Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - June 23 - Reception Reception, Drip Dry Or Hand Dry, How Many Showers Do You Have A Day?

Episode Date: June 22, 2020

On today's podcast, we discuss the ICONIC (aka very simple) "dad" meals that our dads are known for cooking when mum's away, we play Reception Reception - if Jono phones up a random reception and tries to leave a message for Ben, will that receptionist pass it on? And Ben's daughter threw him in it at a restaurant... Nothing quite like your kids embarrassing you in public #lordhelpusSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oh Ben, guess what mate? We're back for another one baby. Oh, another podcast intro. Again, I've caught him off guard. He didn't know we were recording. No, I didn't. Welcome to the podcast. I feel like you're trying to get some salacious information out of me or something. We don't talk about anything interesting. 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. I have noticed too, in the building we're in, a lot of police wandering around. Every week, every week, the same day, there's police in this building. Yeah, you're not meant to know about that at the moment. For you, they're on... It's another kind of sting. It's on you. Tell them that I've noticed them.

There's about 20 of them. I was hoping you wouldn't look. Okay. They're all in uniform. They'll make themselves known to you at some stage today. Okay. Just act surprised. Okay, should I walk out of the studio? make themselves known to you at some stage today. Okay. Yeah. Just act surprised. Okay, should I walk out of the studio?

What's going to happen when I leave today? I think there must be something going on in the building. Like there must be some police. Hello, guys. One of the police is waving at us right now. Yeah. There we go. Yeah.

But next time, if you want them to be undercover, tell them to put a moustache on or something. Okay, sorry. Because I am noticing them. Yeah. But it's a lovely building we work in here. It is lovely. What's your favourite part of the building? It's always a lovely podcast. I love just doing the But it's a lovely building we work in here. It is lovely. What's your favourite part of the building?

It's always a lovely podcast. I love just doing the podcast. No, I like talking about other stuff. I know. Why don't you just get straight into the podcast? Go railroad here. We need to meander

all our way through to the podcast. This is what people do. I don't know if I like it. This is how the podcast world works. I don't know. You just talk nonsense. I just want to get straight into the content that we've done,

straight into the radio stuff. I know, but that's the radio guy in you. This is a whole other medium, mate. This is a medium where you can just fart around and talk about anything. I want to talk about how hairy your pop sock is. Which sounds like a euphemism. Get your pop sock out of here, mate.

Your hairy pop sock. It's got my dog at home. I should explain what a pop sock is. Why is your dog hair on your microphone sock? It gets everywhere. It's got my dog at home. I should explain what a pop sock is. Yeah. Why is your dog hair on your microphone sock? It gets everywhere. Like, it sits on top of my bag. Oh, do you take that thing home? Yeah, I take it home.

It sits in my bag. I wonder if you could use a pop sock for contraception. Okay. Podcast, here it comes. Not a morning person. Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, a very embarrassing situation for me happened on Friday night. And I'll give you a bit of

backstory just to give you some context of why I got embarrassed. So on the show, you listen to the show. I wouldn't say we do highbrow sophisticated humour, right Jono? I thought this was hard-hitting opinion. We don't do that either. And informed information. But at the same time, I'm not a fan of

toilet humour. You know that Jono. You don't. I don't'm not a fan of, I'm not a fan of toilet humour. You know, you know that, Johnny. You don't. I don't like toilet humour. One of my greatest joys is to start heading down the path of toilet humour and just seeing Ben clench,

physically clench up. So I'm not saying I'm sophisticated in any form in comedy, but I just want to say that toilet humour's not my thing, so that's why I got quite embarrassed with this story.

Which is ironic because you used to do sketches in public toilets. Yeah, I know. So I don't know when you found yourself better I'm trying to grow up so on Friday night my wife and my two kids and I we were

walking down the road we went thought we'd support local go to the local sort of bar restaurant out the road that we go to from time to time and have a meal couple of drinks that's the adults having the drinks and you know just have a nice family time out oh you've changed just a couple of drinks. That's the adults having the drinks. And, you know, just have a nice family time out. Oh, you've changed.

Just a couple of drinks. Nice family time out. You know, you were pranking people in public toilets a few years ago. I'm on the hits now, mate. I'm on the hits. I'm growing up. I'm trying to mature. And we've got to know these people that work at the bar over the last couple of years. And one of the guys, you know the guy who works there, top guy, he's a bar manager. He likes to have a shot.

You know, like he's like... Oh, he's a shots guy. Yeah, I'm not a shots guy. He likes to have a shot. You know, like he's like... Oh, he's a shots guy. Yeah, I'm not a shots guy. I used to be a shots guy. I'm in a past life. Not now. Not now. Not now.

I always love the names of shots. Like, you know, the Greasy Carcapore or the Sweaty Napkin or a Flaming Randy Roadworker. They've always got the most creative names. They don't really relate to what you're drinking. No, but they just burn like nine layers off your esophagus. We had filming all weekend for a show that we're doing. So as I was walking down with my wife and my two little daughters, I was like, oh, I really want to do a shot tonight.

I don't want to get into that situation. Tonight's not a shot night. It's not a shot night. I have a designated shot night. Tonight is not a night because I'm working tomorrow. Oh, my God. Millennial, Julia. You're just looking at the sky going, what are you doing? I'm working. I'm trying to be responsible. Tonight is not a night because I'm working tomorrow. Oh, my God. Millennial, Julia. You're just looking at the sky going, what are you doing?

I'm working. I'm trying to be responsible. I'm saying other nights. Every night's a shot night in Julia's life. Julia, we'll go out for shots one night. We'll do that. I'll be down with that. But not on Friday night.

I was not in the shots. Like, if any night of the week is a shot night. We had to get up at 6 next morning for work. Julia doesn't care. She has shots for morning tea. I wanted to be on form. And so, yeah, so as we're walking down, I was like, I don't want to do a shot tonight.

And my daughter, Indy, who's eight, said, well, why don't you, if they bring them out, just say you need to go to the bathroom. I was like, oh, you know, and as a parent, you were talking about it earlier, you become a very good actor, you know. It's better to go, oh, that's a great suggestion, you know, rather than go, oh, to be honest,

I'm probably not going to use that excuse. But I just said, as a parent, I went, oh, great suggestion, Indy. And I thought that was it. We got to the bar and then been there a little while. And then the bar guy comes over and goes, oh, we got some shots. There's your screaming Smurfs. Here they come. And there was a few people we were talking to at the bar.

So it was probably about eight or nine people all sort of standing around or looking. And I was kind of that moment where I'm like, oh. It's a peer pressure situation. Yeah. As a New Zeal are living in our wonderful binge drinking culture you can't back out of that but i was like determined to back out of it i was just about to do that and then indy who's eight stood up and went whoa whoa whoa and i was like oh oh she's like dad needs to go poos that's what she she said. And everyone like looked at me.

The guy who was carrying the shots looked at me and was like, oh, you can't, there's bathrooms out the back of your way.

And I was just like, my head, I just hung my head in shame. I was like, no, I don't, I don't.

What do you do in that situation? I mean, if anything, it gets you out of the shots. She did her job. She played her role, buddy.

So I felt obligated to walk off. And then I composed myself in the bathroom. Not needing to go bathroom. I was mortified. And you come back with your head held low. Someone else has had your shots. And no one's talking to you. So that was my Friday night out.

But it's like, from their point of view, why does your daughter know? How can she tell? I'm talking about it, like telling everyone. It's what it looked like. Oh, I'm going to have to unload one as soon as I get there. Oh, that's very good. Like starting your day without your morning coffee.

It's Jono and Ben on my hits. Having a bit of a debate at home with my wife as we do a lot of nights about the drying the dishes situation. Yeah, right. What's the problem? Talk to me, baby. You get to that stage where you've got a few pots, you've got a few things on the bench, I'm like I'll leave them. You can drip dry. Leave them

to drip dry. In the morning I'll put them away. I don't need to dry these now. It's quicker for me to just leave them and let them drip dry. But she's like, no, you've got to hand dry them with a tea towel and then put them away. Clear the bench. Yeah, well, because you've only like 90% done the job. But nature's going to do the rest of the job.

Who does it the next morning? I do. I clamber about it before in the morning. Pack them away? Putting them away with the rest of the time. It feels like you're just prolonging the pain. You reckon? For another five minutes of work.

But it is work. It's like nature's doing it. So I'm like. It's like making the bed but not putting the pillowcases on. You've nearly done the job. Well, I reckon it's a sensible play. It's a sensible play. So I'm going to throw it.

Do you drip dry yourself in the shower? Do you just stand there and... No, but I don't... As drips trickle down from your pectoral, your lovely pectorals, straight into your navel? I'm not like the dishes where I can stand around in the morning and be good to go.

Just stand there drip-drying. I drip-dry. Yeah, I'm like a big slabby, flobby, white hippopotamus just standing there. I'm like a 78-year-old Russian grandma standing in the bathroom just waiting to dry. So anyway, if you still remember what we were talking about before this dog leg.

Dishes, do you drip-dry them or do you hand-dry them? I'm a hand-dry hand dryer It's a simple debate Yeah It's a referendum Referendum We like to do on the show Yeah We're voting on the

Giggle grass later this year Aren't we With the referendum But this is the more Important issue right now So do you Do you use the tea towel Or do you just

Nature Drip dry your dishes Now you put this on The internet last night Didn't you Burden the internet With this argument. What were the early results coming through, Producer Juju?

I think it was in favour of drip drying. Oh. Yeah. I like the sound of that. 4, 4, 8, 7 or 0, 800, the hits. Drip drying or hand drying? Let's go to Tauranga. Scotty, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, mate.

How are you? Morning, guys. Drip dry, drip dry, towel dry. What's your preferred option? Towel dry all the way because then you know it's really dry. But nature does it. I keep saying nature's doing all the hard work in the morning. It's all good to go.

Yeah, but by the time you realise your dishes are still wet, you could have had them dry. I know. That's why I'm with you, Scott. Just for an extra five minutes labour. Just get them done. You got them done. I'm going That's why I'm with you, Scott. Like, just for an extra five minutes' labour. Just get them done. You got them done. I'm going to throw another option in there.

Leaf blower. Can we leaf blow them? Imagine leaf blowing them dry. That would get the job done in about 30 seconds. You'd need to have a designated disher drying leaf blower because you wouldn't want gunk from the garden going all over your dishes. Sprayed over leaves.

But I like that. Moss-moulding gunk all over the place. Thank you, Scotty. Let's head to the Waikato. Anne-Marie, welcome. What are you backing, Anne-Marie? Drip drying, towel drying? Drip dry all the way.

But not only do I drip dry, I pile the pot so high they fall off and it annoys my husband, so he ends up drying them with a sea towel. Oh, that's a good place. So you just stack them to an inconvenience. I stack them. It's an art. Then they fall over and then my husband sighs, tucks, and then inconvenient... Oh, I stack them. I stack them. It's an app. Oh, I stack them. And then my husband sighs, tucks,

and then ends up having to towel dry them, which, you know, I win then, don't I? Yeah, it's like the Leaning Tower of Pisa on you with pots and pans. Well, there you go. One for the drip dry, one in my camp. No one likes... Just to clarify, though,

it is actually more hygienic to drip dry. I was wondering that if towels transfer germs from one... Yeah, it's more hygienic. So there's more reason to drip dry... There's a good argument I'll use tonight. Thank you for that. It's the lady who's Googled that and has used that in many a debate. Thank you very much, Anne-Marie. And finally, Victoria, drip drying, towel drying, what are we doing? Oh, Mary, I've got definitely towel dry.

It says your husband annoys you. That's what the note is on the phone in front of me. Annoys the... out of me. It says your husband annoys you. That's what the note is on the phone in front of me. She censored herself as well. Oh, really? Because is he a drip dryer like me? Just get it done. Get it done.

Just get it done. Yeah, I know, because it's just lingering over you, isn't it? All night, and you get up in the morning, you have to deal with it. I'm with you. No one wants to do that. Well, no one, and you get up in the morning, you have to deal with it. I'm with you. Who wants to do that? Well, no one wants to do the dishes in the first place. It's not a chore. Everyone's like, yes, I can't wait to go and do them.

It's like moving house. No one enjoys doing it. And combining all the votes we had on social media as well, 60% in favour of drip-drying, Ben. Oh, really? They're backing you. Oh, there we go. Take that information home to your teacher wife and teach her a lesson. There we go.

The referendum for another week. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, reception, reception. It's a wee game we like to play once a week. Jono, you leave a message with a receptionist somewhere in the country about me, and then I give them a call back a few minutes later and see if they'll pass on that message.

You had a wonderful success rate with this part of the show. Very friendly, very welcoming receptionists we have here in Aotearoa. Because we don't get to do this with any receptions around the place, right? No, we're not of a job of that stature where we get to leave messages with reception people. So, Ben, you can go to the soundproof booth. OK. Be sit alone with your dark thoughts.

What do you think about in the soundproof booth when you're there we want to be on a better show he's off to the soundproof booth we're going to head through to a company in Invercargill producer Juliet let's dial through to leave a message oh hi Cam how are you good hey listen I am just phoning up to leave a message for Ben Ben? Oh, hi, Cam. How are you? Good.

Hey, listen, I am just phoning up to leave a message for Ben. Ben? Ben, yeah. He gave me this number. He said I can leave a message and you guys will pass it on to him. Um, I don't know any Ben. Oh, are you all right to take the message? Uh, yeah, I can take the message.

Thank you. Uh, he applied for a flat that we have. Okay. We were ringing to tell him that he didn't get it. Okay. There was a couple of red flags from our end. Yeah. He had mentioned that he was breastfed until he was a teenager. Yeah.

And he said he was a teenager. Yep. And he said he was a little prone to bedwetting sometimes. Oh, okay. He also said occasionally he sometimes sobs and cries after making love. Yep.

So yeah, that's the message and my name's Jonathan, so he'll know. So if he calls up, if you're able to pass that on, that'd be fantastic. We're all here. Hey, thank you. Okay, bye. Bye. All right, Ben.

Come back in from the soundproof booth. I'll come back in. I haven't heard any of it, but I just, Producer Heidi is just laughing at me as I walk through the door. So I'm guessing I'll need to call someone back and find out what my message is. Yeah, good luck. Good luck.

I have confidence that he will pass the message on. Should we do that next? Oh, not now. Okay, I'll hang up. Oh, I was just trying to do a classic radio. Sorry, what are you doing? I was going to dial back. What did you plan?

I just thought maybe we could do the classic radio thing where they're like, oh, will they pass on the message? We'll find out. Oh, okay, like a cliffhanger sort of thing. Yeah, not worthy of it? No, well, listen. You tell me, I don't know. Okay, well, you've decided you want to do a cliffhanger.

We'll be back after the song. I'm a little bit nervous because we're playing reception, reception. I go out of the room. Jono, you ring a reception in New Zealand. You leave a message for me, and now I have to call them back and get that message. I haven't heard it for the first time. Yeah, so we phoned a wonderful man in Invercargill just moments ago.

Summerlin Freight, Cam speaking. Oh, hi, Cam. How are you? Good. Hey, listen, I am just phoning up to leave a message for Ben. Ben? Ben, yeah. He gave me this number. He said I can leave a message and you guys will pass it on to him.

I don't know any Ben. Oh, are you all right to take the message? Yeah, I can take a message. So he said he'll take a message. He's not phased. What is the message? I want to know. Well, we'll find out if Cam will pass it on to you, okay? I will dial back through.

Ben, you can go and collect the message. Retrieve your message. This is reception, reception. Okay. Okay. Someone on freight, Cam sticking. Oh, hi there. My name is Ben.

Jonathan, I think, just left a message with you, apparently. I've got a... Yeah, yeah. Oh, he did? Oh, great. Do you know what the message is? Yeah, he said you didn't get the flat. Oh, I didn't get the flat.

Okay. Yeah, yeah. There were some red flags. Okay. Did he say what they were? Yeah, he did. He said that you sometimes sobbed after making love. Okay.

Yeah, I wondered if I should have put that down or not on the sheet, but obviously I shouldn't have in hindsight. Okay. Yeah, that you're prone to bedwetting. Yeah, yeah, you're right. That's another one. Yeah, and that you breastfed until you were right. That's another one. Yeah, and that you rest until you're 10. Okay.

These are all hard truths that I've obviously survived. I can't get back. Cam, Jono and Ben from The Hits, mate. How are you? Good, good. I figured it was you after the phone call from Ben. Thank you. This is the reception reception.

We phone businesses and see if their reception will pass on messages for us. And with the straightest face in the game, Cam, you delivered the message. Straight up the middle, just like, yep, that's why. There you go. I love it. Thank you for playing that. Not a problem. Hold the line.

We'll find something for you. Okay. See you, Cam. Nothing rattles Cam. No. Nothing rattles him. Oh, so good. I've got to stop putting those on my flat application, don't I?

You're an open book. I'm too honest. Yeah, you're too transparent. This is why you have to sleep out in your car. Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Van on the Heads. We were speaking yesterday about Donald Trump's rally,

a political rally over the weekend that was sabotaged by TikTok teenagers who got a lot of tickets and then didn't turn up. But during the week, Donald Trump's people were like, there's going to be over a million people there. That's the interest. It's a 20,000 seat arena and only 6,000 people showed up for it. Guess who sold out that arena twice?

Nick and Mac have sold out that arena twice. But people paying to go Trump can only get 6,000 people there That was pretty cool to learn He was rubbing more salt into the wounds As if the 14 year olds from TikTok didn't make it bad enough Nickleback have sold out twice that arena I know some parts of the country are having a water shortage at the moment

Auckland might be banging on it for a long time Water's low Phil Goff has said we'll have to start buying water. It makes me want to drown you in water every time you keep

talking about this. I've been talking about this for a while. It's coming people. It's coming. We're getting water from the Waikato in Auckland right now

because we haven't got enough. So some parts of the country are having water shortage. Auckland. And I was talking about a friend of mine

who has three showers a day. He's part of mine Who has three showers a day Who's part of the problem? Three showers a day That is a lot of showers So where's he showering? So he showers in the morning obviously Then he works during the day And goes to the gym at lunchtime

Another shower And then he showers again at night After dinner, before bed He doesn't even give himself the chance to get filthy No I only shower once in the morning You can imagine me, eh? In the shower again at night after dinner before bed. He doesn't even give himself the chance to get filthy. No. I only shower once in the morning. You can imagine me, eh, in the shower.

Just in. Don't. Just in. Don't. Naked mole rat. Just imagine the naked mole rat in the shower. Just imagine me like, you know, imagine the POV, the point of view from the drain looking up. No, stop it.

Imagine if that drain could talk. Have you got one of those shower nozzles that you take off? Yeah. Oh, that thing. I put that in the undercarriage. The point of view of that thing. It's like, what are you doing now? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Where am I going? I did not sign up for this. Afterwards, you're talking to the taps going, oh, my God, you won't believe what I just saw. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's a very sexual experience when I shower, that's for sure. It's three showers a day. I hope they're short showers.

I hope they're short, you know? I don't know, mate. All right, you water Nazi, I don't know. Oh, look, I just think at the moment, you know, it's important. You know, when I start paying for water, my mum has to do that up north sometimes. It's very expensive. What do you do? Are you a double shower a day?

I would do, but I'm very quick showers at the moment. You shouldn't stop peeing on it. I do because I have fun in the morning and then I would go to the gym or do some form of exercise in the afternoon and then have another one there. No one's thinking you're sitting there for three hours being sitting in the shower, okay? Thank you.

But I like to lay in my own filth at night. That's better filth of the day's filth than soot. I've got like slightly off yellow sheets, and that's the way I like it. But I don't reckon you can find anyone who has more than three showers a day. It's an excessive amount of showers.

It's a lot. We'll throw it out there, shall we? Yeah, okay. I bet we won't. 4487 0800 that hits the telephone number. Are you having more than three showers a day? Sarah's on New Zealand's Breakfast. Great to have you with us, Saz.

Hey. Can we top three showers a day? Sometimes I shower four times a day. We've done it, people. We have done it. Can you talk us through the showering situations? Well, I suppose I just like to be pretty clean, but I usually go for early morning walks in my shower before work.

And then sometimes I shower at work. Then sometimes I shower after the gym, and then I shower again before I go to bed. That's four on the dial right there. When you explain it, it makes sense. But is there a part of you like, oh, I could run a bit of a filthy operation from one shower to the next? Not really.

Are you one of these people that needs to shower before getting into bed? Yeah, I can't sleep otherwise. A friend of ours, Bronnie, was like that. We'd work late at night and she'd come home like 3.30 in the morning and shower. Wake up her husband, poor guy. Thank you very much for your call, Sarah. Appreciate that. Someone else is texting saying, I don't shower at all during the week.

I just have seven on Sunday. I don't shower at all during the week. I just have seven on Sunday. I better get my shower again for the week. Turn it off. Back again. It's like doing your tax returns. Oh, better knock those off. I don't think it works like that. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. There's some big news going around in New Zealand right now. Everyone's talking about borders, quarantines, but we like to not neglect the small news. That's some big news going around in New Zealand right now. Everyone's talking about borders, quarantines, but we like to not neglect the small news. That's right, Ben. These are the stories that mainstream media choose to neglect. Not us, though. Not us.

Just because the towns are small doesn't mean the news is. Well, actually nine times out of ten it does. This is Big News Small Town and today we're going to the small North Island town of Turangi where there is a mysterious hum, a humming noise. Not everyone's hearing it, but some of the residents are reporting a hum.

Is it the sound of a vehicle driving through the town? Because no one's driven through there in 20 years. We'll find out. Let's go to Turangi and find out. Hello, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Hi, how are you? We're phoning from the big new small town and Ben has sniffed out some news from Turangi. Okay. There's a mysterious hum going around the place at the moment.

So some of the residents seem to think, yes. Oh, so have you heard it or not heard it? No, no, I haven't. Because everyone's going, what is it? What is the hum? Exactly. No, I have no idea what the hum is. Could be a truck, could be a helicopter,

could be a washing machine cycle. That's what people are thinking. Could be anything, I suppose. Can I just say, I just love how Ben's trying to over-dramatise. And clearly, Paula is not buying into your hyping up of this mysterious noise. So, Paula, if I can do a little bit of directing here, is that okay? Fine.

I'll get Ben, because Ben clearly wants some sort of reaction out of you. So what I'll do is every time he says something, you go, ooh, yeah. Ah, okay, here we go. Take two. All right, Paula, one resident said the hum would stay for like 20 to 30 minutes.

Oh, no. Yeah. Good. And? The hum seems to be coming from underground, but other days it can be heard coming from the water. Ooh. What else, Ben?

What else? Another person said it sounds like a helicopter flying overhead or the end cycle of a washing machine. Oh, no. Yeah. How does that make you a washing machine. Oh, no. How does that make you feel, Paula? Oh, hilarious. No, not the feeling we were going for.

Didn't want to make you feel hilarious. Really trying to wrap that one up. Well, I mean, some people are saying that they're hearing this mysterious noise but I haven't heard it myself so I'm not really 100% sure. Okay, alright,, there we go. Well, I'll tell you one thing's for certain. Paula, quaking in her boots.

And the good thing, Paula, is you never hear anything more painful than this telephone call, so there you go. Okay. All right, Paula, I'm going to go now. She agreed with you then. But we may be back. See you, Paula.

See you later. Bye. There we go. Solved that mystery there, didn't we? Lou in calories and Lou in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on my hits. Jono, you were hurt. I was.

You were somebody hurt. Yeah, I got hurt last night and I'm still recovering. I came in this morning to get some sympathy and received none of it from you. So I'm going to talk about it on the radio in the hope that someone will help me. I got cooking shamed last night, so Monday nights in the Pryor house,

just so you know our schedule, she and my wife, she goes to Zumba. I have no rhythm for Zumba. She goes to Zumba. Is that still a thing? It's still a thing, Zumba. I couldn't do Zumba. My main fear would be rendering someone unconscious with my wild Zumba

abs. I'd love to see you do Zumba, though. That'd be fun. Can we do a Zumba for our social video for the show? Yes. Let's do that. I'll go to Zumba with you. I've got no rhythm. I just want to see you do Zumba.

Okay, we'll both go to Zumba. It's a date. It's a date. But yeah, I tried to do that thing, the Les Mills thing during lockdown that was on TV and you could kind of like do dancing and exercising. And I was like, je jeez I'm not made for this. They're quite coordinated those people. I don't think I'm made for exercise in general. Anyway

so she's out Monday nights and so I'm in charge of cooking and Poppy my daughter says to me last night the only thing you can cook is spaghetti in a can and she's right. She's right because all I feed them, this is all I have the menu of like a roadside trucker cafe,

so I can do microwave Kranskis. You're microwaving the Kranskis. Yeah. Why can't you microwave them? Because it takes a minute in the microwave. Microwave Kranskis. Ham and cheese toasted sandwiches. Ham and cheese toasted sandwiches.

Cheese toasted sandwiches. Or ham toasted sandwiches. Sp and cheese toasted sandwiches. Cheese toasted sandwiches. Or ham toasted sandwiches. Spaghetti. Or spaghetti on toast. What is tinned spaghetti? And those are my cooking options. Wow. And these are like a champagne dad meal, isn't it?

That's hashtag dad meals. As a dad, I feel embarrassed. What do you feel embarrassed? I cooked last night. I made chicken korma with vegetables. Oh, listen to Jamie Oliver over here. You know, like... Oh, well done.

Yeah, I'm Jamie Oliver as well, when he was four years old, learning how to cook. I pretty much have to cook five nights a week at home, you know, that's my thing. Well, my dad, I remember when my dad used to feed me all the time just sausages.

He just loved, like, sausages with anything. Sausages with potato, sausages with beetroot, sausages on sausages. It's such a versatile thing, the sausages. My dad was a schnitzel fan. He liked the schnitzel. It was his meal. You're like, oh, the first time, you're like, this is good.

And then the next time you go back there, you'll be like, oh, okay, it's schnitzel again. Dads have limited, don't they? They're like, this is my wheelhouse. This is what I do. I don't do it often, but when I come in, I come in hard. Yeah, well, that was back in the day, and you've managed to keep up that stereotype, haven't you? Yeah, I have. I have.

I like to pretend I'm living in the 1970s, my fashion would suggest. Okay, I'll wait 100 of the hits. Dad meals. What did your dad feed you when you were growing up? What are your dads feeding you now? Because they don't put any effort into it. Well, I do.

I cook every night at home, pretty much in the week. That's what I'm trying to say. You're stereotyping dads. Okay, all right. 0800, that's what did your dad feed you when you were growing up? 4487. Let's head to New Plymouth. Danielle, welcome to New Zealand's breakfast.

What was your dad meal? Meat patties, mashed potato and frozen mixed vegetables. All the time? That was his only thing? Sometimes he'd change the meat patty to a lasagna topper. Those little squares of lasagna toppers. That you put in the microwave.

Yep. But you know what you're good at. And he obviously didn't have to do it often, but when he did, he came and he's like, everyone knows what they're getting. And he sometimes surprised you with a lasagna topping. He didn't see that one coming, did you? Thank you very much, Daniel.

I appreciate it. This is so good. Neil, welcome to the show. What did your dad feed you when you were growing up? He used to, when he cooked, it was either like lamb's fry, liver, kidney and worse and stuff. Oh, so he's gone real soon. The battler. Because mum would never cook it.

The battler meal. Yeah, lamb's fry and liver. The meal of a woodsman. The stuff that people throw out, he's putting it on a plate. Yeah. He goes to the butcher's bin out the back, puts it in a big bucket, chucks it in a frying pan. Eat it with your bare hands too.

We don't use cutlery around here. Someone's just saying chicken hearts. My dad would constantly feed us chicken, but not tell us what it was. Like pranking his kids. Oh, Stephen Topol, welcome to New Zealand's breakfast. What did your dad feed you growing up? Kettle broth.

What? Kettle broth. What is... Like you're joking. Kettle broth. So you get a pot and you used to throw some bread in it and some milk and some brew fat and some butter. No.

And pepper and cook it all up. They put it in your plate and expect you to eat it. What? What is he inventing in there? I think I would have rather licked the carpet with the carpet. Put the tea towel in, chuck a couple of mugs in there. Oh, he's just found stuff in the kitchen and put it in a... Someone's texted saying,

my dad would cook Savloys. He would eat the Savloys and then give us the Savloy juice. The Savloy soup. I've heard about that, having Savloys. He would eat the Savloys and then give us the Savloy juice. The Savloy soup. I've heard of them having Savloy soup, yeah. As they're watching him eat the Savloys. It's like, you have your Savloy soup, yeah. Let's take one more. This is too good. What did your dad feed you when you were growing up, Alyssa?

He would give us walking baked beans on toast and sugar sandwiches for lunch. Sugar sandwiches? What, like just bread with sugar poured onto them? Yes, and butter and sometimes sprinkles if we're lucky.

Oh, if you're lucky. Oh, right. Oh, so like fairy bread. Yeah, but straight sugar. No, I'm reading a text here because you texted in 4487. You said your mum was away for three weeks

and how many days in a row did you eat baked beans on toast and have sugar bread for lunch? 18. John O'Ben, I just want you to know, I'm a dad, and I used to gourmet it up, so sometimes

I'd chuck a fried egg in there as well. It just wasn't always just baked beans. It wasn't always. You meant to come on and defend yourself. Can I just come on and just defend myself here? You know. Gourmet. It's gourmet.

It's gourmet. You're right. Hey, I love you. What a great. It was a pleasure talking to you, Josh Emmett. Oh, that's so good. I love it. Have a good day, guys.

Just so you know. Bit of gourmet. That's so good. Like starting your day with panda eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Buy the WhatsApp by doco.nz. All right. So an absolute classic of a movie, Mamma Mia, is potentially making a return.

So the old producer has hinted at a third movie. A third? Yes. So it was originally set out to be a trilogy. And obviously they've done two. The second one was filmed and released in 2018 and they're potentially using four new ABBA songs for it.

And Amanda Seyfried also said that everyone in the movie would just be so keen to get together for a third one just because they got along so well on set. So hopefully it comes about. I'll tell you, I'd be very happy about that. My actual mama Mia, my mum Jenny, she loves the movie. Oh, she, I tell you what, for the boomer generation,

she's smack bang in the middle. She's off to the netball with a wig on, dancing to Shania Twain. Shall we give her a quick call and tell her that Mamma Mia is coming back for a third movie? Alright. Great way to start the week. Good morning. Oh, Jenny. Yep. It's your son here. Oh, hello. And it's your other son here Oh, Jenny. Yep. It's your son here. Oh, hello.

And it's your other son here too, Jenny. Oh, hello, Jono. We've got some big news, some exciting news to start your Tuesday. What happened on Tuesday? Well, it's less about the day, less about the day, and more about something else. Your favourite movie is coming back for a third time. Producer Juliet, what's the movie that's coming back?

Mamma Mia 3, baby. Oh, my goodness. Maybe. You're joking, are we really? Who would have thought they could milk a third, a third instalment out of the series? Again and again and again. Well, why not?

Here we go again, huh? Yeah, you'll be there. You'll be going again, won't you? I'll be definitely going. Well, haven't they sung all the songs, though? That's my thing. Oh, there's always plenty of songs. Is that Pierce Brosnan?

Is he in Mamma Mia? Yeah. Yes, he's... No, yes. He was. He was. Meryl Streep was the... Yeah.

Yeah, there were a whole lot of them. Yeah. Yeah, it was so sad, though, and the second one I cried because she was dead. He was. Meryl Streep was the mark. Yeah. There were a whole lot of them. Yeah. Yeah. It was so sad though. And the second one I cried because she was dead. How could she do that to you? Well, it's just a movie. Meryl's still alive.

Very heartbreaking news for mum. All right, mum. Have a good day. Oh, yeah. You too. Thanks. Bye. Yeah.

Big Mamma Mia fan. Jenny Boyce. She loves it. Has she been to a live rendition? She's got everything. Anything Mamma Mia, she'll go. I end up watching it with her. She's watched it like nine times. Oh my gosh, bless her. And in other news,

so there's this man called Joey Chestnut, if you don't know him. He holds his own hot dog eating record of 74 in 10 minutes a couple of years ago. So this is the big thing they do every 4th of July in America. They have the hot dog eating competition and these guys eat 74 in 10 minutes.

It's confronting. They just, how does it come out? Once the digestive system has done what it needs to do, does it just come out like one giant hot dog? You'd feel so bad for the rest of the day, wouldn't you?

You'd be like, after eating 74, bring out the quickies. Yeah, totally. They've been sponsored by quickies. Because they dip the bread in water

to help eat it, digest it. Ew, that makes it grosser. It does, eh? And they do that. And that's bread, hot dogs, the sausage and the bread,

74 times. He reckons, how many can do it this year? So he reckons he can go up to 77 in 10 minutes. And it's going to be happening on 4th of July, and I'm very nervous for that. I do like a hot dog, just in a normal... Microwaved? Yeah, I like a microwave. We've just discussed this before.

You can put a frankfurter in 45 seconds. You've got a hot dog on your plate within a minute. I'm all about time. Do you not have an oven at home? I love the fact you're like, are you cooking anything if it's in a microwave? Why waste time? There's 20 minutes in an oven, 45 seconds in a microwave.

Do the maths. True. And it tastes almost the same. Ew. But we'll spy on that note. Head to the Hits. Don't cut it, NZ. We apologise in note. Head to the hitstockcutter NZ. We apologise in advance.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Yeah, now where I live, there's some entrepreneurial children around the place and so I was walking to pick the kids up yesterday from school and these were kids that obviously weren't of school age, a little bit younger, and they're outside the front of their house peddling their wares.

What, did the IRD know about this? This is the thing. These little blighters aren't paying income tax. You walk past and you're like, oh, it's extortion, isn't it? Because you're like, oh, good sir, you're on a lemonade, and you look at this jug of murky water. It looks like it's been dipped into a public spa pool and put on there. Oh no.

What are they charging for that? A dollar or two dollars or something? It was two dollars for a little paper cup. You'd get a Sprite for that probably, couldn't you? Exactly. I could get a professionally made lemonade. This is not up to standard. And so they said,

but you kind of get guilted into it because you're like, oh, if I don't do this, I'm going to look. And they're not, in that situation, they're probably not raising money for anything. They're just doing it for their own. Yeah, it's not charity. What are you, saving for a house deposit? So you end up, I bought this lemonade, and it was basically just,

it felt like nine lemons mixed with 20 kgs of sugar. It was the only lemonade you could chew or snort. And I paid two bucks for it. And I feel it was a rip-off. These kids, not paying tax on the side of the road, selling stuff that's not up to retail standards. There was a dairy literally 35 metres away. You're right, Ben, I could have got one made by

the Coca-Cola company of the world. That's their thing. It's been their thing for many years. But no, I opted for an unprofessional hack job of murky lemon water. There's no food grade rating too on those places. You don't go there and go, what's your food? You don't know if it's an A or an E.

Yeah, exactly. You'll end up an A and an E, potentially at the end of that. So just be careful. Just be careful what you buy on the side of the road. They may be cute, but they're also avoiding tax. That's my warning.

Making poor life decisions every morning. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. It's the game show no one saw coming and more importantly no one wanted. Don't call us, we'll call you. We phone unsuspecting New Zealanders as they're just going about their morning and force a game show upon them. But the thing is, we feel bad, so we offer a prize up.

Yeah, and it's pretty simple questions, right? Yeah. So we're basically just phoning up to hand over $40 worth of hell pizza with a little bit of filler in between. Yeah, that's how it works. So let's give someone a call. Hello, Champers Metal Lodge. Bruce speaking. Are you ready to take it like a champ?

What's that? Are you ready to take it like a champ? What's with the intro? I say apologies about him. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits Radio station. Oh, hello. We're playing a game show. Don't call us. We'll call you. So you've got four quick questions to answer, and if you answer all four, you get $40 Hell Pizza.

Oh, cool. You ready? Yep. You don't seem phased by this in the slightest. Oh, I don't think I'm going to do very well in your questions, mind you. Oh, listen. You answered the fine. That's pretty much all you need to do to win the Hell Pizza.

What is the name of Katy Perry's ex-husband? Is it A. Russell Brand, B. Russell Bland or C. Russell Muscle? What was the first one? Russell Brand? Yeah, that one. There's one for one. Dan Carter is a professional what? A. Online identity theft

scammer, B. Rugby player or C. Rodeo cowboy? B. Rugby player. $20 Hell Pizza so done. Two from two. $40 Hell Pizza so far. Two more to go. Jacinda Ardern grew up where? Is it A, Morrinsville, B, number six Struggle Street,

or C, the School of Hard Knocks? Morrinsville. Well done. You said you weren't going to be any good at this game. You were nailing this. And your final question for $40 Hell Pizza? If I was plucking on a G-string, what would I be doing? A, playing a guitar, or B, playing Ben's favourite pair of underpants?

Hopefully it's playing the guitar. I would have taken both. Well done. You've got $40 Hell Pizza just for answering the phone and tolerating us for 30 seconds. Oh, awesome. Thank you very much. And taking it like a champ.

I don't know why you keep saying that. A champ is seconds. Oh, awesome. Thank you very much. And taking it like a champ. I don't know why you keep saying that. A champ is hotel. Oh, I guess I was. Well, why else would I say it? I don't know. It makes a lot of sense to me now. Yeah, good. Why my friend kept going,

take it like a champ. And you did take it like a champ. He's the champ of that quiz and you hold the line and we'll grab your details. Awesome. Thank you very much. See we'll grab your details. Awesome. Thank you very much. See you, mate.

Great. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. You know what disturbs me now and it's probably

because I'm getting, you know, older. What's that? Remote controls. They're starting to worry me. There's too many of them around the place. Like just then I had to try and turn the TV on in the studio and there was a little part of me like,

come on, you can do this. You know? Oh, in that regard. Because you never want to be like, I never want to ask Julian, how do I turn the TV on? Yeah, true. I read a good thing on the internet

someone had posted about, it was a trust issue with remote controls too when someone's like, have you seen the remote? And you go, no. And they're like, are you sitting on it? You always make the person stand up as well. No one could be anywhere else. Not under my

ass right now. It's like, hang on, stand up. Oh, you know, you're right. You know, it's funny. And I was like, it's true. You do that. Scrolling through your feed. Ah, yes, this is where we've carried our pickaxes into the news mines overnight and emerged all dusty. But you're looking good, Ben.

Thank you. I've come out all right. I've come out okay. A lot of news, obviously, in the world right now about COVID, talking about the New Zealand borders. 183,000 cases of COVID in the world in the past 24 hours. That's the largest single increase in a day. I know Brazil's gone crazy, like a million active cases, 50,000 deaths. I was listening to Kate Hawkesby on the way in on Newstalk ZB

who brings us all this fine information that we regurgitate. I thanked her on the weekend via text for providing radio preparation for us. Yeah, and she sometimes tunes in to hear her prep on another station every morning. So thank you again, Kate. That's what you want to talk about. Yeah, so we thought, you know, oh, sorry. I was going to say, she was saying this morning, you know how we're paying for the accommodation

of everyone who's arrived back in the country? $4,000 a person to stay at the hotels for two weeks. Oh, really? That is expensive. There you go. It's costing the government millions, the taxpayer. How long will we put up with this? It's starting to wear thin, according to Hawksby.

So that's the big news. Not quite as big a news, but still pretty cool all the same. Another series of The Bachelorette. Coming back to TVNZ, just announced yesterday, their last series. Of course, they had one of The Bachelorettes go through the whole series and then decide that she didn't want anyone, which is fine.

She was a lovely lady, wasn't she? Do you think the producers got like three weeks in and were like, she's not going to pick any of these bozos? Is that why they brought in Lily? Yeah. The other Bachelorette. I think so.

Well, when have they ever introduced a second Bachelorette? I love it though. It was like New Zealand, like the flag debates. You know how we paid 20 million for a referendum to decide to keep the same flag. We went in there and we exited the same way.

It was kind of like that in The Bachelorette. How many guys were in there, like 40? Not one of them. It looked like just a giant stag do. And they had to go on these niggly dates with this lady who wanted to just find love. Because we knew a couple of The Bachelor contestants. One of the lovely ones, Fleur. Oh, she got second in one of the series.

She came on a work, we had like a work boat party. We went on, when we were back in our other radio station days. Yeah, now we just go and play croquet or something. What do we do here, Juju? That's exactly what you do. We don't have any parties here, so I don't know yet. Yeah, so we're on this boat party, and it was like a three deck

sort of boat thing and she was, we're standing having a nice conversation to her talking about the bachelorette and then someone had obviously up on one of the decks had had a bit too much to drink

and had decided that they needed to vomit over the side of the boat thinking it was the side of the boat but they didn't realise there was another deck down below. Oh my God.

Oh, the poor lady. Straight on top of her. Really? Chunder struck. It was my God. Oh, the poor lady. Straight on top of her. Really? Chunder struck. It was all through her hair, down her dress, and she was so... She was like,

oh, it's okay. I've never met anyone who has been vomited on and taken it so well. Wow. I was like, it's not okay. She's like,

oh, it's all right. She's like picking up bits of carrot from her hair. And I think I gave her some sort of... You were wearing novelty costumes on at the time. I gave her like a sailor's top or something. So then she was coming to vomit in a sailor's top.

Just like a sailor. And I think that was the moment she regretted coming to that party. So those are some of the big things happening in the world. Wake up and smell them. Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Yesterday, Jono, I was driving not far from my house after work,

on the way home, and I saw someone running. Boy, they were running at pace. You know when you see someone running along the footpath and you're like, they are really going for it. Every time I see someone running, I'm like, no one ever looks happy running. No one's ever going down the street running with a smile on their face. Everyone looks in excruciating pain just going, why am I doing this to myself? Why did I start doing this to myself? I'm

too far from home now to turn around. But that's the thing, because you get to that point and then you're like, I've got to go all the way back. I've got to go all the way back to my house where I came. You don't even run somewhere and just end up there. You always come back home. People always look like they're hating themselves running, hating this decision to run. Even the world's best marathon runners, the guy who broke the marathon record, even when he's running, he doesn't look like he's enjoying it. No.

That's his job. That's what he does. Well, this is someone running for exercise, and as I got closer to them, they were going twice as fast as the car. I was like, is this The Flash? They were going twice as fast as the car, which is not hard in Auckland traffic.

Yeah, but this was Matt Heath from Matt and Jerry. Oh, right, a broadcaster, Matt Heath. Yeah, a very talented broadcaster, Matt Heath, very funny guy. He's also a respected journalist, writes articles in the paper as well. He does a breakfast show on Radio Hauraki with Jeremy Wells, and it was him. He was sprinting. He was going so fast.

I was like, what? He looked like exercise. He had a grey T-shirt on, covered in sweat, and he was just hoofing it. Was this maybe the final, you know, the final metres of his big long run? Or do you think this was his consistent pace throughout the run? I don't know. If he was going at that pace, I want to know how far he was going. Do you run?

No, not really. What do you do? Not really. I like the machine at the gym. I use them over the arms and the legs, the cross trainer. I can imagine you hoofing away on the cross trainer there. I like that one. That's my favourite.

And your skins tights that you feel you need to wear to the gym. I don't know why I need to wear performance tights, but I decide I want to. So we gave Matt Heath a call after our radio shows yesterday. Hello, Matt speaking. Matt Heath, it's Jono and Ben calling from the hits. Hey, Jono and Ben from the hits. You sound like you're 300 metres away from your phone. I was just in the toilet.

Now I'm coming out. Have you got your phone on the bench or something? It's so far away from you. I'm talking on my Bluetooth headphones. I was just putting them on to go for a run and then I had to do my ablution. We can kind of hear you. How about that?

Oh, there you go. And it's quite timely you're going for a run because Ben wants to ask you a question, Matt Heath. I drove past you and you were running and I'd never seen anyone run at that pace. Oh, where was that? It was down the road. I was just like, this guy is hoofing it.

Then it got closer to you. And I was like, oh, it's Matt Heath. Oh, that's good to hear. No, it's a fast runner. That's good to know. Is this the speed you go for the whole run or do you get close to home and you're like, oh, man, I've got to really dig it in?

Oh, speed the whole time, 100%. Are you running at 120 for the entire run? Never slow, keep going. Straight out the gate. Straight out the gate and not out for a walk either, he's out for a sprint. We need to enter you in the Olympics by the sound of things because Ben has been banging on about your pace all morning.

Oh, look, this is great to hear because I run a little bit of a thread and we share our pace, you know, like we run a bit of a tech thread with some fellow runners, including Scotty J. Stevenson and Jeremy Wells and Mike Lane, and we share our pace. So there's a certain amount of shame. We have to send the screenshot of the pace in our app. So if you get below a certain pace, you get shamed. Oh, you get shamed.

I feel like one of you is going to have a heart attack or something. Yeah. That's a very good chance. So how far are you running at that pace? Because I would say 50, 70 metres is probably the only distance you can run at that pace. Look, mate, I've signed up for the Auckland Marathon at the end of the year, and I'll be running that pace for the whole 42K. Gee, it sounds like you're going to run it twice before everyone else even hits that.

Actually, the last half marathon I ran in Queenstown ended last year. One of the guys that's in our thread, Joseph Drury, he crossed the line about five metres behind me and then fell over. I didn't even see this because I was so exhausted. He fell over, lost consciousness, and the St. John's came and cut his clothes off him

and rushed him off to hospital. And I turned around about two minutes later from trying to recover and he was gone. And then I got a call about an hour later and he was out at the Fragden Hospital. Just, he had run too fast. Yeah, he was trying to keep up with you. Yeah, jeez.

He nearly killed himself. Yeah. It's so degrading getting your clothes cut off too, isn't it? I know. Running clothes aren't cheap, you know. They're like, you know, $50 shorts, sort of humiliating tank tops. He would have been like,

are you going to replace these? I can just take them off. And so when I went to visit him in the hospital, he had his, like, medal for crossing the line around his neck still, but he was just nude in the hospital. I think that must have been a prank. That's what happens when you try and keep up with my pace.

Naked in the hospital. I couldn't do it. I couldn't even drive as fast as you were going. Unbelievable. I'll be talking about it all week. Well, listen, we better let you go and run five laps of Auckland. Yeah. I'm heading off.

All right. See you guys. Love you. Bye-bye. Some people skip breakfast, the meal, and also this show. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The A to Z of New Zealand. We're calling a different town or city in New Zealand one a day.

We're doing it alphabetically. It's going to take us over two years to do. You would have heard this before on the show. And today we've reached Blenheim. That's right. I mean, there's so many towns and cities in New Zealand. Do some of them deserve to be a town and or a city? Are some of them just locations where one or two people live in an area?

Yeah. It's not for me to decide. No, you're right. But it's been a really interesting journey so far, hasn't it? We've only just begun. What have you discovered about yourself? It's quite a carpenter's song. Is that why they sang that song?

We've only just begun. Let me just phone back to the 1960s and see. What have you learned about yourself on this journey? I've learned there's a lot of New Zealand I didn't know existed. Do you know I had a conversation with the lady last night at the pizza shop when I was picking up dinner? Yeah. She was like, I'm from Ahipara.

And I was like, I know exactly where it is. It's up north. Yeah. And she's like, I know you would know where it is because I heard you call it. So it's a great education. Who says that this show is just low-level banter? It's educational as well. A lot of people say it's low-level banter.

Yeah, well, I mean, we're focusing on education, and that has been the backbone of this show. It's an education tool on what not to do in life. Now, Blenheim is the place that we're going to call today. I know a wee bit about Blenheim. Obviously close to Picton. You get off a ferry, you go through Blenheim. Obviously close to Picton. You get off a ferry, you go through Blenheim.

A wonderful spot. And it's a town obsessed with beavers. Really? If you like beavers, you're going to love Blenheim. Oh, really? Yeah, because Blenheim has beaver fever. In what way?

Well, it's got beaver statues, beaver drawings, beaver-themed kindergartens. Really? Because it used to be called Beaver Town. I did not know that. I always remember. This is because the show is educational.

It's based on education. It's going through to Blenheim now. So here we are. Annie speaking. Hello. Is it Amy, is it? Annie. Annie, it's Jono and Ben from The Hits.

Annie, welcome. Hello, how are you? Good, we're on a mission, Annie. I'm it's Jono and Ben from The Hits. Annie, welcome. Hello, how are you? Good, we're on a mission, Annie. I'm not going to lie. What mission are you on? We're deep in the trenches, Anne. We're calling every town and city in New Zealand. We're doing it one a day and we've reached Blenheim.

You have reached Blenheim. So tell us about Blenheim. So Blenheim is a vibrant, diverse community of people that are particularly engaged in the land around the area. It's a major supporter of our community or our economy here. Did you just make that up or did you read

that off like a brochure? I made that up. Wow. It sounded quite North Korean propaganda-y. Oh no. Well look, Blenheim's just a... You can live in the centre, you know, rural access and access to outdoors is really easy in the Marlborough Sounds from Blenheim.

But if you want to be in a city, you just hop on a plane and you fly for 15 minutes to Wellington. So I think we're just one of the best-located towns in New Zealand. Plus we get the highest sunshine hours. We've rung the right person. I thought we get the highest sunshine hours. We've rung the right person. I thought Nelson had the highest sunshine hours. Oh, there's always a little debate between this and another town

up in the North Island there somewhere. But Blenheim does really, really well. You know, we can just hop down the river for a swim. It's like 10 minutes from my place most of the summer. Well, Blenheim was named the Beaver. Yeah, the Beaver, because we were a swamp town originally. So Blenheim was named the beaver. Yeah, the beaver because we were

a swamp town originally so Blenheim was built on a swamp. So beavers and swamps and yeah, so that kind of colloquialism. A beaver has never

set foot in Blenheim and it was called beaver town for a while, wasn't it? That's right. That's because we were the environment that beavers liked

to live in. But we do have a beaver on our Taylor River, and he's a little monument that sits there overseeing the river as it flows by. Wow. Well, here we go. This has been four minutes of Blenheim propaganda and well delivered as well. Now, Annie, you run the Christmas Pudding Factory. Yes.

And Christmas pudding, it lasts for 29 years. My mum, my mum a big fan of Christmas pudding and I'm still going through the stuff from 1997. But great talking with you. You look after Blenheim. Hold your head high. God bless. You need to come visit. When did you guys last get to

Blenheim? Oh, Taro. It's been a while. I haven't been to Blenheim for a while, so I do need to get, I mean, after this call, I'm like, jeez. I've booked a ticket, I'm on my way Good on you, see you here We'll have a coffee See you Annie This is your new breakfast Health Star rating

still pending It's Jono and Ben on the hits Alright, no one works harder reporting on the stories that don't really matter. Here's producer Julianne the spy. Like this one of Gordon Ramsay. So on his current TV series called Uncharted, he ate what is basically a ginormous rat, and he caught it himself.

Finally, I hit my target. It looks like a rat on steroids. It looks truly vile. Bloody hell. I can't wait to eat it. So he looks vile. Did you edit that together? Is that what he said? No, he said that. It looks vile. I can't wait to eat it. There's like a little gap in between, but he said that. But yeah, so what he did, he was in Louisiana and it's like this, do you know what a capybara looks like?

I'm looking at it now. It's kind of, yeah. So it's not a rat as we would imagine a rat. It's like a giant rodent type thing. Oh, yes. And it lives in the water sometimes. And he's like in this boat in Louisiana and he like kills it with some sort of spear thing and catches it, puts it in a stew and eats it and thinks it's delicious.

And everyone's like, are you okay? Well, it's probably one of those things if you had it and you didn't know what you're eating. True. You know, and that's the sort of thing you'd eat. Exactly. You might be all right, but jeez. Exactly.

Well, because he compared it to eating a rabbit. So if you've eaten a rabbit before, it probably tastes quite similar. I don't think I've ever eaten a rabbit before. What did you call me? A swamp rat runt? I called you a naked mole rat. Oh, a naked mole rat. Yeah, that's right.

So a far more attractive version of the rat. You look vile. I can't wait to eat you. That's good. As the famous saying goes. And the Golden Globes have been postponed until February in the former Oscars time slot. And the Oscars have been postponed to April.

So it's all been delayed by a couple of months Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are also going to be returning to host the Golden Globes Do you remember them? They're always really good So that'll be... Have they said audience or no audience or too soon to say? They don't know, yes I think that's happening a lot with

the award shows, they don't really know whether there's going to be an audience or not. I was just thinking, you mentioned it before, remember when we were at the TV Awards, New Zealand TV Awards a couple of years ago? All you want to do is pee. You spend the whole time just wanting to pee and thinking about peeing. You're sort of trapped in the ceremony.

We were up for a couple of awards, which was pretty cool actually, when we had a TV show. And we were lucky enough to win one award. And it was great. And then we went offside a stage and the next award we were up for was straight afterwards

and everyone went oh you guys you can't leave you've got to watch the next award and we're like oh here we go we're going to win

two awards and they're like ladies and gentlemen the winner of the next award is Nicky Mower yeah it was almost like a prank watch that

they're like stand on the side of stage and watch you lose your award so we can film you like the idiots you are we're like oh okay well done Nicky

she thoroughly deserved. And now we went to pee, basically. I'm not a fan of just sitting in theatres for a long period. I'm not a theatre guy. Are you? You do like going to the theatre, but there's a point where it gets too long to sit there, right? Our friend Dan was in the stage.

Les Mis. The stage show of Les Mis in G. You text him at halftime. I think it took six months of my life, Les Mis. Jono texts him at half time. This is a guy who's in the play going. Like acting in the play. Yeah, he's like texting him going,

hey mate, how much longer has this got to go? And he texts back. He did. He's like, don't worry, it's a bit shorter than the first half. I was like, that was long, bro. Oh my God.

And he's like, yeah, I know, I'm sorry. By the way, great concert though. Yeah, I said I was proud of it. But it's really long. But you could have trimmed some fat on that script, on Les Mis, couldn't you? Yeah. You could edit out at least an hour from that show.

Yeah, it's very long. They did a wonderful job, though. Don't get me wrong. But it was long. Did you see it, Julia? No, I never did. Count your lucky stars. Okay, I will.

For more spy, you can head to the hits.co.nz. The radio version of Morning Breath. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Producer Juliet, you love Spy Entertainment News and something big just dropped. Yeah, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and her husband, Jesse Plemons, were spotted at Annabelle's Wine Bar in Ponsonby

on the weekend having wee drink, chatting to locals. That's what the bar owners come out and said. That's what we love, celebrities in New Zealand. I love it. Oh, jeez. And if they say nice things about the country, oh, my God, we're dying out on that. That's what we want to know, eh?

That's what we want to ring that place up and go, what did they say about New Zealand? Did they like us? Did they have some favourable comments? Did they say it was the best liquid they'd ever had in their mouth ever? Oh, yeah. Because it's New Zealand liquid?

So clean and green. It's, oh, yeah. I remember when Tom Cruise was here and he had some favourable things to say about us. Oh, mate. So good. We could have retired as a country. It was the greatest day of our lives.

A couple of cutouts, the traffic around that lovely, clean, green country of ours. I love New Zealand. I love New Zealand. Celebrities love New Zealand. And here's what's happened so far. The journey is underway. In Bluff.

Bloody dark and windy and very lonely. Just like Ben's underpants. In Christchurch. Felix. Carry around cutouts of washed up schmucks. In Nelson. The sign's actually given them an extra inch at the bottom there. And we need those inches, that's for sure.

On the inter-under. Get a photo with the hits. Jono and Ben. Cardboard cutout. From the hits in Potirua. You guys should be a little bit taller, to be honest. Hello? Today's the day, boys.

What? I'm taking the cutout today. Oh, is this the guy from yesterday? Oh, he's hung up. Oh, he's hung up. I'm really sorry. Somebody's taking the cutout. No.

What can we do to get it back? If you guys can get me a personalised video message from Jacinda Ardern, I'll release the cutout. Oh, what? If we can get a happy birthday message. Happy birthday, Darryl. You've saved us, Jacinda release the cutout. What? If we can get a happy birthday message. Happy birthday You've saved us Jacinda. Daryl. Happy birthday Daryl the truck driver. We'll call it a day on this one eh? I'm gonna

leave it just outside of Tauranga. We're back. We're back. We're heading to Hamilton and we had some complaints. Not happy because Jono and Ben are not coming to Northland so you just have to come. I think it's only fair. You're right. Well, the carpool cutouts No, no, no. You go. You go. They think it's only fair. You're right. Well, the cardboard cutouts. No, no, no.

You go, you go, you go. They are on tour. They have made it from Bluff all the way up the country. And if you just tuned in for the first time, if you see them anywhere or you want to find out where they are, head to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram or Facebook. And you just need to get a photo with it. Put it on your social media.

They'll tell you what hashtag to use. And you are eligible for $5,000. One person will win that depending on if the cutouts make it back to us. Yeah, and if they don't you what hashtag to use, and you are eligible for $5,000. One person will win that, depending on if the cutouts make it back to us. Yeah, and if they don't make it back to us, then it's great for our end-of-year balance sheets too. Oh, true. Yeah, great.

Let's head to Hamilton with our, at the moment, Emily, come on in. Guess what? What? You're on the radio. Oh, my goodness. Thanks for having me. Emily's been chaperoning them around the Tron.

What have they been doing? Cleaning up after the Waikato Chiefs Tower? You know, the changing rooms and things like that, Emily. What have they been doing? Yep, exactly. We went to the Hamilton Lake in the pouring rain, which was amazing. And then we went to the Hamilton Gardens and to Victoria on the River. So

today, where can people go see the cutouts? So right now we are outside Centre Place. We're just across the road from Specsavers. Oh, I like Specsavers. You spend a lot of time there, don't you? I've never been in, but I walk past it and I'm like, that looks like a nice place, Specsavers. They've got old, what's his name, in the Hemsworth.

Oh, they have. Does a bit of stuff for Specsavers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do some little amusing. This is not an ad for Specsavers. This is an ad for our cutouts. Am I not allowed to say I like Specsavers? No, you can. I don't even stuff. Liam Hemsworth, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He does some amusing. This is not an ad for Specsavers. This is an ad for our customers. Oh, just saying. Am I not allowed to say I like Specsavers?

No, you can. I don't even wear glasses and I love Specsavers. Well, go see Emily just across from Specsavers. She's not even outside. It's just across the road. What are you actually outside, Em? Sorry? We're outside Centre Place.

Oh, I love Centre Place. Yeah. Every time I walk past that, I'm like, that is the centre of this place. Go see Emily. Get a photo. Put it on your phone. Put it on your social media past that, I'm like, that is the centre of this place. Guys, Emily, get a photo, put it on your phone, put it on your social media and you can win $5,000.

Thanks very much. Yemi, have a great day. Awesome. Thank you, guys. Hey, thank you very much for your help. Hey, join us tomorrow on the show. Boy, oh boy, I think we have the biggest radio programme

history has ever seen tomorrow. Do we? Yes. Tell me about it. I'm just about to plan it after nine o'clock. Oh, you don't actually know. We will be back tomorrow from 6 o'clock.

We'll catch you there. Have a lemon great Tuesday. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app.