Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We Chat To Our Favourite Hotel Employee Daniella!

Episode Date: September 23, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Can you use a petrol station toilet... Without paying? Megan broke her nose! Can you beat our niche heroes? "I'm 5 minutes away" is the biggest lie Jono has another sexism scandal during the riddler... We are going SOCK CRAZY The stress of buying concert tickets is unmatched! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Jono and Ben podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts in tastes that Kiwis love. Welcome along to the podcast on a Tuesday, it's great to have you with us. I thought I'd just introduce some music to this part of the adventure. I like this, a little bit of a gear change from what we normally do. A bit of a menu of what's to come on the show. Megan almost broke your nose last night. Yeah, headbutt from a child. Pretty vicious, I lied to the dentist. Oh, I feel like you need coming in too hot, Ben.

Sorry, I'm okay. That's my problem with me. I'm always coming in too hot. People say to me all the time. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I know people have said it. Like when you walk into a room. No one's ever said it to me before. Okay. So I lied to the dentist. Is that how I'm meant to be?

Yeah. Lied to the dentist. I feel like it's a lie that most people would say, but you'll hear that on the podcast very shortly. And are you allowed to use the petrol station toilet if you're not purchasing any goods? Well, you're about to find out. Now, I was at the petrol station yesterday. Now, I want to front foot this and say I've done this hundreds of times.

Okay? And that is gone. And it's been a huge bugbear in our work marriage, Ben Boyce, is that whenever we drive to a petrol station, I'm like, oh, I need to use the lavatory. I'm going to go and use the toilet. He's like, are you buying anything? And I'm like, no.

No petrol, no nothing, just goes through. Use the toilet. Now, Ben then gets guilty and he's like, well, I've got to go. So he then buys something. And he buys like a little pack of mixed nuts, one of those cranberry trio jobs, the Mother Nature ones, some guilt purchases for my toilet usage. I do feel like that's, if you're

going to use someone's facilities, you need to buy something. How arrogant are you? Just rolling on up, walking them through a shoe shop. It's not even public. Petrol station's different. It's not a public toilet. I agree with Jono. I think petrol station's a bit different. Have you walked inside a petrol station toilet?

They haven't been in there in 12 years. They don't care what's going on in there. Well, that's what I thought at least. Sometimes they do that cleaning chart and you look at it and you're like, that was like five days ago. That was pre-COVID. Like, if you're going to do that, don't put a chart up. I was at the counter yesterday paying for petrol.

And the reason I don't have a problem is using the petrol station toilet. That's an industry I've given so much to over the years mainly money exactly the guy walked out of the lavatory yesterday and the person behind the counter was like excuse me

are you going to pay for anything and I was like ooh spicy content feel like a public telling off there and then the gentleman to his credit was like well I hadn't planned on it

and then just walked out. Oh, right. So I didn't realise this was a thing with the petrol industry, that you're not allowed to use the facilities unless you're buying something. I don't know. I feel like there were shops, cafes, things like that. Yeah, but it was a small cafe, sure. Oh, so why is it okay with the petrol?

Because they've got money. Multi-national. It doesn't matter if they've got money or not. McDonald's has got lots of money, but you roll in there and use their toilet without buying anything? Yeah, they don't need you to buy a packet of nuts. They're good. They're good.

Don't worry about the petrol game. Okay, we're making money here. Are we all right with people coming off the street? Yes, they do. They do. There's some very randy people going to the toilet next door, remember? They do all sorts of stuff in there. Oh, really?

Yeah. It became a meeting place for nefarious purposes. I found out the hard way. I was like, oh, we're here now. Okay, fine. Shut the door. 4487 will chuck this out there. Yeah, a little while.

Okay, so obviously the small cafe, small business. No, you've got to lump everyone in together. You can't just say what's what's good for one, it's not good for the other. Okay, can you use a business toilet? I think it depends on the... I think it depends on the business. But how do we know that?

It's not a petrol station. Maccas, Maccas. Ronald does not care. Oh. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Did you know there's posters in the women's toilet looking for your sock? We looked at...

Listen, no stone unturned, mate. Every time I go to the toilet, I see your sock. I asked Jono to put posters up everywhere. Where's that? You said everywhere. I took that. Okay. You get me to do it.

Everywhere, but anyway. You sent me a mission, my friend, and I'll put that stuff everywhere. Okay. But yeah, we couldn't find a sock. But what we did stumble across, because we phoned a hotel you were staying at when you were in Tauranga

for the Ames Games, and we stumbled across Daniela, a charismatic Italian hotel manager. And we feel like it's only fair, she couldn't find your socks, but we feel like it's only fair that we gift her some of our new socks. Yeah, that's a great idea.

The Unlosable socks, where they come in threes, John O'Bennett and Megan's socks. Every pair has a spare, and we'll go through to Daniela now. Speaking, how can I help you? Hey, ciao, ciao. Ciao.

Ciao. Ciao. Ciao. Ciao, guys. Daniela. Megan, good morning. Buongiorno. How are you doing? Buongiorno. Oh, good.

How are you doing? You missed us? Do I need to be honest with you? You can be honest with us. It's fine. I have to confess. I even told my husband I miss the three guys. I do. And I'm just watching a couple of old podcasts,

and what are you up to, guys? All the packages are right with the socks and all this. The socks, yeah, I went to try. I thought maybe I'd left my socks there at the hotel, but I don't think that's the case. So who knows? The sock's gone. Oh, yeah, yeah.

I think you just need to rest in peace with these socks. You need to adjust us to the next one. Well, actually, we have got new socks. We've got some. The three one. Oh, the three one. You know about it. Oh, yeah.

Daniela. Everything. We want to gift you a pair of Jono, Ben and Megan socks. Please. Actually, it was a little bit. You guys let me down a little bit because you guys give away everything to everybody. And I didn't receive any special present from you yet. Like, I don't know, a beautiful T-shirt with your three faces for going sleeping with.

You know, something like cute. You don't want to wear that. No. No one wants to wear that. Plus, times are tough in the radio game, mate. We can't afford T-shirts and faces, but we can afford socks with our names on all of them. You know what?

It's okay. We'll do. You get the pair with the spear. Three socks, even. Three socks. Okay. I like it. Yeah, actually, I like the idea that if you lose one,

you don't need to be worried about it. That's right. That's right. I won't be calling you up saying, do I leave a sock at the quest? Doesn't matter. Where have you guys been up to on the weekend? It was so good.

I had a wonderful weekend. I went to Waiheke. We went ziplining. That was fun. I saw that with your wife screaming. Yeah, yes, she was. I had a couple of birthday parties. What did you do on the weekend?

Oh, well, I need to tell you. You guys need to go in one of these candlelight concert by fever did you heard about that oh the candlelight concerts no what's this concert that they do a cover in this case was coldplay and imagine dragon yeah then is a real orchestra they did an amazing concert of an hour and it's all with candles then of course fake candles but it's all candles. And it was in the Aviation Museum here in the Mound. Oh, wow. It just sounds like a huge fire hazard with all these candles. No fire happened, but it's very romantic.

And it really warms your soul. It's beautiful. We'll go. A personal question. So tell me to butt out if you don't want to answer. But how long have you been in New Zealand? No, I can't answer to that. I've been here since March 2020.

I got stuck here with COVID. When she says COVID, it sounds nicer. It sounds more fair. I'm like, I want to get COVID. Are you going to stay here? Oh, well, I'm sorry for you guys. Yes, you need to put up with me. Yes, I'm so sorry for that.

So where's home in Italy? Whereabouts is that? Rome. That was home, yes. Ben's got a very special connection with Rome. I got engaged to my wife at the Fontana di Trevi, the Trevi Fountain. Oh, that's the best spot to get engaged, Ben. A lot of people get engaged there.

It was probably a bit cliche for you, but it was lovely. Beautiful spot. It means a lot. No, it's not. It's not cliche you know every every part of the world that can be special and and you know romantic for an engagement but yeah fontana di trevi is quite beautiful then he said all these pests cut as soon as he got down on one knee all the pests come with the roses i need to apologize in advance he tried to give me the whole bunch. He was just selling individual ones.

I was like, this guy's getting engaged. He's going to buy them all. I'm like, no. You know why? Because you've got an accent for them. Yeah. Well, listen, we want to pitch something to you. Do you mind if we call you weekly and we give you your own segment?

I need to think about it. All right, you think about it. I've got a spot available on my agenda. Agenda. You let us know, okay? We'll leave it on a cliffhanger. You have a think about it, all right? Okay, I have a think about this special request from you three guys,

you troublemakers, you know? I need to put a little of condition of that, okay? Okay. You need to promise me that you make me laugh all the time. Oh, I don't know if we can, we can't have that. we'll try.

If you try, that's already something. Oh, Danielle, I love it to hear from you and we'll get these socks to you, mate.

I can't wait to have, and Megan, try to look after the two Trouble Makeup Boys, okay? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Megan,

come to work with an injury today, not feeling too good I, yeah I have the bedtime We call it the bedtime parade, putting the 3 year old and the 1 year old to bed at night, and it's always a bit of a Is it like a parade? Is it like walking away to people?

It's a polite, it's like the zoo more like Some nights it goes well, some nights they don't want to go to bed, it's just kids But last night, my daughter, my 1 year old Those kids will grow up one day and every night they't want to go to bed. It's just kids. But last night, my daughter, my one-year-old, she was – Those kids will grow up one day and every night they'll want to go to bed when they're adults. I know. Why do you fight them on the best things like food, showers, and bed? That's what we love.

Soon you'll become boring. I still don't want to go to bed. Like if I could avoid it, I would happily avoid it. Would you rather just stay awake for 24 hours a day? I'd love to. I'd love to. He's like, think of all the things I can get done on my checklist. I feel like it's such a waste of your time, Beth, sleeping.

But you have to do it. It's such a waste of your time. I'd love to just be doing stuff. Well, I mean, there are options. Yeah, I know, but yeah. They can't land you up at court. Yeah. Yeah. But last night, it was going well.

My one-year-old, she was keen. She was cuddling. It was fine. It was great. And so she even got her teddy bear to turn off the light. It was dark. I gave her a wee cuddle. And at that moment, she kind of sat up and head-butted me square on the nose.

You know how much it hurts? It was the worst nose injury worst nose whack I've ever had I felt my nose crunch and I was like it's broken

I've definitely broken my nose did you get the eyes watering yeah and I was like it's going to bleed it didn't bleed I was being very dramatic what was she like

was she okay well I went and I started crying in the dark holding my daughter and she goes let's not make it all about you trying to get holding my daughter. And she goes, Let's not make it all about you, mate. You're trying to get me to sleep here.

She goes, yeah, okay, in the dark. And I was like, oh, mummy's okay. Mummy's okay. So I ended up putting her to bed. I'm like crying on her. She was very quiet though. So she just went straight to bed. And you just silently sobbed.

Yeah, I know. I went out and I was like crying out of my daughter's room. And Andrew's like, are you okay, my husband? I was like, no, I think I've broken my nose. He went and got me an ice pack. I was like, I'm going to have a black eye. My nose is fine today. No, you wouldn't know, would you? No, but

God, there's nothing harder than a toddler's head. It's like a bowling ball and they just come at you with such force. You wrap them up in cotton wool But they can withstand a lot They can walk into poles I think I had my son on an Oscar

He can cuss himself about four times They're kind of like those bobbleheads too The head's quite large for the rest of their body And they're kind of a little bit wayward They're thrown around haphazardly The injuries I've got from those kids Just being themselves You'd be a nightmare in the UFC, though.

Me? Yeah, if you're having a fight. You're like, no! We all would be. No one wants to get punched in the nose. I'd be a nightmare, too. I used to always want to do one of those charity boxing matches, but then I forget that you get punched, too.

Yeah. And I'd be like, as soon as someone punched me, I'd be like, oh! Amen. No! I always thought that sobbing would be quite a good technique in the old octagon. Yeah. Because it that sobbing would be quite a good technique in the old octagon yeah because it would throw your opponent off is he crying in the corner that's

why i had to say you'll be like are you okay like your daughter you're okay man yeah i think they'll just give up if you're feeling bad you know yeah yeah then you'd win by default hey next we want to know your heroes that maybe not everyone would know about like who would you approach in a room if you got the chance to meet them that everyone would be like, who's that person? Yeah. Niche heroes.

Niche heroes. Because we've all got one. Yeah. Come to work with an injury today, not feeling too good. I, yeah, I have the,

we call it the bedtime parade, putting the three-year-old and the one-year-old to bed at night and it's always a bit of a, Is it like a parade? Is it like, I won't go to the wave to people? That's a polite word. It it like a parade? Is it like I won't go to bed

to people? That's a polite word It's like the Zoom or like Some nights it goes well Some nights they don't want to go to bed It's just kids

But last night my daughter my one year old Those kids will grow up one day and every night they'll want to go to bed when they're adults I know

Why do you fight them on the best things like food showers and bed That's what we love Soon you'll become bored. I still don't like going to bed.

Like if I could avoid it, I would happily avoid it. Would you rather just stay awake for 24 hours a day? I'd love to. Love to. He's like, think of all the things I can get done on my checklist. I feel like it's such a waste of your time, Beth, sleeping. But you have to do it. It's such a waste of your time.

I'd love to just be doing stuff. Well, I mean, there are options Yeah, I know But yeah They can't end you Yeah They can't land you up as well Yeah

Yeah But last night it was It was going well My one-year-old, she was keen She was cuddling It was fine It was great And so she even got her teddy bear

To turn off the light It was dark I gave her a wee cuddle And at that moment She kind of sat up And head-butted me And so she even got her teddy bear to turn off the light. It was dark. I gave her a wee cuddle. And at that moment, she kind of sat up and head-butted me square on the nose. You know how much it hurts? It was the worst nose injury, worst nose whack I've ever had. I felt my nose crunch and I was like, it's broken.

I've definitely broken my nose. Did you get the eyes watering? Yeah. And I was like, it's going to bleed. It didn't bleed. I was being very dramatic. What was she like? Was she okay? Well, I went, and I started crying in the dark, holding my daughter.

And she goes. I was like, let's not make it all about you, mate. You're trying to get me to sleep here. No, no, no. She goes, yeah, okay, in the dark. And I was like, oh, mummy's okay. Mummy's okay. So I ended up putting her to bed.

I'm like crying on her. She was very quiet though. So she just went straight to bed. I'm like crying on her. She was very quiet though. So she just went straight to bed. And you just silently sobbed. Yeah, I know. I went out and I was like crying out of my daughter's room. And Andrew's like, are you okay, my husband? I was like, no, I think I've broken my nose.

He went and got me an ice pack. I was like, I'm going to have a black eye. I don't have, my nose is fine today. No, you wouldn't know, would you? No, but God God There's nothing harder Than a toddler's head Yeah It's like a bowling ball

Yeah And they just come at you With such force You wrap them up In cotton wool But they can They can withstand a lot They can walk into poles

They can I think I have my son On an Oscar He can cuss himself About four times Yeah They're kind of like Those bobble heads too

Aren't they They're kind of like The head's quite large for the rest of their body and they're kind of a little bit wayward. They're thrown around haphazardly. I know, yeah. The injuries I've got from those kids just being themselves. You'd be a nightmare in the UFC though, wouldn't you?

Yeah, if you're having a fight. No! We all would be. No one wants to get punched in the nose. I'd be a nightmare too. I used to always want to do one of those charity boxing matches, but then I forget that you get punched too. Yeah. And I'd be like, as soon as someone punched me, I'd be a nightmare too. I used to always want to do one of those charity boxing matches, but then I forget that you get punched too. And I'd be like, as soon as

someone punched me, I'd be like, oh! Amen. I always thought that sobbing would be quite a good technique in the old octagon. Because it would throw your opponent off and be like, is he crying in the corner? So I had to say to you, I'd be like, are you okay? Like, your daughter, are you okay, mate? Yeah.

I think they'd just give up for feeling bad you know yeah yeah the hits the jonah and ben podcast thousands of the bins been taken away in auckland city uh from the council councils do strange things all over the country uh but they're taking away uh 30 of the bins around the auckland region i reckon it's gonna save about nine million dollars to rate payers yeah but there's rubbish everywhere now. And now they've got a huge pileup of bins in place. This is like a bin wasteland. But anyway.

Yeah, good stuff. Just going to talk about your niche heroes. Megan's always banging on about very niche people in the fashion industry. Ben, neither you or me know. She's like, how do you not know this person? How do you not know this fashion brand? When you're in your world, I'm not sure what you would know and what you don't know. Because that's so big for me.

And then when I'm like, do you know Olivier Rousteing? And we're like, no, we don't know him. Rodrigo? I was like, him. It's a classic guy. There we go. I have no idea. There you go.

And then I was like, well, he's the creative director of the Fashion House Beaumont. Oh, my God, Ben. How do you not know the Fashion House Beaumont? And you were like, you've never heard of it before. No, I haven't. That's fine. That's fine. Not everyone knows.

Probably lots of sports players that you wouldn't know and things like that. So if Olivier walked in the room right now, you would hit die and Ben and me would be like, G'day, Olivier, mate. I'd just be like, oh, hey, mate. Can I help with anything? You know, if you're lost or anything. Oh, reception's over there? Yeah, that sort of thing, yeah.

You look very fashionable. Yeah. Yeah. So that's your niche hero. Yeah. Why? Well, he was a creative director of Roberto Cavalli. Have you heard of that?

When he was 18 years old. Didn't even pause to let us answer? No. No, because I already knew the answer. But impressive, though. 18. And then creative director of this massive French fashion house that you've never heard of before when he was 26. How big is it?

Yeah, I mean. It's not a Hellenstein Brothers name. It's very big, but sure. He's just, he's an incredible designer. He's done amazing things in the fashion world. It's a unit of glasses. Unit of glasses. House of G, I'm sure.

So that's one of your niche heroes. We have lots of niche heroes right now. So we want to play a little game. You have to say on our Under the Hits who a hero is of yours that maybe we wouldn't know. And if we haven't heard of it. We can try and guess. Yeah, we'll give you some of our John O'Bennett and Megan Socks.

Because you do, and especially with the internet too, you do delve into very niche categories. I don't know. He's kind of dropped off my algorithm. But there was a period there for a number of years where, I don't know, he's kind of dropped off my algorithm but there was a period there for a number of years where, I don't know if you've heard of David Goggins.

David Goggins is some sort of psychotic ex-Marine from the US and he's kind of unnecessarily aggressive with his motivation. He's a motivational

guy at the moment, yeah. Marine tactics, he used to be a bit larger and now he's like, he's super fit and he is working out. And he's like, he's super fit and he is working out. And he's like, you know, I go under the water and I dive there.

I'm down there for 45 minutes. Hold my breath. Stay hard. Yeah, he kind of makes you feel like less of a human being in a lazy slop. Have a listen. This is Goggins just going out for a run in a 140 degree day or something. It's a hot motherf***er. Nice heat wave.

Mother nature's a pissed off motherf***er. But guess what? So am I. So who a hot motherf***ing nice heat wave. Mother Nature's a pissed off motherf***er, but guess what? So am I. So who gives a f*** that I was running and this guy passes me in the car

and it's about 100 degrees out here and the guy comes back around and looks at me. He pulls his car by me and says, why the f*** are you out here?

I said, because you're not. Because you're not. Yeah, that's some motivation for you. Now, have you heard of Goggins? No.

Nice character. Now, if Goggins was in the room, I'd be like, mate, I'd love a photo. Purely just so I could send it to the small select group of people

on my friend group who appreciate Goggins. They'd probably tell you to go away. Yeah. Have you been to a run yet? Yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

A new, a revolutionary pair of socks, a pair with a spare of Jono, Ben and Megan socks. They're white socks with the Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A new revolutionary pair of socks, a pair with a spare of Jono, Ben and Megan socks, white socks with the Hits logo, our names on each side. If you lose one, well, that's why they come in threes. Genius idea. But we are after your niche heroes this morning on 0800 The Hits. I just played you David Goggins,

who is a guy who just kind of yells abuse at you and yells cliches down the camera. And he's got his way. He's always like, stay hard. I don't know on what level I take that at. It's his catchphrase, right? Yeah. I really got into home workouts, you know, through COVID times.

You couldn't go to the gym and stuff. And on YouTube, you could do all these workouts without weights and stuff. So there was a guy, Joe Wicks. At first, he was a UK guy. Oh, that's savage. He would sound like that. Everything was savage. But he wicks at first he was a uk guy oh that's savage he would sound like that everything was savage but he's really fit i was like mate you're not struggling oh so he's struggling along with you oh that's it he's quite entertaining but then i got found another guy called bully juice and he is this massive guy just a guy shirtless he

doesn't say anything so i could listen to a podcast put him on he just gives me thumbs up and stuff but he's my like my little, my kids will come in the room and go oh you're watching Bully Juice again Bully Juice, he's a rip dude and so Bully Juice walked in here right now I want to hear him speak first I'm a Bully Juice, I'm a fan you're a fan and you've never heard him speak

no but every second, third day I'm watching Bully Juice for 20, 30 minutes doing his thing, he's jumping around birth name, birth name, sky jumps and all sorts and mountain climbers and stuff. He just gives me thumbs up. I'm like, yep, mate, thumbs up back to him. But I don't know yet. Bully Juice.

Imagine if we got Bully Juice over here to come and he just walks in the room, just gives you a thumbs up and walks out. Look how excited his little face is. I'm excited. That's what we're after, your niche heroes this morning. So you just tell us who it is. And if none of us know who that person is, you're going to win a pair of the revolutionary socks.

Going to head to Porirua, Helen Morena. Morena, how we doing? We're doing well. Your niche hero, Helen. My niche hero is Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Eunice Kennedy Shriver? Okay. I don't know who that is.

I feel like I might have heard but I could not tell you how Is it part of the Kennedy political family in America? She is related Shriver, Marie Shriver Shriver was married to There's a Shriver married to Arnie, wasn't there? Arnold Schwarzenegger, yeah

I think there was actually, yeah So what did this person do? Eunice created the special olympics that is incredible listen to us with our shallow niche heroes bully juice buddy your fashion olivier yeah well you're really amazing well hey we need better heroes these are niche heroes't mean you haven't got bigger heroes to do other stuff, but these are niche heroes. Jesus!

We're going to hook you up with a pair of our new John O'Ben and Megan socks. Oh, my granddaughter will love it. She's got 90 pairs of socks. 90? Yeah. Wow. That's a big collection of socks. She's now my new niche hero.

She's going to be really excited. Yeah, that is great. Well, like we're saying, we all collect socks, don't we? It's just how hard you go, really. John, morning to you. Oh, kia ora. Kia ora to you. Talking niche heroes, Johnny.

You name the character, we'll try and figure out if we know them. Yeah, so this is kind of on the Dave Groggins sort of thing you're talking about. There's a guy called Mark Wildman. Nah, never heard of Mark Wildman. He's a guy called Mark Wildman. No, I've never heard of Mark Wildman. He's a Hollywood trainer. He specializes in, now you see kettlebells everywhere now, he specializes in these things called heavy clubs or clubbells. So he's got about a million followers on YouTube,

and he's trained Chris Pine on a bunch of his movies as well, and Jack Black. Never heard of this man. I've even forgotten his name. What was his name? Mark Wildman. Mark Wildman. They look like baseball bats that he trains with.

That's right. Exactly. That's right. Yep. And so he's got thousands of videos, sort of instructional videos of how to do that, but he also brings on his celebrities on a bunch of his videos as well. And there we go. Mark Wildman, John's niche hero.

Did anyone know Mark Waldman? No, but I feel like he's someone I could add to the bully. Just a repertoire for me. Well, next time you're working out to Waldman, you can put on a pair of our socks, and if you lose one of them, you've got a spare, John. Beautiful, thank you. Great ones coming through on the text here.

Ooskang. I love Ooskang. He's great, yeah. Have you seen Ooskang on through on the text here. Oosking. I love Oosking. He's great, yeah. Have you seen Oosking on TikTok, Instagram? No. Kiwi guy. Amazing funny stuff on TikTok. Just blows up.

Snoop Dogg will share his stuff all the time. It's incredible. Yeah. He does dances to songs that don't match the dance. So he'll have his hip-hop crew and they're dancing along to Britney Spears or something like that. Moana theme song or something. Stuff like that. So everyone know who's getting is joey swole text here on four four eight seven if joey swole walked in a room i would faint trainer reads the test i think they're

of you'd hope for the name like swole social media do you know joey swalby what's coming up on google there a massively ripped dude there. Hugely ripped dude. Is that Joey? Another text here. Tess Conway on TikTok? Okay. I think it's Tessa, isn't it?

Tessa, she's big on TikTok. Absolutely beautiful soul. I would die if she walked into a room. It's coming through. 4487. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. A boy, seven years old, applied for a passport in the UK,

where his family did, and it got rejected because his name is, well, he has Skywalker in it and they're like, copyright infringement. Eh? Yeah. It's the passport for the passport people in the place were like, hey, yeah, well, they did. They were like, we can't issue this because it's a copyright. You don't own that name. Disney

do. And Disney weren't even involved in it. Surely they had to register his name when he was born yeah so they're now going back and forth on that one as well yeah maybe the past what people are diversifying into uh intellectual property yeah they're not trying to make gains from it but anyway that was an interesting one as well actually speaking of kids yesterday i was uh i did pick up my daughter from something an after-school thing and then take her across town to she had a dentist appointment and know, when you're running through traffic,

people will know right now, the traffic, I was like looking at the, you know, the GPS, the maps, and I was like, oh, we're going to be, we're going to be 10 minutes. We're going to have 10 minutes later. I see that as a challenge. I see like when you shave minutes off Google Maps

or Apple Maps. Oh God, that feels good. But 10 minutes is a lot. It's a lot to call back. You could maybe get two minutes. And I got closer to the time and then it was middle turn. I was like, I better call the dentist and say, hey, we're running late. And so I put it on speakerphone in the car.

My daughter's sitting next to me and it's still 10 minutes to go. So I'm like, you know, it's 11, 12 minutes to go, to be honest. I'm like, hey, we're just on our way, a bit of traffic. We're running five minutes late. They're like, oh, okay, okay. Yeah, we're just on the way, a bit of traffic. We're running five minutes late. They're like, oh, okay, okay. Yeah, we're just on the way, a bit of traffic. They're like, good, we'll see you soon. I hung up and my daughter's like.

I love how you blame them on traffic as well. There was traffic. Traffic's always there though. Yeah, we're running from one thing to another. There was some traffic, but we were running, you know, I said five minutes late. The GPS still said 12 minutes. And then my daughter's like, you don't mean that.

Why'd you say that? She's not saying this on the call. No, thank me. I've hung up the thing. She's like, you said we were five minutes away. It's like, you could see. She could see as well. We're 12 minutes away.

So you're going to get there seven minutes after your late time. And I was like, yeah, but I say that. That's what we all say. And the person on the phone knows I'm not five minutes away. It's the international rule. The unspoken rule. If they say five minutes, it's probably 15. Yeah. And she was like, why don't you just say you're 12 minutes away? I'm not five minutes away. It's the international rule. The unspoken rule. If they say five minutes, it's probably 15. Yeah.

And she was like, why don't you just say you're 12 minutes away? I'm like, I don't know. Because that doesn't sound as good as five. No, that's what I say to her. She's like, just say you're 12 minutes away. That's what it says. And then you don't have to stress about it. Yeah, five minutes buys you 15, I reckon.

Yeah. 10 buys you 20. Yeah. All right, I'm with you. 20 buys you 40. No. Five minutes. Oh, that stresses me out.

No one knows. Everyone knows when you say, I'm just five minutes away or I'm just parking, they know you're going to be a little bit longer, right? No one ever in the history of saying, I'm five minutes away, has ever been five minutes away. No. And I was like, well, they know that. And Sienna was very confused, much like you're confused right now, Megan. Yeah, that stresses me out so much.

Do you not like being late? No, no. I hate being late as well. But I was like well what was my option lying lying's your only option that's my option

I think I would have told them I was 12 minutes away oh no 5 minutes we're just 5 minutes away traffic I don't know because I just

but I'm never 12 to me that's a long time yeah me too I'm never 12 minutes away you know it was one thing but anyway it was my daughter's dentist

so what was the environment like when you did turn up 12 minutes late it was fine it's fine super chill in fact we waited for the dentist do you feel like the dentist rushed through it no i felt it was they were having a busy day as well so i felt like it was fine if anything it was all good it could have been another 15 like yeah everyone was fine everyone got them but i was like five minutes doesn't mean five minutes and everyone knows that right five minutes away but whenever you're waiting for an appointment

and you're sitting there for 15, 20 minutes, you're like, what a hole. There's growing a spanner in the works earlier in the day. Yeah. I'm probably that guy. Ben. Not normally, but today I was five minutes late. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Thanks to our friends at Dilmar Tea, great supporters of the show, trying to make the world a better tea. Do try it. We do the Riddler every week, a wee teaser where you could win a hot and cold tea prize pack and $100. You have two loves in life,

riddles and the internet, don't you? A family coming, a close third. They're climbing up the charts, but riddles, they plague your life at the moment. I've sort of taken over from producer Tyler on the riddle responsibility every morning and it's actually quite fun having a look around for riddles

on the internet. Some I feel like the only thing is it takes away from me having a chance to guess. Some I'm like, oh I get that and others I'm like, I have no idea. Do you find it hard to figure out if we would get it knowing the answer? Yes, yeah. And how easy it could be. But they're simple questions, just worded, complicated, aren't they?

It's like, how long would it take a man in the kitchen to make a cup of Dilmar tea? How many cups would he make in 10 minutes? What's the answer to that? Just make it there, riddle up on the spot. And it's always a little bit that you maybe need to listen for. That's the thing. It's worded in a way that kind of annoys you. But anyway, the one for the room right now.

Okay. Police get an anonymous phone call. The suspect they're looking for is in a building in town, and the evidence is good that he's actually there. They don't know what he looks like, but they bust in and find a doctor, fireman, mechanic, and truck driver playing poker. They immediately arrest the fireman,

and he confesses to the crime. How did they know it was not him and the other ones playing cards? Start again, sorry. There's too many words. Start again, yeah, you lost me. You're a bad booze horse. Okay, police get anonymous phone calls,

suspects in a building in town. The evidence is good that he's actually there, although they don't know what he looks like. They bust in and find a doctor, fireman, mechanic and truck driver playing poker. They immediately arrest the fireman and he confesses to the crime. How did they know it was him and not the others playing friends? Not the others playing poker, sorry.

Not the others playing friends. They weren't watching Friends as well. Did he say, did he have a petrol canister in his hand? No, no, no. Do you know it? No. Okay. There's an anonymous tip.

Yeah, okay. I don't even know what the guy's done, to be honest. So they find inside there, there's a fireman, doctor, mechanic, and truck driver, and they arrest the fireman. No. He's the only man. The rest are females. Again, another sexism scandal for the show, mate. Sure, mate. The doctor. He's the only man The rest are females Again another sexism

Scandal for the show mate You're not He's sexist The doctor The mechanic The truck driver All females The fireman

Or the fireman I thought maybe You'd get that one It was complicated Because of the last Sexism scandal We had on one of these But

I thought we were Through them I thought we were Through the sexism scandal How many sexist riddles have you got? That's a lot of sexist riddles To be honest I even missed the point that the suspect was a man It all bamboozled me

Okay well that was We failed miserably on that Here's a quick one for you on 0100 the hits Lose me once and I'll come back stronger Lose me twice and I'll leave forever What am I? She's a woman Is that the right answer Tom? I think it was sexism twice and I'll leave forever. What am I? She's a woman.

Is that the right answer, John? I think you have the sexiest one. Oh, not that one. We only get the sexiest ones, do we? I'll enter the hats. Lose me once, I'll come back stronger. Lose me twice and I'll leave forever. You get the Dil Marti prize pack this morning plus $100 and every caller this morning

gets a pair of our limited edition socks. Millie, good morning to you in Christchurch. Hi. Okay, the answer. Is it a tooth? It is a tooth. Yeah, lose me once and I'll come back stronger. Lose me twice and I'll leave forever.

Then I come back the second time. Oh, yeah, that's clever. It's a tooth. Speaking of losing things, you're never going to lose a pair of socks, Millie, because you've got our brand new socks. Every pair comes with a spare. Megan, Jon things, you're never going to lose a pair of socks, Millie, because you've got our brand new socks. Every pair comes with a spare. Megan, Jono, and Ben on the socks. And also the Dilmar pack and $100 too.

I think I'm most excited about the socks. It's great. It's great. That's a show of socks. Don't play this to Dilmar. You've been with us for a very long time. We come in with some novelty socks and blow them out of the water. But good on you, Millie.

You have a wonderful day in Chitra, all right? Thank you. You too. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ben, you lost your sock last week. We went on a big nationwide hunt to try and find it. We couldn't, unfortunately. But where many would see a lost sock, we see a business opportunity.

And that's why we've released Jono, Ben and Megan's exclusive socks. Every pair comes with a spare. One's got Megan, one's got Ben, one's got Jono written on it. And you'll never lose them. So the white socks with the Hitz logo, and as you said before, our names on the inside. So yeah, three socks, but they all can go together. So you've got an extra one if you lose it. Great business opportunity.

My business mentor, Donald J. Trump, once said, the difference between winners and losers is how a person reacts in a twist of fate. He also said this. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of the people that live there. So take that with a grain of salt. He can put a sock in it.

Definitely. That's for sure. So right now we've got socks to give away, but I'm going to make your work for them this morning. Aunt's sock-related stories. Injuries, they can be your best friend and your worst enemy. Did you remember if you had a non-carpeted hallway or something, you could use that as a sliding rink and get some good run

and some good sliding pace too. The problem is once you start the slide, you can't pull out of it. You just have to let momentum stop you and slowly wear off. I did this once and my Nana was staying at Winifred. God bless her. She walked out of the spare room at the time I was mid-slide. Head-on collision with Grandma. You took out Winifred.

Yeah, well, I held on to her. She didn't fall onto the ground, but it did catch you by surprise. So sock-related stories. Have you had a sock injury? Have you had to pull a sock out of your dog's behind like I did after you ate one of the kids' socks when it was little? He had an extra tail, and I had to sort of help the dog out with that one. Oh, grim.

Yeah. Did the dog move in the opposite direction, like the force was going the opposite way? Was he helping you oh yeah was he like yeah i wouldn't mind getting this out and so he knew which way to move no he was just sort of he was a bit confused about what i was doing yeah he turned around and was like excuse me i don't know if i get involved in that part of the process he's like he's got a glove on he's coming up to me what's going on this is new i don't consent just helping you out

yeah and i think afterwards he was quite relieved. But he probably had no idea what was going on back there, to be honest. So I don't know. It's 4487. You got any sock? No, not that I can think of. It's a tough one. We might not get a single call next.

Sock-related injuries as well. Yeah. I actually do remember getting in quite a substantial amount of trouble when I took some of my father's gold tops and I turned them into sock puppets and cut eyes in them for a school project. John Boy, not happy about that. So anything sock related, we'll take it.

We might not get a single call, but if you want some of our socks that could come with some exclusive perks next year. He's working on perks. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Limited edition, not many pairs. No,

we've got every pair that has a spare so they're unlosable socks. It feels like what Elon Musk did to motoring, we're doing to the sock industry, revolutionising it. Losing,

maybe overselling it a touch there but if you'd like a pair of our novelty show socks, 0800 The Hits, Ben, you've asked for sock related content, socks to be you. Have you thought of a sock story, a sock incident? No,800 the hits. Ben, you've asked for sock-related content. Socks to be you.

Have you thought of a sock story, a sock incident? No, I haven't. Oh, well, unfortunately, we've got some calls and texts through. You talked about your dog having to pull the sock out of his bum. But someone texts in, Wendy texts in to say she's a vet nurse. We had the same dog come in twice after eating a sock. We had to do surgery each time to remove them. Oh, surgery.

But we always joke that the owners, at least they got their pair of socks. They got them back. I don't know where they end up. Yeah, you wouldn't really want to wear them again, eh? They could have got you into the surgery, the operating theatre. Well, I only work okay if it's coming out and you can see it. I can't really get it. I know the right man for this job.

All right, let's go to the phones. Jenny, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Morena. Good morning. Lovely to have you on, Jenbo. What happened to you in Sox? Well, I was young and foolish, just gone flatting, had a beautiful long tile hallway,

thought that's going to be great for a slide. Did my slide and I split my head open and broke my arm. Oh, jeez! You split your head open? Did you headbutt the ground? I headbutted the corner of the wall. You must have been coming in at a rate of knots there, Jenbo.

It was impressive. I was very impressed with my efforts. Yeah, because the thing is you need to get grip as you're running into the slide too, don't you? You want some sturdy grip there. It's like the downhill bobsled, isn't it? You need to get some good pace to go with and it didn't turn out well for you. Well, I can't vouch that these socks won't make you slip, Jenny, but you've got three of them, all right?

Awesome. Thank you so much. That's all right. That's all right. These are popular, these socks, aren't they? Someone's texting saying, my son-in-law collects socks. Would love a pair for his collector's. It's great. One of my family. Don't we all collect socks?

My socks. Well, sometimes people like socks. One of my family does that. It's great when you have their birthdays or whatever like that. You're just like, great. You know what they want. And they're happy with socks.

Yeah. Okay. But are they? Have they just been branded as the sock person? Maybe. Maybe you're right. We'll go just been branded as the sock person? Maybe. Maybe you're right. We'll go to Wellington, Victoria. Good morning to you.

Morena. Morena. It's lovely to have you on. In Wellington, what happened to you in socks? So I'm a dance teacher and I was teaching dance, did a move,

I slipped and my big toe like curled up under itself and I broke it. In front of the class? Yeah, in front of all of my students. Do you keep

dancing there or that's a stop dance situation? No, I had to do the awkward limp off to the side, try not to cry. Oh yeah, I was going to say, did you cry in front of them? You go to the side like, oh yeah, it's okay. And then you're like, oh, my mum. Do some pirouettes amongst yourself for a few seconds, kids.

Yowch. Hey, that's really good. Thank you so much for your call. Wait, I want to know, was there a toe cast? No, they used like a splint made out of popsicle sticks and then they just wore Crocs for like six weeks. Someone's just made that up. Someone's texting here as well

I used to have a lot of sock related incidents When I was a teenage boy So maybe they've learned how to use their socks now As a fully grown adult Yeah I'm sure that's exactly what that means I concussed myself And I slipped over while chasing the cat in my socks

Jeez a lot of people's sock related injuries And I used to stuff my bra with socks Nobody knew I hope Is the text that came through Yeah no one said anything And there we go She's got bumpy boobs and I used to stuff my bra with socks. Nobody knew, I hope, is the text that came through. Yeah, no one said anything. And there we go. She's got bumpy boobs.

We had very little faith in the fact that people would come through with the sock-related content, but they did. You delivered. Thank you, New Zealand. We appreciate it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Productive day of the week. It is. Yeah, I did get into a Tuesday hole a few weeks.

I can't even remember why I clicked on this. You know, 28 reasons why Tuesday is great or something. You know, this is bad luck. Superstitious to start a new project or venture on a Tuesday as well. Okay. It feels like some lazy colleagues like, hey, should we get into this new? No, no, no, no. Got to do it next Monday.

Yeah. Hey, I don't know if you guys have bought tickets lately for anything, but, jeez, that's one of the most stressful things I think to do it next Monday. Yeah. Hey, I don't know if you guys have bought tickets lately for anything, but, jeez, that's one of the most stressful things, I think, to do, is to try and buy tickets for concerts. Oh, they do make it. Yeah, and the websites, the clock ticking down. That's the thing. So I had to.

Luke Combs is coming to New Zealand. I was excited about that. I thought I'd try and get some tickets to Luke Combs. Now, I looked on his website. You can sign up. Now, you had to sign up to his Bootleggers Club. Oh, Jesus. So you can get in a day before the other tickets to sign up.

I get 10% discount on all his merch, and I can also get tickets 24 hours before they go on sale at Ticketmaster pre-sales. So you're now an official Bootlegger? Is that your point? I'm part of the Bootleggers Club, mate. Me and Luke Combs. So I signed up for that first, Lee.

So I had to sign up for that, get all my details, get your passwords, all that sort of stuff. What was your password? Oh, yeah, something with Luke Combs in the name and an exclamation mark. Pretty much. Special character was my exclamation mark. And then finally got on there and yesterday 4 o'clock, got waited in the queue.

You have to wait in the virtual queue. And then suddenly you get let in for 10 minutes. Oh, so you've got 10 minutes to get everything you need. 10 minutes. And that's a frenzy. You're ticking down clock of looking at things. And you're looking at tickets. You're like, jeez, these are $250 tickets, these ones here.

And then you're like, what about these ones here? And then I was buying for other people and myself. So you feel the pressure of like, do they want to get these 250 300 tickets or are they more like 150 you're making an executive decision isn't it crazy how expensive tickets are yeah yeah 300 bucks a ticket yeah so 250 was like your standard ga tickets for luke combs if you want a ga it's a standard 250 but then i got 150 tickets with like the front row of kind of the back section the nosebleeds yeah $150 tickets with the front row of the back section. The nosebleeds.

Yeah, but it's like the front of the nosebleeds. Have you got seats? I've got seats. Yeah, good. Is that how you were selling them to other people? Yeah. I've got front row of the nosebleeds. Of the nosebleeds.

You know the back section? We're the front row of the back section. But then I bought it for the people and myself and my wife, but then I was like, oh God, if I made a bad, after I purchased it, I was like, oh, they're not going to be happy with this. You know, that's why I had to sell them. I was like. What's the positive?

We're in the front row of the worst section. If you've left it up to someone, you have to just go with it. That's why, and everyone was very nice. They were like, hey,

we're just grateful to be doing it. You've gone for the worst house, best street policy. Yeah. It's a stressful thing. It is. And then you don't have time

to call the people and go, hey, I'm looking at these ones, so I It is. And then you don't have time to call the people and go, hey, I'm looking at these ones, should I do this? And then every time I click on the four seats and I go enter, they'll go,

sorry, these ones have just been taken. You'll be like, no, no, and then you have to click on four more. And then you're like, six minutes,

32 seconds left. Yeah. The other question is, did they have the surging? You know how they do the surging on some of the sites? No. They don't tell you

that it's surging. Didn't see any surging, but I think Ticketmaster today is the pre-sales know how they do the surging on some of the sites? They don't tell you that it's surging. Didn't see any surging, but I think Ticketmaster today is the pre-sales and then General Public the day after for two nights for Luke Combs. But if you're a true Combs fan,

you sign up to his... The Bootleggers Club, mate. The Bootleggers Club. That's me. You going to get some cowboy boots? On my 10% discount. You know I am. That's for sure.

So I'm very excited about that. Luke Combs. Finally got there, but we're front row of the... Front row, front row. Worst section. Did that sell out? Did that sell out the pre-sales?

I don't know if it is pre-sale, yeah. Sold out on the pre-sales, yeah. I think today maybe would be interesting because that's where the general public, not the bootleggers, not the OG fans that have been bootleggers since yesterday. Well, well done, Benny. He's off to Cobes. He's in his country era. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Auckland FC, a brand new football team for New Zealand. We're going to have the Phoenix and Auckland FC, the Black Knights in the Australian A-League competition. It's very exciting. And Nick Becker, the CEO of the Auckland FC, joins us in the studio. Thanks so much for hanging out. Thank you.

Now, I was just thinking, very exciting, Auckland FSC, but thinking how much work would go into this. Last night, I was thinking you're coming up with team colours, you're coming up with logos, where are you going to play, sponsors, there's so much that goes into it.

How long have you been working on this? Well, it's been a really short time, so it's an amazing honour. It's a super privilege to be able to do this, right? To set up a football club. But I only joined, so we got the licence last November. I got the job in November. First thing that you have to do is you've got to hire the football side, right?

So we've got a football director and a head coach in. So once you've got kind of faith in them, to your point, you've then got to start building an identity, right? So you've got to get, so what's the badge? What's the colours? You know, we're majority owned by a guy called Bill Foley, who's a very successful US businessman. So he has some sports teams around the world.

He does. Yeah, absolutely. So he's got Vegas Golden Knights, which is an ice hockey team. He's got a great story about them. So he bought the licence for that in 2017. And everyone in ice hockey, they all play it up in Canada and up in the northern states, right? And so they were all like, what are you doing taking ice to the desert? Nobody plays ice hockey, they all play it up in Canada and up in the northern states, right? And so they were all like, you know, what are you doing taking ice to the desert?

Nobody plays ice hockey out there. They really ribbed him for it, right? Well, the conditions aren't conducive to ice hockey. Of course it's not outside, I guess. You need a serious freezer. But he got riled up about it, right? So he was like, I'm not having this. And he came out publicly and said, I'll make the finals in three

and I'll win it in six in terms of the Stanley Cup and you know there's teams that in that league that haven't won it in 60 years so so it was a big statement they started competing in his first year he made it all the way through to the Stanley Cup finals all but one year of those six years he made the finals and then in the sixth year he won the Stanley Cup wow it's not a bad effort right manifested it for sure yeah yeah do you reckon he was telling the team how he made some big claims? Wait till the sixth year. Pretty much. So, you know, someone like that backing the club and behind you, he's not here to mess

around. Is he putting those sort of demands on you? I want a victory in the sixth year? Thankfully not publicly, right? But he is one of the most competitive people I know. And then we've also got some great local owners too. We've got Anna Mowbray and Ali Williams. Really?

Yeah, they know how to succeed. They're driven people. And we just recently announced three ex-All Whites have joined the club as well in terms of part of our ownership group. So Winston Reid, who's arguably one of New Zealand's most successful footballers, former West Ham captain, former New Zealand captain, Tim Brown of All Whites, and then now more recently All Birds fame. And Noah Hickey as well, who was an All Birds.

So that's a great combination of people, right? It is. Oh, very exciting. It's wild to think you've done this in under a year. I know, I know. Still picking colours. I'm about to have painted a house, and I'm like, still picking colours for that.

It's an old sports team. Nick Becker with us, CEO of New Zealand's newest football club in the A-League, the Auckland FC. You know, you've had your to-do list

with the club, getting the club off the ground and we have kind of... Logos and colours. Logos, colours, goalposts. Did you get some goalposts? We did. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We got some of those. So you're ticking stuff off your to-do list. And as a show and as a station, we've tasked ourselves, we've got to come up with a celebratory move for the club. That all the fans do, the Phoenix, they're taking their tops off,

spinning around. We've got a bit more class than taking your tops off. Okay? Oh, okay, mate. I like it. I like it. It's going to sound great, but hey. And so we're going to try and design a move for you.

Anything you've seen in the past that's worked well? Because I know you've worked in the UK and Australia with football as well. Have you seen anything that can kind of – Well, there's a great one. So I worked at Man City, and they used to do the Posnan, where the whole stadium – I mean, it sounds a bit weird because they turn their back on their game, but the whole stadium turn around with their back, link up,

and they just jump up in unison. It's worth it. It's worth it, Google. That's pretty cool. Can we rip that off? Yeah. Well, Megan, you actually came up with a really good one. I did because nights,

I was going to draw inspiration off when you get knighted. So you bow down and you get the sword first on the right. So I thought you could bow your head and tap your right shoulder. So this is after you score a goal, you get knighted. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Ben, you had something else you wanted to pitch? Well, I was watching Steph Curry, one of my favourite basketballers, and sometimes he does the knight-knight where he does the sort of go to sleep pose. So I thought maybe you could do a shh, a goal, so they score a goal, shh, and everyone does

the good knights. Hold on, so I've got confused here. I thought you were talking about the fans. We're talking about the players here. Well, it could be either or. The fans and the players could do it. Oh, I like that. So someone scores a goal, they do that. Everyone goes out.

Around the ground and everyone goes to sleep. You're putting the opposition to sleep. We're workshopping these things. The creative energy in this room is amazing. Those are what we're working on at the moment. So we'll re-pitch the winning one to you later on. I like it. I like it. It's very exciting.

October 19th, the first game. Yep. We want to see as many Aucklanders who can support us in those first two weekends that'd be fantastic very exciting yeah congratulations on everything and we look forward to it the hits

the Jono and Ben podcast a lot of traffic in the mornings it builds up all over the country particularly in the weekend in Auckland's new mall right

out by the airport I was going out that way and I didn't know why there was gridlock traffic in the weekend I was like what is happening but everyone was going out that way, and I didn't know why there was gridlock traffic in the weekend. I was like, what is happening? But everyone was going shopping. Wouldn't it be depressing to think, if you add it all up over a lifetime, how long you spend just sitting in a car?

Don't do it. I reckon it's probably like 19 and a half years or something wild. Particularly for people taking long trips. Yeah. People at work that take hours in the morning. I used to work with someone that would drive from, a two-hour drive from Coromandel every day, back and forth, four-hour round trip in the car every day. Wow.

I mean, there is a bonus, I guess, of spending four hours alone with yourself. Yeah. You can think about stuff, think about life. Listen to radio. Yeah. When I was doing more normal person hours, there was one day it took me two and a half hours to get to work.

What takes me at the moment, 21 minutes, took me two and a half hours just because of traffic. You're in a deeper, meaningful relationship with the motorway then, aren't you? Yeah. You spend more time, more intimate with your car on the road than you are with your family. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Over the course of a day.

So 800 of the hits. We want to check this open. Who is doing the longest commute listening right now? Do you mean K's wise or time wise? Oh, now you're stipulating kilometres. I'm going to go time wise. Yeah, probably time wise. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. It's an easy gauge for people. Yeah. All right. And we're talking cars? We're talking cars or like people on trains and buses and things like that? All forms of transport.

Listen, I'm desperate, mate. It's 6 o'clock. Yeah, true. I'm going to be biking. You're taking 10 hours to bike to work. We'll take that. Yeah, okay. We've got an early call.

First off the bat, who's this? Ezra. Ezra, how long are you commuting for? Here and a half. Oh, that's not bad. So that's one way or is that return? One way, yeah. Okay, well.

Are you driving? Yeah. That's a lot. So where are we talking? From where to where? From Hardin to Hillbotton. Okay, both those places.

Okay, thank you. Christchurch, Hillbotton, Christchurch. Yeah, gotcha, gotcha. An hour and a half. What do you think about during that hour and a half? Generally, I listen to my kids yelling at me.

Oh, the kid's in the car the whole time too. He comes to me for kindy, so he comes along. That is a big commute. Yay, you get to hang out with the family. They're yelling at you. Three hours in a car. Are there days where you're like, maybe I should get a job closer to home?

Yeah, definitely. Probably every day. Yeah, every day. Do you enjoy parts of it, or? Yeah, it is nice. It's a nice drive, so it's good. Yeah, good. Hey, and you get to listen to fun stuff like this every morning, Ezra.

We're going to hook you up with some of our new socks, show socks. We've got Jono, Ben, and Megan's sock that all come together, so you never lose a sock again. Well, if you do, you've still got a – A spare. You've still got two, yeah. If you go beyond that, that's on you.

The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Nice photo of the rhino I saw in today's paper from the Auckland Zoo. It's pregnant, the white rhino, giving birth in November. Then I read underneath in the caption, it's 14 months pregnant. So 14 months. So rhinos, and then a bit more research, 16 to 18 months is how long they have a baby. So elephants, two years. Two years.

Oh, Lord. Elephants are pregnant for two years. Are you going to tell me not to complain? No, not at all. I was actually just thinking about that. But no. I saw it in your face. You're like, what are you complaining I'm just like, yeah. I was actually just thinking about that. But no, not my place. I saw it in your face.

You're like, what are you complaining about? Nine months, mate. Not for me to say. Not my business. Stay in your lane. But that's impressive. Two years, too. And lugging around a baby elephant would be a lot of effort.

A baby elephant for two months, yeah. Yeah, I thought maybe it was a typo from the paper. But no, it's the rhinos are 14 months pregnant. No wonder they look so depressed, the poor elephants. Move so slowly. We're just after speaking of moving slowly, the longest commutes to work, 0800, the hits telephone number. Every caller we get on air today wins a pair of the show's exclusive socks. Every pair has a spare.

There's three socks in there, so you never lose one. Bruce, good morning. Hey, how are you? Yeah, we're doing well. Bruce, what do you do? I actually work in the coal industry. Oh, the coal industry. Yeah.

Love coal. Coal gets a bad rap, but gee, I love coal. It does, it does, but we've got to have it. Got to have coal. That's what I do, and of, the coal mines are in Huntly. And Christmas time I decided to relocate to a little coastal village called Onimana in the Coromandel. Know it well, yeah? Yeah, so I commute about 150 a day each way. That's a long drive, isn't it?

It's a huge drive. By yourself? Yeah, by myself, yeah. Jeez, I said I love coal. Bruce loves coal. He'll drive that far for coal. And, Ben, what time are you getting home every night, Bruce? No, around about 6 o'clock at night.

I leave only about quarter past five, about five in the morning. Jeez, you must be exhausted. Like, sitting and driving, concentrating on driving does take it out of you. You must be buggered when you get home. It does, but you just sort of take it in little chunks over the hill and into Thames

and away you go through to Maramuru and then all of a sudden you're there. But the beauty is you can actually do a little bit of work on the hands-free on the phone. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, so it's all good. Huntley's still got that wonderful mural of the Top Twins up on the main road there.

They have. I used to go to school with the Top Twins up on the main road there. They have. I used to go to school with the Top Twins. Oh, did you? Yes, you did. It's New Zealand. Yeah, true. I used to do a little bit of singing back in the day as well with them. With the actual Top Twins?

What? She's used to the small place. Can you yodel? Yeah, you're a yodeler or not? No, I never went that far. I didn't like doing that. Oh, Brucey, before we give you some socks, can we get a couple of bars out of you, baby?

A couple of lines. Not now, mate. Not now, not now, no, no, not now. Early morning. The singing days are done, mate. The singing days are done. Mate, what more do you want? Bruce is calling up.

He's underneath. You want him to sing? He's like, I'm not a dancing monkey, mate. Hey, Bruce, I'll hook you up with some socks. We appreciate you listening to the show for as long as you do. Roger. he's like I'm not a dancing monkey mate Bruce I hope you have some socks we appreciate you listening to the show for as long as you do

Roger okay thank you good on you Bruce