Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: The Traffic Light Tour Kicks Off!

Episode Date: September 14, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast we are kickstarting the Traffic Light Tour and on our way to break a world record! How did you meet your partner? Plus an epic 5k for 5 words! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben on The Hits. Kia ora, welcome to the podcast today. It's lovely to have you here the 15th of September, Jono and Ben. We're joined in the studio by some very special podcast guests, Carson and Jimmy. We're just going to record this thing and just whatever you say is fine. Yeah. Okay, nothing's right or wrong. I don't know if you listen to us.

We don't set the bar very high. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Is that the same as me though? i'd like you to sort of set the bar you've been doing this 20 years so you're right or wrong you know well nothing is right or wrong yeah no you're right yeah and if sometimes you know i'm sure these guys aren't gonna go there but if it is wrong then i wouldn't know from you because i'm not gonna fact check you i'll just take it hey carsten and jimmy how are you good Good, how are you? Welcome to the podcast intro. The 15th of September.

Did you ever dream? How long are you? How old are you guys? I'm 11. 11? I'm 9. So in your 11 and 9 years on the world, did you ever think you would be on a podcast intro? No.

Never. Wildest dreams. Dream makers. It's probably not their dream to be on a podcast intro. But hey, it's great to have you guys here Because you guys won a competition for us Which is pretty cool, right? Yeah

You designed a billboard for us Because we couldn't be bothered and or afford The billboard designers And you guys did a wonderful job Could you just describe what was on your billboard? Well, mine, I had your kind of banner at the top and then a dog, a kiwi fruit, and a parrot listening to your radio. And they're all having a blast.

Yeah. We're very big in the parrot market, I think, apparently. Yeah. We love that. They spend the whole time repeating the whole show back. Yeah. And on your one, what was on your one? I had a man in a cast listening to your radio laughing with a crab.

We like the animals as part of it. That was cool. The crab's having a blast too, aren't they? Yeah, they're all. And the guy's got, even though the guy is in a cast, he still has a smile on his face. Yeah. Yeah, that is wonderful.

So well done. You won the competition. Won some money too. Yeah. How, that is wonderful. So well done. You won the competition. Won some money too. Yeah. How much money? $250. What? Each for $500.

Yeah. So have you spent it or you've saved it? What are you doing with the money? So I've spent it on... I like it. Bitcoin. Bitcoin.

Bitcoin. Buy some Bitcoin. On a new laptop. A new Chromebook. Oh, Chromebook for school and homework and whatnot. Yeah. And tomorrow I'm going to get a phone with it. Oh, wow. Laptop I don't know Chromebook Oh Chromebook for school And homework And what not Yeah And tomorrow

I'm going to get a phone with it Oh Wow That's great Jeez this money's been put to good use Yeah What do you Do you play

Games on your phone With your friends Yeah yes I do Roblox the big one eh Yeah I didn't play that Yeah what Minecraft Did you do Minecraft

Or is that one gone now That one's Yeah If we're trying to stand Like we're in touch what what's your what's your day well um what's the game to play we play rocket league in full guys all right okay i understood about four percent of that but okay but it's a rocket league in full guys guys jesus bloody hard to keep up with you guys you've been quickly last year you're like fortnight fortnight fortnight they were red blocks roblox rob Roblox Actually we've never liked

Fortnite These guys haven't liked Fortnite Never been a Fortnite fan Okay now we're on to Rocket League and Fall Guys Fall Guys

That's the new one So what do you do in that game? Which one? Rocket League and Fall Guys It's two separate games You wanted to sound in touch We couldn't sound more Out of touch right now

We're trying to impress These guys bro They did our billboard You said nothing was You wanted to sound in touch. We couldn't sound more out of touch right now. We're trying to impress these guys, bro. They did our billboard. You said nothing was right and wrong at the start, but that was definitely wrong from me. I was wrong. I was wrong. You said you weren't going to fact check me, and you did.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I really undercut everything. I have no more questions. Now, what do you guys want to be when you're older? I want to be a professional football player. Oh, yeah? Now, okay, we'll get that microphone sock, Ben,

and you just show us your kicking skills. That sock that's just over there. Not you. Over here. This one. Yeah. It's Carson, isn't it? Jimmy.

Jimmy. This is Jimmy. You kick that little microphone sock, and we'll see how good you are at football, okay? Okay. You show us what you do with it. Better with a real ball. Yeah, this is Jimmy. You kick that little microphone sock and we'll see how good you are at football, okay? Okay. You show us what you do with it. Better with a real ball. Yeah, yeah, I was going to say, you get the microphone sock as...

Yeah, thanks, Carson. So you open the door to the soundproof booth and he's got to try and get it in the soundproof booth. Okay, all right, here we go. Okay. Okay, here we go, here we go. All right, here we go. Let's go, Jimmy.

Ben's the goaltender. Okay, go. Oh! Straight in! He did! Jeez, if that was a football World Cup final. My precious.

Can I just say, you were a shocking goalie. You stood there and then you moved out of the way just to let it in. Yeah, you know. Didn't want to hurt

a child's feelings. Everyone's a winner here today except for us. Hey, really lovely to meet you guys. Thanks so much for taking part in our competition.

I think we're going to go outside now and check out the billboard. Did you know it's actually on a big billboard? Yeah. We did, but we

had no idea where it was. Yeah, we haven't seen it yet either, so we're going to go check it out while everyone else listening right now

checks out the podcast. Oh, actually, Producer Behemoth has got a bigger ball. Oh, mate, we've done it, mate.

We've got the moment. He wants a bigger ball. We've got the moment. He's brought a bigger ball in to

play this again. Ben Boyce is going to play goalie again. We've got a big sort of's brought a bigger ball in to play this again. Ben Boyce is going to play goalie again. We've got a big sort of dodge ball. All right, Jimmy. Give it your all. Ben Boyce is the goalie. The soundproof.

I want you to do it hard, okay? You took it easy on Jimmy before. He walked away and just let it roll into the goal. You defend that goal. Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. Let's go. No! Just off the post.

Hey, well done, Jimmy. Well done. Hey, thank you very much for being part of this podcast intro. Thank you. Appreciate it. Helping us out and for the podcast listeners. You enjoy the show. We had a fun time today.

We're building up to a world record attempt, which we're about to head out on, going to over 57 bars and having the traffic light drink at each one. You guys ever had traffic light drink before? No. Oh, we're out of touch again. Damn it. Baldly going where no show has gone before.

How long is it going to take for Ben to make fun of my bald head? Jono and Ben on the hits. But this time tomorrow, we could be world record holders. We're taking part in quite possibly one of the silliest world records ever known. We are mourning the loss of the traffic

light system that Jacinda Ardern abruptly ripped away from us. Well, our beloved traffic light system. Well, we're glad it's gone, to be honest. It meant so much to so many. Yeah, I'm glad it's gone, but at the same time, it was such a huge part of our lives and I was a bit like, what? It's just gone? Tonight? Just gone? Is that the send-off we give the traffic light system so no not on this show

we're gonna go out and do this today jonathan ben's traffic light tour 57 traffic light drinks 57 venues one world record traffic yeah that's what's happening uh we're gonna well you're also gonna have a national day of mourning for the traffic light system disappearing. No, no, it's not quite. Everyone has to be locked in their houses and they can't leave for a day. It's definitely not that important. But we are today. We found a world record, currently held by a guy in Wales,

who's gone around 56 pubs over a 24-hour period and ordered a drink in each one. Now, these drinks don't have to be alcoholic. They just need to be a drink you order in each location. And we thought, well, what better drink to order in 57 pubs to try and beat them was a traffic light. You know, the drink you'd have back in Common Co. back in the day. I can think of better drinks if you're asking the question, what better drink?

Yeah, okay, fair enough. I agree with that. What better drink to pay homage to the traffic light system. But there's no traffic. The traffic light drink. No traffic light drink. The sugary, sugary drink. I mean, made with.

So much syrup. It's going to be so syrup. We're going to have more syrup in us than like an ice cream sundae. Well, that's all because we had a crack at making it yesterday. I mean, it's great. It's got a lot of juice. A lot of orange juice in it. But then, you know, a lot of natural sugars in that.

And then you're right where you add the syrup and then you add the green food coloring to give it the red orange and green and there is a lot of syrup brought to you by diabetes new zealand yeah this wonderful uh this wonderful expedition but no we're heading out after nine o'clock uh there are some concerns about whether establishments uh are going to be open then but producer bee humps has done a wonderful, wonderful job. A recce, they call it in the business. We're going around yesterday, committed to going around visiting pubs around Auckland.

He drank 57 yesterday just to make sure it could be done. Yeah, not traffic lights though, he said. But he just went around to make sure the pubs were open. And now we're having to go back over them because he spent a lot of money on the work credit card to just justify the payments. So after 8 o'clock, we're actually going to be talking to the current record holder. Yeah.

Going to be talking to the current record holder. And also phoning a bar to A, see if they're open, and B, see if they actually make traffic lights. Big concern that they're not in market anymore. No. You don't see them on many menus. You're right. And we're basing, we're putting a lot of weight, a whole day, Ben, dedicating a whole day

to something that may or may not be available i know there's a lot could go wrong today you can follow our journey on the hits breakfast on instagram and facebook uh throughout the day and see uh by this time tomorrow whether we we're new world record holders or not uh it feels like a pretty obtainable world record to be honest well yeah yeah in a lot of ways it does it feels like at some stage this is going to be up to like you know Yeah. In a lot of ways it does. It feels like at some stage this is going to be up to like you know 200 bars visited

in 24 hours. Producer Joel? I was crunching the numbers last night and if we stay at every bar for 10 minutes 57 bars that's going to take us

about 10 hours. So hopefully you didn't have any plans for the afternoon. Oh so it's terrible. Yeah well it's over 24 hours period. He's irrespective.

Shono's a chatter though. That's his thing. He loves light banter so everyone's between preparing. He's Irish. But Shono's a chatter, though. That's his thing. He loves light banter, so everyone's going to be in New York. But also, I lack a lot of enthusiasm for this, so I'm going to be in and out.

I'm with you. I'm like, let's keep the pace up. I appreciate what we're doing, but I didn't really love the traffic light system. You know, there's other

stuff. You love the publicity, though. I do like that. That's where you get me. That's my weak point. You love people. Even yesterday, we were downtown, and someone was like, oh, you're doing the traffic light thing. We're like, yeah, tomorrow. So where you get me. That's my weak point. Yeah love people even yesterday we were downtown

and someone was like oh you're doing the traffic light thing and we're like yeah tomorrow so you're like oh yeah. Oh I love that.

Yeah I do love that. It's the part of me that loves it. Yeah that's why he's coming back. A grade celebrity chat with C grade celebrity hosts Jono and Ben

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From the bright lights of Hollywood to the bleak lights of our radio studio, it's ENTI. Every week, a wonderful introduction. How are you, ENTI? I'm great. How are you guys? We're doing well. It's been a wild week. Today marks one week since Harry Styles found himself in the middle of a giant spitstorm after everyone thought he spat on co-star Chris Pine at the Don't Worry About It premiere.

What's happened since? Yeah, I think I told you guys before, theer brothers it's i mean we're in september and between now and the end of the year they're releasing two movies one of the largest studios in the world is releasing two movies this is one of them and it's because it's a tax write-off it's not a good movie the only thing worthy of talking about was whether or not harry spit on chris did he spit though did it? It looks spitty to me. The actions look spitty. The reaction from Pine was like,

did he? Did he just? Here's what Chris. Okay, so I got this from a friend of Chris's, and this is Chris was looking for his sunglasses. He had dropped them. The word is that Chris had just taken an edible about 30 minutes earlier

and was putting on his sunglasses. So that way. And he did sleep through the entirety of the movie. So that's why he was putting on his sunglasses just as the thing went down. This is what Chris's friend said is that they had all just walked the red carpet, everything. OK, great. We get to sit down for an hour and a half or two hours now. And so as Harry is like, basically, if you can think of a sigh, like, oh, but at the same time, his mouth was closed, and he had just had some water, and that perhaps a little bit of fleck of water came from his lips,

but it was not actual spitting. And the thing that people don't, why would Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine? The most chill individual in the world. It does seem like that. So Chris Pine was just quite high and he forgot where he put his sunglasses and then the reaction was like, oh, there they are. Yes, because he thought, oh, there they are between my legs.

Who on earth would want to spit at Chris Pine? No, I get you. And I also sympathize with Chris Pine. Movie theaters are very sleepy conditions. I always, every time we have to go to a movie bed, I'm always sleeping. Within 10 minutes, he's asleep. We've got Andy with us live from Hollywood. What was the drama going on behind the scenes of that movie?

So what happened was that Olivia Wilde, at the start of the movie, was married to Jason Sudeikis. Formerly of Saturday Night Live, now on Ted Lasso. Yeah, and she's the director of the movie and also ex-sinner, right, Olivia Wilde? Correct. And originally, it was supposed to star Shia LaBeouf in the Harry Styles role, and

at some point, Shia quit. Olivia Wilde says, no, no, I fired him, but Shia's got the receipts to show that, hey, I quit. What Florence Pugh, who's the co-star, didn't find nice is that Olivia started cheating, allegedly, on Jason Sudeikis during the movie and was quite obviously favoriting Harry Styles

and ignoring the fact that he was awful in the movie and Florence was just having none of it. And over the ensuing months has made it clear that she doesn't like the movie. She's never going to acknowledge the movie. And that the only thing they could force her to do contractually was to go to the Venice Film Festival and nothing else. So that's the tension. I see. So did Florence attend to the film festival?

She did go to the Venice Film Festival. And that's it. She was there. If you look at the seating arrangement, it was Olivia Wilde, then it was Chris Pine, then it was Harry Styles, then it was an aisle, and then it was Florence Pugh. So somebody who did the seating arrangements has also done seating arrangements for weddings where there were, you know, both sets of parents there.

And drunk aunties that they needed to separate. E.T., thank you very much for your time. You've always got your finger on the pulse in Hollywood. You're going to have a great week. Hey, you have a great week. Looking for a pair of below average husbands? Ta-da! It's Jono and Ben on the hits.

Hey, we want to know this morning how you met your partner. Where was the interesting place or location or maybe the job that you met your partner on 100 of the H because in the studio right now we have two people with a great story now megan puppers from the 3 p.m pickup you'll know from the afternoons and her partner andrew puppers who's got a new single out at the moment it's cool pulling me in it's very cool now andrew was in a boy Titanium a few years ago, and that is how they kind of met. So tell us more about this wonderful story. Andrew, good morning.

Hello, hello. Hello. Now, Andrew, we've also got your wonderful wife, Megan Puppers, in here as well. Hello. It's good to have you on. Now, Megan, you'll know from the 3 p.m. pickup. Now, the audience might not know that you're married to a musician, Megan. Yeah, which has its ups and downs.

What do you mean? Only ups. Only ups. Yeah, I say only ups. Right now we're getting real on this, aren't we? This is like therapy. There's one of the downs. Well, not so much anymore, but he used to be in a boy band,

and that's so much fun when you're a girlfriend. So much fun. Oh, with all of the adoring fans. Yeah. Yeah, right. Were they relentless? Yeah, like you wouldn't think, but people used to throw like bras and undies on stage.

It was pretty grim. Did you collect them? What do you do with them all? What do you do with them? What did you do with them, Andrew? What is it? Okay, here we go. Whoa, I didn't know I was being set up here.

This wasn't our intention. This was just to bring you into the hits family, to explain the background, and we're like, wow, we really are. And then after this, Andrew gets divorced. He's like, I just came in to play my new song. Hey, back then the fans were a lot younger. Nowadays it's more like mums and things, eh? The undies are a little bit more grainy.

Did he re-gift them? Was he like, hey, look what I've got? No, he would collect them and he'd take photos and put them on his gram. Because people would write their phone numbers or Instagram handles and stuff on them. I always wonder when you do go to a concert and you see a lot of the time people throwing their negliges on stage. Have they come with a spare pair or is it removed on site? Well, yeah. You'd hope it's clean and new.

It's very deceptive because I would wear comfy undies and then I'd buy like a sexy pair and be like, yeah, this is definitely what I wear on a day-to-day basis. And you fling them up like a slingshot. How do they? Like throw a pair of undies. Oh, yeah. If you miss the stage, you're like, sorry,

if you feed those back I need to get those You need to put some weight in it too Maybe like a little like Anchor or something Yeah Because a bra's not aerodynamic Flingshot the undies

But I don't know about the bra But then the problem is You receive that And you're like whoa So this is what they're wearing And then I don't know You end up taking them home And marrying them

And you're like wait a minute Hey Oh so this is how it happened Was this how it happened The divorce Yeah this is how it happened. This is how it happened. The divorce, yeah. This is how it happens. Now, because you two actually met at a previous radio station. We did, yeah.

So that's how the boy band got together. It was formed at a radio station. It was called Titanium, right? Yeah, yeah. It was massive. It was massive, yeah. Yeah, it was awesome. We met each other through the glass windows.

Yeah. Did you know immediately? No, but no. No, she was just kind of like flirting with me. And I was like, whoa, hold up. Excuse me? Excuse me? What do you mean know immediately?

You were flirting with me. This has been the best interview ever. She's all like, oh, so I want to do an interview with you guys We got sent all the phone numbers of the guys And I tried to text you But I didn't get a message The thing is we were sponsored By another phone company

And because I already had a phone I didn't use that number And I was like oh no that's not actually my number You got sent this promo thing you know, this promo thing. Here's my actual number. You can text me. Yeah, but, like, how smooth was that? It's a good play.

The rest is history. The rest is history. Titanium were massive. That was huge, wasn't it? Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah, I mean, our first single went double platinum, and we had two gold-selling albums. We toured Australia, New Zealand multiple times.

We sang at Madison Square Garden Wow Did you? Yeah, at a New York Knicks game We sang the national anthem The American national anthem That's incredible Which is way more intense than you think

They take it so seriously And it's a tough answer They take it so seriously And you can feel the air was thick People were just watching us like Are they going to mess this up? Don't mess this up. You see some clangers on. Fergie did an absolute.

Oh, I love that, though. She tried some stuff, didn't she? You're ever having a bad day, watch that. She even admitted it. She's like, I tried some stuff, it didn't work. She went and experimented with it. It was at the All-Star weekend, too, wasn't it? Yeah, it was the players were like, whoa.

Make sure you listen to Andrew Pappas' new single, Pull Me In. Wonderful story, that, how they met, though. Yeah, Megan and Andrew. So, 0800 The Hits, can you beat it? How'd you meet your partner? If you're a guy here for romantic advice, you are in serious trouble. Jono and Ben on The Hits. Just how you meet your partner, I had Megan Pappas and Andrew Pappas.

Megan Pappas, you'll know from the 3pm pick-up. They met through a radio station. At a literal 3 p.m. pickup. I don't know if it happened at 3 p.m. Could have been 3 a.m. Who knows? We weren't there. We weren't there, Ben, and thank God we weren't there.

Thank you, Producer Joel, too. They really need the... Anyway. It really adds salt to the wounds, doesn't it? Yeah. But yeah, how did you meet your partner? You can text 24487. Maybe your name was Tommy and you used to work on the docks.

Gina, you were working hard in the diner all day. Thank you very much. Maybe you're a small town girl and you took the midnight train to nowhere. So 0800, that's the telephone number. How did you meet your partner? We've got Marissa. Marissa, welcome from Taranaki uh how'd you meet your partner we've got marissa marissa welcome from taranaki how'd you meet your partner hi i met him playing clash of clans on my phone playing what clash of clans oh that edge that i always see on tv download clash of clans from the app store or the google play store that's right what do you do on clash of clans

well you build a clan and you battle it out with other players. And it kind of changed a bit, the game, and now you battle other clans. Clash of Clans is an appropriate title. Yeah, it does sound like it. So you're playing this. Where were you? In different cities, countries? What was going on?

I was in Texas, and he's in Auckland. And I created King of the North. you know, Game of Thrones was popular. Yeah. And went into a global chat, which doesn't exist anymore. And recruited Elliot, who was at the time number two in New Zealand. That would have impressed you. Yeah. But then you found out how small New Zealand was.

You're like, ah. I knew about New Zealand. Well, New Zealand was on the radar. So we played together for a few years. Then my partner in Texas and I split up. And Elliot told me he'd liked me for years and wanted me to come check him out. So he sent me a plane ticket in 2015. I came and visited.

And then I moved in 2016. What? From Texas? Just from playing Clash of Clans, you've ended up from Texas in Taranaki? Yes, and we have, as of today, a four-year-old. Oh, wow. A story made in clan heaven. Oh, no, I shouldn't say that, really.

Clash of clan heaven. Clan heaven's probably something. Clan heaven's a whole other different thing. That is, what an incredible story. Yeah, we feel pretty blessed to have found each other, because like I said, that global chat doesn't exist anymore, so it never would have happened in today's game. Surely you must have been flying over and many times throughout that flight going,

what on earth am I doing? Well, I mean, I've known him for a few years at this point, and I knew his brother. He was in our clan too. You know, it was like my two-week holiday vacay, and we had the arrangement that if we didn't like each other, we'd just fake it.

But then I was detained by customs on my way through and they thought that he was trying to get me to bring drugs into the country. Oh, really? It just keeps getting better and better. Yeah. So I was in customs for a few hours and he thought I saw him and turned around. But no, I about knocked him over when I finally was released out of the detainee spot or whatever

Oh Marissa, what a beautiful love story and I'm glad it's all working out in rural New Zealand you've gone from rural America and Texas to rural New Zealand here. Oh, actually I had to come all the way to rural New Zealand to become a hillbilly because I was from Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex which has about 6 million people

I'm now in a town of a thousand. We bought a house in Waverly. Well, thank you so much for sharing your story this morning. Thank you very much. Y'all have a great day. They've got pranks. They've got puns. Now they just need some actual listeners.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono and Ben, hey, today, after the show, we're doing this. Jono and Ben, hey today, after the show, we're doing this Jono and Ben Farewelling the traffic light system with a traffic light tour Yeah, the traffic light system, yeah, it was such a big part of our life for so long Through the whole COVID thing that, you know, consumed us all And then this week, it was announced, gone Just ripped from our lives forever.

Yeah, and I'm glad. I'm glad it's gone, but we wanted to pay one last little tribute to the traffic light system with a world record that we found online. Someone has visited 56 bars or pubs in 24 hours, and we thought we could beat that. We could go around 57 pubs in Auckland. We're going to do it later today and order the traffic light the kids traffic light drink yeah going around 56 establishments just think 12 months ago this would have been a super spreader event yeah not now you're right we'd be

on the news going oh those guys we can't believe they were you know we would have been hung out to dry the pitchforks would have been we would have been like the wanaka couple the two idiots who went around 57 bars. Not now, mate. Maskless. True. Going around. Who cares if you've got COVID? Battle it out. Now, we've just had some correspondence from our only US correspondent,

the one and only John Lovegrove from Portland, Oregon. Come on in. Howdy. Kia ora. Good morning, you guys. Kia ora. Good morning. Wow, howdy. Wow, howdy. Johnny Lovegrove. How How have you been mate? It's been a long time Yeah, it's been a while I've been busy, busy with work

Oh, well it's nice to talk to you I mean, you're a friend of the show We call you our US correspondent You listen on iHeartRadio But you've been listening to what we are about to do today Going around all these pubs And you've done a very similar thing once. You've gone around a whole lot of breweries. Oh, first of all,

it's a brilliant idea whoever thought of this. This traffic light 57 in one day is brilliant. I wish I thought of it myself but yeah. That was Ben Boyce. You guys are going to have a blast. That was Ben Boyce. Like if I had my option if I had my option, John, Ben would just go off and do it all. Yeah, I feel like Jono doesn't think it's a brilliant idea. He likes, but the, I look,

maybe I'll just drink the traffic lights and you can just come around and support me until you want to go home and have dinner. You know, that's fine. I'm happy for that. Back in the day, I do have an unofficial Guinness record. I had 77 breweries in one day about seven years ago. 77?

Well, you must have the world record. Like, if this guy's got 56. It's actually easy to break the world record. It's really hard to document it for Guinness. They are really strict about the evidence. Man, it's hard. So you did try. You tried to officiate it.

I've been in touch with Guinness about breaking the record you're trying to break, but they need, like, so many witnesses and so many cameras and official timekeepers, and it's just a lot of work. So I'm planning it now to do it in Portland early next year. But, yeah, you guys go for it. We're not doing it in an official capacity.

We're doing it when they print it in the paper. It'll be like record in those exclamation marks, world record. So it leaves it a bit open to interpretation. Yeah. Any tips and techniques? I've got a little bit of advice for you. Yeah. Watch those bathroom breaks.

Once you get past number 35, you've really got to allow some time for those bathroom breaks. They'll kick in, hardcore. That is a useful tip because there is going to be a lot of liquid. There's a lot of, you know, and they don't come in small glasses, the traffic lights. No, I was thinking that as well, you know, because you have to order a drink at each place for the record. It doesn't have to be alcoholic, so that's great.

We can order a traffic light. But you're right, Jono, they're quite long glasses. Yeah, the official record is you've got, I think it's 125 mils of each. So that's doable for sure. Well, Jon, what we learned from this experience today, we'll pass on to you to then go forth and have your name emblazoned in the Guinness World Record

books, okay? We'll work together on a team. Yeah. My next New Zealand record is this December. I plan to hit every single brewery in the North Island in the month of December. Wow. Do you? Are you doing that in December? I do.

Have you got other stuff you need to do? While you're back here, you haven't been back in a while. Surely there's family that want to see you. Hold on, before that, I'll visit every brewery. Yeah, we can squeeze it in. There's always time for another beer. There's always time. Well, there you go, John Lovegrove,

who's actually going for the official Guinness record that we're attempting today. Next year, he's lodging the paperwork, getting it done, and I was just thinking, you know, what? Losers go around 57 bars and can still drive home at the end of the day. Don't even have a drop of alcohol. That is us. That's what you get on the hits, the family-friendly hits.

That's right. You're right. Hey, John, thanks so much for listening on iHeartRadio. We appreciate it. Cheers. All the best, you guys. Yeah, today, if you want to follow our journey,

as John Osteen going around 57 bars trying to drink nothing but 57 traffic lights as we go, you can do that on Hits Breakfast on Facebook

and Instagram. There are plenty of updates throughout the day. It is the Hits. This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Wall-to-wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. Funeral Monday, isn't it?

Happening in the UK for the Queen. And a New Zealander has actually penned a letter to King Charles to offer their services at the funeral service. And you all know him as one of the stars from TVNZ1's The Casketeers. Beautiful show, The Casketeers. It is a really lovely show, yeah. His name, Francis Tipene Morena. Good morning.

Good morning to you both, to Jono and Ben. Jesus, it sounds like we've got you early, buddy. You've got that morning voice going on, Francis. You have. My sister and family arrived early this morning back from Rotorua from holiday, so I was up opening the doors

and bringing them inside. Oh, you had an early start. And the way we appreciate it. And then the big sigh. You're like, couldn't they have got a later flight? And then John or Ben

bloody have to call you. Honestly. Now, people know you from The Cast of Tears, a great show on TVNZ, but you're going off to the UK you've offered your services Yes, I'm off to the UK tomorrow

and the letter to the King yes, well I mean you and I both know that's probably hopefully it makes it to His Majesty's spare mail but at the end I've got more of a chance of getting a reply back from Santa

than the Majesty's office. But look, going for the, to be part of the crowd and stand with the probably millions in the city that will watch this beautiful event, sad but beautiful for me, take place. So you've offered your services to sort of conduct the funeral because it's what you do obviously every day. Your TV show is brilliant and you put on beautiful funerals Francis. When you go to a funeral are you getting a little judgy? Are you like oh no I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have put the coffin down at that time. Well yeah I do as most people in my industry do. I mean, I saw that little, on the hearse,

I saw the funeral company's name on there at one point when it left. Oh, we saw that too, yeah. And then when it got into Edinburgh, it was taken off, and I thought that was a little bit of a hiccup that, you know, we all would have known to take our sign off when you're carrying, you're carrying Her Majesty the Queen. It's just a no-brainer. But also a chance for priceless advertising as well.

Let's not overstate them. The marketing. Clever of them. Clever of them. But also we would have been like, oh no, take it off because everyone will be watching and they needed to see just the Queen in the back. You know? Now a lot of people are paying their respects to the Queen. She's been in Scotland. She's going to the UK. She's going to be, you know? Now, a lot of people are paying their respects to the queen.

She's been in Scotland. She's going to the UK. She's going to be, you know, people are going to go up and see the casket, closed casket, over the next couple of days without getting too morbid. But how long can people do that for? Is there a time that you go after a week or two, then it's time to obviously get rid of the body

rather than the ground or cremation? Sure. No, I've just found out that she's in a lead-lined casket and it's a to obviously get rid of the body rather than the ground or cremation? Sure. No, I've just found out that she's in a lead-lined casket and it's a closed casket. So when someone's not being viewed, like Her Majesty the Queen, it's okay. You could do that for as long as you wish.

Right. Okay. But if the lid was off and we were viewing her body, that's a different story. Gotcha. Well, that's good then. What's the strangest request you've had at a funeral there, Francis? Here in New Zealand,

probably the lady's wish was to be buried on top of her late husband, upside down facing him. All right. Yeah, no fair. Well, I tell you what, when you do my funeral, I want to be put on top of Ben. You're alive. You're staring at him dead in the eyes.

I'm still around, but okay. This is weird, I've got a corpse on me. Francis, well, good luck. A wonderful thing that you're doing going over there, but also offering your services to King Charles as well. So good on you. And we'll stand by and wait to see if anything happens. Sure.

Thank you both very much. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jono and Ben's Traffic Light Tour. 57 traffic light drinks, 57 venues, one world record. Traffic. Yeah, the traffic light, we want it. We want a whole lot of them. Now, the traffic light system, obviously, it was there to protect us from COVID.

We got rid of it. After a year, it's all gone and we're glad it's gone, but we thought we'd give it a fitting send-off by trying to break the world record today. After the show, we're going out there to visit 57 pubs and have 57 traffic lights. Order 57 traffic lights. That's the world record. That would

get us the record for most pubs visited in 24 hours. It's a selfless act and it's what makes us the wonderful New Zealanders that we are, Ben. We're doing this for the people. Getting out there, there's a few things that I'm just running around in my head. The lack of traffic lights I've seen on menus over the last 10 years. Got to be problematic.

Yeah, they were everywhere. There was a period in time when they were everywhere. They've sort of slowly been deleted off menus across the hospitality industry. If you don't know what that is, that's a drink that a lot of kids would have had back in the day in Cobb & Co, where it's like a coloured like a traffic light. It's a non-alcoholic drink we're going for.

Juice made up with a bit of food colouring, a red and green food colouring. Gets the kids running at about 120, doesn't it? What's it going to get us running at? Yeah, we're going to be running at, yeah. I don't know if we can do the maths to add it up after having 57 of these. And then, so that's my first problem is if they're available.

Second problem is we're starting in the morning. So. Oh, look, we've got to come back and do it overnight. No. No, that's why I knew your enthusiasm for this was low. Yeah, it was nine to five, my enthusiasm. Yeah. And is anyone going to be open?

We're pushing you out to maybe more like 12 to eight, you know. We'll see if we can get it done. Yeah, it was nine to five for my enthusiasm. Yeah. And is anyone going to be open? We're pushing you out to maybe more like 12 to eight, you know, see if we can get it done. Yeah, okay. Let's just try and get it done. We'll try,

because I mean, it's obviously racing around. You're going to keep the small talk to a minimum. Yeah. But we need to order these drinks and have a photo with each one. Now,

someone has just told me that there's apparently a bar that opens at nine o'clock in the morning. Oh, so we can get one. We can, yes.

Really? Producer Humphrey, don't ask me how he knows what bars open at 9 in the morning. I think the one who's always inviting us to lunch. Yeah, but thank you for the intel. So we're going to go through the right track. Oh, yeah. The right track bar.

Now to see if they can do it. Hello, White Track Bar. Kim speaking. Oh, the White Track Bar. How are you? Good. How are you? Good. How are you? You're up early.

Are people in the bar now? Yeah, obviously. That's why we're answering your calls. But like customers are in the bar now. Yeah. They're watching sport, having breakfast, and then, yeah, drinking their favorite beers and stop drinking. You're watching sports, breakfast, cricket. But beer's an early time for beer. breakfast and then drinking their favourite beers and stop drinking. You're watching cricket.

It's an early time for beer. Well, you know, it's fine. Maybe people night shift workers and all sorts. You're calling us for something. Oh, we are. We're Jono and Ben. We're from the Hits radio station. We want to go around tomorrow and visit places and get them to make traffic lights. Now, do you know how?

Oh, I see. Would you make a traffic light for us if we popped in to visit? Let me check. Great. Have you done it before? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I have, I think. You know how to make it?

You sound confident. You did, and then you went, oh, hang on. How many of you guys will come over? Yeah, we'll do it. We'll be there with you. So is it on the menu? Yeah. We're going to make it for you guys. Whatever with you. So is it on the menu? Yeah.

We can make it for you guys. Whatever you want. If you want breakfast, you want to watch some cricket, you want to have a beer, whatever you want, you can do it at the right track. Take all the booking from six over. How about you guys? I know you want to null us out all the time. What do you want to do?

Six people or over? Yeah, make it last for you guys. Just a special deal for you guys just a special deal we'll be in and out mate shove that traffic light in our mouth and we'll leave you alone we're open at 9 o'clock love your work you too, bye

we've got a bar that we can go to, the first one that can happen earlier today, that's pretty cool we're going to try and visit 57 of them throughout the day, if you want to follow the journey it's going to be a lot of fun. Head to the Hits Breakfast. We've got Instagram. We've got Facebook. Be part of that. Part of history, mate. Not part of that. Part of history.

Don't just brush over with be part of that. This is a part of history. I'm afraid this is going to overshadow Monday's proceedings. That's my other grave concern. That was the third one we never got to. It is the Hits. That's my other grave concern. That's your other concern. That was the third one we never got to.

And it's the hits you got, Jono and Ben. Warning, this show contains Jono and or Ben. Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. I know Eric Young on Prime News, he claims to be first at 5.30. But you, Ben, you're on to your bulletin at 5.30 a.m. He's not starting until the p.m. Well, you're right.

He's in the afternoon. Now, today, it's the Blairslow Cup. Thursday. Yeah, I know. Tonight. Yeah. Yeah. So, Australia taking on New Zealand tonight in the Blairslow Cup in Melbourne.

It's on a Thursday night. Marble Stadium in Melbourne. Is it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, interesting. You know, any times I say it's on, you're questioning it. Yes, it is.

It's on tonight. Now, I think it's to do with, like, you know, Australia's got a lot of Aussie rules going on down to the finals and stuff over the weekend. And they couldn't give a shit

about rugby. And probably stadium booking as well, too. You know, there's, yeah, I mean, it is sold out. It's sold out over there. Marble Stadium's a massive stadium,

so it's sold out tonight and it's pretty cool to be on, yeah, on Thursday night. Something different, but different for rugby. Are they AFL Grand Final this weekend, is it?

No, I don't think it's the finals. I don't think it's the Grand Final yet, right? Two weeks away for the AFL Grand Final. Right, there you go. Two weeks away?

Well, let us have Saturday night then. They haven't got their Grand Final happening this weekend. Give us prime time. Yeah, but this is... I'm glad it's still

a sellout though. Aussie good at the moment? They're okay. I mean, if they win tonight, I think they're going to snatch the Bledisloe Cup back off us. We've had it since like 2003.

Oh God, we don't need that. Another case? I think they need to win a couple games to get the Bledisloe Cup off us, but it'll be a good start

in the right direction. Have they had it since 2000? We've had it since 2003? Yeah, a long time. Thank you. I've got one thing right now. Thank you,

Producer Joel. Let's just say it's going to be a game of rugby and some stuff will happen. Hopefully we won't lose. We can't, I don't think. Good, good headline though and stuff this morning in the article, All Blacks trying to avoid

a bledder's low. L-O-W. Yeah, yeah. Great pun. I was like, that's good. You should, like, post radio, that should be your job. Writing headline puns. Yeah.

Take it to the pun master. Yeah. They're like, oh, we've got this story, you know, there's a guy rescued a busload of children. You're like, oh, busload of children. Okay, there's got to be something there, something there. Give it to the, you're the pun guy, the headline. Yeah, but, I don't know, but it's just one of those things at the time, you're like, yeah, and then you feel kind of instantly almost dirty afterwards.

Bus has just been stolen, busted by the police, you know. Yeah, everyone's like, oh, boys in his pun headlines again. And Jordan Rondell, she's known as the caker. She's a Kiwi. She owned a baking, a cake store in Auckland. She's on The Great Bake Off on TV, a TV one as well. And she's off in the States as well, trying to get her business going over there, which I think is doing really well.

Chrissy Teigen. Chrissy Teigen, John Legend. They gave her a shout out. We talked to Jordan about it a few weeks ago. I mean, Chrissy Teigen, she basically gave you a shout-out on her social media. There's a photo of John Legend with his face next to one of your cakes. I mean, that's pretty wild. Yeah, I know.

That was a good day, actually. Does that boost sales when celebrities do things like that? Yeah, totally, it does. And it just kind of gives you some more credibility, you know. Like, moving to LA hasn't been this breeze that I anticipated. You know, we're such a small fish in a big pond here, and it's kind of the opposite of what it is in New Zealand. So it's been an interesting journey,

and when people like that notice it, it feels good. There we go, that's Jordan Rundell. Yeah, so that was a while ago that Chrissy Teigen, out of the blue, just gave a shout out for one of her cakes, her cake recipe, said how amazing it was. Well, now they've done a campaign together. The two of them, they're in bathrobes, they're eating cake for Sticky Cake. And now, yeah, the two of them, it's been all organized, all organized from the caker. And it's like, yeah, promoting one of her products.

How cool was that? What, like photos and things? Yeah, photos, yeah. They were in bathrobes together, sitting there eating cake. And yeah, it's like a yeah, promoting one of her products. How cool was that? What, like photos and things? Yeah, photos, yeah. They were in bathrooms together, sitting there eating cake. And yeah, it's like a really cool looking shoot. So that's pretty cool. Oh, good on her. Yeah.

Good on her. She's going to go to great things. She's just been a bit of a hustle over there. Go over there trying to get her business started during COVID as well. I can imagine, yeah. Yeah. I can't, you know, I don't, well, I imagined. I don't have any experience.

Yeah, I've got no experience in cakes. But great cakes, too. If you get a chance to try one of her cakes, moist, well, I imagined. I don't have any experience. Yeah, I've got no experience in cakes. But great cakes, too. If you get a chance to try one of her cakes, moist, delicious, even gluten-free options for producer Bee Humps over there. He'll be happy. He's a bloody niggle to take to anywhere, isn't he? I know, he is.

Gluten-free every time, every restaurant. You and me are very wary of it. Before we walk in here. Now we all look for the GF next door. Yeah, we've got GF options here. No, yeah, okay. And that's us making news this morning. It is the Hits.

Now two guys with tertiary broadcasting qualifications prove C's get degrees. Jono and Ben on the Hits. A lot of people, you know, do some very interesting jobs out there when you chat to people about their jobs. I was just reading in Taiwan a bit of a backlash over Rest Home that hired some adult entertainers to entertain the residents of the rest home over there in Taiwan.

Did what? Like did a bit of a routine? Yeah, a routine. We just thought, hey, get the morale up for the whole, you know, ladies, men, the whole lot. Get the morale up and also the heart rate. Yeah, and then afterwards they were like, well, maybe that wasn't appropriate for a rest home to be organised.

I could have told them that before they had ordered the strippers. That is great. But the main thing is, did the residents like it? Well, hey, that's the thing with news articles. No one cares of the actual people that was meant to be involved. They're just like, other people have a backlash online. I don't know. Yeah, that's the problem with backlash, isn't it?

Everyone's like backlashing on behalf of people. It's like, well, let's go straight to them. Let's ask them. How are you feeling? Do they come out and say, hey, this is not appropriate? Or are they like,

hey, this was just something a bit different for my Tuesday morning? Jeez, would you like to see a naked guy gyrating? Yeah, I probably would at that age. You're dead right, Ben.

You're dead right. Hey, we've got Marco who we spoke to yesterday. He was working and living in Korea. Have a listen to his odd job. Well, we've got Marco, who we spoke to yesterday. He was working and living in Korea. Have a listen to his odd job. Well, originally it was for my ex-boss, who I used to work in Korea for him. He asked me if I wanted to teach him English. And I said, yeah, no problem. So anyway, he started to get into gambling at the casino. And so I had to teach him English in the casino while he was gambling.

How often was he gambling that he couldn't set aside some time to learn English? Was he there? Literally all day, all day. Wow. He's like, Ben. Yeah, yeah. I have to be like, Ben, it's time to put the kids up from school, mate. He's like, oh, I'll make just one more. I'm just going to hold.

I'll just pull them away out of this. Well, he was pretty loaded, so this lasted like six months. So eventually he said, look, this jackpot's coming up on the machine, so he gave me a bunch of coins to start gambling. That eventually turned into just full-time gambling. We were in there. I was in there for three days once and then came out. I didn't even know what day it was.

You didn't leave the casino for three days? Three days. Three days. Yeah, we ate, we slept. Where did you sleep? Oh, just in the kitchen, canteen area. What, with your head on the table or something? Head on the table.

Head on the table or something? Head on the table, head on the table. Oh, you do? Sometimes I fell asleep actually sitting in the machine. So what, did you not want to leave in case the jackpot went or something? Yes, that's right, yeah, because we'd only sort of start gambling when there was a jackpot coming up.

And then we'd both sit on one of the machines, I don't know, 10 or something machines, and we just go for it. And at the end of the day, we came out. We said we definitely didn't lose any money. This is a great advert for gambling. That's the key. Stick it out there. Sleep at the casino.

Eventually you'll ever win. Well, we wouldn't recommend it unless you are loaded already. Yeah, so how much money would you have spent? Well, obviously you've made some money, but how much money would you have spent, really? Well, for example, if a jackpot was $10,000, we'd probably spent about $6,000 on it. But that could be a few hours to, as I said before, a few days. $4,000 for a few days is all right. And you're also teaching them English as you go as well, so's got multitasking multitasking multitasking yeah so did you get the jackpot a couple of times oh lots of times not a couple of times lots of times yeah well one a week just about and so

was it would he pay you to do this for him yes i also was on a salary, which was my base salary, a car and an apartment. What, to just gamble for this guy? Well, it wasn't really for gambling. It was officially teaching him English. Of course, yeah, yeah, sorry, English, yeah, yeah, yeah. What a job. Yeah, it was a weird, weird job. What's the...

Weirdest job of my life. Yeah, do you get annual leave? You get some time off? No, no. Well, it wasn't supposed to be that long, just for a few months until I found myself a normal job, but there was no time to look for a job, so I just ended up dragging on for six months. There we go.

Got paid to gamble. And I got a cut of the winnings too. Oh, wow. Like as a salary bonus. Yeah, bonus as well, yeah. Marco, that is incredible. Thank you very much for your time, mate. All right, mate.

No worries. It's like Ocean's Eleven, isn't it? Yeah. Ocean's Two on the pokey machines. A bit less entertaining as a movie, but anyway, still good for us. Talking odd jobs on your odd breakfast show this morning with Jon a movie, but anyway, still good for us. Talking odd jobs on your odd breakfast show this morning

with Jono and Ben. Ellie, good morning. Hi. How are you? We're just talking about odd jobs. What are you puffing and panting for, mate?

What's happening? I'm actually in the gym at the moment. So we've got Ellie. Welcome. Ellie's puffing and panting at the moment in the middle of a workout.

Good to have you on. Good morning. It's always weird. It's always... I you on. Good morning. It's always weird. I love puffing and panting on the phone. Nothing's more unsettling. At least you've told us what's going on. Sometimes if someone rings you and you're puffing and panting, they're like, what are they

up to? What's Ben doing this time? Imagine you go, ring, ring, ring, ring. Yeah, yeah. It can be taken one of two ways. You're either exercising or... You can. We're just talking about odd jobs, Ellie. What did you have?

Well, a few years ago now, but I used to paint the traffic light poles and change the lamps red and green every three months and all of them every six months. Oh, really? You never think that someone actually has to change the bulbs and the traffic lights? Yep. They're mostly LEDs now, so that doesn't have to happen as much.

Oh, well, that's probably why I never think of it. That's why Ellie's lost her job. Yeah. Was it tough? Was it hard to climb up on a ladder? I mean, how's that work? Most of it was quite tough because I'm Kiro Pata Heights. Oh, jeez.

Yeah. But it was an interesting job and it was one that kept me going while I had my children quite young. Yeah, now the yellow poles, they chip quite easily, don't they? So they're probably having to be painted all the time.

Yeah, well, yeah, I used to paint probably about four a month. They don't do it as much as they used to now. They just look like the traffic gets too bad. Do you know what? At a previous radio station, we were working in a spicy part of town, a very saucy part of town, okay?

Oh. A town where, you know, you're into your lights and light bulbs, where you'd be inserting a red light into the oh right no no yeah this is where we were working generally but we were doing some uh some radio there that day weren't we we were and uh ben and uh my other colleagues said we'll give 20 bucks to charity if you lick the pedestrian button oh I wasn't part of this. I was there. I had to walk away. Now, this was PC, pre-COVID, obviously.

But I had never felt filthier in my life. Like, I literally licked it and was pouring hand sanitizer into my mouth. You probably would have been better off licking the toilet bowl. I probably would have. Yeah. I would have been okay off looking for a toilet bowl. I probably would have. Yeah. I would have been okay if I looked at one of your freshly painted poles there.

Oh no. Too many chemicals. Hey listen, lovely talking to you. This has been very panty. Very panty phone call. I was going to say panty and huffing and puffing

as well too. I felt like we should have paid for this but thank you very much. Bye bye. Have a great day you too next we're going for a world record today after the show we're starting to have second thoughts about whether this is

a good idea or not but if you missed it we'll tell you what it is next on the hits hey it's Brad from the the great thing about listening to this show is that the day can only get better from here. Jono and Ben on the hits. Let's go. Jono and Ben with five words for 5K.

Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning on the hits. And apparently today, producer Bea Humps, who comes up with the words, says themed around the world record attempt we're going to do today which is heading out trying to drink

as many traffic light drinks, well 57 traffic light drinks in various pubs around Auckland. Yes, we're doing this to give the traffic light system the fanfare. The send off it deserves. Apart from the Prime Minister just going it ends tonight at midnight. I'm going to London. By the way, you can't have your public holiday until I return.

So we're giving it some showbiz pizzazz, Ben. Exactly. Give or get a send-off. Let's welcome from Christchurch, Charmaine. It's great to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast House Things. Good, thank you. What do you do, Charmaine? I do sales support for Trent in Papua Newi.

Oh, good on you. Now, 5K, I can detect a little accent there. Would you want to fly back to South Africa? Yes, definitely. All right. Go back to see the family, the whanau. Are you ready to win some cold, hard cash? Yes, I am.

Technically, it's probably more room temperature cash, isn't it? Room and sort of warm and flaccid cash. Yeah, all right. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Jono, please. Alright, let's do it. Heading on in there right now. He's in there. Here's your first word this morning. What pops into your head, Charmaine? Bearing in mind these are themes around the traffic light drinking thing we're going to be doing today, trying to break the world record. What pops into your head when I say traffic?

Light. Light, exactly what I thought. Crawl. C-R-A-W-L. Crawl. Pub. Pub, crawl. Bouncer is word number three. Bouncer. That's a difficult one. What's popping into your head? Nothing much popping into your head? No, let's go to the next one. I'll come back to difficult one. What's popping into your head?

Nothing much popping into your head? No, let's go to the next one. I'll come back to that one. Juice. Juice. Apple. Apple. And restaurant is the final word.

Restaurant. Food. Food. And let's go back to bouncer. I know you probably had no time to think about it because you're thinking of other words. Bouncer. I know you probably had no time to think about it because you were thinking of other words. Bouncer. I mean, you've got security, you've got doorman, you've got, yeah.

Yeah, let's go doorman. Okay, doorman for that one. All right, well played, Charmaine. Very, very tough words. I think they're tougher when they're themed. Jono's back out here. Yeah, we struggled a little bit, to be honest, Jono. Well, I'm not going to struggle.

I want to get Charmaine back to South Africa chewing on some biltong and straddling a springbok. Okay, Charmaine? Sounds marvellous. Do you know Ben's friend ate what he thought was biltong on a bedside table, and it was an umbilical cord. Yeah, it was a child's umbilical cord. So, yeah, didn't eat the whole thing, but hey. That doesn't make it any better. Alright, here we go. We'll go with the

$25 word. Word one, $25. Traffic. Traffic light. Yeah, well done. There we go, Charmaine. You've got $25. Do you want to risk it all for $50? Yeah, we can all risk it all. I think you should. Word two, $50.

$25 doesn't get in your bag to Johannesburg, mate. No, crawl. Absolutely not. Crawl is number two. Crawl. I'd say pub.

Crawl. Yeah, well done. Now, Charmaine, you got $50. Do you want to risk it bearing in mind if you get it wrong you get nothing

or are we going to $100 or not? Oh, gee, that third word was a difficult one. Yeah, it was. You can walk away with cash. Yeah, I think I'll walk away.

Smart play, I think. That's a smart play. You're walking away. That $50 is all yours. Well done, Charmaine. The word that we're about to play was bouncer. Bouncer. Let's say security.

Oh, dormant is what Charmaine said. That was a tough one. We had juice for the fourth word. Orange. Wrong. Apple. You're in the same ballpark and restaurant. Bar. No, unfortunately, no. It was food today. But Charmaine, you played well. Smart

game. You got 50 bucks. Thank you very much. That's how you do it, Charmaine. You know what? This has been absolute treasure speaking with you this morning, Charmaine. Thank you. Stay beautiful. It is the hits. It's Jono and Ben, but FYI, Ben is open to other options.

Jono and Ben on the hits. About four to six kilometres of people outside the Queen, outside where the Queen is buried at the moment. That's how long people are queuing for. Four to six. Gee, that's a long way. We were talking to some New Ze Queen is buried at the moment. That's how long people are queuing for. Four? Gee, that's a long wait. We were talking to someone, a New Zealander, earlier in the show. They turned up and they were told it was going to be an 11-hour wait.

But if you go in the middle of the night, like 3am, well then it's only a nine-hour wait. Yeah, she's lying in state outside Westminster Hall at the moment. Emotional scenes before Charles walking behind the Queen's coffin with William and Harry together, so it before Charles walking behind the Queen's coffin with William and Harry together, so it's good to see the whole family

together. The streets lined with thousands of people and jeez they do it well, don't they? They do the fan feel well over there. Four kilometres or six kilometres they're busier, so it's a long queue for people waiting to get in. Now Ben, I made such a fatal

mistake and I feel like a terrible human being. What did you do? Yesterday I went into a shop. You were actually mentioning it, Joel. It's a used clothing store. The other day you mentioned it, Producer Joel. What one was that, sir? You said it was going along.

There was all this old stuff. There was one down in Newmarket there. Oh, yes, yes. Used clothing, yeah. So I went in there. I was just in the town and I walked in and used clothing. Whoever started the idea of vintage clothing,

really cracked the game. Selling smelly old clothes. As soon as you call it vintage, it's like... It's the same price as brand new clothes. But you say vintage, you're like, oh yeah, it's vintage. Oh, vintage. Fashion, darling. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But you're right. That was the first point I wanted to get away with. That's a great point. Stuff I was looking at had holes in it. It all you know ripped it's vintage yeah as expensive as buying one yeah yeah you're right yeah the vintage because you pay for the vintage but it's collectible it's old yeah though what i do online and i'm sure you do this as well is you go around you go through this website you click click click click click add to cart, click, add to cart, add to cart, add to cart. You get to the checkout and you're like, pull yourself together prior. What are you doing?

You don't need 19 lava lamps, okay? Get out of the game. Now, I did this in real time. I went around this shop yesterday going, oh, that's a lovely holey T-shirt. You've got so many holey T-shirts. I know, so many holey T-shirts. Those are some pants. Who needs more?

That's you. Maybe a suit or some pants. You know that. My shopping style, very erratic, like my driving style. Just crashed it and then boom, dumped all these smelly old clothes down on the counter. And as the wonderful gentleman behind the counter is like, toot, toot, toot, tallying them all up, I had this thing, which I do online. I'm like, what are, toot, toot, tallying them all up. I had this thing, which I do online. I'm like,

what are you doing? This is ridiculous. You don't need, you don't need a holey t-shirt. It's like you say, you've got midget balls. Yeah, for you, you're well covered.

You've got holey t-shirts. No one's got more holey t-shirts than you. Or probably, you were that store that you were in. So I'm like, well, if I was online, all I could do was just, you know,

pull out of this. Click the exit out of the thing. Go back. Snap yourself back into reality. Get bombarded with ads for those items for the next four weeks. Write it out and then get on with life. You know, but this is real life, Ben. You know, I'm facing the checkout offer and I'm like, what do I do?

Okay, I need to come up with a plan to get out of the situation. So what I did is I started patting my pockets. You know how you pat your pockets to see like check all your wallets and you're like oh no oh oh and i'm doing this little performance oh i said i don't i don't have my wallet with me he's like that's fine i see your phone there you can we can do payway and i was like oh i don't i haven't got the payway function on my phone I've heard it's very good I must get it

What I'll do is I'll go to the car And just go Find my wallet It's just down the road I'll go to the car I ran to the car Jumped in the car

And I drove off Left the pool What? I feel I feel Should I feel bad for that? Well probably a little But I mean you know

He's gotta go How long does he leave them? The guy's coming back. He said he'd be back. Maybe he's still waiting at the check. He might not have gone home. He might have just waited overnight. Yeah, I feel really bad.

This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Wall-to-wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. Big day today because we're trying to break a world record. Another world record. It's another. Jeez, we've got a lot of them under our belt, don't we? Yeah, another attempt for these two losers. That's the two of us to try and make something of our lives. The traffic light system, the much-publicised traffic light system

to protect us from COVID-19 is gone this week, and we thought we'd give it a fitting send off by trying to break a world record. The most amount of pubs visited in 24 hours. We're going to go around today, 57 pubs. That's our goal, to order 57 traffic light drinks. The kids drink the non-alcoholic drink. Really speaks volumes

as to what life stage we're in. Yeah. And career stage, going around drinking traffic lights. You know, 10 years ago this would have been a whole other different campaign, man. True. You know, we've changed. Yeah. Well, the guy who has the actual record, he didn't go around drinking just alcohol a day

because having 50-odd drinks is, well, that's dangerous. That is dangerous. Yeah, especially alcohol. Yeah, two days, mate. And we're joined by the current record holder. His name's Matt Ellis, and he joins us from the UK now. How are you? Yeah, very well.

Lovely to have you on, mate. Lovely to have you on. Did we catch you by surprise there? No, not at all. I've been prepared, waiting for your call. Oh, good. Thank you very much for joining us. We really appreciate it.

Now you, well, how long ago were you Break This World Record? I was the first person to attempt it. No, it was October last year. October last year. Now you did this to, as Britain was coming out of lockdown to sort of stimulate

the economy. Get your fingers out there and massage the economy back into action. Yes. The reason why I did it was to really promote pubs and say people,

you know, get down to your pub. You don't have to drink alcohol if you don't want to. Just get down there with your mates and just spend a bit of money. That's a really good idea. Yeah. I think it's just really, you know, pubs are such an important part of our community in the UK. So where did you get the idea to try and break this world record?

Did you find this record online or did you just go and go, I'm going to visit as many pubs as I can in 24 hours? Yeah, we tried a couple of years ago to do the team effort for pub trawling. The record currently is 250 pubs in 24 hours, which was set by a team in New York in 2014, I think. Jeez, that would have been relentless. I think they were pretty fast. They were all sort of mad, sort of marathon runners. They were quite quick plan of how to get round as many bars as possible in, I think it was the East

Village in New York. We've got really sort of set it for London at some stage. So you did, though, what, 51 pubs over 24 hours? 51, yes. And you ordered a drink at each one. What was some of the things that were hard to encounter on the way? I think it was just the huge amount of alcohol getting into your body.

Oh, did you drink alcohol most of the time, did you? Well, it was a mixture, really. I mean, the record rules were that you had to be a responsible drinker and you couldn't get over and buy even drink too much and also the award winning pub I was going to meet the press and the photographers so I used to be kind of sober You must have been like a dam

and then just an overflowing dam and once it exploded you must have just been leaking. Yes I mean I did about 9 miles in the pub crawl I think I did about 2 miles from my bedroom to the bathroom during the night. Oh, really? During the night?

So it just kept going? Oh, yes, nonstop. Did you have the traffic light system in the UK? We did earlier on, but I think it was hacked a long time ago. Oh, yeah. Well, believe it or not, we just axed our traffic light system three days ago. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Oh, wow. Yeah, we've been stuck about a year behind you. Yeah. And so we're celebrating. We're commemorating the traffic light system, much like you're commemorating the Queen in the UK. We're mourning the loss of our traffic light system. So we're going out in about two hours to the same amount of bars

that you went to to have a traffic light drink. Do you have those in the UK? I haven't had them, to be honest, no. It's basically orange juice, red cordial, and green food colouring, all layered to look like a traffic light. So we're going to have those all day. Oh, wow.

That's a lot of sugar. Yeah, that's a lot of sugar. Any tips as someone who is a record holder? I think you've got to make it fun. And I found that if I was drinking the same drink all the time, it got a bit boring. Oh no, okay. Don't say that. But maybe

you could, you know, some people in the bar could maybe entertain you. We were, I mean, on my pub crawl we had old geriatrics doing the Macarena. Johnny, you can do that. Oh, yeah, I could put out a 5pm Macarena for you, Ben, if you want a geriatric doing a Macarena.

Hey, Matt, thank you very much for your time. Record holder, most amount of bars in 24 hours. Really do appreciate your thoughts and suggestions and helpful tips. You go and have a great day. Yeah, thanks very much. You can catch our journey this afternoon as we try and break that world record of 57 pubs drink 57 traffic lights. You can do that on the Hits Breakfast on social media.

With a long and extinguished career. Jono and Ben on the Hits. There was too much going on for us yesterday because after the show, we went into the city. We were filming a very random thing that we're going to pop up on our social media. But Jono, you were there in some strange sunglasses. You were shirtless with a leather jacket and a fake gold chain around your neck. Yeah.

As I said before, it looked like someone wanting to join a gang. The gang haven't quite accepted. But he's giving it his best shot. Just trying to get in there. Hey guys, hey, I'll clean your bikes or do whatever just to get it. So this is what you're dressed as.

And then we did a little scene where like, oh, hey, we should do a scene where we're over by the bins, the bins in town, you know, busy city. And we're like,

we need to put some rubbish in the bins. We didn't have any rubbish around. So then I was like, oh, I'm going to have to be the person that's going to have to put my hand inside the bin and get the rubbish out now i was what yeah i was watching this all play out because i could see i could see you like looking around is there any clean rubbish no okay so the only option i have now bearing in mind ben boyce radio's number one germaphobe like there's no more sanitized hands in radio than this guy.

Ewan Hosking. Yeah. Yeah, you'd be competing for first spot, but I think you'd take it out. And he had to put, slowly he put, he looked at his hand, he looked at the bin, slowly just dived his hand into the bin. And he's sort of like not, he's not even looking what he's grabbing. Just sort of fossicking around. I feel like one of those claw machines, you know,

where they try with the soft toy where his hands are slowly lowers and tries to grab it just from the tip of the you know i pulled out like a can a crushed can that someone had put in there yeah i'm like there is no lower moment i mean i've had some low moments of my life i know i've done a lot of stuff i'm ben from jonah and ben uh you know but this was the i was like geez we're in queen street you're dressed well I don't know why you're dressed I can't even explain why you're dressed like that I'm standing there

I'm rubbing together stuff on the bed I look up at Joel producer Joel and he's just filming did you film the whole thing film the whole thing never know when

I can blackmail you guys until you're getting off the list put it on social media get that on social media you know five years ago you would have had some poor 19 year old

minion doing that for you Ben Joel was there you're the guy who's put your hand in the bin he's filming me put my hand in the bin

and everyone walking past going god what happened to John on bed look at him you must have gone home and chemically peeled off three layers of your hand skin

did you yeah look out scary dinosaurs not Jurassic Park it's these guys Jono and Ben on the hits Did you? Yeah. Look out! Scary dinosaurs. Not Jurassic Park. It's these guys. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Scrolling through your feed. He is a thorough journalist who will spare no details, except for the awkward ones that make him feel uncomfortable. Ben, what's happening? Well, King Charles has been joined by his sons, William and Harry, and a whole lot of the other royals as they walked together with the Queen's Coffin as they travelled to Westminster Hall. There's crowds and crowds of people. A lot of people over there waiting out in queues that we've heard

could be anywhere between four to six kilometres long, to pay your respects to the body. And depending on what stage of the day or night you go and visit. I imagine it's 24 hours, is it? They'd have to have rolling coverage of the viewing. Yeah, to get through all the people. Yeah, and just watching the procession, just so regal. All the royal guards and everyone and all the family walking in line.

I reckon you would never think so hard about walking until you had to walk in front of all those people. You'd be like, what do I do with my arms? Yeah, how do I walk again? You're right, yeah. Now, Kim, we spoke to you yesterday. She's a Kiwi that's been living in the UK for a long time. She was saying yesterday she's going to go down

and be one of the many, many people to pay their respects for the Queen, wait in queues. And she went down just before and she sent us back this little bit of audio of what it's like, how long the queues are to go see and pay your respects to the queen we found out that the first person to start queuing has been there since about 12 p.m on monday and so right now it's almost 2 p.m on wednesday so two full days they've been waiting

now they reckon they'll get through about 1,000 people every hour, but currently the queue is just over 4km long and growing. So they're now estimating that the wait times are going to be around about 36 hours to get into the room, which is a little bit crazy, and I'm not sure if I'm willing to brave 36 hours of standing in a queue. Now, we just stumbled across Kim yesterday. That's a rock-solid report.

That's a rock... She was a news reporter. She was like a News Hub journalist. How good was she? Just spectacular. 36 hours, too. That is, yeah. And she was saying yesterday she had done some research

because she did want to pay her respects. Not allowed food, no water. Yeah, I think that's going in when you go on there. I think you're allowed, you can't wait. 36 hours, none of you are eating. Is that a grape in your mouth? Yeah. Pretty wild, isn't it?

That's what's going on. But I guess that's just the impact that this woman has had on so many, Ben. Not me. I wouldn't be waiting, but on so many. You don't have to do the double-edged compliment thing. Yeah. And Leonardo DiCaprio, we were talking a lot about how he had broken up,

sadly, with his girlfriend. There was a lot of jokes going around saying, oh, she'd reached 26 years old. He's moving on. Well, as the comedy parody news site Batuta Advocate said, he's now potentially dating a cougar 27 years old uh yeah has he got a 27 year old partner gg hardeed uh from the hardeed family yeah very famous family as well uh that's the rumors out there that he's in a relationship

with her so all the best that they're making now i don't know why i know this i think it's just collateral of this job that we do Ben But wasn't Gigi Hardy Dating Zayn The guy from One Direction Were they Yeah they've got a kid together They have got a kid together

They've got a kid together Now she's with Leo Yeah but they've separated Yeah Well how happy would you be If Amanda your wife Moved on with Leo That's a huge upgrade

I'll just I'll just But like How would you feel On a personal level Well yeah I would be But then I'd be like Wow she's go for it. But how would you feel on a personal level? Well yeah I would be but then I'd be like wow

jeez go for it. Can I watch? Can I? Can I get the things that work out?

I'll be next in line. And then in some roundabout way it kind of puts me on the same level as Leo.

Yeah. He is not dating a 40 year old mate. Yeah. Good. Proud to be Kiwi. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Jono, we were filming some stuff around Queen Street, Auckland, and that was a fun experience, wasn't it? You were wearing a leather jacket, shirtless, with a gold chain, you know, and some sunglass. Kind of looked like a guy trying to get into the Comancheros. Not in. Hasn't been welcomed in yet with open arms, but he's giving it his best shot. He's trying to dress like the lads and get a foot in the door.

We had a really surreal moment, though. It was for a sketch, by the way. It was for a sketch, which is going to come out on social media. Not my everyday work attire. No, but for some reason you're like, oh, yeah, I could see you kind of wearing that. Yeah, you said you could pull that off. Yeah. I could kind of see.

You need to have confidence to pull off a jacket with no shirt. Don't you? Yeah. You know, if I was a contestant on Love Island, 20-something, you know, had a body like a god. Yeah. But, you know, a 40-year-old squidgy body, a little bit of guts hanging over my trackies with a leather jacket. You're like, is he homeless? What's going on there?

Yeah. So picture that. Jono's dressed like that. We're down there. We're filming some stuff down Queen Street. And this lovely lady comes over to us. And she was like, oh, my goodness, Jono and Ben. She had an accent.

She's from Germany. Yeah, she's like, I'm from Germany. And we're like, I watch your clips online all the time. I'm just here on holiday. What are the chances of walking into you? And we're like, well, pretty good actually we uh we're desperate we wander around all the time hoping people will notice us but that's when you realize new zealand is pretty small right you know when it's just like if someone watches you know people are you know oh these guys are from new zealand then they turn

up in new zealand and they're like oh they're there yeah you know so she was like i'll watch your tv show and she's like i'm up to season three or four. And we're like, uh-oh. We were trying to work out how she got on to our TV show. And she was in New Zealand for a little while, a few years ago. So she started watching it. And as you say, she went home and she's up. She'd be watching through and she's up to season three and four.

And we're like, oh, we know how this ends. It's a bleak ending when you hit the end of season seven. We didn't want to spoil it for her, the end of season seven. Oh, good, thanks. Great to be watching. You know, still going strong. The TV show's all going great. You're like, yep, yep, it sure is.

Maybe we wouldn't have been cancelled if we started factoring in our German ratings. You know, this is a country of over 80 million people there, Ben. We bolster the numbers. So when she gets to the end of season seven, she's got to realise the TV show's gone. And we kind of, we didn't lie to her. We just didn't tell her that we're no longer. I mean, you don't want to spoil the ending, do you? You don't want to be, no one likes a spoiler.

No. And so that's how the TV show ends. Isn't it great that people are coming back to New Zealand? Yeah. Tourists. Isn't it fantastic? Welcoming them with open arms. We are too.

Ben stole her handbag without her noticing as well. But they're all welcome back here. All welcome back here. It was lovely to meet her. So I know it is Māori Language Week this week as well, but Guten Morgen. To Emma. Can't say she's listening to the podcast or our radio.

To our German audience. A rich German audience. You said a German DJ message just too, Producer Joel. Mate, it's all go over in Germany. Yeah. Berlin. John and Ben take Berlin. He wants to do a collab.

He's like, I've got a thing I want to pitch to you, mate. What? We're going to Germany, baby. We're taking this thing to Germany. Whatever it is that we do to Germany. You've been listening to a podcast from The Hits. For more audio, search up Megan Pappas on the 3pm pickup or Brad and Laura on The Hits.

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