Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: WE HAD A 5 WORDS WINNER!!

Episode Date: November 17, 2022

Today on the show we gave Yvette from Taranaki $5,000 as she matched 5 words with Ben and we had Nick Cummins aka the Honey Badger in for a very funny chat!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, welcome to the podcast. It's great to have you here the 18th of November. Jono and Ben here now. With our producer Hungry, Hungry Harrison as we like to call him. Or producer Joel. Strapping young lad, 23 years old. Joel Harrison is his name.

But geez, he's always eating like an insatiable appetite. You do. But you don't put anything on. No. That's the great metabolism of a 23 year old, isn't it? Yeah. 22, 22, sorry. That's the joy metabolism of a 23 year old isn't it 22 22 sorry

that's the joy of doing 16 social sports Monday to Thursday always eating always eating without a word of a lie everything anything promotion

fried bowl of fried rice this morning yesterday or was it mince and toast mince on toast the day before three sausages

no though yesterday was actually the sweet Thai chilli chicken doesn't matter what time of day it is he'll eat it the very hungry caterpillar. You've got to cause chaos

in the stomach, man. What I like is your blatant disregard for meals associated with particular times of the day. So, you know, like for example, a chicken fried rice. Most lunch, dinner,

not hungry, hungry Harrison. He kind of goes on the rationale you're up early, so I get it. Don't discriminate. But also, I feel like every time I have like a nice dinner, the rationale you're up early, so I get it. I don't want to discriminate. But also, I feel like every time I have a nice dinner, the whole night I'm thinking about just eating it.

So the first thing you want to do in the morning is just get straight hooked into it. So if you have a lasagna at night, you'd want to have a lasagna in the morning. Well, if there's something left over, I'm lying in bed like, damn, how good would that lasagna be right now? I would go lunch, but anyway, I can see what you're doing. I'm not very patient. No, fair enough. You can't wait that long

hey you had a good question that you wanted to ask us for the podcast intro this morning yeah it's a bit of a gambling one because today we gave away $5,000 for Yvette

she was a great winner from my newcomer and I asked Ben I said would you rather and we're also giving the boarding call away today the big $10,000 cash

plus a family trip to Disneyland in Anaheim so I asked you guys would you rather guarantee the $5,000 cash plus a family trip to Disneyland in Anaheim. So I asked you guys, would you rather guarantee the $5,000 win or flip a coin 50-50 chance of winning the boarding call, $10,000 family trip to Anaheim, but you could also lose everything and win nothing?

Oh, that's an interesting point. What would you choose? We'll do it right now. Hypothetically. I mean, the trip to Disneyland is amazing, trip of life. But I'd go five grand because I don't want to walk away going,

oh, I should have, I've got nothing. So I'd probably take the $5,000. I'd need to walk away going, I've got $5,000. That's a lot of money. So we're not flipping a coin for you? No, I'm just taking the $5,000. Oh, okay.

Sensible option. Yeah, well, that's cool. That is a good option. Because otherwise I'd go the good option Otherwise I'd lose The coin toss And I'd be like Oh $205,000 And I lost the trip

Okay let's say Yeah so you had So we got a coin in studio Yeah And so Ben Hypothetically You are I'm taking the money

You're taking the money So heads is Okay Heads here And hits is tails Okay So what are you going to call I'll go heads

Would you have won $10,000 in a trip to Europe? You would have won it. Now how do you feel? I got five grand though. Hey, that's okay. How do you feel though? A little bit gutted.

But hey, I got five grand, so I'm not walking away with nothing. I'm walking away with my head held high and a little bit gutted. But five grand. Okay, John, what about you? You're a gambling man, eh? You'll be at Sky City after the show, mate.

What I'll do is I'll take the five grand, then chuck it all on black at the end. No, okay, I'll take the... I'll be the same as Ben. If you've got a guaranteed $5,000 and the risk that you couldn't, but okay, let's just say I go heads on the trip and the $10,000...

You would have won it as well. Oh, now how do you feel? I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. But I'm good. And then I'll go... You'll go over something? You know what? I'm a gambling man. good, I'm good. But I'm good. And then I'll go over something. You know what? I'm a gambling man.

I like taking chances. Okay. He does. He eats chicken in the morning. He does take a chance. Four-day-old chicken. I'll go for the... I'm taking the trip.

I'm taking the risk of the trip. Okay. And I'll go for tails. So I flip the coin. It's legit here? Well, it was head, so I lost it. Oh, now how do you feel? Yeah, I feel like a loser.

Enjoy the podcast today. It's a fun one. Nick Badger, I was going to call him. Nick Cummins is his name. He's the Honey Badger. Tell us where the origin of his, like the X-Men, you know, and Marvel, they all get the origin story. Well, he tells us his origin story of his nickname,

the Honey Badger. He's a lot of fun. Enjoy on the podcast. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, as parents, you know, a question that we've been talking about in the household is how competitive do you go against the kids? When do you stop sort of going easier on them in competition?

Oh, go hardcore. Well, they need to learn a lesson, Ben, and there's only a very short time frame in life where you will dominate children, and you need to take full advantage of it because eventually they overtake you, you become old and decrepit, I already am, and they start beating you.

So you're saying go for the get go, because my wife and I have been talking about it, we play a lot of family board games and Cluedo is a game we've been playing a lot lately, and my wife she's very smart, super competitive and she's super competitive, like she is like Detective Graham Bell and this is Police 7, she is really into trying to solve the murderer, the object, the room, she's really competitive. Like she is like, she's like Detective Graham Bell and this is police seven.

She is really into trying to solve the murderer, the object, the room. She's really into it. I played a game of operation with her and it was life or death. She thought we were literally going to lose. Go to the hospital and play this operation. That's what she does.

You know, she's the point where, you know, like she's listening to everyone's guesses. She's writing down the things as well. And then throwing us off by guessing things that she's got. She's like, I'm like, hey, just chill. You know, I'm like, chill, let the kids win. You're like chill. Yeah, like in that situation with the kids, I'm like, I can just ease back here.

I don't need to win the game of Cluedo. But she's like, no, if the kids are going to win, much like you, Jono, they should deserve to win. There's no easy wins in a game of Cluedo. Yeah, I mean, there's a couple of years where you let kids have some easy wins you know get their confidence up but then you rip their confidence away but i'm like this is like you take this what we're doing right what you're doing right now you take it outside we'll play basketball be like lebron james with his kids like rejecting them and slam dunking on them and all sorts yeah i'm sure he would go easy on his kids if he was playing

basketball because you know yeah well he's lebron james like amanda's not she's a detective she's lebron james of cluedo but she is really she's got another vocation she is really into it yeah so now we're going to the game we're like how hard out are you going to play like how do you have to pull her aside oh look oh he's back oh you realize when you play monopoly you don't actually end up owning three train stations in Queen Street yeah I do remember my dad kept a boy swim he'd play tennis

as a young lad and I would get a point every now and again and I'd be like yeah this is cool fist pumping and all sorts of that would you thrust

your pelvis and I would think in my head oh this is good and then the next serve that would come down fast just one serve just one serve from dad

and I'm like sort of just a good leveler. Put you in your place. You're like, okay. This is where it's at. This is what I could do. I was watching a Netflix documentary a few weeks ago.

It was on the brains. I was just watching it to see if mine was broken or not. But they had a very short little sequence on the human brain playing board games. And the human brain, once it starts playing board games, it can't tell the difference between a real competition and fake competition. So that's why Amanda would be going hardcore. Competition's competition for the human brain. Yeah.

Whether it's just a fun board game with the family or an actual tournament. You're lying. That's why she's approaching it with the... Yeah, with the competitive. That's why she's probably succeeding a lot more than I am. Maybe a bit more of that hair from you things wouldn't go astray, might actually move up a few slots on the old ratings, eh? It would be nice.

Oh, this is a competition. I don't like being number 15. I'm like, Ben, just dig it in a bit, buddy. Yeah, everyone's going to have a word, like the kids. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Driving home yesterday, you said it was raining. It was really pouring down. Hey, November rain, mate.

Guns N' Roses wrote a song about it. They did, an epic song about it. Hosing down. But I was traveling behind a very flash, looked like some sort of European supercar, you know, and obnoxious lime green. Right. You've got to have a lot of confidence to drive a lime green supercar,

don't you? I think in New Zealand you do. Like in America, it's just like, that's the thing. You know, you drive around, you know, you're like, cool, it's great to be seen. But in New Zealand, you're like, all right, mate. Well, you and me, we couldn't do that. You couldn't do that. You'd still park 10 blocks away, wouldn't you?

Yeah. What were you pointing at, Joe? You were saying I could pull it off. I was just going to say, you drive a black supercar, don't you? Yeah, I like to be a little more subtle. Yeah, but it's still a supercar. It's a black Lamborghini. You know, it doesn't stand out from the crowd.

But I thought it's a genius play from people who own $30 million cars. It's because I'm traveling behind it going, dear God, I don't want to rear end a motor vehicle that's worth millions of dollars. They must just drive down the road and everyone must just wide berth the car you know just purely for insurance purposes yeah you wouldn't want to park next to it the supermarket in case you opened your door on it although exactly imagine you with your blood you got third party insurance there joe no way have you got any insurance i do a third party sorry i do a third party not yeah if you don't if states listen yeah if you don't steal it though are they no no but imagine if you were your third party state would be like you've run into the back of a what?

It must happen all the time. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Well, we got our own chips, thanks to Heartland Chips. They're out now. They're out of this world flavor. They're a crazy mix of sour cream and chives, salt and vinegar, and maple bacon.

Yeah, and you can win $10,000. All you need to do is send us a chip pick. And as we mentioned before, they've led an exciting life, more exciting than the 41 years I've spent on this face of the earth. And we had a lady we spoke to the other day, Leanne, who had the cast of Old MacDonald's Farm trying the chips. All the goats, the sheep, the lambs. She said they love it.

And joining us right now on 0800 The Hits is Ant. Good morning. G'day. G'day, Jono. Ship entrant. Now, I feel like we know you. Well, we know a lot of your body. Yeah.

It's a good body too, Ant. Oh, not as cute as your ass, mate. Now, so we've had a lot of great entries in so far for the $10,000, but your one particularly caught our eye as well because you're pretty much wearing nothing but a packet of chips. Yeah, mate. Now, who took the photo of you? Because you're standing in front of the TV

and conveniently placed in the background, America's Funniest Home Videos is playing, and the host is just as eye-angled as staring directly. Staring at my ass, mate. Yeah, beautiful photo. Who took the picture? My missus. Well, it's worth $10,000, I tell you. Yeah, well, it's a very good photo.

So what gave you the idea to strip down to your birthday suit and take a photo? Well, funny story. I was after a bit of extracurricular activity. Right, well phrased he is. We were a bit hungry and needed to build up mani-jigging.

Oh, it's a sustenance. It's round two, Matt. It's round two. Getting the carbs back in there. Oh, good on you. And they are aphrodisiac-like, aren't they, these chips? They do have that quality. Thank you for buying the chips. Thank you for entering the competition.

And good luck. $10,000 could be all yours. Oh, that'd come in handy. Oh, you're a legend, mate. Have a good one. Aaron, you're on. Yeah, how are you, mate? Yeah, good.

Now, we saw your picture really stood out to us. You can explain for the audience what you were doing. Sitting on the toilet, eating a bag of the chips. Yeah, it doesn't seem hygienic. No, no, not so much. No, no, there's a bit of a story behind it. But, yeah, over the past few months, I've been spending a lot of time on the toilet for certain reasons.

So it just seemed the right thing to do, get a photo of the chips on the toilet as well. Okay, all right. What are the, do we want to know the certain reasons? Do we probably don't want to go down that road, I imagine? Oh, it was a bit of a health reason. Actually got diagnosed with cancer earlier on in the year. But ended up being all good, best possible outcome. Had it all cut out, major operation.

And out the other side, but sort of had to learn to go to the toilet again. So the old family was used to me yelling orders, bring me this, bring me that. And when I heard we had the new chips, I just sort of yelled out as a joke, bring me those, and they did. Maybe. So we grabbed a photo. Yeah, the old kids thought it was a bit of fun. Oh, I'm glad your health is okay, Aaron.

That's fantastic news. And thank you so much for demanding chips to be bought to you while you're sitting on the throne taking the photo and good luck for the $10,000. Yeah, thanks mate. Best flavour out there, eh? You sort of get the old bacon and chives hitting you at the beginning, knocking on the door and then the old thought of vinegar

smacks you at the end. Speaking of knocking on the door, imagine people knocking on the door at home in the bathroom as well, trying to get in while you're in there. That's right. Have a lovely day, Aaron. This American rock band, Killers. Such a great band. They're going to be in New Zealand next week.

Two shows. Well, that's what we thought. Monday night, Spark Arena, and then Christchurch on Friday night in Christchurch Arena as well. But they've just announced a last minute super fan show so after their Spark Arena gig

in Auckland on Monday they're going to head to the Town Hall they're going to have an intimate concert there at midnight which is going to be amazing

imagine enjoying your job so much you want to do it back to back it's like you going at the end of the shift going boys let's do it

cracking show let's do another one straight after. Let's just keep going. They're going to play all their hits like Mr. Brightside just heard, including some of the new, their sixth studio album, The Mirage. Tickets go on sale today at 11 o'clock. You can get all the details at Ticketmaster.com for their special midnight show. But got a double pass right now on 0800THETHITS.

If you want to go along to that, it'll be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It would be. I don't know if you'd be waking up Tuesday morning, Mr. or Mrs. Brightside. No, but who cares, mate? Just get out there and enjoy it. Why not? We haven't been able to do this sort of thing for COVID for many years.

Amazing. And it's really cool when bands do things like this. I remember the Foo Fighters just one afternoon announced they were going to be playing in the Auckland Town Hall and packed. Packed, mate. They were playing on stage and you know where usually the choir would sit on the stage they had people sitting behind them wow on the stage that's awesome so under the hits if you want to go to the special uh killers midnight show on monday but we spoke to one of the killers a while back remember that um

ronnie vananucci jr and um he spoke about how he was mates with Prince Harry. Prince? Oh, yeah, yeah. He comes around. I haven't seen him in a few years, but, yeah, he's around all the time. That's crazy. You're very casual about Prince Harry turning up. Yeah, he comes around. I didn't grow up with the fanfare.

He was just sort of over there, part of the royal family. But, you know, we don't have kings and shit over here. We've got bullshit elected officials over here. So we don't, but that kind of thing that never really touched me in the same way. And that's why we get along, because I just treat him, you know, like a bro. Yeah, does he, I hope he pays for tickets for the show. I hope you don't have to compliment. Yeah, I give him 10% off all merchandise.

Yeah, you're getting a little bit of a discount, mate. And so would he come and hang out backstage with you afterwards? Yeah, he drinks all my beer. That's Ronnie Vannucci Jr. Talking about Prince Harry, he's a massive fan of the Killers. So let's chuck someone in. Well, not in the draw. They can go along at midnight on Monday.

Forget about your draws, mate. Don't worry about the draws. All right, let's go to the phones. 0800 The Hits, welcome. You can go along at midnight on Monday. Forget about your draws, mate. Don't worry about the draw. Get rid of the draws. All right, let's go to the phones. 0800 The Hits, welcome. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast Live. Say some wild stuff. No, don't.

Do you want to go to the Killers? Yes. Yes. Yeah, you do. What's your name? Jade. Jade, you're off. Whatever you're doing midnight Monday, cancel the plans

because you're going to be at the Town Hall in Auckland watching the Killers do their second show in one night. Oh, yeah. It's going to be incredible. You enjoy that. All the details at Ticketmaster.com for that special show. It starts 11 o'clock today. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. Cirque du Soleil will be returning to New Zealand next year. And the performance, I mean, they're incredible. If you've ever seen Cirque du Soleil,'re returning to New Zealand next year and the performance I mean they're incredible if you've ever seen Cirque du Soleil it is a real treat and they're going to

be doing it on ice this time around it's called Crystal it's a one of a kind production will feature seven circus acts all performed on ice

extreme skating figure skating it's going to be in Christchurch in June next year and the tour will finish in Spark Arena in July

tickets on sale now Ticketmaster. They're never disappointing, are they? Been to a couple of Cirque du Soleil's and the last one I went to without a word of a lie, there was a knife juggling toddler

riding a motocross bike across a piece of tuff floss 50 metres in the air. That's a whole other circus that you're talking about. That's a battler circus, mate. This is incredible. Yeah, it is incredible. But every time I go to the circus, part of me,. That's not what, that's a battle of circus, mate. This is incredible. Yeah, it is incredible.

But every time I go to the circus, part of me, and it's not, I'm not wanting to see anyone get hurt or injured, but part of me wants to see something go wrong. Just so I know they're human.

You know, when you're watching these people, you kind of get numb to the fact of how incredible the things they're doing. By the end of the show, you're like, mate, how many lives

are you swallowing? Six. Chuck another six in there. Swallow a knife for anything. You're really confused to swallow. It's incredible. We'll get Amanda on the phone.

Welcome. You're on for the best weekend, Amanda. What's happening for you? It's my birthday weekend. Oh, that's awesome. 21? Yep. I wish.

I turned 40 yesterday. Oh, happy birthday. What are you doing this weekend? Big family barbecue thing tomorrow, so pray the rain stops. Yes, that's true. We're going to give you a birthday present and hook you up with a double pass

to Cirque du Soleil in Auckland next year. Awesome, thank you. It is incredible. You will love it. Every time I've been, I've been lucky enough to go a couple of times. It is incredible, so enjoy. What's your favourite radio show, Amanda? The Hits, of course. Oh, yeah? love it. Every time I've been, I've been lucky enough to go a couple of times. It is incredible. So enjoy. What's your favorite radio show, Amanda?

The Hits, of course. Oh, yeah? Okay. Love it. Love it. Specifically, which show on The Hits? Well, when I'm driving to work, I tend to listen to you guys the most. Yeah?

Yeah. The most? Hold on. Hey, stop. Take it. Take it. Sometimes it cuts out. I have to take pictures. Yeah it cuts out. I have to say it again.

Yeah, I regret asking that question. But Amanda, happy birthday, mate. You're an absolute champion. Thank you for listening. Thank you. See, we're going to need to crush you. Shin, you're on the air. Your favourite radio show.

What is it? Definitely You Guys in the Morning. Yeah, good stuff. That's the propaganda we all need you to say. You're all listening. When we ask you on the radio, what's your favourite radio show? Like North Korea, you just come back with Jono and Ben on the

hits. That's all we need. What are you doing this weekend? It's actually my hen suit this weekend. Awesome. What's the plans? Well, I'm pregnant so there's no chances for me, but market day's in hot balls in Christchurch. Hopefully the rain clears up.

Hold on. You've had a baby out of wedlock? Yeah. What happened? Yeah. This goes against Ben's hardcore beliefs. What? No, you're the one that...

Hardcore right-wing Christian beliefs. Don't listen to him. I know. Well done. Congratulations on Bubba, and congratulations on the hens, too. That'll be good. It'll be good that you can remember your hens, too.

Absolutely. And to be fair, the wedding is before the baby comes out so we're all on track. Hey mate, whatever timeline makes you sleep at night. We're going to give you a double pass to Cirque du Soleil and Christchurch next year so you can enjoy that. Awesome, thank you so much. I'm so excited.

Have a great day, have a great hens party and good luck for the birth, alright? Awesome, thank you so much. I'm so excited. Oh, good on you. Thank you. Have a great day. Have a great hen's party and good luck for the birth. All right. Awesome. Thank you so much. Mariah Carey. It's a, you know, it's a time of year that she, she shines, right? You hear this song many, many times when you go to malls and on radio around the place.

It's a wonderful song. She's done a great rendition of this. Isn't she awesome? And you have an issue with it because it sounds like it's a compliment, but then it's a backhanded one. Yeah, because I think someone online pointed it out once that I read this. All I want for Christmas is you. But she says, I don't want a lot for Christmas.

And then she says, all I want is you. And you're like, well, I might not want a lot. Where am I on the list? I obviously don't want much. Where am I compared to like a Prezi card or something on this list? But she's gone for a trademark just recently to trademark the phrase You obviously don't want much. Where am I compared to a Prezi card or something on this list? But she's gone for a trademark just recently to trademark the phrase the Queen of Christmas, and it's just been denied.

And she was looking at her lawyers putting an application in for everything. Albums, perfumes, dog leashes. She was going to vomit Christmas all over everyone. It was opposed by another musician, Elizabeth Chan. She also had an album called The Queen of Christmas as well. And they've said no, that she can't trademark them. You can basically call yourself that, but you can't trademark it. Well, money well spent from both of those parties on trying to trademark it.

Surely the Queen of Christmas is Mrs. Claus. Well, yeah, you're right. Did she chime in? Did her lawyers stick their beaks in there and they take it for you as well? They got involved in Mariah's Now. What would you be if you were going to be the king or queen? You'd probably be like the prince of paranoia.

Yes, that would be me. That would definitely be me. And another music news this morning. Taylor Swift, obviously she's got new music at the moment, extremely popular, and she basically caused Ticketmaster, the website, and the state, sorry, to crash. So many people wanted to buy tickets for her upcoming tour.

The queen of crashes. Oh, yeah. People were waiting all day. Fans got a special code, like a pre, this is a pre-sale code, so they're like, great, I've got the tickets, here I go. They'd go on to order. They'd wait hours, like 12 hours trying to get things. They'd be like two thousandths in the queue.

There was millions of people trying to get the tickets. And then when people bought tickets for Taylor Swift, shortly afterwards they were on StubHub, which is the ticket website, for $45,000 New Zealand dollars. Oh, sorry, something else has come up. I can't make it. Oh, you just played 10 minutes ago. Yeah, no, I didn't realise.

You should check the calendar. Family function. That is a while. Volatile too, Taylor Swift fans, aren't they? Really volatile. They're like Ben After Nine coffees, the Taylor Swift fan. But she also caused Spotify to crash as well. Has she come out and apologised to Ticketmaster or Spotify?

She's too popular. For what, to apologise? No, she's too popular. Sorry for being so popular. Yeah, she's the queen of crashes. I think she's going to get that trademark. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's Taylor Swift, anti-hero.

It is The Hits, Jon'Benn, 7.23. A whole lot of sport. It was a great weekend last weekend with the Black Ferns winning the World Cup. This weekend, a whole lot more great sport going on. The All Blacks take on England in the rugby. You can see the guys giving it a go. You know, rugby. But, you know, I'm all about the Black Ferns, mate.

Me, that's all I'm all about. When are the guys going to get their turn? The Kiwi League Women's Final on Sunday morning. So good luck to that the black caps uh play tonight as well and the woman's phoenix team has played the first game in wellington first home game because they had to be over there in australia thanks to covid so they're playing sporty by covid yeah great collab first game on sunday they reckon they might break a record for the the biggest fans to a female football game in new zealand on sunday so get along, Wellington, support them. It's going to be awesome.

Yeah, fantastic. Great weekend ahead. Now, we've also got a big weekend ahead too, Ben Boyce. Well, I have. You have been a very passionate campaigner for us to travel around every Bunnings warehouse store in New Zealand, famous for the sausage sizzle, raising money for the community organisations. And you wanted to go to every single one in New Zealand. There's over 40 of them.

You want to do it in seven days, nonstop sausage shambles, meaty madness. And I've been a little hesitant about going on the trip. Eventually, you turned me. You pulled out your community chest card. Great work for community. We're supporting the community as we go. So it's going to be incredible. Every day these community

groups are going to have their sausage sizzle running outside of the weekend, which they normally do. Everyone that goes along to Bunnings that day will raise money towards the community and we'll pop in when we can on our schedule. It's going to be quick because we have to go to so many stores, but we're going to help out as well. It's going to be great. You keep saying it's going to be great. It's going to be quick because we have to go to so many stores, but we're going to help out as well. It's going to be great. Yeah.

You keep saying it's going to be great. It's going to be amazing. You're like Donald Trump. No, don't say that. I didn't realize. I got a call yesterday after the show from a friend of mine who said, hey, are you still on for Monday night? Now, I had completely forgotten it.

It slipped out of my calendar. Monday night, I am required to host my friend's real estate awards dinner end of year dinner now i tell you what you couldn't get a more untrustworthy room me on stage real estate agents they're having dinner and i can't let him down like i come on you can let me down the community's down but he's warehouse down well no i can't. This was organised six months ago. He emailed me about this.

Now, I know you're like, oh, it's just a real estate awards dinner. But, Ben, what if I said this was for the children's hospital? Okay? Is it? No. No. What would you have said if I did say that? Well, I'd just say, is it? That's what I'd say.

Yeah. And you'd be right. It's not. So this is the predicament that we have. Ben's like, we'll get someone else to do it. You're on the sausage tour. The sausages are more important. Politely say, sorry, work.

My job. I'm doing my job. And I can't. I'm sorry. I can't do it. But six months ago, I said I could do it. This is where we reach a stalemate. So you wanted to throw it out

to the audience yeah well out there 4487 0800 the hits what do we do in this situation now because it is

you know you're not backing down I'm not backing down okay so it all seems very convenient all of a sudden why is it convenient

how much stuff has come up in your life for you for three or four days let's not convince like he phoned me yesterday what was yesterday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday it's four days. Let's not convince people. He phoned me yesterday. What was yesterday? Thursday.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It's four days before the event. Just double checking you're still good. Very convenient about something that you put. It all of a sudden popped up when you were a bit like, oh, we're doing this thing. Why would I put it in my calendar six months ago? Well, you obviously didn't put it in your calendar

because you didn't mention it once. So, okay. You could see our predicament. Sausages are real estate agents. Love helping out the community. What do you want to do? The tour has literally hit a snag. Before we've eaten some snags, it is The Hits.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, on Sunday, it's meant to happen. It's going to happen over a week. We're going to go to every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country that's over 40 stores and have a sausage from their sausage sizzle. You can text bunnings to 4487 for all the dates in the stores that have kindly are running the sausage sizzle outside of the normal weekend hours for us a lot of organization has gone a lot of planning has

gone into this we're all ready to go on sunday until old mate over there comes to us yesterday and goes i'm old mate by the way that's who's talking about and he goes oh i've forgotten about something i've never mentioned it wasn't in the calendar when we all went oh you're free that week and all of a sudden he's like oh I need to MC

a real estate award real estate awards in the years of dinner you know who's the who's going to award the sleaziest real estate agent of 2022

it's not an award no it's on the stage it's not an award the most natural looking performance in a real estate video touring through a home who's going to award

these awards not a real award now there's a lot of text correspondence coming through a home. Who's going to award these awards? Not a real award. Now, there's a lot of text correspondence coming through on 4487 as well. Yeah, there's a bunch. So the conundrum is I'm going to have to pull out of the tour Monday night to stick to my word, man of my word. It's like you can't go on the whole tour. I'm like, what?

Text here. Why don't you just get Jono's doppelganger to stand in, Chris Luxon or Gollum? Thank you. That's very good. Someone, Ash from Invercargill, dear friend Ash from Invercargill. Yeah. She said sausage takes priority every time.

I'm sorry. For the community right now. I think we've got, is it Amy? I'm at 100 of the hits right now. Amy, what degrading comment do you want to make towards me? I hope it's not sexist towards the school people. It's not sexist. Sexism.

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Now, Amy, you've got a bit of a plan, something that could work to pitch to Jono. Well, I haven't looked at the dates you're travelling, but I think it could work if you start somewhere in the North Island to maybe do the ones up before Auckland. Yeah, we're doing that on Sunday.

That's what's happening. Travel your way down, and then Monday, you can do the ones in Auckland on Monday, and then Jono can do his awards in the afternoon or evening and then you just carry on down.

Great. It's going to be busy but I see it working. Well that is pretty much the plan. There is some happening later in the day on Monday

but I'm sure we can shuffle things around Jono. That's a great suggestion Amy. Hold the line we're going to get you something. Did I tell you the awards were in Invercarg suggestion, Amy. Hold the line. Did I tell you the awards were in? No, you didn't.

He's got a big trip, don't you? No, but there's preparation that needs to happen for emceeing. Ben, you know emceeing. And then the day after, you're tired from saying words. Jono, you're very good at talking. I think you'll be fine. Amy, I'm going to have to go Real Estate Awards. Well, Jono, I've got got a surprise for you right now i've uh i knew that you had this thing on monday night you told me

yesterday you're like oh i can't go so i've managed to book how i sound when i say that's exactly how you sound i've managed to book someone who is keen to take your place and do the mc gig so you can come on the road with me and eat sausages at every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country. Tony Street, broadcaster, good morning. Good morning, John O'Prior. I'm quite happy to step in for you. Actually, what you might not realise is I was actually the first choice for the MCing and I kind of went, oh, I've got a bit on at the moment.

But look, if you're not going to be here, I'm happy to step in. So hold on, you're trumping me. I know I'm sitting in a lower bar than when Tony's... You should see how wrapped the company was when I said Tony Street was available. And perfect too, Street Real Estate Awards. Works well as a match made in heaven. The only, okay, you can do the gig. Do I still get the fee?

Oh, there's the fee. Oh, I actually haven't negotiated the fee with them. But whatever you were getting paid, I'll just double it. So, Tony, in all honesty, you're happy to step in for Jono so he can come on the road and eat sausages? Look, do you know, Ben, at this time of year, there is a lot of emceeing to be done, so I feel like I'm really in the mode.

I've got the ASB Classic emceeing launch tonight, so what's adding one more to the pile very happy to take over Tony Street, hey Well Tony, thank you What can I say? Thank you We just said that actually

Hey, one thing I need you to bring me back a Bunnings sausage, okay? Here's an idea Can I pitch something to you? Instead of filling in for me at the Real Estate Awards how about you fill in for me at the Real Estate Awards, how about you fill in for me filling your stomach full of sausages next week? Oh, I'm no good handling wieners.

I'm sorry. That's a honey sweet. Thank you for filling in for John. I really appreciate it. See you guys. See you, Tony. Lowering the tone of the show as well. We don't need to smut on this. I don't know if the Real Estate Awards would want her now.

Okay. Looks like I'm going smut on this. I don't know if the Real Estate Awards would want it now. Okay. Looks like I'm going on the sausage tour. Yeah. Thank you. It's going to be fun. It is going to be a lot of fun. We're going to go help support communities. Head around to every Bunnings warehouse.

Get all the details at Bunnings if you text it through to 4487 and we'll hit the road from Sunday. 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. It's full of surprises, and we could be surprising you with $5,000 if you match all five words this morning. So let's go to the phones. I know, 100 to hit, so find out who wants to play this morning.

Now, our phone systems are down, and Producer Joel's been trying to... There's a lot of panic going on there. He's been trying to mouth the name of today's contestant, and I can't understand him. Well, let's just ask. Yeah, okay, let's go to the phone. What is your name?

It's Yvette from New Plymouth. Sorry, I'm starting to ruin the game, but that's who we're talking to. What is your name? My name's Yvette. Oh, Yvette. Yeah, there you go. I never could have guessed What is your name? My name's Yvette. Oh, Yvette. Yeah, there you go. I never could have guessed that.

What are you doing in New Plymouth today, Yvette? I'm heading to work, but I'm also dropping off my car. I've got some serious car issues. So I'm hoping I'll win this money so I can pay for the car to get fixed. Currently, no warrant, no registration. Oh, okay. What a mad dog driving around.

Moving on the edge. Never a good time, is there, to fix the car, I find. Never a good time to fill the car up or never a good time

to fix the car. Yeah. Yeah. All right, well let's try and fix it for you, Yvette, in New Plymouth. You need to send someone

into the soundproof booth this morning. Who is it going to be? Let's chuck in Ben. Ben, for the last time this week, Ben Boyce is going to be locked into the soundproof booth unless he locks himself in there after work drinks tonight. He sometimes has a tantrum at work drinks, doesn't he?

It gets bad. Yeah, it gets bad. He gets all sulky, goes and locks himself in the booth. Yvette, let's get some words out of your mouth. Okay. When you're $5,000, mate. First word, when I say smiley. Face.

Smiley face. Snap lock. Bag. Magnet. Sorry? Sorry, I was on a roll with the pronunciation of the words there. Magnet. Oh, magnet.

Fridge. Boom, I'm thinking exactly the same as you. Three from three so far. Park, what would you think of? Car. And Friday? Friday. Friday. Friday.

Friday. Friday drinks. Friday drinks. Producer Joel, you had to say all the same words. All the same words, especially that last one, Friday drinks. As a vet, let's get Ben out of the soundproof booth. We're just saying how you locked yourself in there last Friday after drinks with a bit of a tantrum, Ben, in the booth. Yeah.

Come out of the booth, mate. No. Yvette did well. She did really well. There's a car that needs to be fixed. No warrant, no reg. She'd get a huge fine for this. It was on the roads.

Let's try and win her $5,000, shall we? Word one, $25. Take us into the weekend as winners, Ben, not the losers that we are. First word you think of when I say smiley. Face. Yvette, $25. Will that fix the car?

It'll fix the car, but not the labour. Do you want to go to the next word? I do. All right, here we go. Word two, $50. Snap lock. Snap lock. Bag.

Boom. Not even allowed to give those to the kids at school nowadays. It's all about suffocating dolphins or something, I'm told. All right, Yvette, there you go. $50. What do you want to do? $100? Yeah, keep going.

All right. Word three, $100. Magnet. Magnet. What are you thinking of when I say magnet? Fridge. That's what Yvette thought of. Hey, there we go.

We got $100. Do you want to risk it all to go $500, or do you want to take your $100 and head into the weekend? Keep going. Word four, $500. Park. P-A... You know how to spell park?

Yeah, park. I won't finish it. Car? Oh! Evite! Park the car! What's your double o check account babes we got 500 to slide into your account now you have a big decision you have 500 do you want to risk it all for five thousand dollars or do you want to take 500 which is a lot of money and head into the weekend we're going for it. Oh!

Oh! $5,000. Okay. Say what you want about New Plymouth, but they will take a gamble. Producer Alex is coming here with our confetti cannon ready to explode all over the studio. The fifth and final word to win a VET $5,000. Okay, okay, okay.

Hit me with it. Here we go. Friday. Friday. Friday. Get this, she wins 5K. Don't, she loses it all. Can I? Can I put it on hold so she can't?

I've got two. I've got two. Okay, talk. One was a concert that happened just recently. Over the weekend, you have Friday Jams and the other one

is Friday Drinks. I don't know if they're right. You're giving me nothing right now. I'm going, I'm, like, Friday,

I'm here, drinks. Oh, we've got it. We've got it. We've got it. We've got it. Producer Alex has got the cash card. We've got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it!

We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it!

We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it!

We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! We got it! dollars oh my gosh it's made my day wow thank you five grand is that gonna fix the car the delayed cannon went off sorry our cannons don't usually operate like this usually it's normal they go off at the right time oh well geez i was almost gonna say friday jams but then i'll say um well done. Friday drinks, you got it. Oh, awesome.

Thank you so much. Five grand. I've had a petrol station and I've got the shakes. Awesome, guys. Thank you. Well, wee. Well, I don't know what else to say. Congratulations, Yvette New Plymouth.

Happy times for Yvette. $5,000. It happens. It goes. And it'll be back on Monday, 7.45. You're going to have a great weekend. I'm sure you're going to. Well, thank you, guys.

Now, Halloween was, what, a couple of weeks ago? But, you know, for kids, Halloween, the candy is like a currency. You know, like my kids, you know, got a good haul going around the neighborhood on Halloween. They've kept them in their rooms. That's their stuff. How long until the ants start? Well, that's, yeah, it's happened in previous years. Yeah, they start finding out, hey, something good's around here.

But they've got little shoeboxes that have got their name on it. They're like, do not touch. They put it in their rooms and stuff like that. Every time I see a do not touch, all I want to do is. Yeah, I know. Me too. But, yeah, it's in their room, it's like, every time I see a do not touch, all I want to do is, I know me too. Uh, but yeah, so yeah,

it's in the room and it's like their currency. And it's like, it's a, it's a, it's a currency I wouldn't be investing in, you know, much like crypto. I think it's more valuable than Bitcoin.

Yeah. Uh, but yeah, but last night my daughter Sienna comes out and she's like, look, looking upset. And she's like, who's gotten to my Halloween candy.

And I was like, well, not me. And then man, my wife's not me. Ben doesn't like artificial sugar. And then, uh, my, uh, yeah, candy? And I was like, well, not me. And then Amanda, my wife's not me. Ben doesn't like artificial sugar. And then the daughter, Indy's like, not me. She's like, someone has.

Someone has stuck. She brought us into the room. The box was open. The lid was off. Wrappers on the floor. Someone had been in there like, who was it? I felt like I was innocent, but I felt like I was being accused by the police or the FBI or something.

She's acting like, remember I lost my wallet the other week and Poppy had some friends over for a sleepover and I thought it was one of the little girls I started accusing them. Yeah. You own up to it. Well, that was the thing. She was looking at all of us and all of us were probably like, to be fair, we were probably looking at her and going,

did you take your sister's thing? But she's like, no, I didn't. No, I didn't. You know, she's very honest. I was like, oh, she obviously didn't. She's like, well, someone's got into the box. And we're like, well, it must be a mystery. And the next thing you know.

You never want to. You can't just shut the case down. What detective in the history of police investigation has gone, you know what, guys? Oh, hold a press conference here. Are you all there? Great. You got everyone here?

All the big reporters? Campbell's over there. Ryan Bridge is there. Okay. All the big guns. Samantha Hayes. Okay. Guys, it must be a mystery.

Mystery, guys. It's got me beat. Beats me. Beats me. That's why I never got a job in the police force. But the next thing, the dog starts going,

you know, on the lawn. We're like, uh-oh, uh-oh. And there you go. Out came about three or four wrappers, some candies, all sorts from the dog. And the dog had gone. So the mystery was solved

It's not a mystery guys The culprit's behind me Right now I've given up Quite a confronting sight For us all to witness The dog doing that But at the same time

I was surprised Because our dog He's got past the puppy stage And as a puppy He was prolific At eating all sorts of stuff And so it was surprising For him to get into that

I was looking Must be exhilarating Trying lollies For the first time though As a dog Doesn doesn't all these kill dogs rappers or chocolate does yeah rappers at all man he was he was definitely like a kardashian rappers at all didn't you have to pull out like a uh yeah well that was the thing that some of the things the dog i've just added it to the list of the things that the dog has eaten halloween candy on the list a whole platter of food including a wheel of cheese one night.

That was impressive for my dog. That's a lot of cheese. That was when we went to the door to greet some friends and we left a plate out there with a wheel of cheese. The gear stick in the car. He ate that. The turning knob on the AC in the car. That's another thing.

Three of my shoes from different pairs. So you only left with one good pair. Yeah. And a single sock sock as you just mentioned before one of the kids socks when they were little and i had to pull that out you'd pull it out it's like playing tug of war with his butt just it's trial and error for dogs isn't it yeah you give some stuff high risk high reward give it a bash you're like oh look cattle wing candy i'll give this a go but obviously not for dogs the hits the jonathan ben podcast really interesting

thing you brought up after the show yesterday that we thought we could do for a fun Friday is what is your favourite part, not your favourite song, but the favourite part of a song? Yeah, the sweet spot of a song. I was listening to The Hits plays nothing but The Hits. Oh, some great music, eh? The Hits.

Hits. Yeah. Sums it all up in the name. Exactly. Appropriately titled radio station. And Aerosmith, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, which is an absolute anthem, isn't it? From the movie Armageddon, wasn't it? Yeah.

And I love the, I like the song, but there's one part of the song and it's the last line in the entire song, which is the best part of the song. And I get to the point where I just play this little part over and over and over in my cup this part here just the endless in jesus giving it all i don't want to miss a thing well yeah that's it and i just like play that tiny little 10 seconds over and over and so that's a sweet part of a song the sweet spot of one of your favourite songs. I want to go with this, Lizzo.

We love Lizzo here on the hits as well, but I love this. And maybe it's because of the TikTok dance as well, but this part of the Lizzo song. It's very cool, eh? It is cool. I mean, that is the core values of TikTok, isn't it? Just get the favourite 10 to 15 seconds of a song

and play core values of that and also twerking as well two core values of TikTok chuck in another one we want to open up the phone lines

to 0800 the hits or 4487 the sweet part of a song I'm going to go the just the drum bit in in the air tonight.

I don't know how many steering wheels that drum beat has been smashed onto in cars over the years. That's very cool. I'll chuck in one more before we open up to the phones. 0800 the hats. Black Eyed Peace, a great song. Let's get it started. But I really like the start of it. After Fergie.

You're Fergie here. I love the running, running, running. Oh yeah. Something about running, running. And the bass go. You went too early. Oh yeah. It went too early.

And the bass keeps running, running, running. And then when it all kicks in. There's something cool about that. Like that's the song for me. That's my favourite part. It's right at the start. And then you stop. Yeah, I mean, it's not like the rest of the song,

but I just want to keep them running and running, you know? We can't keep running. That's too much cardio. All right, we wanted the sweet spot of your favourite songs. We'd love to hear from you next on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We wanted a sweet spot of your favourite songs. What's your favourite part of any song?

We've got lots of great texts coming through on 4487 this morning. One came through for Beyonce. You know her song, Love on Top? Yeah. Where she keeps going up and up and up towards the end of the key change. Yeah.

She keeps going up, mate. She goes higher and higher. You're like, Beyonce, you can't top the love on top you just did and then she goes topper. Yeah, only dogs are hearing her when she goes that high, right?

TLC, the rap part of Waterforce has come through a couple of times. Come on. Yesterday. That's a very cool part of that song, eh?

So, your favourite, your sweet spot of the song, Tracey, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Who would have thought this would happen on a Friday to you, Tracey? Yeah, I don't know. I'm sitting in the teacher's car park thinking you're making me late. Oh, sorry. Okay, well, let's get to it. What's your favourite, what's your sweet spot?

I feel like we've been told off by the teacher, so I'm sorry. It's Alanis Morissette. I've forgotten the line. It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. She should know this.

10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. Wow, yeah, that is a great part. That is a sweet spot of that song. It's one of is a sweet spot of that song. It's one of the most memorable lines from that song, right? Yeah, and it's, I don't think your students... There's lots of memorable lines in that song, though. It's a beauty, isn't it, Arnis?

And all your students need right now is their teacher, so you better get in there. That's right, have a great day. You're welcome. What about the key change in Man in the Mirror from Michael Jackson? I mean... It just gives...

Again, it's kind of like that Beyonce one. No, no, no. And then he's waiting. He's waiting for his... It's like you thought he was done. But he was like, no, no, I'm going to king another notch. He was the king. He changed keys like he changed faces, Michael Jackson.

Bloody legend. And Jodie, you're on from Auckland. Welcome. How are you? Sweet spot of the song. Yeah, sweet spot of the song, Jo. Good morning to you. What is it for you?

Hi, it's Thunderstruck. Oh, Thunderstruck. Oh, Thunderstruck. Yeah, it's a slow builder, this one, isn't it? Do you like the bit where it goes... Just me? No, she doesn't, mate. I don't-na-na-na-na-na-na. Just me? No, she doesn't, mate.

I don't either. Don't know who you think you're talking to. Get out. Way to kill the conversation. Yeah, the scream at the end, last thunder, yeah, whenever it's thunder. Thunder!

Yeah, no, that is an absolute bolter, Jodie. Appreciate it. Appreciate your call, mate. Thank you very much. Loaded text coming through on this one. 4-4-8-7. Might be the most popular thing we've ever done. Another great rock one.

The guitar solo from Guns N' Roses' November Rain. Oh, that's very cool. Yeah, this... I remember the video for this. Remember the video for this? Had slash shirtless leather pants, leather jacket dart hanging out of his mouth. I think he had a top hat on, didn't he? Top hat on. There was a helicopter shot.

It looked. I think that music video was the reason why we have a cost of living crisis now. I don't know how many millions that would have cost. It was lots of fun. We might have to do that one again. Thanks so much for all your calls and texts. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday, Ben, I met someone.

You know how you bump into professions, and no matter what age you are, you still feel like you're a child talking to an adult. And I didn't even know this was a job, but a guy who works at the airport as a passenger behaviour analyst. So his role, him and his team, they walk around the airport, international airport,

and they look at... Was that a flex from you or from him? I didn't meet him at the airport. It was outside the airport. And he looks at passengers who are about to board flights to see what their behaviour's like and if they're going to be trouble on the plane or when they land in the other country.

I wonder who talked to you. So nothing makes you question your behaviour or be so self-aware of your behaviour that when you find out you're talking to a behaviour analyst. Yeah, right. His behaviour was fantastic. How was yours? Oh, it was probably questionable.

A little shabby, suspicious at times probably. Looked like I was concealing something but i was like how do you how do you know if someone's behavior's off obviously drunk people would stand out so that was probably the thing if someone was a bit drunk or someone was looking suspicious you know but god forbids looking out for a terrorist or something yeah yeah if i'm a terrorist i'm not gonna start and i'm not gonna flare up before i get on the plane no but you might be carrying suspicious things or just you know you know like a suitcase that has bomb on the side of it or something yeah but there are same when i go in for a parent teacher meeting at a school i've got children now fully grown man 41 years old

okay i go in i'm talking to a teacher who's probably 20 years younger than me, but I feel like I'm the student every time. It's funny because obviously my dad, Kevin, he's a principal for many years and it's funny seeing people come up to him, hello Mr Boyce, you know, if he runs into people and these have grown up. You're a lawyer. Hello Mr Boyce, and they're all like,

you still feel like a child. They're talking to their principal from like 30 years ago. The other good one, the other profession is that you never feel like you're any older than when you're talking to one of them. Police officers. I could be talking to a 19-year-old cop, look like a TikTok influencer. And still I feel like, yes, officer, yes, you know. Doesn't change. Radio hosts, we don't hold that power.

Don't you worry about that. No respect at all. You should read our text machine, 4487. In fact, we should demand more respect. It't you worry about that. No respect at all. You should read our text machine at 4487. In fact, we should demand more respect. No. Yes, more respect. It's not a job that demands respect.

Respect us more. Do you think that's the least respected job? Where do we sit? Oh, it's up there. Yeah, where do we sit in the spectrum of, you know, loan sharks, parking waters,

radio hosts? Where are we? We're in the mix, that's for sure. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ben has a family trip booked to the Hot Springs Bar T20 Black Clash. Jono wants to give it away.

It's Jono and Ben's hit them for six. The Hot Springs Bar T20 Black Clash coming back early next year in Christchurch there, thanks to Heartland. It's awesome. It's an amazing day out for the whole family. All the details are at the Hits.co.nz. I thought I'd organise a family. I love my cricket and I love my family. So I thought, what better way. Loves his cricket more, he the whole family. All the details are at thehits.co.nz. I thought I'd organise a family. I love my cricket and I love

my family so I thought what better way to bring the family along to cricket and to spend a whole weekend in Christchurch it's a trip for four, flights, accommodation petrol vouchers, tickets to the Hits family zone, punting on the Avon, tram, velocity

carts voucher, riverside markets. I've got it all hooked up. How are you going to fit that all into one weekend? That's my concern. I'm like, you've arranged too busy a weekend for your family. But now you're trying to take it off me. You've had a wee competition all week. Hit them for six. We've had six questions, yes or no questions, to guess who the player is from the T20

Black Clash on the phone. So far you've done very well as a big cricket enthusiast, four from four. And I'm going to welcome on, you've got a few questions to ask this person. I i'm gonna welcome on today's mystery player jollo ben mystery player from the black clash ben you have yes or no answers mystery player six questions to try and figure out who it is i want to keep my trip so here we go this is the last one okay do you are you playing in team cricket? That is affirmative. Affirmative, team cricket. Okay, were you a batsman?

I have been. Oh, have been a batsman. Okay, but are you an all-rounder? Yes. All-rounder. Now you've got the player list in front of you. We had Jacob Orrem the other day. Is it not?

Is it Jacob Orem again? No. One more to guess. If you don't nail this, the trip goes to the next caller. He's playing in team cricket. Have you? Just take a stab. Well, Chris Martin.

Are you Chris Martin? The trip goes. The trip is gone. And we'll bring in, we'll actually bring in the mystery. The mystery player. If you can make your way into the studio. It is none other than the honey badger himself from Australia. The honey badger, Nick Cummins.

Former international rugby player, Nick Cummins. Cummins, Cummins down. Cummins to the studio. Cummins to the studio. Grab a seat over there, Nick. You're not even a cricket, I mean you're playing in cricket, but you're not a cricket player. You're through me.

Sorry to disappoint. Well, not to disappoint me, we're big fans of yours. to meet you no mate good to be here um i think i've come into the bolster the morale are you the morale officer yeah that's an important role you've just come off the set of mcleod's daughters or something like that you've got the cowboy hat on the shirt on you look great no thank you thank you yeah i'm taken but yeah oh sorry come on too strong all this week nick he, he had organised himself a jammy trip to the T20. And he's had to guess who the player has been. He had to get all five.

He's dipped out on the last day. I was taking it pretty seriously. But you guys, great. You threw me. Because obviously, you know, the fact that you were a rugby player, rugby international, it really threw me. So how did you get roped into playing for Team Cricket? Yeah, well, I think Flammo didn't

make the cut this year, so they needed to fill that void. And so they had someone in mind, and they couldn't get them, so then I was there, and I said, I'll put my hand up, and I'm available. Yeah, I made myself available. So, Nick's

going to stay with us. 0800 the Hits. Do you want Ben's holiday? Family of four, four people, whatever. Doesn't matter if you're blood related. We'll be back with the honey badger and the winner next. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I just lost my trip to the T20 Black Clash as well. My family trip I had organised.

It was going to be awesome. So now I need to give it away. Genevieve, your phone through. You want to savagely take Ben's holiday? Good on you. Oh, thank you. Yes, please. Well done.

Who's going to go with you, Genevieve? I'll take the kids and the husband, I suppose. Great trip. I got it all. Don't make it awkward and don't you turn up at the airport at the same time as Genevieve, okay? I can't. Genevieve, enjoy it.

The Hot Springs Spas T20 Black Clash is going to be awesome. But you've got flights, accommodations, so many family activities as well. So enjoy it. The Hot Springs Spas T20 Black Clash is going to be awesome. But you've got flights, accommodations set before, so many family activities as well. So enjoy that. Oh, awesome. Thank you so much. Sorry, Ben. That's a half-hearted apology.

You take that trip. Hold your head high, Genevieve. You're going to see all the great rugby and cricket players and also Nick Cummins, the honey bear Jews, with us. Will you be playing in full kit or in the undies, like on the tradies' end? Well, they do have a breathable pouch pouch and that's going to be essential. Is it designed off the kangaroo pouch, the breathable pouch?

Yeah, because they're slightly larger pouch for Australians. This is my worry, not that I'd ever be asked to model underpants. You're out there, I imagine there's 30 advertising executives staring at you in your undies. What's going through your mind? Well, all you need is a pair of socks and um and a can do attitude that's basically you're gonna get yourself a coffee to a couple of push-ups and then you're out there you're flying you're out there you're out there in the conditions i think they have you in a desert or they had you somewhere out two degrees it was um six a.m oh was it cold

in the desert yeah It was freezing at night Yeah Bloody hot during the day But there was no music And I had to dance in the desert Oh yeah That's awkward I don't know

Yeah It was awkward as I loved it how they had During the undies And then they had you Still strapping around your ears Just in case you were going to Join a ruck or a mall

You never know You had the cooler You know Had the boots in your bag Just in case Now Did you follow much of the Women's World Cup over here?

Mate, exceptional. I can't believe the talent these days. Buddy, it's very impressive. Do you still follow rugby closely or you're like, that part of my, that chapter's closed? Oh look, I definitely, a couple of big games I'll get down and

have a look, but I wouldn't know the whole schedule. But mate, yeah, I definitely, you know, a couple of big games I'll get down and have a look, but I wouldn't know the whole schedule. But, mate, yeah, I love... All the away games. Yeah, I mean, I like playing it. I'm not as much of a spectator, but, yeah, it was bloody good fun to watch. Now, I've been reading about it lately. You just had a baby, 10-week-old Bubba.

Wow. Congrats. Yeah, thank you. It's a holy strewth of a rollercoaster. You blokes dads? Yes. We went through the trenches though. We passed that 10-week blur of just no sleep.

I only up once now, like once a night, but it was like three, four times, cluster feed and whatever else. So it's been quite a change up to what I'm used to. I can imagine you'd be a great dad though. I love it. I take him down. We do a bit of tummy though. I love it. I take him down. We do a bit of tummy time.

I call it tummy, tummy time. So he's just in his nappy. I'm in mine. We just walk down to the chook pen in the morning. And just for that bit of morning sun. You don't want the midday sun, just a bit of morning sun. I think vitamin D, just good back to nature. Lovely.

Get the chooks out, feed them. He just loves it. Oh, that's awesome. And the honey badger, the nickname. Now, you probably loves it oh that's awesome and the honey badger the nickname now you probably asked us what what the heck is a honey badger for us in new zealand that don't really know what they are right it's uh it's an animal that uh is over in africa it's it's known for just it runs 40k a day there's an entourage of animals that follow it basically its work ethic is through the roof just call it forrest gump when he grew the beard and he ran and everyone just followed and just kept running it's just like over there the entourage

is falcons jackals all sorts of yeah so he'll dig up all these mounds ferrets and should have fang in everywhere and they all pick up all the little all the offshoots comes out of the hole with one in his mouth and that's and then you go so how did you become the honey badger from there well i used to spend a lot of time watching docos and this like trying to find motivation and that sort of inspiration yeah play footy because i was at that time in the western force i was the only non-wallaby in the back line which was a bloody it was a tough gig you know like everyone else here represents the country exactly and i'm just this bloody blowing i've got to find a way to get a mindset and just hone it to sort of bring out when I need to.

And then I saw this honey badger, and then I started trying to... The boys used to see me watching videos, even in the break between trainings. Well, this isn't a made-up story. You're actually getting inspiration from this animal. A hundred percent. If you can...

I mean, there's a story where he killed a male lion by ripping its... off. I mean, for me, that's he killed a male lion by ripping its n***a off. For me, that's... What a way to go. Exactly. But see, that's how you need to approach life minus the n***a. If you can cut that bit out, straight away you've got a mindset there that'll take on anything. So this is it, the inspiration, the honey venture.

I like it. Yeah, I mean, it's not bloody... I didn't give it the name myself. People just said it. You've embraced it. I just want to be as much as I can like one to attack life like that well he's going to be

in the changing rooms of the hot springs spas black clash ripping off the articles of all the players out there

giving it a bash Nick Cummins lovely to meet you mate what a great human being you are congrats on fatherhood yes

and good luck for the game you gentlemen I appreciate it thank you