Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Called Back Listener Mark With A Christmas Suprise!

Episode Date: November 16, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben Podcast we chat to the Aussie couple who went to Bunnings and got married and we call back Mark from yesterday with a heartwarming suprise!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, good morning, it is the, or good afternoon, or whatever, whatever. I shouldn't stipulate what time of day you're listening to this. It's November 17th, and that's the good thing about podcasts. You can just listen at your discretion. And iHeartRadio, wherever you get your podcasts, you can listen. It's been a fun morning this morning. We've been watching on as there was a spa pool set up

in the sort of the reception area of work this morning, Hot Springs Spa, because the T20 Black Clash is coming back. was a spa pool set up in the sort of the reception area of work this morning hot spring spa because the t20 black clash is coming back and radio haraki have been doing this show from a spa pool all morning uh which far be it for me to be the you know the prudish health and safety officer of the building but electrical electrical equipment microphones headphones spa pools it's all you can think of every time you see someone holding a microphone in a spa, you're like, oh, that could go wrong. But they look like a great show.

No one electrocuted themselves? Not as far as I saw. I mean, I've been watching a lot of it. A lot of people, you know, a lot of hot cricketers and rugby players getting in. They've been getting in the spa pool. They are hot. It's a spa pool.

Steaming hot. Hot spring spa. So thank you very much there, Producer Joel. I used to go to the Gleninus public pool. You know, it's sitting in the spa pool there. Yeah. And I would look around, and there were 30 to 40 other people in this giant bathtub. And I'm just thinking, now, me, older me, is thinking, how much bacteria was just—

Yeah, but it's all fine. It's all good. It's all good. It's all good. Remember the big thing was don't put your head under the sparple when you're a kid. Yeah. And all the kids, all they want to do is put their head under. And you're like, oh. Yeah, but don't.

Not about your own sparple. You've got a sparple. Yeah, we have. Do you put your head under? No, actually, no, we don't. We just because of it might have drilled in from my parents at a young age. You don't put your head under the spa pool. Who knows what goes on underneath the water.

I think it's to do with something. There's something you can get sick somehow with the ear or something. So I don't think it's to do with what you're talking about. Oh, it's probably the 30 or 40 people's bacteria that's floating around in there. But that's public sport. That's public stuff as well. But they keep them healthy nowadays, don't they? Yeah.

I've been in a public spa pool for many years though maybe we should maybe we should do our show our show out of a public spa pool yeah they've got

the Honecki have got their one out the nice hot springs you know the nice we go to the battler one mate the battler public spa pool get in and do some

bombs off the high dive what's your name here oh Gary why have you got a microphone in the public spa pool can you stop interviewing me? That'd be a bit weird, wouldn't it?

Hey, really fun show today. Thanks to everyone that came together and helped us make a really lovely call to Mark on the show today, who phoned up yesterday trying to play Five Words for $5,000. Got $500, but he shared a lot with us about what's going on at the moment, so it was great to have people behind the scenes pull together a bit of a surprise for Mark. It felt good. How does it feel for you and your cold lifeless hearts to do something nice for a charge? It felt really good.

Hey, here's my charges here. I've got to go. Oh, is your charger? No, no, we'll get Joyce in. Joyce, she won't want to come. Mother-in-law Joyce has brought in the chargers. She won't want to. She's coming.

She's driving all the way into town, peak hours, to drop off the chargers. She had nothing to do with it. Bye, Joyce. We can pad till then. Bring Joyce in for a chat. We'll see. We'll keep talking to see if he'll bring his mother-in-law. Joyce is lovely. Very, very nice. She's driving all the way Into town Peak hour To drop off the charges She had nothing to do with it We can pad till then Bring Joyce in for a chat

We'll keep talking To see if we can bring His mother-in-law Joyce is lovely Very big fan Joyce Boyce or no? No she's Amanda's mother Oh yeah

But I always said You should have married Joyce Would have been Joyce Boyce But also would have been Very weird Pretty big age difference But a huge fan Oh she's gone

Of cycling Is Joyce going? Huge fan of cycling And a huge fan of cycling is Joyce going huge fan of cycling and a huge fan of yachting did you even invite her in she's walking out I can see her

walking out of the floor she doesn't want to come in here mate did you throw it out no I just said thank you so much for that sorry I was at your pain

there we go she's got to go meet Matt and Jerry she's having a spa it is a public spa full now. Now we found out yesterday we won an award that we didn't even know we entered. But geez, it got our attention, didn't it?

It did, yeah. So we won the Saucy Awards. The Condiment Awards as the Dynamic Media Duo, Ben Boyce. And what these people have done is they've gone straight to the source, if I could call in the phrase, of the shallow radio host who lapsed this sort of attention up.

And they're like, if we give them an award, they're going to talk about our source on the radio. Damn right. They're right. Damn right. If you want us to talk about your product, your business on the radio, just give us an award. There's an email that came through yesterday with the subject line,

Jono and Ben named top media dynamic duo. We're like, ooh, ooh, New Zealand's top dynamic duo is released. And we're like, oh, well, here we go. We've got to talk about this. And we did. We did. We won this award. Now, Taika Waititi, where's your aura?

They're in it as well. We're all with good company, Ben. Yeah, they won as well. Jacinda Ardern and Clark Gayford. It's also looking at dynamic duos in New Zealand. It's the big awards. It's the Academy Awards of condiments. The sauce awards.

I would have thought, hey, I'm not running the awards category. They might have awarded, you know, your mayonnaises, srirachias for sauce awards. Well, yeah. But how good does that make us, that we've knocked out the sauces of the Sauce Awards? Well, what's happening is, I've been digging deeper,

they're celebrating the blend of Heinz tomato ketchup and a Heinz Seriously Good mayonnaise together in one saucy sauce. So these two dynamic duos have come together. So they're saying that's what he won the Sauce Awards for condiments. So then they're like, well, what other dynamic duos

and other categories can we vote on? You know, for celebrities, TV, sport, pop culture as well. Give us some other big names. Who are the other big names that you're winning us in these awards? Lay it on me thick. Okay, so Rita Ora, Taika Waititi, Clark Gayford and Jacinda Ardern. Yeah, know them well, love them. And Sporting, the Sporting dynamic duo, Lisa and Valerie Adams.

Successful whanau. Yeah, and TV. Now, we're no longer in the TV category. Who's taking out that one? Well, just in front of the top twins was Goodnight Kiwi and The Cat. But as far as media goes... Can I ask a question?

Yeah. Who voted for these? Well, don't ask. No, don't ask that question. Who cares? Mate, because when it comes down to it, the hits breakfast, John Owen Bennett, he's here in this press release, received over a third of the popular votes

for their title of New Zealand's number one media. Who? Who though? Who? Shush, shush. New Zealand's number one media dynamic duo. A third of the votes. Whoever, whether it was one person or whether it was 500,000 people. It doesn't matter, mate.

It's all you need. Jacinda Ardern didn't even win. Remember the Labour Party didn't have enough last time, but they cobbled it together and they got... Well, I mean, to Jacinda, that might be the only thing she's winning in the next 12 months. Well, yeah, true. No, but thank you.

Thank you. It was nice. We take the mickey. But as I say, we're fragile. We lap this sort of attention up, Ben. And we played right into their web of commercialism, didn't we? Yeah. The take the mickey. But as I say, we're fragile. We lap this sort of attention up, Ben. And we played right into their web of commercialism, didn't we? Yeah. The sauce got a plug.

The Heinz saucy sauce. What is it? Two greats joining together? Yeah, so the ketchup and mayonnaise together. And the sauce sounds good. Yeah, it's a great combo. Yeah, it's a great combo. What's another great combo?

The dynamic duo. The dynamic media duo of Johno and Ben Will be continuing This show on For the next three years And you can just I've always said We're dynamic You can listen to

The dynamics Over the next three hours The dynamic duo Continue Okay we're going to Stop saying that The hits The Jono and Ben podcast

Just announced yesterday If you missed it Dear God he is back Donald Trump In order to make America great And glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for President of the United States.

Making America great and glorious again. I want to get that on a hat. I thought he would just have his normal hat and just get another ER stitch on the end. Greaterer. Greaterer. His daughter, Ivanka Trump, she said yesterday she's not going to be part.

She supports her dad, but she's not going to be a part of his political run again for presidency. She's going to concentrate on raising their children, three children. Who would want to be part of that even? And a lot of the experts are really worried, political experts, if he gets in. She was the only person who could reason with him. His daughter. Uh-oh. No.

Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. The Hits Boarding Call with Visit Anaheim, House of Travel, and Fiji Airways. The bonus for us is a lot of great content, Ben. You've got to look at the silver lining. Oh, jeez. If he's back in. Now, you can be in to win a family dream holiday to Anaheim.

Flights for four accommodation, passes to Disneyland, $10,000 cash. I keep forgetting about this $10,000 cash and more. It's all thanks to House of Travel, F your airways and visit Anaheim. And you can contact House of Travel at housetotravel.co.nz. Let's get Desiree on the phone, shall we? Why are you up so bloody early, D-Dog? Good morning. Hi.

What are you doing right now? I was making lunch for the kids. Oh, yeah. So I'm getting ready for school. You get your systems in the morning, don't you? You get a good flow on. Some days you have a better flow So, school, school run. You got it. You get your systems in the morning, don't you? Get a good flow on.

Some days you have a better flow on than others, I noticed. Yeah, yeah. You know, when you just, one thing goes wrong,

you're like, I don't need this now. I spilled a whole, a whole bowl of sugar on the floor this morning and I was like, can I make that somebody else's problem?

Yeah. And I had to clean it up. But anyway, Desiree, you don't need to hear my issues this morning. Let's get you to Disneyland. Yeah, here is your question this morning to get you in the drawer., Desiree, you don't need to hear my issues this morning. Let's get you to Disneyland. Yeah, here is your question

this morning to get you in the drawer. A Disneyland-related question, obviously. What is the most popular souvenir at Disneyland? I think it's got to be Mickey Mouse-related.

Mickey Mouse? Probably those hats that the Mickey Mouse ears. Yes! The Mickey Mouse ears Yes The Mickey Mouse ears I was going to pick his tail But no I bought some

I got swept up in Disneyland Madness When I was there And I bought Mickey Mouse Salad service Which was his hands Like salad And they looked awesome

But they didn't really Pick up salad very well He's got quite He's got quite Puffy hands Like he's suffering from They were quite sort of Rigid and sort of

They just didn't really pick up but I guess hands have been stung by 300 bees Mickey Mouse hey you're in that drawer

who did you take over there Desiree probably my husband and my two little boys fair enough obligated

obligated yeah well it could be you or the 292 other people in the drawer but good luck.

You're going to have a great day. What's that story, Producer Joel? Tomorrow afternoon it's being drawn as well. Oh, there we go, Desiree. Make sure you're tuning in. Not long to wait. Brazza and Lazza in the afternoon, Brad and Laura, okay? Yeah.

All the best, Desiree. Thank you. Thanks very much for listening. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, we're giving away Ben's holiday. Ben has a family trip booked to the Hot Spring Spa T20 Black Clash. Jono wants to give it away. It's Jono and Ben's hit him for six.

And you can snatch it straight from underneath his perfectly formed nasal cavity. Ben Boyce. Hot Spring Spas T20 Black Clash is going to be in Christchurch early next year. All the details at the Hits.co.nz. Amazing trip I'd sorted out for the me and the family in Christchurch. Just to go to the details at the hitstock.co.nz. Amazing trip I'd sorted out for me and the family in Christchurch. Just to go to the markets, vouchers, all sorts. But, you know, it's your cricket addiction. You're disguising it as a family holiday.

That's how you're getting the family down there. And you're like, oh, we're here. Oh, there's cricket on. Who knew? This is the thing. So we got wind of this. And you can win the trip, the game, every day this week. He is to guess the mystery player from the hot springs

spars t20 black clash you've nailed it so far you've done very well i've tried very hard i've got the team list so i'm actually trying to hold on to this trip now today's mystery player joins us on 0800 the hits good morning morning gentlemen lovely to have you on uh you can you can ask uh mystery player any question you want. I'm getting quite competitive in this. First question, there's been a lot of team cricket lately, so I'm going to take a stab. I'm going to go, are you playing in team rugby?

Yes. Are you currently on tour with the All Blacks? No. Okay. Looking at the team list. Have you played in the Black Clash before? Yes. That's question three.

Two more to go. Okay, okay, okay. I'm going to take a stab here. Do you share the same name with Sporty, Posh, Ginger Baby and Scary? Yes. Jason Spice. It's Jason Spice. It's Jason Spice. Yes, I got it.

Oh, nicely done. The less-known member of the Spice team. How are you, mate? Yeah, good. I'm actually teaching at the moment. I was going to say, you're a teacher, right, in Tauranga? Well done, Ben. You should hold on to it for another day.

Another day. I've got one more day to hold off on it. But it looks, I mean, I want to get there because it looks like such an amazing, amazing time. I'll tell you what, if you judge it by last year, it got a bit feral in Bay of Plenty. Is that why it's had to go to Christchurch? A little bit more refined in Christchurch, I find. Now, when are we going to get out there and see the cricket guys take you on at rugby? That seems like it's the only fair thing to do, the next step, the next evolution. Yeah, I might be missing

out on that one, I think. But you're the rugby player, you're the Wellington legend. What do the kids at school think about you? When you come back into school afterwards, when the term starts, have they seen you on the telly? Most of them are too young to know who I am, which is quite good. Every now and then there's a kid who does a bit of research and usually reminds me that I couldn't get off the bench and stuff like that. What are you teaching? I teach a bit of PE and outdoor ed and stuff, all the fun stuff. That's awesome. Fulfilling job.

A bit of health too. These guys have to teach them how to put condoms on and things like that. Oh right. It's all the stuff you have to do as a teacher.

They tend to be switched on when we do that one lesson. Everyone's not paying attention. And I can imagine you're like

alright guys time to learn how to put condoms and stuff on so here we go. Well Jason we look forward to the Hot Springs Spa T20 Black Clash

It's going to be fantastic Thank you for your time this morning And you go and teach those kids good and proper Thank you very much guys See you mate, thank you Well done Ben, another day Your holiday lives on, we've only got one more day to go The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast

There was an 86-year-old in the UK that just did something for the first time, and he's just bought a house. For the first time? For the first time. He's the UK's oldest first-time buyer. Yeah, Joel, that's how old you're going to be when you're going to be able to afford a house, mate. That's probably quite true, eh? I'd be stoked

to that. So he's a pensioner. His name is Simon. He spent a lot of his life living on his family farm. Then he went into an assisted care facility for many years. And he's like, you know what? I've always wanted to buy a house. I've always wanted to get on that property ladder. It's never too late. Is he going to

reap the rewards? Oh, good on him. Yeah, but 86 years old. Yeah, so in Wales, he's bought his first house. Is it a do-a-ra-pa-ra? Let's hope not for his sake. Let's hope it's all good. Let's hope all the furniture's placed in there,

the bed's made, everything's done for him. 147,000 pounds is how much it cost him as well. So congratulations, 86 years old. You send him a congratulations. There is no way he is going to hear this or get this message. What do you think you're going to be doing at 86? Fast forward to 86. It's only a couple of years away from me,

but what are you going to be doing? Where are you going to be sitting? I'll still be annoying everyone. Do you think you'll still be working? I'd like to be doing something. If I'm not working, I'll be just a pain on doing stuff that, you know,

like, all right, mate, settle down, settle down. I have grave concerns about my alcohol consumption. Like if there's nothing to do in the day yeah you know it's just gonna go it's like lockdown you're like okay we'll hold out to five i don't know it's three okay you know why am i drinking at 10 30 in the morning now and if i've got nothing to do at age

maybe i need to stuff to do as well. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals. Because she's not a good person, but either is he. Digging the dirt.

Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Yelling at cast members. Yes. It was a script. No. His identity is a secret.

But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. He's an entertainment lawyer by day and by night. He's still an entertainment lawyer, but just a tired one. Then some of the day, he's our Hollywood insider. NT, how are you this morning? I'm great. I hope you guys are great too.

We're doing really well. We wanted to talk to you about Gisele Bundchen, supermodel, Tom Brady, football legend, quarterback legend. How long has he been playing NFL for, for like 82 years? Yeah, something like that. I think he started when Joe Biden was a kid. Something like that. They've divorced after 20-odd years of marriage. And breaking news overnight that she's moved on with the kids' jujitsu instructor.

Yeah, you know, and he actually got to play wide receiver this weekend too, and that didn't work out well. Is he playing again? Yeah, he's back. So he went to retire, and then he decided he was going to come back to football. And I don't know. That's the rumors that that maybe caused a bit of friction in their relationship. I don't know.

I mean, N.T., you're over there. What's going on? Yeah, well, because he had decided, OK, I'm going to accept this deal to be, you know, an announcer, a play-by-play person for a lot of money. And Giselle said, OK, well, that's OK. You know, you'll be gone two days a week. That's OK. But instead he goes, you know what?

I'm just going to keep playing football and tough you know and he just doesn't want to hang it up and giselle's ready to live in costa rica most of the time i get a point you know she said tom but you've retired 20 times and when is this madness going to stop but now i understand she's bought a mansion across the road from his mansion yeah it sounds very like kanye's bought a mansion across the road from his mansion. Yeah, it sounds very like Kanye who bought a mansion across the street from Kim's mansion and has never stepped foot in it. With Giselle and Tom, I think it is, hey, I want to be close so that way you can see the kids and everything. I think with Kanye, it was more of, I really want to stalk you and see who's coming over. Yeah, right.

It's always good when you can get a mansion across the road from your ex. Your ex-husband or wife. Is this a common thing? Because at convenience, it's fine. It's like, go see your mother, and then they can just cross the road and, Mal, go and ask your dad. It probably works quite well, doesn't it? You know, because, you know, Kanye and Kim did it, I thought about it, and Giselle has done it, but honestly, I think that most

celebrities, they will often move to the same city if they're living in a different city but it's just like any other you know couple somebody moves out and they live where they live and you know hopefully they're pretty close to their kids and they can see them all the time but i don't think it's a buy a house across the street because honestly who really if if it's not amicable do you really want to be that close to your ex? I knew a guy who was living in the shed out the back and his ex-wife was in the house with her new man.

Oh, really? Yeah, well, for the most part, I think they got along fine, apart from him crying in the shed out the back, bringing down the vibes. It's like, it's bin day, it's bin day, we need to put the binners out. The thing I like about Hollywood stars

hooking up with Hollywood stars is it's hot people meet hot people. And I'm all for hot stars hooking up with Hollywood stars is it's hot people meet hot people. And I'm all for hot people hooking up with hot people. Why does it seem to be a trend that they only sort of gravitate towards each other and not us ugly minions down below? You know, that's a really good question, and I think it's because of this. If you're on, and it doesn't always hold true. I mean, Julia Roberts married, you know, just a regular guy and they've been married for a long time, but you're hanging out

on a movie set or hanging out on a TV set and the crew is busy, right? The crew is busy doing their job. So that only leads you to hang out with the other actors and actresses. And then they say, oh, do you want to go to a party? I have to go to this opening. And the opening is nothing but other actors and actresses. It's kind of like this incestuous pool from which they all kind of take a turn dipping into and makes you a little bit

nauseous if you really stop to think about it. Well, maybe it's a common understanding. Yeah, I was thinking that. They'll probably understand the industry a bit more. NTR, it's been great talking to you as always you go and have a wonderful week and we'll speak this time

next week mate alright you guys take care it's been one of the wettest years wettest winters in 50 years but the hottest summer

one of the hottest years predicted so wet and warm jeez I tell you what it was hot yesterday Ben Boyce said to take my daughter to netball

and you were the talk of the netball courts. I didn't realise that. Played on the same night. My daughter's partner. Ben Boyce was over there before you, friend. Ben Boyce, his daughter's here. And then apparently you beat another team, and they were like, oh, jeez, they're good.

They're good talk of the netball courts. Mate, I didn't do anything. I sat on the sidelines. Summer netball. I tell you, got your winter netball, summer netballs, just like winter netball except in 35 degree temperatures. Yeah, well, better than in freezing rain because netball they battle on in the winter.

It kind of just goes from one extreme to the other netball. Yeah, you're right. Scrolling through your feed. Intellectual, informative, inspiring, Ben Boyce. What's happening? Well, I don't know if any of those things are, but Jazz Thornton, now you'll know her.

She was on Dancing with the Stars. She won the last series of Dancing with the Stars. She's massive on social media. Does a lot of great work for mental health. You always say you will know her, I will know her.

And then when I don't know people, I just have to pretend that I know them. Well, that's on you, mate, because you should know her. And you know, I mean, she's huge on social media. As I say, great work. Yeah, everyone knows Jazz. Blowing up on TikTokiktok millions of followers on the talk yeah and she demonstrated

something on tiktok she was sent from the uk some terry's chocolate orange and she ate it in a very slightly unorthodox way okay my friend from england bought me back this terry's orange chocolate thing and i just unboxed earlier and everyone was like you must try it I've never had it before so I'm gonna give it a swirl how does one

so Jez was a bit confused about how to eat this sort of chocolate thing it was kind of it's like a ball isn't it yeah it looks like an actual orange so she just started

just trying to eat it you know like you would sort of an apple or such an uproar oh in the UK it's just been like people are like You know, like you would sort of an apple as such. An uproar. Oh, in the UK, it's just been like people like, that's not how you eat the cherry chocolate orange. That is just, you know, the people,

you're meant to smash it apparently and then sort of peel it apart. That's the way they... Like an orange. Yeah. I heard King Charles wants to eject us from the Commonwealth. I think because of that. Well, Jazz, too, her credit has seen the funny side of it

and she's issued an apology video. Yesterday, that was very offensive and I didn't know that it was very offensive until you guys were calling me out on it.

And that was that I didn't know that you had to smash this before you ate it. But, I, I, I,

I didn't know. So this, this has gone on Ladbible. This has gone through the UK as well. This is big news. This is big news everywhere. I'm glad we're back to this sort of news too. This is the sort of news that's in our suites.

But the COVID stuff. Well, they still try to be like, hey, we've got the daily COVID. Summer's going to be in the numbers. You're like, mate, what's I doing? We want to talk about these orange chocolates that you didn't eat properly. There is a lot of other stuff going on in the world right now,

but sometimes it's best not to think about it. No one here is as important as that though, Ben. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. So we're putting together a pretty busy schedule.

It starts on Sunday because we're going to go around every Bunnings Warehouse store in New Zealand from top to bottom and eat a sausage at the Sausage Sizzle. I think just over 40 stores we're going to head around the place to.

It's the sausage adventure of a lifetime. It is. It is. I mean, who doesn't love a sausage and bread? And will we be saying the same thing at the end of seven days? I don't know. But it's a pretty full-on time. If you want to pop down and have a meet and greet with us,

have some meat and say hello and help support the community as they do with the sausage sizzles, then you can text Bunnings to 4487. And it's all about the community, isn't it? That's what you've always, that's what you've always been for, Ben? Yeah. That's how he got me across the line.

He's like, do you not love the community? One of the cool things a friend was telling me yesterday at the local Bunnings, at She's Got Bunnings Warehouse, is you can just scan your phone in and pay off Apple Pay as well, because sometimes you don't carry a dollar or cash around with you. I always feel like

a bloody legend when I walk out of the store and you know the staff member or the team member who waits at the door to check items and they don't check me. I'm like mate I must look like a stand up person. But then in saying that when I'm at the petrol pump and it's on prepay, they never release it.

So I want to put a wee challenge to you ahead of our challenge of going around every Bunnings warehouse in the country. And I've got some names of sausages, some sausage terms as well. And I'm going to hold up these pieces of paper and then you're going to make a phone call. And I want you to seamlessly try and weave them into the conversation without the person noticing. I will try and insert these sausage references into this conversation

like we're going to be inserting sausages into our mouth next week. Have we got a wee bell that we can play every time John gets on? All right, we can do that. And the good thing is it's going to play to my advantage. It's very early in the morning for sausage banter, so they might not pick up on it. Okay, where are we heading? Southland, is it?

Yeah, Southland. It says on the phone? Yeah. Here we go. Good morning, 4 Square, Tuatapuri. Maria speaking. Hello, you silly sausage. How are you?

Who's that? It's just Jonathan here. Now, have I got a hold of Tuatapuri? Yes. Hold on, can you just hold there a second? No, I'm busy. Hold on, just give me a second mate. Jonathan.

I'll just turn down the new Taylor... Who are you? Who are you? Is that a prize? No, what are you talking about? I'm just trying to turn down the new Taylor Swift song. It's an absolute banger. Have we won something? Listen, I need to be frank with you. Yeah. I was going to come to Tuatapere. Yeah.

But I've hit a snag. Oh, no. You see, what was happening, I was taking my pet for a walk yesterday, 30-degree conditions, and I ended up with a hot dog. Ah, yeah, hot dog. It was the worst. Nice. So I won't be able to come to Tuatapari now.

Oh. We will miss you. But we are going to give you a prize, because I think you picked that it's Jono and Ben here from the Hits radio station. Yeah, awesome. Nice to hear from you. Straight away.

Like, he hadn't even done the crappy radio bit, and you were like. Give me a prize. Give me a prize. Have I won something? We're going to hook you up. What ever happened to just the pure joy of being on the radio? Is that not enough prize?

Greedy, greedy. They're wanting all these people we prank. They're wanting prizes. Well, fair enough. We've had a good meeting. You sound busy. We've held up your day. We're going to send you out a prize, all right?

Oh, thank you. You have a good day. You too. Love your Oh, thank you. You have a good day. You too. Love your work. Thank you. And if you want to find out where we're going on the Bunnings Warehouse Sausage Sizzle Tour of New Zealand, you can text Bunnings to 4487. We're not going to Tua Tarpity, though.

I'll tell you that. There's not a Bunnings there. No, no, no. We're only going to go to where the Bunnings Warehouse stores are. Something's moved into my house. Speaking of houses, Bunnings Warehouse was in it. I was like, were we speaking of houses? He was grimacing.

I was like, what? But anyway, I didn't pull you up on it. I just gave you a wee look. It threw me off. I can't tell you. Can you tell if it threw me off or not? No, it definitely did. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Having a bit of an issue at the moment. I mentioned last week, Ben, and I did promise rolling coverage of the birds that have moved in under the corrugated roof of the corrugated iron

roof of our fuddy it's their house now it is it's got it's like i said just moments ago it feels like we're an airbnb with things that spend a lot of time in the air they're not paying anything yeah but they nest they put their nest under there. It's kind of cute, but when it's somebody else's house. Yeah, because, and you just hear, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp.

That's like us in the morning. It's probably just about as annoying. But the question I ask you is when is it too late for me to turn them into eggs? Scrambled eggs. I think once they've hatched. Is it once they're chirping? Yeah, and eggs. I think, what's the patch? Is it once they're chirping?

Yeah, and I don't know if that's the... Can you do anything once they're chirping? And I don't know if that's the type of things you want to be cracking open and having, you know, even before that. But they are relentless. They're honestly, they're about as relentless as a Grammarly ad on YouTube.

They just, I said the other day, I've put like all this stuff in the gutters to try and block them, but they can get through a fully grown bird. I feel like this is it. You told me this fact the other day, and I'm like, I don't believe this. This is what the bird experts told me. A fully grown bird.

I phoned her, and she said they have fully grown bird can fit through the size of a 50-cent hole. An albatross, a pelican, they can all fit through a 50-cent hole. A mower, you remember the mower? We used to be able can all fit through a 50-cent hole. A mower, you remember the mower? We used to be able to squeeze its way through a 50-cent coin. A hole as big. That's right. Incredible, eh, birds, what they can do. It's a bird, it's a talent you don't understand about birds.

So we want to know this morning what has moved into your home. I can understand why they're there, because obviously the incubation of the eggs, they need heat, and under a hot corrugated iron roof, it'd be hotter than Satan's sauna underneath there. And it doesn't have to be animal-related, too, or bird-related as well for this. It could be you could have had someone stay on the couch for, like, two or three nights, and it was still moved in, you know, maybe two or three years later.

That gets awkward, doesn't it? Especially when it's your friend, and they're like, get your friend out of the house, And you have to have that conversation. Our new neighbours up the road, actually, speaking of things moving in, the people that were staying in the house before them had a bunny rabbit, and that moved about five kilometres away. Obviously, the bunny rabbit didn't like, a bit of a free-range rabbit, they run down, didn't like the new house,

and travelled all the way back five kilometres. They found it back in the house, back in its old house. How incredible is that? Like the rabbit. Trapped all the way back five kilometres they found it back in the house back in its old house how incredible is that like the rabbit traked its own way back yeah on the rabbit the rabbit then they were like

people were like oh I think he likes living there now do you want to keep the rabbit so now they've got a rabbit hangs out with my cat my cat goes over and hangs out with the rabbit this is the

really the cat won't even hang out with me but he'll hang out with the rabbit that says a lot about you though it does yeah it's really unusual well the cat's over there with the rabbit yeah they says a lot about you, though, doesn't it? It does. Yeah, it's really unusual. Well, the cat's over there with the rabbit. Yeah, they lie together.

That's the thing. The animals can just force themselves upon us. We've got no choice in this arrangement. Yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. What's moved in? Donald Trump trying to move back into his old abode at the White House, hasn't he?

Just announced yesterday. Great time. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. What's he trying to do? Make America greater again? Something like that.

Joe Biden, he's going to run again as well. You're like, what? Really? Yeah. Remember last time that they had to prove that Biden still had a pep in his step and they'd make him run out onto the stage? Oh, yeah.

So it looked like an elderly fitness instructor who was about to take a class at the retirement village. But yeah, well, good luck to both of those old men at the next election. Just talking about unintentional things that have moved into your house, overstaying guests, whatever, after mine's turned into an aviary upstairs for the birds.

We're going to move out over the summer months. Let the birds take it out. You actually want to come see some beautiful birds on offer. Nice. Yeah, let's go to the phones on 0800. The hits. Amy Morena. Morena.

Great to have you on. What moved in? This is what we're talking about. I've got my bird issues at the moment. What are you having to deal with? Well, when we looked at our flat when we were students, my partner and I, the flat was empty, there was no furniture in there but as we were looking around we started finding these pamphlets everywhere for like adult toys and our landlady that was showing us

around, she lived next door and she turns out she ran an adult toy company from home and used to use our flat as a storage facility. Oh, okay. So were you sharing the room with... You moved into the house, I think. You moved into the house where someone had been running a business. Yeah. Yeah, so she owned the house next door and our house,

so she had left it vacant for quite a while and had been using it as storage. So they were just kind of, yeah. Yeah, right. Interesting looking pamphlets. And so when you walked into the house, did you get bad vibes? No, really good vibes. So the instructional manuals and pamphlets probably, you know.

Surely she should have sent those out. Yeah. Maybe it was a subtle way of promoting her stuff. Oh, that's interesting. Okay. Yeah. Like a was a subtle way of promoting her stuff. You're like, oh, that's interesting. Okay. Yeah, like a little light reading and stuff before bed. My favorite thing was actually one Christmas we had a barbecue and we invited her over.

And my mum's quite prudish and she didn't really know what the landlord did. So she was kind of asking lots of questions and got stuck in this conversation she couldn't get out of. Oh, and the landlord was... She was getting more and more details about her business and the different products available. Watching my mum's face contort was the best present.

It's a thriving industry, isn't it? If you can get into it. Yeah, thriving. Yeah, that's one word for it. I mean, you saw her first hand. You were living in the thick of it. Well, thank you very much for sharing your story this morning. We appreciate it.

No worries. No worries. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. 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 at this time on The Hits. Match your five words, you win $5,000. Going off, eh, Ben? Going off, aren't you, buddy? You ready to go off? And Justine in Christchurch. You ready to go off, Justine?

Right now? She's already going off. Can tell. How's the morning going, Justine? Pretty good, thanks. On my way to work and thought I would ring. And I think this is the second time I've phoned up. Oh, have we come through in the past or bitterly disappointed?

What have we done, Justin? No, busy, busy. Oh, no. Did you hear the... Just move on. Too late, mate. Let's just carry on. Okay, Justin, who do you want to send in to the soundproof booth?

John or Ben? Ben, please. All right, good luck, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? John or Ben? Ben, please. Alright, good luck. Who did you send in previously, Justine? Oh, no, I never got through. Oh, you never got through? I've only rang twice now. Oh, okay, so here we go. The time is now to win $5,000, Justine. What would the cash go on before we embark

on this journey of cash discovery? Holiday. Holiday. You deserve it. Sound like you've had a big year, Justine. You need to treat discovery. Holiday. Holiday. You deserve it. Sound like you've had a big year, Justine. You need to treat yourself. Absolutely. All right, let's go. First word.

When I say puppy, what do you think of? Puppy. Dog. Canberra. Word number two this morning, Justine. Australia. Licence. Drive.

Drive. Just confirming you said drive or driver. Yeah, drive. Drive. Lawn. Coming in at number four for Justine. Mower. Fifth and final word is fairy, Justine. Mower. Fifth and final word is fairy Justine.

Oh, um, boat. Sorry, I didn't hear that. Oh, boat. Oh, no apologies, I should have spelled it F-A-I-R-Y. Sorry Justine. What about pixie? Pixie, fairy, Pixie. Couple of curly ones in there for you this morning, but you worked your way through it, Justine.

You did well. What do you do, Justine? I work in the medical lab. Oh, good on you. How's Ben's results? You got those yet? I'm back now. What's going on?

Has he tested positive for winning you lots of cash? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Justine works in a laboratory, Ben. Okay. And then you need to win her $5,000, okay? Okay, I'll try, I'll try. That's your one job you need to do. Here we go.

Word one, $25. For 25 smackaroos, puppy. Dog. Justine, does $50 sound tantalising? Yeah, keep going. Word two, $50. Canberra. Canberra?

The first thing that pops in my head is the NRL side, but I don't know if that's what Justine was thinking. Do you like the National Rugby League, Justine? Big fan of the Canberra Raiders. I'm going to go Canberra, Australia. Ooh, $50. Now, $100 is the next leap

up. Do you want to make it? I'd say go to that one. Word three, $100. License. Drivers. No! Oh. Drive, Justine said.

Oh, drive. I won't lie, Justine, when you said drive, I was like, you should go driver. I know, I should have changed it. Played a solid game, though. You did, you did. Let's just go to word number four. Lawn mower.

Ooh. And fairy. F-A-I-R-Y. F-A-R-Y. Tooth. Pixie. Three out of five, Justine. Hold your head up high.

You're going to have a wonderful day at work in Christchurch. And thanks for listening, mate. Appreciate it. Thanks. Thanks very much. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast. Poppy, my daughter, she's in primary school, listening, mate. Appreciate it. Thanks. Thanks very much. Poppy, my daughter, she's in primary school and all she's ever wanted to do

since we've got a dog, we've got a little dog, Milo, is walk the dog home from school. That's been her dream. Now, I thought, okay, we'll take the dog Drive the dog there

Was that the time The dog got loose In the school Or was this another time No that was last week The dog jumped out Of the driver's window As the car was going

And bolted off It was absolutely chaotic Chaotic They're still talking About it at the school Oh I saw your dog Running around And then someone

Was running around After the dog They're like No dog's on the school ground And I'm like Thanks mate But I'm in the middle Of this I think I know that When people tell you. They're like, no dogs on the school ground. And I'm like, thanks, mate, but I'm in the middle of this. I think I know that.

When people tell you that, you're like, yeah, why didn't you say that? I'm trying to get the dog off the school ground. Yeah, but anyway, I thought, okay, we can walk home with the dog. Now, I don't know what the dad version of a smother mother is, but maybe it's a sad dad, which is what it is. Because then I gave the dog in the leash and i was like oh you know there's a busy road that she has to walk down four lanes of traffic heaving and i'm like if anything goes wrong i i just want to keep an eye on her but i want her to think that she's

you know she's walking home on her own she's got the independency so what i end up doing uh yesterday is sort of just circling around streets on the peripheral so i can keep an eye on do surveillance to make sure she's yeah right she's okay the young girl work walking with the dog uh is okay and it was you know it was one of those moments where i was like you need to set her free. She needs to walk around. And then I'm like, well, essentially I'm just driving around stalking a school girl. Yeah. Looks very sketchy, doesn't it? For anyone else in the neighborhood, like.

So if any of you, you're dead right. Imagine all the Facebook groups in your local area. They'll be all like pinging with notifications. Anyone see the guy circling around? Yeah. No, it's just overprotective parenting. That's all it is. But yeah, if you do see me circling around school children, you'll know what's

going on. There's a backstory to it. And maybe I need to get rid of the rusty white van and do it in a new car. But that's the reason. Just parenting Ben boys. He's putting it out there today. The Hits, the Jono and Ben

podcast. We want to know this morning on 0800 The Hits, what was unusual about your wedding? What took place? Because we're about to embark on a mission to go around every Bunnings Warehouse store in New Zealand and have a sausage. At every one there's over 40 stores. We're going to go around

the country from the top to the bottom and helping out the community, as Bunnings does as well with the sausage. Yeah, but we're not the only ones. Sorry, Ben, I talked all over you. Yeah, you're fading out on the old sausage sizzle there. We're not the only ones doing a novelty event at a Bunnings store because we found overnight that a couple in Australia got married at a Bunnings sausage sizzle.

Jordan Wilson and his wife Chantelle. And Jordan joins us from Australia now. You got married at the Bunnings sausage sizzle. Yeah, the sausage that rocked the world, yep. Yeah, well, yeah, because we're about to go around every Bunnings warehouse store in New Zealand over seven days and have a sausage at every sausage sizzle. We thought that was a wild idea to go to every one in seven days, 40 odd stores, but you got married at the sausage sizzle.

Yeah, I'd be rude not to really. It sounds like an ideal road trip. Yeah, and so were you able to dress all your best men up in red polos and green aprons? No, they all suited up, formal attire. And the most affordable wedding catering in bridal history, I'd imagine. So that was the food for the wedding guests in the party? $4 a head, what more would you want? So was this your idea, your wife's idea? I mean, how did it come about?

No, it was all me. I've always been up for snags. I used to go to Bunnings when I wasn't even needing to buy anything. I just wanted to go there for breakfast. The sausage sizzle in Australia is very popular, the Bunnings sausage sizzle, and there are a lot of people listening right now, Jordan,

going, what a bloody legend. But then also there's a lot of people listening right now going, your wife's an absolute saint for going through with it. Did she have other dreams and aspirations of your wedding day? Yeah, that was the thing. She got in a wedding dress like an absolute trooper. Wow. Yeah, went to Bunnings to get breakfast.

And yeah, some random person took a photo of us. We got shared about 30,000 times all around the world and here we are. And you made news right across Australia. I mean, at least you could have had the ceremony in the garden centre in front of the potting mix or something. Yeah, you know, we could do it again. A sausage wedding cake?

Yeah, there's actually a photo of one of those. It was provided by one of the TV studios in Australia. Oh, wow. That's beautiful. And did Bunnings say if you find a better wedding venue, we'll beat it by 15%? Did they offer that guarantee on your wedding day? No, they didn't.

One of their workers came out, saw what was going on, and gave us a carpet cleaner. We didn't have any carpet in our place that we were living at. Oh, so lovely. Yeah, you got to bring a gift to the wedding. And Bunnings Wee House were surprised that you came to the sausage sizzle. But great, they gave you a gift. Oh, Jordan, it's almost worth getting carpet for, that carpet cleaner.

Well done. You and your wife, Chantelle, married at a Bunnings. Well, thank you very much for your time. And, Ben, that's some inspiration as we head out on our own little Bunnings adventure next week. No worries. Don't forget to say I do to onions. Thanks Jordan, have a great day. See you mate.

You too mate. Now 0800 The Hits, your wedding setting, what went on at the wedding, where did you get married, anything out of sorts. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We just spoke to someone who got married at the Bunnings warehouse of Sausage Sizzle in Australia. Pretty crazy story.

Crazy story. As we head out on our sausage marathon next week, eating at all the Bunnings stores across New Zealand at the Sausage Sizzle. If you want to text Bunnings to 4487, we'll text you back all the dates and the stores. You can come on down when you're in your town and enjoy a sausage sizzle with us and help support the local communities. We're getting married at a Bunnings. Amazing setting. A couple of texts coming through. What was your wedding setting, guys?

We eloped to Butterfly Creek in Auckland. Oh, nice. Had some wonderful photos of the butterflies there. We were in my friend's backyard. Got shut down by noise control three times, the wedding. So we've got Victoria on 0800 The Hits as well. What was your wedding setting? Well, my husband got offered his first teaching job in Botswana,

and we had to be married to be able to go to get all the tickets and insurances and blah, blah, blah. So we decided to get married without telling anyone. Oh, okay. How did that go down with the wider family group? Well, it didn't go down at all because they didn't find out for the next four and a half years. So we got away with it quite nicely. Four and a half years you kept it from your family.

That's a big secret. Well, we were in Botswana. They were in England, so it wasn't that hard. Okay, all right. I'll take it back. What's new with you? You're like, oh, not much. So, yeah, we ended up going to a registry office in Stroud.

I was never into big white dresses and all that kind of stuff. So I had a yellow and red striped morticia-type dress, and we went down to the local registry office. We didn't realise we needed witnesses, so we just grabbed a couple of people who happened to be walking past at the time, who turned out to be rather unsavory characters. So these were the people that were going to witness your wedding, sign the forms and make it official? Yep.

And did you hire the local gang members or something? Well, they were certainly, how do you say? Interesting. Interesting people. And they were rather surprised, obviously, to be asked to come into the wedding. We had to bribe them with a couple of packs of six-pack, which was fine.

But what we weren't expecting was when the nuptials were over, they tried to steal the stereo. Oh, did they? In the registry office? Yes. Wow. So we had to kindly request that they just left that alone because, you know, there weren't many guests at the wedding

and it would have been pretty obvious who stole it. So do you have, like, photographs? Are you like, these are the people that grabbed the shirt? No, they would have been, like, wanted posters, I think. Yeah, well, ironically, they were the witness for your wedding and then you had to be the witness at the police station for the crime. the people that grabbed from the street? They would have been like wanted posters, I think. Ironically, they were the witness for your wedding and then you had to be

the witness at the police station for the crime. Exactly. But the job was done and we're still married 27 years later. And do you still keep in touch with the stereo thieves?

No, we never saw them again after that, surprisingly enough. Yeah, it's amazing what you can get done with a six pack, isn't it?

Oh, there you go. I got to do that. I got to be, my wife and I got to be witness at people's wedding. Basically, we'd just met in Fiji. They were on. Oh, there you go. It was fun, but it was also at the same time,

I felt very much like we were part of their ceremony. It was only just them, those two, the person marrying them, and the priest, and us, my wife and I, they'd be looking back at photos going, who are these weird people? But not everybody's into big weddings, you know, and down the pub afterwards, had lunch, played table football. And then we were off to Botswana two weeks later, and we didn't come back for nearly five years.

So it was great. And Ben, what did you steal from that wedding? I got a great stereo, actually. I had a wonderful stereo system.. I had a wonderful stereo system. Oh, dear. It was quite a rough stereo system. I don't really know why they wanted it. You know, you give your witnesses six beers.

Everything seems like a good idea after six beers. Well, you go and have a wonderful day. Appreciate your call. Thank you very much. You have a good day, too. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, yesterday, mark phoned up he played our game uh five words for five thousand dollars which he played at 7 45 he was with his

daughter and he revealed to us something about his current situation look look i'm sending good vibes your way ben i lost my job a few weeks ago and i've had a few job interviews but none of them are recruiting until January so holy moly mate, 5K would get me through Christmas and the New Year. He lost his job a few weeks ago. I'm sorry to hear that Mark and I'm under a lot of pressure on my bony shoulders right now. Exactly what we

wanted. Oh okay, well I may try my best every morning but hey, this one's personal. I have a little 8 year old girl who is walking around looking at me thinking, please, please, please. All right. And there's an eight-year-old girl in the mix.

I mean, what else do you need? The high drama. Let's do it. So that was a lot of pressure on me as I was about to try and match words up with Mark. And he walked away with $500. Yeah, he did. So he got some cash. He did well.

And a lot of people were texting in after they heard. It's the friendly people who listen to the station. So good, isn't it? I was thinking that yesterday. I love the hits. Because everyone comes together. They hear something like Mark on the radio. Performance reviews next month.

Oh, sorry. But he's sharing something about his life. And it really did capture the hearts of us at the Hits and friends at the Hits as well. A lot of people got in contact wanting to help Mark out over these next couple of months. And we're going to go through to him now. If we'll dial through now to Tauranga John. Hello.

Mark. Hello. Good morning. Hello. How are you? I'm all right. You're just trying to piece it together, are you? Yeah, it's John Owen Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Mate, how are you? I'm all right. You're just trying to piece it together, are you? Yeah, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station.

Mate, how are you? I'm doing all right. You're doing well. Sorry to catch you off guard. You're probably busy. The morning routine, rah-dee-rah-dee-rah. It's all good, guys. Mark, congratulations.

You won the 500 bucks yesterday. Oh, mate, I was stoked for that. Oh, we were stoked to give it to you because, you know, you mentioned that you were looking for a job and there wasn't many jobs around until the new year. Yeah, yeah. Now, over the last 24 hours, a lot of people were texting in about your situation.

Oh, really? Yeah, and a lot of people wanting to help you out. They didn't want you and your daughter to have to battle over the next two months, especially over the Christmas. I mean, Christmas, the only person who should be stressing at Christmas is Santa Claus. Looking ahead at all the courier deliveries on his to-do list. A lot of people have reached out wanting to help you, Mark.

Oh, that's really nice. Gas Petrol Service Stations wanted to give you and your family a $300 fuel voucher. You're kidding me. Yeah, Countdown, they want to give you a $1,000 voucher as well to fill up the fridge and pantry this Christmas. Holy crap. And then the Hitz family as well, we want to give you $1,000 cash to put towards Christmas for you and your family. No way. Oh, you guys are awesome.

We're only doing it to try and make up for all the horrible things I've done this year. Yeah, exactly. To be honest, Mark, but no one wanted to see you guys struggling over December, January. Oh, wow. You guys are amazing. Well, no, you're very welcome.

Can we say thank you very much to Countdown and also to Gas Petrol Service Stations. You can swipe your AA, Smart Fuel or membership card every time you fill up a Gas Petrol Service Stations and save every day. I do. You do? You do.

I will. I will. I'll do anything. I'll do anything. So Christmas has come early for you, mate. Oh, you guys are amazing. Enjoy New Year's. Enjoy Christmas.

Hopefully that takes a little bit of the pressure off, and good luck getting a job in the New Year, Mark. It really does, thanks guys, you're awesome. Thank you for all the friends of the Hits who came together and made that possible for Mark, it was really nice to be part of. Now, I remember as a

little kid, in the car, car trips with my sister, and you'd be bickering in the car, car trips with my sister, and you'd be bickering in the back seat, and your parents would be all wound up. That's the joy. It kills the time in a car trip, just bickering too. She's sitting too close to me. He's sitting too close to me. The middle part's mine.

Oh, it was all the fun and games we'd have in the back of the car. No wonder Dad and Mum would get very frustrated. But you were a tormentor too. Yes. You were told to get out of your sister's bedroom by your sister, and so what you did is just stood in the doorway. Put my in the room no i'm not you know antagonizing that was the thing that's all i had uh but my my daughters play a game with i don't know if your kids play this with a yellow car so if they see a yellow car you're allowed to lightly tap the other person

on the shoulder yellow car and you're allowed to and i'm like hey you firstly shouldn't be hitting and they're like we're fine we're fine with it's the rules of the game it's kind of like ufc they're like everyone knows the conditions when they go in you're like okay yeah i'm gonna end up with a smashed nose here i see but it feels like the hitting would increase in velocity yeah well yeah fortunately there's not so many yellow cars around so you might see one on a car trip down the middle yellow car i saw that one first but then yesterday i picked one of my daughters up she'd been at a friend's place she got in the car with the back seat next to my other daughter and then whack whack whack three little what's that she said i saw three yellow cars today

and then it became there's a fleet of new york taxis driving in the opposite direction and then i got one of my daughters go dad can you store up the yellow car i'm like now i'm having to come up with rules for this game that I don't even play. Or care about. Yeah. I'm like, I don't think so. Like, to be honest,

I don't play this game. You guys want to play this game. That's on you. But no, I don't think you can store up the yellow car. So she's saying over the course of the day, I witnessed three yellow cars. That's going to be bang,

bang, bang as soon as you walk in the door. Yeah, because no one's around to witness that. It's not like you've taken photographic evidence. But that's a yellow car game yeah it's trusting everyone knows it going into it being you trust your competitor i don't know if you can store them up so i've made the decision you can't store them up i've got to be there to witness it at the time and i'm like why

are we still playing this game you would be no good at conflict resolution well yeah because then you'd be like oh you know you make a good point what's your so where are you oh that's a good point i do get swayed very easily, eh? You do. The debates when they're on TV for their election, I'm like, oh, yeah. Oh, hang on. Oh, yeah, you know. He's the only person in New Zealand electoral history to vote for ACT, Green, Labour and National.

I just took everyone. In the same election. I can't decide. They all make great points. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, before we go, I'm just going to give you a quick laptop update. They all make great points. Now before we go, I'm just going to give you a quick laptop update. It's been rolling coverage all morning. Ben Boyce turned up to work without a charger.

He pinned it all on his wife Amanda. It was her. It was her. But she has said it's one of those he said, she said situations. She said, I told you last night I was charging my laptop before you went to bed. You're like, those are sleepy conditions for me. I don't remember that, but I'm not saying that. You get into that situation

where she said, I've done this and that, and now my mother-in-law is kind of dropping in the laptop charger soon because it's died. You've been running off 38% all morning and it's just died.

Now, that's not bad life. It's not done all right, actually. It's carried its way through there. I'm still running off 38% battery life, too. Hey, thank you guys so much for watching the show. Watching the show? Yeah. Or listening to the show, whatever you do.

However you consume the show, we appreciate it. Pass the ears. We'd like to thank everyone who's helped us make the program. You for listening. Amy, who told us what happened when she moved into her new house. My partner and I, the flat was empty. There was no furniture in there. But as we were looking around,

we started finding these pamphlets everywhere for, like, adult toys. And our landlady that was showing us around, she lives next door. And she turns out she ran an adult toy company from home and used to use our flat as a storage facility. Yeah, right. Interesting-looking pamphlets everywhere. And so when you walked into the house, did you get bad vibes? No, really good vibes.

Thanks for being part of the show, Amy. Jordan, who we spoke to, we're about to embark on eating every sausage at every, not every sausage, but a sausage at every Bunnings warehouse next week, seven days in a row. And Jordan in Australia, him and his wife Chantelle got married at a Bunnings sausage sizzle. We could do it again. A sausage wedding cake?

Yeah, there's actually a photo of one of those. It was provided by one of the TV studios in Australia. Oh, wow. That's beautiful. Did Bunnings say if you find a better wedding venue, we'll beat it by 15%? Did they offer that guarantee on your wedding day? No, they didn't.

One of their workers came out, saw what was going on, and gave us a carpet cleaner. We didn't have any carpet in our place that we were living at. Oh, so lovely. You got to bring a gift to the wedding, and Bunnings Warehouse were surprised that you came to the Sausage Thistle. But great, they gave you a gift. And you can catch it all on the iHeartRadio app, too, the John Ombien podcast. Yeah, don't forget, you can still buy our on the iHeartRadio app too, the John Ombien podcast. Yeah. Don't forget, you can still buy our Heartland chips,

the Southest World flavor. You could win $10,000 by sending us your chip pack. We've got a couple we need to call tomorrow on the show, a couple of raunchy ones that have come through. Not safe for work. Have a great day. We'll catch you tomorrow.