Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono's Go Fund Me Moment

Episode Date: September 26, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Jono's card DECLINED... Megan has gone down fast! Things you asked your partner to do... And they didn't Insane new F1 news! We chat to the hilarious Pax Assadi! Kaylee Bell's experience on The Voice Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Was there? I think the teams are okay. That's good. Wasn't there an issue with the NRL? It was at North Queensland. They'd made the finals.

They couldn't get on flights. Because all their fans had bought the tickets. No. They were like, oh jeez, we made it. We didn't expect to make it. Now I know the cost of living crisis is rampant. Us ferals in the media spreading all the information about the cost of living crisis. Although, salary, $1.50 for a bunch of salary.

I was excited by that. But salary prices, great time to buy salary, guys. $1.50 for the full thing. Not a half salary, full salary. I think you could probably count on your hands the number of people excited about a $1.50 salary right now. I was excited. I was excited. But yeah, we've got Pick a Pantry coming up, speaking of the supermarket.

That's coming up very shortly. It's a cost of living. It's a huge, huge issue. We crossed the road yesterday at the cafe and we've signed up to a loyalty program. Have you signed up to the... I have. I spelled my name wrong somehow. How do you spell Ben wrong? I don't put the Ben in the

B-Boys So I'm like I'll just roll with it It's too late now It comes up every time I scroll in Because you use it on your phone It's like an app And then it comes up on the screen

B-Boys Sounds like B-Boys and Ray Gunn Could be a breakdowns in combo Exactly So anyway So scan the thing And the wonderful barista Behind the counter

She was like Oh hey just so you know, you've earned enough points to pay for your coffee today. Minus 30 cents. And I was like, oh, that's fine. Well, I may as well use the loyalty points. And she's like, well, we'll just have to do the 30 cent transaction. I'm like, great. Boom, swipe the credit card, walk away with cocky arrogance.

Then I hear, excuse me sir It's declined Oh, for 30 cents In front of people, she did this in front of people as well Surely 30 cents is that You know, it's regular, we go across there and get hot drinks All the time, tea, you know, coffee Surely that was like, oh

That's a situation that you can To her credit, she was lovely about it, she's like Oh, that's sad, she said that to me That's sad situation that you can... To her credit, she was lovely about it. She's like, oh, that's sad. She said that to me. That's sad. 30 decline, 30 cents. And doing it in front of everyone. She's like, I tell you what, I'll pay the 30 cents out of my money.

Does she? Yeah. And she's like, I'll pay the 30 cents and then you can sort me out another day. But gee whiz, I tell you what, figuring out you got zero dollars and zero dignity at the same time, that was a humbling experience. It's an embarrassing decline, really. Even your credit card's like, mate, you're too much of a financial risk. I'm not even going to afford you 30 cents.

It's been a rough month on the old credits. Yeah, totally. Well, I think you forgot to put your invoice in, didn't you? Yeah, I did. Yeah, so that's the issue. They can't pay you if they don't put your invoice in. I love this line from the next person

who was standing there who was like, do you want me to start a Give a Little page? The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Megan's today. Yeah, no, riddled.

Riddled with junk tea. Conjunctivitis get a 230A message on the old WhatsApp group saying, guys, both eyes glued shut at the moment. Well, yesterday it was one eye, right? She was sleeping with one eye

open, literally. It is a nightmare when you have conjunctivitis, though, because you look like a zombie who hasn't slept for... A hungover zombie, don't you? Because there's kind of that red sort of frame

around your eyeball. She was wearing sunglasses in yesterday. Looking very stylish. I know, but looking almost a little too cool for it. You know, like... You looked fantastic with those sunnies on. You're right. Like we had meetings almost a little too cool for you know like. Looked fantastic with

those sunnies on you're right. Like we had meetings after the show and stuff and everyone was like what's up with her? Then when you took the glasses off you're like oh dear god put it back on. Put it back on. But yeah we hope she recovers. What is it? It's an antibiotic job isn't it? I think so yeah some sort of drops in antibiotics and stuff. Well we wish her a

speedy recovery and pray to god that we didn't catch it. Yeah, that's true. Now, I'm doing something in the mornings and my cat's a little bit overweight. I went to the vet a while back and he's like, you know, the cat, you know, when they grab the sort of, you know, animals and they're like, yeah, he's a little. You've had a history of fattening up the animals, haven't you? Your dog had the same thing. It's like, do they like grab a little bit of the love handles and go, ooh, not good.

The cat's quite cute. The cat's friends with the neighbor's bunny. So he goes over and actually hangs out and plays with the neighbor's bunny, which is quite cool and they sort of lie together

and hang out together. But the bunny gets fed outside. So also the cat gets to get into the bunny food as well. This sounds like a bloody Pixar movie. You should write a Pixar movie about it.

So even though we only feed him a certain amount, the cat gets food elsewhere. But rabbits, they're just bloody carrots. Yeah, he's got some pellets. He eats little pellets as well. So the cat's eating the rabbit pellets. Yeah, often eats the rabbit pellets as well.

So he's very clever. So he's getting some food. So he's a little bit chunky. So I know that he's got to watch his weight. But now he's got into a habit because I get up in the morning like you. You get up early. No one in the house is up.

So I go to the kitchen, start making some snacks and stuff for my day and lunch. And the cat's like, oh, someone's up. And now he comes and hangs out with me. And I get to enjoy some company. Because usually he ignores you, the cat. But he knows that I've got food and there's preparation going on and stuff. And now I'm like, oh, do I give him a little bit of chicken chicken a little bit of ham or whatever it is if I'm making that sort of stuff and I'm like

it's great to have company and now it's like he's my four o'clock friend we get up together but I'm enabling the cat really aren't I I do the same I just want the dog

to like me the best you know and then so like after dinner because like sneakily in the kitchen you're like hey you can have

a bit of lift over me you know everyone does it everyone wants to be the animal's favourite yeah and it's the only time the cat you're right it's the does it. Everyone wants to be the animal's favourite. Yeah. It's the only time the cat,

you're right, it's the only time the cat wants to hang out with me. Any other time of the day, nothing, it's nothing to do with me. Yeah, and I know, which is quite humbling too

when you're like, well, if I don't have food, he doesn't like me. So I'll do whatever I can to have the cat like, that's the radio announcer in us. We want to be liked.

Exactly. Even by cats and dogs. Does he still, does he still just go away for the entire day and come back at night yeah a lot of the time or sleep on various beds and stuff and yeah that's the problem is rabbits they don't move much do they that's why the cats because the cat's not burning he's not burning calories i'm just sitting with this guy he's hanging out with the rabbit he's like your mate who just plays PlayStation and smokes weed all day,

the rabbit. So the cat needs some CrossFit friends. Yeah, to really work some of that weight off. Hey, next, the Six O'Clock Club. We've done this all week.

Are you up? What are you doing? Why are you up early? Maybe you're feeding your cat sneakily under the kitchen bench this morning. We'd love to hear from you and thanks for the...

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Very exciting that it's here for a limited time only. It's Pizza Hut's All You Can Eat, the iconic All You Can Eat. It's back only briefly, and I think it's all sold out. All the proceeds go to charity, but Producer Ali, you were lucky enough to go along.

I was so lucky. The other night I got to go along to this pop-up, which is in Auckland. Did you make a pic of yourself? I did, but I tried to control myself a little bit. When I was younger, I've got great memories of being younger. There was a pizza hut across the road from my netball courts. So every end-of-year season thing would be there.

Every birthday would be there. So I did a lot of pizza eating when I was younger, and I was so sad when they got rid of it. It was $9.95 by the end. It was, yeah. So previous to that, I think it was even cheaper than $9.95. Wow. So that was all you could eat Pizza, salads and desserts

For $9.95 wasn't it Yeah You had to grow with inflation Now it's $30 All you can eat Which Like you say It's going to charity

Seems reasonable For something you know To iconic Was it as good as you remember It actually was And they did such a good job of it Like the mousse was the same Oh the mousse

With the Oh the little marshmallows Remember the little marshmallows Oh that was great What was that made out of who knows don't ask me that oh it's brown as well oh dear uh anyway uh the pizza really deep dish like i feel like they did deeper dish back then and so they'd mocked they'd like mocked that up um the chips had chicken salt on them which i don't remember if they had that back in the day, but they were yummy. So it was the full all-you-can-eat restaurant experience. You would walk up to the centre serving area. Yep, little buffet.

Chips, garlic bread, everything. Yep, there was also a lovely Greek salad, which no one touched. I laughed as I walked past this green salad just not being eaten. Apologies to the Greeks out there. That was kind of the theme back in the day too. It was the salad bar as well. But it was kind of there for, hey guys, we've got a salad bar.

Yeah, but I never touched it back in the day. Felt like an obligation from Pizza Hut. Oh, good on them. Responsible dining. Exactly. There were a lot of cameras going around because I was at the media night and there was a lot of cameras.

And I swear there's going to be a whole lot of photos and videos of me coming out that I just, I must look horrific because I was just stuffing my face. Oh, no one ever looked. Were you the stuffed crust yourself? Oh, yes, that's me. I think stuffed crust is my favourite food ever. Not joking.

I love it. Yeah. Did you feel like you might have had a John Key hot dog moment? No one ever looks good mid-eating in a photograph. I'm genuinely worried if I was about to come out. Please stop filming me eating. It's incredible how you got to experience that. Very jealous.

I did. And then I was lucky enough to take home two full boxes of pizza. They were like, do you want to take these? Oh, then you take it home. Yeah, so I took two home. Throwing it out the door. Oh, brought it home to my partner, Sam. And I said, there's pizza on the bench.

He's like, sweet. And I'm obviously getting up early now working with you. And so I said, make sure you put it back in the fridge. Was that tired or full? And then I woke up at 4 a.m. the next morning and guess what? That pizza was sitting on the bench all warm and not refrigerated. So that was a waste. I'm real gutted about that one.

He had one job. One job, Sam. One job. To be fair, I'm probably the Sam in our relationship. Jen tells me a million times, don't forget to pick up the grandparents from the airport at 11.30 on Wednesday. And then I'm sitting at dinner that night and she's like, where are the grandparents?

I'll be back in a jiffy. You just forget to do stuff. I can't imagine you forget to do too much stuff. No, I'm probably the opposite in my household. I'm the one with the to-do list and reminding everyone else what to do. Do they forget to do stuff all the time yeah calendars reminders i was like stop sending me so many calendar reminders there's that one of the notes everywhere it's all sorts yeah let's check okay we'll chuck this open okay um have do you live in a household where you've asked your partner Or other people in the household

To do a simple task and they've completely forgotten I do it all the time with supermarket shopping I leave it in the boot of my car Oh yes I did this the other day I bought two ice creams, two magnums home for Sam and I Left them in my backpack and they were all melted the next morning I was so gutted

So I do it too I'll admit it Jen was like make sure you get bananas from the supermarket And then she texted me the next morning. I was so gutted. So I do it too. Yeah. I do it too. I'll admit it. Jen was like, make sure you get bananas from the supermarket. And then she texted me the next day, she's like, you didn't get bananas? I was like, I got bananas. And I couldn't find them.

A week later, the bananas had been festering in the boot. Fruit flies everywhere. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Peter was talking to the UN, was just having a laugh because he was talking. And they weren't really giving him the attention that he thought he deserved, and so he told them off.

Yeah. A second core pillar of our efforts must be respect for international humanitarian law and the basic standards of humanity that it protects. Or maybe a third principle, when somebody's addressing you, the rest of the people in the room keep quiet. At the UN! Yeah, well, fair enough. Oh, God.

I love it, Mel. It doesn't change his level of grumpiness, no matter what the environment. I can't wait until I reach that stage in life. So Winston Peters. What do they do at the UN? Feels like there's just a lot of talking. A lot of talking. Does anything happen?

Hopefully they do. Hopefully they solve some stuff. Yeah. They're not even listening to the guy talking. 0800 hits the telephone number. What you've told your partner to do. A simple instruction. Or anyone in the household, and they really haven't followed through.

We're going to kick things off with Kylie this morning. How are you, Kylie? Oh, yeah. I'm good, thanks. How are you guys? Yeah, we're really well. You live with someone who doesn't listen to simple instructions? Well, years ago I lived with my family and my brother,

and he was meant to be cooking dinner, and it was sausages and veggies, and he threw the sausages into the oven straight on the wire racks, and we just about had a house fire because all the fat and stuff leaked out of the sausages onto the bottom of the oven. Yeah. It didn't create a the bottom of the oven. Yeah. It didn't create a fat fire, did it? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

I would have thought that would have been all right in the old oven. That would have sizzled away. But, hey, because I probably would put sausages in an oven on a grill tray. I put them in a microwave. You never have that problem in the microwave. Sweet. Thank you very much for your call. Simple instruction not to catch the sausages on fire.

I get that. You're going to get a $65 warehouse voucher. They're celebrating 65th anniversary of Barbie there at the moment. Cheers, boys. All right. Have a great weekend. Good on you. Jono, welcome.

You're on. Good morning. Good morning, guys. How are we? We're doing well. Did you not listen to the simple instruction? Oh, when I was a kid, definitely. But now it's coming back to haunt me as I'm an adult with my kids. You're doing well. Did you not listen to the simple instruction? Oh, when I was a kid, definitely.

But now it's coming back to haunt me as I'm an adult with my kids. You know, the age old, you ask them to enter their lunchbox, and then you go on Monday to start making the lunches, and there's a first-eating sandwich or something in there. The worst one's the end of the school holiday period, and I know that's coming up now. When you don't clear that out, and then two weeks later, you're like, oh, lunchboxes. Then you're like, oh.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's a later you're like, oh, loads of boxes. Then you're like, oh. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's a good reminder for today actually, Ben, isn't it? Last day of school term. Thanks for that. Yeah, a lot of rotten bananas.

Yeah. They turn up because the parents check out too. Yeah, you're true. It's on both of us. Yeah, the school banks sit there for two weeks unopened as well.

Hey, good on you, Jono. $65 warehouse voucher for you. Scott, morning. Hey, guys. How's it going? $65 warehouse voucher for you. Scott, morning. Hey, guys. How's it going? Yeah, lovely to have you on. Simple instructions that weren't followed through. Look, mate, just in general,

I've been trying to get the kids to listen a bit more, and so I've just decided to stop doing things myself. And to be honest, it's backfiring pretty badly. Yeah, I was going to say, how is it working? But you summed it up pretty nicely. Trying to get them to feed the cat and things like that. And then the cat will just meow at me all night next to the bed and I'll find out in the morning they didn't.

Yeah, the cat's like a runway model at the moment. But I suppose the house looks like an absolute shambles. No one's tidying up at the moment because you're trying to prove a point there, Scott? Yeah, exactly. And I'll tell you what, the four-year-old listens better than the older ones, but that backfires as well because I've been trying to tell her

she was sick recently not to leave the bucket. You know, she vomits in the bucket so don't clean up a mess. And she actually had diarrhoea on the toilet and she'd left her bucket in the lounge and decided to go and get it midway through. that backfired oh wow literally it's a heck of a mess to clean up well those are some details there the hits the jonathan ben podcast on australia and the rugby after just scraping home last week uh new zealand and often uh the cake tin's not really

the place that we do that well in New Zealand but I've got a bit of a hunch. He loves hunching and humping, two of his favourite hobbies, one he's allowed to do in the workplace A Friday morning hunch that New Zealand will win but the Aussies will be leading at half time, I'm going to put that out there that's playing 750 at the TAB which is pretty

pretty good and you can download the all new TAB app and get your bet on R18 bet responsibility and win a $100 bonus bet, sorry It's pretty, pretty good. And you can download the all-new Tabby app and get your bet on R18 Bet Responsibility and win a $100 bonus bet. Sorry, a bonus cash bet right now. You can text HUNCH to 4487. We'll give that away. Can I now, for weeks now,

I have submitted an official information request through the OIA for the results of your hunches. And you are refusing to take part in my investigation to tell me- Last week, the hunch wasn't quite on the money. To tell me when have your hunches and you know you are refusing to take part in my investigation to tell me last week the hunch wasn't quite on the money to tell me when have your hunches come through

yeah I think I was looking good at half time New Zealand were up by quite a lot and I was like New Zealand to win easily and then Australia

came back at the end so you know but this week hey how do you know when a hunch is a good hunch you feel it

you just feel it how can you tell the difference between a good hunch and indigestion well that's true it's tough a good hunch and indigestion? Well, that's true. It's tough to tell. Sometimes it has been indigestion.

Now, Ellie, producer Ellie. Hi. Lovely to have you in here. Thank you for having me. Some huge news overnight in the world of sport since we're here now. You're a Formula One fan. I am. I sure am.

I love it. And I've loved it since I was a kid and what's happened overnight big news we now starting from the next race which is in a few weeks like three weeks we have a kiwi that's going to be in the formula one season for the rest of the season so cool so liam lawson he's got the job because they've been talking about it though he was going to get it not going to get it so he's finally got it he's finally got it so he's been in the wings for years actually he did f2 of quite a few years ago and he's kind of just been sitting there waiting and then last year he actually filled in for a couple of races when daniel ricardo who's an aussie driver broke his

hand liam came in smashed it like did the best he could have done um but then he still didn't get a seat didn't get a seat and there's been rumors and rumors and now basically daniel ricardo unfortunately who i also love he's actually been dropped mid-season from the Red Bull racing team. Not that it's the junior one. Megan's a big fan, too, of Formula One. She was playing with a video of the poor guy, and he's had a race, and he obviously hasn't done as well as he hoped, and his voice is quivering.

You can just tell it's the end of his career, and that's terrifying. Yeah, it's very bittersweet, actually, because I'm a huge Daniel Ricciardo fan, and i'm a huge liam lawson fan so i'm really sad about danny leaving but i'm very happy for liam because he very much deserves that and this is the first time we've had a kiwi in f1 since about 2018 i'd say yeah so it's very exciting very elite group of people too oh that you know you look at everyone in the world who drives we all i drive you know i could be in there you drive everybody yeah to have them as a group how many 20 drivers 20 in the world who drives, we all drive. I drive. I could be in there. You drive. Everyone drives. Yeah. To have them as a group.

How many? 20 drivers or something? There's 20 in the world. Yeah. So he's pretty much, he'll be set up. Good to go now, eh? Yeah. It's incredible.

And I'm hoping, we don't know whether he's going to be in next season. There's about six races left. We don't know if he'll be in next season, but I'm guessing if he does a good job, he'll be signed. I'm sure. Correct me if I'm wrong. This is the team that's managed by

Ginger Spice's husband so that is Christian Horner and he manages the whole Red Bull team this is actually RB which is the junior team so yes

it's technically the same company but it's basically the Red Bull junior team is what I'd say but they're in the F1 races so will he see Ginger Spice's husband in the office

he will yeah for sure I hope he's not calling him Ginger are you Ginger Spice's husband in the office? He will. Yeah, for sure. I hope he's not calling him Ginger. Are you Ginger Spice's husband? Has he even got the trouble of going, Jerry Halliwell or whatever? Ginger Spice's husband. Can you give me a photo of Ginger Spice?

Yeah, yeah. Savings, as we mentioned before this weekend, clocks go forward an hour on Sunday. We did ask earlier in the show if you're doing an overnight shift. Do you lose an hour's pay in this scenario? And do you gain an hour's pay when you do it at the other time of the year? And someone's actually texted, and they pay the full shift when it goes forward

and an extra hour when you work the longer. So you end up with an extra hour's pay. That makes sense, yeah. At the end of the day. Now, Comedian, Pax Asadi, you'll know him from Seven Days, his wonderful show Raised by Refugees and his many stand-up gigs over the years. He is about to go on tour, and he joins us on the phone right now. Good morning.

Good morning. Pax Asadi, secrets. Are you going on tour around the country? Do you always know, does the name come first or does the name come last when you're coming up with a comedy show? Honestly, the name popped up. The image that we wanted to use was me doing a fingers-to-the-mouth shush action. Like a 90s sort of, I see you crouch down sort of.

Telling the world to be quiet. And the name came from the image, and then I had to write a show around that, which is the worst way to write a comedy show. But I took that route. But actually, what it did, sorry if I'm a little bit puffed, I'm walking. That's all right. Crazy.

Who walks when it's not even COVID time? But anyway. Where are you walking to? I've just decided to do morning walks for my mental health and for the creative process and get my mental juices flowing. Is it helping? Do you find that it's a helpful game?

No, I've come up with no new jokes. I'm just tired. Danny, what, the steps are through the roof. Oh, mate, steps are through the roof. Oh, we are very funny, Pax. You know, many comedy shows over the years, TV shows, Seven Days, Raised by Refugees. But do people ever recognize you for your voiceover work for Two Degrees?

Does anyone ever go, that's the voice for Two Degrees become the two degrees guy which is so offensive because i have this body of work and the thing that's made me the most famous is walking into a studio and saying ads which is like as far as telecommunications companies go two degrees is kind of the hip one the kind of like almost like the indie one so it's kind of the cooler one to be a part of but i'm like hey guys i'm more than that, you know? Sometimes people yell the wrong company at me. Sometimes people are like, fuck! And I'm like, no, it's the wrong company.

We're the cooler one, the more indie one. Yeah, I'm the indie one. Pax Asadi with us. Great image of you on Instagram a couple of months ago. You must have been in the States with comedy legend Sarah Silverman. Yeah. David Spade's in the photo there as well. Yeah.

That was crazy. That was an insane experience. The way that happened was I'm lucky enough to have an agent in LA, and my agent set up a comedy show for me to do, and I had no idea that I was going to be doing a gig with literal global superstar comedy legends. It was one of the most shocking experiences when I walked into the room and walked into the green room and Sarah Silverman and David Spade and Pete Holmes were just sitting there.

Here's the thing. I killed the gig. Like I crushed the gig itself being on stage talking to the audience. I bombed the green room. The green room was so so awkward so weird at one point at one point i called david spade david spade i said his full name oh that's so interesting david you're like are you okay i am tanking my backstage band here it was bad yeah the gig was great. The backstage gig,

I bombed. But did they give you any advice? Were you asking them for any tips and tricks? A lot of their advice boiled down to this industry will

take your soul and crush you into a fine powder. I took that and I went home and I came back to New Zealand. Now Ben has stumbled

across something gold on your Instagram, which you probably haven't noticed. Yeah, no, of course, you know, like, you know, your great Instagram, you get comments from people, you know, reacting. There's a couple of comments. Have you ever seen comments popping up from the Trident Tavern and Onihanga? Now, they've commented, there was two of the things I was looking

through, doing some research for the interview, and I was like, oh, they've commented once on one of your posts, and then they've commented a couple of weeks earlier on another post now so this is what they've said on one of your posts uh hey mate when you're so this is to you hey mate when you're in auckland pop into the trident tavern for a hard session on the jugs fair dinkum mate we have the hardest drinkers we love to have some laughs with you very positive very great stuff so that's a message and then the second one was, beauty stuff, mate. If you want to drink with Auckland's hardest drinkers,

come down to the Trident Tavern. Great meals if you need to line your stomach. We have four pokies and a claw machine. Oh, a claw machine. So I don't know if you've been there, but they obviously want to have you in their establishment packs. Yeah, they're definitely fans, and they definitely would like me to engage with their establishment.

Someone needs to tell them that I've never had alcohol in my life. If I had a hard night on the jugs, I think my liver would just die. I'm not a hard night on the jugs sort of guy. Very funny, Peck. So lovely to catch up with you. And we'll meet for lunch at the Trident one day, eh? Yeah. Oh, that sounds lovely.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, my daughter and I, Sienna, do a podcast called When I Grow Up. It's aimed at young girls trying to inspire them, talking to inspirational women. And if you want to listen with your kids or get your kids to listen, it really is really incredible some of the guests we've had, like Karen Walker, Lucy Lawless, and this week, Kaylee Bell, country music star, which she is incredible she's uh you know she's just such a hard worker and been you know a huge fan of country since country wasn't as big as it was now you know like doing

that so the country was a punchline yeah remember we'd be like oh go the country music awards here exactly and now country is huge and uh she's incredible she has such uh great advice that she could pass on as well. But one of the scariest things that she did was she went on that TV show, The Voice, in Australia. This is The Voice! Yeah, you know, the reality music show. Spinning chairs, good chairs.

And it was like the day before, they were like, oh, the song that we thought you were going to sing, which was like the Dixie Chicks, Landslide. They were like, no, we want you to do an original song because you do a song about Keith Urban, the country music star, and he's one of the judges. And they were like, the day before, they were like, you're going to do that song. because you do a song about Keith Urban, the country music star, and he's one of the judges. And they were like, the day before, they were like,

you're going to do that song. And she was like, oh, okay. So she was singing the song to Keith Urban. His back was turned, and she talked about how scary it was walking out onto the set of The Voice. Walking through those doors of The Voice, and it's silent. It is so quiet. It's just like your heels are just doing that click clock, and it was just so daunting.

I just remember standing there, and it takes like like they kind of allow you 30 seconds or something to kind of get in the the zone but it's actually the most terrifying 30 seconds of your life because you're like i'm singing to the like singing to the back of a tear is terrifying let alone i was singing yeah um a song that i'd written as a tribute. It was just, there was a lot of layers. But again, one of the scariest things that I've ever done has turned into seriously one of the most rewarding. Jeez, imagine if Keith didn't turn around. That would have been terrifying because you're like,

what if he doesn't like the song I've written about him? I know. And you want to know, what if he doesn't know it's about him too? You're like, I would have been, like I say, I would have emphasized it. Keith, it's about you. It's about you. But he did turn around and all the judges turned around,

but then they blimmin' blocked Keith Urban from being our mentor. Oh, so he didn't even. Yeah, so he chose her as the mentor. He was the first to turn around. They all turned around. And then there was a dumb reality TV show rule that you could block and you could snake someone else's, you know, person

and they snake bloody her off. Yeah, so she didn't get to work with Keith Urban. And she wrote, but she wrote the song about Keith Urban as well.

So who mentored her? I can't remember. It might have been Jessica Melboy or something like that, one of the other judges or, you know, Rita Ora was one

of the other judges but yeah. She's like, this is great but I didn't write a song about Jessica Melboy. Exactly. So it really is a fascinating chat.

Kelly Bell's incredible. She talks about working with Ed Sheeran as well, what she learned with performing before him, and hard work as well. So catch it right now wherever you get your podcasts. It's called When I Grow Up. How country is she? Did she park her tractor in the work car park? I don't know.

That's what I want to know. I didn't actually see where she parked as well. Was she chewing some hay? Yeah, she's pretty country. She is pretty. Maybe she did park it. She spends a lot of time in Nashville, so I didn't actually see where she parked as well. Was she chewing some hay? Yeah, she's pretty country. She is pretty. Maybe she did park. She spends a lot of time in Nashville, so I don't know if she parked the tractor downstairs.

Well, the visitor parks, they're always open for traction. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Megan off this morning. She's riddled with conjunctivitis, so at home with two eyes glued shut, which is not fun in anyone's language, is it? Tell me that in Spanish.

I'd say that doesn't sound fun. French, any language. I just want to address something, Ben, an email that's been firing around. We do staff opinion surveys here at work like a lot of companies do. They're anonymous. Yeah.

Get stuff off your chest. You eventually do it. You feel like you're the last one. Yeah. That does it. I do. You're like, yeah, I'll do that today. And then you're like,

there's still one more person. Everyone's like, oh, it's Jono. Jono hasn't done this yet so yeah we all completed them and then obviously people offer feedback

and you know constructive criticism and stuff and then the boss has come out and said hey thanks for your honesty and feedback appreciate it

listen I've replied to some of them because they don't know who they're replying to it's all anonymous but I've only had one response back and this was on a group email and i was like

here's an idea why don't we just all hit reply all and just have an open conversation right he's come back matt our boss he's like great idea jono let's start with this one and he screenshotted a response from the survey that says what's on your mind right now that you'd like to tell us and someone wrote in size 18 font, Jono sucks. It was in the survey. It was in the survey. Thanks for sharing. Appreciate your feedback.

So it could be anyone. I mean, it really could be anyone. No, I don't know who it is. No, I don't know either. But, well, anyone could have written that, so, yeah. So now I regret saying this to this sort of reply. We had a fun couple of weeks trying to find a new move for New Zealand's newest football team in the A-League,

the Australasian Football League, haven't we? Yeah, Auckland FC. October 19th is their first game, which is rolling around really quickly. Get your tickets right now. At Mount Smart, the first game's going to be, it'll be really historic, seeing the first time that the Knights,

the Black Knights run out there on the paddock. And we've been trying to get a move to inspire the fans, the players maybe might want to use it if they score a goal. We pitched a move, the afternoon show, Matty and PJ also pitched a move and people have been voting for their favourite move. Ours was actually, Megan came up with it. She was like, well, it's the Black Knights.

Why don't we do the knighthood? You know, which is pretty simple to do. If a player scores a goal, they can get down on one knee and another player can pretend to knight them with a sword. It's a two-person role play. Imaginary sword, but if you're in the crowd, you can turn next to the person next to you and pretend to do it, you know, with a sword.

Why don't we get merch? Rubber swords. Oh, that'd be cool. Everyone has, you know, how to swing the swords around. Great, a great idea. Wow, with spitballing. That's great. Let's do that.

And then everyone can knight the thing. They can be hit swords. Yeah, great, I love around. Great idea. Wow, with spitballing. That's great. Let's do that. They can be hit swords. Yeah, great. I love it. Love it. I'll get the finest children on China in the factory onto it now. Yeah, they can be cardboard, they can be rubber,

they can be whatever. You know, you're right. They could be metal. They could be. But yeah, no, that seems A, expensive, and B, slightly hazardous. Yeah, you don't want to get football fans something too sharp.

Drug football fans with metal swords. That's a great idea. Yes. Anyway, we'll talk about that off air. But keep an eye out at the HitStock.nz because you could have your chance to win $250 by uploading a video of yourself doing a winning move. And I'd like to see, this is what I'd like to see,

I'd like to see someone doing something, you know, you're like, oh, I've put some toast in the toaster it popped up and i catch the toast and then you do the move you know something to celebrate you know you do life celebrations yeah uh you got a park right outside the the shop that you needed to walk into exactly yeah you do the little knighthood yeah you can do it to yourself you can do it to someone else you can knight yourself so so that's the move now i. Now, I've never started a move. How do we get the ground swell? Let's talk to the guy who invented planking.

Yeah. Or the lady who invented twerking or something. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, often it comes like a TikTok thing that people get onto. I don't know. The architect of dabbing. They might have some tips on how to.

It feels like, do you force it? No, you don't want to force it too much, but I guess we are giving $250 as a reward for it. If you want to get involved. I think the key is getting the players to do it. Yeah. We need to get inside the camp. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Staylight savings this weekend. The clocks go forward. Forward it to a clock, I think, on Sunday morning, early Sunday morning in New Zealand. Does that mean if you're working a night shift, like an overnight shift, one less hour? the clocks go forward uh forward it to a clock i think on uh sunday morning early sunday morning in new zealand does that mean if you're working a night shift like an overnight shift one less hour yeah like if you start at 10 p.m and finish at six you get one less hours you do work yeah but then the the stink thing is in like six months time you probably have to work one extra hour if that's the case it's almost worth getting an overnight shift just to enjoy that one less hour

of work just so you can say unless you're getting paid by the hour and then they're like oh mate what happens in that scenario

yeah does the company dock you an hour 4487 actually if you are doing that you've been in that situation petrol station

attendance yeah I mean a lot of people do work through the night so what actually happens around daylight savings I'm sexy and I know

it are you sexy and you know it? It's our six o'clock club. We love hanging out with the special six o'clock club. It's a select group of people. Kind of like the Freemasons, isn't it, this club?

Yeah. Or the T-Birds from Greece. I don't know what the Freemasons do, but yeah, sure. What are the Freemasons? I don't really understand that. I always get them confused and call them the Stone Masons. Yeah, well, it's the Stone Cutters on The Simpsons, well, they do,asons I don't really understand that I always get them confused and call them the Stone

Masons yeah well it's the Stone Cutters on the Simpsons well they do so I don't know what yeah the Freemasons

they're old school aren't they what goes on inside there yeah I don't yeah okay oh it hurts

as well we're checking how many things you want to check out there this morning are you a Freemason what are you doing

maybe a Freemason who works through the night then we'll cover both our bases. What are the Freemasons doing? And do you get docked an hour's pay? Daylight savings. Let's get Emilia, Cherie, sorry, on the phone this morning.

How are you? Hey, good morning. You're 60 and you know it. Cherie, welcome to the Six O'Clock Club. Thank you. Now, what are you doing up on a Friday this early? Oh well I do a night shift and they call us maternity nurses

so we look after newborn babies. Aww. Yeah so I do that overnight and then I jump in my car and listen to you guys as I drive to Auckland Hospital and I do a day shift for a couple of hours at Auckland Hospital. Oh busy.

Dear God, so you're pulling two shifts back to back. What time do you actually finish work? I'll finish at 11.30 this morning. What time did you start? 10 o'clock last night. Oh my God. Do you get any sleep? Do you get a little bit of sleep? Sometimes.

If I'm in like a private home, I do. If I'm in a hospital, no. Sometimes I'm in like a community sort of style house. So yeah, it's a big long chunk of work, but it's a good job. Thank you for what you do. Yeah, well that's amazing what you do. Now overnight, you work overnight to, what happens in the daylight saving

situation, do you know? Oh yeah, I heard you talk about that. I don't really know. I'm sure it just disappears into the ethos and hopefully just get paid i don't know the dhb is like let's just hope they don't notice this one save some costs and are you a freemason as well no sorry bro no i was with the shop well hey we're gonna hook you up with 65 to spend at the warehouse enjoy that night get some sleep this morning. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. You want to keep this coming through?

Yeah, let's do this. We'll do another one next. 0800 the hits. Are you 60 and you know it? The 6 o'clock club. Why are you up? Are you pulling a 19-hour shift? Sure.

Like poor Cherie there. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us. Who's having the best weekend? Yeah, we love to do this every Friday heading into the weekend, find out which island is having the best weekend. We have two representatives of each island come on. From the Hits in Christchurch, we have Connor,

and from the Hits out of Wellington, we have Hayley. Yeah, they both lightly suggest what we should be doing this weekend. Sometimes it's a little forceful, isn't it, what we should be doing this weekend. Now, Connor, lovely to have you on, baby. G'day. How are you? I've been following you on the talk, mate, and you've been doing a wonderful expose in Christchurch City on the Seagull Pit,

which is in the middle of the city. We've walked past the Seagull Pit many times. It's like a giant construction site where seagulls really have made themselves at home. Yeah, pretty much what happened was after the earthquakes, like so many other places in Christchurch, they just left holes in the ground, so it filled up with water, and then seagulls decided to nest there. And because it's spring, they're keeping their chicks.

And so if you walk past the seagull pit, they get quite defensive and more often than not swoop you as you're just trying to enjoy a scone. Yeah, hundreds and hundreds of seagulls. I would hate to be the property developer who takes over that place because evicting those tenants is going to be a nightmare. Or the Catholic Church. It's the Catholic Church who I'd sit. Oh, do they? Yeah, they do.

Oh, wow. Well, let's hope the seagulls have a wonderful weekend. But what is happening in the South this weekend? Well, it's pretty straightforward, this event. Based on the name, Moonshine Whiskey. Excuse me, Hayley, can we have less of the throat clearing? Yeah, mate, you've got to give him a chance. You can't just go all over the top of it. You'll get your chance, all right?

We want to hear what he has to say. Oh, God, that was music. You're lucky I did just that. Hold on. Sorry, Connor. Carry on, it sounded riveting, Connor. It's great. It seemed to be a really fun and yummy session, moonshine, whiskey and cheese,

where you pretty much sit in a vineyard just outside of Blenheim and drink moonshine, whiskey and eat cheese. That's pretty much what it is. It sounds fantastic. What a wonderful way to spend a weekend. Moonshine whiskey and eat cheese. That's pretty much what it is. It sounds fantastic. What a wonderful way to spend a weekend. Moonshine whiskey and cheese. Three of Ben's favourite things. And what else is happening?

An epic doubleheader roller derby extravaganza. Cal Stadium in Christchurch tomorrow, Saturday. You've got the Dublin Derby welcoming visitors from Nelson and Rimutaka to take on a couple of local Christchurch teams. And these people, I'm not sure if you've ever seen roller derby, but they basically strap themselves up and have to get helmets and get an elephant pad and just smash into each other for about an hour.

Yeah, it's a full-on sport. Megan used to play it. We've tried it a couple of times, and you just spend a lot of time on your backside, if you're not very good like us. We honestly turned up to do it, and we're like, we'll just show you how it works. And then a lady literally Broke her shoulder Yeah

In front of us Oh my god Yeah and they're like So she had to get shipped off By St John's And they're like Now it's your turn Okay yeah

And Hayley What is happening in the north Now Connor Fear is fear At some point during Hayley's rant You get to cough And clear your throat We'll give you

We'll give you a three to five second time period You pick your moment Okay yeah Thank you Okay Yes, Rant, you get to cough and clear your throat. We'll give you a three to five second time period. You pick your moment. Okay, yeah. Thank you. Okay. Well, I'm steering down a bus driving towards me. I'm about to get on.

So nice and sweet and quick. I've got, of course, the rugby. All that's taking on the Wallabies in the capital this Saturday night. We've also in Taupo got a school holidays cupcake decorating competition. The first week of school holidays, thank you very much. I would say that's more interesting than the seagulls. And then the capital, Wellington has a huge event.

Wow, World of Wearable Art. Yeah, this is the first weekend. It's hard to beat. You can't beat Wellington on a huge event. Wow. World of Wearable Arts. Oh, yeah. This is the first weekend. It's hard to beat. It's hard to beat. You can't beat Wellington on a good day and what a day this weekend with the rugby

and wearable arts as well. You can even hear Connor going, oh. Yeah. Hayley, apart from, even when you tried to sabotage Connor,

but I'm going to give it to you again this week because it's a huge weekend in Wellington and North Island's going to win because of that Oh amazing thanks guys I'll clear my throat more next time