we've done it and then there was one of the people that worked for countdown on their aisle and so i was like hey hey hey and they said are you looking for something i said yes i am the jonoh and ben chips But it looks like they're all sold out. And I was like, yeah. And they looked at me and I was like, yeah, they're our chips sold out.

They went, actually, no. And they pointed up and above the chip aisle were boxes and boxes and boxes of chips. And there was a few boxes of our chips up there. So I was like, okay. They just said, why do you have to take the wind out of yourselves? Out of your sales sales. Yeah.

But it did look like we'd sold out there. The last thing I want, Ben, for us is for these to end up in the bargain bin. You know, we did energy drinks, and some of them by, you know, after six months, they'd have 10.10 for $1.50 or something, and that's too much guarana pumping through one person's system. We don't want to be in the bargain bin, okay? We want to feel actually a little better. Because we understand that people have bought the chips.

That's awesome. But have you bought, have you gone back? That's the thing you want to know. Have you actually bought another packet and gone, these are good, I want to go back? They're a fantastic Christmas present too for every family member. Get a box of chips. Hand them out to everyone.

Merry Christmas. The stocking stuffer, yeah. Who has bought the most amount of these chips? We will get some calls on, shall we? 0800 the hits. You can text us too. New Zealanders Breakfast 4 amount of these chips? We will get some calls on, shall we? 0800 THE HITS. You can text us too. New Zealanders Breakfast 4487. It's Jono and Ben on your Thursday.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, we've got Hartley and Chips out at the moment. Mash-up of wild flavours, maple bacon, sour cream chives, a little sprinkling of salt and vinegar. Takes your taste buds on a roller coaster. You don't taste everything at once. That's the common feedback. They sort of come through in waves

when the flavours want to grace your taste buds. That's when they'll release. And there's no order, no particular order. Changes every single time. It's like drinking a fine wine. You're like, I'll get notes of maple bacon. You know, sometimes and other times you get hints of, you know, sour cream and chives.

It's, you know. I hope there's no maple bacon in your wine, though. I'm doing it all wrong. But yes, no, we've sold out again. Put our faces on some chips. Is there anything that we won't slap? Is there anything you wouldn't slap that gorgeous face of yours on, Ben? Any product?

Probably not now. I'm open. I'm available. You know, hit me up. Cigarettes? Oh, okay. No, yeah, okay. Oh, no, I'd go ciggies.

I wouldn't, no. No. Okay, that's the line in the sand, is it? Vapes? No. Okay, you name it, things that wouldn't. Okay. Yes, yeah, okay. Oh, no, I'd go sickies. I wouldn't, no. Okay, that's the line in the sand, is it? Vapes? No. Okay, you're naming things. I wouldn't, okay. Yes, there is.

I do have some morals. Let's get Emily on. We'll just give you some sensitive sales figures here. How many packets of chips have you bought, Emily? I've bought 10 packets of chips. 10 packets? Wow. Has he tried them before you bought the 10 packets,

or are you just like, oh, I'll go all in? I just went all in. It took me like a week to find them because my shops didn't have them. And I found them. It was like $2 for $5, so I grabbed four, and I was like, these are good. Like, these are my go-to now. Went to another shop, and they were on special there too, so I grabbed another four packets.

And then it took me a little while to find some more and found them at the local New World for $4.20 each and bought another two packets. Oh, Emily. Well, thank you. Firstly, thank you for your support. You know, people partying with money at this tough time, cost of living, so we do really appreciate that.

And the great thing about the chips is it's fun for the whole family. Babies, feed them on the chips. Soon as they're born, get chips in them. Old people with no teeth, just gums, give them chips. Chips span the generations, these flavors. That's the good thing about them. So thank you very much, Emily. No worries.

Appreciate that. Thank you for your call. Text through here. Guys, I bought some boxes of chips. Boxes of chips? Boxes of chips? Boxes of chips. But they come in bags. That's really wrapping up.

It is great because we do the little sampling in supermarkets like we're doing now. It's like a dealer, isn't it? Hey, have a little taste of this, mate. Once they're hooked, we can't stop it. Marie, good morning. Good morning. Beautiful, beautiful Marie. How are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you guys? Lovely to have you. Marie, good morning. Good morning. Oh, beautiful, beautiful Marie. How are you?

I'm good, thank you. How are you guys? Yeah, lovely to have you on the show this morning. Are you a chip fan? We are a chip fan, yes. Our family's a chip fan. Yep, and you know what I wanted to ask you next is how many bags have you purchased?

Because that's all that matters to us. Well, she answers you, chip fan. Are you a chip fan of our chips? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. So for a start, you won with the colour because pink's my favourite. And then, of course, you guys on the packet walked into Pack and Save. They had a massive big display, and we bought a packet to try, as you do.

And we absolutely loved them. So my partner said, let's go back and buy, like, five boxes. Five boxes? There's absolutely no way I can buy five boxes. I'm too embarrassed, blah, blah, blah. And anyway, so I went back and I managed to buy Three boxes, because that filled up the trolley And then left, but we'll probably get more

How many in a box? There's 12 packets In a box, so we've got 36 Packets Wow, Marie There's a story behind this though, we go camping In the Abel Tasman National Park And there's no shops there. There's no chips there.

So we have to take them with us. Oh, so you're taking three boxes of chips camping with you? We are. Yeah, great. Make sure you leave the packets all through the National Park as well. Good advertising. We won't do that, but I might take some photos of them on tour with us.

Oh, yeah, because you're going to win $10,000 with your chip packet as well. Well, thank you so much for entering this. Three boxes. Yeah, that's incredible. You're going to pull us over the line, Marie. Thank you. Our monthly targets are up. Thanks to Marie.

It's good, John. Awesome, guys. Good job. I appreciate this as well. Listen, we're taking all the credit. We're really the fine people. Absolutely. Yeah, that heartland did it.

Marie, thank you so much for buying them. You go and have a wonderful day. Happy camping. Thank you. You guys have a good day too. See you. Wow, that heartland did it. Marie, thank you so much for buying them. You go and have a wonderful day. Happy camping. Thank you. You guys have a good day too. See you. Wow, there we go.

We've got $5,000 on the line. It could be yours. Imagine how many chips that could buy you. Yeah, boxes and boxes.

It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Let's go. Jono and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash.

Thank you. Or play on to win more. It is our game of word association. We have lots of fun playing this game. People love it all over the country. Every time we run into people like, oh, I love five words. I stop in the car. I listen. I play along. You need to match up words with our words. If you match all five, you win $5,000. This is where losers become winners, Ben. And in our case, losers remain losers. Let let's get Sarah on she's already a winner because she's a PE teacher at Te Kowhata College welcome Sarah hello how are you good to have you on PE teacher cruisy gig mate oh it's it's uh term for pool time so run in the pool yeah right get in the

pool for how long eight weeks until Christmas oh that's a great what a great job though being a p i always thought that'd be a cool job yeah that it's great kids love things most of them do anyway it's good for your fitness as well because i imagine you could get out there and you know do the beep test or go play some sport with the kids i could if i wanted to okay i always felt like the p teacher was the closest thing you had to an adult mate at school, eh? Yeah. Yep, yep. Okay, maybe I'm the only one on that. Sarah, let's win you $5,000, okay?

Who are you going to send into this soundproof booth? Jono, please. All righty, Jono, head on in there. He's going to head into the soundproof booth behind me. When he's in there, we'll see what pops into your head when I say these words. There's no theme, eh? There's no theme, no. No theme today, no theme? No, okay.

These are just random words from producer Bee Humps. Alright, Sarah. First word this morning. Journalism. Journalism. Reporter? Reporter. First, if I... Can I change that to news? You can change that to news. That's okay. Yeah, we'll change that to news. Yep. First, F-I-R-S-T. Can I change that to news?

You can change that to news. That's okay. Yeah, we'll change that to news. Yeah. First, F-I-R-S-T. First is your second word. Confusingly is your second word, first place. Yeah.

Mute, M-U-T-E, mute. Silent. Silent. Angry is word number four angry what'd you say birds oh angry birds angry um can i come back to them you can come back to angry. And party is the final word. Party. Lots of different parties. Yeah. Party.

What are you going to say, Sarah? Maybe party time? Party time. Angry. Angry. I'm going to say angry bird. Angry bird. All right, we'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth and we'll see how many we can match up with.

It's really tough when you get put on the spot, isn't it? It's easy to play along in the car or in the house when someone else is playing, but it is quite tough. Let's get physical, Sarah. You're right. Let's get into the first word word one twenty five dollars first word i said to sarah this morning jono was journalism journalism i'd lock in reporter oh that's what she said did you say it and then she changed it to news. Oh, Sarah.

Dramatic scenes. Oh, Sarah, I'm so sorry. Let's rip through the final four words and see how you would have gone. First. Second. Place mute. Silent. Yeah, well done.

Angry. Angry. Sad. And party. Bus. Party bus. Sad. And party. Bus. Party bus. That's not ideal. Listen, not your fault, Sarah.

You played a good game. Blame me. Blame me. If you're going to blame anyone, chuck it on my shoulders, okay? All right, I'll give you a low achieved. Low achieved. I'll do 50 burpees or something for you. Hey, Sarah, you have a great day, and hopefully we'll play again with you.

Okay, cheers. I'm in the process of getting my chompers sorted out, Ben Boyce. I found that as the older I would get, they were starting to sort of drift apart. I didn't notice you had, you know, I thought your teeth were always great. Hollywood teeth? Yeah, Hollywood.

Or Englewood. Englewood's Taranaki teeth. Yeah, not Hollywood. Yeah. Couple missing, couple of battler teeth there. No, not to be fair. Wouldn't have noticed at all.

Anyway, so go to... It's funny how you notice those things when they're on you, but other people wouldn't notice at all. Like, look at your smiling face up there on the picture. It looks great.

Perfect smile. I think those are Tom Cruise's teeth. They put new teeth in my mouth. Great, mate. But you're right. You do notice things on yourself that other people don't notice.

So I'm going to the dentist a lot. And the thing I respect about the dental industry, and this is a real skill that they do have, is they will, you know, put the jaws of life in your mouth. So your mouth is like, bang, it's locked open. You can't do anything. They could put anything. I couldn't be trusted as a dentist.

You could put anything inside your mouth. I'd be like, oh, what's this, my cell phone? Boom. And you've got nothing you can do. There's nothing you can do. But what I like about it is they kick off conversations while you've got your mouth locked open. They're like, oh, you know, how's your day going?

And you have to end up kind of responding with the back of your throat. And they understand word for word. Or they pretend to if they don't. But you're right. Why have a conversation there? But they do it. Yeah.

And I was like, it feels like this conversation could have happened before my mouth was paralyzed in a device or after. Yeah. But they do follow through. Oh, we're just gonna um are you gonna be able to make next thursday staring down yeah so i don't know what benefit this conversation is having to anyone

do you find that sometimes when they're doing like you go see the hygienist from time to time and you get like the a sort of pool of build up stuff at the back and you can't get rid of it you've got to try you feel like you're choking you're like oh my god i'm choking but you know you want to play it cool because you haven't been able to expel that liquid that's sort of building up in there it must be a grim job at times eh just like dealing with people's mouths the inside of mouths gee they would see some stuff the other thing i thing I really wonder about the dentist is when you do the x-ray, when they put you up in the x-ray and they pull your teeth back and you're smiling. Your lips are kind of up by your eyes.

Like a horse smiling, I imagine it is. And then suddenly they just exit the room. You're like, what's going to happen to me? It feels like a prank. But you look so happy too. You're like, your mouth is happy. You're like, why is happen to me? It feels like a prank. But you look so happy too. You look like, you're like, your mouth is, you're like,

why is everyone leaving me? I'll just move back in a sec. Happy and frightened at the same time. What is this machine going to do that the lady won't stay in the room with me? They did one yesterday on me.

I thought, they were stretching my lips to the point of like, I feel like Ben's behind this and he's secretly filming this. It was like my lips were a balloon. We got it. It was a great prank.

Just reading about Jennifer Aniston actually addressing rumours. Really hurtful assumptions that she chose a career over kids in a relationship with Brad Pitt. She's come out and said she did want kids and she was trying. They were doing IVF and everything as well, but the long road didn't actually happen. Well, I apologise for starting those rumours. I just thought it was about time

that she had to... Oh, yeah. Why is she having to answer something that weird? Yeah, I know. And if she did choose career over babies, that's her choice.

That's her business as well. It's her body. Yeah, exactly, yeah. I know you've chosen career over babies, Ben. I've got kids. Now, speaking of relationships, producer Bee Humps, you shared something yesterday that rocked us to the core, didn't it? Well, it did rock us to the core. Okay, I've got kids. Now, speaking of relationships, Producer Behemoth,

she shared something yesterday, rocked us to the core, didn't it? Well, did it rock us to the core? Actually, it did at first, and then the more we thought about it, we're like, maybe you're onto something here. Yeah. What are you doing separately

with your partner, Caitlin? We do all our clothes washing separately. So we obviously have a daughter as well, and so we have three clothes. So does Dottie do her own washing? Well, it's not so much doing the act of doing the washing it's just that the loads are kept separate so we have three washing baskets and all separated and they're all yeah they all just go in together so we don't mix it's just for

whatever reason we have our own baskets and once they're full we you wash them yourselves it's on your it's on your own we'll see it, it does bring... Well done on that, because we're a blended washing family, okay? And sometimes it's a very big bone of contention, because I... I think I mentioned it last week. I'll chuck everything in all colours, and there's no discrimination

when it comes to colours in my washing. It's the opposite of apartheid. I chuck them all in there, but apparently they get... You know, things turn out different colours, which is exciting. You put your whites in, you don't know what colour they're going to turn out. And some things are not meant to go through the machine wash.

I've learnt that lesson many times over the years. Do you put that in? You're like, uh-oh. So maybe it's best, maybe you've cracked the code. Yeah. Doing it all separately. You're responsible for your own. Yeah.

Yeah, your own washing. Okay, 0800, that's going to do this on New Zealand's Breakfast 4487. What are you doing separately with your partner? A lot of people sleep separate beds. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not in that scenario. On the couch at the moment. That's for other reasons, but just working my way back into the bedroom.

But things for people getting a better night's sleep, people work shift workers, people get up early, not waking up. People like myself snoring. Well, you found out last week, shock news, that Amanda has secret earplugs. Secret earplugs, yeah. Not so secret anymore, are they? Has that made you more paranoid and self-conscious about sleeping? Yeah, it has. And especially because you don't know how loud you're snoring.

In the movies, someone was having a wee nap and snoring, and you're like, that person does not know they're snoring. Oh, at a movie premiere? Yeah. But it's the wrong, what time was the movie premiere it was late it was late late dark

cosy conditions John O'Brien conditions he's always just great we're talking about things that you do separately from your partner in your relationship just reading an article here

Travis Scott hip hop artist yeah and Kylie Jenner they've got children together obviously and they live in separate houses apparently they're very focused on their careers Hip-hop artists. Yeah. And Kylie Jenner, they've got children together, obviously. And they live in separate houses.

Apparently. They're very focused on their careers. And Travis Scott, when he's in his house away from the family, all he wants to do is work, work, work, work, work. And he doesn't feel he has enough to give the family if he's in work mode. But then he'll go over to Kylie's house where the kids are. And then he's dad, dad, dad, dad, dad. Whatever works for you in your relationship. Great scenario, isn't it? So she's house where the kids are, and then he's dad, dad, dad, dad, dad. Whatever works for you in your relationship. Dream scenario, isn't it?

So she's looking after the kids. He's like, sorry, I'm in work mode. I'm in work mode. Then I'll come. I feel like being a dad now. I'll swing over for 45. Great. Whatever works for you in your relationship.

But it's interesting, and that's all we want to know this morning on 0800THEHATS. Aileen Morena, how are you? Good, thank you. Yeah, what do you do? Where do you live? What are your goals and dreams? Live in Dunedin. Living the dream.

Already living the dream. So that's all the dreaming you can do is living in Dunedin. That's right. Hey, we're just talking what you do. You all right there? Yep. What's going on? Oh, I pushed the button to open the electronic doors.

All good. You've got electronic doors? Not at my house, no. Sounded like something had gone, like you'd backed into a garage or something. All right, what are you doing separately from your partner there, Eileen? Oh, we do everything separately. We have a separate bank account. We wash separately. we do everything separately we have a separate bank account um we wash separately we do everything separately do you live separately because then that probably

means you're not yeah no no same house but um definitely separate finances why is that um it's just something we've always done you've never thought of blending them together are you married yes yeah right and so what do you obviously do you put all your money into a joint account for the bills and things no he makes a board payment each week and then i look after everything right okay and does it work well for you um um he gets richer and I get poorer And what happens if you go out for dinner or lunch or something? Well, conveniently he'll often forget his wallet So then you end up paying

I see So is this whole separation of the bank accounts thanks to tightness? Yes, absolutely And how is it being married to Ben Boyce? Do a lot of things separately, don't we? Yeah, I do. I do sometimes. I'm very forgetful with my wallet.

You wear the skinny jeans. You can't put your wallet in there. Sorry about that. I do owe you a few dinners. Well, thanks for your call, Aileen. Appreciate it. Thank you. Dominica, welcome.

How are you? Very well, thank you. How are you? Firstly, love the name. Dominica is a great name. Thank you very much. Yeah. Dom, do you get shown to Dom? Yes, indeed I do.

All right, Dom, what are you doing separately from your partner? Well, we controversially sleep in separate beds. Well, I hear that more and more these days. Have you got like a Bert and Ernie situation going on there, or do you eat in separate rooms rooms it's completely separate rooms so you've got your own bedrooms yes and and you know I mean it's a daytime show and we don't want to go into details but nothing suffers in fact we're all happier because we both get get great sleep so no one gets kicked in the shins. And it's bliss. We both get proper sleep.

And it started when I had a very, very early job, so I used to just go to the other room when he would snore. And now it's just like, no, I'm off to bed. Night, love. Yeah, right. And you say, you know, we've got to keep it friendly, family-friendly show. There are moments where you need to connect.

Yeah, so that still happens without getting too personal? Absolutely, absolutely. And we don't have Yeah, so that still happens? Without getting too personal? Absolutely And we don't have children So that can happen anywhere So would you like to adjourn to my bedroom? Or your bedroom? Or the kitchen table Oh, the kitchen table!

Get yourselves another bed Get a communal one The kitchen table We eat dinner on this Oh so good Eating breakfast Oh that is beautiful Well listen

I really appreciate you tying to me You're going to have a great day No worries We're going to hook you up with some tickets to the Counting Crows

alright Oh ripper Yeah Thank you That'd be cool Just so you know you can't make love at the Counting Crows

No You've got to wait until you get home for that one Righto We'll wait We'll wait They're coming back to New Zealand next year It's going to be very exciting so you know, you can't make love at the County Crows. No, you've got to wait until you get home for that one. Right-o. We'll wait. We'll wait. They're coming back to New Zealand next year.

It's going to be very exciting. So you get to go along to them. Brilliant. That's wonderful. Thank you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The bloke caps out of the T20 World Cup cricket. But it's all about the back ferns right now.

And that's our Saturday night, Eden Park. That's a good thing when we really spread our odds across a number of sporting codes, don't you? We've got Israel 2 fighting on Sunday. It's a huge sporting weekend, guys. Yeah, so, I mean, we've got spread our chips far and wide. I'll tell you, someone's going to come through. Yeah, we've also literally spread our chips far and wide. We have chips everywhere.

But there was a bit of a stalemate in the boys' household last night at home. Bit of a stalemate. Because we had the birthday party, the sleepover, in the weekend household last night at home bit of a stalemate uh because we had the birthday party the sleepover uh and the weekend for my daughter sienna so we'd moved a whole lot of space a whole lot of stuff out of the lounge so we could you know fit all the beds that they needed to sleep on clear the lounge and then you never you never get the stuff back in as quick as you got it out this is the thing lingers for a day or two so we took one of the couches out and it was a bit of a mission.

My wife and I carried it just before the party down and put it in the spare room. We had just jammed it in the spare room. We couldn't really kind of get into the spare room, but there was a couch in there. A real relationship tester removing a piece of furniture. Yeah, on Friends, they made it look so much fun. It's so fun. Pivot! Pivot!

The pivot thing, yeah. Pivot! It was a comical bit, but, you know, you try to get it down there. We managed to get it inside the spare room. We put this couch in there. Now, this is a couch that Amanda, my wife, it was given by her mum. It was one of her couches. Hand-me-down couch.

Amanda, my wife, said, one day we need to get rid of it. I'm like, yeah, yeah, but it's a good functional couch right now. We don't need to spend money on the couch. So last night, I'm like, all right, I'm going to get this couch back out of the spare room, back into the lounge. Amanda's like, what do you mean no i was like could you help me with this and she's like no i was like what and she's i'm not gonna i'm gonna help you i'm not gonna tell you because oh it's time now we can get rid of that couch good to go we can put it outside i'll help you move it outside is it closer to the front door than it is the lounge right so it's made the journey it's made the journey out of the property.

It's just like time to let it go. And I'm like, no, it's a perfectly functional couch. We haven't got a replacement. I need to put it back in the lounge. I want to get into this bedroom. I want to get it done because we're going away for work. When you keep saying it's a perfectly functional couch, is this the sort of thing that a tight ass does where it's got holes,

it's got tears? It's stuff, yeah. Like, okay, for example, could it be in Producer Joel's flat? Probably, yeah, probably. Right. The back of it definitely could. The back's, Joel's flat probably the back of it definitely could but the front of it looks fine and so

last night I was like right then you're not going to help me I will try and move this couch by myself have you ever tried to move a couch by yourself it's just

it's not a one person it's not a one person job and more I'd huff and puff the louder and I hoped that my wife would come down and help me out

trying to get it through the door you're making all the groans And I was like, just, and then more, I'd huff and puff the louder. And I hope that my wife would come down and help me out. You're trying to get it through the door. You're banging all the groans. Who is it? I just keep going, could someone just help me with the couch? And she's very good. She's very good at just going, what? She was getting on with what she needed to do. And I was, you know, Amy, you're banging the doorways.

You're trying to get this thing around half of the puff and driving it down the end of the thing. And I was, you know, Amy, you're banging the doorways. You're trying to get this thing around. Half an hour puffing, driving it down the end of the thing. And I was like, yeah. And so? Is the couch back where it belongs? The couch is back there. But it took me 45 minutes of probably half an hour puffing. I think I've got a hernia now from doing it. And I should have just listened to it.

Do I need to check out your hemis again? Yeah, if you could. That'd be great. Do you want me to pop back in? Yeah, we'll do our 9 o'clock hemi check. We'll do that in 20 minutes. The summer season

is upon us, Jono, and we need to find out, I can't go into the summer season without finding out

what personality I am to bring to social occasions. Well, I can't go into the summer season without sunscreen, personally, but this is definitely top two. And if you want to take a really fun little personality test, you can do so at the hits.co.nz.

It's all to do with Canterbury Kiwi favourites. They're a part of summer, and we want to find out what you are, what you're bringing to the social occasions. They're awesome. All right, now, Sophie joins us on 0800THEHITS. Good morning, Sophie. Good morning. Now did you go online and we farmed all your personal details? Yes. What sort of personal questions are we asking you when you fill out this quiz at thehits.co.nz? Oh just your cell phone, name, email, e-post pin, passport number Now, you did the personality quiz as well as filling in your details.

And what did you discover about yourself? That I was the stand-up. Oh, the funny one. The comedian. Love it. Do you bring the lols to the barbecue? I do indeed. Oh, you do?

Yeah. What's your go-to sort of, like, how do you get things going? Got to start with the general conversation and just bam, right into it. Bam. Bam. Right into it. Okay. Okay, so what we've done is we've issued you a bit of a challenge.

We have taken some of the internet's best dad jokes, and we're going to deliver the setup, and you have to try and figure out the punchline. Okay. Is that okay? We'll give you a little bit of time because you're probably not going to nail it first off, so you can try and figure out. We'll give you 10 seconds each joke to try and figure out the punchline, okay?

Sounds good. All right, here we go. To put Sophie to the test to see if she is, in fact, the joker. I turned down a job that paid in vegetables. Why would you turn down a job that paid in vegetables? Oh, vegetables. Ah, the salary was awful.

Oh! Oh! Yes! Okay, one for one. You're on fire. Not all pirates are predictable, but most are. Hey! Not all pirates are predictable, but most...

Are. Hey! The most are. Well done. She's good. She's good. Suing U2. Now, this is U2 the band.

This is very specific. Suing U2 can be very costly. Why? It's to do with, to help you out, to do with free lawyers. See if you can work that out. Oh, that's a tricky one. Suing you two can be very costly. All their lawyers are?

Oh, pro bono? Pro bono! Smoking it! On to the next one. Okay, here we go. Being a woman working in the post office must be really hard. It's such a... Oh, I do this joke all the time.

It's such a male-dominated industry. Oh, yeah. That one's written as in male, as in post male. Yeah, you get that. I don't know if you needed to... Well, you know, like M-A-I-L. Yeah, still explaining it. Should I explain it?

Now, after the male-dominated industry joke, now he's mansplaining the joke. True. All right, let's go. One more, one more. Do you get it, Sophie? Now he's explaining it. If you see a crime at an Apple store,

what does that make you? If you see someone committing a crime inside an Apple store, what does that make you? Tough one, tough one. Well, if you see a crime, you'd be a witness, wouldn't you? So would that make you an eyewitness? Oh!

Sophie! Sophie! 100%. We're good. How did you do that? I'm just too good. Well, she's too good and also I did give her

the punchlines before we started. Sophie, wonderful bit of acting. Oh, no, don't you try and wrap this up. Did he email you the jokes? Yeah. Maybe. But she's still the jokes? Yeah. Maybe.

But she's still funny and delivered them so well. No, no. Yeah, well done, Sophie. We're going to give you a $500

entertainment voucher and some Cadbury Kiwi favourites. Oh, that's amazing. Thank you so much. This is like when I found out reality TV wasn't actually that real.

If you want to take part in our fun little personality quiz, you can do so at the hitstockcode.nz to win yourself a $500 entertainment voucher and some Cadbury Kiwi favourites.