Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Live from Wellington on Day Two of our Never Have You Ever Tour

Episode Date: October 14, 2024

Ben trials for Newstalk ZB Jono joins a couples argument The team are not good at google maps Megan shares a lovely poem about an incident which occurred Yesterday See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the podcast for a Tuesday as we're in the middle of our Never Have You Ever tour thanks to Gas Petrol Service Stations heading around the country doing things we've never done for the first time and also helping people achieve their nevers. Tell you what I've never done is break a fan which we have in the Wellington studio and one of the first things I did this morning was knock this fan over this gold ear fan then the casing fell off it and I had to spend probably a good part of an hour and a half reassembling it. The radio show was terrible, but you got the fan back together.

That's the main thing. So never have I ever repaired a fan. Oh, well, you've done that today. Have you ever recorded a couple in an elevator before? Did that? Did that? Did that yesterday? He recorded them.

He didn't play. He chose not to play it on the radio. Which is good. But we did hear about the couple's conversation. I've deleted it too from my voice.

I was secretly recording this couple who were bickering and I felt dirty. You know, afterwards you feel like, oh, that was low. That was sort of gutter.

Jerry Springer sort of stuff. Unless you had the realisation at some point, you know? Yeah. Might have been

after you did it, but it's okay. I still told the story about them, though. So anyway, I've got a recording, but anyway, I'll recount the conversation. But I won't play it. I have morals. I have morals, yeah.

Okay, well, let's kick the podcast off of that. Okay, shall we? Here we go. As well as plenty of amazing things we've got to do over the last 24 hours on our Never Have You Ever tour, including Megan almost eating an oyster and a helicopter ride as well. Enjoy. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. The actual throne from Game of Thrones sold at an auction for over $2 million New Zealand dollars. Woo! Yeah, for the actual Iron Throne that everyone was fighting over in the series.

Oh, wow. So, I guess if you love the show, well, it's a lot to pay. It's a wild investment. It is a lot to pay. You must really love the show. Yeah. I found myself in a bit

of an awkward environment yesterday. We were staying at the motel where we were at in Wellington and waiting for the lift. And there was a wonderful couple. They were a very friendly European couple.

I had a quick chat with them. Of course you did. Leaving my hotel room. And they were at the top of the lift and they got into a marital discussion. She's like, you need to be more aware of your health. She throws the health bomb out to him. And he's like, I am aware of my health. And she's like,

when was the last time you went to the gym? He's like, I go to the gym once or twice. And she's like, once or twice when? He came back with once or twice this year. And she's like, you need to do some cardio. And he came out with quite a brave volley on this one. He was like, do you even know what cardio is? I thought it was an interesting tangent for him to take.

And you were still there, a spectator. As we were waiting for the lift to come in, it couldn't come quick enough for me. But then. No one knew you were there. They talked to you. They were openly, yeah. And I kind of backed off. And to be honest, you know what I really did?

I tried to start recording them. And I've got audio of them. But then I'm like, oh, don't play off. And to be honest, you know what I really did? I tried to start recording them. And I've got audio of them. But then I'm like, oh, don't play that. That's gutted journalism. That is gutted journalism. Low-brow journalism. So I've decided, I've made the moral move not to play that. So it felt a little voyeuristic.

But anyway, I end up in the lift with them going down. Are you still recording? Yeah. God. But I'm not playing it, so it doesn't matter. Well, yeah, still recording it, though. I'm glad you're not playing it, because I wouldn't have been that keen to play it. I'm not playing it.

I listened to it this morning in the hotel. I was like, oh, this sounds wrong. You know when you hear audio, you're like, you shouldn't have done that. But anyway, so I'm stuck in the lift with them. Why would you? It's so desperate. Content, baby. It's everywhere.

And they're still kicking off in the lift about cars. And do you know what he does? The monster drags me into it. He's like,

you, what do you think? How am I looking to you? Is what he said. Oh, God. And she's glaring at me. There's a no win situation. But yeah,

I could feel the brother drowning. And when the brother's drowning, you've got to save them. And I was like,'t think he's i don't think he looks too bad and then i hear from her scoff and a deep sigh and the lift doors open and they continued on bickering as they were walking so i don't know what i don't know how it ended up and you had no real comparison to what he'd look like previously as well like can i see him a fourth shot yeah like i mean what's it you're like right now fine but what yeah yeah so if they are listening uh can

you text in i'd love some closure shut the loop on that conversation i hope they aren't listening because i'm like well that weird guy in the lift i'm surprised you didn't get out and follow them just for the audio just keep recording you're You're always going to keep talking about this, or I'll stop recording. We're in the middle of our Never Have You Ever tour. Yesterday, we started in Christchurch. We made our way to Wellington. I feel like, I guess I've been watching a lot of Prison Break with my family over the last couple of weeks.

I feel like I'm on the run. We don't stay too long in a certain place. No. Why are you just getting on to Prison Break now? Oh, no. I watched it the first time. I watched it. I mean, my daughters.

I was telling Megan last night. They got it. They are loving it. They are really loving it. He's really watching it with his daughters. Are they going, why do these idiots keep ending up back in prison? Yeah. Are they asking that question?

Well, they haven't quite got back to prison the second time. Yeah. So, yeah. A lot of episodes. They did five series of that show. I know. And then always ended up back in another prison. Well, so, yeah, a lot of episodes. They did five series of that show. I know, and then always ended up back in another prison.

Well, that was the name of the show. My theory, if I'd ever been, I've never been to prison, if you break out once, that's a, don't push your luck.

Yeah, but they don't let you to stay out. They don't let you go out and go, well, good one, I knew you got out. They try and chase you down. And put you back in there.

Yeah, they don't just go, well, I went up to him, I don't know, he got out. Well, I guess it's a win for the prison. Yes, your back in there. Yeah, they don't just go, well, why don't I go home? I don't know, you got out. Well, I guess it's a win for the prisoners. Yes, we are travelling around the country.

Not like Prison Break, but it feels a little bit that way. Trying to do things that we've never done before, helping you do your nevers. Yesterday started in Christchurch with you eating an oyster. Wow.

Wow. I spat it out. You resting an oyster at the bottom of your mouth. Briefly. I spat it out. Here was Megan yesterday live on the air. Can you cut me down?

Three, two, one. Done it. She's sucking up on the shell. Go straight down. Come on. You got it. You got it. There you go.

You got it. You got it. Suck the lemon down like you did. Oh, I can't. Oh, look, you've got it. You're holding it in your mouth. Come on, Megan. Come on.

You're holding it in your mouth. Go. I can't. Go. Just do it. You can do it. I can see it dangling at the bottom of her mouth. Oh, just do it.

It's so, she couldn't do it. Megan, you still haven't done an oyster, mate. We're going to stay here until you've done an oyster. Yeah, so he couldn't do it. Couldn't do it. Do you reckon the oyster's telling his friends, he said, I was at the bottom of the ocean. They pulled me out.

I sat at the bottom of some lady's mouth. She spat me out. That was my life cycle. Yeah. Yeah, it sat there too long. Emily listens to the bottom of some lady's mouth. She spat me out. That was my life cycle. Oh, yeah. It sat there too long. Emily listens to the show from Christchurch. She came in. She shuddered and winced.

But she did it. Chewed. Yeah, swallowed the oyster. Good on Emily. She did it. And then spent 10 minutes sucking on a lemon afterwards. So we went from that low, low yesterday

until the high highs. Literally a helicopter ride for Ellie, her listener in christchurch her first ever helicopter that was a remarkable thing to do on christchurch helicopters and i think we've got some of the uh some of the start when we're all getting prepared for it so here we are at uh chicha helicopters we've just watched a wonderful safety video with sir richie mccoy i don't think he's is it a sir i don't think he's a sir yeah in my heart he is uh telling us to basically keep your hands the f*** away from the blades.

And Ellie, how are you feeling? Excited, very excited. First ever helicopter ride. You were just telling Megan and myself, as Ben was relieving himself, that you've actually booked a few times. Yes, I've booked a few times before, but they've been cancelled due to weather. So I never actually got myself on the actual helicopter. Where were you going to go?

Franz Josef Glacier. Can't afford that today, mate. We just bought the 20 minute flight, right? And then you found out her name at school was? Helicopter. Helicopter, which worked perfectly well. Helicopter.

Megan keeps singing the song Helicopter. I know, you guys don't know. Helicopter. Megan keeps singing the song Helicopter. I know, you guys don't know. We don't know the song. It's a kids show. Later, after seven, you'll hear how we went on Ellie's first ever helicopter ride, which was pretty awesome. Megan kept bragging about the fact that she'd been on multiple helicopters before. I said one time that I've been on a few.

So if you wanted the window seat, I was being nice. The problem is if you say one time to Ben, he'll drag that out 300 times. You're on The Hits Breakfast. We're in the middle of our Never Have You Ever tour, travelling around the country, doing nevers with you for the first time. If you've got anything you haven't done before, 4487. Megan tried to eat an oyster yesterday and also tried to eat the world's largest nacho

platter. That was enormous. I just asked for nachos at the Mexican place, but then afterwards Ben's like, you know it was called monster nachos. The three of us tried to tackle it and still didn't finish it. It's a lot of nacho. It's the size of Mount Victoria. There's a mound of just mince and nacho.

It was good though. It was huge. Now we are trying to get 10 mound of just mince and nacho. It was good though. It was huge. Now, we are trying to get 10 out of 10 in the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. It comes up every day, hence the name, the Daily Quiz, at the New Zealand Herald.co.nz. We thought we got it yesterday. We got all the way to the last question. If we get a question wrong, we stop.

When is the pin pulled on the campaign when we get 10 out of 10? Oh, well. Is it? I know, but then we're riding a high. Yeah, oh, then you want to go again. This is like gambling. But yesterday, we got audio. We nearly, we got to the ninth question.

Have a listen. 55 BC. Go with it. Go. We've got a drum roll. Lock it in, Ellie. 55 BC. That's incorrect.

Oh, no. That's 40 shitties. That one was as old. Julius Caesar is assassinated. 55 BC. Oh, 44 BC. We'll never forget that. We really got into it, eh?

We did. We really, okay. It was a lot of radio time, too. Like, Liam, who's pushing the buttons in Auckland, was like, you guys spent 25 minutes on that. I know. Yeah, that's the dedication it takes, Liam. It's our Never Have You Ever this week.

All right, Producer Ali, can we start rolling through the questions right now here as the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. We'll try and get 10 out of 10.

Question number one this morning is... You look a little flustered, Quizmaster. Are you okay? We're sharing a microphone and it's a very small studio. I keep talking about the quiz

but she never got up off her seat. I was like, oh, the quiz is coming up and she's the Quizmaster. I was like, yeah, and I kept sort of motioning anyway. You don't coming up. She's the quiz master. I was like, yeah. And I kept sort of motioning anyway.

You don't see Bradley Walsh sitting on the sidelines sucking on a gas butt while they're just filling in time. I guess Walsh isn't ready yet. Okay. Question number one. What is the current official cash rate? Is it 4.75, 4.25 or 5.25? I think it's 4.75. So Ben and I actually talked to an economist last week.

We did. We can't remember. No, we did. We talked to, yeah. It's definitely dropped below 5, right? Yes, it has. Yeah. So it's either 4.75, 4.25.

It feels like if it was over 5, then dropping to 4.25 is too big a drop. It dropped 0.5, right? No, I don't. But I don't know what it dropped to. So yeah, 4.75, you seem don't. But I don't know what it dropped to. So, yeah, 4.75. You seem confident with that. I don't know why. I know.

Well, it was over 5, right? Okay. It's locked it in. Producer Ellie? That is correct. Hey! Well done. Okay.

Got one. I actually had no idea there. Chief Economist John O'Brien. I was so cocky and I had zero idea. No, it was good. I like the confidence. Okay. Question number two.

What is the capital of Mauritius? Is it Port Louise or Louis, Bridgetown or Antananarivo? I reckon it's the third one that you absolutely butchered and offended an entire country of people. Yesterday we went to like a text a friend on the second question. I feel like for time purposes, because we spent a lot of time talking about this, let's go with that now.

4487, we'll lock in an answer in just a moment, but can we get 10 out of 10 or are we going to fail at number two? The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. In the middle of our Never Have You Ever tour, thanks to Gas Petrol Service Stations, we're trying to get our Never Have You Ever, never got 10 out of 10 on the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. So we're doing it right now.

We're at question number two and we're struggling a little bit. And we're throwing it out to the people. Now Quizmaster Ellie, Producer Ellie she's coming with the capital of which country, sorry Ellie? Mauritius. Mauritius. And the three options were as she's downing some peanut butter toast

Port Louis, poor Lewis, Bridgetown or Antananarivo. Okay, now we've had a text, should we call through? We've had a text come through actually. Yeah, we've had a text. We'll call through. A lot of texts come through, actually. Yeah. We'll call Anna and Harwood there, Producer Liam. A lot of confident texts coming through for question number two.

Can we have a little tease of what's coming up next, too, for question number three? Well, I don't think you can go ahead, though. You can't go ahead until you get locked in. They're not giving you little teasers, though. They should. Make you more excited about what's ahead. We don't know what's ahead. That's the mystery of the daily quiz.

We don't know how easy or hard they're going to be. Testing the limits of our abilities this morning. Am I going to regret? Oh, I was going to say, am I going to regret calling Anna a no is the answer in Harwita? I do know the answer in Harwita. What is the capital of Mauritius? Port Louis. Okay, Port Louis. We're going to lock in Port Louis, then, how would I? What is the capital of Mauritius? Port Louis. Okay, Port Louis.

We're going to lock in Port Louis, please, Ellie. This is all on you, Anna. That is correct. Thank you, Anna. We appreciate it. You're our phone of friends this morning. We're going to hook you up with some hell pizza. You hold the line.

All right, next question. Here we go. A little teaser. Author Helen Fielding is most famous for creating which beloved character? Is it Carrie Bradshaw, Bridget Jones or Becky Bloomwood? Oh, beloved characters. Is it Becky Bloomwood, the one you haven't heard of? Yeah.

Because I feel like, oh shit. He's knocked over. He's knocked over stuff in the studio. Oh God, that was the fan. Let's not focus on that. knocked over stuff in the studio. Oh, God. That was the fan. Let's not focus on that. Don't get distracted. Okay. Yeah.

Carrie Bradshaw. Becky Bloomfield. Pull it together. Pull it together. I know that was comical in the room. Okay, so. Becky Bloomfield. What was the lady's name again?

Helen Fielding. Okay. Okay, so. Peek-a-boo field. What was the lady's name again? Helen Fielding. Okay. Oh, gosh. Let's just take a gamble. Go, Becky. Bridget. Oh. Oh, okay.

No, I don't know. Go, Bridget. Go, Bridget. Lock in Bridget. Okay. Oh, God. That is correct. Yay!

All right. This is good. That was good. That was a good guess. Okay. Question number four. All right. Which actress voiced Princess Peach in the Super Mario Bros movie?

Is it Anya Taylor-Joy, Kristen Bell, or Emma Stone? Oh, I thought I knew, but then I didn't. I was like, oh. Emma Stone. Kristen Bell was Frozen. Yeah, she was Frozen. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to throw you off the scent. Yeah.

Emma Stone. And what was the first option? Anya Taylor-Joy. Never heard of her. She was in Furiosa with... Yeah. She was... Yeah.

You'll know if you see her. Okay. No, look at... Okay, wait. Emma Stone. Okay. I feel like it's beneath Emma Stone's ability, but anyway. That's incorrect.

Was it Anya Taylor-Joy? Oh, for goodness sake Apologies to her and her family Jono's never heard of her She's probably never heard of me Emma Stone's not doing Princess Peach The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast

Jono and Ben on The Hits Tell you what She's the soundtrack to my household at the moment She's got some bangers She's doing a great job Sabrina Carpenter It's great We'reers she's doing life yeah she's done a great job sabrina carpenter oh it's great we're we're finally playing sabrina carpenter i gave up on that one but i tried very hard for you i'm proud of you you're supporting some women in music and they're great it's a great song you're right i don't need your help but anyway i want to segue into someone that one is a good man behind them

supported them now segue into talking about a couple of lads playing music guys yeah good even it out oasis of course they're back together the gallagher brothers and they're playing next year sold out concerts around europe and coming to this part of the world again not coming to new zealand what's happening here this feels like it's becoming a part of the world again, not coming to New Zealand. What's happening here? This feels like it's becoming a thing where the world's biggest artists, they just go, we'll stop at Australia, thanks. You're not good enough for us. Yeah, and I feel like we don't

need to be probably on the list of... I know, but we give them a good time. We ask them how they enjoy New Zealand. It's expensive to fly just that little bit extra. And to set up everything in your eyes. I get it. So that really puts us in the pecking order, doesn't it? Tickets went on sale yesterday.

Lots of people are trying from New Zealand to go over and see them. $300 seems to be around about the standard GA ticket for us. They're running the surging system? Yeah, seems to be a little bit of surging going on as well. But some people are getting some cheaper ones if you can, yeah, throughout the surging. But about $300 seems to be now is what you pay for gas good lord that's a lot of money yeah that's that's kind of standard although they were the good thing is in in victoria they've called it um like a an event of major of interest or something like that so it's

protected under anti-scalping laws so So no one can scalp the tickets afterwards. So whatever you pay for it, you can't put a price on selling it for more, which is actually quite handy. What was the most, okay, you pick an artist, the most you'd pay to see someone out of anyone in the history of,

oh, jeez. Okay, let's go. I'm going to say Michael Jackson. Right? If you could bring Michael Jackson back. I saw him when I was a young kid. I saw him. Yeah, it was great. How much would you pay to see Michael Jackson now? Yeah. you could bring Michael Jackson back. I saw him when I was a young kid. I saw him. Yeah, it was great.

How much would you pay to see Michael Jackson now? Yeah. So they can be dead? In this year. Okay. Dead or alive. Any artist. So the artist you'd pay the most amount of money to see,

and then you've got to name that figure. Okay. I'd go. Michael Jackson for you. Yeah, I probably would. Yeah. I'd probably go Michael Jackson, and I'd probably pay for a standing

GA $1,350. Now knowing that you're never going to see him again too, you'd probably end up paying more. They'd be surging like anything. This is an event of major significance so no scalping. $1,350. How about you?

I think I'd off the top of my head, I think I'd go with Queen. Oh, yeah. To see Freddie Mercury alive. And you'd pay what? RRP? I don't have any money right now. I would pay, yeah, about two grand, I reckon, to see Freddie Mercury. You know who I saw Queen with the wonderful Adam Lambert up

front and he was magnificent like he doesn't try and outshine Freddie he does his own thing and Ellie our producer Ellie

huge Queen fan agrees so if you do get the chance to see Queen still a great show still a great show yeah

how about you Ben I don't know why Bob Marley popped into my head oh Bob Marley yeah that'd be good

I don't know why I just went well you did in your dreadlocked era a lot of second hand smoke I'd be good. I don't know why I just went... Well, you did a good dreadlocked era. A lot of secondhand smoke. I'd be enjoying that. Iconic.

How much would you pay to see Uncle Bob? I would pay a couple of grand to see Bob Marley. I feel like it'd be a fun time to see Bob Marley. Do you know he went to a Rastafarian concert up north and he was backstage and there were people smoking the devil's lettuce and they handed one to Ben and he said

no thank you. I'm fine thank you. Yeah I was in front of the band, one of the lead singers of the band which I was a huge fan of and I just kind of went oh I'm a bit uncool like this but it was a very public environment. No thank you. I'm fine thank you. I have a public profile. Ben's had enough scandals. Yeah what did we get up to yesterday on our Never Have You Ever tour? I included things like helicopters and what a relaxing activity I'd never done in Christchurch before. That was actually awesome. We'll tell you about it before 7 o'clock on the hits. We're on our Never Have You Ever tour, heading around the country. If there's things you've never done before, 4487 on the text. It's all thanks to gas petrol service stations, instant discounts, loyalty programs to get fuel discounts every week.

And thank you for supporting us on this tour around the country. It's been fun so far. Day two, though. Don't get away on yourself, Cryer. It can all be downhill from here. But yesterday we had a fun day in Christchurch, knocking off some never have you evers. We went on a helicopter ride, which you'll hear very shortly, with Ali, who had never been on one. Yeah, our producer Ali had never had Dimitri's suvalaki,

iconic food that you have there, so we had that as well. And none of us had ever been punting on the Avon. We drove past it, it looked gorgeous along there, so we thought we'd stop and have a little ride. Yeah, now, like you said, it was the most relaxing thing you've ever done, Ben, and I've never seen Ben lying horizontal. Have you, Megan? No.

No. He's an up and down guy. Even man spread. Well, the saints kind of lent themselves that way. So I sort of sat back. That was the only real option. Otherwise, you had to see your knees. But it was lovely.

Relaxing along the water. I think that's why they wrote the song Row, Row, Row Your Boat Gently Down the Stream. Purely for punting. And Shane was our wonderful punting captain. Yeah, sure. Why not? Have a listen. Shane, this is a Never Have You Ever tour, and we're about to do,

am I going to stand up? No, I'm going to stand up because I listened to the safety briefing and I'm not going to stand up. This is going to be punting for the first time. Thank you for taking us out on a punt. Hey, guys, not a problem. It's really an absolute pleasure. And, yeah, welcome to Christchurch. It's been a beautiful day for us first time. Thank you for taking us out on a punt. Hey guys, not a problem. Absolute pleasure and yeah welcome to Christchurch. Picked a beautiful day for it

so great having you guys aboard. Also, a quick question on the safety briefing. You had to stipulate no fighting on the boats. Has this happened previously? Ah, yeah. Yeah, you know, you get some interesting couples every now and then. You know,

one couple might come back one person short, but, you know, we try and avoid as much as possible, don't we? Yeah, well, I've got the front seat at the moment. It is lovely. I feel like you could lie down and have a sleep. Yeah, totally, 100%. I mean, a lot of people do fall asleep on their punt rides, which is really cool.

Now, Megan's demanding duckling viewing. I mean, i was promised ducklings and i haven't seen any yet just saying and megan what can you see now ducklings how many oh my god there's so many so cute only a few of those are going to survive why because the eels eat them really shane do the eels eat them i'd? Shane, do the eels eat them? I'd be lying if... Just lie, Shane. Lie, Shane. So a grisly ending for those sweet...

They're like a little chicken nugget for the eels. Yeah, so that was yesterday, punting on the oven for the first time. So 4487, it's something you haven't done. We're headed to Wellington. We're in Wellington today. Are we going to do... Yeah. Okay, we're going to call someone right now who did message they've never done an iconic thing Lisa is her name though

you'd imagine most Wellingtonians would have partaken in this? You'd think so. A very iconic thing in Wellington and so we thought while we're here let's see if Lisa is keen to take part in it. No jokes. No. No. No, it's for real. It's absolutely, you know, we're not messing around. Look at you. No lowbrow jokes.

She's going to pick up, though, early in the morning. Good morning. Whoa. Morning to you. It's still morning. It's John O'Biden and Megan from The Hits. Good morning. Good morning.

How are you? Lisa, what are your plans today? I don't care. Don't tell me. Cancel them because we've created some new ones. Okay? Have a listen to this song. I've got to go back to bed.

No, you're cruising on the inter-islander today. Up to the key. Are you keen? Can't get away too soon. Yeah, I'm keen. You've never been on the inter-islander ferry. We thought today we could make it happen. I've never been south. Wellington is as south as I get. Oh, you've never been on the Inter-Islander Ferry? We thought today we could make it happen. I've never been south. Wellington is as south as I get.

Oh, you've never been to the South Island? Okay. Yeah. Probably Red Rocks. Actually, Red Rocks will be the closest to the South Island I've gotten. Wow. Lisa, pack your bags. You're going to be feeling fine.

There's so many things to see and do. We are taking you to the South Island today. Yay, you're lucky I don't have work. I don't have to make an excuse. Lisa, if you want to, you can go on the Inter-Islander ferry. Thanks to the legends at the Inter-Islander. They want to hook you up for that. Awesome, that's cool.

Thank you. It's happening this morning, so we'll talk to you before 9 o'clock as well. Do we come down and wave her off like the Titanic? It won't be like the Titanic. If you pull your hand down, do they toot the horn? We'll find out after eight o'clock. Lisa, enjoy that. Okay, thank you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben

podcast. New Zealand up 4-0 in the America's Cup, so it's looking pretty good. I think that's halfway to taking the old mug for another... Have they got to win eight in a row? Seven. First to seven. It's around about halfway to taking the old mug for another. Have they got to win eight in a row? Seven. First to seven.

Yeah, it's around about halfway. So just over halfway, yeah. Jeez, whitewash. And they're taking on the British people too. Don't say that. Remember that time we were like. That's right. We're up and we just need to win that last race.

Poor Dino. We just need to win the last one. Dave Dolman kept tuning up with his guitar to play the song. It's a celebration song. Well, he wasn't going to be loyal, eh? Yeah. And then he had to be like, not today, Dave.

And then we're back the next day. A lonely Dave Dobbin waits in a marquee just waiting for that day they cross the finish line. So hopefully it all happens. Did they call their way back from 5-0? Yeah. That team.

It was, yeah. It was all the way back, yeah. Wasn't it 6? It was 6-0. Because they only had to win one more. Whatever it was, it was, yeah. Jimmy Spittle came back and it was, anyway.

Jeez. It's not a whitewash until we get it. That would have been one of the greatest comebacks in sporting history. Yeah. It's not going to happen this time. We weren't appreciating that at the time, though, were we? No, no. We weren't liking that.

We're like, we just need to win one more race. That's right. And then, sorry, I know we're not meant to be talking about America's Cup, but remember we were winning that race and they called it off for lack of wind? And we were in the lead. And we were in the lead. And we were in the lead. We could have won it. They're like,

oh, sorry guys. And then so, yeah. Dave Thomas was like, oh. And they just started strumming his guitar. He tuned it up. Ready to go.

I just quickly, a lot of people were like relieved to have the kids back at school, you know, after two weeks of school holidays. But I think it worked out.

My kids as well, generally, you know, great kids, but they have the in the car trips after a long time it's one of those situations you've had enough you get it i get over it they get over it and the middle part of the back seat between two sibling kids is just like it it's like there's a lot of wars going around around the world but it's just this is the russian ukraine of your car this is prime real estate right i remember it with my sister down armrest or even just yeah the folder i'm great but even just the middle part if you want to put your elbow

on it you want to put your bag on it so someone's over my spot i did it to my sister that's a big sister you just kind of lean over you take a little bit more of that sort of real estate i i grew up as an only child so i couldn't bicker with anyone yeah the whole back i just had to yell at myself in public and it was a bit unsettling for my parents. But what I have learned having two kids is the dynamics of siblings is it's the older one's duty to just constantly antagonize the younger one. Do you find that? Yeah. I definitely found that when I was, because I was the oldest with my sisters, particularly my one sister there, I would kind of wind up.

It was close in age to me. Even being like, okay, stop now. And they used to do that as a sign to go harder. Yeah, double down. Stay out of my room. Stay out of my room. And I'd just put my arm in. I'd stand in the hallway and I'd put my arm into the room.

And jeez, that would wind her up. And she's like, hey, out of my room. I'm like, I'm not. And then I'd put my arm in. I'm like, I'm a sleeper. Of course you're a big brother. That makes so much sense to me now. I'm in the hallway, mum. I'm in the hallway. And then I'd just put the arm back into I'm like, I'm a seaman. Of course you're a big brother. That makes so much sense to me now. I'm in the hallway, Mum.

I'm in the hallway. And then he just put the arm back into the room. Would you bully your brother? I'm the baby. Oh, you're the baby. Would you get bullied? Does that make sense now? Because my role was just to play my parents off and get whatever I wanted.

Because my brother would always be like, I wasn't able to do that. And there's always a bit of a stain in the older ones aura because they feel like they've paved the way. They've done the hard yards with what you're allowed to do now, the benefits you're allowed to enjoy. Little changes with kid number two or whatever, three or whatever it is. Oh, they're allowed to go out, aren't they? Yeah, because the baby's the favourite. Always.

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It's tumultuous spring, but we're almost there. We are almost there. And we are nowhere near the end of what we're doing right now. It's the Never Have You Ever Tour. Let's play the music intro there, Liam. Let's go. Jono, Ben and Megan's Never Have You Ever Tour. Let's play the music intro there, Liam. Let's go. Jono, Ben and Megan's Never Have You Ever Tour with gas. Yeah, thanks so much to Gas Petrol Service Stations. Never miss a fuel discount again.

You can download the 100% Kiwi Gas app to get discount offers delivered straight to your phone. Travelling around the country, making your nevers come true. Things you've never done before, including some of our own. 4487, still time to make some of them happen. Just phoned Lisa moments ago. We're in Wellington. She's a Wellingtonian who's never been to the South Island. So we've said, stop what you're doing today.

She's like, I've got stuff to do. I've got to go see a family member in hospital. She said, don't worry about that. She's hopping on the Inter-Islander and we're going to catch up with her very shortly. But yesterday, Ali, the wonderful Ali, had got in touch. And what hadn't she done, Megan? She'd never been on a helicopter, or an alicopter!

An alicopter, as you kept saying. Apparently there's a song, and you kept singing it, and I'm like, I still don't get the song. Well, no, because you got sick of me singing it, so I've actually got the song to play for you. An alicopter! It's a bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.

I can fly high. It's a bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. This is for all the kids that like Nino Okay so we got to take Ellie in a helicopter for the first time which was pretty cool, Christchurch Helicopters there by the airport, Megan had been on the helicopter before Okay so I said my dad used to work

in a helicopter company so I'd been on a few helicopters. I said that one time. Oh, no, but you keep going. You have the seat with the window because I've been on lots of helicopters before. No, I just said, you go in the window because I've been in a couple of these. Yeah, so she was cocky. One time. And she kept saying to me, who do you think's been on more helicopters,

Mike Hosking or me? I think it might be. Yeah, like all that sort of stuff the whole way through. So the old chopper pro over here, we did boards and we met Ellie and here's how it played out. So we're inside the helicopter now. Apparently it's going to get quite loud, so I don't know if we're going to have any audio recording.

Final words? I'm just excited to have these Britney mics on our headphones. I'll be the beater. Ellie, final words from you? I'm just really excited. Thanks, guys. She's like, how many words do you want from me? How many final words are you going to ask me for?

And so then we were set to go, and Megan said, well, what happens now is Tim, the pilot, he'll be starting to warm up the old chopper, get the blades turning. I did not. Are you sure that's the right? I did not.

You were like, Tim, I wouldn't be using that one. Not that leader. The time's not been another helicopter. We haven't been, oh, well, but... Anyway, he did a great job.

You navigated him up into the air as well. It was very helpful. We wouldn't have made it without him. You're like, give me your headphones, mate. I'll hop in the cockpit.

I'll talk to the control tower. All right, here's the next part. Okay, we're going to fire up now. You'll be used to this, Megan, the fire up thing. You know I've all been on a helicopter more times than us. Do you know, anyone who is answering the question, how many helicopter rides you've been on, just say less than Megan. Okay, I'm having the window seat back.

Okay the propellers are slowly turning. Spoiler alert they get faster. Final words Ellie. I regret that. She got a helicopter ride just talking to us. I'm no expert, but I feel like things are getting underway. I'll tell you who's an expert. What a ride. Awesome. What a ride. Final words.

That was amazing. Those are her actual final words Thank you Ellie Thank you guys so much Have you ever ridden a helicopter? Take it off the list Ellie Thank you That's awesome Ridden a helicopter

So loud So loud So we couldn't get audio But it's just amazing views 360 views of Christchurch's Littleton Harbour It's just like being on the ground but higher It's incredible to views, 360 views of Christchurch, Littleton Harbour. And it's just like being on the ground but higher. Yeah.

It's incredible to see it up there. I see why you love it so much. I see why it's your favourite motor transport. You never feel fully at ease, do you? I thought it was a beautiful day yesterday, though, because I'm a bit of a nervous flyer. But it was no turbulence. It was beautiful. So thank you to the team at Christchurch Helicopters

for looking after us. It was great. Yeah, it was really fun. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yeah, we are in Wellington and just a bit of a gear change because it's all fun and games and we do like to entertain people, but life happens in between the radio show. And some serious life happened yesterday for us.

When we got to Wellington, we experienced someone having a serious medical event. Particularly you two, because I was a lot further behind you, so I was a few minutes afterwards. So by the time I arrived, you guys were really in, it was like just a scene going on, and you guys were right in the thick of it. Particularly you, Megan. Because my parents, I just came from a family who were just always, like, always help, get in there, like, don't wait, just do what you can. So, like, I ended up calling the ambulance and had to stay on the phone with them.

And I did find myself quite close to the situation. Yeah. Yeah. And it was quite, it was quite traumatic, honestly. Yeah, totally. Yeah, so I don't want to go into too much detail because it was full on for the people involved. Yeah, and you just really just feel for, I mean, I feel for you being right in there as a mate,

but also the people involved and having to go through that. Yeah, it's a lot. Seeing this whole scene play out and just, yeah, horrible. I've never experienced that before. And, yeah, thanks to you guys, because after I hung up the phone to the emergency services, I just sobbed and I was just like, whoa, that was a lot. It was a lot. So, yeah, without going into details

about that, I went home to my hotel, well, went back to the hotel room and I wrote something that I just, it impacted me so much. So I just thought I would like to share this. Oh, absolutely. So Jono, Ben and producer Ali were giving me shit for pointing out all the blossom trees around Christchurch yesterday, but there were so many and they were so pretty plus I know that they only bloom for such a short time and so I always appreciate them. So yesterday in Christchurch I also

pointed out a bird singing while we were punting on the Avon River and how rare it is to hear a bird in the centre of the city and Ben was like, geez, blossoms and birds, are you okay? And I was like, yeah, I don't't know am I okay uh and then hours later we were confronted with this really awful situation and I honestly I went back to my hotel room and I just sobbed and then I thought about the day and I remembered the blossoms and the birds and I realized that even the hardest day has beauty

and some of it might be fleeting but it's still there and if you don't stop to take notice of it, it could all just be gone in an instant and we rush around and we complain about trivial things and even not so trivial things in our lives but we miss the good stuff and it can all be ripped away from us in a second so it's probably in the last moments it's going to be those fleeting things like the blossoms and birds and the people around us that we will miss the most yeah beautiful beautiful yeah good words yeah so like just in that tough moment i went home and i was like yeah you were banging on

about the blossoms though but it does put so much stuff into perspective you know like the things that matter and the things that don't. So it was beautiful. So sharing that. Good on you for sharing that, mate. And just like, I mean, I just, if you see anyone that needs help, just like dive in. Yeah. It's like, it's hard, but like, I wouldn't have changed any of it yesterday. Yeah. Well, and our thoughts with the family too.

Yeah. Just a horrible thing for everyone, including yourself, to have to go through. It's 7.18 is the hits. We're in the middle of our Never Have You Ever tour, travelling around the country. Things that we haven't done for the first time, or maybe you haven't, 4487 on the text. We were in Wellington today, so if you want to knock anything off in Wellington, we're your people. Now, as we're broadcasting from the Wellington studios, Ben is working behind a microphone

that has what we call in the industry a mic sock on top of it. It's basically contraception for microphones. So you wrap these on and it's a Newstalk ZB microphone sock you're behind, Ben. How's it look?

Opinionated. I do. It does look like you would have to make a call and put your opinion out there. Yeah, I feel more opinionated. You do have to make a call And make Put your opinion out there Yeah I feel You do like to sit on the fence Suddenly I've got like Thoughts on immigration

And stuff I don't know where They're coming from Are you on Do you feel the need To unnecessarily have a dig At Chris Hopkins And the Labour Party

Don't get me started On the Labour Party guys The previous The previous government Oh Yeah So as soon as I can take this mic stock off, I'll go back to the normal me, not wanting to make a scene,

not wanting to cause a fuss. I love how his impersonation of a ZB host is just like, oh! The outrage. The outrage, yeah. Now, we want to know on 0800, the Hats are 4487. What are the little things that your partner's doing in your relationship that's causing you some stress? And it was actually after having a conversation with you, Megan, and your husband, Andrew,

that I realized that in some relationships, and not every relationship, but in some relationships there's a more organized sort of person that wants to get things planned, and then there's the other sort of, I'm a bit more chill, we'll just see what happens. Yeah. And sometimes that works great together and other times I feel like as the more

stressed out wanting to get everything planned and I notice this over the school holidays I'm like I can't just turn up to a place and not know what we're doing

for dinner things like that I'm like I want to plan some stuff we can change the plans but I want to plan some stuff and a man and my wife is a bit more

you know a bit more chill particularly around holiday times and that I feel causes me more angst because she's so chill. And it's the same with Jono. It's like I worry about Jono not bringing in pants or a hit stopper. I'm going to go with the float. Yeah, or whatever it is.

You know, like I'm just. Oh, God. He's turned up in the kindergarten again with no trousers on. He ticks you every morning saying, go forget your pants. Put your pants on, Tom, mate. Pants on. But the thing is, from a relaxed person

over here, I go with the flow person, there's no point in two people stressing out. You know? But of course, there's more stress. I mean,

if the person who's the non-relaxed one could just take a little more care, you're like, they've got that. They're all over that. If you could just stress

about your own pants, then Ben wouldn't have to worry about his and yours. Then you can see your stress levels comes down a little bit. So do you want, like, do you guys want me to act a bit more stressed? Or just a bit more responsibility.

Last night we were going out for dinner, and I'd been handed the company credit card previously. First mistake, and that's on us. And I could tell as producer Ellie was handing me the company credit card, I could see Ben going, this isn't a good idea. And I was just meant to pay for a taxi and get a receipt. And I could tell he's like, he's not going to get a receipt. He's going to lose the credit card.

In fairness, you did get a receipt, so well done. And so we're heading out for dinner, and we're pretty much nearly there. And I was like, oh, I've got the credit card, and I've got the receipt. And Ellie's like, great, where is it? I'm like, oh, it's back at the hotel, mate. She's like, what are we going to do? And your wallet. And I'm like, who's going out to, where is it? I'm like, oh, it's back at the hotel, mate. She's like, what are we going to do? And your wallet. And I'm like, who's going out to dinner without a wallet?

Firstly. That's all. No, but there was a pause after you were like, it's in my wallet in the hotel room. And then Ben goes, do we not need that for dinner? Oh, yeah, we do. Turns out we did. Plus, I had to rush back and put my pants on.

Well, some of your clothes was in the dryer as well. So I can't get some stuff out. It's in the dryer. So who's doing a walk? We're only being away for one night. What did you do? Did you soil yourself? In the room, there was a washer and a dryer in one.

So it washes and it goes into automatic dry cycle. So I was like, well, I'd be a fool not to make use of this. And then once it's in the cycle, you can't open the door. The door lock. It's still the first night of our trip. How much did you have to wash? Yeah. So out of that, it's four quarts.

Oh, God. One of the little things that your partner is doing, you know, or maybe your friends is doing, the little things that are just stressing you out. You've got a chance to vent right now. We've got some help for you. I'm smelling fresh, that's all I can say. My clothes feel brand new.

Listen, we were hoping to have some calls on here, weren't we, talking about how your partner's stressing you out at the moment, but there was just an onslaught, a character assassination of me. Yeah, we kind of went away from that. I briefly touched on the fact that Amanda was stressing you out at the moment, but it was just an onslaught, a character assassination of me. Yeah, we kind of went away from, like I briefly touched on the fact that Amanda was stressing me out, then put more on Jono's, you know. You have two people in your life that you have to look after. Organisational skills, yeah. Do I stress you out?

Yeah. Um, Ben probably deals with you more than I need to. But you do, yeah. Do I? But Ben deals with it. Does Andrew, your husband, stress you out? Yeah. He's quite relaxed. I can tell he's the relaxed. Just, you know, go with the flow. And he's the one who's like, yeah, let's buy a cafe.

And I'm like, oh my God, I'm the realist. So I'm like thinking, well, we don't know what we're doing. I do all the stressing. Well, I mean, that's, yeah, buying a cafe. I don't know if I'll be going out today buying a cafe. But yeah, good on him. Good on him. Well, I'll tell you one thing that's stressing me out too,

and I'm going to go on a rant here. Oh, really? Something is. Something is stressing me out, and no one can stop me on this rant, okay? I'm going to take down big toothpaste. All right. Do you want the Newstalk ZB pop sock?

I want to swap it over, actually. Get your opinions out there. What Thunberg is to climate change. I'm going to be this to the toothpaste industry, because they're starting to have be this to the toothpaste industry because they are they're starting to have a laugh the toothpaste industry have you I've taken a photo of the range of toothpastes that are on offer now purely for whitening okay all right different ways Colgate optic white nightly treatment Colgate highest level hydrogen hydrogen peroxide whitening

treatment Colgate optic white renewal 10 times water. Colgate Optic White Renewal. 10 times whiter fresh. Colgate Optic White Luminous Deep Stains. Optic White Stain Fighter Enamel Core. Optic White White Express Whitening Pen. The Optic White White Purple. Purple toothpaste surface stains. Colgate Optic White Advanced Whitening. And Colgate 2-in-1 Whitening.

And I haven't even got onto the oral B range. How many different ways can we whiten our teeth? Yeah. Like, surely there's just one that would just whiten, right? Well, I've seen that one that's 10 times. Well, surely that's great. Well, that's the minimum now. Surely we all want the same amount of white teeth.

And there's just one thing that can do that. Yeah. Why is there so... They're having a layer like what the razor blade industry did to us in the 90s they keep adding slowly adding more blades on we've got 32 blades on a razor now but then what's the purple one is that like when you put toner in your hair that's surface stains man okay okay let's give it a surface stage but look at the photo i took a photo i'll show you later i would do it now but so many you took a photo in the

supermarket yeah there's a lot of toothpaste back in the day you're just i'm gonna 1995 go to the supermarket get to the one with the nice stripes down the stripes mclean's all we demanded in the 90s was a minty fresh mouth that's all you're right now with us maybe it's us maybe we'd if is there a dentist listening do these whitening toothpaste actually because there's all the stuff you see on tick tock and stuff yeah charcoal teeth and things like that does that sort of stuff work or it's just like funny for little videos that'd be good to know we always wanted to come up remember the um because you have the problems getting the last bit of toothpaste we wanted the double-ended toothpaste so we're just like

that then that that's a problem yeah that's a problem for the conception but you imagine if you've got a nozzle at each end of the toothpaste and then you'd never have that problem at the end we wanted a Jono side

and a Benz side that was all we were going to do but manufacturing problems and name problems branding problems and more so

but it didn't really work but anyone's listening right now at the end it's great do the whitening toothpaste actually whiten your teeth

yeah I mean there's a general life rule we don't want to be confused when buying toothpaste. Did you mean straightforward? 4487 that and your chance to win $1,000 is next.

I was just going to say, you know this energy that you've got with this toothpaste, like the passion you're putting into the toothpaste. Can you just harness some of that into your daily life and your attitude towards your pants? No, you're focusing on the wrong you. Yeah, that's that. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The weather not the greatest around the country over today and tomorrow. Some gusty air conditions, particularly

in the north, but right now The Hits Live Free Bills Edition. We could be paying off one of your bills, the cost of living. It's not great. Not great out there. Fun fact actually, did you know Destiny's Child actually recorded that song? Pay your bills, bills, pay your telephone bills, pay... For this.

Oh, for this, did they? For this, yeah. It was a long play from them to do it. It was a long play. It was very early. It couldn't quite stay together for us to have the competition, but anyway. But we appreciate... Yeah.

How are we feeling about Beyonce? We haven't... Question marks hanging? I don't know, but... I still feel great about it. I mean, she hasn't done anything wrong currently. I'm not deep into, like, the whole celebrity scandal like you are, Megan. So, no, Jono and I are part of a special Diddy chat that Ben is not a part of.

No, no, no. Tell you what, it's explosive stuff. I know, yeah. But at Harvard, you don't know... Anyway, you don't know. You're 45 minutes in, you're like, what am I doing? What? What? What am I doing? What rabbit hole am I down? So, anyway, you don't know. You're 45 minutes in, you're like, what am I doing? What? What?

What am I doing? What rabbit hole am I down? So anyway, we won't get into that now. Right now, we want to pay someone's bills. So I want over 100 of the hits. Let's go to the phones now. Yes. Who do we have on the phone, Liam?

Debra. Debra. Sorry, second time I've done that this morning. Debs, lovely to have you on. How's life? Hi. Good morning. Yeah, it's pretty good.

Yeah. What do you do with yourself, Debs, lovely to have you on. How's life? Hi, good morning. Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah. What do you do with yourself, Debs? Oh, for my work? Yeah. You mean? Yeah. Oh, I just do accounts. Oh, not just do accounts.

Yeah, well. It's very smart. How the hell out of those accounts? Well, we're looking at our hits accounts at the moment, trying to pay you some bills. So what have you got going on? What have you had to pay for? I've had to put two new tyres on the back of the car, which is quite strange because it was only one that was kind of really bad, but apparently you need to do both.

Oh, just to balance it out. I hate that. No, it's the tyre industry having a laugh, mate. We'll pay for one and we'll give you 50 bucks to go and have a coffee while you wait. Oh, okay. Don't get sucked into there. You've got to get two tyres. 50 bucks for a coffee? Oh, yeah. It's a coffee stick, but that's why we're doing our tea, wait. Oh, okay. Don't get sucked into there. You've got to get two tires. 50 bucks for a coffee.

Well, yeah. It's a coffee six-bit, but this is why we're Dilmar Tea, mate. Oh, yeah. Go get a tea. Yeah, exactly. Okay, so what did

one tire cost you? 150 with one tire. All right. Well, sorry. Okay, John O'Sean, we'll pay for one. We'll pay for one tire and we'll give her $50

so you can go to a cafe, get a nice Dilmar Tea and some breakfast. Oh, that's kind of nice. Thank you so much, guys. That's awesome. Yeah, I love that. Go buy yourself something nicer.

Yeah. I appreciate you listening to the show. You have a great day. Hey, thank you. Hey, Norris. Now, we are travelling around the country on our Never Have You Ever tour, thanks to Gas Petrol Service Stations. Getting to know a lot more about each other on a longer tour.

Firstly, Megan, yes, they didn't point out I had something on my face for about three hours. Yeah, I just watched it slowly fall down your face. Yeah, I was like, mate, she is. Then producer Ellie's like, I've got something on your face.

And I was like, oh, thank you, Ellie. It was like some white fluff, so initially I wasn't sure if it was your hair. And then it trebled down and I just watched it. Mate.

So thank you, producer Ellie. We now know. She's got your back. Yeah, exactly. Megan, not so much and something I've learned about you John which I actually

to be honest I already knew but something Megan I am learning shocking when it comes to directions he was in charge yesterday of

just anything that requires any level of responsibility concentration but you're fun no too easily distracted for responsibility I hear you I'm not going to argue

on that case yeah so you were like navigating our way around Christchurch as we on that case. So you were navigating our way around Christchurch as we were heading around yesterday and you were like, oh, left up there. It was on your phone, you were telling us what to do and then we keep driving and you go,

oh, we should have gone left back there. Because we were going very far. I don't know exactly where we needed to be, but I knew that we had gone far away from that point and I was like, don't micromanage this situation. I was driving. He's got this. And then I was like, I feel that we had gone far away from that point and I was like don't micromanage this situation I was driving he he's got this and then I was like I feel like we've gone very Johnno are we still going straight and then it happened again didn't it oh I should have gone back and then I want to turn around and go two k's back the other way my problem is what why am

I playing the role of google maps like google, Google Maps can tell you where to go. We should have had that happen. I'm looking at my phone, I'm going left up here, left at 400. Don't leave that on me. No, you're right. We should have had Google Maps going, because you're like the middle person for Google Maps. For no reason. It's like Google Maps is like, they've done a pretty bang-up job of telling you where to go.

Yeah. And even Google Maps is looking at me going, bruh, how much easier can I make it? You've missed this one. You've missed this one. You've missed this one. You're like, oh, now I have to do this again. We literally ended up, you know you're in trouble when it directs you to the middle of a roundabout. Yeah. And it's like, you've arrived at your destination.

Well, no, we haven't. We are making your nevers come true this week. We're in Wellington today, heading across to Palmy later. And we've just had a call come through of something pretty cool that I have done it but I don't know if you guys have done it. It's very iconic for Wellington and an opportunity for not just you, Jono and Megan to do but you guys listening right now. I've been to Te Papa.

No, not Te Papa. Okay. Even the Wellingtonians are getting behind it. They're going to offer something for free. For free? Not for you guys and for you listening right now. We'll tell you where it is in three minutes on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're on our Never Have You Ever tour around the country doing people's nevers, the things that we've never done before, which is pretty cool as well.

4487, if you've got something you think you want to do while we travel around. We were in Christchurch yesterday, made our way to Wellington today. And the joy you see on people's faces When they do experience something for the first time We took Ellie on a helicopter Megan kept calling it the Alley-copter And she did that for the first time And just when she landed, beaming

Beaming She'd been trying to do it for a few times So it was a big thing for her to finally get up in the air So we're out here changing lives guys It's all thanks to Gas Petrol Service Stations heading around the country right now. Now, someone very special on the show right now, 0800THETHITS.

Good morning. How are you doing? Tamsy. Hey, hi, guys. Welcome to Wellington. Thank you. Now, of course, you're in Wellington right now. Now, I know about this, but Jono and Megan don't know.

You want to offer something today that I don't think these guys have done. What is it? Well, basically, it's the Wellington cable car. So I understand Jono and Megan haven't been. If I'm honest, I wasn't aware there was one. Oh, that's great. I have not been on a cable car. I have not.

It's iconic. Yeah, it's awesome. You go up the hill over the beautiful views back down in Wellington and the harbour as well. Have you not seen the picture where they're like, Wellington, and there's a cable car on the foreground? You know, I saw that picture, but I didn't know it was still going. It still exists.

Yeah, it's awesome. Have you been on it, Jono? Never. 122 years. You've got to come and see it. So we really want you guys to come along. But we also wanted to we realise that so many Wellingtonians

have never ever been on it either so we want to invite everyone to come along between 10 and 11 this morning just say the magic words at the ticket box and come and have a free trip on us free cable carring for the city of Wellington that's very cool they say you can't beat Wellington on a good day,

and this is the good day that we're talking about right now. It looks beautiful out there this morning. Okay, so between 10 and 12 this morning, anyone can come along. Yeah, just go back 10 and 11, mate. Oh, 10 and 11. Yeah, sorry. Not put them out of business. Sorry.

10 and 11. Most people have gone back to work. Come and have a morning tea break and come. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, cool. And we get to go. We get to travel this morning. Can I bring them along, Megan and Jolly? Yeah, come and have a morning tea break and come to the cable car. Okay, cool. And we get to go. We get to travel this morning.

Can I bring them along, Megan and John? Yeah, come along. I can't let you drive it. We'll fill it with plastic balls or anything, but you can ring the bell. You can ring the bell. That's what I'm doing. Oh, lovely. That's cool.

I've never rung the bell. I've been on the cable car. I'm ringing it. It's like a diagonal elevator, isn't it? Yeah, it's awesome. It's quite a steep incline, you know, but it's really awesome. It's a very cool thing to do. Do people commute on it daily in Wellington?

Yeah, yeah. There's about 2,000 people who commute on it every month. So, yeah, up and down through the rave caves. You'll see what they're doing here. So people get to work and school on this thing. Oh, the rave cave. Yeah, I remember that from the last time I took the kids there. What's the rave cave?

Oh, well, you'll see. You'll see, mate, when you see this morning. You'll see. Good cheese. Between 10 and 12 this morning, or 10 and 11, up to you. 10 and 11. 10 and 11. Let's just clarify that one hour of free cable car.

I'll say you heard it on the hits this morning, and between 10 and 11, you can go along. We'll go along this morning. I'll bring you guys along. It's fun. It's an awesome experience. Yeah, come ride the cable car with us. Yeah, Tansy, lovely. Hey, thank you for your generosity and being part of the show. Appreciate it.

No problem. Look forward to seeing you soon. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. So we're heading around the country on our Never Have You Ever tour. A pretty cool text just came through we might try and do after the show as well as the cable car in Wellington. Yeah, Jamie's just texted in, 4487. Hi team, I'm from the NZCIS,

which is the official training base of the All Blacks. Heard of them? Yeah, I've heard of them. Heard of the Black Ferns? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and also the Hurricanes in Phoenix. Oh, wow. Do you guys want to come and do a minus 87 degrees therapy session? Is that like cryotherapy?

Cryotherapy session. As you'll never have you ever. I've never put myself in minus 87 degrees. No, at first you thought it was 87 degrees heat, you're like, well, that's so hot. That would roast you. Putting us in a furnace?

Was it cremation? So we might try and do that later on as well if we can put that in the schedule. It sounds... Is that going to age me backwards? Yeah, you're going to look incredible.

Tell you what, I don't need things shrinking backwards in minus 87 degrees. That's for sure. Don't judge us, Megan. Okayus 87 degrees. That's for sure. Don't judge us, Megan. Okay? Just know the conditions are frosty.

I went to the supermarket and had a very awkward situation because I had done a load of washing and I've got like two little toddlers. So they've got little clothes, right? So when I chuck everything in the washing machine, sometimes bits and bobs end up in sleeves and whatnot. Through the static. Sometimes if you put on the dryer too, it gets all clingy.

Oh, yeah, no, like in crevices and like sleeves and whatnot. So I was wearing a jacket to the supermarket and it was like one of those shell jackets. It was quite puffy, and I thought it was because it was freshly cleaned. And I was like, this is a lot. It's kind of, like, bulky. But anyway, I was at the supermarket at the counter with the conveyor belt. And as I was putting my groceries on the belt,

my son's little undies fell out on the belt in front of the checkout operator. Not for public consumption? So we got a little pair of undies and I was like, first of all, I was like, I'm not trying to steal those. I haven't. Yeah. Oh, it would look like you have been, yeah.

I'd like chuck stuff up my sleeve. So I was like, I'm not trying to steal those. And she was like, no, no, we don't. The premium beef mints in my underpants, however, I am trying to steal but it's not like a suit uh airport conveyor belt where like they can go on and you don't have to lay claim to them they could be anyone's traveling around like these are everyone knows they're yours yeah so yeah his undies got stuck up my sleeve um and i was like no they've come from home and then i was like that's not a good enough explanation why i'm carrying around the undies and so you go into the whole like, oh, I did the washing.

It was up the sleeve. You over-explain it. And then they're like, oh, they don't care. She was just looking at me weirdly, like nodding, like, just please leave. Just take your groceries and go, love. Yeah. Okay. So what do we want to do when your undies fell out?

What's the topic we're rolling with here? Well, maybe not necessarily when your undies fell out. What fell out? Whether it was a car boot, whether it was out of a clothing bag. When you drop your bag. Why is it so embarrassing when you drop, like, you guys probably don't know, when you drop your handbag and all the contents falls out of your handbag? When you're having to, like, pick up everything out.

Happened to him at a Thai airport once, didn't it? He dropped his bag, all this white foot powder, sprayed everywhere Talcum powder everywhere He was very embarrassed Think of a clean up, that's for sure Fast clean up The same sort of situation did happen to our boss Harriet Remember her partner

Riley, remember he had a long winded story about how someone else's like underwear stayed in the place like a year ago and somehow don't don't lead him with it's a long-winded story and he's he's already under the pressure he's in an 87 degree furnace yeah it was like oh that would be from the flatmate that the person that stayed like a year ago you're like really a year ago the undies are still caught up in a shirt.

Anyway, I believed him. Didn't sound like you believed him. More importantly, his partner, our boss, believes him. Yeah, and that's

the main thing. I'll add it to the hits. Blinded by love, is that what you're saying, Ben? What has fallen out at the wrong

time? I would love your calls and texts. We'll find some hell pizza for our favourite. What's fallen out? We'll do that next. love your calls and texts. We'll find some hell pizza for our favourite. What's fallen out? We'll do that next. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

New Zealand overnight up 4-0 in the America's Cup, so just over halfway. But hey, as we talked about earlier, we're not going to get too excited just yet. Don't get cocky because you did remind us the time that we were up 6-0 or something and then we ended up, we only needed to win one more race,

and you fond memories of Dave Dobbin waiting in a giant marquee to perform Loyal is the winning song. Yeah. And it wasn't to be. They claimed they clawed their way back. Was that Team America? I think it was, yeah, the Jimmy Spittles team at the time, yeah. Yeah.

So don't get too arrogant, okay? 4-0 up. Well done, though, Team New Zealand. Jimmy Spittles team at the time, yeah. So don't get too arrogant, okay? 4-0 up. Well done, though, Team New Zealand. Now, Megan had her underpants on display for everyone to see. No, they weren't my undies. They were my son's undies. You know what you do at Washington?

Because they're just little. They got stuck up the sleeve, and then they fell out on the conveyor belt at the supermarket. Which would have been easier to explain my own undies. How did you push that out on the conveyor belt? Well, the sleeve, as I was putting something down on the conveyor belt, it came out of the sleeve. Yeah, it looked very dodgy. Yeah, humbling experience for all involved. Did you reclaim them?

Yeah. Yeah. Because Ben's got some interesting underpants stories. What? He claims that his dog rifles through the neighbour's underwear. No one believed the fact that the dog brought back, it wasn't my neighbours, it was at a friend's place where we had the dog and the dog brought back some underwear from the little clothes horse

they had outside. Now, no one believes my story, so I'm going to believe yours. Was it women's underwear? Yes. Lacey, negligee. And I knocked on the door to deliver the underwear back. Did you tell your wife about the underwear? Yeah, well, she was there at the time.

But anyway, I knocked on the door and the lady did not believe my story. It felt like I'd stolen them from the line and then I got the guilt. So would some say it was a long-winded story? Yeah, yeah. You were referencing just moments earlier. Yes, and I believe, you know. But everyone believe me? I wouldn't believe my story either, so there you go.

What fell out? Kerry is on the phone with us this morning. How are you? Hello, I'm good, thank you. How are you? Oh, we're doing well, Kerry. Lovely to hear your bubbly voice this morning. Oh, thank you.

What fell out for you? Well, it actually wasn't me. It was my father. So my dad was travelling to America a couple of years ago. And as you do, you take your toilet bag. Not sure why he needed his nail clippers on the plane, but he had them. And in security, they found his nail clippers

and took them away and out came his pocket knife. And they said, no, no, we'll just need your nail clippers. We don't need your pocket knife. Oh, so you can take and play hostage with some nail clippers. That's wild that you would be like, yeah. Nothing screams more American than that.

Did they let him put his pocket knife back in his pocket? No, he just put it back in his toilet bag and off he went. He didn't even know it was there. So they just took his nail clippers and said, no, no, you can keep that one. They're like, no monster is cutting their toenails on this plane, thanks very much. Try to get your head around sometimes airport security, particularly when you go places. There's that whole 50 mil thing, you know.

Oh, the liquid. The liquid thing. I don't understand that. I had like some hair product that was too big and the guy was like, I'm going to throw it out. But then he was like, would you like to do your hair before I do it one more time? It was just lovely, though. He was going to throw it out, and he was like, oh, do you want to just do your hair one more time?

It was just sentimental about it for me. I've got a private room you can go and say your condolences. I was like, is my hair okay? He was like, yeah, it's fine. So I was like, okay, no, it's all good. It was lovely of him, though. He had magnificent hair the next day, though, didn't he? That guy.

What do they do with all that stuff? What do you think they do with all that product that they... Do they keep it? Surely. Otherwise, it's just waste. Well, yeah, you're right. But then what do they do with it? Give it out as Christmas presents at the Christmas party. 4487. Are you in airport security? Kerry, we all you're right. But then what do they do with it? Give it out as Christmas presents at the Christmas party.

4487, are you in airport security? Kerry, we all want to know, what happened to her dad's nail clippers? What happened to Ben's hair product? That's right. Do you get to keep it? Give us a text, 4487. Thanks so much, Nicole. We appreciate it this morning.

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