Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - January 27 - The Foo Fighters, Jono's Recycling Bins, What's In Your Neighbours Backyard?

Episode Date: January 28, 2021

Happy hump day! Today we were joined by a member of the Foo Fighters which was super exciting, and Jono revealed the bizarre thing that he spotted in his neighbour's backyard... potentially a bit strange for a backyard in the city!? And our Producer, Juliet, has just come back from 3 weeks in the bush with no technology or news updates. She completely missed the storming of the Capitol in the US, Biden's Inauguration and Trump being banned from social media! So we asked you guys whether you've ever missed any major news stories, for whatever reason. 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. Oh, wee, we are back again, Annie Pryor. How are you?

My mother, she listens to the podcast, so if I could send a personal shout-out. Any shout-outs you'd like to cover off, Ben? She'll be on her extra cycle in the garage there in St Albans. Oh, that's what she does, doesn't she? I'd like to give a shout-out to a special lady in my life, too, Annie Pryor. Annie Pryor as well. Your mum.

Okay, that's lovely. Not Jenny and pie here. You were very lacklustre at keeping in contact with Jenny, although you did some hard yards over Christmas. And she does listen, to be fair, she listens to a bit of the podcast from time to time. I was telling you, she did a big drive in the South Island for hours. I think it was eight hours she was in the car, and she listened to nothing but our podcast for eight hours.

Binged on the podcast and overdosed. Yeah, too much. Too much podcast today. I've got to go get a mole cut out today. Oh, yeah. You've said that before. Yeah, top of my head. They're basal cell carcinomas.

Right. So they're not cancerous. No, don't worry. Don't worry, Ben. Were you worried? Oh, no. I never want to hear that. You know.

No, they're easy to get cut out. My old man's had them hacked out for a while, but it's a lesson in sunscreen. Yeah. It is so important, isn't it? There's that song that I listen to. I should play it for you tomorrow on the podcast. Have you heard that song?

Remember that song? It was like, if I could give you one bit of advice. Oh, it's like, wear sunscreen. Wear sunscreen. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. That's a great bit of advice. It's actually a really good song. I listened to it over the holidays.

My wife was playing it. And it's just all the advice that this guy would pass on that he's learnt throughout his life. Yeah. Which I found quite interesting. He's like, look after your knees. You're going to miss them when they're gone. Look after your friends.

You're going to miss them when they're gone. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's a good advice. I forget the name of the song. It's like little sayings that people would put up on. Now they just put it up in a meme. Or, you know, they put it up online. It was a little saying for your day.

Oh, maybe I don't need to play the song then. Yeah. You just look at some memes on the internet and inspire yourself. So you're getting the moles cut out. Have you had a mole cut out? No, but I do go for a regular mole map every year. Go along to the mole map place.

I always mention this to you. There was an incident that took place with you at the mole map and you can never remember what it was. No. But I know it was traumatic because you came and talked to me about it and I was like, well, that is highly embarrassing. I certainly hope. I can't remember. Maybe I just blocked it from my memory.

I remember tuning up like a week. Did the mole map doctor, did he walk in on you naked or something? Do you have to get naked for a mole map? Down to undies. Undies. Yeah. Down to your undies. Could talk some wonderful shots.

Close up moles. You're like, yeah. You could start a website, molymolymoly.com. www.molymolymoly.com. Yeah, but they're not, especially up close, they're not the sort of thing

you want to really zoom in on, but they do that for their job. They're very professional. I can never tell the difference between one that's a bit, you know, a bit suspicious. Apparently they're uneven around the edge. Oh, change of size that sort of thing yeah like uh yeah it's probably quite a good thing to do if you can go along but then you see some people

are there i don't put on sunscreen oh you know the chemicals all right what's the alternative getting getting melanoma or getting poisoned by chemicals i will take the poisoning thank you yeah there are some sunscreens i think that do have less chemicals or no chemicals, but yeah, I don't know how well they work protecting you from the sun. Like earthy, earthy sunscreen. Have you ever had this stuff that you buy for the, we bought some for the kids when they were really little, and it's like SPF, whatever it is, but it's almost like you're putting on just like house paint.

Oh yeah, you get over SPF 50, it's a hellF, whatever it is. But it's almost like you're putting on just like house paint. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you get over SPF 50. It's a hell of an application process. And it just gets everywhere. It gets on your car, gets on the seat, gets on your clothes. It's just like that's never coming off. You almost have to smother it on. And the pressure you have to apply with your fingers to get off your fingers and onto your face. You're like, what are we putting on them?

Yeah, and it never like fully rubs in. So you just end up with a bright onto your face. You're like, what are we putting on them? Yeah, and it never like fully rubs in. You just end up with a bright, white, shiny face. Anyway, there was some sun protection talk. SPF, yeah. Get amongst it. Look after yourself. Yeah, and each other, and enjoy the podcast. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. I was just giving Adam Levine the respect of letting his song finish. Sorry, mate. Sorry to you and the Levine family. And the rest of the guys from the band who I don't know their names, but I'm sure they're all wonderful people. Adam Levine and the other guys. Yeah.

That was fun. We were in Los Angeles once and he was getting a just... A star on the Walk of Fame, wasn't he? A Walk of Fame, and he was being presented it. And there was a little bit of fanfare on the footpath, but then there was this lady with a sign going, what about the other guys in the band, Adam Levine? It's not all about you.

And I thought, that was just an unusual cause to protest for. But maybe it was someone's mum from one of the other guys. Yeah, Barry, the bass player's mum. Yeah, he was probably standing there as well and no one knew he was part of the band. And a moustache. Hey listen, I got a bit of an interesting situation with the neighbours at the moment

and I don't know if I'm going crazy or not but I did record just to get clarification. You know, I'm in suburbia. Yeah. This is suburbia. And correct me if I'm wrong, but has my neighbour got a chicken next door? Because I can't see. Does it sound like a chicken?

Yeah. It's a chicken. It does sound like a chicken. I mean, it's not. Now, unless old McDonald has moved in from his farm and he's decided to, you know, chop his farm up as a lifestyle block, he's made it to suburbia, or maybe Colonel Sanders has moved in. There's no reason for a chicken to be in suburbia, is there? Occasionally, some people, you hear of them having chickens,

they get eggs in the morning. Yeah, you know, in suburbia. I think you're allowed it if you've got a big enough backyard. I think you're allowed it. Yeah, but it is an unusual thing, you're right, to have a chicken in the backyard. And it's a pet that doesn't know when to switch off. It's like a radio announcer.

It's just constantly going, you know, radio announcers were just talking nonstop for no reason. Like, why are we talking now? Why are we still talking now? You could be listening to music. We're as annoying as chickens. Yeah. I grew up, you know, in my college years,

we were on a farm in the Wairarapa, and we had a rooster for a while. They don't know it's as chickens. Yeah. I grew up, you know, in my college years, we were on a farm in the Wairarapa and we had a rooster for a while. They don't know it's a weekend. No. They don't know you're a teenager who doesn't want to get up. You know, they're just like, oh, hey. Roosters are the Mike Hoskings of the chicken sort of world. We're up.

We're out. Let's go, guys. You're like, shut up. Anyway. Oh, I feel like, yeah. I don't know what I do as well because it just keeps going and I don't know whether it sounds hungry. And do I need to feed it?

No, I feel like no. No, I feel like that's their responsibility. I don't think you need to. What do you feed chickens? They're pellets normally. Oh, they're just pellets. And scraps. I think they really enjoy scraps.

They're like, you know. Oh, they're like a garbage. Yeah, like you can get an incinerator or you can get a chicken. There's some options Yeah, so anyway, that was just an interesting noise to hear in central suburbia. Yeah, so what's in your backyard? What does your neighbour have that may surprise us?

Should we open that up? Yeah, let's chuck it out there. Your neighbour's got anything interesting? Oh, and I was trying to think about this when you brought it before They had a frog that ended up in their pool which we're nowhere near a creek or anything I thought that was quite that was quite impressive but we did used to live next to a school

before I was living on a farm in Marston my dad we lived at the school he was the headmaster so my neighbour was basically the school so I'd get to ride my bikes over the sweet cheddar bars I got the key to the pool

some of those with the big bit of wood on it. Put on all the costumes in the driver department, do shows to no one. I was the weird kid doing all those sorts of things in the weekend. Oh, that sounds... It probably sums up a lot of what I do. Like, what you imagine now, this, you know.

And he's still got a garage load of costumes at home as well. Yeah, exactly. That's right. So 0800, that's his telephone number. Yeah, what have your neighbours got in their backyard? Because, hey, we can't choose What have your neighbours got in their backyard? Because, hey, we can't choose our neighbours unless you live in a commune sort of situation. So 0800, that's 4487.

What is in your neighbour's backyard? I'd love to get your calls this morning. Apparently chickens are quite common, Vanessa, from Tauranga. Chickens are a thing in the city. Yes, they are. Those girls told us we could have sex in the city, but they never mentioned anything about chickens

in the city. Oh, you can have a bit of both. Just don't combine the two. So have you got chickens? Have you, Vanessa? I do. I have three. Three? You've also got a very crackly phone line. So how many eggs are you getting and how often does that happen?

They're only little at the moment, but they're growing up and they're pullets. They should lay soon. Oh, wow. Well, there you go. You've got chickens. Has someone texted in 4487 saying that noise is actually the egg song

from the chickens? And they'd make that noise once they've laid an egg, apparently. So they'd be blowing up on Chick-Tok, no doubt. Yes, that's right. They do only make noise usually when they're about to lay. Yeah, there you go. Chick-Tok, geez. And they eat anything.

Vanessa's trying to brush over it. You're settling on it. Well, it's so bad, we need to reflect on it anyway. Vanessa, love you and you go and have a wonderful Wednesday. I will. Thank you very much. See you, matey. Now, what have you got in your neighbour's backyard? We'll start with Jane. Welcome.

How are you? Good. How's it going? What's in the neighbour's backyard? My neighbour's backyard, actually, it's really cool. All the sort of old retro McDonald's play stuff. Oh, the playground? Yeah.

Oh, that's incredible. Oh, like that weird, you know, the Hamburglar, and it was like a prison that you'd rock back and forth with the bars? He's got that one. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's like the jail one, like the Big Mac jail, like that sort of thing. Yes! Yes! That was a staple. And then

they had the rocking horse sort of things that were, on that spring, was loose AF. Oh, yeah. You'd almost go back almost about 95 degrees, wouldn't you, and then spring forward. If you let go, you'd end up at KFC, which is like three k's up the road. Hey, that's cool, Jane.

That's awesome. Well done. Joining us on the phone from Chris. How are you? Joining us on the phone from Chris from Nelson is Chris. How are you, mate? Good, guys. How are you?

Yeah, good. What's your neighbour got in the backyard? Well, it's actually not the neighbour. It's more along the lines of what we've got in our backyard. We have two miniature horses. Oh, so are you in the city or are you, like, out of the city? We are in the city, but we actually had to apply for a permit for them through the council, and we got a temporary permit to house them at our house.

But the neighbourhood loves them, mate. The kids come over, brush them, and ride them, and we look like that crazy neighbourhood family, but we're doing all right. Yeah, Chris, the crazy miniature horse guy. He's got horses. You'll be the one all the kids talk about when you're the old man, how he wanders around with his miniature horse. Stay away from that old man, kids.

He's got dodgy horses. That's cool, though. What are their names? So one of them's called Echo, and the other one's called Middy. And we've also got a tree full of parrots. So we've got cockatoos and stuff like that that sit in a tree outside. Oh, my God. Dr. Doolittle on the phone here.

I love that, Chris. Well, you look after yourself, Nelson. That's really cool. Nice work. And we'll end on Jimmy and Karaka. Welcome, Jimmy, to New Zealand's Breakfast. Moreno, what's your neighbour got in the backyard? Hey, mate.

They found a volcano in 2017. What? In the backyard? A volcano? I mean, the property is 104 hectares, so it's quite massive. All right. Yeah, it's not like, oh, volcano in your backyard. No, no, this is a huge site.

And they were going to subdivide and, yeah, they found it and now it's declared a heritage site. Oh, and I guess, you know, you're in the direct line of sight if the volcano ever decides to play up too, Jimmy. Well, yeah, we only moved in the place for a month and my wife was like, that's it, you're moving, I'm leaving. And I was like, no, no, no. Like you said,

we'll see the volcano erupt first. Mate, that'll get you some great hits on Instagram. Good on you, buddy. And Julie, we're going to end on you. I was going to end on Jimmy, but then I've been told in my ear to end on Julie. So, Julie, no pressure. You better bring the noise, mate.

What's in your neighbour's backyard? So my neighbour lives in this really skinny townhouse next door but he has five massive but skinny satellite dishes and I'm not sure if he's taken up a part-time job with NASA or he's really into his gaming and PlayStation but it's a bit weird and I'd love to get skinny on for what he uses them for. Oh, skinny mobile.

Now, for some reason, I don't know what is going on, but for the last three days, people have been phoning up surreptitiously plugging Skinny. Yeah. Now, someone needs to tell Skinny they're already associated with the show. They've got the show already, right? It feels like there's something we don't know about, but yeah. So I don't know if that was a legit call or not.

Well, I don't think, I dare say the content probably leaves it to be not legit. But thank you very much. Appreciate it. Hang up as well. And then they just hang up rudely too. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben.

The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. We're excited about this. New Zealand, we love the Foo Fighters. And joining us on the phone right now, lead guitarist Chris Schiffert. They've got a new album, The Foo Fighters, out February 5th, A Medicine at Midnight. We can't wait for that one. Yes, and through the wonders of modern technology

and a little bit of witchcraft, we should have Chris Shifflett on the phone now, do we? You do. Oh, nice to talk to you. How's things? Things are good, man. It's really cold in LA right now. I was just putting my shoes on.

God damn, I'm freezing. Is that the first. right now. I was just putting my shoes on. God damn, I'm freezing. Is that the first thing you do when you're cold is put shoes on? Well, you know, you lose a lot of heat out of your feet, man. I'm usually opting for a jacket or a blanket, but shoes are a good option. I always do phoners in the bus. That's how I do it, man. That's my process.

But with shoes on. Because you never know where you might be walking somewhere. That's right. You say all your ones about Chris Chifley. He's got nothing to hide. That's right. That's right. I'm laying it all on the line for you boys. Hey, listen, it's lovely to talk to you.

And you guys have had a big week or so, obviously, in the U.S. with all of the topical news. But you performed at the inauguration. That must have been a highlight. Yeah, it was really wild, you know, because with COVID and everything and us not being able to sort of travel the way you would normally do it,

we actually filmed it in advance, you know, here in LA at our studio. Of course, you know, I knew that it was happening and everything and that we were going to be on the show, but we didn't know exactly when. And I had actually taken a guitar lesson over, like, Zoom, and all of a sudden my phone went crazy. I was like, damn, I missed it.

Luckily, I had taped it though. So you missed your own thing. This is the performance at the inauguration of a history making event for the guitar. Were you getting the lesson or were you giving the lesson? I was getting the lesson and it was a really good lesson. But I scheduled it sort of not, I wasn't thinking about that that was the day, you know, you've got to schedule these things a week or so out. I just didn't put it together that that was the day of the inauguration. And then when it came around, I was like, ooh, God, this is risky. But, you know, I taped it.

I watched it afterwards with my family. And the amount of times I've missed our inauguration. And obviously, Katy Perry took all the fireworks budget, so you didn't get any fireworks. I know. That was really good, though. That was impressive. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I liked her thing. Chris, I understand

you guys recorded this album, not in the studio, but in a funky, old haunted house that you recorded the album. Yeah. When Dave was getting some demos together to make the record, he had rented this funky old house out by where he lives,

and he just kind of fell in love with the way the drums sounded in there, so we wound up making the whole record there. But yeah, it's kind of a creepy old house that's like sliding down the hill and being reclaimed by Encino as we speak. Dave was singing some of the songs in the toilet, basically, next to the bath. Is that what happened? I think so, yeah. I mean, you know, the toilet traditionally has great acoustics.

That's where you have to do some of your recording in a toilet if you're doing it in a creepy old house. Did you have to stay in the house or you had accommodation off-site? Because it sounds terrifying. Yeah, no, I don't know if my wife would have been really cool with that. Like, wait a minute, you're recording in LA, but you're not going to come home every night. I don't know if that would have passed muster. Yeah, obviously every artist and every band would be different, but is there like a, when you go into the recording studio

or the recording process, are there like set hours? Like you've got to be here at nine, we're here till six, we have lunch from 12 to one, or is it quite fluid? Yeah, it's funny because we never, we don't have set hours exactly, but you just kind of know, you you know it just sort of starts every day around you know 11 or noon or whatever and the way that we record nowadays like we do it like one song at a time so as the guitar player you know that monday is probably going to be drums and you know like you'll probably get to me on like Wednesday. So, you know, if you're a little later on Monday and Tuesday

and Thursday and Friday, it's probably fine. I was just listening to you talk. You could never have an office job. You're like, we turn up around 11 or 12. I'm sorry, Wednesday, you know, Monday, Tuesday, I turn up a bit later. You know when it's done too. Yeah, that's what he's saying.

I love it. But you got to understand, I had a lot of office jobs in my pre-Foo Fighter existence. My specialty was like low-level clerical work. Those were the types of jobs I had for years. You need filing, you need your phone answered, you know what I mean, that sort of thing. I could do that all day long. You were a talented soccer player too growing up.

And is it true you had to make a choice between soccer or music early on? You were kind of deciding which way to go? It's so funny because that is like this weird internet rumor that's followed me around the last few years. And it's not true at all, but it's a good rumor. I totally make it. I believed it. I was like, man, he must be really good. We've got Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shifflett with us on the phone.

Now, Ben, we were just talking before the interview. You've got families now and kids. Do they understand what you do for a job and do they respect what you do for a job? Or are you just dad? Well, yeah, it's interesting. I mean, my kids have just grown up around it. And, you know, back in the days,

in the old days when we still toured you know pre-pandemic they would always you know they've been coming out with me on tour every summer forever you know like for as long as they've all been alive so i don't know that there's a whole lot of mystery to it the way that there was for me and my friends growing up well we didn't know anything about what happened backstage you know my kids have just been kind of raised around that. But they definitely, I mean, my kids are wonderful, but like they don't sit around in awe of my accomplishment. That's for sure. My 17-year-old came downstairs the other day and was like, yo, dad, you need to get up

and plunge our toilet, bud. You're like, I'm with the Foo Fighters. Kind of puts it in perspective. Oh, awesome. We've got Chris Shifflett with us. Now, quickly, we're running out of time, so we just want to play a little game with you, if you don't mind. You know, you've been here before, Chris.

This is your quirky commercial radio game at the end of the interview. Love it. Love it. Now, this is Foo's line, is it anyway? Because Ben was reading that, as the guitarist, you're not particularly well-versed in the lyrics of all the Foo Fighters songs. So we're going to read out a line from a Foo Fighters song

and you have to tell us what song it came from. Uh-oh. I'm in trouble. This might be another internet rumour, but I was reading that you did carpool karaoke and you might have been sneakily looking at your phone from time to time at the lyrics when James Corden was in the car.

The whole time. The whole car? The whole time. The whole time? The whole time. If you watch that back, just look where my eyes are. It's like right into my hand. All right, here's the first one. The line is, send in your skeletons, sing as their bones go marching in again.

I have no idea. Do you not have any idea? I really should know that I love it You should know Because it's one of the band's Biggest hits The Pretender

Yeah that was I was just gonna say that Yeah I was just gonna say that Okay Second one It's on the tip of my tongue Second one I'm a new day rising

I'm a brand new sky Okay come on I got that one That's Tom's one Yeah The second one, I'm a new day rising. I'm a brand new sky. Okay, come on. I got that one. That's time. Yeah. I'm a new day rising. And the third and final one, I know you've always been out of your head.

Pretty putting it on the spot there. A little song called Everlong. Oh, wow, really? You really should know that. It's funny. I mean, I never had to learn all the lyrics. No. I don't know.

I almost hear them more as like some phonetic different thing. Well, because you know all the guitar riffs and all the music, right? Yeah. Yeah, no. Apparently they record those on Thursdays when you tune up a bit later. Oh, Chris, it's so good hanging out with you. You know, just don't put this on the internet where the whole world's going to hear that

I don't know the lyrics to our song. We would never stitch you up. This is fun hanging out. We should do it again. Yes, and next time I'm going to have Google open so I can just type in the question. I'll just be like, ah, that's the pretender. Come on, everybody.

Chris, it's so nice to catch up with you. We love the Foo Fighters and it's so good to have the new album out February 5th at Medicine at Midnight. We can't wait. Awesome, man. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Heads.

The Heads. Now, we've been back at work. This is our second week. But, Producer Juliet, it's your first day back for 2021 and you've been doing a very remarkable thing for the last 21 days. Yeah, it's called Outward Bound. It's basically three weeks in the Marlborough Sounds in a little place called Anakiwa.

And you're put with a group of 14 strangers and you do heaps of different outdoor activities. You don't have your phone with you. Sounds like hell. Hey, that's beautiful. She's come back here going, it was so good. And she would do it again. It's not like she was like, oh, I'd never do it again.

You really enjoyed it. It was so fun. I mean, we saw Maui dolphins when we were sailing. There were seals and little stingrays. I had to fight off possums during the nighttime when you're by yourself. Yeah, because what I found really fascinating was not only did you spend 21 days out there with this group, but you also had some sort of, I guess, alone time that you had to do.

So you go out on this thing called Solo where they give you a sleeping bag, a mat, and then they give you like a tarp hole and then you drape over trees. It's not even a tent and you're just chucked in the bush for three days with a couple of carrots, a couple of apples, some water and some Oatie biscuits.

Fun. So that's it. That's it. You don't even get like a book? No, you're not allowed books, you're not allowed playing cards. It's kind of just a time for you to, that particular solo time is time for you to kind of reflect and take a break from the rest of the group. Do you get other dinners? Do they give you any other meals or is that it? On solo?

Yeah, on solo. Nah, you just have that amount of food to last you three days. Surprisingly, I didn't get too hungry. I usually eat a lot, but you're not doing anything, and you're not allowed to leave your solo site, not allowed to go find anyone else. For three days? How long are the days?

Oh, they go really slowly, and they take off your wristwatch, so you don't know the time. Nighttime's pretty creepy because you wake up, and you can hear spiders and wetters crawling behind you. So as soon as I hear any crunching, I'm up with my little flashlight and investigating. And then one night I woke up with possums right next to me and I literally nearly died.

And you just hiss at them and throw sticks at them to get them away. That's quite scary. You're literally like Tom Hanks from Castaway. It's such a cool thing to be able to say you've done that now. but you're literally like Tom Hanks from Castaway you sort of it's such a cool thing to be able to say you've done that now you've pushed yourself

and you've gone through this experience yeah and it's physically challenging as well you have to finish it on a half marathon which was pretty tough along the Queen Charlotte track

I've been three days in the bush alone now I've run a half a marathon 21 days of not no you didn't know what was going on in the world either

because obviously there's no wifi there's no gadgets. No, we'd had to ask our instructors, we'd be like, has another COVID outbreak happened? What's going on in the world? There was one guy who, because you can get letters sent to you, so your parents would send you letters.

One guy, his mum sent him just news headlines. So Trump has been banned from Twitter and Instagram. We're like, what? Oh, yeah, there was a wild exit from the White House. You missed all that. Yeah, and then now Biden's president. I've completely forgot about that. And so many things that you just miss and come back to the world.

Kim and Kanye are apparently getting a divorce. I don't even know. And so you would do it again, you said. Yeah. You really enjoyed it. I wouldn't. It's kind of one of those things you do once, you probably don't go back. But I'd for sure recommend it to anyone who is considering it. You look like a changed woman. I wouldn't. It's kind of one of those things you do once, you probably don't go back, but I'd for sure recommend it to anyone who was considering it.

You look like a changed woman. I don't have hairy armpits yet. No, because pre-outward bound, your phone was surgically attached to your right hand. The screen time was very high. It was wild, your screen time. No screen time for three weeks. How was it taking the phone away

and how was it coming back to technology? Okay, so taking the phone away was fine because I knew that that was going to happen. And when I'm forced to not have my phone and people know that I don't have my phone, it's fine. When I came back, I checked my screen time last night and it was four hours. Back to it.

Outward bound, distant memory. Is there anything that you will change now having gone through that? You're like, I'm never going to have this again or I'm never going to do this. I want to spend less time on my phone, but we all know how that worked out at the end of last year. And last night.

Yeah. You made up for three weeks not being on your phone in one afternoon. I know. And so would you suggest other people do this? Oh, 100%. It is, if you like the outdoor, you like a bit of a challenge. What if I don't like the outdoors or a challenge?

What if I like the indoors and drinking? What if I like the comforts of a at worst a hotel room? Well then do it anyway. Well then go into quarantine for two weeks. Yeah, that seems like it, yeah. I see on the Outward Bound website you can do a parent and disgruntled teenager course.

One of those was with us when we were there. Is that what they called it, disgruntled teenager? That's what I've called it. You take your wayward teen who obviously hates you and you take him into the bush to hate you even more. I know. Without their iPad and their phone. But it seems like the affidavits are like, this has really re-sparked our relationship.

It's an amazing thing to do. It's an incredible thing that you've done. It's great to have you back. Thank you. So much we've got to tell you about. Gosh, I know. Lovely to see you. So much to catch up on.

We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Pen. Breakfast on the heads. The heads.

The heads. You may notice there's more useful exuberance to the programme this morning. The return of producer Juliet. Welcome back from the bush. Thank you very much. Three weeks in the bush, outward bound. And just during the ad, the amount of news and events you missed

because you didn't have a cell phone or any technology at your disposal. No. The only form of communication we had to the outside world was letters. And it would take like 10 days for any letters to arrive. No, stop having to go to New Zealand Post. They're out there having a crack.

They're still a thing. That's the only reason why New Zealand Post are still a thing. Millennials on outward bound courses who need to keep in contact. So yeah, you didn't know anything that was going on. No, no. Trump was out, Biden was in. Yeah, I came back and I was like, oh yeah, Biden's president now. And then Donald Trump had been banned from Twitter and Instagram or something.

Yeah, there was riots going on in the capital. Riots? Yeah. There were so many things, and we were wondering the whole time, I wonder if a COVID outbreak's happened in the rest of New Zealand. Like, we were just so sheltered. Almost a bit like Gloria Vale. You just don't know what's happening in the outside world.

Well, Ben's also, he's wrapping up at the end of this week. Oh, shit. In other news. Management weren't too happy with his output. So that's happening this week. So there you go. What we wanted to do, 0800 The Hits. Are you like Juliet where you completely missed probably one of the biggest events in the world?

Just because you were out of contact with technology, with friends or family. We'd love to hear from you. 0800 The Hits's 4487. That's the text. Yeah, what did you miss? And how did you find out that you'd missed it? I'm sure if you're like living in Papua New Guinea or, you know, I don't know why I've zeroed in on Papua New Guinea.

But you might be out of contact with people. And then you return to New Zealand. Oh, this is going on now. Oh, my wife's left me. Okay, this is big news. What was the big news you missed? I'd love to hear from you this morning. We'd love to start with Jill, shall we, in Auckland?

Good to have you on, Jill Moreno. What happened? Oh, good morning, guys. So I was teaching in Cambodia in like a really small rural town. This was back in 2011. And I was coming back home. I was living in Ashburton at the time. So as I was driving through Christchurch,

that's when I found out that I had missed the Christchurch earthquake. You had no idea? Yeah, like, just no idea. So I was definitely as shocked as I was driving through the town. Wow. Had you not spoken to anyone, obviously, in New Zealand? No, like, the internet was, like, kind of barely working, so. Far out. And I was like, I'm only a week from coming home, so I know. I'll catch up kind of barely working, so... Far out.

I was like, I'm only a week from coming home, so I don't know. I'll catch up with you once I get back, and then, yeah. Well, that's a big event. That would have been quite a confronting sight, I imagine, when you landed back into Christchurch. Oh, like, definitely. Like, definitely not what I expected to come home to. Oh, that's...

Hey, there you go. Big event missed. This is what we're out... This is what we threw out there, Ben, and this is what happens on New Zealand's Breakfast when you throw something out. Yeah, I wasn't expecting that. I had no little faith in this. The show

and also the phone topic. He never raised any concerns about the topic. No, but that's why I banged on and talked to Juliet for so long before we went to the calls. Thinking we weren't going to have any calls. We got a great one first off the bat. Lucy, you're on the air. Ben had little faith in you, Lucy. Can you pull through and change him?

What happened? What massive event did you miss? So I completely missed the memo about Princess Diana dying in the 90s. We didn't have the news on or anything at work, and I lived alone and didn't really listen, like put my TV or radio on. And it wasn't until a couple of years later, I was at the doctors and it was front page in one of the magazines.

Oh my goodness. Because it was, it's probably a hard, like we didn't have as many, the internet wasn't a big thing. Social media wasn't around. Yeah. So it's probably hard to get those stories sometimes. So you could potentially miss big events,

bigger world events like that. Oh, that would have been a shocking visit to the doctors. I was shook. I had to ask my doctor if it was real. Wow. He's like, yes, and you also have a life-threatening illness. Oh, jeez. Just to double down on that trip to the doctors.

Hey, good on you, Diana. Diana, Lucy. Have a good one. You too. Appreciate that. And someone's actually texted in 4487. You were joking about coming back and having your partner having an affair. I went to Australia for work for two weeks and returned,

and the big event I missed was my husband leaving me for our neighbour. Oh, my goodness. Moving in next door. Okay. That's a big event. Yeah. You could drop milk over. You could still see each other.

Next door? Next door. Oh, jeez. You're callous. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Time to look at some big news. From a small town, town, town.

Now, people are like, why do you keep reverbing the town? And it's because my flustered friend over here is looking for the documents and information. Gives him a couple of extra seconds to open that file and away he goes. Now, a Taranaki man, he's hoping to trade his way from a small clay tomato to a house without spending a single cent. It's an ambitious idea, but it might just work. And the man in question joins us right now for the big news small town, that small town being Taranaki.

Welcome, Levi. How are you? How's it going? Not too bad. Now, you're on a bit of a mission to trade your way to a house. Yep, absolutely. Got to start somewhere. Well, this is pretty awesome.

So you live obviously with your wife and child, and you've got a very ambitious idea to trade your way from clay tomato. Is that right? Yeah. I kind of got the idea from the red paperclip. There's a guy who'd done that one. Oh, this was in Canada. I remember this story.

It was about five years ago where a guy started out with a paperclip and eventually traded his way to a house, didn't he? He kept trading it for something slightly better or something that someone else would want, and through a series of trades, you're right, he got a house in Canada, which is pretty impressive. Yeah. So I've seen actually the TED Talk for that.

I was like, all right, I'm going to do it because I can't afford a house right now. It's hard to get on that property ladder. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And with the growing house prices and all of that, it's definitely quite hard to just get started anyway. But yeah, so I just looked around and seen what was the, I don't know, the most interesting thing that had the least amount of value, really.

But your wife made it. Yeah, yeah. And so what price do you put on something that your wife's made with her hands out of love and care? A clay tomato. So you had that, you put that online, you started up an Instagram account, and what did you swap the clay tomato for? I swapped it for a baseball glove. Now, can I just go back to the clay tomato?

What was the artistic motivation to make a tomato out of clay? Oh, my partner just got my fiancée, sorry, she had just got a whole bunch of clay from town or something so she could do some arts and crafts with my daughter. Ah, I see. Isn't that nice?

It's painted. It's beautiful. It's a lovely looking tomato. She had made like a few, she had made three or four octopuses or something, and she asked me why I didn't take the octopus instead of the tomato. To be honest, your octopus is not up to scratch. Is that what you're saying? So a tomato traded for a baseball mitt, then the baseball mitt for a fishing rod?

Yeah, for the fishing rod, yep. And then you traded that rod for some power tools? Is that where you're at at the moment? Yep, that's where I'm at at the moment. And I'm hoping that I can go up and... Your next trade is from power tools to a four-bedroom house. Yeah.

Seems like the logical step. Yeah, done. What about... Okay, here's something that I will put on offer, and this is a money-can't-buy trade right here. I'm offering a full-body, no-hands Macedonian massage from my friend Ben Boyce. But I can't...

To anyone. Okay, that's a bit weird. Macedonian, no hands. I don't even know what... What's he massaging with? Who knows? Oh, God, no. I might be tempted to keep that one.

Now I'm reading the guy in Canada, he made his way to a house from a paperclip to a house in 14 trades. Yeah, so actually I've been looking at the differences between mine and his at the moment. And in value, we're pretty much on par at the moment as long as I keep going. So that's the thing as well, is actually I was going to ask you guys if maybe you could trade something with one of my items. I have an amazing two-piece Hitachi toolkit that you probably might be interested in.

What have we got around here? Something that you could either trade or maybe that is priceless, like something with you guys somewhere or something that money can't buy that someone will be like, hey, I'll swap you this for it. Okay, I'll tell you what. We're not going to be greedy. We don't want to do a trade. And the main reason, do you want to know the true reason, is we don't know how to operate power tools.

But we will add to what you currently have. Oh, that sounds amazing. Yeah, we're going to chuck in a family pass to Weta Workshop Unleashed, which is on at the moment at the Sky Tower in Auckland. And it is... It's awesome, actually. It is phenomenal.

I went along there. I didn't know what to expect going in, but I left fully satisfied. No part of me was unsatisfied. And what went on in there will never be spoken of but we can give you a family pass to that. Awesome, thank you. Yeah, that'll definitely help out a bit. It's how we're to workshop

they make all their movies, they create all their characters and special effects and stuff. Wonderful show. Chuck that in with the power tools and if you find a New Zealander who has a love of special effects, cinematography and special effects and or power tools well then you have got the perfect person for what you currently have.

Oh, exactly. Thanks, guys, so much. That'll definitely help. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Just gone 7.45, and that means it's time to play this. Five words for 5K on the hit.

You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our brand-new game, a game of word association. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our brand new game, a game of word association. We tell you five words. You say the first things that pop into your head after those five words. If they match with our five words, you win $5,000. You've got to match all five to get the money, though. Ben, it may be the height of summer. There may be record temperatures in the South Island,

but we're making it rain, my friend. Yesterday, five grand was given away to Hayley. You just heard that before. Can we give away five grand today? It's possible. Yeah, we made one listener very happy yesterday. In the same breath, we make the rest of you very miserable. And we are well aware of that.

But let's welcome from Taranaki, Evie. How are you? Hi, it's actually Evette. But hi, I'm good, thanks. Oh, sorry, Evette. Oh, that's on me. That's on me. that's on me. I apologise, it is shocking radio announcing.

You're right. All right, you've got a big choice, Yvette. You need to choose between Ben or myself. Ben, you're fastly becoming the People's Champion. Stop saying that, I know what you're doing. You're trying to pique the pressure on me for this one. He's Jacinda and I'm Judith. And who would you like to choose?

I'm actually going with Ben. I'll do my best for you. I'll try my hardest. I hope we can win some money today. I'll go to the soundproof booth. He's won the popular vote again. So Ben, if this is your first time listening,

Ben goes into a booth where he can hear nothing. And I'm just left with you, Yvette. And producer Juliet, who's fresh back from the bush. Can we get some intense sounding music? Just to unnecessarily add pressure. So you know how it works, Yvette.

You've heard the game? Sure have. Ready to go. I name five words. You just tell me the first word that comes into your head. You can think about it as well. And if you want to talk openly about what words are going through your head, also feel free to do so.

Okay. Lip. Gloss. Lip gloss? Oh, shit. Hold on. I mean, lipstick. Lipstick.

Oh, I didn't know if lip shit, you could lock that in. I don't know if that's a product. Oh, my gosh You can choose I'm not going to force you either way You can lock in whatever you want Lipstick

Lipstick okay Barbie Doll Open Shit Mug Open. Shut. Mug. Hmm.

Mug. Hmm. Could be saucer. Could be cup. Um. Hmm. Hug. Mug. Mug.

Um. I'm going with cup. You're going to lock in cup? Yeah. And the fifth and final word. Can we all just say how well we're dragging this tension out, you and me, Yvette? We're doing a wonderful job of this. I'm pulled on the side of the road here and I'm shaking for some reason.

No, that's all right. There's five grand on the line. Fifth and final word is camping. Tent. Alright. You happy with those five? I'm not too confident. I don't know how Ben's going to go with the

lipstick and the mug, but we'll see how we go. Alright, those are your two troublesome words, you think. Well, let's bring them back out of the soundproof booth. Ben Boyce emerging. Slightly sweaty. A little shiny. A little shiny.

Shiny complexion. A lot of air in there, but it's okay. What went on in there? You look like something changed inside of you. I get quite nervous in there just thinking about it. Come on, Ben. I've got four mouths to feed. Four mouths to feed.

And also what Yvette didn't tell you is that she actually works for American Magic and they're just short of one piece of fiberglass but being America's Cup boats, very expensive. $5,000 would get American Magic back in the cup. Back on the water, back on the water. I see what you're doing here. We didn't tell you that.

No pressure. No, there's a lot of pressure on me. I'll try my best for you. Will the people's champ come through again? Stop it. You've got to do tomorrow. Five words, $5,000. Mildew, let's hit the music. Lip.

Stick. One from one Lip service So it was another thought I thought as well Getting a bit of lip service But That sounds That sounds

Sounds weird That's the reason Someone's talking about someone Not me 7.40 7.50 in the morning Let's not have a lip service conversation Thank you very much

Okay There Hey well What was the other word You tried to lock in Sorry Yvette Gloss She was going to go Lip gloss But but then she changed it to lipstick.

Okay, good. One from one. Four words away from 5K. Barbie. Doll. Yeah, boy. Yeah, boy. Barbecue was another thought that popped into my head as well,

but I thought that was a bit... OMG, you two are so in sync. All right. Third word, open. I'm getting two. I'm getting two. Talk it through. I'm going to go with the first one that popped into my head

because I don't want to say the other one. Closed. Was it shut? Was it shut? She went shut. Shut the front door. I'm so sorry. All good, all good.

Listen, he's a national treasure. He's a people's champion, but sometimes he can't come through. It was open shut. The fourth word was mug. What would you have gone with mug out of interest? Shot. Mug shot. Oh, yeah, of course.

No, Yvette went cup. Oh, cup. Yeah, of course. And camping was the fifth word. Tent? Yes. Oh, so you're only two off, guys. Oh, sorry.

You can bring up this play again another day, right? Sweet as. Thanks, guys. Look after yourself in New Plymouth. That's how it works. Five words, 5k. Back tomorrow, 7.45. Jono and Ben, the hits. Yeah, yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right and at the end of the day. Jono and Ben,

breakfast on the hits. Yesterday I realised one of my most enjoyable times of the week, and I didn't used to get to experience this only since we started working early in the mornings, is when the rubbish truck comes and empties out the bins. You know, you put the recycling bins out. And there's the only one reason I enjoy it's my favourite times of the week

because you can get to judge your neighbours from the comfort of your own home with how much alcohol they've drunk over two weeks when the bottles just come pouring you know the noise and you're like oh you're a heavy one and the bottles are like kankankankankankank

in the machine you spend a lot of your life talking about literally talking rubbish each morning on the radio And the bottles are like, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, at MediaWorks, our old employers, is they had a big rubbish bin and I could just dump rubbish in there all the time. There's no rubbish bin dumping facility here at this new work. It is. It becomes the bin. You got told off one day

for doing it. We were filming something and next to a shop, I can't obviously say what the shop was, and you were out the back before we started filming trying to put rubbish

from your bin. We were filming at Briscoe's and I was at the shop next door. I was like, oh, there's a bin. I've got a bootload of rubbish. I'll just empty it. I've got five minutes.

And I was standing on top of the open bin, you know, the skip bin. I was pouring my rubbish in and this lady comes out and she's like, what are you doing? And I'm like, oh, I've just, you know, you're kind of caught in the moment. You never know what to say there.

It's quite a humbling experience when you're cowered over a bin dumping rubbish into it. And she's like, this is worse than dumping animals. And I was like, I didn't help the situation because I was like, really?

I mean, let's put it in perspective. It's not. This is not a bucket load of puppies I'm pouring into a bin. Oh, yeah. No, but isn't it great? Do you find that when the recycling bin comes,

you get to go, oh, well, you could... It's like the world's most obnoxious, loudest shaming of someone's habits, isn't it? The emptying of the recycling bin. It normally happens in the morning, I guess, on our streets. So I miss it unless I'm at home on holiday. But I do find sometimes when maybe your bin is a little bit full and the rush of putting

something that was your item in someone else's bin, even when they're outsiders, it doesn't it just feels naughty, but it's you know. I think number 14's putting all their bottles in my bin. Because I'm like, oh, number 7's obviously having a bad time at the moment. Definitely not. Number 16's

habits have increased, and then mine went, oh jeez. Oh, there's way too many glass bottles. Number two's been putting all their bottles in my bin. Add these two men together, and somehow you get three-quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Jono, we were talking about this yesterday, and it's such a cliche, but it's true that your kids, they grow up so fast, don't they? I keep saying stop growing.

Yeah. And they're like, shut up, old man. Yeah, well, I was actually reflecting yesterday because my daughter, Sienna, and I, we were out shopping for her uniform. She's going to Intermediate next year. And it was kind of ironic because on my phone, I found a bit of audio that she'd sung me a song when she was like two or three years old. And it was just amazing.

It felt like yesterday when she was singing this song. And I want you so, and I want you to know, I'll never be right here. Diction, not quite there. I was about to say, she's not making it through to the next round, if I was having to judge you, but that is adorable. That is adorable. It felt like just yesterday she was singing that song

and she sent me that song on my voice message thing. She sent that to you? Yeah. Well, obviously Amanda, my wife, did. But then we're out, you know, uniform shopping for her to go to Intermedia. And uniforms, expensive, I was about to say. The first time we've had to do this because her primary school, you know, hasn't been a uniform school.

Yeah, but this time it's like, man. Oh, it's almost worth purchasing yourself a factory in China, getting some children and making some uniforms, isn't it? I'm just like, what is it? It's like the wedding prices when you compare a dress to a wedding, you know, like suddenly it's in a whole new. What have you got? Because you've got no other option.

Yeah. There's no, it's not like you can. These are the shorts we need to get. They're like ridiculously expensive for what the shorts should be. You can't make your own uniforms. Did you know the thing? Because you bought uniforms for your kids, you have to buy them like nine sizes too big, right? Yes. I'm sending

my kids. I'm sending them, because Oscar starts next week in uniform school. I'm sending them, he's going to be dressed like a child dressed as a businessman. You know, the sleeves are like hanging down by his knees. I mean, there was definitely ones around her size, but I'm like, oh no, you've got to wear these. You'll grow into it.

To be honest, you're probably not going to grow into it even by the time you're 50. I don't think I could even fit into the clothes that I bought her yesterday. But she's trying to play me quite well as well because they're using Chromebooks at school and, you know, there's shared Chromebooks in the class, but

she's like, oh, I want to get my own Chromebook. I'm like, oh, I don't know. I don't know if you need one. I don't know what's happening at school. And then she's like, oh, you know, there's COVID. You don't want me touching a Chromebook that other kids have. And I'm like, oh. Oh, well played. So we haven't quite got to the stage of play.

No, but that's a beautiful seed to plant, you know, especially with the case flaring up north too. She's struck when it's topical as well because you would have forgotten about COVID. You would be like, what are you talking about? It's gone. Yeah, just wipe it down. You'd be like, what are you talking about? It's gone. Yeah, just wipe it down. You'd be fine.

But I was like, oh. It's almost like she waited for another case to pop up to then just do that pitch. Just to go, well, it's going to be a thing. Yeah, well played, Sienna. She's the only one in New Zealand hoping for an outbreak so she can get a Chromebook. What are Chromebooks?

I've never even heard of a Chromebook. They're kind of like a laptop, but like a smaller version of a laptop, really. Oh, so a shitty laptop. In a way. Not quite as cool. But you can watch YouTube on it when I think they spend most of their time watching YouTube.

That's the important thing. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Let's do the A to Z of New Zealand. Oh, what's happened here?

Sorry, guys, I've been at the bush for three weeks. I'm a bit rusty on the old technology. You can't blame the bush on everything, mate. How long is this bush excuse going to last? It'll last for the rest of the year, don't you worry about that. I went bush in January. It's October, Juliet. Yeah, you've still got to pay your parking.

Oh, no, no, no, I went bush. Sorry, I was bush. Here we go, here's the intro. The A to Z of New Zealand. It's something we do every day on the show. We call a different town and city in New Zealand. We're calling one a day. We're trying to get through every town and city in New Zealand alphabetically

to learn all about this beautiful country that we live in. Today, the far north Kohukohu, which is a historic village in the Hokianga Harbour in Northland. It's, in fact, one of the first European settlements in New Zealand and it was a small settlement, so small, where the parking is free. The local dairy would trust you enough to do an IOU and the Wi-Fi is a little shaky. It's an untouched part of our wonderful town, of our wonderful country.

And I had some words there, but then they just got deleted lease it off my screen that I was reading. Blame going bush. I went bush once. We're through to Kohu Kohu now. I think we're going to get a hold of Trish apparently. It says on my, just a moment. Good morning, Trish speaking. Oh, we've been sent to get a Trish.

Is this a Trish? Yes, it is. Trish, it's a Jono and a Ben here from the Hits radio station. Hi. You sounded deep in conversation. I was. Can you tell her I'll call her back? Sorry.

Yeah, I've got two phones going. That's how busy we are. See, I feel like we're really inconvenient today. I'm sorry. No, that's all right. I feel like they're probably inconvenient today. I'm sorry. No, that's all right. I feel like there are probably only two phones in Kohukohu. Yeah, look, there might be a couple more, but, you know, we're the main ones. So you've got the main people here.

We've got the big players here. Who was on the other line? What were they wanting, Trish? That was Tanya from the Far North District Council. You won't want to know it. It's kind of stupid of me. Okay, all right Well, I paid my rates, didn't I? But I also paid

somebody else's one. I was very generous. What a wonderful offer. A very generous offer. We're just going through the throes of getting it back, thank you very much. They're very kind in the North. They'll pay each other's rates. Now, how are you going

in Kohukohu today? Oh, look, the sun's out. It's a magnificent day. You know, everything's fine and caked. There's just no one here. Oh, now, what do you do? Well, we're a bar and a cafe, so we can pick up pies,

sort of homemade pies and all of that. We've got croissants. We've got sandwiches, cakes, you name it. Just a typical cafe. Yeah, right. So, Trish, you're it. Just a typical cafe. Yeah, right. So, Trish, you're running a cafe at night, and then when does it click over to pub hours? Clicks over from about three in the afternoon.

Depends on what farmer, you know, stops work early. Yeah, right. So it's all based on what thirsty farmer turns up mid-afternoon. Pretty much. Does Trish put on a new hat at 3 p.m.? Yep, because I'm also a real estate agent. Oh, jeez, Trish put on a new hat at 3pm? Oh, gee, Trish. She's got two phones going.

She's running a cafe, a pub and selling real estate. She's paying other people's rates. I mean, you're doing it all, aren't you? I'm paying other people's rates. That's how busy I am. How stupid can you be? Is there anyone else living in Kohoku, can I ask? Or are you just the only person there running the whole town?

Well, there's supposed to be 120-odd residents, although most of them don't live here, of course. We've got a fire brigade, an ambulance, a general store, you know, so we've got them all. We've got a library. And you know what? I wouldn't be surprised if you're about to continue on and say you're also the fire chief, the librarian, the police. The mayor.

Well, at some point, I almost was all of that because you know what? It was a bit of a ghost town when I took up residence here 18 years ago. Although my lineage goes right back to Kupe when he first came to this area and he was fed some raw food

from a hangi and then he blasphemed the people that has cursed them and told them off, and therefore the name Kohukohu came from that, from him, you know, blaspheming to the people who served me raw food. Oh, so Kohukohu is essentially an insult? Yes, well, that's the name, yes. He's telling them off, and he's giving them a bit of a hard time because he couldn't feed himself because he was too much of a hierarchy.

He had to be hand-fed by others. And as a result, you know, he obviously ate the food, which he wasn't happy with, stood up and said, you know, bugger you all, you just served me some half-cooked food. How dare you? Oh, it was like the original MasterChef, wasn't it? Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, so that's the story behind Cooper,

who I lineage back to, by the way. So you're related. Wow. Apparently. Oh, Trish, and I tell you what, they couldn't have a better spokesperson. Thank you very much. It's been an honour speaking to you, Trish.

You know a lot about your area, and I tell you what, you've got one job to do, and that's go and have a good day. And thank you very much. And by the way, I work for Harcourt's Kaitaia while I'm on it. She'll pay your rates and sell you a house.

Yes indeed. Good on you Trish. Alright thanks for calling. See ya. Have a great day. Out of all of the news readers, none has less journalistic integrity than this one, but he's the best we've got, goddammit. Ben Boyce, what's been happening overnight? Well, gin drinkers who fancy a twist of lemon in their tipple

may be best to switch to cucumber. That's what they're saying this morning in the New Zealand Herald because it's the off-season for lemons in New Zealand and there's a bit of a logistical issue with getting lemons into the country, particularly from California, apparently, where we get them. They're having to fumigate them when they arrive because of something that's going on with the lemons.

And lemons don't take well to fumigation. So there's a shortage of lemons around. So isn't there a saying with life gives you lemons or something? It makes, what is it? I don't know the back end of that saying. But there is a saying there. I've got a wonderful lemon tree at home. Oh, well, mate, you could be making some money on the side.

Come to my house. Although it's not lemon season, right? But I always have lemons on this tree. Oh, okay. I don't know. I do nothing to it. Stop bringing back your lemon tree. I do nothing to it.

I don't even use them. They just fall on the ground. They end up all mouldy and mushy. You know how they do. Actually, I do. I give them to the local fish and chip lady. Well, bring them in. Every caller wins a lemon on the show.

I can do that. I'll pick the lemons tonight. I'll take a photo of me picking lemons. We'll bring them in and we can give them away if they're in hot demand. They're enormous. They're enormous lemons. They are. I'll take a photo of them.

You'll know. Those are some big lemons. Bring some in, Charles. I don't need to see photographic evidence. You can bring me some in. Okay, tomorrow, every caller wins a lemon. Okay. I'll do that.

Jono's lemons. Yeah. I love it. And Joe Biden needs it. I've also got a walnut tree. Have you? Yeah. And we could do every caller wins Jono's nuts.

Yeah. We could do. I do. They're not in season just yet. They're starting to get it. Okay, we'll wait for nuts season. Now, Joe Biden is the new president of America, obviously, and he's got to work quickly.

He's reversed some of Trump's policies. He's kick-started a plan to tackle coronavirus. But a lot of media in America right now fixated on the watch he's wearing, and it's a Rolex. It's $7,000 they reckon that Rolex is worth. And a lot of people are like, oh, it's too flash for a president to be wearing.

Apparently, the last few presidents, Clinton, Bush, it's too flash for a president to be wearing. Apparently the last few presidents, Clinton, Bush and Obama, all had very cheap sort of watches. Clinton was like a plastic under $50 one. You know, sort of working man, sort of working woman watch, you know. A bit further up his forearm though, he had a $20,000 Rolex.

Not the first president to wear a Rolex. People like Reagan, Eisenhower all had Rolexes. But there's, you know, people go, oh, he shouldn't be wearing a watch. It doesn't make him a common person. I tell you what doesn't make him a common person, being the president of the United States. And then some people have said because his son sadly passed away and a lot of people reckon it might have been his watch

because there's photos of him wearing a Rolex. So he's probably got wonderful sentimental value before we go around and have a crack at Biden. Plus he flies in his own plane and his own helicopter and has a giant White House. I mean, let's not zero in on the Rolex. I love those things at the airport when you see the pictures of, like, Liam Hemsworth seductively modelling a watch. Oh, you're like a Targ Hoyer or whatever it is. All those guys,

they all must get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to just watch us, yeah. Yeah. My dad, Kevin Boyce, loves a good line, loves a clever pun, and Eric and Joe Biden, which probably other people have thought as well, his slogan should have been Biden, his time. Biden, his time, because he's Biden and his time.

I was like, oh, that's actually quite good. I see where you get your puns from. Oh, yeah, it's the lineage. And he could have been sitting there with a watch as well, Biden and his time. I was like, oh, that's actually quite good. I see where you get your puns from. Oh, yeah. It's the lineage. And he could be sitting there with a watch as well. Biden, his time. He could do a special edition of Rolexes. Biden, your time. Yeah. Do you wear a watch?

No. No. No. He just goes off the sun, don't you? You just pick where the sun is. Are you a watch person, Julian? Your phone does do that for you. Yeah. I found it got me more sort of anxious about time wearing a watch. I'm just like, he? Are you a watch person, Julian? Your phone does do that for you. I found it got me more anxious about time wearing a watch. I've decided I want to buy a watch. Someone gave me a

bracelet over. Have you noticed my bracelet? That is gangster. Someone gave me a silver bracelet over. I don't know, it's not worth $15 but I'm rolling with it. Every time I go swimming in a pool it kind of chlorinates up and goes all green and stuff. But yeah, I've been wearing that. You didn't say anything, Ben. You didn't notice my lovely bracelet. Every time I go swimming in a pool, it kind of chlorinates up and goes all green and stuff. But yeah, I've been wearing that.

You didn't say anything, Ben. You didn't know something about my lovely bracelet. I was going to give you a lot. But then I thought you might go, well, yeah, it's a charity thing. You know, it might be something like that, that some of those things are. Supporting some people somewhere.

I'm always working for charity, even my wrist. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Want more Jono and Ben you can catch up with the boys anytime just search Jono and Ben

on Instagram now listen I just brought up my bracelet my New Year's bracelet that nothing's been said no one said anything about it

no it's a silver bracelet producer Harvey thought I had diabetes Ben you thought it was a medic alert bracelet I thought it could be it looks like it could be a medic alert

like if anything happened to you there was a little tab that was a medic alert bracelet. I thought it could be. It looks like it could be a medic alert. Like if anything happened to you, there was a little tab that was like, oh, we're going to call this person. Well, I am getting old. I'm going Biden. I'm going Biden. Juliet, you're like, oh, yeah, I noticed it as well. So has there been talk of this bracelet behind my back? No, I don't think we haven't been talking behind your back.

No, we'll do that in front of you. But I think everyone's been thinking stuff. Oh, he's got a bracelet. Okay. Yeah, I'm going to roll this. There's nothing wrong with it, mate. If you want to roll with the bracelet, roll with the bracelet. Well, if there's a medical emergency, Ben, you know, just send him this bracelet. Who to call? 0800 the hits telephone number. Yesterday

we did a fun little segment on things that got lost and found. What was that off? I can't even remember. It was Matt Chisholm who hosts Celebrity Treasure Island on TVNZ. He left his laptop on the roof of his car and drove away. And two hours later, he realised it had gone. And someone found it on the side of the road and returned it to him.

So it's pretty cool. And it had this whole book he'd be writing, his autobiography. And he hadn't backed up. So Juliet's like, imagine it. And you just come back from the bush and you're already missing technology. Yeah, we actually lost a VH radio, a safety radio. It got washed away ashore and then another group found it a few days later and it washed back up on the same shore.

And we're like, thank God that was found. So Juliet, have you just tuned in from Outward Bound? And she's a different woman. I love the environment, guys. So yeah, 0800, what has been lost and found? Because I remembered, when we went to Australia for work, I think I met you over there.

So I flew over there by myself. And I went from Auckland to, I think it was like Koolingatta, and arrived in Koolingatta and I was like, oh no, my phone. I don't have my phone. But luckily,

I'm one of these people who likes to leave their phone on when the plane's going. Go against the grain. Turn it off, put it on flight mode, do something. No, I left it on. You were so that person. So I could see the phone, we could see it on the maps, couldn't we, going back and forth. I went back

and forth across the Tasman three times. It was a great airport, that phone, didn't it? It did. I mean, you wouldn't be able to get away with it now, travelling back and forth to Australia with that phone. And so completely lost it. It obviously died. And then four days later, I remember Jeremy Corbett, of all people, reached out.

Oh, yeah, from seven days in the project. He's like, did you leave your phone on a plane? And I was like, yeah. And he's like, oh, this guy has got your phone. And he was an Air New Zealand engineer who had somehow unlocked my phone, got Jeremy Corbett's number. Jeremy Corbett got in touch with me. And then he was up north.

And Murray Lindsay, who used to host the day show on the hits, I mean, it was a raft of top broadcasters on the rescue mission of this phone. He went and picked it up from up north because that's where he lived. And he did live. And so I got my phone back. From all people, Murray Lindsay. Yeah, and it came with a bracelet as well, so they don't know whose bracelet it was. John Isaiah, yeah, I'll wear that.

I'll take that as well. Phone and the bracelet. So I went under that. What have you lost and found? I think Jennifer has phoned through. Morning to Jennifer. What happened? How are you?

I'm good, thank you. Lovely to have you on from Te Araha. How's that this morning? Can't see the area, but it'll be a beautiful day for sure. Okay, all right. You've got a remarkable tale of lost and found, we understand. Yes. I was out driving with my two children and my little toddler son

threw his favourite cuddly toy out the car window and got home, went to put him to bed and the toy wasn't there. So you can imagine what that's like. And luckily we had a backup. Now tell me, did your backup work? Because Oscar, my son, he had this bunny. And the bunny, it really looked worse for wear.

It formed a brown sheen. But that was the, and we've got a backup one for an incident if it was lost. So a similar soft toy or like... No, an identical one. Oh, right, yeah. And we're like,

oh, we need to wash this thing. It's starting to... The flies are starting to hibernate around this bunny. So we put it in the washing machine and we're like, one night,

just give him the replacement bunny. Did not fly. Oh, did you? No. The smell of a two-year-old bunny, an unwashed bunny that resonated with him.

Is that the same for you? It wasn't too bad. It sort of rolled around the cot as well. He did take it, but we had B1 and B2, and of course B1 had a big burn mark on the back of his head where my husband dried it in front of the fire in desperation after a wash. He got used to B2, but I was shopping at the Hamilton dump one day, and a big bag of soft toys came out of the actual rubbish pit

and when they cut it open, out popped his bee two years later. No way. At the dump? Yep. And what's the chances of you being there at the time that that happened? Yeah, it came out, cut it open, there it was, and he still got it aged 27. That's not unusual.

He still sleeps with it every night. Why do I judge with that? There you go. Pays to go shopping at the dump. It's not unusual. He still sleeps with it every night. Why do I judge with that? Oh, there you go. Pays to go shopping at the dump. It does, absolutely. The amount of stuff people throw out, and I've banged on about this before when I go to the dump, there's a mountain of rubbish in there.

Much of it can be reused. Absolutely, yep. One man's pleasure is another man's pleasure. That's a wise saying. Did you come up with that? No. No. You should put that on a T-shirt, Jennifer.

You're a smart lady. Hey, thank you so much for your call. We really appreciate it. What a great tale. Yep, you have a great day. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits.

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That was our main fear, right? Producer Juliet, come on in with a spy update. Thanks so much. So Billie Eilish, singer-songwriter in lockdown.

She's quite young. I think she's only about 18, right? And she shot to fame and I think she was 15 or 16. And what she realised once she did this fame and I think she was 15 or 16. And what she realised once she did this certain thing

of what she bought during lockdown was that she didn't know how much things cost her because she was a kid, then rose to fame, and now she doesn't know how much cereal costs, for example, right?

Because she's never had to grocery shop before because her mum did it and then it was just done for her whole life. That's what they did all through the election, didn't they?

Keep drilling, grilling Judith Collins on how much butter costs. Yes, and milk. How much is a butter? Cheese and stuff. She got cheese wrong and was like, oh, she got the price of cheese and milk and oh yeah. She's a busy politician. She's not buying cheese every day. Yeah, exactly. And so Billy

during lockdown, she was online shopping heaps and was like, oh, I need some more cereal. Goes on to, you know, the equivalent of Countdown just say and goes and buys some cereal and it's like, oh, $35, yeah I'll pay that and didn't realise that that was quite expensive for cereal. And then she

ended up with 70 boxes of cereal arriving at her front door because she just was not aware of how much cereal should be. But also I'm like, mate, like, look at the number. Was it $35 for one box of cereal? No, no, no.

So the whole order came to $35 because she'd ordered 70. And so she didn't realise that that was expensive for what she thought was going to be one box of cereal. That's a bargain for 70 boxes of cereal. $35. That is a, what supermarket? What's a plus, Sammy? It's not five plus, surely it's not the five plus.

No, it was Froot Loops. Those sugary little circle things. She does a video at the moment. She's an awesome song, Therefore I Am. She's going through like an empty mall and my wife was watching

the other day. She's like, is that Sylvia Park? Oh no. I'm like, yeah, your Billie Eilish has flown over here

quarantined for two weeks and gone through the Sylvia Park mall in Auckland. The empty mall. Looks like Sylvia Park. I was like, yeahined for two weeks, and gone through the Sylvia Park Mall in Auckland. The empty mall. Looks like Sylvia Park. I was like, yeah, well, she, yeah. Anyway.

And just quickly, because we are running over time almost, Kourtney Kardashian is now dating the drummer from Blink-182, which you'll know. Oh, Travis Barker. Yeah, right. Apparently they're dating. That's some news I also came back to. For years, apparently. That's what I I also came back to. They've been friends for years, apparently.

That's what I was reading yesterday, the two of them. And now they're together in a romance and sources, sources are saying they're happy, they're very happy. The only man who's made worse tattoo decisions than me. He's got face tattoos. You're really committed to the game when you've got them on your face. Yeah, exactly. Ben's going to get a face tattoo after 8 o'clock.

The hits. And that's spy. You can check out thehits.co.nz for more. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. That is our show for Wednesday.

Thank you so much for joining us. We did not quite get 5K today, but hopefully we will get to tomorrow. Hey, you know what I've got to do today? I've got to get a mole cut out of my head. Quite a moley individual I am being boys, haven't I? I've had three big moles carved out of my head, haven't I? And that's a lesson to everyone listening. Sunscreen.

Use it. It's a thing. If I could give one bit of advice, would it be to wear sunscreen? It's a piece of advice because it seems like we're a lot more sensible with it now, but we haven't always been that way. You've given yourself a great day today. And don't forget, if you want to sign up for

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