Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Launched Our Brand New Chips To Space!

Episode Date: October 16, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast we are in Christchurch for our Heartland OUT OF THIS WORLD chip launch, we go through all of the best audio from the space launch yesterday... if you are in Ashburton please look for the chips and go pros haha. We have an amazing cliff-hanger call with Karen and her keys  in the bowl encounter!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben on the hits. Kia ora, welcome along to the podcast today the 17th of October. Oh my gosh, it's our first show back after a two-week absence. Yeah. And they do say absence makes the heart grow fonder. And I tell you what, our hearts have grown fonder for you today. Yeah, it was fun to be back and fun to be back on the podcast again. So I appreciate you guys listening after.

I don't feel holidayed, though. You know, sometimes you come here for a holiday and you feel, oh, yeah, I'm good to go. Well, we did work a lot through it and that's all right. But we had a pretty awesome thing that we went and did. So, you know, Dwayne Johnson, that's happening later this week. Exclusive with The Rock about his new movie, Black Adam. Only New Zealand interview. Yeah. at him. Only New Zealand interview.

We never did quite ask him what he was cooking, did we? We were close enough to smell him, man. He smelled exquisite. Just a ball of muscle, eh? Just incredible. At the end of the chat, we hugged. It's how the guys at the stage are hugging. You're just like, my hands on his back. I was just like

everything is just you know I feel like you're starting to get like me oh yeah when I hug you I'm like what is this

skeletal malnourished man I've got my arms retrieved yeah but you're right he is you feel the protein

so you know that's later this week which is very exciting that's going to be on Thursday bit of a teaser there, yeah. Very exciting. That's going to be on Thursday's podcast. You can look forward to that. But we are in Christchurch today. We're launching our chips. We've got new chips out in stores around the country,

thanks to Heartland, out of this World Mashup. And you're very excited about not only the chips being out. Well, because they're maple bacon, salt and vinegar, and sour cream and chives. Three flavors on their own. They stand on their own in the chip game, don't they? They happily, they can, I'm salt and vinegar. I'm proud, and I cream and chives. Three flavors on their own. They stand on their own in the chip game, don't they? They happily, they can, I'm salt and vinegar. I'm proud, and I'll shift my bag.

But you combine the three of them, and you're like, this is going to be an absolute catastrophe. But it works. It's the opposite. Well, I think it works. I love your feedback. I haven't had any bad feedback, but I don't know if it's just people being nice to our face. But something you wanted to check out, because we're in Christchurch today,

we're broadcasting out of the studios in Christchurch, the new studios. Lovely new building that they have here. That's awesome. Isn't it? Right in the heart of the city. The rebuild's really coming along leaps and bounds, isn't it, in Christchurch? It is a wonderful city, Christchurch. Maybe not leaps and bounds.

It's taken. But some of the pockets that have been rebuilt are incredible. Beautiful. They've got great art on the walls. It's incredible. And something else that we hear is incredible are the seats in the studio at Newstalk ZB.

Now, Newstalk ZB is the premier Newstalk radio station, talkback radio station in the country. You've got Mike Hosking, Kerry Woodham, you know. You're throwing your arm up as if they're above us. And they are. They're above us. They're up in Auckland too. They're all above us.

We can't touch them. We can't reach them. But broadcasting out of the Christchurch news talks here, Ben's flapping his other arm up. Again, untouchable. Simon Barnett and James Daniels. James Daniels, two icons. Legends.

They're all legends. Now we've heard a wild rumour that the seats they sit in, and I'm not saying they've demanded these seats by any stretch of the imagination, but the seats they sit in are worth $3,500. Imagine the lumbar support on those things. Oh, I just want, like we're just happy to sit on a beer crate, aren't we, every morning.

Oh, stand, I mean stand is fine. Stand is fine as well, but three, and I just want to, and the whole morning we're like, we've got to go sit in these seats. So you're right now live on the podcast. Can we connect you through to your phone? Can you put me on the phone?

I'll walk into the studio and I'll tell you. First hand what these seats are like, okay? All right, so John O'Prior heading out into the office here in Christchurch. How are you? Walking down. You all right? I'm like bantering away to the office workers. He's probably going to get stuck in a conversation with someone.

Oh, I know. This is the problem too. How much time do we have? He would be in a rush with John workers. He's probably going to get stuck in a conversation with someone. Oh, I know. This is the problem, too. How much time do we have? He would be in a rush with Jono. He would just talk and engage with people. Now, we're walking in now. That was quick. Hello.

Are we able to sit on these seats? We've heard these seats. We've heard good things about these seats. We won't tell you. We can't tell you, Ben. Can't tell you what? Oh, my God. So, look.

Can't tell you what I'm saying on the seats. Well, that's what we're doing. Exactly what we're doing right now. Can you explain to whoever that was that that's exactly what we're doing? No, I'm too scared to. No, but this is exactly what we're doing. Deal with the fallout later. No, but you can't just say we can't tell anyone.

Listen to the podcast. It's fine. But exactly what you just said we're not doing, we're doing is... Deal with the fallout later. No, but you can't just say we can't tell anyone. I don't think anyone will listen to the podcast. It's fine. But exactly what you just said we're not doing, we are doing. We are telling people, literally telling people about it. Okay, good stuff. Tell them you see the price and everything. What I can see in front of me, it's almost space age-like. What I'll do is I'll text you a photo so you can see a photo of it, okay?

Right. Let me just get my camera out here. How do I get my camera out? Oh, God, here we go. Hold on. Another five minutes. I'll take that away. There you go, camera.

I'll text you a photo, Ben. Okay. Well, you can just tell us. It'll be an incoming photo. Just describe it. I'll text Ben Boyce, and you can see this firsthand. It's space age. It's got curves. It's got curves.

It's got a footstool as well, a 360-degree footstool. You're definitely talking about it. It rotates. It rotates all 360 degrees. Would you like me to sit on it? Yeah, how would it compare to, you know, in the mornings there's that advertorial where the people get themselves locked into that massage chair? Oh, that horny-looking massage chair.

Everyone looks like they're just about to have an orgasm. Well, no, it's not that technically advanced, but it's still what I would say is the seat, the part you actually sit on, almost feels like a trampoline. I'm just touching it with my hand. Okay? Count me down. For what? Too late,

I'm already on it. Oh, wow. Wow. Yeah, wow. Do you reckon you could bring it back to Auckland, John, or would that be too hard? It's a lot of carry-on. It's not fitting in the overhead, but it doesn't

even feel like you're sitting. It reclines. It looks quite springy from the picture that's come through, and a lovely sort of ring around the bottom, like a sort of 360 sort of ring at the bottom where you can put your feet on at all angles around the bottom. It looks lovely.

It feels like I'm sitting on a tight trampoline. That's how I'd describe it. And there's no part of my back that isn't supported. Better ball casters, better chairs. That's hands down the best chair I've ever sat in. How many chairs are there? Just two chairs are those in there? Two chairs, yeah.

Okay. Two chairs. Now I'll just go out. Hold on. You going to explain that we are talking about the person? No, no, no. I'm just going to go back out of here. Just. Two chips. Now I'll just go out. Hold on. You going to explain that we are talking about the Pistons? No, no, no. I'm just going to go back out of here. Just walk through here.

Yeah, I know. Make those sales. Yep. Definitely, definitely talking about it. Well, there we go. Hey, we've got a really fun podcast today. Yeah. Cool, I'm out.

Today on the podcast, we launched our chips into space, and, well, things didn't quite go as we initially planned. You'll find out what happened. Maybe we should have sent the space age cheers from Newstalk ZB into space instead but you'll hear that on the podcast. Have a listen. Enjoy. Baldly going where no show

has gone before. How long is it going to take for Ben to make fun of my bald head? Jono and Ben on the hits. Now a very exciting day for Jono and Ben Enterprises. We've done a collab, Jono and Ben X Heartland Potato Chips, and we're releasing our own potato chips today, Ben boys, an out-of-this-world flavoured chip. It's maple bacon.

It's salt and vinegar, sprinkled with salt and vinegar and sour cream and chives. Yeah, all together, it's an out-of-this-world flavour. It's had that really, like, as you said before, when you taste it, it's like going on a journey. It's a great day for chips. It's a great day for radio. And to bring it up to speed on where we're at, here's someone with a far better voice than the both

of us. In times of uncertainty, what we need is more uncertainty. Uncertainty, like a packet of confusingly flavoured chips. Chips like no mouth has ever tasted before. Is that a crazy mix of maple, bacon, salt and vinegar and sour cream and chives? That's out of this world.

Yes it is. And you know what they say, when the chips are down, send them out of this world... into space. Jono and Ben, in association with Heartland Chips, in association with Space, will launch their chips into all good retailers and then launch them into space live from

Christchurch. Hey, Richard Branson, your virgin, looks like someone else has taken your space plates. What's that musk I smell, Elon? Oh, it's you losing the space race. And hey Jeff Bezos, put your phallic rocket back where it came from, buddy. This is a family show.

There's a new weird bald man in space now. A revolutionary new chip designed by two space cadets, Jono and Ben's out of this world mashup. Maple bacon sour cream and chives and salt and vinegar heartland chips launches into space and into a store near you live from Christchurch this Monday. Yeah, and that is today. They're everywhere today. You'll find them in supermarkets.

Look for our faces on the packet. And if you buy them, you can take a photo with it. There's a little QR code as well, and you can win $10,000 all the details of the hit stock code on the internet so we're going to be

doing taste testings today in Christchurch if you want to come down and see us we'll be doing that from midday today we're about to Christchurch

New World Durham Street in Christchurch 12 to 1 today and then this evening in Wellington in Thorndon at the New World

there between 5 and 6 yeah there we go the chip tour rolling on hocking off chips. Shifting units. And as we just heard, we were planning to launch these into space. The first packet of chips in space.

And we did this yesterday. How did it play out? What has happened now? Have we caused an international incident? You'll find out. That hits. We headed to the airport yesterday. We were travelling around the country

launching these chips, John O'Benn, Heartland, Out of This World chips and Producer P. Humps, you had a separate Uber to us and a very interesting experience. Yeah, well, I booked the Uber nice and early.

I was going to get out to the airport, you know, well, you know. Prepared. Yeah, you don't want a stressful time at the airport, no. I think that happens the older you get, isn't it? And that's how you end up like my parents out of

the domestic airport four hours before they fly. And so I was well prepared and jumped in the Uber and we set off. Within the first 30 seconds he said, oh mate, are you going to rush to get to the airport? I was like, yeah.

And he said, oh I really need to use the bathroom. I've never had this happen before in the Uber situation. Yeah, well, if you've got to go, you've got to go. So was it at a petrol station or something? Yeah, so we stopped off at a petrol station. No, never happened to me. No, never happened. I chilled out in the car.

He locked the car while I was in it. Like a child. Don't do it. The window down just a little bit. Don't even think about running away. Even though I've got your credit card.

Yeah, even at the Uber you're like, well, I'll pay for this. Yeah, so in the end I wasn't at the airport early at all. I was, in fact, quite late.

Yeah, and so didn't you because Ben has a bugbear with me going into petrol stations using the lavatory systems and not paying for anything. E-vehicle, mate. E-ve?

Yeah, but he's still like, he's not using gas but he could buy some Whittaker's Bar gum using the lavatory systems and not paying for anything. E-vehicle, mate. E-vehicle? It was. Oh, yeah, but he's still like, I get he's not using gas, but he could buy some Whittaker's Bar gum or something. But we did park in a Bowser spot as well. Oh.

So we were clogging space on the forecourt. And you're awkwardly sitting there for the whole day. And I'm sitting in the back. Clogging the forecourt, clogging the drains, it was all happening.

We were in an Uber over the last, over the holidays. It was quite, it was about happening. We were in an Uber over the holidays. It was about a 40, probably an hour-long Uber ride. It was a long one, yeah. And our driver said nothing the entire way. Nothing. You tried banter at the top.

Oh, you know me. You pulled it in your lower. This is not happening. Yeah, you always give me the like, don't worry. You kind of put your hand on my thigh and you're like, let this one go. Yeah, yeah, because you like to engage. And then you get a sense of sometimes people want to talk and other times they don't.

And as we're pulling up to our location, jeez, he crammed some bantering just out of the blue, out of the blue. And it was extraordinary. All fruit related. All fruit. He's like, yo, man, I just love fruit. And that's what he started with.

And we're like, we like fruit as well. He's like, oh, man, I love fruit. And that's what he started with. And we're like, we like fruit as well. He's like, oh man, I love watermelon. Oh, watermelon sits in my belly so nice. I like how it sits in my belly nice and full-like. You know, it must be all the water. It makes me full. And we're like, oh yeah, watermelons.

He's like, you like cantaloupe? Oh, I like cantaloupe. And pineapple's the other big one too. He loves pineapple. And I was like, you know, man, I love those big can of peaches. I just put them in the fridge and they're nice and cold. And I just, once I start eating them, I can't stop. And that was, like, it went hard. It went zero to 100.

No banter. Then came in with. A lot of banter in a very short amount of time. Just before the finish line. Yeah. Jono and Ben, the bold and the beautiful. On their heads. Note, may not be beautiful.

Jono and Ben's $10,000 out-of-this-world chip pick with Heartland Chips. Yes, we have officially launched our out-of-this-world mashup chip with Heartland Chips. Crazy mix of maple bacon, sour cream and chives, sprinkled with salt and vinegar. All the same. That's all the same packet.

It's out of this world. It's in supermarkets right now. Those are three different packets of chips, Ben, you've just described. All of those flavours. But they're all in one. They can stand alone on their own. Yes, but they're all in one, and it works. It shouldn't work, but it does work.

And now they are in all good supermarkets, petrol stations, dairies, casinos, brothels. You name it. We have got chips everywhere. So you buy a packet of chips, get a photo with them, send stations, dairies, casinos, brothels, you name it. We have got chips everywhere. So you buy a packet of chips, get a photo with them, send us your chip pic, and you're in the draw for the $10,000. Yeah, there's a special QR code on the back of every packet of chips. You can grab all the details at the hitstock.nz. Now we're going to be doing tastings too, up and down the country this week.

Ben, boy, we're going to be those people in the supermarket with the aprons behind the little, you know, hey, would you like to try one of these? Then we'll be doing that. I love harassing people. Exactly. But because they're out of this world in flavour, the combination of the flavour, and, you know, we've gone space-themed with them,

we're like, well, we can't call them space chips out of this world unless they actually go out of this world. Yes, so we, yesterday, headed to the epicentre, the beating heart of the New Zealand space program, Mount Summer, which is about an hour and 25 minutes out of Christchurch. And we met Mech, wonderful Mech, who is part of the University of Canterbury and Origin as well. They've teamed up and we're going to launch this giant weather balloon, holding the chips and two of our very expensive GoPros into space.

But first, we caught up with Kyle from Heartland. Kyle from Heartland, what an exciting day for chips and an exciting day for the New Zealand Space Race today. Yeah, well, actually, to be honest, guys, I've been in this industry for about 30 years and this would be the proudest moment of my life. 30 years of chippery. 30 years! Yeah, you don't get better than this. I think I told you before, I don't

get emotional, but guys, I'm getting there now. I can see you welling up behind your sunglasses. I am, I am. Don't look guys, don't look. It's an emotional day. I mean, we're entering the Space Race and we're entering shelves around the country with these new chips with you guys at Heartland. Yeah, exactly. And look, you know,

we're really proud of these chips. You know, there's something a wee bit different. There's something that we think that, you know, New Zealand public need. Yeah. They need a bit of uncertainty. I think that's what you guys said. That's just what we need. That's what this country needs right now is uncertainty.

Now, the chips are obviously a mash-up of maple, bacon, sour cream and chives with a sprinkling of salt and vinegar. I gave some to my wife. She said it's a journey. The taste experience is a journey. Well, if you go to space, it's a journey, right, Colin? Yeah. Absolutely.

And that's what everyone's saying. You might start off tasting a bit of maple bacon, but then all of a sudden you're into that salt and vinegar. But no, it's sour cream and chives. You just don't know what's going on, do you? I feel like we're at a restaurant, like when you try a wine and people go, I get notes of maple bacon. That's what it's like.

It's, you know, you can taste different things at each mouthful. I've seen people open these chips and they just take the wee sniff first, you know, just to get that aroma first. You're absolutely right. So the launch, now, from a logistics point of view, you've had supermarkets saying, we want to launch early. We want to go early. Oh, really?

That's right. And we said, no, no, this is far this is far. We want this to go up. Well, not literally a bang, because that would be a terrible thing to happen when you're trying to launch into space. But we certainly want to make this the biggest event ever. And I think we're on our way, aren't we, boys? So the chips, they're in all good supermarkets, all good dairies. Yeah, well, anywhere you can find chips, you look out for these.

There we go. That's Kyle from Heartland Potato Chips. And we're at the launch site launching these out of this world ships into space with Mech who is filling up the giant weather balloon now describe that Ben It was huge, it was like a balloon you'd have for a school's party

you might take when you go to school but just on steroids, just massive and filling it up and I was very nervous this whole thing was quite windy up there It was, yeah, filling up with helium. And I was very nervous. This whole thing was sort of, it was quite windy up there. It was, yeah. Filling up with helium, too. Giant container of helium, giant tank of helium. And this was the process. We had to be quiet.

Apparently this was do or die. So right now, right now the weather balloon is filling up with helium. Yes. You described it before in a very interesting way. Well, the balloon is, it before in a very interesting way. The balloon is it looks like a giant condom. It looks like something King Kong would have to wear.

This is space, mate. There's no time for this sort of stuff, okay? Not even on Earth or wherever we're going. Is it just me or do you really want to suck on that helium right now? Yes, but again, it's not I don't think that's what they do. Very expensive helium. Who knew yeah cost of living even hitting helium yeah the space race

has got more expensive we're filling up this giant weather balloon and that's what's going to take it up they're working about 18 kilometers into the air today now mick looks busy is this a time for a chat or no, I definitely don't think it's a time for that. MEC looks deep in concentration right now. Yeah, this is a very important part of the process. Everyone's got like professional gloves on? They're just latex gloves. Professional looking though. They're the same gloves I wore to work during COVID, just to protect myself from that nasty virus. They're really ramping up the helium right now.

So there's about five or six people holding on to the helium tank, also holding on to the balloon as it slowly fills up. There we go. And what happened when we launched it into space? Did they make it? Did they return? We will find out next. We are launching our brand new chips with our Heartland Out of This World flavour. We'll find out the space race in three minutes.

The Jono and Ben podcast, the world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats. Big day. We're officially launching our Out of This World mashup chip with Heartland chips. You can get it at supermarkets all over the country. A crazy mix, an Out of-world mix of maple, bacon, sour cream and chives sprinkled with salt and vinegar. It's in supermarkets.

You can win $10,000. Grab yourself a bag. There's a barcode on there. Explain how you can send a picture at the hitstock.nz. Yeah, this is just reinventing the chip market, isn't it? It's resetting it. And really, it's resetting your taste buds as well. It's something like you've never tasted before.

It's really good. They're really good. Unless you were the flavor technician who worked on it's something like you've never tasted before. It's really good though, really good. Unless you were the flavour technician who worked on it. I've never tasted anything like it. No, out of this world. I must admit, I had my hesitations, Ben. When I heard the combination of flavours, but it works, it works.

And I'm not just saying this, I'd go back and buy another packet. And you should too today. Buy five to ten packets each customer. Let's get those Heartland chips. Let's shift the units. Yeah, so because they're out of this world in flavour, we wanted them to be out of this world literally and send them into space.

So we teamed up with Canterbury University to send a giant weather balloon with the chips attached with a couple of GoPro cameras up into space. Now, when you're hanging around space people, you're like, oh, they're just a better breed. You know? It really puts our role in the intelligence that is involved in radio, it puts our run on the ladder when you're with space scientists. Oh, they've got GPSs,

they've got trackers, they've got all sorts of stuff going on. And you're like, I don't, what can I do to help? Yep, so nothing is the answer, Ben. Eat some chips. Are you asking me?

Buy some chips. And so this was the countdown. This was the moment and we were holding the device that I forget the name of. The giant weather balloon? The weather, but it wasn't the weather balloon,

but it was the thing, the payload. Oh, yes. The payload, which had the two... See, this is why we could never be astronauts. Yes, you wouldn't want me sitting here. Now, what's this button do again? Two packets of chips, two very expensive GoPros. We're going to float on this giant weather balloon

all the way to space, and the crowd, there was fever pitch. Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. There you go. Yeah! It goes off! And it really shoots off.

The amount of helium, it takes off quick. And it was going in the wrong direction too, which was very concerning because they were like, it's going to go right and it was definitely going left, wasn't it? But I think they had that all worked out though, right? They'd planned for that, hadn't they? Yeah, and Mick, head space engineer, explained all.

So mate, it's taken off. What is happening now? So, it's all up to nature now. We've predicted the flight path, the wind directions are looking good to land back on land. We're really hopeful, so the auto-re release system will trigger

when we get to about 60 000 feet and the tracking team will be ready to pick it up so how many kilometers are you saying it will go up high into the sky 18 kilometers 18 kilometers so that's almost twice the altitude of a average airline and what you'd see out the window so we're taking all the way up there it reminds me you know if if people are listening to this on the radio it reminds me of the movie Up. Yes, pretty much. It is a balloon. Yeah, that will expand, right?

Yes, it will expand. Like even bigger up there. Yes, it was pretty big down here, but up there will be probably about five to six metres wide. And what about the conditions? Because obviously here it's windy, but the wind changes as we go up and gets colder. Is that right? Do I sound like I know what I'm talking about? It gets colder. The directions change.

It's a really dynamic system all the way up there. So we've got it all on the computers. So you're tracking it now. And you know where it'll roughly land. All going well. All those guys with the antennas, ready to go. And so we need to hop in cars now and head, what, 50km in some direction? Towards Ashburton, yep.

Towards Ashburton. Yep. And we'll be there to collect it. So this is the literal space race. we're in a race against time now. And our cameras are on with the balloon. So we don't get that back we get nothing. Yes yes so the pressure's on now. Do you know the RRP of your average GoPro? Very expensive. Yes it is. Did you feel fresher? I was feeling like nervous about this whole thing. Every single time it never gets easier. Yeah right because you've done this a few times, right?

Well, I hope so. Yes. Yeah. So this is probably the biggest payload we've sent up. Definitely the most interesting. Yeah. We've never sent up a package of chips. Never sent up a package of chips?

Yeah, yeah. Well, you can say you've worked for New Zealand's Jeff Bezos now. We've worked alongside me. New Zealand's Jeff Bezos. A wild, out-of-touch bald man. So, that was it. So we jumped in the cars and we drove to Ashburton. When we arrived in Ashburton, I could tell there were some concerned faces.

Yeah, well, because the chips had got to space. They'd seen it, they'd gone all the way to space, but then they were coming down, they were tracking it down towards the paddocks, the many paddocks out there in the farm site. And as you said, Ben, it's got our cameras on it. That's the footage. The footage we need of the chips going to space and coming back down. Now, there was a meeting going on.

You know when something bad's happening, you can tell, but you don't want to jump in? Well, I jumped in. What's going on, guys? What's going on? Well, we lost it. We've lost the tracking system? We don't know where it is correct okay all right it's now me because this was this all part of the plan losing the uh not exactly but we've got redundancy systems on board and um we we've had something similar to

this happen in the past okay so uh we've got one move we've got one location we need to go to we'll go check that out yep fingers crossed it's there otherwise we might get further readings okay now ben i can see you you're looking on you're looking on anxiously what's going through your mind no no it's all good all good mate all good saying they've lost they've lost all good it's all good lost the tracking of it under control under control okay what taught me through your grave concerns right i don't need my grave concerns no one needs my grave concerns they're in my head so uh we then went to the last known location where it pinged uh rural ashburton yeah farmland talk to the farmer he's like go for it he's got paddocks and paddocks and paddocks he's like walk your way through

you can find it it should be out there somewhere we spent two to three hours traipsing through paddocks yesterday looking for this payload it's a red parachute with our two gopros on it the chips we did the chips we didn't find it

so this is our plea to the good people of rural Ashburton go out to your paddocks today have a look at a weird

device someone said yesterday people might think the government have been tracking the two gopros landing in a paddock go out to your paddocks today. Have a look at a weird device. Someone said yesterday people might think the government have been tracking the two GoPros landing in a paddock. No, it's the... Yeah, those are the people with the tinfoil hats outside Parliament. It's not us. It's not the government tracking you. Jacinda's not tracking you.

We just need our GoPros back, okay? Please, whatever you do today, Ash Burton, go outside and look for this. We should find a little reward, you know. A bag of chips. Well, maybe more than that. little reward. A bag of chips. Maybe more than that. Two bags. Okay, than that.

Yeah, so we need the footage to prove that these things have gone to space. They were in rural Ashburton and the farmland. There's a lot of farmland. Because right now we just have a giant condom balloon taking our chips off into the distance. Yeah, so it's not quite the space-rate journey that we'd hoped it would be just yet. But it's real.

Space is real. The chips are all in stores. They have launched officially right around the country, all thanks to Heartland. The out of this world mashup. You can get them in supermarkets today. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben.

Mature, responsible, and considerate. Three words we sadly can't use here. Jono and Ben on the hits. Christchurch hanging out today. We're launching our chips, this out of this world mashup, thanks to Heartland Chips. They're in supermarkets all over the country. We've got some sampling going on today between 12 and 1 in Durham Street in the New World.

Well, we're going to be hocking off these chips all week throughout the country, you can rest assured. And these chips, these are what are going to pull New Zealand out of the last two years, Ben. And these chips, if they don't cure COVID, I don't know what will. Okay? Cost-of-living crisis won't be a thing after these chips, if they don't cure COVID, I don't know what will. Okay. Cost of living crisis won't be a thing after these chips. Very healing. But first of all, before we cure the cost of living. Oh, there it is.

The all familiar and all obnoxious sound of the cliffhanger calls. Ben, one of our favorite parts of the show. Yeah, that's right. We get someone's, what the claim is their best story. We stop it at a point and then we decide if we want to stick around. Well, we stick around anyway, don't we? But we can't wait to hear the rest of the story. They leave us dangling off a cliff.

Yeah, it's a classic ploy to keep the audience there, isn't it? It keeps us here as well because we've never heard these stories before. Let's get Karen on. Welcome. How are you? Good, thanks. How are you? Oh, thanks. How are you? Lovely to have you on, Kazza. We're doing well.

Now, Karen, you've come under a pseudonym, a false name. I have. You're not a complaining Karen. I'm not. But this is, I'm gathering because the story is a little bit spicy. Just a touch. Alright, Karen. So what happened?

Set the scene. Well, so husband and I decided that we would take a holiday and we thought we'd do a cruise and it was this really awesome cruise of the Caribbean so we book our cruise and off we go and we get in the taxi and go to the cruise line to check in and all is not as it

seems Okay And all is not as it seems. Okay. Well, I've been lucky enough to go on one cruise ship in my life, and that was a Disney cruise, and that was through the Caribbean. Was it a Disney cruise, Karen? Was it a Disney cruise? No, not quite. No, okay, not a Disney cruise.

A Disney cruise is coming to New Zealand, isn't it? Yeah, everyone's pretty excited about that. Okay, so it's not a Disney Cruise. Did you get aboard a ship? We did. We definitely got on board a ship. Okay. And it wasn't quite...

And we were on board for seven days. Seven days? Okay, so it wasn't a Titanic situation that didn't end... No. ...with you clinging? We did not think, I'm pleased to say. Okay, all right. Geez, was it a good thing or a bad thing, this cruise?

It was a bad thing maybe at the start, but it was a good thing at the end. Okay. Oh, wow. I want to know. It was a surprise at the start, I should say, probably. You got blindsided at the start? Yes, blindsided at the start. Okay.

What on earth happened aboard this ship? A ship came into the harbour with a shipload of, oh my God, I need to hear the end of this story. And next, Karen will finish the cruise liner story as we set sail. And I can't think of any more references this is the cliffhanger calls back shortly the chuno and ben podcast available on iheart radio and we're back with cliffhanger karen it is our cliffhanger call uh we're in the middle of it for another week where we get someone's best story we stop it at point, and then we hear the rest of it.

We had Karen on. She's still with us. Now, Karen, just recap for us. You didn't tell us much of a story, to be honest, so far, but I can't wait to find out where it goes. So you want to recap? Yeah. My husband and I booked to do a cruise in the Caribbean.

We flew over, got in a taxi, went to check into the ship, but got blindsided as all was not as it seemed. Now, we do know that you ended up on board a ship. We did. And it went for seven days. So what happened? What wasn't as it seems? It turns out it was a swinger cruise.

Not as it seems. It turns out it was a swinger cruise. Not as it seems. Which was quite obvious from the minute we were starting to check in because they get you to sign all these waivers and things. So yeah, we thought it was clothing optional because we go to Europe a lot, but not quite. Well,

it was. But to be honest, after the initial shock, it was incredibly respectful and there were a lot of people on board that were not swingers, they were there for the clothing optional and just the one hell of a

party that goes on. So how does it work without going into too much detail? If you were wanting to swing on the boat... It's actually so intelligent when you think about it. They have bands, like coloured bands. And coloured bands, say, if you're into other couples or if you're male-female swap or you're what's called...

We found all this out. Soft, hard swap. And if you don't have a band, if you're just a voyeur, you like to watch, or if you're into the Whips and Chains, then there's another colour. So some people had like 20 different coloured bands. Running up their forearm. I'll take it all.

I'll take it all. You name something, I'm keen. What are you even getting? I'm in. But they were very polite because if you didn't have a band, the first question was, because they call it the lifestyle, how long have you been in the lifestyle? Which is our point to say, well, we're not in the lifestyle.

We just got on the wrong cruise. At which point they laughed and would say, you do realise what ship you're on? And we were like, we do now. But when you're in port, everybody's fully clothed and perfectly normal. So when you're in port, you would not know that it was the type of cruise that it was.

It was the nighttime activities, but you still had to be presentable in the bars and in the restaurants. But they have private rooms and movie nights. And after the first day, when I was sort of walking around with my back to the wall, I actually didn't feel threatened at all when I found out how respectful the whole thing actually really is.

Oh, so you didn't swing? No. God, no. So, yeah. Lesson learned. Oh, there you go. Cruising on the swingership. Having said that, I would do another one, not the swing, but just because of the entertainment and the fact that it's adults only

and they do have these, yeah, I didn't, by the end of it, I did not feel threatened at all by the way the girl was on because it was all very, it wasn't in your face. It wasn't in your face, which was really cool. You never want it in your face. Well, if you did, you'd swear another armband if you want that one, I think. Yeah. Well, listen, I imagine there was a couple of shaky days at the top of the trip,

but then by the end you'd come around. Well, that's awesome, Karen. Really appreciate you sharing your story. No problem. Oh, that's hilarious, mate. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. Oh that's hilarious mate Big week not only about chips there's chips out in stores

and supermarkets around the country with Heartland but we've got The Rock Dwayne Johnson his only New Zealand interview about his new movie Black Adam

that's going to be on Thursday which is very very exciting Thursday morning You were saying it's your hero you're in the room with your hero and it could not have gone better

You said your wildest dreams I couldn't imagine it going any better than it did And it's been honest about how well it did It was awesome, it was incredible And I can't wait for everyone to play it And to see it on Thursday Now you're a little embarrassed about travelling with me Yeah, that couldn't have gone worse

That whole part, you and me Oh, is it loads? Yeah, exactly, exactly No gone worse. That whole part, you and me. Oh, is it loads? Oh, is it loads? Yeah, exactly. Exactly, yeah. You're a good talker, but sometimes you, you know, like, you just keep saying stuff and it feels like your brain's slowly catching up with you in your mouth. Your mouth is racing

and your brain's just kind of working a second or two behind. I was thinking the other day, you know, sometimes I start talking. Halfway through, I forget about the point I was trying to make. And then I spend the whole time trying to figure out what the point was and then try to tie it up at the end in a nice little bow. Because we're talking to, we're waiting in an airport line over there in America. You're waiting at the States, you know, and you pick it up.

You pick it up where you'd like to. Well, I got talking. Yeah, the lovely lady next to me, she was from Florida. Yeah. Okay. And she was waiting to check in as well. She was traveling overseas. And I was like, geez, it's good we can do this now, isn't it?

No. And then I threw out the vaccination bomb. I started talking vaccination. Now, she gave off the vibe of a lady who would walk into a supermarket without a mask and start filming the employees. Well, yeah, yeah. You definitely felt that she was like, she said it was kind of ridiculous, this whole thing. A lot of people think it has been through this whole thing.

And so you've got that vibe already. Yes, I did. You know, she segued into, it's the world's greatest hopes. You know, I was fried to tell her I'm triple bass. It got into that. And then I said, and then I pulled out a real big one Trump I said

you know what Trump we mocked him we laughed we said he was an idiot he said back in the day let's all just

plow on let's just ignore it don't test continue on what are we doing now we're ignoring we're not testing we're continuing on

so you're in America we are in America we're standing there we're talking to someone there's a whole lot of people around us and you're in America. We are in America. We're standing there. We're talking to someone. There's a whole lot of people around us, and you're bringing up. I said Trump had it right, and she went, oh, okay. She's like, I'm an anti-vaxxer from Florida, and you're checking out Trump. She then looked left.

Everyone was looking around like, this is obviously something. There's people that are pro him. There's people that are against him. But it's something that divides the room. She checked the way it was clear, didn't she? Left, right. She leaned in and she's like,

he had it right. She was frightened. I was frightened. And you moved 10 metres away from me. I was like, hey guys, I'm going to just

go to the bathroom and let you just have your conversation right now. So if you're learning anything from this trip it's not to travel with me again.

This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Wall-to-wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. We've been off for a couple of weeks and school holidays have been on. You might have noticed this around the country, particularly if you're on a break. There's a lot of skinny advertising popping up. I saw that yesterday. Yeah, and sort of unusual places, whether it's in a cafe on a coffee cup, bakery bags, Christchurch.

We saw some street posters just up the road. I saw one at the domestic airport yesterday in Auckland. Yeah. Yeah, and they've got like posters on there. It's almost like a script, and you can phone this number. Now, the last time I phoned a number on a wall, I ended up talking to a guy selling illegal

Wi-Fi equipment. But this time, you phone this number and you then read the script that's on the poster to the voicemail. Yeah, you leave a voicemail and it's Skinny's own radio ad on there. And, you know, so some people have done it. Now, we've managed through our friends at Skinny to get some audio of some people that have phoned in and left messages. Please record your Skinny radio

ad after the beep. To keep prices low, Skinny has printed this radio script on the side of a local dairy in the hope that someone like me will call the number provided and record it on their mobile for free, saving Skinny thousands of dollars that would have otherwise been paid to a global megastar.

Why pay big bucks for a global megastar? They make it look too easy. We've managed to track this person down. Brogan, welcome. Hi, guys. I love the name Brogan. It feels like a wonderful combination of a bro and a bogan. I love it.

Now, Brogan, this post, where was it? Where did you see this? It's up the road from where my partner and I are living currently, and I was walking up to get lunch for us because we were both working from home, and I saw it and thought it would be a laugh, so I took a photo and gave it a call when I got home. Bro, can I just say your voice, Brogan? You sound like you've swallowed three men's worth of voices.

It sounds velvety and smooth. You should be doing our job, and we should be doing whatever it is you do. What do you do? What do I do? Well, currently I'm working for a tech company, but before that I was a swim teacher. A swim teacher?

You should take up a job reading bedtime stories to people. Just going around people's bedrooms and reading stories to them. Yes, yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure that'll be a great later career choice for me to people. Just going around people's bedrooms and reading stories to them. Yes, yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure that'll be a great later career choice for me to pursue. I don't know if it's particularly lucrative. I don't know. G'day.

Oh yeah, bro, good to hear about your bedtime story, Jono. Once upon a time, there was Anza. I noticed no mistakes when you were reading the ad. Yeah, there was a bit of pressure on you when you're doing that. Oh, yeah. Well, the instructions at the start were like, you have to read this in under 30 seconds

because presumably they're paying for every second of airtime. So I was like, oh, well, I can't do the stupid voice I was planning to do. Oh, no, that's it. What was the stupid voice? My stupid voice. I actually can't remember exactly what it was going to be. It was going to be some ridiculous thing, but then I decided to do it kind of seriously. I'm glad I did because he liked it.

Well, hey, if people see it around the country, they can do the same thing. And on our show, we're actually looking for New Zealand's best voice to voice a commercial for Skinny. I think we've just spoken to it. It could be, yeah, to do our voicing. But our one comes with a fee, right? So you get money. So we've got a fee. Okay.

Yeah, don't say this to Brogan because he didn't get any money for it. Oh, no, but he could be our, we could choose him as our voice, the voice, our skinny. I mean, he's the front runner so far, right? So you can nominate someone. Just text 4487.

If you know someone who's got New Zealand's best voice, maybe you think you've got New Zealand's best voice, next week we'll be auditioning them and someone will get the money, the fee associated with reading the skinny commercial. It was actually meant to go to us, but we've now realised with people like Brogan that there's better voices out there. So if you've got a voice that you think...

Hold on. It was our talent fee. The fee was meant to go to us. Yeah, I know, but after... Competition's off. No. Don't worry, we'll do the voicing. We'll do the voicing.

Head to the hits.co.nz. If you want to nominate you or yourself, if you think you've got a great voice, you can get our fees. I nominate Jono and or Ben. There's a fee associated. All thanks to Skinny right now. Skinny will do anything to keep prices low and customers happy. Brogan, thanks so much for your time this morning.

Yeah, no worries. Just send me the story you want me to read you, and I'll get to you later. I'll see you tonight, Brogan. Proud to be Kiwi. Jono and Ben on the hits. Really exciting trip. Went across to America for a little bit.

We got Dwayne the Rock Johnson in his only New Zealand interview for Black Adam. Happening later this week on Thursday. Yeah, no, it was a wonderful little trip, wasn't it? But what you really do notice overseas is just how unimportant the New Zealand accent is and how hard you are. I've never been so self-conscious of my accent as when you're trying to order a sandwich or a coffee. I was trying to order a turkey sandwich.

It took 20 minutes. You did. With a lovely Mexican chap. It was lost in translation, both of us. The New Zealand accent, you do realise, when you hear it around a lot of American accents, it stands out. So, like, you went into a place and you were like,

what looked like a sort of bar cafe, and you were like, hey, do you have beers? And the guy's like, beers? Do we have beers? Yeah, he was like mocking me for a minute. And they were all laughing. They're like, look at this guy. He's got beers.

He's got beers. And he's like, what do you say, mate? And I said, beers. And they were like, beers. Yeah, beers. And everyone was laughing, bees. He's got bees. And he's like, what do you say, man? I said, bees. And they're like, bees. Yeah, bees. And everyone was laughing, and we kind of got mocked out of the cafe, didn't we? Every time I go to say my name, it's always a bit of a lottery. Bin.

Bin. It sounds a lot like bin. And they'll be like, oh, bin. And they really emphasize the an. But for me, it's just like, it's bin. The New Zealand accent is what missionary is to sexual positions. The New Zealand accent is to the international accent game, isn't it? And you feel like they – but then over there, they're like,

oh, I love your accent. You're like, no, you don't. I mean, listen to us. Listen to us now. Yeah, it really sounds – and the more un-New Zealand you try and sound the more New Zealand you end up sounding you know like

thank you we had a moment where are you from we're from New Zealand where you try to talk because you were just saying before how you love to engage

with people in conversation and you're working so hard with one gentleman I was there and you're talking you're trying things and he was not just yeah and then in the end

he even tried to make up what I was yeah I said oh you know is this location a good location to go to and he was not just, and then in the end. He even tried to make up what I was, yeah, I said, oh, you know, is this location a good location to go to?

And he was like, hmm. Like I asked him a very thoughtful question. He's like, hmm. No, I'm pretty sure that's on a Wednesday. I appreciated that.

He took a stab and it was a big gamble to just throw something at him, and from that point, you looked at me and you're like, just stop. Just give it up, mate. The best for the both of you to stop this conversation. If you're here for advice on life, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. It's just another motivational Monday.

Yeah, we need some motivation for the week, you know, Monday. Heading back to school, heading back to work. And you've found some audio that's going to inspire us today. And it had like almost a threatening title on YouTube. The title of the video was, if this doesn't motivate you, nothing will. So just know that when you're listening to this. If you don't feel motivated, nothing will motivate you. After this 30 seconds of audio, if you're not motivated, your life is doomed.

Okay? You may as well just park on the side of the road and sit there for the rest of your life. Kevin Hart, Ben. I like Kevin Hart. He's one of my faves. He's a motivational guy, Kevin Hart. And a lot of celebrities are motivational. But I'm like, oh, God, you've got hundreds of millions of dollars.

You know? Yeah. You see what you're having. You're happy and you're getting up. Yeah, of course you're you've got hundreds of millions of dollars. You know? You see what you're having, and you're getting up. Yeah, of course, you're motivated. You're bouncing out of bed. Yeah, that's very true. You're bouncing onto a $60 million movie set. Yeah, you're right.

You're not going into the supermarket comparing the prices of things like the normal. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, I don't want to talk down it because it's a great message. But remember, if this doesn't motivate you, nothing will. Sun don't stop for nobody, man. Sun going to be up in the morning regardless. That sun is going to be up in the morning regardless. Regardless of how I feel and how depressed I am,

the sun is going to shine in the morning, and at nighttime, the moon is going to be there and you're going to look up these days are going to keep going by. So do you let the days go by and look up and you don't waste a year doing what? Hard work brings great rewards. There you go, Kevin Hart.

Hard work brings great rewards. The sun's going to rise regardless. Well, sometimes it's grey and overcast in New Zealand, Kevin Hart. Okay? So that weather report doesn't apply to the Antipodean climate. Yeah, but I just like every... But you know what he's meaning. I know what he's meaning.

When you get up... The world's going to go on regardless. Yeah, yeah. Either you get in it or you don't. Yeah. That's a great motivator. The annoying ones talking between the songs. Jono and Ben on the hits. Lovely to ones talking between the songs. Jono and Ben

on the hits. Lovely to be back after the school holidays too, Ben, isn't it? Feels good to be doing this job again. It's good to be back. We missed it.

We may have missed it. Now, we did a very fleeting trip to the States to interview Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Ben, you were in the same room as your hero.

Look, to be honest, I couldn't have imagined it going better. You know, the same room as your hero. Look, to be honest, I couldn't have imagined it going better. Even my wildest dreams than what it did. And he's had some wild dreams about Dwayne the Rock Johnson. I have had some wild dreams. So this Thursday, I'm pretty excited. It's a New Zealand exclusive. Dwayne the Rock Johnson on

the hits. 8 o'clock. About his new movie Black Adam. He's a genuinely... Now you're starting to like him too, mate. Stay in your lane. No, yeah. There's plenty of Dwayne to go around, mate. He's a genuinely... Oh, no, you're starting to like him too, mate. Stay in your lane. No, yeah. There's plenty of Dwayne to go around, mate. He's big enough. Don't you start having wild dreams about Dwayne.

He's my dream. But we're flying back, and I've realised how much... You talk to people? Yes, firstly. And secondly, how much I love the airport. And I thought of a great chat show, and it's called The Chairport, where you just go around to people sitting on chairs, and you just start up conversations.

Because you're like, do you know why I think you love the airport? Because no one judges you for whatever time you can drink. That's right. They're like, oh, they must be from a different time zone. There's no judging. No one's looking down their nose. But I got sitting next to a guy and it's great

because there's a gold mine of talent yeah where are these people going why are they here and they've probably got time when they get through that stage when you've checked in done all that sort of stuff

you have a sort of like oh I've got 45 minutes I've got an hour whatever to sit down and talk sometimes at a bar yeah and you're like oh what do you do

oh I'm an international arms dealer oh nice yeah what do you do I've got a secret family over the side of the world oh yeah stuff like that fun stuff what do you do I'm, I'm an international arms dealer. Oh, nice. Yeah, what do you do? I've got a secret family over the side of the world. Oh, yeah, stuff like that. Fun stuff. What do you do?

I'm sneaking exotic wildlife into France. Okay. Those are all fictitious conversations. Yeah, I can imagine so. But you actually had a genuine conversation. That's what I said. Now, I was sitting down and- Where were you sitting?

I was sitting at the bar. Thank you. I want to get all the details out there. And I was talking, and this guy said, I recognize that voice. and i was like here we go i'm a big fan of the international fan podcast going well and it wasn't the case the new zealand accent yeah again and he's like guess who i work for and i was like well i don't know there's a few people in new zealand yeah greg from tony for tony's time service. And he works for

Peter Beck, who runs Rocket Lab. And I was like, mate, what do you do? And he's like, well, I'm a space scientist. It's probably hard for them to describe their job to someone like us. Well, he did. I grilled it out

of him. So he basically some architects will design a spaceship or a rocket or whatever, and he will build the rocket. So he's the engineer who builds space rockets. And so he's- So when people say that's not rocket science, this is rocket science. He's the rocket science guy. And he went for Peter Beck, he's like, honestly?

He reckons in the run for the space race, it probably goes Bezos, Musk, Beck. New Zealand. He reckons Peter Beck is, he's like, he's an absolute genius. The stuff he is doing, this New Zealander is doing for space travel and getting the human race into space and, you know, research and putting satellites up. He said it's phenomenal. It's phenomenal because he's worked, the guy previous worked for Elon Musk, SpaceX. I was like, what's Musk like, mate?

He's like, not as nice as Beck. Oh, really? He said, Peter Beck's far nicer to work for. So you're telling me about the chips that we're launching? Well, this is the thing. I was like, hey, funny we're talking. We're also entering the space race. We're doing some space stuff as well.

I even called it space stuff. And because we're launching our Heartland chips into space today, Ben. After 8 o'clock this morning, you'll be able to hear what happens there. He's like, how are you doing there? I'm like, with the big weather balloon. And he kind of lost it. He's like, oh, yeah.

It was kind of like when a kid's like, what do you want to do when you're older, mate? Oh, I want to be a movie star. And you're like, well, that's never going to happen. But good on you. Keep it up. Good on you for trying. Stay true to your dreams. But I did ask him, I i was like when do you think

yeah the everyday person is going to be able to commercially fly to space he reckons in the next 10 to 15 years you'll be able to go he believes you'll be able to go for a weekend in space you will go to like some you know space station up there hang out for a weekend and then come back down to earth he reckons in the next 10 to 15 years. He said the problem being only the extremely wealthy will be able to do it at the beginning, obviously, as we're seeing Musk and Branson and stuff go up. But he said that the industry as a whole is trying to bring that price down as quick as possible so it becomes commercially available to the schmucks like you and me.

But then you'll have to pay for your extra bags and all that sort of extra leg room and all that. I don't think we are ready to go to space. Do you? I'm definitely not. You certainly are. There's too much that can go wrong in space for you. Yeah, yeah. Look out!

Scary dinosaurs. Not Jurassic Park. It's these guys. Jono and Ben on the hits. Joining Jobs. This is a fun little game we started a few weeks ago. And if you have a job, we match you up with another person in your profession and you can go, oh, you do that job too.

Maybe you can compare salaries, do that live on the radio awkwardly, compare management, colleagues, whatever you want to do. Well, yeah, but you'd also win by having someone from that same job call up. So you're relying on your fellow, I guess, workmate, but someone from somewhere else in the country. Yeah, and your job really does define who you are as a person. It shouldn't, but it does. And subsequent conversations, if you're in a social environment, what do you do for a

job? Or I'm a dentist, you know, or can you check out my molars, I'm sure is an annoying thing. I'm a physio. Oh, I've got a kink in my neck. Or what do you do? You're Jono and Ben. Which one are you? Jono or Ben?

I don't know. It's a dark cloud that hangs over both of our heads. I know, Ben. So 0800 the hits. And you just tell us your job. That's all you need to do. And if someone phones up within 60 seconds who has the same vocation, then you win. Yeah.

Sally, you're on. Sandy, I think. Sandy. Sorry, Sandy. Apologies. Good morning. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? I'm good. How are you guys? You're good, Sando. Where are you calling from? Just from lovely Auckland.

How are you? How's things this morning there? We're in Christchurch this morning. What's things looking like in Auckland? It's still a bit dark, but it's a little bit warm. It's dark in Christchurch too. It's dark here too. Okay, there we go. Great report there of Auckland.

How's it going? It's dark. Like a weather chat to start off with. Alright, some shocking radio there from both Ben and myself. Sandy, what do you do for a job? I work at a children's hospital and I do scheduling, like sort of MRI appointments and things like that. Oh, this is specific.

Can we just take someone who works in a hospital? No, we need an MRI scheduler. And I do CT and other things as well. Okay, we need a scheduler for the MRI machine. I'll take someone that works in a hospital. Children's hospital? Well, yeah. Okay, if you work in a children's hospital.

Yeah, okay. All right, 0800 the hit. 60 seconds, Sandy. This is joining jobs, and if someone does call through at the same job, you're going to win big. I had an MRI a few months ago, and they really build you up. A lot of anxiety around the MRI machine. Yeah, some people get quite, you know, because you are kind of strapped in there, aren't you? Yeah.

In a confined space. I imagine kids don't worry too much about that kind of stuff, Sandy. Look, a lot of kids we have to anaesthetise because they're quite little and it's very noisy. Yeah, right, OK, so I take back everything I just said. I mean, some of the big kids, even some of the big doctors get claustrophobic in there as well, so they can't handle it. That is a tight space, it is quite noisy.

When you're like, what is this doing to my body? That's all I can think of because people are wearing gloves and masks. You're like, I'm butt naked in here. It's like when the dentist goes, I'll just get an x-ray, and then they pop out. You're like, well, hang on. Why leave me in here? Just to clarify, I didn't go butt naked into the MRI machine. Have we got anyone, Joel, phoning through?

There's someone on line four. I'll chuck you through them. Oh, sorry. Yeah, right now. There's our confident producer, Joel. He definitely sounded confident. Alright, who's on the phone? Welcome to the show. Alright,

I'm an anaesthetic technician. In a children's hospital? I look after children as well. Yeah, you're there. We'll do it. Well done. We connected you and Sandy this morning. You both got a win. Thanks to Hell Pizza.

Now delivering beer and wine, we're going to give you some Hell Pizza. Excellent. Good on you. Now, you're the medical profession at the moment. You run off your feet, aren't you? Absolutely. Why don't you two moan about that to each other just for a couple of seconds? Go on.

Have a bit of banter. Oh. The best thing is looking after the kids. I said have a moan. No, they said something lovely. Sandy, well done. Sorry, we didn't catch your name, mate. What was your name? Alan.

Alan. Sandy and Alan. What a wonderful combination doing great stuff for the children out there in the children's hospital. Better than what you're doing with your life, Ben. Exactly. You guys have a great day. Thanks so much to Hell Pizza for supporting the show. The Hits.

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