Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What Was The Longest Time You Waited In Line For?

Episode Date: September 22, 2021

It seems that so many people in the Auckland region right now are frothing over takeaways being available, and the lines outside some stores are looooong. So we wanted to know what the longest time you've waited in a line for, whether that be a concert, a new shop, or anything of the likes! We had some brilliant calls! Ben also decided to whip out some old photos of a trip he and Amanda did to Europe, to show his kids. One of the photos was of the statue of David. If you know, you know. Finally, Jono is concerned with some of Oscar's potential life choices. Enjoy the show!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, welcome. It's the podcast winner day, 22nd of September. It's Jono and Ben here and producer Humphrey joining us as well.

Producer Humphrey, not a fan of talking words into a microphone. He's more of the cold face, isn't he? Behind the scenes, rolls his sleeves up, doesn't like, you don't like. I like it, I do like, I admire that about you. He's just got no interest in being a show pony like us two.

Bronnie, our boss at TV, when we used to make the Jono and Ben show, she was exactly the same. She was like, don't ever put me in front of the camera. That was like her thing. That was her thing, yeah. Like, yeah. Yeah. Why not?

Why not? Ah. You know. The John and Ben show. Oh, yeah. Well, your name's Ben. You could easily replace me. If he's ever sick any day, you can come in.

Yeah. You know, it saves on graphics and rebranding. No, I just, logistics. He's a logistics guy.ing he's a logistics guy and you need a logistics guy there is a lot of people in the industry that they

they see a job as a stepping stone onto something you know they're not going to be around for long and that's fine too if you're ambitious

you want to work you know but I love the fact that you're in you know me I'm the logistics person and you're good at it you're bloody good

we're lucky to have you I've got ambition yeah to be on air I don't feel like tomorrow they'll announce you as a replacement to Mark Richardson or Ben's the new guy on you know

I don't want to be here I'm quite sweaty now. I think I'm having a panic attack. He's good. He should be a buddy. But you offended him when you said he had no ambition. You've got no ambition. You're just happy in your little room next door,

organising interviews. That's what I like about you, Ben. You just don't drive. You're comfortable being with us. in your little room next door, organizing interviews. That's what I like about you, Ben. You just got no drive. You're comfortable being with us. He's not going to find something because you're like, no, I didn't mean it like that. That's what we like to do.

We like to suck the life and drive out of everyone that we work with. I didn't mean that. I'm sorry. They came in with full of hope and ambition, but we beat it.

Sometimes they're too good for us. They move on. Ben, you're not. So that's the way it is. You're coming down with us, baby. The podcast today, we had a fun little show this morning, didn't we? It was a big celebration of the fact that Auckland is back In takeaway zone, level takeaways We've gone crazy about it

I see Dr Ashley Boomford, I was just reading online He's had some sleepless nights about this decision And he would be worried just seeing everyone out there Getting takeaways and ordering stuff. Oh, traffic jams. All the bubbles, all the work bubbles. I mean, it's great for the economy because there's so many businesses that needed that, but it is tough.

Yeah, it is. I reckon it was one of those closed door meetings where Ashley's like, well, you know my thoughts, you know where I stand and Jacinda's like, yeah, I do but I'm getting the heat from all these people wanting to start this and he's like, yeah, I do. But I'm getting the heat from all these people wanting to start this. And he's like, well, I've told you. Yeah, I feel like it's one of those.

Yeah, I hope it's not an I told you so situation from him, though. And he probably hopes that as well. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure he's hoping for that. But then also secretly he wants a little bit of like, hey, remember that meeting? And you were like, I've got to do it. Anyway.

Yeah. So you celebrated takeaways. We gave away a load of McDonald's, didn't we? Oh, so much. Yeah. For a company that hasn't been opening for a bit, logistics being away a load of McDonald's didn't we oh so much for a company that hasn't been opening logistics Ben organised all that

McDonald's he did the deal with Ronald did the handshake he did thank you big oversized clown hands of his

not yours Ronald your hands aren't ambitious enough to get that big they wouldn't even dream of being that big would they oh well enjoy the podcast

we're off to have an awkward conversation after this about I'm sorry Ben I didn't mean it like that that's what's going to happen so we can turn the bikes off

and you enjoy the podcast alright sorry Ben I didn't mean it going hard and ooey go hard go ooey

go hard and ooey hard and oo, go ooley. Go hard and ooley. Hard and ooley. Go hard. With Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Today's the day the takeaways are back on the menu. The team of five million can all get takeaways no matter what level today. And everyone's very excited.

80 cars in line last night, they reckon, at the McDonald's Lincoln Road in West Auckland just after 12 o'clock. 80 cars. One person pitched a tent outside the Papakura KFC as well last night. Which seems wildly unnecessary, but good for our fodder too. So thank you for them providing that tent chat for us this morning, which you brought up multiple times this morning, which is good. A bit of a quirky angle on the whole.

Yeah, I love it. But waiting in line is what many people are doing today because that's how much everyone wants takeaways, whether it be takeaway coffees, whether it be on the whole. Yeah, I love it. But waiting in line is what many people are doing today because that's how much everyone wants takeaways, whether it be takeaway coffees, whether it be at the bakery. It's kind of what you do. I mean, you have to do it to go into the supermarket at the moment, waiting in line. So we tried a little game this morning in the drive

through. We had Laura on the phone and we're like, oh, we'll do a game where we sort of grill the person on the speaker that you can barely comprehend because of the poor speaker quality. And so we thought, oh, that's a good idea. We'll get them on the speaker, you know, that you can barely comprehend because of the poor speaker quality. And so we thought, oh, that's a good idea. We'll get them on the speaker. And then through her phone, you know, maybe we'll barely be able to understand them at

all. And just the wait time, it really, we didn't factor this in, did we? Okay, so we'll just, we'll wait. How far away are you from the entrance there? Three cars. Oh, okay. Bit of filler time. Okay, all right.

And banked on this. What's your five-year plan, Laura? Well, hopefully I'll be out of the line by then. Yeah, good. Good. Married? This was a date? What is this, Jono? Yes, I've got

the kids at home, so I'm going to send them some food. What do you like doing in your spare time? I like walking my dog on the beach. Oh, yeah, Ben's got a dog. You've got a dog, don't you, Ben? Yeah, I do have a dog, yeah. I've heard of dogs.

And how far away are you now? Two cars in front of me now. So they went on for another 25 minutes. We couldn't even get to the front of the counter. We're just too long in the line for our radio station to move on. Sincerest apologies if you missed that champagne piece of radio. But that was it there. So what we want to do right now is we've got every caller that can win McDonald's.

Thanks to McDonald's who have given us these vouchers. It would have been controversial if it was thanks to Burger King or something. No, it's thanks to McDonald's. Yeah, right. $50 Macca's vouchers. Monopoly game is back at Macca's with over $107 million in prizes up for grabs today. Yeah, an obscene amount of prizes. I keep going.

It must be a typo. $107 million. Got me really worried that it is. Yeah, you keep saying it. Now you've sunk the McDonald's franchise. Well, he promised $107 million worth of prizes. Are we there yet? It feels like a prize pool that they're still going to be giving away

in 50 years. Oh, they're doing it right now. Still slogging away with that $107 million giveaway. The Monopoly game. So we wanted to know on 0800 the hits of 4487. Impress us with the longest time you've waited for something. Now, it doesn't have to be waiting in a line at a drive-thru. No. It could be waiting for concert tickets. Yeah, for the new

phones. Sometimes, you remember there's that period where it'll be waiting for concert tickets. Yeah, for the new phones. Sometimes, you remember, there's that period where it'll go crazy for new phones. People would sleep out overnight. Yeah. Some people do it with shoes and things. Maybe you're waiting in line to pay your rates bill. Oh, yeah.

That took three days. I don't know. Juliet, you've waited outside a concert before. Yeah, I was desperate to get to the front of a mosh pit to be front row right by the artist. And I think I waited. Who was the artist? Rhys Maston.on oh that's right from x factor he won australia x factor you slept out

for reese no i didn't sleep out for the concert i probably dosed you dosed yeah i went to probably nine o'clock in the morning and the concert obviously wasn't till about seven or eight she's not even reese maston's parents have shown that level of commitment to reese maston yeah i was exhausted and like you needed to go pee And we did subway trips to get food It's a commitment It is a really big commitment Didn't you say you didn't quite understand

The Mastin story of you Oh yeah So the Reece Mastin's fans they were the Mastinators weren't they No no no They didn't have a name at this point So you know if you're like a fan of Justinin bieber you've got bieber fever yeah i was believers yeah i was like oh i love race mast and i've got mastitis and then your friend's mom pulled your side in their arms you know what that is you're like no you don't have clogged ducts you're 14 years old yes that's many

embarrassing so she had to uh throw away her i've got mastitis sign she's gonna hold over the show all right the longest time you've waited for something and if you get on the air if we like it uh you'll win a 50 mcdonald's voucher today because i'm giving away more stuff at mcdonald's 107 million dollars in prizes wasn't it enough for me i want to give away some great vouchers next it is the hits beautiful it's better sweet you like i'm broken i want to know this morning the longest time you've waited for something because many people are waiting uh for a long long time for a long long time uh for takeaways around the country as of last night takeaways are back on the menu uh so when i'm out of the hits what's the longest time you've waited for something okay

you impressed us with your line time, we'll give you McDonald's. Now, who's doing the judging on how impressed we are? Well, you do it, because I feel like you always go, oh, you just give it to everyone. Which you will. Yeah, I will. You've got to admit that. You're impressed by very, you know, it doesn't take much to impress bed boys.

And he'll go, wow. Okay, well, you win, you know? Yeah, yeah. All right, we'll start with Joe in Christchurch. Your line time, impress win, you know? Yeah, yeah. All right. We'll start with Joe in Christchurch. Your line time. Impress us, Joe. So, a long time ago, me and three of my mates waited three and a half hours for my mum to pick us up after rugby practice.

Yeah, see, three hours after, yeah. I'm impressed with that wait time. Now, the impress, I mean, three and a half hours in the grand scheme of life isn't much, but when you factor in your mum's negligence, that's where... Yeah, you're like, mum will be here soon, you know, and you're cold. You've got to explain that to your friends as well. It's just not a good time. No, fair enough.

We did the same thing. My dad was meant to pick us up from the airport, wasn't he, in Wellington, John O'Dea? It was a bleak Tuesday night at about 10.30 we arrived in. He's like, keep a voice over here, don't worry, he's looking forward to it. And we're like, we'll give him some time. We gave him time. Then I was like, I better call him. He's like, yep, all good to pick you up.

That's tomorrow, eh? I'm like, no, that's now. So, yeah, it's happened to me. And we're going to give you some McDonald's, $50 McDonald's voucher coming your way, all right? Oh, yay. Good on you, Joe. Well done. There's nothing quite like the humbling experience of your parents forgetting that you're a thing.

Yeah. You know, it's like, you made me. How can you forget to? Yeah, yeah. Let's go to Wendy. You're welcome. Impress us with your line time, Wendy. Hi there.

Four hours. Waste of time in the end. Never got to meet them. Oh, who was that? Who were you trying to meet? Millie Vanilli. It was over at the record store just in Queen Street. Oh, Millie Vanilli.

So if you went there and bought a CD or a tape, I don't even have CDs in, it must have been tape. You got there to sign it and yeah, four hours, about four and a half hours in, the store was closed and the session was over. Now Millie Vanilli, if you don't remember, they were shrouded in controversy because

they were very handsome gentlemen. It was like they had ripped them out of a men's fitness monthly magazine. Very long hair, exotic looking characters, and they got them to sing a song. And they won a Grammy for this song. But then the scandal was that they didn't actually sing on the track. And they revealed it after they'd won the Grammys and stuff, didn't they? Exactly. Four and a half hours a waste of my time. And you didn't actually sing on the track. And they revealed it after they'd won the Grammys and stuff, didn't they? Exactly.

Four and a half hours a waste of my time. And you didn't meet them? No, I didn't meet them. Oh, did you? I think about 16 at the time. Absolutely gutted, but never mind. Well, you could just blame it on, was it raining at the time?

Sorry. No, we were just all cats sitting there for three and a half, four hours. I thought it was going to rain and they didn't show up. They blamed it on the rain. Sorry, guys, no show today. We don't come out in the rain. You know our policy.

We didn't sing it, but we are here for that policy. Things we do when we're young, young and dumb. Good on you. The McDonald's voucher covered your way, all right? Enjoy that. Thanks, guys. All right, and dumb. Hey, good on you. McDonald's voucher coming your way, all right? Enjoy that. Thanks, guys. All right, well, that's very good. You can keep these coming through 4487

and press us with your line time. We'll get you out some McDonald's vouchers, all right? Now, after 35 days, Aucklanders are back in the team of 5 million in regards to enjoying takeaways. Coffees, baked goods, fast foods is all back on the menu and a lot of long lines. We saw last night, even at midnight,

there was about 80 cars in a McDonald's out in Lincoln Road in West Auckland. People are queuing up. Yeah, you say we're back in the team. We're kind of in the squad, but we're not in the field. Not in the playing 15, right? No, it's like, yeah, we'll give you a, yeah, you can have a jersey if you want,

but don't get too ahead of yourself just yet. And we want you to impress us with your line time, longest time you waited in line for something. Have you waited in line? I can imagine you're not a line waiter. One of the stories I remember waiting about three hours for the Pirates of Caribbean ride in Disneyland and waiting for there for ages,

finally got on the ride, went round and went on the boat. It was fun and then got to a spot and then it just stopped. You're like, oh, is this part of the ride? And it turns out it wasn't. And then the lights came on after you'd been sitting there. It was like the announcement going, stay in your boat, stay in your boat. And then someone came down and walked us all out. Oh, you had to go through the back part of nothing.

Oh, through Mickey's tunnels. Nothing sort of takes the magic away from Disneyland. They're walking sort of backstage. And then I was like, we need to go back. We need to find out what we missed out on. So later on, we went back and queued up again. And we were like one corner away from the end. What did you do?

In the backstage areas, it's just Donald huffing on smokes. Yeah, pretty much. Hell of a day out there, boys. Hell of a day. Anyway, impress us. 0800 the hits with your line time. Jade, what was it? Yeah, so I waited about four hours in line at Krispy Kreme when it first opened.

Oh, I remember news stories of this Krispy Kreme store opening. Because do you strike up conversation with other people in the line? Yes, yeah. What do you talk about? I mean, this is my dream. Yeah. You know, I like light banter. So being trapped in a line with someone that I don't know for four hours,

they would probably walk out of the line. But what did you talk about with people? I just talked about how their day was going. I also went in line and, yeah, like they had kids and stuff. Yeah, you really cover all bases there, don't you? I mean, once you've done How's Your Day Going, good. Then there's still three hours and 59 minutes and 30 seconds with a banter to do there. And did you have to pay?

Were they free donuts when they launched, or did you have to pay for them? Yeah, they did offer free donuts too. Oh, they gave you some free donuts. Well, that's good. That's worth your while. We're going to give you a $50 McDonald's voucher as well, so you can enjoy that.

Oh, well, thank you. I'd be really craving real McDonald's, which is homemade. Oh, well, thank you. I've been really craving real McDonald's because of homemade. Have you been making homemade versions? Yes. How's that been going? What have you been replicating? Big Macs, McChicken burgers. Just not the same, is it? It's just not the same. I was saying the same thing

about homemade fries, which we've been surviving on from the freezer, you know those ones? Since 1949, the fries have been available at McDonald's, and they are the most popular item. Four billion pounds of potatoes every year in the U.S. alone, used on fries for McDonald's. Wow.

Potatoes, such a versatile vegetable. Biggest buyer of potatoes in the entire world, McDonald's. Really? Yeah, according to this. Just one of the mind-blowing facts you never knew you needed to know until I looked at the ad. That is a mind-blowing fact. Yeah, they buy more potatoes than anyone else.

And the Irish McDonald's, well. Thank you, Jade. Appreciate that. We'll get Belinda on the phone. Your line time. And press us and we'll give you some meccas. Inland Revenue. Bloody hell.

Okay, so how long? 45 minutes. Oh, that's a long wait. When you're on the phone, that seems like three days. And it's like, you are 323rd in the queue. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, well, good on you, Belinda.

And then when you finally get through to someone, they go, well done, you owe us a lot of money. It's the prize for waiting in line for 45 minutes. Absolutely. We're going to send you out some McDonald's, you enjoy that alright Thank you very much Andy, your line time Good morning, how are you? Yeah good, we've probably put you on hold for about 9 hours waiting to come on the radio

What did you wait in line for? We're there for Rolling Stone tickets We're there 8 hours for Rolling Stone tickets And the guys ahead of me got the last of the tickets Oh So what we thought we would do We would go to the pub and then Go to the last of the tickets. Oh, yeah. So what we thought we would do, we would go to the pub and then go to the back of the theatre and listen to them.

And the guys who got the last tickets were in the pub. We met them, and they said to us, we'll go in, we won't go in our seats for the first 20 minutes, and then you go up, tell them you've lost your tickets, and then you can come in. So we did that, and we got in for free. Oh, wow. So you actually got...

What a trusting security guard. No, he certainly wasn't trusting. He made us wait for a long time and he waited to see if anyone else got into the seat that we gave the numbers for. Oh. Great scam. That's a wonderful scam, isn't it?

Thank you. Yeah, thank you. You're not so bad yourself I've done many more I'm on the run that's why I'm in New Zealand Unfortunately we just gave away our last McDonald's No we didn't You've got a McDonald's voucher coming your way

$50 you can enjoy that Thank you very much Enjoy your takeaways if you're getting them today And also Time in the Line is an app that you've used before Producer Juliet if you want to get the accurate times for supermarkets you can do that but now also takeaways brilliant time the line.co.nz i think it is welcome to two half-assed dads to a half-assed job official title new zealand's breakfast of course the first day out of level four is it the last time we'll ever be in level four in new zealand well i know the prime minister said uh if

everyone gets vaccinated she's had she's dangling that carrot 90 by the time that's you know we're due out of level three and i could look at putting in level two if you behave yourself we may never go back to level four again it's like a kindergarten teacher if we all sit straight with our backs up and our arms folded and legs crossed we might just get to go out and enjoy morning tea. It's funny the things you end up doing because you've been in lockdown for 35 or so days. Over the weekend, we got out some photo albums. Jesus, you know times are desperate when you're wearing out the photo albums, don't you? I know.

You're one day away from retying your shoelaces. I know, so we got out some photo albums and we showed the kids, my wife and I showed the kids when we went, we sort of spent six months going around through Europe and around America and it was actually quite cool to show them some of the things we saw. But we got to a picture of something we were talking about on a podcast intro

the other day, Jono, of the statue of David. Oh, Michelangelo's David statue. Have you seen that, Producer Julian? No, but I'm going to Google. It's a wonderful sculpture that's here, Michelangelo. It's very famous seen that producer Julian? It's a wonderful sculpture It took him two years I did a bit more research on it It took him two years to carve out David I can't help but feel that David would have been

Less than impressed You know you look at David and he's like Well that's not me in my finest hour You know I did a bit more research because we started talking About it because the kids are like Why why is he not wearing any clothes? And what's David? So David is from David and Goliath.

That's who David was. So David was the guy that he's got a slingshot. Not that anyone's ever seen the slingshot because you look at other bits. He's holding a slingshot, isn't he? I've never noticed he's holding a slingshot. Neither have I because everyone's looking at some other bits and pieces that he's got on his leg. Maybe he could have the slingshot in front of. Yeah, well, that's what I slingshot. Neither am I, because everyone's looking at some other bits and pieces that he's got up his leg. Maybe he could have the slingshot in front of...

Yeah, well, that's what I kind of thought. So he was the one that defeated the giant in the Bible, you know, the giant man Goliath, and he came out. So I don't know if he fought, dude. Was that his tactic? Maybe Goliath's like, ooh, you win this one. I'll back off. But it took two years for Michelangelo to carve the statue of David.

It's incredible to think back then that the technology, he would have had nothing, just like a chisel and a hammer. And what he's ended up with is wonderful and a very small set of genitals. Maybe Michelangelo had checked out by then. He's like, mate, I can't be bothered. Do you know, rub salt in the wound, because I did, as I say, I was doing some research to tell the kids more about it, because I didn't want to give them misinformation.

So I was like, oh, you know, I kind of avoided the genital conversation with the kids, but I was like, yeah, poor David, you know, could have given him a, his right hand, he did bigger. He did his hand bigger. Like, I was like, David would have been like, mate, you did my hand bigger. You could have at least.

The length you gave my hand, just give that to them. They made it, you know, the hand because it was like, oh, the poor thing got stitched up. I'm the same. I wouldn't want Michael Angelo to carve a statue of me. I'm like, no. No, please. Unless we can come to some sort of arrangement

that for hundreds of thousands of years later that people are going to keep staring at this. People are like, don't worry, no one will see it. Well, of course they are to this day. There's still these replicas outside and you know, there's one thing in Florence, there's a replica outside. They're rubbing salt into the wounds, aren't they? Really, poor old David. Oh, good on you

for wheeling out a photo album. What a lovely thing to do. Don't you also burden your family with an annual photo album that every year he collates photos from the last 12 months, don't you? Which is a lovely gesture. Well, it's not something that you do anymore is print out photos. No. They all sort of clog up your photo stream. No, because technology's moved on. So I make a book

a year of the year in photos that I spend so long moaning about and doing. And then everyone looks at once and goes, that's cool. And then they put it on the shelf. But I work for hours on this thing. But when your kids are like 30 and they've got their own lives, you're going to be like, I'm going to have to lug around. They're moving

house and they have to lug your bloody photo albums from A to B, won't they? A nightmare. Did you go through last night and you're like, hey, look at this photograph. Every time I do, this one makes me laugh. You're not quite a Nickelback, are you? I don't know why our eyes are so red.

That's my friend Joey. What was that? Looks like there's something on his head. Is there? We're too busy looking at David's bits. Tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe. And that's all I have to say.

Thanks, Dr. Ashley. Donal and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. We want to play a wee game right now to potentially pay for someone's McDonald's at the drive-thru. Yeah, now the format of this game is if you are sitting in a drive-thru right now, you don't have to be in Auckland, you could be anywhere in Aotearoa. It's a horned up game where we get you to stick your phone out your window and if anyone else is listening to the show right now, they honk their horn, we pay for your meal.

It's as simple as that. Now I'm surprised that we got this past the goalie, because, Ben, this is really playing into all your anxieties. Horns going, potential nose to tails. Oh, let's not talk about that now. Potential road rage incidents. They're all parked. They're not moving at the McDonald's, right?

We did. We got it past the goalie. Yeah, reluctantly now. And I think Matt joins us now. How are you, Matt? I'm good, thank you. Good morning. How are you guys? Yeah, weantly now. And I think Matt joins us now. How are you, Matt? I'm good, thank you. Good morning. How are you guys?

Yeah, we're doing well. You're in what drive-thru at the moment? The McDonald's just off Dominion Road. Oh, okay. Waiting to shove some pancakes in your mouth. Do you love the McDonald's pancakes? Yeah, I kind of took the bullet for the flat this morning, so we're going to see if I can get someone for them as well.

The kids are always in the setting, and they're like, can we have pancakes? Can we make pancakes? I'm like, I can't be arsed, Mikey. So I just go down the road. Well, they are good. They are good. But they are the ones you just put in the water

and they can shake it up. I can't be arsed. I can't be arsed shaking. I'm not a shaker. I'm not a mover and a shaker, mate. I mean, you microwave Kranskis, so that's your commitment to cooking. I'll tell you, I'll be back in nine minutes, okay?

I'll go down the road. Come back with restaurant-quality pancakes. But, yeah, Matt, what we want to do is we want to play a little game with you. We want to shout your McDonald's. That's what we want to do. We're trying to be generous, but being radio, we can't just go, hey, we'll pay for your McDonald's. Well, we have.

Everybody said every caller gets $50, so he's on the air. Technically, he wins already, doesn't he, Jono? Oh, has he already won? And we could potentially pay for his meal. Yeah. Hey, I take that all back. Well done, you've won a $50 McDonald's voucher. But now we can even pay for this meal that you're about to order. What's on

the menu? What are you thinking? Well, I think the first thing is definitely a handful of hash browns. That's one of the cravings you always need. And then probably some McMuffins and probably just a bit of everything. Might even just go one of every item on the menu. Hey, well, let's not go too crazy, man.

Just bearing in mind, you've already won a $50 voucher. Don't look and give force, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah. How busy is the McDonald's drive-thru this morning? It's picking up. It looks like there's about four or five people in front of me, and there's cars just coming in behind me as we speak. So I got in just in time by the looks of it.

So not overly busy? Not overly busy, no. Not what I thought it would be. Can you tell they're preparing for an onslaught? Yeah, they've got a few road cones set out. It looks like they're separating some of the Uber drivers from people coming to the drive-through, so maybe later today it might be a bit busier you know it's serious business when road cones are

in play don't you that's when they mean business okay all right so what we want to do uh this is a game relying on uh your fellow hits listener who may be or maybe not in the drive-thru at the moment so for us to pay for your meal all you need to do is hold your phone out of the car window and if anyone is at the McDonald's Balmoral, the Balmoral McDonald's right now in the drive through and you're listening to the hits, just honk your horn and Matt wins his whole meal

for free on us. Take it away, Matt. Now, Matt, I'm going to ask you a question. I think it's the same question I want to ask him as well. We want pure transparency. Ben, I'll let you ask the question. Is that you honking the horn? Because it sounded very close to your phone.

Potentially. Honesty, Matt. I'm trying to set it up so people go, why is this guy honking and they honk back and forth. Oh, I see. That's what you do because it sounded like almost too quack. Like you didn't even wait. You're like.

So now we'll go for the legitimate one. And don't worry about our feelings. If no one's listening, we're fine. You have water over Doug's back. We'll make our way through it. Yeah, there's only four or five cars there. It's fine. It's fine. And the next one could be a hits listener.. We'll make our way through it. Yeah, there's only four or five cars there. You know, it's fine. It's fine.

And the next one could be a hits listener. Okay, but you just hold the phone out again, Matt, and... If anyone's listening at the McDonald's... Oh, you're sounding desperate now, Joe. McDonald's Balmoral. Tweet your horn again, Matt. Tweet your horn. Tweet your horn.

Yeah! There we go. That's it. There we go. Definitely was someone listening. They're all tuned in this morning. Well done. We'll show you your meal for the flat, Matt.

Have a great day. Enjoy level, what is this? Level three. Enjoy level three. Hey, thanks, guys. No worries. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of.

Now, I don't know if you're aware of the video game NBA 2K. Yeah, yeah. Basically, it's a popular video game. Right. Basketball game, right? Basketball game. And my son, Oscar, he is obsessed with basketball. Like, his dream is to play for a US college and then go to the NBA.

He's mapped it all out. And my dream is to live off his millions and millions of dollars. So, it's a dream that's working well for both of us. But he's playing this NBA 2K thing, and I was just sitting on the couch next to him, and they've got a function where you essentially create your character and you can work from the ground up. Right.

You know, to sort of navigate your way through to the big leagues. So can you create a version of yourself too? A lot of those games you can create avatars or how you'd want to sort of navigate your way through to the big leagues. So can you create a version of yourself too? It's like a lot of those games you can create avatars or how you'd want to look. Yeah, you can design the guy you want to look. And so he's designed himself as a seven-foot-tall African-American man. So he's just got into college. But what the game does, and this is what I was finding interesting,

is it presents little would- rather do this or would you rather do that you know so he has to make decisions on the players life to get to where he wants to go you know so he's quite smart in that way but I'm a little concerned about some of the decisions he's made and then

my parental genes come into play when he's making these decisions. Just remember you probably, you would have made none of these decisions correctly during your. No, I mean, I went on to the NBA 2K and I played as Tristan Thompson and I had three affairs on Khloe Kardashian. I was out of the game immediately. It was an absolute shambles.

It was only one affair, wasn't it? But the first one was like, should you go out with your girlfriend partying or should you stay at home studying and i'm going will you stay at home study if you want to keep and stay in college and plays like i'm gonna go out partying i was like don't go out partying and then does that affect your player like that affects your player i mean the game a bit groggy and a bit hungover should i should i sign the shady shoe deal for six months or maybe concentrate on my studies?

I'm like, how about we concentrate on your studies, mate? He's like, but I want a shoe deal. I'm like, but your studies are going to, you know, if the basketball doesn't work out, you want to fall back on something? He's like, the basketball's going to work out. We're playing a basketball game. It's going to work. Some of the life decisions were starting to make me a bit anxious.

It's really interesting, the detail they go to on the games. I remember I got a golf one, the golf one, and I spent 45 minutes, 50 minutes just designing my plan, my avatar. And it was so detailed. It was like, stubble, we're on a mole, do you want this? How's your relationship status at home? Go to the level, do you want a mole? Like a facial mole?

It was all, it was just the detail of what, the sunglasses, the hat, the things. Did you you want a mole? Yeah. Like a facial mole. Yeah, it was all. It was just the detail of what the sunglasses, the hat, the thing. Did you opt for a mole? Yeah. I was trying to go, so where am I on my thing? Then it was all like, how's your relationship at home? How's your parents? Do you have a lot of trouble? I really had to go detail.

I managed to say, how's the game? I'm like, I don't know. I've just set up my guy. It's taken me 50 minutes. How are you good at managing 21 affairs while also playing golf? Yeah. That's all me 50 minutes. How are you good at managing 21 affairs while also playing golf? Yeah. That's all part of it, you know? You can just live your life through computer games now, can't you?

Did you do that, Juliet? Yeah, but I was a sucker for Club Penguin. Do you remember Club Penguin? No, I didn't. I always had the wrong shoes and never got into Club Penguin. I made mum splurge on a membership for me where you could wear some really cool like clothes and stuff and it was still the greatest investment I've ever made

I don't even know what is club penguin it's like you are a penguin and you go around like the south pole or whatever clubbing yes there's a dance floor you can club you can fish for snapper you can um I don't know I should have a game called club penguins

sounds quite sort of yeah clubbing penguins oh yeah I don't know if I should have a game called Club Penguins It sounds quite sort of Yeah Clubbing penguins Oh yeah Oh I never thought of it like that Club Seal was a far Far darker game New Zealand's breakfast

This is Jono and Ben On the hits Good morning New Zealand Welcome along to the show It is a big day Big day Take away day guys And I tell you what Us and every other radio program in the market Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome along to the show. It is a big day. Big day takeaway day, guys.

And I tell you what, us and every other radio program in the market will be banging on about it until 9 o'clock this morning. But Ronald, the Colonel, the King of Burgers will be rubbing their greasy deep fried hands together today, won't they? Geez, you seen the video through last night, Juliet. Yeah, oh my goodness. Of a line outside KFC which felt like it stretched on for kilometres. I know. And it was as the sun was setting, so people were getting there very early. Yeah, I don't know if that was legit or not.

Yeah. What were you thinking, green screen Photoshop job? I don't know. I feel like it was potentially taken from another. I don't know. I don't know. Because the big reports this morning of many cars, 80 cars waiting outside McDonald's and Lincoln Road in West Auckland. But no reports of hundreds and hundreds of cars

outside of other places. Maybe it was footage when they released the double down. Remember that? Yeah, maybe. Maybe it was from that. I don't know. As I said last night, I was like, well, what? Because there was a long time to wait. It wasn't until midnight. And even when you got there, you'd wait another couple of hours for food preparation

and then serve the people in front of you. Yeah, I know. Yeah, very impressive. Hey, we'll be giving you coverage. And actually, the good people at McDonald's. Ronald himself handed us a load of McDonald's vouchers to give away this morning. Every caller's going to win a $50 McDonald's voucher. Yeah, actually, we'll do one of those next and talk to you about some of the more of the takeaway do's and don'ts here today.

So give us a call right now. Oh, and under the hits, we'll give our first one away. Thanks to our friends at McDonald's. We'll do that in a few moments on the hits. 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.

This morning, the team of five million, well, they're kind of back together in takeaway form this morning. What is this song? I remember my sister used to do a dance to this. It was Wigdon, it was Wigdon, it was kids are going to get... Yeah, it's a song, it's a takeaway, it's a celebrating takeaway. I vaguely remember that. It feels like a song that was propaganda released by the fast food industry.

Yeah, maybe. To get kids in early. So 35 days it's been. And, you know, the rest of the people outside of Auckland, they'll be like, hey, we've been enjoying takeaways for the last couple of weeks. But for Aucklanders, people are going crazy this morning and overnight. They'll be printing money, these places, today, won't they? Well, they kind of.

I mean, they deserve to because it's been tough for the last few weeks. And small business as well. We can't forget small business too out there. You've got to support everyone. Just go out there and just take your EFTPOS card and just swipe away. Yeah, well, because you're right. Coffee, baked goods, fast food, takeaways,

all back on the menu. And it's important you say about the EFTPOS card because a lot of places aren't taking cash today because it's contactless and stuff like that. So some places are saying no cash, just use your FBOS card or use your pay wave. Wonderful hack that I saw someone else do, but I've never actually employed the tactic because I was impressed at the time, was they swapped their FBOS card and then they'd use the corner of the card to push the numbers.

I was like, genius. I was like, oh, we'll do that. And I never have. I'll talk about it on the radio. But thanks to McDonald's, we're giving away a load of McDonald's this morning. We'll get $50 vouchers to everyone who makes it on air today. I know, which is awesome. Thank you very much. McDonald's have got the

Monopoly game at Maccas from next week. $107 million in prizes to be won. We'll tell you more about that, but you can download the McDonald's app to play and win prizes. Monopoly game at Macca's. Oh, so that's today. Sorry. So that's today.

Did you say $107 million in prizes? Yes. That seems like an obscene amount of prizes. $107 million. I know. Is that what they've invested in this? Yeah, yeah. $107 million, Behem.

Yeah. In prizes. Yeah, appeal and scan your way to win prizes like Volkswagen T-Cross, shopping vouchers with the iconic NZ sale and more. So from today, the McDonald's game is back at Macca's and as you said before, Jono, we've got our $50 Macca's vouchers to give away

to every caller that gets on the ESO. $107 million in prizes. You've got to remember the net worth of McDonald's itself. They can afford it. That's like too much for them. We'll get Sharon on from Tauranga. Morena, Sharon, how are you?

Morena, good, thank you. Say something to entertain us, because we can't be bothered. It's too early in the morning. I'm glad you guys are at level three now. Oh, there you go. Well done, you win McDonald's. Yeah, you got a $50 Macca's voucher coming your way.

Well done. Thank you very much. Enjoy that. All right, Beth, entertain us. You're in Ashburton. Take it away. Yes, hi, how are you? We're way. Well done. Thank you very much. Enjoy that. All right, Beth, entertain us. You're in Ashburton. Take it away. Yes, hi. How are you?

We're good. Very entertaining. Well done, Beth. You win a $50 McDonald's voucher. Thank you. It's funny how sometimes we're battling away at 6 o'clock in the morning, you know, going, hey, give us a call about the Google games. No one phones up.

All of a sudden we say McDonald's vouchers. The phone line's lighting up. They're overloaded right now. We head to Tokoroa. Peter, entertain us. Well done, Peter. You win a McDonald's voucher. Morning, mate. I just had to turn my TV down. I reckon we should bring the hamburger back.

Oh, the hamburger. We can all have a dollar hamburger. Yeah, I love the hamburger. My big thing with the hamburger. Yeah, remember him? We could all have a dollar hamburger. Yeah, I loved the hamburger but my big thing with the hamburger was he dressed like a burglar. Yeah. Like, you know, if he was wandering

down the street, you knew his profession. Wasn't he? Yeah, maybe I was coming to get you, mate. Yeah, you knew his profession

immediately. Yeah, you were like, which guy in the line-up is going to be the guy that took the burgers? Well, probably that guy.

The guy dressed like the burglar. Yeah, we're going to the BA but hey, we're going to get him anyway, won't we? Yeah, I think he was fired. Ronald was like, there's a lot of burgers going missing around here. The guy dressed like the burgers We're going to get him anyway Won't we Yeah I think he was fired

Ronald was like There's a lot of burgers Going missing around here Can I get a big mac please Love you Peter Very entertaining $50 McDonald's voucher All yours

Thank you very much And Jeez the phones are going crazy We'll get back to this We'll get back to this one We'll give them all away By the best of both sides Stretch them out Yeah Don't go too this. We'll get back to this one. We'll give them all away by busy puffs. Stretch them out.

Yeah. Don't go too, don't go hard and early on this one. Not too hard and early. I know that's Jacinda's motto. There's the hits. You got Jono and Ben. It's going to be a big show.

It's a big day. Should be lots of fun. Everything, everything will be just fine. Everything, everything will be all right. You got Jono and Ben on New Zealand's Breakfast.

Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B**** News. Here's a fun game the whole family can play if A, they are awake and B, they have a mild interest in left of centre news stories with words beeped out. Yes, so I find some headlines from around the world that I think are quite entertaining, beep out some words and you guys have to guess what the real headline is. Your first news story. 11-year-old boy hits *** during the same golf round.

I'm going to say hits me baby one more time. And I'm going to stop taking my baby to the golf course. Very dangerous. Stop hitting me baby. I'm going to do a plug for the hits. Maybe he was listening to the hits. Oh, yes. That's the thing he was hitting on.

11-year-old boy hits two hole-in-one shots during the same golf round. So his name is Jake Martinez, and he was at a golf tournament for kids in America, so obviously he's naturally quite gifted at the sport. It was the fifth hole and then the 12th hole again, and both of them were about 100 metres away. I'm not really a golfer, but that seems far away. Yeah.

To hit a hole in one. Especially when you're a kid, too. It's amazing. I was with my friend and me. I've told Ben this story before. Many years ago, my friend Mark, we went to a public golf course. And on the first hole, let's just say our minds were in a different space. Oh, yep. And there's a big group of people, you know, in a different space. Oh, yep.

And there's a big group of people behind you on hole one, which I always get anxious about. You know, I don't like them. I don't like the spectators. He hits the ball, hole in one. And we're like, whoa. And the whole crowd's like, rah, like rapturous applause. And it was great.

I was proud of him. It was a wonderful moment moment but then i had to go next you know then after there's been a hole in one there's high expectations yeah and i hit it and shanked it off to the left and some poor old lady got hit in the face or something oh no but uh yeah very degrading everyone was like oh yeah i was like what were you expecting you're not gonna get two holes in one straight away it weren't you? It was Mr. Martinez. Yeah. The next news story. Shops urged by police not to sell b**** to children due to new TikTok trend. It's not the milk crate thing, is it?

No. They're not selling milk crates to kids for that challenge? Surely not. Well, usually they just pile up outside the shop, so it's probably a great thing. I'm going to say shops urged by police not to sell the dream of becoming a social media superstar when you're older. Shops urged by police not to sell baked beans to children

due to new TikTok trend. So it's kind of like the new form of egging that the youth are doing apparently called beaning. So they'll be emptying cans of baked beans onto driveways, onto cars, onto front porches with an excessive amount of baked beans. So the, onto cars, onto front porches, with an excessive amount of baked beans. So the police are like, look, if any children come into your store

and buy heaps of baked beans, or parents, if your kids are stealing heaps of... So are they throwing baked beans at people? Not necessarily throwing, they're obviously... Just tipping them out. Tipping them out and just being a nuisance, basically. That's a new TikTok trend, apparently, so be careful. Remember when they were all just dancing along to Benny's Glitter? Yeah.

That was a nice time for TikTok. It was a better time, wasn't it? Now it's gone dangerous and volatile. Do you know the video of The Rock? You know how they got the tattoo on my behind? Yes. And I put that up on my TikTok, which is barely like I don't know why I've got TikTok.

But anyway, it got taken down for nudity. Oh. That's rough. Yeah. Did it go quite well on TikTok? Yeah, it went quite well. And then they're obviously taking nudity. That's rough. Did it go quite well on TikTok? Yeah, it went quite well. And then they're obviously taking it down. That's a hot air.

Get that ass off TikTok. That's a very hot air. Not safe for work, guys. Didn't you have something else that got caught? Yeah, jumping into the pants that we did in the studio here. Jason Derulo basically had a pair of track pants. Two people held them up in the air. And he jumped into them.

And that was taken down because it was a dangerous act. When I did it in the air and he jumped into them and that was taken down because it was a dangerous axe. When I did it in the studio, jumping about half a metre off the ground, let alone the people five, six metres on milk bottles.

Milk crates? Yeah, yours got taken down. You're a renegade on two. Maybe we should save that for your OnlyFans, all that content. I think so. And the final news story.

Man from Indiana called 911 over and over to say he was... Say he was keen on winning a $50 McDonald's voucher today from Jono and Ben. He was meant to call the radio station. I guess a man from Indiana called up. I had lots of times to say he was Indiana Jones. Man from Indiana called 911 over and over to say he was tired.

So he pleaded guilty to an early misuse of the emergency system. Apparently that's a thing in the States. And then he was jailed for 60 days. What? For kind of just taking the piss out of the 911 number. Which is a bit weird. I mean, you don't want to take the piss out of the 911 number, but that seems like quite an extraordinary punishment.

I remember going to a sleepover once and one of my friends dialed 111. I was like, oh, my God, this is... Really? Yeah. I was expecting to be raided by the armed offenders or something, you know? You've always got one mate here like, you're just going to grow up and you're going to probably end up in prison. People are going to be calling 911 on you.

Yeah, true. Yeah, I was terrified. Oh, gosh. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 6.24. Now, our newsreaders in Aotearoa do a wonderful job.

They read the news every night. They deliver the autocue brilliantly. But it seems like there's a new thing, part of their resume, TikTok dancing. Seems to be a thing now, eh? Oh, yeah. We see Matty McLean and Jenny Saw and Jenny May doing them on Breakfast TV as well. It feels like a large part of their preparation for the show is dedicated to novelty 45-second dances.

I mean, there's probably some hard-hitting interviews they need to prep for with the Prime Minister, but they're like, sorry, man, I've just got to get this. I've got no questions. I've got no questions. I was up all night practicing TikTok dancing. They're great, isn't it? I was learning the moves to whap. I want them to do whap.

That'd be great. Maybe we should do whap as like a video back. Really? Julia's looking at me like, not that keen. No, no, no, we're quite the point. Are there dance moves to whap? I don't know. Yes, there are.

Last night after the news, Wendy Petrie, Renee Wright, and Andrew Saville were doing their own TikTok to Mariah Carey's Fantasy as well, too, which is going quite well online as well. Wendy Petrie and Rene, great dancers. I feel like Saville's enthusiasm for that project would be at an all-time low. Oh, he just came in right at the end. He was like the little cameo at the end. He just did a little sort of dad sort of shuffle, you know, as I would do. So, yeah, it was great. Good option.

Good option, middle-aged white man. Nice. Yeah, he's got a nice upper sprinkler. That would have been the thing. I mean, you even avoided your own wedding dance beautifully, too. You stepped out of your own wedding dance. And that's, you know, I'm proud of you, buddy. You awkwardly sat in the corner for the rest of the night.

I know my place when it comes to dancing. But they know that if you want to catch more newsreaders doing dancing, then I'm sure it'll be all over social media. They need to put that in the job description now. I think so. Can you dance? Yeah, I think so. Scrolling through your feed.

There is no part of the news that this man hasn't looked at. He's even trawled through those weird classifieds at the end. I don't know if that's for personal or professional reasons, but he's covered it all. And what have we got, Ben? Well, UK man was hiking in the northwest of England, just out there enjoying the natural beauty of the scenery, and then all of a sudden he heard a helicopter.

He was like, oh. And then he watched as the helicopter landed quite close to where he was. Is it Tom Cruise? It was Tom Cruise. I was Tom Cruise? It was Tom Cruise. I was only joking. It was Tom Cruise. No, it was Tom Cruise. Every helicopter story is Tom Cruise landing in a backyard.

Tom Cruise landing on my roof. Well, it was. It was Tom Cruise. He got a photo with Tom Cruise as well. And then he watched as Tom Cruise did a parachute stunt not long afterwards in the same location for the filming for Mission Impossible. So how incredible was that?

Because we heard James Corden do a wonderful story, but also name drop like no one has ever name dropped before. I mean, we can't really talk. We keep bragging about how Peter Andre follows us on The Hits Breakfast. Yeah, well this is James Corden name dropping about how Tom Cruise and him were texting over summer.

This summer, me and Tom Cruise were texting about meeting up in London, right? We're like, hey man, we've got to get together. And he sent me a text saying whereabouts are you staying and i said i'm staying in st john's wood which is pretty central in london i said i'm in st john's wood and he said cool can i land my helicopter there and i just presumed he was joking. I sent back thinking he was joking for crying emojis. Right? And he's put, does that mean no? Classic Tom Cruise.

Oh, so I was texting Tom Cruise the other day. Wonderful story. Tom Cruise is a bloody nuisance with that helicopter, isn't he? Flying around England just wanting to park it everywhere. It's pretty incredible. Does he just turn up by himself in the helicopter and then all of a sudden a film crew appears? Yeah. And a stunt happens.

Then Cruise hops back in his helicopter and he disappears. And away he goes. Like a magician. They were doing, of course, the baseball's going on in America right now. And in a game, the Seattle Mariners baseball game, they had something which, as the dog owner, I'm like, this is a risky, risky move.

It was bring your dog to the game night. So they had hundreds of fans brought their dogs along. We have bring your dog to work day here, and that's a nightmare. It's a shabbles. Yeah. You wouldn't bring your dog here to work day. No, no. The kids really wanted, there was a movie, outdoor movie once in Auckland,

and they're like, and you can bring dogs. They're like, well, let's bring Bone. I was like, oh, okay, yeah, okay. We'll see how that goes. And he ended up paying on a rug of something else oh god they're unpredictable dogs yeah i know it's not looking after a drunk person uh but they did uh during the game which is going quite big on social media they did simba cam so what they did is they played the classic music from the lion king and everyone in the crowd held up their dogs like Simba. There were some that were having dogs like mine.

My body really struggled. Licking them up. 60 kilograms of animal. Yeah. They were holding them up nice and big so they could get on the big screen on SimbaCam for the game as well. So a lovely moment.

Actually, a really cute moment. But I was like, jeez, this could go wrong. Oh, they could run onto the field. Fight dog fights. Oh, all sorts. They're like university students, aren't they, dogs? You take them to a massive stadium. Yeah.

And that is Scrolling for Your Feed this morning. Hey, next on the show, we're going to talk to an Auckland business owner who opened up last night for fish and chips. At midnight. At midnight, yeah. Seems like a late call for fish and chips. We'll find out how busy it was. They opened between 12 and 2 last night.

How much were Kiwis missing in fish and efficient ships we'll find out next that is that big news small town town town town town town we never once made an intro for the segment so we do that live uh what we do in the segment and i don't think it's lacking in production values we uh we look at some uh some of the the big news And I don't think it's lacking in production values. We look at some of the big news that maybe isn't all over the papers, but it should be. And this is actually making big news this morning because there was a

place in Morningside in Auckland. They sell fish and chips, Tepanese takeaways, and they opened up last night at midnight for two hours. And it was one of those things I saw yesterday. I saw it floating around and my wife was actually like, this is on Facebook. Check this out, they're opening for two hours. And it was one of those things I saw yesterday. I saw it floating around and my wife was actually like, this is on Facebook. Check this out, they're opening for two hours. I was like, wonder how it will go. So now we're

going to find out how it went last night. Yeah, and it's great to have just good, normal chips back in our diet too. I mean, I've been trying the frozen jobbies. Right. They just don't cut, you know, they're just not the same. Yeah. They don't feel like they're clogging your arteries enough, those home oven ones.

But we're joined right now by Kieran from Teebany Takeaways. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? I'm very well, thank you. Now, I understand you haven't slept. That would be correct. I still haven't been to bed yet.

My plan is to try and get a couple of hours of rest after I finish the conversation with you gentlemen. Oh, thank you. You know things are bleak when you can hear the birds chirping in the background. Currently trying to stay awake by sitting outside and just enjoying the fresh air. Well, thank you for talking to us. We appreciate it. Usually you're walking out of a bar being about this time, aren't you? Yeah, true.

Champagne boys. I'm sipping on a Pepsi Max. So last night, your store, what's the name of your store? And whereabouts is it? You opened at midnight last night, right? That's correct. So we opened at 11.59 on the dot last night, and we are at 648B New North Road in Morningside, Auckland.

You're running your classic fish and chip operation. We know him, we love him, we've seen him before, we'll see him again. Was there a big turnout at 11.59 there, Kieran? There was indeed. We had a very long queue going down the road. We had two metre distances all in place. Two hours we were just absolutely flat out. People were ordering all the way up until 2am and we had completely sold out of our whole entire menu pretty much by the end of the day.

Fish and chips, probably my favourite. One of my favourite meals. It's the old Kiwi classic. But it feels like quite a stodgy meal to put in after midnight, you know, because you're going to be going to bed not too long after. That's correct. Yeah, so we actually tonight

only offered a standard, one standard fish and chip meal was just a hokey and chips. We were tonight more about kind of late night meals. So we did, for example, we did deep fried pies. We did deep fried chocolate brownies, deep fried Mars bars, deep fried Morrow bars. Stop it. Stop it. Deep fried pies.

Who knew? Who knew? A little English spin on it yeah we we offer the old uh traditional english um compliments which go with it the classic mushy peas the curry sauce the gravy i myself was born and raised in the uk so us fish and chips are just slightly different to the way the kiwis have them so i've've kind of created a concept where the Kiwis are happy, but also all the ex-plums. Brought some colonial flair with you there.

Oh, that's awesome that you had people, so many people for a couple of hours last night from midnight to 2 o'clock, and it's awesome that you guys are back in business. It must have been really hard for the last couple of weeks. It has been indeed. I can imagine it's been very hard for everyone over Level 4. But right now it's all about community supporting local and sticking together as a tight-knit community.

Well, good on you, Kieran. And good luck. Good luck. And well done on opening up and having a successful reopening after lockdown. Thank you so much indeed, guys. You have a great day. You too. Get some sleep.

You're on the hits, Jono and Ben, on the first day of Level 3 for Auckland. Spy, the what's up, spy.co.nz They do say, don't they, Ben, the best things in life come for free. Well, one of the best things in my life is producer Juliet's spy updates.

And I'm pretty sure she's getting a salary, so I don't know if that saying quite works for this, but Juliet, what's happening this hour? So you may have remembered last week Britney Spears deleted her Instagram she said she wanted a bit of a break to celebrate her engagement with her now fiancé

but she's now back on the gram after having a weekend getaway with her fiancé and she said she couldn't stay away from the gram too long so I'm back already she's already posted like three or four times do you know i'm not i'm new to it and uh you make a lot of fun of my approach too i got in trouble yesterday actually for posting the wrong video did you yeah no it's normally from you it's normally that you produce julie it's like hey

jono you posted this thing wrong and the wrong you know the wrong sizing and to be fair've said it before, it is confusing the different sizing for stories and posts and stuff like that. I get you, Jono. But our TV show, Jono and Ben Good Sports, the director makes some little videos for us to put online. Yes. And then he was like, Jono, did you post this one on the Jono and Ben Enterprises one? And then he waited. He's like, Jono, answer me. I saw it.

I just sent back an emoji of someone eating popcorn like well this is exciting and by the time I checked it it had been about an hour and a half

and it's confused but anyway my point was I'm shabby on Instagram at the best of times I would say sporadic and erratic would be my approach

to it but you just find you open the app and you're just scrolling scrolling and you're like you get to it. But you're just fine. You open the app, and you're just scrolling, scrolling. And you get like 15 minutes, and you're like, what am I doing? Pull yourself together. It's a wonderful time racer, isn't it? It really, really is.

That's what I waste my time doing in lockdown. Meanwhile, the kids are playing with the barbecue, smoking cigarettes. I'm just sitting there looking, oh, look what Dua Lipa's up to. Oh, yeah, that looks like fun, you know? It really is. I'm just sitting there looking oh look what Dua Lipa's up to. That looks like fun you know. It really is. I know and since the Explore page, if you go on your Explore page on Instagram which is kind of like where it's people you don't follow but it's

all the photos of things you might be interested that's a never ending as well. I am interested in that. Oh my goodness. I know. Crazy. TikTok too. Time wasters. Anyway. But I'm a sucker for them anyway. What's your screen time at at the moment, Julia? I know we were boasting about your screen time the other day.

My screen time? What have you been? Daily average is four hours and eight minutes this week. Oh, yeah, I'm two hours. Oh, wow. Two hours average. What are you sitting at, boys? Two hours, one minute.

So they're down 33% from last week. So they've had a good week this week. Good stats. they're down. Dammit, I need to get better. Some of the show's ratings as well. And in other news, Olivia Rodrigo, who we all know from the song. She's been seen wearing a top from Glassons. Glassons obviously being a New Zealand brand.

Yeah, this is pretty awesome, hey? Very exciting. So she posted a photo, she was in Las Vegas, and she's wearing sort of this Glassons! Glassons obviously being a New Zealand brand. Yeah, this is pretty awesome, hey? Very exciting. So she posted a photo. She was in Las Vegas and she's wearing sort of this black corset sort of lace top and it's from Glassons. I've looked online. They've still got it but not in the colour that she's wearing. So if you want to look like Olivia Rodrigo, it's still there.

I thought it would sell out immediately but no, not yet. It's pretty cool actually. It's very cool. I want her to wear more to me. And it's a top that's around about $30, right? Yeah. Yeah. So it's not like it's an extravagant purchase or anything like that. How do we know it's from Glassons and

not like a designer one that has the same look? I don't know. Who's made this call? Glassons? I don't know. They've done their report. We were reading through the date. It seems they've done their due diligence. They've gone through saying we don't know how she's got it but it's available here this is the top, and this is, yeah. So good.

Well, there are better journalists than we are. Usually we just read the first line or two of a story. And that is your Spy Update this morning. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. I will survive. Keep on surviving. It is the Hits, Jono and Ben. Now, for as long as I can remember, Police 10-7 has been a massive show on TV.

It's on Thursday nights at 7.30 on TVNZ2. And it's just before our show, Jono and Ben Good Sports, which is at 8 o'clock on TVNZ2. We used to be on different networks. Now we're on the same network. And joining us from Police 10-7 is Detective Sergeant Rob Lomato. Good morning, mate. Hey, good, lads. I'm so happy we can be friends again.

Well, that's right. I mean mean for years our shows, just to give people a back story our show Jono and Ben was on TV3 at the same time for a couple of years as Police 10-7 on TV2 and we talked to Detective Sergeant Rob Lamoda and he was like, have TV3 given up

putting our show against yours? Look, this is a little bit of light hearted being I've always had time for you, lads. We just couldn't topple the monumental ratings of Police 10-7. I think one week we even pixelated our own faces to make it look like we were criminals, and that didn't do anything for the numbers. We were struggling, but now we come after you, Rob.

Yeah. Well, that's right. No longer have you sentenced us to comedy crimes or low ratings. Whatever, whatever. You'll be blaming me. You'll be blaming me if the numbers don't improve for your show. We put it all on the New Zealand police. We blame Shortland Street.

We blame Shortland Street. A terrible episode of Shortland Street. I mean, the good thing about TV is, people might not know this, is that you can always just crap on the show before you for your show. It's the lead-in, eh? The lead-in show. You're our lead-in, hey, the lead-in show. You're our lead-in now. Hey, how's things in lockdown?

Well, not lockdown for you, we're your base, but the police. You're doing all sorts of stuff you probably wouldn't have been expecting to do five years ago. Yeah, look, it's been interesting. I'm actually back in uniform at the moment, so we'll film the show on a Monday and then Tuesday to Friday I'm working in uniform out of a coastal station. A little bit of a break from serious crime after 17 years.

So it's being thrown in the deep end a little bit. I arrive at a few jobs and, you know, there's people that aren't happy with people leaving Level 4, which is fair enough. So the majority of your job at the moment is dealing with snobby-nosed Aucklanders trying to escape to their batch. Hey, I'm not saying that.

I mean, you put those words out there, but people who don't understand the hardship that a lot of other people are going through and instead of staying in the waka up there, they jump and ship, which is disappointing, you know? Like, stay up there, support the team, and let's get it right. You've done so much over your career in the policing, including being

in the armed defenders. That must have been just a surreal experience, right? Yeah, yeah. Look, AOS, you know, it's a cutting edge of dealing with people who are running amok with weapons. Yeah, it was an interesting time. I really enjoyed it. But family life took a bit of a hit.

I think a lot of people don't realise that, you know, AOS, we do normal work during normal hours, and if something happens, you know, the balloon goes up, we race off and deal with that and then go back to it. So I think my family are pretty happy that those days are behind me. I can imagine. When I look at their fitness tests, I'm pretty happy those days are behind me too. Now, what happens in those situations, pretty tense situations, so you finally apprehend someone.

What's that conversation that goes on between police and a person in handcuffs? Is it like, oh, you got me, I'll give this one to you. Is there banter? Is there like, oh, you're the guy from Police 10-7? Does that happen? I mean, that happens as well. Oh, yeah, look, I mean, I think a few people are surprised. Last week was our 700th episode and I've been lucky enough to be involved in just over 250 of those, so it's been a little while now. But I think a lot of people don't realise that I'm actually still a serving member of the police, and very proudly, every now and then, you know, someone will say, you're not

even a real cop. And I'm like, well, this taser's real, mate. How about I taser you, and then you tell me I'm not a real cop? No, look, it's interesting. It has its moments. But, you know, on the whole, most people are really good about it. Most people we deal with anyway are good about it. You only really read or hear about the bad things.

We have so many interactions on a daily basis that are positive. Detective Rob LaMotta, Detective Sergeant Rob LaMotta, sorry, with us. Oh, you demoted me again. Yeah, I know. Sorry, I've got to get that sergeant in there.

Hey, we were talking before about your family life, and I was reading yesterday that you found out your wife was in labour and you picked up a couple of people who were shoplifting and you had to get them to get out of the car because you had to get to the hospital. Yeah, I was working, and my wife had gone into labour early, and it was our first baby. And like every other expecting parent, you know, we had no idea of what to do.

So when I got a phone call that her water had broken, I was on the way back from Manukau with a couple of shoplifters in the back, so I pulled over and asked them to get out of my car. Oh, they would have been like, dodged a bullet. Well, they didn't believe me to start with. They were very slow to get out, you know, until the point where I sort of raised my voice and requested they get out immediately. They were like, are you pranking us?

We just open the door and walk out? And you've got the advantage too, you get the sirens on the car too, so you can get to hospital quicker. No, that is why you're not in the police state. I saw something on the news the other night, there was a bootload of KFC stopped at the border. It expliqued my interest.

The KFC was beautifully displayed on the police bonnet, photographed the evidence. What happens to the KFC afterwards, Rob? Please tell me it's put to good use. Come on. I can't answer those questions. It's evidence. I'm hoping that it'll be exhibited.

Detective Sergeant Rob Lamoda, we always love catching up with you. You do such amazing work both on the telly and in the community. So thank you for everything you do. And it's nice to be on the same team. I might even get invited to your break-up this year. Yeah, you will. And I've noticed I'm getting pulled over less and less now for random traffic infringements.

Yeah, Sunday you're on TV and 10-2. It could be because you finally realise there's been a bogan and acting like a bogan in a car is never going to get you anywhere. And you're finally driving

and they hear him to the conditions. We're going to catch Police 107 Thursday night 7.30 on TVNZ2 and then our show John on Big Good Sports afterwards.

Rob, thanks for your time. Really appreciate it. Awesome. Great to catch up. Thanks, Lance. Here you go, Rob Lomato, Police 107. Amazing he still works.

He's still a working police officer. I know. Well, it'd be weirder if he was like a working Zumba instructor or something. That wouldn't match up, would it? Plenty of McDonald's vouchers up for grabs all morning as we celebrate takeaways back on the menu, as well as $5,000 with our game at 7.45. Intelligent, thought-provoking, stimulating.

Three terms that will never apply here. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, after 35 days, Auckland is back. We're back in the team of 5 million in regards to enjoying things like takeaway coffee, baked goods, fast food. It's all back on the menu and thanks to McDonald's. So we can phone level 2 and we're like,

hey, how's your coffee? Yeah, ours was good too. We can have that common ground now. It's a bit of a conversation we can phone level two and we're like, hey, how's your coffee? Yeah, ours was good too. You know, we can have that common ground now. It's a bit of a conversation we can have and as I was saying before, would this be the last time? It could be. Could be. Let's be positive that we ever have level four. It could have been the last time ever in a level four. Maybe. Let's be positive.

Imagine if you were the Prime Minister up at the podium. Could be. Maybe. Let's be positive but you just cover all bases so that no journalist can hit you up in a month's time ago you said that was the last time before no but i held my shoulders up and i was like maybe could be potentially you know the times that you couldn't go out and get takeaways you know that could be could be maybe possibly you would be such an indecisive leader God would get nothing done wouldn't he

And his main goal would be not offending anyone And worrying about every scenario I'd be constantly I wouldn't be a good leader That's why I'm never going to go for it But we may never, maybe, could be That could be the last time we ever go and have level 4 This could be the last time we ever play this song.

Yeah, about all the things we were missing in Level 4. Some of them we can do now. Yeah, this one right here goes out to everyone in their bubble. Are you doing the voice? Yeah, I was going to do the voice. Oh, no, I can't do the voice. Well, why didn't you give it a try? Oh, I know, but there's a lot of words to remember the song.

I'm just trying to concentrate on that. Well, don't screw it up. Here's my white friend rapping. Check him out. Seems like yesterday we shook hands like bros. Now awkwardly we bang elbows. I miss seeing 100% of your face. In that mask, are you going to rob this place?

Used to walk straight into supermarkets too. Now we stand in line like we're waiting for Port-A-Luz. I work from home drinking Chardonnay. Even when the clock says it's only midday. Being locked down feels all kinds of wrong. Like two white guys rapping 90s parody songs Zoom meetings with my staff Wearing nothing on my bottom half Ashley Bloomfield touched our parts Just to clarify we're talking about our hearts Now to Laura on Zoom cause legally we can't be in the same room

yeah Sing some more. I can leave my driveway Sorry, we shouldn't talk in between. Take my track pants off It's okay to cough I've been missing you Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Mr Humphrey said he's compiled a wonderful combo of words and this is the five words takeaway special. How does the game work, Benjamin Ross, boys? We'll wonderful combo of words. And this is the five words takeaway special. How does the game work, Benjamin?

We'll give you five words. You tell us the first things that pop into your head after we say those words. And if they match with one of ours, all five match with ours when we do the same thing, you win $5,000. And as you said before, your producer, Bee Humps, who comes up with the words, says it's a takeaway special. Haven't seen the words so far, but I'm guessing they're all to do with takeaways. He's trying to brand them.

Trying to brand them as a takeaway special. We'll get Chelsea on from Christchurch. How are you, Chelsea? Good, thank you. Lovely to have you on. How's cha-cha this morning? Yeah, it's pretty good. Pretty sunny. Yeah, right. Well, you're on the way to work, are you? Yep, just pulled over. What do you do, mate? Emergency lighting designer.

An emergency lighting designer? As in for like emergency vehicles? No, for like buildings. Oh, so when people need to escape a building in an emergency? Yeah, so we do exit signs and step nosing. Oh, that's cool. There's a job for everything out there. And when you think about it, well, there needs to be an industry for emergency lighting, doesn't there? Yep. So on planes as well, when they light up and, well, there needs to be an industry for emergency lighting, doesn't there? Yep.

So on planes as well, when they light up and they say, you know, follow the lights out, would that be something that you guys would do as well? No, we don't do airplanes. We do photoluminescent stuff, so it doesn't use batteries. Gotcha. And so you design, so a building, you'll get the architecture of the building, and you design the escape path with special bespoke lights. Yeah. Damn!

What a very specific role. Yeah. I love it. Well, I feel safe in your hands right now, Chelsea, and if this is a shocker, if this is an absolute nightmare, well then you can tell us how we can escape this radio break. But who are you going to send into the soundproof booth? Beans, please. Oh, okay. Alright.

Follow the lights. It's quite well lit, the soundproof booth, isn't it? You'll be pretty happy with the lighting on the soundproof booth. The door is shut. Ben Boyce is locked in. He cannot hear a word. You need to match five words with his, and we'll give you $5,000. Chelsea's mentioned it's a takeaway

special. The first word. Happy. Meal. Big. Happy. Meal. Big. Mat. Behemoths. These words are very easy so far. Drive. Through.

Chicken. Burger. Large. Combo. You played a quick game. Yeah. And I matched with four out of five words, Ju. Same with me.

Yeah. Let's hope that Boney Ben Boyce can match all five with you. We'll release him from the soundproof booth. Just a quick little visit there. How was the SPB this morning? Doing well? It was quick. Yeah.

In and out. Did you catch up with the SPB? You had a good time? Yeah, the Southbury Bridge, all good. Yep. Five simple words away from $5,000. Okay. Now, for $5,000, I would usually have to do unspeakable things.

Despicable acts. But not you, Ben Boyce. You just need to match your words with Chelsea's, okay? Okay. I felt like we played a quick game, so let's go. Let's go. Happy. Meal. Big. Mac. Drive. Three. Three from three, Chelsea.

But to be fair... They were relatively easy. Simple one. To be fair to the structure of the game, those were the low-hanging fruit, as they would say in the industry. Chicken. Bucket. Bucket and chicken. No. Yeah, you could have gone nuggets, too, but Chels went burger, chicken burger. Yeah.

Could have gone McChicken, chicken tenders. All right, mate, come on in here. Chicken pizza. I mean, there's just so many for chicken. Yeah. Large was the fifth word. Combo? Oh! Do you know what?

Your same four words I had in my big ball noggin. I got four out of five with Chelsea as well. Oh, did you? What did you? Did you? In my head, same words as you, Ben. Oh, all right. Were you thinking bucket of chicken as well?

I did. Yeah. Yeah, well done. Well done. No one's right or wrong. Well, you know, it's just you've got to match up for this game. Yeah. No one walks away a loser on this game,

except everyone else who plays when they don't play with us today. Because, Chelsea, we're going to give you a $50 McDonald's voucher. Oh, thank you. It's Friday. F-R-Y day. But it's only a Wednesday. Not to confuse anyone. Don't think you're driving to work on a Friday.

You've really confused me. I've rebranded Wednesdays Friday. Yeah, no, you've confused me. Spy. No, what's up? Spy.co.nz And over to the backbone of this operation for us two spineless twerps. Juliet, take it away with Spy. So, a journalist

at the Emmy Awards has had a bit of a blowout. So, in The Crown, Gillian Anderson played former Prime Minister of England Margaret Thatcher and after she won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series she went to the press room where journalists stand there and ask

a bunch of questions and one journalist asked a question that kind of proved that they had done no research and they probably just took a punt and here is what... They Jono and Bendit. Just to kind of continue with the whole Margaret Thatcher thing. First question, have you talked to her about this role at all? And secondly,

why do you think it has taken America so long to get a female leader? Well, I have not spoken to Margaret. And why is it taken that well? So, Margaret. So, let's break it all down. So, Gillian Anderson's playing Margaret Thatcher on The Crown. Now, she appeared as Margaret Thatcher first in 2020. Yes. And Margaret Thatcher passed away in 2013. So, the journalist obviously didn't realise that Margaret Thatcher passed away in 2013. So the journalist obviously didn't realise that Margaret Thatcher was no longer with us. I mean, to be fair to the journalist, Thatcher's one of those ones you're like,

are they dead or are they living? You know there's some of those celebrities you're like, are they still kicking around? I know what you mean. I didn't know that Thatcher had passed on. Oh, did you not? Did you not? I thought she'd still be sort of mooching around and stuff. The only one fact I know about Margaret Thatcher.

Do you want to know my one Margaret Thatcher fact? Yes. Yeah. The facture. Yeah. Before becoming a politician, she was a food scientist, and she would develop soft-serve ice cream. Really?

That was her job. Really? And then went on to become the Iron Lady, they called her, didn't they, Thatcher? Yeah, they did. Sounds like a member of the Avengers, the Iron Lady. So Scarlett Johansson would sort of play the Iron Lady. Yeah, but I've kind of been in this situation before.

Boss Todd, when I started as an intern, maybe four years ago, I was in a meeting, and Boss Todd sort of, he loves trying to prank me, but I've now sort of caught on to when he's pranking me. He's got a good prank face, Todd. He delivers it very straight. Yeah. Deadpan, yeah.

And in a meeting he was like, oh, Juju, can you see if you can try to chase down Freddie Mercury for an interview? And I was like, okay. You know, I was this intern that didn't really know much. And you don't want to upset the boss? Yeah. I was like, yeah, okay, cool. Like, where can I start?

Like, who can I ask? And he's like, oh, you know, talk to Aaron, the music guy. Later on, like 10 minutes later, Stacey Morrison sort of passes me a note, slides it across the table, and on the note it says, Freddie Mercury is dead. And I was like, oh, my God, it is so embarrassing. Yeah, it's a lot to take in at that moment. You know, not Freddie.

I know, so I feel for the journalist. Although B-Hums, producer B-Hums was saying, we used to have Millennial Max who worked here and he would get Millennial Max to chase down interviews and he's like, I'd get him to chase down four people and every time I'd just chuck one dead person. I'd bully the four of them. Bully the interviews.

Katy Perry, Benny, Elvis Presley, you know, Jacinda Ardern. He's like, I'm really struggling to get Elvis, guys. We need him for 10 past 8 tomorrow. You better get him. I really want to give away his blue suede shoes. It's a fun form of bullying. No, it's a bully...

You know, it's not bullying, bullying. It's just... It's all prank. Yeah, it's light workplace bullying, which is, you know, what New Zealand's workforce is built on. Oh, jeez. It's wonderful. Oh, dear.

And that is your Spy Update this morning. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. No pain, no doubt. Till the lights go out. 660, the greatest. It is the Hits. John Owen Ben. Tomorrow night, 8 o'clock, TVNZ 2 is our new TV show.

John Owen Ben. Good sports will go around the country, meeting good sports to play some unique and unusual sports. So these are people that do it for no real money or anything, just because they love the game and the sports to play some unique and unusual sports so these are people that do it for no real money or anything just because they love the game and the sports they take part in and one of the scariest things we did on the show was uh learn how to wrestle and we learned and then we went into our first ever i'd say pro wrestling match but we weren't professional at all but jeez jeez there were some serious concerns about brain damage,

spinal damage, credibility damage. There's a lot of damage on offer. And our wonderful coach and who we actually wrestled against on the night joins us now, James Shaw, not from the Green Party. He's over there on the taxpayer dollar sucking up all the MIQ spots. James Offshore, as David Seymour's calling him. Yeah, unless James Shaw also, he could come out as the ultimate eco-warrior or something, as a wrestling moniker.

But we are joined by James Shaw, wrestler, not politician. James, how are you, all right? Hello! Lovely to have you on. A real character, James. Yeah. Really good. It was great to meet you, and thank you for teaching us.

You were kind of the Miyagi to our Daniel-san. Yeah. Hey, you guys did really well, man. Like, I came out of that and I was telling everyone how impressed I was with you guys. It was a nerve-wracking experience. I came out of that with some serious lower back issues. I was so sore. Because going into it, I mean, obviously there's words around the streets.

You hear whispers that, oh, not wrestling's not, you know, maybe it's fake. But, jeez, you put your body on the line. We were so sore afterwards Yeah, it's funny because I never got to ask you guys how your body was after the trainings and stuff Now Ben had a, because you smacked Ben on his back with your bare hand and he had

a welts hand mark for about two weeks, there was a hand print in the middle of his back Yeah, I was pretty proud of that, I remember, I think it was I think it was you John, I remember slapping you in the match, and I remember you whispering a cuss word, and I was having a bit of a chuckle to myself in the match. Well, because you said, I might do two or three. And I think I was up to 13, and I was like, when is this going to stop?

Yeah, I remember I came backstage backstage and everyone was just in hysterics about the number of slaps I'd done. Like I said, I'd counted 32 by the end of the night. Wow. Yeah. Well, you got carried away with the chops. That's right. It was a brutal time.

Yeah, it's going to be on the TV show this Thursday. So James teaches us about wrestling, and then we go in and we take on James in the wrestling match. Yeah, I mean, what got you into the sport? Was it the love of watching it as a kid? Yeah, it was watching it on telly. It's funny because going into it, I never really liked wrestling as a kid. And then I think as I became a teenager, I kind of got sucked in.

It used to be on television. I'd watch that a lot. You used to wrestle with your sister in the backyard. Yes, she did not enjoy that. But she became a wrestler herself. She went over to England and almost got a job with the WWE and stuff. She became real popular over in England. So you could say it probably runs in the family, really.

And, of course, you guys know. The listeners probably don't know, but my father manages me as well. So our whole family's involved in this. Yeah, and that's the cool thing about it. And the families, the people that turn up to watch you guys, they know the characters. They know the people. They're yelling out, McCracken, you're a weasel,

to this guy who's a manager. Basically, they live and breathe it. It's so awesome to be part of that and experience this community in New Zealand. Oh, yeah. That's partly why I just do it every, like, I mean, I wrestle every weekend. And it's the same everywhere else you i just do it every like i mean i wrestle every weekend and it's the same everywhere else you go so it's like that in auckland and then you go down to

wellington they've got their own like fan base and then go down the cross church they've got their own fan base and i just told myself a couple years ago i was like i want to get involved in every single fan base so uh here we are in 2021 and i'm every show i go to i'm practically booed out the building and every you know i got, I'm practically booed out the building. I go to Christchurch, people hate me. I go to Wellington, people hate me. I go to Hamilton, people hate me. I go to Morrinsville, which is where our Prime Minister's from.

You know, a small town like an hour out of Hamilton. They hate you there? It's great. That's like Ben and me. Yeah, I remember that. I put that a word of a lie, because obviously people don't know sometimes new characters whether they're going to be

whether you're going to like them or whether you're going to hate them whether they're going to be good or bad but as soon as they announced on the night it's Jono and Ben from the TV we got booed straight away I was like I thought we were going to be the good guys funny though because we went into that and I wasn't

sure how they would react to you because Well they booed. Yeah they booed. But then when I came out they immediately I think they immediately sided with you

because they knew the story we were telling. I came in they knew I was a bad guy because like you said I was established. I distinctly remember in that match

when you one of you hit a move on me I think you only hit one move on me. But that one move you hit that crowd went insane. I think you only hit one move on me. But that one move you hit, that crowd went insane. I remember It was great. Yeah, no, it felt good. It felt good when you won the crowd over, Ben. Thanks for doing that

for us. For a brief moment. Then the slaps came back out. Then we lost them again. But James, it was really cool meeting you and all the team at Impact Pro Wrestling. It was a really fun night. Oh, man. Thank you guys for getting involved, man. It was really fun. I really enjoyed working with you guys. And you guys are welcome back any time.

Do you want to go round two? Yeah, well, maybe we'll just come watch next time. We'll end up back in the ring. Hey, thanks, mate. You have a good one, James. You can catch James and us wrestling tomorrow night and find out if we ended up in the chiropractic office after the head. She was wild.

John, I'll Ben, good sports. 8 o'clock, TVNZ 2, Thursday nights.