Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: The things Jono and Ben do to embarrass their kids

Episode Date: May 31, 2022

We chat about what's in our spam folders, the things Jono and Ben that embarrass their kids. We catch up with Sir John Kirwan on how we can help kids manage their emotions and Dr. Libby Weaver on helping us with our stress. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, welcome to the podcast today. Gee, it was 1st of June, officially the six-month period. Crazy. Wow, there we go, June. We were talking about that yesterday. Ben was saying he hasn't achieved all the stuff that he's wanted to achieve this year, Bill. And six months, it's like, oh, geez, it's going on us.

Yeah, exactly. I was expecting a gee whiz like we got today on the show from Jono. Gee whiz. Ben gave us a very detailed weather report and all I had was gee whiz. I'm sorry. That's right. I've got one job. It's to banter back.

No, it's fine. Throw the ball back to you. Probably all it deserves was a gee whiz. It was just weather. Weather was, you know, it was the weather. It was really weather chat. But it was important weather chat. But you're right.

It didn't require much more than a gee whiz. Yeah, sort of monsoon-style stuff on the way. We have a text machine here in the studio, 4487. Now, The Hits has a couple of other shows that also do breakfast shows across New Zealand while we're on air. And I tell you what, one of the shows was doing a chat about magnesium

and it was blowing up the text machine on 4487. Yeah, like we have... Do you take magnesium? No, no, I don't. What is magnesium used for? Well, it's good for lots of things like muscle relaxing it's good for your nervous system

it helps you relax. A lot of people do take it right? We've never had anything that popular on our show before. No we haven't. They were popping man and then they did something about what you're scared of and sheesh the ticks were coming through thick and thin. I'm currently taking Red Seal Magnesium it's the best magnesium on the market.

Tomorrow, Ben, magnesium. That's what we're going to get into. It's popular. It's a good chat, that one. I don't take many pills. Do you? Are you a pill person? No.

Have you got your daily vitamins you take? No. I used to for about there, but I don't actually. No, I don't really take anything. What are you running off? Well, nothing. Just caffeine. Yeah.

That's what I'm running off. Vitamin A, vitamin anxiety. Yeah. Do you take pills and bottles? Yeah, I take a few vitamins, yeah. Take a few, you know. Feels like the older you get, the more vitamins you're taking. Like, I'll look at, you know, people in my family who are, you know, getting a bit older.

They've got, you know, 20, 30 vitamin pills they're taking a day. That'll be you one day. When it comes into those little containers where you have to individually open your Monday, Tuesday. That's when you know you're in the pill game. That's when you know there's a lot going on. Someone else has pre-packaged it for you. That's how many pills you're taking. It happens.

It all happens. I'll be a pill guy. Can you imagine how many pills I'll be taking when I'm sick? Oh, totally. And I don't agree with that. No, you definitely will. You always put a panadol. You say that you'll be a pill guy, and then he says, yeah, you want me to be like, no,

don't say that. No, he's always like, I've got to hear that. What do you eat something during the day? Yeah. I do take a lot of panadol. My wife's like, jeez, you chomp through neurofenol panadol. Because your body wants food. And you're not meant to have them on an empty tummy.

You can get an ulcer that way. Yeah. You've probably got a giant ulcer in your stomach. Oh, mate, no one would want to look at the inside of this body. Wild stuff going on. But now another text that I was looking through here on our shared text machine, and Ben, I know this is a topic that you'll know a lot about. The Thai soccer team.

Someone said, I've just watched the documentary of the Thai soccer team. I've watched that one, yeah. Rescued in the cave. And I know you're a big campaigner for this story. It was really good. It was such a sad story, but then also good. Oh, it was good. Well, yeah, they got them out. It was incredible. It was incredible. How many days were they down there for?

They were like, I can't remember. It was like such a long time. These poor kids were down there for so long. And then the rescuers found another tour party that was stuck down there. Oh, can I come on up? The guys were just like down there, oh, g'day, g'day, come on up. How long have you been down here?

Oh, quite a while. Yeah, it was incredible. Are we getting any media coverage up there? No, no, there's a whole soccer team of kids, mate. Sorry, you get no headlines. Yeah, really, really incredible story how they got them out and they had to swim them all out.

They basically, talking about the pills, they had to sedate these kids to get them out of there because obviously it was very, very scary to go through these narrow caves and get out there dark. Underwater. Underwater and all that sort of stuff. And sharing like an oxygen tank as well.

So, yeah. So how long were they underwater for that they would have to dive for? Bearing in mind the kids had probably never used diving apparatus. Well, no, that's the thing. And even like some of the professional people or other people that were trying to get out as well would start panicking in those situations. Who, the rescuers? Oh, you know, like they had to get people on.

There was these two guys, I think, from the UK that were just like experts in it because to help the Navy SEALs over there because they're experienced in it and the Navy SEALs weren't, you know. So did they fly them over from England? Yeah, they were the guys that came together. They were like the best free divers in the world. Yeah, they just do it for fun. So, yeah, and they got them out eventually what a terrifying hobby i know but they love it they're like yeah it's probably like you sitting on the lawn like you talk about they're

like it's peaceful it's like it's you just sit on your lawn sometimes do you just sit down in the middle of the night yeah three in the morning yeah they're like it's people no one can get you there no one can you know like um you know just no distraction no phone no you know you're away you're in your no distraction, no phone, no, you know, you're away, you're in your space. Yeah. So that's for them. So that's what they're under the water, free diving is their peaceful space. Yeah. I'll be like, I'm terrified.

What about the drowning aspect? I'm terrified. Yeah, no, if I was too deep, I'd get claustrophobic and want to be up again. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Me too. But they do it.

Have you ever dived or you just, I imagine you've wrapped your lips around a snorkel before? Oh, snorkeling is fun. Yeah. Not so much free. Snorkeling's good, but not free diving because then you're stuck down there for too longkel before. Snorkeled is fun. Yeah, not so much free. Snorkeling is good, but not free diving because then you're stuck down there for too long. Can't come up when you want. New Zealand's got the best free diver in the world, William Trubridge.

That's right. Yeah, he dives really, really deep, right? Love it because he's sponsored by like Steinleger or something very inappropriate to free diving. How's a steiny going to help you down there? Surely you want an oxygen tank sponsor or something? He just holds his breath. Let's see how far down Truebridge has gone. Because he's broken the world record before, hasn't he?

I think so. William Truebridge record. Free diver. Truebridge, 102 metres. That's just too far, eh, Ben? We'd be freaking out. That's just too far, eh, Ben? We'd be freaking out. That's crazy, yeah. On a single breath.

But to know you go down that deep, and then you know you've got to come, save some breath to go back up, right? Is that as deep as the Sky Tower was high the other day? Well, Sky Tower, John, I was 192 metres, so half of the Sky Tower were you at. Half of the Sky Tower. Shrewbridge can hold his breath for eight minutes.

Wow. How long can can hold his breath for eight minutes. Wow. How long do you hold your breath for? No, I struggle as well. Yeah, I was always shocked at that bridge game. Eight minutes. That is just, he's the 100-meter man, they call him. That's a great nickname too. That's quite good.

Hello, William Trubridge, 100-meter man. Enjoy the show. There's not too much magnesium chat in there for you, but there's some embarrassing dad chat. There's Dr. Libby telling you about how you can help deal with some stress and rushing about as well. And John Kuhn, Sir John Kuhn as well, joins us on the podcast. So enjoy.

Your essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning. How are you guys doing? Belle Crawford back in. Hello. You've been sick for a couple of days. Yeah, I have been a bit sick. Good to see you guys. Did you have the vid? No, on the hits. Good morning, how you guys doing? Belle Crawford back in. Hello. You've been sick for a couple of days. Yeah, I have been a bit sick.

Good to see you guys. Did you have the vid? No, I didn't. I was sick, but I was testing negative, so who knows? But I just don't think it was the vid. Everyone says that, though. As soon as everyone's sick, they either say it's not COVID, or people go, oh, is it COVID?

Yeah, I know. I had the same situation, testing negative all day, all day, all day. I even dropped Poppy, my daughter, and all her friends to ballet. And then I got home and I tested positive. And it's a fun time calling around all the parents and going, hey, you know how I've just been in the car with your child? But they didn't get it. Yeah, it's crazy how that just avoids something, wouldn't it?

I've avoided it. Yeah, touch. I'm very careful about talking about it because, you know, the next minute you have it. Long may it continue. Now, speaking of all things COVID, something that you probably don't do a lot nowadays and probably for good reason, the old licking of an envelope.

I was required to lick an envelope yesterday. You tell me the last time your tongue touched an envelope. I can't remember the last time. I can't remember the last time I gave an envelope a licking. Maybe I'm not a huge card person, but maybe, yeah. Because then there was a period there, you know, sort of late 90s, 2000, up until that point, everyone was licking envelopes. It was just the way to do it, wasn't it?

It's a certain taste as well when you lick it. But what's the option if you don't lick it? Well, then they started doing the adhesive where they shut themselves. But that was always my question mark around it it's like well you've clearly got some layer of adhesive on you on here why are you requiring our saliva to do the last 20 of the job why don't you just go full 100 to see adhesive we can just shut it for years we were just sending you know very covety but i yeah i guess in some ways is i mean you're not sharing it you're not going hey mate can you do the I guess in some ways, I mean, you're not sharing it. You're not going, hey, mate, can you do the other half of this envelope I've started? So you're not sharing it necessarily.

But I guess. Yeah. I mean, there was a great period there where we were just licking everything. Licking stamps. Mums were licking cheeks to get dirt off cheeks. You don't do enough licking nowadays, Ben. Well, I guess not. Yeah.

And it always left you with that like distinctive gluey taste. You weren't quite sure how poisonous it was. Yeah, what is it then? But it was all very familiar, that taste, isn't it? Yeah, you're right. Yeah, and then I had to drop it off at the post office. That's still a thing. The post office.

There's one just down there. Did you know? Yeah, I know. A functioning post office. Yeah. They send parcels and things. It's still hanging in there. I thought email bloody ended the post office.

You don't lick your emails. Scrolling through your feed. Time for yous to have some news. Ben, what's going on? Well, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, she's met with US President Joe Biden just a couple of hours ago, New Zealand time. He began by saying it was good to see

a not so old, but a good friend, which is nice. And you just saw some of the clips on the Breakfast TV. You thought it looked like Jacinda was visiting her granddad. It does look like she's, and she's like leaning in as if he can't hear her properly as well. Yeah, they discuss things like the topics, including the Pacific, China, gun control,

online extremism, trade. She's invited him over, and Vice President Harris to New Zealand, which is nice. line extreme extremism trade she's invited him over uh and vice president harris to new zealand which is nice and uh and you know and he he talked at the start there was a whole lot of media there and he kind of was talking to her but he was also looking at his ipad to kind of it felt like he was reading it a little bit as well but have a listen and uh you know and we want to be i want to work with you on that effort and i want to talk to you about what those conversations are like. He's kind of, and you want to talk on their, he doesn't even make sense.

What's he saying? And then I loved at the end, so he stopped. And as soon as they stopped, just a barrage of reporters asking questions. Thank you, thank you. Why are they all saying thank you? Jacinda's sitting there going, I can't understand. Everyone's just yelling thank you at me.

How do we answer this? Well, amazing. And did she ask if she could get so many jumper cables for our plane that's broken down? The White House jumper cables? Yeah, because that was the big news yesterday. And even the Defence Minister today has said the problem.

So the plane, the Air Force plane she took over there, the Defence Minister said, hey, it's far from ideal. Far from ideal. And listen, we know this isn't a great look. And also said, it's got a history of these kind of malfunctions, but we're working on getting it right. And it's called Old Faithful Betty is the name of that. Well, Old Faithful Betty.

Not as faithful as her name suggests. Do we do? What do we do? Like a nationwide whip around for some petrol money? How do we tackle this? Well, cost of fuel. We can't afford to pitch in at this rate. Maybe that is it.

They didn't have enough money to fill it up. So I heard one of the reporters on Newstalk ZB yesterday. Now, he's over there following Jacinda around. He has to wait, they have to wait, all the reporters are on that plane, so they're waiting for that plane to get fixed to fly back to New Zealand, Jacinda, she's going back commercial she's like, see you later, see you losers later, I'm watching movies

I'm kicking back you know, probably premium economy or something like that. Are they a member of the AA? Can we sort this out somehow? I mean, this is not a great look. The team of five million need to sort this out. I don't know what we do or how we do it, but Top Gun Stop Gun basically

is just a 90 minute movie of the New Zealand Defence Force phoning around going, hey, you guys got a spare part for the wing? You turn it off and turn it back on and you know, we've done that, we've done that, it's not working. Doesn't it cost, too, to leave your plane on the tarmac? Probably, it's costed It'll be costing a fortune

Yeah, and that is what's making news Hopefully not around the world for New Zealand Let's keep this one between us Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits Spam folder on your email It's not something you really delve into from time to time Things automatically go into the spam But we've done this once before and we thought we'd do it again.

Let's have a quick look in the spam folder because there's a treasure trove of stuff, potential stuff. Now some of it may be scams. Oh no, I don't think so. It feels like it's your letter, but you know when you leave your letterbox for a few days and it just gets jam-packed with circulars? Yeah. Even though you've got no circulars

written on your letterbox? It's still, you're right. That's your spam folder. Yeah. Yeah, it just gets in there. And every now and then you clear out your letterbox and you clear out your spam. So we went through ours and we've been going through over the last 10, 15 minutes. We thought we'd read out a couple of the highlights. We've got a voucher from Pack and Save. Not spelt like the supermarket though.

How is it spelt? P-A-C-K. Well, they spelt it correctly. Because the supermarket has got it all wrong and had it wrong for years. So I'm just guessing that's a genuine voucher from Packings how much? 500 bucks mate 500 bucks

for doing nothing for just existing as well another one from Shell which I didn't even know was still around the gas station but they want to give me

some fuel and petrol you know we were talking about that just moments ago the price has been you better find yourself a Shell service station how much is the Shell voucher?

again 500 bucks give it back I'm just lucky it's just sad because people would fall for that one the prices, Ben, you better find yourself a Shell service station. How much is the Shell voucher? Again, $500. I'm just lucky. It's just sad because people would fall for that one because they're so desperate for petrol at the moment. Yeah, my McAfee antivirus protection. Apparently I signed up a year ago and it's ready to expire

and I get 60% off. Have you got that protection? No, I haven't. I haven't even heard of it before. I couldn't even say the name of what it's called. Well, can I read you out this one? Yeah. I potentially have a lucrative modelling career on the horizon. Do you?

I'm just going to read this out. Hello, my name is David, a member of the Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries Union of the EU, France President of the Union of European Union Group of the Coca-Cola Company International Confederation. Oh my God, I've heard of Coca-Cola. This is huge. And that is, I mean, that's a hell of an email signature to chuck on the bottom. So David is a busy

guy. He's got things going on. Right now we're working on a job for Coca-Cola in the United States, the UK and France. And I'd like you to know, if you're interested in modelling... Yes, you are. Well, yes, President David.

I am interested in modelling. Very interesting that the President's dealing with the hiring of models. Oh, hey, that's what he does. He's a thorough President. For your photos, they'll be displayed on billboards, magazines, and at major international airports in the USA. Wow. Despite the fact they were doing UK, France, and Canada just moments ago.

David has gone, he's selected photos that fit and require his standards and he's gone through internet sites such as dating and modelling sites and I saw your photo and it fits our criterias perfectly. Are you on there?

Well, he's obviously seen my OnlyFans and likes to cut him a jib. Please let me know if you're interested in this job. $450 before the photo shoot, or you may negotiate your contract, and you may attain some noticeable fame. Wow, that's awesome. And that's all I do hope for is some noticeable fame. I just got this other one saying my prostate was the size of a lemon.

A lot of my ones are prostate-based. I don't know what it is. Bring it over here. Let's have a look. The good news is there's a new two-step prostate shrinker that can reverse my swollen prostate fast. It's profiling you. Yeah, I know.

Man at this age. He's like, does it drive you mad that you can't get through one good night's restful sleep? And does it drive your wife crazy too? They are speaking to me. Don't you a swollen prostate drive Amanda crazy? Well, I think so. We haven't really talked about it too much, but I'm guessing so.

And I'm so glad that I've got this email this morning. Well, I can't just be wandering around with that and not see the thing. Ralph Dixon was the person that emailed me through. Thank you, Ralph. I appreciate it. Thank you, Ralph. What is the shrinking technology?

It's something, it's basically you put something in a liquid and you drink it. It's the size of a lemon, but it'll be coming down. Down to a grape. Very shortly. Spy.

Know what's up. Spy.co.nz Now, some people say celebrity news doesn't matter. Well, I say to those people, we've got three minutes of radio to fill. Belle Crawford, let's do it. It definitely matters. Now, Top Gun Maverick, a very popular

movie at the moment. A lot of people I know have seen it over the weekend. Maybe you're planning on seeing it this week, over the long weekend. Well it has broken box office records. So far, this actually is just a crazy amount of money. But I guess that's movies for you. Has made $248 million.

Wow. $100 million alone in its opening weekend and it's Tom Cruise Wow. $100 million alone in its opening weekend. And it's Tom Cruise's first $100 million weekend as well. So it was $152 million USD to make. To make. So they've already in one weekend eclipsed how much the film cost to make. And just the opening weekend. Just the opening weekend.

That's phenomenal. So $250 million USD you're saying? Yeah. It's a lot. That's phenomenal. So 250 million USD, you're saying? Yeah. It's a lot. It's a lot of money, eh? On that David Letterman Netflix series, he's talking to Ryan Reynolds about how cheap Deadpool was to make, you know, compared to the other Marvel.

And he's like 58 mil. And you're still like, 58 mil is a lot of money. But Ryan Reynolds is joking. He's like, that's Thor's cocaine budget on the movie. So that's the cocaine budget Thor got a cocaine problem

I don't know but you're like okay Billy sounds like so much money but he's like it's so cheap for one of those movies now we've found out

how he has the pizzazz to lift up that hammer yeah exactly and also Ellen's show has wrapped up after 19 years

it's a pretty massive achievement I know it's been a bit of a, you know, mixed reviews around Ellen of late But you know, even so, it's two decades of doing the show It's a long, amazingly long run It's a long time, yeah, and well done to her Now Jennifer Aniston was on the last show ever Have a listen to this

You know, you've been on 20 times You were my first guest And it was a big deal to get you It was a huge deal to get, you know, you've been on 20 times. You were my first guest. And it was a big deal to get you. It was a huge deal to get you on my first show. 20 times and you've been on the air 19. You're busy. You do a lot of movies. Wait, I've done your show more than you've actually been on the air.

So like every year. She's been on, yeah, one year at least twice. And especially over the last year, Ellen's hardly done the show. Yeah. Who's hosting it this year? The poor DJ's dancing, he's hosting, he's doing everything on there. I hope he gets a gig on the new show, the DJ.

Oh yeah, because Kelly Clarkson's taking over, right? Yeah. So yeah, surely he will. He's been great. And also, Jen joked about her divorce when she was asked about how she dealt with the Friends ending. You know, well, I got a divorce and went into therapy. Oh, and then I did a movie called The Breakup. I just kind of leaned

into the end. I just was like, you know what, guys? Let's just put this, let's make this a completely new chapter. I love how, you know, this is one of the biggest stories everyone was like, oh my god, like Jennifer, like Team Jen, Team Angie, and then all of a sudden, years later,

she's just joking about it. It's so great. Do they pay guests to go on shows like that? I wouldn't imagine so, because they often do it for promoting stuff. Yeah. When you look at it, when you break it down, someone said it to us the other day.

I think it was NT, our Hollywood insider. He's like, those shows, the talk shows, the late night ones, the daytime ones, it's just a huge portal for marketing, for people to market movies and TV shows and products. It's like a giant infomercial. And when you break it down, you're like, yeah, it is. It's a funny infomercial.

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Jono and Ben on The Hits. It's Spoon 5 Beautiful Mistakes. Jono and Ben on The Hits. We've got an all black legend on the phone. We can build a full mistake A wonderful JK, welcome back He doesn't like it when we call him Sir John Kirwan Or Sir JK Just John, he just wants to be known as John Welcome back John Kirwan

Every time I talk to you guys I just have this big smile on my face Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know, we always I talk to you guys, I just have this big smile on my face. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know. I mean, we always love chatting to you. I mean, I always tell you how I always punish you every time I see you out and about talking about how I loved watching you play and all that. You're like, oh, whatever, mate. But we do love chatting to you.

It's always awesome. Yeah, no, it's good to chat with you boys. And I'm sure you guys agree we want to turn these mental health stats around, man. So really cool that you guys are always keen to chat to me about that. You've got a great initiative and you're about to head out all across Aotearoa where you're essentially trying to raise money. You're going to be holding a whole bunch of events from the top of the north to the bottom of the south, raising money to get a program into schools, into the school curriculum. What's that about? Oh, well, five years ago, lads, I woke up and I saw our suicide rates and really felt that I'd failed, you know, because I've been the face of this for sort of 15 years now. But failure used

to be, you know, I used to run from it. It actually used to chase me and sometimes make me successful. So I used to be scared of it. But when I talk about failure, I embrace failure now. I think it's the best teacher we can ever have. So I felt that I'd failed, and what we needed to do was change what we were doing. So I did a couple of things. You guys know about Groove, which is a mental health company that I created

to put mental health well-being into the workplace. But then on the other side, I wanted to create a fresh approach to educating our tamariki, right? So how can we actually put this on the curriculum like English, maths and science? What I did is I facilitated for a year. We came up with going, right,

we need to have a curriculum-based approach. We also need to support the teachers rather than add to their workload. So they don't need any more pressure financially or human resource point of view. And then what we also wanted to do is make sure we can co-design this, right? So what might happen, what might work out in Mangere where I grew up, might not work in Rimura, might not work in Vakago. So how do we help the schools co-design what they need? And so I facilitated that for a year. Then I raised some more money and commissioned

the Auckland University to build a curriculum-based mental health programme for our tamariki. And that's what we're doing. Started with one teacher. Now we've got seven. We're in 70 schools. We've got a 300 school waiting list. I'm going to ride around the country and yell it from the rooftops and hopefully raise a million bucks, which will get us another hundred-odd schools and another hundred thousand kids or whatever. So John Kewan with us this morning. Now, we've got young kids, both John and I. Is there one thing that we could be doing more with our kids

to sort of help them through? What is going to be potentially when they go to high school a very difficult time in any kid's life? Yeah, mate, the best thing that I learned is show vulnerability. You've got to remember that as mum and dad, you're the heroes in the family, right? And so if you just start talking about your vulnerabilities, that gives everyone around the dinner table the right to be vulnerable. And you should be talking about stress and anxiety

and some of the things that we don't talk about. Oh, you're angry about this and how you dealt with it, you know. And what happened with me when I started showing vulnerability around the table, the whole conversation changed, man. You know, and now it's normal to talk about some of those mental health challenges that we face. And the other thing is don't underestimate something that is small, how important it is to your child. So being left out of a group or being left out of a party is a big deal for them. It's as big a deal as us losing our jobs

when we're a bit older or whatever. So just listen and really work out a solution together because I think some of the things we, I said this the other day, my dad always caught me, man. You know, you know why? Because he knew when I went away that I was going to smoke mum's cigarettes, steal his whiskey, have a party and sleep in his bed, right? You know why?

Because that's what he did. He always caught me. But nowadays, we don't know the world that these kids live in. We don't know the pressure that's on them. So we need to go on that journey with them when we're trying to come up with solutions because we don't have them all the time. Oh, JK, it's always so good to catch up with you.

If people want to support, they want to help out because obviously you're trying to raise a lot of money, how can they do that? Text MITY, and I think, have you got the number there, boys? MITY, M-I-T-E-Y to 2449. That's an automatic $3 donation. and I think, have you got the number there boys? Mighty MIT EY2449 that's an automatic $3 donation

and you can also go and visit themightydrive.org as well. Yeah, and you'll be hearing more from us we'll be coming through the country and it's really about us as a country having the goal to have the best mental health stats in the world and getting our tamariki to have the tools that they need

to deal with the shit that the world throws at them. John Kerwin, always a pleasure, mate. You keep safe. Thanks, guys. Appreciate your support. The sure weather masks make them look a whole lot better. John Owen Behan on the hits. Just reading about a burger that's in Wellington.

It sounds delicious, but it comes with a hefty price tag, $185 for the burger. $185. What glorious cow perished for this burger. So it's got Wagyu beef in there. It's got crayfish. It's got caviar. It's got pork belly, bacon, cheddar as well. But then you're like, well, you look at the bun,

and the bun is 24-karat gold-plated milk bun. So the bun for some, somehow the bun is gold-plated. I don't know if our stomachs deserve that. How do you get, how does the gold pass through your system? Is it okay to eat gold? I don't know. I'm guessing so. My dog eats rocks, and I'm like, man, you shouldn't be doing that.

But, you know, chunks of gold in a bun, or is it like sort of coated in? Yeah, I don't know. But obviously it comes with a hefty price tag, but it looks very delicious. You made me eat New Zealand's biggest burger last week, and it was for Bob's Burger's movie. You're like, hey, as a novelty thing, why don't you eat New Zealand's Burger's Burger? It's from Burger Geek, and it was massive.

They made it three kgs. It was a lot of burger, and it was on a plate, and you're like, here, mate, eat this. And you're like, I was thinking the whole time, I'm not a professional eater, and so I started eating started eating but you have eaten food in your life i know how to eat i've consumed it i've digested it and i started eating it and i got quite full like i'd probably eaten three normal sized burgers but the problem is this burger was so enormous it just looked like man nibbled on edge of burger yeah you look like one of my kids

sometimes that would go oh i've had a little bit no i've done you know you're like mate you've hardly eaten anything you need to eat that yeah it was enormous yeah and so then you've got to give it up for those people who go and you know deep throat hot dogs and stuff at that competition in new york it's disturbing to watch because they dip it in water that's right So it just goes down the esophagus quicker So they've got soggy bread Hot dogs just going in They don't even chew It's like

It stays in their stomachs I just couldn't do it Yeah Well neither could Jono He'd do like a quarter of the little bit of the bun And be like I'm done guys He was so disappointed He's like couldn't you have eaten more

I couldn't even eat dinner that night It was massive though, Ben, honestly. He doesn't eat during the day. Yeah, that was the first time I've ever seen you eat. Threw me out. Threw my clock out. Yeah, but it was like, he probably ate three bites of a normal burger. And that was it.

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Can you do that? Yeah, I just did. And not afraid to use the F word be family friendly fun Jono and Ben on the hits

one of my joys in life you know I don't really enjoy dancing but I do enjoy dancing in front of my kids

just to embarrass my kids oh isn't that wonderful it's a joy you know just to go that's the only time

I actually feel like I am enjoying dancing is when it can be like, oh, I'm dead. Yeah, it's such a powerful moment in your parenting career where you're like, I just have, I have the power to embarrass these tiny little humans at any stage. It's all on me. I can do anything. So I see why, you know, Putin and Kim Jong-un,

they get drunk with power because we have power at any stage. I wasn't going to compare it to that. So you know, Putin and Kim Jong-un, they get drunk with power. Because we have power at any stage they can do anything. I wasn't going to compare it to that. So continue on, Putin. Oh, but no. But I was thinking about it and I was telling the kids, I was like, hey, my dad, my dad gave a boy a rich history of embarrassing. And like things I look back on now, I was like, he was just doing it to embarrass me. Like through my teenage years, he'd go.

They can't go out now. They can't do anything else. Can't have a social life. Yeah this is their chance so i remember the one of the ones he'd go into a shop and he'd make a whistle that he thought sounded like a cell phone it didn't but he'd make this whistling noise and then he'd talk to the person by the go is that your phone and they're looking i'm like what are you talking about no that was you whistling he got oh it's mine and he talked into his hand or his wallet or something. And, oh, yeah, sorry, I've just got to take this. And then he would have a fake conversation. I'd just be like, oh, my God.

Enter me now. This is the worst. I've heard Kevin's, you've got him to do the whistle self over. It's not. It doesn't sound like a phone. Yeah, like that. He's like, is that your phone? Is that your phone?

Is that your? No, no, I can see you whistling. Oh, no, that's mine. Sorry, one second. And I'd be like, oh, like that. He's like, is that your phone? Is that your phone? No, no, I can see you whistling. And he's like, oh, no, that's mine. Sorry, one second. And I'll be like, oh, my God. And then what was the role play conversation he was in? Oh, he would walk around the shop talking into his wallet or something. Well, I would awkwardly stand there because I was like,

I don't know why I've come into the shop, but now I'm standing next to the person. Watching this one man play in Briscoes. At the counter. And then he got into, I was telling the kids last night he got into the habit of he loved to toot at someone he would go oh is that is that trish and i would look he'd toot and he'd look the other way just momentarily while driving and i would look directly at the person don't look at me i'll be like i don't know what this is and then you go oh no that'sish. You know, just to basically make me look at the person.

A wonderful setup. A wonderful setup. Yeah. I thought, you know, being, you know, dressing like a teenager, working in the job that we work in, Ben, doing some pranks on the internet and fun stuff, I thought we'd be the cool dads. No.

No, I've got no credibility with the kids. And the thing that really, it made me happy, it was watching Jay-Z on the internet. Now, you wouldn't get a cooler guy than Jay-Z. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, he's got a certain level of cred. And even him, he was sitting at basketball with Blue Ivy, and he was like talking to LeBron James,

and she's like, oh, dad. She's doing that thing where she's put her head in the hands. Well, this is Jay-Z. LeBron James, you're courtside in a basketball game.

Yeah, and if he's got the power to embarrass his kids, then that gives us all faith. Just him simply having a conversation with another human being is embarrassing.

Oh God, drawing so much attention on us right now. Hey, speaking of attention, the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, she's visited Joe Biden.

What was it like? What did they talk about? Did he manage to stay awake? We'll find out very shortly. It's you got John Ong, Ben. Scrolling through your feed. All right, he's like a news hyena, ready to sink his teeth into the carcass of topicality.

Ben Boyce, have a feed. The big news this morning in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern met with US President Joe Biden this morning in New Zealand time. He was, well, he said some things. There was a lot of media in the room. They sort of sat in their chairs for that awkward sort of introduction that they do.

And he sort of mumbled out a few words. Have a listen. Talking about what those conversations are like, if you're willing. The United States is... The United States is... Yeah, the United States is... I just keep mumbling, hopefully they don't say something. He looked like he was reading off an iPad for a lot of it, but he did say it was good to see a not-so-old and good friend, and they talked about a whole lot of stuff.

I think they must have gone away to the Oval Office and talked more in private, but they had all the media there, and as soon as they'd finished talking, the media just, a whole lot of just yelling out. Just a lot of, but not sort of aggressively yelling, very politely just saying, thank you, thank you, thank you. It's kind of like me when the countdown delivery guy comes. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Now, I have a question. Obviously, the media go away for their private conversation

then they come back out and it's kind of like how were the talks how were the talks thank you how were the talks how were the talks and they always go

it was a fruitful positive discussion between two leaders I for once would just love a leader to come out and go it was a bloody shocker I could tell he wasn't engaged

he was checking his phone he's not going to do any of the stuff we talked about. No. He barely remembered who I was. He looked like he needed to be somewhere else. Didn't offer me anything.

And she did offer that him and Kamala Harris come to New Zealand, an open invitation. Yeah. But it's kind of like when you see your relatives from Gisborne. They're like, oh, you must come down and stay. And you're like, eee. You can sleep on my couch. We'll put a fold down or something. Oh yeah, no, no, we'll be there.

We'll be there. Now I have a question too. You've been to the White House? Well, outside. I haven't been inside, but I've been around the outside. Yeah. Is it all white?

Yeah. Every part of it's white. It lives up to its name. Well, yeah, every part, I think, you know. Yeah, it's very, yeah, pretty prestigious looking building with a lot of,

as you'd imagine, a lot of security everywhere around it. As president, do you have the power to change the colour scheme? Like if I'd imagine, a lot of security everywhere around it. As president, do you have the power to change the colour scheme? Like if I was like, hey, white's not my thing.

What about blue? Could I paint? If you're the president. If I'm the president, can I change the... Go down and whip down to your local... Resine?

Yeah. Get a colour scheme. Yeah, we've done that for a while now. We just want to kind of... Yeah. Well, that's a good point. That would be the first thing

I'd do. This whole white thing, no, it's just so bland and boring. Well, that's a good point. That would be the first thing I'd do. This whole white thing. No, it's just so bland and boring. Also, our plane's broken down. A lot of talk about that. Yeah, the Defence Minister was saying, Pena Henare was saying yesterday, like, it's got a history of this sort of thing,

this plane that they sent over. Well, then why did you take it? We should be sending our best plane. Classic New Zealand. To America. Send our broken plane over. If not, hire a plane that looks fancier. There's private jets over there.

Just park somewhere out of the way and you can get off private jet while you're over there. Well, they should have just parked that thing four blocks away. Yeah, exactly. But they're working on getting it right. Old Faithful Betty is what they call her. She's the opposite of faithful at the moment. And so Jacinda is not coming back home on that plane. She's the opposite of faithful at the moment. And so Jacinda is not coming back home on that plane, but the media who travelled over there

with Jacinda from New Zealand, they are. And they're staying a couple more days over there just to sort out a few things with the plane. It's all fine. So they have to come back on Old Faithful Betty. I refuse. I'd be booking a flight home. I'm sorry.

I feel a bit scared of flying home now. Yeah, just get her a grabber seat or something on Air New Zealand. Yeah, I think so. Old Faithful Betty. Well, you know, we didn't need this as a nation. No. No, just get a, you know, grab a seat or something on Air New Zealand. Old faithful Betty, well, you know, we didn't need this as a nation. No. No, we didn't. The sheep thing, we've just kind of, we've put that away

thanks to, you know, the hard works of Lord and Taika over the years, Jacinda, internationally that forgot about the sheep. And now we've got a broken down goddamn plane. Yeah. Is that our only plane? I think it is our only plane. It's our only plane. We're not flying anywhere today in New Zealand.

It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben, 7.14. Julie, we'll get you back on. Welcome back to New Zealand's Breakfast. Thank you. You've got a bit of an issue with your hubby. Whether you tell him or don't tell him something, I'll hand it over to you.

Yeah, so my husband has decided to take up painting. He's decided he's an artist. Oh, okay. How late in life? How old is he? Late 40s. Okay, all right. That's all right, you know.

It's a cool little hobby to do, right? Yeah, yeah. Creative outlets, you know, so I feel like, you know, what's the issue here? Like, I feel like on the surface, that seems like a great thing to be getting into. He's not having an affair.

He's not driving, you know, an MX-5 with a drop top. I was on a sketch pad the other day. I was looking at some, I used to be in Darnold's. I do some ports and pastels, started, you know, started to do it. So I'm like, what is wrong with this? What am I doing wrong? Keep talking.

Well, I think that if he was actually being an artist, it would be a great hobby. But they're just a bit weird. They're a bit abstract and I don't want to hurt his feelings and I want to have a hobby, but I'm just not sure what to do with these paintings that keep coming. Oh, so you don't like

his art. Is he finger painting and gluing bits of dried macaroni onto colourful bits of cardboard? What's the style of art? It's not quite that bad, but yeah. I mean, same vein. So on a scale of a terrible district courtroom

sketch to the Mona Lisa, where is your husband's artistic skill? Oh, down the first option. Bad courtroom sketch. So he's doing this, you're not a huge fan, which I can understand that it's going to be hard to sort of tell him that, because you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, don't want to, you know,

stifle their creativity, but is he trying to put them up around the house, or you know, how is that affecting you? Yeah, exactly. He's very proud of them, and he wants to put them up everywhere throughout the house, and they're the new gift for friends. Oh, okay.

So he's framing them. I see where the issue is. So he's framing them, and he's placing them. He might be like, Banksy or, you know, Da Vinci or something. I mean, in time, maybe. But for now, I feel like I just need to let him down easy and encourage him to keep trying. Oh, so you want to go, hey, should we just take the pictures down? You're not quite where you could be.

I think that's going to be the easiest way. That's what I'm looking for some help with. Is that what I should do? Do you tell or not tell your husband that he's shocking at all? Oh, God, this is a tough one. It is a tough one. I mean, I put the kids' pictures on the fridge from time to time, and they're not always great, but still you're right, they're out of the fridge. Maybe that's what you do. You go, hey, why don't we put kids' pictures on the fridge from time to time, and they're not always great, but still you're writing it out on the fridge.

Maybe that's what you do. You go, hey, why don't we put all your works on the fridge, and then you slowly over the top of the magnet like the Chinese takeaway voucher, the kebab shop voucher, the menu, and you can cover up the art on the fridge. Okay, what are we going to do? Okay, 100 the hits, 4, 4, 8, 7. I don't know if you say anything i reckon she needs to step in now have an intervention you can't it's a creative outlet

it's it would break you i'm gonna break my heart well it's like you keep painting just don't hang them up yeah if my wife was like you're terrible at radio you're doing you're doing it every day oh well she probably that would be she texted me the other day she's like god he's terrible he's doing every day about the show. Yeah, it's time for it. And you need to intervene quickly. I mean, it was Picasso who painted with his own feces at times. And someone needed to step in there.

And now it's time for Julie to step in and say, hey, maybe we just don't hang the yard up until it's ready to be hung. All right, I say you can't do it. But let's throw it to the phone lines. Let's help out a fellow listener in need in New Zealand. Oh, 100 the hits. 4487, we'll be back in a moment. Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Just had Julie on.

A bit of a dilemma. Her husband's taken up painting midway through his life. Artists, artistic paintings. So there's nothing wrong with that. She's fine with that, right? Yeah, she's like the greatest girl, a creative outlet, and he's found something new to do. The issue is he's framing them and he's hanging them up on the wall.

And he's trying to give them away as presents too. And she's like, it's not that good. In her opinion. It's subjective, isn't it? That's right, it's in the eye of the beholder. You look at Mona Lisa, you're like, oh yeah, it's okay. But how did that become one of the most famous pictures in the world? You've seen it?

You've seen it You've seen it When you were travelling over there Yeah Is it Yeah are you like Oh I guess it's just a picture But if you hadn't seen If I hadn't

It's like building up The hype for something Yeah You're like oh yeah But yeah It's probably You're like it's good It's just a

A painting of an indifferent lady Yeah She's just kind of sitting there You know Back in the day I would have gone Was it Da Vinci Who did that one

Yeah Da Vinci Yeah Who did that one? Yeah, Da Vinci. That's all right, mate. You know your art, don't you? You're a whooping out name. What else have you got? Let me have a look at some other stuff. Oh, no, I spent a bit of time. Yeah, no, it's good.

It's great. What else? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I feel a bit weird buying a picture of another lady to put on at home. So what else do you have?

What else do you have? I don't really know her, you know. So the question is, does Julie tell her husband that, hey, maybe the art's not up to the standard that it could be in, say, five years, once he's been doing it for a while? And then we, you know, it's like when we go back and listen to old radio shows from yesterday,

and we go, oh, dear God, what were we thinking? You know, you try to improve every day, don't you? But again, tomorrow we'll look back on this one and go, oh dear God. Camille, you're on from Whanganui. Welcome. How are you? Good morning. How are you guys? Yeah, great to have you on. Just after some advice, it's the nationwide brainstorm. How do we help Julie out here? Does she tell him?

No, no, you don't break a man's heart like that. It'll crush him. I agree. I agree. It's a tough one to bring up and go, hey, you're not Simon Cowell on X Factor. You can't go, you're not good. But there's a way you can bring... I know.

No, you've got to build him up. You've got to... You know, it takes a lot for a man to be like, look what I've done, you know? So I reckon he should have a spot, like a designated spot with a frame. One frame, one spot, a picture of the day or a picture of the week, you know,

where he can really shut off, but just one, just his favourite one. But then have a container where he can keep the rest of them in, and, you know, so he can be proud from a distance. But then double up as wrapping paper for birthday presents and stuff like that, you know, so he can give them back to the kids, but they get and he's proud that they're getting used but also getting rid of them. Yeah, Camille's coming with like this sort of the compliment sandwich approach, hasn't she? I like the one picture.

Hey, you've got your one frame, whatever you want to chuck up in that frame is fine. Yeah, it's in the bathroom, it's in the toilet, that frame, but it's still a frame. Yeah, exactly. But then you can get rid of them by him being proud of using them and showing them off at the same time. I reckon it's a win. Love it. That's good, Camille.

That's a good idea. Really good. You had a thought on it too, Belle. Yeah, because I'm kind of with Camille. It's like it's really, you know, you just let people do their thing. They don't have to be amazing artists or anything. But then I do understand

not wanting something around your home that you think's, you know, we're quite house proudest girls. We like our house looking nice. But, yeah, I think your solution's good. You always get served. Yeah, a man's got to have his spot in the house too, you know. I have a shelf at home.

I'm not allowed to put my NBA pop vinyl figurines and Simpsons figurines and his little seven-year-old boy shelf. Imagine your wife saying, no, get rid of those. Well, she tries. She tries. They always fall over and gusts of wind that apparently come through the house. They fall into the wheelie bin outside the front of the house.

Yes, they do. They go for some of the time. Hey, we'll take one more call to Anne quickly from Bulls. Does Julie tell her husband he's no good at art? What do you reckon, mate? No, my suggestion was give him one room in the house and that can be his studio room. Make it really special.

Hey, hey. If you make it the spare room in the house, then you won't have to say anything because visitors will do it for you. They're perfect. He gets his own art studio. Great result here. So we're just designing a special space for him.

Because you always get given obligation bits of art, don't you, that you take down when the people have gone and when they come back over, you hang back up. You can't do that when the artist lives in the house. You don't really want that. You have to display when the person's there. Good on you, Anne. Love your work.

Keep up the good work in Bulls, all right? All right. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. Let's do it. Let's give away $5,000. Steph, you're in Auckland. Yes, I am.

Doing a bit of WFH today, are we? I am. Not very hard, but you know what it's like. Yeah, we're working from home. I didn't know what the acronym meant, but I kept seeing it pop up in emails. I'm WFH today. And I was like, what is this? What sort of strain of COVID is this?

But it's working from home. That's what they say. What do you do when you WFH? I work for a car manufacturing company. Okay. All right. Well, you WFH like you've never worked from home before. Okay, today, Steph, $5,000, a lot of cash.

What are you going to do with it? Well, I've got my sister and her daughter here from Perth, and they paid an extraordinary amount to come home. So I would love to shout them and the rest of my sisters and all their kids to, I don't know, Rainbow's Inn. It was just a really big family day. It was awesome. Well, let me just tell you, this is the first day of your new life, okay?

I feel like we're going to win you $5,000. It's all changing. Don't cry. You've gone early. You've gone early. All right, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Jono, please. All right.

Why did it have to be me after that? Here we go. We picked him. He was feeling good about it. He is inside the soundproof booth. All right, Steph, here we go. Let's rattle through these. First word is racket.

Racket. Tennis. Yeah, good option. Minestrone is the second word. Pasta. Pasta. Puzzle, word number three. Puzzle.

Peace. Peace. Did you say peace? Yep. Batman. Puzzle. Word number three. Puzzle. Peace. Peace. Did you say peace? Yep. Batman. Yep. Batman is word number four. Robin. Robin. And tinned is the final word this morning. T-I-N-N-E-D. Tinned. Tinned.

Oh, God. Tomatoes. Tinned tomatoes. Sometimes the first words that pop into your head are the best. Other times, it doesn't work out, but that's the beauty of this game. Jono, he's racing back into it. I'm going to play a wild, fast, and unresponsible game today, Ben. Don't be unresponsible. First, just fire him at me.

No, take your time. Take your time. Okay. Racket was the first word. Tennis. Well done. Okay, maybe this is good. Minestrone.

Pasta. Oh, well done. Two. Two. Yes, there we go. Here we go. What did I say? First day of your new life. Okay, maybe this is good. Minestrone. Pasta. Oh, well done. Two, two. Yes, there we go. Here we go. What did I say? First day of your new life. Okay, puzzle is word number three.

Puzzle. Jigsaw. That was going so well, too. Peace was the word. And Batman was word number four. Robin. Yeah, well done. And tinned.

Tinned. Tinned. Tomatoes. Oh, well done. Tomato, tomato. You say tomatoes, she says tomatoes. What am I supposed to do there? tinned tinned tomatoes oh Welsh tomato tomato you say tomatoes she says tomatoes what am I supposed to do there

yeah it doesn't matter now but you're so close oh Steph you got the people from Perth there at the moment I do never mind

chuck them on the phone chuck them on the phone alright here we go you look like dad when I call up I go I got pride in Julie good morning

morning you from Perth yes I well I'm from New Zealand originally You look like Dad when I call up. I go, I got pride in Julie. Good morning. Morning. You're from Perth? Yes, I am. Well, I'm from New Zealand originally, but living in Perth. Welcome to New Zealand. Thank you. You could have won $5,000 today. Look, we were that close.

You were close. Steph did say that she was, you know, her and Jono were... In sync. Very in sync. And look, we almost were. Listen, her and Jono were in sync. Very in sync. And look, they almost were. Listen, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We can't send you to Rainbow's End. But how about we send you to Top Gun?

Oh, I would love that. Because I have a huge crush, and I mean like, ridiculous. I've had dreams about him crush. On Miles Teller. Oh, I thought you were about to say Tom Cruise. Oh no had dreams about him crash. Geez. On Miles Teller. Oh. I thought you were about to say Tom Cruise.

Miles feels. Oh, no. Tom Cruise creeps. Yeah. I was going to say. He's in the movie, of course. Tell us about these dreams. Okay.

Maybe not. Maybe not. Oh, look. Okay. All right. Not at this time of the morning. It's not PG. Yeah.

Okay. I feel it that way. Hey, well, you enjoy. She'd like to ride his Top Gun. You enjoy the movie. Not too much. Thank you. I'll well, you enjoy it. She'd like to ride his Top Gun. You enjoy the movie, not too much. Thank you. I'll enjoy Miles all night long.

Have a lovely sister date at the movie. Yeah, enjoy it. Like, you wouldn't believe. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm going to get up right now. Catch the car not too far away. Play something, Mel, quickly. Like you wouldn't believe.

Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. Heading into a very special part of the school calendar in New Zealand. It's cross-country season. There's a school cross-country season. It's a do-or-die event. Mud, sweat and tears. Were you a cross-country guy, Ben?

I wasn't like a supreme athlete or anything i didn't mind it compared to some of the other uh the other things you could do swimming sports wasn't really my jam i could swim but i wasn't never one of the fastest swimmers and it was always a little bit you know yeah me and togs is not in front of the whole school and they always make you a speedo so you're like oh come on i'm not it's not ian thorpe anyone like this. But cross-country, yeah, it's one of the things that all kids seem to do. It's primary school, right?

It's happening at the moment. Poppy, my daughter, she's got cross-country next week. And, you know, they do the run around the block three times, get some training in there for the week leading into it. And I asked her, do you mind if I talk about your cross-country training on the radio? And she says, are you going to tell everyone that I hate it? And I was like, yeah, do you mind if I do that? She's like, nah, tell the public.

I'm not a cross-country person. She wanted to train the other day. She's like, you train me for cross-country. So I was like, measured out the kilometers of what it would be to run around the house. She did one lap of the house. She's like, I'm out. She's out straight away.

Done with cross country. Wow. Does she want me to help? Because, I mean, I got you through that marathon. Maybe you're the coach she needs. The beauty was no training for you. Just surprise it on her. Not even tell her about it.

Then go, hey, cross country. Away you go. Boom, you're out. And then she actually has a good time. I was a shocker. I was always the chubby little wheezy kid at the back, just screaming out for a Ventolin. You know?

They had the parents who were there as the marshals standing in the mud. They're like, it's cold. It's raining. I want to go home. And they're like, come on, mate. You can do it. Like trying to be encouraging and stuff. You're right.

There was always people that come in after they're packing up the cones and all that sort of stuff, aren't they? I'll put on them for trying. I know, that's the thing. And there are some people that don't even try. There's people that walk the whole way and they're just like, eh, not going to do it. Don't even make me. But then there's always the skinny,

svelte kid with the speed of a mountain panther. They always go off to zones, don't they? They go and take on the other schools at the inter-school channel and they get 13 certificates at assembly in the next week. The most uncomfortable thing

I found, because we used to run through the water thing, is just wet shoes. Why do the shoes have to get wet? You know, why do we have to run

through the... Wet socks. Yeah. Why don't you just do it on dry? Run on concrete. We could do this. Get it done.

It can always be through paddocks and through some farm. Yeah. It's like you're trawling through manure. It doesn't feel like a sport. It feels more like a punishment that some teacher came up with back in the day. What are we doing today?

You're doing cross country. You're running through feces. Yeah, all through paddocks. Watch out for wild animals. You're going to hate every minute of it. Yeah. All right? And we're going to make your parents stand in Marshall for five hours. Yeah.

In the cross country. You're right, I was probably a teacher that wanted a cigarette break back in the day. You'd go run around the paddock for five hours. That is Cash in Car. Guess how much cash we've stashed in the Škoda's booth and drive it home along with all that money. How much cash is in the back of the car? That's what you need to work out.

If you can guess exactly the right amount of cash to the cent, you can win both the cash and that fantastic Škoda car as well. Now we're going to get Chris on from Nelson. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Chris, how are you, mate? I'm doing super. How are you guys outside? Doing well. Eight weeks ago, you moved to New Zealand.

Yes. Wow. What are your first impressions of the country? You're in Nelson. Yes. What do you think? It's lovely. The community, the people, the vibe, the atmosphere, everything is just amazing.

And except for these last couple of days that I'm not used to this rainy weather in winter, it's lovely. Yeah. Good to hear. How do we compare to the breakfast shows on Biltong FM in Cape Town? Much better. Much better. Much better.

Yeah, I thought that would be. Yeah, Biltong FM. It's a big player over there. Hey, Chris, we're going to hand you over to Alex very shortly. Cash Keep Alex to have you stabbed to. Imagine if you landed in the country, it's a big player over there. Hey Chris, we're going to hand you over to Alex very shortly, Cash Keep Alex, to have you stabbed to imagine if you landed in the country, then won a cash in a car, where'd be your favourite nation? New Zealand

of course. Yeah, and now Alex I did mention previous to the song that there's been some discussions with upper management, some concerns raised about you Yeah, I'd love to know what this is It's in relation to your dramatic pausing. Okay, so Ah yes, I was in that meeting, this is. It's in relation to your dramatic pausing. Okay, so... Ah, yes, I was in that meeting, yeah.

The fine hitslister are making their guess, and you're like, thanks, Chris, and then you leave dead air for too long. It's so long that there are concerns that maybe the emergency programming will kick into gear, and it'll cause a world of pain for the technical division here at the hits. Is this a you problem?

Yeah. Can I get through it? No. Because I don't think, I haven't heard this from anyone, and I don't know why that'd go to you. I'm just, hey, don't shoot the messenger. Upper management. Upper management.

We were in the meeting. So what I'm saying. Upper management is going to Jono to pass on the message. Tell me. Yeah. It seems unusual, unorthodox, but it gets results, all right? And so that's what I want to say to you today. Keep it dramatic, but keep it time sensitive.

I'm thinking maybe a one and a two and a three. Okay, if you could just count that out for me, that'd be great. It'll be a sufficient amount of drama and suspense, okay? And it won't take us off here. Okay, so Chris from Nelson, what is your guess? Alex, my guess would be $18,543.77. One and a two and a three.

Chris from Nelson with a guess of $18,543.77. That is incorrect. I'm sorry. Thanks, guys. We still have another chance at 11 o'clock this morning and plenty more chances if no one guesses then, all right? So keep listening, all right? Thank you so much.

Good on you, Chris. Really appreciate you tuning in, mate. Yeah, you download the iHeartRadio app. You can push the microphone icon there. And icon? Is that what they call it? I don't know. Push it, put your guess in, give your name and number,

and Alex could call you back at 11 o'clock. Mmm, coffee breath. Jono and Ben on the hits. A game we like to play, it's called One Take Call. So one of us records a message and we have to predict a phone conversation that we'll have when we play the message to them.

So will the person know it's a recording or not? It's like trying to personalise the automated phone service. You know when you pick up your phone and they're like, hello this is Vodafone, that's $222 for your bill. It's like trying to personalise the automated phone service. You know, when you pick up your phone and you're like, hello, this is Vodafone, that's $222 for your bill. It's like personalising it so they can interact with the pre-recorded recording. So you've got to leave gaps. Today you're going to record a message.

Now, John, I was thinking maybe we could call a florist and you have to order some flowers, bouquet of flowers, and maybe you get something written on a card. Okay. So you've got to have this conversation, leave some gaps for them to reply, and if you get to the end of the conversation without them knowing, it's a recorded message, then you win.

Okay? Okay. All right. I'll record now. You ready? Okay, go. Hi. Yeah, not bad, thanks. How are you?

Too right. It's that time of year, isn't it? Hey. Yeah, yeah, I was wanting to order a nice bouquet of flowers. Roses. Delivery. roses, delivery. Yep, on the card, if I can write, Dear Ben, just want you to know I'm sorry Yep, I'm sorry that

you got caught stealing out of the charity honesty box at reception. Okay, so you'll deliver those? Thanks. Oh, okay, you've gone for a gag on me. I see what you've done there. But you paused well. I think you paused really well. Last time I went too fast.

I look very pushy, as my mum said on the call. You just need to give it enough breathing room. But my major concern heading into this one is the conversation's going to be all out of kilter. None of it's, like, I've jumped ahead on a few things. And you didn't even give your car details over. Who's paying for this thing? Anyway, we'll give a call to a florist right now and see if he can go from start to finish,

play him the recording that you just did, and if they notice it's a recording, then you don't win. Florist, Drisena speaking. Hi. Hi. Yeah, not bad, thanks. How are you? I'm good.

Very good. Too right. It's that time of year, isn't it? It is. Hey. It is. Yeah? Yeah, yeah. I was wanting to order a nice bouquet of

flowers yeah sure did you want them to be delivered delivery yes so who are we delivering them to yep on the card if i can write dear ben just want you to know i'm sorry. Yep, I'm sorry that you have got caught stealing out of the charity honesty box at reception. Okay, so you'll deliver those? Thanks. I need an address. Are you there?

Are you there? It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. I knew you guys were up for something. So what we did... I'm so sorry. What we did was Jono recorded that whole thing anticipating what you might say and we wanted to see if we can get away with...

I knew that you guys were from somewhere that wasn't normal because there was a lot of cutting out going on and I bet you that's a bloody radio station. Well, it is a bloody radio station. And you're on the bloody worst of all the radio shows, mate. Nice. Thanks so much for that, guys. Oh, sorry for mucking you around this morning, but we'd love to send you to the new

Top Gun movie. We've got a double pass for that, alright? Awesome. Thank you. Thanks. Bye. She's a best-selling author, international speaker. She's an expert in health, and she's got something that's going to help us out this morning. Dr. Libby joins us right now. I love catching up with you. How are you doing?

Oh, I'm really well. Thank you, boys. How are you? We're doing all right. I actually thought of you, Dr Libby, because on Friday, Jono, last week, Jono was running a marathon at the top of the Sky Tower. So outside on the Sky Tower, never run a marathon before, running 42.2 Ks. And I know that you always struggle with the fact that Jono doesn't eat during the day. And I was trying to get fluids into him. I was trying to get bananas into him. And he was almost refusing like a toddler.

And I was just thinking of Dr. Libby all the way through that going, oh, she wouldn't be liking this. She wouldn't be happy. I wouldn't have been happy. No. I would have hooked him up to an IV, something like that. Now, Dr. Libby, you've got your bestselling book. You've turned into a bit

of a course to help a rushing woman. It's Rushing Woman Syndrome. That's something you've sort of, a phrase you've come up with. Yes, it is. It's not a medical condition. It's a name I gave to a book back in 2011. And it was based on an emerging trend I was seeing in women's health, where there were a lot of health consequences really starting to arise from constantly living with stress hormones switched on and revving our systems up. And a decade later, it's only become worse. And I think the rush is almost expected. We sort of expect it of ourselves and we feel like others expect it of us. And so I've had women say to me, I bought that book back in 2012, Libby, but I haven't had time to read it. So I wanted to find a way to help. I've been in such a rush. So yeah, I've created a course. It's called Overcoming Rushing Woman Syndrome to really

try to help people get to the heart of why they're doing that and have a full and thriving life, but without the rush. What's one simple thing that we can implement? Well, I think part of it is recognizing that you're doing it and then to see that it comes from a really beautiful place. So we rush because we care, but if you sort of take that a little bit further, we also really care about what other people think of us. Sometimes we're aware of that and sometimes it's somewhat unconscious. And so we have these traits, behavioural traits, if you like,

that we need certain people to see in us. And a lot of our dress comes from when we're trying to ensure that someone is seeing us in that way. So yes, I give people solutions to things like sex hormone imbalances and problems with their digestive system, like bloating. So there's all that practical aspect to it. But it's really tricky to change that unless you get to the heart of why you're doing it. And that's where that caring about what others think and looking at that in detail is really helpful now i don't know how

many people are going to like this but i was reading there an over consumption of caffeine isn't doing wonders for keeping people going yeah a lot of people want to block their ears and there's no hard and fast rules with how much of it we can handle it's very different for all of us but i just want people to stop and think, well, caffeine drives the production of adrenaline. And some people are genuinely chilled out. They literally don't sweat the small stuff. And caffeine will probably help their brain focus better.

Whereas other people already feel, they have a lot of anxious feelings already. And so the regular consumption of caffeine can put them into an uncomfortable place because adrenaline is what's behind all those anxious feelings. Yeah, cat butter, geez, it pulls you through the day, doesn't it? We're just fueled on it. It's too much of it. What's the limit of how many coffees a person should have a day, Dr. Libby?

Around 400 milligrams a day. So in a double shot coffee, there's around 200 milligrams. So it's really easy to kind of hit that limit. And the caffeine actually hangs around in our body for about eight hours. It doesn't just sort of have that half an hour effect that we might really notice. It's there for about eight hours. So it's pretty easy to let them stack up inside of us. For some people, no coffee is the best way to go.

For others, probably two a day is no problem. But I meet people who are having eight a day. It's a bit much. Wow, Ben, you cannot say no to a coffee. I know, I struggle. Even if he's just finished three coffees and someone goes, hey, would you like a coffee? He will never say no.

And if I'm doing it myself without anyone telling me, I'm probably just two coffees a day in the morning. It's because you're just so chilled out. You just love it. What's the unhealthiest thing Dr Libby does? You smoke cigarettes secretly or something? I love it. Behind closed doors, you're like...

No, but what people love to... What do you mean you eat hot chips? Of course I eat hot chips. They're delicious. Probably just don't do it... Well, I don't do it very often, but it's about how often we do things, I think. It's how often we do some of these things,

so it's not about going without. Yeah, imagine like, I saw Dr. Libby at the McDonald's drive-thru. You have to put a moustache on and a fake hat. I don't know whether a hat's fake. Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, Dr. Libby getting a Big Mac. No, Dr. Libby, of course, as we said before, you had the book, Overcoming Rushing Woman Syndrome.

You've turned it into a course for people to overcome stress. If people are really interested to try this course, how can they do that? It's available on my website, which is drlibby.com. There's lots of practical tools, so I really hope it makes a difference in people's lives, especially after the last few years. Hey, thanks, Dr Libby. It is the hits. You got it, Jono and Ben. ben jono and ben just like family the family members you're ashamed of jono and ben on the hits ben you probably deal with this in the morning too you got a dog as

well uh and i've been you've been like my not only my marathon mentor but also my dog mentor since uh dog came into our household, little Milo. And every, you know, their bladders are tiny, so you need to take them out in the middle of the night to do what they need to do. You probably get through that phase because of a puppy. That's definitely the puppy phase.

Now my dog, now and again, he will go, that's his little wake up. Oh my God. Oh, oh. Need to take a leak. Yeah, but that's not every night. You know, some nights you put him out before, you know, he'll not need to do a leak yeah but that's not every night you know some nights you put him out

before you know he'll not need to do that yeah will I ever stop needing to go in the middle of that well that you you're another story

you always wake me up with a every time we go away together for work I'm like oh mate you need to go out why don't you just go in the bathroom

in the hotel but we have to take you outside make the weird noise my dog makes but you know so I spend a lot of my time before i come into work it's like you know quarter to four four o'clock in the morning i'm just kind

of sitting on the lawn reflecting about life waiting for what do you have to do you wait just to make sure he's done it yeah you can't just put him out and come back inside that's well then i can't trust that he's done it you know it's like you can't trust me on my own so you always have to come and watch to make sure it's coming out A trust relationship Yeah it is So I sit there and wait For whatever that needs to pass through his body To pass through his body

And it's a beautiful time You know it's beautifully airy And quiet Four o'clock in the morning I love it You do really like your mornings You get up so early compared to what Why do you do that?

It's 3am Just like the piece You know you get that Could be the same It's probably the same at 5. At night? No, 5am. It doesn't have to happen, you know.

No one's up in your house until probably... That's interesting. There's not much that's interesting about me. It's an interesting thing. Yeah, okay. And you don't hear much. You maybe hear a few gangs shooting at each other at 3 o'clock in the morning, but that's about it.

And then once what's come out of his body, I go and pick it up with a plastic bag and i tell he's looking at me like you realize where that's just come from dogs must be like they must talk to each other and go does your owner oh it does yeah they do is this a thing they do maybe they're collecting them like i wonder what's going around the door with the canine community about us just sort of picking up whatever they've deposited. Yeah. For them, that'd be weird, wouldn't it? Yeah.

They're the ones sniffing all sorts of stuff. Mate, you realise what? But the shocker this morning that I had when I was going to do the pick-up was, and I've mentioned it before, got Invisalign at the moment. Straighten your teeth. It's like a mouth guard. But I had them kind of out, and I was kind of just biting them with my teeth while they weren't connected to my teeth. And the bottom one fell to the ground. Now, the problem with the puppy is everything's a toy.

It was chewing on a laptop cable yesterday. Plugged in as well. Plugged in. No consequences. No thought about any consequences. So he's like, oh, well, this is a toy. So he picks up my mouth guard And he's running around With the Invisalign in his mouth

I mean if it clipped on He'd have the straightest dog teeth In the community So I'm having a run around It's four o'clock in the morning Trying to chase this dog Trying to get him to drop out the Invisalign Eventually got him

I gave it a good old hosing I know what's gone inside that mouth well yeah and that's just the stuff I've seen gone inside that mouth and you've got to put that back yeah he's got no morals

to what he's putting inside him yeah well that's the thing every now and again when the dog will want to lick you and then you'll see something a few days later you'll be like

oh hang on you were just licking my face you were eating that thing that was yeah no let's not do that

let's not so yeah you'd be happy Ben used a whole bottle of Glen 20, sprayed it, washed it, dead old wiped it, and it's back in the gob. Okay, just trying not to think about that. The Hits. That is our show for a Wednesday morning. Thank you so much for joining us. We'll catch you tomorrow from 6.

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