Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - March 26 - Coming To You From The Mighty Tron!

Episode Date: March 26, 2021

Kia Ora and HAPPY FRIDAY! Today we were broadcasting from Hamilton, from Plus Ninety One Cafe. Because we're away, Ben's daughter Sienna left him the MOST ADORABLE NOTE for him to read when he got to Hamilton. But it was also quite amusing too, bless her heart! Jono was also desperate to get either the Wiggles or the Chiefs in the cafe for an interview (The Wiggles are also in Hamilton at the moment), so he kept on requesting that if they were listening, they must visit! And one of them pulled through! Enjoy the poddy!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. Hey, welcome to the podcast. Today it's the 26th, Friday the 26th, coming to you live from a cafe in Hamilton.

This is Plus 91 Cafe, and it was named after the area code for India. Did you know? Oh, I didn't know that. You worked it out, though, which is quite impressive, actually. Yeah, Krishna and Carla, who own the cafe, were like, can you figure it out at five in the morning? It was an early morning game show. It was almost too early, wasn't it? And Ollie, from the Chiefs, he plays for the Waikato Chiefs. How are you, mate? Yeah, good, mate. Good. Enjoying a few free coffees.

Oh, great. It's nice to have you guys here. Been here all morning sucking back on free flat whites. Hey, now, you look very big and muscly. I'm going to say you go to the gym maybe five times a week. Oh, probably knocking on the door four, mate. Four times a week? Yeah, maybe three or four.

I reckon you bench about 120. Maybe 140. Nothing big. Nothing big. There's a few boys that just walked in with quite a few bigger benches. Well, it's half the team's turned up here. Yeah. So you bench press 140 kilograms?

Yeah, sadly, mate, sadly. Do you spend so much time at the gym? Do you ever have any accidents on the equipment? Nah, nah, they're pretty good, eh? They teach us quite well and a lot of protocols and all that we have to follow. Do you know what I did once? I was on a treadmill

and then I'd finished running and I got off the treadmill and I didn't realise it went into like a cool down mode. You know how it goes very slowly? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I went off to get the spray and the wipe, you know,

to wipe everything down. And as I did that, a lady walked onto the treadmill, but she didn't know I was going. And I turned around, and just as I turned around, I went, no! But she stepped onto it and went, woof! So you fully cucked it. Fully cucked it, and her face landed on the treadmill.

It was like rubbing on her face, the treadmill. And then I had to apologize to her on the radio, because she phoned through or something. Yeah, she phoned through on the radio. Do you know what Jono did to me? Assaulted me with the treadmill. It was an accident or something. Yeah, she phoned through on the radio and said, do you know what Jono did to me? Assaulted me with a treadmill. It was an accident

obviously. It was an accident. Jeez, yeah, dangerous things can happen in the gym. Oh, they can, mate. Did you walk off or did you go and

help her? What's the gig? I was like, oh, I saw yourself out. I picked her up and then we bonded after that every day. She'd be like,

oh, that's the guy that's... I left the treadmill on. Oh, bloody nice to meet you, man. And all the best for the rest of the season. Perfect. Cheers, mate.

Yeah, so coming up with the podcast today, we did a live five words in the cafe, which was awkward because, Ben, you had to, let's be honest, you let them down. I did let them down. Face to face. It started well. Raw emotion. The first two I got right and then it sort of fell away. And yeah, it didn't quite work out for me today.

And it was tough letting someone down in the flesh. You know, normally we let people down on the radio, but now we let someone down in the flesh. In the flesh. No, no. You keep saying in the flesh. The more you say in the flesh, the weirder it gets. This is weird.

Please stop saying in the flesh. Anyway, enjoy the podcast. We'll be back at the studio on Monday. Have a great weekend. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now, we are in Hamilton, and one thing I did notice last night, when I opened up my bag in the hotel room,

I got a little note from my daughter, a cute little note. She's really good at writing me little notes each day. She loves a note. She puts notes in your lunchbox. She's like a smother mother. Yeah, she is. So I got a little note, go, Daddy, I love you, which is lovely, and I hope you have an amazing time in Hamilton. And then she broke down my name. She went for Benjamin. And you know when you allocate a letter to things in the name. Is that like a haiku? Oh, no, a haiku is like a poem, I think. I don't know what it is.

You do them at school where you write B on one line then underneath E. Yeah, so String Benjamin, she committed to my full name

so she went B, the B was for Best Daddy but I thought while she gets to the end she was really struggling I think a little bit. No,

she's struggling at the top. There's other daddies out there that are way better than you. E was for Exciting. Am I exciting? I don't know if I'm exciting.

At times you're exciting. N was for nice, which I thought was good. A J was for Joe Wicks, who's the workout guy on

YouTube that I like to use. Okay, yeah, that's good. Joe Wicks who does home workouts. What? Is that a representation

of you as a person? It is actually, yeah. A for amazing, M for magnificent. It kind of feels like the same thing. But anyway, we're bad for time. I was independent. So I was like, oh, yeah. You are.

You are independent. I mean, you're a grown man. And N, the final one to round out Benjamin, was N was never late for work. So there you go. Love from Sienna. So thank you very much, N was never late for work. There you go. Love from Sienna. So thank you very much, Sienna. It was wonderful.

Beautiful. She's right. You are independent. Now I've got to keep going. There can't be late for work after that. Drew, he's never turned up late, has he? I'm not sure. Not past six o'clock.

You know, sometimes, you know. And you are magnificent, nice and exciting. I would agree with all of that. Shout out to Joe Wicks who does wonderful YouTube videos. Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. We've been Hamilton, you know, and on the radio we thought it was only fair that Hamilton had a jingle, a radio jingle.

I mean, Hamilton for many years has been the butt of comedic jokes. Not today. No. It stops. We put an end to it. Yeah, with a Hamilton-inspired jingle that we came up with to do, basically loosely along the lines of the musical Hamilton, which is an overseas thing.

In Hamilton, where Jesus brought It's Hamilton, lots of vogans In Hamilton, nothing goes wrong In Hamilton, Hamilton I love V8. It's Hamilton, nothing goes wrong. In Hamilton. Hamilton. I love V8. Come on down to Hamilton. It's got a lot of V8 content in it.

And Bogan stuff as well. You know how I said it all stops today? We didn't. I take that back. In fact, we ranked it up another level. I forgot the lyrical content of that jingle. But New Zealand loves the jingles, especially radio. Jeez. You forgot the lyrical content of that jingle. But New Zealand loves a jingle, especially radio. Jeez.

You wrote the Novus Show Us Your Crack jingle. Yeah, I was involved in that, yeah. We've talked about that multiple times. And Novus is still playing it. How many years ago did you write that? Oh, it was a while ago. It would have been sort of 15 years ago at least. So, yeah.

Show Us Your Crack. Ah, Novus. Ben is the Ah, Novus at the end of it, yeah. I work with the Ah, Novus guy. It's not really a claim to fame. But as we were driving down to Hamilton yesterday, we heard another jingle. We were like, oh, that's a good jingle. And it was this one for Waitemata

Back Care Beds and Beds and Beds. Waitemata Back Care Beds and Beds and Beds. Yeah, because we were like, just say Beds and Beds and B. Yeah, because we're like, beds and beds. Now, there was a wonderful, wonderful rumor swirling around the industry that it used to be something else that would fill the syllable, the end syllable of like, what a matter back here, beds and waterbeds. But then waterbeds fell out of fashion.

So then they were in the difficult jingle position. I'm going, it's a great jingle. It's memorable. Let's not lose it. How are we going to fix it? Well, then they said, well, let's just replace water with another beds. Really ram home that we do beds. And they do.

They do a great job of selling great beds. Beds and beds and beds. So beds and beds and beds. Five types. So we might make a call right now to the soil. To get to the bottom of this. I'm at a back of bed. Hello, how are you?

All right. Who have we got hold of here? Steve. Steve, it's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station, mate. Hi. Listen, we're phoning on investigative reasons. Yeah. You know your jingle on investigative reasons. Yeah. You know your jingle on the radio?

Yeah. We love it. It's super catchy. Right. You're like, where are you going with this? We're just wondering why it says wider matter back care beds and beds and beds I don't know why is this causing you

sleepless nights or something well yes well we know where to go if it is causing us sleepless nights because there it is you need a new bed where are the people

to talk to yeah because there was a wild rumour going around the industry wild I don't know if it was a wild rumour

it was a wild rumour that it used to go so it went like this. So it went Wairamata Back Care Beds and Water Beds. Yes, it was originally, I believe. But now I guess water beds is not so much of a thing now, are they?

Very much not the case, no. No. My parents used to have a waterbed. That was an experience rolling around on that thing. Yeah. I imagine that back in the day many waterbeds would have burst. Well, depending on what you got up to in bed really, I suppose, without going into too much detail.

Yeah, rolling about at night. Yeah, I understand. Yeah, wearing stilettos. But if you behaved yourself, they were pretty reliable. And did you have to refill it up? Like, would the water get all manky? Well, you use this conditioner. Is that what it is?

Yeah, which you use on a regular basis. So that sort of keeps things pretty much sanitised. Well, we'll sleep soundly tonight knowing information about waterbeds and knowing that your jingle has been changed for good purposes. Yeah, thank you for that. Hey, we love your work. Okay.

Beds and beds and beds. Let's all sing it together. What a matter, back at beds and beds and beds. Very good. You didn't sing along. We've got a job for you if you ever need one. Oh, great. The in-store jingle singing.

Absolutely. Love your work, Steve. See you, mate. Okay, take care. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. The A to Z of New Zealand. This is something we do every day on The Hits.

We call a different town or Z of New Zealand. This is something we do every day on the hits. We call a different town or city in New Zealand. We call one a day and we're slowly learning about every single town and city in New Zealand. And today we're heading to Martinborough or Martin-brah if you're an easy going carefree surfer. But it's more of a

lovely place for lovely cafes and vineyards and stuff. Yeah, it's in the South Wairarapa District. 65km's from Wellington. And the town has a population of 1,930. Also where many Wellingtonians go to relax, drink wine, and stumble around the town making pigs of themselves then leaving. It's a beautiful little place. I thought about actually getting married in Martinborough.

Did you? Yeah, it was one of the places we looked at. Lovely little places there. Then you ended up in Fiji or Martinborough. Mate, it was a rollercoaster of places we were looking at. We phoned Martinborough East today after the program. Hello, Kitsch, this is Nadia speaking. Oh, hi, is Jasmine there?

Oh, hi, is this for the interview thing? This is the Hits radio station. Oh, my God, oh, my God.. Is this for the interview thing? This is the hits radio station. Oh, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh. Who's this on the phone? This is Nadia. Now, Jasmine is very busy, so I think I've been given the task. We tried to get out of it.

We tried to get out of it. Hey, you know we can hear you. We tried to get out of it. You know we're right here. Don't you weasel out of our phone. Yeah, I did a smidgen, but anyway, it. You know we're right here. Don't you weasel out of our phone, dude. Yeah, I did. It's mid-gin, but anyway, anyway. I know it's very easy. You just have to tell us what's so good about Martinborough.

Okay, cool. I think I can handle that. No, that's fine. The thing is, when you own a business, you can't not answer the phone, so we've got you, really. It's true. It's true. How long have you lived in Martinborough? Well, I actually moved back about three years ago from the good old GC with every other Kiwi that's living over there as well.

But we made the move back here. What were you doing on the GC? Well, I worked at the RSL over there, big business over there. And the bingo is a bingo caller. I went to a wedding in an RSL over there. And what I found very interesting, and it was when you could smoke inside. Oh, oh, gosh, yes. Was it the Corumban RSL? Oh, oh, gosh, yes. Was it the Corumban RSL?

Oh, yes, yes, yes, good old Corumban. Beautiful, beautiful RSL, actually. It's a wonderful RSL, and you could play the pokey. So you know how pokey machines face each other? Yes. But on one side of the pokey alley, you could smoke, but on the other side, you couldn't. But it was the same alleyway.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, typical. Or you can sit outside. They started to do that where you could go outside and even smoke and play the pokies. Absolutely revolting. Oh, jeez.

I think it was still going on when I left there, actually. Oh, they've got pokey machines in the sun that you can play? Wow. Yes, yes, yes, they do. Well, not that in Martinborough. Martinborough, beautiful.

You know, there's lovely wineries, lovely little cafes as well. Lovely little town, isn't it? It is. It's beautiful. Yeah. Well, I mean, you can just tell because we're just flat out every single weekend. There's one town that's done very well post-COVID.

Not that it's post-COVID, but Martinborough is definitely booming. It's amazing. Oh, so you guys aren't really feeling the pinch at the moment? No, to tell you the truth, the good old, maybe I shouldn't say because I don't want it to become touchwood still but yeah, no, we're not. The whole town is just booming.

It's amazing. It's because it's such easy access to get from Wellington to here and it's only an hour away so people don't mind doing the mission over and then they can just sort of escape and it's still like being away on an amazing holiday. The only Martinborough fact that I know is that it's laid out

in the style of a Union Jack. Yes, the Union Jack. Very clever design, actually. What do you mean? The whole city? Well, basically, it's a very small town, but it's got a little square in the centre of it, and then each of the streets go off in the style of Union Jack,

so straight up and down off to the sides and also off in angles as well. Yeah, correct. Some of them are a little bit tight. That really wasn't practical. I must admit, some of the streets are, as mentioned, narrow, but we seem to make do. You see here, I've just got a photo for John.

I see you've got the square and see some of the roads go off. There's basically four diagonal roads amongst the four roads. That seems like something they did to impress the Queen back in the day. I think so. I think that was the general idea. Yeah, let's impress the Queen, but then you guys have to deal with the fallout. You're living in diagonal streets. And, you know, it's one way.

You have to go one way around the square. And, of course, when we get some fabulous tourists, you can tell they're tourists because some of them are driving the wrong way and we're all hooting and tooting at them going, wrong way, turn back around. Way more complex than they should have. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, Toast Martinborough too.

Now, I've never been, every year I'm like, I should go to Toast Martinborough because it looks like all my friends go. It's a wonderful time. It is. We're so lucky that we last year got cancelled, unfortunately, because of COVID. But we still had 50 billion people here

anyway just coming just to make the most of it and visiting all the vineyards. But Toast Martinborough itself, I think there's about 18,000 people usually that rock up. They come here looking amazing and usually leave not looking so amazing, but still having had the best time. So, yeah, it's great. It's a great day.

The fascinators have chunks of carrot hair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is a little bit like the races. Yeah, it ends up being a little bit like the races. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, Benjamin, if my memory serves me correctly. Yeah. Arthur Green, the bachelor, his dad owned the hotel there.

Yeah, I think he did for many years. Oh, well, he mustn't do now, but actually, I have heard that rumour. Yeah, Green's dad, yes. I think you are correct. When we were down there, he did. I think they were selling it at the time. Yeah, no, you were right. I was just chatting about that with somebody the other day.

That's random, yeah. And he's just as handsome as Art. And he's still very happily married to the lady, isn't he? Yes, Art Green and Matilda are still together. John, I thought it was just for TV, and you were like, this is not going to last. No, they're still happily married. See, now that's an amazing love story. It is.

They've even had kids, and I keep telling them, the more kids you have, the less and less argument I have that your marriage is a sham. Yeah, that's true. Hey, listen, you've been an absolute treasure. Lovely talking. Oh, thanks. Like I said, I tried to get out of it, but there we go. You keep ramming that one home, don't you?

You look after yourself in Martinborough. Thanks for calling. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. Sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Penn. Breakfast on the Heads. The about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Pam, breakfast on the heads.

The heads. The heads. Jono, you issued a challenge earlier in the show. Yeah, the Wiggles are here, and the Chiefs are playing the Blues tomorrow night, and publicly we've been saying one of the two needs to get, the Wiggles need to jump in there, slap their skivvies on and get in their big red car

and head down here, or the Chiefs need to sidestep their way through traffic, face palm old ladies and make their way here before 9 o'clock. And the Chiefs have come through, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, we've got two of the Chiefs here. This is awesome. Wonderful. Anton Leonard-Brown and Chase Teatea.

Lovely to have you guys here. Thanks for having us on. What a pleasure. Now, rugby players always look so fit and healthy. Do you look at me and you're like, jeez you've given up on life mate? No, you're actually not looking too bad to be honest. He's being very generous. No, no, just one of these.

Oh, okay, okay. Pulled my shirt up and revealed my guts. It's quite a black tee shirt, you know. It's very slimming, aye? Now Chase, you guys had a good win last weekend against the Hurricanes. Yeah, no, it was awesome. Get our season heading in the right direction. Hopefully do the same against the Blues this weekend.

Now, you were playing for the Hurricanes not too long ago, right? In the team, and now you're playing in Chiefs and Hamilton. What do you miss about Wellington, be honest, all right? I miss my family. You went for quite a nice heartfelt answer. I thought you were going to really rip on something in the Waikato or something there, but you didn't. You went for quite a nice heartfelt answer. I thought you were going to really rip on something in the Waikato or something there, but you didn't. You went for a lovely answer.

What did you want him to say? I don't know. Why don't you tell him what you wanted him to say? A couple of words. He said, yeah, miss the nightlife. Nightlife? The bucket fountain? Something like that?

Yeah. Now, Anton, can I ask you a question? I guess you can, yeah. It's an interview, so hopefully. Do you get heaps of free cool clothes? Yeah, we're pretty lucky. Adidas sponsor us, so we get quite a few clothes and shoes and stuff like that. Can you just walk into any Adidas store and go, I'm Anton Leonard-Brown and basically shoplift?

Nah, it doesn't quite work like that. Chase is saying yes, he can. After Chase's performance last week, it doesn't quite work like that. Chase is saying yes he can. After Chase's performance last week, he's been doing that all week. He scored a try, set up one, he's been going to every cafe, every clothing store being like, I'm Chase Teotea.

Anton, take me down. So Chase is getting free coffees and eggs benedicts right throughout the Waikato. Now, do you guys still get nervous before you go out and play? Because you've been playing for a long time, obviously. Do nerves still kick in? The more you play, the you guys still get nervous before you go out and play? Because you've been playing for a long time, obviously. Do nerves still kick in? The more you play, the more experience you get

and the more comfortable you feel going out there. But at the moment, I'm getting extremely nervous sitting out there each week here. Now, Anton, a bit of a slightly more serious question. You're doing a lot of great work for mental health and talking about vulnerability, especially as an All Black. That's something that we don't really have conversations about, I guess, as guys and as All Blacks.

So it's awesome you're doing that. Yeah, I guess in New Zealand there's an unfortunate stat that it's quite a problem, mental health, especially amongst men in New Zealand. And I guess with my profile and some of the other boys, the more we can talk about it and start the conversation, the better. So that's what I'm really trying to drive is for people to open up and you know we've all been through tough

times and I've found opening up myself really helpful. That's awesome, it's really good, it's really special. Conversations too, important conversations that need to be had. Speaking of conversations, when you're on the rugby field or in the middle of a rugby game do you ever talk about anything that's not rugby? Especially out the back line. Are you guys talking about other stuff? Yeah, at the moment, every 10 minutes,

I'm telling Damien McKenzie to get a haircut. He's not looking too good. He's just sledging your teammate on the field. Pretty much, bit of banter. What's the hairs he's running at the moment? I didn't see last week. Chase, what do you reckon? It's like a mullet. Yeah, I think it's like a mohawk mullet-y thing.

I'm not too sure what's going on. It looks like a sheep. It's like Shriek the sheep. Shriek the sheep that you found in the wilderness. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks like an overgrown sheep wool, whatever it is. He's running a confused mohawk mullet situation at the moment. Rugby players, haircuts, you are trying.

They're experimenting at the moment. You guys have got pretty rock-solid haircuts. Who's got the most interesting one in the whole tournament at the moment? Ooh. I mean, Jack, good Hugh. Is he still rolling the mullet? He's got rid of the mullet. So I'd say Damien.

Damien's probably got the most outrageous haircut at the moment. Or Geordie Barrett. They're both gone for the same sort of mohawk. Because you guys all play together. You play with the All Blacks, obviously. Is it weird playing them as your opposition um i guess yeah a lot of us are all mates and but we once you cross that line um yeah it's game on uh you know we we realize well we're all competitive people and we want to get one over our mates. So even though we are friends, it almost brings the extra, I guess, competitiveness because

you are versing your mates. That's awesome. Well, great to have you guys back here. We might chat to you very shortly if you guys are all right to stick around for a little bit. Are we going to play some music? I've got to go, sorry. Oh, OK.

All right. They both looked at us like, oh, we've already done that thing. OK, all right. I was just trying to grab. I just thought we'd be bonded. Okay, fine. Fine, I didn't pick up on the vibes. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone.

Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Anton, Lena Brown and Chase Tiatia have come on down. From the Chiefs, thank you for hanging out. Guys, I know Ben said you'll hang around and keep talking. Anton gave a look of fear of he had an appointment to go to. He's like, we already just did that, mate. Yeah,

I said, I gotta go, but for you guys, you guys are special. Oh, thank you very much. He's meant to be at a doctor's appointment

right now. But here we go. Hey, now here's a question. Chase, I was researching you last night. Do you know how many

famous chases there are in the world? No, no, I did not. How does that relate to him? He really didn't spend much time.

Yeah. Chase Hudson, who's a singer, a country singer. Okay. Chase from Paw Patrol. Oh, I know Chase from Paw Patrol. Chase is on the case. Chase is on the case. That's good.

Chase Teatier apparently plays rugby. And that's all the famous chasers. The Chaser, the TV show. Yeah. Well, that was great research, right? That could be your nickname on the field, the Chaser. Yeah. Have you got a nickname? A lot of people do say Chaser, and I show? Yeah. Well, that was great research, right? That could be your nickname on the field, the Chaser. Yeah. Have you got a nickname?

A lot of people do say Chaser, and I'm always looking around, but it's not actually me. They're just telling people to chase. Now, boys, before we go, we're going to give away a family pass, I understand, for the game tomorrow night against the Blues. How are we going to do this? I don't know. Have we talked about the format of this?

No. Do you want to pick someone to win a family pass, you two, in the cafe? Why not? Why not? Who are you minutes of this? No. Do you want to pick someone to win a family pass you two in the cafe? Why not? Why not? Who are you going to go? Jeez. There's a few options. We really should have discussed this in the ad break.

Ollie, yeah. Ollie, who's played for the Chiefs? Well done. You've won tickets to your own game. Okay. Enjoy that one. What about these three lovely ladies there? Hello, guys.

Hello. Do you guys want to go to the Chiefs tomorrow night? It'd be awkward if they said no right now. Oh, they're busy. They're busy. Yeah, well. You'll go? Come over here.

What's your name? A wonderful lady over there. She put her hand up and said, I'll go. I don't want to say it was awkward that you three had something else on. What's your name? Karina. Karina, you've got a family. Sorry?

Karina. Karina and Darlena Brown, chase tear to you. I've just given you a family pass. A family pass to the Chiefs. Lovely, I wanted to go. Thank you. Awesome. You're going for free, babe.

Thank you. I really appreciate that. Enjoy the game. You enjoy the game. And thank you You're going for free babe Thank you, I really appreciate that Enjoy the game, you enjoy the game And thank you boys for hanging out Now before we go, we just wanted to get one of you guys to intro the song We're like, hey, intro the song 660 vibes coming up And you guys were like, ooh, ooh

And you did a paper scissors rock to see who had to do it And Chase And Anton won You're listening to Jono and Ben on the hits The song that's coming up is your boy 660 And it's good vibes Song one. Macy's got us. Nah, you're listening to Jono and Ben on the hits. The song that's coming up is your boy 660, and it's Good Vibes. Oh, don't make me make a mess. Get out of here. You're making this too easy.

You're out of a job. Yeah, I know. She was real good. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. We're broadcasting live from the Tron this morning and the wonderful Clara, who owns the cafe.

Morena, how are you? Very good, thank you. Thank you so much for having us in your lovely place. Oh, it's a pleasure. Thank you for coming and helping and supporting a local business. That's all right. Stimulating the economy. That's right.

Giving away free coffees. But you're doing promotion, This is good for future. I've got a promotion. Is that what we said to you? Is that how we sold you in on it? Yeah. Now, you said when we first came in, you said, can we work out why you were called Plus 91 Cafe? And, Jono, after a few guesses, you got it.

And it was an early morning game show you put on us, Clara. I'm sorry for that, but you did very well. It was 12 o'clock and I was like, well, I'm struggling with this. First thing Clara says, guess the what we named it, plus 91. And then I said, is it an international phone code? And you said, who said that? And I said

it was me. And you said, oh my God. Yeah. Yeah, you did very well. I did not imagine you working so well in the morning without a coffee. You did so well. But no coffee. No coffee.

Running on MD. Yeah, yeah. And it's the area code for India. It is. It is the international dial code for India. How long have you had the cafe, Clara? It's nearly seven years, coming to August. And now, what we wanted to do, sorry, Ben, you chime in.

No, I was going to say, it's a wonderful cafe. Come down and see us. We'll be here till nine, free coffee, stimulating the economy of free coffee this morning. Yeah, Ben, you chime in. No, I was going to say it's a wonderful cafe. Come down and see us. We'll be here till nine. Free coffee. Stimulating the economy with free coffee this morning. Yeah, it's promotion, apparently. That's what we told Clara. But what we're going to do is, as a cafe owner slash operator, you must be

very good at remembering stuff. As a woman, I should be. Maybe I'm just a dumb man who can't multitask. I'm sorry, but yes. I'm sorry, but yes. can't multitask I'm sorry but yes I'm sorry but yes We can all agree on that So what we're going to do right now

We're going to have a couple people on the phone They're going to make an order This is obviously an order you don't have to cook But we want to see if you can remember this order In a song as well as an order from Jono and myself If you can remember all of them Everyone gets a prize, okay? I never cook for your information.

That's why it's good here. For your information. For my information. I've been put in my place. Okay, let's get Jo on. Jo, welcome to the show. Good morning, guys. What's your order for Clara to remember?

Now, she doesn't have a pen or paper as well, so this is going to be the real challenge. Okay, I like bacon and eggs, scrambled eggs, white bread, no crust, soft, runny scrambled eggs, and bacon not overcooked. Oh, that's all. That is a complicated order. Particular order, you kind of got that, Clara, you think? Yeah, I'll repeat it back to you if that's all right.

Scrambled eggs, not overcooked, runny eggs, white bread, no crust, and it's bacon, not that well cooked. Oh, wow. Okay, now that's the first order. Okay, now you keep that in your head there. Okay, we're going to go to the next order. Olivia, you're on the air, more or no.

Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Your order for Clara. Okay, smashed avo with extra pepper, flat white almond milk with one sugar. Oh, okay. Repeat that back. Smashed avo with extra feta and almond milk latte with one sugar. Oh, well done.

Flat white. I'm sorry, love. It's all right. It's okay. And the third one, Mel. What are you ordering with Clara? Blueberry pancakes with no syrup and a long black with a dash of cream. These are all very complex orders, aren't they?

Blueberry pancakes with no syrup and a long black with a dash of cream. Okay. I don't think we make an order for an hour. I think that's more than enough complicated orders. Is that more than enough for you, cream. Okay, that's true. I don't think we make an order for an hour. I think that's more than enough complicated orders. Is that more than enough for you, Clara? No, that's good, yeah. I can take ten orders at a time. Okay, sorry. All right.

Hush my mouth. I'm going to go Eggs Benedict and a Soy Mocha Latte. Soy Mocha Latte, yes. Okay. And I just like the name of Don't Egg-nor-me on your menu, so can I have just one Don't Egg-nor-me, please? Sure, definitely. Okay, now the orders have been placed.

We'll play one song. Will Clara remember them? If she does, prizes for everyone. Oh, no pressure. No pressure, no pressure at all. Have we still got the callers on, Juju? We sure do. Joe was the first customer, Clara.

Now, if you can repeat back Joe's order. It is a complicated order. Okay. So that is a scrambled eggs, bacon, scrambled eggs, bacon and eggs, which is less scrambled, runny scrambled. Yeah. Less cooked bacon, white bread without the crust. Oh, I think she's nailed it, right, Jo?

Yes, she is. Oh, well done. One from one. She's holding her hands up in the air. Yeah. Easy as. Yes, she has. Oh, well done. One from one. She's holding her hands up in the air. Yeah. Easy as. Okay, easy as. We're going to go to Olivia, who made the second complicated order. So this is

the smashed avo with extra feta and a large almond milk latte with one sugar of flat white. Oh, she saved it. Oh, she saved it. She got there. She said latte and I was like,

uh-oh, uh-oh. Then she pulled it back. Is that right, Olivia? Yes, good job. Thank you. Clara, you are on fire. Thank you. Is there a fire blanket

in the kitchen? I think because I saw you guys, I got the energy in me. I know. Clara, I was like, hey, it's radio. We can write this down. She's like, no.

Yeah. No. I was like, we lie all the time on radio. She's like, no. I've got this. me. I know. I was like, hey, it's radio. We can write this down. She's like, no. Yeah. No. I was like, we lie all the time on radio. She's like, no. I've got this. I can remember this. Radio is built on lies. Yeah, this is impressive.

Okay, third person, third customer was Mel. So she had the blueberry pancakes with no syrup, long black with a dash of cream. Oh, my God. Is that your order, Mel? It was my order. Is Clara not the greatest cafe owner operator in New Zealand? Okay, and then Jono and myself chipped in with an order. What were they? Jono's one was eggs benedict with bacon and a soy flat white.

That's right. Well done. And I just ordered a cheeky wee order. Don't egg-nore me.. Don't eggnore me. Don't eggnore me. I like the name of that one. I like some of the names on your menu. They're very good.

He bases all his meals off puns. Oh, no. You've got Benedicted to you. Stay in your bubble. Stay in your bubble, which is quite good. That's my favourite. And Granola Bowl. Oh, no, that's just the Granola Bowl, but that looks good as well.

And now Ben's just reading a menu. Hey, listen, that's just the granola bowl, but that looks good as well. And now Ben's just reading a menu. Hey, listen, that was very impressive, Clara. Thank you. Thank you, guys. I'm glad it was me, not my husband. He would not have remembered a thing. Well, Joe, Olivia and Mel, thank you so much for your calls. We're going to send you guys out some prizes.

Clara came through for you. That was impressive. Yeah, you did that. Yeah. Nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie. Yeah, nah.

She'll be right in at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Woo! You're right. Woo, yeah.

It's our Game of Word Association. We say five words. You tell us the first five words that pop into your head. If those words match up with ours, you walk away with $5,000. Yeah, there is a lot of money on the line. Much like when Ben last night at the Hamilton Casino, you put

your kid's entire life savings on that blackjack game. There's a lot on the line. And he's in a hole. He'll claw his way out of it. One pokey game at a time, you'll get back your big guy. It didn't happen. Don't worry, kids. Now, we are in Hamilton, of course, today at Plus 91 Cafe. We are, yeah.

And we're going to play five words live. La, la, la, live. Coming to you live. Who's this? Wendy. Wendy, lovely to meet you. Wendy, whereabouts do you work? Jenny Craig.

She works at Jenny Craig. How is Jenny in the team? We're pretty good, yeah. Is Jenny a person? She's a person? Yeah, she she a person? She's a person. She's still alive. Have you met her? No.

Where does she live? Oh, it's all the States. Is she in America? No, she's an Australian. Oh, she's Australian. I never knew. I thought it was just the brand name. Well, it's also the brand name, but it's her name.

There's an actual person. There's an actual person. There we go. Jenny Craig. And sorry, who do we have here too? Carol. So, Wendy and Carol, right now, as a wee bit of a team, you guys are going to play five words today together.

And we're going to get to disappoint you guys at some of the face-to-face for a change. Normally it's over the phone. It's a lot more awkward when I can see you guys and I really want to win five grand for you. So you need to choose either Ben or Jono, myself, to jump in the soundproof booth, a.k.a. the toilet at Plus 91 Cafe.

I'm going with Ben, please. Okay, me. You're going to lock in Ben? Ben's off to the soundproof lavatory? I'm not getting told to go outside. Okay, I'm going outside. Why are you getting told to go outside? I don't want to clock up the toilet.

You don't want to clock up the toilet? I don't want to clock up the toilet. What are you doing? You backed up. I know you had that granola earlier. All right, Ben's making his way. Backed up Ben is making his way out of the cafe. So it's five words, 5K.

Wendy and Carol, the first word that comes into your heads when I say Snoop. Dog. Snoop Dogg. The second word, baking. Soda. Powder. Powder. What do you want to lock in, soda or powder? Powder. Powder. Word go pasta pasta fettuccine pasta bake so you've got a snoop dog baking powder fettuccine pasta word number four this is for five thousand dollars no pressureag a lot of pressure. Waikato. Beautiful. Listen, I can safely say Ben's not going to come in and say beautiful.

Even though it is. Chiefs. Chiefs? Yeah. Locking in Chiefs. Topical. Playing the Blues tomorrow night here. And the fifth and final word,

Wendy and Carol, sport. Waikato. Oh, that's a clever play. Yeah, Waikato. You're going to go Waikato for sport. Those are your five words. Let's bring Ben back in from outside.

Come on in, Ben. He's been standing on Ulster Street here in Hamilton. What's going on out there, mate? Some wonderful views? Sorry, I asked you a question. You don't have a microphone. Oh, I bet you're back in here. Do you know what?

I was standing out there outside. I couldn't hear anything, obviously, because I'm standing on the street. But some lady had a window down going, hey, do you want to know the words? Obviously, listening to the radio, I was quite tempted to go, yeah, I do. There's a flaw to the radio. I was quite tempted to go, yeah, I do. There's a flaw in our plan.

I told you we should have backed up Ben into the toilet. Yeah, so I was like, oh, no, I'm all good. Thank you, though. What a wonderful offer. And more to that wonderful lady this morning. Okay, let's get back into it. Five words. Wendy and Carol, they want 5K.

No, no, I don't want to give them 5K. No, split it two and a half each. It's a game changer. If your five words match with theirs, you win them $5,000. Okay. Okay. All right. Think like someone from the Waikato. Okay.

Think of mullets and burnouts. I'll just say Cody's after each question. Okay. Here's the first word. Snoop. Dog. One from one, Benjamin. Baking.

Baking. Yeah, there's two in my head. Powder. Baking soda. Was there's two in my head. Powder. Oh, baking soda? Was baking soda the other one? Yeah. Tension at an all-time high here in Plus 91. Oh, jeez.

The cafe on tenderhooks. My hamstrings are pinging. Why? I don't know. You should stretch before these things. Okay, two. Word number three was fettuccine. Why? I don't know. You should stretch before these things. Okay, two. Word number three was fettuccine.

Oh, God. There's a lot going through my head right now as well. Italian. They blocked in pasta. That thing I was thinking of pasta as well. Okay, word number four was Waikato. Chiefs? Would have got that.

And the fifth word was sport. Rugby. No, they went Waikato. Three out of five. Not bad. Listen, Wendy and Carol, you're wonderful human beings. And you know what we're going to do? We're going to shout you both to dinner.

Not with us. You guys, we'll give you a couple hundred dollars to spend on a nice dinner out together. But if you want to invite us, that would be wonderful. We'll just tell the husbands. Tell your husbands. We'll go on a double date. It'll be very unusual, and I don't think radio needs that at the moment.

All right, well, thank you so much for playing. I'm sorry we didn't win $5,000 for you. Fettuccine. Oh, you played a great game, though. Thank you very much. That's how it works. It's back Monday, 7.45. Add these two men together, and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man.

The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. We're in Hamilton today. Jono, you issued a bit of a challenge earlier. We'll get back to that after 8 o'clock on the show. It involves the Wiggles or the Waikato Chiefs, okay? It does. And I laid down the challenge. It's a 5-7.

No one's turned up. I haven't seen any skivvies come in. Have you yet, Ben? I haven't seen anyone on skivvy. But after 8 o'clock, we'll get more into that. But right now, it's some entertainment news. Spy. The What's Up Spy.co.nz. Yes

and we are in the Waikato, the home of milking cows and now we are going to milk that full celebrity udder dry for some more gossip with Juliet. Hello, so obviously we know all about Britney Spears' conservatorship situation that's going on. Her dad essentially

has kind of full control over her life, her decisions, her finances and everything like that. And after the free Britney movement came the Framing Britney Spears documentary where it explored how Britney doesn't really have a lot of control in her life. Now, and everyone wants Britney Spears' dad, Jamie Spears, to step down as her conservator just because she also wishes that she doesn't want her own father to do it. Now, the person that Britney Spears has asked to replace her father as her conservator

is a woman named Jodie Montgomery. And Jodie is basically a woman in Britney's life who takes care of Britney's medical and sort of health issues that arise when they do. And she was a temporary conservator when her dad, Britney Spears' dad, had to step back a couple of years ago due to a health issue. So she has had some experience looking after Britney as a whole.

So that is the person that Britney Spears has requested to take over her father if he steps down. So that's the update on that. I love Jodie Montgomery. She sounds like a lovely... Sometimes you just don't need to say anything. I know. You just go, oh, okay, and then move on.

You just feel the need to say stuff, don't you? I love Jodie Montgomery. I'm reading up on you. Jodie Montgomery. Jodie Montgomery. You know, it seems like five things that you need to know about Jodie Montgomery. All right. Yeah, yeah, okay.

Jodie and her husband run their own private fiduciary firm. She's an experienced conservator, so she does it as a job. Oh, right. Jodie's already been Brittany's care manager. That's what Julia just said. Well done, Julia. Thank you. Jodie's position could become permanent. You've already reported that.

Jodie's also an activist. She's an AIDS activist. Oh, wow. That's awesome. That's why I love Jodie Montgomery. There we go. There's so many good things about Jodie Montgomery. Thank you very much for that coverage, Jono. And that is a very quick spy update for you. I will leave it back in your guys' hands, Jono and Ben.

Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. This morning we're in Hamilton, the Plus 91 Cafe, stimulating the economy, the local economy, as we said earlier, with free coffees till nine. That's right.

I don't know how that's stimulating any economy, but it's sinking poor Clara's business into the black. She's in the red with coffees. Clara, thanks for having us this morning. It's a pleasure. It's lovely to have you guys here. You've been an absolute delight. Everyone's sucking back on your free flat whites.

Are they loving them? They are loving them. It's not about free. It's sucking back on your free flat whites. Are they loving them? They are loving them. It's not about free. It's about giving back to the community sometimes as well. Most of them are my regulars. So it's such a nice way to treat them back on a Friday morning. You are an absolute superstar. Huge Chiefs fan, Clara, and cricket fan as well.

Northern District fan as well. Yeah, so all the players that come in here. Domestic cricket. I love domestic cricket. Now we're talking. Could you get a more tedious form of cricket? But Ben loves it. But I love it.

I love it too. I could talk at Central District's, my team. But anyway, that's not talking. Oh, she's not happy now. Guys, can we stop talking about domestic cricket? I do. Honestly, to be frank with you, I can go back to school boys cricket. Oh, school boys.

We're not talking about to school boys cricket. Oh, school boys. We're not going to school. We're not talking about bloody school boy cricket. My son won the championship for Northern Districts yesterday. We'll go to him, but we're not talking about it. Oh, yeah.

I watched four days cricket, 50 overs games, all four days. Four days of cricket? Yes. What punishment are you putting on yourself? It's a lot of cricket. It's a lot of cricket. He would love four days of cricket. Yeah, I would love you putting on yourself? It's a lot of cricket. What?

It's a lot of cricket. He would love 40 days of cricket. Yeah, I would love 40 days of cricket. Anyway, we spent too much time on domestic and schoolboy cricket.

Now, at a cafe, you must get unusual orders from time to time, right? Yes, we do. Yeah. Okay, so we want to play a game with you,

Clara, and we want to play a game too with you listening. Oh, 800 of the hits. You name one part of the dish, and we have to try and figure out

what you're having it with. So what's been the strangest order? You give us a part. Tomato sauce. Tomato sauce. Now we need to try and figure out what they had tomato sauce with. So it's something unusual, so I'm guessing it's nothing like a hash brown or anything like that, right? No. No. Okay, tomato sauce on

eggs, scrambled eggs. Oh, yeah, that's good. Oh, there are some people who have that. That's probably quite common. Yeah, common. A muffin. Nah. Tomato sauce on the cash register. Yes, that's what my husband wants to say, but nah. Okay, so what was it?

A legitimate order, what did they want tomato sauce on? Oh, French toast. Oh, French toast. Normally you'd go with like a maple syrup or something, wouldn't you? Yeah. They turned it from a sweet dish into a savoury one. Sweet and savoury probably. That's what it is.

Okay. I've got one for you. My wife likes to do this. Marmite. Okay. What's she having marmite? Obviously not toast. Marmite on pancakes.

No. Marmite on. But is it breakfast food? Marmite on avocado. Poached egg? Marmite and poached egg. She's always like, oh, make a poached egg and put marmite on... This is a breakfast food. Marmite on avocado. Poached egg. Marmite and poached egg. She's always like, oh, make a poached egg and put marmite on it as well. What, does she just do like a spoonful on top of it?

Oh, no, you usually on top of the toast. Oh, she spreads it on the toast. Yeah, I don't know what a strange combination of food. Okay, I'm going to give you one. Okay. Toothpaste. No, I hope it's the toothbrush. You're not eating... Are you eating toothpaste?

Do you want to play this game? Clare's still looking at me weirdly. We were talking about domestic cricket for five minutes before. I think we should go back now. Are you putting toothpaste on the toast? Well done. You win. No, I actually have mayonnaise on everything.

I'm mayonnaise mad. I'll splurt best foods on everything. Steak. Steak? Fish and chips. My children. I'll put it on everything. All right.

Give us a call right now. 0800 the hits. Clara, do you want to hang around? Can you hang around with us for this next bit? Yes. People are going to call up. I was like, are you going to start paying me? 4487 on the text.

You tell us one of the items, and we try and guess the combination, the unusual combination that you might have something with. Georgia, you're on the air. Morena. Morena. Say hello to our dear friend, Clara. Hi. Hello.

Okay, name part of the meal, Georgia. Mint sauce. Ooh, okay. Was it mint sauce? Mint sauce. Mint sauce. What do you think she's having mint sauce with? You'd normally have it with some sort of roast beef or something.

Beef or something. Yeah. I'm going to go mint sauce and fish and chips. No. Coffee? No. He said coffee. He should have really gone out there.

I'm going to say cornflakes. I don't know why, but what's the answer? Scrambled or poached eggs. Oh, scrambled or poached eggs. What do you think? That sounds great. I should try that. Put that on the menu. Put that on the menu, Clara. Thank you, gentlemen. What does it taste like?

It's like one of those kind of weird comfort foods in a way. Jamie Oliver, chef, what was it with grapes on a pizza? It's like one of those kind of weird comfort foods in a way. Okay, all right. We saw the other day Jamie Oliver's chef put, what was it, grapes on a pizza, which had like meat on it as well. Grapes have no place on a pizza, do they, Clara? No, no, no. Not even pineapple in my pizza.

We'll go to Nathan. Welcome. You name part of the dish. We'll try and figure out what you're having it with. Good morning, guys. Morning. What is it? Sardines. Sardines.. What is it? Sardines.

Sardines. Jeez, my dad loves sardines. They have to be the most grotesque form of fish. A can of sardines. You peel back that lid. I think you're going to have sardines with waffles. Eggs. Oh, eggs.

Clara's saying eggs. What are you going to say, Ben? I'm going to say ice cream. Eggs. Oh, eggs. Clara's saying eggs. What are you going to say, Ben? I'm going to say ice cream. No. Spicy fruit muffins. Wow. Muffins. I like the cinnamon flavoured muffins.

I like the blueberry muffins. With sardines. With sardines on it. You're a monster. The old boy had some breakfast one morning. It was ghastly. But he enjoyed it. You're a monster. The old boy had breakfast one morning. It was ghastly. It was ghastly. Was it a mistake?

Yeah, it feels like a mistake. No, no, it wasn't me. It was my dad. We were having them on, you know, with jam and stuff, and he decided to whip open a can of sardines and chuck them on his muffins. The old boomers, their pellets are, I tell you what, they've got a hardened pellet, don't they?

They're trying things, that's for sure. Shall we do one more quickly? Yeah, let's go to Nick. Welcome. You're on line three. Welcome, Nick. You don't care what line you're on. I don't know why I focused in on it.

How are you? Good, good, mate. Yourself? Yeah, good. Thank you very much. You name one part of the dish. We'll try and figure out what you're having it with. Pickled onions.

Pickled onion. What would he be having pickled onion with? Spaghetti bolognese. Oh, okay, that's your guess. I am going to say a tandoori chicken. Okay. Clara? I think it is something relating to breakfast. Okay, something breakfast-y? No, no. No? Okay, what's the answer? French vanilla ice cream. Oh, my God! French vanilla ice cream. Clara is disgusted.

She's pulling that face when she's now mouthing to me, oh, my God. It's better when you talk on the radio, Clara. You don't have to just mouth the words. French vanilla ice cream. Where did this strange combination come from? One of my kids challenged me to try it, and yeah, I liked it.

I thought it was great. Tasted good. It started off as a prank meal. Yeah. Wow, wee, there we go. Well, thank you very much for your calls. I don't know if any of these are going to make the menu here. No, no, no.

No, no. The mint sauce was amazing. Are you going to try the mint sauce one? Mint sauce, yeah. No, no. The mint sauce was amazing. I'm going to try the mint sauce one. Mint sauce, yeah. Okay, give that a bash. My uneducated palate didn't even pass NCEA, so I'm just going to stick

to my mayonnaise. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Don't be afraid of your freedom. The hits live free.

Bill's edition. Let's smash another one. Don't bring it up. Don't bring it up. That noise in the front of that sounds... Don't bring it up. Don't bring it up. I've been thinking that all week. Yeah, I know, but don't bring it up. Don't bring it up. We're paying someone's bills at the moment.

It's Live Free Bills Edition. We make a call, 8.30, 1 o'clock, 4 o'clock. Pay someone's bill and let's make a call. We're in the Waikato. Let's pay a local bill. Hello, Emma speaking. What did the fox say? Hello.

The fox said hello. There we go, Emma Fox. It's John O'Byrne calling from the Hits radio station. How are you going? You're in Hamilton. We're in Hamilton. I'm at the university at the moment. Oh, well, we're in Plus 91 Cafe.

We're giving away free coffees all morning, but that is none of your business, Emma Fox. Well, it is if you want to come down. You're welcome to come down, but we're ringing on more important things. You've got a bit of a plumbing bill, we understand. I do, thanks to my son, yes. What did your son do? Well, so we had a leak in our roof,

and so we got the plumbers around to come fix the leak, and they found five balls blocking our gutter. So my son, yeah, was outside obviously playing and kept losing balls. Put his balls in the gutter. Oh, jeez. So that cost you $230, we understand. It did.

It did. Well, we want to pay that for you here at the Hits, okay? Fantastic. Thank you very much. No, thank you, Emma. And thank your son for causing this issue and for us being able to bond over the drain. That's awesome.

Thank you so much. All right. We'll see you soon at Plus 91 Cafe. Sounds good. Do you mean that? You're not coming down, You're not coming down, are you?

No, I'm not. But, you know what? I was the one whose Christmas was ruined when you didn't get the ball in the hole in Taupo. Oh, yeah.

We were trying to get the hole in one in Lake Taupo last year and everyone had a ball. What did we have, like 1,000 of them? Yeah. Yep, and it was a complete waste of time.

We didn't get one of those. No, not one. Yeah, and we won't have you wasting your time on us anymore, okay, Emma? We love your work. All right, well, this more than makes up for it. Thank you so much. Well, you have a great weekend. Cheers, you too.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Cheers, you too. Way too long. I apologise, Clara and Krishna. Very loud. Just talking quite loudly. You don't realise how loudly you are. Radio, you speak so much louder because you're projecting. We're sitting in this booth with our headphones on, so we can hear it all in surround sound. But you talk now, I'll take my headphones off.

Yeah, so I'm just chatting for you right now. Is it quite loud in the cafe? It's very loud. Yeah. If I was a customer coming in, I'd be like, shut up, you idiots. I'm trying to have an Eggs Benedict over here. We are down in the Waikato for a couple of days. Yesterday we took part

in a very unusual sport, a sport that I didn't even know was a thing. Yeah, we're doing this for a telly show we're filming, and we met Graham, who for, I think, over 10 years, has competitively raced bathtubs on the water. So he turns bathtubs into boats,

and there's a group of these people throughout Aotearoa who do it. They're actual bathtubs. That's the thing. You have to buy a bathtub or get given or find a bathtub. That is a proper bathtub, and then you basically mould a boat around the bathtub. So you're sitting in a bathtub when you're going down the river or the ocean. It's like the America's Cup,

except with bathtubs and without millions and millions of dollars. But they're just as a bathtub when you're going down the river or the ocean. It's like the America's Cup, except with bathtubs and without millions and millions of dollars. But they're just as passionate though, aren't they? He competes for like a $400 bathtub, but he spends every spare moment he has working in his garage on this speedboat bathtub. And he's the type of guy that

you point at something, he's like, I built that. He built his house, he built his batch, he built his bathtub, he built a catamaran. He built his house. He built his batch. He built his bathtub. He built a catamaran. He built a goddamn catamaran. He's got a problem with his cell phone? Oh, look at that. I put it in the oven for half an hour to sort them out if they get wet, and I fix them up.

He takes cell phones apart, and then he puts them back together. It was awesome, eh? He was so awesome to me. One of the other things as well, too, we were filming towards the end of the day. Jono, you were out there on the water with the bathtub and he got a sort of a reminder on his phone. He was like, oh, oh, better snooze that. And I was like, oh, what was that for? He's just reminding me about my heart medication.

Yeah, and he kept delaying the snooze. I was like, well, you should probably get on to that. He delayed it about 30 times. I was like, oh, wait a minute. You were quite worried that Graham was going to have a heart attack on the side of the Waikato River. Yeah, but he's all good. Then we went and had a go on the Waikato River.

Strong current. You don'tikato River. Yeah, but he's all good. Then we went and had a go on the Waikato River. Strong current. You don't realise how strong. Yeah. That current is moving faster than an Aucklander trying to escape lockdown and head to their batch. It really is like sort of eight, nine knots, hey. It moves at a pace, the Waikato River. And you feel it's, you know, it goes so fast and you're so low on the water in the bathtub.

But also when you do the corners, it feels very tippy. Yeah. Like at any stage you could fall over and fall in. And that was the thing that was quite concerning me. But you've just got to trust in the bathtub, I guess. Yeah. I don't know if boats get worried of fitnesses, but I don't know if that would have happened.

Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben Boyce Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Fryer's Worst Moments of the Week. Something we like to do on a Friday, what I like to do in particular. Yeah, and then I attempt to feebly defend my actions

from Monday through Thursday. Yeah, so we look back at Jono's Worst Moments of the Week and we were talking about, well, we're playing five words, the game we play every day at 7.45. Oh, you've got to play this again. You've got mileage out of this already. Now, the game normally works. We say a word, and then you, you know,

basically it's word association. What's the first word that pops into your head? I come out of the soundproof booth waiting to hear the word, and you gave me the answer. Bucket. Oh, sorry. Oh. Oh. And you gave me the answer. Bucket. Oh, sorry.

The second word is fountain. Bucket. Yeah. Sometimes it's nice to give people the answers in life. It is. It's a whole lot easier, isn't it? Getting the chance. I don't know if the competition would last that long if it continued like that. Everyone wins five grand.

We spoke to Robin Lawley this week. A really fascinating interview. She's a supermodel. Yeah, she's a model. She's an activist. She's a mum. She's got a new podcast at the moment that looks at body shaming and what the human body can do. But we're also talking about parenting and what advice she would give

and whether the kids should be on social media. And this is the conversation we've got talking about iPads. Is there anything you can pass on that you've learned through doing this podcast? I would say definitely switch off and get out into nature. That's right. So we've got to peel them off. But the iPad is so handy for parenting. You've got to admit it.

You've got to come on, Robin. No, Robin's all about sustainability. I know Robin's about that. Robin, a cheeky hour or two on the iPad. And I back those claims. The iPad is the greatest babysitter. Why else did they invent the iPad if they didn't want us to give it to our kids for five hours a day?

And then Millennial Max, who does a great job working with us on the show. We were talking about him because he also works with Hilary Barry in the afternoons on the 3 p.m. pickup. She's very parent-like to Max, isn't she? She is. I think Max is around about the same age as her son, who's just moved out to university. So I think she's kind of enjoying sort of mothering Max as well at work. And Jono also, I think, is going to enjoy mothering Max. Now, do you know Hilary Barry?

Millennial Max works with Hilary Barry, and she brings food in for him. She's like, my children have left the house, so she's mothering Millennial Max at the moment. We don't mother you. I'd breastfeed you, Max, if I had to. Okay, that's the commitment I'd show to raising young millennial Max. Oh, that's good. It's a little odd, but a good commitment nonetheless. I've already whipped up

half a bottle for him. It's in the refrigerator at the cafe. See if I can get another half before I get back to work. That is Jono's worst of the week. They're proud of New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono's worst of the week. 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. He's growing through your feed. We are at Plus 91 Cafe in Hamilton. Just met lovely Corey. He came along.

He said, I listen to you every morning. You're a little less corny than other shows. We're like, oh, you sure? Yeah, we've still got a level of corniness that we love. And then I think he worked out what radio show we were. He's like, you're Fletcher Bourne, aren't you? And we're like, no, so there. Listen, he didn't go to journalism school,

and he's ended up hosting this news bulletin by default because I can't be bothered doing the research. Here's Ben Boyce scrolling through your feed. Now, All Black legend Dan Carter, he was at the Halberg Awards a couple of nights ago in Auckland, where they honour the sports people. They honour the sports stuff. Yeah, they do. They hand out certificates and stuff.

It's like the play of the day on a bigger scale. And they don't have to hand the trophy back next week. Yeah. But he may have been the first person in history ever to crop the great Richie McCaw out of a photo. So what happened here? So Dan Carter,

there was four people standing on the red carpet. There was Dan Carter and he was standing next to Team New Zealand sailors Blair Chu and Peter Burling and Richie McCaw

as well was on the other side. So there's four. What a line-up of athletic gentlemen. I'm thinking there's four legends in the sports world. Imagine the protein powder

just running through all of those bodies. So there's this photo that is out there in the media of the four of them looking great on the red carpet, standing there. But then Dan Carter shares that photo, the same photo, to his social media and crops Richie McCaw

out of the photo. Brutal. So it's just that he's like, hey, carry out with these couple of legends here who've been doing great stuff over the last little while. So it's just him, Dan Carter and Blair Chuke and with these couple of legends here. We've been doing great stuff over the last little while. So it's just him, Dan Carter, and Blair Cheek and Peter Burley. He's cropped out. What a brutal photo edit. But then Richie McCaw's had a couple of great weeks too.

He's performed with the Wiggles. Yeah. Blowed on some bagpipes. Then he wins Sportsman of the Decade. Oh, he did the same night. You're right. So he's a legend. He did a legendary couple of weeks too.

Yeah, not good enough for the photo. Well, listen, you're throwing stones at Carter, but you've done exactly the same to me. When? Don't think I've ever forgotten about it. When? I know exactly how Richie McCaw feels. Well, apart from the Rich the Sporting history,

because you don't have that. And the illustrious something. I'm sure he's done some other stuff. Running in commercial. He is. But we went and interviewed Zac Efron for the critically acclaimed

movie Baywatch. Oh, yes. Now, producer Julia, back in Auckland, you'd understand this story, right? Okay, so we interviewed

Zac Efron. For the critically acclaimed Baywatch. For the critically acclaimed Baywatch. Yes. In Australia. And we got a photo

afterwards with Zach. I mean, Zach Efron, producer Julia. I mean, that's a pretty big deal, right? He is my top five. Like, I love him. I think he's the greatest. You say top five, so he's sitting at number five, obviously. I mean, yeah.

But still top five. He's still top five. There's four other hot ones in front of him. He's sitting at five. So we get a photo. I mean, it's not every day you get a photo with Zach Efron. No. So there's the three of us doing our champagne trademark.

I'm doing a silly peace sign. Classic. Ben's pointing at Zac Efron. Then Ben on his social media crops me out of the photo. Why? So it's just him and Zac Efron. I think we've got the chance. I mean, someone's dragging the photo down.

That's so savage. Why? dragging the photo down. That's so savage. Maybe I'm just like offended on John's behalf because it's Zac Efron, you know what I mean? Yeah. I was bringing the average ugliness. I was raising the ugliness averages. He's like, I've got to get this guy out. You can see my shoulder.

That's so good. And a little bit of your face too. I was like, I can't get rid of the whole face. The most disturbing thing was, you know, it's a process to go through to crop a photo. That's like 10 minutes of work. It was a lot. He could have just put up the original. But no, he took time out of his day to go onto Photoshop and chop his mate out.

Oh, you and Rich McCaw. You know exactly how he feels. I'm going to Photoshop myself in a photo with Richie McCaw and we'll be friends. Because he won't ever prom a photo with me. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hips. We're in Hamilton this morning, Jono, and you've just found out a wonderful fact. There's a wonderful fact.

Joined by Millie. How are you going this morning, Millie? Very good, thank you. Thanks for coming down. Free coffee. Is everyone enjoying the free coffee? People popping in for the coffee and not so much us, but that's fine. We know where we sit.

It's coffee first, us a long way behind. Now, Millie's enjoyed her free coffee, but then as repayment gave us a wonderful fact. Now you can recite this fact for the nation, Millie. All righty. Well, did you know that there are seven McDonald's from the way from Hamilton all the way to Auckland? Seven McDonald's? Seven McDonald's? And a random Taco Bell in the middle of nowhere too. I know they just whipped that one out of nowhere.

Are there any other Taco Bells in Ulta at all? There's just one like in the middle of nowhere. I think there are some in Auckland but you're right there's just one just, yeah I don't know what town that is. Whoever invented Taco Bell in New Zealand was like I I tell you where I'm going to put it. In the middle of a farm. So seven. That's a little challenge for us on the way home there, John. Can we visit all seven? What, just count them all?

Yeah, just count them all. That's a lot of McDonald's, isn't it? It definitely is. Ronald just kind of, he just whips them up overnight. There's nothing there the day before. Jeez, where's that come from? Anyway. Well, thank you, Millie.

That was a wonderful fact you've shared with the show. Now it's time to do some Spy Entertainment news. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz There's a little girl. She had one wish

to read stories about Kylie Jenner's butt implants and her wish has come true. Here's Juliet with Spy. No news on Kylie Jenner's butt implants today, but...

Maybe next, maybe Monday. Yeah, yeah, hopefully. Now, Chrissy Teigen, she is also, she's kind of considered the queen of Twitter and Instagram. She's married to John Legend. Very outspoken, hilarious on social media. But she's announced that she's quitting Twitter,

which is kind of the thing that helped, like, not make her famous, but she's known for everything that she says on Twitter. Yeah, social media is a big part of, you know, what she does, right? Yeah, totally. And she's got 13 million followers, so it's kind of like they've all gone down the drain. But the reason for it is because she said it no longer serves her positively. Her desire to be liked and fear of pissing people off has made her somebody

that her followers didn't necessarily sign up for. She's a Twitter quitter. Because you can comment on Twitter. You can't do that on Instagram now. Well, you can comment on photos and stuff, but Twitter seems... I was on Twitter for a while, many years ago, and I just found it quite a negative place in general.

Like Instagram, not saying there's not... Instagram can be negative, but it seems overall Twitter can be a lot more quite a negative place in general. Yeah. Like Instagram, not saying there's not Instagram can be negative, but it seems overall Twitter can be a lot more of a negative vibe. It can be, you know. Because it's essentially. Sorry, you go, Jonah. No, I was going to go. The times I've been on Twitter, it felt like there was a group of elitist people

who thought they were better than everyone else. Celebrities? Commenting. Oh, no. Commenting on things that if you don't agree with me, then you're wrong. Yeah. And I guess that's the purpose of Twitter is for people to churn out comments and tweets

and it's just people's thoughts, right? Whereas Instagram is more photo focused. So kind of naturally it would probably end up like that a bit more. I like looking at photos and I don't like reading. Then Instagram's the place for you. Yes. I like pictures. Picture books.

You're a child. And Lauren Graham, she obviously played Lorelei on Gilmore Girls, has said that she has a Gilmore Girls clause in all of her acting contracts in case Gilmore Girls returns. Now, Gilmore Girls was obviously from 2000 to 2007, so she's like, get me in there if there's a reboot. Are they going to bring her back one day? We've got the same for John on being the TV show.

We're available, guys. Put us back on. We want to exercise our Gilmore Girls clause. We don't want to put the show back on, but we're available. Yeah, true. But then she also, she said that, but then she's like, but then even though I do have this in all my contracts, I don't want to start any rumours because she hasn't heard anything yet about a reunion or anything like that.

Oh, so she just thinks she's available if the call comes out. Well, we're all available. Yeah, yeah. You, Juliette, I understand, are going to interview this woman. Yes, I am. I'm nervous. Why? Because she's a celebrity and it's scary.

You don't need to be nervous. You're a professional. You'll conduct a competent interview. Well, my issue is I'll be so focused on my questions that I won't even listen to what she has to say. I'll be rehearsing my next question in my head. No, no, no. I'll do my best. I'll do rehearsing my next question in my head no no no I'll do my best I'll do my best

if you don't remember there's nothing funny about a competent interview so for us the worse it is the better ok good good good good get her name wrong I mean no we want you to have a great career because you're great you'll be awesome oh thank you yeah you're too good but we don't want you to have a great career

because we don't want you to leave us I'll try and mark up the interview for you guys then and if anyone's listening Oh, thank you. Yeah, you're too good, but we don't want you to have a great career because we don't want you to leave us. No, that's true, actually. I'll try and muck up the interview for you guys then. And if anyone's listening, Juliette steals stuff from the workplace too. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. 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. It's been a really fun morning. I hope you've enjoyed listening to it broadcasting live from Plus 91 Cafe. Thank you so much to Clara for having us. Clara and Krishna who own the cafe. They've been wonderful hosts. Oh, yeah. Haven't they?

She kind of chimed in as the third co-host on the program this morning. She was great too. She was awesome. Yeah, so thank you very much to them. Thank you very much to the Waikato Chiefs who answered my on-air public bullying to get them down here for an interview. It seems like half the team have turned up now. There's quite a lot of the Chiefs players down here

having breakfast, which is awesome. So good luck for them tomorrow night against the Auckland Blues. And I forgot to tell you this. In the hotel last night, Ben, at night, were you very parched? Did you have a dry mouth as if you had swallowed half a kilogram of sand?

Yeah, I guess I was thirsty. When I woke up this morning, I was thirsty. Yeah, I woke up, I was like, I'm so thirsty. Like I'd been crawling through the desert and I was just looking for an oasis of some description. And I could find nothing else because the water and the tap in the bathroom, there was a fine line between lukewarm and molten lava.

So you had an option of lukewarm water. Oh, so you couldn't get sort of cold sort of water. No, no. So the other option was to burn the four layers of the interior of your mouth. So then I was like, okay, what else is there? And I looked in the fridge and I found This is a part of a sitcom

or something like that I found tiny those tiny tiny little bottles of milk you know those ones that take like

never enough not even for like what you need them for like coffee or tea it was nearly not enough and it takes like 45 minutes

to peel off the lid usually squirts all over your t-shirt or whatever you're wearing and then I just tipped it into my mouth and like four drops just came

onto my tongue and instantly dissolved because my mouth was so dry. And I had three of those in the middle of the night just to try and get some form of refreshments. And then you found the nine Heinekens in your bag and you were fine. We have had so much fun this morning playing Five Words for 5K live in Hamilton. And of course, hanging out with everyone in the Waikato. It's been a lot of fun. You have yourself a great weekend, New Zealand. Yeah, look after yourselves, Aotearoa.

Have a good one. Be safe, be kind. See you Monday. 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.