Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: AI Roasts The Show Hard!

Episode Date: September 19, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Why Megan will never been seen in fat pants... We could've died yesterday! Stacey Morrison on the importance of Māori language week and the importance of trying. Next week we've got a great "sock" surprise for Ben  Jono got lost in Chemist Warehouse... Will he do the jump? Jean pockets are USELESS! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This John Owen Ben podcast, hey that's us, brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. GPT gets a lot of talk around the AI, artificial intelligence, it's a pretty incredible thing. It is, if you haven't been on chat GPT, it's essentially like Google on steroids, isn't it? Yeah, you ask it anything, to do anything, and AI will spit it out for you in a matter of seconds where your personal assistants isn't it okay i'm on that for you right now and it can obviously do some wonderful things some scary things at the same time and also some mean things i've discovered because my kids were last night were going hey you can if you screenshot your instagram and then you put it into chat gpt you can get chat gpt to roast you oh it's finally got into

cyber bullying because when it first came out, I'd be like, you know, write a cutting nasty comment about my friend Ben. And it'd be like, bullying can affect the long-term emotions of an individual with lifelong trauma. And then give me a 10-page essay on why I want to bully. And I was like, yeah, well, that's exactly why I want to bully. And now it's bullying. Well, yeah, so my daughter Sienna took, I said,

oh, well, let's do the radio show here at The Hits. Okay. And let's take a screenshot of our Instagram and let's put that into chat GPT. My daughter Sienna's like, can I do that? And I'm like, okay. And so this is like a screenshot. A wee snapshot of our radio show talking about things like Jono's awkward handshake. We had the Kiwi Mobile competition.

Tanya won $10,000 with bingo. We had, you know, we pranked the boss. They were all there amongst the tiles. So it's just trawled across these images. Yeah, it's just the images. It's a still of these images. And then developed a comedic roast. Yeah, and so my daughter wrote in,

roast this Instagram page from your first impression. Be mean is what she wrote. Oh, she's cutting there. I love how we're now teaching it to cyber bully. This is not a good thing. This is the turning point. Okay, so I came back and said, all right, let's roast this page. Jono and Ben, more like Jono and Beige, that's how it started.

Looks like you've assembled a world-class collection of trying-too-hard-to-be-funny moments. The content screams chaotic energy meets midlife crisis. That's so accurate. It's like watching two grown men try to stay relevant but milking every cringeworthy moment they can. The pinnacle of your achievement seems to be pranking your boss like a couple of overgrown school kids.

And congratulations to Kylie. Not sure that $10,000 she won Was for winning or surviving your radio show Oh my god And then it breaks it down to each of us Okay so Jono Jono are you cosplaying as every 90s indie band front man Yes

You're the dad at every barbecue Insists on talking about his glory days Still dressing in the same clothes You're giving off serious Used to be cool now, but I'm confused by the world vibes. At this point, I'm convinced you only keep Ben around as someone who looks more confused

than you do. Me. Okay. Then it gets into me. This is making my heart sad. Ben, you're rocking 2003 frosted tips like they're still relevant. But you know, the only thing that's frosted is the look of regret every time you pass a mirror. You think dad jokes are still peak comedy, but somehow manage to pull them off so awkwardly,

even your dad's ashamed. Megan. Oh, God. Megan. I hope you've done best for last situation here. I hope this is the format. Honestly, are you lost? Did you take a wrong turn

on your real job? I mean, on your way to a real job? Or are you just here to make Jono and Ben look slightly less of a mess? Yes. Management would agree.

I mean, you're supposed to be the balance, but instead, you're over there acting like Karen Walker at a PTA meeting. Low key judging everyone while pretending not to care. The video on Jono's handshake disaster,

fitting metaphor for this page, a train wreck, you can't look away. Jono, Ben and Megan, make sure you keep that Kiwi mobile mascot handy. It could be your next career move. Chat GPT out. My face hurts from laughing. That is like insanely accurate.

All that from just stills. I'm like, oh my God. If you met that person in a bar, you'd be like, I'm going to retire from life. That was, and now we've taught it to do this. I know, brutal. It's got into the online bullying game. Just brutal. Anyway.

Wow. That beats any Reddit forum ever. Wow. Yeah, I know. So there we go. That was just a matter of seconds. That spat that out. You know what I love about it is it has no remorse or regret.

No. No. All right, you wanted this? And you can't bully it back. After 8 o'clock, Megan, you won an award before you were like one hot mess. I'm scared to talk scared you can tell us about your cool award we'll put it into chat

GBD and see what it is we will definitely do that okay The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast another episode

of my daughter's podcast actually out today on the Hits Podcast Network it's called When I Grow Up which is aimed to help the young person in your life

particularly teenagers trying to work out what they want to be when they grow up, talking to inspirational women about their lives. And Karen Walker agreed to come on this week's episode. Amazing. I love that woman. She is incredible. She is so smart. She's so talented.

She's so successful. Fashion icon. Did she turn up fashionably late? Was it a nightmare for the studio booking? She was actually on time. Very professional, actually. She was on time. But incredible.

She talks about it, starting with $100. That's all she had was $100. And now she is like the list of people that have worn her clothes, like Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga, Meghan Markle, Beyonce, Rihanna, just so many different names. Drew Barrymore took her out for lunch. That's a great story. She's a big fan. She took her out for lunch and paid. I was like, who paid? Meghan Markle, Beyonce, Rihanna, just so many different names. Drew Barrymore took out for lunch. That's a great story.

She's a big fan. She took out for lunch and paid. I was like, who paid? Drew Barrymore paid, which is good to know. But Sienna had a big question, though, because Paris Fashion Week, you know, big week. But, you know, was it her favorite week of the year? Paris Fashion Week or Meat Week at the supermarket?

Both are great, can we say? Both are great. It's funny. I don't need to answer that. Okay, well, we don't know. We'll never know what you're going to say. You'll never know. So she didn't answer that. Maybe she's vegetarian.

Didn't want to say that one as well. Now, did you find yourself as you're about to interview Karen Walker, you and your daughter, that you sort of agonized over what outfit you were going to wear? I didn't think about that. You didn't? No, when she turned up. And that was the first, that's how I start the podcast.

I was wearing a cardigan, which she was like, fine. But I had my Bart Simpson t-shirt on. And I was like, oh. Did you hide your Bart Simpson backpack that you've got? I should have, actually. Did you actually interview Karen Walker in a Bart Simpson t-shirt? Yeah, I did. But actually, speaking of Karen Walker, a Bartson's intention? Yeah, I did. Dean!

But actually, speaking of Karen Walker, because we talked about her being her name, Karen Walker, and she's a fashion icon, and what things would surprise us that she would wear? Have a listen. What about naming the company after yourself? I mean, that is your name. Does that mean that you feel like you can't go to the supermarket? I was at the supermarket this morning. No, but your PJs or anything like that. Oh, my PJs. Who goes to the supermarket and you're- I was at the supermarket this morning. No, but knowing your PJs or anything like that. Oh, my PJs.

Who goes to the supermarket with their PJs? Some people are wearing track pants on the couch or things like that. Do you feel like you need to be- I wear the track pants on the couch. Oh, right. Social media stops. What about you buying something online? Do you have to use a fake name?

Do you have to be like, oh, why is Karen Walker buying with us? Is this a scam? There's more than one of us. Actually, last night, Friday night, my husband and I always go out to dinner at our local Japanese place and I'd been out to walk the dog and then he's like,

you really, when are we going to dinner? I'm like, oh, now. And he's like, you're wearing your track pants. I'm like, so? And he's like, go and change. All right. She wears track pants to dinner? Well, she didn't.

She took them off, but she was about to. Yeah. So that's surprising. So was she really going to wear track pants? Yeah, it sounded like she was. Yeah, it's a great book. Karen, she didn't. She didn't. She took them off, but she was about to. Yeah. So that's surprising. So was she really going to wear track pants? Yeah, it sounded like she was. Yeah. Karen Walker's like me.

She's one of us. Yeah. Have you ever worn track pants in public, Megan? Yeah. I know you love. We call you the fashionista of the show.

I know, because I was wondering that because I was surprised that Karen Walker liked to pair up with track pants from time to time. Comfort.

No. Only like active, like if I was going for a walk maybe. Active wear. What's the most, you know, slobby thing that you would have? Active wear. The slobbiest you've ever looked. Yeah, like what's the, have you got a t-shirt? What's one thing?

If I turned up unannounced at your house, you're like, oh God, I'm wearing that. What would it be? Just a t-shirt with a hole in it, I think. I've got like an old Annie Das t-shirt I wear-shirt with a hole in it I think I've got like an old Annie Das t-shirt I wear that's got a hole in it and I wear that often at the weekend do you know what the greatest thing that's ever happened to me in fashion is about a year and a half nearly two years ago I went and purchased some jeans from the denim shop and the lady behind the counter said if I can give you any advice don't ever wash these two years I have these jeans I have never

washed these jeans now Levi Stra Strauss, he was like, my jeans are not designed to be washed. And the greatest thing that's ever happened to me, probably the worst thing that's ever happened to the owner of my legs, but the greatest thing, it's quite far away from my smelling senses anyway, my legs,

but never washed the jeans. Colour stays the same. The feel's still rigid. The food that you've spilt on it, solid. Yeah, I feel like washing from time to time is fine, but anyway. Two years.

Two years. Honestly, I'm going to see how long I can ride these out. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday, speaking of Dua Lipa, we did a leap for Dua Lipa. Yeah, can you do a leap for Dua Lipa? Now you can see what we did there

Yeah It wasn't much of a leap to get there To be honest But it was jumping off a bridge Bungee jumping off a bridge And it was If you hadn't been to a concert before We had Shari

Lovely Shari And her son 17 year old Alex And Shari refused to do the jump She wasn't going to do it But they'd never been to a concert And yeah And neither had been bungee jumped

So Alex bungee jumped yesterday. It was his first bungee, first time. You'll hear some audio, but he did a backflip, which is pretty incredible. Yeah, it was very calm. It made me unsettled how calm he was beforehand. He backflipped! He backflipped!

And he did it beautifully. It was pretty incredible. We had more on that just after 7 o'clock. But what I didn't realize, I mean, it was a very windy day yesterday. And so we had to walk across the Harbour Bridge to get to the bungee. Thank you very much to AJ Hackett, too, for helping us do this as well. It was awesome. There's locations, Auckland, Queenstown, and Taupo.

And you can get a great place for Christmas functions as well. But thanks to them, we walked across the bridge, and I didn't realize that, Megan, you weren't even bungee jumping. You were freaking out. I'm scared of heights. It's a good time to tell us. No, but I always, I'm like, don't panic about anything until you're doing it because it might be fine.

But then when I was doing it, it wasn't fine. It was very windy. And we're walking along the Harbour Bridge, and we could see down to the water. Now, I didn't realize because we're all walking one by one. We're sort of tethered to like a cord as we're sort of walking along. You're in front of Grace, producer Grace and myself. Yeah. And so we're just having a chat.

We're talking about things. So as you're walking, you're walking on like a metal grate. It's under the actual bridge. Yeah. If you look down, you can see the water. It gets higher and higher. And there's just like a metal bar so you can see off the side. It's scary and it gets higher and higher. And Grace and I were just passing bar so you can see off the side. It's scary and it gets higher and higher.

And Grace and I were just passing conversation, just talking, because it's quite a long walk. And we were talking about, oh, look, if you jumped off or fell off at this point, whether you – it was survivable. You're like, survivable, survivable. I was having that conversation with myself. Oh, there you go. Everyone would.

Yeah, survivable, survivable. And then we got to a stage where it was like, oh, not survivable. Touch and go. You know, this is broken limbs. And we didn't realize the whole time. You were like, I would chuck my hat in i'd chuck a shoe i don't know if the hat would be like it was intense banter and i they were both behind me and i didn't even have it in me i was that petrified i didn't have it in me to turn around and go can you shut up i was focused forward and i was like doing my pilates breathing i was like holding on to it arm by arm on the barrier.

And they're like, yeah, I'd chuck my head. I don't think you'd survive from here. I'm just like, oh, Ben, shut up. And it was 50K gusts of wind. Now they were saying that they can go. The operation can still go ahead up to 70K gusts. We're only in 50 and that was wild. That was the day where in the morning i was doing wind warnings for the harbour bridge people's like oh i don't remember

that don't listen i was like this is the day we chose to go on the harbour bridge ripped through me like about a gastro yeah but you know the red bull cliff divers that they came to new zealand this year it's higher than that right uh at the peak of the bridge, that's where they jumped from. Whoa. So 27 metres. They jumped for 27 metres. And that's survivable. Survivable.

There you go. Thank you. If you're in a pair of Speedos, you know how to cliff dive. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday, after the show, that you won an award at high school. It was, you know how at the end of the year you have like the big prize giving so everyone wins like, you know, the big awards and your parents come and you go up on stage

and I got one of like the big end of year awards when I was leaving high school and it was the Sophie Kroon Memorial Award, I don't know who that is Obviously researched it hard For the potential No disrespect to Sophie Kroon And the Kroon family I think I got a little trophy too

And a certificate, I had to hand the trophy back But I got up there, walked in front of everyone Got my award, but I don't really know What I did to get that So it was potential for making a difference Yeah How do you think that's gone? Honestly, how do you think you've got that?

I don't think I've made a difference yet But like maybe You've still got potential Yeah like I've still got time I'm working towards it After we Heard about this We rang the school yesterday

Didn't we? Your school Nalent College in Nelson Yeah We spoke to Louise Who answered the phone Oh look I don't

Because it feels like A filler award It feels like It's not a filler award It's one of the big prize-giving awards. What about... They are rude to you, far out. They are.

We'll never know if the Sophie Kroon potential to make... Was it potential to make a difference, or you definitely were going to make a difference? Potential to make a difference. Potential. I'm still working towards the potential. I'm a believer. I believe it.

It sounds so legit. Has she made a difference? Who's to say? Not for me to say. But she's got the potential. She's got the potential. So she'd never heard of the award. Now this led us on to believe,

was it an award, a token award designed and architected for the award ceremony because they had nothing else? I feel like I was a real, like, in-your-face kind of student. Like, I was a real go-getter. I was always hanging around doing things so they were like, oh, is there something we can give her

to, like, you know, shut her up at the end of the year. Yeah, it's like when you see some poor kid walk across the stage and say, well done to the tallest in the school, little Mikey Stanton. And Mikey's wandering out, you're like, jeez, Mikey didn't achieve anything this year, did he? Even if it's the workplaces.

Yeah, because someone has an idea. Often at Christmas functions, they're like, we'll give everyone in the team an award. And then there's a few big bangers, and after a while, you're like, oh, you know. Good at emailing. Yeah, I know. You're like, oh, thanks for that. You're really good.

I've been the victim of many filler awards. Certificate of merit. Whenever they put merit after an award, you're like, I'm just here making up numbers. Simply reward right yeah so what we want to know is your your token awards your filler rewards have you received one uh this one isn't filler this is like this is one of the big prize giving ones you should never heard of it mate louise had never heard of the award oh i should i don't know and it was given from the school not from your peers or anything like that? No, it was from the school.

Oh, okay. I got one at school, I remember at the prize giving for crashing my car into my own driveway. That was my one. Okay, that's it. And that was done from peers, but the other ones was like,

oh, this guy's awesome at sports, this guy's awesome at this thing, and I got one for crashing my car in the driveway. Everyone's like, oh, great, I got a certificate. Yeah, that was definitely a filler award, right? The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Talking about Megan's award she won at high school.

It was one of the major awards in prize giving. The Sophie Kroon, Potential to Make a Difference. At what college was it again? Nalin College in Nelson. We've just phoned Nalin College. No records of the award. She didn't say no records. Louise says she wasn't sure. She didn't say no records. Louise says she wasn't sure.

That doesn't say no record. We put it into chat GPT. We roasted the show before, and we roast Megan's award as well. Megan won the award for potential to make a difference, it says. Emphasis on potential. We're still waiting for any signs of it. It's like giving a participation trophy to a sloth. Sure, sure, she showed up, but did anything actually happen?

Not yet. I'm working on it. So, yeah. Have you received a token award this morning? 0800, that's the telephone number. You can text 24487. Oh, listen, someone's texted through, and this is just such a reflection on the Hits audience.

So wonderful and kind, Megan. You make a difference to all those listening every day, Megan. Oh, thanks, Mum. Isn't that nice? That's nice. That is nice. That is lovely. Let's go to the phones.

Glenn, with us on 0800THEHITS, you received a token award, Glenn. Yeah, I did. What was it, mate? I got a merit award for the whole northern region. Oh, merit, that's right, isn't it? For the whole northern region, that? I got a merit award for the whole northern region. Oh, merit. That's right, isn't it? For the whole northern region. That's a lot of merit.

They even flew me to Wellington to get my award. Did they? Wow. Where was the awards held at? I did correspondence school, so they flew me to Wellington. Wow. So merit, it seems like such a vague term. I've just had to actually Google what merit is,

because I've received a couple of certificates of merit. They're kind of tacked on to the end of the awards ceremony. But, you know, saying the quality of, you know, being particularly good. Yeah, that's great. And, you know, rightfully could deserve a bit of praise is the meaning. So well done. They flew you. They paid for flight.

So obviously a lot of merit there, Glenn, in the north. Yeah, it was probably. It's a very Kiwi award, eh? You were particularly good. Yeah, most improved is another one, eh? People getting teams, eh? You're like, well, I saw I was crap at the start and I've gotten slightly better.

Is that how I need to read this? I've learned how to catch the ball. Oh, yeah, most improved. You're coming along a little better. What's the scale? Hey, Glenn, you keep being good at merit, okay, my friend? All righty. Appreciate your call.

Alicia, you are on the air. How are you? I'm marvellous. How are you? We're doing well. We're talking filler certificates, token certificates. What did you receive? I received one that said I was most likely to become a clown. Most likely

to become a clown? Yeah, I took the positive from it and assumed that they really liked my jokes. Oh yeah, that's great. For our line of work, that'd be good. What did you end up doing? Well, I'm a bus driver now. Oh, okay. Do you make jokes and stuff on the bus?

I always make jokes. Oh, that's good. Tell us your best joke. I don't have a best joke. Tell us your best joke. I don't have a best joke. Tell us your worst joke. Actually, no, don't. Me too. Who knows where that's going to go. I appreciate your call this morning.

There you go. Most likely to be a clown. Well, you kind of, yeah. Which way do you take it? Like in a professional capacity? Yeah. Because then that's a great career? Or like you almost,

you always make people smile. The class clown, exactly. That's how I take it. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. This week, Tawiki o Tadeo, Māori Language Week, and Stacey Morrison, broadcaster, with us in the studio right now. Morena.

Morena. It's lovely to have you here. It's Tawiki o Tadeo, Māori, Māori Language Week. Yes. Which I didn't realise had been going since 1975. There would have been a few shaky years at the beginning, I imagine. Yes, because Māori language wasn't an official language until 1987. So they had the Pētihana Māori, so they had the petition to say,

okay, we need to have te reo Māori in our schools. And then they started the Kohanga Reo movement, all of that. So yeah, that's where they were at. They're going, you know what we can give you? We can give you a day. There you go. It wasn't a day, it was one day. Thank you. And at that point, by the way, were at. They're going, you know what we can give you? We can give you a day. There you go. It wasn't a day. It was a one day.

Thank you. And at that point, by the way, when Te Karere came in 40 years ago, that's the Māori news show that my husband does. It was two minutes long. Then you got up to five. That's barely enough to be like, good morning. Tēnā koutou katoa.

Tātou māori. This is just top line dusting of the news. Wow. And so, so Obviously I feel It's come a long way, but there's more to do Well in terms of our tamariki Would you say all of your kids are pretty They've got a lot more base knowledge than we had

Absolutely And their pronunciation's better I was going to say, even my three year old son He's like, kia ora And they'll say puku All those cute little things and also when you get tweens or teenagers those girls love to correct you yeah now i i just being honest right now like i love to use it but sometimes get nervous about saying

it wrong and then get offending someone or doing it wrong and imagine there's people listening right now that sometimes hold themselves back from maybe saying something or for not wanting to offend. And then you go for the, I guess, the easier option, which is probably not what you should do, right? Well, yeah, I guess if we think about the streets we live on and the places that we live, if that's a good start, say you live on a street that has a Māori name and you go, okay, I'm just going to lock that in.

And this is how you build your confidence because Māori is actually really consistent so it's always a e e or u and we can all say that right and so you just need to get yourself used to how you're going to read it and you're not going to offend someone if you're trying I mean I know growing up uh in Christ church there was a place that everyone called Maori How and it's Mare Hau. Like it actually doesn't sound anywhere near it. It's like Taupo and stuff like that, you know. Some of them, like people would say Te Kawata and I'm like, what are they saying? Te Kauwhata.

It sounds more beautiful saying it in Maori. It's like if I call you Megan, that's not your name. Yes. So you know what I'm saying. But like as a, my respect to you, I'd never call you something that you're not. Yeah. I know you say Megan, even though I could look at it and go,

well, I see Megan, so I'm going to say Megan. Yeah. What is your journey with the language being? Because you weren't speaking it when you were growing up, were you? No, not at all. You know, that embarrassment you described, I had that. And, you know, sometimes I'd just be more embarrassed because I'm Māori to not know it.

All of that embarrassment, fear, and then kind of tied in with, like my grandmother, my kuia, was a native speaker, so I felt doubly embarrassed. You know, so then it's a whole story of how did your family lose this? What decisions did your family make that you're kind of justifying as you kind of butcher the language? And I remember like Peter Hayden, people might remember him, really amazing broadcaster.

He said to me, I think it would be good if you pronounce Maori words correctly. And like I'm dying inside and going, yeah, I know he's right, but I'd just gone with what was easy, you know, growing up in Christchurch, in Dunedin. And so that was when I was a teenager that I went, yeah, I do need to do this. And so it's not always easy and it's not always elegant and it is embarrassing, but it's worth it.

And that's what Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori is all about. Just a little bit is a lot. He iti te kupu, nui te kōrero. With a few words, you can say it like that. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. There's been a bit of a mission this week, a journey to find Ben's missing sock. We dedicated way too much time and resource.

Appreciate it, but yeah, thank you. Yeah, to finding Ben's missing sock, a black sock with a four-leaf clover on it. It had a missing poster campaign out there. We rolled that out for you. People phoning, you were phoning hotels that you'd stayed at over the last two months for work and they had no idea. And Amanda, your wifeoning, you were phoning hotels that you'd stayed at over the last two months for work and they had no idea.

And Amanda, your wife, she's got to the point where like enough's enough, the sock has to go. Friday was the deadline. Yeah. So it looks like the sock's gone. Looks like that. Well, as Megan said before, just keep it at work. Well, put it out there that, yeah, you've thrown it out, but keep it at work.

Because I feel like as soon as you say you've thrown it out, it'll appear. It'll turn up. It will. The universe will deliver. So not a happy ending. No. We like to have happy endings. They call them story arcs in radio, don't they,

where you start something and you go along on a journey. And what we had all imagined was someone to have a spare sock and come through and we'd have a happy emotional ending. Not to be. Like if we were a better show, maybe we would have manufactured this, you know, and gone, oh, my goodness, this is the thing. But no, we just went and played it. Just went along for the ride. Played manufactured this, you know, and gone, oh, my goodness. But no, but we just went along for the ride. Played it legit, you know, put it out there.

Sometimes you have wins and losses. Life is unfair. One time we made you stand on a scissor lift for about 12 and a half hours waiting for Kevin Hart to turn up and say hello. He didn't do it. No, he didn't do it. You know, this is the reality. But it's not about, it's about the journey, not the destination. Yeah.

That's what they say. Doesn't Miley sing a great song about climbing something? It's the climb. It's the reality. But it's about the journey, not the destination. That's what they say. Doesn't Miley sing a great song about climbing something? She's like, what? It's the climb. It's the climb. Well, the sock banter doesn't stop here. Oh, really? Because next week, we've been working behind the scenes,

revolutionising the sock industry. We're going to sock it to them. Oh, that's good. I like the pun. Now, what we would say, Megan, would you say this would solve not only New Zealand's problems, but probably the world's problems with losing socks? This idea is probably the best thing you've ever thought of, Jono. It's so good, I feel like you need to patent it.

Can't they? Company own it now. Yeah. Yeah, we had that discussion with management. They're like, we own this idea now. They you need to patent it. Can't they? Company own it now. Yeah. Yeah, we had that discussion with management. They're like, we own this idea now. They're like, damn it. You blew our socks off with this idea. What is it?

It's launching next week. Okay, now Ellie, producer Ellie's just said the shipment is arriving. Oh, there's actual... We've had the hardest working children in China working on this, mate. They have been slogging it out. Pride needs to leave by Monday.

Urgent delivery. Got them here in a week and a half from Shanghai. I can't work anymore. My fingers are sore. We'll do another 12-hour shift. I was riding them hard. And it gets resolved. But I don't care, mate.

We haven't found his other sock. So, yeah, come Monday. But this is not just a benefit to you. This is a benefit to everyone listening, isn't it? Yeah. And it gets resolved But I don't care mate We haven't found His other sock So yeah Come Monday But not just This is not just A benefit to you This is a benefit To everyone listening Isn't it

Yeah Definitely is I'm excited I don't know what it is And I think No I think you think You know what it is But you

I don't think You're quite there The hits The Jono and Ben podcast Yesterday I went to The Chemist Warehouse To you know Find partners

At this radio station The Chemist Warehouse And it's One of those locations, and there are about four or five of them in the shopping world where you walk in and in your head you've been sent there

to get one item. Right. Then all of a sudden, as soon as you step in the door, you're bamboozled by the bargains. Oh, yeah. And reminded of other stuff, you're like,

oh, yeah, I do need that. I could get that. Yeah. Oh, I have to get that look how cheap it is supermarket's another place so it's very hard to go and

get one item for the supermarket and Kmart so I just needed to get one one roll on deodorant for Jennifer and all of a sudden

I'm walking out with a 10kg for a tub of protein and then when you're waiting for the counter with your basket of all these items you never knew

you needed then they've got that little cheeky aisle just before you get to the checkout. Oh, you've got a protein bar or a buddy. Vitamin gummies. Vitamin gummies. Like giant 320 vitamin gummies. Collagen ones. My lips get plumper lips.

Lips never look so good. In general. But there's nothing that that shop doesn't sell. They've even got little toys. Oh, yeah. Diddy would have shopped there. Were you down that aisle yesterday? Well, you just go down all the way.

That's why you spend all the money? Hey, no judge. I'm not going to yuck you young. Like I said It's just whether For roll on deodorant Catering All sorts of stuff All sorts of stuff

The hits The Jono and Ben podcast Just announced Her second concert For New Zealand next year April next year Pre-sales Have ended

Today The general sales Tickets go on sale From 1pm Which is going to be Very exciting So you must imagine The pre-sales

Sold out the entire Wednesday show You would imagine So April the 4th which is going to be very exciting. So you must imagine the pre-sales sold out the entire Wednesday show, you would imagine. April 2nd, so April 4th she's going to be there. We had the first double pass to give away, so we thought, because Megan you rode a bus for the first time, we thought we'd find someone who'd never been to a concert before and give them the chance

to win a double pass to Dua Lipa. Yeah. And so we're going to do Dua Lipa for Dua Lipa, which was jumping off the Harbour Bridge. Thanks to AJ Hackett Bungee. They've got locations all over New Zealand, Queenstown, Taupo. Auckland as well.

And great for Christmas functions. AJ Hackett, if you haven't organised your Christmas function yet, bridge climb, bungee jumps, heaps of options there for you. Thanks to the wonderful Leo, though, who accommodated us there at AJ. He's awesome, mate.

We were all lovely there. Before, just before us, there was an entire group of school kids, about 20 or 30 school kids, who got to go up for free. And he does that weekly out of the goodness of AJ Hackett's heart. Yeah, that's great, isn't it? So that's very nice, isn't it? But yeah, we took Shari and her son Alex, 17-year-old Alex, to the top.

Shari was vehement that she wasn't going to do the jump. Fair enough. Only one of them had to do the jump, right? Yeah. And it was windy. Megan, you were petrified walking up the bridge. I'd done in the news that there was wind warnings and there was a potential for the bridge to close because it was too windy.

Didn't think about that when we got onto the bridge. You're like, I don't listen to the news I'm reading. Just say so. I just didn't connect that we were going to be going there a couple of hours later, and it was wind gusts of 50 k's. When that's coming at you on the bridge, and you're up in the air, and I'm standing on a metal grid, and I can see how far down it is, I was scared.

Radio announcers aren't meant to be out in the elements, you're right. I honestly believe I lost my virginity to the wind yesterday. It was that powerful. It was that powerful. It was really powerful. So anyway, we walked up after we met Shari and Alex in reception of AJ Hackett. Okay, Alex and Shari, welcome. Thank you. We're at AJ Hackett Bungee. Yeah, their motto is, what is it, live?

What's the motto? Live more, fear less. Well, I live with a lot of fear. Quite a lot, so. Alex, you're doing the jump? Yes, I am. How are we feeling? Not nervous at all. So you've never jumped before, but you're thinking about doing a back I am how are we feeling? not nervous at all

so you've never jumped before but you're thinking about doing a backflip yeah just have to send it you've really gone from zero to a hundred again my fear

has really taken over right now have you done backflips before? yes on trampolines oh okay good yeah no I was wondering if your debut backflip off a bridge I've never jumped off a bridge

meanwhile mum Shari's like shaking. Yep, I'm nervous on his behalf. So you're doing this because either of you have never been to a concert before? Nope, never been to a concert. It would be awesome for him to go for his birthday next year. Last chance for you to do a bungee? No, thank you.

So Shari wasn't keen, but Alex wasn't. Yeah, a backflip was what he was saying he was going to be doing for his first ever bungee and still still backflipping are we baby yep sorry for calling you baby although speaking baby justin bieber has jumped off the bridge i was just reading before baby baby baby bieber katie perry uh that's a terrible memory the new south wales waratahs the rugby team those are all the names he could remember. They're really cranking the Dua Lipa up here. Alex is about to jump off now.

He is going to go for the backflip. He's facing inward. Okay, really hard to commentate with Dua Lipa just pounding away in the background. Oh my God, he's backwards. Would you ever do this, Megan? No. No. Oh, definitely want to backflip. Five, ever do this, Megan? No. No. Oh, definitely wouldn't backflip.

Five, four, three, two, one. He backflips! He backflips! Shari, you've witnessed your son backflip off a bridge. Yeah, my heart stopped for a few seconds. Is he still on the end of the bungee? We just want to make sure. He's there, great.

Okay, good. Yay! As he's winched back to safety. First thoughts, first thoughts. Welcome back. It's very cold, the wind. The backflip was amazing. Oh, thank you.

Now I'm shaking a lot. No, you're more nervous now you've done it than you were beforehand. Would you go again? Definitely. Well, we can't afford that, so don't get any ideas, but you will go to do a leaper. Yeah. That is awesome. Watch me. That's awesome. That's awesome. again. Definitely. Well we can't afford that so don't get any ideas but you will go to Dua Lipa.

Amazing stuff from Alex there and Shari so they'll be going to their first ever concert. That's so cool and as you just mentioned Dua Lipa doing a second show on the Friday of that week as well so tickets for that. When do they go on sale there Ben? One o'clock today. General public tickets. Start that music. the tickets for that. When do they go on sale there, Ben? One o'clock today. General public tickets. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. Turn that music. Yo. Ho. I don't know if you have seen any Instagram or social media videos with this, but it's very... It's about the Northern Ocean usually

and how treacherous it is. Yo. Imagine the guy doing the vocals on this in the recording booth It's a banger It's an ocean banger We've got Simon from the Wiggles next week He has a deep voice

We should play that to him And see if he can He's the deepest of the wiggles Yeah Yeah I think we can do this Hey just quickly Do they put any beat behind this

Or is it just A guy going No No Yeah The Oxford English Dictionary Have added a few more words I feel like they just

Pop up No disrespect to the Oxford English Dictionary But just Do these articles So you're just like Hey guys remember us Chuck some words in there

Don't they add words every year? Yeah, they do. So yeah, they've added it to a dictionary that I don't know how many people are buying, but anyway. We guys have got new words. It's not like you update your dictionary annually. No, I'm sure online

there may be an online version, but Waka Jumper, Mahi, and Cholibin have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. I would have thought Cholibin would have already been there when it comes to this part of the world, but they're just some of the new words that have been added. Have they added any of the words that you've been getting

bloody 200 million views upon on social media? I don't know. Sigma. Imagine they might be adding the skibbity and riz and all that. I think there was riz added last year somewhere. If you work for the Oxford Dictionary, you're obviously a scholar of language and words. And a big part of you must die as you're entering skibbity and riz

into your treasure. Yeah, riz is in there. Noted and bussing were added as well as simp last year, apparently, as well. So you imagine some scholar typing simp in and going, Oh, Riz was the Oxford Word of the Year in 2023. You're right. There they are.

Really? Is this what English has come to? The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Fucker this week. I appreciate everyone's efforts. We rang hotels that I'd stayed in. We put up posters.

We put it out on social media, but no luck so far finding the sock. Well, this was the D-Day. What was it, Amanda? Your wife was going to throw the sock out if you hadn't found the matching pair by Friday. Was there a particular Friday 5pm or something? She didn't really specify a time.

She's not going to watch you put it in the bin. Can you hide it? At the moment, it's in my backpack with me. You leave it at work. Oh, cool. She knows anything about deadlines. She's always got a stipulated time, too. She just probably wants it out of the house, so she'll be happy with leave it at work. Oh, great call. You're right. She knows anything about deadlines. She's always got a stipulated time too.

She just probably wants it out of the house so she'll be happy with it being at work. Okay, okay. Actually, we've got a big surprise for you on the sock front

before nine o'clock. Okay, cool. Yeah. The sock? It's a big surprise. It's a big surprise. Now, I just want to get

into a little, I want to get rid of something. Now, you know in jeans where... You've done a lot of jeans. Now, you know in jeans where. You've done a lot of jeans-based content today, haven't you? Talked about not washing your jeans for two years.

I did too. Not been an hour ago. That was the second bit of jeans-based content. Talking about my family jeans. You're right, heavy jean gear. But does anyone know, well you would know, that tiny little pocket. The tiny little pocket above the main pocket. Where you can barely slip the top half of

two fingers into. Yeah. Get rid of it. Get rid of it. What is that for? It was for, I did some light research into this. It was for back in the day they had, you'd stick your little time piece in there so you, you know, you didn't have a wrist watch. That's where it held and I guess

I find it's the safest pocket though if you've got something well especially if you're sneaking stuff into the festivals you go to Ben Boyce you're right you know like if you've got a single car key or like some cash or something you don't have anything to so you wouldn't mind it remaining there I don't use it lots though to be fair it's a tiny

tiny little pocket the tiniest little pocket in the fashion industry. Yeah, it is. Isn't it? It seems like so much more effort. That little bit of fabric, those little domey things to stick it in. Yeah, you're right. They probably don't need to have it there.

If I didn't realise it was for the clock, it would be like some designers are like, I'm going to create the smallest, most inconvenient pocket. What will it hold? Almost nothing. What have you put in that pocket in the past? You get to slip a coin in there? Yeah, cash and a single key.

You could get your whole car keys in there. Like if I'm going for a walk with the dog and I'm wearing jeans or something. Like a padlock key you could get in there. I'll put it in there. Just a single key. You've got chicken legs. I've been wearing skinny jeans for a long time and nothing's getting in that pocket.

Have you ever used the pocket? My fingers barely get in that pocket. Yeah, I'm saying, okay. The jeans are so tight. You can't even slip two fingers into that sucker. Yeah. Nothing's getting in there. Maybe a key,

if you, Yeah. at a stretch. Yeah, I'm saying get rid of it. Get rid of it. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, it feels like, yeah, I'm like,

yeah, even though I have used it, I'm like, I wouldn't miss it, to be fair. Like, I wouldn't miss it. So yeah, fine. But you know what would happen? We would get rid of it, and then everyone would be like, bring back the tiny pocket and do some nostalgic thing, like, you know, like we're doing with Pizza Hut and Georgie

Pie, and then you bring it back for everyone, and everyone's like, oh, I realise why they got rid of it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Find out which island, the north or the south, is going to have the best weekend. Who's having the best weekend? Yeah, we like to get old con man and H-dog on the show, don't we, Connor? Yeah. From Canterbury in the south and Hayley from the hits in the north island of Wellington. How are you both?

All right? We're good. We're good. Yep. Great weekend for the north island. Well, last weekend, Connor came in from a, I wouldn't say a pity angle, but a sympathetic angle from us. He's like, oh, I'm running a marathon in atrocious conditions in Dunedin.

This week, there's no such endurance event to get the heartstrings going, Hayley, so it's an even playing field. Finally, because I knew as soon as that came out of his sweet little mouth last week that I had lost once again. And it seems to be a recurring theme lately. Also, atrocious conditions. I saw a photo of Connor running it. It looked like it was a nice day in the end.

Yeah, it actually did turn out a lot. It's a lovely condition. It's not a breath of wind bullet whatsoever. It does set a precedent, though, that you can bring in personal agendas to the ring. All right, Hayley, so if you've got any health issues going on or anything you'd like to bring to the forefront. I am going for a dental clean next week, so, you know, that's a pretty important event. Okay, well, keep us up to speed with that one. But firstly, what's happening in the North Island, Hayley?

Well, we have got Hastings' iconic Blossom Festival. Now, they do this every year. It's a big celebration of spring. They've got parades, live music, carnival rides. But this year is a little bit different because the theme is regeneration, and it's all about springing back Hastings. Obviously, we know that the area was devastated with the flood. We're just losing you there, mate.

Now you're braiding. Now you're back. You kept going, you kept going, and we pieced some of it together. Not all of it, but yeah. So we understand there's a blossom festival and a burnout competition happening in Hastings. That's what I got from it.

So yeah, but it's the iconic spring festival, but it's about regeneration this year and springing back Hastings from the devastation that was left of the flood. So it's a really special spring festival that they're having, all about kind of celebrating the region that is on the up and growing back from those devastating floods. Yeah, that's a wonderful thing. Okay, got the Blossom Festival.

What else is happening in the North, Hayley? Also, Auckland Pet and Animal Expo. This looks amazing. This is at the showgrounds this weekend. They've got fish, turtles, chinchillas, birds, rats, really unusual breeds of things. They've also got a live dog squad, so you can go watch the doggies go all over the obstacle courses.

And it just looks amazing. Like, if you're in the market for a really rare, unusual pet, then this is where you're going to find it. Wholesome content from Hayley this week. Now, Connor, she's come in with blossoms. And animals. And animals. And Hastings rebuilding.

What have you got in the south? Snow. We've got snow, guys. From Mount Hart down into Methvin, they're bringing a bunch of snow down for a street-style rail jump session with DJs, live music, food trucks, a whole bunch going on, fireworks to end the night in Methvin there.

It's going to be an awesome weekend. Has it been snowing hard this week, isn't it? Yeah, it has been. They've actually got some snow after, sadly, for example, Porter's Pass, which is the closest ski field to Christchurch. They had to close earlier this season because we had that really warm spat of weather for a bit there.

So, no, good to see they've got some snow. And what else is happening in the south there, Connor? Sticking with the snow theme, we go to Queensland, our Remarkables, beautiful Remarkables. This is the Red Bull home run. So people dress up. You would have seen overseas people dress up in all those crazy costumes and ride things. Like, you know, they'll make little almost airplanes. They jump.

Oh, yeah. So it's similar, but it's on snow. So everyone gets dressed up in these crazy costumes, Spongebob, Spacemen, and then they have to run as fast as they can down a segment of Remarkables, get on their skis, get on their snowboards, and then have to essentially dodge a bunch of Red Bull-based obstacles that have been placed along the ski field, and the first to the bottom of the mountain win.

There's actually Olympia in the next game as well. Who has a plane on top of them right now? Who's at the airport? I'm live from the Wellington waterfront. It doesn't get much more authentic than this. Oh, there's a lot going on. Okay, well, there's a lot going on around the country as well. Some great options this weekend.

I'm going to go out there and give it to Hayley this weekend. I feel like she came in saying that she hadn't had a win and I can't look past rebuilding Hastings. Rebuilding Hastings. And don't forget her oral hygiene issues too. Gingivitis. She's getting those sorted out next week.

Hi, have you guys been talking to my dentist? Condolences with you, Hayley. Hey Connor, Hayley, thanks so much for your time.

Have a wonderful weekend. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Pizza Hut's been in New Zealand for 50 years and they're doing a special pop-up All You Can Eat Pizza Hut

just for a few days only, sold out within minutes. But we're looking because it's, you know, getting a bit nostalgic Eat Pizza Hut, just for a few days only, sold out within minutes. But we're looking because it's getting a bit nostalgic on Pizza Hut and All You Can Eat. They've released a – or someone's put out a menu from the 1980s for Pizza Hut in New Zealand. And it's interesting to look back at the prices. It was a simpler time. It was where coffee was black or white. And if you were lactose intolerant, you were considered weak in character.

The milk only came from two sources, cows and your mother's buzzy back in those days. That's true. That was it. But you're looking at the prices, and I'll get it was the 80s, but it's just really interesting to look back at it. I mean, you talk about the drinks as well,

just the wine. There's the dry white, the medium, you know, the red. There wasn't many wine options. We weren't getting into the Pinot Noir. What is dry, white, and medium? Yeah, well, it's kind of going off the moisture levels. There was no salves or, you know, well, chardonnay. There was no talk of that sort of stuff.

It's dry like a chardonnay. And you wouldn't judge if your wine came in a sack inside a cardboard box, Becky, neither would you? You can still get those. You can get a glass of craft, but a glass of wine at Pizza Hut in the 80s, $1.50. $1.50. You want a beer? You want a beer?

You want a draft or a lager? $1.60. I know it's the 80s, but that's crazy. So they don't even have brands of beer. They're just saying draft or lager. Yeah, lager or draft, chilled, $1.60. Served in a handle for $1.60 as well. Wow.

You know, like food. What else is there? You can get soup for $1.85. French fries. What's a French fries? $1.60. Does it have like a Coke or like fizzy drink? Yes.

Do you want a regular or a jumbo? Regular, $1. You know you're not working there, right? Hit me with a jumbo. Jumbo, $1.50. $1.50 as well. This is like the same price as a wine. Milk, you can get milk here.

60 cents. Milk for 60 cents. On a glass of milk, yeah. The pizza's probably the interesting thing because obviously you go there for the pizza. The pizza prices varies, but it starts from $11.45, which in the 80s,

you can get pizza now, you go to Domino's Pizza, things like that. You're getting meals for, sometimes pizza's $9.45, which in the 80s, you know, you can get pizza now. You go to Domino's, Pizza Hut, things like that. You're getting meals for like sometimes pizza's $9.95 and stuff like that. That seems like, yeah, quite expensive, right? It goes up to $19.55, the most expensive pizza. That's a jumbo serving three to four adults. So that's, yeah, with inflation. I remember we got to go to Pizza Hut for like our birthdays when we were younger.

And I remember my parents saying it was like an expensive choice. The pizzas were expensive. Well, that's good because usually when you look back at the cost of living, it never makes you, you never walk out of it feeling better about life,

don't you? Yeah, well, they've added this. They've done, someone's done the maths at the New Zealand Herald with the current 15% GST added adjusted for inflation. The price in 1986 for pizza

comes to $36.52 in today's world. So pizza, yeah. So again, pizza's cheaper, but beer and wine, unfortunately, we're not getting $1.50 glasses of beer and wine. Did it adjust the price of beer and wine? Well, not them. Oh, damn. I've seen.

Why don't we shut this out there, okay? Where are you getting the cheapest, we'll go lunch or dinner from? Okay. Where are you getting the cheapest, we'll go, lunch or dinner from? Okay. Where are you getting the cheapest meal from nowadays? Surely there's some, I reckon you get some $9.95 all-you-can-eats out there. I reckon they're still sifting around. $2 rice and Christchurch dumplings. Yeah, we used to get that back in the day.

Still there. Is it? Still there. Rick and Ro, the iconic store, and they're still doing $2 rice as well. Stop. Rice with special sauce. Grape. Oh, just great.

Uncle Ben, even Uncle Ben is like, you know this isn't commercially viable. Okay, the cheapest, so what, cheapest lunch or dinner? Cheapest lunch or dinner. Cheapest meal out there. Could be at a bakery, just a tiny little restaurant

that you've found. But even pies these days, not cheap. Where should we be going if we come to your town or city? We'd love to hear from you this morning. Oh, we're under the hits. Maybe you run the place and you want to plug it love to hear from you this morning. Oh, we're under the hits. Maybe you run the place and you want to plug it.

You can do that as well. Oh, we're under the hits. Give us a call at 729. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We're getting a bit nostalgic on your Friday, talking about Pizza Hut, all you can eat back in the day, and looking at the menu from 1980 from Pizza Hut.

Amazing the things that you could buy for just $1.60. Yeah. A glass of wine. A glass of wine, a glass of beer. We were trying to figure out, because it was all marketed on the wetness of the wine, whether you want a dry, medium wetness or full wetness. And they were actually representative

of the wines you have nowadays. A dry is like a shardy or a salve, and a medium is like a pinot gris or a Riesling. I can't get my head around it. It's the 80s, mate. I can't get my head around that. Dry. How 80s, mate. I can't get my head around that. Dry? How wet is it? Oh, yeah. There's medium. A lager

for me and the missus will have a dry white wine. Hey, you're paying $1.50. Is that what you want? I don't know. She's not even ordering for herself. Yeah, pretty incredible. Brandy snaps on the menu. They seem like an iconic 80s, 90s sort of dish. Did they fill them with the cream? Because you know how you put the cream in one side

and then you have to blow it through? Yeah, I think they would have come. Are they doing that out the back? Yeah, they would have come with the cream inside. $3.50 for some brandy snaps as well. Shrimp cocktail for an entree. All the nostalgic things. I loved a brandy snap back in the day too,

but you leave them too long, they got soggy, didn't they? They're on a timer. Was Annie blowing the cream through? No, she had a cream blower. She had like a, she'd put the cream in a sack and you'd like squeeze it in. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, and it'd come out like a little,

like if you're doing plastering or grouting, you know? Comes out quite nice. Like a piping bag. Yeah, probably might be a better reference. I always used to make, my sister and I would always make it look like We were smoking cigars With our brandy So our mums would always tell us off

Hey, shang, hey Like we were in the mob or something What would you tell your mum? Gosh, stop it We're in Pizza Hut It's probably like It was a big occasion Don't make us look like

We're in the mafia The master of the mafia Yeah, master didn't have a Pizza Hut, mate Back in those days You had to go somewhere Parmistan North or Wellington Or like the Hut orston didn't have a Pizza Hut, mate. Not back in those days. Where did you go? You had to go somewhere, Palmerston North or Wellington or like the Hut or something. The actual Hut,

the Pizza Hut. Big occasion. Shane, lovely to have you on this morning. How are you? I'm good, good. So we're looking back, reflecting on these

cheap-ass Pizza Hut prices from 1980. Now we're looking for the cheapest meal out there. It could be lunch, dinner, breakfast, whatever.

Yep, I've got the cheapest meat you can get. Okay. Two deer testicles. How much are you paying for a twin pack? Under a buck. Under a buck? Under a buck.

Under a buck. Under a buck. Under a buck. Jono's like, oh, you know, it's very clever. Under a buck. Under a buck. Under a buck. Oh. It's a joke. Yeah, Jono, you've... Jono's like, oh, you know, it's... Under a buck. So naive. Yeah. So naive.

That's very good, Shane. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'll be here all week. That was very clever. I don't know why we all got $100 for that. They were like, $100? They were like...

And then Shane is all we've got on this topic. Good gag, though, Shane. It was a this topic. Good gag though, Shane. It was a good gag. Good gag. I tell you what, we'll send you out something nice. Yeah, we can send you out something. That would be better than some testicles, I think. Yeah.

We got a text through Auckland Uni. Used to do $2 budgie meals. I presume that was just like budget meals, not like actual budgie, the birds. And Shadows had $4 jugs back in the 90s. Oh, no, Shadows was the university bar. Boy, I spent some time at Shadows. I didn't even go to university. I was going to say, you didn't go to university.

What are you doing there? You didn't even go here. I had some friends who, they went down a better path in life. And I was in radio. And, you know, the first couple of years of uni, when you're out of school, you're like, this new school's got a bar. And you spend a lot of time, you spend a wild amount of time in that bar.

Yeah, you did. You weren't even there. That's my only experience of university is going to Shadows. Like a Tuesday morning at like 10.30. Oh, really? That's a lot of people's memory of university. Shadows. Even the ones who actually went there. Yeah.

Just going to the bar. But also from the university standpoint, I don't know if it's still going. You can text 4487. Why would you chuck a bar in there that's opening at 9am on a Tuesday? Cobb & Co is another big one from the 90s. Cobb Crunchies. Cobb Crunchies.

I kept a voice. My dad loves Cobb & Co. And then I think when it was like, it got to 55, he was like, I can get the senior citizen meal. And so, yeah, we'd go along.

Every holiday we'd come back, we'd obviously left home at that stage, come back, we'd always go to Cobb & Co still because he'd get the meal for like $9.95, three courses or something. We'd obviously left home at that stage, come back. We'd always go to Cobb and Co still because he'd get the meal for $9.95, three courses or something. Alright, mate.

Well, thank you very much for your calls and texts. Well, we had one call and he was great. One in text. Yes, there we go. Heading into the weekend, we like to know who's having the best weekend after 8 o'clock this morning. Of course, we'll talk to Connor in the South Island from the Hits Haley in the North

to find out which island is having the best weekend. But now we want to hear from you. Usually people don't. Well, they ask you the question as you know, just they feel obligated. But they don't want to hear the response. They don't care about the response, but we do, don't we? We even make other people listen to your response on the radio. So much we care. What are you guys doing this weekend?

I've got a 21st and a 32nd birthday. Two birthdays to go to. Who's 21st? A relative of ours. That's quite lovely. I've got a wahiki on the weekend. I love it when I've got lots of activities on. I'm an activities person.

I've got dinner down tonight. I've got a wahiki on Saturday. They've got movies Sunday. So lots of stuff on. Do you know? I've made all I want to do Ziplining tomorrow be great

what are you doing tomorrow Ziplining tomorrow Ziplining of course they're doing a promotion next week with us on the radio show

so I'm getting to experience and check it out so yeah which is cool I would like at 11.30 12 o'clock today to drive home

fall asleep and not wake up until next Wednesday because you get up about 2am pretty much have no sleep you don't have to do that it would be my dream weekend just sitting in a wake up until next Wednesday. It's because you get up about two o'clock. You get up at three o'clock and go for a run.

That would be my dream weekend. Torturing yourself. Sitting in a coma. But the problem is when you reach my age, if I sleep long in the four hours, people think I'm dead. Or you get up and you're like, man, my back hurts. Emily, good morning to you. Morning, guys.

How's it going? Oh, it's really well. How's it in Taranaki? Cold this morning? No, it's beautiful this morning. Oh, nice. We've got the sun rising, so hopefully it stays out. All right. Now, are you a dairy farmer?

I am, yep. Yeah, we've spoken a couple of times before. What's on the go this weekend, Emily? Well, it is my first day off in three months. Oh, wow. Whoa. So I'm going to go get my kids from their grandparents in Whanganui and we're going to go go-karting, mini-golf,

go feed or chase the ducks basically around the ponds down there and just like let my kids relax and not have to drag them on the farm. Activities, I love it. You've just described Ben Boyce's dream day. You have your first day off in three months and you have filled filled it with action-packed activities.

Good, good. You make it the most of it. I would want to have a sit down and a cup of tea. That's why my kids are in Whanganui for the night, so I can actually sleep and not have to wake up to anybody. Now, is this because you're off the back of carving? Is that why you've been three months on the go? Yes, yeah, exactly.

Wow. Having a day off in three months. How many days that why you've been three months on the go? Yes, yeah, exactly. Wow. Having a day off for three months. How many days on the trot is three months? Near a hundred. Like 90 something, I think. I don't know. That's incredible, Emily.

Okay, well, you're in the draw for the Cadbury Pack. Good, good. She put a good case forward there. Let's get to Cody. Hey, mate, how are you? Good morning. Good, thanks.

Our friend Cody and Wyke and I. What's going on this weekend? Oh, so tomorrow's are you? Good morning. Good, thanks. Our friend Cody and Wyke and I. What's going on this weekend? Oh, so tomorrow's half the day is work. We've got a big conflict ball going on. And then in the evening, me and the partner are going to go to the arcade, play some games, try out some stuff because we haven't been there before, and dinner out. Love it. Every time someone mentions activity, Ben's like, love it.

Love it. God, I wish I was doing that activity. Love it. We could squeeze mentions the activity, Ben's like, love it. God, I wish I was doing that activity. Love it. We could squeeze in some arcade action over the weekend, actually. Good on you, Cody. Hold there, mate. You're in the running. And Helen! Yeah, good morning. How are you? Yeah, we're doing really well, Helen. It's great to talk to you. What's going on

this weekend? What's going on this weekend? Right, we've been in Tri-Soul since Monday, and this weekend because I've got a child who's just ready to have a big major operation, this is a life Twisels since Monday, and this weekend, because we've got a child who's just ready to have a big major operation, this is a life-threatening one, we thought we'd come to Twisels, sit back, relax, and we're heading to the hot pools at Tekapo.

Oh, my goodness. Those look awesome, those hot pools at Tekapo. They look amazing. Yeah, they're amazing. If you don't mind me asking, what's the operation? He's going to have half of his tongue and all that removed. Oh, jeez. Oh, my gosh.

What, from cancer? No, he's got what they call sleep apnea, because he doesn't die, but he stops breathing 80 times. 80 times? Out of an hour each night. Oh, my gosh. This is probably his fourth big major operation that he's having. Oh, the poor fella.

He's had about two up in Auckland, in Greenway and Starship. Oh, Helen, that's full on. Well, hopefully this does the trick, this operation, but very scary time heading into that for you guys over the weekend. Do you know what? We've got some bloody good contenders for the best weekend. I'm going to pull a voice. What's that?

I'm going to pull a voice. What? They all win. Can they all win? I'm going to pull a voice What? They all win Can they all win? I don't know I don't know We'll deal with the admin We'll deal with the admin

At the back end of that one Alright thanks to Cadbury We've got you know Life saving operations We've got Cody Who's he's out He phones through every morning Out of loyalty

And Emily has had a day off In 392 days Okay yeah Thanks to Cadbury We've got a prize pack Coming your way Cadbury confectionery products You buy one before the 6th of October

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