Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: The Biggest Dad Claim To Fames...

Episode Date: August 29, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast the guys talk about their biggest dad claim to fames, we chat to Holly Jane Brooker from the parenting place and Brad Smeele the wakeboarder turned quadriplegic chats about his brand new book!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora 30th of August, it's the podcast, Jono and Ben here, welcome. Now I wanted to play a little thing today, like I was looking online. You know when you sometimes click on a news article, then at the bottom they have all that paid, it says paid content, and they have all those, they're basically like clickbait, a whole lot of options you can click on. So I wanted to read the headlines about on one now, and you decide which one you want to find out more about.

But is this how you're going to get yourself in a hole of having to click through 48 windows? Well, that's the thing. We'll see how we go. Okay, so there's 20 vinyl records that are worth more than your house. That's an option. The greatest 25 rock groups ranked ever. The 15 easiest dog breeds to look after.

Any of these? 20 haircuts that make a woman over 60 look 40? The cost of hair transplants in Auckland might surprise you. We'll leave that one out for you. No, no, let's go there. Let's go to the cost of hair transplants. 20 cool photos taken during Star Wars? Any of these?

No, no, the Maroon. Ordering cat food online might be cheaper than you think. Let's do the haircuts for, you know, if you're a 60-year-old woman to make you appear 40. Okay, so you do the Haircuts for You know If you're a 60 year old woman To make you Appear 40 Okay so you want the haircuts For

20 haircuts To make you look 40 years old If you're a 60 year old woman Are these like spam If you click on them I'm pretty sure Okay so we're going to AlphaCute.com

60 haircuts To make you look 10 years younger now Okay Okay so the Hold on No no no They said

They said 20. Messenger here. Messenger. Sorry, don't shoot. Yep. Okay. Okay. So the number one

to make you look younger, the short edgy cut. Like an Ellen DeGeneres job. Sort of, you know. Oh, yeah. And then do we want to start the side? That is a Karen haircut,

isn't it? What the society would say is a Karen haircut. Yeah, you're probably right. Okay. Oh, no. Here we go. Ben, what was the website called sorry

that was called when I started from yeah what was it called no the one we're on now it was called alpha cute dot com oh okay I thought it was

alpha cute I was going to say that's a oh is that another website is it producer Joe yeah I thought you were

going to okay the blunt A-line Bob is number two oh that's kind of like a Gwyneth Paltrow sort of hairstyle there yeah and now we're going through the angled well it's a lot of Bob related haircuts A-line Bob is number two. Oh, that's kind of like a Gwyneth Paltrow sort of hairstyle there, yeah?

And now we're going through the angled one. So a lot of Bob-related haircuts. Basically give yourself a haircut of a Karen. Or wispy bangs like Rihanna. There's a bit of Rihanna, so that's making you look... Oh, yeah. Bitch, Rihanna's 30. Yeah, I know.

You're not going to look like Rihanna. Yeah, okay, excellent. We'll go two more. Chin-length layers. Oh, it's a bit of layers going on there. Okay, that's nice. And finally, another bob. Another bloody bob.

So basically get a bob. If you want to look 20 years younger, get yourself a bob. Get a bob. I guess so. How long have you had this haircut for? It feels like you've had it for a while. I try to mix things up with a mullet, which was a bad choice. Well, it was a prison mullet, wasn't it?

Yeah. Not actually cut and put anybody, but it looked like a prison because my kids did it during lockdown. I couldn't get a haircut. It looked like you were living with inmates. So I tried the mullet. I don't think it was cool enough to pull off a mullet. I liked the idea of it.

And then I did try the peroxide, the bleach blonde look that you bullied me for. I mean, remember when I got that? Yeah. After the TV show, you're like, all right, Ellen DeGeneres. The only person that's been bullied named Ellen DeGeneres. Was you. And it was relentless. It was an onslaught.

It was. It actually looked really good, your blonde hair. I liked it. A lot of maintenance, though. Yeah. A lot of maintenance when you've got short hair. Maybe I should get a bob. Get a bob, mate.

Look 40 years younger. 20 years younger. 10 years younger. Whatever. Whatever. I just need to look a little younger. So younger 10 years younger whatever whatever just leave to look a little younger so there you go

do you see yourself having this haircut for the remainder until you die no I don't know no probably not what else do you do bring back the dreads

I reckon no I can't dang it no I can't do that he's like oh the dreads were a bad time yeah yeah I don't know yeah I don't know

my wife actually like she used to like it when I had it for a wee period when we first started together when I shaved hair off. And she's like, shave it off. I'm like, oh, we can't be the radio show with two. There's already another radio show with two guys with shaved heads. With Fletchford and Hayley, you know?

That's not the only thing stopping you shaving your head is because I do it. Well, I've got no choice. I have to. Yeah, I know, but I want to be like, I look like Jono now. So we already get that enough. Yeah. Shave your head. She's always like, shave your head she's always like

shave your hair that's what she says I didn't think I suited it the first time around but hey everyone suits a shaved head you reckon they do

yeah well you tell that to Will Smith no no actually no Will Smith was sticking up for that I'll tell that to Chris Rock yeah yeah that's it tell that to Chris Rock

but yeah there you go and you producer Joel what are you going to do with your hair are you going to grow it long are you going to keep with your hair? Are you going to grow it long? Are you going to keep it like that? I think I could be looking like you in about 20 years as well, Jonah.

Oh, you're heading down my path. Just really following, just really trying to live up to my idols and stuff. Probably took it too literally. There's so many bald dudes in radio. Hey, it is like the... I think it's because you can just wear a hat whenever you want.

You don't have to look at TV. Radio, earwaves, you know, like maybe do some things. Yeah, there are so many bald. Okay, name... a hat whenever you want you don't have to look at the TV radio airwaves you know maybe maybe do some things there are so many bald like name

I'll name all my favourite radio bald dudes not in any order no not in any order I love them all dear friend Bryce Casey

he's bald he had great hair back in the day Fletch born they're bald as well Lee Hart Lee Hart's bald

as well there's Roger Far Lee Hart's bald as well. Roger Farrelly would be shaved head, wasn't he? John O'Prior, he's bald. John O'Prior's bald. He's one of my favourite radio announcers that's bald. Who else is around? The guy from Coast. John Dunstan.

John Dunstan's bald. He's bald. Wonderful John Dunstan. Who else? Grant Kiriyama. Grant Kiriyama. Oh, yes. Another great bald radio dude.

What I think I should start. The BRD Club. The Ball Radio Dudes Club. Can we put a calendar out this year or something? Yes. The hottest ball radio dudes. Let's do it. What about the guy from the informational TV letter ad as well?

Hold on, Ben. Are you saying in August should we put out a calendar? Oh, no. We need to get onto it now. on, Ben. Are you saying in August should we put out a calendar? Oh, no. We need to get onto it now. Oh, right. For 2023. Pretty shitty calendar. For those that haven't bought

a calendar for nine months. Oh, I better get you the last couple of months. I know what I'll get. The bald radio dude's calendar. September, October, November, December, baby. I love a calendar shop in the mall too.

You know, like before Christmas. It's a frenzy. They're like, calendars, calendars. Then you go in after Christmas and they're, oh, the calendars are all five bucks. All the calendars were five bucks. Are you a calendar guy? You got a calendar at home?

I've got a calendar at home in the bathroom. Yeah, a lot of people like putting them on the toilet door, don't they? Yeah, like in the bathroom or just, you know, you write down the odd thing on there. I quite like that. What do you write down on your bathroom calendar again things you might have to remember for the day the main thing if you're like you know my daughter's

got cross-country today or things like that you know but then you've also got like my phone my thing as well it's a little bit obsolete my mum jenna used to have a calendar of people's birthday so it wasn't an actual calendar that would tell you what year you what day your birthday was on that year. But it would just always say, oh, Jono Pryor's birthday. You'd be, oh, November, Jono's got a birthday coming up. Such and such. And then you go December.

Oh, it's just the birthday calendar. It's just the birthday calendar that would live a horrible life in the toilet for 12 months a year. Oh, so all of this intel was on the back of the bathroom door. So there you go. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah.

I think Ronnie's got a birthday this month. Oh, geez. All right. there you go. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah. I think Ronnie's got a birthday this month. Oh, jeez. All right. There you go. Enjoy the podcast. If you're looking for marriage advice, you are in the wrong place. Jono and Ben on the hits. Big 24 hours with a whole lot of celebrity news, including Taylor Swift announcing yesterday

at the MTV Video Music Awards that she's got a new album out in October. Yeah. I just spoke to NTR, Hollywood Insider, just before 7 o'clock. He said the whole thing's rigged. The whole thing's rigged. It's a coincidence. Taylor Swift wins an award then announces an album. It's interesting because we're going to talk about Jennifer Lopez,

what happened at her wedding, her second wedding. They had one in Vegas, her and Ben Affleck. But her 17th wedding in total. Yeah, and so they had a big celebration, a three-day celebration, and something got leaked from her wedding. She's not happy about it. But after talking to NT, I'm like,

was she in on this? Like now you question everything. I know. You do. Hollywood's beating him down now. It's starting to beat you down, Ben. I don't want that because she's come out. Jennifer Lopez, there's a video being leaked from the wedding she got all her guests to sign uh ndas

non-disclosure agreements and something has been leaked and she's even gone on to the uh comments section when people have posted it going this was stolen from our wedding posted without permission it's a special moment a private moment please take it down so she's obviously i mean if she is on it she's going to a lot of trouble. Well, what she did, and I see why she wants to take it down from the internet, is she's got married to Ben Affleck and she's like, well, I've got a very special surprise for you on the wedding night. Take a seat.

So he sits awkwardly on the dance floor by himself. He's on a chair. Surrounded by all the guests. Yeah. So she comes out flanked by six to eight backup dancers. Uh-oh, what's she's done? She's got a one-man concert performance. Now, it looks like the beginning of a lap dance, doesn't it?

It looks like the beginning of it. And so she's putting on the whole, don't be fooled by the rocks that I got. It's a new song, apparently, a new song. I've performed a new jam. A new song that's never been heard before. Yeah, a special song for him. And is he thinking, oh you could have just played this to me in the car.

Send me an email, I could have bought an MP3. Even shoot me on a Google link and I could listen to it. So it's her job, isn't it? Performing music is her job. It'd be like you getting married to Amanda and you're like, sit down, mate. I've got half an hour of radio to do at you. Yeah, but I guess if your job was, you know, be able to, I mean, my job,

no one wants to listen to me the best of times. But, you know, like if it was Jennifer Lopez's wedding. You could sit down here, 20 past seven, that was some pink on the hits, you know. People pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars to go to a Jennifer Lopez concert. So, like, man, if we could hear her sing, you know, imagine the poor smug that's in

the wedding band that comes out having Jennifer. You're like, oh God, you know, you'd rather hear her sing. But I mean, if you are J-Lo, you're probably not going to fork out for a wedding singer, are you? No. You know, well, I can take it from here, thanks. I see your point. So what we wanted to open up this morning, wild weddings.

What have you seen at the wedding? A friend of ours went to the Gold Coast, and the best man, it looked like he had somewhat indulged in something that was impairing his decision-making. Yeah. Okay, and then he had to get up and make a speech. Not in a fit state. No, but his tongue looked like a lizard's tongue trying to catch a fly. Yeah. And his jaw was

not part of his face and he was sweating profusely. Not there. But they're dicey conditions. You know, letting just any Joe Schmo come up after it. Because a lot of people get nervous about public speaking too. Well yeah, and drink too much

or whatever, yeah. It's a hell of a gamble the old speech time. Or like something you think is going to go down well. That's a classic. But then there's like, because you've got so many different fractions of society there. You know, elderly grandmothers, uptight aunties and uncles. But then you've got your friend group. And your friend group, what they find amusing is completely different. You know, it's a wide general audience you're trying to appeal to.

Yeah, you're right. So, all right, a wild wedding. So what's some wild things that you've seen happen at a wedding before? You don't have to use names so we can protect the people. Names are better, though. We love to name and shame on the show. No, we don't. Experts in giving out inexpert advice.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, we're talking wild weddings, things that have happened in the weddings that are hard to believe. There's some texts rolling through. Understandably they don't want to come on air but we'll just read them out and if you know these people then you can figure it out for yourself.

A mate stood up at a friend's wedding and said she was pregnant with the groom's baby. Wow. That's a bombs Wow, that's a... That's a bombshell. That's a bombshell. Everything was abruptly halted before we had dinner

and I was starving. I had to go to Burger King on the way home. Oh, yeah, okay. Probably pals in comparison to all the things out... Anyway, yeah. Especially if you're seeing the food being prepared, though, you're like, oh, this looks so delicious. I've ordered the steak.

My partner's got the fish. They're coming out. And you're like, this has to happen. Yeah, but there's bigger problems. It's an interesting one to pull out that at that particular moment.

You always wonder those, you know, see it in the movies. They go, if anyone objects, it's like, has anyone ever gone, yeah, yeah, yeah,

this is my chance. You know what? I'm going to put my hand up. You could have sent an email. There's many ways you could have covered this off before the event. Another text here, 4487. A bridesmaid got snapped hooking up with a married man

and it was all on. Jeez. All on. Wild weddings. Oh no, 800 the hits this morning. Let's go to the phones on New Zealand's Breakfast. Sally, good morning. Hi. Wild weddings, Sally. Yeah, weddings can be wild.

They can be. That's what they say. What happened at yours? Well, it was two days before my wedding. My mother-in-law told our bridesmaid and our best man that the wedding wouldn't happen, that her son would come to his senses and call the wedding off. Oh, that is wild. And was she right?

No, she was wrong. She gave it a stab. To her dismay, the wedding went ahead. The wedding went ahead. And has he come to his senses now? No, 21 years later, we're still married. Very happily. Maybe he's still coming to his senses.

Perhaps, perhaps. Maybe he hasn't drunk enough coffee to come to his senses. That would make things obviously very awkward, you know, going into a wedding. Absolutely. Absolutely. It was very awkward. And so have you got a bit of a frosty relationship with mum-in-law? Let's just say I'm probably not her favourite person.

Even after 20-odd years? I wouldn't be surprised if she's got a voodoo doll somewhere past the way of her place. Does it make it awkward for your husband, that relationship? Well, I keep the peace. I mean, I don't ruffle the feathers when she comes to visit or anything. I just smile politely and nod and, you know, agree to disagree kind of thing. But I just toe the party lines, I do think.

I know what you're saying. Sometimes it's just best to suppress emotions. Keep them hidden away. Let them boil over at some point in the future. Absolutely. Oh, Sally. Well, that's a wild wedding. Sure is. Love your work, mate. Have, that's a wild wedding. Sure is. Love your work, mate. Have a good day. You too.

Belinda, welcome. How are you? I'm good, thanks. How about yourself? Yeah, we're good. Wild weddings. I can feel some wild, wild vibes coming from you, Belinda. What happened?

Oh, my daughter's cake maker unfortunately let her down a couple of days before the wedding. And then the suggestion came that we go to Krispy Kreme and we made an amazing tower of donuts that we picked up on the morning of the wedding and the bridesmaids just threw it all together and it actually looked amazing and there was none left at the end of the night. There we go. That's a good thing to do, isn't it?

Where did you go? The bloody BP Connect or something? Exactly the BP. Yes, that's exactly where we went. Joe knows it. We had to go to the BP and click them that morning. I reckon if you had a wedding and you just put out a giant table

of KFC, people would lap it up. Would love it. Yeah, right. No, they were even digging into it before the ceremony, so it was very nice. Well, you didn't have a cake, because I'm not a big cake fan, so we didn't have one at my wedding, but we had a punch. We had like a punch.

People would go and fill up a glass of alcohol at punch. Oh, why not? Weddings can be how everyone wants it to be, can't it? There's no set rules. Can you just dip a glass into punch, can't you? Well, there's like a ladle. A ladle, yeah, yeah. Then there's always someone upside down slurping out of it at the end of the year.

Yeah, exactly. Well, Belinda Then there's always someone upside down slurping out of it at the end of the year. Yeah, exactly. Well, Belinda, that's a really good make good. And now I tell you who will be loving this call, wedding cake makers across New Zealand. Oh, they will be. The Krispy Kreme will be happy. Yeah. Hey, good one. You go and have a lovely day.

I will. Thank you very much. Jonas Internet Wormhole. Guys, I've done it again, Ben. Got lost on the Internet. Wouldn't read about it. Well, you actually would read about it because the article that I clicked through, 92 pages to get to, was Jobs Before They Were Famous.

Now, we all know them as the wrinkle-free Botox capsules that they are today, these Hollywood celebrities. But once upon a time, they weren't a better class of person. They were like you and me, an ordinary schmuck. I guess they always start somewhere, right? Unless, of course, they grew up in a famous family and then they started at a much better place than all of us. George Clooney. You know George Clooney?

I do know George. Well, I know of George Clooney. He sold women's shoes, was a door-to-door insurance salesman, stocked shelves. He sold women's shoes, was a door-to-door insurance salesman, stocked shelves. He was a construction worker. Now he's a full-time coffee sales representative for Nespresso. But those are the jobs that George Clooney had. Well, Kevin Hart was a shoe salesman as well, right? That was one of his first jobs.

What, like Hannah's or something? Yeah, like the aircom. I don't know if he worked in Hannah's in the Westfield Mall, but yeah. He's quite little, isn't he? A little fellow, you know, closer to the ground. Easy to fit shoes. Kate Winslet used to be like a sandwich maker in a subway. Oh, did she?

Victoria Beckham played a sperm on some roller skates for a documentary on the BBC. I don't know what the documentary was. Wasn't BBC meant to be flash? You know, like a better class of... I'm gathering it was for educational purposes. Nothing educates like a sperm on some roller skates. Before he was

guarding the galaxy, guess what Chris Pratt was doing? Guarding the money that was shoved down his underpants as a male stripper. Was he? In Hawaii. Really? He was struggling so much for work that he went out and shook that booty, Ben. It's good to know that's always an option for us.

Well, it's an option if you're Chris Pratt. Yeah. Jennifer Anderson, telemarketer. She was an annoying telemarketer. Isn't it nice to know that on probably more than one occasion someone has yelled down the phone to Jennifer Anderson and gone, you're going to get hung up on her. And not knowing that at the yelled down the phone at Jennifer Anderson and gone, you're going to hang up on her.

And not knowing at the time that it was Jennifer Anderson that later. Yeah, we probably have no idea. Johnny Depp as well. He was a telemarketer. Was he? He said he got fired. He was there for a year and he made one sale. They stuck it out with him though, didn't they?

Yeah, they did. 12 months. As I figure, it's about time to make a sale. Yeah, I'm trying, boss. Rihanna, she used to be in the army. She was an army cadet. There's a photo of her in uniform holding a massive gun. Wow.

So that movie Battleships. Yeah. She had training. It's like a documentary. Really impressive. And Danny DeVito, this is a bit of a strange one, but Danny DeVito would do hairstyles on corpses before they would go into a funeral.

So like zhuzh up the body and make them look respectable. And if you looked at Danny DeVito, you'd be like, yeah, no, that looks like the kind of job that guy would have. I remember reading something that Brad Pitt, he used to dress up like a chicken outside like a fast food chicken restaurant and hold one of those people with the signs. It was like, get in here for the chicken. That was like one of his first jobs.

And again, you know, it's nice to know that probably kids were kicking Brad Pitt, abusing Brad Pitt. Motorists would like throw things at him. Isn't it good to know? It's good to know. It humanizes them a bit. Yeah, until now, they wouldn't get that at all,

would they? But at the time, they were humbled. They were. That's good to know. It humanizes them a bit. Until now, they wouldn't get that at all, would they? But at the time, they were humbled. They were. That's what we love. Now, we'll just remain humbled, okay? This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Brad Smaler lived a fast-paced, thrill-seeking life as a professional weight boarder, but in an instant, it all came to a stop.

It was eight years ago, an accident that left him a quadriplegic. He's got an inspiring story out, a new book featuring the lessons he's learned facing this new challenge. It's called Owning It, The Ride That Changed My Life. Brad Smayla, good to have you on the show. How are you? Doing well, thank you. How are you guys?

It's really nice to talk to you. The book being out now, how does it feel? It's a bit surreal. It's one of those things I've put so many years of work into that it's incredible to finally have it out in bookstores and people's hands and then finally reading it. I imagine it was quite therapeutic for you writing this. Yeah, it was both cathartic and also very challenging and also, you know, at times kind of sort of sent me toward a state of depression, just kind of like the amount of time I had to spend digging through the past, you know,

kind of reliving the best years from before my accident. And so there was a lot of ups and downs on the journey. Overall, it was really quite healing and, you know, helped me process everything and helped me, yeah, helped me to really heal. Well, the book is called Owning It, The Ride That Changed My Life. That ride in particular, everything changed from that moment. What was the trick that you were trying to do on the wakeboard? So, I mean, the name for it is double tantrum to blind,

which a tantrum is basically just a straight backflip. So it's a double backflip with a backside 180 rotation. And the main difference was it was on a mega ramp. So similar to your freestyle motocross type setup, you've got a big ramp to land down. So it means you can go a lot bigger. And the landings, in theory, were supposed to be a bit softer. But yeah, so unfortunately, I wasn't crashing into the water.

You crashed into the ramp. Yeah, bowed out at the wrong time and went head first because you know you'd nailed the trick the trick a couple of weeks before you're the only person ever in the world to have done it yeah that was um you know it was one of my best achievements and i ended up winning trick of the year for that trick but i was in the spinal unit already by that point by the time the trick got awarded. And do you know instantly, uh-oh, this is bad? Not quite, almost. So, I mean, yes, I realized it was bad instantly

from even the moment I backed out of the trick. You know, everything slowed down and I had time to kind of think and try to save it. It was knocked out immediately and then my friends got to me. They had like a stand-up paddleboard there that they brought out. That already kind of pulled me half up onto the paddleboard to try and start to do CPR because I was unconscious, face down in the water when they rolled me over.

I was eyes wide open, blue in the face. One of them kind of thought I was already dead. Went in for like a nine-hour surgery after that and then got some pretty life-changing news. Do you remember that moment? Yeah, and it kind of dawned on me already by that point, you know, before the surgery. I knew I'd messed up.

I knew this was pretty serious. But, yeah, it was all pretty heavy once I finally woke up and really realised everything. It was, yeah, sent me to a pretty dark place. I can imagine. But what you've done, though, is just incredible. You've got a massive social media following, a public speaker. You've written this amazing book.

What I love about being flicking through the last couple of days is, you know, you're so honest about everything. I mean, you talked about things before the accident, even, like, to the point of, you know, like, you had maybe 100 ladies, you know, like, things like that. You you had maybe a hundred ladies uh you know like things like that you go into detail a hundred ladies yeah like when you're a pro wakeboarder and then you talk about i've never even seen a hundred ladies and then you talk about things that you know really honest about things that could go wrong you know have gone you know afterwards

you know with have you accidentally going to the bathroom and things like that you put it all in the book yeah and i think that's kind of where the title came from, is owning every part of what life is. We so often glaze over things and just try to only show the good stuff. And I just wanted it to be a really real read. And even talking about sex and women and everything before the accident kind of may almost verge on feeling like bragging, but kind of by design to just show the importance that I put on that

and then the effect that it had on me afterwards. And I think to have that taken away kind of forced me to change my perspective, change my focus, and do things a bit differently. And your priorities as well. You've lived that life, but now you've got a different path in life. Do you find, and this is a bit of a weird question, that the life you're leading now is more fulfilling? Yeah, I guess I'd say it's more fulfilling because it's about helping others

and not so much about just me going out and having a great time wakeboarding, which obviously that was an amazing life and lifestyle. And, you know, I wouldn't change that for the world. But it's, yeah, it's kind of one of those things that almost was like a blessing and a curse. You know, I'm so grateful for that life, but it also gave me a lot to compare my current life and situation with, which, you know, it's one thing I learned over the process of writing the book

is comparison is kind of the death of joy. It really draws away from the focus on just being and enjoying the moment and what we have and being grateful, whereas, you know, especially with social media, we're constantly comparing against these Photoshopped highlight reels and it's just not real. Well, you're a special human being brad smaler and i really appreciate your

time this morning owning it to the ride that changed my life is out now recommended retail price of 39.99 and it's available uh published by ellen and unwin a lot of that information might be irrelevant i appreciate you guys having me on. I love to talk to you, man. It's an incredible story. If you want the full chat with Brad Smaler, you can head to wherever you get our podcast, the Jono and Ben Hits Breakfast, and you can hear the full chat in that one in a special podcast.

Just a couple of dads screaming on the sidelines of their kids' sports games. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, Father's Day is on Sunday, and we're talking a wee bit this week about dads, reflecting on dads. Yeah, we want your dad's claim to fame because yesterday, this dad, I'm talking about me in the third person. Yeah, you made an outrageous claim to fame. Now if you missed it yesterday on the show, this is you talking about how you had a netball at home and a netball hoop and this is what happened. So the hoop was in the driveway. No one's around'm just i'm prepping for the netball sesh i'm at one end of the driveway 422 meters away no it wasn't that far away about 40 meters away

i throw it i throw it i like i bet this is gonna go in boom swish So that was yesterday That was you yesterday Talking about a 40 metre netball swish 40 metres, a metre for every year I've been on this earth One heck of a shot Now as you said 40 metres Producer Joel and myself went 40 metres Your mouth blew up

40 metres is a long way It was about 40 metres And the kids went to school telling the legend, the tale of the legend who threw a 40 metre netball shot. So after the show, we decided, well, let's go past the netball courts on the way home. Now, listen, can I just come in here? What? Like, he took me to the netball court, and it was appropriate

because I felt like I was on trial at the court. And it was like the work day apparently wasn't over until we had gone home, collected netballs, and then went to the netball court to't over until we had gone home, collected net balls and then went to the netball court to prove whatever point you were trying to prove. What? Trying to prove, we need to back up your story,

at least get close and we go, oh actually no, you're right, he could have gone up for 40 metres. So here's yesterday, you can catch it on the Hits Breakfast on Instagram and Facebook if you want to see the video but here's a wee bit.

Why can't we just celebrate a Kiwi success story? 40 meters now we're here in a netball court the whole court is 30 meters like that's another that's another anyway but what point are you trying to prove? Well just let me just try get one in from 30 meters just take just take my story and go hey well done mate I'm proud of you. Let's go to a netball court on the way home I'll swing by home again you get your netball, I'll get my netball and we'll come and just try to undercut your achievement. Just do one achievement on camera and then I'll be happy.

You know this. How good will you look? Okay. Close? It might not have been 40 metres. Oh, okay. There we go. I couldn't replicate it. No, you couldn't. Not by 20 metres. You know what, New Zealand? This No, you couldn't. Not by a long way. Not by 20 metres.

You know what, New Zealand? I'll tell you. This is New Zealand's breed. You know what I got yesterday? I got a taste of what it's like to be Ian Foster. Oh, don't. Just. The knockers.

The knockers. No, I'm supporting Ian Foster, but I'm not supporting you and your outrageous claims. He's not going out there going, we're going to win by 300 points, is he? You know, I got home in Jen, who she didn't, no one, the was no one witnessed the shot i landed the swish she walked out of the door i was like did you see that she's like no i didn't see what and i wanted to get her on today and say defend her husband you know she didn't say it that's what she said she said i didn't

say what am i coming on to defend i didn't see it i said but you saw the celebration afterwards why would i just burst into celebration he's a very good actor he's a very good actor That's what she said. She said, I didn't see it. What am I coming on to defend? I didn't see it. I said, but you saw the celebration afterwards. Why would I just burst into celebration? He's a very good actor. He's a very good actor. Oh, 800 of this. Okay. What's your dad's claim to fame? Mine is, and mine will always be, I know in my heart, a 40-meter netball shot.

Not 40 meters. Not 40 meters. We proved yesterday it couldn't have been 40 meters. My arm was tired. I can prove it. Anyway. All right. You're still going. Fuck your fruit. Anyway, all right. I bet you're still going on with that. Lines have given up.

Hey, what's your dad's claim to fame? They've got pranks. They've got puns. Now they just need some actual listeners. Jono and Ben on the hits. All right, we're talking about your dad's claim to fame this morning. Michaela, it's your dad. Yeah.

No, you're not her dad. No. I've just taken an opportunity test, darling. Oh, is it? it's your dad yes no you're not her dad no I've just taken an opportunity test darling oh is that so yeah

sorry I haven't been there for a lot of your major life moments I know we missed out on a lot well let's talk about your actual dad now your dad's had

an unusual amount of jobs yes how many I think I said about 47 48ish but it's probably a little bit more than that now because he's contracting so yeah Yes. How many? I think I said about 47, 48-ish, but it's probably a little bit more than that now

because he's contracting. So, yeah, lots of different things. So he's had what, around about 50 jobs? I would probably say, yeah. Okay, can we list off all 50 slowly? One. I know the first one was like an apprenticeship at like 14 years old,

but I don't know what apprenticeship for. Jeez, they got them working early in those days, didn't they? Out of school, working at 14 years old. Yeah, well, he actually dropped out of school too. Wow, and so he's done all different types? What sort of different types of jobs has he done? The majority engineering and electrician jobs, but he has done things like he installed a whole

bunch of wind turbines at one point for one guy. So, yeah, a lot of the ones I think. Why did one guy want so many wind turbines? I'm not sure. I had something to do with cheap energy, something like that. That'll do it.

He's also installed solar panels as well, which is another interesting one. Yeah, gotcha. That'll do it. He's also installed solar panels as well, was another interesting one. But yeah, majority of the time it's either been engineering or electrician jobs. So 50 different companies he's worked for? Yeah, yeah. Some of them it was very short stints

because he just didn't like it or like who he was working for. So he was like, no, I don't need to do this. He's got enough qualification and experience that anyone kind of wants him. Wouldn't it be a great, powerful position to be in? I don't need to do this. Now, don't get any ideas here at work, at the HITS management. We definitely need to do this.

We've got no other option. Yeah, exactly. No, he's been headhunted a lot as well. Other companies have heard about him and he's kind of been poached. Has it dribbled down to you? Do you find yourself non-committal when it comes to employment? No, not necessarily non-committal,

but I have had, oh, how many jobs have I had now? About eight, I think, and I'm 28. So I started working when I was 15. You're on track to be 50 by 50. I know. Oh, that's awesome. Hey, Michaela, really appreciate your call this morning. Go and have a great day. Yeah, you too.

Chris, welcome. Hi, how are you? Good morning to you. Now, Chris, you're talking about your dad's claim to fame. What was it? Well, back in the days when Ian Foster played first 15 rugby at Forest View High School with my brother, my dad coached him. His claim to fame is that he's actually coached the All Blacks coach. He's coached the coach.

Yeah. He wouldn't be singing that from the rooftops. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, we're trying to be positive about everything. That's really cool, though. That's really cool. And so did Ian Foster keep in touch over the years? Yeah, yeah.

Dad caught up with him not so long ago, I think, yeah. That's awesome. Has he ever had a like? Yeah, we saw him over in Perth when we were over watching my daughter play. Did you catch up with him? Yeah, yeah. Did you see him? Wow.

Yeah. That's awesome. Is he a family friend? Pretty much. And actually, his dad married me. He was a minister back in the day. Oh, my gosh. Tokoroa, right?

I know. Good old toke. That's impressive. And do you talk to Fozzie? You're like, mate, don't worry, chin up. Oh, yeah. If I could, I would. Yeah, we back him 100%.

Absolutely. He seems like a lovely guy. He does, actually. Yeah, he is really good. He's out there doing his best, trying to put it all together. It must be, yeah. I know. The poor bloke. Yeah, doing his best. Now, has he always shaved his eyebrows? Sorry, eyebrows. You've got a problem with his sideburns. Has he always shaved his sideburns so

hot? I never actually noticed until you were talking to the All Black the other day on the radio. I'm going to have to have a look now. I don't think they're that high at all. He hasn't got sideburns, but he hasn't got them. They're not like... I know everyone's talking about getting Razor into the All Blacks,

but he's got Razor halfway up his head. He's got the eyebrows above his ears, Ben. Have a Google. I mean, he's got Razor halfway up his head. He's got the eyebrows above his ears, Ben. Have a Google. I mean, he's got his sideburns above his ears. No, he... He has.

I'm just going to have to have a look now. He's got a look. It's a classic. When Dan was rolling and something like that, he's got, you know, it's a classic look.

That's one. Hey, Chris, you're an absolute champion. We're all backing Ian Foster. We've got to back the whole team. Yeah, you've got to. They're our team. So that's one. Hey, Chris, you're an absolute champion. We're all backing Ian Foster. We've got to back the whole team. Yeah, you've got to. They're our team. So that's right.

For better or worse. That's what they say. I've been a Warriors supporter for a long, long time. We say that every year. Hey, good on you, Chris. Will you keep well? Thank you so much. See you, mate.

Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals. Because she's not a good person, but either is he. Digging the dirt. Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Yelling at cast members.

Yes. It was a script. No. His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. We call him the towel of Hollywood because he has all of the dirt of Tinseltown on him. Welcome, NT. Hey, how are you guys?

Sorry for that weird introduction. How do we feel about that one, NT? I like that one. I like the one last week better, though. Yeah, right. Mopping up all the sweat. I'll pick my game up next week. I'll pick my game up.

That's not bad, though. The other thing I wanted to ask you, you've been doing this for a very long time. You must have collected odd bits of memorabilia over the years. You know, I have to some extent. Nothing great. I mean, I've got scripts here and there, you know, photos from sets and stuff.

I've always been more of the hands-on experience kind of thing. Like, oh, you know, I'd really like to go to the Golden Globes or something like that and take that kind of experience rather than memorabilia. Now, that being said, there are times when there have been auctions and they're way, way too expensive for my blood. But I have, you know, occasionally tried to put in a bid for Oscars that come up for sale because, you know, pre-19 1950, those Oscars do come up. There was one that came up for auction in the spring.

And even though it's from the second Oscars, I really thought that it might sneak under the radar because it was such an obscure award that I figured, well, you know what? This could be the chance where I get something like that. But honestly, it went for $100,000, which was, you know, $90,000 over the estimate or something like that. And then the other problem is that the big ones, if Steven Spielberg goes in there and he pays triple or quadruple, and then he donates them to the Academy, which is noble and everything. There's a huge Academy Award Museum in Los Angeles now, but he's just swooping in there and then taking them all.

So nobody really has any kind of chance for any big ones. So you really have to try and find some obscure one. And I think that that would be a pretty cool piece of celebrity memorabilia. Back off, Spielberg. Have you held an Oscar? Like, have you had one in your hands before the award? Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. I have held them Oscar? Like, have you had one in your hands before the award? Oh, yeah. Uh-huh.

I have held them in my hand. That is cool. I have touched it, not just touched it, I mean, I held it. I held it for a solid half hour. Bloody, the actors must lose them. Like, if they win one and then go out partying, they must be, like, scattered all over Hollywood at the end of the night. You would think so. Here's something that actors

have done since 1950, because obviously not all of them have had A-list careers. And what happens is they need money, but they're not allowed to sell their Oscar. They have to offer it to the Academy for a buck. And but many times, you know, they'll be down on hard times. So they will find somebody who is willing to purchase it, a couple of million dollars or whatever. But also I've heard stories where they've done that and then said that they've lost their Oscar.

So then they get another one. Ah, smart. And there are plenty of people in town that have Oscars from after 1950 that they did not earn but that they bought. Geez, I'd be like, next day I'd be on bloody eBay, buying our dollar reserve, get in there, sell it off. Hey, MTV Awards were held last night. Big announcement, Taylor Swift's out there with an album.

Johnny Depp made a cameo. Yeah. You know, I don't know if you guys, you know, if your listeners know this, but they're rigged. It's not, you know, alleged. There's nothing like that. The Video Music Awards, everybody, it's all planned. Okay, do you want to perform?

Great. Okay, you can perform and we'll give you this award. And if anybody ever had any current doubt that these things are not rigged, all you have to do is look at last night. What are the odds? What are the odds, John Owen Bennett, that Taylor Swift

of all nights, of all nights, oh my gosh, I won an award, this is perfect, all my audience is here, I get to announce that I have a new record, what if I hadn't won the award? What would I have done? Where would I have made this announcement?

Is this sarcasm? Is this what you were talking about the other day before, John? So, you're not fetching a million bucks for an MTV award on the black market then? No. And that's the other thing. You'll see often, like, so Taylor's there, which means that somebody else won't be. Let's say if Taylor's going to come, Beyonce's not going to be there.

Everybody kind of rotates and takes their turn. Look what MTV got out of this. Nobody watches the Video Music Awards. Nobody. And all of a sudden, they're going to have Taylor Swift on there with her little announcement and everybody's going to post that clip,

that 25-second clip and it's just going to be MTV, MTV, MTV. They haven't had that many eyeballs since they were showing like Beavis and Butthead. And maybe it was a pure coincidence. Maybe Taylor Swift was... Yes, you know, tonight's the night. Tonight's the night.

Andy, you go and keep well over there in the States, mate, and we'll speak next week. Thanks for your time. Hey, thanks, guys. Have a great week. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits.

Right around the country right now, there's a lot of billboards for local body elections. They seem to be taking place everywhere, don't they? Jeez, there's some battler ones out there too, eh? There's some ones where you're like, mate, why are you giving it a go? You know, I saw one yesterday. I was like, you've got no chance. It almost like, more for everything.

You know, it's great. People should vote and we should all do it more. But, you know, it's not just about the mayor. It's about all the local councils. And you have to do quite a lot of research to know. Because you don't want to just go, oh, just pick this person's name. You want to find out what they stand for. That's what I've done up until now.

Do I like their name? Because basically they are like a photo of six randoms on a thing for the local board, aren't they? I suppose you're right, Ben. If I was a decent voter, I'd do my research and know what they stood for. But it almost intimidates you not to vote, because you're like want to vote but i just oh geez so i have time to go through and go oh yeah that's their thing you know so no i mean that was the answer a lot of people aren't going to be voting but yesterday i was driving maybe getting on local boards the thing to do

just by default people can't be asked you end up on a local board uh yes i was driving with my daughter sienna in the car and she had a question that really confused me for a little bit so i pulled over and recorded her what's your question how often does the mayor get changed what the mayor the mayor what's the mayor the mayor of the country oh you're seeing the signs the new auckland mayor yeah vote brandon hathaway for new mayor to change auckland i don't think anyone's trying to be the mayor. It sounds like something you put in the fridge on a sandwich. It's mayor. Oh.

Yeah, the Auckland mayor. Well, they should make that more obvious. Should write it with an E instead of an O. Good question. I never really thought about it. So, hold on. Did you just pull over the car, pull out your phone to mock your daughter? You're saying

mayor. Sorry, how old are you? Or 10? Oh. And you go there, I'll play that on the radio. She's 12. I'll teach you a lesson. I'll teach you a lesson. I'll show you good and proper

12 year old-old girl. Mayor. John Mayor. All right, well, anyway, that was my content this morning. That was good, that was good. I'm sorry to the CEO, I'm really sorry. I want to apologise to her as well. I didn't condone this bullying, Sina.

I'm sorry. She was fine with it, but now I'm questioning everything. If you're here for parenting advice, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. Parentingplace.nz. It's a great tool for New Zealand parents to get ideas and strategies when you need them. And right now they've got some great stuff on how to protect your kids from a lot of dodgy content that's out there on the internet. And joining us from the Parenting Place right now is Holly Jean Booker.

Good morning. How are you doing? I'm good. How are you guys? We're doing all right. You're today on the Parenting Place. What are we talking about? We are talking about, yeah, how to talk to your kids about seeing

dodgy content online. Which is everywhere. Yeah. You look at, even if I go on TikTok and I like to say it's the best and the worst in humanity on TikTok. And it seems like you click on one video and you feed a whole algorithm

of similar videos. Yeah. Ben, can I just say, Holly, sorry, Ben's looking at me, he's nodding like, yeah, I bet they're all like bikini shots. I didn't say any of that. I was just like, it sounded like a guy making an elaborate story about how he's, anyway. Anyway, what I'm saying, Holly, is the kids are exposed to it

and the adults. Yeah, TikTok is awesome. There's so much great content, but there's also, like you say, so much content that's just, yeah, dodgy as heck. I was reading research yesterday that it says one in four teens have seen porn under the age of 12 and they weren't even looking for it.

Yeah, and I've definitely had a number of my friends, I've got two friends in particular recently that have had their eight-year-old see porn and been really upset by it. So one of them was accidentally stumbled across it online, another one, their friend showed it to them. You know, it's not like the good old days when you had to go to the effort of navigating the R18 section of video easy.

Those are the dots through what calls get yourself... We all know those days, great days. But it does have an effect on a young mind seeing the likes of adult videos and things. It can really harm them, can't it? Absolutely, and I think that unfortunately because of the of adult videos and things. It can really harm them, can't it? Absolutely. And I think that unfortunately because of the accessibility that we have now with the digital world, phones and computers, there's so much content, there's so much porn that's available really easily online

and also it's become a lot more violent and graphic and it's just not stuff we want our kids to see. And I guess the key thing is that what we want is we want our kids to come to us and talk to us about these hard topics. We don't want them to feel scared to tell us that they've seen something dodgy online because they're going to get in trouble and they're going to have their phone taken off them.

That's obviously one really good tactic, is being open and honest with the kids and letting them know that they can come to you. Is there, like, technology that we can use to stop? Yeah, like a sort of protective measure. Is there anything we could be doing? Yeah, so I think that teaching our kids about self-control and character really are the best filters that we can give them

because there's ways to navigate prevention or protection that we can put in place. They can navigate these things. So we do really want them to learn about self-control and knowing how to control themselves and not continue looking for the stuff. But we do have an awesome app that we use in our family. It's called Safe Surfer.

There's all sorts of categories that you can allocate that you want blocked, and it will stop it from coming through on your phone, your computers, your iPads. You can nominate a timetable of what device can access Wi-Fi over what time period. It's actually really awesome. That's cool. Yeah, I really love SafeSurfer.

I think it's fantastic. It's kind of a new development that's just come out recently. Yeah, it's really good advice. I had a good save once. I remember when my daughter was young because I used to have to get them ready for school in the morning, and I wasn't very good at doing their hair. And so we'd often YouTube stuff. You know, it's like, oh, YouTube something, and I'll try and follow the instructions.

And my daughter was typing it in, and I saved it just in time. She went to type in something with bobbies, but had misspelt bobbies into something else that was about to hit that on Google. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's not how. It was strange how bobbies came up in his recent searches.

It was a little, yeah, it was a bit of explaining to him. You can see how easily it can happen though. Anyone. It's a guy looking up bobbies? We're looking up bobbies and put bobby pins in the hair, but we didn't quite get through.

We got through to bobbies, but we didn't get the misspelt version. Holly, well, this has been a really good chat. It's not going anywhere, this content, and you've just got to find a way to navigate your children through it. Yeah. You know, do your research. Get yourself prepared that these conversations will happen. The other thing I'd like to say, too,

is there are some people that are just exceptionally awkward about these conversations. And it's okay to nominate someone else to have this conversation, like an elf. I know my husband, he's kind of grown up in a family where you don't really talk about awkward conversations. So he's a bit cringy with these topics. He's like, Holly, you've got this one.

You've got this one, mate. Yeah, he's like, you've got it. I'm like, great, thanks, babe. So I, yeah, grew up with a mum that was very open and I was a high school health teacher in the past life. So I do tend to take the lead on these combos. But I can even, I can find it a bit awkward myself. But yeah, if you find it awkward, that's understandable.

Try and push through. Always good talking with you, mate. We'll speak very shortly and thank you very much for your time. Yeah, you's understandable. Try and push through. Always good talking with you, mate. We'll speak very shortly, and thank you very much for your time. Yeah, you guys too. Have a good day. You can head to theparentingplace.nz if you want some more great advice like Holly just gave us then. Jono and Ben, the bold and the beautiful.

On their heads. Note, may not be beautiful. Welcome along to the 6 o'clock club. You're 6-y and you know it. It's 6-y and you know it. 6y and you know it. It's good to have you on. Welcome along, good morning. Georgie fam.

It does sound like you're 10. What a beautiful start to the day. You're standing like you're from another radio station. Beautiful people. Now yesterday, something I noticed after we left the show, we were talking to people in the office, is you got complimented for how sporty you looked. You're like, oh, you look sporty today. And I was... A couple of people

said, geez, you look sporty today. And I was like, well, I guess in some ways you do look sporty but in other ways you look like you really turned up to work quite casual because you had track pants on. Yeah, Adidas track pants and a grey sporty jersey. But the ones that look like they're waterproof, like you should be training for a rugby game or something,

like you put them on in some wet weathers before you're like, or maybe you're doing some water blasting in the weekend or something. Sporty, they're sporty. They don't look, well, yeah, they look like you're training out in wet weathers. I'm a sporty guy. Are you? That's always my theory is you wander around in sporty clothes

and people assume you've either come from the gym or you're going to the gym. And they're like, jeez, that prior, he's active. Yeah, well, you got that yesterday, didn't you? I did. You got complimented on it. We turned up with the whole job in sports gear and people are like, you've just been out for a run.

No, I hadn't. I'd actually just had a pie. But yes, yes, I know I look like I've had a run. That's the key to success in fitness. Well, I don't know if it's the key to success, but it's the key for getting complimented, isn't it? And what do they say about compliments?

It burns calories, Ben. Skins is the other one, the performance tights, right? Yeah, if you wear those, you always look like you're about to, you know, take part in some physical activity.

Yeah. It's wearing fitness gear all the time, though. It's comfortable. It's more comfortable than other clothing, isn't it? Track pants. If you could have jeans that look like or feel like track pants. I've got some. though it's um it's comfortable it's more comfortable than other clothing isn't it track

pants if you could have jeans that look like or feel like i've got some i've got some i can tell you about they're they're yeah they're good elastic yeah at the top yeah i think pretty sure you got some of the helen stone brothers but you probably never wore them but yeah they're great we're comfy but they are baggy but they're yeah the jean the jean industry really uh clocked things when they figured out how to do stretchy jeans There was ones where you're like I'm sucking big ones here Just to get the button done up With unforgiving denim

And then they released stretchy denim And we all look fantastic in stretchy denim Are you a skins person? No If I've seen you wear them I don't know why Why do you think your legs need skins on them? When I go to the gym, I would.

But if you forget your shorts over the top, I definitely have to wear shorts over the top type of person. I'm not a turn up to the gym, no skins, because that's not for me. But what do they do? What do they design? Compression tights. Why are you having to help your muscles the next day? I don't know.

I don't know, but I know I'm sore the next day, so I think, geez, how sore would I have been. I don't know. I don't know, but I know I'm sore the next day. So I think, geez, how sore would I have been if I wasn't wearing these? But like, compression tights on your tiny legs, they'll almost crush them. Yeah.

You know? The compression of the tights. Yeah, true. I was just thinking, you know, turning up with sporty things. A friend of mine the other day,

he turned up to the gym. No one else was in the gym except for one person, but an all black in the gym. He was like, I can't go to the gym when there's an all black lifting weights except for one person but an all black in the gym. He was like, I can't go to the gym when there's an all black lifting weights.

And he left, he left. I was like, you could still go in and Secretly film them. Yeah, get in there. Yeah,

but he was like, it was too intimidating for him to be in a gym with an all black just lifting weights. So I was like, why? But yeah,

it was like, couldn't do it, couldn't do it. Well, they're not that intimidating at the moment. Oh, mate, mate. Oh God. Oh't do it. Well, they're not that intimidating at the moment. Oh, mate.

Mate. Oh, God. I'm just doing a cheap job, Ben. You know we need an out for this little bit. And I'm apologising. I've hurt the All Blacks' feelings. That was low blow. And I don't mean any of it, to be honest.

One great way to make the morning commute a little more stressful. Jono and Ben on the hits. Part of what we've coined now the 6 o'clock club, the 60 and I know it. Yeah, 60 and you know it. Welcome along. It's good to have you here. We like to just chuck some stuff out there in the 6 o'clock club.

It's loose, free, wild. I like it. I really like it. People are up early and I love talking to people up early and finding out what they're doing for the day. Yeah, I love them talking and us not having to talk. That's what I love talking to people up early and finding out what they're doing for the day. I love them talking and us not having to talk. That's what I love the most about it. So this morning we wanted to get on to

the longest commute. Longest commute to work. Now, you and me, we can't really enter this competition. I'm sort of seven to nine minutes depending on how many orange lights I can run. The time in the morning that we come in to work, you know, just before five o'clock it's, yeah, there's not a lot of traffic out there.

It's a little bit longer getting home and that, but we're not at peak hour. So, you know, it takes a lot longer in, you know, in peak hour situations. I was reading an article yesterday, some extensive scientific research into travel times of New Zealanders. They obviously vary city to city depending on the traffic. Auckland, as you'd imagine, the longest. Five hours a week your average Jaffa spends in a car. Total that up over a year,

260 hours sitting in a car. Second is Wellington and Christchurch. They've got four and a half hours sitting in cars every week. And when you break it down like that, you're like, what are we doing?

Imagine all the other stuff you could be down like that, you're like, what are we doing? Why? Imagine all the other stuff you could be doing with that time. Yeah. Looking at YouTube, ignoring your family, stuff like that. Stuff that you probably, you just spend it on other stuff that maybe wasn't quite as important. But we wanted to know this morning on R800 The Hits, who's having the longest commute right now? Trish, you're sexy and you know it from Kiowa. Welcome.

Hi, how are you? Yeah, what are we talking here, Trish? What's the travel time? If I'm not on the motorway an hour and fifteen. If I'm on the motorway, maybe an hour and a half, one way. Oh, so the motorway's a bit slower for you, is it? Yeah, definitely. I go the coast way. Where are you going to? East Tarmachy. Right, so going to? East Tarmachy. Right, so Kiowa to East Tarmachy. Now, is it north, up north, all the way to East Tarmachy? That's a big trip.

Yeah, it is. Oh, sorry. Coming up the country. Sorry, Producer Joel's kind of, he's doing that thing with his finger and he's doing it up and I'm like, I don't know if this is abuse or... Yeah, it was true feelings towards you. Yeah. And do you get bored do you halfway

through go why on earth do i work so far away no i'm used to i've been doing it for 10 years i used to work from kaiawa to ponsonby every day now obviously that's a big drive listening to the show does it feel like a five-hour drive? No. You make it fun. You guys make it fun. Oh, that's very nice. It's lovely to have you listening. Where are you at the moment?

Cleveland. It's making good time this morning? It's all good? Yep, all good. All good. On track. We're going to send you out some hell pizza. Oh, thank you.

Good on you, Trish. You keep safe, safe driving. Okay, an hour 15. That's the time to be Is anyone commuting longer than that? I would say you'd be hard pressed Because if you were, what's the point? Work closer Look out!

Scary dinosaurs Not Jurassic Park It's these guys Jono and Ben on the hits We're talking to people right now Who are on the long, long commute to work. Yeah, who is on the longest commute? You do wonder too over the COVID period with Zoom and stuff. A lot more people will be working remotely.

I remember the other week we went down to town and the guy in the bar was like, Thursday's the new Friday. Yeah. Everyone gets all their socialising done on a Thursday. Then they work from home Friday. People trying to work from home new Friday. Yeah. Everyone gets all their socialising done on a Thursday, then they work from home Friday. People trying to work from home on Friday. I think the officers are cottoning on to that slowly, aren't they? I love it.

Thursday's the new Friday. What a great slogan. I had a friend who used to fly to Australia every day. Every day? No, sorry. Every week, once a week. Oh, right. Every day.

That's a wild commute. Big carbon footprint. But yeah, Sunday night would fly over, Friday afternoon come back. once a week. Every day. That's a wild commute. Big carbon footprint. But yeah, Sunday night would fly over. Friday afternoon, come back. Now, you're not going to beat that commute. That's thousands and thousands of kilometres. But on 0800, the hits right now.

Crystal, what's your commute time? My commute time, it's usually around an hour, just over an hour to get to work, And then an hour 20-ish home from work Two hours 20 on the loop So what's Like if you left at a later time Would it take longer Or are you alright

Yeah 100% So how long have you left it later And what's the longest it's taken to get to work The longest it's taken to get to work I'd say probably around hour 20, maybe hour and a half. Where are you going? From Matamata to Hamilton.

Are there some days going, oh, my gosh, why didn't I just get a job in the coffee club Matamata? Well, funny enough, I actually don't do that commute anymore. I'm back in Matamata now, so it's only taken two minutes to get to work nowadays. Oh, you had enough of it. What do you do with the extra time in the mornings? Sleep. Oh, yeah, that makes sense.

You must save so much on petrol now. Oh, it's ridiculous how much I save. Yeah, well, Crystal, there we go. Had a two-hour, 20-round trip every day. Appreciate your time. You have a great day. You too. Thank you.

See you. We're after the longest commute, Joanne, in Wellington. How long is it for you? Three hours every day. Appreciate your time. You have a great day. You too. Thank you. We're after the longest commute, Joanne, in Wellington. How long is it for you? Three hours a day. So three hours, this is round trip? Yeah, round trip. So one and a half hours each way. What are you doing?

What are you doing in the car? What are you doing, Joanne? I'm driving to the train station. Then I'm catching the train then I catch a bus and then I walk. Oh so you're doing all sorts of different transport? Absolutely absolutely it was a good job I've cut my I've changed my um job and I've cut it down to two hours a day one hour each way. What do you do what do you do to fill in the time? That's a lot of commuting. Oh, well, of course, I listen to the hits radio. Oh, nice.

Yeah, and that keeps me going. And then Spotify or a podcast. Do you sit on the train and just read news, observe? No. No? Sleep. Oh, you sleep? Yeah.

So I've been known to sit there with my mouth open snoring. I'm not the only one. There's lots of us. Have you missed a stop? The only time I ever fell asleep on the train when I was younger, I missed a stop. Like, oh, yeah. So has that happened to you before?

Well, no. The new job that I've gone to, I've only been there a week. It's halfway through the train system, and I'm really worried that I'm going to fall asleep and miss the spot and end up in Wellington. You must have formed relationships with other commuters. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, we meet for coffee and, yeah.

Wow. That's adorable. And every time someone sits in your seat, that's the end of your day's ruin then. Oh, so you've got a seat. You're like, sorry, this is my seat. Yeah. You don't say it, but you just glare at them and they get up

and they either move or they just sort of sit there defiantly in your seat. So you've got your own seat? Yeah, you don't say it, but you just glare at them and they get up and they either move or they just sort of sit there defiantly in your seat. So you've got your own seat? Yeah, there's got to be some benefits to commuting three hours a day. Oh, you're an absolute champion. There we go, Joanne, the sleeping train commuter. Appreciate your time.

Yeah, see you later, guys. See you, matey. Let's go. Jonah and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. Yeah, we give you five words. You tell us what pops into your head when we tell you those five words. And if they all match up with ours, you win $5,000. But there's heaps of cash to be won along the way.

Yes, let's get Amy on from Churchill. How are you in Christchurch this morning, Amy? Good, good. It's not raining for once, so I'm happy. Amen. Now, your partner's birthday this weekend. It sure is. How old?

He's 30. Ooh, what are we doing? We're going out for dinner with some friends, so that'll be quite good. A night away from our two young, young children. Yeah, right. It's been a while since he's had a night away, so it'll be quite good. A night away from our two young, young children, so it's been a while since he's had a night away, so it'll be good for him. You said young, young children as if your soul has been broken.

How young, young are the young kids? They slightly break your soul a little bit, but they also grow it. Yeah, they do. Have you taught them how to use a device? They can use, well, my toddler can use a phone. Great, get him into the devices early. That's always my theory.

Alright Amy, let's try and win you $5,000. Who are you going to send into that soundproof booth? Can we send in Ben, please? Ben's going to go. It always works as a spray tanning booth as well. You come out looking like a contestant from Love Island some mornings, don't you Ben? Alright, let's get into it. Ben's locked in the booth. Amy's locked in

to win $5 dollars amy first word you think of when i say negative positive you know i'd started writing down positive before you'd even said it i knew what you were going to say we're in sync amy mouse trap Trap. Dice. Dice, as in like roll the dice? Yeah. We'll go with roll. Dice roll. Fried is the fourth word this morning for you, Amy. Deep fried.

My favourite type of frying. University, the fifth and final word. Degree University degree Amo First thing in the morning You're on fire Great game you played

Let's get Ben out And wow he looks magnificent Like he's just come back From Hawaii On holiday with Luxon What would you spend Five grand on Amy If you won

It would probably go towards Maybe saving for a holiday And some money towards dinner this weekend. Yeah. All right. Ben, a 30th birthday hangs in the balance. Go and win you some money. A night away from the young, young children hangs in the balance.

All right, let's do it. Word one, $25. What would you say if I said negative? Positive. Well done. There you go, Amy. Yay. 25 bones go, Amy. Yay. 25 bones you've got.

You're going to go through to the $50 word? Yes, please. Word two, $50. Mouse. Mouse. Mouse. Trap? Mouse trap?

He's got your $50. It's a good start. It's a good start, Amy. That's great. I was thinking computer mouse the whole time. Mouse pads, yeah. Mickey Mouse. Yeah.

But let's not worry about those. There's a lot of options, but I got the right one. Yeah, that's really good. $50 there, Amy. What are you going to do now? Are we going to try and win $100? Yeah, we'll try and win $100. That'll definitely help.

We'll do it for sure. Word three. $100. Dice. Dice. Dice. I'm in danger here. Roll. Oh, yes. Amy. $100.

Do we get up to the $500 word or do you want to take your $100 that'll go towards there'll be a couple of mains depending where you go maybe an appetizer

go to McDonald's that'll be the whole dinner and the friends probably we'll risk it come on let's go for word four

word four $500 she's taking a gamble. Okay. Fried. F-R-I-E-D. Fried. Like me in my 20s.

Chicken? Fried chicken? Oh, that was my second option. It was deep fried. Of course. My favorite cuisine, Ben. You deep fried. Ah, of course. My favourite cuisine, Ben, you know this. Oh, so close. All right, we'll go to the fifth word.

What would you have said for university? There's lots. Student. Degree. What's the words? Amy, solid game. I'm sorry we couldn't come through for the 30th birthday this weekend, but happy birthday to your partner.

Have a great dinner. Have a great week. Have a great week. Look after those kids. Goodbye. Thank you. See you. Bye. The Hits.

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