Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Trying To Make Dave Dobbyn Famous In USA

Episode Date: October 18, 2022

We are live from the mighty Taranaki today on our Heartland chip tour! We try and make Dave Dobbyn famous, Jono hijacks the Pak'n' save PA system and 5 words is a ripper!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben on The Hits. Welcome to the podcast intro today. Ben Boyce, the date. Oh, I don't actually know. What is the date? Who knows the date? Who knows the date? 19th of October, there you go. Now we're in New Plymouth at the moment. We're on tour for Heartland Chips. We're going through New Zealand, pushing chips, Ben, aren't we? Shoving chips out to all the addicts.

Yeah, well, yeah, I'm meeting a lot of great people. Now, you guys, where are you from? New Plymouth Girls High School. Yeah. And you've just told us about a day that we didn't even know existed. It's Prank Day. Yeah.

Prank. Now, imagine you. You would love Prank Day. This is like a day designed for me. I love it. Now, is there a line in the sand about where the pranks can go and what you can do?

Yep. So we had to take them through the principal. She had to accept all of them. Oh, so it's sanctioned pranks. But that's good, though. Okay, so what happens? So you guys pitch the ideas, and then today the pranks will happen.

Yep. What are your pranks? What are you guys doing? Yeah, can you tell us? Vaseline everywhere. You put Vaseline everywhere? On all the door handles. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Vaseline up the door handle? On all the railings. Oh, yeah. Taking the teacher's car parks. Destroyed classrooms. Taking desks. Glad to. And the principal approved all of this?

We've got shots on entry. Vodka shots, but they're just water. I was going to say, this is wild if this has all been approved. School's really changed as though, isn't it? And so on the teachers, obviously. Yeah, and the kids so during classes we're allowed to go on

and like annoy them interrupt we're having like an hourly parade you're gaffer taping a child to a tree that happened to me

in year 9 so I'm doing it back and it builds it builds resilience doesn't it yeah if you haven't been gaffer taped to a tree

we gaffer taped Ben to a pole in the car yeah it actually worked I was in the air for quite some time. Kind of a lot of a circulation. I'll enjoy prank day. Hopefully it goes well. Thank you.

Yeah, we will. I can't believe your principal says yes to us. Vaseline-ing an entire school. On the door handles, at least. And you're in New Plymouth boys' high uniforms, too, I notice. Oh, is that part of prank day? Yeah. Oh, okay.

These are very oversized uniforms. I don't know mate, I thought maybe you can grow into them by the end. Now Tony Street, she's a former old

girl of New Pivot Girls High School. What other successful alumni have you had? There's no one here from New Pivot. We've had Kelly Jury, Michaela

Blyde, the seven year old. Oh she's awesome, yeah she's great. Gayle Silverford. Who else? Hey those are some big bangers. Mikaela Blyde, the Sevens fan. Oh, she's awesome, yeah, she's great. Gail Gordon. Who else? Hey, those are some big bangers. Paris Mason.

And then you guys. Are you in your last year? Yeah. What are you all going to do? University. Bugger to find out. Sparky, she was Sparky. Sparky's a good profession and a lot of money to be made

well good luck for prank day enjoy the podcast if they were the internet you'd want to clear this history Jono and Ben on the hits so we're on our Heartland chip tour we've got some new chips there out of this world, and we're taking them around the country,

doing some taste testings as well. We're in New Plymouth right now, getting some great feedback, not only on the chips, but also on our suits. Yeah, we've got very loud suits. Ben ordered them off Wish on the internet. I think I did.

Yeah, they're about three sizes too big for both of us, but they're basically just the solar system in suit form. And you've got a tie, a solar system tie, jacket, pants. All the planets. All the planets on there. Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, all of them are there. And we get a lot of comments on them. We get a lot of comments.

People go, oh, those are loud. Wow. OK, you're really making a statement here. Things like that. Here was someone yesterday in the Pack and Save in New Plymouth talking about our suits. Hi, Jen. How are you? Hi, I'm good.

Just complimenting us on our business suits? Yes, very extravagant. Extravagant. Did I just hear you say very brave of you? Very brave of you. Taking a risk.

We took a fashion risk, but the old fashion is about risk. That's fine. And we're taking a flavour risk too. Now, what do you think, honestly, about the trips?

Give it to us honestly. Good, it's fine. I'm not the fan of salt and vinegar, but my mum said grab me a bag because she loves salt and vinegar. She's like, you've made a sale. If that's what you're wanting, you've made a sale. I'll grab two of these. Thank you, Jen.

Hey, now, Jen, as a local in New Plymouth, are these suits a little too risque? You'll be loved by the community. She'll wear them out afterwards. Go on. Go on. I dare you to. Hit the pubs.

A lot of feedback on the chips and the suits on this tour. So it's, yeah, the Heartland chips, maple, bacon, sour cream and chives, salt and vinegar, all mixed into one chip. You tell this to people and they're like, it's not going to work. It shouldn't work. It's too much like the suits. But it does. Somehow we managed to pull it off, the suits and the chips.

And I tell you what, 24 hours in New Plymouth, jeez, they make you feel like a bloody legend around this place. Hey, we're wandering down the road, gang members, right out on their motorbikes, g'day guys. Kids running into oncoming traffic at intersections. Can we have a photo? Old ladies, I love you. Hey, we should move to New Plymouth.

This is where it's at, Ben. This is great for our self-esteem, this place. Making dreams come true. If you dream of annoying guys talking at you, Jono and Ben on the hits. With our Heartland chips, we're going around taste testing, getting the chips out to the people, and there's so much. Jeez, you can just feel the groundswell, can't you, Ben boy?

It's weird to get escorted out of Wellington with diplomatic protection yesterday. Thank you to the Ardern government for that. And also Uber drivers were going into the airport, running into the airport. Where's the chips? Give me a bag of chips. We didn't have any on us.

So they're selling out, mate. We're having to panic grow potatoes. They're very popular, these chips. They're a crazy mix of flavours that shouldn't work all together, but somehow they do. Maple bacon, sour cream and chives and salt and vinegar all together in one packet. We're

calling them out of this world. They're in supermarkets right around the country and you can grab a pack, send us a chip pick using the QR code at the back. That's a chip pick. Be very clear on that. We've had some other unsolicited pitches that we didn't want. Also appreciated though. Don't get us wrong. We take all pitches.

And you can win $10,000. Someone will be winning that. But great, great feedback in the supermarkets. Yesterday we were in Pack and Save in New Plymouth and we ran into Shirley. Shirley, you've just tried the chips. You put the chips inside your mouth, Shirley. Okay, is there anything your mouth's experienced before?

A bit salty. A bit salty? Yeah. Now I'm salty. Have that comment. I have to watch my salt intake. So, yeah. Too much salt.

They're salt denigrate. Yeah, they are. They are. Don't go dying on us, Shirley. We don't want to be responsible for that. Maybe plain, like not so salty flavour. Yeah. Is that the only flavour they've got on?

Do you want us to read? Okay. Delete the lot. We're starting again with not so salty for Shirley. A whole run of it. Shirley in the taste testing period. So, what did you think of the chips? You've come down, you're trying our chips.

Honestly, what did you think? Very good flavour. They work. It blends. You can taste all the different layers. Like an onion. Like an onion. Like an onion, that's good.

Every time I talk to someone, I feel like they're part of a television infomercial. It does. And we've made them... Because I'm always sceptical of those people on TV, but it actually works all right. They're real people. I know.

Here we go. Shirley giving us some feedback there in New Plymouth as well. Actually, we ran into someone yesterday who had been on the radio with us before, had a wonderful skill in New Plymouth, right? You like the chips? What do you think of the chips so far? Oh, beautiful. who'd been on the radio with us before, had a wonderful skill in New Plymouth, right? You like the chips? What do you think of the chips so far?

Now, we've given you some sample chips, and you would like to give us a gift back as well. You're making this sound with your mouth. You've done this to us on radio before. That's incredible. How did you know you had this gift to make a cricket sound? It's a bit goofy, I guess. Is it noises? Can you do other noises?

Oh, not really. You've just focused in on the cricket. I love it. That's all I can do. Have you heard that, producer? Have a listen to this. It's amazing. So good, eh?

Pack and save, you've got a cricket infestation. Very talented. We should bring back New Zealand's Got Talent. That was special. And do you know the weird thing is because we do... That was me giving you the go there. We do the samplings and, you know, food safety is paramount because we're handing out, you know, little pottage of chips

for people to just get a little taste on their palate before they make the purchase. But we have rubber glups, you know, you've got rubber glups. So I'm going around i'm sure you're doing the same being every motel room that we're in just leaving rubber gloves everywhere and they're like what went on here every morning i had this discussion with producer humphrey that the cleaners must go and go what on earth went on in here last night an inseparable duo unless i'm on better shows up He's just going to Replace with Lee Hart

And or Vaughan Smith Jono and Ben On the hits The biggest selling Flavors In the market Spoiler alert Jono and Ben's

Heartland chips Aren't in the top five Well they've only been Out for two days Yeah they'll be in The top five next week Is this worldwide This is worldwide

Worldwide sales So it's the guessing game Hit the music Where Ben Boyce Has to guess my net list. Okay. Okay. I was told off for yelling yesterday.

You've done it twice already. I've been yelling through this twice. And then Ben has been mouthing at me, stop yelling. And he's been doing the hand thing. Just calm down. Calm down. Calm down. Kyle, have I been yelling too much?

Kyle thinks I'm yelling too much. Too much. He's listening to 12 to 16 hours of you yelling too. But yeah, this is a guessing game Ben boys you have to guess the most popular chip flavours

and I think you'll know number one because I think we've discussed it before and it's boring it's like the missionary of chip flavours oh so these are the actual

not brands not brands yeah flavours salt and vinegar I'm sorry so ready salted ready salted plain

white boring the Jono prior of chips. A lot of people will come into the supermarkets and say that's their favourite. It's like a cracker, isn't it? You can put stuff on it, dips. It works with any dip.

You're ready salted. That's number one. What do you think is number two? Highest selling chips worldwide, baby. Taking this Mr. Worldwide like pitbull. Can I go salt and vinegar? Can I go salt and vinegar? You can. Well done. Okay.

Sorry, salt and vinegar. You're not salt and vinegar. But they're number two. Number three, I wouldn't have picked this. I honestly would not have picked this. I'll give you a clue. It's a flavor that says it's a flavor. When I taste it, it doesn't taste anything like it claims to be.

Oh. Like a barbecue or something? Barbecue. Number three. If you've had a barbecue chip and gone,. Oh. Like a barbecue or something? Barbecue. Number three. If you've had a barbecue chip and gone, that reminds me of a barbecue. Not once. Yeah, true.

Number four. You're on fire. I'm doing well. Maybe this is my sweet spot. Number four. I'll give you a clue. It's one of the three flavours we've embraced in our chip. Oh, sour cream and chives?

Sour cream and chives. Jeez, this is the thing. You're going to get it. I'm not Googling on this. Clean sweep. And number five. Jeez, this is the thing. You're going to get it. I'm no Googling on this. Clean sweep. And number five, again, it's claiming to be something that doesn't taste anything like the animal it's claiming. Oh, it'll be chicken. Chicken.

Chicken. There you go. Top of the flavors. Again, have you ever had a chicken and gone, hmm, this feels like poultry? No, not once. You're right. They've just created a whole other flavour and said it's an animal.

So they are the most popular, you know, flavours. Our crazy combination of maple bacon, sour cream and chives and salt and vinegar will be on that list next year, Jono. No. But we can live and hope, Ben. Jono and Ben, the bold and the beautiful. On the hits.

Note, may not be beautiful. A 660 Drax project. You're on the hits. Note, may not be beautiful. A 660 Drax project here on the hits. Jono and Ben, hey, tonight, check out the project, 7 p.m. on 3. A little glimpse of our interview with Dwayne the Rock Johnson, which was awesome, talking about Black Adam. I may have shown him my tattoo and where that goes. Well, you'll see a little glimpse tonight. The full interview tomorrow on our show, 8 o'clock.

That was exciting. Yeah, looking forward to it, looking forward to it. Looking forward to it. We had a fun time over there in the States. And, jeez, we crammed a lot of sports into it. We did. You're a sports guy. I said I dragged you along.

I'm sorry. I apologize. You know what I noticed about you two is, so we went to the NFL. It was actually an amazing experience. It was. So thank you for dragging me along for that. I appreciate that. I really did.

And then you said, oh, there's some cheap $20 tickets to pre-season NBA, now this is the NBA that doesn't even matter, this is just you know, old mate warming up, getting the run around it was at Kawhi Leonard warming up his legs for the Clippers just you know, burning off the fat that he had built up

over the rest period now I say, okay I'll come along to your pre-season Clippers game but I have noticed one thing about you at sporting events. You're a merch guy. As soon as you walk into the building, you're like, where's the merch? I do like merch. I do like merch. Traipsing around these stadiums looking for merch.

But then you buy this merch. Do you ever wear the merch after? I do. I've worn my Rams t-shirt a few times since then. I do like it. I put it on. I'm like, I went to that game. It's a little special something for me.

You see, he gets swept up in merch. I do. Sometimes too much. on I'm like I went to that game it's a little special something for me you see he does he gets swept up in merch sometimes too much this is one of the weak points and then he buys his wife the merch

as well and she's like I don't want this I didn't show it in the game but I'm sure it means something to you

but we met some amazing sports fans over there in America that was pretty cool have a listen to these guys

I'm from Mexico yes sir yes sir of these guys. New Zealand, you're crazy. You're crazy, New Zealand. Yeah. One of the things I liked as well, because there was a DJ warming up the crowd at the Clippers pre-season game. And you know, in America they love being on camera. They put the camera on people. There was a family dancing without a word of life for 20 minutes. Oh my god.

You know when Evil Ellen had her show and the audience would dance, these people would be on there and they'd be dancing with the DJ. They would come. They weren't even plants. There was five of them. There was a grandmother, father, wife. Just non-stop dancing.

Two kids. And they were all like, you could put them on a talent show. They were great. And the DJ's on centre court and he's playing songs. He's like, send me some requests. Here's my Instagram handle. You can DM me some messages. And you're like, I need to DM some messages.

I need to get Dave Dobbin, Slice of Heaven, up over the loudspeaker well imagine if dave dobbin slice of heaven da da da da da da da was playing at the crypto.com arena being bought imagine that what a moment what a moment for new zealand i love it because no one else would know the words it would just be two people at this weird pre-season glippers game jamming out to Dave Dobbin. Now, he's like, message me, DM me on Instagram. So I slid into the guy's DM. I was like, this is an obtainable DJ. He's like, put in requests live in the moment.

I messaged him. I haven't even been on scene. He hasn't even seen your message? He hasn't even seen it. Now I know what it feels like to be a listener to a radio show. Or you go to the DJj play 660 you know we'll get it on soon we'll get it on next yeah they don't they don't proud to be kiwi jono and ben on the hits now skinny our friends at skinny uh they're doing something really cool at the moment

you might have seen this around town uh on coffee cups and bakeries on posters around they're looking uh for someone to voice their ads. And you can just call up and give it a crack yourself. People are doing it all over the country. There's a number, there's a script. Genius from Skinny, too, because they like to keep prices low. You know, this is their whole thing. And it's one step.

What's better than child labour, Ben? Free labour. Yeah. I think we've got Bella, who's actually rung up the number. Have a listen. To keep prices low, Skinny has placed this radio script near the theatre, hoping a thespian such as I might call the number provided

and record it for free on their mobile, thus saving Skinny thousands on recording costs. I love you, Skinny, but just like Romeo and Juliet, our love is forbidden, for I am a human being and you are a series of electromagnetic radio signals in the sky. Our families will never let us be together.

She's really good, eh? She's really good. I? She's really good. She's obviously not good enough. You didn't get it finished. Oh, no. It's just that the things that I find really incredible about the people that are doing it, they don't make mistakes.

No. Like, we struggle. I struggle to get through this sentence right now without making a mistake. Yeah. And you know when you leave a voicemail and you don't nail it, you're like, oh. Is there a function where I can go back and start again?

No, there's not. No. We're doing it one and done, baby. But we are looking for New Zealand's best voice thanks to Skinny on our show. It's our talent fee, basically. So we have got $5,000 for our ads that we need to be voiced on our radio show for Skinny. And you can win a $5,000 register at the hits.co.nz. Yeah, now we're here at Ozone Cafe, New Plymouth.

And Chris is coming. Welcome, Chris. How are you? How's it going, team? He's not got a bad voice. We're looking for New Zealand's best voice. Could be you, Chris. Could be, could be.

So salty. Might have to put down the hammer and jump on the old mic, eh? That's a good voice. And he's got banter, too. He's making it look too easy. Well, you could win $5,000, mate. Oh, even better. Even better reason to put the hammer down.

It's casual. It's relaxed. Yeah, I like it. It's an approachable good voice there, Chris. To Hollywood producers on the search for future stars. Keep searching. There's nothing here. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Jono and Ben hanging out with you this morning and very excited. Our exclusive New Zealand interview with Dwayne the Rock Johnson. You can see a glimpse of it tonight, a wee bit, on the project, 7pm on 3, and then we'll play the full thing for you tomorrow, 8 o'clock. It's really, like, I'm a huge fan of The Rock, and I keep saying I could not have imagined this.

Well, I could have, if he invited me to sort of hang out, but it was one step back from that. It was incredible. Ben said it was the best thing that could have ever happened, except if The Rock had said, shall we hang out forever? Forever. Forever. Jeez, that's a long time.

Why would he want to hang out with you forever we wouldn't he's got a family who's this guy you brought home The Rock I'm assuming

his wife calls him The Rock oh it's Ben from New Zealand I said we're going to hang out forever what is he staying here with us

what's going on yeah I'm staying right now so catch you tonight on The Project the full thing tomorrow at 8 o'clock it's pretty cool

all about his brand new movie, Black Adam, which is going to be in cinemas, become a movie on Thursday. We had a lovely, went to someone's house last night in New Plymouth for a lovely dinner. Yeah, someone we know, a work colleague. It was very enjoyable. And I don't know if it was just me, but I was picking up some weird signals towards the end of the evening, Ben.

Right. Now, we'd had an enjoyable meal, and it was after the dinner, we were just sitting around, you know, sitting around. It wasn't too late, but it was getting on. It was getting on. Then I noticed he started packing up the dishwasher. You know, plates, knives, forks,

just getting in the kitchen, leaving us in the lounge. Yeah, but I also did that thing where you go, can I help you with anything? And they're like, no, no, no, all good, all good. So you offer, but then you kind of sit down and they continued on packing up the dishwasher. Now for me, as a guest, to anyone's funny, as soon as the dishwashing process begins in front of you, there is a passive way of saying, get the hell out of my house. Is that what you think, do you? I do.

It's a signal. It's an end of the evening signal. It's a play to clear the room. Right. Yeah, because my wife is exactly the same as you. She has a go at me because I will start packing the dishwasher. And it's not to say I want to get out. It's only because I know that's hanging over my head.

I've got to do that before I go to bed. So I'm like, well, why not utilize this time now to get that done you know i'm still there i'm still part of the thing we can still chat i'll pay the dishwasher just so i know there's not going to be like 15 20 minutes after the people leave then i have to do the dishwasher that's all i mean it's not rude i don't think it's rude but you're saying it's rude it's it's an end the evening maneuver and i don't begrudge anyone because it you know, as soon as you'd had a canapé, it would be sub-de-pat and dishwasher. Get out. So 0800, this is what we want to chuck open,

4487 this morning on New Zealand's Breakfast. What's your end the evening move? What do you do? A lot of people start yawning too. Yeah, the arms out, they're sort of tired. That's always a good little signal to pick up on things. But sometimes people don't pick up. Remember we had this incident with a guy in a hotel room,

my hotel room, you were there, and I was yawning. I think he's still there at the hotel. You left and you left me there with him. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. Hanging out this morning in New Plymouth at Ozone Coffee Roasters, King Street. Come down, say the word fluffy, get yourself a free coffee.

322 tradies just walked in. Can we all get you to say fluffy? One, two, three. Fluffy! Love it. Great turnout here in New Plymouth this morning. Come on down. It's lovely to be here in the region.

That is great. It's awesome. And we're heading to Hamilton today this afternoon. If you want to join us in Hamilton, we're doing back-to-back appearances, mate. Oh, Colonel Tom's

running us hard this afternoon. Bee humps, we call him our Colonel Tom. Much like the movie Elvis. He's really running us hard. We've got a double header today, Ben. Four to five.

Oh, jeez. Pack and save. On the plane, he's like, take these, mate. Just pops these pills on us. He's like, these will get you through.

So four to five this afternoon afternoon pack and save Mill Street then straight after no breather bang into another pack and save 5-15 6-15 Clarence Street

pack and save take this it'll give you a bit of a pep in your chest this will drag you through the day just keep this guy all you want to do is double header

tour overseas but he just keeps his local yeah so we were talking about last night and we ended up at someone's house it was a wonderful evening and you thought when they started packing up the dishwasher it was time that was their signal to say hey it's time for you guys to go to get the hell out of my house yeah you got dishes clean well because we're all sitting in the lounge and you said i'll give you a hand no no no it's all right yeah yeah it's yeah and fair enough move too it's a great play.

It's subtle, and if people don't pick up on it, I don't know what else you can do. So you wanted to know on 0800THEHITS or 4487 on the text. What's your go-to move? What's your move when you're like, all right, the evening's been great, but I've had enough? Well, how do you end the evening? The end of the evening move.

Greg, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Great to have you, mate. Yeah, hey, boys. Hey, so I've got basically two points to be honest. One, just be straight up with people. Like, people know they're going to go home at some point. You hope they would. But the other thing is, the other trick is,

get them to help you load the bloody dishwasher. Nobody wants to load the dishwasher. That's a big nice offer. Get them to do it Get some free labour out of it Greg Yeah So if we went to Greg's house And it's 11.30 at night

And Greg's like I've had enough You're like alright time for you to go You would say that Maybe not so blunt as that But it's going to be early morning, boys. Might be time to head off, eh? All right. That's nice.

They're not going to take offense to it. No, you're right. You're right. Well, a lot of people texting in, Greg, too, with some good techniques to end the evening on 4487. This says, at the end of the night, I say I'm going to the bathroom, but what I do is I hop into bed and I go to sleep, and my husband has to deal with them. This is like a slow fade out.

That is brilliant. Yeah, what happened to you? Geez, what's she doing in the toilet? Yeah, true. That makes you look like you're better. Other people's texting in. Dishwasher packing is a definite sign to leave. I usually start looking at my watch and my phone, just constantly looking at my watch and my phone to get people out.

So there's some good methods. Greg, you go and have a great day, mate. Appreciate you calling. Yeah, you too, boys. Have a good coffee, eh? See you, buddy. The Jono and Ben Podcast, the world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats.

Now, wonderful Nadia Lim, dear friend of ours, Nadia Lim, friend of the show, and she's got a new TV show. She moved to a farm in central Otago, her and her husband Carlos. And it's on TV tonight, TV3, Nadia's Farm. You can catch that. And she joins us now on New Zealand's Breakfast. Lovely to see you, Nadia. Yeah, you guys too.

You always look very healthy, Nadia. Oh, thanks. Cheers. Same with you guys. I think you're looking good too. Oh, is he fishing for a connoisseur? Yeah, that's what I reckon. Yeah, he was.

I see what you're doing. Always. Yeah, because I just look to myself in the Yeah, that's what I reckon. Yeah, he was. I see what you're doing. Yeah, because I just looked at myself in the mirror and I'm like, geez, he's not far from death, this guy. Hey, you're not looking healthy, Jono, but hey, that's fine. But Nadia had a felt obliged to say we were. Now, I can't wait for Nadia's farm, but we do need to know. We've got a personal connection to Nadia's farm because there's roosters. You do.

There's roosters, Jono and Ben, named after us. Do they feature at all on Nadia's farm? They are. And don't worry, they're safe. They're still there. Oh, yeah. But Jono and Ben are still going. Do they feature at all on Nadia's farm? They are. And don't worry, they're safe. They're still there. Oh, yeah. But Jono and Ben are still going. They're living the dream.

They just eat my kitchen scraps and they just hang out with the hens. And yeah, they don't do much, you know. It's much like us. You can see why I called them Jono and Ben. Are they looking healthy? Particularly the Jono roosters. Are they looking healthy? Very.

They are very, very handsome. Glowing. Glowing. Now, Nadia, because you've been on this farm for a number of years now when was it your idea to make a television show about it or someone approach you yeah we got we got approached um for by a few production companies actually and then finally they're all the sharks were circling yeah warner brothers yeah wanted to do a show and we um eventually said yes we said, yep, okay, we can do it. And I mean, the pure reason that Carlos, who's my husband, who is the actual farmer,

and I said yes to doing it was we feel like a generation ago, most Kiwis would have had a direct connection with a farm, whether through your uncle or auntie or grandparents or close friends. But these days, I'd say that's more rare than it is common. And most Kiwis, I'd say, have probably never even stepped foot on a real working farm in new zealand and that's the thing because it's down south right down south in the south island and it's not you know i read an article you say you get called hobby farmers or lifestyle blockers that's not you guys because it's actually quite a big it's much like when the newspaper calls us comedians and they put it in a

little speech mode that's probably true but for you guys actually comedians and they put it in a little speech mode. That's probably true. But for you guys, actually, it's a big farm. There's a lot of animals on it, right? Yeah, we're 1,200 acres. 4,000 sheep or something? Is that right? Yeah, yeah. So we've got 4,000 ewes, 3,500 free-range chickens for laying eggs. We do about 700 tons of grain and seed for things like peas, sunflowers for sunflower

oil, barley forers for sunflower oil, barley for malting for beer, wheat. We've got a four-acre organic market garden for vegetables, and we do about one and a half to two tonnes of honey a year as well. Wow. And so that sounds like so much work. And the reason I asked you about the TV production company is because running a farm, is this enough?

That's enough. But then having to add in a TV show to that mix. So do contestants get eliminated each week? Do we text to keep you in the competition? I mean, how does it work? No, no, none of that. Does the farmer find a wife? Oh, how good would that show be though?

Well, hopefully not for you because you're married to the farmer. But there were a couple of our staffers like, I reckon you'll get a date out of this. Oh, yes, use it for the profile as well. A couple of singles. It like, I reckon you'll get a date out of this. Oh, yes. Use it for the profile as well. A couple of singles. It's awesome that you do it. And, you know, it must be just so, it sounds busy. And, you know, I was reading again about, you know, you guys running the farm.

It's 24-7 really. And it's 365 days of the year. Oh, totally. I mean, it's like as simple as, you know, chickens don't stop laying on Christmas Day, right? So you don't even get Christmas Day off. Someone's always got to be there to tend to them, make sure they've got their food and their water and that you collect the eggs. And yeah, it is literally 24-7.

Now we all know farming. We know the realities of farming. What goes on on a farm? Are there moments where you're like, oh, I kind of liked him? Well, in a nutshell, my home flock, so we've got our commercial laying flock of hens for laying free range pasture-raised eggs but then my home flock who are the ones that i've raised from chick this is probably more of a south island conversation right now north islanders you know

probably i had too many roosters yeah and it's not a good balance because you kind of want one rooster for every four to five hens that keeps like the nice calm, and it's not a good balance because you kind of want one rooster for every four to five hens. That keeps the nice, calm, peaceful balance. It's like a nightclub. Yeah, yeah, probably. It is probably. Too many cocks at the nightclub. Yeah.

You don't want too many on the dance floor. You said it. You said it. And so I did have to do something about it. Yeah, right. But you're on band. They're still there in the nightclub. As roosters.

Somehow, I don't know why. You wouldn't want us in an actual nightclub, but we're still there on your farm. Oh, well done. You're good on you. A huge lifestyle change for you. Probably not so much for Carlos. He's done it before. Are there days where you're like, what on earth have I done?

Yeah, well, sometimes I do go, why did we decide to take this on? Because it's even more work than what we were doing before. But no, I wouldn't have it any other way. Pretty cool. Yeah, and it's a beautiful part of the country down there, isn't it? It is stunning. We were talking to someone the other day, did you ever get used to the surroundings? I think you kind of do, and you really notice it when you come back to the city

and then you're like, where are my mountains? Where are the mountains to look at? It's all buildings, and it becomes quite overwhelming. Well, it's awesome what you're like oh where are my mountains where are the mountains to look at it's all buildings and it becomes quite overwhelming oh that's awesome uh what you don't see it tonight on three and nadia's farm it looks incredible and always nice to catch up with you yeah you two love catching up with you guys a great celebrity chat with c-grade celebrity hosts jonathan van on the hits now we're very excited i was super excited to get we got the chance to have the exclusive, the New Zealand exclusive interview with Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

He's got a new movie, Black Adam. It's in cinemas Thursday. It's a comic book movie, DC comic book. He's a superhero, Black Adam. Pierce Brosnan's in it. And we got the only New Zealand interview. We got to fly over and to hang out with Dwayne The Rock Johnson. What was it like?

He's your hero. He is, he's your goat, isn't he? Will Smith was your goat, but he kind of, he fell off the, he lost pole position. Yeah, well,

to be honest, I was so excited about it, but also at the same time, you know, you always feel like, everyone's like, don't meet your heroes. I was going to say,

now that saying, does it ring true, don't meet your heroes? Well, not in this case, because, meet your heroes. If anything,

with Dwayne Johnson, I couldn't, I keep saying, I couldn't imagine it going any better. Now, I've got a tattoo on my behind, left butt cheek, of Love Heart with Dwayne The Rock Johnson on it. And we'd seen him... We'd had a Zoom interview about a year and a half in the middle of the pandemic with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt

for another movie, and we showed him the tattoo. He had it on his phone. It was like, it blew our minds. But I still didn't expect him, when we turned up in America a year and a half later in person, to even go, oh, it's you guys. Because we're in a movie theater. We're wearing sailor's hats when he did it over Zoom. And he was doing four days of five-minute interviews.

Was there a part of you deep down like, God, I hope he remembers me? Was there a part of you deep down in that little heart of yours? The whole of me was hoping. I hope he remembers me. When I came into the room. And and soon as we came into the room, he just was like, oh, you guys. He said, yeah, he kind of looked sideways at us. Yeah.

And then he was connecting dots. I could see the dots connecting. And we thought we'd do it at the end, because obviously I didn't want to be pulling down my pants at the start of the interview, because that would have maybe wrapped things up. Because then you'd have to leave them down for the whole time. Yeah, yeah.

So maybe we'll get to the end of the interview. Always leave your trousers on during an interview. That's the first rule of interviewing. Maybe we'll get to the end of the interview, and that's when we wrapped things up. Because then you'd have to leave them down for the whole time. Yeah, yeah. So maybe we'll get to the end of the interview. Always leave your trousers on during an interview. That's the first rule of interviewing. Maybe we'll get to the end of the interview, and that's when we'll do it. But straight away, as you'll hear right now, The Rock brought up the tattoo. Have a listen.

Nice to see you. We've come all the way from... Hold on, Liz. Hold on a second. Let's acknowledge what we got to acknowledge before the interview ends. There's an elephant in the room. There's an elephant in the room,

and I f***ing love it. We're going to have to show it, man. We're going to have to show the tattoo. Here we go. Dwayne Johnson. There we go. In a love heart. Do I clench?

What am I? How is it looking right now? Well, you don't have to do anything. I think you did enough. Now, I had a dream that, imagine if your signature was nearby. Could you sign it? Oh, you want me to sign that? And when he's saying,

when he's saying you want me to sign that, he's looking down, he's pointing at your butt. Yeah. Dwayne Johnson's using his finger to point at your butt. Does he sign? He looked at your butt. Does he sign my butt? Does he sign it?

What happens next? You'll find out. There's going to be a glimpse of it tonight on the project 7 p.m on three you'll see some of that we get to ask him a whole lot of questions from famous uh kiwis as well which is cool and you'll hear the full interview eight o'clock tomorrow morning exclusive dwayne the rock johnson ahead of black adam it is the hits jonathan baldly going where no show has gone before how long is it going to take for ben to make fun of my bald head jonathan ben on the hits on our heartland tour we've got new chips out they're

out of this world uh collab you can find them in supermarkets around the country a crazy mix of maple bacon sour cream and chives sprinkled with salt and vinegar and we say the flavors out of this world so we wanted to send them literally out of this world to be the first chips in space. On Sunday, we did this. We teamed up with Canterbury University and Oasis Orbital Systems to send our chips into space. Yeah, we had to meet them in a location, Mount Summers, about an hour and 25 minutes away from Christchurch Airport, Ben Boyce.

We turned up there, and we blew up a giant looking condom. Let's call it space. Yeah, it was a weather balloon. But yeah, a huge weather balloon that was going to send up kilometres into space. If you looked in distance, you'd be like, is that contraception floating through the air? That's what I would have thought. And then it had a little parachute system underneath with our chips on it with a camera and stuff, so it would film the whole thing, and then the parachute would come back down

and land in a paddock in Ashburton. Now, if we can take you back to Sunday, previously, on Jono and Ben, the launch. Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. There you go. Oh, gee, there it goes. There you go. Oh, jeez. It goes fast. It goes off. Pumped up full of helium. And it takes off like a rocket.

Jeez, it flies quickly. It does. It goes so fast. It's actually hard to keep it down on the ground when it's got so much helium in it. So that was flying up in the air. And everyone, they were tracking it as it got up. It was pretty cool, actually. You could see it go up into the air.

And then they were tracking it. And they predicted exactly where it was going to land in this farmland. A lot of farmland around here. Yeah, a lot of farmers. So it had our chips. It had two GoPros, but then disaster struck Ben Boyce. What's going on, guys? What's going on?

Well, we lost it. We've lost the tracking system? We don't know where it is? Correct. Okay. All right, it's now me. Was this all part of the plan, losing the... Not exactly, but we've got redundancy systems on board.

And we've had something similar to this happen in the past. So we've got one move. We've got one location we need to go to. We'll go check that out. Fingers crossed it's there. Otherwise, we might get further readings. Okay, now, Ben, I can see you. You're looking on anxiously. What's going through your mind? No, mate, no, it's all good. All good now Ben, I can see you. You're looking on anxiously.

What's going through your mind? No, mate, no, just all good. All good, mate, all good. Mick's saying they've lost. It's all good, it's all good. Lost the tracking of it. Under control, under control. Talk to me through your grave concerns, right?

I don't need my grave concerns. No one needs my grave concerns. They're in my head. So there you go. Space is expensive. We all know sending stuff into space is an expensive operation, and the cameras, the GoPro cameras with the chips in space, we've got to get those.

They come down with the parachute. If we don't get that, we don't have the footage. We can't prove that the chips are in space until we get the footage. Not only were the chips sky high, but so were Ben's anxiety levels. Yeah, so I'm like, this whole thing. We go, oh, what happened to the chips? Yeah, we sent them to space. Can I see it? Oh no, I can't because, you know.

You weren't happy. I could tell. I could tell something was unsettling you for the rest of the day. Because we were the last couple of days. But we got some news yesterday. Exciting news. We had sent a plea out to the fine people of Ashburton of mid Canterbury to scour

their farmlands for our GoPros. And we got a message yesterday and we'll bring you up to speed next. What has happened? Have we got the footage? Are the GoPros still intact? Are the chips still there? A lot of questions. Have we sent the first potato chips to space? We'll find out next. It is the hits.

This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Wall to wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. It is Pink. You're on the hits. Jono and Ben on your Wednesday morning. We're on tour taking our brand new chips with Heartland potato chips around the country. They're out of this world. That's what we said the flavor is.

And we didn't want to say that we're out of this world without literally wanting to send the chips out of this world into space. They're a crazy mix together of maple, bacon, sour cream and chives sprinkled with salt and vinegar all in the one packet. We say it's out of this world so we sent them up into space. You would have just heard that before, the big launch with the weather balloon here. Here's the countdown. Two, one, go. Oh, gee, there you go. Space goes on.

That was us launching this weather balloon filled with 900 cubic metres of helium, just shooting up into space quicker than a rocket. Actually, with a lot of velocity it takes off, so we did that. Had our GoPros on it, our cameras, our chips up there, a little parachute to come down. It was going to land in a paddock. They planned it all out. We get the GoPro footage.

It looks amazing shooting back at Earth, you know, job done, shake hands, move on, another wonderful Jono and Ben Enterprise execution. But it wasn't to be. We lost tracking of the package, of the GoPros. We knew they had landed in rural Ashburton somewhere. We were scouring rural Ashburton for a number of hours on Sunday

and we're joined now by Chief Space Engineer from the John O'Biden Space Mission. Live from Mission Control. Well he's more from Oasis Orbital Systems, Canterbury University. Mick, good morning, great to have you on buddy. Hey, how's it going boys? Lovely to be here. It was a good day yesterday uh we received a text message from you saying what well uh after a few days of searching uh we were able to recover our payload and uh get your footage back yeah so what yeah so we sent up our chips our brand new out of this world chips up into space with the weather balloon, and it went up. How high did it go up?

Do we know exactly? Yeah, we're estimating around 18 kilometers. So it went out. It basically went to space. They're out of this world right now, and then they came down on the parachute, and you guys were tracking it, and then it was in an area somewhere in a lot of farmland around Ashburton. And when you go there, there is a lot of farmland, a lot of green grass. There's too much land. Ashburton, you've got too much grass.

Too many fields, too many paddocks, because we were walking around them for hours. Yeah, trying to find it. But eventually you got a text from a farmer saying, hey, it's landed in the paddock and you can come get your footage. Absolutely, yeah. So what had happened was some of the electronics in our tracking gear had failed because of the harsh conditions in space. But, yeah, thanks to the community in Ashburton,

we were able to get the word out and a farmer did reach out. Yeah, it really did touch the hearts of the community of Ashburton, didn't it? They were all out looking for our GoPros. We appreciate that, Ashburton. They were all out looking for our GoPros. We appreciate that, Ashburton. So where we were looking on Sunday, was it anywhere near where it landed? Probably about three kilometres from where we had been. So hold on, Mick.

So we traipsed around a field for three to four hours. I called it early. Yeah, Jono called it early. I was like, I hope I never go missing, because Jono was like, ah, there's no more we can do. I'm like, it's still daylight for another four hours. I was four kilometres away. I knew it. In my heart of hearts, I'm like, we're wasting our

time here. But then all for the last couple of days, he's like, we'll find it. I'm positive, we'll find it. But you wasn't positive on the day. You called it early. Yeah, I just knew it wasn't there. I knew it was somewhere. I've got like an internal tracking system. You wasn't positive on the day. You called it early. Yeah, I just knew it wasn't there. I knew it was somewhere. I just, I knew. I've got like an internal tracking system. Mick knew it.

Mick knew it. He took my word. He was like, you're right, we should call the day. Didn't you, Mick? Honestly, it's just part of the journey. We're sort of used to these adventures now. And it just makes it all worthwhile when we get it in the end. It's a zero to hero story.

An extraordinary tale of survival. Two GoPros and a bag of chips that travelled to space. Have you seen the footage? Because we haven't seen it, Mecca, but just yet. We're going to put it up in the next couple of days on our social media. But have you seen the chips in space yet? Yes, yes, I have. And I don't want to give away too much, but, yeah, it's pretty amazing.

Captivating footage? yeah, it's pretty amazing. Captivating footage? Yes, it's fantastic. I could not have imagined anything more amazing. The first bag of chips in space, honestly. Well, that is, actually, just as we've been talking, James Cameron's just DM'd me. He wants to make a feature-length movie on this journey, which is remarkable.

So this is going places. This tale is going places. And I knew it would end up like this. I knew, Ben, I'm a Catholic man. I prayed. I prayed to the good Lord. The good Lord came through for us. So, Mech, we really do appreciate all your time. Because it's a lot of work. You know, travelling to space, you can't just

go, oh, I think I might go to space and then do it. Yeah, you guys put so much effort. You had a whole big team on the day. What a stupid saying. As if anyone listening was like, oh yeah, I thought I could just go to space when I wanted. You had trackers, you had a team there. So thank you to everyone at Canterbury University and Oasis Orbital Systems

for pulling the whole thing together. We can't wait to see the footage. And thanks for all your hard work, Mick. Cheers, boys. Really appreciate it. It was good fun. The Hits. For more podcasts from The Hits Network,

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