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Episode Date: August 13, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. The Olympics, so it's finished now a couple of days ago, and last Wednesday, oh actually nothing to do with the Olympics, I don't know why I even mentioned the Olympics. Absolutely no coincidence whatsoever, we had our own torch ceremony. There was a clash of scheduling that they had a torch ceremony and we had a torch ceremony. I mean we sent them the calendar invite, You would have thought they would have adjusted accordingly. They had Dr. Dre and Snoop and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

They had their thing, you know, and we did our own thing. Yeah, we're not all the showbiz razzmatazz. Understated. This is New Zealand. We had a dolphin torch and just your stand, you know, your dolphin torch that you'd see in your cupboard or campsites or wherever around the country. We got one of those.

We put it on. Why is it called a dolphin? I don't know. What have dolphins got to do with batteries? Are we chucking them in the ocean and they love chewing them? It's a good point. It would lead me to believe that it was waterproof, it was a dolphin.

Exactly. But I don't know if it is. Dolphins and batteries have no connection in my mind. Maybe someone listening might know what the correlation is there. But anyway, remarkable torch. can I just say that? Because on Wednesday we put it on and we thought by the end of the week the batteries would run out. That's what we were thinking.

Maybe it's like dolphins. They just keep going. They're just swimming. They're never stopping. And we didn't know how old the batteries were, so we thought it would be gone in a couple of days and you could basically predict on the hits breakfast on Facebook when the batteries would run out.

The closest ones at the time the batteries actually run out would win $500. But this thing is still going. It's still going, yeah. So you've taken it home for a couple of days. I've tended and cared for it like a newborn child. I wrapped it up, swaddled it, fed it nutrients from my bosom to keep it going. But last night we left it with the security here in the building. So is it still going?

We haven't checked in on it. Yeah, we're going to go call Gunjan, head of security. Never ask. He's already got a torch. He's got one with a disco setting. So he didn't need this torch. No. It's been sitting under the desk here at work, at reception.

So overnight we've had security obviously looking after it. And have I dialed the wrong number? Oh, no, it should be going through. It felt like it was ringing. It was ringing and then it stopped. And then it stopped ringing. Great radio. This is live radio.

This is live. Shall I dial again? Dial again. We can just sit here and pan for time. Talk more about why it's called a dolphin. Yeah, so overnight, maybe it's switched off. And if it has switched off, hopefully the overnight security guard was, the memo was passed on.

That they had to keep an eye on what time it was. Because people have been entering at the Hits breakfast on Facebook as to what time. Hi, Gunjan. Gunjan. Good morning, John. How are you, baby? I'm good, I'm good. How are you?

We're doing all right. We're on the radio right now. We just wanted to know our torch, the dolphin, how's it going? Oh, it's still on. Still on! Still on! Is it looking any less bright than when it was handed over

to you on the official passing of the torch ceremony yesterday, Gunjan? No, it's the same. It looks the same, exactly. Relentless. I think this thing is just running on stubbornness. I know. All right, well, you know what to do.

If it runs out at any stage or anyone else in your security team notice it runs out, let us know exactly the time it runs out. I've told them about that. Any trouble this morning, Gunjan? What's been happening out there? No, nothing. Nothing? Good.

Everything under control. Everything under control in the trenches. All right. Thank you so much, Gunjan. Appreciate it. You have a good day. Thank you. Thank you, team.

Thank you. I feel like we've really just, like, it was our burden. We've burdened some, like, our whole security team. Because I think we're both going, oh, this thing's never going to end because there was

we have called in experts crisis meetings were held and there was talk that if it was LED powered or something that you know potentially seven years

battery life something will go on in the building like there'll be some sort of thing and we'll go what happened why were you there

security and they're like oh we'll keep an eye on the torch for John and Ben and they'll be like oh because the LA Olympics

2028. Yeah. Probably still going. Still going. Still be going by then. You can still enter at the Hits Breakfast on Facebook. You can win $500. Whenever this torch goes out, as Jono said before,

the America's Cup joins us in 10 minutes' time in the studio. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and Toyota New Zealand, they're taking the America's Cup, the actual trophy around the country. You can catch it as it goes from the top of the north to the deep south. And to tell us more about it from the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is David Blakely. Good morning. How are you? Good, thank you.

Lovely to have you in here. You and the America's Cup. We can't stop saying it's a lot bigger than you think it would be. Yeah, it is. No one's ever said that to me. No, it's like, do you find that people do say that about the America's Cup? They're surprised with the size of it? Everybody says that.

Yeah. It is a spectacular trophy. It is. I would say the size of a, what, a four-, five-year-old kid? Yeah, but if you want to use the child measurement system, yeah, for a five-year-old kid. Yeah. So how heavy is it?

Because 17 kilograms. Oldest trophy in sport over 170 years ago wow it's really it's a sight to behold um and you're going to be taking it around the country that's right so with our with our friends from toyota new zealand we're taking it to 40 destinations around the country from kiri kiri in the north to invacago in the south visiting sailing clubs schools toyota stores the length and breadth of the country that's very cool so people can get up close to it and get a photo? Absolutely. Oh, awesome.

Now, you've got a wonderful gentleman here with white gloves on. Now, it's his job to carry it around. That's Norm? No, Norm. Is he a safe pair of hands, Norm? Norm is a very safe pair of hands. Hasn't dropped it? Haven't dropped it once?

Not yet. Not yet. I imagine a huge responsibility for you, Norm. Norm looks like he could kill a man. Don't mess with Norm. Don't touch the cup. Wow. And many people will be aware that it's not going to be held in New Zealand this time.

Whereabouts is the Next America's Cup? The Next America's Cup is in Barcelona. And why'd they take it to Barcelona? Because Barcelona offered to host it for us. And by doing that, the team was able to raise enough money to be able to hopefully successfully defend it. Nice. So that's a little bit different this time.

So this is effectively the Cup going on its OE. And we're doing something different. But it's still a home race for us. We are still defending it. And so are there new teams, new countries entering this America's Cup that haven't been there previously? Yes, there are. So there's teams from France

Swiss are back with a Lingi. They had a Lingi yeah and what is different this time is they've brought in the muscle of some of the Formula 1 teams a Lingi have so they've got the Red Bull Formula 1 team INEOS have brought in the Mercedes

Formula 1 team so they're putting enormous resource and horsepower and Team New Zealand are working incredibly hard to make sure that they can defend it. Because it's changed so much. I remember the early times that I would watch it, the boats would seem to go out. It felt like they were out there for days.

It probably wasn't. They've gone missing for six hours. We'll find out who wins when they come back. They're tagging, they're driving. But now it's like Formula One on water, isn't it? They had the little trampoline thing. They had one stage pedaling with their feet and legs as well. So many innovations have happened over the last few years.

Yeah, and the cyclers are back this time. But what will be unique this time is the event will be literally sailed off the beach in Barcelona. Is it going to be fast? How much faster can these things go? Well, the feedback we're getting is a lot faster. Really? Than last America's Cup. A lot Really? Than last America's Cup. A lot faster than the last America's Cup.

Because there's always a secrecy too because no one wants to sort of play their hand too early and the technology and stuff. So how does all that happen? Do they sort of sail when other people aren't watching? As I say, a lot of the technology and the sophistication is what we can't see. It's inside the boats.

They can only build a certain number of foils. But they'll all be careful. Actually, the preliminary regatta for the America's Cup starts at the end of this month. And that will be the first time that we'll see all the boats racing together and actually start to get a feel for who's fast and who's not. And so do they look to like Olympic athletes and things? Because I'm like, have you got cyclers? We just won gold multiple times, the women did in France.

That's right. In fact, Team New Zealand has ex-Olympic cyclers in We just won gold multiple times, the women did in France. That's right. In fact, Team New Zealand has ex-Olympic cyclers in their team. Do we have a big hand in making the rules for this America's Cup, given that we're the current cup holders? We do, but we have to agree it with what they call a challenger of record,

which is a club that acts on behalf of the challenging clubs, and in this case, it's the Royal Yacht Squadron out of England. Because I'd be like, hey, by the way, no Formula 1 dudes. No Formula 1, keep those in and allowed. Yeah, no rules. And you'd start five minutes after we start. I don't think they could do that.

Oh, you can't do that. No. Well, thank you so much for bringing that in. It's really an honour to have America's Cup with yourself in the studio. Where can people, if they want to see it, as you said, it's going from the top of the north to the bottom of the south. How can they find out where it's going to be? Yeah, the best place to go is our website,

which is kiwicup.co.nz, and that has all the details for the trip. What a nightmare to get the old silver out on that thing, isn't it? It'd be a big polishing job. Yeah, really remarkable. So yeah, definitely go out and see this thing. Have a photo with it before it heads off.

When does it go overseas? It goes to Barcelona towards the end of September carry on luggage how does it first class first class I can imagine

it would be first class we've got a first class bike well thank you so much for coming in we really appreciate it pleasure Dave there you go from the New Zealand

L'Yacht Squadron which is quite a lot of weird words in one mouthful also hard to spell yachts too isn't it and squadron yeah

the hits the Jono and Ben podcast. At one of the supermarkets right now you can get Disney cards and I love a supermarket promotion. I get particularly a Disney one. I've in the past got swept up in the Disney dominoes. This time

I've bought their little collector's album that I can try and collect my 108 I didn't realise it was 108 cards until I bought the album. There's a, there's a lot of pages. But that's my commitment to collecting cards. The first step to recovery, Ben, is admitting you have a problem. Yeah, I admit it. The dominoes you got swept up in the little shops,

the little gardens. Yeah. Those weird, you've already got Disney cards that you put in a viewfinder thing. What was that? Was that Disney characters? There's been a lot. How many a lot you've got like if how many collections have you been a part of well yeah a few a few but this is my new one i'll move on you move on to a new

collection that gives you gives your life some purpose do you know um there are i can't think of any worse vices out there than uh ben's one but one of the greatest humanitarian acts i think i've ever been a part of is when you go to the supermarket and it happened to me on the weekend, and they're like are you collecting the stickers? The stickers that are like the size of a baby ant, you know those ones? I was like, listen, no, I'm not.

And then what I like to do... Give it to the next person? Oh my god, you feel like a million dollars. And they are like I owe you. I will name my next born child after you you know the look of gratitude and it makes you feel so it's the same with these things if you get the cards and then if you if you're not like i'll give it to this person they are just like forever in your in debt uh yeah so collection craziness have you been part of of collection craziness do you

uh do you do you find yourself getting swept up in these things? We have Bonnie on the phone this morning. How are you? Good, good. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well. Are you Collection Crazy? Apparently so, yes.

Give us your history. What's your rap sheet? We collected Transformers, you know, the interchangeable toys and stuff like that. So that's been like a 22-year collection we've got going on. We collect Pokemon cards, Yu-Gi-Oh cards. We've done all of the Woolworths ones. So we've done the bricks, the dominoes, the cards. And that is the thing.

That is the hook that these conglomerates they know they know what is any human it's natural human nature once you start a collection you need to finish your collection

that's where they get you you're right they know our weak spot yeah pretty much so we just arrived back in New Zealand on Saturday and my kid was like

mum Woolworths is doing a card collection and I don't even know how he found out about that so now we're hooked into that the first time they give you cards,

that's your moment. You're like, do you want these cards? As soon as you say yes, you open the cards. It's the gateway. I know I'm going to be buying the album.

I'm going to be filling up 108 cards or I'm going to be very sad that I don't. The worst part for us is we don't even have a Woolworths in our town. So I have to now

go to our old town to collect these cards. Oh, my God. And do you need to finish it? Like, there's no part of you that can't go, actually, no, we're not going to do this one? Oh, no, it's too late. We're in.

We're like 20 cards already deep. We're talking about the dominoes they had a few years ago, and I was on there, and I did go to a swap meet because I was looking on TradeMe. People were selling them, individual ones on TradeMe and my wife was like, you are not,

because I use her account. She's like, you're not going to use my account to buy these. Because people were selling. It was a frenzy. It's a frenzy. They whip up a frenzy.

Like, how? I get that. My husband joined in on the Lego, you know, the bricks craze and he was buying them off like TradeMe and Facebook. You Lego, you know, the bricks craze and he was buying them off, like, Trade Me and Facebook.

Sometimes as a species we need to step back and take a break. And then three weeks later you're like, what was wrong? What was I doing? Why was I in too deep? Bonnie, you're going to have a wonderful day. Really appreciate you listening. You guys too. Thank you. Let's keep this coming through. Collection

craziness Have you found yourself in deep? It can be like a therapy session for you Before 7 o'clock this morning Love your calls and texts on 0800 The Hits It's 6.44 on your Wednesday The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast Yeah we are

And you can get them through 0800 The Hits Speaking of dominoes, Ben Boyce, you got swept up in the GCJ domino Maybe that's what she's singing about, right? of dominoes, Ben Boyce, you got swept up in the GCJ domino. Maybe that's what she's singing about, right? The dominoes collection. Just the dominoes, yeah.

You went to swap meets and everything as well. Great text here, 4487. Someone who's fully backing you, Ben Boyce. You go, boy.

You go. I collect all those things. You please let us know when you find the New Zealand Wow Facebook swap group. I don't know, that must mean something to you.

Oh, okay. Well, I don't know about this, but I'll have a look now. We've collected the dominoes, the bricks. I don't know. That must mean something to you. Oh, okay. Well, I don't know about this, but I'll have a look now. We've collected the dominoes, the bricks. I go to Hard Rock cafes. I collect all their pins. I collect a key chain from every country, major city we travel to. My son's currently collecting all these Zuru NBA basketballers.

Go for it, Ben. Go. Nice. That's cool. Yeah, so 0800, the telephone number. Have you gone collection crazy? Ben, you join us. Good morning to you. Morning. Lovely to have you on, Ben.

Over 20,000, what have you got? I had over 20,000 marbles. 20,000 marbles? Yep. Wow. Have you counted them? I counted them as I was getting them. I did it from when I was about 10

to when I was about 14 so about 4 years 5 or 4 years, that's a lot of marbles so were you going out buying them or were you sort of winning them off people how was it working some I was buying, some I got given some I just found lying around and just claimed them as my own and what are you doing now with all those marbles

have you lost your marbles or you still got them well that was still debatable but no I was about 15 I think your marbles or you still got them? Well, that was still debatable. But no, when I was about 15 or 16, I gave them to my siblings to use. Do you know, my son, when he was young, he once swallowed a marble and the doctor's like, well, there's

only one solution here. You have to sift through the waste. Oh, just to make sure it'd come out. For a week. For a week I did that. I was like, they did not put this in the parenting. No, they don't. In the manual. Yeah, but I found that marble.

Do you want that one? I don't think he wants that one. You're good for that one. You've got enough. Thanks, Ben. Appreciate your call. 20,000 marbles. Impressive.

Yeah, really impressive. Laura, good morning. How are you? Good morning. Jono and Dean. Cheers to Dilma. Warm up this winter with a cup of Dilma tea. Sorry, Laura. Get the sponsorship away there, Laura. Sorry about Laura. Get the sponsorship away there, Laura.

Sorry about that. Wait your turn. Good morning. Good morning. Not novelty supermarket cards that you're collecting, but what are you deep into? I collect salt and paper shakers. Oh, okay.

So how many of those have you got? Probably at least a dozen sets. Yeah, see, like any more than two feels like too many. Yes, yeah, definitely. You know, after your first set of Salt and Pepper Shakers, what got inside of you where you're like, I need to add to this? Oh, I just think they're really cute.

Have them for all different situations. I've got like Halloween ones and Easter ones, Christmas ones. I got over, visiting family in America recently, my brother-in-law, he got into wreath.

You know, Christmas, you know how they have the wreath, the flower wreath outside the house. He's like, you can get one for every month of the year. And so he's got in his garage on the wall, he's got the same thing as you. He's now got 12 different wreaths.

Wreaths are like, you hang on your door. Yeah, your door. Yeah, like the flower. He's on the wall, he's got the same thing as you. He's now got 12 different wreaths. Wreaths are like you hang on your door. Yeah, your door. Yeah, like the flower. He's like, yeah, well, this one's the January one. This one's the, yeah. Do they differ? Well, yes. Yeah, well.

Is it still like mistletoe? Yeah, they do slightly. Like the Halloween one, the October one's more Halloween. But I'm like, someone saw you coming. The wreath industry's taking the piss there. They're like, hey, it's not just a Christmas thing, guys. Yeah, Laura. So what is your consumption of salt and pepper like? You must be having it on every meal.

No, I actually don't use them. They're just decorations. Oh, they're just decorations? Yeah. Are they full of salt and pepper? No. No, they're just there. So someone comes over and they're like, oh, these are cool.

And you're like, yeah, they are. And then you go to use them and you're like, oh, no, they don't. They're not practical. I mean, you're right. Out of all the kitchen apparatus, it is quite cute, isn't it? Cute little shapes. Yeah, you can get little things. I mean, again, dare I say it, I've seen Mickey and Minnie ones.

I've seen all sorts. So, yeah, I can see how you do that. Can you run us through your collection? What have you got? I've got some that look like Minnie jugs. I've got mason jars, gingerbread men, some little snowmen, some skulls. And none of them will see a speck of salt or pepper. No, definitely not.

Love it. Laura, hey, thank you very much for sharing your story. Love your work. Have a great day. You too. Thanks. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. In America yesterday they had a big earthquake in Los Angeles

and there's times, a very scary situation, there's times where you do this job and you're like, well how would I be if something happened live on the radio, how professional would we be? And listen to this lady from ESPN, Malika Andrews is her name, just handled the situation live on TV like a complete pro. Clearly the crowd sort of getting behind as we have a bit of an earthquake here in Los Angeles so we're just going to make sure that our studio lights, everything stays safe, everything's shaking. You good Mylon? Everybody good? Alright thank you so much for bearing with us through that. Wow.

Just checking the crew are alright. Just didn't need to eat it. Cool as a cucumber. I'm like ahhh! AHHH! I know! You wanna get on here you want to get on here should we get on here

should we go it's over it's over what's the protocol you know stampeding over people I know just incredible

it'd be ugly scenes if this show got into an earthquake calm collected professional and then she continued on an interview

yeah you were good to go everyone made sure the studio were fine to go to continue and then just carried on she even checked at the lady on the satellite link who was doing the interview and was like are you okay continue and then just carry it on she even checked

at the lady on the satellite link who was doing the interview and was like are you okay and she's like well I'm not even there but yeah

I'm fine I'm fine pretty incredible well good on Malika congratulations on being a boss you hoped you would look like that

in that situation but you never do you never do I kind of well I don't want to come on here and boast or anything

but that's what the radio's for self indulgence I was driving along the road it was when we were having you're overseas and we're having Well, I don't want to come on here and boast or anything, but that's what the radio's for, isn't it? Self-indulgence. I was driving along the road. It was when we were having a year over a season. We were having a holiday. This lady, she ran out in the middle of the road,

and she was hysterical. And she's crying. She's crying. Stop the car. It was like a four-lane road. It was a lot of traffic. And you're like, oh, what's going on here? Because I have pulled over for people previously, Ben.

Remember that lovely lady I pulled over? She looked like she hadn't blinked in about three years. And you ended up taking her to court. She's like, I'm late for my district court appearance. I'm like, oh, I was just down the road from the radio station. I was due for our afternoon radio show. I was like, oh, I sucked up the big ones. I was like, hop in, mate.

I'll take you to court. And I go to court. And we're about sort of three minutes into the trip. She's like, you know what? I could go. We could go to Wendy's. I was like, but you just said you were late for. I was like, OK, I guess I can take you to Wendy's.

You can't go to court on an empty stomach. No, you don't know how long that's going to be. Yeah, and I mean, if you're going away for a long time, then you want to have a last meal. So I took her to Wendy's drive-thru. And then I was like, do we need to go to court? And she's like, oh, no, I'm actually fine. I'm fine now.

So you would have thought I would have learned my lesson. So anyway, this lady, she's hysterical, crying, crying, and she's going, my baby, my baby, my baby. And I'm like, uh-oh. Because I had Poppy, my daughter, in the car. And she was like, come into the house, come into the house. And so I pulled over and was like, Poppy, you're going to have to wait here. I don't know what.

Because you don't know what you're walking into. No, exactly. When someone's saying my baby, my baby, my baby, and I'm low-key going, I have no skills to do anything here. I can't, you know. It's like when a car breaks down, I walk up to try and help someone with a broken down car, and I'm like, I can't help these people.

You don't know what to do, yeah. That's what it looked like. So then I walk up, and so what had happened, thank God nothing serious. Her baby had somehow, she'd gone to hang out the washing, and her baby had locked itself inside the house. But it was a two-story house. So she couldn't climb

up and get in. And there was a little window open. And so I was like, I'll try and climb. And I was like, hello. It's like this weird white bald man's climbing in the window. To see a baby inside. The baby was like staring at me. I'm like, hello, little baby. Like when you don't have babies, you forget how to talk to babies.

Oh, and it's a baby you don't know. The baby's there to see you. The baby's like staring at me going, who? Who's this man dangling? I'm like, hello, little baby. I'm like, listen, mummy's just in there. I'm just going to climb in. And the baby's like, rah!

Anyway, climbed in, picked up the baby. And the baby's like, please don picked up the baby and the baby's like please don't pick me up screaming and yelling okay went and let her in the door so that was thank god it wasn't anything serious but you know when you're in that situation from her point of view like there's nothing i don't she was obviously just panicking oh totally a very very stressful situation so that's how we would have handled it hey next uh well how am i going to handle it jonah's going to call a reception. He's going to send me out of the room and you're going to basically put a message out for me

at the reception. Leave a message for me. I don't know what the message is. Well, we're going to go to a medical laboratory because Megan, who's wonderfully usually here on the show, wonderfully usually here on the show, just picking words out of thin air. She's got COVID, so it's a COVID-themed one.

Oh, God. Okay. What's going to happen next in this wonderfully usually She's wonderfully usually here. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We do this from time to time. We call it reception, reception. Realise that we don't have anyone that

can take a message for us on a reception anywhere, right? Yeah. Well we haven't reached that stage of the corporate ladder have we? I don't know what stage. Is that middle management? You got people taking messages? Yeah, maybe. So we thought, well, would it be interesting if we had a receptionist that could take a message for us, but maybe

not from the company we work for, just a receptionist. Would they take that message for us and pass it on? Utilise other people's resource. Now Megan, who's wonderfully usually here, she's away with COVID. It feels like it's going out for another blast, isn't it, COVID? Going for another round trip at the moment.

So I thought we'd kind of play in that field, Ben. So what I'll do is I'll get you to leave the room, and I will leave a message for you with this reception. So just a random reception somewhere in New Zealand. They don't know me, I'm guessing. No, they don't, and you won't know the exact details of the message. So you go out. So you don't know what you're retrieving.

And I'm going to dial the number here. Good luck. Tina speaking. Hi, Tina. How are you? Good. How are you? I just got a message to pass on for Ben. Ben? Okay. It's Dr. Astley Zunfield calling from the clinic that he visited.

Now, he just got his test results back in. The good news is he hasn't tested positive for COVID. Okay. But he has tested positive for undeniable sexiness. Okay. Okay. No. So I don't know if the government The government or the community Aren't equipped for this amount of sexiness from Ben No, obviously not

Well we need to lock him up We do need to lock him up We need to lock his perfectly formed Toned and tanned obliques Oh God He needs to go into isolation Okay I'll pass that off with your sunshine

Thank you Tina Okay Ben Boyce Back in from the Soundproof Producers booth Okay Okay Tina I'll pass that off With your sunshine Thank you Tina Okay Ben Boyce Back in from The Soundproof Producers booth Welcome back That was quick That was quick

Tina was Did you leave a message? Very obliging Okay Yeah very obliging So Tina's Tina's name And we're calling

The laboratory For your test results Oh no Surely we're above Lab test results. Oh, no. Surely we're above lab test results. Tina, Tina. Tina speaking. Oh, hi, Tina.

It's Ben calling. Apparently the message has been left for you regarding... My lab tests, I'm just... Apparently you've got them, the results. I can't say it. Do you know what it was tested for? Tina. I just need to tell him that he

tested positive for sexiness. Why are you even speaking to these two of you there? We're talking to Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. Oh, you are kidding me. Tina, all you needed to do was say he had tested positive for sexiness. We can't let the

sexiness get out in the community. The best laugh I think we've ever had on the show from Tina What a great laugh Tina what a good sport Oh the line was sent up into you That's so good Hey next

We've had a complaint It's come through to the text machine Now it was in relation to a competition we were running last week Where we were giving you a chance to win A trip to the iHeartRadio Festival With Dua Lipa and all the things in Las Vegas. Now, we were saying Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Las Vegas for three or four weeks as we're putting people

in this magnificent trip in the draw for it. And the text reads, okay, Dear Jono and Benz are definitely zeroing in on us. No other show. Thinking it could be all the shows, but just us. Your current promotion for a trip to Las Vegas. That's the headline. Yeah.

Note, LAS in capitals. L-A-S. Las Vegas. As in Lassie, Lasagna, Lasso. As in any other ass word you can think of. Well, then now let's start a bit. So please be thinking of any ass when you're on air. And please say Las Vegas, not Las Vegas.

Well, it's probably quite true when you think of it. For some reason, maybe because of Los Angeles or something like that, we get you kind of saying. But this is obviously the one word that winds this present. And I get it. And everyone has one. And when people say it and they say it wrong, it winds you up some more. We have this, sounds like a Bond villain,

this guy that we always refer to on YouTube. And he's gone through every word in the English language and how to enunciate it and how to pronounce it. Have a listen to him. We are looking at how to pronounce the name of the city located in the state of Nevada. In Spanish it is said as Las Vegas. Las Vegas with a B sound. However, in the U.S. in English, this is said as Las Vegas. Las Vegas With a B sound However In the US In English This is said as

Las Vegas Las Vegas What a voice I have also Planted a nuclear bomb Under the building The timer has 24 hours But yeah

Las Vegas Las Vegas Is how you mean to say it With a B Sound That feels like It's going to wind more people up If I go around

Doing that Some of them As you bring a B sound. That feels like it's going to wind more people up if I go around doing that. They'll be like, what's up with him? He's putting a B in. Las Vegas. Sounds meant to be. Yeah. So this is what we want this morning. Words that wind you up.

0800, that's the telephone number. You can text 4487. My dad would always get, and I've mentioned this before, he would always think of it, he's a school teacher, so he'd always think of things geographically. But I wouldn't either so i'd just be going oh i'm going down to this place so i'm going you know i'm just whipping down to and he would go up or you know it was up you're going up you're here and that's up that's the directions up i'll be like oh i haven't it's just like i don't care i don't care but if i have it would care because technically i was i

was going up. Like, you know, if I was in Auckland, I'd be going, oh, I'm going down to Russell. Up, up, you're going up. It's up the North. Jen, my wife, she listens to this radio show and it's just a – This show? Yeah, this show. When I say to every caller, love your work, why that really irritates her. She's like, you can't love everyone's work.

You don't even know what their work is. No, that's a good point. I ran into a guy who had an electronic bracelet on, ankle bracelet on the other week. And I didn't know how to end the conversation. I was just chatting with him. And I was like, I love your work, mate. And then I was looking at him going, do I love his work?

Yeah, he's just got out of prison. So whatever his work was, he was good at it. He was good at it. It got him places. One of the things that winds you up, 0800 THE HITS, the one word that winds you up, 4487. Or a phrase. It could be a phrase.

Your boy. When people say it's your boy, and they don't really sound like they should be saying your boy or your girl. That winds me up. I'll tell you what winds you up next. THE HITS, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Ben, you thought you were at a hack, but you've been out hacked by your wife.

Well, yeah. The older I get, and you're probably the same, the more you work out, you're like, man, I'm an interesting, weird individual. All the time. All the time I'm like. Little quirks that you've got. But then I think, am I weird? And do I?

Even I went to Christchurch the other day when we were there for the Alpha Quiz that night. And I was talking to my mom and she's like you're an eccentric character she's and that's coming from a lady who's lived a lot of life and she said you're very eccentric and i was like i think i'm normal you know you think you as yourself and your actions and what you do in the decisions you make are completely normal but then to other people they're like this is weird so there are two things with this story one as you know siri Siri Siri and me

we've got no business working together like I turn Siri off my phone I don't want my phone listening to me have you got one of those things in your

house the Alexa that listens to you one of my daughters has one of those type things but I keep telling her to unplug it all the time

I'm going for a conversation I'll be like unplug Alexa for a second I don't want her listening to this like the FBI Ben doesn't even... I'm going for a conversation. I'll be like, unplug Alexa right for a second. So yeah. I don't want to listen to this. Like the FBI is listening and you're running a meth house.

Unplug that, mate. Have you got a wire? It's okay. So Siri... Have you done your homework? That's all I wanted to ask. All right, plug it back in. There you go.

That thing will not be hearing a word out of me. So Siri and myself, we're not... The other thing is, for some reason, I decided I didn't want to sleep next to the phone. So we got our room renovated a while ago. It drives my wife crazy because there's no plugs by the bed. There's no physical way you can plug anything in next to the bed. Because you were like, well, I don't need to plug anything next to the bed.

No, I don't want to sleep next to whatever's going on. The gamma rays from the phone. So we've got a little bathroom just off the bedroom. So that's where the phones get plugged in at night. Whose decision was it not to have plugs in the wall? It was mine. Was that your call? My wife went along with that.

It's a really inconvenient call. Now she's like, what? I mean, there's plugs in the wall, just not directly where we're in the bed. You can't have a lamp there. You can't have anything. She gets really, yeah. Anyway, so yeah, I'm like, why did I do this?

I don't know. But anyway, now where the phones go into the little bathroom next to the bedroom but I think it's really good because the alarm goes off in the morning there's no

you can't snooze you're just straight up turning the alarm off yeah which is pivotal for the hours that we usually get up I get that start the day

rip the plaster off you know because my wife will probably I think your wife's the same if she could she'd probably want to snooze a couple of times

and just ease into the day. But I'm like, no, just get into it. I'm with you. I am fully with you. Just get into it. As soon as I hear the bing, bang, jump out of bed. Well, there's no point snoozing.

I mean, there's no good can come from snoozing. You're prolonging it. That's right. You've got to get it. Otherwise, give yourself 10 more extra minutes if you've got that time until your alarm goes off. And I'm always like,

what's another five minutes going to do? It's not going to add any more energy to me. So on the weekend, I'd already got up, but I'd already done my thing and my wife had to get? It's not going to add any more energy to me. So on the weekend, I'd already got up. I'd already done my thing, and my wife had to get up. She was going to take one of my daughters to netball, and I heard her alarm go off in the bathroom. And I was like, oh, she'll be up.

She'll be at them. She'll be off to turn this alarm off. And then I hear the noise, Siri, stop. Siri, stop. I'm like, oh, my goodness. She can lie in bed, and she can say to Siri, who I don't have any place dealing with Siri. You don't have a relationship with Siri. I'm like, oh my goodness. She can lie in bed and she can say to Siri, who I don't have any place dealing with Siri. You don't have a relationship with Siri. I don't have a relationship.

I don't know about this. I don't know that Siri. And then the alarm stopped. And I'm like, oh my goodness. Siri, stop. She has out-hacked my hack. Just let Siri stop. So Siri now turns off her alarm.

And the whole point of the get up and Adam in the day. That's why you put the plugs in the bathroom, to get the family up and Adam. Yeah, so anyway. That's a great answer. I was actually quite impressed by that. Great use of Siri. She had an extra snooze. Alarm went off, and away she went.

Oh, wow. Yeah, so well done. There's another lady in your relationship. Siri. Coming between you and your wife. Next, absolute shocker. I had it at work yesterday. It wasn't a shocker.

You did have it. Can we bring the person in? Poor Ashley. Oh, my God. They were witnesses. It was bad. It was bad. Completely bad.

And it's a Ralph Lauren one. Is it? Oh, no. What happened? We'll tell you next. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, afternoons. Actually, yesterday we were filming a little something for the Hits bounty,

weren't we, Jono? Yeah, some social media content. That's what you've got to do nowadays. It's a multi-layered world. We live in there, Ben Boyce. So we filmed like a little sketch where we were detectives, good cop, bad cop, and we were sort of investigating, interrogating the suspects who were the musical artists.

You can see what we've done there. Yeah, because that is the bounty. We're searching for these artists who've got a reward. So that's what we were doing. We were dressed as cops. We were in some sort of weird, dingy little room downstairs at work. Yeah, it's like very sweatshoppy vibes. It's like, I don't know what it is.

There's like cages. There's like pumps pumping things. There was a lady once, we went down there once, a lady eating her lunch and a cooked lunch, a big full cooked lunch just sitting there by herself.

Didn't ask questions. I don't know what it's all going on. She didn't say a word. No. What is happening in this room? Is it the Timu factory? It looked good though. It looked good for what we needed for filming.

So we were, as you say, interrogating these artists and we were using people around the office's silhouettes for the artists yeah because believe it or not we couldn't get taylor swift down to our weird our weird cage here at work she wasn't available she's on some world tour or something yeah priorities so we needed someone to body double for taylor swift now this is where uh the wonderful ashley bryce uh ashley bryce uh ceo of music are you ce CEO of music, Ashley Bryce?

CEO of music. CEO of music on the hits. All the songs you hear, Ashley has a huge part in putting them on the radio. So that's Ashley's role here at the station. That's her main role. Also, her secondary role is to act in crappy sketches with us. Now, Ben, you said we need a body double,

so you called Ashley down. Well, yeah, we got Ashley down and you agreed. You just had to sit there, right? Yeah, I didn't have to do anything because that was my first question is, what am I going to have to do here? And you guys are like. You're like, what is this weird dungeon you have called me down to? We're like, sit there.

It'll be fine. And then at the end of the sketch, you were going to knock over a coffee. And we're like, we can only do this once because we're going to spill on me. We're like, we can only do this once. And so that was. And you handed me the coffee and you put it on the table now ashley's sitting there body doubling taylor swift she wasn't meant to be part of any of this we're not even filming we're not even filming and then for some reason i we were

just talking minutes ago like sometimes you think why am i making the decision is this what a normal person would do and i decided to do a rehearsal well i wasn't there i was sorting something out but you're like, rehearsal. What were you rehearsing? Just getting into character. Oh yeah, full rehearsal too, like knocking the cup over. Yeah, it was full rehearsal.

Even though we could only do it once, you're like, I'll rehearse away. And I rehearsed it and I went, well, bang, with the coffee cup. And for some reason, you know when you do something and you regret it immediately afterwards? It wasn't even immediately afterwards.

I was regretting it as it was happening. Like 60% into the action, I was like, this is not a smart decision. So I whacked the coffee cup, for some reason, directly at Ashley. Full of coffee. Ashley, you were just sitting there. You got covered in coffee.

Yeah, and unfortunately I decided to wear a white top. A white top. I didn't realise it was a Ralph Lauren top. It was a Ralph Lauren white knitted top just like sprays in coffee. You're so lovely. You're like, it's okay, it's okay. It's not okay. It definitely wasn't okay.

But you were like, it's okay, it's fine. I'll just go back to my desk. And we're like, oh no, we can't have that happen. Jono's like, take your top off, which was weird. All right, tops off. The environment. So everyone tops off off i'll take it to the dry cleaner yeah so i did yes you were very kind well that's the least i could do really like

i threw coffee at you it'll be one of those wild industry rumors they'll be like did you hear he invited her down to that dungeon just to throw coffee in her face to take a top off we'll be like what he what yeah didn't even play for the dry cleaning costs absolute monster that guy just to throw coffee in her face. To take her top off. We'd be like, what? Yeah. Didn't even play for the dry cleaning costs. Absolute monster, that guy. So yeah, that was, yeah. Sorry, Ashley. No, I appreciate it. It's at the dry cleaners.

It's at the dry cleaners. Risky too. I see you're wearing a white shirt today as well. I know. I was like, let's try again seeing as I got deprived of wearing my white top yesterday thanks to you and your coffee. You only got three hours of that white top yesterday.

I had to wear a branded hits top today. Oh you and your coffee. You only got three hours of that white top yesterday. I know. I had to wear a branded hits top today. Oh, not radio merch. Alright, so we want you today to make Jono feel a little better and Ashley feel better. Spill on your spillages. Whenever you had a spillage. Maybe it landed on you. Maybe you're the one spilling it. I know there'll be a lot of young waiters who are new to

the game who would have had some shockers over the years. Love to get your calls on New Zealand's Breakfast Next. The Hits. the Jono and Ben podcast. What have you spilt on someone? Yeah, had a really shocking incident yesterday. We were filming something for social media purposes. Anyway, long story short, I ended up throwing coffee at one of our colleagues, Ashley,

all over a nice white Ralph Lauren knitted top. Coffee everywhere. Bonus was she smelled like a cafe. There's worse things to smell like. The downside was she was sprayed. Coffee exploded all over her. And again, I just don't know what I was thinking. Don't know so many moments like those in my life.

We're like, what were you thinking, mate? And then I took it to the dry cleaners because it's kind of like, well, that's the least I could do. Walked into the dry cleaner. Okay, and the door was shut. And I went, whew, tell you what, it is hot in here. Said this to the dry cleaner, you know, there's dryers going. It's not a, it's a very tropical environment, the dry cleaners.

I would say I was picking maybe high 30s, early 40s, degreeage in there. And I said, oh, it's very hot in here. He said, no, it's not. He got quite defensiveensive about the temperature I was like Oh This is quite hot

You know I've come from a cold outside Walked into here It's very You know Humid And hot He's like

No Perfect conditions And he's looking at his colleague And she's like I can't say it Every day He says These are perfect conditions

So Yeah Managed to Ann annoy two people yesterday. There's a text come through. I can't talk right now, but 27 years ago we had our wedding. Had a whole lot of shocking things happen. Scaffolding around the church the day before, which is not ideal for photos. They didn't tell them that they were putting scaffolding.

No, the vicar collapsed. I had to get him a seat. He fainted again, dropped the rings. And then when the reception was on, the best man spilt a tray of beer over the top of me as well. We still laugh about it 27 years later, but a whole lot of things going on. You'd think the wedding was cursed in some ways.

Well, they've done 27 good years. We're going to get Anna on the phone. How are you this morning, Anna? Hi, how are you guys? Yeah, we're doing well. Spill on your spillages. What happened? I had all the kids in the back seat lined up with the McDonald's pancakes

ready to hit the road. Under the maple syrup, just about to hand it to them. Hand spazzes, maple syrup everywhere, all over the centre console. Nothing to clean it up with other than my jersey and a water bottle. Sticky too. Real sticky old maple syrup when it gets a bit of heat applied to it from the sun. Oh yeah, we're still finding it like months later.

That's a lick it off scenario isn't it? I don't know. You know what? Usually you have the wipes in the car, not a wipe, not a tissue anywhere. That's always the problem. You have to use the old jersey and the water bottle to get it before it's stuck like concrete. Yeah, I did that to the steering wheel once. I had to lick something off the steering wheel. Oh, you didn't?

I mean, at what point do you think that's the best option? Well, I had nothing. It is a wipe. Like, I had to go somewhere. You did go on the old hawk tour, you know? I was spit on that thing. You did? Yeah, like you decided to lick it off.

Well, I gave it a tour and then kind of, because all I had was my top. So I was like, well, the only option is to lick it. So you never want to see it. You're just going to lick it. You don't ever want anyone catching you sucking on a steering wheel. Is that motorism, licking a steering wheel? There's got to be some germs on that for sure. Yeah, I appreciate your call, Anna.

Have you done spillages, Ben? I've had something spilled on me at a restaurant. Many years ago, I went to one of those restaurants. You know, they had that Karen's Diner here recently in New Zealand where the staff would kind of,

it was part of the thing, they'd kind of give you grief. They'd abuse you in some ways, but in a funny way. Years ago, it was a restaurant like that and the lady was really funny just the whole time

just giving us total grief, all sorts of stuff and then she accidentally spilled wine all over me. It wasn't part of the act? No. It wasn't part of the act. No, it wasn't part of the act because the act just suddenly stopped. She was like, I'm so sorry.

Sorry about that, Kylie. Can I get you on top? Can I pay for this? I was like, wow, she's really changed her tune. But that's the risk when you run a novelty restaurant where you're looking like a bumbling waiter, rude waiter. I was like, wow, she's really committed to this role. Red wine everywhere. I thought it, wow, she's really committed to this role. Red, white, everywhere.

I thought it was quite funny, but very inconvenient having to. I did that same as a waiter. Spilled a whole tray of champagne over a lady. The whole sopping, sopping. We had the races too. She was at the Ellerslie races. It's all right. It's all right.

It's not all right. It's never all right. No. Ashley was saying the same thing yesterday. It's okay. It's okay. It's not all right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. right no actually was saying the same thing yesterday it's okay it's okay it's not the hits

the jonathan ben podcast of course before we were running the twenty thousand dollar bounty here at the hits we were sending someone to the iheart radio music festival and a place in nevada a very famous place with the casinos that i'm now scared that we've been pronouncing wrong for a number of weeks and probably all throughout our career to be honest. Yeah, we had one complainant but about eight or nine texts sent through I'll read it verbatim. Irritating this particular individual, this particular listener about how we pronounce

Las Vegas. Your promo for a trip to Las Vegas. Note it's LAS. Las Vegas in capitals. As in Lassie, Lasagna, Lasso and any other ass words you can think of with an l at the start so we just opened up to debate you know words that irritate you but many people have jumped on board this whole las vegas las vegas situation cody from idaho said i lived over there never once

said less so we thought well should we go directly to yeah we will go straight to the source but before we do mike good to have you on the show. Hey, how are you? You're wanting to bring a big name into the argument. Yeah, Viva Las Vegas by Elvis, right? So that'll sort it out. Elvis recorded it. He did.

Put it in a catchy song. Let's have a listen. What's he saying? Lass or loss? Viva Las Vegas. Lass or loss? Lass or loss? Lass. Elvis is loss all day.

Something really strange just happened. All my clothes just fell off me. That's what happens when Elvis starts singing, right? They just explode straight off your body, don't they? Have a great day. Here's another one for you.

Another one? Okay, here's one for you. Okay, here we go. Here's another one. Barcelona or bossalona? Oh, yeah, they like the bossalona, don't they? Stick the tongue out after the, yeah. All right, well, that's a debate.

We need to get a debate for another day. We appreciate that, though, right now. I mean, we're going to listen to the word of the king. Oh, I mean, yeah, he's a pretty reputable kind of guy, Elvis Presley, but we can go straight to the heart because, you know, times change, don't they? Since the recording of Viva Las Vegas, people become woke, Ben. We're living in a woke culture, so maybe things might have changed. You're right.

Is that okay? So we're going to go through to, where are we? The Little White Wedding Chapel. Yeah, the famous iconic little chapel in Vegas that people get their quick weddings. The Little White Wedding Chapel. Thank you for calling the world famous Little White Wedding Chapel. The place to marry and the number one choice for celebrity marriages. The Little White Wedding Chapel.

Number one choice for celebrity marriages? On the last day. In Vegas. If you know your party's extension, you may dial at any time. Congratulations, and we can't wait to meet you. Not the voice I was expecting. No. Please stay on the line while your call is transferred to the operator.

That was the voice I was expecting. Yeah. Yeah. She was a great voice, though. Thank you for calling Little White Wedding Chapel. This is Sonia. How may I help you? Hi, Sonia.

Our names are Jono and Ben. We're from New Zealand. How are you? I'm good. How are you today? Good. Sorry I'm talking to you like a four-year-old child. I feel like our accent is quite hard to understand.

That's okay. How can I help you today? Just one question and one question only. Is it Las Vegas or Las Vegas? No, Las or Las. Oh, sorry. We're having a big debate. How do you pronounce it?

It's Las Vegas. Las. This is the official word from Las Vegas because we've been saying Las Vegas, and then we keep getting complaints going it's Las Vegas. No, it is Las Vegas. Las Vegas, okay. All right, and how much to get married? That's my second question.

I said one question, but now I'm tempted. Our packages depend on the venues. So, for example, our Little White Chapel, Pink Cadillac, and Gazebo all come to $249.90. That's a minister fee and taxes. That's really reasonable. Most famous person you've had get married there? Oh gosh, there's so many. I would probably say Britney Spears or Jennifer Lopez. Oh, well that's pretty good. We've heard of that in New Zealand. Big names, big names. Well, listen, we pass on our regards.

You have a great day. Pass on our regards to Elvis. Pass them on to someone. You have a great day. You too. Have a good day, Adam. Here we go. Las Vegas.

Yeah, we've got it. Problems, so case closed. Jeez. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Talking alternate uses for products. Your son is rocking a necktie as a belt. Yeah, genius. There are many alternatives for products. Your son is rocking a necktie as a belt. Yeah, genius. There are many alternatives for belts. Great text here, 4487.

When I was a postie, I had a customer come out of their house and asked me for some rubber bands so he could tie his pants up. Oh, okay. But he's come out of his house. Yeah. Surely there's... I don't know, maybe he was looking for rubber bands. Desperate measures if you're going out to ask the postie for rubber bands.

I suppose you could use... To loop around and stuff, so bring them together. Bring the two, yeah. You could do that with cable ties as well, couldn't you? Yeah, that's true. Annoying if you do need to go, because you're kind of locked like a chastity sort of situation, isn't it? Locked into your pants.

Yeah, but alternate uses for products, items. Let's go to Naomi. Good morning. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Naomi. Good morning. Lovely to have you on this morning. What are we talking here, mate? Actually, I know what we're talking.

Ben mentioned the microwave plate that he pulls out with the wheels and uses it as a lazy Susan. Yeah, yeah. So we use it for board games so as we're all getting a wee bit older we're getting a bit myopic so the whole idea is to turn it around towards you so you don't have to upset any of the bits on the board eh and it works really well genius see it like monopoly you can just swing it around you want want to see what you're riding. Yeah, for sure. Oh, that is a great hack. That's a great hack.

I'll take that one. Yeah, no. Do you still play Monopoly with the family, do you? Oh, I avoid Monopoly a wee bit, I have to say, because it can cause all sorts of risks in the family structure. Just about same. But certainly Scrabble. Scrabble, yeah.

I really enjoy a good game of Scrabble i really enjoy a good game good game of scrabble and we play um i can't remember the other thing with the four we all get into into groups and you've got cards as well as discs and you have to get five in a row sequence that's it okay yeah right yeah no i did we played monopoly recently just all out bickering just for four or five hours it was a yeah totally really brings out the best of people. I saw the Pokemon Monopoly recently, thinking that that would be quite cheerful. But as it turns out, it's exactly as devastating as the other Monopoly.

Devastating. Appreciate your call and your hack. What a great hack. Now, this is a great one too. He couldn't come on air. He's working, but he said, my mum used a carrot and Vaseline as a foot massager for her sore feet and ankles. So she'd have a couple of big carrots, big massive carrots and some Vaseline under her bed in case she got foot cramps in the night.

I don't know how you end up with carrots and Vaseline. You're like, if it works, it works. That's not it. The magical foot massage. I mean, if you came into my bedroom, I'm like, oh, hey, excuse the carrots and Vaseline under the bed. Are you going? I'm like, I use them as a foot massage.

You're like, okay. Whatever, mate. Not here to judge. Not here to judge. Not even a judge. So good. Appreciate your calls and your texts. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.