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Episode Date: May 12, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY Northern Lights Ben's got street cred with some All-Blacks Stars Producer Tay's wisdom teeth are growing back Comedy Festival Interview  Who forgot Mother's Day? Producer Tay has an obsession with Mount Everest Wrong Names Check us out! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: TheHitsBreakfastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Crazy, crazy sky over the weekend, right? Yeah. I didn't actually see it. Created by a solar storm out there in space. I remember it was about two or three weeks ago, my son was like, there's going to be a massive solar storm.

The sun's going to be ejecting all this stuff. And I'm like, shut up, silly child. Get off TikTok. It's rotting your brain. And then it happened. He was was like this is what i was talking about you guys told me to shut up yeah it looks pretty impressive the aurora that's called it's basically like the northern lights beautiful go to see was the southern lights uh in this side of the world coronal mass injections uh yep sounds like something you get like a casey clinic or something yeah right get a facial peel off a few layers of skin but to do with the right the sun was doing sounds like something you get like a Casey Clinic or something like that, right?

Get a facial, peel off a few layers of skin. But to do with it, you're right. The sun was doing all sorts of stuff and creating these amazing skies and you would have seen it all. If you didn't see it in the flesh, you would have seen it all over social media, right? It was beautiful.

Everyone had it all over their social media. There was a cool photo I saw. A Whangarei couple were getting married. Oh, I saw that. It was beautiful. They had to kiss for 13 seconds to get that perfect shot because they had to hold still and then for the photographer to get that amazing shot.

It's a long kiss. It is a long kiss. 13 seconds. They were in the middle of dinner and the photographer was like, you need to come outside right now. And they got this incredible, incredible shot. Actually, we'll put it up on the hit story, Instagram story. What's your cutoff time for a kiss?

13 is a long time. 13 is a year anything above 4's kind of pushing it for me to be honest you're like what are we doing here is this

especially a public like yeah but then yeah I mean was it a smooch or was it like past 7 seconds

you really got to start thinking about injecting tongues don't you yeah yeah I think so I think it was just a hold just a hold

lip slot yeah because yeah I think more tongues would have been they had them more moving around and that would have made them blurry. I think they had to stay still. It was a beautiful photo, though.

It was, yeah. And amazing. And a lot better coverage, too, on social media than when we have a, you know, they take photos of the moon. Oh, the blood moon and stuff. The blood moon. It never translates. No, you're right.

But everyone's photos looked incredible. But everyone posted it over the weekend. Do you remember we had a conversation with our boss who was on holiday? Oh yeah, that's right. Our old, old boss. Our old boss. And he was a bit pissed off with us. Because we'd made a decision that he wasn't in

favour of. And he was with his family at the Northern Lights. So you'd imagine the Northern Lights, what we saw on the weekend. Imagine that. He's travelled to the other side of the world. I think it was like a bucket list thing for one of his kids. It was like, I need to see this before I leave home.

He's like, right, we're doing it. It's a trip of a lifetime. Yeah, and just the most picturesque, magical setting. And he's phoning us. He's phoning us from the Northern Lights. And we're like, are you at the Northern Lights? And he's screaming at us down the phone from the Northern Lights. And we're like, just imagine he's on holiday with his family.

We've annoyed this poor man so much. We've ruined his holiday. I know. I feel bad about that. Ruined the centre. We're like, surely we can pick this up when you come back. I mean, the son's angry. You know, he was definitely angrier than the son that was causing the Northern Lights there.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast Phoenix The way into Phoenix Just one win away From their first ever finals Grand final Which hopefully They can do on Saturday

Against the Melbourne Victory In Wellington And they're still taking Their shirts off down there And swinging them around their head Because it would be cold conditions At the moment to do that Some of the fans do that

I think they've always done that Right? Yeah Yeah it's great. It's a good little, you just got to be careful who you're sitting next to, I reckon.

What's that, swinging your shirt around? Yeah, swinging your shirt around. You don't want to get a shirt in the face.

So you just want to check the market that's around you to young children and stuff. They don't need to see a shirtless me out of weight 42,

you know, out of shape 42 year old swinging a yellow shirt around his head. Now, speaking of Wellington, got some good cred points with my son Oscar over the weekend. He's playing basketball. Right.

Bloody basketball. So many games of basketball. It's fun. I love. I'm in control of the digital scoreboard now. Oh, yeah. You get it. Got my head around it.

Oh, yeah. Got my head around it. So we're at the YMCA in town. And then they had to have a break in between games. And everyone's like, whoa, we're having an hour and a half break in between games. It makes no sense. We'll just roll on to the second one. All fair questions.

Yeah. But it was because the Hurricanes were coming in. Oh, wow. To train ahead of their game. And they're walking up the stairs. And some of them vaguely might recognize, might know me from somewhere. And TJ Padanara, we've spoken to before. Oh, yeah.

I claim to have exactly the same face as him. You did yes. If we did a face swap you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the pair of us and so ran into him, Geordie Barrett and this is in front of my son Oscar so I had really good cred points with the son that afternoon

I'm texting him and you know when you're texting and you're like this is in capitals but i've text too much of it now to delete it and redo it in lowercase letters so i just fire it off and it was quite a detailed message and he just only response was your caps locks on as i i know the caps locks on yeah He thinks he's boomering me And it's out of pure laziness The caps lock's on

Yeah well people think it's shouting right Yeah I don't have any issue with leaving the I'd leave it on on emails You do actually Subject headers Yeah I don't know how people can get offended

If caps lock is on I guess Well I guess if you think Someone's shouting at you Then maybe you think Someone's being angry at you Yeah Like That that's probably the thing now because obviously there's before in the past you don't know what people mean in text yeah but then you just read the message you're like oh clearly this isn't an anger well i will be there at this time you're like oh geez all right

settled down you know you don't know you don't know that's why i'm always exclamation marking everything i'm trying to go that's a joke That's a joke Ha ha I don't know That's what I try to do Because otherwise People read stuff And they're like What is this guy

You do love an exclamation mark Ha ha At the end Just to really emphasise This is clearly a joke In case someone Takes this the wrong way Does the exclamation mark

Actually insinuate That you're joking I don't know I try and think It's just a little bit Of light heartedness At the end They get a lot of joy The young people Smug joy Don't they actually insinuates that you're joking? I don't know. I try and think it's like just a little bit of lightheartedness at the end, you know?

They get a lot of joy, the young people. Smug joy, don't they, out of correcting your tech failures. Yeah. Your kids been doing that? Yeah, well, as you said before, the torch light's

one they always say as well. Yeah. If your torch is on, which it can happen. You can turn your torch on and accidentally... No matter how old you are, the torch accidentally goes on.

It's like everyone has done it, even the kids. Sucks when it's in your pocket and it's shining through, though. Yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. So funny with councils is you just slowly, the older you get, there's this disdain that you have for the local council, particularly me for some reason.

Yeah, you're really fired up for that, eh? Very anti-council. There was some houses that were red-stickered during a flood, and for whatever reason, I'm assuming the people haven't been paid out by the council or whatever And there's a fence that says, Wayne Brown is a wanker And then the council will come along and they'll paint the fence next day Oh, so they're writing this on the fence? Yeah, on the fence, and then they'll come back in and spray paint

Wayne Brown is a wanker, and then the council paint it And it's like a bye, you know, every second day, Wayne Brown is a wanker And then every second day it's painted So it's a beautiful little feud going on there. Now, Producer Taylor, welcome back. Thank you. It's lovely to see you again. You too.

You've been off for a few days. We've missed you. Have we? We have. Oh, cute. You're colourful Italian language. You missed us? Probably not.

That's not answering it. No, I miss my bed right now, though. Yeah, you can't sleep at the moment. No. Bit of chronic fatigue going on. Oh, that sucks. Did they give you anything for that? No, they just said rest and don't get stressed. You're like, I'm trying

mate. For an Italian radio producer, that's impossible. Nothing's more frustrating than going to the doctor when you're sick and they're like, just get some rest. You're like, I don't, you know. What does that even mean? I knew that before coming in and paying whatever money I needed to pay, yeah. Give me a pill, roofie me, I want to be out for three days. Exactly, knock me out, I don't care.

Now you've got a bit of an issue, not just with your chronic fatigue, but something else going on. Struggle straight here. So two, three years ago, I got all four wisdom teeth removed. In the chair, horrible experience. Hopefully never have to do it again. Did you not go into like a surgery or anything? No, I refused to pay.

Right. That would have been traumatic. It was, it was horrible was horrible were you awake for it uh-huh yeah so like even to the point where like i could hear him hammering into my gums yeah and my dad was watching the whole time he was just like leaned over going well you should see what they're doing i got it removed and then um the dentist that did the procedure said that he had put in dissolvable stitches four weeks later found out they weren't in fact dissolvable stitches because my mouth was still wide so I got really bad infection never went back obviously and then dealt with that so you're like geez I really should have paid for this. I should have paid. The cowboy operation that you got.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm going to wake because it's going to cost me less. Yeah, pretty much. And three years later now to this week, I've noticed my bottom right gum is starting to be really sore and I'm feeling like there's growth coming through the gum. Like your wisdom teeth has grown back. Growing again. And I've looked in the mirror growth coming through the gum. Like your wisdom teeth has grown back. Growing again.

And I've looked in the mirror and I can actually see white. The top of a tooth? Like, yeah, like bone it kind of looks. They're coming back. The whizzies are coming back for a sequel. Oh. Can that happen though? I don't know.

Well, I don't know. Unless you're whatever two-bit dentist you went to didn't pull out the whole. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Oh, 800 of the hits. Have you heard of this before? Yeah. Have your wisdom teeth come back? So many people get their wisdom teeth taken out.

So maybe someone's grown back like yours. Now, Producer Taylor. I was speaking of, Megan Pappas too. She's a mother and she's not here today. She's off. She's getting a little operation too.

Because I felt really bad because on Friday, Megan kept dropping little hints that we should be acknowledging Mother's Day and her in particular. And we didn't, Ben. We didn't. And then there was another radio show that came in with a whacking great bouquet of flowers for their host, who's a mother. Oh, yeah.

I saw that. Oh, that's bad, guys. We dropped the ball, man. That was in Australia. That wasn't here. It wasn't like, no local stations. What, so just because

they're doing Aussie, we can't do it in New Zealand? Oh, no. I mean, you could have swung by the botanical gardens on the way to work. Yeah, exactly. Wacked off a couple of roses.

That's not my mum. She's not my mum. I wish her a wonderful Mother's Day and hope she got spoiled. She's a great mother, Megan. That's what my dad and my mum always have the argument with. Dad's like, why am I acknowledging you?

You're not my mum. He refuses to acknowledge Annie for Mother's Day. It's my role. It's my role. Anyway, Producer Taylor, I'm saying that that didn't happen because you weren't here producing on Friday, okay? Right, okay. Now you've got some issues in your mouth at the moment, some wisdom issues. Yeah, I think my wisdom tooth is growing back after being surgically removed.

Because it can be very dangerous, can't it? Because if they can pop up, the gums go back in, bring an infection. And the first time they did come up, the whole, it's ruined. I had braces. My parents spent a fortune on getting me braces. And it completely ruined the bottom of my teeth.

They're all crooked now, so. Oh, not enough space. I don't need another one to do that again. You've got very determined teeth, like you are very determined as well. Bryce, join in. Bryce, you're on. Welcome, how are you?

How are you? Good, thanks. Can your whizzies grow back? We've never heard of it before. It's not really your wisdom teeth that grow back, it's just some people can get some more teeth that appear behind. It's more of a thing that happened in ancient people.

Ancient people? Yeah. Maybe you're an ancient. That would be my luck. It would. Right, so it's not your wisdom teeth, but other teeth underneath. It's another tooth. Poking through.

So either way, you're going to get more teeth. I'm going to have to get it removed, yeah. Because there is no space still. What credentials have you got here, Bryce? What are you doing, mate? How do you know this? It's just one of my friends had it happen to them. And he thought it was his wisdom teeth growing back as well.

But it was actually another set of teeth that appear a little bit further back. Have you seen x-rays of teeth when the teeth are actually up inside the gums? We look terrified. You know? You don't want to post those photos online. Hey, Bryce, well, thank you for sharing that. So extra teeth, mate. What a joy.

Yeah, how exciting. More teeth than you bargained for. Yep. Great. Just to add that to your list of things that are going on at the moment, right? Yep. Just have some rest and don't stress okay? Yeah just have some rest. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

International Comedy Festival is back, kicks off this week actually and one of the legendary comedians has got her show starting in Wellington this week and Auckland next week is Lana Walters, good morning how are you? I'm good thank you, how are you Jono? Good, we love catching up with you. You've always got a wonderful

energy about you, Lana. Oh, I fake it till I make it. That's the key. Are you back for the comedy festival, which is great, with a comedy show called Don't Lick That? Yes, yes, it's good. I just lick things around the room. It's sort of a challenge.

The audience challenges me to lick things. As a rule of thumb in here, we try not to lick anything. No, I wouldn't recommend anything in this studio to lick. Okay, fair enough. No, yeah, so it's about toddlers. They like licking. Yeah. I mean, all day long it's sort of stopping them from licking that pigeon or, you know.

Fine line too, because balancing them, building up immunity. Yeah. Is it? How are you finding motherhood? The fine line too, because balancing them, building up immunity. Yes. How are you finding motherhood? I don't think I'm natural. It's not. Is anyone though? It's tough. Is anyone?

I wasn't good at parenting myself. Why did I think I was good at parenting a child? So how old? She's two and a half. Right. Yeah. And I'm also pregnant with my second. So pregnancy is different with a toddler

because I was having morning sickness one morning and she decided, I was on all fours, she decided to do a horsey ride while I was throwing up. Now you're throwing up. On the bathroom floor and she's riding you like a horse. Yeah, she's saying yee-haw. I'm saying, ooh. It's multitasking though. It's multitasking, though.

It's great, you know. No one tells you about that when you try for a second. Are you a morning sickness person? Oh, yeah. Really? I'm well into my second trimester still having morning sickness every day. What is it? Like, you just feel constantly queasy?

Or does it just come up all of a sudden? Like, could you vomit right now out of the blue? I could. Particularly the smell of coffee is really bad. If someone like said, oh, do you want this coffee and put it in front of my face,

I might throw up. Okay. We're a Dilmar show here. That's all good. Dilmar tea, mate. Proud sponsors of the show. You can see it over there. So you'll be fine here.

Travelling with kids is always a challenge. You found that? Yeah. I learnt the hard way. And we went on our first family trip and we went way too hard because we got invited to a wedding in armenia wow so you did just like baby steps like that's gonna this isn't the coromandel no we got invited to a wedding there and and we decided to

go but it's not a popular tourist destination it doesn't sound like it's heaving with tourists yeah yeah how do you get there oh mate it's too hard you take like a long flight to qatar um and then you have another flight to armenia and then then you're there that would have been fun with a newborn no oh my gosh we we would have these like crazy she would have these massive tantrums and then the air hostess is like um we actually need to do seat belts on now and i was just like she's doing that toddler plank thing where her body is a is a hard plank and i can't even bend her basically they could do that right yeah they just all of a sudden get rigor mortis or something they get rigor mortis it's incredible and i'm like do you want me to put her in the overhead i cannot put her in the seat right now so once that battle's over

she the air hostess like oh is there anything i can get you and i was like how much wine am i technically allowed um as part of my ticket because i mean that would have been a lot 24 hours travel would it oh yeah i think it was 48 hours because Qatar Airport makes you have, like, a full day stopover because they want to make money off you. So you stayed a bit of a halftime stopover. Let's regroup here. We've got another big leg to go. Team talk for the second half sort of thing.

Yeah, it's rough. So don't recommend it. Well, now you'd have two at some stage to travel with We're never leaving the suburbs We're never leaving West Auckland Alright well Lana thank you so much We haven't spoken about this previously though But can we give away a couple of tickets to your show

Yes absolutely Alright 0800 THE HITS if you'd love to go along and see Lana Walters Thank you so much Thanks for having me guys The Hits the Jono and Ben podcast Thanks for hanging out with us Good weekend Sheits, the Jono and Ben podcast. He's hanging out with us. Good weekend.

She's a good crowd at the Blues Hurricanes, which is good to see for rugby. 26,000. After the weekend, afternoon rugby. Who would have thought? Sometimes it looks like there's a smattering of about a dozen people throughout the grandstands, but a great turnout. And it looks like it's getting very exciting, that competition. Exactly. Now, Producer Taylor's come in here with some clickbait headlines.

You've scoured the internet for three semi-interesting headlines juiciest yeah i waste so much time on just articles where i'm like i do not need this information in my life i don't need to know why an elderly lady accidentally joined a bikey gang or but then you click on it though you do and you won't believe where this taco ended up. Nope. No, I don't believe it. So, producer Taylor reads out three actual headlines, and we can only decide on one to hear about. What are the headlines?

All right. Start things off with a real, real juicy one. Couple caught performing sex act on flight from Heathrow to Dublin in front of horrified passengers. Oh, wow. So, the main cabin. Not even adjoining to the elevator. Right there and hot and heavy. Okay, number two.

Woman 63 announces she's pregnant with 26-year-old. That's interesting as well. These are some good ones. And number three. Australian model is slammed after publishing her list of 100 reasons why to never have kids. 100 reasons. Do we have time? I'd say there kids. 100 reasons. Do we have time?

I'd say there's probably 500 reasons. I want to know what happened on the plane. Yeah, I'm kind of intrigued as well. We'll lose the other two. Oh, we're going with the plane now? Yeah. What happened on the plane? Well, I bring photos as well. She's got an audio and visual presentation.

I'll just flash the photo at you guys so you get a good picture. So it's a hand act. Oh, wow. Under a blanket. They do have the safety blanket there. But obviously the couple caught attention of disgusted passengers. So much so that one of them creepily filmed them. Yeah.

A woman started touching a man under her scarf. And what really caught the attention was obviously the up and down movement that was going on under the scarf. They're very public. Just wait. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Like, how horny are you? I know.

And, like, all the passengers were saying it wasn't even like, is that happening? It was blatant. It was definitely happening. Like, people were like like and it went on for like 10 minutes so you know they go to the bathroom i know i know and i don't really know how long oh so they were in the they were in the air for 38 minutes so that's literally you've just reached cruising altitudes oh it's not like a long haul flight. No, sorry, it was 38 minutes into the flight. Oh, into the flight.

Into the flight. So they've just, the freaking seatbelt signs probably just come off. The safety video's probably still going, right? Yeah. They're that long. Yeah. How did the other person just let it go on for 10 minutes, though? I guess, what would you do?

I'd be too embarrassed to say, like, what would you do? Oh, yeah, I'd be secretly filming. Yeah, and that's what these people were doing. Just so he could get some clicks when I landed. Yeah. Years ago, a friend of mine, she used to work as a flight attendant. Right. Years ago, and she noticed a couple coming out of the bathroom.

And she thought, oh, it'll be fun. I'll just announce it over the loudspeaker. Congratulations to the couple. They've just joined the Mo Hai Club. They're playing clap like that. Stop. He looks embarrassed. She looks embarrassed.

And she's like, oh, maybe I shouldn't have done that. And they went and sat down. But they sat down in looked embarrassed. And she was like, maybe I shouldn't have done that. And they went and sat down, but they sat down in separate seats and one of them was in a relationship. Oh my God. I don't know how that happens. It's an on-board affair. Holy.

How did he care? I don't know. I don't know how that happened. So yeah, she was like. Maybe it was that seat chat function. Yes. I stitched Ben up badly on seat chat. Yeah.

I kept messaging him. We were flying into America for work and I kept messaging him on seat chat. I kept messaging him. We were flying into America for work, and I kept messaging him on seat chat. I was two rows away. I was like, have you still got the stuff, mate? Is it still inside you? Let's make sure we act cool when we land. And he was just not engaging in the seat chat. You've got to exit, exit, and keep popping up.

Exit, exit out of the seat chat, that's for sure. Hey. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Morning yesterday was Mother's Day. So happy Mother's Day to of the seat, Jack. That's for sure. Hey. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Morning yesterday was Mother's Day. So happy Mother's Day to all the mothers. Yeah. Did you have a good Mother's Day? Yeah, I did.

Then I'm asking how your Mother's Day was. Did you provide a good Mother's Day? Well, that's the thing, because my daughters, you know, and much like your kids, they're getting to the age, you know, a little older now, so they're taking a lot more responsibility. You know, I feel like my time to sort stuff out for for my you know for their mom or for amanda my wife it's passed you know like i will help help them further that you know she's not my mother but you know new kids one of them had a

school you know production the other one was on camp so i got a list that was a list of things that i had to pick up me too going around to do this i was like guys and i was standing in line at the the facial place with about 12 other dudes. We're just like quite clockwork, one by one, just getting in there. We're like, we're all here for the same thing. And it's not to get our paws on our face seen to. It's just to get about you.

We all have flawless skin. And head out. I was like, come on, guys. You know, you can do this now. And I bet you, did you get any kudos on the day? No. Oh, so nice of Indians, you know. Well, it is, but. Who went after work? Stood. Oh, so nice of Indians, you know, as it is.

But who went after work? Stood in line, got found a park, paper parking. In previous years, they have done it. They've gone out and done it themselves. It's a great way for us to make Mother's Day about ourselves. Yeah, exactly. Happy Mother's Day to all the mums. But what we'll know is, did you forget, A, did you forget Mother's Day?

Or B, are you a mother? And you had a did you forget Mother's Day? Or, B, are you a mother? And you had a less than satisfying Mother's Day. Because this is the moment for redemption. Okay? This is where you can make good for the last 48 hours. Yeah, that's right. We've got extravagant bouquets of flowers to give away. Yeah, we've got three bouquets of flowers. So, 0800 the hits, 4487.

As John has said, if you're a mum and you're like, oh, things are a little lacklustre, you can get this for yourself. Or, you know, if you disappointed your mum. How was Annie? How was your mum, Annie? She's good. You know what? I've cracked the co's with presents.

Because, you know, there was a time we had to buy the present. They're in Christchurch. Send the present. It's not actually that much admin when you think about it. But, yeah. The vouchers. The online vouchers. Fire them out to a restaurant. They're there by bloody. I got home the other Monday.

They were staying with us. 11 in the morning. They were drinking gin. And making white bag fritters. I was like, what is this? What is this life you're living? So anyway. So I got her a lunch voucher. How about you, Jenny? Because she loves going I got her a lunch voucher. Oh, very nice. How about you, Jenny?

Oh, well, I got her, because she loves going to the movies. She doesn't get to do it very often. So I got her a voucher to go to the movie theater, which is just in Kittikitty. You know, a lot of fun. You can have a night out at the movies. Ring her up, thinking great. She goes, oh, great. But I just have been happy with her phone call. Oh, she could have told me that about a week ago.

While I was standing in the makeup shop. Exactly. With my flawless skin Maybe we can blame it on me Blame it on George If he didn't follow through for Mother's Day yesterday It could be his fault Because right now we've got some Mother's Day redemption We've got three bouquets of flowers

We're going to give those away to other mums Who are feeling a little aggrieved Or if you've kind of dropped the ball, then you can win one of those. We can make good for your negligence. Producer Taylor, you do spend a lot of time on your phone, FaceTiming Sue Lombardi, your mum in Sydney. Yes. Three hours yesterday on FaceTime, was it, or what were you doing?

No, unfortunately not. It was only a 10-minute one because she had all her fan club over for Mother's Day. Oh, nice. And I don't like doing that because then everyone's involved in the conversation. My brother gets in. I'm like, just shut up. Oh, you get the whole, everyone's like, oh, you must talk to Aunty. She's like, oh, yeah, and I'm't like doing that because then everyone's involved in the conversation my brother gets in, I'm like just shut up Oh you get the whole, everyone's like you must talk to auntie and I'm like hi how's New Zealand? Yeah fine

like it was last week Alright we're going to make good for you Jessica welcome from Rangiora this morning how are you? I'm good how are you? We're doing well you had a less than ideal Mother's Day, we understand. Yeah, so my husband, bless him, I did remind him about a month ago. So

he's a stay-at-home dad. He's been the last two years. So we've only got one wage coming in. So I was like, you know, just get our son to make something. I'll be happy with that. He's only three, like a hamper and anything. And then Saturday night, I was like, oh, so, you know, tomorrow, Mother's Day. He's like, oh, no. He forgot. He forgot. So that's almost a wake the son up situation.

Let's quickly make something. Even if he's half asleep, just put a pen in his hand and move it around a bit of paper. Oh, you see, you gave a warning, you gave a second warning, and nothing. Well, we're going to give you a bouquet of flowers to say happy Mother's Day. Oh, you see, you gave a warning, you gave a second warning and nothing. Well, we're going to give you a bouquet of flowers to say happy Mother's Day.

Oh, that's awesome. Thank you so much. He sounds like he's a busy guy, though. He does. Yeah, he does. You're right. Stuff gets away and, you know,

people say stuff all the time. You're like, yeah, I'll get around to that and it slips out, I know. You're right. He's not out golfing. Oh, I presume he's not out golfing. He's doing a lot of work at home.

We're getting Vaughan on. Uh-oh, Vaughan. What happened? Oh, mate. Good morning. How are you, first at home. We're getting Vaughan on. Uh-oh, Vaughan, what happened? Oh, mate, good morning. How are you? We're good, Vaughan. How are you? That's the big question.

Basically, same story, mate. Was reminded, yep, yep, yep. Busy with work, kids, everything. And luckily, everyone else didn't forget. I'm the one who forgot. And most of our parents are overseas

and stuff so everyone actually remembered because apparently it was Mother's Day worldwide yeah well it's still

Mother's Day in Russia and Moscow so you're not too late on Russian time no I forgot

the missus but she's ok I mean every day should be Mother's Day anyway she'll be reminded I like that every day's okay i mean every day should be mother's day anyway

oh every day's mother's day every day i make every day the greatest exactly i make food every day mate oh boy we're going to give you a bouquet of flowers to pass on all right my makeup thank you and even more surprising the day after too yeah i expect it yeah it makes it more special, doesn't it? I know she's not listening right now, so it's going to be epic. So good. Yeah, good on you. Every day is Mother's Day. There's quote unquote Vaughan 2024.

Jaday, welcome. How are you? How are you? Morning. Jaday. Jaday? Shaday. Taylor!

Why have you spelled her name J-A-D-A-Y? I'm like, I'm like... J-Day. No wonder you're not talking to us. You're like, who are they? Who's J-Day? Sade, good morning. Sorry about the shaky, shaky start.

Sorry, you've had a bad Mother's Day and we get your name wrong. What happened yesterday, mate? No, so I forgot. Well, I didn't forget. I organized something with my sister to get something, but she didn't end up getting it. So I get a call from my mum saying, did you forget? And I'm like, oh, my God.

Your sister dropped the ball. You never want the did you forget? And I'm like, oh my God. Your sister dropped the ball. You never want the did you forget. Because there's a hundred things you could have forgotten. Well, you're going to get a bouquet of flowers, J-Day. All right. Thank you. You give those to your mum and

hopefully we've patched things up. Happy Mother's Day. But remember, every day is Mother's Day. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Between now and 9 o'clock, we'll be playing Lady Gaga paparazzi. When you hear it, 0800 THE HITS. You can be the first person in to win a year's free rent or mortgage paid entirely for the year. Thanks to One Roof as well, oneroof.co.nz. Yeah, it's pretty awesome.

Thanks to the wonderful team there. Now, over the weekend, you know know me i like to get you know i like to get i'd like to get stuff done and when there's stuff that needs to be doing i'm like okay i'm on a mission to get those how much stuff did you get done over the way like i would like talk purely through tasks how many do you think dozens there was a lot on over the weekend we've got a family staying we've got my dad my stepmom is saying my wife's brother was back as well from the states we're we're sort of juggling that. A lot of family stuff. Mother's Day, my daughter's in a production. That's why the family was staying as well.

Dropping her off for that. All this stuff. Netball. There's a lot of stuff, guys. This is not even my stuff I need to do. This is just other stuff. That's extra stuff. And every parent right now listening will go, yep, I hear you.

Amen. I hear you. We do so much stuff. Yeah. But you like to do a lot of stuff anyway. But that seems like added stuff to already your long list of stuff. Other daughter come back from camp as well as all the washing and all that stuff. And I'm like, okay, I'm trying to get all this stuff.

Was that like a get on, close down, hose her off situation after camp? Yeah, pretty much. I came down for four days from camp, everything getting washed. But I got through a lot of the washing. I was doing all this sort of stuff. I got the house looking pretty good because all this family is staying and my daughter who was doing School of Rock Siena

she had little periods of time at home and what I came home to I think I've been to the supermarket came back and she was she had all the pots and pans and stuff out in the kitchen I'm like oh hell what's going on what's going on right now talk to me you've been home

you're only here for 10 minutes at a time so what's going on what have you done she's like I've just seen on tiktok uh there's a thing called tongue hulu it's a it's it's a traditional chinese snack where they crystallize sugar over like over like fruits like grapes and things like that i'm gonna make it i'm like do you have to do it right now we need to like you've gone through your whole life without having tongue hulu it's like a heart you're trying to make a hardened sugar syrup on the elements i'm like do you have to please you

do you have to do this right now because i've just got the kitchen we've got family coming over i know very impulsive kids yeah i know she's like i would like to make it and then my wife's like oh come on let them be kids let them let her be a kid she wants to do it how bad can we let her be a kid. She wants to do it. How bad can it be? Let her be a kid. I'm like, do you have a stuffer griddle? I'm like, all right. Okay. It's fine. Let her do her thing. She did her thing.

She made whatever the tongue hulu thing that she wanted to make the snack was fine. And then I come home later. She had tied, to her credit, she had tidied it up. But when I went to use the insincerator, not working. I'm like, what's going on here? Does anyone know what happened? She's like, oh, yeah. I tried to pour the sugar crystals down the,

the tongue Hulu down the thing, yeah. I'm like, oh, well there you go. That seized up the incinerator. Then I'm looking at my wife and she, I was like,

oh, how bad can it be? Oh, let it be kids, eh? This is, this is why. It was one of those things where I'm like,

I felt justified in my, did you, did you do what I told you so? I have of those things where I'm like, I felt justified in my... Did you do what I told you so? Or was it just a look? I have a look. Are we like, really? Really now? Now the insincerator is not working for the weekend. So one of those moments where I'm like,

I was just told to relax, we're chill. And then this happens. You're a bit of a kid. Yeah, I'm like, do we need to make it? But anyway, she enjoyed it

and we'll get the insincerator fixed in three to four days. Sounds like there was some tense conversations at the boys' household over the weekend. I'm chill, I'm chill, I'm all cool, I'm fine. Next, one of the show we've discovered has a secret specialty topic. Knows everything about Mount Everest.

Yeah, very unusual thing for someone to be really into. Obsessed with. We'll bring it in next, and we want to know what you know. What's your specialist topic? What do you know everything about? We'll tell you in just a few moments on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Just retelling his tale of a high-stress weekend

with the breakdown of an in-sync generator. Someone's texted in, Ben, 44487 hot water down the sink, it'll melt the sugar, everything will be fine. Okay, I'll do some

more. Okay, alright, thank you for that. I appreciate it, that's the

good thing about the hits, everyone's so helpful. Very helpful audience, sometimes you

think, are you taking the piss? It's so nice and helpful. Other radio stations were texting,

shame, 60, you be you, that sort of thing. Where's your man card, fix it yourself,

stuff like that. Yeah. So thank you very much for that. Appreciate it. Now, Producer Taylor, welcome back. Had a few days off. Can't sleep at the moment. Nightmare.

Yeah. No nightmares. No nightmares, unfortunately. What do you do at like two in the morning? Literally just lying down with my eyes open. And then I start to think about all the horror movies I've watched. And then I start imagining dark figures in like the corner of the ceiling and stuff. Well, that's going to help you sleep.

Yeah. It's a really good process. Have you thought about drinking? Like, I don't want to encourage. Yeah, I was actually thinking of knocking back a few reds. But like, I'm the type where even when I am drunk, it actually makes me wake up early. Wow. Yeah.

There we go. Well, hey, mate, someone might text in 4487 how to get Taylor to sleep. Yeah, please. Because the doctor's not helping her No He's not giving you anything No tablets allowed for me So but, we wanted to talk this morning about What you know everything about

What's your expert topic Because you've got a, well I guess an unusual one Yeah, I'd say niche Yeah I've got a niche obsession with Mount Everest Like and it's not just like you know a few things about it No, I know everything. And I've watched every single documentary out there.

Exciting news, guys. Climbing season has officially begun for this year. My favourite season of the year. I'm wired on YouTube videos. Just watched a rescue. So tell us some of your top line facts you know about the mountain, Mount Everest. There's over 200 dead bodies on the mountain. Really?

Yes. And some are like mountain. Really? Yes. And some are like iconic. So, Sherpas. So iconic. Sherpas that guide tours up Everest actually use some of these dead bodies to map out the routes. Really? So, there's like a famous dead body called Green Boots.

So, he's there. Obviously, he's got green hiking boots on. Great name. Then there's sleeping beauty she passed away with her husband and she just looks so so beautiful and peaceful asleep so they obviously frozen and no one can bring them back down and you actually sign that you can't it's just too dangerous they're like it's so high up helicopters one can't even go that high and then two that many people would risk their lives trying to bring the body down. They'd probably die.

Right. And so they just ran out of oxygen? Yeah. And you saw – no. Well, that's one reason. Another thing is most deaths actually occur on the descent. So once they've reached the top because of exhaustion, yeah, run out of oxygen. Being up that high apparently feels like being really drunk, the bad kind.

Right. Because there's lack of oxygen. You don't know where you're kind of walking, I guess. Yeah. Why are you so obsessed with Mount Everest? I don't know. I actually have no idea. But that's like a dream of yours to go there in your life.

You want to visit Mount Everest. Yeah, I don't want to climb it because I have too much respect for the mountain. But I just want to go to base camp. Not enough people Everest. Yeah, I don't want to climb it because I have too much respect for the mountain. But I just want to go to base camp. Not enough people do. Yeah, clearly not. Yeah, just admire. I think I would cry. And it's laden with feces, isn't it?

Yeah, it is. So new rule this year is if you climb it, you have to take poo bags and pick up after yourself. Like walking your dog. Yeah. And then what, take that with you the entire trip? The entire trip. The whole journey. You'll get fined if you don't.

I guess it'll be frozen. It wouldn't be like it's in the sun or anything. Yeah, it is frozen, but then they reckon with climate change, a bit more of the mountain is melting, so people are getting really sick because to drink water, you scoop snow up and melt it, and that's your drinking water. Oh, but it's contaminated. Yeah, people are getting really sick.

Yeah, wowee. Well, that's a burn-the-bag situation when you head back home, isn't it? And what I found fascinating, because you said it was two months to actually climb. I looked, Sir Ed, 1953 was it? 1953?

16 days. Sir Edmund Hillary. Well, I guess nowadays there's like a thousand permits given every year. You're dealing with like foot traffic. But you think the technology back then would have been minimal. He wouldn't have known where he was going. The Sherpa guy.

Yeah, there's a movie being made about Tenzing, actually. Yeah. Is it? Oh, that's great. Not what they achieved in 1953. Remarkable. Crazy. He was the first person to bloody take one on the mountain.

Yeah. He probably was. I don't know if he was bringing a bag with the situation or not. He's probably still sitting up there. A vintage Surrey. 1953. Put it on a trophy. 800 The Hits.

4487. That is Producer Taylor's specialty topic. What's yours? Love to know that this morning we've got some hell pizza up for grabs. We'd love to give to you. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Bryn Rudkin, wonderful newsreader, is filling in for Megan this morning, we've got some hell pizza up for grabs. We'd love to give to you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Bryn Rudkin, wonderful newsreader,

is filling in for Megan this morning who's away. He's had a story on. All morning, there was a university graduation happening in the States. And you know, when you read out the people's names, they come up on stage, they get their certificate, move on. We've done a few MC jobs over the years. And sometimes, you know, names can be, you don't want to get them wrong. No. Sometimes you get to it and you're like, like oh i haven't asked the person how to pronounce it

i should have and you plow on anyway and you plow and that was the attitude that this host was taking they were just plowing on now bearing in mind they're trying to they're trying to say the name sarah oh sarah okay sarah sarah yeah that feels feels like pretty up the guts. Virginia, again, wouldn't really throw you. Brenna and Thomas. So these are four graduates that this host of the ceremony is trying to announce and welcome to the stage. Sarah Uvun Jinju Brinan. What the heck?

Ta Mume Thomas. What the heck? Ta-mo-may. Thomas. Thomas. Virgin Juju. Tahume. That's a lovely, lovely way of pronouncing Thomas, isn't it? We laugh, though. We laugh and you laughed.

I did laugh. I am laughing I'm mocking but this happened not but one hour ago have a listen Jaday Jaday welcome

how are you how are you morning Jaday Jaday Shaday yeah so it can happen to everyone