Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Start Your Week Off Right!

Episode Date: March 26, 2023

Motivational Monday JP & Suzie Cato from Red White Brass We give away 5 pink tickets! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. This is brought to you by Dilma, making the world a better tea. Do try it. Do try it. We try it. We like it. Lime and green tea. Oh yeah, green tea with the lemon lime is actually, it's really good. Adding this liquid to my morning routine, which you very generously make me a cup of tea every morning, Ben, adding the liquid to the morning tea has really, really burst in the old banks. Too much liquid. The outer banks.

Yeah. A bit of show on Netflix. You're right, yes. It does make you... Don't you find? Yeah, yeah. What's that? Don't you find?

It makes you very leaky. Yes, it does. More so than water for some reason. Well, just need to, I think, just get liquid in your... It's good. It's probably good for your system, though. It is good, yeah.

It feels clean when you have tea. Yeah. Anyway, that's enough tea propaganda. They haven't paid for this. Well, no, yeah, true. But you're right. They didn't say, hey, can you talk about how you keep needing to go to the bathroom? You're right.

They probably didn't. If anything, they're like, can you say less about the bathroom shit yet? Twenty-some, we spoke to Dilhan from Dilmar, and he was saying he went to Egypt. They're bashing back 20 cups a day. Oh, yeah. Remember we spoke to Anne-Marie, the pop star, and her granddad. It was like something wild. I'm going to say 60, and I'm going to Google it, but I might be wrong.

60 cups of tea a day. Keeping up. He's blowing the Egyptians out of the water. I might be wrong. I might be wrong. I might be wrong. Okay. He must honestly, and this is not a joke, he'll never leave the bathroom.

He'll just be pouring it in. It'll be pouring straight out. Like one of those fountains, you know, that just keeps going round and round in the gardens. She's got a tattoo of a cup of tea for her grandfather. There we go. We did talk to her about this. 60 is a big claim, Ben Boyce.

I know. That's like Snoop Dogg's 5,000 Blunts today. The number may have got away on you. 60 cups of tea. It seems like a lot now. Oh, look, tomorrow's podcast. I'll do some more research. I'll come back and I'll tell you tomorrow on the show.

I'll go back through the archives. I may have overshot the mark. I may have said 60, but it wasn't. I mean, it feels like a... It seems like a lot, doesn't it? To even fit it into a 24-hour... It was a lot. Whatever it was, it was a lot.

But now I say 60 probably wasn't as much as... Because, you know, you've got to factor in he's not awake for 24 hours. So let's just say he's cramming... Let's say 14, 15 hours a day he's awake. Yeah. So he's just say he's cramming, let's say 14, 15 hours a day he's awake. Yeah. So he's getting

60 cups of tea. That's a lot. 15 hours. Over 60 sips of tea. I don't know. I'll tell you tomorrow. Well, I would love it to be true.

I don't know if it is. But tomorrow the podcast, it'll be back. Enjoy. It's a really fun show today as well as a really, really interesting show because we talked to Sir John Kewan, who does such amazing work for mental health

around the country with kids, with everyone. Every time you talk to him, I really take away quite a lot out of the conversations. Yeah. He's nominated for New Zealander of the Year, Kiwi Bank New Zealander of the Year. I noticed another snub this year for me, but that's fine. Yeah, mate, you're not doing anything. Clore it back in 24. You're not doing anything like Sir John Kirwan, are you?

But one thing I found really interesting, one of the tries I loved as a kid, what I thought was his greatest try for the All Blacks, he is almost embarrassed by it for an unusual reason as well, and a couple of reasons, and also what it kind of, I guess in some ways, brings back. He was okay to talk about it but it's really fascinating

so enjoy that on the podcast. Come on. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Very stressful morning. Turned up this morning in the computer, the radio station computer

not working mate. High drama and when something like this happens you quickly realise we have no skills to fix anything. No, no. A lot of panic. Because you understand when things don't work, your own computer doesn't work.

But when the whole station, the one computer for the station doesn't work, whew. It's back on now. People far smarter than us have been beavering away. What an ugly start to a Monday for the poor tech department. I know. You don't like on any day that you want this to happen. You don't want it on any day but if you pick the worst day, Monday morning. People

getting up a lot earlier than they probably should be up as well. So thank you for everyone for sorting that out. So we can be on air this morning. Ben, you did some more cricket commentary over the weekend. I did, yes. Side hustle, you moonlight. So I moonlight as I sell my body over the weekend. Ben, he

sells cricket. you commentate cricket don't you for the alternate commentary collective yeah fill in from time to time in the rotate it's really fun

I really enjoy it what I enjoy because I haven't heard too much of it to be honest because I'm not much of a cricket fan but what I enjoy

is I do know some of their content veers away from brand Ben sometimes straight away too wow we're going here.

How do you navigate through some of those spicy conversations? Well, hey, you know, now and again, you can teeter with that a bit more than you would on the hits. You can dip your toe in, but at the same time, it's nice to sometimes bring it back to the cricket as well. Just give it that balance. Now, I'm saying these guys do spicy content, but someone has sent me some audio of you over the weekend clean ben and ben trying to do some cricket yeah here you go ship happens in again catch that one it's high

it's going down someone's throat yes it is the book of mormon takes the catch. Jenny Shipley has five. Sri Lanka now. Nine runs away from the lowest total here on New Zealand soil. Yeah, there you go. We got a commentary. Henry Shipley, a new guy. Yeah. We ended up calling him Jenny Shipley after the great...

I was very confused. And you said ship happens. I was like, what's going on here? Yeah. And then down someone's throat. Yeah, I know. And that's lowbrow stuff there's nothing

lowbrow about that at all lowbrow stuff I don't know what's that lowbrow I don't know if it's lowbrow or not

I'm on the hits but why would they post that particular bit of audio on Instagram it was his fifth wicket for the guy Henry Shipley

who's won his first few games for New Zealand so yeah well done Shipley Jenny Jenny Shipley who's actually related. Well done, Shipley. Jenny. Jenny Shipley, who's actually related by marriage to Jenny Shipley. Oh, really?

Yeah. Uncle. Anyway, I don't need to get into that detail. So there you go. So he is related. And for some reason, Jenny Shipley just seemed like a nice name to call him. It's a beautiful name to call him. The Hits.

The Jono and Ben Podcast. Monday morning, another teacher's strike for secondary schools. Looks like it's happening this week. Wednesday. Are they doing another one? Wednesday, by the look of it. So for secondary schools. Looks like it's happening this week. Are they doing another one? Wednesday, by the look of it. So for secondary schools at this stage only. Why don't they just give them the money?

I don't understand. Yeah, I don't know. It's again. They need more money. They deserve more money. Just give them more money. So, yeah. So another one happening if you've got kids in secondary school.

That looks like it's happening on Wednesday. And you, are you okay there, Joel Harrison, sneezing away? No dramas. Joel Harrison, a producer, been consistently sick ever since we've worked with him. A year and a half. Yeah. The longest COVID ever. Now, Ben, you noticed something over the weekend.

You witnessed something over the weekend. Yeah, I went to a bar Friday night, and someone came in walking in. A guy came in walking a pram. And I was like, oh. And I went pram and i was like oh and i went over and i was like oh this is so cute and that we a bit bit slurry like i like babies and then i looked at the pram and it was a cat you take the cat in the pram like a cat in the pram i'm like maybe I know someone that does it from time to time

she does it from time to time but then to bring the cat in the pram to the pub as well I just thought I felt really sorry for the cat

at first well don't because the cat's not happy to use its leaves other cats are looking at that cat going damn

living the good life I thought it was a very unusual situation the cat but yeah to see her like to take the cat out for a walk. Apparently the cat loves it.

But then I... Of course the cat loves it. Yeah. But questions about the bathroom breaks, you know, because, you know, we've got dogs. The dogs kind of let you know. What does the cat do? So, you know, if the cat needs to go bathroom... Well, obviously if it's in the pram, it's got the cat nappies on me.

Now, what I want to know is, did the cat get out in the pub? No. Or did it just sit politely in the pram the entire time? Just sat politely. I don't think they were in there for very long in the pub, but yes.

I wouldn't feel comfortable pushing a pram with a cat in it. No. Because you know, like you people are judging. Yeah, definitely people are judging. But hey, you've got to take your cat

for all you walk around the block and I guess that's what your cat likes. Fine, but. How do you get to the point where you realise that's what the cat likes? Like at some point you've gone and experimented, going, I wonder what the cat... Hopefully you already had the pram first. You didn't go out and buy the pram for the cat,

and you're like, oh, let's put the cat in the pram. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Brand new Kiwi film in cinemas over the weekend, Red, White and Brass it's called. It's a true story of a Tongan rugby superfan who does whatever it takes to go see Tonga play at the Rugby World Cup.

There's only six weeks till Tonga take on France at the Rugby World Cup. What have you done to my house? Surprise my man! Yes, even starting a brass band and none of them could play any instruments. It's based on a true story. It is, yeah.

And the wonderful Susie Cato stars in the movie and John Paul Foliaki as well as the lead actor. And they join us in the studio now. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having us. Oh, yeah, nice to have you. And the movie looks awesome. Now, for people that don't know,

the true story that the movie was inspired by, can you explain it to us? Yeah, so Noah Fiannau, he's a co-writer and he's a producer for this. He's a co-writer with the name of Epole Ait. Yeah, he wrote this story based on his own church and their own experience of trying to get tickets to get to the Rugby World Cup 2011. They created a fictitious brass band, didn't they? So the city council, I think it was a time when Rugby World Cup was on. They wanted Wellington to look like the coolest little capital in the world yeah so they're going out to

the community like okay who can perform who can do this and then his church was like yeah we can go for free tickets our brass band can perform there there was no brass band so how long it was like four weeks right four weeks to turn around a brass band to perform in front of a whole lot of people yeah so i think they only had someone that was over from tonga and he was the only person who could play a brass instrument and he taught the whole church in four weeks yeah but in the movie it was funny because in the movie we had about six weeks seven weeks of filming uh but we had to actually learn how to play i was walking at the front with the drum major, so I had the stick walking at the front. But everyone actually by the end of it could kind of play a few songs as well,

which was probably really annoying for Damon because everyone was jamming every time the camera said cut. You give actors a whole lot of instruments and then try and film scenes and you're playing it on noise. It seems like such a feel-good movie from what I've seen. It's kind of what we need right now is movies like this. Yeah, I think so too, especially, you know, with everything that's been happening in the last few years,

even as recent weeks and months with the Cyclone. So I think it's good for us to have, you know, a feel-good movie that everyone can come to. It's very Tongan, but it's also very Kiwi. You know, you can't have a feel-good movie without Suzy Kato. I was going to say, your debut into cinema. Yes, exactly. Yeah.

Hitting the big screen, oh my goodness, and in such a wonderful movie with so many talented people. This is my first time, but it's been the first time for so many of the actors. Well, I saw that you were saying you were quite nervous. Oh, yeah. You were quite nervous about even auditioning for this. Oh, definitely. I've never done anything like this before.

So any time that you push your boundaries and give yourself a new opportunity, you know, you get the butterflies. Oh, am I going to be any good at this? It's about giving yourself a go. One of my favourite times in New Zealand is when Tonga take on Samoa in anything. And flag madness.

Like the flags hanging off trucks. Big flags, four metre flags hanging off trucks on the motorway. Yeah, people try to hold them and going 100, you know, down the motorway. There hasn't been an accident yet. No, it really is a pride thing and it's beautiful to see. And I think it comes across in this film. But I know that a lot of New Zealanders will be able to relate to it.

Not because their windscreens have been blocked by a flag. Now, Susie, you've seen the film? Yes, we did. Do you know because Damon, the director, we used to work with Damon for many years. He phoned us up one day and was like, I need you to pretend to be good radio announcers because we can't do it in real

life. So we recorded a little bit and we're like, it's going to be a big day in Wellington today. Do you know if it made the cut? Yeah, did we make the cut? This is our debut and we're like, it's going to be a big day in Wellington today. Do you know if it made the cut? Yeah, do we make the cut? This is our debut as well. Yes, it does. It does.

Oh, you're going to say, you're saying that, so we go along, we pay to go see it, then we'll be like, oh, it didn't come up. Maybe it's like one of those scenes after the credit,

you know, they do those post-credit scenes. Yeah, because we were talking to Damon and I was like, what have you been doing? He's like, I've been making a movie. And it felt to me like he felt there was an obligation

to include us in the film. He was like, oh, record this little bit for us. You guys do radio, so we're like the radio announcers. If we made the cut, I will find out. An integral part of the movie. Those iconic voices. Pivotal, pivotal moment. Without that, the movie's done.

Congratulations on being part of such a fantastic project. I'm sure it's going to go down in New Zealand's cinematic history and can't wait to see it. Thank you so much for having us. Yeah, thank you so much. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Lovely to have you with us. Thank you for joining the show on New Zealand's Breakfast.

Now, Monday morning, it's become a tradition where we like to jab you in the butt cheek with some adrenaline, don't we? It's our motivational Monday, Ben. Yeah. And we like to start with some inspiring news to put you in a good mood. What have you found this Monday? It's quite hard to find positive news stories on the internet. That's what I've found. Yeah, you're right. You really do

have to trawl through the dark depths of the depressing news that is out there, but I have found a positive story. It's about a boy called Eric Jr. Now Eric Jr. is only 14 years old. He's 6 foot 10 inches.

Wow. Aged 14. Size 23 US shoes. Wow. Big clob hoppers on him. And his poor parents, they can't get Eric any shoes and a double kick in the guts all he can wear are bloody Crocs

fashionable have you got your Crocs yet? I need to get my Crocs so you can walk me for them you're going to do it for the show and they've got on the news there's no shoes that can fit this poor boy and he lives in an area of America where it's snowing,

so he's wearing Crocs in the snow. Oh, not good for snow, yeah. Not good for snow. And guess what? Two companies, Under Armour, Puma, they've come to the rescue and specially designed size 23 shoes for him. Wow. Isn't it heartwarming?

Heartwarming when companies come to the party for a good bit of pr heartwarming yeah but also nice they didn't need to do that so they didn't so that's the nice story and then we also like to follow up with an inspirational quote today from judge judy and if you didn't make it in your 30s you can make it in your 40s and if you didn't make it in your 40s you can make it it in your 40s. And if you didn't make it in your 40s, you can make it in your 50s. And just remember Grandma Moses. She was a painter. And she didn't start painting until, I think, in her 80s. And one of the most prolific painters.

Never too late. Never too late. So have fun. Never too late. Yeah. Never too late. And unless you're like 86 and you're like, oh, I want to become a firefighter. Yeah. You know? Never too late. Unless you're like 86 and you're like, oh, I want to become a firefighter.

Yeah. You know? I'm not going to trust you to burst into a flaming building with all that heavy equipment at age 86. It's too late in that case. Well, yeah, depending on the job that you're... I mean, you're not getting out the fire hose. Painter, though. Great.

Painters, yeah. I mean, it's all relative, isn't it? Yeah. It's never too late to do stuff that you still can do. That's what I always say. That's your Monday motivation for another week. We're just talking about the brand new Kiwi movie that's in cinemas right now, Red, White and Brass.

And we're saying how we did some voicing for it. We sent some audio away that needs some radio announcers to be in the movie at the start. And we were like, oh, I bet we didn't make the cut because wecers to be in the movie at the start. And we were like, oh, I bet we didn't make the cut because we haven't quite seen the movie yet. No. And someone has just sent us our cameo, our debut into CinemaBee. So we made the cut. We're on the movie.

Apparently names in the credits. First few names when the credits come up. And I think it's purely just an order of appearance. Yeah, which is great. Get in early. This happens at the top of the movie. Listen. Good afternoon, Wellington and Ma Lolele.

All you crazy rugby fans, the wait is almost over. That's not us. Yes, that's right. The Rugby World Cup 2011 is just around the corner. New Zealand's always been a rugby mad nation. Not us. That's right, the Rugby World Cup 2011 is just around the corner. New Zealand's always been a rugby-mad nation. Not us. It's really incredible to see Kiwis from across the globe all getting behind their favourite team.

There's only six weeks till... That's not us. No, that's not us. ...in what is sure to be a banger of a game. I'll tell you what, mate, it's pretty amazing seeing all the people out there putting flags up on their houses. Damn right, I was driving to work. It's like the United Nations out in the city at the moment.

It's us! So, hold on. Ring, ring, hello. Is that the Academy Awards? Yes, I have a winner for next year's category of two people pretending to be radio announcers. Hey, but we are radio announcers. That is going to get us...

Ben, did you want free parking? Did you want upgrades at fast food restaurants for free? Yes, I do. I think that's going to get it. Wow, we're in the movie. Three and a half seconds. If you slow it down, maybe 6.2 seconds in a movie. Wow.

I don't want to say this is the only radio show with two movie stars in the market. Yeah, you're right. Hosted by two movie stars. Wowee. It's a big day. It's awesome. We'll go see Red, White and Brass that's in cinemas right now.

He can't even do the radio dancing. Damn it. Damn it, I sounded so good in the movie too. In real life, couldn't quite nail it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Hits, Jono and Ben, 6.6 on your Monday, the 27th of March. Jono and Ben, celebrate your special date with Dilma. And if you are celebrating a special day,

we like to reflect on what actually happened on this day or other famous birthdays or today in history. Happy birthday to Jessie J, singer-songwriter, born in 1988. Jessie J, forget about the price tag. She stays true to her song. She's Not After Much, this birthday. Oh, that's good. Should she get the price tag of the money?

She should probably check the price tag. Does she still date Channing Tatum? No, don't think so. I think they're, as far as I know, I think. Oh, why bring that up on her birthday? Yeah. Oh, come on, Jono. 1998, guess what?

Viagra was approved as a drug that we could all take on the market. Oh, that's good to know. At a former radio station, they made me take it. Multiple pills, too many. Was it? It was back in a time in radio where you could drug interns, and it was acceptable. Nightmare.

Nightmare, carrying that thing around for two days. Two, wow. Absolute, honestly. Let's not get too deep into this conversation. I felt the responsibility to keep it concealed. Well, I can imagine. Because you don't want to walk through the food court. No.

So, yeah, no, we don't do that nowadays. But it's also used to, it was initially used to treat high blood pressure, and then they obviously found... They're like, blood pressure's good, but jeez. I'll tell you what, there's something up there. Side effects include... Yeah, anyway.

Let's take the high road and let's not go there, all right? Okay, Michael Buffer. The guy who does Let's Get Ready to Rumble. Let's get ready to rumble! Oh, that voice Incredible voice He trademarked that That phrase

On this day in 2009 And guess how much money it has generated for him A million dollars 400 million Oh wow Just from trademarking that phrase Jeez He's got a brother

Who does the UFC ring announcing And he's a half brother And they both do the same job, and they didn't know each other until 1989 when his brother was watching him on TV and said he's got the same surname as me. They do the same job. Crazy. Crazy job.

Congratulations to Desiree and Steve McCracken celebrating their wedding anniversary today. Yeah, well done. Happy birthday, Aunty Savita. Enjoy your special day. That's from Raksha. Jane and Darren Griffiths celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary today. Yeah, well done. Happy birthday, Aunty Savita. Enjoy your special day. That's from Raksha. Jane and Darren Griffiths celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary.

Happy anniversary to Nancy and SK Hui today as well. Lots of love from the friends in Whānau. And Katrina Smith is on the phone. How are you? Good, good. Happy birthday. Thanks. I almost started singing then.

I saw the look in Ben's eye. And he was like, don't start a happy birthday. It just goes on for too long and it needs to pick up the pace anyway you know my thoughts about the happy birthday song. I even said happy birthday. Well you're up early milking cows? Yeah yeah. How many girls are we wrapping our hands around today? Oh, we've only got about 140. That's a lot. Per cow, how long does it take to... About an hour and a half? What? Each cow? John, I went then.

No, I think that's a whole lot. Surely it's not taking an hour and a half per cow. Is it taking two minutes? No, no, no, it doesn't take an hour and a half per cow, but it's probably an hour or so just to milk them. In total. How long per cow? Probably five minutes around. Five minutes.

And then they get milked, and then they go out into the field, and they fill up again by the afternoon. Yeah, and come back in. Oh, it's disturbing. These are our organic Jersey girls. Yeah, we've got the organic Jersey girls out there, haven't we? Well, I'll tell you what. You can put some of that milk in some Dilmar tea that we're going to send to you.

Yeah. We're going to send to you as well as $100. Oh, please. Yeah, happy birthday. And I did buy it. So I'm going live and I can still put, I'm going live on Facebook. On Facebook? Oh, you're on Facebook.

Why are you sitting there? Let's not add Facebook to the mix. You feel like you've already got a lot going on. You've got Jersey Girls, you've got Facebook, you've got radio, multimedia. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Katrina. I'll let you get back to the...

Thank you. All right, thanks, mate. That's cool. See you, buddy. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. As mentioned earlier, there's a big another secondary school's teachers strike happening on Wednesday

so yeah, if you've got kids at secondary schools yeah Another day of juggling The struggle, juggle, the juggle, struggle Ben, you've got a wonderful story about how two strangers became best friends Yeah, well because people do often ask us how we met, became mates

and it's not that exciting Because it really just happened Through work Isn't it really I mean what we've done Don't get me wrong You look at me like weirdly What we've done's been exciting

But the actual story of how You clearly forgot We matched on Tinder Oh yeah And that's how we really met But he's cancelled that part Out of his brain Yeah

No you're right But this is a great story They were stranded at Heathrow Weren't they These two ladies And it was a terrible Terrible weather No flights were going In or out that part out of his brain. No, you're right. But this is a great story. They were stranded at Heathrow, weren't they, these two ladies? And it was a terrible, terrible weather. No flights were going in or out.

It was mayhem. The whole airport was, it's just after Christmas time and one lady in particular wanted to go back for a big family celebration. She wanted to go back to Canada and she couldn't get any flights out and she was, you know, and she was crying.

She was very upset about it. Another lady was on her going around the world she was from america and she saw another lady crying she went over there didn't know she's like hey you okay she's like i can't get back to this big family thing she's like i can't get anywhere anywhere either but should we try and see if we can get some new flights together let's go into this together so they went in they tried to work out if they could get new flights couldn't get any till the next day but they started having a bit of a conversation sort of talking getting along quite well and then the airport's like we can

give you accommodation tonight but only one room because everything's all sort of booked out and so they went yeah sweet well we'll share a room and then they went away shared a room became best mates and now they're best mates forever. Sharing a hotel room with a complete stranger sounds like my worst nightmare. We shared a motel room recently. I enjoyed that because I knew you, and I could watch you sleep and saw how you breathed when you sleep and stroke your hair and your cheeks. I enjoyed that. But a complete stranger, no thank you.

Imagine if the airport was like, hey, you can have a room with this person here you would you imagine if the airport's like hey you can have a room with this person here you don't know yeah but mate we were on a camper van tour all of us and there was an elderly lady i didn't know that this thing 86 years old i was lying down in the back there it was terrible weather i couldn't hear you guys as noisy rattling freezing cold conditions an elderly 86 year old lady in the middle of black darkness, 9 o'clock at night. She's hitchhiking. We're like, Ben, should we pick up the sweet elderly lady?

You didn't say sweet elderly lady. You just said there's a hitchhiker. You ought to pick it up. And I'm like, oh, no, I'm okay. He went, no, I'm okay. And we drove on. And then you were like, oh, it's a sweet old lady. And she was like, oh, no, let's go back.

You're like, too late now, mate. Too late. Not all ones did he say, let's go back. I did, but it's so noisy in the back, you probably didn't hear me. He wouldn't even spend half an hour in a cabavan with a stranger, let alone in a motel room. OK, I'll 8800. That's the telephone number.

4487. How did you meet your bestie? The weirder the location, the better. Yeah. Let's get in touch with New Zealand's Breakfast, eh? We're desperate. It's a Monday morning. Help us out.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Sing me bye to 21. 717, it is Mitch James, 21, about to go on his world tour, which is pretty awesome. He's a great guy, Mitch James. Now, we want to know today, how did you meet your best friend? How did you meet your best? Our story's not very exciting, so we want more exciting stories. Let's get Tilly on, shall we? Tilly, welcome to the show on a Monday morning.

How did you meet your bestie? Thank you for welcoming me. Yeah, we were standing outside our gym class waiting for one of those Lesmo lessons to start. So we used to do pump and combat. I used to see her all the time, but never really got to talking to her. And then we were just standing out there one day and she just came over and she says, the cheek of the man, he decided to leave me.

He just packed all his stuff and off he went. And I had no idea what she was talking about because I used to see her but never talk to her. And then I said, I noticed how upset she was. And I thought, oh, I can't just leave her like that. And we were just about to go into the class. And I thought, oh, would you like to go for a coffee after this class? And so we did.

And then that's how we became best friends. And we've been friends now for about 10 years. She's with somebody new, happy, happy, happy. And all, well. Oh, that's beautiful. So the husband packed new. Happy, happy, happy. And all well. Oh, that's beautiful. So the husband packed up the bags and left, eh? Yeah, he didn't even tell her. He just left and never came back.

That's the way to do it. Avoid the awkwardness. Yeah, wow. Avoid those tough conversations. Pack up the bags. She wasn't happy, but anyway, I'm glad it all ended well, and she's happy now with somebody really, really nice. And she's got a best friend out of it as well.

That's beautiful. Tilly, good on you. What a nice person you are. You're going to have a great week. Thank you. You guys too. Vixster's on the phone with us. How are you?

Good, thanks. How are you? We're doing all right. We're talking about how you met your bestie, and how did you meet yours? Let's see. Had to be PC on the air about this. Well, her head was pretty much between my legs.

Oh. Okay. Okay. Was that the PC version? Professional sense or in a personal sense? How was this? It was in a professional sense or in a personal sense? How was this? It was in a professional sense. I went in for a bikini wax and it was my first one ever.

And I was quite young. And then she was in training as well. And so we both were nervous as can be. And I think I was in tears but laughing. We couldn't stop laughing by the end of it and realised we had other friends in common. And, yeah, so we just sort of, it was very awkward going out for drinks on the weekend after that.

Although a great point to start a relationship on, isn't it, a friendship on? Yeah. Well, you've seen all of me. Yeah. I've got nothing seen all of me. Yeah. I've got nothing to hide. I always tell her she's a pain in my crotch. So at what point did you guys initiate a sort of friendship? You know, like when did that happen?

Was that between Wax 2 or 3 or afterwards or how did it happen? It was just after the first ripping. She says, I promise you, I will not let you down. And every time she ripped, she would do something funny like sneeze or like just fake sneeze. And it's just stupid stuff. And by the end of that, we found humor in it, and I think that was sort of bonding.

That's awesome. What a lovely story. You made a waxy connection. And you're still friends with her now? We are, yeah. Unfortunately we live thousands of miles apart. She lives in Canada now. But we always stay in touch. Absolutely. Next time you see her, will you get a waxing

or is that part of your friendship gone? She always asks me for an update. how's it going how's it looking Professionally, how's it looking Yes That's incredible Vicky, well thanks for your call mate really appreciate it. Awesome, thanks

guys. Yeah, how cool would it be to go and see Pink Check it out. The hits. Five words for five pink tickets. Match all five words to see pink live in New Zealand in 2024. Yeah, how cool would it be going to see pink live in New Zealand? You get five tickets to pink if you want to play through past $500. Man, a lot of demand for these tickets. The same sort of demand as toilet paper in a lockdown for these pink tickets. We'll get Emma on from Rangiora. Welcome.

How are you? I'm good thank you Sal. Yeah good, how's North Canterbury today? Oh she's chilly this morning. Yeah it feels like winters. Kicking in? Yeah. Now Emma I had an idea because you know that saying tickled pink is when pink comes here we play a game with her called tickled pink and I don't know exactly the ins and outs of it. It's got the scope to get kind of weird. What do you think? Well, just go for it, eh? Just go for it.

Ben, you can start the tickling. Yeah, no, I'll probably leave that one out, to be honest. Okay, Emma, who are you going to send to the soundproof booth to win these five pink tickets? I'm going to send Ben in. Ben, all right. He's off to the SPB. And as we've said, you've got to play a smart game because there's cash on the path to the tickets as well.

So if you feel some words aren't working for you, you can always pull out, all right? Sounds good. Let's do it, Emma. Word number one. Buckingham. Palace. Palace.

Nuggets. Chickens. Easy start so far. What would you say to leash? L-E-A-S-H. Dog. Dog, leash. Sing is the fourth word for you this morning, Emma.

Sing. S-I-N-G. Pink. Sing, pink. Champagne, word number five Bubbles Bubbles, alright, let's get Boyce out of the booth A quick one in there I know he doesn't like to spend too much time alone with his thoughts

His head starts to get away on him Welcome back First thing you thought of when you were in that booth today Tell me A lot of reflection about things in life in general. Yeah. If there was a mirror in there, we could have a good, long, hard look at ourselves, couldn't we? Okay, let's do it, Emma.

Let's try and win you five pink tickets. Word one, $25 cash. Before we get there, though, we've got to win some money. Isn't that a pain? Buckingham. Palace. There you go. One from one. What are we doing, Emma? We're continuing. Word two, $50 cash. Nuggets. Chicken. Boom. $50. Emma,

do we want to go to $100? Yeah, play on. Word three, $100 cash. Okay, Ben. Leash. L-E-A-S-H. Oh. Dog. Don't know why I keep spelling that word. There's no other. No, but leash is a bit, I was a bit confused by the word, yeah.

Well, you've got $100, Emma. You haven't got five pink tickets yet, so what do you want to do? Oh, we'll just go for it. Going for the $500? Word four, $500 cash. Sing was the word. What did Emma say to sing? Well, I'm just going to go with what we've been talking about and hope I'm correct.

If it's not the obvious. Maybe it is for this competition. I'm going to go pink. That, to be honest, I thought that was the curly one. Well, yeah, I was going to go song, but then I was like, well, pink. We were talking about pink tickets.

No reaction from Emma. She's cool as a cucumber. What are we doing? 500 bucks. You've got that money. Now, do you want to risk that money for the five pink tickets? The next one I was stumped on. Which was, I can give you the words, champagne.

What do you want to do? Do you want the five pink tickets or do you want to walk away with $500? We'll just go for it. Word five. Five pink tickets. just go for it. Word five. Five pink tickets. Okay, there it is. For five pink tickets. You had $500, Emma.

I know. Money comes and goes. I hate people who think like that. It's all free and easy. It's just money. It's money. Hey, don't talk her out of it. We're going for the pink tickets.

Champagne. What did she say? Oh, is that the word? That's the word. We're going for the pink tickets. Champagne. What did she say? Oh, is that the word? That's the word. Okay. Not champagne stuff. Yeah. Champagne.

Oh. Bubbles? Oh! What? Emma! Emma! How good. How good.

Five pink tickets. Thousands good. Five pink tickets. Thousands of dollars worth of tickets. Oh, awesome, guys. That's got to be incredible. You and four people you want to take, you can go to see Pink in Auckland or Dunedin. That is cool. Who are you taking? I'm going to take my mum, my sister-in-law and my bestie. Oh, it's a girls weekend.

Yeah, it is. I've just got to sit in the side of the car saying, oh. Well done, Emma. Congratulations. The 5p tickets have gone. You're going to have a great week. What a start. That's awesome.

It's all thanks to Pink Summer Carnival Tour. She's visiting Dunedin and Auckland. It's happening in March next year. You can get all the details at the hits.co.nz. What a start to the week. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. One of the joys of kids ageing up is they go through

their different phases and at the moment my son Oscar, he's 13 years old. Wonderful time for the prepubescent teenage boy isn't it the the teenage years yeah um and there's a level of humor that is associated with that age bracket there ben you know well try to say that you're you're above this well no to be honest this level of humor is probably well above my comedic my comedic taste this is in your sweet spot uh but pop, my daughter, she got a label maker. So she's very organized.

She wants to label stuff in her room. You can let it get away on you, can't you, the label maker? Yes. You can let it get away. Everything. Cup. Door handle. Does the door handle need to be?

We all know what it is. We all know what it does. But it's part of the fun and the joy of having a label maker. And Oscar, my son, he didn't realize we had a label maker in the household, but he discovered it and he got his hands on it. And you know what I mean. He's printing out labels and sticking them onto every part of the household is labeled like the inside of a teenage boy's school cubicle, toilet cubicle.

You know, just like, hairy that, saggy this. Your laptop's got a male anatomy label on the back of it. Yeah, it probably does. I don't know if you noticed until you came in today. To the point where I'm having to check every item in the household. There's like the fridge, the tomato sauce bottle, the drawers, the door handles, beds, coffee tables. Everything. He's come up with new names for these body parts.

Oh, really? Names I've never even heard before. A lot of content. A lot of content out of it. So are you hiding the label maker now? I had to make a call over the weekend. I was like, this can't. Like, if anyone comes over to this house, they're going to be, what is this place?

Just 25 different names for genitals all just sprayed all over the household. You know what? Your guests doubting themselves. I thought this was a salt shaker, but maybe I was wrong. Maybe I've been calling it wrong all these years. A salt shaker comes in two. It's a two for one deal, the salt shaker. Yeah.

So 0800 of the hits. What have you had to hide away items that you've had to hide away from the rest of the household and cheeky cupboards maybe got secret little stashes of chocolates that you don't like sharing with people yeah for many years i uh had my flaws from my kids when they were young and they didn't really understand they had many, many flaws. As they get older, they realize, well, Dad's tarnished. Yeah.

No, but charger, the chargers, the situation. Yeah, the phone chargers, they're a real hot button. Have you got a little secret hidden one? Yes, I've always got a secret one because the chargers get used for laptops and iPad and all sorts of stuff as well. And then they get taken. They get taken away. So I've got a secret charger. No one knows about.

I'll bring it out. I'll put it away. Speaking of organised label makers, you even had an organised charger cable system, colour coded, didn't you? I did. I did. Let's all have our colour.

No one stuck with the colours. And that thing didn't work out. It was like apartheid with phone charger cables. Stick with your colour. Okay, 0800 the hits telephone number. What are you hiding away from the rest of the house? 4487 if you want to text us this morning. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

The Warriors, great start to the season. Three wins over four games. And something else I enjoyed about the Warriors was Kate Hawksby putting up Mike Hosking, broadcaster, watching the Warriors. Jeez, he gets intense watching the Warriors. Have a listen. Ten. Come on, play it, play it. Play it he gets intense watching the Warriors. Have a listen. Ten. Come on, play it, play it.

Play it, don't get a penalty. Oh, play it, you f***wits. Come on. Actually, I think it was him looking at the Labour Party conference. Oh, great. Well, I love people who yell at the TV. You know, it's a step removed from yelling at the stadium. Because we asked one of the players,

can you actually hear people yelling out advice from them? They're like, no. They're learning how to TV. What have you kept hidden from the rest of the household? That's what we're opening up this morning after my son, Ozzy. He's got his hands on our label maker. And the house is just label after label of genitals. Everything's named after body parts.

So whatever you kept hidden, like my parents used to hide me away when they had friends come over. Gareth, welcome. You're on the air. What are you hiding? My wife hides the baking from my two boys. Oh, yeah, that's a standard, eh? Hiding away the food.

Everyone's got their secret stash of something. Yeah, she hides it in my cupboard to keep my two boys from eating it. Otherwise, they'll just eat it with bacon. Okay, well, now we've said where the bacon is and why it's hidden. So hopefully they're not listening this morning, Gareth. Sorry? Neither was Gareth. Love your work, mate. You have a great day, bro. See you, mate. Thank you. See you, Gareth. Sorry? Neither was Gareth. Love your work, mate.

You have a great day, bro. See you, mate. Thank you. See you, Gareth. Joining us on 0800 The Hits right now, Lisa. Now, we understand you weren't hiding something from a household, but you're hiding cigarettes from geese? Where was this?

I was in England taking a walk by the river one day in Surrey, and I was smoking a cigarette, and I had a pack of cigarettes in my hand and these Canadian geese started trying to take the cigarette out of my hand and chase me and I was like, what the hell? They must be addicted to nicotine from picking up butts off the ground, I'm guessing. And then a few of them came up and then they were literally chasing me trying to get my cigarette out of my hand. Yeah, like it was scary.

I did not like it at all. Well, no, nicotine-addicted geese, that does sound, it sounds frightening. It sounds like it'd be a great movie. Good movie franchise. Like cocaine beer sort of thing? Yeah, nicotine geese. Strung out from him. No ciggies, you know, they're on the patches.

And so is that what you figured out? We had the same thing with squirrels in London, central London. They're all addicted to nicotine, yeah. Oh, all the animals are. Oh, sad for the animals. It is sad. But also satisfying too when they do finally get that nicotine hit.

Oh, jeez. Totally, they leave you alone. They don't want the chips, they want the ciggy. I never heard of that, yeah. I got bitten by one and I was scared I got rabies or something. Oh, what, when you had the cigarette in your hand?

I thought it wanted the food. So when you're sitting there in the park, and you think, oh, what a cute little squirrel. Oh, come here, come here. And really, it was probably after the cigarette, but I tried to give it the food I had, and I actually got bitten. And my London friends were like, you'll get rabies. Yeah. Those big squirrels, yeah were like, you'll get rabies. Yeah.

Those big squirrels, yeah. And so did you get rabies? I kind of don't remember, so I kind of, right? Yeah, yeah. Unless you wrote it out like COVID. Some people just write out COVID. Maybe you wrote out rabies.

It's possible. I could be a little crazy. Who knows? That's the problem, though, is these poor animals, they've already tried to forage for food. Then when you chuck a bloody nicotine addiction on top of it, it's a busy day.

Hey, well, I'm glad you're safe. Yeah. One piece, yeah. Did you stop the ciggies or are you committed to the career? I have, I'm down to two a day. Oh, there you go. Still a little touch there. You're like the geese.

You're like, I just need a little hit. Well, I tend to mix it up a little bit with some natural plant medicine, so that always helps. Oh, right, yeah. You're a legend, Lisa. You're going to have a great day. You too, guys. Thanks for calling.

See you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Monday morning, another teacher's strike for secondary schools happening on Wednesday. At this stage, just secondary schools. Was it primary last week? I think it was everything. It was everything. It was everything.

It was primary, secondary, all sorts but this time it's just for secondary school so hopefully the teachers get what they want and I'd say what they deserve. It's been a funny start to the year. It has. A stoppy starty. Especially when it's probably the first year that there's been no sort of

COVID disruptions and stuff to have that going on again. Not what anyone wants. Well, maybe we've got used to disruption and that's what we do. Now we have to create our own disruption just so we feel normal. Now my wife and I at home, we enjoy watching series together. Now we've watched some of the greatest TV shows together we have watched together. You know, Game of Thrones, Ted Lasso, Suits, we've watched them. You know, it's been our thing.

We watch shows together, you know. Talk about them. You stay in sync, don together you know talk about them you stay in sync don't you well sometimes you stay in sync sometimes you secretly jump ahead and then pretend you haven't and then go back and watch yeah that's in the past you know but now you know we have shows that we watch separately and then we have shows we watch together and often we'll come together and we'll talk about something and we'll go hey yeah that could be a show we watch together we're both interested in this show now what's that show you go off into the bedroom and watch? At the moment, it's a Shaquille O'Neal NBA documentary, okay?

That's right. That was the one. Get your mind out of the bloody gutter. That was what I was trying to remember, the Shaquille O'Neal documentary. Okay. But what happens with this job, and you're probably the same, you get up a lot earlier. I get up a lot earlier than I ever used to. So that means that –

You really get a jump on the day, don't you? Yeah. You feel permanently jet lagged. But that means at night time, I guess my stamina for watching shows is not what it used to be as well. So now we'll have this occasion where like the other day we're like, let's watch The Last of Us, you know, because that's meant to be a really great show. We'll start to watch it.

And within five to 10 minutes, I was asleep. There was only one last one left. Watching Last of Us, it was Amanda. And then I understand my wife's in a situation where her old mate's fallen asleep. So she's got to just keep persisting. Well, you know, of course she's going to persist with the thing. And now it's happened before with Last of Us. It happened with Breaking Bad.

It's happened with other shows. She gets too far ahead. I'm like, oh, that show. I've given. And so now no longer is it our show. It's now her show. The horse is bolted. Yeah. I see what you're saying. And I'm like, oh, that show. So now no longer is it our show, it's now her show. The horse is bolted.

Yeah. I see what you're saying. But for some reason I start getting salty about the show. All of a sudden I come in and I'll be like, oh, you're watching this show, are you? Oh, yeah. And I start going, no, I wasn't really into it. You know, like trying to make excuses why for some reason I'm jealous of the show that she's into. When it's all on you.

It is all on me. You're right. You started getting all fiery about Tiger King. She's like, oh, she's gone off and watched it. Oh, yes, I did. That was another one. But really, yeah. I don't know. I've checked out of it.

I don't want to talk about it on the radio. I don't think the people, I thought it was a bit unfair how we looked at these people and we judged them. Yeah, I get all high and mighty on that. But really, when it boils down, I'm just jealous of the fact that she's got this thing going on, like a new relationship. And I'm like the ex. The trick is to not fall asleep

is just keep functioning. Yes. So maybe you just need to watch but just do laps around the lounge. Fold some washing, do some stuff because as soon as I sit down and not doing anything.

That's right. I'm like, yeah. Maybe get like one of those, what is the thing you can sit on the couch and you can bike? The Kubi? Kubi or whatever it is. You know, the boomer bike. The old lady boomers sitting on the couch and you can bike? The Kubi? Kubi or whatever it is? You know, the boomer bike.

The old lazy boomers sitting on the couch just to keep me awake. Doing your legs a workout. What's he doing? He's just trying to stay awake to watch Last of Us. And getting a sort of a workout in,

I think. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Hits is sending you to see Pink in London. It's been an amazing trip. Got to see Pink live on her summer carnival tour. Go to 0800 The Hits if you want to get on over to London's Hyde Park

and promise me if you do win the competition, play a game of hide and seek at Hyde Park. Oh, yeah. Hey, how did you do? What were you doing over the weekend? You got your family dressing up like we were playing? Oh, yeah. Hey, how did, didn't you do a, what would you do over the weekend? You got your family dressing up like playing cards. Oh, yes, we did. We did.

We went out and did a virtual reality sort of treasure hunt around the city. I know you're quite passionate about these projects. How about the wider group? The wider, yeah. No, well, yeah, they came around to it. They did. After so many questions of like, what are we doing? What's this thing?

What's this thing? I was like, oh, look, just, it'll all be explained on, yeah. So you ran around town dressed as playing cards? Yeah, it was kind of like a virtual reality type sort of thing. Kind of similar to Pokemon Go, I guess, in a way. But you're on a little treasure hunt around the place. It was fun. It was fun.

I had fun. Yeah, you really have not let your teenage boy go, have you? He's got his little figurines on his shelf. It's his happy place. Serena, you're on from Wellington. How are you? Hey, good morning. I'm well, thank you.

Now, if you get this answer right, do you promise, Ben, that you'll play a game of hide and seek and hide park? Why not? Good. That would be fun. Thank you. That's all I want to do is go to hide park and play hide and seek. She's just saying anything so she can get in the draw.

Serena, what's the song? Pull it down, Joel. Pull it down. You made it easy. Okay, Serena, what is the name of that song? That song is Can We Pretend. Yeah, Can We Pretend. We didn't play the start of the song where it says,

Can We Pretend. Well done. You're in the draw. Yay, thank you. Oh, good on you. What a trip of a lifetime, wouldn't it be? Absolutely. I've never been overseas before.

I've been to Aussie, but nothing long haul. And I have an auntie in the UK, and she's always wanting us to go over. So if that happens, we'll definitely extend the trip and go and visit her. You're pushing all the right buttons, Serena. Hopefully it all works out for you. It's not up to me. And you'll be raising your glass, or probably a plastic cup full of watered down Sauvignon Blanc or something good on you mate, you're going to have a great

day in Welly today, okay? I will do, thanks guys The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Hide and seek it's a household classic isn't it? And for many years when the young ones are growing up, they're shocking at

hide and seek. They'll go, okay, go and hide. And you're like, ready or not, here I come. Where are you? And they're like, I'm in the cupboard. Really giving up. It's great when you can do that, though. It makes it a lot easier, right?

Yeah. I would always go, you're hiding? And they'd go, yep. And then you're like, cool. I know you're definitely over there by your voice. We destroyed you kids at hide and seek for a number of years, five years probably. But slowly over time they start to figure out maybe I shouldn't give away my location so easily. Right.

Yeah. And we played a game over the weekend. I hadn't played hide and seek in years. I was like, I bet you I'll find you because last time I remember I was smashing your kids at hide and seek. But now, jeez, it's like tracking

a criminal on the run. They're hiding in all sorts of crazy places. Oh, so they're very good at it, are they? Send out search and... I lost them for like an hour. Oh, jeez.

To the point where I was like, I've forgotten I was playing the game. I got distracted by Instagram or something more enjoyable. Well, as a kid too, I was always that down on the back of my mind that my parents are just using that time to do something else. They're like, we'll go hide. Sweet.

They're like, oh, cool, we'll watch TV or, you know. I'm still in here an hour and a half later losing oxygen. But it is a good tactic, isn't it? If you do need to get stuff done, just say, oh, we'll go play hide and seek. You go off and hide. Mum used to put the timer on the microwave. She'd be like, all right, everyone, 10 minutes. We're going to have 10 minutes.

When the timer goes off, everyone's going to be quiet. You're going to do your own thing for 10 minutes where you hear the beep and come back out. I didn't know until many years later, she just kept resetting the time to a bit longer. And you're an idiot kid. You're like, this is the longest 10 minutes ever. And you had to be silent for 10 10 minutes ever and you had to be silent

for 10 minutes well you had to just be quiet doing your own thing shitty voice eh and I was like oh well it's like half an hour or something

she would have like hit that a couple of times reset that and you know as a kid you don't have really any concept of how long time

is everything takes ages as a kid so you're like oh it's taking forever and a shocking misuse of the microwave too does she not have like a clock like just watch that clock on the wall no i know i suppose you couldn't manipulate the clock yeah when the beat went off and i wasn't you know you weren't there

at the kitchen so that would just feels like you could have been using the microwave for more important things but keeping the kids quiet works yeah