Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: The Politician & the Sex-bot Scandal

Episode Date: April 13, 2022

We talk snacks with Kim Crossman, what Jono has done that is embarrassing his kids and who had the best Birthday EVER?!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey guys, it's the... 13th of April. Is it the 13th? Now I'm all off my game. I'm all off my podcast. You can say what the date is. What's the date today, Jono?

No, it's done now. People know the date. You've said the date. Your time stamped it with a date. Do you like to know the date date? Like a lot of times when I'm filling out forms, you know, I always forget the date. It comes to, like, most of the time I think about it

is when I'm looking at the milk situation at home, to be honest. I'm like, oh, that's got two more days. Oh,

I'm pushing, you know. How much beyond the, okay, I'll throw this out to you too, Bill Crawford, who's in here.

How much beyond the expiry date of a milk bottle do you push the limits? Not much for me, to be honest. Would you go two days? I have,

but normally it's by not checking the date, you know? Accidental. Yeah, like I'd go a day. I feel like a day, you know,

but they probably can't push it longer. Belle, you're like, nah. Nah, not with like products like that. You want to go on the date. You can give it the sniff test,

I guess. Well, that's the other thing, right? You know? Yeah. How far can you push expiry dates? Here we go.

I'm going to look at this on the, well, some people do that dumpster diving and stuff, don't they? We've talked to people like that on the radio before, and they reckon a lot of stuff is thrown out. That's fine. Well, I think a lot of the supermarkets have to abide by some guidelines, which means perfectly good food.

They need to change the guidelines. Perfectly good food just gets thrown in giant waste bins. What do you think your best before date was? As a human? Or could be. You know, that was the peak. Yeah, right. thrown in giant waste bins. What do you think your best before date was? Like... As a human? Or could be. You know, that was the peak.

Yeah, right. Like, have you reached it? Or have you gone, are you past the date now? I like, in my head, I like to think I haven't reached it.

But I think... Same with me. I like to think it too. But then I'm like, well, maybe I have reached it and I just haven't come to terms with it. Yeah, that's exactly

what I think. Bill, when do you reckon your best before date's going to be? I got a little bit longer than that. How old are you? 33, I think. Oh, yeah, you've got your best before still to come. You hit your 40s, and you're like, no, my best is still here to come. And then you have moments of, oh, no, maybe it's been.

But then you see some remarkable people that achieve things at a young age. Hey look, don't compare your timelines. Everyone's is different, okay? So we're going to tell ourselves. And maybe some people at 18, 19 have achieved their best before date, you know? And it's all downhill. The rest of your life's a disaster. What celebrities do you think have got their best before date?

Has Will Smith, has he had his best before date? Maybe, yeah. Will he come back? He's expired. He's done. I think he'll come back in some form, but it's going to be tough. I'll name some other celebrities. Art Green. Has Art Green had his best before done?

Green's never going to have it. He'll never expire. He'll never expire. He's one of those ones you look on and go, is there a best before? There's no one on this. That's fine. He's preserved. Highly preserved. Even when he's 90, you're like, That's fine. It's preserved, highly preserved. It's just got to keep going. Even when he's 90, you're like, oh, jeez. It must be like a can of, you know, tuna or something.

You're not throwing Art Green out, are you? No, no one's ever throwing Art Green out. Okay, let's talk about industry people who you think have expired. Let's go. I don't want to do this. It was fine when it was you and me. Let's go Gary McCormick. No, no.

Gary McCormick is I mean I only hope I could be doing What he's doing He's still doing it You know He's gone Into a level of like

Success It's incredible Yeah It's incredible Ben's so nice isn't he He is so nice He used to cancel Out my meanness

That's our shtick Bill And he knows He's flourishing with Like this My anxiety levels are raising just by you. He's like, I don't like zeroing in on people. Like, it was fine when it was on you. I started this, and now I'm disappointed I started this. Okay.

Let's go Fletch and Vaughton. Where are they at? Let's just talk people, mate. Matt and Jerry. They're all doing great stuff. Sharon Casey. Yeah. She's had a couple of kids now, Ben.

What do you reckon? She's incredible stuff. Sharon Casey. Yeah. She's had a couple of kids now, Ben. What do you reckon? She's incredible. I love Sharon. Yeah. But is her best before date, Ben? I think she's got plenty more ahead of her, you know? Like, yeah. I think the only one that's expired is maybe the two of us. But we haven't come to terms with that yet. No, we're still saying the best is yet to come.

A fun podcast today. We spoke to... It would be our best. A couple of years ago it would be the best podcast. If you'd tuned in 2018, you would have got us at our peak. David Seymour, ACT Party leader, who's embroiled in the middle of a sexpot scandal on social media. And it's earned him 50,000 new followers, which is a bonus. Yeah. And a bit of coverage on, you know know, he likes getting his name out there.

Well, because everyone thought he was buying followers. And he explains all on the podcast. You go and have a great Wednesday. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono, welcome. You're with us.

You look very frazzled before. Am I giving off a frazzled aura this morning? Well, we did. Belle and I were in here going, oh, we're on the radio, but you're still like. Oh, I don't feel frazzled inside. Oh, good. Good. I've had a frazzled morning, so I wondered if it just carried on to you.

If you'd passed off your frazzledness. No. You know, sometimes people can pick up on your vibe. Yeah. Well, no, sometimes I'm like, well, does anyone need to hear me talking over the intro of Nico and Vince? Oh, okay. You know, sometimes I'm like, well, does anyone need to hear me talking over the intro of Nico and Vinz? Oh, okay. You know, sometimes I'm like,

probably not. You know, they could probably, you know, they're not going to miss that in their day. I missed it in my day, but you're right, other people might not. Yeah. They just want to hear Nico and Vinz, mate.

Well, that's what we're here for. That's true. That's what we came for. I had a frazzle start to my morning because I was running a little, just, you know, just a smidgen late and it's always those situations when you're running just a smidgen late.

But you said, I'm going to be five minutes late, which means 10 to 15. Well, yeah. Five minutes buys you 10 minutes. Yeah, it does. Normally it's like two minutes away or just parking. And that gives you a little bit longer. When you're thinking about it, what was the point of sending a text saying you're two minutes away? Because you're only two minutes away.

I thought, to be fair, I didn't send that text till i was stopped at a light so i thought maybe i'd be closer to five minutes away but maybe i wasn't but but as i was going to leave the house a little bit frazzled a little bit running late it's when i noticed there was some some sort of animal pee on the on the floor and that's a situation where i have ignored i've ignored that situation in the past and this this occasion i was like like, I can't do that. How could you not ignore it? What stopped you from ignoring it? Because your family's not awake between now and seven, I imagine. Yeah.

That could have happened while you were here. Well, yeah. Only because the main reason was my sister's staying. She's back from Melbourne for a couple of days. And it was right outside her door. So maybe it was her. I mean, it could have. Who knows?

We haven't seen those Aussie people for a long time. They may have changed their ways. Yeah. Because the animals are normally pretty good now. You go through that stage early on, you'll discover this. There's going to be an animal home soon. Well, you know, you're in the trenches again, you know, like a newborn. I'm getting a puppy in a week or so, yeah.

I'm not looking forward to it. I've got my routine. You know, that's what what i've been bullied into getting a puppy from the family and i'm like my life's fine it's full you know from start to finish the day i've got stuff to do yeah adding something more i can't fathom it at the moment well yeah i had a good one yesterday because we were filming a couple of things which we'll talk about later for the hits and then you know you get home i had parent teacher interviews like 7 o'clock you get home you could make dinner

and it's like who's walked the dog of course no one's walked the dog so you're out there 9 o'clock at night walking the dog don't tell me we're walking dogs

at 9 o'clock at night really well then that should have got you out of pee mopping up duty this morning I should have just ignored it as I say when I get home today

I'll rub my sister's face in it and she will learn she will learn she She shall learn. Spy. No what's up. Spy.co.nz Like a tax auditor. She's all up in their business. The celebrity's business. What's happening Belle Crawford?

Obama has got a new job. Something you probably wouldn't expect from him. A new show on Netflix which you can watch from today. It's kind of like he's tuning into David Attenborough, commentating animals, and it might be a good watch for the family this Easter weekend. Have a listen to this.

A fish that can walk. Surfing hippos that want to catch the waves. Species found nowhere else on Earth. Join me in the celebration of our planet's greatest national parks and wilderness. I just love his voice. Jesus, is there nothing that man can't do and sound cool doing it?

I know. They brought him back to the White House this week. You were showing me some great footage of him coming back in. Joe Biden brings him back in and everyone was just loving Obama. Yeah, because I think the Biden administration are sort of losing favour with the American public,

so they've wheeled out Obama. Look at Obama. Remember Obama? Get him back out here. They've wheeled him out there, and everyone in the room is clapping and cheering Obama. And then there's this footage of a function after the speech that Obama gave. And you can tell everyone in the room's like, why isn't this guy still president?

Why don't we just leave him in there? But there's a function afterwards, and Obama's sort of talking to a group of 12 people, and they're all deeply engaged and listening to his conversation. And then they've just got this shot of poor Joe Biden, who's just wandering around by himself, lonely, like a grandparent at a family reunion.

He's got his hand on Obama's shoulder For a little bit Just trying to get his attention And Obama's in the middle of a story And Obama's loving, he's captivated He's like, yeah, I'll be there in a second, mate And whoever the savage camera operator is Is just focusing in on lonely Joe And he's kind of looking at his assistants

He's putting his hands in the air going I don't know what to do I'm like, we'll take you back to the Ryman surely, mate It won't be long I'm sleepy Oh we'll take you back to the Ryman surely, mate. It won't be long. I'm sleepy. Oh, it's very sad. And also,

this would be any parent's worst nightmare. Kim Kardashian's pretty mortified after her son almost watched her

adult tape on his iPad. Oh no. There'd been this joke online, he'd been sent it and it was talking about her adult tape

and this is at a time where her ex Ray J J, is actually trying to release a second one, and her lawyers are blocking it. But she was so upset, she called Kanye in tears. Because, I mean, that's something like, she didn't want that to come out in the first place, and then you've got kids further down the line, you've got to explain it to them, they'll find out about it, their friends talking about it. How many tapes does Ray J have? He keeps bloody releasing, he's like Peter Jackson with Lord of the Rings.

Awful. The thing is, do you front foot that with your kids? Do you're like, hey, mum did something. You make mistakes. You have to have a conversation. You have to have. Once they're old enough though, because they're quite young. It's hard to avoid though. Growing up for those children,

they're probably going to see it at some stage. Yeah, so he had the link on his iPad and he was so close to watching it mmm what did you do with yours? with your tape with your kids, have you front footed it? your lonely one man tape

that I filmed, I filmed it for him Bill got no traction on the internet no traction, that was the disappointing thing, no traction we put a lot of effort into that tape. Yeah. If you like to watch a man sobbing at the end of Making Love, well then this is the tape for you. Have you spoken to your kids about that?

No, no. Yeah. I hope they'll never get sent the link for that. That's for sure. The Kardashian streaming April 14 only on Star on Disney+. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben on the hits. It's a brand new show.

It's going to be on TVNZ2 next week. It's called Snackmasters. It's hosted by Kimberley Crossman and Tom Sainsbury and features a whole lot of New Zealand's top chefs. Kim and Tom put New Zealand's top chefs to the test to see if they can recreate a classic Kiwi snack. And joining us right now to tell us more about Snackmasters is Kimberley Crossman.

How are you this morning? I'm good. How are you? We're good. We're good. I'm just looking at your Instagram account. Yes. Are you a beekeeper? Yeah. Did you not know that? No.

Yeah. When did you start keeping bees? During the pandemic. Just like just right before pandemic. So I train. I do a once a month lesson. So I'm trained. I can help you.

Where are your bees? They are in our front lawn. Are they? How many bees you got? 50,000. 50,000 bees. Now that seems like a lot of bees. That seems like 49,000 too many to me.

But anyway. Yeah, yeah. You can have them too. Save the planet, guys. But anyway. Yeah, yeah. You can have them too. Save the planet, guys. Come on. They must be, yeah, well, they're bees. I know how important they are to the ecosystem. I got into a huge hole over New Year's with it.

You must get stung on the rig. Not really. So, like, I learned that as long as you keep your breath consistent, they don't mess with you. So, like, I guess in a year I've maybe had two stings. I've got a pretty gnarly one at the moment, but because the sting's still in my finger I've maybe had two stings. I've got a pretty gnarly one at the moment because the sting's still in my finger. I can't get it out.

And so do you provide honey for your family? Yeah, so we do a harvest once a year. I can drop off some honey if you like. That's what Jono's angling for. He's angling for some honey. Yeah! Free honey. Well, you're creating honey and on the show Snackmasters, you've got a whole lot of top chefs creating

iconic snacks, right? The most delicious job I've had to date. Well, do you get to eat all the food? So what sort of things are the chefs creating and do you get to eat the food? Well, it's hosted by myself and Tom Sainsbury. And Tom is a vegan. Good for him. Love that.

What it meant, though, is that I'm the one doing all the eating. So I basically would go in and try their attempts and give them some pointers and tips to try and help them get to an exact replica. So I spend my whole day eating. I think at most one day I ate seven Big Macs. Well, because they're kind of trying to create a Big Mac and things like that and ice cream and iconic Kiwi snacks, right?

Yeah, so their job is they have 48 hours in their own kitchens. Now, because these are snacks that are mass produced, so the factory, Tom goes to the factory and gets to see the machinery and how everything is done in bulk. So these chefs have to try and recreate it without the help of giant machinery that does the job for you. Right, and so can they replicate a Big Mac, for example,

the flavor of a Big Mac? Can they? They try. Whether they get there or not, you'll have to watch the show. It is a lot harder. The bun is what was so hard. So next time you're at McDonald's, take stock in the bun, and you'll realize, is it a brioche?

What is this? I think a lot of times when you go to fast food restaurants, you're like, what have I just put in my body? That's awesome. Actually, Kim, we just found out before you make honey. It was a surprise to Jono. But we wanted to see right now. We're going to bring your co-host of Snack Masters, Tom Sainsbury,

and find out. We've got a couple of statements about you. We want to see if he knows which is true and which is false. All right? I love this. All right. Let's see if he answers. Going true and which is false, all right? I love this. All right, let's see the answers. Going through to Sainsbury.

Has Sainsbury been prearranged or are we catching him off guard here? Hi, Tom Sainsbury. Oh, hello, Tom Sainsbury. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits. Hi, Jono and Ben. How are you? Now, listen, have you been prearranged or have we blindsided you with this phone call?

No, prearranged. Oh, prearranged. He knows we're calling. He doesn't know knows we're calling. He doesn't know what we're calling about, though. No. Firstly, we've got your co-host, Kim Crossman, from Snackmasters on the phone with us.

Hi, Tom. And secondly, we have the Inland Revenue on the other line wanting to do a surprise audit. Yeah, surprise. Called Taxmasters. It's our new show. We ambush celebrities with tax audits. Yeah, Taxmasters. Can't be seen on TVZ2.

No, Tom, we wanted to see how, because you guys obviously look like you're great mates from what I've seen online doing the show together. Yeah. So I've got three statements on Kim Crossman. I want you to tell me, Tom, which one is false out of the three statements. All right.

So Kim Crossman, did she once play golf with Caitlyn Jenner? Does Kim Crossman have a pet spider and walk a cat around it in a pram? Or has she once sat next to someone on a plane who sadly passed away? Which of those is false? Well, I

know that the spider is true because we've discussed that one at length. So Caitlyn Jenner or someone dying on the plane. I'm going to say that Caitlyn Jenner or someone dying on the plane. I'm going to say that Caitlyn Jenner is false. Kim Crossman, over to you. Oh, I thought they're all right. Yeah, they're all correct.

It's a classic stitch-up, guys. Oh! Well, there's a huge hole in the format of your game where none of them are. It was a pointless phone call for you, Tom Sainsbury. But we can plug Snackmasters next week, TVNZ2. It looks awesome. Yeah, awesome.

Thank you so much, guys. No, thank you too. And keep well, keep safe, and keep snacking. Stay safe. I don't know what that was. You're running late, stuck in traffic, and now you have to listen to this. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Yesterday morning we were filming some stuff for the hits. It's coming out soon, a couple of little ads. Dropping soon. That's what you say, don't you? And you wrote the script for one of the things we did yesterday. And one of the things you did was involve driving a car. Now, I can't say too much about it, but a job. And you wrote me in driving a car, and you know how.

Like, I'm a nervous driver at the best of times but you wrote me driving a car in front of yeah a full film crew film crew people standing around lots of people standing around plus you sitting next to me and laura mcgaldrick and brad watson from brad and laura sitting in the back seat as well yeah now i only, I purely just wrote you into this role just so I could watch you handle this stressful driving situation because I know one of your fears is driving in front of people,

in front of a crowd. It's not a spectator's fault for me. Because you hadn't seen, he hadn't seen the script bell and he's like, oh, you got me, you got me driving. Yeah.

I don't drive. He said, I'm not the driver. And it was quite a technical little thing for me, at least. The director's like, you got to drive in there and stop just before the camera. You've got to do this multiple times, forward and back. I haven't driven this car before. And you guys.

It was throwing you. It really was. And I was enjoying every minute. It was the exact reason why I put you in this position. Now, I recorded audio, too. So you're Laura and Brad are in the back. And what I loved about this is they really started piling it on. Oh. Just a rinse of coffee. in the back. And what I loved about this is they really started piling it on. Oh.

Sorry, guys. And chest from the seatbelt whiplash. Too fast? No, too fast. It's a break. It's too fast for these guys. They're mining quite a lot, but. How are you feeling driving, mate?

Oh, my God, don't. You made me drive. You know I don't drive this. And now there's like. Ben, do you drive normally? Yeah, I do drive. I do drive. Well, no, if made me drive, you know I don't drive this and now there's like... Ben do you drive normally? Yeah I do drive, I do drive, well no if there's two of us I wouldn't drive. Now I'm just trying to listen to the director. Oh shut up Laurie.

I've just spilled coffee all over my bare legs. There's a lot going on, what's that beeping? It's very hot. What's the beeping? Oh. Oh lord. That was good, that was exactly what we wanted. I'm going to forward a little bit.

Forward a little bit, Jesus Christ. I haven't got my full licence on this. Now is this your worst nightmare? This is a... I'm going to go for a little bit of a... I'm going to go for a little bit of a... I'm going to go for a little bit of a... I'm going to go for a little bit of a... I'm going to go for a little bit of a... I'm going to. Forward a little bit. Forward a little bit. Cheese. I haven't got my full licence on this.

Now, is this your worst nightmare? This is up there. This is up there. So there you go. Tensions at an all-time high between the breakfast and drive shows on this station at the moment. Yeah. You would have been a nightmare on Fast and Furious. You'd be like,

Vin, we're going to, you know, can we call the movie Slow and Steady or something? Yeah. I wouldn't be going, you're right, you wouldn't cast me Slow and Steady or something? Yeah. I wouldn't be good. You're right, you wouldn't cast me on that. I feel like me and Laura, we're 10 years into a relationship. Things are not great. Yeah. You two are the old couple bickering around the Pack and Save car park

over whereabouts you should put the car. Yeah. Scrolling through your feed. Fresh from strolling through the internet to find anything half decent so you don't have to waste your data, it's Ben. Hey, mate. Now, is there going to be an orange light on the horizon? One o'clock today, the government are going to announce

something. They've decided but they're going to announce it today at one o'clock. It comes as community case numbers continue to drop under 10,000 for the first time in months on the seven-day average. So a move to orange, if it happens today, would mean no limits on indoor gathering,

no seated and separated requirements, and no compulsory mask use when visiting a hospitality venue. Even around here, I'm noticing you've got some non-maskers, you've got maskers. I'm like, I don't know what to do. So I kind of just have it draped off my ear. So it's ready to be pulled on at any stage but then it doesn't make me look like a complete weirdo if i'm talking to a group of

non-masked people it's nice when you all know what you're doing together right and there's always that confusing stage which we found after the very first lockdown a couple of years ago of like you've got some people who are still masking and then some judgment i felt a lot of judgment we were maskers ben yeah you know and you could feel. And people from work would be like, oh, okay. You kind of get that reaction, don't you? Oh, you're still doing that, aren't you? But obviously a lot of judgment on the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. And you were just saying you woke up in the night and heard her, an interview with her.

Yeah, I watched an interview with her at 12.30 this morning. And it was a really good interview. What was it on? I don't know. It was on TVNZ1. Right. I don't know. It was on TVNZ1. Right. I don't know. It was Javon Casanata, who we've spoken to before.

Wonderful reporter. He's great, eh? He's really great. And it was a very candid interview. To be honest, I'd never heard her talk like this to a reporter or in the media. You know, she always feels like when you do talk to her, she's wonderful, but you feel like there's a little bit of a barrier up there. She'd let down all her guard in this interview. That's why I was fascinated. Have a listen. If we heard that we had a COVID case, I would sometimes move through an airport

and think, what are people thinking as they look at me right now? Are they wondering whether or not I'm going to ruin their plans or disrupt their lives? Did you lose sleep over those choices? Almost. I think you got to the point where sleep came to you out of sheer exhaustion. So yeah, she was just sort of talking about the anxiety of like feeling the pressure of everyone going, well, there's jobs on the line. She knows no one wants to be locked down, but she's trying to do the balancing act of keeping people safe and healthy.

And it's really easy for the likes of us munters to sit here on the sidelines and judge the decisions. And you kind of forget that, you know, at times people can be guilty of forgetting she is human. That's true. And she's living with us. You forget about all celebrities that everyone loves to judge. And just quickly, the wild weather that was set to hit New Zealand

is still looking to hit. There was an announcement this morning. Belle, you got this audio for us this morning. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. That's the message to people in the firing line as ex-tropical cyclone Feli brings rain and wind to much of the North Island. MetService has issued severe weather watches and warnings for the entire North Island. Yeah, so Gisborne and the East Coast were just hammered, you know, a couple of months ago.

They reckon they're going to get up to two months' worth of rain in a couple of days over the next little bit. So, yeah. So it seems like it's sort of avoiding Auckland's severity, but it's kind of heading to other regions, unfortunately, like Gisborne and the East Coast. No, it's kind of the opposite of COVID, isn't it? Yeah. Auckland's kind of dodged a bullet on this one. Well, keep safe out there. Keep dry. You've got to drive safely on those roads when they're wet. Hey, I say that too. That's your message you like

to get across. And you're like, oh yeah, no one's going to do it just because you say it. But I'm like, well, I'm always like, why was anyone heading out there? Were they going to drive down the wrong side of the motorway until Ben Boyce came on the radio and said, drive safely? Oh, yes, I must remember.

But, you know, that's a message you'll get out before the long weekend. That's coming tomorrow, so we can look forward to that on the radio. The great thing about listening to this show is that the day can only get better from here. Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono, it's been a dream.

Speaking of dreams, it's been a dream of yours to catch a fish, and we want to make that dream a reality it's just a wee storm that's hitting New Zealand at the moment but it's going to happen it's going to happen we're knocking a few things off our bucket list this year

and your bucket list as well you can always text in 4487 if there's anything you want to achieve we'll try and help you do it but yeah we're meant to be out on the boat today catching the fish and you were going to give me 60 minutes

and it was you know win a thousand dollars for a listener and I'm saying this stuff when I've just realised that Aaron, our wonderful production engineer, has compiled an audio montage of how we've ended up here, Ben. I want to make the news. I also want

to be on Shortland Street and finally I want to catch a fish. Rebecca Randall plays Dawn on Shortland Street? No. We are going to have you go on a fishing charter. I see what you've done here. What? Still a dream, right?

We're going to call a fishing shop. We want to see if you can weave some fishing puns, as many as you can, into the conversation. Do you think tomorrow would be a good opportunity to go? It shouldn't be too bad. Pundistruck! You've been pundistruck! I don't exactly know if puns would be the way I'd go. It shouldn't be too bad. Pundastruck! You've been pundastruck! I don't exactly know

if puns would be the way I'd go. First man of fishing, Clark Gayford. Welcome. So, Jono, you've obviously never been on Tinder then either. Well, I mean,

because every New Zealand bloke seems to be on Tinder with a picture of a fish. What happened to you? I got attacked by a shark. You got attacked by a shark? Yeah. It hit me on my shoulder.

Oh, you poor thing. Jeez. My brother actually catched John Dorey, skews it up onto the boat ramp, flops around and grabs it. And hurting the fish like sheep sort of thing. Yeah. Yeah, man.

Now we're joined by a very young fisherman. Cole Delamore is his name. Any advice? Just be patient. Fairly hard. The other thing, does he need a fishing nickname?

The Rodfather. Hello the Rodfather. And the Happy Hooker. Moby Dickhead. There's another one. Hello Moby Dickhead. There's some wild weather coming to

New Zealand and we thought we'd talk to a weather expert from weatherwatch.co.nz. Philip Duncan, we're meant to go fishing tomorrow. Yeah.

Do we just plough on? My suggestion is give it a pass this week, move it to next week. It'll be more settled next week than it will be. Mad dog, Phil Duncan. What does mad dog, Phil Duncan, want to say to us? Go out there, give it a bash? No, he can't. So Tuesday.

Tuesday is the day, Jono. We're heading out there. Thanks to seahawk.co.nz on a fishing charter. And everyone that texts, you can text right now. Text FISH to 448awk.co.nz on a fishing charter and everyone that texts you can text right now text fish to 4487 when let's say when

Jono catches a fish someone will win a thousand dollars and the same person will win four people getting on board a seahawk fishing charter themselves

at some stage we're realising what happens when you do a promotion with Mother Nature Ben sometimes Mother Nature doesn't want to do your quirky radio promotion so it's coming Tuesday Tuesday, Ben. Sometimes Mother Nature doesn't want to do your quirky radio promotion.

So it's coming Tuesday. Tuesday. Lock it in. And if it doesn't come Tuesday, then I don't know how much longer we can drag this thing out for. Yes, so text FISH to 4487 and it is the hits.

Jono and Ben. Rise and shine. Time to start the... Who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now we're going to cross to Portland, Oregon now. John Lovegrove, who you might have heard on the show before.

He's a New Zealander. He's been living over there for a number of years. We like to call him our US correspondent. Yeah. And he does more work for this program than you and me combined, Ben. John Lovegrove. Hey, how's it going, man? How is Portland at the moment too? It's rainy and chilly, but we don't have a lot of COVID.

It's kind of the reverse. Last time we talked, we were crazy and you had nothing, and now it's kind of the reverse. We ended up being six months behind the rest of everyone. Fortunately, my wife and I have never had it in two years, so we're very lucky. Oh, wow. And it's been rife over there, too.

Yeah, pretty much the whole time. Yeah, it's amazing who gets it and who too. Yeah, pretty much the whole time. Yeah. Gee, it's amazing who gets it and who doesn't. There's no rhyme or reason. Mate, I tell you what. You are not only our U.S. correspondent, but probably one of the hardest-working cast members on this show.

Yeah. The amount of work you do for this program, John, I mean, it puts me to shame. This can never get out to management for our next performance review, Ben. Well, that's true. Well, it's going to shame. This can never get out to management for our next performance review, Ben. Well, that's true. Well, it's going to come to an end because I've been very slow over the last couple of years as a travel agent and things are picking up, so I don't have quite as much time to do your job for you. Yeah, well, this is the thing because, John, we love the fact that you've listened to our show for quite a while now and you've got to the stage where you've sent us an Excel spreadsheet of potential phone topics that we could do on our show,

and they're all great. Yeah, mate, I live a pretty interesting life, and I do a lot of things, and pretty much every phone that you do, I have a story for it, so I just figured I'd jot a few down. So this is great. So John's going to,

we're going to work our way systematically through John's Excel spreadsheet of phone topics for our radio show. Now, when we say phone topics, what do we mean by that, Jono? So it's a topic where you would phone up. Where you would get people to phone up about it, yeah. You know, like, what's your favourite colour?

We did that once. Jeez, that took off. Yeah, yeah. A lot of fans of reds and purples out there. These are topics that we're going to chuck in. And Jon, like we said, he's got this spreadsheet with probably about 20 different topics on there. So we're going to start at number one, John.

And the first topic was the most epic birthday party. Yeah, this was one I planned for a while. I actually attempted it when I turned 40, where I wanted to have multiple birthdays in multiple countries. So I had a flight booked from Auckland to Fiji to LA to Portland, and I was going to have a party with friends in each city. Wow. And then Fiji Airways cancelled the Auckland Fiji flight totally threw a spanner in the works. Well you haven't even taken off from

the start line. I haven't even taken off from the start line but there was a silver lining because they re-accommodated me on Air New Zealand on a non-stop the next day and I ended up sitting behind Jermaine Clement on the flight. Oh, Father of the Concords. Yeah, yeah.

Where are you like, Jermaine Clement, Jermaine Clement, Jermaine Clement. It's my birthday. Did you talk to him? A little bit, a little bit. In the departure lounge and then a little bit waiting to go through customs. We had some green card issues in common. So, yeah, it was cool. Okay, nice.

Okay, so this is on your birthday. You're sitting behind Jermaine Clement. You're flying to America. So that really did work. So five years later, right before COVID, I turned 45. And I decided I was born in Oamaru on the 45th parallel south and I live in Portland on the 45th parallel north. So I decided to start my day in Oamaru and end my day in Portland. Really?

Yeah, and that actually did go off without a hitch. I had breakfast with my parents and then I took a flight from Dunedin to Auckland to LA to Portland and ended up having a birthday party in Portland. And this was all in the space of 24 hours? It was in the space of 30 hours because you take off and you go back a day in time. Of course. Yeah, that's awesome. All on your birthday.

All on my birthday. I think you could be onto something here. This could be a new thing for New Year's. You could have double New Year's celebrations. You could have double Christmases, things like that. It's a great story to tell, too. But, I mean, really the only present you get is jet lag, I imagine, John. Yeah, it was a bit of a recovery, but it was a great adventure.

Yeah, okay. So this is the first topic on John's topic list. What is the most epic birthday, John? Yep, sounds good. Have What is the most epic birthday, John? Yep, sounds good. Have you had the most epic birthday? Can you compete with John, our US correspondent? We're talking the most epic birthdays. John, who joined

us from America, had a birthday in New Zealand and in America. Yeah, all in the 30-hour period, and it was his goal to do so. John, someone's actually texted and saying saying you called John your US correspondent does he actually work for you

well do we pay him no no does he on the radio show yeah he's corresponding from the US

I think I think he claims it as his annual charity charity work but we're working through John's list of topics

he sent through on his document and it was the most epic birthday Ben you're not a birthday guy not a huge birthday. Not a huge birthday. I like celebrating other people's birthdays

if that's their thing. But if not, I'm just happy just to keep rolling with it. I'm kind of with you. I don't, for someone who's very self-centred, I don't like a party being about me, you know? I'm saying I don't mind going to another one. Celebrate other people? Make it about someone else.

Last year I had my 40th. It was during a lockdown. I was like, gee, this is the greatest birthday present ever. Dream scenario. Let's go to Pippa from Auckland. Big birthdays, Pipps. What'd you do?

Hi. Basically, so I went off to the States with my family and my father got me Justin Bieber tickets tickets which he knows i'm a huge big fan of so we we just played them yeah omg yeah well the going to the states was planned for a while so um justin bieber tickets was the surprise um but you won't believe it okay I went to the concert and I got myself up in the front row and you know

that song One Less Lonely Girl and he gets people up on stage don't tell me you were the one less lonely girl I know okay you were I was I was I know I got pulled up on stage.

Oh, that's awesome. He serenaded me. And it was one of the most magical, amazing moments of my life. I couldn't believe it. I was just starstruck. I was really embarrassed because there were so many people, thousands of people in the crowd that saw it. And I just didn't know what to do with myself. I was in absolute shock.

Oh, there we go. Did he touch you, hold you, look at you? He did look at me. All of the above. All of the above. Well, there you go. Pippa, thank you so much. She was brought on stage and sung to, serenaded by Bieber. What a birthday. What I wouldn't give for that. I know, me too. Yeah, it would just be weird if I was up there, though. Let's go to line number two right now.

Rish, how are you? Yeah, good, mate. How are you, Ben? We're doing well. We're talking about the biggest birthdays. The foundations have been laid down by our U.S. correspondent, John Lovegrove, who went to two different countries in the space of his birthday. What did you do, Rish?

Wow, my birthday. Very interesting. Yeah, so my little baby girl was born on the same day and the same time as well. As you? Yes. Born same time, same date. What are the chances?

I'll just tell you. Do you know the chances? Chances are 1 in 526,000. Yeah, that's what I read as well, and I was like, that's amazing. So that's the chances. That's what are the chances. That's the chances. 1 in 526,000.

That's pretty incredible. And to top it off, top it up as well, she was delivered at home as well. Did you help birth your own child? Yeah, unexpected. Oh, yeah. Not planned. You don't sound like you were planned. You don't sound like you were prepared for it.

Well, how was that? That would have been quite a full-on experience. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was. He's like, something changed inside of me that day. Yeah, sort of had a helping hand from my mum as well because she was there with us. Oh, your mum was in there too?

Yeah, yeah. So she held the baby. She was the first one to hold the baby while I was there helping out as well while being on the call with Triple One as well. I imagine less than ideal birthing conditions for your partner. Having your mother-in-law down there, you're down there. There's a lot going on. A lot going on, yeah, yeah.

It all happened pretty quick as well, so, you know, like, it just came out. Yeah, it just popped out. It just happened. And you're like, oh, that's my birthday and the time I was born, guys. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, luckily I had attended because this is my second child, so the first child we had been to antenatal classes, and we got told at the time,

if it does start to happen at home, the worst thing you can do is panic. So initially I did, and then I was like, oh, no. Don't panic. They said don't panic, Rich. Awesome. And how cool is it next year you guys get to, and every year, get to celebrate your birthdays together? That's awesome. yeah. Awesome. And how cool is it next year you guys get to, and every year, get to celebrate your birthdays together? That's awesome.

Exactly, exactly. And then later on I told my missus, this is probably the last birthday present that I'm going to get. Yeah, it won't be about you anymore, that's for sure. Nothing about me. Well, Rush, that's a beautiful birthday story, great birthday story, and thank you very much for your time. No, no, thanks for having me.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Scrolling through your feed. He's light in body weight, but he's heavy in news. Ben, you tell us what's been happening this morning, mate. So obviously there's some important big stuff going on in the country. This afternoon there's going to be an announcement from the government to potentially orange. The orange traffic light might be on the horizon.

Is that why you wore your orange jersey today? Yeah, maybe. In support and show of faith of orange. And some wild weather hitting New Zealand, particularly concerning for the Gisborne region of New Zealand. So it looks like a lot of rain, and they had a lot of rain a little while ago. So, you know, obviously thinking of everyone that's going to be dealing with that today. But I thought right now let's look at some other stuff.

Let's try and be a bit more positive. Yeah, right. So you've lightly dusted over the big topics, and now you move on to stuff that doesn't really affect anyone. Exactly. Like Ed Sheeran. We love Ed Sheeran. He obviously had a big court case last week, which he won.

And then he just popped up in a random pub, a Birmingham pub in Britain, played some pool, knocked back some lager, and then just had a big sing-song with everyone in the pub. He's walking around the pool table, like, singing along. And even for Ed Sheeran, it sounds wildly out of tune. Have a listen. Hey, yeah. What?

No, baby, yeah. No. We've been together six months now. Yeah, that's the, okay, it's time to go home now, guys. Yeah, but that's featuring Ed Sheeran, who's one of the best singers in the world. But drowned out by 100 drunk revelers as well. So he just turned up, no security,

just lonely by himself. I had a mate in there, I think, who's a local rapper. They think maybe recording some stuff together, but just kind of in there, you see him sitting down there, you know, just, yeah, just kind of hanging out. Just pretty cool, isn't he? Like, it's pretty cool just to pop up and do that

and then sing around a pool table with a whole lot of being Ed Sheeran though you're like okay I'm going to do this but you know you're in for a night of punishing

don't you he's not going there for a quiet let's have a bowl of chips yeah true he's putting on his game face and this is pretty cool as of today

Netflix is introducing the double thumbs up function so if you really like a show you can give it the double thumbs up and that will help your algorithm uh the netflix basically cater more shows to your taste now bell you were talking about this the other day huh you don't like i've got another mate who's like this as well won't let anyone else watch something on their netflix profile because it messes up the algorithm yeah you can start your own profile and i actually went one step further it's probably like quite passing but i um put a passcode on my netflix so you can't go you don't like people messing with your algorithms i have random shows showing up like continue watching this you might

i'm like no i don't you might like this no i absolutely will not like this and i just don't want it to mess up my pattern you know i'm looking at my account now and i don't will not like this. I just don't want it to mess up my passion, you know? I'm looking at my account now, and I don't know what... This paints a really bad picture of what I like to watch. American murderer. I am a killer. Evil genius. Extremely wicked. Shockingly evil and vile.

Another show. This is the stuff I'm being fed. I'm worried. True crime. It's good, though. I do love it, though. I do love a bit of true crime. Inside monster' heads.

Well, what do you get fed all the time on your Netflix? I wouldn't say it's probably a lot of stuff with Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Anything with him. Tooth Fairy? Jumanji's on there. Bridgerton? Bridgerton. I watched that with my mum.

Didn't that get a bit spicy for you? It was a little awkward with a cup of tea. That was on her algorithm, so I'll leave that one for her. Jenny's algorithm was all over the place while watching Bridget and with you. That's for sure. The sure weather masks make them look a whole lot better. Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben, you made me do something.

Why do you keep saying I made you do this? Ben made me change my appearance. He wanted me to clean shave my head for a prank that he was wanting to conduct. Now, this is something we were all in on and you went yourself. You were like, oh, I should probably be clean shaven for this prank. Now, if this happens, it didn't happen. It hasn't happened. And then, yeah, then I get a cool Sunday night after I have clean-shaven my head.

Really quite clean-shaven. Very clean-shaven. They're like, oh, the person that you're going to deal with is unavailable anymore. So now I'm left with this big giant light bulb of a head that you've made me do for this prank. Now I'm starting to wonder, who's the prank on? Was the prank on me? Was this prank even Now I'm starting to wonder, who's the prank on? Was the prank on me? Was this prank even ever going to happen?

I don't know, because then tomorrow, you're taking me to paint my head like an Easter egg. All these things that I... He's like, we're going to a special feature tomorrow. Good for social media. We'll paint your head like an Easter egg. I don't think you're not on me. I feel like that wasn't my idea at all.

Are we doing that tomorrow? Yes, we are, but not my idea. He's like, it'll be good for the Easter egg. I don't think you're not on me. I feel like that wasn't my idea at all. Are we doing that tomorrow? Yes, we are, but not my idea. He's like, it'll be good for the Easter weekend. Get some likes and that on Instagram. All for the gram. Well, you're here as well. I hadn't said this. You're part of this.

No, I think it was like a team discussion, wasn't it? Yeah, I'm trying to put a lot on there. Stitching it up your own, yeah. Painting him out to be a workplace buddy. Your hair looks good. I mean, it's shiny, but it looks. It's a lot. It's a lot of heat.

You've got a hat on, which is good because the light's shining off. And I'm like, I either wear sunglasses or something. You're getting some of that powder that you need on TV. Oh, mate. It's too much heat for someone to take in, isn't it? Like, when I take my hat off, you're like, well, that's a lot to download. That's a lot of heat. You did our first ever TV show, John O'Byrne.

I like to talk about this, how you turned up. You went away to get a haircut beforehand, which is great, you know. And then you turned up. And I was like, oh, he's gone. Gone very short. Yeah, very you turned up. You went away to get a haircut beforehand, which is great, you know, and then you turned up and I was like, oh, he's gone. Gone very short. Very, yeah, very clean shaven. But now this is starting to affect my home life where my daughter Poppy,

she's a fashionable wee thing and she's like, do not pick me up from school without a hat on. If you don't have a hat on, you park three blocks away, I will meet you. She's embarrassed of me, Ben. You made my daughter embarrassed of me.

I had the same thing with a pair of pants. Very professional. They've got Will Smith on them. They're like fresh Prince pants. And I wore them for the first time to pick up my daughter, Indy, and she came running up to me. You wouldn't wear your Will Smith pants nowadays, would you? No, yeah. Maybe Indy knew something, because I thought she was going to give came running up to me. I was like, this is... You wouldn't wear your Will Smith pants nowadays, would you? No, yeah.

Maybe Indy knew something because I thought she was going to give me a big cuddle. I was like, this is so cute. All the other mums and dads. And Indy just whispered and goes, what are you wearing? And I was like, what? And she was like, are they underpants?

And I was like, no, they're shorts. And she's like, they don't look like shorts. And then we kind of had a moment. I was like trying to make it look like it was a nice father-daughter moment. Emotional moment. She's like, take those pants off now. And then you did, and you got forcibly removed from the school grounds.

Yeah, so I know I feel your pain there. Yeah, well, hey, when you look in the mirror every morning, you don't look like the love child of Joe Rogan and the professor in the wheelchair from the X-Men, do you? I have to live with this pain. But I didn't make you do it, though. My head has disappeared before Easter like Jesus Will it come back on Monday? Probably not

Just watching a clip of Katy Perry She's one of the judges on American Idol She was performing her song with some of the contestants And she sort of dropped Dropped low to perform And her pants split Back of her pants had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction And then she's like bring out some gaffer tape and they put

some yellow gaffer tape. Oh, did they gaffer down the... Yeah, it looked like she was wearing almost like a g-string over the top of... Did they have the same coloured gaffer tape as the pants? No, it's like sort of yellow gaffer tape over the top of sort of red leather pants. So, yeah. Oh, so she said bring out the gaffer tape mid-performance. Yeah, well she'll have to just

tape it back up and away we'll go. So, good on her. What a battler. Yeah, gaffer tape can really save back up and away we'll go. So good on her. What a bad life. Yeah, gaffer tape can really save you from really sticky situations, can't it? It means everything but a broken heart. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. Now we've got your chance to win $5,000 and hopefully not leave you heartbroken when we play our word association game.

Yeah, now we're going to go to Tony and Blake, who want to become 5,000 Aeneas. Welcome. How are you guys? Good. Now, you're in Gisborne. What's the weather like? Isn't it piling in at the moment?

Yeah, really, really wet. Really wet. It's dog water. It's what, sorry? Dog water. It's dog. And they crash. Oh, it's raining.

I feel like raining dog water. Oh, you Oh it's raining I feel like Raining dog water Oh you mean It's raining cats and dogs No No it's raining dog water You idiots Yeah that's what it's gonna be It's dog water

Oh we'll take your word for it The The weather Is dog water It means that it's Trash Oh it means it's trash Oh mate you young kids

You keep us young Don't you Little you crazy us young, don't you? Little, you crazy terminology. I still don't understand, but I love it. Yeah, that's good. It makes us feel like we're in touch, Ben. Now, Tony and Blake, obviously a father-son combo happening here. Who do you want to sound and send into the soundproof booth to win you $5,000?

Jono. All right. Jono's going to make his way to the soundproof booth. He is in there right now. Here is your first word. What pops into your head, guys, when I say skipping? Skipping. Rope.

Skipping rope. No. All right. Locking in rope. Nice work. Dice. D-I-C-E. Dice.

Roll. Roll. Oh, this is... Okay. You got... Yeah, I'm'm sure okay oh you guys get very confident i love the confidence is good okay this is an interesting one bitcoin bitcoin bitcoin yeah bitcoin oh you guys can come back to us yeah Yeah, crypto. I don't even know what that is. I don't know what dog water is either,

so there's one from one each of us. But crypto's a good option, I feel, from your dad there. Guard, G-U-A-R-D, guard. What do you reckon for guard? Different sort of guards you have? Guard, what kind? What kind of guard? I'm just getting tough now.

Sorry, guys. What do you reckon? Security guards? Yeah. Huh? Well, no, prison. Prison. Okay, prison or security?

What do we got to lock in? Prison. Prison. Okay, I love it. I love it. And regional. That's an interesting one for the last one.

Regional. Regional. Thanks for this one, Behemz. That's a tricky one, isn love it, I love it. And regional. That's an interesting one for the last one. Regional. Regional. Thanks for this one, Behubs. That's a tricky one, isn't it? It is. Regional. Regional. Right.

I don't know. You don't know? East Coast. East Coast? Oh, yeah, because you guys are from the East Coast. Yeah, East Coast. East Coast is a regional? It's a region in New Zealand?

Yeah, that was a tricky one. That was a really hard one. Blame Producer B Humps for this one. Jono Pryor is out of the soundproof booth back running around. Blake, you going to school, are you, buddy? Yeah. Yeah? Give a shout-out to your class.

That's what all you kids love doing, isn't it? Hello. Oh, no? Okay, you don't have to shout-out to your class. That's what all your kids love doing, isn't it? I don't know. Oh, no? Okay, you don't have to shout-out to your class. I'll just tell them if I win, I'll say, I won 5,000 dollars. Oh, yeah. And then it would be your shout-out. You'd be shouting pies and sausage rolls for morning tea.

All right, Blake, let's win your 5K, shall we, buddy? All right, let's rip into it. Here we go, Jono. The first word we said this morning to Tony and Blake was skipping. Skipping rope, I would say. Well done. One from five. We started well.

We'll keep going with dice. Dice. Blake, you're a fan of vacuum cleaners. Oh, jeez. No, let's just say no. Okay. Dice. You've got to go, I don't know what you're a fan of vacuum cleaners oh jeez no let's just say no okay dice you gotta go

I don't know what you're doing there we've got dice that's what I said roll oh yeah nice yeah I don't know yeah oh there we go great

that's good bitcoin was word number three bitcoin bitcoin I'd go cryptocurrency why are you looking at me like that? What would be the word that you'd like to lock in? He's leading me to believe, Tony. It's one.

Okay, I'm going to go crypto. The correct one. Oh, here we go. I'll give you that one, all right? Only because I like you, Jono. Blake, you want to shout out now to your classroom buddy? $5,000? I might.

I might. You might? Just hold fire. People that I like. Don't count your raining dogs. I'll just jack my clock. And my clock. There's a lot going on.

I love it. I love it. All right. Next word is guard. Guard. Security guard. Oh, they had the debate over security or prison, and then they locked in prison, you guys. Tony and Blake, I'm so sorry.

Oh, well, never mind. You guys did really well. This was a really tough one, the last one, regional. Flight? That's a good answer. We were struggling a bit on that one. Went east coast. There you go, guys. Hey, really good effort. Really appreciate you's a good answer. We were struggling a bit on that one. Went East Coast. There you go, guys.

Hey, really good effort. Really appreciate you guys listening this morning. Enjoy school and hopefully you're safe in that wild, wild weather that's hitting. Cool, thanks, mate. Hey, we'll send you out some hell pizza, eh? Now delivering beer and wine, which is great for you, Blake, okay? Yeah. Thank you, guys.

See you, mate. Have a good day. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits. Act Party leader David Seymour, he's been accused of buying Instagram followers because his Instagram has jumped up around about 50,000 followers.

But according to David Seymour, it's to do with bots. Saucy bots. Saucy sort of bots. Yeah, and Act Party leader David Seymour with us now. Hey, guys. Hey, mate. How are you? I'm pretty tired.

What's going on? Why are you tired? 70,000 sex bots. 70,000 sex bots. They can't all be bots, are they? There must be some genuine Act fans in there. Well, it's very annoying. I was the third most popular politician on Instagram.

Yeah. And now all these 50,000, I had about 25,000, now these 50,000 sex bots have come and kind of ruined everything. So the sex bots are running your egg in David Seymour? I tell you what, it's robotic and relentless. So how did they get onto you? You don't know? There's just some sort of glitch in the system?

It's very unclear. We thought they might send a ransom note or an ultimatum, like, you know, you must vote for Jacinda's bill or something. You must vote for another lockdown, then we'll leave you alone but they seem to just be hanging out following my stories and so the the have you had to get rid of the sex bots or do you like the the numbers they bolstered the numbers on the social media well i'd have to click delete 50 000 times and and sometimes you don't know um if it a sex bot, because I do have some highly attractive followers in real life. So it's a very difficult task.

I've asked old Zucko for some help, but they don't seem to know what's behind it either. It's good numbers, though. Hey, there's 73,000. They're good numbers. There you are. That's great numbers. Oh, you know, like I reckon, I mean, I'm actually one of the most popular Instagram profiles

in New Zealand that hasn't worn a bikini. Now, because I noticed on your post, everyone was accusing you of buying followers, David Seymour. I wouldn't do that. I mean, just what purpose does it serve? Like, I mean, unless they can vote for me, if I could get them to go to the polling booth and vote, that'd be different. Absolutely, I'd be buying followers. Yeah, I want a relationship with real people

and, more importantly, real voters. Oh, well, David Seymour, thank you for your time. We appreciate it, and good luck getting to the bottom of your sixpots. You guys have a great day. See you, David. Tested safe for listing from home. Jono and Ben on the hits.

I want to open up the phone lines to calls of lost and found, amazing tales of when you've lost something and then discovered it again later. Yeah, now a lot of pressure being put on this story from producer Humphrey, who's, I haven't heard it yet. Ben, you've heard it. You said it's amazing. Yeah, well, it's an incredible story, you know.

A wee gem, much like the ring. Ben Humphrey's looking at me like, don't put that pressure on me. He doesn't like the pressure. He's a behind-the-scenes guy. The last thing he wants right now with a microphone in front of him is pressure. Now, this is true destiny, though.

So we were on a family holiday over in the Sunshine Coast, and back when you could do that. And we went for a family swim, and so we pulled up in the rental car to the beach, and we got changed in the car, and then we ran down and into the ocean. And there was some quite big waves, and my mum got absolutely demoed.

She got poleaxed. By a barrel. Like that streaker in the NRL, basically. I imagine. demoed by a barrel like that streaker in the NRL I imagine and anyway

we had a good time well I had a great time mum not so much she almost drowned but we

went back and we were going out for dinner later that night and she went to

go put on her rings and she was counting her rings and she said I've lost

a ring I've lost my grandma's ring and we looked everywhere through the apartment and then through the rental car and then we drove back to the beach where we were could not find it and i was like oh it must have fallen off when you went into that wave and she said no i wouldn't have i wouldn't have wanted into the ocean but could not find it so anyway we gave up and we went out for dinner. And later that night when we were pulling back into the accommodation, in the headlights of the car, it was shining.

There was something shining on the driveway. And we pulled up and it was the ring. Oh, it would have been disappointing if it wasn't the ring. You'd build up to that story. It was like destiny that she was to find that ring. That's crazy. How small a ring is for it to be reflective, and how many other people would have walked past it, driven past it?

Your mother-in-law lost her ring. She threw it out in a fit of rage. Yeah, well, she got rid of it and then found it again like 20 years later or something, yeah. In the garden. Yeah, I mean, to be fair, that's where she did throw it. But, yeah. So it wasn't a huge surprise.

But one of those things is he'd almost forgotten about it. Well, Jennifer Lopez, she said she lost her engagement ring that Ben Affleck just gave her. That's right, didn't she, Bella? Yeah, worth up to 10 mil, this beautiful diamond ring and they were about to announce

that they were engaged and she couldn't find her ring. Yeah, well, he was in Good Will Hunting so he probably would have been good at finding stuff, wouldn't he, Ben Affleck? Yeah, I don't know if that was quite... Was that what Good Will Hunting was about? I never watched it. Not the realest synops Ben Affleck. Yeah. I don't know if that was quite... Was that what Good Will Hunting was about? Not the real synopsis of the movie.

Wasn't a hunting and fishing show or anything like that? Oh, it wasn't? No. No, it was like a lost and found thing. Okay. All right. 0800 The Hits. This is what we do want to open up, though.

Lost and found. Ben Affleck clearly couldn't call up for this because Good Will Hunting had nothing to do with it. No. And they found the ring, didn't they? And it wasn't an amazing tale of lost and found. But have you got one? 0800, that's 4487 on the text.

What have you lost? What have you found? I lost my hair. It's yet to find it, Ben. You made me shave my head. It might come back. Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben talking calls of lost and found.

That's right. Kim, what happened to you? Well, we were about to go on holiday the next day on a big summer holiday, and I'd spent the day packing up the house, getting ready to go, and went to go to bed at 10 o'clock at night and couldn't find my mobile phone anywhere. Oh, now when you're in a packing frenzy too, you're not paying full attention to what's going on, are you?

No, no. And so I thought back. Then I realised I hadn't seen the phone for quite some time that day. So my husband had already gone to bed, but I got him up out of bed to help me look for it. He had been pumped. Hey, I've lost my phone.

He'd be like, what do you want me to do about it? Yeah, exactly. And I have history of losing my phone as well. So he was unimpressed. Can we deal with this tomorrow? Yeah. So he got up and he helped me look for my phone, and we couldn't find it anywhere.

And we have a car kit in the car that attaches to the phone. Yeah. And we have been known to use that to find the phone before, so we jump in the car and we drive around really slowly until it clicks in and says that it's in range. Ah, that's quite a good idea. That's a really good idea. Yeah, so anyway. Where are you driving around, your lounge?

Yeah. So he says, did you drive up this road around the corner today? And I said, no, I haven't been up that road at all. And he said, well, the car kit clicked out today when I was taking the motorbike across to the cousin's house halfway up that road. Are you sure you haven't been up the road? So he, in his grumpy state, decided that he would go out

and look for it in the rain up the road where he thought that it may have been. This is at 10 o'clock at night. Yeah, this is at 10 o'clock at night. Yeah, this is at 10 o'clock at night. Oh, husband of the year. And he was so grumpy at me that he didn't even get dressed. He just went out in his undies. Anyway, he comes walking back in the door 10 minutes later,

slams my phone down. There it is. He would have felt like a legend. Yeah, until I said, oh, where's the case? I got a dirty look when I asked for the case. So what had actually happened is he had been driving my car to take the motorbike over to the cousin's house, and the bike had got a bit fuming with gas fumes,

and it had been sitting on the dashboard, and when he wound down the window, it flew out the window. So it was actually his fault. Yeah, exactly. So he deserved to be out there down the window, it flew out the window. So it was actually his fault? Yeah, exactly. So he deserved to be out there in the rain, traipsing around at 10 o'clock at night. Oh, very impressive. Well, that's a great lost and found story.

Kim, really appreciate your time. No worries. Annie, welcome to New Zealand's breakfast, lost and found. Yeah. What did you lose? What did you lose, Annie? Well, it wasn't me that lost something. It was my dear Uncle Pat, who's no longer with us.

He's an old school gentleman, and he didn't like EFTPOS cards, and he'd always go to the bank and get his cash out, and he'd always get a little bit extra than what he actually needed. Gone home, put all his groceries away, and it wasn't until a wee bit later, I get a phone call from him, and he goes, oh, can you come and help me? And I said, what's wrong? And he goes, I've lost $1,000. I said, what do you mean you've lost $1,000?

How do you lose $1,000? And he goes, I don't know where I put it. And you're like, well, this wouldn't have happened with internet banking, Pat. Exactly right. Anyway, so I went up and I searched everywhere for it and we looked everywhere in his bag, his car. That was fine. It wasn't until about probably two weeks later,

he rings me and he goes, I found the money. And I said, and where did you find it? It was in the freezer. In the freezer? He put the meat in, he'd taken the bag out, and obviously he'd put the money. It's frozen assets.

Frozen assets. Yeah. We always talk, Jono, you saw on the radio, we always talk about cold, hard cash, don't we? When the cash is never cold. Well, this time it was. I've got my lovely 17-year-old tomorrow, who will be turning 17, twin daughters,

that absolutely are obsessed with you guys. And I just told them that you guys are going to ring me. And I went, Mum, can we say hi? Oh, yes, of course you can. Hey, guys. Hey. Happy birthday. Is it your birthday tomorrow, is it?

Yeah. Oh, happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to the twins. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to the twins. Happy birthday to you. Hooray! Hooray!

They love watching you guys. I think they're a little bit jealous when I say, hey, Jono and Ben are ringing me and they go, what, mum? Lovely talking with you, Annie, and you guys have a great birthday. And you too. Keep rocking on, guys. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co. Thank you. Keep rocking on, guys. What's going on, Belle?

Well, we know how Brittany's having a baby. All very exciting, although some people were quite confused because she was saying that she had a food baby and everyone's like, so is she actually having a baby? I think what turned out, she thought it was a food baby at first and then it turned out to be a real baby.

Not enough respect is given to the food baby, though. We pay a lot of attention on baby babies, not the food baby, though. We pay a lot of attention on baby babies, not food babies, though. They take a lot of effort to work through the system as well. And here's what her fiancé Sam's had to say about it. Yeah, I mean, this should have happened three years ago, to be honest with you. When you're in a relationship with someone that you're truly in love with, you want to recreate, and so this is something that I want to do. He couldn't do it three years ago. They weren't allowed.

No babies. Conservatorship. Was her dad like sort of standing by going, no Sam, no, don't you try and take it to fourth base, pal? Well no, because you were saying yesterday, Bill, that we all knew about her, like she had the thing in her arm and stuff like that, right? Yeah, she had an IUD. That's what I was thinking.

It's the thing in your arm, I think. No, it's not in your, it's in your, it gets put, it's very painful. Oh arm I think no it's not it's in your it gets put it's very painful oh really very painful to get put in hey next time maybe just do a little

bit more research before you start that's okay we're all learning things here totally fine I was going to say IBF and that was

totally wrong yeah and the Kardashians they're starting on Disney Plus this week and everyone was asked about

what they like about Skeet. Pete just brings out a simplicity in her and just a calmness that I really love and appreciate, and he's super sweet and easy and just he's so thoughtful, and, I mean, he makes all of us laugh, and who doesn't want to laugh all day long? Here we go, Pete Davidson getting some good monthly reviews

from the Kardashian family too. Yeah, they obviously love them, don't they? Yeah, that's great. So more coverage of Britney's baby. We'll give you blow-by-blow accounts of that from the womb into your living room. And I'm going to feel a vested interest in this child when it's born. I feel like I'm going to have to turn up to its first day at school and stuff. Why would they want you there?

Well, because we're going to be talking about it so much. I feel like the world's going to be talking about it. Why would they want you there? Well, because we're going to be talking about it so much. You know? I feel like the world's going to be talking about it. Why would they want you there? Who's this weird bald man? Oh, it's Jono from New Zealand. He's been talking about a lot of the radio, so I said he could come along. Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene,

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