Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - July 27 - We Want To Borrow Mike Hosking's Car, The A To Z Of New Zealand, The Worst Thing You've Had To Do In Your Job

Episode Date: July 27, 2020

Imagine being put in the African wilderness for 21 days with nothing but a machete and bow & arrow, WHILE BEING NAKED THE WHOLE TIME! We had Amber & Serena Shine on, who did just that, for the TV show Naked & Afraid. Ben also told a hilarious story about a Secret Santa present gone wrong. Enjoy the poddy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. Here we are at the podcast, welcome. Yeah, welcome along to it. Sorry, I'm a bit flustered, dealing with some car stuff at the moment. I'm a little bit between phone calls and stuff, but I don't need to burden the podcast with that. Yeah, you can't burden us with it. What's happened? I just need to get the car sorted. It's going to take two to three weeks. Two to three weeks?

Yeah, I know, stuff, Because things are not in the country. Parts are not in the country and not getting to the country as quickly because of COVID. Oh, yes. Yeah, I know. I understand that. Cars are bloody a nightmare sometimes, aren't they? Yeah. I was driving around in a car from the 1970s for many years.

It was my daily driver and it was just... I had to actually pull pin. It was a cool car. It was a cool car. Yeah, I know. But tell you what's not cool is constantly actually pull pin. It was a cool car. It was a cool car. Yeah, I know. But tell you what's not cool is constantly being in debt. That's not cool. I don't know if you.

Breaking down on the side of the road. Remember we broke down on that Sunday night, 11 o'clock at night on the State Highway 1 and I was left on the side of the road and you were like, all right, mate, well I'll. Well, you're like, you don't need to stay here. And I was like, are you sure? No, no, you didn't even do an are you sure? You just said, okay, bye. And then the taxi had turned up by the time you had finished your sentence.

Almost like you'd pre-ordered one before you had even finished your sentence. And I was like, oh, okay, this is awful. I was like, are you sure? And as I was driving away, I was like, are you sure? Did you hear me? Yeah, as you were driving down the motorway, you had your head out the window. Are you sure I can get him to put, oh, I can't hear you. Sorry, what are you saying?

I thought you said all good. No, I was like come back don't leave me here and I was there until 1.30 in the morning all by myself on a lonely state highway one

and I saw my mate drive off in the distance in a taxi it was good never take you to war would you I'll be like I thought you said

stay back here while you go forward are you sure I was making biscuits getting cups of tea I thought we all wanted back here while you go forward. Are you sure? I was making biscuits, getting cups of tea. Antac biscuits. I thought we all wanted those for the troops. Anyway.

Hey, very exciting show today. The podcast spoke to two Kiwi girls, twins, who have been on a show on Discovery Channel, a very popular up-and-coming network, Discovery Channel. I don't know if you've heard of them. I have, yep. The program called Naked and Afraid, Ben. So they spent 21 days in the wilderness

in South Africa basically surviving with nothing. Literally nothing. No clothes, only one item each that they were allocated to have. This is a remarkable time. I don't know why being naked is an essential part. No, it does seem a little like that. Surely it's challenging enough even

with clothing. Yeah, I know. Like I would still be like all this. Clothed and afraid, you know, because I don't want to be here with hyenas and leopards and all sorts. But our amazing tale. So we have to go through this humiliating act of me being naked for 21 days out here. To make it even worse. It's quite cold. It's wintertime. I suppose I can see why they've done it.

We probably wouldn't be as interested talking to people from a show called Clothed and Comfortable. Yeah, true. So naked and afraid. It really pings the eardrums Doesn't it? So that is a really interesting tale So enjoy that on the podcast today The radio version of Morning Breath It's Jono and Ben on the hits

Now there's two New Zealand twins Amber and Serena Shine And they're on a worldwide TV show On Discovery It's called Naked and Afraid We're on night one It's called Naked and Afraid. We're on night one. It's not even properly dark yet. And we're hearing animals everywhere.

And it is dark. All the noises come out. We've heard growls, which will definitely be leopard. So these two Kiwi twins spent 21 days naked in the South African bush in the wilderness trying to survive surrounded by wild animals. They did it with no clothes for Discoveries

Naked and Afraid, the TV show. And they join us in the studio right now. Amber and Serena Shine, thanks for joining us. Good. You guys are very twinny. You're the, you know, you're the twins that you really struggle

to tell apart, aren't you? Yeah, we're not actually identical, but yeah, we're very similar. Oh, you're not actually?

Right. So, okay, so there is like, oh no, that was a dumb question, so I'm not going to ask that. Ask the question.

No, I'm not going to ask that. No, I saw it myself, I saw it myself, and I'm glad that I did. Don't you want to know what the question is? Yeah, I do.

I really do. Ask the question. Ask the question. I had a wee brain meltdown. I was going to ask you what the age gap was, but then they're twins. Age gap is a minute and a half. Yeah, that's the question I was going for.

There's an answer to it. It's a minute and a half. I was like, they's still do it. Now, Amber and Serena, this show you went on, Naked and Afraid, sounds truly bonkers. It is. It's crazy.

We're dropped in the African wilderness. In the middle of nowhere, we got to take one item with us, so you get to choose a survival item. And apart from that, it's nothing. You've got to survive out item with us, so you get to choose a survival item. And apart from that, it's nothing. You've got to survive out there with the predators. It was winter in Africa, so it was freezing.

So you're butt naked the whole time. Yeah. Oh, my God. That very quickly becomes the least of your worries. Really? Yeah, with all the predators and massive dehydration and after food and shelter. You're much more concerned about trying to not be eaten by a hyena or a leopard than you are about standing there naked. So what made you guys sign up for this?

Like, how did that come about? Because you guys have done a lot of adventure stuff in the past, right? We have, yeah. So we've got our Instagram and Facebook page called The Wild Twins, and they found us on there on Instagram. We thought it was a bit of a joke when they first hit us up and we're like, oh, we're naked, no, we're not going to do this. And they said, oh, are you sure?

It seems like right down your alley. And so we watched a few episodes and realised it was an amazing survival challenge. Because our lifestyle, we have a lot of, we do outdoor stuff all the time. We do hunting. Mount Kilimanjaro, is that right? Yeah.

300 Ks, you went in a dog sled across Oregon. And then your 25-day voyage from Hawaii to San Fran in a small sailboat. So, I mean, you guys have done some stuff already. Yeah, yeah. So, this show was right down our alley with the survival aspect. Yeah. The nakedness was a bit of a shock for us. But once we got our head around that that is the survival

aspect of it like doing it in clothes probably wouldn't be that hard doing it naked when you can't even walk because you're standing on a million thorns. Oh really? Bare feet of course in the wild Very difficult. Because jeez it must have been a nightmare for the editor having to

pixelate the whole series No one's working harder than you guys and the person having to blur every other bit, right? Yeah, I reckon. So you're saying you're worried about predators. Were there any close encounters where you're like, oh, we're going to... A lot of close.

This show is very real. So at night, you're left there alone. There's no one there. So they just set up some trail cams. Oh, really? And so we're sitting there in the darkness stoking up our fire, listening to the hyenas cackle.

We can hear, like, the leopard that they catch on the trail cam comes in super close and stalks us for days. And, like, every morning we'd go out of our boma, which is just a shelter that we built, and you'd see the leopard prints come right up to it because they're so stealthy and quiet. Oh, my gosh. So when you're sleeping, there's a leopard, like, literally half a metre that we built. And you'd see the leopard prints come right up to it because they're so stealthy and quiet.

Oh my gosh. So when you're sleeping, there's a leopard like literally half a metre away from you. Yeah. There wasn't much sleep. No, not at all. You're not saying you mustn't sleep at all, really. And as far as eating food goes,

because obviously everything you, you've basically got to provide for yourself. Yeah. So the first eight days you only ate one thing, is that correct? Half a scorpion each, yeah. Half a scorpion for eight days. Was there a moment

where you're like, Amber, where you're like I could eat my sister right now? Did you think about it? It crossed my mind. It's a survival. Imagine like day nine or ten must be pretty bleak when you're like we've still got... We've eaten half a scorpion

each. What's a scorpion like to eat? It was delicious. It tasted like crayfish. Really? Yeah. And how do you get a scorpion? How do you catch a scorpion? These are probably simple questions.

Yeah, every time you collect firewood, that's like where they're known to be under firewood. So you have to throw the firewood down so they don't sting you because they're highly venomous. Yeah. So yeah, one time we're picking up firewood and threw it down and a scorpion scattered out from it. Lucky we didn't get nipped by it. Yeah, and then you have

to cut a bit of its tail off because that's the venomous part. There goes half your food. Is this information you knew going into it or you learnt as you went? Is there someone on the set who's like, hey don't eat that. Going into it, we researched

a bit on South Africa because we've always kind of done pretty good on our survival skills but yeah going into it, we researched a bit on South Africa. So, because we've always kind of done pretty good on our survival skills. But yeah, African based, we've done a bit of research on what to expect over there. Two Kiwi twins, Amber and Serena, they spent 21 days in the South African bush trying to survive, surrounded by wild animals. They did it with no clothes. It's all over the world on Discovery's new TV show Naked and Afraid I tell you what Every time I am naked I am afraid

And I tell you what I wouldn't wish anyone I wouldn't wish On my worst enemy To see me naked No one would want to see Us in the wilderness For 21 days

Naked and Afraid I have a question About all these shows Because obviously You know you've got Camera operators Soundies Directors

Producers And stuff like that They're obviously Cated for They're eating their Scroggin' and stuff. Are you like, can you just give me a nut or something? They're actually really, really strict that they don't eat anything or drink anything near us.

Oh, really? So even, like, they couldn't even do it, like, a couple hundred metres away because, like, for us in starvation, we'd probably be able to smell something on the wind. Because eventually you got something right to eat. What did you get? Yeah, an impala. What's that?

It's like an antelope. Okay. Yeah, a bit like a fallow deer for New Zealand. Okay, so you got that so you could eat, but I understand that that also attracted more predators to the camp. Having fresh meat around, that was a wee bit of a nightmare. By that stage, eight days and we were crazed by hunger. So we were worried about just getting in our bomber

and we're up all night having a meat party, barbecuing meat. Meat party. It's a meat party. You can't put it in the freezer, you can't put it in the fridge or anything like that. We could dry it though. We made jerky out of it.

Did you? So it lasted a long time, yeah. What was your items that you got to take? You got a choice of something. Yeah. Right. So I chose machete and I chose a bow and arrow. Okay.

And you couldn't choose clothes, obviously, that wasn't an option. No. What about making clothes? Could you make clothes or was that part of the thing?

We thought we were going to. We had big plans of that. But when we got there, it was barren so there was no foliage to make clothes or anything like that. Couldn't even look like Tarzan.

No. Couldn't even make yourself. This is such an incredible, incredible show. And so is there prize money? Do you get paid for this? No. It's more just this. You don't get paid for it.

I know, right? You get compensation, but it's certainly not about the money. It's more about the challenge. Can you actually do it? Yeah. I guess you've seen other people in the past do it or succeed. So you're like, oh, I want to do this. A lot of people will tap out

you know a few hours in or a day in or a week in so it's extremely hard challenge and you don't like when in life are you ever going to get dropped in the African wilderness with nothing and see if you can survive. Probably never. I would hope for never and live with the

cast of the Lion King. Afterwards you must have just gorged on food, did you? Or put some clothes on first thing, I imagine. We put on 10 kgs in two days of just eating. You must have been ravenous. How does your body react to that, though? That must be just like suddenly from going from no food to food. Does it affect you or not?

Yeah, we were horribly sick for quite a while. And a lot of pain. Oh, really? Like just from eating so much. Eating food, yeah. Yeah, just... Because imagine if you cooked the food or cooked your... Impala.

If you cooked the Impala, it didn't cook that properly, right? You'd get quite ill, I imagine. We like our meat medium rare. Quite a good immune system. Yeah, right. You're not like me. I'm on my deathbed, basically. And is there,

there must be a doctor who checks on you every day, surely, like a medical team. They do have a medic there and the medic can tap you out. So like if you're like on death's door and you're like, nah, I'm staying in there,

they will, the medic would tap you out. Yeah. I heard you guys were on the AM show the other day and you were saying that one of the producers after the show decided the show wasn't for them because they couldn't handle

seeing people suffer, you know, go through that horribleness of not being able to help someone who needed food or clothing. Yeah, which it would be extremely hard. Like they're watching you starving and dehydrated and a lot of people go to some really dark places and the crew always say that people always turn on them and they sort of gamble what day they're going to turn. But yeah, watching someone suffer like that is pretty hard.

Oh, really? Great show. Check it out on Discovery. It's called Naked and Afraid. What next for you guys? I mean, you've done that now. How about we do a show called Clothed and Comfortable? That'd be a nice change.

Yeah, that'd be good. Surviving with deliveries and stuff like that. Yeah, can you do it? I like it. You hear people complaining that they have to live in a hotel room for two weeks.

I'm like, just listen to this story. Listen to this story. Oh, so good to meet you guys. Well done again. Amazing, amazing thing you guys have done. Amber and Serena,

nice to meet you guys. Thanks for having us. Cheers for being here. This is your new breakfast. Health Star rating, still pending. It's Jorowyn Manomahit. Now, a couple of weeks ago, we spoke to the lady who threw an adult toy at Stephen Joyce.

Remember that in Waitangi? It made international news, and we got the backstory. I was traveling out there, actually, to throw it at John Key was the original target. Oh, really? But he didn't show up at Waitangi that year. Then, yeah, I happened to see Stephen Joyce doing a press conference. Had no idea who he was and went over to the police.

I said, is that a national MP over there? And they said, yes, it is. So I was like, well, great, I've got something for him. And, yeah, that's when I threw a bill to Stephen Joyce. It turned out it was actually a dog chew toy. Yeah, which is a very disturbing chew toy to give a dog. Training them that those are edible things. I mean, that's risky.

That is a risky manoeuvre. And dogs, they're off the heights, you know. Most dogs are off the heights. Oh, crotch, they're high. Yeah, they are. It's quite accessible. Another chew toy. No, not this one.

But friends of ours, every year they do like a big midwinter Christmas with a whole lot of their friends and they all get together. Oh, I love a midwinter Christmas. Annie Pryor, my mother. I was going to say your mum, she loves Christmas, right? Oh, I love it. She celebrates midwinter Christmas, summer Christmas, November Christmas. If she could do Christmas all year round, she would.

She is Christmas. I think Santa's my father. She was the one that you saw the mummies kissing Santa Claus yeah not only kissing got to fourth base with her

yeah so friends of mine every year they have a mid winter Christmas same friends they go down south to the same house and they all do

like a secret Santa now secret Santa it's always a bit of a lottery right it is because sometimes you buy a gift for a person

thinking that they'll enjoy it uh and they remember that we used to work with a guy and he had a wonderful torso and we're like that's a great rig remember and i was like okay what i'll do is i'll buy him some baby oil so then it'll be the oil rig the oil rig but you in your head you'd take it about 12 steps ahead of anyone else you're like oh Oil, oil on the rig. And he just opened this bottle of baby oil. And he's like, eh?

And I was like, the oil rig. He was trying to yell it out, but obviously it was you. He was like, oil for the rig. Oil for the rig. Who's got a big rig? Oil. Yeah, well, you have to explain. There's nothing more humbling than having to explain your gag. We had this midwinter Christmas function that my friends and I went to a year ago.

Someone got given the exact same toy that Stephen Joyce ended up with in the face. And so it's a bit of a joke. They had that. And as they were leaving that night, someone placed it on the shelf up high in the house of the person. Just thinking, oh, in the morning they'll wake up, they'll see this toy. They'll laugh. Yeah, they'll laugh. And they went down this weekend, a year later,

to the same house for their yearly midwinter Christmas, and my mate looked up at the shelf and he's like, oh, you've put it back on display, I see. Nice. And they're like, what? The toy, it's back on display, just for this weekend. And they were like, the lady was like,

what do you mean? And looked up, and she had not noticed that this thing had been on display just for this weekend and they were like the lady was like what do you mean and looked up and she had not noticed that this thing had been on display for the entire year how many people had come over she was going through

her head going oh god I've had this my boss came over and this thing had been on display for an entire year in her house but it's a friendly one

isn't it it's got a smiley face it's like hey guys and it was quite high up it wasn't an eye line. But still, if you're over, you'd be like, oh, this is unusual sort of decor. It's not something the kids could grab and play with. No.

But it's something that her parents would have come over as well. Oh, no. You wouldn't be going through back through the list, wouldn't you? It's the gift that keeps on giving. Some people skip breakfast, the meal, and also this show. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. Now, on Friday, we pitched a bit of an idea that we wanted to give away Mike Hosking from Newstalk ZB, give away one of his cars.

Because he comes to work in a different car every week. At the moment, he's got a fancy Jaguar downstairs. A Jaguar I-Pace we've locked up. Yeah. We wanted to give away, well, not like give it away forever, but borrow it off Mike. And then maybe loan it out to some people or a person or something. We just want to give the experience of living like Mike for a moment.

Does Mike Hosking know about this? No, probably not. No. Does Mike Hosking even know that we exist down here? Probably not. Probably not. He doesn't fraternise with the people, the paupers on the low levels. He's going to know we exist after this though, right?

He will. So Mike Hosking's car, we haven't got it yet, but our theory is if we start to advertise and market the competition, then people believe it's happening. Once you say it, you can't really take it back. No, you can't. It's got to be true.

We're committed to it. Whatever, however we do it, we have to give away Mike Hosking's car from this point on. So it's now official, Ben. And you know it's official because we have this. Feel the superiority as you drive past lower socioeconomic groups without a care in the world. Hey losers, this is an experience.

Live like Mike. Drive with the confidence of someone inside the top tax bracket. And the reality is we love cars. Of our five kids, four have cars. And the only reason five don't have cars is the fifth is 12 years old. Live like Mike. Park in style on top of people who are far less fortunate than you. So if you're going to do something, do it properly and take it seriously.

Live like Mike. Drive a mile in Mike Hosking's fancy Italian leather shoes. I tell you what, I'll wear mine, you wear yours, and it'll be fantastic. Live like Mike. Enjoy Mike's wonderful hosk fatality. Slide into your Gucci slacks, Louis Vuitton tweed blazer, and feel like a better class of person. Tune in to Jono and Ben on the hits to get your hands on Mike Hosking's fancy Jaguar.

You can live like Mike and drive away in Mike Hosking's all-new Jaguar I-Pace today. T's and C's apply. Win Mike Hosking's car and live like Mike. Promotional campaign yet to be endorsed by Mike Hosking. The main prize of Mike Hosking's car may not necessarily be guaranteed. This ad was approved by Mike Hosking's best friends, Jacinda Ardern and James Shaw from the Green Party. And you can tell that was live because we... I remember it was 60% there.

Yeah. It was a demo. We'll record it properly after the show. I screwed up about four words in that final quick thing, but hey. If we had the opportunity, we'd go back and record it again. I would love to do that again, but I wouldn't want everyone to sit through that one more time. But I would love to have one more crane in it.

Shall we? Oh, no, that's not. Mike Hosking's car. We're giving away his Jaguar. We haven't got it yet. Who knows if we can get it, but hopefully we'll get our mitts around his steering wheel later this week. Wake up and smell them.

Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. I've got a confession that I need to share with you. And I can say this now because I know the household won't be listening. My household. They like more of him. They do, yeah.

Buddy McCormick. Don't get me started on McCormick again, mate. Oh, yeah, Ty, sorry. You know my feelings towards Buddy McCormick. Don't get me started on McCormick again, mate. Oh, yeah, sorry. You know my feelings towards Gary McCormick. Because my wife likes him better than me. He's trying to start this beef between us. I shouldn't have even brought it up. It's one of your trigger words.

We're taking you down, McCormick. We're coming for you. As I said before, they do a wonderful show. They're great. They're all great. You can't be so polite, mate. This is competition. This is bloodthirsty stuff. But anyway, we won't get focused on McCormick great. You can't be so polite, mate. This is competition. This is bloodthirsty

stuff. But anyway, we won't get focused on McCormick again. Won't go on another rant. I've been secretly eating my wife, Jennifer. She loves caramilk. You know caramilk? Oh yeah, the chocolate, yeah. And there's a new version which has put crunchy bits in it. Have you tried that, Producer Julia? Yeah, I have.

I've got a couple of blocks at home. Bloody delicious. OMG. It is just like, I'm an addict. I have. I've got a couple of blocks at home. Bloody delicious. OMG. It is just like, I'm an addict. I'm an addict. And so I've been secretly eating it. Last night I had the whole bar because I got home and they were asleep. I ate the whole bar and she's like, where does it keep going?

And I keep blaming it on the kids. It's the bloody kids. That's why you have kids. You've got other people to blame for your mistakes. But I've been eating the thing the whole time. And no one knows. Well, yeah, well, now you've confessed it. Hopefully they don't know. Hopefully they haven't heard this.

But it was good to get it off your chest. Yeah. Have you got stuff you need to confess to? I don't want to be the only one here. No, don't. Nothing at all. No, I would say I have been very good lately of ignoring stuff in the house.

I have seen the stuff, like when the bin's full, when it's like, I know it's full. I've ignored it. I haven't put it out. And the other day on the way to work, we got a new kitten just before lockdown. He had, you know, done a weird accident on the hallway. I walked past that.

I saw it there. And I ignored it. I got a phone call from a man to my wife going, oh, the kitten. He, what? Oh, no. If I had seen that, I would have cleaned it up. I would have phone call from a man to my wife going, oh, the kitten. He, what? Oh, no. So if I had seen that, I would have cleaned it up. I would have cleaned it up at four in the morning.

But I didn't. And I saw it there and I went, oh, I can't deal with this right now. So yes, I ignored that. That's my confessional. Okay. I'll 800 the hits. I love it how with the bins you just keep placing more and more stuff. Like you dig it down, you push it down.

You could take 30 seconds and walk outside and dump it, but no. No. It's a matter of principle, isn't it? 0800, that's the telephone number, 4487, you can text us too this morning.

Household confessionals, what are you hiding from the household? Now Ben, you just confessed to this morning, walking past a puddle left by your adorable kitten. You saw it, but you chose to ignore it.

Move on. I got a phone call, talked to my wife. I was like, oh, no, I didn't realise the cat had a wee accident. I didn't see that. Now, this is going to seem like an absolute classic commercial radio stitch-up. Oh, no. No. I've had no part in this.

No. Is this what this was all for? No. No, I didn't. Is this what we did? Was this one of those, oh, you say something now, I'll say something. You just will. And now, oh.

Morning, Amanda. Ben's wife, Amanda, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Oh, hi. I went up with a fake voice. I was supposed to not be mean. You were supposed to know. Oh, you were live on the radio. So now you know that I, yeah, ignored the cat. Yeah. radio, so now you know that I ignored the cat.

Yeah, so did I. Ha-ha, jokes on you, sir. Oh, so it's still there. It's just festering. It's a Mexican standoff. Who's going to clean this thing up? Okay, so this afternoon when I get home, we'll be like, oh, do I leave that for the next?

I'm probably going to have to clean that up. Five weeks later, it's just dried up and caused a permanent stain on the floor. Well, well played, Amanda. Well played. You'll enjoy the game. Enjoy the game. Enjoy the day. And thank you for listening to the show.

Even when you probably shouldn't be listening. See you, Amanda. Thank you. There we go. I love marital discussions live on the radio. That's fun stuff. Let's go to Toby. What's your household confessional, Tobes?

Hey, well, a while ago my girlfriend asked me if I could just wash the sheets because she was in a rush and had to go to work. I'll be honest, I was just kind of in a rush as well. I'm a bit lazy, so I just kind of took the duvet, gave it a quick shake,

get the dicks and tails off, and then just chucked it back on and went on my way. Oh, so you haven't washed it. How long have you not washed the sheets for? Well, it's neither here nor there. Well, it does seem like it's quite a fair question, but it's kind of there. I'll just say about a month.

Oh, a month? You can ride them out for a month? Yeah. When I was in my flat, I'd leave that thing on for a year almost. I can imagine students in Dunedin, yeah, it's probably Yeah, a month. You can ride them out for a month? Yeah. When I was in my flat, I'd leave that thing on for a year almost. I can imagine students in Dunedin, yeah, it's probably yearly sort of thing. Have like a permanent yellow stain. Yeah.

Hey, thank you, Toby. Go to Kate in Palmerston North. Welcome to the show, Kate. How's your Monday? Hi, guys. Going good so far. How are you? Yeah, well, it's just started.

And I can tell it's going to be a bonanza today. What's your household confessional, Kate? Well, on the rare occasion me and hubby are having a fight, if he's not looking, I'll just, you know, look in the bird, and it actually makes it feel a lot better. Oh, behind his back? All the fingers? Yep, yep.

And then it's just easy to, and I don't have to say it to him. My friend used to do that, like, under the bed sheets. Like, if they were having an argument, he'd be like, It makes you feel good about it. It makes you seem mature and responsible on top of the bed sheets, but underneath you're like, But you never want to get caught doing it. That's embarrassing.

That really inflames the situation. Good on you, Kate. You go and have a great day, eh? You too. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up. Thanks, mate. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Scrolling through your feed. Yes, this is the news that has broken over the weekend.

And if a politician, if so much sneezes, we will be riding them like a dolphin trainer rides a depressed dolphin at SeaWorld. Now, over the weekend, our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had a birthday. She turned 40, so happy birthday to Jacinda. And she went to a farmer's market, and they put on a bit of a happy birthday song for her. It wasn't one of the greats, was it? So this is all the fellow Labour MPs there,

and a bit of the crowd joining in. Yeah, happy birthday. We've talked about this on the show before. It's not always for a happy occasion. It's not always the happiest song. It's a long, drawn out, bleak, slow song and I tell you what, you couldn't get a more depressing version than this. Alright. Three, two,

one. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. I love it. Happy birthday to you I love it. Happy birthday, Jacinda Happy birthday to you Oh, dear God.

She's like, I was having a happy birthday until I heard that. Oh, jeez. Well, I suppose after a week of all their affairs being exposed, they're not going to do a chirpy version of happy birthday, are they? I think we've found a Happy Birthday song as good as the one from Carole Baskin,

who's on the Netflix show The Tiger King. You know, the one that's all over the world with Joe Exotic. Well, her and her husband, they sang this the other day. Go Charlotte,

it's your birthday. We're going to party like it's your birthday. We're going to sip Bacardi like it's your birthday. And we don't give a fudge because it's your birthday. It's your birthday. I reckon, Juju, can we mix that with our...

Oh, no, please don't. Can we mix them both together? Here we go. Oh, God, okay. Go, Charlotte. It's your birthday. Two, one. Go, Charlotte.

It's your birthday. Okay, that's just as bad as I thought it was going to sound. That's just horrendous. Sometimes you come up with ideas and they don't land, and that was certainly one of them. Thank you, Jonathan. Also over the weekend, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, I like this, from the NZ Herald.

He spent the year dealing with media scrums. Now he was dealing with scrums of a different kind. He took the rugby field over the weekend, just out of Wellington. So he played in a parliamentary rugby match. There was a whole lot of members of parliament alongside some former All Blacks as well. And he scored a try, Jono.

Oh, well, that was... But then producer Humphrey came in. He's like, did you see the try? I saw the headliners. Maybe it was like an 80-metre run down the line or something. He said, no, no. Another player had actually gone across the try line. Ashley Bloomfield walked up

and he literally just passed him the ball and Ashley put it down. But that's fine. The guy eradicated coronavirus. He's allowed to have an easy try. Exactly. And if you missed it before the game, he was talking about his nickname in the game.

This was Ashley Bloomfield talking about his rugby match. Well, yes, the team at the ministry canvassed a few options for me. I've actually got a few of them here. Hospital Pass didn't make the grade. There was Don't Smash Ash, but I've been reassured by Minister Henare no one in the parliamentary team's going to tackle me anyway,

so I'm happy with that. But what I've settled on is The Eliminator. The Eliminator. Scored a try, so well done, Dr Ashley Bloomfield. It looks like the type of guy who shouldn't be on a rugby field. Like, I was scared for him the whole time that something terrible was going to happen. But apparently he played first 15 rugby back in the day for Scots College, so he obviously knows what he's doing.

It'd be like us going on a rugby field. You'd be like, uh-oh, something bad's going to happen at any stage. And that's why you want to keep watching. Making poor life decisions every morning. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz.

She had an operation yesterday, Producer Juliet, to see if she had a soul, but she doesn't have one because she sold it to the gossip devil. And she's here with a spy update. Producer Juliet. Thank you very much.

And Rod Stewart, he reckons the secret to his musical success is by drinking a bottle of wine when he writes songs. So he would used to get, essentially he said that his team would lock him up in a hotel room, give him a bottle of wine and say, get it done in a few hours.

And that was what he did. And he'd just be drinking wine in the hotel room and writing his songs. I imagine the more he drank, the more abusive the songs went. Yous don't know anything. You know my real friends. Oh, okay, Rod, this album turned dark.

It starts from a nice little song about sailing or Maggie Mac. And you're like, whoa, hang on. You never call me. And here's my views on the Labour government. You're like, okay, well, hang on. There is that, I imagine, when you're songwriting, probably if you've had a wine, there would be that creative sweet spot, wouldn't there?

Where you're like, you know that when you're playing pool and you've had three or four, and you're like, bang, bang, nailing them all in. But then you have too many, and you're like, oh. Oh, Rod, what happened to that album? Yeah, too much wine. Bad, bad glass of wine then. And Taylor Swift, her album Folklore

that she released on Friday, it was a surprise album no one knew about. It sold 1.3 million copies in the first 24 hours, and she broke the record for first day album streams by a female artist with 80.6 million streams over Spotify and Apple Music. I'm glad she's getting a break, Taylor Swift. It's about time she had a win in her career. You know who she's talking to tomorrow?

Her first guitar teacher. Oh, yeah. So this guy who's an electrician in America taught her to play guitar. And producer Humphrey's been teeing him up for an interview. We're going to speak to him. He's like, you're not going to like what I've got to say about Taylor Swift. He's not happy with her. Oh, he's not?

No, she tried to sue him. She tried to sue him. And then I was like, why did she try to sue him? And it's because he's got a website called itaughttaylorswift.com so I can understand. We're going to catch up with him after the show tomorrow, so Wednesday, tune in. You'll hopefully hear that chat.

Yeah, his hot takes. For more spy, you can head to thehits.co.nz We apologise in advance. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, $20, Karen. She's a viral star on the internet. Became a sensation a few years ago. She left a message, quite an angry message, about getting $20 back,

and it turned out she left it on the wrong phone. I tell you what, I'll get my 20 bucks, or she's going to get 20 f***ing whacks. So that's $20, Karen. Now, we've known Karen for a number of years now. She's a friend of the show. We don't want her to be an enemy of the show because you've heard just what happens.

That was just for 20 bucks. Imagine if you really annoyed Karen. So we spoke to her last week on another matter, but then every time we talk to her, she sort of ends up in a Labour-led political rant. Who's pissing me off? Oh no, it's Crusher f***ing Collins. What do you reckon about Crusher Collins and how she's had to deal with the wayward National

MPs over the last seven days? I'd say she's got what she f***ing deserves. So with the election coming up in about a month, we actually pitched it to Karen. We had an idea when she was going in this sort of Labour-led rant that she'd be a great political reporter on the show. Yeah. And the people have been texting and emailing over the weekend. On Friday, you guys voted unanimously

that you wanted Karen to be the political reporter. But Moose actually has got in touch this morning. Moose from Taranaki. You've got some thoughts about this, Moose? Well, $20 Karen would be an outstanding political commentator, but she is a little bit rough around the edges. And frankly, I think she could probably use a little bit of training from one of the pros.

Oh, okay. Media training, like. But yeah, that's not a bad idea. I love that a guy called Moose is phoning. I'm saying she's a little rough around the edges. But Moose, we've had some wonderful conversations with you in the past. What's your suggestion? Oh, Barry Soper maybe.

But failing that, I think she should probably be Surgeon General as well. Take over from Dr. Ashley Bloomfield. She would swear coronavirus out of New Zealand. Okay, so you're suggesting we get someone like Barry Soper to train her up on the basics of political reporting. Because your major concern, Ben, is she's biased.

She's not impassioned. You know exactly where she's going to be voting and where her preferences lie, which is fine. Everyone's got their opinion. But as a political reporter, that's not quite good. So Moose wants her on, although he just wants a little bit of basic training

before she embarks on this journey. Absolutely, I think that'd be perfect. Hey Moose, you're going to have a great week mate, really appreciate you listening. You too gentlemen, rock on. Like starting your day with Panda Eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. It is the hits, Jono and Ben, 8.37, it is Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, I just

said that twice but I just thought I'd really ram that one home this morning. Good to get the brand out there mate, repetition, can you see? Thanks Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, I just said that twice, but I just thought I'd really ram that one home this morning. It's good to get the brand out there, mate. Repetition. Thanks, Jono and Ben on the hits. Thank you, Jono and Ben on the hits. I'm just going to refer to you now as Jono and Ben on the hits.

I'll answer to both. I take a lot of abuse for your name. Oh, you do? Yeah. They're saying some stuff about you out there, but I'm taking it on board. Hey, we were working yesterday. I've been filming this dog show for TVNZ2.

It's been really fun. Are you excited about it coming on telly whenever it comes on telly? Yeah. Whenever it comes on telly. We've done it. No one's told us when it's on telly. Probably for this reason that we'd say it on the radio. I don't even think they're going to put it on.

It's too embarrassing. What we did was too embarrassing. We can never play that to the public. It's not fit for public consumption. I hope not. But one of the lovely costume ladies who works on the show, Amy, she was like, oh, how long have you been doing this job? And she's like, oh, you know, a few years.

And I was just like, what's the lowest thing you've had to do? Apart from working with us. Yeah, for this job. And she's like, well, I once had to shave a butt. She had to shave a butt for her job. Now, this is because someone was getting body painted. So she had to, you know, that's a job you leave for your mum. I get my mum to do my butt shaving.

Does Annie Pryor do that? She does, yeah. I go down for my annual butt shave. That's the only person you can trust. Oh, because I have to shave my head. Back of my head's a mission Let alone You know your dear ear That's a whole other game

Yeah You can't do that yourself That is another person's job But you know It's not a job for a stranger Is it? I mean I'd shave yours Ben Well thank you

Yeah I think Is that a comp Yeah Would you shave mine? Well if I Like if it's a life and death situation I don't know what situation we'd be in

But like Quick You've got to shave Jono's behind otherwise we're not getting out of this. Juliet, whose butt would you shave? I think I'm just going

to avoid that question. Yeah, no, smart. I think neither of your bums, please. I think I have a very

hairy back. No, you're quite a hairy, you're like a seal. You're like a greasy sea lion. So I don't think it would be much of a job but some people do

and that's fine. But anyway, that's some great commitment she showed to that job. I think she was really questioning her line of work as she was doing that. Yeah, but I guess technically it was something that had to be done in the line of work. Well, you can't paint over it, can you? It needs to be. If you're body painting, that is. Yeah, right.

Yeah, it needs to be a hairless canvas. But you see, I've done some low stuff for this job. Jeez, crikey. A few years ago we'd do it on another station. It was before even social media was a thing. We'd fly onto Invercargill and Foveau Strait is the body of water between Bluff and

Stewart Island. Quite dangerous, right? Very treacherous waters. Yeah. And the idea was that I'd get towed behind like a fishing trawler on a Seabiscuit. So across to Stewart Island. It's a champagne radio thing, you know? Put the young guy on a Seabiscuit,

go across Fomo Street. Wouldn't get away with that nowadays, would you? Couldn't strap Juliet to a car bonnet and drive her from Cape Wadianga to Bluff, would you? Not now. Back in the 1920s when I started, a whole different game, diduju. What I loved about you did this thing, and no one was filming it. No one was filming it.

Like it wasn't, I don't think. Social media wasn't even a thing. Is there a photo of it? No. Does it exist? No, and so we were out there, and it was just horrific. It was the worst storm ever. Like the boat would, I was towed by the boat, and then I'd go behind a wave, and I wouldn't see the boat. I was like, oh dear God, where's the boat gone? And then I'd go back up on the wave. Oh, there's the boat. then I'd go behind a wave and I wouldn't see the boat I was like oh dear god where's the boat gone

and then I'd go back half on the way oh there's the boat and I didn't realise there's shark infested waters halfway through the salty guy with a peg leg

and an eye patch who was driving the boat sailing the boat was like mate she's too rough out here I was like we've been doing this for two hours

and now you're saying it's too rough so we had to pull pin he's like I see sharks up ahead and this is going to turn ugly. So the salty seaman, he pulled me back in the old sea dog. So yeah, that was probably the lowest thing I've had to do. Maybe they wanted to get

rid of you at this session. It does seem like quite a convenient thing. But why did they make you do it? This is what we need to do. They didn't even call me for the radio bit. They're just like, you go down and do this. How'd it go? No, I didn't. It was horrendous. Did you guys cover it on radio?

Oh, no, no, we forgot. Lou in calories and Lou in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Don't call us. We'll call you. It's a game show. You didn't even know you were playing until we phoned you. That's right.

And when you get a very confusing phone call with two nasally radio announcers barking unusual questions down the phone at you, you take that with both hands or you hang up. Those are your two options. We'll see what they do today. Hello, Pinch the Motel, Fred speaking. Oh, is that Fred? It is.

Fred, it's Jono and Ben here from the Hits radio station. How are you? I'm good, mate. How's yourself? Oh, we're doing well. It's time for you to say, hit the music, Jono and Ben here from the Hits Radio Station. How are you? I'm good, mate. How's yourself? Oh, we're doing well. It's time for you to say, hit the music, Jono and or Ben. Well, hit the music, Jono and or Ben. Because it's, you didn't call us, we've called you.

It's called Don't Call Us, We'll Call You. Sweet. We've got four quick questions. You answer them. They're pretty simple. You get $40 hell pizza. Ah. Okay.

So nothing is going to put this man off his game. You take everything in your stride. Absolutely. First question. Sonny Bill Williams does what? A. Has a hard time filling in his whole name on an airline arrivals card due to the lack of boxes. B. Plays professional football.

Or C. Does a great job of not pretending his second name is the same as his third name? B. Well done, well done. $10 hell pizza. Whoa. Okay, next. Whoa, sweet.

Whoa. Here is your next question. David Seymour is the leader of which party? A, the gender reveal party, B, the swingers party, or C, the act party? C. You are so crazy.

Yeah, he's just crazy. Mate, I'm up for the play. He's up with a play. He can't face you. I feel like you must be right now. I'm picturing you sitting back on a reclining chair with your feet up on the desk. The office chair. The office chair.

Feet up on the desk, looking out the window, staring at the beach with jandals on, saying hey. Pretending to do office work. And answering some great questions. Well, not great questions, but answering some great answers. Oh, sorry. Great people. Hold on, the questions. great questions Well not great questions But answering some great answers Oh sorry Great people Hold on the questions The questions aren't great

They're good But they're not great He's having a go at the questions Anyway two more questions to go Are you enjoying the questions? I am Yeah It'd be better if I could make you do a booking

Oh you know you're trying to sell us on a night at the motel I am Third question What is the name of the popular internet search engine? A. Poogle B. Google Or C, Frugal? B. B?

I always thought Frugal would be a great search engine where you search for anything, but it's just the cheapest possible. Oh, that's a good idea. Cheapest accommodation around. Yeah. And third and final, Leonardo DiCaprio is famous for what? Somehow getting older, but dating girls aged 23 consistently. B, acting.

Or C, wearing his hats too low down his forehead. Well, all could be good, but we'll go for B. B, he's acting. Well done. Well done. $40 help each is all yours, just like that. Bloody hell, what a bloody score. There you go.

I'll be off the trough out. The most chill winner we've ever had on this game show. Well, well, what's the go now? I just wanted to see what you'd say. Let's go next. How pizza's serving the best damn pizza in this lifetime, and next you hold the line, we'll grab your details. Nice talk, yeah, what a classic.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Now on Friday, Jono, we spoke about Mike Hosking's car. He does the Newstalk ZB show, The Breakfast Host, Mike Hosking, and it's the number one show in New Zealand, and he's got the number one car in New Zealand that changes every week, right? Yeah, he changes, yeah he does, he changes cars

weekly, and producer Juliette, who for some reason is parking next to him in the garage, illegally parking as well. She's not allowed in there, but she parks next to Hosking every morning. She's like, he's got a Jaguar at the moment. So on Friday, we just spitballed. What if we borrowed it? What do you mean?

Just borrowed it. Yeah, like we said, he's either got a fleet of cars that he can switch out or he's got a revolving door. Listen, Hosking's going to be fine for a car. If you're worried about Mike Hosking and whether he's going to be able to get from A to B in a high-end, luxurious European sports car, then don't. Yeah, he's going to be fine. So we thought, we don't know how we're going to do this,

but we thought maybe we could borrow his car. Not take, borrow, and just sort of give it away. You know, not for long, just use it. So you, the five people of the hits can use it. And the text machine blew up on Friday when we just even mentioned the thought of this. I'd love to use Mike Hosking's car on my farm to get the daily farm work done.

Oh, I love the idea of that. Yes, please take Mike Hosking's car. I would take Mike Hosking's car to the drag races. Oh, dear God. That would be good. This is special. Well, okay, well. Tongariro, they're on board with it. G is with us on 0800

The Hits. G, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Your thoughts? Hey, good morning. Absolutely do it. The farm, drag racing, whatever. Yep. Okay. Yeah, Michael Lover. If I, drag racing, whatever. Yep. Okay. Yeah, Michael Lovett. If I know Mike Hosking. We don't. We'll love it.

Because he seems like that sort of person. That would be just, you know, like, yeah, I'll take it. Alright, well, listen, we'll take the Italian suit and shirt off my back. That's the sort of thing. That's what you'd say, wouldn't you? That's right. So I'm saying I'll take his car through a KFC drive-thru and then pick all of my friends up

and we would all eat sweet, sweet chicken inside of this Jaguar. Think of all the fun things you could do with it like that, that would just like... Imagine getting Jacinda Ardern in the car. Oh, like a nemesis as far as like... A political nemesis. I think she'd get on quite well,

but they obviously like, they tussle on air. Imagine if we got her, James Shaw from the Green Party. The Green Party. All his favourites. So there we go. That's where we left it on Friday. The people were keen. The people wanted Hosking's car.

Of course they do. It's a lovely car. A Jaguar I-Pace, I understand. You did some research into it. Yeah, lovely car. It's the latest Jaguar that he's driving. And we've hatched it. Well, we've developed a plan. The plan is yet to hatch. Yeah. It's the latest Jaguar that he's driving and we've hatched it, well we've developed a

plan, the plan is yet to hatch. It's incubating this plan but we could potentially see us get our hands around the steering wheel of

Mark Hosking's Jaguar I-Pace which, yeah, are you confident of this plan? I don't know. Now that we say it on the radio I'm

starting to have second thoughts but anyway. Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and it on the radio, I'm starting to have second thoughts. But anyway. Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The A to Z of New Zedland.

We do this every day. We're phoning every town and country in Aotearoa. The A to Z of New Zedland. Yes, and today we're heading to the top of the South Island, a little place called Collingwood. Collingwood? Collingwood we're going to. Collingwood is just the left-hand tip of the South Island, a little place called Collingwood. Collingwood? Collingwood we're going to. Collingwood is just the left-hand tip of the South Island,

so we're going to go through there today. Are you sure? Okay. Good morning. Collingwood on the spot. Daniel speaking. Daniel, it's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. This is the A to Z of New Zealand.

We're calling every town and city, and Collingwood is next on our list. Out of it. Awesome. What can you tell us about Collingwood? Well, yeah, usually Collingwood's on the way to Fairwell Spit and no, it's where everyone just comes and walks around. It's quite a small place, smaller

than Tarka, but yeah, ice creams are good and people are friendly. So you're in between Nelson and Fairwell Spit, are you? Yeah, like Tarka. But yeah, ice creams are good and people are friendly. So you're in between Nelson and Farewell Spit, are you? Yeah, like Tarka's the main township of Golden Bay and it's past that

is the other township, Collingwood. Yeah, it's about a 30-minute drive from Tarka. Sleep on. Oh, I've got a customer.

Oh, that's all right. You serve your customer. We'll wait. Yeah, we'll wait. Oh, okay. Have we customer. That's all right. You serve your customer. We'll wait. Yeah, we'll wait. Oh, okay. Have we done Collingwood before? No. I thought we have.

Looking online. I don't know if we have. No, okay. Just when I look to the Collingwood online, I'm like, ooh, there's the Gannett Connolly and the, oh. Coastville, Collingwood? Nelson? Art Gallery? I just remember seeing this page before with the...

Oh, did we phone the motel? Well, I feel like we've done. Do we tell them? I don't know. Is it... Hi. Hey, mate. How are you guys? Hey, mate.

How are you? We're doing all right. We're doing great. Hey, uh, yeah, what are you doing? Uh, what am I doing? I'm just, uh, cleaning the ice cream bin. Oh, I like ice cream. Yeah, we're just saying, get it, get it in Collingwood.

Get it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thought so. Thought so. Circle me when I go to the park for my sandwich. Oh, do they? Yeah, we're just saying, Gannets in Collingwood? Gannets? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thought so. Circle me when I go to the park for my sandwiches. Oh, do they?

Nice little cafe-y art gallery, that sort of thing? Yeah, we've got a pub on the other side of the road. Yeah, you're right. We've got a brilliant restaurant. We've got two different cafes. And there's an estuary? Yeah. Yeah.

We have, we have. Yeah, we've done Coll. We have, we have. We've done Collingwood before, we're just discovering. But that's good. We've enjoyed this. It's great to go back to Collingwood. It was almost better the second time around. Yeah. You guys always crack me up on your show.

I love hearing this. Oh, thank you, mate. Listen, you are an absolute champion, Dan. A firefighter. He works in the general store. He's in Collingwood. We love you, my friend. Oh, thanks, mate. Awesome. Love it. You have a great day. Just like me, yeah. A firefighter. He works in the general store. He's in Collingwood. We love you, my friend. Oh, thanks, mate. Awesome. Love it.

You have a great day. Thanks, guys. Don't worry, we're rigging every town and city twice. Is that the thing? I thought I was going to take two and a half years. Why don't I make it five? I like the way we're doing this. Actually, when you said that, I looked back

at the list and I was like, yeah, no, no, we're definitely there. In fact, since Collingwood, we've done five others. I don't know why I decided. This is why I knew. I was quite quiet during that because I was like, I'm sure we've done Collingwood before, but it was sounding like a good story. So, listen, what we have learned from here is as the list goes down, we need to cross it off as we go.

Okay, that's good to know. Because then I lose my way. The agency of New Zealand will continue tomorrow, hopefully with a new town, but we never know. We might go back to another town. Start your day

the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. I love this. There's an article. It was news towards the end of last week. I was just having a read of it

about a private jet that left Christchurch. It arrived and it left with mystery passengers. And so basically the headline, the article's all about a plane that was there. No one knows. Plane flies away from airports is the headline.

A private jet, though, in New Zealand. I love it when we have a private jet in New Zealand because we're all like, hey, was there a private jet in New Zealand? And so we send every form of media there to cover the private jet. Day two, the private jet's still sitting in New Zealand. Who owns the private jet? I don't know. We're still waiting to find out who owns the private jet. Day two, the private jet's still sitting in New Zealand. Who owns the private jet? Don't know.

Still waiting to find out who owns the private jet. But then they go on to the, there must be some sort of international tracking system. Yeah, they have. They've tracked it where it's gone and they've said, oh, this is people it could be because, you know, actors like Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst are in New Zealand.

You know, so are they on the private plane? Then Robert Downey Jr. apparently has got dispensation to come. I mean, they've all, they've gone. They've gone full homeland, carried from homeland. The plane left Dallas, Texas at 6.29 last Wednesday and arrived in Hawaii at 5.29 Thursday. Travelled from Hawaii to Samoa. It's got the full tracking, but no one knows who the plane belonged to.

And should we care? I don't know. I don't know. And like in America, this would be just any other day, right? But in New Zealand, it's like it's a private plane. Oh, and do you know, and actually, and you're going to roll your eyes because this is something that you... The secret airport.

I knew this was going to spawn the story. Yeah, you knew it, but you rolled with it anyway. You knew it was coming. I know. As soon as I mentioned private plane, you're like, don't you know, there's a secret airport. There's a secret airport. I did know that. Because you tell me all the story. Yeah, you knew it, but you rolled with it anyway. You knew it was coming. I know. As soon as I mentioned private plane, you're like, don't you know there's a secret airport? There's a secret airport. I did know that.

Could you tell me all the time? Just off the Auckland International Airport, there's a little airport to the side. It's where all the big bangers come through. Yeah, so a lot of the celebrities that would come into New Zealand, obviously this was before COVID, and they'd come for concerts or movies, they would go to this private sort of airport. There's no customs.

They just wander into New Zealand. There is customs. Bring their highfalutin expensive narcotics. No one checks them. There's customs. No, there is. We've been in there once. Yeah, it was quite cool.

And the guy was saying, any celebrity you could think of... Has been through here. But I can't tell you who they are. So we were thinking of celebrities. I can't tell you. Can't tell you. Yeah.

You can imagine Harry Styles has eaten 100% pure gold club sandwiches in there. Oh, yeah. I heard they have 45 personal masseuses just standing by to massage the rich and famous as they come in. And the interesting thing I found was that, now look at me, I'm caught up in the private airport chat,

but he would say that for every one that's reported, there'd be like four or five other celebrities that you don't even know about that would have come into New Zealand to holiday or to work or whatever and then just left without getting reported all over the media. Yeah, they come here, they fly off to Queenstown or whatever.

Yeah, it's incredible. It was so clean and fancy, wasn't it? And it was like the air conditioning was just 56 people blowing on you. They don't even have an air conditioning unit. That's how lavish it is. Like starting your day

without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. Spy. The WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz Here comes a news bulletin about people more rich

and famous than we will ever be. Producer Juliet with Spy. Thank you very much. Now, Kanye West, over the weekend, he was spotted in a hospital in Wyoming. He didn't stay very long, though.

So he's obviously gone to get help with his anxiety, it seems, by going and visiting the hospital. And he's also publicly apologised to Kim Kardashian, his wife, on Twitter. He said, I'd like to apologise for going public with something that was a private matter to my wife, Kim. I did not cover her like she has covered me. To Kim, I want to say I know I hurt you.

Please forgive me. Thank you for always being there for me. And she's been spotted out in her Range Rover looking, you know, a bit sombre as they report on the websites. But there's a bit of progress for you. What a great way to apologise on Twitter. So I couldn't think of any other better forum. Yeah, I know. I was thinking that as you said it,

because he was obviously apologising for saying something publicly and then going publicly. But you kind of feel like he's already gone public already. He's got to kind of publicly say this. He's got to wrap that storyline up. Yeah, in a public thing.

Otherwise, if he does it behind closed doors, everyone will be like, oh, you did this, you know. And when you say she's driving around sombre, all they need to do is get one photo of her looking, like sitting at the lights going, oh, there's traffic.

And it's like, Kim Kardashian, broken. Or she chuckles about something, you know, and the other lady will be like, oh, she's over the, you know. Exactly. It's just one little split second that they can capture on camera. I mean, I look depressed and dead inside 90% of the day.

And the owners of, or the makers of Paw Patrol have come out and said that the cartoon show is not cancelled despite White House comments. So a, this is really bizarre. So the White House, this press secretary of the White House has come out and said

that Paw Patrol is cancelled. And it was in a speech where she was talking about what cancel culture is. She says Donald Trump doesn't like the cancel culture, which basically is kind of a term if something's not um approved oh it's cancelled you know what i mean yeah no no it's pc madness yeah 2020 madness yeah so for some reason she said yep it's um paw patrol's cancelled something to do with how it was

relating to cot is have you guys seen paw patrol before yeah? Yeah, there's a dog cop on there as well. And I think when all this stuff, you know, the quite serious stuff went down in America and they were looking at the police, for some reason, Paw Patrol got brought up in it because it had a police character.

Yeah, so it hasn't been cancelled. Nickelodeon have come out. I was like, no, it's still going, mates. So the White House, I don't know, they just say stuff, don't they? And they seem to get away with it. I'm a big fan of Paw Patrol. Paw Patrol, Paw Patrol,

be there on the doubles. Keep going. This is sad, isn't it? Two fully grown men singing the Paw Patrol theme song. Don't get me started. There's Chase. Who else is there? Chase is probably the fave. He's the mate. Is he the cop? Oh, God. Now

you're stretching my poor Patron knowledge. You say you're a fan. Maybe I'm not as big a fan as you are. Do your kids watch it? There was a period of their time now. They're probably a little old now. A little old, yeah. Poor John.

So am I, to be honest. We should not even know the words to the theme song. For more spy, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. I see the NBA starting this week in America. Stephen Adams, the players are allowed to have special messages on their jerseys this season.

And he's got a Kia Kaha on his message, so I thought it was pretty cool. Oh, that's lovely. He's from New Zealand. Yeah. I'm from New Zealand. I love New Zealand. We love everything about New Zealand. So that's a positive way to start the day.

Thank you very much, Ben, and that's a wonderful segue and lead into what we do here. It's going to be a good day. We end the show every day with you guys phoning us up, telling us why it's going to be a good day, making us feel great. It's like, we're like Oprah Winfrey, aren't we, minus the millions of dollars

and international fame and success. And just the one car giveaway too on our show, Mike Hoskins. That's right, yeah. Why don't we give a car for everyone in the audience? Well, we've got one car and we don't know if we can actually give it away yet, but we're trying to.

We've done the research on this and this is the most popular segment on New Zealand radio. And we were the only two people who took part in that research, but we both voted as the most popular popular. It was like a political poll. You know what I mean? This is polling well. Let's go to the phones. Rico, welcome. What's going to be a good day today, mate?

Hello, I live in New Zealand and I'm at Glenville Intermediate School. What's good about today is that I go to school and it's a happy day. Even though there's coronavirus going around, I'm still happy that I've still got a family and I can still go to school and it's a happy day. Even though there's coronavirus going around, I'm still happy that I've still got a family and I can still go to school.

Oh, this is adorable. Rico loves going to school. Yeah, you know, there's some bigger stuff going on in the world, but still very fortunate. Is everyone's got a family? Oh, tick of the boxes. This is great.

Pulling on my cold dead hands. We're going to give you a double pass for the movies, my friend. Reading cinemas, all right? Yeah, okay, cool. Do I say my name and everything? Yeah, give us your full address now. Hold the line. Full address and number.

Hold the line. Hold the line. Someone will talk to you, my friend. Have a great day. That's how it works. Let's head to Morrinsville. Kirstie, wonderful to have you on. Why is it going to be a good day for you, Kirst?

Because my kids are at school. She doesn't have to do parenting. Yeah. You're going to go loose today, Kirstie. What crazy, wild things are you going to get up to on Monday? Clean my house. Yeah. Vacuuming and wiping down benches. That's

Kirstie's day. We've got a double pass to the movies, Reading Cinemas, alright? Oh, thank you. Enjoy your wild day of cleaning. Woo! Yeah. Yeah. Hey, thanks for listening, Kirsten. Have a good one.

Thank you. Listen to Christchurch, Alan. You're on the air. It's going to be a good day. Why, Al? Well, because I'm probably lucky to have a job because so many people

have lost their jobs through the COVID. Oh, you're thankful. Yeah, you're thankful. Good on you. Good on you, Al. And, jeez, it's shocking, isn't it, the poor people that have

lost jobs? As much as we moan sometimes, you know, we're probably lucky to have one. Good on you. That's a great way to approach it, Alan. You go and have a great Monday, my friend. Thank you. Double Pass to Reading Cinema's coming your way. Enjoy your Monday. Tomorrow on the show, we give away Mike Hoskins'

car. Well, you know, the process begins to give away Mike Hoskins' car. If you want to, the process begins to give away Mike Hoskins' car. If you want to borrow it, we're saying, it could happen on the show tomorrow as well, is that David Seymour joins us from the ACT Party. You've got a bit of a beef with David Seymour. You've demanded that David Seymour come on our show. He literally, Ben, grabbed producer Humphrey by the throat

and lifted him three metres off the air and said, you get me, David Seymour. If you don't, you are over. You'll never work in this town again. Of course, you can live free of your food. I'm just ignoring what Jono has to say. Live free of your food, petrol and power bills for an entire year.

Your next chance to do that is at 10 o'clock today, then at 2 o'clock and 4 o'clock after that. But we will be back tomorrow morning from 6 o'clock. You have a great Monday. We'll catch you then. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on The Hits and have a great Monday. We'll catch you then.