Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Jono Ben and Megan live from Whangārei

Episode Date: October 17, 2024

We couldn't finish the herald quiz again... We got so close 9/10 We dive into the passing of Liam Payne and the impact it's having on our generation. Producer grace made a hilarious error when she wa...s posting on the Hits Breakfast Instagram We sent Phillipa on her fight ever flight with Jono. We also tested Jono on how much he listened to Phillipa life story. Jono Ben and Megan try a Kina for the first time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the podcast. On a Friday morning, we'll be traveling around the country this week on a Never Have You Ever tour. We're in Whangarei at the moment. Jono's just eaten, um, what have you got there? Scrambled egg. Yeah. Oh, omelettes, yeah. You've got an omelette. Ghost cheese inside. There's a goat. I've never had ghost cheese and it was gorgeous.
Starting point is 00:00:16 Yeah. What do you feel, out of all the animals you can milk, what is your... I'd say goat would be my preference, yeah. Really? That's the one you like to get your hands on? Is that what you're thinking? Goat milk? Why are you arranging
Starting point is 00:00:29 it on the drive home? Never have you ever milked a goat. Hey, do they have teats? I assume so. Well, you'd imagine
Starting point is 00:00:37 anything you can milk. With nipples. What's the movie? Fockers. Meet the Fockers. I've got nipples. He was talking about milking the cat. Just say if they've got nipples, you can milk it.
Starting point is 00:00:49 Well, you could try, but where you at? So in that instance, we could make human cheese. Couldn't you? Well, I guess you could. You could eat breast milk. You could turn that into... Oh, my God. Have we cracked a business model here?
Starting point is 00:01:04 Also, what do you call it because it's like goat's cheese do you literally call it breast cheese imagine going to like dragon's den and pitching that idea breast cheese i really wish i'd made some for you breast cheese but i mean like if you're a goat and you're is it a thing megan Is it? The world of breast milk cheese. Oh, there we go. Breast milk cheese sounds better than breast cheese. Yeah, someone's...
Starting point is 00:01:29 Yeah. Of course someone's got into it, yeah. Wow. Because if you're a goat and you're like, oh, they're eating that, are they? That wouldn't sound appealing if you're a goat. Yeah. But if you're not a goat, it sounds... Yeah, why do we find it more, like, okay to eat from the teeth of a goat?
Starting point is 00:01:47 I always find that with animals as well. Animals that people, not everyone's comfortable with eating animals and which ones, but someone, oh, oh, oh, I wouldn't, but I'd eat that. You know, like, it's like, when did that become a thing? And different cultures are different as well. Well, some of the cows are sacred in some countries, aren't they? Yeah. But yeah, you're right.
Starting point is 00:02:04 I'm not getting into, like, don't get me wrong, I'm not actually literally hungry enough to eat a horse, but I'm like, oh, I can kind of see how someone might have got there at some stage. Why are we all high and mighty about not eating dogs here? You know, but in other countries, it's fine to eat dogs. It's just a meat on an animal. Who sets the parameters? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:02:22 Yeah. The moral police, I think. The social media police. Hey, today, lots of fun here in Whangarei. You got to experience a motorbike ride for the first time. You got to drive a motorbike. Drive? Is that what they call it?
Starting point is 00:02:34 Drive a motorbike? Ride a motorbike. Ride a motorbike, yeah. Very poorly. You tell I'm not very experienced in it either. You're so bad at it. You got to drive a motorbike. You've both been on motorbikes.
Starting point is 00:02:44 Yeah. When did you to drive a motorbike. I've been on motorbikes. When did you go on a motorbike? Well, I did live on a farm in the Wairarapa for a little bit. They'd have a little farm bike that I would kind of, you know, to be fair, I'd drive around on that. Clearly, I didn't know what I'm talking about. Yeah, so I wasn't very good on it, but I'd do the occasional thing around that, yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:05 Well, the podcast today, we do that, and also we talked to Gavin Gray, too, our UK correspondent after the sad passing of Liam Payne as well. In fact, that's going to be on a separate podcast. Oh, a cat podcast. I've just been told. Don't expect that on this podcast. No, but it's definitely worth a listen as well about the tragic news of Liam Payne.
Starting point is 00:03:22 Enjoy the podcast, and we'll catch you on Monday. As we make our way around the to the tragic news of Liam Payne. Enjoy the podcast and we'll catch you on Monday. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. As we make our way around the country on our Never Have You Ever Tour. Let's go. Jono, Ben and Megan's Never Have You Ever Tour with gas. It's all thanks to Gas Petrol Service Stations. We have been heading around the place.
Starting point is 00:03:40 Started in the south, we're headed to Whangarei today. Jeez, I tell you what, we've travelled more of New Zealand than a couple of boomers in a camper van, haven't we? It has been a magnificent week, met many great people along the way, haven't we? And now we're just shells of human beings sitting here, existing. I know Ben was really quiet this morning, I was like, you alright, babe? I was just waking up, I was just waking up. He's a 45 minute guy, you've got to give him 45 minutes and he kicks into gear. I'm all good now.
Starting point is 00:04:06 Come down and see us, actually, at the Quay in Whangarei today. We've got free hot drinks this morning, so come on down and see us. We're going to be here until 9, but when we did arrive yesterday, we got to do something actually really cool. We got to surprise someone who had text through the session. Yeah, Carmel. So we turned up to her house, and it was kind of like one of those, remember those old reality shows from the early 2000s where they'd go and knock on people's doors and they'd be like, oh my God, you're here.
Starting point is 00:04:28 Or one of those nappy sand doorstep challenge type things they used to do back in the day. Do you have any dirty laundry? Yes, but I'm not showing you. Not that I want to show you, yeah. And the TV crew. Whoops out their dirty knickers. There you go, nappy sand. What can you do with these marks? Anyway, we turned up to Carmel's house and we were walking up on her lawn and there was a lady walking down the middle of the road, wasn't there? There was. You yelled out.
Starting point is 00:04:53 I did yell out. Have a listen. Here we go. Don't walk on a grass bed. Hello. Low-level celebrities in the neighbourhood. Oh, my God. Oh, you've got headphones on. Hello, low level celebrities in the neighbourhood. Oh my god.
Starting point is 00:05:08 Oh you've got earphones on. Say it again. Hello. Hi. Hello. Got a bunch of flowers for you. Now you've never had a night away from how many kids? Five.
Starting point is 00:05:16 Five kids. Hi kids. Hi kids. Hey. Jeez you've been busy mate. You've been busy. You've been busy. You've been busy.
Starting point is 00:05:24 You've been busy. You've been busy. You've been had a night away. From how many kids? Five. Five? Five kids. Hi kids. Hi kids. Jeez, you've been busy mate. Thanks to the Scenic Hotel Bay of Islands Pai, you're going to get two nights away. Two nights away for two of you.
Starting point is 00:05:35 There's dinner and breakfast included. Thanks to gas, there's a $100 gift voucher as well. Well, Mum's going to have a couple of nights away, and we're going to come and babysit. She's like... Oh, look at the terror on her face. No, he's not coming, I promise you. The strange man will never show up on your doorstep again. So that was lovely, wasn't it? It was, and she is going to enjoy a couple of nights away, as I said, at the scenic Hotel Bay of Islands in Paihe.
Starting point is 00:06:02 Beautiful place. My mum's from up that way as well. You can do things like swim with the dolphins, the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. Rich history. They love saying how old everything is because it's one of the first places, you know, settled in New Zealand.
Starting point is 00:06:13 Your mum made national news, didn't she? My mum? Yeah. What? Have you forgotten? She was national news. It's the Kiwi. Oh, the Kiwi.
Starting point is 00:06:21 Yes, I was like, what a mum. It was looking petrified. I was like, oh God, did those photos get out? Mum. No, yes, she did. Yes, she had a kiwi. Oh, the kiwi, yes. I was like, what a mum, what a mum. It was looking petrified. I know, yeah. I was like, oh, God, did those photos get out? Oh, mum. No, yes, she did. Yes, she had a kiwi that popped up. Just in there like a little sleep out. She's got it at the bottom of the property.
Starting point is 00:06:33 Yeah. He was very frustrated because we did talk to Jenny on the radio. Yeah. And then it became a news story four days after. I know. We could have led that story. We could have front-footed it, yeah. We could have, but that's what happens at the beautiful Bay of Islands.
Starting point is 00:06:45 You get kiwis, actual kiwi birds, turning up in your backyard. It's a beautiful part of New Zealand. And it was really cool to do something like that for Carmel, who's never had a night away from her kids. Five kids, so yeah. Beautiful kids, too. They're all quite young, too. She should be busy.
Starting point is 00:06:59 Terrified of you, though. We're terrified. Terrified. And I shouldn't say beautiful kids as well. No, that's weird. For more info, you can check out scenichotelgroup.co.nz. If you want to travel to the Bay of Islands next, we are on a mission all this week to get 10 out of 10
Starting point is 00:07:12 on the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. We haven't done it yet. No, we've got close. We've done terribly bad as well. How will things go this morning on a tired Friday morning as we get to the weekend? Who knows? We'll find out after Teddy swims the door at 6.10 on that.
Starting point is 00:07:27 The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Auckland FC, their first historic game this weekend against the Brisbane team, which will be amazing. 20,000 tickets sold for the first game so far. So hopefully it could be a sellout. 25 is the capacity at Mount Smart Stadium. So that's a really great crowd for the first historic game. And don't forget, you can still do our knighthood,
Starting point is 00:07:47 the move that Megan came up with, the signature move. Well, I guess the royals, the monarchy came up with the knighthood, the actual move. We've just adopted it. Because they're the knights, the black knights. So we thought we could celebrate by doing that. If you do a video of you doing it, upload it to the hitstock.nz. You can win $250.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Yeah, good stuff. I've got my top on today, the Auckland Knights top on. Oh, you do? Only because the rest of my clothing is... Well, no, I still like supporting the Knights, but very smelly. Right. Very, yeah. You gave me grief using a washing machine.
Starting point is 00:08:13 Well, is that day one? You got into a washing machine. Yeah, but we also went home yesterday. We went home, yeah. You got clothes, all washed clothes. Oh, it's an overnight peg. Yeah. None of my business.
Starting point is 00:08:21 None of my business. It's where I washed my clothes when I got home. Refreshed all my clothes for the rest of the week. It's been a journey trying to nail this New Zealand Herald quiz. The daily quiz. It's on the herald.co.nz. Ten questions in a row. That's what we need to get.
Starting point is 00:08:34 The highest. Nine out of ten. Two nines this week. Producer Ali coming on in. Hello there. Life and death situation here, Ali. If we don't do it today. You're all fired.
Starting point is 00:08:45 I've decided. Great. Yeah, I don't have that authority, but I've decided. Bit of jeopardy. Bit of jeopardy. Exactly. Exactly. Okay.
Starting point is 00:08:52 Question number one. What is the name of the cat in the animated series The Simpsons? Snowball. One, two, or three. So it's Snowball one, two, or three. Oh. He was so cocky. Wait, does it have a number at the end?
Starting point is 00:09:06 Yeah. Yeah. I feel like it's two. Which version of The Simpsons? That's The Simpsons. They just call it Snowball 2. Well, yeah, I always knew it was Snowball, but I think it might be Snowball 2.
Starting point is 00:09:16 For some reason, I feel like it's the second version of Snowball. Well, I mean, he's got a Bart Simpson bag. I know, but I'm really going to let down my love of The Simpsons if I get this wrong. I reckon go with your gut, Ben. Okay. That is correct. Yeah, there we go. I know, but I'm really going to let down my love of the Simpsons if I get this wrong. I reckon go with your gut, Ben. Okay. That is correct. Yeah, there we go.
Starting point is 00:09:28 First question. Right on our way. Yay. I was so confident with Snowball, then they went to Snowball 1, 2, and 3. I was like, oh, okay. Okay, number two. What is the biggest city in Vietnam?
Starting point is 00:09:38 Is it Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong, or Hanoi? Ho Chi Minh. What about Hanoi? Ho Chi Minh. Okay. Heanoi? Ho Chi Minh. Okay. Go with your gut. That's correct. Oh, there you go.
Starting point is 00:09:51 We've got very healthy guts. Okay, so it's my turn. You two are both very sure of yourselves this morning. He's going to come in with confidence. Okay, question number three. Where is coffee believed to have originated? Is it Ethiopia, Brazil, or Colombia? Don't care, mate.
Starting point is 00:10:03 We're all about Dilmar on this show, mate. Nice. Tell me where tea originated, then we'll answer that. Any ideas there? Colombia or what's the other options? Ethiopia, Brazil or Colombia. Well, Brazil is quite famous for coffee and Colombia, right?
Starting point is 00:10:20 All wonderful cocaine manufacturers as well in those countries. Some of the best cocaine out of those countries as well, as coffee. Ethiopia is the other one, right? Yeah. Ethiopia? I have no idea. I love Medusa Ali's facials.
Starting point is 00:10:34 Go in your gut, mate. She'll give you a little... I know. Ethiopia. Ethiopia. That is correct, Megan. Okay. Three out of three.
Starting point is 00:10:42 Thank you to the person who texted in as well, helping us out. We're on question four. You can text in as well to help us out this morning. Thank you. All right. Question number four. Who ruled Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to... Lock it in.
Starting point is 00:10:54 You're correct. Well done. He knows everything Cuban. He loves his dictators. Let's go one more before we take a break or we bail out of this competition. All right, question number five. What tile-based game has red dragon, green dragon, and white dragon? Mahjong.
Starting point is 00:11:12 Oh, yes, Megan. This could be it, guys. That is correct. Okay, we're five out of five. We're halfway there. We're going to put a pin in it. We're going to come back to it in just a second. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
Starting point is 00:11:24 Now, we're trying to get 10 out of 10 in the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. We've made it our mission over the last couple of weeks. We've got a couple of 9 out of 10s. Today, well, so far, going well. Going well. We're at 6 out of 10, and I think it's all down to producer Ellie putting our jobs on the line. She said that was the jeopardy this morning. Ben, you answered with confidence.
Starting point is 00:11:42 Who played the Fonz in Happy Days? Well, yeah, Henry Winkler. Now, I have been lucky enough to interview him once in America, so I feel like I know. He loves New Zealand. He fly-fishes here all the time. Does he? Yeah, he loves fly-fishing.
Starting point is 00:11:53 He's the opposite of the Fonz in real life. He's never ridden a motorbike. They used to tie him around on the back of a trailer, and he'd just pretend to be riding when he was on Happy Days. They never had a fly-f fishing arc for the Fonz's character. No, he loves fly fishing. So I'm going to lock in Henry Winkler. That is correct, Ben. Well done.
Starting point is 00:12:12 We haven't even needed the multi-choice. I know. We'll go into the text machine either. I've really finished the questions. Okay, number seven. Which NSYNC member left the group in 2002? That'd be Tim Blake, wouldn't it? Was it Jasey... Shaz 2002? That'd be Timberlake, wouldn't it? Was it J.C. Schoenberg? J.C.
Starting point is 00:12:27 Shazam. That one. Joey Fartone. Oh, my goodness. Tony. That one. Or Justin Timberlake. I know how to say that one.
Starting point is 00:12:33 Justin Timberlake. Yeah. Yeah, we'll go with Timberlake. Locking in JT left the group. There we go. That's correct. The watch Destiny's Child, isn't it? Okay, so we're up to question number eight, guys.
Starting point is 00:12:43 I reckon you'll get this as well. What sport did Honor Carter represent New Zealand in? Hey, I could have answered that sport question. You could have, I know. Honor Carter. She represented New Zealand in hockey. That is correct. Well done.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Nice. The people also need to hear the questions. Sorry. It's like reading the cards off Bradley Welsh. Yeah, he's not annoying at all. Otherwise the audience will be like, does he know? On account of what? I'm putting a window up between us.
Starting point is 00:13:14 Producer Ali's sitting quite close to me this morning, so I can see the questions for the first time. All right. This is question number nine. What is the name of the annual festival held in Park City, Utah in January? Is it Sundance Film Festival, South by Southwest, or Burning Man? Burning Man, I think it's California. It's out in that weird desert.
Starting point is 00:13:33 South by Southwest, isn't it? Like in Texas? Texas. That's an awesome test. So we're going to go with Sundance. Thank you. That is correct. This is it, New Zealand.
Starting point is 00:13:43 Guys, we're doing so well this morning. Good on us. Is this it? Is this the final one? This is the final question. We've been here before, though. This is Team New Zealand 8-1-Up. Okay.
Starting point is 00:13:54 Focus. Question number 10. Hey, no text? Should we say no text? No text. Okay, I'm shutting my laptop. You've got to do this blind, okay? Okay.
Starting point is 00:14:00 What 1978 play won Sam Shepard the Pulitzer Prize? Is it A Lie of the Mind, Buried Child, or True West? Yeah, that's a bit of a hard one. The Pulitzer Prize in 1970. I'm blind on this. I'm sorry. None of that that you just read out brings a bell. I know, neither.
Starting point is 00:14:24 Sam West in 1970. Sam Sheppard in 1978. Let's get the person's name correct. That's a good start. Pulitzer Prize for a play. We've got options. A lie of the mind. The drumroll's run out.
Starting point is 00:14:39 True West. Someone's got to take a stab in the dark and see. True West. Okay. No, wait. But then he'll the dark and see. True West. Okay. No, wait. But then he'll go, I've seen True West. We've just got to go with it. Someone's seen something. We've got to go with it. True West.
Starting point is 00:14:53 I wasn't ready. True West, you're looking that in? Alright. You've just lost your job. That's incorrect. It was buried child. Why did we let Jono? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:15:07 When someone says something, you can't, you know, because you'll just go, I said, I said Drew West. It's the second time I've let us down. Nine out of ten. The dream. Well, it's been a fun few months at the Hits. Thanks to you guys. Our dream wasn't made a reality, but we want to make someone else's dream come true next.
Starting point is 00:15:24 The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Into the weekend, it's a busy sporting weekend, and the White Ferns take on West Indies in the semifinal of the T20 World Cup. I love talking about cricket, you know, and it's awesome that they made the semifinals. Got a bit of a hunch, guys. Uh-oh, the hunchback of Whangarei.
Starting point is 00:15:41 Here I am back, Amelia Kerr and the White Ferns. I'm going to back them to beat the West Indies and the Aussies will beat South Africa in the other semi-final, making it a trans-Tasman final, paying $1.90 at the TAB, which almost doubles your money. You can download the all-new TAB app
Starting point is 00:15:55 and get your bet on R18. Bet responsibly. And $100, a TAB voucher we've got for you right now. 4487, just text CRICKET, because that's my favourite game. Every week, he says his hunch with such a level of confidence and arrogance. No one check back up.
Starting point is 00:16:08 I know, we've never checked back. No, it's not important to check back up. What is important is we're on our Never Have You Ever Tour. Let's go! Jono, Ben and Megan's Never Have You Ever Tour with Gas.
Starting point is 00:16:20 Thanks to Gas Petrol Service Stations travelling around the country making your nevers come true. And a lot of people texting through, calling us through to the radio station, wanting to achieve things for the first time. And we've covered a broad spectrum, haven't we? People who haven't parallel parked, people who haven't... Why did I list?
Starting point is 00:16:37 You started a list. Why did I list? I know you wanted us to back you up, but I was like, what other things have we done? Honestly, I cannot remember. People getting tattoos for the first time. Ben, you rode a motorbike for the first time. I went with someone who flew on a plane for the first time yesterday.
Starting point is 00:16:53 Helicopters. We've had it all. Cable cars. Why didn't you just do this fresh off the back of me? Why did we have to go into that weird little lie he's forgotten clearly? But Mary joins us right now on 0800 The Hits. Good morning, Mary. Good morning. Lovely to have you Hits. Good morning, Mary. Good morning.
Starting point is 00:17:05 Lovely to have you on at this early hour, Mary. Now, there's something that you have never, ever done. Do you know what? I cannot remember what I put. You and me both, Mary. You and me both, babes. You're bringing some Jono energy this morning.
Starting point is 00:17:22 I love it. It's a very vague show. Let me tell you what you've never done. You've never been to the snow, Mary. That would be right. Mary's like, have I? What? Okay. Well, Mary, you've never been to the snow before.
Starting point is 00:17:39 And thanks to Arua Pehu, we're going to give you a double day pass for two people to go along. Check out Snow Go Up the Mountain. That sounds amazing. Pack your warm knickers, Mary. It's slippery and cold. Yeah, the snow, it looks great on TV, on movies, and, you know, when you're streaming shows. But the reality of the snow, it's cold. It is cold.
Starting point is 00:17:59 But beautiful. It is. But don't start a snowball fight with your family would be my only warning. Because it's like chucking cricket balls at your loved ones. Yeah, they're quite a lot harder than you think, right? You've got one to the eye. My kids are bang. It's like, whoa, jeez.
Starting point is 00:18:12 But you'll check out Urupehu. Great place to pass through. Not just a great place to pass through. Destination where you can slow down, immerse yourself in nature, and fully connect. So enjoy that. Now, make sure you don't forget that we've given you that, and you go on that trip there, Barry. She's like, why am I here? What's going on? Hey, thank you very much for enjoy that. Thank you. Now, make sure you don't forget that we've given you that, and you go on that trip there, Mary. Why am I here?
Starting point is 00:18:27 What's going on? Hey, thank you very much for submitting that. You have yourself a great weekend. I will. Thank you. Mary, off to the snow, the only place whiter than this radio show. Good on you, Mary. Hey, next, some pretty tragic news over the last 24 hours.
Starting point is 00:18:39 Liam Payne, a former member of One Direction, passed away, and it's hitting everyone hard around the world, but particularly one member of the team, which we want to talk about in just a few moments on The Hits. Some really, really tragic news over the last 24 hours, as you would have heard. One Direction star Liam Payne has died in Argentina. Yeah, really, really shocking.
Starting point is 00:19:01 Fell off a balcony. And it was at a hotel, wasn't it? And then landed next to dining tables beneath. Just, oh, really shocking. Fell off a balcony. And it was at a hotel, wasn't it? And landed next to dining tables beneath. Just horrible. 31 years old. Just your heart breaks for his family, his friends, and a seven-year-old child as well. So just...
Starting point is 00:19:17 And he was there for two weeks. And he looked happy. He was at Niall's concert. He was there to support him. He was at Niall's concert. He was there to support him. He was, like, taking photos with the fans. Oh, it's a tragedy. It sounds like he was battling with demons throughout his life as well, which is always so sad, too.
Starting point is 00:19:35 But Ellie, producer Ellie, huge 1D fan. Hello, team. Yes, I sure am, and especially was when I was, you know, the age of 17 to sort of like 25. I was just in love with those boys. I used to watch their music videos on MTV and just pretend they were singing to me, which is kind of cringy, I think, about it. But I loved them.
Starting point is 00:19:54 I loved them so much. They definitely weren't singing to you. Damn it. They were. They were singing to their bank accounts. But it must be, you know, it was quite a shock for you. I mean, a shock for so many people around the world, you know, for everyone. When this happens to someone at 31, but then someone that you've kind of grown up with you've admired as well to see that sort of happen yeah it's pretty shocking like obviously we've
Starting point is 00:20:12 got celebrity deaths that happen throughout our life but i think as millennials this one in particular is quite shocking to us it almost feels like it's the equivalent of the beatles for the other generation before us um and i at when I heard the news, I was firstly shocked. Then I had a little cry. And there was this battle of like, why is this affecting me? Like, why am I crying about someone I never met? But then I sort of started thinking about it. And like, it's okay to feel sad if you are feeling sad about this.
Starting point is 00:20:37 Because he was a huge part of our childhood and really had a huge impact on many of us. And I just kind of thought about it more and I was like, if you are feeling sad right now about Liam Payne, it's all good. Like, you can grieve and he still had a part of our life. And it's just tragic. I just feel sorry for everyone involved. Well, Producer Grace was like, this is her first real impactful celebrity death.
Starting point is 00:21:00 There was a period there when, at age 27, for some strange reason, you lost Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse. Heath Ledger. Yeah. Kurt Cobain, I think, might have been another one at age 27. It's when it comes out of the blue like this, it really does hit hard. Matthew Perry was another one. I felt last year as well, you just went, geez. And also, too soon,
Starting point is 00:21:20 obviously. 31 years old. They call them parasocial relationships. It's just one-sided relationships. Yeah. Where you feel such a connection with someone that you haven't met. Yeah. It's still a relationship and he means a lot to you. So it's very normal to feel like that.
Starting point is 00:21:37 What do you think of parasocial relationships? Yeah. I've never heard that term before. Oh, really? No, because I felt that way. Like, it's very sad for me with Liam, but I've felt that way before with celebrities when they die. It affects you and you're like,
Starting point is 00:21:49 why am I so sad for someone I've never met? But they can still impact your life in quite a real way. And I think the shock also comes too, because what we see, what you're fed, is probably the good parts of their life. And they look like they're living the dream. Yeah. So to know that there's pain behind that.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Totally. And I think as a One Direction fan too, we were always hoping, you know, we'd have a reunion one day with all the boys on stage, which we may still do, but it's not going to be
Starting point is 00:22:14 the same ever. It's just sad that One Direction's kind of no more, really, in a way. Yeah, really, really tragic stuff. After seven o'clock this morning, we're going to catch up
Starting point is 00:22:22 with Gavin Gray. He's our UK correspondent to find out more details around what has just taken. A lot of information being drip-fed throughout over the last 24 hours of Gavin Gray with you in 15 minutes. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jacinda Ardern, Dame Jacinda Ardern, officially. I mean, she was awarded the honour, and yesterday in the UK, she got given it by Prince William. That's just pretty cool.
Starting point is 00:22:48 That is great. I thought... Thoughts? Did you think anything? Yeah, you thought. You thought. No, give him a moment. It's great to have some thoughts.
Starting point is 00:22:56 Why would she be called a dame before going to the ceremony? Well, she knew it was coming. It's been announced. Have we been calling her dame? I think so. I guess so. Dame Jacinda Ardern. Well, she was awarded it, but the ceremony hadn't happened.
Starting point is 00:23:07 The ceremony, the official, you know, ticking boxes, that sort of thing. You know, the admin. I was like, not until you get the sword. The back end. Now, Brie Thomasel, you'll know her from Celebrity Treasure Island. She's on ZM in the afternoons as well. She's very funny, very hard case. She's got a new book out, and we talked to her this week on my daughter's podcast that
Starting point is 00:23:24 we do for the Hits Podcast Network. She's really, really, not only funny, but actually really, her book surprised me, to be fair, because it's got some funny bits in it, but it deals with a lot of her growing up, living with a secret about sexuality and how she's living free now, her battles with
Starting point is 00:23:39 ADHD and anxiety and a really traumatic experience she had as a child. I heard about that in the news. And all my chats with Bree, she'd never told me about that. And that's such a like hectic thing in her life. Yeah, so it really is a fascinating chat. She was a home invasion, wasn't she? She was nine years old.
Starting point is 00:23:56 Held at knife point. I know, which is just, you know, a really hard thing to come back from as well. So we talk about that in the podcast. It's called When I Grow Up with Sienna. You can get it on the Hits Podcast Network. But something I wanted to play to you now and I wanted to test you guys at the end of it is there's something that Brie doesn't do. Have a listen.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Texting or calling? Texting. And also, Dad was telling me how many unread messages you have. Well, that's what you say in your book as well. You're lots. Hold on, do you want to know? Yeah, what is it now? What's the unread? Let's have a look. Text messages, I've got 406. Unread? Unread.
Starting point is 00:24:29 I can't have one. If there's like a little bubble, I'm like, get away. Really? Get away. But then it does get out of hand sometimes. Yeah, yeah. You know? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:37 Well, she doesn't have ADHD then. And emails, 2,196. Unread, yeah. Yeah. Do like a Sunday, you're like, all right, let's get to the emails. Absolutely not. What do I do with my emails? I just delete them all.
Starting point is 00:24:49 I've got better things to do, guys. Okay, all right. So you guys, where are you sitting for your unread texts or emails? I don't have any unread texts. No, I'm the same as you. Don't you? Do you clear them all out? I've got none.
Starting point is 00:24:59 I don't know. Jono, you're one of these people. Yeah, I was at Jono as well. Yeah. 1,099 emails. Okay, that's... I've got 58 emails. I generally am pretty good at clearing people. Yeah, I was a Jono as well. 1,099 emails. Okay, that's... I got 58 emails. I generally am pretty good at clearing those.
Starting point is 00:25:09 No, I got none. Yeah, no. And then... Of course. It annoys me if it's a... Yeah. 57 unread texts. 57 unread texts.
Starting point is 00:25:18 What? Whose texts? Who are they? I haven't read them. Let's go one now. Let's go one now. Let's go one now. Let's go into one now. Who are these people?
Starting point is 00:25:28 The unread ones with the blue dots. It's your mum here. We're at the airport. Are you picking us up? That's from four weeks ago. Yeah, there's a lot of... Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:37 I'm not great at texting back. I'll read the text and then I'll be like, I'll get to that. And then I don't. Wow. Okay. There's a lot of pick the kids up. Oh my gosh. The kids got picked up eventually.
Starting point is 00:25:49 I'm sure they're home. I'm sure they're fine. They'll probably text you to tell you they're fine but you haven't read it. You can get free on a really really interesting chat for young people and for parents as well on When I Grow Up podcast on the Hits Podcast network after 7 o'clock this morning when Never Have I Ever tour continues.
Starting point is 00:26:06 With a tattoo. Yeah. Someone who's never had a tattoo before, and it was a debut. How did it go? Was it an absolute disaster? I don't know. Well, it wasn't.
Starting point is 00:26:16 It wasn't a disaster. It actually went really well. It was a beautiful moment. We'll have it for you in five minutes on the Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. On our Never Have You Ever tour, as it's going to wrap up today. It's been a lot of fun. We started in the south, heading around,
Starting point is 00:26:30 making some things happen for the first time for us. And for you, you've text through. And it's been a lot of fun today. We're in Whangarei at the quay. Beautiful spot here by the water. You can come get free hot drinks between now and 9 o'clock. Just gorgeous. I feel like I should be in no socks and boat shoes around here.
Starting point is 00:26:45 Isn't it? Last time we were here, actually, Breakfast TV, live TV, were doing some filming outside, and we had our chips, our Jono and me and chips, and we were like, we should get in the back of breakfast. And so Jono timed it when the young reporter, doing a fantastic job, was live on TV. You came up and started rattling the chips in the background.
Starting point is 00:27:04 I was like, I'll have some chips, mate. And then the worst thing was, he finished, he's like, I came up and started rattling the chips. The chips. And I was like, oh, if I have some chips, mate. And then the worst thing was he finished. He's like, I'm back to you in the studio. And then they're off air. And he turned to me. He's like, oh, good one. Thanks for ruining that. And I went, oh.
Starting point is 00:27:13 Yeah. They love that when they're doing a live thing and they're concentrating. Nothing takes the wind out of the sails. The prank sails. And someone going, oh, thanks for that, mate. You didn't need to do that. And you're right. I was twice the kid's age.
Starting point is 00:27:27 Like, you should know better, Dad. Oh, yeah. Now, Kim texts through on 4487 something she's never done. She's never got a tattoo before. And we thought, you know, radio has a rich history of giving away tattoos. Well, you, Ben, your booty cheeks have been a blank whiteboard, hasn't it? You're a stamp pad. Yeah, you've got Dwayne the Rock Johnson's tattoo on there.
Starting point is 00:27:51 I've drawn on there. Megan, you kept, as we're driving to the tattoo parlor, Tattoo Gold, there on Barry's Point Road on North Shore, you kept going, I would love to offer your services to draw a Megan Pappas original on those little love lines. That could happen at some stage. He didn't say no, but he did say potentially his wife needs to go on him first. Oh, yeah. I don't give away. Straight away, mate.
Starting point is 00:28:14 He's got Lorde tattooed on him. He's got Astrid S, a very niche pop star from Scandinavian country. Who else have you got? Sharon Casey from The Edge. Yeah, she's on there. Diane Johnson, all sorts of them. That's a real stickler for me. And Eclectic Max as well.
Starting point is 00:28:28 But Kim had a very special reason why she wanted to get a tattoo yesterday at Tattoo Gold. Yeah, she wanted to get a little love bug, didn't she? That's what her dad used to call her, love bug. And he sadly passed, and so it was a very sentimental tattoo. So we went and met Ash at Tattoo Gold. Your ears will just be ringing. Here we go. It's a lot better tattoo. So we went and met Ash at Tattoo Gold. Your ears will just be green.
Starting point is 00:28:46 Here we go. It's a lot better. Here we go. The needle's about to go in. I'm trying to understand. To Kim getting her ladybug tattoo. Initial thoughts there, Kim? It's not too bad, actually.
Starting point is 00:28:58 Not too bad? She's handling it well? I've always wondered with tattoo artists, Ash. Yeah. Is it okay to talk to you while you're doing your job? Yeah, yeah, go for it. Did you, obviously you had to get good at the craft. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:09 Who did you practice on? Myself, a lot, and my siblings. Yeah, right, and are they running around with sort of questionable tattoos? Oh, hell yeah, yeah, most questionable, actually. See, how long did it go? I had to leave. How long did it go for? You've got something to do, mate. You're not going to wrap this up. I'm a busy guy.
Starting point is 00:29:26 It was an amazing looking tattoo. Ash did a wonderful job of tattoo gold. And Kim was really stoked by it. It was actually quite emotional down the end because it meant such a lot for her. And she'd been meaning to do it for so long. Finally got around to it. And yeah, Ash killed it. Beautiful fine lines.
Starting point is 00:29:43 It was cute. A ladybug tattoo. And here it was at the end after the tattoo had been finished. To the sounds of you two, beautiful day, blasting out in the tattoo parlor. Megan, it is a beautiful day here, isn't it? It is a beautiful day. Kim has finished her tattoo. I love it. I love it.
Starting point is 00:29:58 Ash is a very talented artist, and it's amazing. I love it. And this is a dedication to your late dad how does it feel to finally have it on your arm uh it's just a dream come true thank you guys at the heads and gas for doing this for me it's it's means a lot oh it's awesome we can be part of it thank you for having us as part of it that was very very cool and ash tattoo artist how does it feel when you finally finish something and you can see, like, that's your art on her arm? That's the reason why I love tattooing so much, honestly, is, like, being able to put my art on other people.
Starting point is 00:30:33 Because we asked Kim beforehand at the start, is she nervous? Would you ever get nervous, like, doing tattoos? Oh, I still get nervous every single time. Really? Like, I'm a baby. Here we go. Changing lives, guys. Oh, it was actually lovely. It was lovely. Yeah. Yeah. Changing lives, guys. It was actually lovely. It was lovely.
Starting point is 00:30:46 Yeah. Yeah. It was an awesome thing to be part of. So thank you to Tattoo Gold and thank you to Kim. What I really appreciated too about Tattoo Gold, a wonderful display of taxidermied animals. A taxidermied wolf. Yeah. A wolf.
Starting point is 00:30:58 A life-size wolf that he didn't call it. I was there. I was there, mate. A man's name. A peacock. A giant peacock. A little mouse. Didock? A little mouse? Did you see a little mouse?
Starting point is 00:31:06 It was like on a stripper's pole. Very cute. Very cute, those cute little animals. Snuck into the Phoenix's training headquarters, the Wellington Phoenix, during the week. He put on the Auckland FC top, and he was being a little bit cheeky. He's got to go and did our move, the knighthood, to cheer on the team.
Starting point is 00:31:28 Yep, broadcasting live from Whangarei today on the Never Have You Ever Tour. And we're at the Quay. And if you'd like to come down, free hot drinks, they are here. We're just next door to the National Clock Museum. I know, they just had daylight savings. That would have been a shocking time for them. When we pulled up, you guys were like, oh, yeah, let's go and see them afterwards. Were you joking?
Starting point is 00:31:48 No, no, we'll go to the clock museum. Yeah, would you like to? I just want to ask them. Okay, sorry. I thought you were excited about this. It's a museum of every clock you can think of. Go in and ask. You have to go in and ask.
Starting point is 00:32:00 Ask, do you have the time? That's what it's like. They'll go in there and give me and go, sorry, do you have the time? I just want to ask them how many times people have removed that L from their sign. National what museum?
Starting point is 00:32:11 Okay. Now, producer Grace is here on the Never Have You Ever tour. Does a wonderful job of many things, including our social media. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:32:19 you do. Grace, welcome. Come on down. Hello, hello. Does she do a wonderful job? She's our resident Gen Z.
Starting point is 00:32:26 No, just what I'm about to tell you. She does a wonderful job, but on this occasion, a rare slip up. We want to point this out because Grace is the one, as a Gen Z, who's always pointing out our muck-ups with technology. Oh, I feel the judgment. Good job. The judgment. A lot of it oozes towards me, the technical judgment.
Starting point is 00:32:44 You've made a boomer error, John. Well, our friend, Grace, has made a boomer error. You may have spotted if you've been following our social media, she's been putting up lots of stories. There's a lot of stuff being chucked her way, but she did have an error. And, you know, when you open your phone on a down angle and you get that horrible chin selfie? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:06 Grace managed to upload one of those to our story of her. It was a chin selfie. So not only took a photo, but uploaded it to that. I uploaded it. I wanted everyone to see that photo. How do you know I didn't want to put it up? There's no proof. I put it up for people to see.
Starting point is 00:33:21 I'm going to be honest. It's not your best angle. I don't know what you're talking about. Watching a Gen Z slip up on social media is like watching a pro athlete trip over their shoelaces. It's like watching Noah Lyles, you know, if he was doing a 100 metres trip and you're like, yes. Yeah, I was skipping through. I was like that. It all looked fantastic.
Starting point is 00:33:37 But then I got to the one selfie. I don't know how long it had been up there. Three minutes. It was like for three minutes. And it's gone now. And it's disappeared. You'll never see it again. But we all remember it.
Starting point is 00:33:46 We screenshotted it. We remember it. I don't even remember posting it. I dissociated. Like, I have absolutely no clue how it got there. And is this the most major mistake you've made on social media? Yeah, I probably... Yeah, I feel like.
Starting point is 00:33:59 Oh, jeez, it feels good. It does. I'm in my ivory tower right now. To be honest, I was looking at it in the bath and I was like don't, this is not the time for me to have an error. I was like scrolling through while you're on social media, no photos, yeah. My worst one, I remember
Starting point is 00:34:13 we had that, we're interviewing a lovely blind gentleman and he was waiting on Zoom, wasn't he? That's right. And Grace had done her job beautifully. Oh God. She's just like wait for him just to pop up and click accept. When he's in the room, it'll come up on the computer screen. So he couldn't see, obviously, at his end, given his vision.
Starting point is 00:34:33 And I didn't notice that he popped up on the screen. It said, accept him, let him into the room. For 45 minutes, he was on there. You even filmed the screen for something else you were mocking someone else about. And it said, he was waiting in the room. He was mocking me? Yeah. He was waiting in the room for 45 minutes.
Starting point is 00:34:48 And then you got to the end and you go, I don't want to happen there. The poor guy was waiting. The interview's fallen through. Yeah. For 45 minutes. But maybe that's how you get through life, Jono. It's like, you don't have any anxiety or anything. You just like lead a life of just pure ignorance.
Starting point is 00:35:04 Maybe that's what we all need to do. You just lead a life of just pure ignorance. Maybe that's what we all need to do. Don't lead a life of pure ignorance. You're like, I don't need to know what to do. Ah, Ben will do it. That's what I said the other day about less stress out people, stress out stress people more. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Never Have You Ever Tour.
Starting point is 00:35:24 This morning when Whangarei went we're down at the quay, or the quay, as I was calling it for a long time. Yeah, it's a very unusual word, isn't it, in the English language? It's littered to the English language with words like this. I was calling it quay for a second. I used to say antipodes as well when it's the Antipodes, which is the Australian New Zealand region of the world. Those words you get wrong.
Starting point is 00:35:44 Arkansas, that annoys me. Arkansas, Arkansas. It's Arkansas, especially considering there is a Kansas, you know? Yeah, but come down and see us at the Quay, however you call it, this morning here down by the marina in Whangarei. Beautiful spot, and there's free hot drinks until now at 9 o'clock. Met some wonderful people along the way over the last five days. That's actually the
Starting point is 00:36:05 best part about this sort of stuff. We've been, jeez, we've done some laps of this country in our jobs,
Starting point is 00:36:10 haven't we? What I love too is a lot of people when we're standing on the side of the street, yell out stuff from the car
Starting point is 00:36:15 and you can only like 30% hear what they had to say. It's like, are you lost? There was one yesterday.
Starting point is 00:36:22 Yeah, well, I assumed he was like, what are you doing in this interesting part of Northland? What's the tone of his, are you lost? And I said, can you help us? He's like, you're on your own out here, mate. But bumped into someone yesterday, and they were like, oh, I must show you a photo. We got talking about the dog, and I must show you a photo of my dog, who's no longer around.
Starting point is 00:36:44 And so then they did that thing and i don't know disrespect to the dog rop uh thank you very much ellie she's just provided us with a coffee there thank you ellie here at the key at the key at the tea uh tea flavored coffee uh i'll show you a photo of my dog and he's like it's back in 2016 this dog Okay. So I'm sitting there and they're doing that thing where they have to scroll back through their photo stream. And, oh, no, no, no, it's not there. They have photos from eight years ago. Yeah. And have you been in that situation when someone's been hunting for something desperately to try and show you whether it's a funny video on YouTube and it's buffering?
Starting point is 00:37:20 Oh, the buffering situation. Yeah. That is the worst. You're like, hey, watch this video. You've got to play it and it starts buffering or the ad plays. You're like, oh, it's buffering. Oh, the buffering situation. Yeah. It's the worst. You're like, hey, watch this video. You've got to play it and it starts buffering or the ad plays. You're like,
Starting point is 00:37:27 oh, it's real good. The problem is the longer, the longer the wait, the longer the wait, the more pressure comes on the piece of content. The more anticipation,
Starting point is 00:37:34 the more you get like, oh, it'll be good and then you start doubting it. I could tell. Once this guy got back to like 2018, he's like,
Starting point is 00:37:42 oh, I should not be doing this but we're in deep now and then finally it felt like five and i i'm trying to have like fill in banter but yeah he's clearly focused on trying to find the photo let them focus on it too yeah so you don't but you don't want to sit there in awkward silence because just staring waiting for this picture to pop up and the picture popped up and it was it's the dog he's like here's the dog he's like here's the dog
Starting point is 00:38:05 and you can tell well your dog and I found this I've got a dog that I love your dog is yeah like to you and other people
Starting point is 00:38:12 maybe not quite the same tell other people it's just a dog yeah and so I could even tell when he was lifting the phone up he's like this was not worth it
Starting point is 00:38:19 this was not worth it and it wasn't did you oversell your response were you like oh he's no I was dead I was dead by then. I was like, oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:27 The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Let's go. Jono, Ben and Megan's Never Have You Ever Tour with Gas. Thanks to Gas, petrol service stations travelling around the country making some never-evers come true for some people. Been fun. Been a really good week live from the Quay in Whangarei this morning. If you'd like to come in
Starting point is 00:38:45 for a free hot drink, you're welcome. We've had all sorts. Come on down. We'd love to see you. Yesterday, Philippa, who had never been
Starting point is 00:38:53 on a plane, you surprised me and said, you're going to take Philippa on her first plane ride. Now, Philippa is with us right now. Thanks to Air New Zealand's
Starting point is 00:39:02 Grabber Seat, you got to experience a plane ride for the first time. How was it? It was amazing. I loved it. She was a bit nervous, weren't you?
Starting point is 00:39:09 Yeah, I was. Understandably, you don't know what lay ahead. Yeah. You know, you hear varying reports about plane trips, don't you? No, we wanted to know because, you know, travelling on a plane, you sometimes see the safety video and they always explain how to put the seatbelt on. Now, you've never seen probably that or had to experience.
Starting point is 00:39:25 How was she with the seatbelt? I did film her putting the seatbelt on. I, you've never seen probably that or had to experience. How was she with the seatbelt? I did film her putting the seatbelt on. I asked you. I said, let's see how you go with this. Did you need a safety video for that or did you work it out? No, I pretty much worked it out. Okay. Self-explaining.
Starting point is 00:39:36 Self-explaining, yeah. Yeah, she clicked it in and I was like, wow, do we even need the safety video? But here was the moment we took off with Philippa. We just got this aircraft handed back to us from the engineers a little bit later than we expected. We need the safety videos. But here was the moment we took off with Philippa. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. Okay, so this is the pilot talking. Usually you can't understand them. Usually they just mumble, Philippa.
Starting point is 00:40:05 He's good. You can understand everything he's saying. Sorry, that mumble, Phillip. He's good, you can understand everything he's saying. Sorry, that sounded very patronising. This is the pilot. Pilot's talk. Let me mansplain every step of this flight. Those are
Starting point is 00:40:19 wings. Now you spent a bit of time with Jono, the two of you together. Three hours with Jono. Three hours with Jono. Now, Jono's a good chatter. He's a good talker, right? He is.
Starting point is 00:40:30 He's a great chatter. And you would have covered some ground. It would have felt like you'd been interviewed for three hours. It was like an Oprah Winfrey interview. It was good because I needed someone chatting. So I'm not a chatty person. So it was, yeah, it was really good. Ideally, I filled that void for you.
Starting point is 00:40:45 So what we wanted to know right now, Megan and myself, is how much Jono – we don't know what you covered, but we want to ask some questions and see if Jono knows the answers to these questions about Philippa. Okay. What you've retained from yesterday's information. Maybe you didn't talk about these things or maybe you did. We don't know.
Starting point is 00:40:58 I even got into her teenage swimming career. Okay, well, that's not one of the questions. Okay, Philippa's – She was a very good, accomplished, long-distance swimmer. Oh, well, probably. Fifty laps in a row, she can swim. Wow. We're giving you crap, but it's really sweet that Joe does this.
Starting point is 00:41:11 Okay, Philippa's husband's name? I want to say Brent. No. Oh, he's not good with names. Okay, husband's name? Jared. Jared, that was it. Okay, where does Philippa work?
Starting point is 00:41:26 Philippa works at the Pukakaui Motorcycle Shop. She runs the administration office. Yay, well done. Philippa's kids' ages? Oh, they are 17 and 15. Yes. Well done. Philippa's parents celebrate their wedding anniversary on what date?
Starting point is 00:41:44 I don't know if you got there, but we thought we'd throw it out there. July 23rd? Yeah. No. And what date does Philippa's current warrant of fitness expire? It was March. March the 13th, wasn't it? I actually don't even know myself.
Starting point is 00:41:56 I think you're right. March the 13th. Well, we'll take that. Sorry for punishing you on the plane there, Philippa. No, it was amazing. You came to dinner last night? Yeah, it was lovely to have you. That was awesome. Yeah, thank you. Well, I hope you've enjoyed on the plane there, Philippa. No, it was amazing. You came to dinner last night? Yeah, it was lovely to have you. That was awesome.
Starting point is 00:42:06 Yeah, thank you. Well, I hope you've enjoyed your first plane trip, and you've got to take one back as well. Very short flight from Auckland to Whangarei, but awesome you got to experience it. Yeah, so thank you to Gats and thank you guys. We've been absolutely spoiled. It's been amazing.
Starting point is 00:42:19 She's going to need a wee rest, though, after a non-chatty person hanging around with us for a night. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A never-have-you-ever tour this morning, and we're in Whangarei here at the Quay, doing things that we've never done before throughout the week. And we're quite surprised last week when we learned Jono hadn't done something mega at all in his life. All the things you've done over your career. That's something that Ben and I have both done.
Starting point is 00:42:45 You've never been on a motorbike. I've never ridden one. No. Because they email, they're like, everyone's sending stuff they haven't done. Yeah. And, you know, there's a lot of stuff that none of us have done. I've never slammed a hand in a car door.
Starting point is 00:42:58 Motorbiking feels like all the things you've ridden. I've been lawnmower racing with you and drifting and all. Like I thought in your wheelhouse, working at the Rock Radio Station for many years, motorbikes would have been something you would have at least done once or twice. I scream motorbike, don't I? Well, no, you don't. I don't scream motorbike?
Starting point is 00:43:13 You do have a hoodie on with a doberman on it. Yeah, that screams motorbike. Maybe I look motorbike. We can't act motorbike. I know your family are hugely into motorbikes. I do, yeah, I do. So I would have thought at one stage you would have actually gone on a bike and ridden it. Your family?
Starting point is 00:43:27 Around the hut. Yeah, yeah, they live up on Kapiti Coast. My dear cousins, leather clad motorcycle riders, long hair. I thought at least, honestly surprised me that you'd never ridden a motorbike. They're the bogan fraction of my
Starting point is 00:43:43 whanau and I tell you what, when I came to the hits boy the old cred took a hit in there in the prior family but yeah yesterday you told me to meet you 45 minutes out of Whangarei. Yeah. So in the mysterious locale I honestly had no idea where we were going. Yeah well this is the home of the Whangarei
Starting point is 00:44:00 Motorcycle Club as well and we'd organised a wee bit of a surprise for you the first time. Pull the old kickstarter out. Oh is that the thing? Oh he's gonna kickstart it? No that's I think that's where it's meant to go. Is he too weak to do this? What's going on? Yeah. Yeah. How's that? Well it's not a great start. How you going? Not for that bike. That bike's very hard to start.
Starting point is 00:44:28 Oh, okay. So it's a classic. You can just walk it along with your feet and make that noise. He's riding a bike! You know what it's doing? You know what it's doing? It vibrates up in between some very... Oh, the sensitive bits. The very intimate parts.
Starting point is 00:44:59 The more I do that, it like... I can get a few hop on here, mate. He's liking the vibrations. Oh I see. Alright get off. Okay can you go forward slightly? I don't know how to put it in gear. I don't know how to put it in gear.
Starting point is 00:45:16 Oh god. Here we go. Go slowly. He's going. He's going. He's ridden a bike. He's rid! He's going! He's ridden a bike! He's ridden a bike! Never have I ever ridden a bike.
Starting point is 00:45:34 Wow. And that was all, we've all come to see what these people gave up half a day for. That moment right there. And there we go, I rode probably about, I'd say, 30 to 40 centimetres. Yeah, you did. On a bike that was quite hard to ride for your first time.
Starting point is 00:45:49 Don't make excuses, Ben. So we got you on a little kid's bike afterwards and then you had your, you know, going around, probably quite slowly around the track,
Starting point is 00:45:56 a dirt track, over some jumps as well. The kids were incredible, weren't they? They were amazing. Especially Hannah. She's New Zealand champ and she was flying in the air.
Starting point is 00:46:07 And then Jono's casually, you know, you're supposed to kind of lose, you're supposed to get up in the air. Yeah, I was meandering around. Yeah, like I'm very slowly. At one point you went so slow your bike just tipped over. It's like I need some momentum. Yeah, these kids start when they're three years old. I know.
Starting point is 00:46:23 It's wild. It is really incredible. You can see some of the footage, actually, on the Hits Breakfast social media, the Instagram, Facebook as well. It's really impressive. Maybe not you. You weren't that impressive. He looked cool for a moment, though, didn't he?
Starting point is 00:46:34 But he started to get his confidence up, and you started re-fitting, and we were like, right, it's time to go before you hurt yourself. I know, yeah. I could tell. It was going to be like another call back to the office going, John has injured himself. You guys were genuinely not just him. We were concerned, were you? With a crowd of people as well.
Starting point is 00:46:49 It was like, where's this going to go? But anyway, thanks so much to the Whangarei Motorcycle Club for helping us out and achieving Jono's Never Have You Ever. Next, coming up as well, I think there's another bit of a surprise here. For who? I'm not sure. I just know there's a lot of hush conversations going around making us
Starting point is 00:47:06 all... Are they going to make us pay the bill for all the free food we've been eating this morning? We'll find out in
Starting point is 00:47:13 just a few moments on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Gas Special Service Stations, we've
Starting point is 00:47:19 been travelling around the country meeting some wonderful people in both the North and the South Island, doing things for
Starting point is 00:47:24 the first time, experiencing things with them and ourselves. It's been great. It's been very enjoyable. And thanks to Lloyd and the Key. Where we are this morning in Whangarei, you can come on down for a free hot drink. The police have turned up, Ben.
Starting point is 00:47:36 Yeah? Mm. We just didn't kina, or is that, are we okay? It was an illegal catch. I've got 400 in my boot. I don't know if that's okay. It's been a really fun week. And I tell you what would be perfect.
Starting point is 00:47:50 You know what would be ideal right now? What's that? An audio recap of all the highs we have experienced over the last five days. I'd love that. Now, Megan, last night as we were flying to Christchurch, we decided to make a little girl's dream come true. I have a very special lolly runner up in front of the aircraft. See Megan's dream to hand out the lollies on an Amy Dillon flight.
Starting point is 00:48:11 Would you like a lolly, sir? Sorry, I don't take lollies for strangers. What have you never, ever done in your life there, Emily? I've never eaten oysters before. It doesn't spell the best. Oh, my God. Chewing. Doing too much chewing.
Starting point is 00:48:23 No, she's chewing too much. She's got her hand over her mouth. She's not looking good. She's wincing. She didn't like it. Didn'm like shaking. Doing too much chewing. She's got her hand over her mouth. She's not looking good. She's wincing. Didn't like it. Shane, this is going to be punting for the first time. Welcome to Christchurch. It's a beautiful day for us. Megan, what can you see now? Ducklings. How many?
Starting point is 00:48:38 Oh my God, there's so many. So we're inside the helicopter now. Ellie, final words for you. I'm just really excited. Thanks guys. Okay, we're going to fire up now. Ellie, final words for you. Just really excited. Thanks, guys. We're going to fire up now. What a ride. That was amazing. Thank you guys so much. If you've ever ridden a helicopter, take it off the list, Ellie.
Starting point is 00:48:54 Whee! So cryotherapy goes down to minus 87 degrees, this one. The key thing when you go in there, team, is not to have anything wet on. There's been some bad stories come out of the NBA when players went in with wet jocks on. It doesn't end well for... Here was us at minus 87. Oh! Oh, Jesus!
Starting point is 00:49:14 Oh, my God! This is Never Have You Ever served an ice cream for Mr. Whippy. Can we get the music playing at the same time? Here we go. Hit the jams! Hayley pouring her ice cream. It has come firing out of the soft serve machine. Thank you very much. How are you feeling about that pour?
Starting point is 00:49:29 Not my best. I think I can do better. Katrina's living out her dream of driving a tractor. Oh, she's going. She's moving. She's going. She's coming quite fast. Katrina, nailed it.
Starting point is 00:49:40 I love that. Now, Philippa has never been in a plane before. Today, if you're keen, would you like to go on the plane ride for the first time? I would love that. Thank you. I was a young mum, so there was no OEs or travelling in my 20s. And yeah, I've just always been, unfortunately, at the bottom of the priority list. Well, this is exciting, Philippa.
Starting point is 00:49:59 Oh, no. Don't make me wear something stupid. Where are my Buzz Lightyear Crocs. Because I'm picking you've never worn Crocs in your life. I have never worn Crocs in my life. And I thought for today, they even light up too. They even light up as well. The light up Buzz Lightyear ones.
Starting point is 00:50:14 Put the Crocs on now. Let's see how they look. No, no. My dream would be to take my teenage son to Rainbow's End. He's never been and it's something that he's always wanted to do. Jono, Ben and Megan from the Hits radio station. We're just hearing how you'd love to go to Rainbow's End. He's never been and it's something that he's always wanted to do. John O'Bannon-Megan from the Hits radio station. We're just hearing
Starting point is 00:50:27 how you'd love to go to Rainbow's End. Oh, yes. It's always been a goal. Oh, that's a great goal. You keep that goal up, buddy and have a great day. Oh, no, no.
Starting point is 00:50:35 We're going to make it happen this week. How would you like to go this week? Oh, that'd be awesome. Have you been on a roller coaster before? Never.
Starting point is 00:50:41 Could we go on the roller coaster with you on Friday? Absolutely. It's been a really fun couple of days as we headed around the country thanks to gas petrol service stations. You can get instant discounts loyalty program to get fuel discounts every week.

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