Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Live from Palmerston North for Day Three

Episode Date: October 15, 2024

We might never finish the herald quiz... Did Jono break the hotel toilet? Producer Liam tell a hilarious story on how he got a exam cancelled by projectile vomiting... Sush your bush!! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the podcast for a Wednesday morning meeting. It's just giving me some grief now because of the way I'm sitting. I've just got my nails did. You're like gesticulating a lot. I do. You know when you've got something, you've got, it's like, I'm talking with my hands a lot. It's like when girls get engaged and suddenly you have like bling on your finger, you're like, eww. I've got my nails done.

Well, I feel like they're so fancy. I don't want to be touching common things around as well too. I've got my nails done. You hear it on the podcast. First time getting my nails done. Never have you ever. They are, it looks 15% more fabulous now, doesn't he? I do.

But we are off. Without a word of lie, we're in Palmy. You remind me of an Italian. You know, like an Italian pizza where you're only with your hands. Yeah. We're off to a tractor place. I can't wait.

So we'll see. You've done this in the correct order. Exactly. No other order would I rather do it in. It's great. I didn't realize they're there for three weeks as well. No. No.

Three weeks. But hey. Hot pink. Hot pink. Hot pink. Well, thank you for my surprise today. We surprised a few other people throughout the show today. As well as one of the best stories we've ever heard from producer Liam.

Oh, wow. It involves protectile formatting and being ejected from university. Yeah, it's a pretty wild story. That cost them a whole lot of money, as well as schoolyard games. I tell you about a sport we used to play in Marston in that you guys had never heard of before, but there's a big cheating scandal on the World Circuit. The World Conquer Circuit. Yeah, and we give it to your schoolyard games as well, so it's a really fun podcast.

Out of Parmy this morning from a cafe here at the local. Thank you so much to them. They've been amazing. Enjoy the podcast. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Made our way to Parmy this morning. We're broadcasting out of a local licensed cafe and eatery on Broadway Avenue. Come on down.

See us this morning. You can get yourself a free hot drink. The wonderful Daryl, a barista extraordinaire. Just come down and see Daryl. He makes a divine beverage. And his beautiful smiley face. He's got a great playlist going on. I mean, we've got a great playlist on the hits,

but he's got a great one going on. Daryl, do you play ads in between your songs? No. We've got ads, bro. We've got ads. Now, we're live in Palmerston North, a wonderful part of New Zealand, isn't it? I don't know what they eat for breakfast, but I think it's a big bowl of concrete. Hard people here, bro. We got it. Now, we're live from Palmerston North, a wonderful part of New Zealand, isn't it? Where, I don't know what they eat for breakfast, but I think it's a big bowl of concrete.

Hard people here, Megan. But friendly people. Oh, yeah. And it's been lovely over the last 24 hours. We made our way from Wellington yesterday doing things that we'd never done before. Cryotherapy we got to experience. You'll hear that later on in the show. As well as the cable car, which you guys hadn't done.

It was really fun. Do you want my honest opinion getting into that? I was like, what is this going to be? I could tell because I'd done it before. I'm like, it's good. It's great, guys. And it is lots of fun. And then he's positive about everything.

But you take the kids along. There's the rave cave. It's really cool. It was enjoyable. It was very enjoyable. Now, Megan, you captured something yesterday, which was probably about an hour and a half doing in the Wellington Hit Studio. It's good on you for focusing on a task, though, but it was not the task that you should have

been focusing on. He doesn't normally focus on a task. You're right. We were in the middle of the radio show out of the studios in Wellington yesterday, so we're like a guest in the Wellington studios. Yeah. So you broke something. It was like the fan, wasn't it?

It was just like a normal, what do they call them, pedestal fan. Yeah. Or like, yeah. It tipped over. The only fan we've ever had for the radio show. And I ruined it. Yeah. Your butt backed into it and you broke it.

And yeah, the front bit fell off. And so I spent the majority of the show not focusing on the radio show, but focusing on the fan repairal. Trying to get the front cover back on and it had a sleeve around it that you kind of needed to join with the other, anyway. Yeah,

you were like, you were really focused on that. You're like, we're in Hayley from Wellington Studio. You're like, I need to get this sorted because Hayley's going to be in here after nine o'clock.

And it had her business card attached to it, so I'm like, this is her personal fan. Yeah. And I did it. 90 minutes later. A long time you did, but it you got it done which is great yeah so happy I'm so happy for you but then you went and interviewed Hayley after the show yeah so I I talked to Hayley and I was like John is not

going to tell you but he broke your fan uh necessarily throwingo under the bus there have you heard the Stitches Stitches policy in prison well this might make you feel better or might make you feel worse I don't know

but she said that it broke a year and a half ago and it's just been sitting there for a year and a half for a year and a half so she knew it was broken

she broke it but she's very happy to learn that you fixed it and I wasted half the radio show trying to fix that thing. What? You've achieved something this week. Pretty average radio, but you've got a band back together.

Hey, next, we'll be trying to get 10 out of 10. It's our never have you ever task. We want to get 10 out of 10 on the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. Yesterday, terrible, terrible effort from us. Was it two? It was a shocking effort. But then the day before we had nine. Jeez, the highs and lows.

How will we go? We'll find out next. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Never have you ever toured, travelling around the country, helping people achieve things for the first time and doing some new things ourselves. You'll hear some of the antics. Can I say antics?

Shenanigans. We got up to over the last 24 hours. It's been a really fun couple of days and we continue on in Palmy this morning. So 4487 on the text. If there's something you've never done, you'd love to do today. Yeah. Well, something we'd like to do that you two started last week and you haven't nailed yet is the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz.

It's like an early morning pub quiz, except without the fun pub parts of a pub quiz. And Producer Ellie, you curate the quiz. Oh, yeah, I look at it. I don't make it, though. No, you don't make it. I was thinking, like, if it continues on, we need to come up with a quiz team name, but that's for another day.

You know, we haven't come up with a name. Maybe that's what's holding us back. Yeah. Some sort of clever... You're a quiz-ed, Harry. Nice. Oh, yeah, that's just one that you always hear it. Yeah, there's always those...

Christina Aguilera. Okay, guys, we'll focus on this later. Okay, sorry. But it's a great point you raised. Quiz Khalifa, you know, that sort of stuff. Okay, so Ellie. It's a lot more fun than doing the quiz, isn't it? Yeah.

First question today of the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. We can lean on you listening. We'll lean on Daryl here at the local cafe. Daryl will definitely know stuff. Yeah, I feel like Daryl will know stuff. Okay, first question. Alright, question number one. Former All White Tim Brown is the co-founder of

which... Oh! That's correct. Yeah. And one of the owners of the new Auckland FC as well, isn't he? I know. There you go. He can still do our move, the knighthood, the Auckland FC and win $250. If you upload that to the hitstock.nz. Oh, Ben.

Beautiful. All right, question number two. Denmark shares its only land border with which country? Is it Sweden, Germany, or Norway? Ooh. I'm tapping out of geography, mate. Daryl is mouthing Germany. Daryl the barista here at the local cafe, are we locking in Germany?

He's got his hand over his mouth. He's got it. I reckon we trust him. He's got it. Daryl's goingista here at the local cafe Are we locking in Germany? He's got his hand over his mouth He's got it I reckon we trust him He's got it Daryl's going to be our key To getting team I think Two from two Question number three

How many studio albums has Adele released? Is it three, four or five? 19, 21, 25, 30 Did she do 30? I don't know Oh what was four and I That was the one where she was telling us To take it easy on her, wasn't it? The 30 where she had been, she had, I think, 4.

She definitely names it with the age of what she is. 4, I reckon. Are we locking in 4? Do we? Go with your gut. That is correct. Okay, that's a good start. That's a good start.

We're 3 down. We'll ask the next question, then shall we take a breather? Yeah, we can do that. All right. Question number four. The record for the most expensive painting ever sold belongs to which artist? Is it Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci,

or Vincent van Gogh? Okay, so all big bangers, all great artists. Big bangers. It could be any of them, really. They were chucked into like a comical one. They've gone with three of the most

famous ones. All of them I think contracted syphilis too at some point. They did. Back in those days. You went mad with syphilis but they

made them great creatives. The Kanye Wests of years ago. So 4487 should we put this one to the text machine this morning?

So can we just repeat that one more time? The record for the most expensive painting ever sold belongs to which artist? Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, or Vincent van Gogh? Daryl, you think you know? No, he's wincing. Okay.

4487 on the text. We're so far in question number four. Four, okay. We might be all over at question four if we get this wrong. So text us. Help us out. We'll come back next and try and achieve 10 out of 10 on the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

She's updated that song when she sings it live now because of the P. Diddy line. She used to say, what, wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy. Now she says, screaming F. P. Diddy. Obviously, she hasn't seen to herself when she does it live, but yeah, she's not broadcasting to the nation at 6 o'clock in the morning. I don't know how you wake up in the morning after a night with Peter, but it wouldn't be a fun time,

I imagine. The New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz, trying to get 10 out of 10, four down, four correct. And the world's most expensive painting, Megan's done some further research into this. Leonardo da Vinci's Salvatore Mundi. It's like a portrait of, I guess, Salvatore. Sold for 559 million US dollars.

Oh, yeah. I feel like it'd be Salvatore, wouldn't it? Salvatore? Who knows? Now's not the time to figure it out. No, now we need to carry on because we've started, as you say, with four correct answers. We stop when we get one wrong.

We're trying to get 10 out of 10. We're making it our mission over the last couple of weeks. So question five. Hit the music. Here we go. What is the name of the ancient artifact that Indiana Jones seeks in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Is it Noah's Ark, Ark of the Covenant, or the Holy Grail?

Come over here, Daryl, from the local cafe. What are you thinking there, Daryl? He's helped us out with this. He has. He has. He's been our sort of phone of friends so far. Sorry, we've got like a sports commentator, Mike. You'll just have to talk into my face. What are you thinking, Daryl? He's helped us out with this. He has. He has. He's been our sort of phone of friends so far. Sorry, we've got like a sports commentator, Mike. You'll just have to talk into my face.

What are you thinking, Daryl? Well, it's Raiders of the Lost Ark, therefore the clue's in the question. Yeah, the clue in the question with Noah's Ark. Are you thinking Noah's Ark? But isn't there two Ark ones? The other one was Ark of the Covenant. Why is he... He can't find Noah's Ark.

No. It's a big thing to find. I feel like I would have... Because I've seen this before. So you reckon Ark of the Covenant. Why is he... He can't find Noah's Ark. No. It's a big thing to find. I feel like I would have... Because I've seen this before. So you reckon Ark of the Covenant? Yeah, OK. OK, we're locking in the Ark of the Covenant. That's correct.

Oh, Daryl. Daryl. That's two now. We'll make you a wonderful hot drink this morning. You can get that for free. And also, great on the quiz questions. All right, question number six. Company NVIDIA is primarily known for its products in which field?

Is it aerospace, automotive, or electronics? Electronics. I've never heard of NVIDIA. No, I thought you'd... NVIDIA, I've heard of. Locke and Megan's Electronics. That's correct. Oh, bang.

Oh, wow. At least seven out of seven. Yeah, we're up to number seven. Okay, this is great, guys. This is great. Question seven, what is the name of the day before All Saints Day? Is it Halloween, Easter Sunday, or Boxing Day? Oh, I've heard that before, but I can't remember which one.

All Saints Day. So it would be a Christian holiday, not Halloween. So take it, yeah. Yeah, get rid of that. What are the other two options? Boxing Day? Or Easter Sunday? You'd have to say Easter Sunday.

Maybe. Can I pop in? Oh, Liam. Liam, producer Liam from Auckland, beaming in. Three days I've not known a question, but I know this one. Oh, okay. Come through for us. It's Halloween.

Oh, we cancelled our Halloween. Lock it in. That is correct. Liam, this is great. This is great, New Zealand. It's a team effort. Liam, pop back in again. Do we continue on with more questions right now

or do we need to take a quick song break? No, no, you're okay. Continue on. Two to go. All right. Question number eight. In which iconic 1980s comedy film did Rick Moranis play the role of Louis Tully?

Little Shop of Horrors, Ghostbusters, or Honey, I Shrunk the Kids? So he was in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. He was in Ghostbusters. Listen, we have done very little heavy lifting this morning. Daryl is mouthing Ghostbusters to me. Well, he was in Ghostbusters, yeah? Are we looking at Ghostbusters?

That is correct. Daryl! Who are you going to call? Daryl and Ghostbusters. All right. Oh, my gosh. What are we asked to? Question number nine.

Okay. Who wrote the famous 19th century poem, The Raven? Is it Edgar Allan Poe, Percy by Shelley, or Oscar Wilde? What did you say, Jono? Edgar Allan Poe. Lock that in. Thank you. That is correct.

Okay. How the hell do you know that? I don't know. I don't know. So we stumbled on question 10. We're going to stop here. Okay. So this is number 10.

I'm going to stop here. Oh, my God, guys. And we're going to come back next and see if we can get 10 out of 10. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. From Palmerston North this morning on our Never Have You Ever Tour, we're going to come back next and see if we can get 10 out of 10. From Palmerston North this morning on our Never Have You Ever Tour, we're one question away from 10 out of 10. For the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz, before we get into that, I'm going to take a quick side question here that I've come up with for you guys right now.

Palmerston North related, okay? Now, we do call Ben the Prince of Parmy. He's spent many times down here on promotional duties and loves the area. This is a quick game of Parmy Fact or Fiction. Two of these are actual headlines from Palmerston North over the last week. One I've made up. Okay. Yep.

Okay, first headline. Palmerston North schools introduced eco-friendly uniforms made from recycled materials. I feel like that's a true story. And number two, Palmerston North are turning into the drag capital of Aotearoa. And number three, this New Zealand airport is getting ready for a massive $40 million makeover. Ooh. Yeah, there we go. I feel like Spanky Jack's in the drag.

Isn't she from Parmy? And I know Ben Boyce. He wouldn't do drag as a gag. No. Okay. He can't be correct. He wouldn't want to offend me. Yeah.

Palmerston North, they've got a big drag fest coming up in a couple of weeks, it's big here, so that's correct. And Spanky won RuPaul Drag Race, so like, well done,

yeah. So, I'm going to say all three are headlines. No! One is fake. One is fake. The airport is getting

a $40 million makeover at Palmerston North that I made up the recycled materials. Why? I don't know, just for a laugh, mate.

Your people sounded so real. I tried to make it real without putting a gag one in there. Into drag, just for a laugh, mate. They all sounded so real. I tried to make it real without putting a gag one in there. Into drag, not into being eco-friendly. I mean, it could happen. I'm not saying they're not. Anyway, we're back to the New Zealand Herald. There's some turbines up on the hill.

Exactly. New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. This is our final one. Can we get 10 out of 10 this week? We failed. Well, failed every day, really. But we got 9 out of 10 the other day. So here we go. Producer Ali with the final question. Can I just say, your coffee,

the way you're balancing it, your hand is perilously close to tipping over on you. I know. Level it up a touch, Producer Ali. Do you want to put it down? No, I've got it, I reckon. Drop it. Thank you, bro. Okay, question number 10. Swallowing a cloud

is the English translation for what dish that originated in China? Is it wonton, dim sum, or hot pot? Okay, so we can't. No one look at Daryl because Daryl here at the local cafe is amazing with quiz questions. Swallowing a cloud. A wonton is crispy. But then a dim sum of those little soft ones that don't necessarily look like a cloud.

And what was the pot one, sorry? Hot pot. The hot pot's steamy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Everyone, we've kind of almost convinced ourselves it could be correct. Oh, jeez.

No, I reckon we go with Jono's hot pot. Are we locking in the steamy pot? Let's do it. This is for 10 out of 10 on the New Zealand... Wait, Ben, are you locking it in? I'll do it. I'll go with you. We're on the team together. Producer Ellie locking it in. Hereamy pot. Wait, steamy? This is for 10 out of 10 on the New Zealand... Wait, Ben, are you locking it in? I'll do it. I'll go with you. We're on the team together.

Producer Ellie locking it in. Here we go. History is about to be made in Palmerston North. That is incorrect. Oh! I said not the hot pot. Oh, no.

John O'Hugh. Idiot. No, but it's... Hey, we're... Don't try and make it a team thing. It was me. I'm sorry. It made sense you idiot. No, but it's, hey. Don't try and make the team think it was me. I'm sorry. It's okay. It made sense to me.

Yeah, we went with you. It was wonton, by the way. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. They're crispy. I know. I know what you mean.

That was hard. Those old English, they are crazy. Anyway, not to be today. Not to be today. Well, it may be back again. Rear its ugly head again tomorrow. Then you sell it here on Daily Quiz. Hey, next.

Something happened in the hotel last night. I've just got a little bit of audio. Liam, if you could just play that audio I sent you. I don't know if he was like, is this personal? Stop there. Stop there. Oh, no, that's something for your doctor, Jono. What is going on?

We'll find out next. 6.40, The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We are on our Never Have You Ever tour in Palmerston North this morning at the local cafe. Come down and see us. You can get a free hot drink this morning. Someone can pay for a play for $1,000 in the offer quiz at 7.45 too. Wonderful team here at the local cafe.

And Palmerston North, Ben, it holds a very dear place in your heart. Love it. Mate, has it let you down so far? Not at all, mate. We had a lovely dinner last night. Lovely hotel accommodation. Lovely hotel, yeah. Just a great time, guys.

Now, the reason that he's vehemently backing Palmer South is he found himself sort of trapped here, didn't he? Not really trapped. Almost lived here, yeah, for a while. Yeah, the floods. He came down for a promotional campaign for a couple of nights and ended up here for five, six, seven nights. A cyclone came through, couldn't fly out and I couldn't have been happier. The family and I were like, we live in Parmy now.

But we have made our way back to where we live. As soon as you were able to get out, you did leave though. Reluctantly, Megan, reluctantly. It was a wonderful spot. We are in Parmy.

We stayed in the hotel last night and this audio that I'm about to play you, it does sound... Like you should send it to your doctor. Yeah. Yeah.

For a health check. Is this a normal flow? Yeah. But what happened at about 9.30 at night, I used the facilities and I did that thing where you push the flush

and this is not on the hotel. I want a front foot there. It's all on me. You push the flush and somehow I had done something wrong, but the flow, you know, the toilet keeps running. Right. And I was like, oh, it's too

late to call it. Listen to it. Sounds like a miniature horse's urinating. So this was just constant. This is the soundtrack to your night. Did you try anything to fix it? Yeah, I just kept bashing it. The double was sort of flush again.

And I lifted up the lid to the... But no, that was all night long. It's still going now. So if there's a water shortage in Palmer, you can probably thank me, to be honest. That would make me wet the bed. You'd be sleeping and you'd just hear that noise. Well, actually, I was just reading this morning about

there's someone going viral on TikTok as well. She's a gynecologist in Houston saying about peeing in the shower because some people are saying, should you do it, should you not do it? Apparently, it saves a heck of a lot of water. Well, it saves the flush. Maybe that's what you should have done, Johnna. People that are into it say, oh, it saves water, but she's not into it. This gynecologist is saying that, one, it's unhygienic, and two, basically when you're doing it in there,

you're training your body to hear running water and to go, and it doesn't help your pelvic. Shush-a-bush, gynecologist. So next time you're at a fountain, you're like, oh, dear God. Don't say shush-a-bush, gynecologist. Don't ever say that to a female again. She might be saying it to call you. Don't ever say that to a female again. Okay. She might be saying it to her clients.

That's a noisy one. Why is it so noisy? Moving on from this, after 7 o'clock, we continue the fun here in Parmy, as you can be playing for $1,000 as well, and I quickly exit that conversation. It's Benson Boone. It's 10 minutes away from 7 o'clock on The Hits.

We're in Palmerston North on our Never Have You Ever tour heading around the country, thanks to Gas Petrol Service Stations, where we could be making things happen for you for the first time, and we get to achieve some things that we've never done before. Some big stuff, big plans in Parmy this morning. Involving tractors and Mr Whippy and all sorts. And a surprise for Ben. Oh really? Yeah, it's a treat for you.

Jono says yeah, but he doesn't know either. He's like, yeah. Jono's just surprised to be here. He's like the Joe Biden of the show. He's like, we're doing radio again? Well, speaking of Joe Biden, he's nearly 122 years old,

and so is the Wellington Cable Car, which we went on yesterday. Ben, you'd done it previously. It's great fun. Every time I come to Wellington with the kids, we always enjoy going up in the cable car, the Botanic Gardens up the top. Beautiful views back of the city as well. It's a lovely spot, and it is a really, really cool thing. It's a cool piece of machinery.

Jeez, in two days, we've really covered a lot on the spectrum of transport in this country. Yeah. Planes. Helicopters. Yeah. Cable cars. We've got tractors coming up. Mr. Webby.

All sorts. And a surprise that none. That we're all across. But we met Tansy, who actually phoned through the show. Yesterday, we were in Wellington. And she invited us down to, what's that street? Oh,

kind of like the main street. Lambden Kitt. Lambden Kitt. At the bottom of the cable car and it was sort of an unusual alleyway. So cryotherapy goes down to minus 87 degrees, this one. No, that's... That was... That was...

That was John O'Surprise he doesn't know about. A cryotherapy session. That one wasn't meant to play. That didn't happen in the alleyway in Lambton Quay. As far as I know.

Have we got the other audio? No, we don't. We don't. What I can give you is a Megan surprise. I can give you Megan on the cable car. Okay, so the cable car had been around for 122 years. It's hit the scene.

We met Tansy after I had a cryotherapy session in the alleyway. And Megan, your dream was to push the horn on the cable car that goes up and down the hill. Have a listen. See which one? Oh, that one! Ha, ha, ha! An oldie but a goodie. up and down the hill have a listen yeah see which one but it was a little bell he was it was great the cable car driver wouldn't he i asked him how his day was and he's like up and down which was great he's made a driver, wouldn't he? I asked him how his day was, and he's like, up and down, which was great.

He's made a bit up and down, which I thought was great. Great dad joke. He did the joke on you, saying, don't push that button, as well. Because they just have a panel of buttons in front of them. It's a really cool thing. You go up, you're really steep up the hill in Wellington, through the rave cave, as well, with the flashing lights. So it was a fun little activity.

Where did the flashing lights come from? I think it was from some festival they brought it in as a bit of, like, a Wellington Lights Festival. And then everyone went, this is so great. Let's keep it around. So they do. Well, they went, when you put up Christmas lights, oh, we'll just ride them out until next year. Let's just keep it around.

But thank you to Tansy and the wonderful team at Wellington Cable Car for having us. It was a great day. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Love to see you this morning, Palmerston North. It's filling up already when you put the word free in front of anything, Ben. Yeah. Tends to work well. Now, we've been travelling throughout the country doing Never Have You Evers,

and it's been really enjoyable, and enjoyable too, getting to know producer Liam a bit better. Just, you know, during the songs, chatting away, he's pushing the buttons at the studio. And, Liam, I don't even know how we got into this. Yeah, yeah, and it's a story that relates to, I haven't heard it, but apparently it's amazing, about Liam responsible for getting something cancelled. So that's what we wanted to know this morning.

0800 the hits, 4487, what were you responsible for when you got something cancelled? Because Liam, this happened to you. Could be a flight, could be a party, could be a huge event. Maybe you pushed the fire alarm by accident in a restaurant or something. But we'll hand it over to you, Liam. This is from your university days. Yeah, look, this is from when I was a little bit more immature, not responsible like I am now.

Well, trying to be responsible now. So we've got to go back to Victoria University, where I say I'm a proud alumni. They don't want to know me at all. So this is Vic University in Wellington. Vic University in Wellington. Vic University in Wellington. So we've completed a whole year, and at that point I thought to myself, I want to be a lawyer.

I don't want to be a little radio jock pressing the buttons for Jono and Ben, having a wake up at 4 a.m. Having your dreams been shattered now. He came out of private school education. He wanted to be a lawyer, so he did the whole year at Victoria University doing business. And he got to that last exam, and the night before, it was somehow it was put out there that it was student night and that we should go out. And we used to go to this pub called The George.

Not sure if it's still there, but if you can go to The George, you can get a litre of whatever tap beer you'd like for about 20 bucks. That seems too much litreage. We used to do the classic thing where you'd try to get through as many litreages as you can. Long story short,

we made the decision that the exam was at 9am the morning and at about 3am we said to ourselves, let's just stay out. What's the worst that and at about 3 a.m. we said to ourselves, let's just stay out. Like, what's the worst that can happen? So we stayed out. And your parents are like, oh. Did you actually ask yourself, did you actually answer the question,

what's the worst that could happen? Oh, I think we're about to find out, aren't we? Yeah, we are. I think life answered that question for me. So if we can jump through to 9 a.m., we are walking into this law exam with an absolute head of steam, but a lot of confidence that he's going to do well. We get in there. Now, you can imagine a classic university lecture theatre, you know what, maybe 200, 300 people,

and you've got rows which go out maybe 30 people wide and go down 20 rows. It's an auditorium set up, yeah. It's an auditorium set up. You get put into alphabetical order, so you don't get to choose your own seat. If I did, with the amount of times I probably needed to pee, I would have gone on the aisle. But nope, I had to sit in the middle.

So I'm right in the middle, and after a bit of a long night, you know, I don't want to blame the alcohol. I'm going to say I had a little bit of food poisoning. Gastro. The gastro had come through. I'm sitting in the middle row. I feel it coming. There's not enough time.

And I projectile vomit. It goes down three aisles. Like on people's heads, backs, papers. And they end up having to cancel the whole exam. So we're now getting rid of about 300-400 people out of that exam. It's a biohazard at that point. Liam's days at Victoria University

came to an end within 24 hours. Oh, that was it? He got called into the Chancellor's office and he's like, mate, and expelled him from the university. Like he expelled liquid from his mouth. Also, Liam had gone there on a scholarship. Oh, no.

And what happens when you get ejected on a scholarship, Liam? Well, the IRD are loving my $60,000 student loan. So that night out cost them $60,000. Wow. It formatted over three rows of people. Can I start reading out my bank account number now just for donations? He will start to give a little page. And now he's pushing buttons for Jono, Ben and Megan on it.

Oh, Liam. That's what happens, kids. Thank you for sharing that Lolo moment in your life. We do appreciate it. I'm pleased you've learned from it. But right now we want to hear what happened to you. What did you get cancelled? What were you responsible for getting?

Like Jono said, was it a flight? Was it a class? Was it an exam? Was it a restaurant that you ended up getting everyone evicted from? We'd love to hear from you. 0800 The Hits. We'll get back to your calls and texts. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

On a Wednesday morning, we're talking about what you got cancelled after we just heard from producer Liam, who got a whole university exam cancelled. They all had to re-sit it three or four weeks later after not getting any sleep the night before. Ended up projectile vomiting over three rows of students and all of their exam papers. You'll just be...

Terrible gastro. Terrible gastro. Terrible gastro. You know, my mum, he was obviously 19, 20 at the time. My mum always used to like to remind me that the male brain isn't fully developed until 25. Yeah. I think she kept doing that to make herself feel better about my decisions. Yeah. I got a whole class at school cancelled.

I've told this story before to you, Jono, but I don't know if I've shared it with Megan. We had to do individual dance for a a pe uh sort of assignment at school dance by yourself in front of a whole year group which is a humiliating thing for me to think about doing so at home i had a michael jackson mask don't ask me why i had a michael jackson mask costumes my lover costume started there and so i was like great if i put a mask on no one will be able to see my face first step we're like great i can do some sort of routine to michael jackson come up with something and then i was like well michael jackson comes out with you know fireworks razzmatazz showmanship so i had some fireworks from home left over that mum had and so i came out as michael

jackson first thing i did was i had a fire extinguisher from home i took from home and i sprayed it out so it left like a misty so a mist around the around you wanted a dry eye dry eyes yeah but i didn't have dry eyes so that german first thing i did sprayed that from a little room out the back and then i came out michael jackson himself dressed as michael jackson here i was i started doing the dance pretty badly whipped off a sheet that i had prepared there was some fireworks i lit those lit one in a room yes in the gym in the school gymnasium uh And it started, of course, burning the floor. I was carrying on my dance, still carried away. We had to light the other one.

I remember the teacher yelling, no, Ben, no, as I lit the other one. And then everyone started panicking because, of course, the gym floor started burning. Everyone comes rushing down. Do we have a fire extinguisher? Well, I did, but I don't want to use that. For the show. And you used it for good purposes. We got managed to get out the fire

and stuff like that. But unfortunately, a little bit of burn to the gym floor. And also the fire extinguisher, I've never let one off before. It's almost like a talcum powder. Like a powder, yeah. Everywhere.

All over. And the whole class for the rest of the hour all had to clean my mess up. No more dances. I got the whole thing cancelled. Did you finish the performance? Well, I thought it stopped.

He was carrying on thinking everyone was cheering, but they're like, no. But no, I had to stop. Music stopped and we went to clean up for the rest of the thing. So the whole dance thing was cancelled. I thought you didn't get done for arson. I got a week's worth of special detentions at school as well. Yeah, I had to come back and clean. And they're not that special, are they?

No, nothing special about it. So that's what I got. It was the first time Michael Jackson was cancelled. And then a few years later, he was actually cancelled again. You're right. Great text here. Sorry, we can't get a hold of them on the phone. But this person cancelled the Moulin Rouge performance in Paris.

Oh, wow. 4487 on the text machine. We were in watching the Moulin Rouge. Everyone paid top dollar to watch the show. And someone, I'm assuming, had a heart attack. The show stopped mid-show. The ambulance came in. They had to be wheeled out.

And they're assuming maybe the boobies were a little too much. Get the heart racing. A little bit. So, yeah. Oh, there we go go the boobies cancelled the show and Mulan Rose appreciate your calls

and texts this morning we got to experience negative 87 degrees yesterday which is colder than Antarctica and we're in our underpants

nothing but our underpants and socks we didn't even have socks on me just your undies yesterday we all got to experience what we're doing

we'll find out next on our Never Have You Ever Tour on the Hits. As we actually literally enjoy the Hits breakfast right now here at local licensed cafe and eatery. We're in Palmerston North, Broadway Ave. Come down and see us before 9 o'clock. You could get yourself a free hot drink until 9 o'clock this morning. And we're on the Never Have You Ever Tour as well

if there's anything you've never done. And you're in Palmerston North, the Manawatu region. We'd love to make your dreams come true. You can just call 0800 THE HITS. We'll try and get someone on next. But yesterday, we're leaving Wellington, and the wonderful Jamie from the NZCIS. Sounds like the Central Intelligence Service.

It does. New Zealand Campus of Innovation and Sport. He got in touch with us. He texts, and he's like, come along and check out our facility and you can experience cryotherapy, which is when you basically just put yourself in a fridge, minus 87 degrees. Now, this is the training home of the All Blacks, Black Ferns, Phoenix, Hurricanes. Lions.

I notice a lot of very fit-looking, muscular people, well-defined I notice a lot of very fit looking, muscular people, well-defined muscles and a lot of beautifully shaved legs. Yeah. It's a wonderful facility. Like we walked through the gymnasium first thing. It's just, wow, there was like ex-orbit Corey Jane was there. He works the hurricanes. And then they made me push the scrum machine in front of everyone.

In front of Corey Jane. And it went back. I was at the gym last night. I started pushing it forward and then it pushed back. I lost the scrum against the scrum machine. It's like, how did that happen? I've got a mark on my shoulder. I was like, what happened to me?

I was like, yeah. I was very worried for you. I was trying to look tough in front of everyone. Pop a hip out or something. Who loses to a scrum machine? I know. Like if anything, just staying where you are. Yeah, exactly.

I'm like, dear God, that's embarrassing. But honestly, the facility is, it's mind-blowing. It's state-of-the-art. It's in Trentham in Upper Hutt. And Jamie's gone around the world.

He's visited, like, Manchester United and some of the NBA teams and basically designed this huge centre with accommodation and apartments for all these teams.

And it's wild. Oh, you can kick goals. Like, there's an indoor sort of stadium in there. You can kick goals up against a screen, like a huge screen. That can be soccer goalposts or football, you know, goalposts, rugby posts as well. It's incredible. There's a little swimming pool where you can just swim on the spot, and it, like, the water blows at you.

Yeah. We walked into the cold pool area. All the hurricanes were there, nearly naked. Megan was just secretly filming like a kid. We lost Megan for a while there. They were like can you please stop steering. I was like yeah apologies. And then Jamie took us to the cryotherapy area and he kind of explained to us what the process was about. So cryotherapy goes down to minus 87 degrees this one it's a full immersion chamber just imagine a phone box that's like going into a freezer at your local alcohol shop and looking for the beers yeah that's what i was thinking it

was like the key thing when you go in their team is not to have anything wet on uh there's been some bad stories come out of the nba when players went in with wet jocks on it doesn't end well for yeah you join the dots on that one You can literally probably change gender in one session. Wow, there's like frostbite, really, isn't it? Okay, okay, so we're going to go in with what? Very limited stuff on. Yeah, little as you can. Keep it respectable, but yeah, jocks and socks is the key.

Three-minute session today. You can come out soon. You don't get locked in there, but what it does is a rapid changing of skin temperature, and it helps fuel the body in ways where you need the need the resources most so really good for aches and pains it does have some fat burning abilities by reducing calories are we going to look younger as well too is that that sort of thing helping us out yeah look they do say look i can't speak to the aging benefits of that but what we can say is the guys that use it talk about the sleep benefits as well. So it's a good body clock resetter and it's something that is becoming more and more popular

here in New Zealand. And Walt Disney, Walt Disney! There's that rumour that he's cryogenic. He might be in one. Oh, he might see him in there. Alright, let's go. Okay, so we'll play Megan's first. This is, you know, you went in barefoot, bare feet, because you didn't have socks.

You're supposed to wear socks, but yeah, I didn't have socks. So yeah, I had bare feet. Negative 87 degrees. Yeah, which for reference, the South Pole today has a high of minus 39. Okay, this is how Megan was experiencing her minus 87 degrees. Oh my God! Oh my God! This one. Yeah, it's very cold.

It sounds so enjoyable. And then Ben and me, because you have to get down to your underpants, so it would be very inappropriate if we were all in the same way. We locked into the same fridge too, and here was us at minus 87. Oh! Oh, my God! Oh, Jesus! Oh, my God!

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Honestly, we were wearing socks and they end up freezing. Yeah. It's frozen on your body. The minimal hairs I have on my legs were like icicles by the end of it. It was three minutes we got through, but it was a real mental challenge. It's also like snowing in there. Yeah. Never have we ever done cryotherapy.

We did it yesterday. We ticked that off the box. It was a pretty incredible experience. Rejuvenates yourself a little bit. I feel fitter and healthier already. So, Adam, that's 4487. One of the numbers that you would love to do, we could try and make a couple happen over the next couple of days

as we head around the country thanks to gas, petrol, service stations and 732 on the Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're on our Never Have You Ever tour, travelling around the country, making your nevers come true. Congratulations to Brent, who just won $1,000 before on the Alpha Quiz. We're in Palmy this morning at The Local. Come down and see us.

You can get a free coffee or a tea or a hot drink before 9 o'clock. Yep, and we've been staying in different variations of accommodation on this journey, and last night I had an unfortunate incident with the lavatory where I pushed the handle too hard on the flush, and then there was just a constant flow. That was the soundtrack to my evening. I know what you're thinking it sounds like. We won't take it to the garden.

Let's not do toilet humor. No, you're right. The night before, night one, you decided to wash and dry your clothes. Two, because there was a washing and drying facilities in the hotel room. You're like, it was night one. I don't know what horrible things have gone on with your clothing. We joke about it, but I do really feel like we're on tour with Joe Biden. He's like, there's a washing and drying facility. on tour with Joe Biden. He's washing his clothes.

I need to wash my clothes. It was night one. Anyway. That happened in my room last night. But Megan, I've never. You tell us what you use every time you walk into a room with something. A bath. A bath.

Every. Have you never used like every time there's a hotel every single time there's a hotel bath I'm like yes I use it

I can't remember the last time I had a bath it would be two decades are you joking no oh that's my thing have you got a bath at home yeah

you're right but you just never it's not something I would regularly go for can't imagine you bathing no I have the occasional one

every year but it's quick. It's like, everyone's like, did you just have a bath? I'm like, yep, done it. Relaxed. I'm like, what, for 10 seconds? I'm out. I'm done. Nothing against the fine establishments that we've already stayed at, but they didn't have baths, and yesterday I was like, I feel like

this could be the place. Would you get in a shub? It was a shub. Was it? Yeah. I don't discriminate any kind of body of water, so I was standing at the bathroom door and I was like, please have a bath. And it did. The thing is, most hotels, they have the bath. So there's the room door and then the bathroom's right there. So if you have the bathroom door open, if anyone came in the door, they would see you in the bath.

And that was the case yesterday. I see why you like having baths. Hello. Come in. No. bath and that was the case yesterday so i see why you like having baths come in no and this didn't happen yesterday but i did shut the bathroom door uh to the bathroom because previously uh i have stayed at a place and you know when they do the turndown service? Uh-oh, uh-oh. The bedtime parade? I was naked in the bath, and someone knocked on the door, but the knock and the entry were like right too quick, right after each other, and the bathroom door was open. And it was like a younger guy who was obviously doing the turndown services for the hotel, knocked on the door, and just as I was saying,

no, it's okay, opened the door, and I'm so vulnerable, just lying there, getting in the bath. He would have been like... But he stood there too long, being like, trying to, like, obviously, realising, you know, it takes a while to connect with what you're... That's right, that's what he was doing. He was just taking a moment to realise what was happening while staring directly, not at your face for some reason. It felt like he was there for a while.

He was just thinking, what's going on here? Although, to be honest, you probably just ordered room service and you're like, oh, yeah. Unexpectedly sure, Megan. Sure. Yeah, yeah. Arriving in your hotel room. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Doing some fun stuff in Palmerston North after the show. Thanks to Norwood, we've hooked up a tractor on the fly and we're going to make Kimberley's lifelong dream. Katrina. Her other dream is that you'll get her name right. She's got one simple dream. I'm sorry, Kat. Katrina's lifelong dream of not being called Kimberley.

He is like Joe Biden, eh? He really is. And driving that tractor on the road. So we're doing that after the show. And we've got a Mr. Whippy truck. Someone's dream to drive around in the Mr. Whippy truck and distribute ice creams. Now, Parmy North, you know, tractors, rural. But it's not all about rural.

Hard word to say and tractors, right, Megan? No. And someone is joining us on the phone, Michelle, because Michelle's dream was to get mani-pedi. She's never had one before. Good morning, Michelle. Good morning. Now, I'm happy to tell you that thanks to Pure Beauty Therapy,

we've got for you a beautiful Pure Fiji Deluxe Pedicure and Spa Manicure. It's worth $153. Plus, you're getting a Pure Fiji prize pack, all thanks to Pure Beauty Therapy. Oh, wow. Thank you. Were you about to say, holy shit? I was just talking to myself in my ear. I was going to say that, but yes.

We all knew it means a lot to you. Anything about swearing on our radio show. Oh, that's awesome. You get to treat yourself there. That sounds incredible. Yeah, I go to Aussie next month, so that'll be cool. Oh, very cool.

Because I imagine for many people, it's the last thing. You feel like you don't want to be selfish and spend money on yourself, you know, with just bills to pay. You know, so it's great that we get to do this. Especially if you've got a new job in a kitchen, that's the last thing you want to do.

Yeah, yeah. Get a beautiful mani-pedi before you go to where are you going? Australia. I'm going to Australia, Sydney for 12 days with my family. Well, they're like nails over there, well-groomed ones and yours will be. Thank you so much.

You did inspire me because not that there's anything wrong with your cuticles, Ben, but I know that you've never had a mani-pedi before. You asked me this the other day, and I was like, no, I haven't. No, I've had my daughters, when they were younger, attempt to put nail polish on, and I pick away at my nails,

an anxiety thing, and my wife always says, stop picking your nails. And weirdly, I have painted your nails before, but you've never had a proper mani-pedi. No, now I'm quite self-conscious. That's what's going to happen right now, is it? You are getting a manicure, thanks to Hannah, Hayley from Pure Beauty Therapy. I can't believe it. But you might notice we've picked a really nice colour for you.

Okay. I haven't noticed, to be honest. There's a lot of colours going on. It's pink. Oh, great. It's a nice hot pink. Oh, great. I love it.

Now, Hayley, sorry, microphones are at a premium here, so you just have to talk into my face. I'm sorry. What are we going through here? What's the process? I see a big bowl of steaming hot water. Yes, we're going to give Ben a lovely sugar scrub. A nice sugar scrub. And then we're going to, from your face.

Wait, is that a... We're going to paint him a lovely hot pink nails to go with the hits of branding. Okay, great. Now, Hayley, they won't know this, but it's gel polish, isn't it? It is gel polish, yeah. So that means that I can't just take it off with nail polish remover. Okay.

It means it's going to last. Okay, all right. Your daughters will love it. Oh, they will love it. You're right. And I'm sure I will love it too. And I'll love it when we go drive the tractor down the streets of Parma today. We're going to turn up the tractor place afterwards

and they'll be like, yep, all right, here we go. So this is one big job involving hands. You're right. Also, this is like, this is what women like. So what do I do?

What's the first step? It's pampering for us. Does this take a while, Hayley? Just relax. Treat yourself. No, I don't relax well. Does this take a while? Well, can you just relax

your hands? Oh, I was going to get like a scrub on my hands right now. That's a nice VG scrub, yeah. I don't know what I'm watching here. There's a bit of a hand massage going on. What's his cuticles like, Hayley? They might need a little work. They need some work.

Well, they haven't had any work. This is the first time. Never have I ever had one of these. What do I get? Pedicure. This is a manicure. A manicure. Pedicure's a feat, right?

Yeah. As Ben Boyce has reached a stage in his career where he's getting pampered on the radio, we'll be back with you very shortly. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's breakfast in the middle of our Never Have You Ever tour as we travel around the country, thanks to gas petrol service stations, making your nevers come true, things you've never done for the first time, as I'm currently getting something done for the first time as well.

You're getting a manicure, but you had a milk bath, you're getting your cuticles dealt to right now? Just the hand, just the hand and the milk bath, I didn't get in myself. What I enjoy is that you've just pretty much handed over full custody of your hands to Hayley from wonderful Pure Beauty Therapy, and she's like craning your hands up and down out of the milk bar. They feel very distinguished. My hands have never felt so important. And I imagine that you're not very good at relaxing.

No, no. She's trying to like deal with your fingers. Is he relaxed? Yeah, I'm not a good relaxer. I'm sorry, Hayley. And I feel really self-conscious about, as I said before, I pick at my nails because it's an anxiety thing for me. I know it.

And, yeah, they're not great. Listen, honestly, these are going to be the most pampered, precious hands in, I'm going to say New Zealand. What we should do is we should parade these hands around Palmerston North. Oh, as we're driving the tractor. Let's do a photo shoot with the hands around Palmerston North. Hot pick. Tell you what, if anyone has an unbreakable glass case,

we should put your hands in those glass boxes. It's a really niche request. What is that? A Zoolander, eh? The hand model. We should put him in a hand model. If you want me to come over here in Palmy, I can model something. We'll put it on our social media as well.

If you want me to hold a product today with my hands up. With your beautiful hands. Anything at all. I'll hold anything. Oh, okay. Okay, maybe not. with my hands up. Wipping your beautiful hands. Anything at all. I'll hold anything. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay, maybe you're not.

Well, yesterday we spent a wild, I'd say 11 or 12 minutes in Livin, making our way to Palmerston North, and we stopped by to see Moz. Moz had got in touch with a very niche request, and it wasn't for Ben's wonderful hands to hold anything for him. Moz wanted us to meet him at a football field with a pie and a phantom and a football.

And have a listen. Welcome to Levin. And as Ben always likes to say... Levin Levin da loca. And that's the last time Ben ever said that. We haven't even introduced Moz and he's like, oh Jesus. Welcome, welcome Moz. Welcome to Never Have You Ever. You got in touch with us and a very unique and obscure dream of yours, something you've never done. Yeah, had a pie, chugged

the Fanta, scored a goal successfully. I mean, I can safely say I've never done that either. What I love too is that you could have done this in your own time at any stage in your life but you've waited till this moment. I need the peer pressure sometimes you know. This is Moss living out his dream of eating a pie, chugging a Fanta and scoring a goal in live in. Ben. No I can't do it. The timer starts now. Here we go. Wow. Wow. Look at him.

He is devouring that pie. Like nobody's business. Someone put him in the Nathan's hot dog eating competition. The pie isn't sitting. That pie is gone in under 10 seconds. And the Fanta is disappearing as well at a rate of knots. He is open-throating the Fanta. And it's pouring all over his shirt.

Now he's got to score the goal. It's a goal! Goal, goal, goal, goal, goal! So good, mate. What am I supposed to do with this? You are an animal. Thank you, thank you. Talk us through it. You've got Fanta burning your eyeballs right now.

No, it was enjoyable. I haven't had it for ages. The indigestion? Yes, yeah. I'm putting it down right now. It was incredible. It was a blistering, as you say, 11, 12 minutes, and then he got it. He was like, I've got to go back to work, and then he ran off.

And we're like, what just happened? So you could see it all. It's an amazing video. Put it up shortly on the Hits Breakfast on social media. Never will you ever see anything like it again. I love this tour. Like, I love this tour. I mean, there's another radio station right now. They're off, you know, New York. They're going first class.

They're in rooftop bars. Mate, we had a pie from Andy's Pie. We watched a guy douse some Fanta in the football field we'd never met before. And he kicked a goal. And ran away. And ran away. And that's the sort of battle of tour that we're doing right now. It's a relatable tour. Exactly.

As opposed to bloody Tony Street. Speaking of relatable, Ben continues to get his hands pampered live on the radio next. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Come down and see us before 9 o'clock. You can grab yourself a free hot drink, and you can watch me get wonderful nails done. I've never been more jealous.

Yeah, he's got his nails done from the amazing Hayley. We're using some great adjectives in front of your name today, Hayley. The amazing Hayley. The amazing Hayley from Pure Beauty Therapy, who's painting his nails. Hits pink. We're claiming the color pink, this radio station. Do you know who you remind me of? It reminds me of, like, this is what I imagine

if you walked into a room and Kanye West was in there. Yeah. Yeah. Like a meet and greet. Yeah, hang out, I'll just get my nails done. But nice to see you, mate. I can't wait for you to go to this tractor place with your blonde tips and your pink nails today. Fit in beautifully. It'll be challenging. I love it. Sorry about that. Live from the local

in Parvis North. Come on down for a free hot drink. I want to talk about schoolyard sports games, games you used to play at school. I take a trip down memory lane because there was an article that I was reading this morning that reminded me of something we used to do at school. And maybe it was just a mastodon thing in New Zealand, a game of conkers.

Now, you guys hadn't actually heard of that. We had a chestnut tree at school, and everyone would try and grab the biggest sort of chestnut from underneath. Then you'd take it home. You'd sort of either drill it or put a nail through it and you'd put some string through it so it would dangle at the end. So this chestnut would dangle at the end of a long bit of string.

Believe it or not, there is a lot to do in Masterton. Don't leave this tarnished Masterton. So there's a little admin. There's a little admin in the back end. So you'd go home, come back the next day and then you would challenge, almost like the UFC, the ultimate fighting conker league. So you'd choose your conker. So I'd go, mate, I'm going to take you on, Jono.

All the kids would hang around, and then you'd get to, one by one, get to sort of whack. So with my string, I'd sort of throw my conker towards your conker and try and hit it. And then you'd have an attempt on mine, and you'd try and destroy, I guess like robot battles and stuff like that, but in Marston we had conkers and string, and you'd try and destroy the other person's conker.

Then you'd be crowned the champion, and then other people could challenge. They could come for your throne. So not only do you have to hit it, you have to destroy it. Destroy it. And sometimes yours would get a little messed up in the process, but you'd have a good conker. You'd be like, I'm going through to another round.

Things are going well. What is happening to your hands now? It's going into like an ultra blue light. I think what's going on right now. Ben's getting gel nails, so they actually set, so you can't take it off with nail polish. This was great for my conker career. But we just read this morning that there's a world championships of conkers going on,

and a guy was cheating. He had put steel inside his conker, and that's why he was winning. But he was, you were just saying, he's been the world champion for years. For years. And no one has known the whole time he's been inserting steel inside his conkers. Genius play. Never thought of doing that in Mastered back in the day. He's got a pair of steel conkers.

What do you get for being the world champion of conkers? Is it worth it? No, probably not. Well, it's the first time we ever heard of him, but it's for cheating. Someone's texted in saying, I'm current conker champ. Oh, there you go. So it's still a thing did you play conquers firstly four four eight seven or oh under the hits but what was the school yard game that you used to play or is currently getting played i mean we talk about things like elastics marbles and knuckle bones those things through

their cycles chatter rings yeah they cancelled bull rush didn't they yeah some paralyzations but um yeah fun place mate pc madness you know when your kids with a broken neck crazy stuff i mean They've just had some paralysations. Fun place, mate. PC madness. You know when your kid's with a broken neck? Crazy stuff. I mean, last year it was just TikTok dancers. That was a schoolyard activity. Now they can't take the phones into the schoolyard.

Oh, 800 of the hits. OK. Schoolyard games from yesteryear. Are you still doing Catch and Kiss or do they have to be a bit more consensual now? Oh, no. Yeah. COVID would have put an end to that for a wee bit, but maybe we're back at it. I feel like I always pretended I couldn't run very fast. I was like, oh, no.

I pulled a hamstring. I've fallen over. Oh, Andrew the Hits, 4487, love your schoolyard games. We've got a gift voucher to give away for you next. I know, Andrew the Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Sitting here at a cafe in Palmerston North. I'm not going to lie, I'm enjoying myself.

Getting my nails done. First time. Never you ever got had my nails done properly they look beautiful they do look professional but i put hayley from beauty therapy i keep the effervescent hayley we keep putting wonderful i keep moving and i've rubbed it like uh from pure beauty therapy i've rubbed like uh nail polish on you i'm sorry i'm. I'm quite fidgety, eh? Yeah. He's not a still subject to work on. He's a moving target at the moment. You were saying they're quite permanent and we just found out how permanent, how long are these going to last for?

About two or three weeks. That's what I've been alluding to when I said they're gel and you can't take them off with nail polish remover. Okay. So this is me for two to three weeks. Hot pink nails. His reaction was, oh, three weeks. Oh, okay. What you can't see, Ben, is the hardened, calloused hands of the Palmerston North locals walking in here.

There is judgment, bro. We're going to a tractor shop after this. There is judgment. I'm going to put my hands in my pockets the whole time at the tractor shop, mate. Just think about where you're going over the next three weeks. All the places I'm going to go, but I'm going to look fabulous. We're talking schoolyard games, one of the games you used to play in yesteryear. I was

talking about Conkers today because it was a game we played in Marston, which I think we're going to get to shortly. Someone's backing me up on 0800. That's my first, Megan, on the text. Someone said my kids are right into playing sardines, which I haven't heard of before. It's the opposite of hide and seek. One person hides, and when you find them, you hide until everyone has found the spot. I like that.

That's cool. Yeah, yeah. My daughter, Andy, plays that from time to time. No, no. So the seeker finds someone, and then they... And then they cuddle up. But then who becomes the new seeker? Well, no.

Everyone's trying to find them, right? I feel like there's a hole in that hole. Yeah. Not a time to solve it now. Because if I'm the one finding you, and I'm like, oh, no, I'm hiding with you. Everyone's waiting on their own. You're right, actually. Maybe that's not exactly how it works.

Someone said, we used to play catch and kiss at school. Father John always said, if you can't catch me, I'll be in the cup. No, I think that might be a gag text going through me. I'll be in the cup. I don't know. Or maybe it's not a gag text. Hopefully it is. Hopefully it is. Let's go to the phones quickly. Move on from there through me. I don't know. Or maybe it's not a gag text. Hopefully it is. Hopefully it is.

Let's go to the phones quickly. Move on from there. Oh, I've heard the hits. Who have we got this morning? Cherie, good morning. Good morning. How are you? Firstly, apologies to the Catholic Church for that last...

Cherie, you played Conkers? Sure did. Yes. Yeah. At school for many, many, many, many years. I'd never heard of the game. We were bonkers for conkers in the Warrarapa. It was amazing.

Maybe someone from the UK came and introduced it. Yeah, it felt like it must have been someone introduced it to my school. It was a lot of fun. It was a very British thing to do. We played for years at the whole primary school. We had massive conker trees, and you'd stack them up on your string as well to see how many you could you could get were you like the queen of conkers sheree

well i had my moments well geez the british have given us so much over the years blankets muskets venereal diseases and conkers you brought it all to new zealand as well oh well there we go. I appreciate you backing me up. I was like, did I make up that game? But no. Good on you. Maz, welcome.

You're on. Hello. Schoolyard Games. What was it for you, Maz? Whip and pop. Whip and pop. How do you play that? Well, you have a thin stick and you have like a piece of rubber on the end,

you know, a thin piece of rubber, and you wrap it around the top, and then you let it go, and you keep whipping it because it stares up. And then you put colours on top of the thing that you're whipping to make the pretty colours. It's an old English thing. Oh, another one.

Whipping and pop. Whipping and popping. Oh, another one. Another one. Whipping and popping. Whipping and popping. Okay. I've never heard of whipping and popping before, but it sounds fun. You're not whipping and popping. No, whipping and pop. Whipping and top.

It's not like what you used to do with a towel in the changing room. You sort of flick that at someone's bare behind. Gee, I had a couple of those. They are terrible, aren't they? Have you had one of those? Oh, you mean the tea towel thing? The tea towel or the towel flick when it really cracks like a whip. Gotcha, yeah.

Claire, good morning to you. This is a school game that's currently going on. No, not currently going on. It was going on at the last school that I taught at. What was happening? So I'm a schoolteacher, and I taught in a rural school, and there was this huge mound of dirt, and often in summer it would be really dry,

and the little new-entrant children who were like five years old, they would climb the top of the mound, and they would wee down the hill and watch their wee shovel down this massive mound of dirt and the person who reached the bottom first was the winner. Great game. That's a great game. I love it.

They've invented their own sport. I love it. And at an early age, it's great. Timing is critical too. Like, you really have to store up. A little bit of an exhibitionist sort of game

though, isn't it? You really got yourself on display. I couldn't do it at my age, that's for sure. We would see their little bottoms

hanging out and we'd be like, you can't play that game at school. It's not a good game. Yeah. Put your little conkers away. Oh my God. Oh, my God. And we'd be like, you can't play that game at school. It's not a good game. Yeah. Put your little conkers away. Oh, my God.

Oh, we appreciate your call. So, Greg, a couple of texts just to wrap up here. Morning team. Now, we're talking about the hide-and-go-seek game. So, Sardines, Megan hides, Ben and Jono, we go searching for Megan. When Ben finds her, he hides with her or very near. Then I'm left still looking for her. There we go.

That sounds like our every day. And another text here. Love that you're talking about play memories because it's Aotearoa Play Week from the 26th of October to the 1st of November. Oh, nice. Sport Bay Applenty are encouraging people to play hacky sack. Oh, hacky sack. It's a great game. Steph from Play League, by a pleading.

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