Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What Is The Best Thing You Have Ever Won?

Episode Date: September 27, 2021

Kia ora! We've pledged that we're going to give away $5K before the end of the month... And that's Thursday. So in anticipation, we wanted to find out what the best thing you've ever won was. We even had a call from Peter who won $20K from The Hits back in the day! Jono also shared a tale about his experience at the petrol station yesterday. And how he did possibly the cheapest eftpos transaction in history! Finally, we caught up with David Seymour from the ACT party who, in the polls, has just overtaken Judith Collins as preferred Prime Minister. What does he reckon about this? We chat to him. Enjoy the podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey guys, it's the 28th of September today and Benjamin, boys, I'm looking over at you and you're looking good. You're looking good all right. You've been moisturising that wonderful face of yours. Oh, Jesus. Do you do a daily moisture?

Well, I normally do when you go out and you don't seem to go out anymore. Like I've got a moisturiser with SPF 15 in it, which is just a daily little thing. Is that just raw face I'm looking at? Yeah, so this is just raw. Yeah, this is raw face. Is that raw face?

You know, that's not sanctioned, that SPF, it's not from the society of the, I'm like, yeah, if I go out for you know, like out into the sun for hours, I'm going to put sunblock on, but it's just a little, it's a little something that maybe, you know. Layer of protection. But at the moment, I come into work, you know, and then I go straight

home, you know, you don't go out anywhere. That's a moisture-free face. I'm rubbing, and I ended up with, in radio, one of the benefits of radio is you get sent an abundance of promotional t-shirts. Like the amount of Bluebird chip t-shirts I have over an illustrious

20-year career. And the other thing is too, you get sent a lot of man moisturiser. It's targeted towards the male market. And I'm using one called Bulldog or something that makes a guy who is resistant to moisturising his face maybe feel a bit better about the approach.

And I love it. I love it. Bit of chamomile in there. Treat yourself, mate. Rub that into this dry, leathered up face. See if I can get just some form of... Just give me a little bit of something my face

I tell you I do enjoy sometimes you have a shower and you notice something that my wife might have bought something oh this is new here like a shampoo or something I'll give this a little

do you have a little try yeah just a little try have you been using my products no this is all this is

just give it a little it's like a little samples little area you haven't bought it but you'll just try that's the one thing if you're in a relationship with a partner and they say they're not using any of your products Give it a little, yeah? It's like a little samples little area, you know? You haven't bought it, but you'll just try. That's the one thing. If you're in a relationship with a partner and they say they're not using any of your products,

they definitely are. Yeah, yeah. They're just not admitting to it. We're all lying, aren't we? Yeah, that's right. I like to give it all a test. You just want to see what it runs like on you, don't you? Those situations. Yeah, if it can really work its magic on us.

One time I shaved my face with her silky smooth leg stuff. Yeah? Yeah, my face had never been so silky smooth. Silkiest, smoothest face in the game. We had a really fun show today. We are trying to give away, well, we are giving away $5,000 this week. It's got to go. And so we talked to people that have won some amazing things.

People, there's some winners out there, unlike us, a couple of losers. But there's, you know, there's some people that, you know. There's some winners out there, unlike us, a couple of losers. But there's some people that... There were some great winners, too. I'm just trying to remember the... Oh, the lady who won her family's heightened spaghetti from Watties. A lady won a car as well. What was the... I can't connect the dots with Watties there.

Why were they doing a win your heightened spaghetti? I don't know. Like you said, it was just a family thing. So they totaled together the whole family's there. Why were they doing a win your height and spaghetti promotion? I don't know. I guess it was just a family thing. So they totaled together the whole family's height. And then you won the equivalent of number of cans.

I think it ended up being sort of in the hundreds. Oh, it would be. How many spaghetti tall were you thinking you'd be? Oh, give me. You'd be about the same as me. Yeah, I reckon

probably 10 cans worth. Oh. What do you reckon? One, two, three. Yeah, oh, maybe 15. Maybe more, yeah. 15 cans. Yeah, I might be 15 can tall. What do you reckon? One, two, three, yeah, maybe 15. Maybe more, yeah. 15 cans. Yeah, it might be 15 can tall.

Maybe that's a new unit of measurement as well, you know. If you ended up with hundreds of tins of spaghetti, though, it would become a chore, wouldn't it? How long do they last? Forever. They do, right. No expiry date on those cans. Oh, right, yeah.

I don't think they'd expire. Well, I hope not, because I've been undoing some pretty rusty cans over this lockdown. You and Eminem eating mum's spaghetti. So there you go. So enjoy the podcast and we'll be back again with more Aneid and Babbel before the podcast tomorrow. Going hard and ooey. Go hard, go ooey. Go hard and ooey.

Hard and ooey. Go hard. With Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Now, we've guaranteed there's going to be $5,000 up for grabs. Well, it's got to be given away before the end of the month. And again, five words for 5K we play every morning. We bullied our boss Todd into saying it.

We spoke to Todd on the phone, then we rejigged some words. You know, who's to say whether it was legal or not, but we got him saying that we're giving away the money before the end of the month. Let me clarify. I said that. Five words for 5K, they're unguaranteed winners, okay? It has to go off by a certain day.

So, you know, I'm saying it's got to go off by a certain day. Yeah, weird inflection. But that's Todd, you know, he's an unusual guy. So we're giving away the money. It has to go before the end of the month. So it might go today. Who knows? If it doesn't uh we're here on thursday the last day of the month until it goes it's great because there's no one in the office we're the only ones here so there's no one ready to come in and go hey what are you guys doing you can't give that money away so so

far so good we've just said it's going to happen and it's going to don't tell ben about email or there's some stuff on there okay uh but it's a stuff on there. Okay. But it's a great win, isn't it, 5K? It's a life-changing amount of money. It's huge. It's huge. Yeah, so it's awesome to be able to give that away to someone before the end of Thursday. You can buy better friends with $5,000, couldn't you?

A better class of friend, couldn't you? Oh, yeah. You can go to the bakery and go, you know that stock standard medicine cheese? Not today. I'll have that tandoori chicken thanks $3 more but it's well worth it

I haven't really won have you won many things over your life like the only thing we've talked about and there's a colouring competition which still haunts me that I've a fraudulent win there from New World or something I was 11 and I was not good enough colouring in for an 11 year old and so I kind of ticked there the younger bracket, under 10, I think it was.

And I won. And fortunately, I looked like I could be 110 and just pretty much stayed that way for the last many years. What did New World gift you? It was like a Milky Bar pack or something. You know, it wasn't... I hope that tasted like guilt, that Milky Bar. It did. Didn't have the creamy, milky goodness it usually goodness it usually is that flavor that we know to love i was actually just thinking about this before when the song was

playing the best thing i've won the only thing i can remember winning and it was for many years ago when i was a child about nine years old and i won a sprite competition remember sprite the drink so it hasn't gone anywhere yeah fond fond memories r.i. Yeah, still around. Still around. So has it gone anywhere? Yeah. Fond Fond Memories, RIP Sprite. Still around. Still doing well. Yeah, good on you, Sprite. And they used to have a character called Fido Dido. Oh, I don't remember that then.

You should have brought up that one. I've lost. But anyway, long story short, I won a Sprite t-shirt. And this t-shirt was the greatest thing to ever happen to my life. And it took weeks to arrive. Did it have Fido Dido on the T-shirt? Fido Dido was like a hand-drawn figure, and it was like a youth guy who's skateboarding,

holding a spray can, you know, targeting the youth, you know, reaching my lot. Not back then, not now. Playing with his penny farthing. But yeah, I got the T-shirt arrived after weeks, and I'd go out to the mailbox every day for the wedding The t-shirt arrived, it was the size of a circus tent It was enormous

I put it on and it looked like a wedding dress And my mother, Annie Pryor, God bless her heart She then spent four weeks cutting the material and cutting it into shape And I think they've actually given the rest of that material to Briscoes Who've had a sale with it as bed sheets Team New Zealand used it for a sale and I think they've actually given the rest of that material to Briscoes who've had a sale with it as bed sheets for the last 20 years. Team New Zealand used it for a sale I think. Pino Dino kind of looks a little bit like

me in lockdown hair. His hair's getting a little long, his clothes are a little big for him, he's a very skinny frame. Shit I love that spry t-shirt. Maybe the man I am today. So we thought because we never won anything big What have you won?

Like, oh, under the hits 4, 4, 8, 7 Have you ever won a competition? Have you won a lotto? Have you won a lotto? Maybe Maybe you worked for an airline And you found yourself stationed in Bangkok

And you got a call saying Oh, have you still got the lotto ticket? We've won And you're like, oh, I've got to get home. So you hopped on a moped. Unfortunately, though, the moped driver didn't see a car coming, had to slide out. You ended up in a Thai hospital.

What happened to the ticket, though? I don't know. You got home, maybe. You had a cast on your arm. You were regaling this tale to the nurse here in New Zealand about how you lost the winning ticket. Miraculously, she cuts open your cast, and you'll never guess what was there.

It was the winning ticket. Oh, my goodness. Maybe that's happened to you. I don't know. 0800 the hits, the telephone number. Love to hear from you this morning. In fact, you could win just by telling us how you won. So give us a call right now.

0800 the hits. We'll get to that next. Baby, we made it through. Yeah, we pulled them all on. So give us a call right now. 0800 The Hits. We'll get to that next. Team, now we've guaranteed $5,000 up for grabs. You've got to win. You can win it. Our game we play every morning, five words for 5K. It's a really fun game to play, and we've guaranteed a winner by the end of the month.

Yeah, that's what's going to happen. So we're after the coolest thing that you've won, Juliet. DJ Khaled, all he does is win, win, win, no no matter what unless he's not call a nine in a radio competition then i'm sorry carl edge you're gonna have to try another time but you won something from kelly tarleton's yeah when i was a kid at kelly tarleton's they had a coloring and competition and i won i won it and i won basically a giant plush penguin toy but it was actually huge like it was probably at the time taller than me maybe a 10 year old kid a photo of it it looks inconvenient it looks if you bought that home it'd be every parent's well where are we going to put this penguin yeah it's you it's like another

family member that thing is it still in the uh rothwell household i don't know actually it might be in the storage cupboard mum's a bit of a hoarder so i wouldn't be surprised if it's still there yeah and i must uh have a correction as well i said i want a sprite t- might be in the storage cupboard. Mum's a bit of a hoarder, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's still there. Yeah, and I must have a correction as well. I said I won a Sprite T-shirt back in the day. It was actually a 7-Up T-shirt, Ben. Fido Dino, the character associated with PepsiCo, not the Coca-Cola company. Oh, right. My apologies to the PepsiCo for that oversight there.

So let's go to the phones. The best thing you've won. We'll start with Sue in Morrinsville. You're on, Morena. Good morning, John and Benno. Great to have you on. Sue, what did you win? I won a trip up to Auckland

to stay in the motel and see The Sound of Music and meet the cast and crew afterwards. How were the cast and crew of The Sound of Music? Amazing. The children were just out of the world. I'm not much of a musical guy in fact we spoke before our friend dan was in uh some bloody show what was it layman's and it was dragging and

i got to halftime and i text him and he was on stage at the time and i texted him i said great stuff mate keep it up how much longer to go which is a really rude text for him to receive yeah anyway text back. He's like, don't worry, the second half's not as long as the first. But it felt like it. But anyway, so, but what I do appreciate is when you go to those musicals and there's talented kids. Like the School of Rock one. Did you go to that, Sue?

No, but I've never been to the Civic. So the Civic in Auckland, you know, is just like a fairy tale. It's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful theatre. And Sue, that's a great prize, the Sound of Music. The hills were alive that day, weren't they? Yeah. And the cats, I've seen cats as well. I've got one to see that. I've seen cats as well.

And tickets to the V8, so I've done pretty well. Mate, stop bragging about all the stuff you've won. You better hell have a run. Sue's bragged line now. Yeah, and now we're going to give you something too, aren't we? Yeah, we can. Well done, Sue. You'll win again.

I'm going to try for the $5,000 with you. Good on you, mate. It's coming up very shortly. We'll go to Sarah in Wellington. Best thing you've won, says... Hi, how's it going? Yeah, good, thanks. What was it?

$5,000 that I won. Oh, you... Best thing ever. You won the $5,000. This was just recently, right? Yeah, I think it was 5,000 that I won. Oh, you won the five. This was just recently, right? Yeah, I think it was about a month ago, maybe. Maybe less. Oh, you won the five words for 5K.

Yeah. Oh, well, listen, is there anything you want to say to us? Thank you. No, I remember you just had a baby not long ago, right? Yeah, she was born in June, so. Yeah. She's about three months now. How is your sweet little baby? She's good. She's amazing.

She's our good luck charm that day. Did you decide what you were going to do with the money? Have you spent any of the other $5,000 you won? Yeah, we've spent $1,000 so far. We've got the rest in savings at the moment, but we put some money towards some bills and we bought her a few things. I had a bit of a shop up at Bombs, the Bombs baby section, so she's all kitted out now. Oh, lovely, Sarah.

Hey, well, I'm glad you won that 5K. Great win. Great prize to win. But someone's going to top you. Let's get Pete on from Tauranga. Welcome, Pete. Good morning. Best thing you've won, P-Money?

$20,000 worth of travel with Classic Hits, or it was Barapenty Radio Station then, with Brian Kelly. Oh, BK, your legendary BK. Pete, a bloody hits listener from way back. Yeah, it was in 1989. Jesus, Pete. $20,000 of travel in 1989.

Where did you go? You must have gone around the world. It was $5,000 worth of air travel, $5,000 worth of other travel, and $5,000 spending money plus a set of luggage and a camera. Oh, my God. You could only dream of those prizes in radio nowadays, Pete. I went all around Europe, and I went to England, Scotland, and Wales. Wow.

Did you sow your wild oats over in Europe, Peter? And when I got back, there was enough left to go. It was with Qantas, the air part of it, and I had enough money left to go to Brisbane to the exhibition. Oh, Pete, jeez. Gee, it was $20,000 worth of travel. That's why we had to get rid of the classic from Classic Hits

who couldn't afford it after that holiday. I listen to Classic Hits all the time. Jeez, you've been there a long time. Oh, that's awesome. Thank you so much for listening and continuing to listen. I'm 88 now, so... Oh my God. You can tell.

Pete, you hold the line. We ought to give you something else. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you listening to us. Thank you very much. I love you, Pete. He's awesome. How cool is that? Why is it always old people who end up pushing the buttons on the phone? Mate, I do it too. That's probably an indictment on me. We've got $5,000 we keep banging on about.

It's got to be won in the next couple of days. Let's try to get it off today. Let's get it off our to-do list. Now we've got $5,000. We've got to give it away in our game, Five Words for 5K. We're going to play it on Thursday. Well, we play it every morning. It's got to be given by thursday and we wanted to know what's the best thing you've ever won yeah what have you won have you won anything in your life well that's just the

coloring competition that you keep making me bring up you know i'm not really one of those people that would ring a radio station you know which is weird because you work on a radio station i'm just kind of like oh i won't win but i admire people that do win. After every show, the same thing Benny says, he's like, why do people call us? Why do people call us and tell us their personal stories? It confuses you, doesn't it? It's such an honour that people will do that and would share stuff, you know, which

is amazing. You're more of a passive listener to radio. Yeah. Julian, you used to ring up radio stations and win prizes all the time, didn't you? All the time, but they were all just like little CDs and magazines and stuff. My friend won a trip to London and to see the Spice Girls a couple of years ago through Spark. Wow.

Crazy. I know. Crazy. That was really cool. Do you remember radio would be like, you've got to be caller number eight. And it was just an excuse for radio announcers to go, you call a seven. You call a seven. You call a seven.

Until they found someone that they really liked. And when I found that out, I was like, this has just ruined it for me. It's just ruined it for me. So let's go to the phones. Best thing you've ever won, Anne, in Wellington? A car. You won a car? Wow.

Where was this? I sold a property through real estate and went through professional real estate in Wellington. What sort of car? What are we talking? A little Suzuki Swift. Now Ben Boyce. That's when it kind of first came out. Ben Boyce is trying to sound like he's a car guy. What sort of car? What are we talking? A little Suzuki Swift. Now Ben Boyce... That's the kind of first came out. Ben Boyce is trying to sound like he's a car guy.

When he's like, what sort of car? What are we talking? What are we talking? He doesn't have a... What are we talking? I have heard of Suzuki Swift. That is playing into my sweet spot of a car. You know, I would...

Yeah. That's, you know... I love it. What are we talking? What are we talking? It's pop, pop... A black Suzuki. Pop the bonnet for me.

Let's have a look under the hood. He's not a car guy. When you chuck, what are we talking after anything? It makes you sound like you are, though. I tried to bluff my way through that conversation. Have you still got the car in? No, no. I sold it on.

Got something a little bit bigger. But it's a fabulous car. They keep going. They keep going. They go forever, the car, Anne? No, no, I sold it on. Got something a little bit bigger. But it's a fabulous car. Oh, they keep going. They keep going. They go forever, those cars, right? They do. They do, Ben. You obviously know about them.

I know cars. I know cars. Another generic sweeping statement there. Anne, love your work. You keep safe and welly. All right. Thanks, love. See you.

Now, a friend of mine, actually, this is true. I've got one. It's a friend of my friend's brother won the car at the casino a few years ago. You know how they always got the car rotating around? Oh, really? Yeah. If you just play pokies for like 48 hours in a row or something, you might have a chance to win.

He won it. And then when you win the car, I can't even remember what it was, but they go, oh, do you want money or, you know, the money equaling the value of the vehicle, or do you want to take the car? He took the money. Right. And gee whiz, did we have a weekend. Oh, they took the money there. I tell you, that was the beginning of Friday night. Did not stop that weekend. Wild times. Wow. Jenny, Jenny, welcome. How are you, mate? Yeah. Good to have you on. Jenny, Jenny welcome How are you mate? Are you good to have you on? Jenny what have you won? The height of my family in spaghetti

And baked beans So this is Each individual family member Got their height Yeah So my oldest son's 6 foot 1 My youngest son's 6 foot 6 And my husband's 6 foot

So do you total all the feet together so that's a lot of... Oh, so do you total all the feet together and that's what you win in spaghetti? Possibly. I don't know how they managed to guess it. I think they just guessed an average size family, but obviously mine's not average. Yeah, right. It seems like they're playing pretty fast. Do they measure out a piece

of spaghetti or is it like the height of cans? The height of cans. Jeez, you must have been eating spaghetti for years. Yeah, that's probably why I've got tall sons. So how many cans do you reckon you got, roughly? Probably about 150 cans. Wow, I mean it's a great

price, don't get me wrong. But there is the inconvenience of where you store in your pantry 150 cans of... Jeez, you'd still be working your way through all that, wouldn't you? Oh no, that's why I have tons they're gone oh they're gone

right thank you so much what an amazing prize yeah winning your hide and spaghetti thank you Jenny not a problem

someone's texting here my friend of mine won over 20 million dollars in Lotto don't put me on here though oh no fair enough

we don't want to like yeah but Jenny fair enough I want to talk to this person well that's, fair enough. We don't want to like, yeah, but I want to talk to this person. They don't want to probably say, it's one of those things I imagine some people would want to be very private about their winnings, I imagine. Yeah, well because money changes people, don't they?

Yeah, people's attitude towards people. Yeah, so I think if you won Lotto, would you come clean, Ju? Oh, that would be hard. Or would you keep coming in here every morning and read stories about Cardi B's butt implants? I actually don't regret it. I'd be so excited I'd have to tell people. I genuinely think.

But then I'd probably regret it later. Yeah. Ben, would you tell? No, I'd probably try and keep it as quiet as possible. Yeah, yeah. Well, I'd be driving him in my Taylor Swift, my Swift car, mate. He's got a new, what are we talking here, Ben?

What are we talking? It's a Swift, mate. These things go and go. Did you win Lotto? If he gets a new Suzuki Swift. It's a Suzuki Swift. I call it a Taylor Swift. We all know what's happened.

The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't save this battered up old face. It makes you beautiful. New Zealand's breakfast. I went and filled up the car yesterday with petrol but I didn't have my wallet on me. Okay, so I just had a $20 note that was in the car.

So I was like, great, I'll do $20 of petrol. Now I don't know what I was thinking, but I thought I'll go freehand on this one with the old pump, you know, where you don't preset. Oh, no. Oh, dear. And so, you know, you're just controlling it with your gut,

your gut instinct. $20 petrol would just be like, and done. Yeah, it's on a nice, and each petrol station's flow is different. It's like you and me Ben I've got a prostate issue The flow's a bit off You're a free flowing guy Like a Niagara Falls over there

I can't go to the bathroom next time It's all the talking to himself That really puts me off too Come on Jono Come on mate Just a little bit There we go A little bit more

You can do it Meanwhile he's Torrent A little bit more. You can do it. I just gear. Yeah. Meanwhile, he's... Torrent. What were we talking about? Petrol, mate. Pull it back, eh? So I've gone, okay, $20.

I'll just do this with my hand. Fatal mistake. I knew it was going to go wrong. And I stopped at probably about $19.50. But you know how it keeps rolling and ticking and dribbling. And you just never know when it's going to stop. And it went over to $20.32. Now I, for the love of God, couldn't find $0.32 in my car.

So I went into the gentleman. And I was like, mate, hell of an issue. You free-handed it out there. Got to respect that, don't you? And I said, I don't have the 32 cents. And he's like, well, I'm going to need to make a EFTPOS transaction or something. I was like, I don't have my EFTPOS card. He's like, okay, well, I'm going to have to tell you if you could leave your phone here.

You can go home, grab your EFTPOS card, come back, and we'll do a 32 cent, a 32 cent transaction. Oh, so you have to come back and do it. I guess technically. So the time and energy that it spent, even if I had the card and I just had to use the energy of my fingers to make a 32 cent transaction. My fingers are like, this isn't

worth 32 cents. Well, I guess he's got to balance his books at the end of the day. And I get it. What happened to old mate did a freehand pour and got over with and I let him off on it? You know, like, he probably can't be responsible for whatever petrol station that he works for. I mean, if he lets everyone off 32 cents at the end of the day,

you know, he's going to be out by at least 64 cents. I get it. I get it. But I had to go home and then there's no change at home. Nothing. So then I had to get home, and then there's no change at home. Nothing. So then I had to get my FPOS card from all that, drive back to the petrol station and make a 32-cent transaction. Is that the smallest FPOS transaction in FPOS terminal history?

I reckon you wouldn't find a cheaper one. It definitely would be up there. I remember my dad, and I feel like it was one of those moments that he did to make a point. Like, I mean, if he got over, he put his change back in the car from someplace, and he feel like it was one of those moments that he did to make a point. Like, I mean, he got over it. He put his change back in the car from someplace, and he realized 20 minutes after we'd left, he was like, oh, they've paid me 20 cents extra. They've given me too much change.

I'm going back. And I was like, uh-oh, why are we going back? But it felt like one of those moments he was like, to set an example. Oh, this is a life lesson. Yeah, so he went back. It was a 20-minute drive. We went all the way back to Featherston where we used to live in Marsden. 20 cents. 20 cents. And the place was shut, and he We went all the way back to Featherston where we used to live in Marston. 20 cents.

And the place was shut, and he put it under the door. Put 20 cents under the door. I was like, jeez, look at you. Look at you. You were like the petrol. He probably spent $20.34 going back to put the 20 cents under the door. And he would have been so proud of that parenting. Yeah.

I taught my kids a valuable lesson that day. Go back in. If someone gives you too much, wasn't mine, I gave it back. You waste your gasoline. Use three times the amount of petrol. I was like, what are you doing? But anyway, it stuck with me. Yeah, and that's how the environment got ruined by that generation.

Mindless acts like that one. Yeah, you're right. Taking over all your favourite song intros, Jono and Ben, the Heads. Now, the ACT Party and David Seymour are doing really, really well on the latest poll release last 9-1-1 News, right? Yeah, this is Welcome to Jono and Ben's Political Poll Update. We like to report on all political polls, don't we? And don't look like we don't.

He's giving me that look in his eyes. He's like, we've never done this before. Stop trying to turn it into a thing. But if we say it's a thing, then people assume that we're a politically charged showbend. Yeah, well, David Seymour from the ACT Party is now, he's at 11% for preferred prime minister, doing really, really well,

well ahead of Judith Collins, according to this poll. I remember the bleak times for Seymour when he was the only one in the entire party. It was a one-person party. Their Christmas parties, anyour when he was the only one in the entire party. It was a one-person party. There were Christmas parties, any party. He was the only one there. Secret Santa would have been pretty obvious. Just coming to himself.

It was a very lonely office. Now he's got friends. He probably has to send out group emails. Usually he just had to email himself. And one of the things we like about party leader David Seymour is he always seems to answer his phone no matter what's happening. He will always answer his phone. Yeah, maybe he should change his number actually now.

We'll get someone else to answer his phone for him. So we're going to give him a call now. G'day. David Seymour. Hello, boys. How are you? We're doing all right. You always answer your phone. We've come to like that about you, David Seymour! Hello boys, how are you? We're doing alright. You always answer your phone.

We've come to like that about you, David Seymour. You always answer your phone. Well, I've got you guys on reverse speed dial. You guys call, I speed answer. I think even once we phoned you in the middle of an interview with Seven Sharp. Yeah, that's right. You answered the phone. You probably could have committed to the interview, that's fine fine we wouldn't have thought any less of you david oh no it's about priorities because um look if it wasn't for making a fool of myself on you guys show in the old days i wouldn't be anywhere now david seymour uh you've romped on it it's a romping

11 preferred pm talk to us baby well it all goes back to those appearances on the John Owen Ben show that's why I always answer your phone need I remind you David that publicly you said we should have our funding scrapped don't start coming in on the John Owen Ben show now well see I thought that your

show was good to watch it and you didn't need to take taxpayer money and I'm sorry I was wrong. Yeah, our TV careers have ended since then, Seymour. Yeah, but yours have gone on to be a bit of a thing. We're not polling it either. No, 11%. Congratulations. It must feel good. Yeah, no, look, thanks.

I mean, I guess what's going on is that people know we can't just lock out forever. And we've been going around the country listening to people and saying, look, here's a few things we could do different. Government even took some of our advice, and I think that's what politicians should do in opposition. So if that's working, then we're just really happy to represent people. And if people want to support us and have us represent them, then we'll just keep working harder.

How long has this journey been for you now, I guess, in some ways, to get to this point? Because there was times where you were pretty much the only one from the ACT Party that was in the media or in Parliament. Yeah, and look, people focus a lot on people and personalities, and it's who's doing what to who. It's kind of almost like a season of The Bachelor, but in Parliament. Less hook-ups. Well, yeah, I hope so.

If that's wrong, then I've been left out. I think what really matters, though, is the relationship between people who are paying their taxes and paying the bills and politicians who are trying to give them a better world. Look, if some of the ideas that we're putting forward are positive, the way people see them, then I think that just shows it's not so much about personality, it's ultimately about your policies.

Now, you've sort of assumed, and rightfully so, you're doing a wonderful job of being sort of the voice of reason, I guess, in politics at the moment. Meanwhile, Rudy Judy, slipping. Has National approached you to lead their party? No, no, look, I don't know what their answers are. It's pretty hard leading one party, but what we say to people is, you know,

here's what we're offering. It's good to have a place where you've got multiple choices and if people like what Beck's got to say, then, you know, support us. And if you want to support the other guys, support them. It's nice to have it that way. No one's, you know, being held at gunpoint. So speaking of what you have to say, on the news we often notice

that you have, you know, little quips, little one-liners about particular politicians. Now, do you pre-think those going into an interview going, oh, this person's in the news, maybe I need to have something on them? Sometimes best jokes just happen. He's a free-flowing ad-libber when it comes

to the news grabs. One of our favourite ones as of late was James Offshore. Yeah, look, he wanted to fly over to Glasgow in an aeroplane to stop climate change. And I know James is personally really committed to that. We thought we should call him offshore.

And then it turned out he found out he didn't have anywhere to stay. So he said he might not be going. Now we're calling him James Notshore. He's got a versatile name, doesn't he? It's quite good. Do you have to awkwardly then, if you bump into him in the halls of Parliament, do you have to explain yourself? Does he hit you up or is it all part of the game? Oh, no, no, James really appreciates it because, you know, we do a lot of polling too

and it's surprising not a lot of people know who he is. So we've been doing these memes to help people get familiar with James Shaw and also as alter e ego's James Offshore, James Not Shaw. And I've now got excellent name recognition. So he's actually really helpful, really grateful. So you're doing this just to help the Greens out, out of the goodness of your heart.

Axe Party leader David Seymour, thank you for your time this morning. Thank you for answering the phone. That was quite unexpected and well done on your recent polling success. Anytime, guys. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful

there and then I backed out. Jono and Ben, New Zealand breakfast. Costly weekend in the prior whare over the weekend there, Ben Boyce. Costly five minutes, actually. It was in a five-minute period that well, firstly, my wife's car just stopped working.

It just doesn't go. Oh, really? That's a niggle. So we'll deal with that at some point. And then I hear in the other room, uh-oh. You know, this is coming from my son, uh-oh. You never want to hear uh-oh in another room, do you? No.

It's never a good thing. Have you ever said, uh-oh, and it's turned out to be a wonderful surprise? No, no. You're right. As soon as you hear someone else say it you're like oh what is it now you know you feel you almost don't want to walk into the room to see what what's happened but then uh i strolled in and he's learning drums at the moment oscar and um he's learning online, obviously, just given lockdown. And what can only be labelled as a freak drumstick accident on my laptop. He's been drumming away. And he's gone for your classic drummer move.

Mid-concert, they're up there playing with one arm. But then they've got their other arm up and they're spinning the stick around. And the crowd's just loving the stick spinning. So he's gone for some flair. I appreciate that he's got my showman genes. This is just a drum lesson too. There's no real crowd, right? No, he's playing to an audience of one. And so he's gone for the flair, the finger spin around,

and it's just lost control and gone straight into the computer screen now uh then what's happened there on the laptop is it's um i can see yeah yeah quite the damage on the computer screen so the crack it's like that scene in ice age where the little ferret or whatever it is what is it a squirrel storing his acorns and there's that scene where the ice is just cracking around him and he can't stop the ice cracking. That's my laptop screen every day. So the crack's getting bigger and bigger and bigger. So it's got to the point where the whole screen is black apart from just a tiny little four centimetre square down the bottom

where I'm retrieving all of my information. You have to put things over to the right-hand corner of your screen. I have to drag it all down. You're just like, oh, yeah. And the good thing is, you know, I got an email yesterday from management, and it said, dear John, it's been decided by management that we're going to make you,

and I can't make out the rest of the email. So I'm left going, going to make you either employee of the month or make you redundant. Or CEO. Or CEO is the other option. I'm going to assume it's the CEO option. Yeah, but I don't know what's happening.

So we're not getting most of my information, which is quite enjoyable at the moment. Yeah, but you're not normally the greatest on technology to start off with. So now you've got a good excuse. Yeah, I know. I got told off last night on Insta. We keep bringing up to speed with my Instagram journey to become a better Instagrammer.

You are giving it a crack. Yeah, and I keep posting the wrong thing. And I got told off last night. And then, Ben, I know you felt sorry. You came in and you're like, don't worry, mate. I've logged into your account and I've done it for you. He came in as a pity friend. I posted the wrong thing up.

Thank you, Ben. And I was like, thanks, mate. He came in my hour of need. The text we got yesterday from the person that gave us the footage to put up on Instagram. Now, this is every day I'm getting told off on Instagram. It's like, Jono, seriously, what is wrong

with you? Exclamation mark. You've done it again. Not like an Armour Kane, you've done it again way either. It might like, oh, you've done it again. Jono's just replied, I give up. And then, Ben, you were like, McCain, you've done it again way either. It might like, oh, you've done it again. Jono's just replied, I give up. And then Ben, you were like, oh, this is getting awkward. I'll log into Jono's account, not even his account,

out of the goodness of his heart. And you're like, don't worry, mate, I've done it for you. I've clicked the arrows, it's all done. It's just a little arrow click and I've showed you now, so now I think you can do it. I think you can do it. Well, I've got an excuse. I've got this blurred screen.

The other thing is every video that you watch on the internet looks X-rated now. It's all blurred out. I mean, there's some dark stuff going on in the 1pm press conference at the moment on my computer. New Zealand's Breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome along to the show. Tuesday morning.

Hope everyone's coping with daylight savings. Oh, it really kicks in, doesn't it? On day two, getting up. Producer Humphrey said he got up and he sat down and had a coffee and just stared into space for about 45 minutes. Then he had to pull himself together and go to work. Yeah. Has it affected you, daylight savings? It makes it a little bit tricky.

Well, it does. Yeah, it just makes it a little bit trickier to get to sleep at night. You know, you're not quite ready for it. It's weird, it's only an hour. I does. It just makes it a little bit trickier to get to sleep at night. You're not quite ready for it. It's weird. It's only an hour. But it makes such a difference. Do you know, speaking of time, something that this show has been gripped by, both Ben and myself, have been gripped

with the harrowing tale of the Palmerston North Clock telling different times on all four clock faces which is in a tower in the centre of Parmy. We've tracked down, through investigative journalism, a man who has fixed the clock. We understand. Because we were there at the start of the year for the rural games, and you were right.

On four different sides, it was a different time, and we're like, something needs to be done. And we're like, we're going to go and fix this. And it feels like a job that you're meant to do around the house, but you keep putting off. We've never gone down there to fix the problem. Well, this person has. And we've got to get them on. We had the idea, though, we're going to play that Cher song. If I could turn back time.

Oh, it's going to be great. We're going to have an opening. We're going to have ribbon. The mayor was going to come. We were going to turn into a whole radio arc. But it's been done. The problem's been solved, apparently. Oh, really? Alright, we'll find out this morning who's stepped in and done what we could have done.

In fact, we'll get them on before 7 o'clock this morning. As well as that, a guaranteed $5,000 has got to be won by Thursday. So you could be winning that this morning at 7.45. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, the hits. Thursday night, TVNZ2.

It's the show we keep banging on about, but only for a couple more weeks. There's only six episodes, guys. We're almost there. Jono and Ben, good sports. We travel around the country and we learn about unusual sports that Kiwis play. And remote control cars, RC cars, was one that we took part in and one that Jono caused a lot of damage at. Yeah, a lot of damage.

And listen to these because we've got the audio of these things going. They sound like mosquitoes on anabolic steroids. Yeah. They're so loud. When you turned up to the track, which is in the middle of the forest, it just felt like there was a swarm of insects going on. And we're joined by the man who organises the whole thing. His name is Mickey Strong. How are you going? Good. Excellent. Oh, Mickey, you're so fine. I can't complain. You're so fine

you blow my mind. Oh, jeez. Hey, Mickey. Hey, now, Mickey, we had a lot of fun learning about the world of RC cars with you. Yeah. Crazy little world that you have in the middle of this forest just on the outskirts of Tauranga. Tech Park it was. And you're kind of driving down this place and you're like, what? Where are we going?

And then all of a sudden, like an oasis in a desert, appears this magical dirt track that you have built where you race remote-controlled cars. Yes, it is quite a place.'s uh it's a place i do like to spend a lot of time believe it or not in the middle of nowhere just listening to the birds when i'm prepping the track um but yeah it's all crazy when you get to the race days and it is a magical place up there at tech park no cell phone coverage no cell phone coverage like a stag do don't take your cell phones uh but yeah so it's wonderful what you've created.

And these little, we say remote control cars, these things are travelling at how many kilometres an hour? If you put them on a flat, this particular type of car, they get up to about 70 kilometres an hour. Wow. When you're controlling it, it's 70 k's an hour. It's a lot to get your head around, particularly for us, Mickey. We struggle with the turning.

Yeah, there's lots of things to think of. You know, it's not just on the ground you've got control of them or in your case, not control of them, but also in the air, you know, the turning and the throttle and the braking movement alters the pitch and the yaw in the air. So

the top riders, you know, they've got total control over these things. Now, you had a lovely little dig there, Mickey, because I pretty much almost rode off one of Mickey's cars on debut as well. It was the first time out on the track. And tell you what, if it was insurance, they wouldn't be covering my ass again, Mickey. What happened was no fault of your own, Jono. It was just probably a fault of part more than anything.

It wasn't anything you did. Thank you, Mickey. Thank you. He got the script that I sent him. I feel like that's not the case, Mickey. You've been far too polite. No, we're covering it up for the insurance claim. Yeah, it's no fault of my own.

That's right, Mickey. You know the story. What I love, Mickey, though, was such a family thing. You've got the parents there, and they've got their kids, and everyone's getting involved. And even some of the kids, well, the kids, as we met, are some of the best at it. Yeah, they are.

I mean, obviously, you've met the Toya family, the youngest, Tiger, I nickname him. He's only six, coming on seven-year-old. Dylan, yeah. He's pushing it with the best of the guys. We had another club day yesterday and we had a line-up of kids that couldn't even hardly see over the top rail of the driver's stand.

It was magical to see, really. How do adults feel being beaten by little children? You better ask them. I get quite humiliated. It's this wonderful little subculture of Aotearoa just hidden away in the forest, people playing with these remote-controlled cars. And how does New Zealand go on the world stage? Yeah, it is a growing sport. We have some excellent drivers

that are actually picked to represent New Zealand occasionally, and they go away, Jamie Jamieson, Shane O'Connor. Not quite getting podium places on the world stage, but they're certainly up there. Right, so they're on the stage. You'd look up at the cast and they might be somewhere. You might be at the back there, but you're like, there's New Zealand.

They're on the stage. The problem was, though, after you've spent all day racing those around a track, we had a very interesting drive back to Auckland, didn't we, Ben? Tell you what, he was holding on for dear life, Mickey. Jono was still in race mode. If you were driving, Jono, I could imagine that. Mickey, we can't wait for everyone to see it on the TV show. It's so good meeting you and the rest of the team there.

So thank you for your time. We really appreciate it. Hey, Jono, Ben, if I could say, while I've got the chance, what you guys and the company you're involved with are doing for all us little guys out there is exceptional. My wife and I were watching the program and she turned around to me and she said, this is the best show on TV.

Even if we hadn't have met these guys, it's absolutely awesome. You couldn't have got a couple of better presenters to do it. You're really making a lot of people very happy around the country doing what you're doing. Oh, thanks, Mickey. That means a lot, mate.

I really do appreciate it. And glad you got that script as well. Mickey, you're an absolute gentleman. It was lovely to meet you, mate. And you keep safe. Hey, you too, Jono. Ben, great to meet you. Wish you the best for the future, guys.

You can catch Mickey on Jono and Ben Good Sports Thursday night on TVNZ2 that's 8 o'clock after Police 10-7 and you can win $500 with a watch and win and as the hits you got Jono and Ben As painful as entering a password on your TV remote One letter at

a time Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast Day 41 of lockdown and it seems to be that every day there seems to be a new story about someone trying to get across or out of the Auckland border. Yeah, it was KFC that were trying to sneak back the other day. And yesterday someone was found in the boot of a car. A lady was found in the boot of the car trying to get through,

basically trying to get smuggled through. It's the new border patrol. They should put a TV show around. This person is wanting to travel to Tarapa in Hamilton. Yeah. Why are we wanting to escape Auckland? Auckland is the greatest city this country has to offer. I just want to escape my house.

That's what most of us want to do at the moment. Would you go, if I put you in a boot, would you come with me? Would you go, like Thelma and Louise? What am I doing? Like, well, not just. Just for a laugh? I've got stuff in the back hop in a boot would you come with me would you go would you like Thelma and Louise what am I doing like well not just just for a laugh like I've got stuff in the back hop in the boot no I wouldn't do that for a laugh you wouldn't think they would check the boot though would you but then when you think about it they are police they probably wouldn't be they wouldn't be doing their job probably if they didn't check the boot or even under the car yeah but you're right though you'd

think oh you'd be fine well it's like Raro which we've spoken about many times, where the drink driving policy over there is, have you been drinking? And you're just like, nah. Yeah, I think it's changed, but I think it used to be more of an honesty system. It's an honesty system. Which I like it if everyone's honest, but then it just takes one person to be dishonest

and ruins it for the rest of us. It takes one John O'Prior to ruin it for the rest of us. It's like those trusting people who leave avocados on the side of the road. You know, just with a bucket next to them. So what are you? Next, we have, of course, the press conference every day. And a very unusual thing has been noticed by someone on YouTube, something that the Prime Minister does at every press conference.

Scrolling through your feed. Here to present your early morning news. Or if you're in North Carolina right now, your late morning, early afternoon news. Ben Boyce, what's happening in scrolling? Day 41 of lockdown as we sort of creep towards the finish line, maybe, of the current levels here in New Zealand. The 1pm press conference keeps rolling out. And 4pm yesterday. Yeah, true. It's the 1 p.m prep

it's all over the place guys but consistent with the timing uh but something that jacinda ardern uh has seems to do has been noticed and has been picked up on has been made into a youtube video she seems to be playing favorites with her you know the reporters there when she goes to question time she always leans towards two people tova o'brien from news hub and jessica much mckay from one news Have a listen. We are now happy to take questions. Prime Minister, answer me. What is this?

We're now happy to take your questions. Tova. Happy to take questions. Tova. We are now happy to take your questions. Jessica. Prime Minister, are you satisfied? Now happy to take your questions.

Jessica. Prime Minister, what the fuck? Happy to take questions. Jessica and then Tova. Jessica. Happily take questions. Jessica and then Tova. Jessica. Happily take questions. Jessica then Tova. We'll now take questions. Jessica then Tova. We're happy

to take questions. Jessica. I love how some days she's happy to take questions and other days we'll take questions. Yes, she's not quite as happy. I'll happily take questions today. That's on YouTube. Bob McCostery is someone who put that together. Great job of finding all those things. You're right.

She always goes to the same people each time, though. You can tell Bob's definitely in level three. Yeah, yeah. He's got some time on his hands. But it's awesome. Yeah, it is really well done, Bob. Really appreciate it. Now, where's Jason?

I love Jason at the press conferences. He pops up every now and then. He's not obviously as liked by the Prime Minister as your Jessica's and your Tova's. But, you know, Jason pipes up every now and then. And you can tell she's like, Jason. Not happy to take questions from Jason. Jason's always winding her up, isn't he? I think Jason's from Newstalk's Airbnb.

Right. Yeah. So he really gets in there. He has a deep breath. No longer happy to take questions. Jason, what have you got? Yesterday we were talking about the BBC. So over there in the UK, they've got a fuel shortage.

From what I could understand on the news last night, it's because of Brexit. They can't get enough drivers to take the fuel around. So that means that some petrol stations have got no fuel at all. And the BBC sent out a report, and Julia, you really enjoy this, of Phil McCann was his name, which seemed like a great person to do a report at the petrol station. Well, another radio station overseas, they put this out,

and I thought, oh, I'll rip this off. Other UK names of people that suit their professions. Oh, is there a list of them? Oh, there's a couple that have been on the news of late. So not just Phil McCann, who covered the fuel shortage. So there's a UK water research worker, and his name is Andrew Drinkwater. So it works quite well. A US policeman was on the news a few months ago,

and he's Police Constable Rob Banks. This is actually legit. This is not like bad puns or anything like that. This is his name. And a BBC weather reporter, Sarah Blizzard, apparently, is over there as well. So names that almost feel like decency. I wonder if there's psychology around that,

that you naturally just gravitate towards that profession. There was a guy, and you're going to think I'm lying. Well, because you're smiling now, so definitely. No, because I've said you're going to think I'm lying. Definitely. Well, people that are smiling are lying There was a guy I used to work with

At our old radio company Look at him He's lying He's got that grin He's got that grin This is so made up This is made up What are you going to say right now?

His name was Michael Roffin So Mike Roffone And his name was Mike. He was in the tech department. R-O-F-O-N-E. He hesitated. Mike Rofone. He's no good. Why would I make up

a guy called Mike Rofone? You do. You just do that. You do that. Apologies if it's not made up, but I'm sorry. Jono's smiling. I apologise to the Rofone family. For Ben, would you like to say anything to them? I'd just like to say I don't believe Jono. And that is

scrolling to your feed this morning. Before 7 o'clock, actually next, we've been on a mission to get the Palmy Clock, the Palmerston North Clock Tower, to the right time. Apparently someone's done it, and I think we've tracked down the person next. We were about to fly down and do it and they said, don't worry, it's been done. We're going've tracked down the person next We were about to fly down and do it And they said don't worry it's been done We're going to track down the person that did it

And has made sure that Palmy time is correct And that's next on The Hits She's coming to New Zealand next year It's Dua Lipa It is The Hits You've got Jono and Ben Now the Palmerston North clock is something that's fascinated us They've got a big clock tower in the middle

of the square, and when we were down a few months ago for the rural games in Palmerston, we noticed that all four sides were the wrong time, different times. None of them were correct, and it was just chiming at all sorts of... All sorts of world. A quarter to two, 13 past, 26 past. There was just no consistency

to this clock. And we somehow put it upon ourselves that we were going to roll into town shirtless on our white horses like a couple of Auckland legends and fix the clock. We're going to play this song as well. Imagine this, slow motion on a white horse, Ben Boy shirtless. He comes into Palmy, everyone's like waving their hands side to side. They're like, thank God. He's the guy, come back to Turpac time. That's right.

And listen, I haven't even sorted out my clock from Daylight Savings, so I don't know why I'm putting the pressure of resorting a town's clock on me. But we have since heard from our US correspondent, John Lovegrove, who's from Fielding. His father, Fielding nearby Palmerston North, his father lives next door to a man who fixed the clock already. Warren is his name. How are you going? Welcome to the show. That's me.

Oh, hey, it's John. I've been calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, yeah, yeah. OK. Yeah, you seem indifferent. Yeah. We just heard that you are the person responsible for fixing the Parmy clock Not the Parmy clock, the fielding clock Oh, we've been put wrong Was the fielding clock all out of whack, was it? Yeah, the fielding clock is in a proper clock tower

Not like the Parmy one, which is just a tall towery thing The fielding one was particularly made for this clock Yeah, well surely the Palmy's is a clock tower as well. Oh, look, I don't know how they did the Palmy One, but it doesn't look as nice as the Fielding One. Oh, well, listen, let's just say both clocks are great, but we had an issue when we went to Palmerston North, Warren,

that on all four faces of the Palmerston North clock in the town centre, the wrong time, mate, on all four clocks. Yeah, that's no good. No. You should have come and looked at the fielding one. It's always on time. We had to drive up the road to fielding just to check the time. Although six months ago it wasn't.

It's an old clock. It's 120 years old, and we couldn't get the damn thing to run right. So I dismantled a lot of it and rebuilt a lot of it and put it all back together and changed the lubrication, and now it works beautifully. Always got a luby clock. So how long did you, did you take it away? You don't do it while you're up at the top of the tower, do you? What, do what?

Look after it? Yeah, like fix it. Do you take it away to your garage or anything like that? Oh no, no, no. You can't do that. Good God, you'd never get it out of the clock tower. Good God, Ben. Good God.

He's right up in the... Even though the operating mechanism isn't large, but of course there's a dirty great weight that's about 100 kilograms that swings backwards and forwards as a pendulum. All right, and so you've been up in the guts of the clock. You're the clock maintainer. You're the one that makes sure the time is all right. Yeah, I have to change it in an hour. I put it forward in an hour on Sunday morning.

All right, so you have to do that as part of it as well. Yeah, is this your job? Is this what you do as a job? You fix clocks? Good God, no. I'm an engineer and a farmer and all that sort of thing, but I've been retired.

I'm 78, for God's sake. He's off a bit. All right, he's done his... I've always had an interest in clocks. Okay, he likes a clock. Yeah, well, that's awesome. So have you been, do you get paid for this clockwork?

Oh, hell no. I'm a professional volunteer in this town. I volunteer for all sorts of stuff. He's off the clock, mate, when he has his clockwork? Oh, hell no. I'm a professional volunteer in this town. I volunteer for all sorts of stuff. He's off the clock, mate, when he has his clockwork, yeah. Well, listen, we understood that the Parmy clock was all out of, well, we've seen it first hand, that the Parmy clock

was out of wax, so maybe you might want to get up in that clock too. Oh, well. You sound less than enthusiastic about that? Yeah, I am somewhat less than enthusiastic, yeah. I've I am somewhat less than enthusiastic. Yeah. I've got a real affinity to this clock, but I haven't got any affinity to the Palmy clock because it looks too modern.

I like things that are old. Yeah, right. And so fielding, very friendly. Of course. Yeah, it's a wonderful little town, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Isn't it voted the most beautiful town in New Zealand?

I think we've won it 14 times. Jeez, that's amazing. We've possibly entered and lost once. That's a claim to fame. And heads rolled. Yeah. Oh, good on you. The thing is that feeling's changing.

Way back, say, 50 years ago, there were 6,000 people in the town. It was a small town. You could keep control of it all, you know, and it was easy to look after. Nowadays, there's about 16,000 to 17,000 people and growing like crazy. And most of these people, well, nearly all of them, have come in from outside the area. And it's a different mindset. They're different sorts of people and all that sort of thing. So it's hard to educate some of these people.

And you're the one maintaining it all, mate. Beg your pardon? You're the one keeping it all pretty and friendly. Well, I only look after the clock. The volunteers around the town look after everything else. Yeah, well, lovely to talk to you. Thank you for your time. We really do appreciate it.

Yeah, not a problem. And we're sorry that we thought you fixed the palmy clock, but we're glad you fixed the fielding clock, so that's awesome. Yeah, that's good. And we're sorry that we thought you fixed the Parmy clock, but we're glad you fixed the fielding clock, so that's awesome. Yeah, that's good. Have you ever seen the fielding clock? Oh, I've just googled it. It's a good clock. Yeah. Yeah, it's a nice little clock tower. Do you want to know, can I list you my top three favourite clocks?

Go on then. Big Ben. Yeah, been there, done that. The clock on the wall in my kitchen? Well, that keeps you, it doesn't get you up in the morning, does it? That's the bedside clock. It keeps you regular, doesn't it? Yeah, it keeps me regular. And now the fielding clock.

Oh, you're a good lad. You're a champion, Warren. Thank you. Okay. What's your favourite radio station? I hate to say this. Newstalk ZB. The reason for that is I work in my workshop a lot

I rebuild classic cars And make stuff for people And all I spend a fair bit of time in my workshop And I listen to that Only if there's something worth listening to If they're talking a load of bollocks that I don't want to know Then I listen to a lot of old type music Oh good on you Warren Well. Well, you're an

absolute champion. It's been lovely talking with you. Okay. See you, mate. Bye-bye. The Head Spy with McDonald's Monopoly. Feel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes. Juju is fresh from wrapping her hands around that plump gossip udder.

Let's see what milky goodness she's managed to extract for this celebrity update. So you may remember last year where Jada Pinkett Smith admitted to having what they called an entanglement with another man, singer August Alsina. Supposedly with Will Smith's blessing, and this was in a period where they were separated at the time when she was with August.

But Will Smith has now admitted that she wasn't the only one really in an entanglement or having thoughts of that. I love the term entanglement as well. It's so much better than just cheating. I was in an entanglement. I was entangled in someone else's legs. Well, no, he was in that one little fight when those guys are up to no good.

You know, remember? A bit of an entanglement. Yeah. But he said that he once, during his marriage, had thoughts about having an entanglement with Halle Berry. So that was sort of his choice of person. But they've been quite open with the fact that they've got an open relationship. And he said that when he very first had an appointment with an intimacy coach, he revealed that if he could have anything in the world, it would be a harem of over 20 girlfriends.

But obviously that's not really something that you can do. It's a lot of anniversaries to remember. A lot of birthdays to remember. You're putting a lot of unnecessary pressure on yourself with 20. Yeah, because I think he sat down a while ago with Jada on her Red Table talk and spoke about her entanglement, but they didn't really focus much on him. But now in this interview, he's like, you know, we have had quite an open relationship and we talked about that from the start.

But now they describe their marriage as unconditional love, which is great. The thing is, you know, know when most people most minions like us you have your hall pass you know you get out of jail free if you have a celebrity

but what happens if you're a celebrity you're like mine's Halle Berry well that's quite obtainable yeah you probably got

their numbers it's quite a realistic oh my god true that is so true it's so realistic it's achievable stuff. Oh, my goodness.

He's got a book coming out soon, I see, Will Smith, called Will. So not too far away. So, yeah, I guess some of these things will probably be in the book. Yeah, I would say so. And that is your quick spy update for this morning. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. After 7 o'clock on the show, we play our game every morning, five words for $5,000.

We've got to have a guaranteed winner by the end of Thursday. So, well, only a couple of days for you to potentially be a guaranteed winner. Five words, 5K at 7.45. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. Got me in love.

On the Hits. Kia ora, good morning. It is 7 o'clock. Jono and Ben with you on the hits. Now, the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, she's on a mission right now to get the country vaccinated. 90% seems to be roughly the government's goal. And she was talking to the New Zealand Herald about,

you know, would she put her body on the line for the vaccination? Have a listen to this. A while ago, you revealed that you'd always hankered for a Shackleton tattoo. In the spirit of celebrating needles, would you commit to going ahead with a tattoo if we hit 90% vaccination rate? That is not the question I thought you would ask me. Do you know what? If I thought putting myself on the line in that way would get New Zealand to 90%,

there's actually quite a few things I would agree to do. That's how much it means to me. Erna Shackleton. Yeah, yeah. The explorer. The explorer, yeah. She's often said that. She wants to, hey, mate, don't you judge.

She can just go into the tanner parlour and look at a book. I've got the Endeavour boat on my guts. That's how much I love New Zealand. I love it. Now, remember we had the Prime Minister on and we had heard a rumour via text 4487. You can text us any time. Someone was like, you didn't hear it from me,

but I heard Jacinda's got a full back tattoo. Yes. An entire back tattoo covering her whole back. Vaccinated. And we asked her. And it was quite a good one, though, wasn't it? Because I'm like, oh, I've never seen her back. You know? No, it's not often a Prime Minister gets their back out for you.

And then we asked her, and she said, no, no. But she didn't show us her back. Well, yeah. So we can't say that for sure. And it would be rude of us to ask to see her back. Well, you're right. It would be weird. It's even weird me bringing it up that I would ask her.

Anyway, I'll stop now. Yeah, so Ernest Shackleton, that's the tattoo apparently she wants, so maybe she could get it if I get to 90%. If I can get a dog smoking a cigarette on my chest, she can get Ernest Shackleton. She's letting the country die. I've roared for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday

Who started the rumour and you're just fanning the flames of this wild rumour? It seems pretty legit Yeah It seems pretty legit Very exciting Yeah so it's pretty cool Good couple Yeah

They'll make wonderful babies I always like looking at a couple and go what babies would you make? It gets weird to people when I bring it up in conversation It is a bit weird You would make nice babies Ben Thank you Do you know who would have made a nice baby? KJ Uppa and his French model girlfriend

Yeah they would make nice babies Is it a nice baby? I haven't released a full image But you can only see the child's hand Nice hand Okay five words five thousand dollars You know how it works We've got to have a guaranteed winner before the end of the month,

which is before the end of Thursday. So we have today, tomorrow, and then Thursday to give this money away. And, Fitz, we've got to hand this cash over to you like a heavy-handed landlord. By the end of the month, we'll get Kylie on from Tauranga. How are you? Good, thank you. You sound like you make nice babies, Kylie. Oh, jeez.

I do. I make lovely babies. You make good babies. I can tell, jeez. I did. I made lovely babies. You made good babies. I can tell. I can tell by your voice. Hey, Kylie, 5K, what would you put this towards? I'd probably do a bit of Christmas shopping. I'd spend a bit, pay some bills.

I was going to make fun of you for being so organised, but Christmas is looming. Yeah, it's getting close. It's coming up quick. So organised, Kylie, well done. Five words, $5,000. Who are you going to send into the booth to match with, buddy? I'll send Ben in.

All right. Okay, he's off to the SPB alone with his dark thoughts for just a few moments. And then when he emerges, I promise you, he will win $5,000. And if he doesn't, I don't promise you that. I regret saying I did. Let's get into it, Kylie. Five words, the first words that do pop into your head. Risky.

Yeah. Dangerous. Can I say dangerous? Yeah, dangerous is good. He says risky quite a bit, Ben, doesn't he? Yeah. I'm trying to think what he would say beyond... Anyway, dangerous is a good option. Dwayne.

Oh, God. Can I come back to that one? Yeah, certainly, Dwayne. Donut is the word number three this morning for you, Kylie. Cream. Screen. S-C-R-E-E-N. Door.

Word number five for K-Dog in Tauranga. Sashay. Juice. And we'll hop back to word two. You wanted to come back to Dwayne. D-W-A-Y-N-E. Dwayne. Dwayne Johnson.

That is probably the only option That'll come up I imagine when Ben comes from the soundproof booth You happy Kylie? I think so Yep great No one ever goes in with full confidence So you hope you've done well And I think you did pretty well with those five words

We'll get Ben out of the soundproof booth Ben Boyce how was it in there okay? It was all right. It was a good time to reflect. The Breeze radio station just called. They say they're in a flap with this five words competition. Nothing they can do to compete with it. Oh, really?

Yeah, more FM's like, we're going to have to change our name to less FM. I thought we had a friend in the Breeze. No, not in this case, mate. And they've got the wind up. Kylie, welcome. Kylie. Hello. Yes. She's pretty confident. Kylie, welcome. Kylie. Hello. Yes.

She's pretty confident. Oh, really? Yeah, pretty confident. Ben Boyce, five words. Match with Kylie. Let's get her $5,000 to do that Christmas shopping. Risky. Business?

Oh, my God. Oh, the first one. Bowed out. What was it? At the start line. It was risky maneuver. Oh, no, risky dangerous. Sorry, dangerous.

Sorry. I was thinking maneuver in my head. What did he say? He said risky business. Risky business. It's a movie, wasn't it? Tom Cruise. He was flouncing around the office in his underpants.

Yeah, it's a bit of an old. You wouldn't get away with that in 2021, would you? Word number two, Dwayne. Johnson. Donut. Cream? Screen. Computer?

And the fifth word was sachet. Sauce? No, it's not. Don't you talk those words out of your mouth. word was sashay? Sauce. Terrible. It's not. Don't you talk those words out of your mouth. No one's right or wrong. It's just matching words. That's the good thing about this game. You can be as

dumb as a doorknob and come along and still have a good showing. That's why I've managed to play it every morning. Well done, Kylie. You go and look after yourself, alright? Awesome. Thank you, have a great day Yeah, great to have you listening mate, appreciate it Spy's up next with more of the salacious

Weekend Angelina Jolie gossip Yeah, you betcha I'm not going to ask gossiping about her But it's big news, we'll tell you more next on that The Head Spy with McDonald's Monopoly Peel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes Alright, here to help fill three minutes of our show

so we can rest our mouth muscles, Juliet, what is happening in Spy? So Angelina Jolie and The Weeknd may be a new couple. They've been seen going out on another dinner date at a very nice Italian restaurant. Inside, they apparently dined inside a private section, so away from other people. They arrived separately, left together, got in his SUV,

drove towards his mansion. And this is not the first time that they've actually been spotted having dinner together. They had dinner together in June. Some people thought they could be having business meetings, but I guess we will not know. Italians are a wonderful choice, isn't it? Just such a great cuisine

the Italians have created there. So many wonderful options. Although for a wonderful choice, isn't it? Just such a great cuisine the Italians have created there. So many wonderful options. Although for a first date, you don't want to get red spaghetti sauce all over you. It's the only thing. It's a risky manoeuvre. You're right. Pizza's a safe option there in the old Italian world, isn't it?

And then if they're sharing a garlic bread, you get into that sort of standoff at the start where you're like, do I go for it? Do I not go for it? You have the last, you know, like... Oh, the last piece conversation. No one ever wants to. That's always the awkward time. Once someone goes first, everyone's away.

It's a free range. And then it stops just before the last piece. Well, listen, I think I don't know them personally, but I think that Angelina and The Weeknd could afford another garlic bread if they ran out. It's only two of them, too. If it's only two of them, they could probably be fine. They've probably put time against the They could probably They're probably fine They've probably been

Top against the last Waste They're probably like I'll save myself For the main I think They're not doing The Ben boys

At the end of the night Okay well let's Divvy up who had what And split the bill Three ways They're not They're not No

I was actually Thinking though You know how Angelina and Brad Pitt They had their name Of Bradgelina I was kind of Figuring out what it

Would be for the weekend, and we've got two options. Okay. The Weangelina. Or the Angelikens. Angelikens. I like the Weangelina. It's quite good, isn't it?

Sounds like something you'd have an operation on. Just get him a Weangelina scene too. Yes. So I will keep my eager eyes on this potential relationship and give you updates. I love hearing about new relationships. Blow-by-blow accounts of Ween Jelena on this programme, that's for sure.

And we have spoken about Symphony before and how they're doing some shows in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch later on this year. But they've added another show to New Plymouth. And if you don't know what Symphony is, it's basically like a merger between dance music mixed with a live orchestra. And it looks really

good. It does look like a fun night out. It looks like a night out where you'd just be like, yay! We're going to have a great day. They came here and they performed in the atrium of the building here and boy oh boy caused a right kerfuffle amongst the tenants of this building. Yeah. Having loud saxophone and drum and bass

and dance music playing at 8.05am. It upsets some of the bigwigs upstairs, doesn't it? But it's a good time. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. So if you're in New Plymouth, the show will be on Waitangi weekend next year. It's at the Bowl of Brooklands and tickets are on sale Thursday the 14th of October.

More details are at thehits.co.nz. Very cool. And that is yourhits.co.nz. Very cool. And that is your Spy Update. Thanks to McDonald's. You can download the McDonald's app to play and win prizes with the Monopoly game. Jono and Ben's McDonald's Monopoly peel and win. The Monopoly game is back at Macca's

and there's over $107 million in prizes to be won. So each day we're doing our own sort of virtual tour of the Monopoly board. We're going around and you've got to guess where we are each day based on the clue. And if you do, you'll win an amazing prize. Yeah, now this is thanks to our wonderful friends at our little up-and-coming burger restaurant, McDonald's. They're just out there giving us good old cracks. We thought we'd support them today.

And the first clue that we're going to give out, pedestrians and cycles only now you can call us 0800 the hits uh if you do guess the location on our monopoly board uh today uh we'll peel back the sticker and reveal what prize you've won thanks over a million dollars worth of prizes which i keep thinking is a huge over a hundred million dollars over a hundred million dollars which i think is a great administration error from someone on the McDonald's team. You said $1 million worth of prizes, didn't you?

Well, they're going with $100 million. They're really rolling with it. I told you to do $1 million worth of prizes. But yeah, someone's got a typo there. There's also an extra clue if you want to go to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram. The Hits Breakfast on Instagram. Get a special clue.

So owe $100 of theS if you know where we are on the virtual Monopoly board and you can win big thanks to the Monopoly game at Maccas. Jono and Ben's McDonald's Monopoly. Peel and win. The Monopoly game is back at Maccas and there's over $107 million in prizes and each morning we take a trip around a virtual board

and you've got to work out where on the McDonald's Monopoly board we are to win your own prize. Now, Juliet, this is not the same Monopoly you play, Millennial Monopoly, where you just go around the board paying rent and not being able to afford housing. Yes, I know. This is a different version of Monopoly. I've been playing Monopoly during lockdown with my family, and gee, it's a game that can either bring you all together or divide you like apartheid. It always ends in silence

and anger. And it drags on. You just like to shut it down, don't you Monopoly? Time limit, mate. You need to get Monopoly deal. The card booth. Speed Monopoly's another option too, is it? I think that's just when you have a property but then you have to sell

it due to reckless decision makingmaking thanks to an addiction. But we'll get Vanessa on. Good morning, guys. How are you, V-Dog? Good, good. I must laugh because Monopoly was always one of the games we kids in school holidays did play. And my sister and I, I'm not kidding,

one day actually had a game going for three days. So when it was bedtime, we basically got mum to count all the money and check all the hotels and everything so that no one could cheat while we were asleep. Wow, three days. The game just never ends. Yeah, and we make our own rules too,

so that's why it goes forever. Everyone comes with their own house rules. That's the first point of agitation in a game of Monopoly. But thanks to McDonald's, they've got their Monopoly campaign on at the moment. Over $100 million worth of prizes, some of which you can win right now, Vanessa. We gave a clue as to where the location could be today

on our Monopoly board. Yep. Is it the Te Rewerewe Bridge in New Plymouth? Now, the only clue we gave out was Walkers and Cyclist Sonnen. Yeah, yeah, right. That was it. Although there was a special clue at the Hits Breakfast, and you got that.

Yay! Well done. Yay! Vanessa, she's come with a little personal story about Monopoly. She's done some screaming. Well-rounded winner. Ideal winner. Now, let's find out what you won.

Let's peel and reveal. You have got a 12-month Neon subscription. Neon is awesome, and so you can check that out for a whole year, all on McDonald's. Yay, wonderful! That's fantastic! I don't have Neon, so that's definitely going to help. 12 months on Neon is you would put it on maybe three Monopoly

games. 12 months. Well done Vanessa, you sound like a wonderful person, you go and enjoy that Neon, okay? Cool, thank you, have an awesome day guys. You too, that sound actually, the reveal, can we play that peel again Juliet? It's actually just Ben's Velcro wallet

we use for that sound effect. Yeah, very tight Velcro wallet. Sounds like we're joking about a Velcro wallet, but he has a Velcro wallet. You can download the McDonald's app to play and win prizes with the Monopoly game at Macca's. Another chance tomorrow morning, same time, same place, but you've got to win again.

Now, tense times last night in the boys' household, we understand. Not Monopoly-causing arguments? Oh, well, yeah, it was just a discussion, but it was something midway through that I did and I haven't done before and now I'm reflecting on it. I'm like, was it a good move or was it not? Yeah, a public apology required next.

Yeah, maybe. It is the hits. It is Zara Larson, Lush Life. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 842. Now, last night, my wife and I were having a discussion about something and... Is it a discussion or a disagreement? Oh, Jono and Ben, 8.42. Now, last night, my wife and I were having a discussion about something. Is it a discussion or a disagreement? Oh, yeah, a disagreement, but it wasn't like a heated thing. But one of those occasions, I was adamant.

I was adamant I was 100% correct. And I was not backing down on that. I was like, no, this is the way it is. Were you coming in with that sort of confidence as well? You're like, there's no holes in this argument that I'm having here. Because I'm not really good at discussions.

It's not really my thing. Normally I sort of walk away and afterwards I go, I should have said that, I should have done, you know. Don't you hate that when someone says something to you

and then you come up with a witty comeback about 10 minutes later as you're driving away? Yeah. Damn, it's almost like reverse the car up.

Hey, that thing we were talking about 10 minutes ago. Yeah. Yeah, well, on your face and then drive off you

know yeah that never happens you can never re-spark it back up but we're in the middle of this conversation and i was adamant i was right but then midway through the conversation she said something and my head i was like uh-oh i'm in the wrong like i am totally i've got it wrong yeah but there's no more humbling moment in your arguing career than when that happens. Now, you've got two options here. Do you keep forging on as if you're correct and keep up appearances, or do you just try and end it abruptly

and you're like, oh, there's just no point in it. That's what I did. You went for the end abruptly. I did. I went, well, there's no point talking about this. And I walked off. And I hadn't done that before. But you haven't acknowledged

the victory victory yet no she's still waiting for her medal and i looked online and i was like oh what you know because there's different ways you can have discussions and different different techniques and this one's called the dramatic exit yeah well you pulled it off beautifully so that's and they also break it down so it's an excellent option when you suddenly realize your argument is weak which i did so i pulled it off it's an excellent option when you suddenly realize your argument is weak, which I did. So I pulled it off. It's guaranteed to stop any discussion in its tracks and divert attention away from the real problem and towards your love of drama, which is all just ticking on my boxes. Oh, I love it. Yeah.

Showman. But re-entry usually involves some unsavory humble pie. So I haven't had the re-entry part. You haven't gone to pack and saved more than pie? I don't want to talk about it. So I've done the don't want to talk about it part. So now what? We're in, you know, you're in a limbo at the moment. Yeah.

Is it a conversation that needs to be broached again or can you just do a fade out? I'd like to do a fade out. Like I'm not going to, you know, but then I'm like afterwards thinking about it, I'm like, should I just admit defeat? No, no. Sign of weakness. Never admit you're wrong in a marriage. That's how all the greatest marriages last.

I was totally in the wrong. I knew it. I think everyone knew it. Oh, look, I don't want to talk about it. Because you'd be like, oh, that was weird because he was very passionate for about 15 minutes. And then he's just gone, oh, there's no point. He's just cut short the whole thing. But maybe you could have gone a bit more, you know, keep it going for another 60 seconds or so. And then go, oh, there's no point. He's just cut short the whole thing. But maybe you could have gone a bit more of, you know,

keep it going for another 60 seconds or so and then go, oh, there's no point. There's no point. As soon as I realised, too, I pulled it out. What I like to do is I just start uncontrollably sobbing. It's a great way to end it. Makes everyone feel awkward. It does. And they forget about what you were actually arguing about.

Like, why did you just start crying in the corner? So these techniques aren't good. Maybe you've got one you can pass on to us. Why don't we broach it again with her next on the phone? I'll be your representative and I'll be like, hey listen, he's

made some mistakes. He wants to come back into the argument now. Oh look, I don't want to talk about it. I'm moving on. I'm moving on. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny.

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