Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - July 29 - Mike Hosking's Car, The A To Z Of New Zealand, Who Did You Know Before They Were Famous?

Episode Date: July 28, 2020

Today we made MAJOR progress with obtaining Mike Hosking's car! Even though Boss Todd tried to make us rethink our decisions on the show, the tow truck came and got the job done! Tune in tomorrow to hear Mike's reaction when he realised his car was gone... In other non-Mike-Hosking-news, Jono's daughter got a new pet without him knowing, and we also chatted to the man who first taught Taylor Swift how to play guitar!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. We are frazzled at the moment. We just towed Mike Hosking's car. Yeah. It's part of the thing, Mike Hosking, if you're listening to our audience in Israel and Istanbul, we've got some listenership in Istanbul. Oh, yeah, okay. To our Afghani audience as well. Mike Hosking, a respected broadcaster here in New Zealand.

He's kind of New Zealand's top broadcaster, right? He does the number one show in radio. Yeah. A breakfast show on the talkback station, the news station, News Talk ZB. He's the number one broadcaster. He was on TV for many years as well. We just towed his car from the car park because we wanted to borrow it. He drives a fleet of high-end, luxurious European vehicles.

A Jaguar he's driving at the moment. So we just wanted to tow that, borrow it, and lend it out to the audience, which we did so successfully today. He saw it, didn't he? He saw it, yeah, and his reaction was exactly what I thought his reaction would be. He said, where the fuck's my car? That's a natural reaction, isn't it? I would say the same thing if I was him.

But we need to get his keys. We towed the car. There's a lot of issues. We have to go with hat in hand and go, hey, how about lending us your keys as well? I don't know. We're just doing this in one step at a time. We have the car. We'll work on the keys tomorrow.

It's in Ben's garage safely. Yeah. Under a blanket. Yeah. It's like a kidnapping, isn't it? It's a bit weird but anyway, that was the big mission today on the show. So enjoy that along with a lot of other stuff. You know, a lot of great stuff. Don't specify

what it is, Ben. No, it's probably better just to brush over it and not get into detail. So that's what I find. Just say great stuff. Take my word for it. Enjoy the podcast. The radio version of Morning Breath. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. We've been on a bit of a quest the last few days, putting a plan together to pull a heist on Mike Hosking's car.

Yeah, because he drives a new car every week. He parks it in the garage here at work. Mike Hosking's currently berating the Labour Party upstairs on Newstalk ZB right now on his number one rating Newstalk ZB show. And he can't hear us on top of his giant pile of success right now. So we're getting away with this. We've spoken about it for a few days. We've booked a tow truck and we're going to tow his car this morning.

And we're not going to steal it and give it away because that's called theft. Yeah. We're going to borrow it and lend it to you and that's called a novelty radio promotion. Yeah, we hope that we've found a loophole in the system. We haven't worked too hard on looking into it. That's our defence in court anyway.

Yeah, so here's what's happened so far on our quest to get Mike Hosking's car. You park next to Mike Hosking. Yeah, I do. At his car park. It's a Jaguar? A Jaguar. He changes cars like I change underpants. Weekly. Oh, God. Here's a pitch.

Why don't we borrow his car and give it away? And it's meant with radio silence. You can't have radio silence on radio. Well, I'll throw it to the audience. I would love to use Mike Hosking's car on my farm. I would take Mike Hosking's car to the drag races. G is with us. Absolutely do it.

Yeah, Mike will love it. Mike will love it. However we do it, we have to give away Mike Hosking's car from this point on. Have we got a hold of Super City Towing? You have, Craig. Now we've got a job for you. We've got a car we need to move. Yeah, we can do that for you.

We can do that? I don't even care what the job is. Hi. Is that our friend Alumsha from security? Yeah. It's Steve and Andy. All right. Are there security cameras in the garage?

Yes, there is. Who would Steve and Andy had to sleep with to maybe delete that footage? Depends. It was my duty. So that's where things are at We've got a tow truck booked in Just before 9 o'clock today To come in and take the car away Yeah, there is another problem

Which you raised yesterday You flagged yesterday We don't have the keys Yeah So we're just Let's get the car first One by one, yeah We've really started this thing

The wrong way around We started advertising it Before we had the prize. Yeah. And then once we obtained the prize, we don't have the keys. Yeah. We could have got the car and the keys at the beginning. That's what you would have done in a proper linear fashion.

But who's to say you need to do it that way? We're kind of making this up as we go along. And I don't know if you can tell. Yes. You can't tell because we're hiding it beautifully. This is your new breakfast. Health star rating still pending. It's Jono and Mano Mahez.

Spy. The What's Up Spy.co.nz. Now, these are the stories that are usually considered the fluffy filler at the end of a normal news bulletin. Not here, mate. We dedicate three minutes of airtime to this gold. Producer Juliette with your spy update. Thank you.

So the Ellen Show is officially going to be investigated following reports of workplace mistreatment and intimidation on set. So previous and current staff will be interviewed and apparently it's the three executive producers that have been reported on essentially. Apparently Ellen hasn't officially been reported saying that she's bullying. It's mainly the producers,

but people have been sort of, as you know, there have been allegations against Alan saying that, oh, she doesn't look at you, she's quite rude, but she's not actually as much of a bully as their producers are. There was the gum rumour too, wasn't there, that you had to chew gum before talking to Alan?

I mean, it's probably very untrue, but I love it. Every day we leave the studio, Ben down-trousers me in front of the office, and he's like, oh, look at him. Your workplace bully me every day. I get bullied for three hours by you every morning. You make me floss my teeth and brush them three times before I can talk to you.

Thank God the stench doesn't go through microphones into people's cars right now. I'm not allowed to look at him. I can only look at Producer Julia for the entire show. That's right. Don't look over it, no. Sorry. Have you ever been told off by a famous person, a celebrity?

Oh, I'm trying to think. We got told off after talking to Jared Leto. That was probably by a publicist, but not by a famous person exactly. A friend of mine got told off by one of the top twins. Oh, that's right. They came to his school. Oh, yeah. And they were performing for the kids, lovely sort of sit-down performance.

The kids, as you do when you're primary school children, you sit down on the mat, don't you? With your legs crossed and your arms folded. And he had a view straight up the legs of one of the top twins. Right. And just couldn't take his eyes off. And she was like,

have you found what you're looking for? Called out the cat, I love it. Have you found what you're looking for? I left my keys up there. I was just wondering. Oh, wow. Yeah, so that was his celebrity telling off. But apart from that, no.

Is there any workplace bullying that goes on here, Producer Juliet? No, I don't think so. No. You'd hope not. You guys are good to work with, so that's good. That's good. That's what you have to say on the radio.

Yeah. We make her cry in her car after work guys are good to work with, so that's good. That's good. That's what you have to say on the radio. Yeah. We make her cry in her car after work, don't we? Yeah, the family you knew. No. And Chris Hemsworth's wife, Elsa Pataki, has been absolutely roasted online. Not online. Not online, never. It doesn't sound like the internet.

Yeah, I know. So she was spotted driving through a flooded road on a road trip. Then she got stuck. And then she proceeded to take selfies and then escaped out of her car through the window. I mean, she wasn't that deep through. She was probably up to maybe midway through her tyres. But everyone's like, what the hell? Like, why would you even do that?

It's going to ruin your car. You've got your kids in the back. And she was just kind of laughing it off and posted it online. If you're in that situation, you always take a selfie. It's content. That's right. You've got to feed the beast. The never-ending beast.

I was standing where we park our cars. It's about a 100, 200-meter walk. And I was standing on the corner on a rainy day. It was last week. And there was a big puddle in front of the footpath. And a car came around the corner. I was like, what? Remember those funny moments of movies where this thing,

that never happens and it happened to me? Oh, really? Yeah, just straight through. Straight through the puddle. I enjoyed it. Comedically, I enjoyed it. I feel like this is good. My legs were soggy and cold, but I enjoyed it.

Love's a midday shower. Some people skip breakfast, the meal, and also this show. It's Jono and Ben on the Hit. Now, we have been saying for a few days on the radio that we had an idea to take, to borrow, Mike Hosking, respected broadcaster on Newstalk ZB, his car, his fancy car, his Jaguar I-Pace that lives in the garage here at work.

Yeah, and apparently there's been conversations going on behind our backs while we've been having conversations behind Mike's back. And Boss Todd, our boss here at The Hits, he wants to talk to us. We could have done this off-air, but you know how radio works. Any disagreements, they end up as on-air fodder. But my fear is that Boss Todd's going to want to pull pin on this. And how does this make us look, Ben?

How does this make Jono and Ben look to the people? Like disorganised schmucks. Like they don't know what's going on if we pull pin now. Yeah but to be fair we really are making this up as we go along. This whole journey. Or Todd might just be going hey great stuff guys. Management say they're loving it. Keep up the good work.

It's getting some noise in the market. That sort of thing. So we'll go through to Todd now. Good morning. Not happy, boss Todd? Oh, I actually found out about this. I've heard bits and pieces. And we're talking about the Hosking thing, right? Yeah, yeah.

Well, I don't know. Is there another issue we need to... Well, you know, you guys, it's, you know, who knows? It's coming at me thick and fast. Okay. And so I thought it was just a huge bit of radio smoking. But you can't take the man's car. And it's...

There's Hosking. There's a company that owns the car. It's just a hell of a lot happening. Well, listen, there's a hell of a lot happening, Todd. There's a company that owns the car. It's just a hell of a lot happening. Oh, listen, there's a hell of a lot happening, Todd. There's a lot to comprehend. But I don't know if you know the first rule of Towie Club. Once you book a Towie, you can't unbook a Towie. Otherwise they get Towie. That's where the name came from.

Yeah, we've had complaints about the Towie too because someone phoned up and said he's committing a crime that has truck drivers... Oh, listen, Todd, if you've got a problem, you can confront the Towie, who, by the way, just as a side note, gave himself tattoos with a butter knife. Yeah. And we take all responsibility for it. So he's washed his hands of it.

It's all on us. I'm 50 years old. I've got the hits to calm down. You know, stealing cars and upsetting media moguls. Like, I mean, if it was anyone else, it's whatever. But it's just, he can just blink and people disappear in the building. Oh, listen, Todd, you're always saying you guys never see through ideas, in which finally seeing through an idea, now you're wanting us to pull out.

Well, I actually don't even know what the idea is. Cancel. This is cancel. Generally, generally you're either one of those announcers that just organise everything for yourselves

and mention a few clients' names at your live suite or alternatively somewhere the listener gets something. What does the listener get out of this? They get to borrow the car.

Yeah, borrow the car. We get Hoski's car, we pass it on to the listener, we'll get a roster system, it'll be great. And that's it, to borrow the car. We borrow the car. We get Hoski's car. We pass it on to the listener. We'll get a roster system. It'll be great. And that's it. Just borrow the car. Yeah, it's all stealing.

He'll get it back. Am I about to get a bill for some car that needs to have it, you know, be repainted or anything like that? No, we want to sign write it and that's all.

Yeah. This is up there with that stupid idea that producer of yours had to buy that revolting bus that looks like a shark. Oh, the shark bus. Yeah, we wanted the shark bus, but you told us yesterday you sat down very seriously and said,

sorry, guys, the dream for that is over. Listen, all I can say is I see nothing at the moment. I'm 50 years of old. I have, you know, high cholesterol. I have a lot of Health issues as you know The 90s wasn't Kind to me

Just help me through Yeah it's funny I know it's funny Okay Stop trying to play on you Every day with you guys Is just stressful Stop trying to tag on

Our heartstrings With your old age Alright Todd Do you have your Major point I love that last bit Of the show I love that last bit

Of the show We feel like I've been Nice this one minute of my day with you guys. Toddy, I love you, but we'll throw it out. I'll tell you what, we'll throw it to the people. Should we stop the promotion? Should we cancel the towing? No, don't make me be that producer. You're the guy.

You're the guy. You know how radio works. You're the evil boss. I'm not boss. I'm Tonto. Come on. Yeah, that's Todd. Come'm not boss, though. I'm Tonto. Come on. Yeah, that's Tonto. Come on in.

We'll throw it to the votes. I'll add the hits. So 4-4-8-7 on the text. Should we unbook the tow truck today? Should we not do this? Take, borrow, sorry, Mark Hosking's car on the text. If you pull out now, you'll lose the respect of the hits listeners. That's from Denise in Christchurch.

Oh, wow. I was going to borrow Hosking's car as a hearse for my grandfather's funeral. Oh, that is tugging on the heartstrings. I'm an Uber driver. Please don't pull out now. I was going to borrow Hoskins' car for a busy Saturday night in town. Oh, so these are good reasons why we need to continue, right? Is that what you're saying?

Steve's on the phone on 0800 The Hits. Welcome, Steve. Do we pull out now? Do we save our jobs? No, don't pull out. Pull this car. And because Steve said do it, we'll do it.

If that doesn't work, then tow Todd's. Oh, tow Todd's. Boss Todd's. Does Todd even have a car he walks to work? I think he walks to work. Yeah.

But that's not a bad point. Okay. Steve said it. He didn't give much argument why we should have done it. I don't know Steve, but I'll take his word. I'll make this important decision based off Steve. Where we get in trouble with management. Oh, Steve told us to do it.

I love your work, Steve. Thank you for listening to the show. Sweet as. I'll take all the blame. Good on you, Steve. I appreciate that. Wake up and smell them. Actually, no, please don't smell them.

That's odd. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Very shortly, we're going to talk to Ronnie Kramer, who is Taylor Swift's original guitar teacher. Yeah, he taught her when she was 12, 13 years old, was hired by Taylor's parents, and it's turned bad. Turned bad. Ronnie wants to come on a weird New Zealand breakfast radio show

to unearth all the bad stuff that's going on with the Swift family. He said lies have been told about her career. Lies have been told about him. And he's about to unleash in 15 minutes. You don't want to miss Ronnie. But we wanted to just chuck out there. It's what they call a phone topic in the industry, Ben Boyce. That's right.

Who did you know before they were famous? Because obviously Ronnie knew Taylor Swift before she was famous. He taught her to play guitar. Many, many moons ago, I went to school with Ernest Rutherford, producer Juliet, and the Wright Brothers. Wow. Yeah. I used to play baton with Gene Batton when I was growing up.

No, that's a lie. My dad, Kevin Boyce, he was a No, that's a lie. My dad, my dad, Kevin Boyce, he was a teacher, as you know, for many years, principal. Victor Vito,

all black. He was always banging on about Victor Vito at the school. He's like, oh yeah, I basically told him

he needed to play rugby and I was just, what's this? That's the thing, you run Lay's claim to that. You're not responsible. Victor Vito's talent made him a good rugby player, not Kevin going, hey, do's claim to that. Yeah, it's like, you're not responsible. VictorVito's talent made him a good rugby player,

not Kevin going, hey, do you reckon you should play rugby? Were you like, if you love VictorVito so much, why didn't you have VictorVito as a son? Oh, he wishes that would have been the case. You also went to school with Ross Taylor before he was a famous cricketer. And he, he at Masterton Wycole? Yeah, Wyde Upper College, yeah.

He has got his photo on the wall of heroes twice. And you've got your photo on the wall of heroes, nunce. Yeah, because at my school, if you're like a famous old person who went to the school, you get your photo up there. It's like the wall of heroes, like John has said.

Ross Tata twice. Me, none. You should have been up there for services to pranking. Services to pun comedy. Yeah, I got nothing. Services? None. You should have been up there for services to pranking, services to pun comedy, services to costumes. Stuff you deserve to be on that wall for. Yeah, you're right. Now you put it in context, I really don't deserve it. Okay, 0800 the hits. Who did you know

before they were famous? Did you go to school with a zitty Jacinda Ardern in Morrinsville when she was working at the fish and chip shop? 0800 the hits, the 4487 is the text number. Get in touch with us, eh? From Auckland, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Izzy, how are you on this Wednesday?

I'm good, thanks. How are you guys? Oh, box of fluffies. Couldn't be better. I'm riding high and you can tell, can't you, Ben? Because my headphones just fell off my head. Yeah. And I continued on like a semi-professional broadcaster.

Izzy? Yes. Who did you know before they were famous? So I didn't teach her the guitar or anything, but I went to the same intermediate school as Lorde. Yeah, you did. Wow, that's cool. Yeah.

She was Belmont Intermediate, sorry, and she was a couple of years above me. But, you know, so I'd see her at school. She was lovely. She was talented. You know, just really bubbly. So pretty much see her at school. She was lovely. She was talented. Just really bubbly. So pretty much the same as she is now. Didn't Eliza McCartney, the famous pole vaulter, also go to that school? I think you're right. Yeah, I believe so. Jeez, and what are you doing? Well,

right now I'm currently getting ready for work. No, I'm not a famous singer in Hollywood, actually. I'm just, you know, studying at uni at the moment. You're not just studying at uni. And you're the best university student we've ever had. Okay? Don't talk down your career. Oh, that's too kind.

Thanks, guys. All right. Love your work. Have a good one. Yeah, you too. Bye. See you, Izzy. Martin, welcome to the show.

Who did you know before they were famous, Marty? How's it going today? Good, thanks. Bud, how are you? Not too bad, not too bad. Who'd you know? So I went to high school with Stacey and Natasha Daniels. Oh, Stacey Morrison from the station.

I know Stacey Morrison. She works here. Funny, not here. She does, doesn't she? She was in Christ. She works here. Funny, you know. Yeah, she does, doesn't she? She was in Christ. She grew up in Christchurch, didn't she, Stace? Yeah, yeah.

I went to Aaron Newey High School and she was there as well. Funnily enough, before that, I went to a place called South New Brighton Primary and I went to school with Ollie Olsen.

Ollie Olsen's son. Wow. Ollie Olsen used to be a children's TV presenter, didn't he? Legendary New Zealand TV presenter. Yeah. Ollie Olsen used to be a children's TV presenter. Legendary New Zealand TV presenter. Yeah. Good on you, Marty. Appreciate that.

That's fantastic stuff. No worries. You look after yourself. Let's go to Barb, who's phoned up on 0800. Who did you know before the famous Barb? I think Bumfrey's still talking to her behind the scenes. Producer Humphrey's talking to her behind the scenes. Barb started it. didn't he?

Barb. She's with us. Who did you know before they were famous, Barb? Murray McSid. He was a couple of years ahead of me at school, and he was, whoa, pretty gorgeous looking, and, you know, rugby player. Murray McSid, legendary All Black commentator,

and also Lorraine Downs and him married at some stage. She was Miss New Zealand right? Yes and they toured around the school, they came back to the high school and toured around in the car when they got married, you know around the playing field and everybody was out watching, you know like woohoo, like royalty. Oh like royalty that's pretty cool. Oh he's a

handsome man isn't he Murray, I'd let him give me a good scrummaging. Yeah well he'd likely, oh sorry and I also had Handsome man, isn't he, Murray? I'd let him give me a good scrummaging. Yeah, well, he'd like to be. Oh, sorry. And I also had David Barnes and Murray Jones, who are our wonderful sailors, America's Cup. You went to school with them as well? Yeah, they were my... We were probably the worst class in the school

and we had some really talented people in that class. Oh, yeah, it's all the dumbasses that go on to great things in life, don't they? Excuse me, we were the bright class. Sorry, the bright class. The bright, yeah. They didn't need to. We knew it. Good on you, Barb. Thank you, have a great day. Okay, bye guys. See you, mate. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Speaking of Taylor Swift, on the phone right now we have a man who claims he was Taylor Swift's original guitar teacher.

He joins us in the States. His name is Ronnie Kramer. Ronnie, welcome to New Zealand's 24th highest rating breakfast radio show. That's very nice. That's very reassuring. Well, nice to talk to you. So take us back there. When abouts did you teach Taylor Swift to learn guitar?

Well, this would have been around 2002. I was asked by my brother back in the summer of 2002 to record a demo for Taylor. I didn't really know her. I mean, he just came up to me and asked me if I could record a four-song demo for her. And then a week later, Andrea Swift came out to my shop. Who's Andrea Swift? She's the mum. Andrea Swift is Taylor's mum. She said, you know, would you be interested in, we're trying to teach Taylor country music. They wanted to have a 12-year-old girl with blonde hair, blue eyes, tall, beautiful.

They wanted her to learn how to project. Right. And so this was a strategic move from her parents. Is this what you're saying, that this was all orchestrated? There was many strategic moves. I wasn't really seeing it at the time. I thought they were just a family wanted to teach their little girl how to play guitar. But I started putting it all together. I mean, they had this planned from a very long time.

They were manufacturing an international star. Is that what you think was going on? Well, I mean, I don't want to be mean, you know what I mean? But I'm going to be honest with you. I mean, they were doing that. And I don't fault Taylor on this at all. And, you know, we had a good relationship. We're talking to Ronnie Kramer, who taught Taylor Swift to play guitar.

How many lessons did you teach Taylor? I guess if I had to count, I mean, it was twice a week, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., twice a week. Sometimes I ate dinner there. I mean, I became like a part of the family, and that went on for about a year and a half. Oh, so quite a few lessons. Due to Matt, that's about 150 lessons, I guess you could say. So, Ronnie, but it turned bad, didn't it, a few years ago, where Taylor Swift's legal team sued you.

It turned bad a little bit before that. Her father, Scott, okay, he's very manic, okay, so he would call me, you know, the last time I saw Taylor, the actual time I was in front of her was in 2004. Her family flew me down to Hendersonville, Tennessee, and they wanted me to build a studio. They basically said, here's $10,000, build her a studio. And then I flew out of there and that was the last I seen the family. I felt like I left them in pretty good hands there. Something happened in 2010. I got not

such a nice phone call from Scott. Somebody had been saying bad things about Taylor online. And it was another teacher that she had. Their daughter had been saying bad things about Taylor. What bothered me is that Scott assumed, first of all, that I even had a daughter, which I don't, and I didn't. And second of all, he called me in a very accusing tone. And I thought, well, we were friends, you know? I mean, I felt like a little backstab, like, why are you calling me, accusing me of saying bad things about Taylor? I had plenty of opportunities to talk to the sun in England, you know, plenty of magazines that called. I kept

my mouth shut knowing that the narrative that was being pushed about Taylor was a lie. What was the narrative being pushed about? She told herself. She tells two completely different stories. She did one interview with Apple and another interview with a company called Hasbro and basically told two different stories in person about how she met me. I mean, she basically did say there was a guy named Ronnie Kramer that taught her three chords, but they were very quick about that.

The one story had me coming to her house to fix a computer with my guitar because, you know, you can't fix a computer without a guitar. I sort of always said that. And then the other story said I came into her house and pointed out her guitar and offered to teach her three chords. Even if one of those is true, one of those stories would have to be a lie. I knew that they were pushing this narrative that she taught herself, not a 36-year-old chubby bald guy at the time. You know, I'm just saying.

Well, you know, 36-year-old chubby bald guys, we're not that marketable, are we? No, we're not. No. Give it up for the 36-year-old chubby bald guys, we're not that marketable, are we? No, we're not. No. Give it up for the 36-year-old chubby bald guy. Exactly. They basically took the narrative, instead of the 36-year-old chubby bald guy, that Taylor was a dork because of her music. And she got picked on, and she came home, and she was so upset and grief-stricken and crying

that she wrote teardrops on my guitar and you know this is a lesson to all you kids out there that you know they used the whole anti-bullying thing that was going on and they used it to their advantage by by doing that you know they were able to create the perfect narrative because what kid doesn't want to hear about a girl that gets bullied and turns it into a positive why do they have to create this narrative because i mean if there's a famous musician and the story is oh they got some guitar lessons when they were younger that makes sense to me i don't know what they're what's the point of hiding the actual story but the

problem is they they put so much time and effort and money into the narrative that they created and in addition to the bullying the anti-bullying narrative where they say she got bullied and it's hard to turn back on because people fell in love with her like oh taylor you're so great you're such a strong champion of you know you you got bullied and you turned it into a positive how do you bail on that yeah i see what you're saying a positive. How do you bail on that? Yeah, I see what you're saying. That's a bad look. How do you bail on that and say, oh, that was all BS?

Ronnie Kramer taught me. He's a lovable 36-year-old chubby bald guy. Yeah, he ain't chubby anymore, but you know what I'm saying? He's lost a bit of weight now. I had to work on that. He's looking good now. That's the narrative we want to get out there. He's shredding bit of weight now. I had to work on that. He's looking good now. That's the narrative we want to get out there.

He's shredding. He looks fantastic now. Hey, Ronnie, this has been really interesting, my friend. Thank you so much for your time. I know you're a computer technician as well. Can you teach Ben how to clear his internet history before we go? Yeah, yeah, we can do that. Yeah, great, great.

Hey, Ronnie, appreciate your time. Thanks heaps. No problem. Ronnie Kramer, Taylor Swift we can do that. Yeah, great, great. Hey, Ronnie, appreciate your time. Thanks, thanks, thanks. No problem. Ronnie Kramer, Taylor Swift's first guitar teacher. Making poor life decisions every morning. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The Emmy Awards have been announced, the nominees, and Taika Waititi actually snuck in another nomination.

Oh, my gosh, he did for character voiceover, for his voiceover of, I don't know, I'm sorry, Star Wars fans, IG-11. Oh, my God. You have just made the worst mistake in your broadcasting career. Get out. IG-11. Juliet, you call yourself a Star Wars fan. I don't have any idea, actually.

Okay, cool. Let me feel a little bit better. Seems like Taika's nominated for an award every week. And he is on fire. He needs to stop, drop and roll. Because he is on fire right now. Yeah, and that's awesome though. He deserves it though.

Absolutely. I'm not saying he doesn't. Can we sound like this? Stop getting all defensive about Taika. I like it. You take that back. Whatever it was. It was a compliment.

All right, we'll keep it. Spy. The WhatsApp spy.co.nz. Like an overprotective parent? Wasn't I? Overprotective parent? Wasn't I? Overprotective parent of a guy who's older than you, so I don't know how that works. Yeah.

He doesn't need me looking after him, does he? All right, the lady who knows more stuff about the people you don't care about is producer Juliet with Spy. Thank you. And Kim and Kanye have been spotted together for the first time since his presidential rally a week ago. She is crying in the photos,

but they're in their car at Wendy's. Oh, I went to Wendy's yesterday. They're like me. Yeah, I got some chips at Wendy's. You're basically a Kardashian. Yeah, I was also crying in the car too for other reasons. After the mean stuff Ben said to me at work. Because you were hassling Taika Waititi.

I'll make you pay for that. No, I saw these photos. It's heartbreaking. It's really sad. Yeah, it is. And, you know, I feel sorry for him, obviously, for his bipolar disorder, but also the people around him.

His friends and family must be hugely difficult. Because that is the thing, and we've all had experience of this as well. You know, when people are going through a low time, you know, it's horrible for them, but it does affect their family and their loved ones as well, you know? And a lot of the time it's like, what do we do?

What can we do here? Yeah. And there's no answers. Like the people actually have to come to that conclusion themselves. Well, Kim said that the other day, right? She said, you can't really help. I can't really help as much as I want,

but until he's ready for me to let him help. Exactly, exactly. And they say that, you know, you never really know unless you're sort of in the situation with a close family or friend who has that. And they've got to be willing to want help to actually probably get better. Well, I hope they sorted their problems out over a Baconator. I love the Baconator.

It's like meat on meat on meat. I think the Baconator is still sitting inside my arteries right now. And that's what you were crying over yesterday. I was having a heart attack. And Ed Sheeran has revealed that he used to have the nickname Two Dinner Teddy because he used to binge eat and drink so much he'd order two dinners and he'd have three desserts after dinner. And he said that he has a very addictive personality,

which actually makes it hard for him to be able to control his binge eating. Yeah, I read that article. He was saying, you know, when it comes to things like tattoos, it's like he can't just get one tattoo. He's got to get like his whole body covered and he said, same thing for drinkers. He can't just have one glass of wine.

Oh, have two bottles of wine. You know, he has that sort of personality. He can't just have one hit song. He's got 400 hit songs. But now he's managed to sort of put it into check, he has that sort of personality. He can't just have one hit song. He's got 400 hit songs. But now he's sort of like, he's managed to sort of put it into check, I guess. Yeah, exactly. And his wife, Cherry, she has sort of helped him become a healthier eater because she eats healthy

and so he kind of eats healthy and it's a lot more managed. He used to look at his salad and be like, ooh, why is that there? In front of him if it was sitting there. It's filler content. And now he's like, it's okay to have a salad. Yeah, that's why you get a Baconator, no salad.

Exactly. He's had two Baconators and now he's like, oh, I'll just have a salad. To be fair to him, he's like, people are calling him two dinner teddies.

I'm going to keep this up. That's my thing. It's my shtick. Two dinner teddy. You're like, oh God. I only feel like one dinner but I'm going to have two because I'm two dinner teddy.

Can't get out of this. Exactly. I wonder if he could knock off his whole week's worth of dinners in one sitting. Have five dinners on a Sunday night. Five dinner teddy. There you get out of this. Exactly. I wonder if he could knock off his whole week's worth of dinners in one sitting. Have five dinners on a Sunday night. There you go. Oh wow. That would be something I'd pay to see. For more spy, head to thehits.co.nz

We apologise in advance. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. We've got a competition that we like to do from time to time where we don't call us, we call you. That's right, it's called Don't Call Us, We Call You. It's the game show that no one asks for, no one is wanting, but we call people at random, ask them four very low-level,

easy multi-choice questions, and if they fail, well, then there's egg on their face. There's nothing else we can do. Nothing. We could actually cut out the questions and just hand over the pizza vouchers. That's how easy this game is. Let's make a call now. Hello, Autolodge. Jan speaking.

Oh, is this our friend Jan? Yes. Good morning, Janie. Good morning. It's Jonathan and Benjamin here from the Hits radio station. Hi. I know you weren't expecting this call. No. But that's because this game's called

Don't Call Us, We'll Call You. We've got four quick questions. We'll make them super quick. You get them all right, you get $40 hell pizza. Hang on a minute. Does Jan know we're on the radio? We can't just hang on a minute. Well, no, Jan's got stuff to do.

Oh, hello. Oh, Jan? No, Jan gave me the phone. It's Shona here now. Shona's been thrown under the bus. Shona with an unexpected call from Jono and Ben from the Hits. How are you, Shona? Oh, really well, thank you.

Here's a couple of quick questions. Don't call us, we'll call you. It's the name of our game show. You answer them right, you get $40 hell pizza. Oh, great. Okay, well, Jan and I will see if we can answer them together. Can you tell Jan there was a low blow? Yeah, it was a bit low, Jan. It was well played, though, well, Jan and I will see if we can answer them together. Can you tell Jan that was a low blow? Yeah, it was a bit low, Jan.

It was well played, though. Well played. Yeah, well played from Jan. Yeah, Shona's in the hot seat right now. Okay, Kylie Jenner. Shona, Kylie Jenner purchased her daughter Stormi what? A, a $300,000 miniature horse, B, a packet of durries from the dairy,

or C, her first facelift? Oh, my God. Kylie Jenner, what did she just buy her daughter? I don't even know who Kylie Jenner is. I wouldn't have a clue. Let's go with the facelift. It sounds so bizarre. It's got to be true.

Kylie Jenner bought her baby a facelift? No. That would be controversial. No, she actually bought her daughter a $300,000 miniature horse from Europe. Oh, good on her. Well, yes, zero from one there, Shona. The Roosters and Broncos are what? A, nicknames for Ben's legs,

B, names of NRL teams, or C, rival gentlemen's clubs in New Plymouth? NRL teams, I know that one. Yeah. Easy. Roosters and Broncos would be wonderful names for your legs, though, Ben. Oh, they would be. Yeah, they're wonderful.

He's got some wonderful legs, Shona. Oh, cool. Awesome. You'd love to rub your hands on those muscles. Oh, they're probably more like chicken legs rather than rooster legs. They're well-defined legs. Give me the legs on the miniature horse. Yeah, exactly.

Exactly. All right, your next question. If I was ruffling, what would I be doing? A. If you were what? Ruffling. Ruffling. If I was ruffling, what would I be doing? A. If you were what? Roffling. Roffling. If I was roffling, what would I be doing?

I would be A, rolling on the floor laughing, B, rolling on the floor lactating, or C, rolling on the floor levitating. Oh, what was the first one? Rolling on the floor laughing. Roffling. Oh, yeah, let's go with that one. Laughing sounds good. Well done.

Well done. Well done. I would be rolling on the floor lactating. You're correct. Oh, yeah, let's go with that one. Laughing sounds good. Well done. Well done. I wouldn't be rolling on the floor lactating. You're correct. Oh, perfect. Final question. Alicia Moore is the birth name of which artist? Alicia Moore is the birth name of who?

Okay. A, punk. B, pink. C, ponk. Oh, let's go with pink. Yeah. There we go. You've got some hell pizza

Coming your way Oh awesome Hey well done And Are you going to share that Now I'm going to ask you a question You did a lot of heavy lifting Oh you did

Are you sharing that pizza with Jan Of course I'm sharing it with Jan Oh lovely You're my work buddy Oh that's good Isn't that a lovely relationship Will you say bye to Jan from us Because she doesn't want to talk to us

Right there Yeah bye Jan Bye Bye Jan Well played Well played Hold the line We'll grab your details To send you out that pizza Hey thanks guys because she doesn't want to talk to us right now. Yeah, bye, Jan. Bye. Bye, Jan. Well played, well played. Hold the line.

We'll grab your details to send you out there, pizza. Hey, thanks, guys. Like starting your day with Panda Eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. One of our favourite hobbies of our boss, Todd, is introducing Ben and me as a couple of dads, a couple of household shopping dads. Yeah, he likes to call us, doesn't he? He likes to remind people that we are dads.

And we love household shopping. Yeah. That's one of my favourite hobbies is going household shopping. Oh, me too. Me too. I love it. Especially if you combine that with taking the kids household shopping. Oh, my two favourite things all in one place.

Being a dad and household shopping at the same time. Managing the frantic kids in the supermarket. Oh, dream. Love it. Absolute dream. But I'm a shocking father, Ben. You know this. It's all a facade.

People listening to this will be like, oh, he's like Simon Barnett. Love that guy. You're not a great father. Shocking father. No. I'm not the greatest, though. Well, when it comes to your dad cooking, definitely you're not the greatest. I'll give you that.

No, there's worse. I mean, there's worse dads out there than me. Yeah. Aren't there? You're trying. You're trying. You're giving it a bash. Was Hitler a dad? Oh, let's not go there. He would have out there than me. Yeah. Aren't there? You're trying. You're trying. You're giving it a bash. Was Hitler a dad?

Oh, let's not go there. He would have been worse than me. Let's not go there. Yeah, well, he would have been worse than me. There's worse. It's just who you compare yourself to, isn't it? Yeah. You can make yourself feel better.

But I have been for many years putting Poppy, my lovely daughter, off with battery-operated pets. All she wants is a pet. And there's that show on. Did you see that show last night on TVNZ? When it's like this British program where people go into this place and they adopt pets. It's an adorable show and they give pets to people. Like a

SPCA shelter sort of thing. Oh nice. So she's watching this propaganda and it's just it just adds it's piling up. And we're hosting a dog show. It's like the universe is working against me. Yeah I know. And so then I get, she gets home yesterday and she's like, because I did notice a jar on the kitchen bench when I got

home. She got home and there was like a label on it. Ant Thony. Ant Thony. And so she's resorted to having a pet ant. And this is like how bad I am at my job. She's like one step away from having a pet rock.

She's got a pet ant, Anthony, in capitals. That's a good name, good name. Yeah, she had another one. I like that for the pun name, it's good. Yeah, Antthena was the other one that she had. But then she got home and she was devastated because she let Anthony out in the morning for his morning walk, you know.

Anthony's got a nature cause. Next to Anthrax, was it? Or was that what happened? Anthrax. She took him out for his morning walk and then what she thought was put him back in, but actually she was screwing the lid on. Anthony got trapped between the lid and the jar.

Oh, no. Savagely crushed Anthony. Oh, no. And so yesterday afternoon we had a touching funeral service for Anthony I hardly knew you Anthony you were like one in ten trillion I remember my daughter Indy

the same thing she had like a daddy long-legged spider in her room and she was like it's my pet spider all day during the day it's my pet spider keep it there we're like okay fine

we'll keep it there and then at night she was like I can't sleep there's a spider in the room I was like all day I could have got rid it there. And then at night she was like, I can't sleep. There's a spider in the room. I was like, all day I could have got rid of the spider for you. But she was like, but no, I can't sleep. The spider is in the room. She wouldn't go to sleep in the room that night.

I was like, well, you wanted to keep the pet in your room. Oh, it's amazing how attached you become to ants and spiders. Until the lights go off and then you're like, oh, God. It's just me and the spider alone in the room. Low in calories and low in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Producer Ben, Producer Humphrey, you raised an interesting point yesterday.

Now, if you go into someone's house and you bring some beers over, are you allowed to take the beers that you don't drink away with you? Or wine. Oh, yeah, or wine. Yeah, true. Any of the drinks that you take. Sorry. Yeah, sorry, Jono.

Mate, diversity. Any of the drinks that you take. Sorry. Yeah, sorry, John. Mate, diversity. Big wine, I know. I don't know why I got so angry. Or vodka. Whiskey. Let's not go into spirits because I feel like spirits, you take the spirits home.

So let's go beer or wine. So you've taken beer or wine over to someone's house. You've gone over for a barbecue, mate's place, whatever. Are you allowed to take the drinks that you didn't drink home? Yeah, because it's interesting because, you know, often you'll go to the supermarket or whatever,

a bottle store, and you'll get, you know, 12 beers, 6 beers. Or wine. Or wine. But you don't necessarily want to polish off the whole box or bottle. Oh, yeah, you never want to drink them all. No, no. You never want to have all 12. No. You never want to have all 12. That'd be ludicrous.

So is it okay? You always feel a bit guilty. I normally would leave it there, but this weekend I actually got a little hack because I just took three beers along to a mate's house and I put it in a little chilli bag and I only had two beers and then I was

like, oh, I've got to take my chilli bag home. So I went and grabbed the chilli bag and I thought to myself, oh, that's spare beer stuff. You can just take it. Brody. You can just take it. A chilli bag's a good option. It's got hiding your shame, isn't it?

Yeah. You know what Ben does? Ben turns up at my house. Here we go. With Hargan. Hargan. Oh, that was once that it happened. Hargan, which is eerily similar, their marketing and bottling to Heineken.

He puts that within the general Heineken population of the bin. He just grabbed a green bottle. He's having a Heineken. Oh, no. Green bottles, he put them in there, mate. 15 Hargans, no Heineken's left. It's a step up from Ryan Equin, who's the last in my place. Look, I feel like if it's in someone's fridge,

but if it goes to the fridge, you can't take it out of that fridge. Unless they say, take your beers with you or take your wine with you, whatever you want. I feel like once it's in someone's fridge, it's a bad look at the end of the night.

And we go, oh, hang on, this is mine or this, you know? But I don't know, maybe it's not up to me. Once you've handed it over to the fridge, you've handed it over.

That's what Ben's saying. Okay, 0800 the hit, snap poll, 4487. Whatever leftovers you take to someone's house, can you take them home? Yeah, without them saying you can take it,

are you just grabbing your beers back and go, I didn't drink that? Because they're yours. You paid for them. Well, you did. Or do the social laws lay claim to the household owner? You can get in touch with us right now, 4487. The text 0800 the Hits, that's the number.

Give us a call. Help us settle this debate this morning. Kate's in Kaipoi. Can you take your stuff home, or do you have to leave it there, Kate? So what you usually do is you just bring your own, like, chili bin or chili bag and you put everything in there. And then you can just, like, whatever doesn't get used, you can just bloody, like, take your chili bin home.

Oh, like you hold your arms around it. It's mine. I've got all this stuff. You don't have to awkwardly go into your fridge because all your stuff is still in your tiller bin. That's the way around it because I feel once it's in the fridge, something in my head says that's now theirs.

Yeah, exactly. I've given that to the people. Game changer. There's only a swinging door stopping you from getting it though, Ben. I know, but morally it looks all kinds of wrong if I'm in the fridge, God. He's also upstairs in their sock drawer

looking through their coins as well in the cup. Pull it out. Oh, I need milk. Milk and butter. It's like a weekly shop. Hey, Jodie, welcome. You're in Rodney. Can you take them home or do you have to leave them there?

Whatever you bring to someone's house. Take it home. Take it home? It's a popular vote this morning on the text as well. Oh, really? So you're going in. So you come over to my house. You bring a few beers or wine over.

You don't drink them all, you're coming into the fridge, you're taking your stuff home. I wouldn't make it to the fridge, put it that way. Oh, okay. It would soak up into her system. She'd be abusing you by the end of the night. You know another thing.

This was the worst barbecue I've ever been to. I was putting drinks in the fridge. Hey, good on you, Jodie. Appreciate that. In Tauranga, Nicky's with us on 0800 The Hits. Welcome in the fridge. Good on you, Jodie. Appreciate that. Nikki's with us on 0800 The Hits. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast Social Settings, Nikki. You bring something over to someone's house. Are you legally allowed to take it home?

My general rule is if you make something or you put it into a container, you can take it home because you're taking your container home. But if you buy a drink of a bottle of wine or something, then you leave it there. Oh, if it's in store packaging, you've got to leave it there. If it's in the recommended retail packaging, that's fair call.

That's a fair call. A lot of people hiding their shame inside their chilli bins and chilli bags. So, you're right. That's the general consensus. It seems like they're good out there. Well, thank you so much for your calls. Wonderful. Wonderful.

I like nothing better than waking up the next morning going, yes, all these idiots left all this stuff at my house and now I get to eat it. But then you have that platter situation for another day

where you have to drop platters off at people's houses for the next four days. What? People bring over snacks on a platter and leave your platter there. You're like,

oh, I'm going to drop this platter. I'll be burdened by a platter that's been on the front. Oh, I hate platters. You know? It's not your platter. No, but you should get drop this. Platter drop off. I'll be burdened by a platter that's been on the front. Oh, I hate platters. You know? It's not your platter.

No, but you should get to keep the platter. No. Yeah. It's a free platter if someone's left a platter at your house. No, it's their platter. But you have to drop it off. Pick up your own platter. Yeah.

We'll talk more about platters another day. Oh, I love platter chat. Next. It's really a bugbear of mine. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben

on Instagram. We are down at the garage here at NZME because all week we've been talking about the fact that Mike Hosking, respected broadcaster

on Newstalk ZB, he's got a fleet of luxury vehicles and we thought wouldn't it be fun for us to take it, to borrow the car and maybe give it away to some listeners to use as a car for a while? What we didn't factor in is how noisy garages are.

We've got motorbikes coming in, cars coming in, the tyres screeching, and the amount of, listen, hookups that have happened after work functions here in this very garage. Yeah, I know. Humbling to think about, Ben, boys. I remember our last time here. It was great. Now, we've got super city towing here kane from super city towing currently reversing is this a good time to talk to someone when they're reversing a total probably not a good time in fact but well i'll ask him i'll

ask him kane how are you going yeah good mate yeah maybe don't talk to katie he's reversing up a tow truck into a car which i think is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Cain, is it okay to talk to you now as you're reversing? It's Dane and yes, you can talk to me, mate. Dane, sorry, Dane. You can talk to him, but just get his name right. Now, Dane, you know what you're part of here. We just need

you to take this to Ben's house. We're going to store it in your garage. Oh, my garage? Okay. Have you ever been part of a novelty towing before? No, I haven't. This is. Have you ever been part of a novelty towing before? No, I haven't. This is the first time, but I'm looking forward to it. Green is happy. He is happy.

All right, here we go. We're towing up right next to Mike Hosking's car here. This is the magical moment. You know that T-bar at the back of the tow truck is just slipping under the Jaguar at the moment. In the NZB garage, we've got contact with Mike Hosking's Jaguar I-Pace. Very fancy looking car. Look how shiny it is and clean. Oh, and I see the, oh, okay, I see what happens. The bar, the T-bar at the back of the tow truck lifts the car up.

Oh, it's coming off. The front of the Jaguar is being lifted up. Here we go, here we go. The towing is happening in New Zealand. Mike Hosking's car being towed from the garage. Oh, it's moving, it's moving. Oh, it's got a handbraker. What are you doing here, Dane? What's going on?

I've got to strap the wheels down, the front wheels down, and I've got to put these dolly wheels on the back either side so I get all four wheels off the Jaguar off the ground, and then we'll tow it out. Okay, I see what he's doing here. Okay, fantastic stuff. The towing is happening a matter of minutes until Mike Hosking finishes his radio show at

9 o'clock. We need to get the car out before Mike Hosking comes down. At the moment, he's berating the left-wing Green and Labour parties on Newstalk ZB. He won't know what's happening, so we need to get this out before 9 o'clock. Dane's doing his best. He's connecting the tyres to the tow truck. Things are happening, Ben. Yeah, will we get this car out in time? Find out in a few moments.

Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. We are broadcasting from the garage here at NZME where we work at the Hits radio station because right now our plan is coming into fruition. We've been working on this for a few days.

We're taking Mike Hosking's car from the garage. We've got it on a tow truck from Super Towing. I've never been so happy to see a tow truck, Jono. I know. Super City Towing have come to the party here. The Jaguar is up. Dane, you towed that. You've never been so happy to see a tow truck, Jono. I know. Super City Towing have come to the party here. The Jaguar is up. Dane, you towed that. You've hooked that up at what seems record time.

Two minutes to put a set of dollies on. All four-wheel drive cars, electric handbrakes. We get up and out of there in two minutes. Most other cars take less than a minute. Oh, there we go. None of that I understood, but that sounded so technical. And so now we're going to take it to our secret location. This is a very comical kidnapping.

And then you, New Zealand, you can borrow Mike Hosking's fancy Jaguar. Yeah, we need to work on getting the keys. Yeah, what do you do about keys? Keys, mate. Well, we don't need keys to get the cars yet, but if you want to drive the car, then you need to set a case. Yeah, we do need keys. No, no, I thought that might be the case.

I just didn't know if there was a loophole there. All right, well, Dave, from SuperCity Towing, do you need to see the keys. Yeah, we do need the keys. I thought that might be the case. I just didn't know if there was a loophole there. Alright, well, Dave from SuperCity Towing, do you want to hop in? We'll take the car, the very fancy Jaguar I-Pace of Mike Hoskins from the garage. Into the tow truck goes our hero. I'm nervous. And out of the garage goes the Jaguar. This has been a successful

towing, New Zealand. We're live in the garage as awkwardly a Mazda Damio reverses out and we're just having to fill in time before the tow truck can take off. But I don't think you can tell I've got Phil O'Quinty in here. No, no, no. There he goes.

See you later, guys. There we go. There we go. There goes the Jaguar. It's happening. It's going. It's going. We've got the car.

We have got Mike Hosking's fancy Jaguar and we're taking it out of the garage here at work. You will be able to win it. You will be able to win it from tomorrow onwards. The Jaguar is gone. This has been a roaring success, probably a highlight of my radio career being boys. It might also be the end of your radio career, too, because there are going to be some repercussions. But we've got the car.

We're taking it out of the garage. Oh, my goodness, this happened. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono we've got the car. We're taking it out of the garage. Oh, my goodness, it's happening. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Some warm weather on the way this week. Clear skies, some frosty nights across the next few days, but it's pleasant and dry conditions around most of the countries. I like pleasant and dry conditions.

Those are my two favourite conditions. I like being pleasant and or dry. Ben, what are your favourite conditions? I'd say I'd go with pleasant and dry over what damp and... Damp and miserable? Yeah. Okay, there we go. A to Z of New Zealand. The A to Z of New Zealand.

Calling every town and city in Aotearoa and there are some magnificent towns and cities that we have phoned in. And some wonderful people. I've said it before but everyone who answers the phone is just so accommodating, aren't they? To talk about their little slice of paradise. Yeah, this is where we learn something about a different town each day. We're doing it alphabetically, going through every town and city in New Zealand.

We're still in the seas. Three or four months. Colverton. Today we're in Colverton in North Canterbury in 2013. It had a population of 426, which has dropped into the 300s. Right. That was the last census, by the way. Okay. State Highway

7 passes through Colverton, which forms the town's main street, which means you can drive through Colverton at 100 kilometres an hour. If you blink, you will literally miss the town. But we're not going to miss anything this morning on the A to Z of New Zealand. Even the towns you didn't know existed. Let's give them

a call. Covent Court Motel, Sue speaking. Sue, Jono and Ben here from the Hits. How are you? Good, thank you. Welcome to the A to Z of New Zealand. We're calling every town and city in New Zealand and Colverton's next on the list. Right.

Yeah? Yeah. Now, I'm just looking at the TripAdvisor website for Colverton. The top five things to do in Colverton, they've only got two. What are they? The Island Hills Station and go to the Gallery. What are they? Okay. The Island Hills Station.

And go to the gallery. The gallery's good, yes. Okay, so that's why we need to round out the top five with you. We need three more, okay? Can you think of three more, Sue? You can visit the Covent Court Motel. There you go, number three. Or maybe number one on the list. We can put that up there.

And you can go and have a look up at the Balmoral Fire Station lookout. Have a look at the lookout. Beautiful view from up there. Yeah, yeah. There's four. Yeah. You can play golf on a lovely nine-hole golf course. Oh, you've hit the five, Sue.

And that's without even saying it. You can talk to Sue on the phone. Sue, what are you looking at right now? I'm looking at the Colverton Golf Course. Oh, lovely. Eighteen-holer, nine-holer, puppy. Nine-hole. Nine-hole. Do you play golf Eighteen-holer, nine-holer, puppy? Nine-hole. Nine-hole.

Do you play golf, Sue? Used to. What's your handicap, Sue? I was on a 14. Oh, you're good, Sue. Why did you stop? Because I bought a motel. I guess if you've got a motel, you're not going to go,

sorry, I'll be back in three to four hours. I've just got nine holes of golf to do. That's right. Yeah, I know. Plus, you were worried about outshining Lydia Coe too, weren't you? Yeah, well, I was getting pretty close. Wow, you were really good. Have you ever got a hole in one, Sue?

No, I haven't. No. I was with my friend once, and I've shared this story with you before, Ben. We were at a nine-hole golf course. He was on hole number one, and you know hole number one, it makes you all nervous because there's heaps of other people standing behind you? Yes, that's right. I hate hole number one. Don't you? Yeah, I would hate it when people come up, they

sit and they wait and you're slowing them down. You're like, oh no, they're like, go away. Pressure people watching me. And anyway, he got a hole in one. And everyone was like, whoa, round of applause and yelling and screaming. Then I was up next to him. Have you ever felt the pressure

of being next on the tee after someone's just landed a hole in one? Anyway, I was next up and I hit it and everyone went oh. As if they were expecting some sort of miraculous two holes in one. Yeah. So that was my beef with being with someone with a hole in one anyway. So Colverton, how many people live there?

Just in the township, I think there's about 300 just in the township. Well, you could probably... It's quite a large catchment area around us. Yeah, right. Okay, your top five big bangers from Culverdon. Who are your top five favourite Culverdonians? Culverdoniansians.

Culverdonation. Pardon? Your husband? Husband? Sue's husband? He's in the top five? No particular order? Well, it wouldn't be very good to say who.

No, you're right. Your husband's in there. Yeah. Have you got another cheeky one you can chuck in the mix? Oh, Doreen. Doreen. She's in the top five. Your wife, Doreen, deserves a bit of a top five placing.

Oh, well, Doreen's a lovely person. This is one of your top fives in Colverdon. Go and have a look at Lockleven Gardens. Doreen's got a lovely garden. Beautiful garden. Beautiful garden. Okay, you've got Doreen, you've got your husband. Who else are we loading in? You're really trying to round up this top five, aren't you?

Is there a hemp farm in Colverdon? Yes, there is. Oh, yeah, I was just reading about it online. Yeah, hemp processing processing plant that's up there. Oh, do you smoke the devil's compost? No, no, no, no. No, not for you, not for you. Which way are you going to vote in the referendum?

Oh, it's an interesting one, eh? We're talking about that, eh? Well, can't say. That's confidential. That's fair enough. You don't have to say. Medicinal seems like a no-brainer, but I think we've got that anyway, right?

Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah. I will say that. Absolutely medicinal, yeah. Yeah, but that's not an option.iner, but I think we've got that anyway, right? Yeah. I will say that. Absolutely medicinal, yeah. Yeah, but that's not an option. No, because that's around. No, it's not. It's either legalise it or don't legalise it, right?

Those are the two. Yeah, anyway, we've covered some ground with you, Sue. I have. Golf, marijuana referendum. Sue's top five attractions. Doreen. Top five people. Wow.

And we have left no stone unturned in Colburn. Thank you so much for your time, Sue. You're a wonderful New Zealander. Okay. See you, mate. Is this for real? Yes, it is. Well, if it isn't, you've been playing along for a very long time.

I know. I just thought I'd just, you know, keep going. No, it is for real. Lovely to talk to you, Sue. Okay. See you, mate. Bye. Like starting your day without your morning coffee.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. Yeah, this is Loose Facts. No opinions and very little detail. Scrolling through your feed, the latest stories from overnight. Director General of Health, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield. Right, you know him. You've heard of him. He's done really well over there.

I love Ashley Bloomfield. I like his, you know what I like about him? What's that? He's very subtle and plays everything down. Like calm, right? If that was me out there, I'd be like, check me out, butters. I solved the pandemic in New Zealand. Well, either way, whether things were bad or things were good,

he just seems like just the same demeanour, right? Safe pair of hands. That's what you need. You don't want a shaky pair of hands like me out there. So Dr. Ashley Bloomfield helped New Zealand through some difficult times, but he's also now had a baby rhino named after him. So this is not even in New Zealand, this is in Botswana.

So a Kiwi company, an alcohol company, part-time rangers, have paid to basically to sponsor this rhino, and they got to name it as part of the privilege and among the top picks, they put it to the vote. Jacinda Ardhorn was one of the top names for the rhino.

And Riney McRhinoface, but Ashley Bloomfield won out. Oh, it's always dangerous throwing those sorts of things to the internet, aren't they? I feel like the internet will try and sabotage you every time. But yeah, almost got Riney McRhinoface, but Ashley Bloomfield I touch. Well, what a touching tribute to have a rhinoceros named after you. And he's honoured by it. Well, you would be. Yeah. Not every day a rhino gets named after you.

If you were going to pick any animal to be named after Ben Boyce, what would you pick? What sort of animal? I don't know. What animal would it be? Would I go for you? I'd go like a cute little lion cub or something. Like a meerkat maybe? Oh, yeah.

Just always on edge. Quite paranoid. What's going on over there? Like a meerkat maybe? Oh, yeah. Just always on edge. Quite paranoid. What's going on over there? Oh, what's over there? Oh, what's over there? What are they saying about you over there? That would be me. The most paranoid, freaked out animal in the kingdom.

Oh, was it? Yeah, and we all know I'd be a naked mole rat. This is a well-publicised naked mole rat. I wasn't going to say it, but Producer Julie, you gave Jono the honour of being a naked mole rat months ago. Yeah, I think it was. I'm pretty sure it was in the first month of knowing you. I was like, you look like a naked mole rat. I wasn't going to say it, but producer Julie, you gave Jono the honour of being a naked mole rat months ago. Yeah, I think it was, I'm pretty sure it was in the first month of knowing you.

I was like, you look like a naked mole rat. Yeah, a white pinky complexion, the naked mole. Not an ounce of hair on them. Hairless, yeah. Just, they were not, they were hit by all the ugly sticks on the way down of the tree when they fell out. And finally, in news from the last 24 hours.

So an Auckland parking warden, they've basically made a list of some of the big players, the ones who've got the most money for the council over the last 12 months. A lot of that naming and shaming these people. Well, they're not naming the people, which is good, because I imagine that would be such a tough job to have to do. I don't know why anyone would want to be a parking warden across this country. I guess someone's got to do it.

You just go out to work every day just going, well, law of averages would suggest at least five people are going to swear and abuse me throughout my day. Yeah, and they're just doing their job, and it's your fault. You're in the wrong when you park, but for some reason you take it out on the poor parking warden. But this parking warden has racked up over $744,000 for the council in tickets. 14,000 tickets alone.

But, you know, there's no extra incentive to issue more tickets. Oh, they don't get, like, bonuses? Oh, right. No extra. They get a set salary. No bonuses were paid for higher numbers. This person's just really good at their job. So there you go.

What? What? No, but it's not their job. It's their job. Yeah, but it's the worst job in the world. Someone's got to do it, so good on them. Maybe they should be paid more for doing the worst job and putting out with people like you that get annoyed.

I have more respect for Japanese whalers than parking orders. Remember we walked out last week? We walked out and the guy was just typing his ticket into my car and I was like, hey, mate, I'm just moving. He's like, no worries. And then you were like, oh, I'm parked three cars ahead. I'm ahead of you and I got a ticket. And I was like, okay.

Were you happy? No, I was in the wrong, though. I was in the wrong. So I can't be unhappy. I'm not happy I got a ticket, but I'm also like, I had to go, yep, I was in the wrong. Take it on the chin. Yeah, take it on the chin. But not like you, going, ah.

Who doesn't even pay for parking. Oh, this annoys him too. I just drive around, don't pay for parking. But sometimes you get tickets. And in those instances, I'm like, I deserve them. I deserve them. Yeah. Oh, the naked mole rattle.

Take that one. Take that one. Not a morning person. Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Yesterday we were talking, if you listen to our podcast, you can check it out on iHeartRadio, the Jono and Ben on the hits Yesterday we were talking If you listen to our podcast You can check it out on iHeartRadio The Jono and Ben breakfast podcast

It's number one on the iHeart charts Which is phenomenal So thanks to all the supporters out there Really do appreciate you keeping that at number one I don't know if it is number one to be honest No, have you seen the charts? Well no I haven't You're just assuming it's not

Neither have I But you're assuming it's not number one And I'm assuming it is number one I believe I'll be right're assuming it's not number one, and I'm assuming it is number one. I believe I'll be right. But anyway, let's not look into it for both of our sake. But yesterday on the intro to the podcast, you were talking about an idea you had for the show, and you were saying,

what things would I like to do more on the radio? Yeah, I was like, what direction do you want to take this beast in? Which way do you want to drive this car down the motorway? And I said, you know, look, I really love what we do. I love, you know, trying to be, trying to have fun, start people's day with a laugh and a smile if we can. But I also said I would like to feel like every now and again we did some nice stuff.

What a loser. And this is what you said to me. What a loser. This is what he said to me. Do some nice stuff. Let's do more nice stuff. What nice stuff? I just really enjoy it.

Changing the incontinence nappies at a retirement village? What are you talking about? No, but if you have those moments where you're like, that was cool, we got to do this nice thing for someone or we took part in this thing, not just for publicity. Yeah, but you're doing it on the radio, so it is publicity. If you want to do nice stuff, do that in your own time. And I would just tell everyone, he's a nice guy,

he does a lot of nice stuff. You know, but we can use our platform for more good. That's what I was saying. And you're like, oh, what a loser. Do that stuff. You know, but we can use our platform for more good. That's what I was saying. And you're like, oh, what a loser. Do that stuff. I want to do something nice. Oh, this guy.

You just asked me honestly why. And I appreciate you wanting to do nice stuff, being quote unquote nice stuff. Are you quite vague about what this nice stuff is? It's just nice stuff. I don't want to do just nice stuff for the sake of doing nice stuff. Well, that's the thing, because you come across condescending. I mean, you look at Ellen, she's been doing nice stuff for years,

now the cracks are starting to appear. It's only so long you can keep up that facade for, mate, before people start knowing. People know you just, people can't do nice stuff all the time. People like to hear horrible human beings on the radio, and that's what we do. We set the bar low, and we make people, you know how we are doing nice stuff,

is because we make people feel better about their lives by us sharing our bleak lives. And that's all we can contribute to this community, okay? If you want to do anything more, I don't know, that's the most charity that we could ever do. Okay. Some people are listening right now going, well, at least I'm better than them.

We set the bar very low. That's the nice stuff that we do. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. We're back in our comfy studios. We've just been down in the garage. We had, in record time,

got Mike Hosking from Newstalk ZB, his car towed from the garage, his fancy Jaguar I-Pace, and it's now gone, thanks to super-cytic towing. It's gone from the garage. We were down there for like 10 minutes and out, done. And it's going to a secret location, which is definitely not Ben Boyce's house. No, definitely not my house.

The car is safe, but will our jobs be safe? Yet to be determined, but we created quite a scene down there. There were a lot of witnesses. I don't know if you noticed, Ben. There was about a dozen people who saw what was going on there. We also broadcast it live on the radio. I don't know if you noticed that either. So all of you, we all shush, okay?

You know what happens to snitches in prison? Have you heard that popular thing? What happens to them in prison, snitches? No. They don't get a lovely cooked meal, Ben. No, they don't. They get something else. Okay, all right.

So we'll find out what the repercussions of that are. I think we're going to see if we can make our way down after the show at nine o'clock to see what Mike's reaction is. And he will be happy. Oh, he'll be very happy. He'll be like, oh, that is classic, guys. Oh, he's got me. That's great.

No worries. All right, we've got a replacement car for him too. Yeah, we're not monsters. No, and it may just happen to be a red Labour vehicle. Oh, it may be. His favourite political red Labour vehicle. Oh, it may be. His favourite political party? Yeah. Oh, we'll see.

We'll see. He'll go, this is great, guys. This is great. I can see the funny side of this. So we might be on the radio tomorrow. We may not be. But why is it going to be a good day? Well, let's find out from you.

This is how we end the show. You call us up and you tell us why it's going to be a good day in Waihi. Diane, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Why? Why in Waihi is it going to be a good day? It's always a good day in Waihi. Diane, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Why? Why in Waihi is it going to be a good day? It's always a good day in Waihi. Always? It's a beautiful place.

It is a beautiful place, you're right. You've got some wonderful palm trees there down the main street, don't you? Oh, yes. I call them parry palms. Parry palms? Okay. Okay, it's obviously a bit of an in-joke there. Yeah.

Picking up where you put it down, but that's okay. But it looks like it's like the Hollywood of New Zealand, isn't it, with those trees? Yeah, it's called Parry Palm Avenue. Oh, I see why you Parry Palm. Okay, okay, I got you now. It's a good day in Waihi. It's always a good day in Waihi.

We're going to fuck you out. Double pass to Reading Cinemas, all right? Oh, thank you. Have you got a Sonny's in Waihi? No. Oh, I love Sonny's around the Coromandel. It's an emporium of just everything you want. And Sonny's is at Pairoa.

Yeah, lovely. Things ranging from $1 to $9, you can get it at Sonny's. And every time I walk into Sonny's, all I hear is a soundtrack of parents going, Put it down. Put it down. We're going. Put them down. Why is it going to be a good day in the Coromandel, Rachel?

Well, it's going to be a great day in the Coromandel in Takawai because we've got a little lifestyle blog, and we've just got a few sheets that we run, and we've had our first lambs of the season, so we've just had, we just went out to get them some citrus, because they love citrus, and we've got twins, and we've got one that just had one little lamb, so yay. Oh, they are going to be delicious. Oh, well, eventually they will, but, you know, who knows? We could be bottle feeding one, and by the end of the day, if the mummy doesn't do a job right, so we'll have to wait and see.

Now, you've just had lambs. Well done. Well done, Rachel, and that's the show today, tomorrow. Yeah, we'll have to wait and see. You've just had lambs. Well done. Well done, Rachel, and that's the show today, tomorrow. Yeah, we'll catch you tomorrow for sex.