Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What Jack Johnson loves about NZ

Episode Date: June 28, 2022

Someone on the show has a conspiracy theory, oh oh! Jono's friend is at wifi war with his neighbour. We chat with Jack Johnson ahead of his NZ tour and Dr. Libby helps us settle a debate about taking vitamins See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. require a specific charger from Steve Jobs. But even the new ones require specific ones as well. It feels like they're only for that generation of your computer. Yeah. Well, we mentioned it before, the EU, they've pulled into, they've had enough of the madness. They said just one universal cell phone charging cable, which makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? Well, especially if you need a phone in an emergency

and then it's like oh sorry my cable won't work you know so And then you get the thing like I can't put my phone directly into I've got to buy a little are they a dongle what are they called a little thing to put you know to put the phone into it's like just jumping through hoops

just make it easy. They couldn't have come up with a better name for a dongle could they? They're a dongle. It's a fun word. Yeah, I think they're dongles. Yeah. I do like dongle. I don't know if that's the correct term for it. Now, do you know who we bumped into yesterday, Belle?

Who? Oh, yeah. Little child. Now, you might cast your mind back to an ad, the Mitre 10 ad, where there were two kids in the playground and they were dressed up as builders and it's like, choose a pretty big child. One was in an Aussie top, one in a you know it's like Aussies eh you know

tell him he's dreaming Aaron Watkinson our production engineer who listens in his studio to our podcast intros punishing himself he's walking in now with a cell phone charger

a laptop charger here we go is it going to sort in carry on is he a kiwi have you got the same charger oh Aaron this is going to work

look at this when a hero oh no that's not fitting and oh he's back baby he's back

what's that now you've got a different shaped one Aaron but you've got an extension on there a dongle he's got a dongle he's got an adapter

because a professional is always prepared oh Aaron never forgets their charger oh there you go thank you mate he's professional on there. A doggle. He got a doggle. He's got an adapter because a professional is always prepared. Oh, Aaron. Never forgets their charges. Thank you, mate. Thank you, Aaron. He's come through. Look at that. How's that? What a guy. What a guy. Employee of the month.

Aaron Watkinson. But yes, no, so we met. The ad was amazing. Met the child from the ad. Who's not a child anymore. His name's Reuben. The one who's like Aussies. No surprises there. That one. His name's Reuben. Yeah. Aussies, no surprises there. Yeah, Aussies. Tell him he's dreaming. Oh, what an icon.

Yeah, I think Aussie was in the Aussie top, wasn't he? Well, they were builders, you're right. Yeah. It was like, tell him he's dreaming. Yeah. You met him, he's like, I'm the kid from the Modern Ted ad. Well, you are too.

Yeah, it was awesome actually. Yeah. She still did a bit of acting. But yeah, that was an iconic ad, wasn't it? Well, because I think we had done a version of the ad. Maybe it was when we were confused that we'd done a version where we're in rugby tops and stuff about Australia and New Zealand years ago. And he's like, oh, you did a skit on my ad.

And we were like, oh my God. You knew who it was as soon as you said it. I was a minor 10 kid. Yeah, so it's pretty cool. I was starstruck. Have you ever been in an ad? No, I don't think so. You've been in an ad. i don't think so oh you've been in an ad drink driving drink driving yeah my wife was in a uh a soup ad back in the day

soup she got to drink soup yeah that's a hard food to navigate on camera yeah so that was the part of the thing and it was like she had to yeah she was telling me about it she had to slurp and that was the the role the slurp. How much soup did she have to consume? I don't know. It was as much. My daughter did an ad for Nature's Fresh, and she had to eat a lot of sausages because it was sausage and bread. Sausage girl.

Sausage girl. Yeah. They call it sausage girl. She says, why does everyone call me sausage girl? It's an ad for bread. But you do zero in on the sausage. She is. Yeah, she was doing the sausage.

Yeah. She made the fatal mistake, which I did on my drink driving one because I was eating bacon and egg pies, the first one, because you're a little bit hungry. You're like, this, yeah. She made the fatal mistake, which I did on my drink driving one because I was eating bacon and egg pies, the first one, because you're a little bit hungry. You're like, this is great. And then you're doing multiple takes. And then by the end of it, you're like, oh, I don't feel like any more of those.

And she did the same thing. Sausage girl did the same thing. So what do they do in that instant? If they're like the actor, the talent can't actually put any more food. Well, she had to. She had to just keep battling on through. That's why you book. If you want to book sausage girl, you book sausage girl.

She'll battle on through. Yeah, exactly. How many sausages do you reckon she had there? I don't know. I mean, it wasn't probably full sausages, but she was eating a lot of sausages. Yeah, the mad butcher would have been very pleased. Fred fills you up, you know. It does.

It's a good combo, isn't it? A bread and a sausage. Gee whiz, there we go. The behind the scenes of ad combo. Isn't it? A bread and a sausage. Gee whiz. There we go. The behind the scenes of adverts. I've never been in an ad. Yeah.

No, not like a... I want to, but I don't know. But not as in like, probably not in a... Like you've done ones where we had our own burgers or something

or Uber Eats and stuff. You know, you've done those, but not as... I lie. I lie. I played a reverend in an energy drink commercial. Did you?

Hmm. Played a reverend. an energy drink commercial Did you? Played a reverend Did you? Yeah It was for It feels like one That they made at the radio station Or something Yeah

Yeah No it wasn't a radio station one It was just like Do you remember Demon Energy Drink? Yeah Yeah it was for Demon Energy Drink Surely with your Catholic background You couldn't be selling

Maybe that's why they want to be They're like We need an authentic looking Catholic yeah that was a pretty shitty story yeah now on the podcast

today we're going on tour next week we need some places we need to go we could give you $20 as we make our way around and Jack Johnson

I thought it was really cool to talk to Jack Johnson today on the podcast he was awesome yeah awesome dude lovely guy

yeah as well as his kids and it's funny when you're like he's so cool but even his kids they question whether he's cool

and he's cool no parent's cool get to that stage that's what you've learned no parent is cool yeah never gonna be Ben that's on the podcast

can't change the course of history yeah hard hitting interviews and informed opinion Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB in the meantime

Jono and Ben on the hits. One of the team has a conspiracy theory. It's in relation to US President Joe Biden. Now, if you could just cast your mind back to, I think it was this time last week, where footage emerged of Biden. He's on a bike with his wife. He's in Lycra. And he sort of slowly pedals towards the waiting media.

Very slowly, right? Yeah, very slowly. And he stops. He's got both feet on the ground with the bike in between his legs. And then he just takes a tumble, like falls off the bike. Here's the audio. So he's alright in the end And producer Bee Humps has a conspiracy theory So what's your conspiracy

Bee Humps around the Biden The Biden bike for Well he went on a bike ride And clearly invited the cameras along. Well, I'm sure he gets followed by media everywhere, but okay, let's say he said, okay, we're going to be on a bike ride. So all the cameras just so happened to be at that one point. Yes, they did. Very convenient, isn't it?

So you're saying the fact that he fell over was all publicity stunt? Well, when was the last time you saw him leading the international media? So someone had hatched a plan going, we need to get you some headlines. Can you take the world's slowest fall off a bike? Well, he wasn't hurt, so it was convenient, isn't it? But what's the advantage, though? Yeah, he just looks like he's...

Well, he was leading the international news for 24 hours. Yeah, but it was kind of like president incapable of standing on a bike that had stopped. Hey, any news is good news. You guys know that. You guys know that. Well, I don't know. In this case, like Joe Biden, out of all the conspiracy theories in the world,

someone came up with, Biden, you've got to take a four-horse bike. That's the best they can come up with. Well, like I say, when was the last time in the last 12 months when you can remember Biden leading the international news? Well,

we don't follow it so closely. Yeah, but you're right. Well, when have we spoken about him on this show in the last 12 months? It's probably normally when something happens like this. You don't have any examples? No. Well. I do. He fell off his bike a week ago

and the international media was invited along to watch. You're saying that Biden is approaching like a radio show would. Doing some shameless thing to get attention. Yeah, absolutely.

Okay. Well, we'll never know, will we? Unless we ever get to interview Biden we'll pull this conspiracy Why were the cameras all grouped Because that's what I mean On the bike ride Yeah

Like he clearly invited them Yeah well yeah But then he was stopping To talk to the cameras And he fell off It wasn't Yeah He took a fall

He took a fall He took a fall Okay Just publicity The footage probably Wouldn't have been released Of whatever he was about to say Had he not taken the fall

But he just said hello I don't think anything got that far And then after he had a fall he's like Oh no, I'm fine I'm okay, I'm okay And if you're going to do any conspiracy Wouldn't you like get him bench pressing 150kgs or something? Yeah

Improving his cognitive health Scrolling through your feed. If you like proper news and information, well, then we'll make it up with some thoughtless opinion as well. Welcome to Scrolling Through Your Feed. Now, the big news over the weekend, Roe versus Wade, where in the US the Supreme Court overturned the abortion laws, basically eliminating a woman's constitutional right to abortion.

So it's going to be decided on state by state. And there was nine people on the Supreme Court that pretty much made this decision, where we understand from what we've read, the majority of Americans don't actually want this. Don't actually want this. And James Corden, who obviously is a UK presenter, who does a show in America,

you would have seen him on Carpool Karaoke, he does the late night show. He's in the UK. You would have seen him on the critically acclaimed Cats. Oh yeah a show in America. You would have seen him on Carpool Karaoke. He does the late night show. He's in the UK. You would have seen him on the critically acclaimed Cats. The movie Cats. He was in the movie. He was. The voice of Peter Rabbit as well.

That's an adorable movie. He was explaining in the UK. I thought it was really interesting how a law like this could be changed. It's not going to be changed in the UK but how much work it would take to actually change it compared to America. Have a listen. Now, if that was ever to change,

it would take at least 326 elected officials to agree to such a thing. It would then take another 400 appointees in the House of Lords to vote on that bill before it could ever become law. So that's nearly 800 people would all have to agree before the fundamental rights of half the population would be endangered in the United Kingdom. Good point, Gordon.

Yeah. And these are all elected, not elected from the president like the Supreme Court is in America. It was elected from the last president. Who had an agenda. And Joe Biden doesn't even want this law. So, yeah, it's just crazy to get your head around. It's terrible, but then you're like,

it's going to take years if they even start a process to change it back. There's already stories coming out, I've been seeing, of people who have ectopic pregnancies that are risking their lives already. There's already situations happening as we speak. It is terrible. And the even sadder thing is, yes, it's big news now. We'll talk about it probably for the next week. But then it just slowly dies down.

People suffer in silence. It's like the Ukraine. We're talking about the Ukraine every day. And it's still going. It's still going on, these poor people. There's a bombing of a mall when 1,000 people were inside it yesterday. You're right. The news cycle just moves on, and it's sad There's a bombing of a mall when a thousand people were inside it yesterday. You're right. The news cycle just moves on and it's sad because it shouldn't.

We should be keeping an eye on these sorts of things. Do you remember the bloody Taliban, mate? Taliban in Afghanistan? Oh, yeah. They were banging on about that for about two weeks and then stopped. I'm not blaming you, Ben. I feel like I'm throwing it all on you. I'll set a calendar reminder to bring it back up in two weeks.

And an unconventional restaurant is coming to New Zealand for a limited time. Now, where the wait staff are allowed to trash talk the customers, it's called Karen's Diner. And it's a wee pop-up restaurant. It's in Australia, and it's coming to Mount Eden in Auckland for an unforgettable time. So basically, you go along there. They promise good food but terrible service.

And they basically just chip away. They make comments and stuff. time so basically you go along there they promise good food but terrible service and they just they they basically just chip away yeah they make comments and stuff also force you to become a Karen and make a complaint sort of thing yeah but basically they haven't I went to one like that they used to have one in Auckland it used to be across the road from work we used to work and I went there years ago went to it it's no longer there and the lady was so funny she was like you know you got to make your order and she'd be like like pretend you're snoring because you're taking too long and you know basically it was all part of the thing giving you some grief but then she accidentally knocked a wine a glass of wine on me at some stage like a red wine and it was funny how just straight away she dropped the action i'm

so sorry you're okay you will make sure oh so she dropped character yeah it was just fine because obviously she could have kept it part of the stick she's like yeah take that mate she's in the ideal role to do that yeah but i was like oh you're a cat i was i was fine and he's just oh good and then she got back into her character yeah by the way you're a schmuck though hold on will you just but just yeah my friend oh i don't want to name him because it's quite a uh you know it's a point. He's got an issue with his neighbor. Right. And it's gone on since lockdown.

Like something kicked off in lockdown. Really? And it's just like direct neighbor. There's only like a wooden picket fence between them both. And something happened in lockdown, which I won't say, but, you know, it created a reaction. And now it's just tit for tat back and forth doing all sorts of stuff they could be on that show

remember Neighbours at War Neighbours at War was a massive show eh that was a genius show I don't even know what the result was did they sort it out or did they just say

no they'd roll out like the Mad Butcher and the Mad Butcher would be like the mediator and he'd be like get a bloody sausage in your mate get over it

was the Mad Butcher on it I remember watching an episode of the Mad Butcher came in to mediate the two disgruntled neighbours. Oh, he's good. Yeah. It was a good show.

So these guys would be ripe for neighbours at war. You know, just some of the stuff that has happened since lockdown. I think he parked a truck over my friend's driveway.

Oh, wow. Couldn't get out for work. Sometimes he pushes. I'm only hearing one side. I know there's two sides to every story. Yeah, true. He's three in the morning. He's pushing like the gate button.

You know, bing, bong, bing. But so the war, which what I want to discuss now, has escalated to the 5G network. Oh, really? Now, this was, I thought, a masterful play from my friend. Because you know how you can rename your Wi-Fi network? Yeah. And it comes so your neighbours will see your Wi-Fi network.

You kind of see the Wi-Fi around you whenever you go onto your phone or your computer. You're like, oh, what Wi-Fi is going on? His weekly chore now is renaming his Wi-Fi network to a passive-aggressive dig at his neighbor. At his neighbor. At his neighbor. So he's done, and I've changed the names for this, but he texted them through last night. So I'll just say his neighbor's name is Tony.

He started off with, Tony's a dick. So that would have kept coming up on Tony's cell phone. That's so immature. So immature. And then the other one was, Tony, the winner of the world's worst neighbour, was the following week. They have,

if Tony's eyes were any further apart, he'd be a herbivore. Tony steals everyone's mail in the neighbourhood, because then it'll pop up at everyone's house. So everyone's like, oh, watch out for Tony. Just so you know, Tony's putting rubbish in your recycling.

Now, Tony, just this week, has started figuring out what's happening so he's now changing he's changing his wife i did work too he's clapping back and he kept he my friend appreciated this again i'll change the names he said chris looks at weird stuff on the internet this is the name of everyone else around the name of it is just watching this going on yeah and so then i would brainstorming last night this whole thing. What is going on? Yeah, and so then, we were brainstorming last night,

so the next one he's going to come back with is, Tony probably ran over your cat. Oh, jeez. So if you ever want

to have a crack at your neighbour, but you don't like full-on confrontation, just change the name of your Wi-Fi name. the whole neighbourhood know how petty you are.

Oh, jeez. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is the B**** News. In the quirkiest news this side of the equator.

We can't compete with the northern side. They've got some quirky stuff going on up here but down the south this is what we can do. Bell Crawford has beeped out

perfectly good headlines. We're going to try and figure out the stories don't we, Bell? Yeah, let's get into your first one. Hamster survives daring trip

into the B****. Ooh, okay. Hamster survives daring trip into the... Ooh, okay. Hamster survives... I'm going to go Hamster survives daring trip into Hamilton. Let's go for those jokes. Can I be completely honest? Yeah. I didn't do any preparation for this part of the show. Well, you have to come up with other stuff.

You have to ad lib on the spot. Okay. Hamster survives daring trip into the tank at Mermaids. There you go, well done. Hamster survives daring trip into the stratosphere. Yeah, this poor little hamster was sent up into the space. Into space? Yeah.

He would have loved it. Well, actually, this hamster was sleeping while it was happening. Oh, maybe he didn't love it. Why did they send the hamsters to space? It was part of an experiment over in Japan, and it got... See, it didn't really get that high. They're saying it got 14 miles,

which is 23km into the maximum altitude. So it's not that high, is it? It's 49km to space, isn't it? I think, to the edge of space. It's 43km, and it's in good health. The hamster was rescued from sea. So in this little balloon, little... It all seems wildly unnecessary.

It does, doesn't it? You know, the cost, it wouldn't have been cheap. The hamster wasn't awake for it. Yeah, what purpose did it bear? I mean, yeah, this morning, you might have heard the New Zealand news, the Rocket Lab, their first moon mission from New Zealand

is launched successfully. We'll talk more about that after 7 o'clock. Did they waste their time putting a hamster in space? No, they didn't have any hamsters involved in it as far as I know, but I'll do a bit more research and find out a bit more if there was any hamsters. On to your next one. Man scoops massive ****** after using crafty strategy he saw on TV. I don't know.

After having a dog like mine, I reckon the man scoops a massive dog deposit And I'm hoping it's a tip Because that's what I have to spend a lot of my afternoons doing I'm going to go man scoops massive scoop of massive ice cream I should have done some preparation for this part of the show Man scoops massive lottery jackpot After using crafty strategy he saw on TV. Oh, what's the strategy?

So, again, I'm wary if this is going to be something people start doing, but basically he saw this thing on a TV show, and he adopted this thing where each week he would spend $25 in the lottery for three months, and he would win certain amounts of money, and then he saw it on TV, and then he won $100,000 US, which is a lot more in NZD. So hold on, $25 a month? A week.

A week for three months? Yeah, and it was this tactic where he would do a certain bet and everything, and then he reckoned that he would win it. He saw it on TV, and so he thought it would work for him. It actually worked. Yeah. What's the tactic, though? Just buying tickets.

Yeah. It's a pretty shitty tactic. He said it's like an elimination strategy. So in the seventh week, he got lucky. So after a while, you'd just get lucky. But then wouldn't that be not a thing? Because people do that their whole lives. You still don't win lotto.

My wife's been buying lotto tickets for 20 years. But it worked for him. So he's saying it's his winning strategy. That is a strategy to just go and purchase a lotto ticket every time there's a lotto draw.

And keep buying it and eventually your numbers may come up. But they probably won't. That is the strategy. That is unusual news. That hits. This is the

Jono and Ben podcast. Now $20 Karen, she became a viral sensation a few years ago, about eight years ago where she left a message on the wrong phone to try and get her $20 back. That blew up because the message got shared around, and then we ended up giving her $20 for something we did on radio, but we forgot to give it through. So she was angry at us, and she left a very similar message on Jono's phone over the weekend.

She's the most comical yet threatening debt collector in the market, Karen. And we spoke to her yesterday. We wanted to make amends, see how we could patch this up. And this was her suggestion. I suggest you come and give it to me. In person, with an evil laugh included. So we've got to take $20 down. She found out she lives in Christchurch, so we've got to head down the country and give her $20.

So we want to pay that debt because she scares us, let's be honest. But then we thought, well, we can't dedicate a whole week of the show just to dropping $20 to a lady, because that's essentially what this is about. Yeah. If we boil it down. We needed to make it more of an event. So we had an idea, we had a hooey,

and came up with a concept that involved giving money to nearly everyone that we see on the way to Christchurch. Oh, the chance to win money, right? Sorry, I'll dial it back a bit. Dial it back, Brian. So yesterday, as I said, we tried to coerce management here at the radio station into jumping on board with our idea of giving everyone money that we see. They dialed it back a bit as well.

They dialed it back a bit. I saw a whale and I came up with an idea on the spot. Have a listen. Hello, Matt speaking. Matt Anderson, Jonathan Richard Pryor, Benjamin Ross, boys. Good morning. It's business time. We're in trouble. Financial strife. Yeah.

What's happened? We owe someone some money. Ben's gambling again. No, it's not gambling. It's ruining the show. We owe someone some money. You probably have heard it on the radio. We owe someone some money and we need to pay it back. Yes, I've had some strongly worded emails in my time, but nothing compared to our good friend Karen.

So we're in the hole, 20 bucks with Karen. Yeah. But here's an idea we want to pitch. Sure. You give us a lot more than $20 and we can make our way from Auckland to Christchurch handing out $20 notes to people we come in contact with. It's the $20 tour.

Is that actually the plan, or is this just a long-winded way to actually cover up some of Ben's gambling debts? Look, I haven't got gambling debts. We might be trying to kill two birds. It's desperate times in the boy's household. He's sleeping in his car. As John said, we travelled down the country. We thought maybe we could have a little $20 wheel.

People who run into it can spin the wheel. I'm just coming up with ideas on the spot. It's a $20 tour. Yeah, a $20 tour. They can win $20. We can give away some $20. Eventually, we'll get to Karen in Christchurch and give her the $20 and we can sleep at night. Not in the car because I'm sleeping at home.

Everything's fine. It's fine. It's fine. What happens if we give away too many $20 and then you arrive in Christchurch and Karen then gets nothing at all? We would be very careful to hold on to at least one of the $20 notes. I love how Ben goes, we're making this up on the spot and he's like, there's a wheel, there's a thing.

He's got the whole format. There's a wheel outside. I just see from the radio studio. I'm like, let's just use that. Yeah, just seeing things and saying them. No, look, if we're going to get down there and give her the 20 bucks, I know the cost of living is a shocker at the moment.

So let's shake the old, the hit office couch and see if we can find some more $20 to give away. We're going to be handing out, we're going to be like Migos or those rappers, you know, how they just throw cash around. No, we're going to have a wheel and it's going to be like Migos or those rappers, you know, how they just throw cash around. No, we're going to have a wheel, and that's going to be spun. Oh, yeah, they don't have a wheel.

That's the difference between us and them. It's a chance. Some would say gambling, but others would say, no, there's no gambling problems. Why did you have to involve a wheel then? I like my gambling. Oh, well, thank you. Thank you, Matt.

You're easily convinced. Oh, well, to be honest, the other benefit is that I then don't actually have to see you guys for a week. So, yeah, get on the road. So, it's happening. Next week, the $20 tour kicks off. Everyone we see $20. Not everyone with a chance to win $20. Everyone we see a chance to win $20.

Yeah, that's good. I like that. With the spin of a wheel. Yeah, I like that. Spy. No what's up. Spy.co.nz. All right, we hired her as a celebrity assassin

to do a hit job on the famous people. Belle Crawford, what's happening? Oh, this story that's come out of Hollywood is pretty good. I mean, not for Ben Affleck. His 10-year-old son backed into a Lamborghini. You know the stuff you do when you're a kid? We had cousins. They're the best, my Crawford boy cousins who were always doing funny things.

So he takes his 10-year-old to a car yard. It's not even his car. Takes him to a car yard. This 10-year-old jumps into a car, backs it into another car, and Ben is looking so stressed like, oh my God, it's at a car dealership. In a Lamborghini, yeah. What car was the 10-year-old driving? Well, he just obviously hopped into another car at the yard.

Oh, just like a white run-of-the-mill sort of car. No, he backed a Lamborghini into another very expensive car. Oh, he's backed a Lambo into a Lambo. Yeah. You know how they leave all the cars open on the car yard for people to have a look in and sit in the cars that probably can't afford to buy? Well, he's gone and hopped in there

and maybe taken the handbrake off or something and it's gone back into another car. He does look in full stress dad mode there. I mean, nothing's going to stress you out if you're back to Lambo into a Lambo. Even at Ben Affleck, Jeff Lopez, we've got a lot of money. They're like, oh my God, this isn't good, guys.

And you don't own either of the Lambos. Ben looks so stressed and the 10-year-old, he's like, obviously it's a mistake, but he kind of finds it're like, oh God, this isn't good. And you don't own either of the Lambos. Ben looks so stressed and the 10 year old, he's like, obviously it's a mistake but he kind of finds it, like not funny but he's kind of like

smiling in one of them like, oh my God. He's like, Dad, your missus is worth $400 million. You'll be right.

That's incredible. Do you know, I think I said it before, there was a scam going on at a fancy car yard here and a guy would go in and he would say, oh, he would go in and uh he would say oh he would go and dressed up in a suit and stuff and he'd have a fancy looking partner with him and they would sit

in the car and they would tell the salesperson do you mind if i just turn it on love to hear the sound of the exhaust and the salesperson's like yeah no worries and he turns the car on he's like oh can you just go back there and just tell me how good the exhaust sounds? And the sales agent goes, yeah, yeah, no worries. It was a weird request, but sure, I'll do anything to sell a Lamborghini. And boom, just took off straight out of the car yard. Whoa. Didn't sound so good as it was driving away.

It doesn't sound good 100 metres away. I think he ended up getting caught, though. Of course he would. He had a tracking system on them. Pretty obvious if you're in this bougie luxury car, hey? Maybe that's what Ben and his son were trying to do. Like a fast and furious operation. Also, some more details have come out about,

you know how Brittany's crazy ex stormed into her wedding and the property and demanded to see her, was live streaming it? Jason Alexander, who she was only married to for a short time after a Vegas wedding, well, he's actually still in custody and he will now be going to trial on his stalking charge it's actually creepier than we realized he was trying to get into her bedroom like he was on the property getting in there and then thankfully her security finally after him being somehow able to get on they caught up to him and he was trying to get into her bedroom to see,

he really wanted to see her. That's crazy. So odd, isn't it? What was the big Hail Mary? Was he like, don't do this, you know? Was that one of those? I don't know. I mean, he's probably not mentally well,

but still, you don't do that. No, there's that awkward part in the ceremony that sometimes you see in the movies when they go, does anyone object to this wedding? He should have just waited for that moment me yeah

that would have been the best time has anyone been to a wedding where that's happened you can see it in the movies I mean not everyone does it in their wedding as part of their things

because it feels like it's a very movie like thing it's usually when it's going to giving an opportunity for someone like Jono to go we invited you

I've paid for your meal you budgeted in, buddy. Let's not come in here now and start ruining it. And 4487, I'll chuck this out there. It's a bit of a Hail Mary. Have you been to a wedding

where someone's objected? Yeah. And was the aftermatch a bit awkward? It definitely would have been. Because what do you do if you object? Oh, thanks, mate. It's just so awkward. It ruins everyone's day.

We'll mow on anyway because we love each other. I'm glad you've made your feelings clear. Thanks for ruining our wedding. And you're not eating any cake and food afterwards because we don't really want you here now. New Zealand's most successful unsuccessful show. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Professor Behumps shared some intel yesterday about part of his daily routine, which you just mentioned before, you take 10 minutes a day to do this. What is it? Taking supplements. I take nine different supplements a day. Nine? That's a lot of pills.

That's more pills than a Gen Z-er at a drum and bass gig. Nine a day. It's a lot of water to get them all down. I'm not very good at taking pills anyway. Right. And so, yeah, I mean, gagging and all down. Right. Because I'm not very good at taking pills anyway. Right. And so, yeah, I mean, gagging and all sorts of things.

Like a six-year-old child. I didn't even know there were nine vitamins. Have they made up four of them and just sold them to you? There's a lot of vitamins when you go to the supermarket. Yeah.

Well, yeah, so I went to a nutritionist because I was just so sick. My young daughter goes to daycare. She brings home all the bugs and I was just sick of getting every little sniffle. So I went to a nutritionist, and I knew going in there that I was going to get sold a whole lot of lotions and potions, which I did. But I'm on board with it.

If it makes you feel better, then that's good. Exactly. But it's a great industry. I think it's a great industry because you can never tell if the vitamins have worked Or what they've done I've never taken vitamins And I wouldn't know Look at this body, mate

Look at this Maybe you should Maybe you would though Maybe if you felt better I'll be sure you can tell if it works I don't actually do But you said you took vitamins And you can't tell the difference between you were taking vitamins and now

Yeah, I was taking multivitamins for a while. Yeah. Did you feel any better than you feel today? No, I'm always... No, no. Because it's a scam. But I'm not taking nine. I'm not taking nine different ones.

So maybe that would help. I don't know. Yeah. It's probably a bit in the head as well. A bit of a mind game. A placebo effect. But I do... Yeah.

Like, I mean, I haven't been sick this week. Belle, are you a vitamin person? Yeah, I take them when I remember, but it's a lot to remember, isn't it? And you can find out what ones are right for you. I know it's a bit of a guessing game, but yeah, I do take a few. What did we do for hundreds of years? Human beings survived without

bloody multi-B vitamins, vitamin D vitamins, we just got it naturally. Or not had it. Or just got it at age 28 or something. A lot of us can't sleep, so we have to have magnesium at night. Yeah, I'm calling it a sham of an industry. It's a sham.

Zinc, vitamin D, immunity and skin and hair. Are you vitamin... NAC, I don't even know what that one is. What is NAC? I have no idea. I don't know, but I put a big jar ofAC I don't know I have no idea I don't know but a little bit jar of it

I take it every day so how much do you spend on vitamins are you bigger than the rocks supplement budget or not like so this this I've got like

a shoe box full of them have you got it in the little old man sort of like Monday Tuesday Wednesday no it's in a shoe box actual shoe box

like I've got a shoebox just full of these containers. It's like 400 bucks. 400 bucks? Do you know what I was looking at here? I mean, hopefully it lasts, you know, like three months or something. Hopefully you last as well too. It keeps you going. It's a $37 billion industry in America.

Vitamins. Are you vitamin or are you vitam-out? Oh, 800, that's a quick poll. Do you think it's all a laugh? Convince us that the Bee Humps is doing the right thing. Supplements and vitamins. Love to hear your thoughts. This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Wall-to-wall talking

without the niggly popular songs in between. It's a pretty cold morning out there and a lot of people taking vitamins and supplements, like producer Bee Humps Who's taking what, 9 or 10 pills a day He flawed us, spends 35 minutes a day Just digesting pills and vitamins Because he's got a bad gagging

I don't get it too It's hard swallowing stuff sometimes Sometimes they come like an inch long You're like, surely you just compress this down Into a tiny little But I get that, so I just mowed in on the vitamin industry, Ben Boyce. Again, with no research. No, exactly.

Just going... At least imagine how great you'd look if you had them. Peeping your step, just be like, I'm tired of it. How great do I look now? I mean, good, amazing. But maybe how much better you look. Tyka phoned me up and he was like, mate, we need a body double for Hemsworth and Thor. We need to do a before shot.

Before. Can you do it? Some text rolling on in. I won't lie, in support of the vitamin industry. Love my vitamins. My daughter's got ADHD. Find vitamin D and zinc is fantastic for her. Oh, that's good.

Vital Greens has helped my IBS so much. Now, that's measurable, isn't it, Jono? Yes, Jono. Because I said you can't measure it. You don't know. You did a stint on some vitamins, and you yourself said, I don't feel any different from when I was taking vitamins.

Yeah, probably, probably not. But I mean, maybe it was helping me. Maybe it was giving me the things that I was lacking in my diet. But you're right. I've stopped taking them, and I haven't. I've been just as tired. Just as miserable. Hating life just as much.

With or without vitamins. Well, we've got a wee surprise for you. Dr Libby is joining us right now. Oh, Dr Libby. She's got up nice and early because she's taken her vitamins and supplements, I'm sure. Why are you bringing Dr Libby on? I've just peeled out the entire vitamin industry. Dr Libby, how long have you been on hold for? oh the whole time

I've heard that it takes 35 hours to swallow your 9 or 10 pills, yeah I've gotten a lot yeah well listen I'm sorry you're in Australia, what time is it? 10 past 5 we got you up that early thank you so much

that's my norm, it's all good happy to chat, Love you, boys. Now, listen, vitamins. Are we talking a sham? Is it a sham industry, Libby? Well, when someone says, can you, you know, do we need vitamins? The short answer, I think, is yes. And there are three reasons why.

I mean, I'm the first person who wishes we could get everything from our food, but I no longer think that's possible. And as a human species, we actually owe our entire existence, despite all of our technological advances, we owe our entire existence to the quality of 30 centimetres of topsoil and the fact that it rains. So if farmers stop caring about the quality of the topsoil, then we're all going to fall apart because the nutrients that we need to survive

have to be in that topsoil because if a nutrient's not in the food, then we don't get it. So unfortunately, all sorts of topsoil's blown away to Chile and to Australia, out of New Zealand, it's gone in both directions and we need to make sure we're getting the nutrients we need and soil quality's the number one reason, or the declining soil quality's the number one reason why I think supplementation is needed these days. That's interesting. So we ship off all our good dirt to better countries.

It's actually a really big concern because, yes, that's exactly what can happen. And it's why, gosh, this is not really a conversation about farming, but it's why we need to maintain the coverage on our soils and um so that the so that that topsoil can't blow away when the wind does get up and we want to keep it right there in new zealand so that it can grow all the food that we need to stay alive so it's only the sick way go sorry i was just gonna say dr lou so what's what's the one vitamin or supplement we should be taking like if we just get entry level what's the what's the gateway to vitamins and supplements for me? What's the marijuana of supplements? Well, it is a little tricky to give a broad answer like that

because I do think it's highly individual. So for some people, the way they feel would change if they had some liver support. So nutrients that are needed for the liver include things like iron, B vitamins, sulfur, which we do get from garlic, onions, shallots, the brassica veggies like broccoli, cauliflower, kale, brussel sprouts. So liver support, I think is a big one. At this time of year, obviously a lot of people will feel better with zinc and vitamin C. I'm a huge fan, especially for those two nutrients. Vitamin D,

obviously through winter can be a really important one. So those three are key for the immune response and having a healthy immune response. So it's hard to pick one. And Dr. Libby, of course, through Dry July, you're doing a detox as well. Yeah, so obviously July is a month where I think a lot of people think, oh, it'd be good to support myself a bit better through winter and not come out of it feeling so lousy. So it is a month, obviously, people get on board with Try July and take a break from alcohol. And I'm really hoping that people get really interested

in their detoxification mechanisms. And obviously, we need nutrients to be able to do that properly. And the whole goal of my Detox by Dr. Libby online course is to help people decrease their total body burden because it really takes the edge off how great we feel, even our moods, our energy, the way we're able to show up each day. For some women, it influences their sex hormone balance when the liver's not able to do its critical work properly.

So you can read more about Detox by Dr Libby. It starts on the 4th of July. You can read about it at drlibby.com. I'm on drlibby.com, and if I could look half as good as you, Dr Libby, I'd be a better man. Start taking vitamins. I really think that if you probably took some vitamins, you could be Saw's body double.

That would be a great second job for you. Dr Libby, sorry you got up so early, but thank you very much. That was really useful information. I didn't know about the topsoil. You go and have a great day in Aussie. Yeah, you too, boys. Thanks, Pete. The Hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast, available on iHeartRadio. We play a little game from time to time called the one-take call where one of us records a message that gets played to someone we call up with and we have to see if they know they're talking to a recorded message or not. We leave gaps for them to reply and try and anticipate what they might say. It's a horrendous phone technique. It doesn't work. No, it doesn't work.

But we've persisted with it now for six weeks or so, Ben Boyce. We should probably take it out of rotation, to be honest. But we're here again, and it's your turn. And today, I'd like you to call a mechanic. A mechanic, okay. Book your car in for a servicing of some description. Okay, I'll Google a car joke. I'll try and get that in there.

Okay, so what you need to do now is you need to record your parts. Don't forget to leave gaps for them to react and interact with you. Okay, so start the recording. This is what I'm going to say to the person with the answer. All right, here I go. G'day, mate. Is that the mechanic? Oh, great.

Hey, a bit of a car joke for you first off. What do you get when dinosaurs crash their cars? Tyrannosaurus Rex. That's a good one, eh? Hey, I'm just wondering if you could have a look at my car. Yeah, I probably need a new one, to be honest. Another joke. Yeah.

Look, it just needs an oil change. I was wondering if I could book it in for Wednesday, drop off nine o'clock. Oh, that's a bloody good discount. Yep. Thank you for that. All right. See you then. No worries.

Again, you're too impatient. You haven't left enough gaps. You try and read it. Because I know the radio guy and he's like, I don't want to leave enough dead air. No, you just need to hear. But you need to for the confidence. You need to play the long game.

I like coming across as abrupt and pushing. You've just rattled through. There's no time. They can't even reply. Yeah, you're right. You're just going to phone up and mow over whoever you're told to do. Well, let's see how it works, eh? Maybe it'll come through.

Good morning, Tegapoe Auto. Andrea speaking. All right, here I go. Oh, who is this? G'day, mate. Is that the mechanic? No, it's Andrea. Hello.

Oh, great. Hi, who am I speaking to? A bit of a car joke for you, first off. What do you get when dinosaurs crash their cars? Cars? Tyrannosaurus Rex. Oh, my God. I'm just wondering if you could have a look at my car.

Yeah. And who am I speaking to? Yeah, I probably need a new one, to be honest. Who's this? Yeah. Who's this? Look, it just needs an oil change. I was wondering if I could book it in for Wednesday, drop off nine o'clock.

Okay. What's the red, Joe? Oh, that's a bloody good discount. Yep. Thank you for that. Are you there? All right. See you Thank you for that. Are you there? All right. See you then.

No worries. Who's this? Who the hell is this? Are you there? It's Shono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Yeah. We are so sorry to do this. That was a recording of me.

I get one shot at recording what I think could work in a phone conversation and it didn't quite work when we played it back to you, did it? No, no, it didn't. No. You loved the joke. I did, I loved the joke. It was great. I love car jokes. He was like a horse that bolted and you just couldn't

catch up with the conversation. No, no, not at all because it was like yeah, it was just everywhere. He's a confused man. He is a confused man. Hey, I'm right here, guys. I wasn't recording before, but I'm right here now. It's a segment called the one-take call.

Okay, right. Well, he failed. Thank you for that brutal bit of – You failed your warrant of fitness and you failed your call. Well, we're going to send you out something because you're a good sport, all right? Thank you so much for your time. Oh, that's awesome. Thank you.

Scrolling through your feed. All righty, ladies and gentlemen. We proudly present the most controversial news update on the market, and that's even factoring in Fox News. Ben Boyce, what's happening? Well, the first moon mission to take off from New Zealand has launched successfully, about 9.55 last night. So Rocket Lab launched a microsatell off from New Zealand has launched successfully about 9.55 last night. So Rocket Lab launched a microsatellite from New Zealand with an association that it's a Kiwi-American combined production.

Oh, is it Rocket Lab X America? Bit of a collab situation. Yeah, and the launch was flawless. The Rocket Lab spacecraft will carry a microwave-sized capstone into a series of progressively higher orbits and then towards the moon. It'll get up there about November the 13th, and if all goes to plan, NASA are hoping to put a small space station into the same orbit to try and get astronauts back to the moon and using that as a sort of ferrying station.

So this is all helping the world get back to the moon. This is a big thing to happen out in New Zealand. Why does it take so long to get to the moon, Ben, if you don't mind me asking? I would imagine it's quite a long way away. I don't know. November 13th. It's a long, long time away. That's a long time away.

If you don't mind me asking. It's going to cost about $93 US billion over the next 13 years to do this whole program, but it went off yesterday, and I love this. It was actually like I was watching some stuff online, and it was, you know, there was a lot of people, there was music, there was people talking in America, there's astronauts, there's all these people, scientists. So it was actually quite glitzy and glamour, but I love the countdown with a real Kiwi accent from Rocket Lab. Have a listen. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Yeah, there you go. 10, 9, 8. I love it. But then they hit it off on 2. They didn't even wait for him to say 1. They're like, oh, mate, we don't want to hear it again. Yeah, we know. It doesn't matter if we wait to 1.

Yeah. But that's incredible. Rocket Lab is such a New Zealand success story. Peter Becker, absolute genius who started the company. I'm just looking on their website here. Do you know what they've done over the years, Ben? 26 launches, 146 satellites they've deployed, three launch pads.

I don't know what that means. Two photon satellites. They put those in orbit. Incredible. And they're like, look at our customer base on their website. NASA. Wow. Canon.

Tyvek. I don't know what Tyvek is, but it sounds like a wonderful organisation. NASA. Wow. Canon. Tyvek. I don't know what Tyvek is, but it sounds like a wonderful organisation. They've done so well. And Air New Zealand has revealed its biggest cabin overhaul in 20 years. There's going to be new seats and Sky Nest is coming to the Air New Zealand Dreamliners

over the next couple of years, including new sleep pods for economy passengers, which are six bunk-style beds for passengers to use as well in economy. So, you know, some new innovations coming to NZ. Oh, so you have to do some bartering, do you, to get one of the six beds? I don't know.

They haven't quite said how that's going to work, but they've just shown some really cool photos of how that's happening. And there's also something... I've never figured out how. That's the one thing in life I haven't figured out. I've figured out everything else in life. Right. The one thing in life...

John, I could have told you how to get to space years ago. Oh, mate. Sleeping in an economy with your head, which sort of like as you're dozing off, your head becomes incredibly heavy, heaviest part of the body, and it's rolling around like there's no control of it.

Have you found a comfortable way to sleep in an economy? Yeah. You have. I've slept on many a long-haul flight. Where do you go? What do you do? You just put your head up against like if you've got like a little travel pillow or. Where do you go? What do you do? You just put your head up against, like, if you've got, like, a little travel pillow or something, and you just put it up against, and you just stay there,

and you sleep. Or if you're really lucky, I've been on flights, people have given me absolute evils where I've managed to get three seats to myself on, like, a packed flight or even a middle row,

and I just make a bed and sleep. Yeah, it's those moments where you're sitting, you've got your thing, you've got two spare seats next to you, and every person that walks on the plane, you're like, please no, please no. They were eviling me.

It was literally a packed Emirates flight to Dubai. Yeah, take that. Warning, this show contains Jono and or Ben. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, I don't want to become the guy who bangs on about his dog all the time. I'm quite conscious of that that's my job for a while but you know when you've got a dog yeah they consume a lot of your life you know and then when you're doing this job there's a lot of dead air to fill so then you're

like what have i got well i've probably got another story on this dog who keeps you know just being wild but uh yeah i'll try i'm trying to control it you've got a puppy a few months ago now, right? Yeah, 20 weeks old now, little Milo. And one thing I've just noticed about dogs in general is there is literally nothing a dog won't put inside its mouth. Any object you name, a dog will go, I can give that a go. You know? You're right. Carkeys. I saw my dog eating an entire tennis ball, underpants, bricks, rocks, socks, belts.

There is nothing they won't give a bash. Yeah. Particularly in that early, early stage. There's a lot of things destroyed by the puppy stage of my dog. But then they mellow out a little bit more later on. They on they decided okay not everything's edible they kind of yeah well i suppose no one's sat them down and gone hey generally what we put in your bowl that's a safe zone yeah generally what we don't put in your bowl try not to put inside your bag yeah but then sometimes you drop food or you give food so that probably confuses them as well. You know, the whole... Saved on vacuuming. Yeah.

Like, that's a bonus too. And the other thing is, they just lick everything. Like, the dog is licking all sorts. Like, licking my fingers, licking just the door, like, licking the floor, licking shoes. They don't get COVID. Dogs, I don't think I was... Look, there hasn't been one reported case of a dog in New Zealand getting COVID. How many rats tests have dogs taken?

Maybe it's like North Korea. Everything's fine with the dogs. You don't test them. We did an experiment the other day with our dog, because our dog just, yeah, he'll eat whatever. Whatever you give him, he'll eat. So we're like, oh, we'll give him a bit of cheese. He eats that.

But then we're like, got to mandarin, like a little slice of mandarin. He'd eat it. Nah, that was the thing. That was his limit. That was his, they spat that out. Then they were like, what about the second mandarin? But, oh, I'll give that a go, even though he didn't like the first one. Same result.

So there you go. That's where he draws on. It's the one thing your dog won't eat is a mandarin. Like a little thing of mandarins. But yeah, but you're not, it's kind of crazy the things you're not meant to give the dogs, like grapes and chocolate and things like that. Avocados, they're all really bad for dogs. So as well meant to give the dogs, like grapes and chocolate and things like that, avocados. They're all really bad for dogs.

You'd think a grape would be fine, but apparently grapes are very bad for a dog. Grapes, chocolates, and avocados. Some of the greatest foods ever. You're not allowed to touch. Even cats, though. Cats have a certain level of dignity about what they'll put in their mouth. They're not just going around shoving anything inside their gob. They've got some decorum, cats,

but dogs, they seem to be pretty carefree and loose about what happens inside their mouth. Then some people kiss their dogs. I know. We had, yeah. Yeah, we know some of it. You kiss their dog. Then the dog's like,

all over their lips. And you're like, have you seen anything your dog does with that part of its body? Like, yeah. What the dog does... Yeah, yeah. No, don't.

No, don't. I kiss my cat, but I don't kiss her on the mouth. Yeah. I don't really kiss her. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's okay. Like, nuzzle in on their neck and things.

You know. But, you know, a full lip-to-lip. Because they just go all over. Once they get a bit of action of your mouth, they're just licking everything. Hey, this is Ed Sheeran, John Wynn Benz. Five words for five Eds. Ed Sheeran coming back to New Zealand, the Mathematics Tour.

It's got even bigger now. There's now two shows in Wellington, two shows in Auckland and we've got 10 tickets to give away right now. Five double passes to each year and if you match all five words with ours.

You've got Greedy booked out the stadiums for a second night. What if I was wanting to have an event there? What event are you going to have in there at Eden Park?

Jono's Fun Time event. Oh yeah, I'd go along to that. It would just be you and me. Yeah, true. It would be a you and me. Yeah, true. It would be a very expensive night renting out a stadium. Kirsty and Izzy, let's get you on from Auckland. How are you this morning?

Hi, good, thank you. How are you guys? Good, lovely to have you on. Kirsty, you doing the mad rush dropping Izzy at school? Yes, yeah, school run. Yeah, so it must be a nightmare out there. Like, we don't get to experience peak hour traffic in the... Remember the morning rush, Ben?

Oh, no. Every minute counts in your life. It does. Every minute counts in the morning, right? Yeah, we're not out the door at 7.59, et cetera. But you've factored in a five-minute radio competition into your morning, Kirsty. I have, we have.

We decided to give it a go this morning and managed to get through. Oh, well, well, well. Your English? Ed Sheeran's English? This could all work out well. Hopefully. Okay, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth, Jono or Ben?

Jono, please. All right, Jono's going to head on over there, and we'll see if we can match all five words. We need to give these tickets away. So let's get to it right now. The first word this morning is BERT. B-E-R-T. Burt. B-E-R-T. Burt.

I'm thinking Sesame Street, but that was the first thing that popped into my head. But Burt and Annie. Yeah, yeah. Do you want to go Burt, Ernie? Yes, please. It's just like a Burt, Ernie. Kennel is the second word this morning. Kennel.

Dog. Dog. Badminton. Badminton. Badminton. Racket. Racket. Good option there. Menu is the fourth word.

Menu. Food. Food. And finally, camping is the final word this morning. Camping. Trip. Camping trip. Tent. Oh, tent. Oh, morning. Camping. Trip. Camping trip. Tent.

Oh, tent? Oh, okay. Camping tent. All right. I think you played a really good game there. I hope Jono's all exactly the same wavelength as you and we can send you and a whole lot of people away to Ed Sheeran. You all right, mate?

He's a very slow walk. A very slow walk. Building up anticipation for my arrival back. All right, here, Jono. Let's get to it. Let's try and win these tickets for Kirsty and Izzy this morning. I don't know. I haven't even heard from Izzy.

I don't believe there is an Izzy. Oh, Izzy's there, mate. Say hi. Hi. I believe there's an Izzy. All right, here we go. Bert. B-E-R-T is the first word.

Bert. Bert. You go Ernie. And you'd be correct. Well done. Yeah, right. You guys are thinking the same so far. Let's see if we can get the next four. Bert. Bert. You go Ernie. And you'd be correct. Well done. Yeah, right. You guys are thinking the same so far. Let's see if we can get the next four. Kennel. Kennel. Dog.

Kennel. Yeah, well done. Okay, two from two. Badminton. Badminton racket. Yes, Jono. Yes. Kirstie. Oh, this is good. This is looking good. All right, menu is word number four, menu. Say food.

Oh, yes. What? All right, we are one away. Kirstie. Oh, one away. The cannon has come out. That's not a euphemism. He's actually holding a confetti cannon.

The cannon is out. Okay, the fifth word. It's all on euphemism. He's actually holding a confetti cannon. The cannon is out. Okay, the fifth word. It's all on this final word. No whispering on the phones right now. Okay. Camping is the final word. Camping. What pops into your head when we say camping?

Two things. Oh, I don't know. Okay. Can I talk through them both? You can. You might want to put them on mute. Can we put them on mute on hold uh they're mute i'm going holiday or tent i'm trying to get i just give me a look

just give me a look i'm looking away from you right now i tried to give the same reaction for things because it may or may not be one of those words it leads me to believe one of them's the word though if you're looking away well no i just i just okay i'll lock in tent yes yes is he kirsty oh brilliant 10 tickets to Ed Sheeran. Thank you so much. Oh, that is going to be so awesome. Oh, my gosh.

You're going to have to find a whole lot of people to go with you, which won't be hard. It's going to be incredible. Ten tickets. Yes, that's fabulous. Thank you. Do you know? Oh, well, there's two of you.

Do you know eight other people? Yes, I'm sure we will. We'll get eight together. Oh, that's awesome. We did it. We'll get eight together. That's awesome. We did it. It's going to be such a great night. So really enjoy that. And thank you so much for listening and playing the game.

Thank you. To be honest, I didn't think we were going to give the tickets away. For the shows, we're going to come and go. Oh, mate. So you're going to have a great day. That's a good win. Okay. And my partner says hi as well. Oh, well, nice. Well, to have a great day. That's a good win. Okay, and my partner says hi as well.

Oh, well, nice. Well, enjoy that Ed Sheeran concert. All the tickets on sale right now for Ed Sheeran's Mathematics Tour at Wellington and Auckland. And Five Words is back tomorrow, but we've got a new twist. There's a new twist, a very exciting twist tomorrow. You'll want to get involved in this. I reckon more people are going to win a whole lot more stuff.

Starts tomorrow here on The Hits. The Hits. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast. Jack Johnson, we love him in New Zealand, as I said before, and he's coming back at the end of the year. Two concerts, one in Auckland, one in Napier, and he's on the line right now joining us. Jack, when you come back,

what are you looking forward to most doing in New Zealand? Get the... Oh, man, it's hard to say so many. It's just when we're there the last time around we got to do a nice camping trip we have friends kind of all around the country from from the surfing world and just from music and whatnot so i would love just to see all our good old friends so i miss a lot of them getting in the ocean's always front it's always a little cold i gotta acclimate again but the waves are good enough that it's worth it i should know the proper name for it

but the hot water beach where we dug a hole and we got to sit in like a little cold. I've got to acclimate again, but the waves are good enough that it's worth it. I should know the proper name for it, but the Hot Water Beach, where we dug a hole and we got to sit in a little boiling hot tub on the beach. I think we call it Hot Water Beach. We sure do. We're not very inventive with some of our names sometimes. North Island, South Island, things like that. I got it right. I heard in New Plymouth last time you played there,

everyone went a bit crazy and ended up in the duck pond. Oh, yeah, yeah, that was fun. My favorite part of that is my good friend who's actually on tour with us, one of my best old friends. He's our promoter down there, so he was the one who had to get on the microphone and tell everybody to get out of the pond, you know, and then everybody started getting back into the pond again,

and I would just look over at him, and he would kind of raise his eyebrows, like hoping that maybe I would say something. I would just shake my head. I was like, I'm trying to act cool up here, man. I'm going to make you be that guy that has to get everybody out of the pond. And he'd have to be the bad guy again. Yeah, you're like, I'm not doing the public service announcements, man. He's on the rock star here.

It's not cool if I'm telling people to get out of the duck pond. I leave all the PSAs to him. Yeah, I've seen their duck pond before. It looks toxic. Yeah, it's not a good idea to get in the duck pond to begin with. psa's to him yeah i've seen their duck pond before it looks toxic yeah it's not a good idea to get in the duck pond to begin with you know what i mean now you say it now he'll say it no he won't say it at the time are you got are you've got teenage kids from what we understand and uh and and they were very stoked

well one of them was stoked that one of your songs blew up on tiktok the other day is it kind of weird that you know like having your kids find your music or be impressed that way? I don't know. I don't know if he was stoked. It was kind of like, you know how teenagers are. It's always hard to tell if they're stoked or not. But he informed me, you know, he kind of just like at breakfast time,

as if it was anything else, was like, oh, dad, one of your songs was viral on TikTok. And I'm not sure if he was stoked or disappointed in his father hard to read aren't they the disgruntled teenagers yes do they think you're cool yeah surely they think you're cool i think they do think i'm cool but not in the way of like how we all define the word cool but i think i think they think i'm a pretty uh i'm a hangable dad like they like hanging out with me. But they also, like, they quite often, like, point out how dorky I am or, like,

they think it's pretty funny that I can gather a crowd of, like, 10,000 people in one place, you know? They just, to them, I'm just the dorky, normal dad who kind of hangs out with them and we surf, we jam music around the house and whatnot. And then when I go on tour and they see it actually happening, they're like, wait, that's not just something you tell us you can do.

You can actually show up. I think it's pretty funny. My dad plays the guitar and sings, not to the level of you, but he enjoys it. But I knew as a kid, whenever he brought out the guitar and you're at someone's place, it was like, oh, we're sleeping the night on the couch here because he's going to be playing it till two or three in the morning.

Is it the same with your kids? You bring out the guitar and you're like, oh, here here he goes again jack's got his guitar out that's really funny yeah you know and i i make my kids sleep in a lot of weird places not only for that reason but just when we're on tour sometimes and kind of your question earlier you're catching up with old friends they were in new zealand and we're out to dinner we're having a few drinks or something and you don't want the night to end when they they're real little, I would kind of just tell them, I'm tired, and I would say, all right, there's a good spot under the table there, you know, whatever. So like, that sounds horrible.

I don't always mean it's when you're having a drink, but it's just more about when the times are fun. We kind of make home wherever we are that night, you know, and they'll find a good place to crash. You know, and if you're sleeping under the table of a restaurant, so good. It's not in the bar very often. No, you probably get this all the time, Jack, but one of your songs, Better Together,

was one of my wedding songs with my wife, Amanda, which is such a cool song. And I don't know if you're okay with this, but even though I've got it tattooed on my arm, I've forgotten my wedding anniversary once, which is not a great look. My wife's a big big fan can we give her a quick call right now she's a teacher and one of your answer just to say maybe for this year's wedding anniversary you can say happy wedding anniversary so I've got that covered with the man who has our wedding song can we do that oh yeah easy uh but wait to clarify you have the date of your of your wedding

or my words tattooed on your arm? The date. I didn't quite go to your words, but we had it. Okay, good, good, good. Okay, you're okay with that? He's like, good, you're not a freaky fan. In that case, go ahead and call your wife. All right. Will she answer?

I mean, you must get that all the time, having... Hi, it's Amanda's phone. Can you leave a message? Thanks. That's not his wife. At the tone, record your message. That's one of my kids. Amanda, Amanda, you really blew it.

I was hoping you'd answer. This is Jack Johnson. I was calling to wish you a happy anniversary. I was really wanting to chat for a while, but I guess we're just going to have to leave it to the voicemail. Until next time. Aloha. Oh, Jack. Yeah, she is a big fan, although chat for a while, but I guess we're just going to have to leave it to the voicemail. Until next time, aloha. Oh, Jack.

Yeah, she is a big fan, although we had a moment, and she'll hate me telling you this, that we're in Fiji, and she's like, oh, my God, can I get a photo? I love – we went up to the person, she was like, I love you, this is great. And then she said at the end, you're Jack Johnson, and it was Kelly Slater, the surfer. That's really funny. You know what's funny though?

Kelly and I have talked about it and I think me and Kelly get mistaken for each other all the time. Yeah, but you all just politely answer to each other. You've had photos with each other's fans. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, totally. Oh, Jack.

Are we still on your wife's voicemail? I don't know. She's going to clear this message in about four years. Oh, Jack. Are we still on your wife's voicemail? I don't know. Hopefully we will. She's going to clear this message in about four years. Oh, Jack Johnson, we can't wait for you to come back to New Zealand. We love you here. It's going to be awesome. We hope to catch you soon when you're in town as well.

Yeah, hopefully we can meet up when I'm down there. I can't wait. Yeah, Jack Johnson in New Zealand for two concerts in December, Auckland and Napier. And every caller on Friday on our show, every caller that gets on the air wins tickets to Jack Johnson. That's pretty cool. So why not let's play some Jack Johnson for you Wednesday.

This is Taylor, Jack Johnson, The Hits, 8.15. They say Taylor was a good girl, never want to be late, complain, express ideas and... Mmm, coffee bread. Jono and Ben on The Hits. Now I'm worried though, Jono and Ben on the hits. Now I'm worried though, Jono, if I can just do a bit of real talk here for a second because this is not what we planned to do at this part of the show, but we're watching, we've

got the TV on, it's on mute. It's on TV One Breakfast at the moment and an ad keeps popping up for Give Us a Clue. Now that's the charades show. Very popular charades show starring Paula Bennett, former National MP. She hosted, isn't she? Hilary Barry. Mother of the nation. Well, the naughty auntie of the nation. Tom Sainsbury as well.

And they bring in different people each week to be on Give Us a Clue to play a game of charades. And we got to be on it. And so we're on the episode tonight. The series starts tonight. And there's promos playing of us. And now we filmed this.

Not to pull back the curtain too much. We filmed this, I think it the curtain too much we filmed this I think it was the end of November last year I can vaguely remember doing it it was fun I can't even remember what we said on the show

I know we did it but I can't even remember when it was or what was said no I remember being was it either during a lockdown because we had to do like

900 rat tests to get into the studio yeah was it during a lockdown was it the end of a lockdown I can't remember yeah but you're right we had to do all the rat testing because. Was it during a lockdown? Was it at the end of a lockdown? I can't remember. Yeah, but you're right.

We had to do an auto-rate test. And because it was at a time that, well, I think it was during lockdown because you can tell by the trailers, and this is what worries me, because it was filmed a long time ago and it's going to be playing tonight on TV One. But looking at us, you've got, I mean, the longest here I've ever seen you have in your life. I mean, it's not long for probably a lot of people, but it's... Oh, because it was a lockdown because the clippers weren't working.

What I shaved my head with, they'd broken down. So you couldn't go to the shops to get some new clippers. Yeah, I was just riding it out. And you... I couldn't go get my hair cut from the Mababo that I normally go to. So my kids had cut a mullet, like what you call a prison mullet. It looked like a prison mullet. He looked like a of the common chiros like not a pivotal one no just one to make up some numbers who's the skinny weird guy oh we just need to bolt us some numbers out here

on the street but you look at the tv like i've got a mullet like my hair's kind of slicked back and i've got this horrible mullet to the side and we haven't been on tv for a while so people are going to think that was filmed probably a couple of days ago, and they're on TV going, oh god, those guys, what are they doing? But this is why I, and it's paying dividends now, this is why I permanently set a low bar for my appearance. For moments like this.

Even you! He looks slightly more dishevelled than usual, nothing to raise alarm bells, but they're going to look at prison mullet over here, and they're going to be judging, they're going to be commenting on the internet, oh, what happened happened to him he's turned into a you know my kids have done that haircut not well you know you don't get kids to do haircuts but i did it during lockdown and now i'm on tv i'm the biggest channel it's a risky call to like filming a show seven months out i'm surprised i'm still here i'm surprised it's not a tribute show they probably

have one little rip john o'brien just ready to go in the graphics, just in case. This episode in memory of Jono Pryor. Just in case. We've got two versions of that show, just which one are we rolling with? Actually, they're going to text me this afternoon just to make sure which one they're going to go with. Leave it up to the last minute.

Could happen at any stage. They're not afraid to use the F word. Be family, friendly, fun. Jono and Ben on the hits. We're going on the $20 tour next week to deliver $20 that we owe to $20 Karen. So we're making our way from Auckland to Christchurch. We can go anywhere down the country that we want to go to.

Yeah, we're going to have a lot of money too to give away as well, $20 bills if you spin our wheel. I don't know, in hindsight, the wisest move to advertise that we're going to be travelling around in a car, the world's most unsecure ATM machine, basically. Yeah, true. Maybe we'll just get out installments or something. It's the Willy Wonka theory, isn't it?

What he did with chocolate to children. We're luring adults in with cash. That's what we're doing, but we need to come to your town. We don't have a planned route as Ben said at the moment. Debbie in Te Aroha on 0800 The Hits. You're nominating Te Aroha. Why?

Oh, it's a very quiet little town and we could do with a bit of excitement so come on down. So for no reason. There's nothing to come and see. Oh, we've got, I don't know, we've got a nice domain. We've got a few good artists down here.

Oh, yeah, good. That's lovely, Debbie. That's beautiful. We'll take that. Someone also texted in, if you're going to Taupo, come into the Hookah Prawn Park to create exciting prawn memories that will last a lifetime. That's what they're saying.

There's another nomination here for the Modaki Boulders. I think we'll have to go a bit further. Yeah, I'm not, you know my opinion on Modaki. Oh, you're not a huge fan. It's further south. Further south, we have to go past Brushes. We should go, I guess we could. Someone said it's nothing short of amazing.

It's well short of amazing. Look, hey, look. You know, one thing we won't agree on. You don't like it, I'm into it, that's fine. Well, thank you, Debs. We might be seeing you in Te Arawa. We've got James on the phone. You want to nominate your town for us to come with our $20 bills?

Yes. Common Co. Rotorua. I know you're self-dunner. You starve yourself all day for a good feed. They put on a good feed. They put on a good feed down there and they even serve you with little robots. As the waiter? As the waiter, mate, yeah.

We've got a robot waiter in Vegas. I've got two of them, yeah. They scoot around and deliver your food. This is futuristic. Do they have staff? They do have staff, but they get in the back there and cook all the kai up for you and send it out

on the little robot. Wow. I do want to see this. I mean, a different Terminator, if this is what the robots were doing, you know,

than when they were the one with Arnie. Yeah. Unless the action-packed one is the robot delivers your spaghetti bolognese, though. Yeah.

Not quite the Arnie, more the RTD2. It feels like it could go wrong at any moment. Having a robot waiting staff running the floor. Well, you know how you, Jono, yourself, you know, you order a feed and if it might not be up to par, you don't have to

lie to the waiter, then you can tell the robot straight to his face. Just send it, just turn the robot around and send it back to the kitchen? Even lie to them and say there was a fly in the soup and get a free seat. I love it, I love it. We can get a traffic light, a Cobb Crunch, they still do those? I didn't even know

Cobb & Co was still functioning. Oh yeah mate, they're still pumping it out. Yeah mate, so when you come on down, I'll give you my address, you can pick me up and we'll swing down there together. We'll go to Cobb & Co. Oh, that sounds good. Yeah, yeah, make a bit of a shindig of it. We're bribing everyone with $20 that we are giving a pair of them a chance to spin the $20 wheel,

so we'll let you do that as well. You might get $20 as well. Oh, as long as it doesn't end up with old $20 carrying. Yeah, that's our problem. That's what we need to deal with. We're dealing with that. That's our mess to clean up. To the robot waiters, clean up that sort of mess.

Hey, James, nominating the robots of Rotorua. Good income, K. Thanks for your call, mate. All good, gentlemen. You have a good day, eh? And you can nominate 24487, your town, if you want us to come with our buttloads of $20 notes. The $20 tour, it's happening all next week.

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