Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - March 15 - How Many Times Can Jono Lock Himself Out Of A Hotel Room?

Episode Date: March 15, 2021

Today we were broadcasting from Palmerston North at Robert Harris Cafe. Whenever we go away, Jono always seems to have some sort of issue - this time, he locked himself out of his room MORE THAN ONCE... Clearly, he doesn't learn from his mistakes! We were also joined by the lovely Kiwi actress Antonia Prebble who has her own podcast called The Most Of It, and season 2 has just come out. Finally, we played 5 Words for 5K in Robert Harris with a listener in REAL LIFE which was a lot of fun! Did she win $5K? Have a listen to find out!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. Today, the podcast intro coming to you from Palmerston North.

It is coming to you from Palmerston North. We're live in Robert Harris Cafe. It's not often you hear a podcast intro done in a cafe, Ben, and it's when you're in these moments, you realise how much you're inconveniencing people. Yeah, you're just the people loudly talking in the corner. It's like, who are those guys? They've got headphones on, microphones.

And fake laughing at jokes and things like that. You forget that not everyone can, well, no one can hear what we can hear through our headphones. So we're just laughing away at stuff and talking to stuff and yeah, we're kind of inconvenienced

but lovely. Thank you so much to Robin Harris for having us here this morning. We really do appreciate it. It's been great fun being in Palmerston North and it felt like

we were on the set of a sitcom in a way because it's in a cafe and surrounded by people. Felt like we were filming some sort of sitcom with just as can fake laughter. There you go.

There's some for you. I'm going to try to hit. Did you know, I've just had a message here on my phone. My screen time is 6 hours and 13 minutes a day. Is that too much? That's horrendous. It's a lot. Oh, thanks, Juliet.

Sorry. You'll be trying to keep your screen time This is through the wonders of witchcraft We're talking to our producer Juliet Norkund I tell you what, this is a multi-platform podcast here Broadcast all over Aotearoa But what was your screen time? Because you got up to an unusually high rate, didn't you Ju?

It used to be about four and a half hours about last year But I've reined in my notifications And now last week's average was three hours and 22 minutes and a half hours about last year, but I've reined in my notifications, and now I'm, last week's average was three hours and 22 minutes. Oh, do the notifications stick you up, do they? Well, I just get really distracted by notifications. If they pop up on my screen, I'm like, oh, I'll open my phone, but if I just don't get them, then I don't know they're there.

Yeah, no, I don't, I'm sure I'm not spending six hours on my phone. But anyway, it's a good conversation topic, isn't it? What are you on, Ben? Are you checking your website? What are you on? Okay. I get messaged like it's a shame. It's shaming me.

Oh, weekly, daily. What? Go on screen time. Okay. And then if you go, see all activity. There you go. Here's a daughter explaining to her dad how to use the phone. I'm there.

I'm there. Okay. See all there. Okay. See all the activity. I hope it's what. In my head, I've got to this place. In my head, I'm like, I hope this is one of those occasions where I've nailed it. And they're like, oh, that's unusual. It hasn't come through.

But it doesn't always happen like this. So I'm there. Yes, now. And then if you swipe backwards, it'll show you yesterday's. Or you can go to the top and it will say week. So it will say you can choose which week to look at. Oh, yes. I see what you're saying.

That was the thing. I had me swiping backwards. Welcome back to the podcast. Just in the moment trying to figure out Ben's screen time. This is... Okay. So yesterday was... Rolling coverage.

Two hours, 53 minutes. Quite a lot. Quite a lot. How am I doing six hours? The day before was around three hours. So I'm around about three hours a day. That's not too bad. That's not too bad.

Today, only 21 minutes. That's pretty good. So, yeah, there you go. And on weekly average, yeah, basically around three hours a day. Yeah, well, maybe I'm just working harder. That's what I put it down to. Does it work or is it not? Anyway, enjoy the podcast today.

We had a lot of fun this weekend from Palmy, and we bring you a lot of those fun experiences in the next podcast. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. We've had a lot of fun this weekend. We've been at the Rural Games,

which take place in the square in Palmerston North. Of course, they have, you know, events like sheep shearing and tree climbing, but then they have unusual events like cow pat throwing and egg catching as well. And the whole time I was just thinking, when you were holding that manure, you just, the sanitising and the pedantic cleanliness in you, how were you feeling? Talk me through it. Oh, look, I had to just, you know, put that aside because that was the sport.

But straight away, once the sport was done, the hand sanitiser came out. Do you know he turned up with a 19 litre tub of hand sanitiser? Gee, he had enough hand sanitiser to last him a lifetime. But we've been seeing this wonderful coachman. Yeah, it's been nice. Hotel down the road. Yeah, nice time. Love the coachman.

We stayed there before, actually. Yeah, we did. That seems to be our local every time we come to Parmy. But you know what I've done? I've locked myself out of my room consecutively for three days in a row.

And I go to reception and I can tell the lovely receptionist is she's showing some concern for my wellbeing because she's like, not again.

It's a key situation there, right? Yeah. And you just keep leaving the key in your room, locking the door and walking out. I've done it. The last time that I went down, she's like,

don't tell me. How have you done this again? You numbness. I feel like I'm going to be one of those guests that they regale the tale of to future guests. So this numbness locked himself out of the room. Yeah, when someone comes out and goes, oh, yeah, sorry, I've locked my camera in my room.

Don't worry, this other guy, this other idiot from TV and radio, he locked his key in there three or four times. I think I even lost this. At one point, I had two keys in there and they were like, well, we've only got one more, so don't lose the other one, or else that room will never be serviced again.

Something else I've noticed about you, travelling away for the last few days, is you're a great talker. That's what you do for a job. But you talk and talk and talk all day, like hanging out with you from like five in the morning to six or seven at night. You talk.

But as soon as you stop talking for probably more than five to ten seconds, you sleep. Shut down. So on the plane, you're like, you're jibber-jabbering away to me. You're talking away to me. And then you stop talking. I was like, oh, there's a little bit of silence. And then it's like,

it's almost like you shut down. It's like the TV when you have it on standby and then it suddenly turns off. You're just like, and then again, it happens again and we're in the car and he's like,

oh, he's talking away to me and then there's a little brief bit of silence. It's like you need to keep talking to keep yourself awake. I'm either on or off. I am. I'm like an appliance.

He's like, he keeps going but as soon as he stops talking he's like, and Jono will sleep now. Keep yourself awake. I'm either on or off. I am. I'm like an appliance. He's keeping trying. But as soon as he stops talking, he's like, and Jono will sleep now. Yeah, you did right. You did right. And I'm sorry for that, Peter. That's just a little observation. That and the fact you're shocking with room keys.

Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Now, one of our dear friends, Antonia Preble. You know Antonia from... Antonia's got a new podcast out now. Yeah, it's called The Most of It. Antonia Preble, of course, one of our New Zealand's best actors, you know her from Outrageous Fortune and West Side.

Her podcast is called The Most of It, as I said before. And she joins us on the phone right now. Antonia, season two of the podcast out now. Hello. The podcast season two of the podcast out now. Hello. The podcast season two is out, yes. So it's all about, it's called The Most of It with Antonia Preble. It's all about how to make the most out of life, right? Yes.

So it's basically a little passion project of mine that I've been wanting to do for quite a few years. And then when lockdown happened last year, we had to stop filming West Side. And all of a sudden I had, you know, six weeks to sort of twiddle my thumbs. And I thought, well, why this maybe is the perfect time to get started. So it's sort of asking questions that I myself are really interested in. Like, how do we make the most of our lives? How do we create a meaningful life? How can we learn about ourselves and the world around us so we can live more engaged

lives? And I did a season one and it was so great. So yeah, it's basically a continuation of the same theme of how do we get the most out of our lives and what does that look like? Oh, that's awesome. So you've spoken to people like Robin Malcolm, of course, with Cheryl West, Nigel Ladder, a child expert. What have you learned? I imagine when you talk to everyone, there's something you take out of it. And you go, oh, that's really cool. I've learnt that now. You're exactly right.

Yeah, every person I talk to has just got so much to offer. And that's what I wanted with the show because obviously there is no one way to get the most out of your lives because the answer to that question means different things to all of us. Okay. Right now, Ben, you tell me one thing you've learned from your life,

and then Antonia, you tell me one thing you've learned from your life, and then I'll share one thing I've learned from my life. Okay. Oh, jeez. I'm trying to think. Well, I like something from Dwayne the Rock Johnson, someone. Oh, God, he's quoting Dwayne the Rock Johnson again. Okay.

I do like the fact that he always tries to be the hardest working person in the room. Like, that's his thing. So I'd like to take something that he always tries to be the hardest working person in the room. Like that's his thing. So I'd like to take something that he's learnt that he hasn't passed on to me but I read somewhere as my thing. Regurgitated rock Instagram posts there. Antonia, what have you learnt? One thing you've learnt.

That's a good one. I should get you on my podcast. I'll just read Good to Shake Rock stuff. That is some wisdom. To me, I think a really important lesson I've learned is that your attitude is what dictates

your experience of your life. So if you can try to have a positive attitude or see the silver linings or the lessons and things, then you're more likely to feel okay

about your life as opposed to feeling like everything bad happens all the time. That's really good. Okay, John, you started this game. Now I regret it because you guys had some –

I wish I had started with the advice and then you two followed. I used someone else's quote. Yeah. I read something the other day that I thought was good. When you come across someone in your life who's willing to support you and your endeavours, you hold on to them and learn from them because not everyone is as selfless as they appear to be. Oh.

Oh, hold on. Now, I feel like mine wasn't as good. And Tonya gave it an oh. And Ben went, oh. Oh, not a shower. Listen, I delivered a groaning piece of advice. And I'm sorry, I let it run down there. No, I actually think that is good advice.

Don't try and make my advice feel better about itself. Hey, quickly before you go, we've got Antonia Preble with us. You know, you've been acting for a long time, since a young child. This is called Second Act with Antonia Preble. Now, we're going to play one second of some of your characters, and you have to try and figure out which character they are. This is such a great idea.

It's going to be tough though because the second is not long but we'll see how you go with the first one. Here's the first one, Antonia Preble. I'm the one with magic. Did you say I'm the one with magic? I'm the one with magic. Do you remember what your role was? Okay, it was either Mirror Mirror or Power Rangers.

It was Power Rangers. Well done. Mystic Power Forces, Claire Langtry. Great. This is second act with Antonia Preble. She's won from one so far, going through her characters from her career. Here's the next one, Antonia.

Time to call in the big guns. Time to call in the big guns. Okay. The Blue Rose? No. It was Westside. Rita West. Oh, Westside.

I was like, they wouldn't do Westside second, but they did. Oh, I mixed it up. You thought we wouldn't go second, but we went second. You should have built up to that, John. I told you. And here's the third and final one, Antonia. It should have been West Side, but anyway. Partners.

You and Amber. Oh, okay. That's the tribe. That is the tribe. Trudy from the tribe. 1999. Yeah. Wow.

Yeah, that's a long time ago, isn't it? What? It's... It was the tribe at New Zealand show that was kind of sort of post-apocalyptic. It was filmed in New Zealand. It went all over the world, right? Yes. Well, funnily enough, it was about a post-apocalyptic world

when all the adults had died off because of the mysterious virus. Oh. They picked it from back in 1999. Geez. And Tony Preble, we always love catching up with you. And don't forget to catch your new podcast, which is out, series 2 of your podcast. Can't wait to listen to that.

Oh, thanks so much, guys. Always great to talk to you, too. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Penn, breakfast on the heads.

The heads. The heads. We're in Palmerston North, have been for a couple of days over the weekend. This morning, we're at Robert Harris Cafe by the Square, where they're giving away free coffee and hot chocolates for the kids, I noticed, as well, until 9 o'clock.

So pop down and see us. I'm just enjoying a lovely Eggs Benedict right now. Is this a food review? What would you like to say about your Eggs Benedict? It's lovely. It'd be awful if you gave them a vicious review right now. It's beautiful. I'm just getting interrupted from eating it by our radio show.

By the niggly radio program. It's getting in the way. That's the thing. You host a breakfast show, but there's no time to eat breakfast. There's beautiful. I just keep getting interrupted from eating it by our radio show. By the niggly radio program. It's getting in the way. That's the thing, you host a breakfast show, but there's no time to eat breakfast. There's no time to eat breakfast. It's taken me 45 minutes

to eat about half of it so far, but I am really enjoying it. We have spent way too long talking about your expediate. Well, it does kind of relate. The other night, we went out for dinner because we were down here

doing some filming over the weekend. We went to Lone Star in Palmerston North. And Jono, would you like to explain what you did when you ordered your meal? Well, I said I'll have the chicken. And then the waiter, he goes,

would you like a double chicken? And when anyone offers double chickens, you're always going to take it up. You're going to take up that offer. What I didn't factor in is how enormous the meals are there. So when it came out, I don't know how many chickens perished from my meal, but it was a mountain of chicken. It was huge.

And I thought, I'm going to tackle this. Sir Edmund de Devers, I'm going to tackle this chicken mountain. And you pretty much got through most of it. It was a lot of, I pulled out about 80%. I was 80, it was 20% left and I couldn't finish it. It was a monster. And then last night you came back from your meal and you told me you regaled another story

in that amazing eating feed. I sat next to a man who ordered and ate a $99 platter of meat. So this was at another place in Palmerston North? Just all meats. Name a meat. What, like a... It was on there. I didn't say anything.

I just mumbled around the answer. But I said $99. Name another meat. I didn't even name one. Well, name one. Pork. It was on there. Well, okay.

Name another one. Beef. On there. Okay, lamb. Sausages, ribs. It was just like a... I don't know how that's going to come out of it. Well, once we went to a restaurant and you ordered a steak for, it was for the table. How many times has he told this goddamn thing?

He won't go out for dinner with me now. Oh, yeah, because you ordered a steak. They were like, is that for the table? You're like, no, for me. Yeah. And then it was a split bill situation. It was a steak for three people. And then we're like, oh, we all table? You're like, no, for me. And then it was a split bill situation. It was a stake for three people. And then we're like, oh, so we all had about the same?

No, we didn't. And you were like, when we got to pay, you were like, oh, just split the bill. He's up at the counter with his calculator, dividing up the bill. And he's like, oh, you had, I only had two Heinekens, you had 20. We shouldn't all be paying for your Heinekens. Oh, we'll just split the bill.

Anyway, but amazing eating feat from you once again and we want to open this 0800 the hits telephone number 4487 on the text what have you seen at a restaurant you've looked over and you're like oh my gosh that gentleman is eating an enormous amount there but maybe you've worked in a restaurant

maybe you went to dinner with someone the most amount you've seen someone order. Maybe it was your partner ordering you like, oh, God, he's doing a Jono. Oh, it's a thing now, is it? Coin to freeze. That's becoming, we're all talking behind your back. Hey, we're going to go to the phones. Most amount you've seen ingested at a restaurant,

either you've been working there, sitting at the table with someone, looking across, hello, mate, come on into robin harris not this morning not this morning oh not this morning of all the people i can see not a good start to the week there's free coffee over there and that's free coffee there's free coffee go get it yeah there you go we want it back so we'll go to the phones what you've seen in a restaurant uh who we got on the phone right now oh good day sir how are Yeah, there you go. We want it back. So we'll go to the phones. What you've seen in a restaurant. Who have we got on the phone right now? Oh, g'day, Sarah.

How are you from Tauranga? Hey, good, thank you. Morning. Lovely to have you on. What did you see in a restaurant? So I once saw someone eat the most ridiculous amount of chicken wings at an all-you-can-eat chicken wings night. It's all-you-can-eat. It night. It's all-you-can-eat. It's almost like a challenge.

Yeah, beating hell. New Zealanders. New Zealanders is like, yeah. I'm going to get my money's worth. How many chicken wings did you see ingested? Oh, there must have been at least 30 chicken wings eaten by this person. Wow, that's impressive. Back in the day, Pizza Hut, you remember they used to do the wild days of all-you-can-eat?

That's right. It was only like $9 or $10. Jeez, the day, Pizza Hut, you remember they used to do the wild days of all you could eat? That's right. It was only like $9 or $10. Jeez, I'm surprised Pizza Hut's still going. They just financially crippled them. You're right. New Zealanders saw it as a challenge and they would just keep going. And you'd see people walking out with ham and cheese pizza in their pockets. You know, the ice cream sundae machine, just pouring it into your back pocket.

New Zealanders, eh? Yeah. You got on your, Sarah. We'll go to Kate in Wellington. Morena, Kate, how are it into your back pocket. New Zealanders, eh? Yeah. You good on you, Sarah? We'll go to Kate in Wellington. Morena, Kate, how are you? I'm good. Lovely to have you on. Most of the time you're seen at a restaurant.

I was on a date and this middle-aged lady right in front of me, which she was ordering first, and she ordered a pepperoni pizza without pepperoni. Oh, so just the pizza base. Isn't that just a margarita? Yeah, but she was really adamant on not having the pepperoni. But it had to be the pepperoni pizza. What else was on it?

Just the cheese, I guess. Just cheese and sort of the pizza sauce or something. It was a pizza on the menu. But pepperoni without the pizza? Yeah. She wanted the labor of a pepperoni pizza. She wanted to taste that. I like that amount of time and effort that's been put into that design.

That is so unusual, but I love it. Good on you, Kate. Really appreciate it. And someone's texting here, 4487. I saw a guy at a restaurant stealing all the cutlery, putting all the cutlery into his pockets. It's quite a good play, though, isn't it? If you're short of knives and forks.

Put them in your pockets and we'll care. Don't start doing it here at Robert Harris, all right, mate? Well, not publicly. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. We're broadcasting this morning from Robert Harris at the Square in Palmerston North, so come down and see us before 8 o'clock and you can get a free coffee.

Yeah, I just went to the lavatory and I didn't know where it was, so I just walked. And somehow we ended up in the bowels of the kitchen. You took a long time. Ended up washing dishes. So I guess you're right, we need to send our search party. I got lost. He's back here now. Big news this morning.

660 are going to be the first concert ever on Eden Park. And that's happening April 24th. We've got a double pass to give away for that Anzac weekend concert just after 8 o'clock. It's been a dream of theirs, hasn't it, to play Eden Park? I know we spoke to Machu and he was quite a successful rugby player. And he's like, I've ended up on Eden Park. That's what he's always wanted to do. That little boy

is now going to live out his dream. That's so awesome. And actually speaking of 660 right now there's a 660 song Rise Up and you can sing along to it and you film yourself singing along to support Emirates Team New Zealand and you can make it into the Kiwi Bank ad, potentially, if you do a good job of singing along,

supporting Emirates Team New Zealand singing Rise Up. Yeah. And we had a crack at doing it, the two of us. We set up a little scenario where we wanted to make it look like quite yachting themed, right? Yeah, so I bought my blue tarpon from home, rolled out the tarpon. I don't know what that's seen, but we brought your tarpon. We brought the tarpon, and you were on out the tarp. I don't know what that's seen, but we brought your tarpon. We brought the tarpon

and you were on an office chair and you were pushing yourself along and I was waving the tarp up and down to make it look like the ocean. I had a life jacket on. I had an Emirates Team New Zealand cap on. I had a little round circle thing looking like I was potentially

steering a boat as you were waving the waves for me. It was a wonderful scene. It was a vision shared by both of us. Yeah. And we created it. And then we sent that off to the people at Kiwi Bank, hoping we'd be part of this big, you know,

backing track that they're doing for Kiwi Bank, an awesome thing they're doing with Rise Up. And so the shot, our shot we sent in, started on me and then obviously showed you doing the waves, waving, here you go. And we actually did another one. You brought in your leaf blower, and I was holding up a New Zealand flag. And I was blowing the wind

on a boat. Yeah, we're like, this is great. These are two great scenarios. Surely we'll make it into the Kiwi Bank ad. Now then I watched down the final edit. The edit which is going around the internet. And to my surprise, Ben, you're in there. You've made the cut, which is wonderful. Not once, not twice, but three times. You're on there. You've made the cut, which is wonderful. Not once, not twice,

but three times. You're on three shots, three different shots of me. And I have been brutally cut out. There's nothing there. The one's doing the heavy lifting, he's doing the wave. I know. It just looks like I'm part of this ad campaign.

I got cut like Prince Harry got cut from the family trust. It is the brutal world of bank-sponsored, heartfelt celebrity sing-alongs. I love it, though. It's so good. It's like, there's me. Oh, this next shot will be Jono.

Oh, no, this is me. And there's me again. So there you go. If it was America's Cup, I'd be up 3-0. Yeah. My career's reached a stage where I'm even getting edited out from sing-alongs, from shameless sing-alongs.

Ironically, the bank who does interest had no interest in me. No interest in me. No, we love it. But you still can get involved. Maybe you can make the cut, even though Jono didn't. We've got details on that Instagram this morning. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime.

Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. The A to Z of New Zealand. Yes, we're coming to you live this morning from Robert Harris, and we'll be Robert harassing innocent customers as they make their way to work this morning. After seven, you can come and get

a free coffee, Robert Harris, Palmerston North. But yeah, right now A to Z of New Zealand phoning every town and city in Aotearoa today, Ben. Mapua. Have you heard of Mapua? I feel like I have heard of it, but it's a place that I'm like, where exactly is it? So you've heard of it, but you just don't care about it. I don't want to say it.

Well, I care about it right now. That's the important thing. It sits on the coastline of the Tasman Bay on State Highway 60, and it's a quiet seaside town home to only 2,013 people. And that drops to 2,011 people when Trish and Donna head off to work at Posty Plus in town. Upcoming events in Mapua include the Hamden School Assembly, which is this Friday at 2.15. Oh, very nice. If you'd like to attend. A bit weird, though, if I turned up for that. It's a bit weird if you've got no connection to the school.

You've got kids in the school. No, I'm just here for the assembly. Who's the weird guy at the assembly? Yeah, we're going to head through to Mapua right now. It's a bit weird. Have you got no connection to the school? Have you got kids at the school? No, I'm just here for the assembly. Who's the weird guy at the assembly? We're going to head through to Mapua right now. Morning, Sean speaking. Hello, Sean. Hello, how are you?

Hello, have we got hold of Mapua? That's it. Oh, Sean, it's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. This is the A to Z of New Zealand, phoning everywhere in Aotearoa, and it's Mapua's turn today. Wow, we're really delighted about this. You've been waiting for the phone call?

Absolutely. Well, whereabouts in New Zealand are you? We are in the end of the Able Tasman area, in the bottom of the Tasman Bay. We are 19 kilometres from Motuaka and 19 kilometres from Richmond. So we're just parked in the middle there. Mate, I am on mapua.co.nz. It looks

like a seaside paradise. It is. It's a lovely little village. There's only about 2,000 people live here. But we've got everything we want. So we're very happy. Yeah, what do you do there? I own the bakery, Mapua Village Bakery, right in're very happy. Yeah, and what do you do there? I own the bakery, Mapua Village Bakery, right in the middle of the town, in the village.

Oh, nice. Yeah, so basically 1 o'clock starts for me this morning, four coffees down my throat and talk to you guys. 1 o'clock? You get in at 1 o'clock? Yeah, we've got to do all our famous pies and breads and cakes and get them ready for our customers. Wow. What's your daily routine? So you'll work till what time?

Oh, generally sort of like 10 or 11 and then I'm off to actually pick up all our fresh podgers for our pies and for our cafes. That's a big day. When do you go to bed? Yeah. When do you sleep?

Oh, when I can. I have nana naps these days. I'm getting old, so I have a little one in the afternoon and get back up again and then I can have dinner with my wife and watch the news and see what you two are up to and take it from there. So then you go to sleep about what time at night to get up at what?

I like to be back in bed by about just 7, 7.30 and then back up again at 12.30. Oh my God, what a wild regime. How many years have you been doing that routine? I've been back in New Zealand for five years. So this one has been five years, this routine. Before that, it was a bit more intense over in Australia, owning some bigger bakeries over there. How did it get more intense than what you're currently doing?

Because that's pretty intense. I know. We've only got 14 staff. I had some other places that were sort of like 53 staff and 28 staff. So that was a little bit more intense. Oh my god, I've only been doing this job for not even 12 months and getting up at, I get to sleep

until 3.40. I thought that was wild. Yeah, everyone's been saying, John is wild, he's running at 3.40 in the morning but 1 o'clock? 1 o'clock's a whole other game. Yeah, it is, it is but yeah, it's enjoyable. I like what I do so that's why I keep doing it. And that's your main thing,

isn't it? Now, a couple of questions that have always bugged us. Number one, do you have your fingers in pies? Yes. You do? Yeah, well, I guess that's

how you make the pies, don't you, with your hands? Yes, I do, actually. Yeah, handmade pies. And another question, why are you there? The baker's dozen, being 13 items.

Is that still a thing? No, not anymore. No, if you want 13, you pay for 13. Fair enough, fair enough. Hey, listen, lovely talking to you, mate. And if we come to Marpore, apart from trying one of your wonderful pies, what else should we do?

We've got a lot happening. We've got our historic wharf down the end of Aranui Road, and that's got a brewery, wine bars, some very market restaurants, coffee shops, fish and chip shops. And that's pretty famous because we're tidal. In the summer, the kids do all the wharf jumping, so when it's high tide, they can jump down one end and whip down the other end and get back out,

and they jump back in again and race down the end of the wharf and they climb back out and do it again. Oh, listen, doing the manus off the wharf. Yeah, yeah, so it's pretty big down here. Yeah, good. My body's not built for manus. And in a couple of weeks we've got our famous

Easter fair which we, on our local oval, we get about 7,000 people for the Mapua school fair which is the biggest in the Tasman. Seven,

for a school fair? That's amazing. That's wild. Yeah, it is. It's pretty famous. It's quite chaotic but I love it because I'm right next door to it. Oh, good on you. Hey, well, listen, thank you so much for your time this morning.

Do us a favour. Try and get some sleep. I will. And I can't wait to see you boys to come get a nice pie. Oh, we would love to pop down at some point, mate. Thank you very much for your time. You have a wonderful day. You too.

Thank you, guys. See ya. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. Thank you, guys. See ya. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right in at the end of the day. Jono and Ben.

Breakfast on the hits. Remember the lessons I've learned. Hey. You're on. We're on. Oh, we're on. We just had a technical glitch. I was trying to call you on your cell phone.

Oh, you were. Not answering. She's not answering. It's like, play another song. But here we are on the radio and not floundering at all. Now, so what happened there? Let's pull back the curtain. Our broadcast unit just blacked out.

And then it came on with like a second to go. We didn't know what was happening. You were... I was trying to call Julia on the phone. But anyway, we are back here. We're broadcasting this morning. It's going to be a fun morning. From Robert Harrison, the square in Palmerston North.

We've been at the rural games over the weekend. They have them to be a fun morning. From Robert Harris in the Square in Palmerston North, we've been at the Rural Games over the weekend. They have them in Palmy every year and it's very hard to say rural. Rural, yeah. Rural's probably one of the most difficult. You say rural, Juliet. Yeah, rural. Rural. Rural. Yeah, I've said it so many times over the weekend and still have not nailed it

once, but if you haven't been to the Rural Games before, it's things like sheepdog trials, shearing, highlandland games as well as some unusual events like hay stacking cow pat throwing egg throwing and catching geez i tell you what we milked things we shoveled things we climbed things we tackled things and we got a constant stream of mockery and abuse on the loudspeaker for a weekend. So there were people broadcasting across all the big screens around the square in Palmerston North where the rural games

were on. And so everyone could hear it, everyone could see it, and every time they'd be like have a go, you guys have a go. We're like, alright. And then we'd do it and we just got mocked. Like constantly mocked. And all day roasting. All weekend. Three days in a row. Non-stop.

It was bellowing across Palmerston North over the loudspeaker. Oh, look at these townies. Marshmallows would be jealous. Their hands are so soft. It was just three. Now, a fine line between bullying. Was it workplace bullying? Yeah.

Off the microphones, they'd be like, it's so great you guys are coming along here and showcasing this, a big part of it. You go, thank you. And then they'll be like, all right, now let's have a look at these two losers. Do their thing. You're like, what? What? But you were just saying it was nice that we'd come along.

Hold on. We got eggs thrown at us from the organiser at the end. And he was like, afterwards, it's so great to have you guys here. It really is. It really does mean a lot. Right after he'd smashed eggs on our head. It's a mix of emotions.

What is that? Where do we stand with you people? Yesterday too, I got a colonoscopy in a mobile surgical unit. It's crazy. It's this truck that goes all around New Zealand,

does a loop of New Zealand, takes five weeks to travel around all of New Zealand and they do operations in the back of this truck. It's crazy. It's this truck that goes all around New Zealand, does a loop of New Zealand, takes five weeks to travel around all of New Zealand, and they do operations in the back of this truck. It's wild. Anyway, they sat me on the operating bed in the theatre and gave me a colonoscopy in front of you, and they pulled out a grape, a single grape. That was one of them. You hate it. I hate it. Well, I'd stored it there for later because I call that part of the body, you know, the pocket of the body, isn't it?

That was one of the more unusual moments of our unusual couple of days. Lots of fun, the Royal Games, if you've never been. It's all free. You can come along. So go along next year. But sports like cow pat throwing, you're like, is this really a sport? But they do it every year, and there's technique. Who knew there were techniques involved?

That's the thing. I was like, we turned up going, there's a lot of filler content here, guys. You're throwing eggs, you're throwing cow manure. And you're mocking Jono and Ben. Yeah, but no, you're right. And throwing gumboots, gumboot throwing is a lot more technical than you think it is.

Yeah. Like, there's actual skill and technique involved in throwing it further. You could just throw end over end, but you don't actually get it as far as when you do the discus-type throw. It's, tell you what. The things we've learnt.

I've been judging this sporting event for a long time now, and it's been judging me all weekend. Definitely. Add these two men together, and somehow you get three-quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits, with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Scrolling through Your Feed is brought to you by our partners at Robert Harris Coffee, Palmerston North.

Robert Harris Coffee, Palmerston North, if you're drinking other coffee, you're a terrible human being. Now, the America's Cup, very exciting, the America's Cup. It is 3-0 at the moment between New Zealand and Lunarossa. Did they race yesterday? No, they didn't. There was not enough wind. So they took the boats out

and they kind of just sat on their boats for a little bit. Unfortunately, not enough wind. So it's just a lovely day out on the harbour. You went out, didn't you, Ju? Yeah, I did. It was a beautiful day out on the water, but it was just a lot of waiting and waiting

and then you'd kind of have false promises. Yep, we're going to race in about 10 minutes and then nope. And then the wind promises. Yep, we're going to race in about 10 minutes and then nope. And then the wind ended up just getting even more calm. Now tell me, how many boats are out there? Oh man, it was chocker. It is like the Auckland Motorway at 8 o'clock on a Monday morning. It is crazy.

You get incredibly close to the other boats. It's kind of scary. I'm starting to get the feeling that you can't remember much. There might have been a bit of drinking involved. Me! There was a bit of drinking, but hey, I was very responsible. You know me. Yeah, there's a vague recollection of what went on out of the water yesterday. And shout out not only to producer Juliet, but shout out to the TV presenters.

I watched the end of the coverage yesterday afternoon, and there were like two hours of filler content with no racing. I was like, shout out to Scotty Morrison and Tony Street and the rest of them. You'd almost be like, can we biff on Emmerdale Farm or something? Put something on. We'll come back after. Josh said Juliet drunk on a bone or something. But Rod Stewart over the weekend.

I don't know if you saw this. Rod Stewart, legendary singer. He started a sing-along from his home because obviously he's overseas at the moment. But a sing-along of his song Sailing and people down at the Viaduct in Auckland Wall singing along. To get into the spirit of the breakfast. What if you didn't know the words? I think they would have had them on the big screen. Oh, like karaoke.

Yeah, I think so. They don't just like learn the words, Scouts. What if you didn't know the words? I think they would have had them on the big screen. Oh, like karaoke? Yeah, I think so. They don't just, like, learn the words, come along. Like, I know the hook. Yeah. But anything else, okay, fair enough. Clark Gayford, first man of New Zealand, as we like to call him, he interviewed Rod Stewart, though, just before the big sing-along. And I thought it was very interesting,

Rod Stewart talking about when he was married to Rachel Hunter and coming to New Zealand. Well, I loved New Zealand and Australia, of course. Of course, you know I was married to Rachel Hunter and coming to New Zealand. Well, I loved New Zealand and Australia, of course. Of course, you know, I was married to Rachel Hunter. I must admit, whenever Rachel did go down there, I always had to walk two paces behind, like the Duke of Edinburgh does with the Queen, because she would obviously be more important than I was.

I know how that works. I bet you do, mate. I am so good at taking photos. It was kind of cool to see them talking about, you know, stuff like that. Yeah, no, I mean, Clark's told us many times that when he's overseas or whatever, Jacinda's got all her security detail. And we're like, do they look after you? He's like, no, no, they don't worry about me.

I just sort of stay behind the pack. Yeah. He said the only time I think he mentioned to us when they were doing something at the United Nations or something, and everyone got their own security detail, including the partners. And so he was like at 11 o'clock at night, he wanted to get some chicken or something from a store up the road. And they're like, yeah, okay, sir, off we go. And he had people walking around holding their earpiece with him. He was like, oh, no, please don't do this.

And everyone's looking at him, oh, this guy must be important, but I don't know who he is. I just want some chicken. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Bye.

Brought to you by the Rainbow Explorer train. Getting you to Wellington's Pride Festival. More info at thehits.co.nz I spy with a mile and a lie, something beginning with J and ending with Ooliet. Here she is, the spy. Come on in, Ju. So Kate Winslet has revealed that she's got a very bizarre new hobby. I mean, she can hold her breath for seven minutes underwater, which is, I think, possibly, I think it's longer than Tom Cruise. For an actor or actress, it's probably the longest amount of time they can hold their breath. She also has a bizarre new hobby of she's becoming an avid fossil hunter

after working on her new film Ammonite. Nerd! She's now got this weird new fascination with fossils, which is kind of interesting, don't you think? I wondered why she was following Jono on social media. That is a great call. It's a wonderful... Yeah, but sucked in, I'm too old and I don't even know how to get on social media.

So I win that one. The joke didn't quite work. I was talking about this the other day. I watched Titanic for the first time in many years. Kate Winslet, great movie. She's amazing in it. But the door scene, everyone was like there was room for two of them on the door. And there was, but they only tried once to get on the door, to get them both up there.

And watching it again, I was like, come on, guys. Well, especially, you know, all the drama they'd been through. You know, everything they'd done leading to that point, you'd think you'd give it another crack. Or find another door or find something else. So that really irked me watching it the other day, but still a fantastic movie. She gave up on Leo too easily. She did.

And why would you give up on Leo? Like, out of all people, you know, that's the one that you'd fight the hardest for, right? That's what all the 22-year-olds are doing. Yeah, yeah. And in other news, there's been a bit of a drama, it's been a bit of a rollercoaster of story after story over the weekend coming out of Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez.

Apparently, they broke up over the weekend. They postponed their wedding, and he was linked to a reality TV star called Madison LaCroix. They've since come out and said, no, they're not. They haven't broken up, but they're working through some issues. And apparently A-Rod and Madison LaCroix had signed an NDA about their relationship or something along those lines. But that's kind of the drama. They say they're still together, but we don't really know for sure.

They've been together for four years, and they've kind of been one of those power couples, though, haven't they? Yeah, Madison LeCroy. Sounds like a made-up name. Maybe. I mean, A-Rod, very famous baseball player, maybe he's still going by the you get three strikes, and then you get struck out.

Maybe he's still trying to apply that to all aspects of his life. Same for relationships, right? Yeah. I don't know if it quite works like that. Did he get to first base or second base with Madison LaCroix? Oh, jeez. I've opened up a Pandora's box of baseball puns.

And that is five more. You can head to thehits.co.nz Real Kiwi blokes with thehits.co.nz real kiwi blokes with soy lattes mmm Shono and Ben breakfast on the hits we're talking to you

live from Palmerston North this morning at Robert Harris the coffee shop at the square thank you so much to Robert Harris for having us this morning and it's free free coffee for an entire hour

come on down coffee for the whole family mums, dads, the kids get the kids coffee send them off to school with a pep in their step. Not the kids. Now we've got Wendy. Wendy's on her way to work. Nice to see you this morning, Wendy.

Nice to see you too. Did you get a free coffee, Wendy? I did. It's on us, baby! Yeah. I tell you what, here you go as well too, Wendy. Here's a free breakfast as well for you. Awesome, thank you. Thanks to the kind people here at Rob Harris this morning. That's wonderful, thanks. Nice, Wendy. Thank you. Thanks to the kind people here at Rob Harris this morning. That's wonderful. Thanks.

Yeah, nice, Wendy. Now, you owe us your ears, and you're listening for the remainder of life, okay? You've signed a deal with the devil now, Wendy. All righty-o. All thanks to a free eggs Benedict. Now, we've been in Palmerston North for a couple of days, having a great time, Wendy, but something we've noticed here in the square in Palmerston North, the beautiful clock tower, it's lovely, but it seems to have a different time on all four

sides. Have you noticed this? I have, yes. And it goes off, the chime goes off at not even on the hour. It goes off at 16 minutes to the hour. Now, is this Palmerston North time? It feels like it's five minutes behind on average. It must be. We've got

two chiming clocks at home and they go off at different times. Oh, do they? Yeah, because we don't want them both going off at the same time. Do you not realise the importance of time in Palmerston? Oh no, it's easy going here. I just wonder if you hear the clock and you go, oh, I've got to be at work in 34 minutes time or something like that. It just feels like it's a reminder but not on the hour.

And has anything been done to rectify this problem? Because I feel like we should take responsibility and reset the time. Yeah, that might be a good idea. There it goes now. It's going off now for some reason. It goes off at all sort of random parts of the day. I've got to be at work in 22 minutes. So, Wendy,

we're going to lobby the council. We're going to get up that clock and we're going to reset the time. Good idea but good luck with that. Oh really? Yeah. I've been lobbying the council about an item and haven't heard back.

Oh I can't. Bloody council Wendy. Shouldn't pay our rates. Shouldn't pay. Yeah stop paying. Well we won't get into this okay. Oh Wendy lovely to meet you and enjoy your breakfast this morning.

Have a great day at work. Thank you. I think you drew there in about nine minutes according to that clock. There's the clock going off again. But we thought because Palmerston North here at the Square has an unusual, a strange tourist attraction with a clock that goes off at strange times. What is New Zealand's strangest tourist attraction? What have you seen?

0800, that's the telephone number, 4487. There are some beauties out there. Isn't there a bra fence somewhere in the South Island? Kadrona has the bra fence, a fence that's just covered in bras. That would be a good one. Bras are expensive too. Yeah. You don't want to just sling off a bra.

What, you're talking 30, 40 bucks? Yeah, so there's a whole fence, the bra fence. So 0800, that's 4487 on the text. What is the most unusual thing maybe in your town or you've seen? We'd love to hear from you this morning. We've got Jess on the phone. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Jess Morena. The strange tourist attraction in Wellington.

Where is it? Oh, it's absolutely the Bucket Fountain on Cuba Street. Oh, yeah, that thing, it sort of fills up and you think it's so graceful and then suddenly it just goes bang, bang, bang. Yeah, it's unusual graceful and then suddenly it just goes bang, bang, bang. Yeah. It's unusual, isn't it? I'd like to do some testing in that and get the water to urine ratio of what's going on in the bucket fountain there.

Definitely want to biff a bit of chlorine in there, don't you? Thank you very much, Jess. Appreciate that. In Hastings, Sally is on the air. Welcome, Sal. Good morning. What's the tourist attraction in Hastings? So they've just put out this art installation attraction at the moment.

I don't know how long it's there for. There's like a giant octopus. Oh, a random octopus. Yeah, I just saw a couple the other day and I was like, why the heck is there an octopus in the city? Does Hastings have an affiliation with the octopus? Yeah, it's very odd. It's made out of heaps of random things. But it lights up. I mean, is the region octopus heavy? Do you export it? Do you have anything to do with

octopus? No, not really. I think everyone just goes there and takes a shot for the grand and then they're on their way. Well, very unusual tourist attraction. Shout out to the octopus in Hastings. Thank you very much. On the text machine, Jono4487 coming through New Zealand's strangest

tourist attraction. We lived across the road from a cannabis museum in Dunedin. There you go. Cannabis museum. What does that mean? I suppose you'd probably end up having the same people keep returning because they probably forgot they were the first time. It was only open at 4.20

apparently. Is it a legit place? It's a legit place but it was just a shocking joke. I'll own it. And corrugated iron. We've talked about this before. On Tito. Yeah. I mean, amazing amount of corrugated iron. Yeah, they corrugated iron. We've talked about this before. On Tito. Yeah. And, I mean, amazing amount of corrugated iron. Yeah.

They, corrugated iron, petrol station, bakeries, real estate agents. A giant dog, a giant sheep. Yeah. I mean, someone, some salesperson who was selling corrugated iron at one stage. Really? This is going to be the substance of the future. Really? It looks a bit odd. Oh, well, trust me.

Go with me on this one. And then he left town, never to be seen again. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Five words for 5K on the hit. You're only five words away

from a massive payday. It is our game of word association. We say five words. You say the first things that pop into your head. If those words match with our five words, you win $5,000. Now, I'm over here, weirdly, with my arm around the lovely Wendy from Kmart. How are you, Wendo?

I'm good, thanks. She's on her way to Kmart. Another day behind. What do you do at Kmart? Oh, just service, looking after customers, tidying up. Now, Wendy, do you know Ben goes to Kmart at 11.45 at night. I love that you can shop all the time at Kmart. It's open till midnight.

Oh, we love people like you. Oh, there's so much in there. Oh, so much in there anyway. He's a psychopath. Who goes to Kmart? You go to Kmart. Yeah, a lot of people are putting up their hands. Everyone loves going to Kmart at night.

Why don't you just go to Kmart during the day? Anyway, okay. Now, Wendy, do you know how this game works? Yeah, I think so. You think so? We're going to tell you. That's good enough for us because we think we know how it works too. Five words.

We're going to see what words pop into your head. If they match with one of our all five match up, you'll win $5,000. It's a tough game to match up. Easy game to play though. Yeah. Okay, Wendy, you need to choose either Ben or myself. My name's Jono.

Who do you want to match up with? Oh, this is hard. It's okay. Pick your favourite, Wendy. It's the callous world of radio competitions. Oh, you're both my favourite. Wendy, she can't choose.

Ben. Oh, she said Ben and put it to Jono. So now I'm even more confused. I'm going to say Ben, you go. Okay, I'm going to go outside. That was very good, Wendy. All right, well, Ben heads out of the cafe. You'm going to go outside. That's great. That was very good, Wendy. Alright, well, Ben heads out of the cafe. You've got to match up five

words with his. Over there, Wendy. Look, you're dead in the eyes. It's like we're going on a weird first coffee date or something right now. Just grab that microphone, Wendy. Hold that up to your face. Here we go. The first word that comes into your head when

I say Palmerston. North. You're locking in. North. Palmerston North. The second word. Sugar. Sweet.

Clock. Chime. Chime. Chime. Tractor. Farm. Park. Enjoyment. Enjoyment?

Do you want to lock in another word oh yeah fun fun yeah park it's a tough one yeah swing oh there we go

enjoyment well you do enjoy the park don't you are you happy with your five words, Wendy? Yes. Yeah. Okay, we'll bring Ben Boyce back in, who's been kicked out into the cold all alone to match up with your five words.

If he does Palmerston North, Wendy's going to get $5,000. Woo! Yeah! Which is $5 million Palmerston North dollars. Okay, Wendy did well. She did well, didn't she? It's quite weird doing it face-to-face with them.

Yeah, I know. It felt like Wendy and me were going on a Tinder date. Okay, a lot of pressure here. Wendy, you have a seat here. I'm going to see if I can match up with you right now. Okay. The first word that comes into your head when I say Palmerston.

North. Yeah. One from one. One from one, okay. I'm nervous. There's a lot more pressure with Wendy sitting right next to me. Try not to make eye contact. Did you tell him that you, what you needed the money for?

Oh, very sad backstory. Oh, don't do this. Don't put things to the head. Wendy houses orphaned puppies.

20 puppies will go unhoused if you don't win this money. Second word, sugar. Sweet. Two from two.

Third word. Clock. Oh, well, we talked about something this morning, so I'm hoping that we continuation of that. In Palmerston North, they have the clock tower. Tower, I'm going to lock it in. I'm going to say you're a loser, mate. Oh,

talk to Wendy about the Clock Tower. What did you go, Wendy? Chime. She meant Clock Chime. I would have thought she would have gone Clock Tower. Oh, Wendy, I'm so sorry. So, $5,000 goes back in. We'll just see how you would have gone with the remaining words.

Tractor. Farm. Bang. And park. Ooh, park. I was looking at the summer across the road. I'm going to say bench. No, swing.

Three out of five. Ain't bad. But do you know what, Wendy? Do you know what, Wendy? We like you so much. We've enjoyed hanging out with you. We're going to give you $500. All right?

You're going to win $500. $500 for Wendy. $500 for Wendy. Thank you so much. Love it to meet you, you. We're going to give you $500. All right? You're going to win $500 for Wendy. $500 for Wendy. Thank you so much. Lovely to meet you, Wendy. Sorry we didn't get $5,000. That's all right. Good on you. You go off and do Kmart well.

Yeah. Work at Kmart. Is that what you say? Wendy just won $500. Didn't quite win $5,000, but our game will be back again tomorrow. Five words for 5K. A lot more pressure. A lot of pressure with everyone looking at you.

Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben from the Square in Palmerston North this morning at Robert Harris. Thanks so much to Robert Harris for having us. And you know what? We've got

different equipment because we are broadcasting from the cafe this morning. And Jotto, you are so loud talking into your microphone. They have switched the microphone. It's basically off. It's off and you can still hear me. And they're like, even that is too loud. That is so loud.

I'm just yelling. Is it still loud? Everyone's like, shut the shit up. Yes. Is it still loud? Am I just yelling and New Zealand can hear it I'm harvesting off You don't even need a microwave this morning

But that's new Some entertainment news Listen she had dreams of reading The news on TVNZ1 But she's ended up with us And it's a good reminder That dreams always don't come true. Juliet, come on in with Spy. Thanks very much.

Now, Harry and Meghan, it has been revealed that they did in fact have an intruder over the Christmas holidays in their Montecito estate in California. And obviously after the interview aired with Oprah, they addressed the concerns of their privacy when they had to move to Canada or when they eventually moved to LA

that they weren't going to have security and the world's weren't going to provide them security. But yeah, in fact, they did have an intruder just turn up on their property just before Christmas. His name is Nicholas Brooks. He's 37 and he was just, he kind of was spotted and just escorted off the property. But isn't that quite scary for them to have to deal with?

And I liked how you named and shamed him. Hell yeah. First and last name, Anna. His email address is edbrooks at gmail.com. Do you know what I found interesting after that Oprah interview? I was reading something yesterday. They said their popularity has gone down, I reckon, after that interview. Really?

A lot more people would have felt sympathy towards them after that. They knew everything they were going through. Who took this survey? I don't know. Who participated in how popular are Meghan and Harry? Oh, Juliet's got the name. She's going to name and show them shortly. Yes, yes.

Oh, but it's quite interesting. I mean, you know, everyone has their very, I feel like if you have an opinion on them, it's a very strong one either way, you know? And once again, just his name, first and last name, Nicholas. Nicholas Brooks. Age 37. Yeah. And Bono from U2, his daughter Eve Hewson,

she's kind of an up-and-coming star and actress. She revealed and, you know, being a daughter of a massive star like Bono, you get lots of perks, but this is one that I feel like I would relate to if my father was an A-list celebrity. She stole his address book and went through the address book and saw all these different celebrities' names and decided to prank call Justin Timberlake.

Now, here's a bit of audio of her explaining it. When I was younger, I stole my dad's address book. Justin Timberlake picked up, and we asked him trivia questions from the back of a cereal box. And, yeah, it was one of the best moments of my life. How genius is that? Wow. Why didn't Justin Timberlake just hang up?

He's like, oh, I love a snap. I love a snap cereal box game. This is great. Interesting. I mean, old school. My mum, Jenny, she's still got an address book. You know, like it keeps it in her purse and always loses it when she tries to find contacts for people. Yeah, well, you know, Bono's just turned 60.

So he's an address book guy. That's the demographic of an address book. What happens if you lose the address book? Oh, that's the thing. She's like, where's the address book? It's not stored in the cloud. She's now starting to get it onto a phone, but it's such a, it's a boomer thing. Yeah. If you're a boomer, you have an address book.

Like, it just goes hand in hand, doesn't it? Do I just offend all boomers? I'm not sure. Yeah, I think I do too. Sorry, boomers. You and Ben did. I'd like it to be known to the boomer community. I said nothing. I stayed out of that. Okay.

And that is five and more. You can head to thehits.co.nz. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the Hits.

We're here in Palmy, but that doesn't stop us paying someone's bill. Don't be afraid of your freedom. The Hits live free, Bill's edition. Let's smash another one. I can't. Yeah, we're doing this. If you want your bill paid, just text BILL to 4487. I tell you what, hell of a bill here at Robert Harris.

People just mowing in for free coffee. Can we get that bill paid? I don't know if Robert Harris is going to recover from this, but thank you so much to the crew here in Palmerston North. Free coffee still nine this morning. It was going to be to wait, and they're so nice here. They were like, hey, no, let's do it for another hour. So if you want to pop on down before nine, get yourself a free coffee or maybe a hot chocolate

for the kids. Did the conversation go like that, or did Producer Humphrey go back there and grab someone by the throat and say, we are doing free coffee still nine. How did it go? No, no, they came forward and offered up the free coffee still night. That's what we're saying publicly. Dark, dark scenes back in the kitchen there. He negotiates a tough deal.

He does. Strong arms. Yeah, so right now, let's make a call. Hello? Is that Hamilton Ange? Yes Ange from Hamilton Yes

Just to clarify, you're based in Hamilton Yes And your name is Ange Yes It's Jono and Ben from The Hits, how are you? Hello, good, good Nice to talk to you Now you text through bills

And a bill that you want to pay to The Hits What was the bill? My daughter's camp coming up. Oh, it is camp season. Everyone's going camping. One of my daughters is going next week, actually. I loved my daughter's camp next week and they watched this video

of the place we're going to stay and it starts with the cabins and the glamping and then it's like, but you won't be staying here. You'll be staying on tents on a lawn. You're like, well, why don't we see the conference room and the camping? It's like, well, I'm glad I'm not going down. King size beds.

Yeah. A day spa. The glamping looks really nice, this part. The kids will be on tents on a lawn. You'll be sleeping in the rubbish bin. But anyway, you'll enjoy it. Hey, Ange, I tell you what, we haven't just phoned up for some wonderful rich camp banter. We're going to pay.

We're going to pay that bill for you. Oh, thank you. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, so your daughter can go along to camp and it's all on us. Oh, yay. She'll be thrilled. Good on you. Good on you. Well, I hope that buys some scrogging.

What else? Some mozzie repellent? Yeah, insect repellent's a big one. Hey, Ange, enjoy that camp even though you're not going on it. I know, I know. But enjoy sending your child off to that camp. Four days of freedom of you going out for dinner with just the sun and, yeah. You keep safe.

You keep safe, Ange. Thanks for listening. Have a good one, and you can live free again. One o'clock today, we're doing it on the hits, paying your bills. Bills! Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hips. Of course,

the America's Cup is taking place in everyone's... Fantastico! Fantastico! Three all in the America's Cup. No racing yesterday

because of the winds, but it's been very, very exciting so far, hasn't it? I tell you what, someone get me television host Phil Kogan because it's been an amazing race. Oh, God, there's a reference that maybe some people will get. And if they do, they'll be like, oh, that was a bit lame. Are you in that category?

Yeah, definitely, I'm in that category. I got it, but I was like, oh. Yeah, you look a little disappointed. But we've been having our own amazing race. Someone get me Phil Cogan. He'll be pleased about this. Our own cup race with a couple of old mugs, because, of course, they call the America's Cup an old mug.

What we wanted to do, we found an old mug at the studios in Auckland. We wanted our mugs, a Jono mug with your name written on it, and a Ben mug with my name written on it, down the country, as far south as we could, to a Lister and back. And the first one back to the studio wins. That's right. And we took the first call each

where our start lines were. You had Tanya in Christchurch and I had Chris in Te Ano. And a mug has, or a package has arrived back. I don't know who's won, but let's go to Chris Intiano, because he sent through some photos. They both had to take photos with the mugs and then send them back to us.

Welcome, Chris. Hey, Walsh. How are you? Lovely to have you on, mate. Now, jeez, I'm looking at your photos. This mug went on an adventure. It did. Yeah, sure did. I thought I could sail it back up, but it didn't quite work out that way.

So we just had a bit of fun in the ocean and yeah. So the mug went on a fishing trip. Your daughter looked like she repainted the mug. You got a photo of the mug with a kea, a bird, a kea. That's incredible. This mug has had a better time over the last week than I have. Yeah, it's definitely had a good time. And yeah, my daughter didn't like the cup, so she changed it to hot pink. She did a wonderful job.

And Ben, you just said this cup has been at a better time than you. You've been in Palmerston North five days. You're still here. Let's not offend them. But let's just say I've had a great time. No, you can't say that now. The cup's had a great time. But gee, I't say that now. The Cubs had a great time. I tell you what, we'll put these photos up on the Hits Breakfast Insta account. They're so

good. You've gone to so much effort. I really do appreciate it. And to be honest, I didn't have any faith in you, Chris, sending the mug back. The mug looks like it's had a great time. The Cubs had a great time. I don't know if this package is for me or for you, Ben, but we'll go to Tanya. Yes, hi. Hey, Tanya, how you going?

I'm good. So, Tanya, you received the cup? I did. All right, you took a photo with it, and we're going to find out who won. Who's that package for? Well, there's a package here. It seems it's a package for me, Jono,

so I'm quite excited about this, but it's quite a light package. What's in there? This is from, so Tanya, you've won. You've sent the package back. Well, it's a photo of Tanya, the mug at Tanya's place, but it doesn't, the mug. Where's the mug, Tanya?

Where's the mug? You told me to take a photo and send it back. Yeah, and then send the mug back. He didn't say that. This is like New Zealand arriving at the finish line, and they're like, where's the boat? And they're like, oh, we left send the mug back. He didn't say that. Chris is like, take New Zealand arriving at the finish line, and they're like, where's the boat? And they're like,

oh, we left the boat back there. I thought it meant... You didn't say that. You said, take a photo and put it in the... What were you doing? That's why I thought it was weird. This whole thing's been weird.

It's more confusing than the rules of the America's Cup It's like they're swimming across the finish line Hey, well listen, Chris I didn't get Chris's mug Tanya didn't send her mug So we're going to give you both We're going to give you both vouchers for shopping Okay, both shopping vouchers

You both win Oh, that's awesome Yeah, no worries You're both winners in our eyes. Thank you, Team New Zealand. Thank you, New Zealand Post. And most importantly, thank you for the memories because this will live on in our hearts forever. God bless the team of 5 million.

Amen. That was John Owen Ben's kind of cup racing. The cups kind of got lost in the South Island. We had visions of the cups arriving back. Is this how you saw playing it? Well, no, I guess we didn't probably pass on those. We weren't quite clear enough. There were some comms issues halfway through. We've got a lovely

photo of the Cup at Tanya's place. Here we go. That'll be the memory I take away from this forever. Thank you both. You're both legends. Really do appreciate you giving the time to this and wasting your time, basically, on our show. So thank you so much. Thank you. From stealing Mike Hosking's car to stealing the hearts of New Zealand.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Actual hearts being not bestowed. I tell you what, you can stick a cream cheese bagel in me, mate. I am done. What a wonderful morning. Full of coffee. The kids have had coffee. The kids have had hot chocolate. The kids have had coffee. The kids have had hot chocolate.

The kids have had it. Let's ignore our coffee that we've given to the kids. No, we haven't given any coffee to any kids. And we're going to end on a good note. It's going to be a good day. We're going to go around the cafe. Why is it going to be a good day? Because it's my first day off, and you know what would make it even better?

What's that? If you guys brought back John and Ben at 10. If we brought back John and Ben at 10, It would make a good day for us too. It would be. Just do it. It would be good for our bank accounts as well actually if they came back. That's good, okay. I don't think TV3 ever want to see us again.

They do. Oh, they do. That's nice. Thank you very much. Why's it going to be a good day? Because I started my day off with meeting Jono and Ben. Oh, jeez, that's nice. This feels like North Korean propaganda.

It's almost like you, Jono went over there, you were like talking to these lovely ladies. Boy, you were like trying to go, hey, can you say some nice things to those? I was like, you better say some positive stuff. It didn't mean fun, but. Oh, you did? Yeah, I thought that was the case.

All right. And what's it going to be a good day over here? What's it going to be a good one for you? Because we get to spend an early morning with you guys. Yeah. Oh, mate, Jono, you. The crowd are loving it. The crowd are loving Jono Abed. They've won over Palmy. Give them the keys to the city.

And I may have bullied those people into saying those things. You've paid off a lot of people this morning, but thank you so much, as I said before, to the whole team here at Robert Harris. It's been awesome hanging out and amazing to give away lots of free coffees this morning. And just to be in Palmy the last few days, there's been so much atmosphere and amazing to give away lots of free coffees this morning. And just to be in Pāmi the last few days. There's been so much atmosphere going on with the rural games.

And to experience that for the first time and to meet so many wonderful people and hear why they do it and see why they're so passionate about it. Yeah. It's been really special. It has been. It's been a fun time here. Back tomorrow in Auckland with $5,000 for five words for 5K back 7.45. We could be making you rich.

Yeah, have a great day in New Zealand. We're Jono and Ben. We'll catch you tomorrow. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny.

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