Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - November 13 - Chris Hipkins, Alternative Use To Products You Own, The Coke Cola Good Bugger

Episode Date: November 13, 2020

Happy Friday! Ben discovered something on the internet - a person cooking their steak in a toaster.... So we asked you guys what products you use in an alternative way, like straightening hair with an iron and cooking things on hair straighteners! We caught up with Chris Hipkins, COVID-19 response minister, about the latest case in Auckland, and Jono asked him whether he likes the name "Hippo" (because of his last name!), have a listen to hear what he has to say about that.... All that and a bunch more yarns on today's pod!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. Here we are, the Friday podcast. We're just saying both feeling a little, how are you feeling?

You talk to me about your feelings, Ben. Oh, it's been a busy week, and I feel like an idiot saying that because we work on the radio, so there's people doing far more important and more taxing jobs than us. No one's doing more important jobs than us, Ben. Name one. You name an industry, and I'll say yes. Name one.

Or teachers. Well, yes. Name another. Doctors. Yep. I'd say people that collect the rubbers, people that work in cafes. Just anyone. Everyone is doing a far more important job than us,

but it doesn't stop me feeling a little bit tired now. What about gigolos? Oh, gee, they're the most important job in the mall, right? I mean, no one's working harder than them, I would say. Imagine being a radio-announcing gigolo. You could promote your business on air. Yeah. And then after the show, do your gigoloing.

I just love saying that word. You like that word. You're a real fan of the gigolo. I find it an amusing word. What do you do, my good sir? Well, I am a semi-professional gigolo. Here's my business card. Yeah.

There wouldn't be many gigiggalos around the traps now would there no no I don't know have you ever met one no I don't know

I wonder what the pay's like I don't know you haven't done much research or something you'd love to say no I just like the word I just like the word it'd be quite hard work though wouldn't it

yeah you seem distracted oh no I was just doing some researching it's probably not the thing to be typing into my work computer. Oh, have a look. What are they saying about the gigolos out there?

Yeah. It doesn't say how much they go. I haven't found what they're... Gigolo celery. Let's go with gigolo celery. What are we looking at? Oh, one guy here. There's an article.

$4,300 a night. What? Wow. That's US. That's US. That's US, geez. That's a New York gigolo. I mean, a Kiwi gigolo is probably, you know, be happy to pull in $300 or $400.

What are you saying? Here we go. This is an article about a New Zealand one. Well, you don't have work every night, obviously. No, yeah. According to this guy. But he does say the money is insane. One night, he did get paid $4,000 a night

to spend the night. Oh, really? Gee whiz. Well, that's impressive. We've found that out. That's really good. Some little live Googling as well. And if you're still with us,

there's a podcast still to come. Stuff we've prepared. Stuff we didn't just look up on the internet. What did we do before the internet? I don't know. What did we do before the internet I don't know what did we do before YouTube YouTube has taught me so much

yeah you're right there was a lot of I guess libraries was a thing yeah psychopedia and carta you know have on your

computer and stuff like that learning's always been a thing it is you go to books or you go and talk to people

you go oh such and such you know probably communicated more because we were around we were around when horse and carts were the main mode of transport. Oh, what a day.

No, when there weren't Google Maps. Do you remember having to navigate around when you didn't have Google Maps? Oh, a map book. Yeah. You know, you carry a map. And you relied on the goodwill of complete strangers to point you in the right direction. Yeah, who could be stitching you up? Yeah, oh, you go down there and take four, you know,

but no one ever stitched you up back in those days. No. It was an honest time in New Zealand where you asked a man on the side of State Highway 1 how to get somewhere. Or a woman. You asked someone on the side of State Highway 1 how to get somewhere,

and they pointed you in the right direction. Yeah. And you had to just remember it in your head. Oh, you got fourth. What did they say? Fourth driveway on that, yeah. Yeah, you're right. Different time.

Different time. Anyway, we were reflected. We've done a lot on the intro for the podcast and here's the podcast. The soggy cornflakes of radio. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, there's something

going around the TikTok, Juliet. The TikTok. What is on the TikTok there, Ben? No, I just like to say that for Producer Juliet just to make her feel like she's hanging out with boomers. No, but someone's put something on there

saying how they like to cook steaks. And they put the two steaks, bits of meat, into a toaster and then putting it down. Now, some people have gone, that's genius. Other people have gone, that's making me physically ill that you're putting raw meat inside a toaster. Well, it's a cooking method. It is.

It's an alternative. You wouldn't want to use what you're toasting. No, but's a cooking method. It is. It's an alternate. You wouldn't want to use what you toast in. No, but then all the steak fat would be sitting there. Anyway, I mean, there's a lot of, you know, there's many holes in the plan, but it's inventive. It's genius. People here at work, they're cooking steaks on toasted sandwiches. You know, the toasted sandwich presses.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Who needs a lunchtime office steak? Well, no, you need a breakfast one. Put it in the toaster. It brings raw steak to work. Yeah, it's a good point. But there's a lot of alternate methods for products.

I've got a friend of mine who cooks fish in the dishwasher. What? The fish washer. You put it in tinfoil, and the steam and heat that the dishwasher creates apparently cooks fish to a perfect level. Ew. This lady as well, she's done some other things as well. Now, I don't know how well they work.

She's tried to make popcorn using a hair straightener. I don't know how that works. Cook hot dogs in a tumble dryer as well, and meatballs in a coffee maker. I feel like someone can sit this lady down and just go... Hey, there's other uses for these things. You can use a frying pan. She may use a frying pan to wash her clothes.

Who knows how it works? A dangerous combination, they're just saying here. Dripping, as you said before, dripping fat in a toaster feels like that could cause a fire. So this is not recommended. I don't care if my house burns down as long as I get a few likes on TikTok. Okay, that's all.

I reckon she's not even actually doing this. Surely she's not. She's just doing it for her. Anyway. Well, you'd hope no fully developed adult... Is doing this. Yeah, a responsible person would be going, I'm going to put this in the toaster

because it could go horribly wrong. What are your alternate product uses? This is what we want this morning, okay? 0800-THE-HITS-4487. Are you using the washing machine as a bath? Are you... Yeah. Yeah, is that one?

I guess you could. Yeah. Are you using... Yeah, you could. Are you washing your clothes in the toilet? I guess you could. Yeah. Are you using... Yeah, you could. Are you washing your clothes in the toilet? I'm just throwing out options here. Or are you making food in an unusual way? We'd love to hear from you.

Of course, every caller that gets on the air this morning gets original Kiwi dip and a $50 supermarket gift card to buy some dippers. Let's go to Tessa. Welcome. How's Auckland this morning, Tessa? Oh, it's wonderful. How are you guys?

Yeah, good. Hoping to not catch COVID off you, am I right? Oh, you're so close. I'm not going to be anywhere near that nasty little bug. Yeah, no. Stay away from the downtown. That's what Chris Hipkins is saying. He's going to be joining us after 8 o'clock,

but that's not what we're talking about right now. Your alternate product uses, what have you got? Okay, well, if I sort of don't want to use my toaster sandwich machine, what I'll do is I'll get two bits of bread, butter it, put some bits of cheese in it, squish it really, really hard so that it kind of fits in the toaster, and then double toast it. Oh, in the toaster. Does the filling drip down?

And only if you put the cheese too close to the edge. If you squish the edges together, it stays in really well. So who knew the toaster was so big? I've just been putting boring toast in there. Well, that's probably the safest thing you're doing, Jono. But Tessa, I appreciate your call. We're going to give you a $50 supermarket

card as well as some original Kiwi dip as well. Yay, cool, thank you. Have a great day, all right? No, no, you should actually just be putting it in the toaster, not actually throwing it away. I don't know what that means or what that's in reference to, but okay. Thank you, Tess, love your work. Have a great day, mate.

Let's go to Brian. Welcome. How's Grey Mouth this morning, Brian? Yeah, Grey Mouth is good. I've got friends that his wife in Christchurch cleans a motel complex, and it's not uncommon to find women's underwear in the electric jug. And for what purpose? Like a wild night or just like...

They must use them, put them in to wash them, clean them. Oh, I suppose the boiling water would sanitise them. Yeah, or you could have it with a lovely cup of tea, wouldn't you? Add a bit of flavour. Yeah, it could make your coffee the next day good, couldn't it? So what, these people have put it in there, bought the jug and then forgotten they've left it in there, I guess. Possibly, yeah.

Do you know, once we were in a motel room together, Ben and me, just a wonderful night away, and I said, would you like a refreshment from the fridge? Oh, yes, I remember this. And I opened a beer for him and he was drinking it but then he was like looking at me sideways the whole time and he got halfway through it and he was looking at me strangely the whole time

and I was like, are we going to hook up? That's what I was thinking. What is this? But I read the room wrong and I was half undressed and he was like, what are you doing? And you're like, this beer tastes like water. Yeah, I was like, this is a prank. And you're like, no, I got it out.

It was one of those fridges that has the weight system, you know, where the drink goes on there and that's how you get charged after you've taken away the bottle. And someone had filled it up with water, put the lid back on.

So you drink the beer, fill it up with water, pop the lid back on. Genius. Genius. So, yeah. It's great. I love your work, Brian.

You have a wonderful weekend. Hey, that lady with the toaster. Yeah. If she puts it on the side, it's filling one drip out. Oh, Brian. The fire safety people are going to have some words with us. That's a genius. We're going to send her out some original Kiwi dip

and a $50 supermarket gift card, all right? Hey, cheers. Let's go to Blair in Hamilton. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Blair. Alternate product uses. How are you guys? Oh, we're doing well, mate. Lovely to hear from you.

Yeah, good. Hey, yeah, no, when I was in a previous life being a sparky, I was called to a estate house where the bottom oven element wasn't going in the oven to find that they'd filled the bottom of the element oven with sawdust and they were smoking fish

inside the house. Using the oven? Yeah. Oh, my God. That seems like a recipe for a fire. Yeah. So, yeah, good idea, but... Hey, the fish tasted great and that's the main thing. The house didn't last, though.

Thank you very much. Really appreciate it. Original Kiwi dip coming your way in a $50 supermarket gift card. Good work. Remember to double pump the virgals. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Joining us on the phone right now, Really appreciate it. Original Kiwi dip coming your way in a $50 supermarket gift card. Good work. Remember to double pump the Virgals. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Joining us on the phone right now, we thank him very much for his time,

the COVID response minister, Chris Hipkins. How are you this morning? I'm not too bad, thanks, guys. How are you? Lovely to hear from you, Chris. I've seen you on television in the studio. You've been on TV more times than us. Well, our career's pretty much over, but you're doing great stuff on TV. Oh, look, you should never underestimate

the importance of radio, guys. You're doing a great job there. Hey, don't be talking down to us with your patronising, don't you, your little radio show. Chris Hipkins, it's lovely to hear, but we've never spoken to you before, but seen you so many times on television lately,

and it's probably a bit more than you actually probably want to be on TV. But this latest outbreak, I don't know if you'd call it an outbreak, this latest case in Auckland, where are we at? What do the people need to do? Over to you, Chris Hipkins. So what we're asking people to do today is minimise your movements in and out of the CBD. So don't go into town if you don't need to.

Work from home if you can. If you do have to go into town, wear a mask, just do those precautionary things while we make sure we're joining all the dots here. So our case investigation is trying to identify exactly how this young woman came into contact with the virus, how she ended up getting it. We've got some good evidence so far.

It's looking reasonably promising that we'll be able to isolate that this morning or later on today. If we can do that then hopefully we can avoid having to escalate alert levels. So there looks like there may be a possible connection to the November Defence Force case, is that right? Yeah, so that's looking like it's the likely source of the infection. Exactly how they came to get it is the bit that we're still working on. So we've still got a bit to do there. There's still the genomic

sequencing to be finalised. We've got a preliminary result, but the science takes a little bit of time to piece it together. And then we should have some of that, or at least more of that information later on this morning. I think we can all agree, some priceless marketing for the A to Z collection shop in High Street, Chris.

There was obviously some dispute around the manager telling the lady to come into work when she was still awaiting the results of her COVID test. Have you found out what happened there and is there anything you want to say to the people who are going in on the shop owners online? Look, I think what I would say is

there's no need for vigilante justice here, but my message to all employers is if people ring in sick, you know, encourage them to stay home. And if it's related to COVID-19, there's additional financial support available to businesses in that situation. So, you know, take up that financial support. But at the end of the day, we don't want sick people at work.

We want them to stay home, even if it's not COVID-19, even if it's just cold or flu or whatever else it is, stay home and don't spread your germs around. And we want employers to be supporting there. Well, it sounds like they've said that they didn't tell her to come on in. So yeah, but as you say, either way, no matter what happens,

I mean, everyone should kind of just stick to their own business, right? And be kind to everyone. Because right now, that's kind of what we need as well as being safe and sensible. That's right. And New Zealanders have done such a good job. You know, we've stayed calm.

We've done what we need to do when we need to do it. We've been kind to one another. Let's continue in that spirit. There's a lot of goodwill out there, so let's keep that goodwill going. Oh, but I love getting my pitchforks out, Chris. No, don't. You can't. You know I love a classic Kiwi pitchfork.

No. Witch hunt. No. Can I just talk to you about masks? Because we've been travelling around the country this week quite a bit. And for the most part, no one is wearing masks. Especially like we're on a plane and stuff like that. Yesterday we flew back from somewhere and we were probably the only

three people on the plane in our party that was wearing it. I know it's not the law, but it feels like maybe we should just make it the law. I felt like an absolute loser wearing a mask, but we did it anyway. What is your advice to New Zealand about masks? Certainly in Auckland, on public transport,

if you're in spaces where physical distancing isn't possible, please wear a mask. If you're flying in and out of Auckland, please wear a mask. We are going to have another look again at the overall rules around masks. Some places are more risky than others. So where there's clearly, it's really, really unlikely that we're likely to see any COVID cases, we might not ask you to wear a mask on public transport there. But in places like Auckland,

potentially Wellington, Christchurch, we're going to have another look at that, see whether or not we should have, you know, more of a mask wearing regime than we do at the moment. Is Auckland going to go into a lockdown, Chris? Look, at this point, if we can get all of the pieces of the puzzle assembled quickly,

we're doing everything that we can to try and avoid that. Okay, and do you think this is going to be the new normal, to use the phrase that's used quite a lot, that these sort of cases will sort of pop up from time to time until the vaccine is out and it's spread around the community in a good way? Yeah, look, I think we are dealing with a new normal. You're quite right there. And we've got to get used to being able to respond quickly, not panic, just respond quickly,

lock it down where we need to, make sure we're isolating the virus, giving it nowhere to go. The faster we can do that, then obviously the less likely we have to do more widespread lockdowns. You're doing a fantastic job yourself and Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Chris Hipkins.

And can I just say, we watch you on television all the time and I gave you a nickname, but these guys are saying it's not a flattering nickname and I want to pitch it to you to see if we can call you this nickname from now on in future meetings.

Okay, yeah. I'm waiting with some trepidation here. Yeah, I feel like, okay, as soon as you say it, it's not flattering. It's still with his name. It's with your surname. So your surname's Chris Hipkins, and we call you, I call you the Hippo.

Right? Do you like? We're like, well, that doesn't sound very flattering. You think no one wants to be there. Does the Hippo work for you, Chris? I can cease calling you it. Well, look, I know I've been eating a few pies lately, but I'm not sure it's quite gone that bad yet.

Oh, no, it wasn't me to fat shame. I just want... Anyway, okay. See, this is why I said this. This is the problem with the name, John. It's the fact you've got to go, well, it's not to do with appearances. You're to do with the...

The sooner. Anyway, so it didn't land with Chris. That's fine. I'll go back to the drawing board, Chris Hipkins. No worries, guys. Look, I'm going to go and have a salad for breakfast. Love your work, mate. You have a great day.

See you, mate. Cheers, guys. Serving bowls of lolls for breakfast. Actual lolls may not be served. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. It's Keith Urban with Pink. One too many, it is the hits. Jono and Ben, 6.40 the time.

Hey, I figured out what that word was. Thanks to you, Ben, who told me during that Keith Urban and Pink, one too many it is. The hits, Jono and Ben, 6.40 the time. Hey, I figured out what that word was. Thanks to you, Ben, who told me during that Keith Urban and Pink song. The term I was looking for was an urban myth. I wanted to confirm or deny an urban myth with a police officer that I met yesterday. There's a story going around the traps, and I don't know if you've heard it, that one evening there was a drink driving stop on the road. Right. And a gentleman pulled up in his car and he's like,

uh-oh, this is one test I'm probably not going to pass. Right. And he's in the line-up of vehicles to be tested. At this point, he's like, what can I do, what can I do? So he panics. He gets out of the car, dives into a giant pond, a lake. Oh, so it was next to that. It was next to a lake which was next

to the road and proceeds to swim across the lake to escape. And that was his plan. His drunken plan? His drunken plan. Unfortunately for him, what he hadn't figured out is that it was quite obvious that his car was empty sitting in the middle of the road and the police were obviously like

where's this driver gone and then they saw a person swimming and so they met him over the other side of the lake and they were like hey good try and I appreciate the effort and he's like oh you ain't going away you gotta give it a go, God loves a try but you know what it turned out to be

was and I was just wanting to confirm if it was me that night because I couldn't remember. No. The rumour I heard is it turned out to be a sewage treatment pond. Oh, no. A waste stabilisation pond, which out of all the ponds, that's the worst one you want to go swimming in.

Oh, yeah. I know there's some wonderful swimming locations around New Zealand. I've never seen that on TripAdvisor. So he swam. It's enormous. The one is enormous. Like he would have been swimming for at least 15 to 20 minutes to make the other sides.

It's just swimming through waste and people's. And then the police had to tell him. They were like, mate, you know, bad news, A we got you, but B, do you know what you've just been swimming in? So it was legit, it wasn't an urban myth? No, he was like, I've heard this rumour as well he was new to the force and he's like, what I'll do

is I'll get your number, I'll do some digging and see if this actually happened or not to confirm or deny it, but you know once you've done that, you'd be like, he's been through enough punishment, does he need to go through the court system? The police would have been like, ooh, handcuffing him and putting him in the car. Do we want to hose him down before putting him

in the back of the car or what? Just leave him. Just let him to walk home. Can you meet us at the police station? Eggs for breakfast. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. This is very exciting. The Manuka Doctor All-Star Celeb Slam.

It's happening with a heap of great celebrities as well as some of the Breakers players. It's happening Thursday, November 26th, Spark Arena. Tickets? Hey, Spark Arena. Tickets available at ticketmaster.co.nz. And Maya Wilson joins us, you know her from the Silver Ferns. And now you're turned basketballer for the day.

Yeah, I think it's quite exciting. I used to play back in the day. So basically it's for a great cause. So why not get involved? Yeah, I think it's quite exciting. I used to play back in the day, so basically it's for a great cause, so why not get involved? Yeah, well, so you're obviously a shooter, a netball, you golf shoot. Do those skills transfer over to basketball as far as the netball shooting and basketball goes? Yeah, similar.

I had some fair experience in my high schooling days where I'd come back to netball and I'd airball it because the netball is a lot lighter than the basketball. I would have thought shooting a ball into a netball hoop would be five times harder than a basketball hoop. You've got the backboard.

Well, yes and no. I don't know who I am to say that. Are you a former basketball player yourself? I didn't want to get into this. Yeah, it is a bit different, but it's more the weight of the ball and it's a different shooting technique. There's some wonderful people playing. Now, what I have seen of it on the news,

I've seen ex-party leader David Seymour. Yes. He's so good that he's just giving it a cracker. I love him, mate. I think the spirit of him, I give it up to people who may not be athletes and they're just coming in to have a bit of a fun and throw a ball. He's probably a better dancer than basketballer.

He's quite better. He's quite bouncy on the court, isn't he? Quite a bouncy technique. Unorthodox. And I wouldn't say he's the tallest tool in the shed so, you know, got to give it to some of these fellas. I think they're going to really enjoy it. Have you seen on there the celebs that

you're like, oh, they might be quite good on the or even from other sports. I mean, you've got Roger, two of us to share. He's a great league player. I'm sure he'll be handy on the basketball court. Yeah, and I think it's quite funny because Roger and his brother Johnny are on two different teams.

So I think that's going to be quite cool to see. Also, you know, I'm playing against someone that I idolised growing up, Iron Van Dyke. I think that's going to be quite cool. Take her down, mate. Take her down. Don't care if she's your idol. Age is on my side. Take the old duck down.

Exactly. But she's got fitness, so we'll see how we go on that end. Now, my Silver Ferns, you've been on fire lately, so congratulations. Now, what we wanted to do is play a little bit of a game. Oh, goodness. I see that bucket over there. Silver Ferns or Silver Burns. Yeah,

so what's happened apparently, there's the names of some Silver Ferns players in there or past or present players. Yeah. If you pull one of their names out, you have to say something nice about them. Oh, great. But there's also some Silver Burns. They're basically burns on us that they've found apparently on us on the internet. So you just have to read that out. Silver Ferns or

Silver Burns with Maya Wilson. Silver Fern. What have you got? Oh, it looks like you've pulled out a burn on us. It says a lot about Jono and Ben being the two least talented cast members on a TV show full of dogs. Ooh. Ooh.

That's a bit shady. That was a good burn. That was a good burn. Okay, she's gone back in the box again. Laura Langman, the goat of New Zealand football. She's amazing, eh? She's such a great player. She's had the most epic career and to see where she's going back in the box again. Laura Langman, the GOAT of New Zealand. She's amazing, eh? She's such a great player. She's had the most epic career.

And to see where she's going, I think. She's someone who suggested a triathlon back in the day for a friend's camp. Thank goodness I was not in that. We talked to her and she was on her honeymoon in Hawaii and she was getting up and running every morning and still training. Oh, she's insane. She said, for training, you guys should do a triathlon. Were you all like, no, no, shh, language.

Yeah, luckily I wasn't in the squad back then. I was still at school. But she even took them to run at hay bales back in the day when we used to do a full week on camp. So thank goodness all those kooky ideas are gone. Yeah, like not anymore, mate, not anymore. How about we just run around the netball court for an hour or so? Check the ball around.

Okay, silver ferns or silver burns with Maya Wilson. She's got to say something nice about a silver fern or read out a silver burn on us two. Okay, what have we got next? Another silver burn. Come on, we'll take it on the chin. On the radio, Jono and Ben have somehow managed to successfully put the letter S

at the start of the word hits. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! That's hot! Maya Wilson, she's playing in the Manuka Doctor All-Star Celeb Slam

at Spark Arena at Spark Arena Thursday, November 26th. Also, net proceeds go to Starship as well,

which is a really cool thing to do. So get along, see them, tickets at ticketmaster.co.nz. Sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun.

Yeah, heaps of fun. Bring the whanau and just enjoy some celebrities having a go at trying to be professional basketballers. And David Seymour. And David Seymour. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I love David Seymour. Oh, Ashburn or Seymour.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Share a Coke with Jono and Ben on the Good Buggers Tour. I love that happy lady. She is very happy. Now we've added more popular Kiwi slang to the sides of the Coke cans. Nicknames like Mum's

Fave, Good Sort. Princess. I got a Princess can yesterday. Diva. I was trying to give you the Diva one. But I'm a princess, not a diva, Ben. Good Buggers, Hardcase. And we've been catching up with some good buggers as we just mentioned before.

Some amazing people doing some incredible things in New Zealand. Yeah, it's been a really, it's been a fun week to meet all these wonderful Kiwis. And yesterday

we went to Blenheim, which by the way, as we were leaving, Ben, I thought we need to go back there and have a day called Benham for the party.

Yeah, we rebranded Blenheim. It's a boy street too, I saw it. It's made for you. I didn't get a photo because we were... Next time. Next time. Next time.

Yeah, we'll do it next time. It'll be Benham, my friend. So we went to the F45 gymnasium. People far better looking and far fitter than us two. And a very special event took place last weekend, didn't it? Yeah. With Nate. And we spoke to Amy, who runs the F45,

and she explained what exactly went on when Nate was doing this special event. So on the weekend, Nate decided we would do 10,000 burpees to raise money for breast cancer. 10,000? What did 10,000 burpees take? I think 33 hours. 33 hours?

Yeah. And these are for, like like chest to fore burpees with a little jump at the end? Yeah, a little jump and hands over your head. I was doing a lot of burpees on the weekend as well. Seven Heinekens are you drunk I think. Is that what you're trying to beat yourself at, gag or not? I do often have to burp you at work too.

You look like a big baby as well. I do get a bit gassy. But that is wild. Yeah. What's the F stand for? Like fricking hard workout? Okay. Okay. 45. but that is wild yeah what's the F stand for? like fricking hard workout or what's okay okay the 45 45 minutes oh f***

down okay bit of bants eh guys bit of bants and then we were waiting around for Nate to arrive because we were

going to surprise him and you decided to blend in at the F45 well I was just asked to in there so I didn't want him to come in and be like oh you guys so I just wanted to yeah blend in at the F45. Well, I was just asked to in there, so I didn't want him to come in and be like, oh, you guys, so I just wanted to, yeah, blend in with the environment.

Shall I be lifting weights? And Nate's about to arrive, and he doesn't know that we're here. Everyone's left us in the room right now. Yeah. We're at the F45 gym in Blenheim. I'm struggling to do bicep curls with 1.25 kg pounds. No, you're kind of embarrassing us

in front of the fit people. Just working out. Just working out. What were you the fit people. Just working out. Just working out. What were you going to say? Just two guys working out. Okay. I was going to say two guys working out.

Just two guys working out. I'm trying to work out what we're going to do. That's what I'm trying to work. I don't know what you're doing. Why don't you do some squats while I'm doing this? I can do squats if you want. I was trying to work out a plan when he arrives, but you're more concerned about your cardiovascular work. And then we discovered he was still a few more minutes away,

so we put the weights down and we talked to Loza who had also got involved in this wonderful thing that Nate had done to not only raise money for his mum who has breast cancer but also for breast cancer

research as well. Now Loza's here as well. Now you did the burpees over the weekend as well and you ended up in hospital. I did, yep. Did the 5K on the Saturday and then went downhill

from there. So what happened? Just was really dehydrated, couldn't keep any water in, pretty much. Yeah, went up at like four in the morning and yeah, they told me I had rhabdo, which is like when your muscles break down and because you're so dehydrated

and your kidneys can't process it. Oh, jeez. Rhabdo doesn't even sound, like the name doesn't even sound. Doesn't even sound like a real thing. No, it doesn't. It sounds like something you'd catch on Love Island. I promise it's real.

Oh you poor thing. But you're back here now? You're back here the next day? Yeah. Get down and give me ten. Is that what you say? Not quite. It's like the military. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. Nate's about to make his way into the year 45 gymnasium Ben.

If I can paint a picture, there's a big glass door and he's going to walk through it. Not through the door, but not like... He's so strong, he could though. He could though, he could shatter the glass. Three, two, one. Yeah! Nate!

Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! He's very confused. Oh, he's going to do a burpee. Don't do a burpee. No, jeez. Hey, mate. Hey, Ben, no, no, no. He's very confused. Oh, he's going to do a burpee. Don't do a burpee. No, jeez.

Hey, mate. Hey, Ben, how you doing? Yeah, mate. Good, mate. Nice to meet you, mate. How are you? How amazing is this? We're from the Hits Radio station.

We spoke to you before you went on this crazy adventure. I know, right. And you did it in the weekend. I know, yeah. It's amazing, eh? How are you feeling? Pretty rough. So how did you get through it?

Like, mentally, that must be, and physically, obviously, so tough. Yeah, I don't know. The Saturday was tough. Like, and the Sunday was just killing. I was just absolutely so sore. And it was really tough to hang on for another 5,000. It was like another 17 hours on the Sunday. Gee whiz.

And you did this all in aid of your mother? Yeah. What's going on there? So she's got breast cancer. So she's got breast cancer, so she's going through all the treatment on there at the moment. So she's got six months' worth of treatment. And she's coming towards the end, but she's really weak. And when I saw her on the webcam,

she was on the webcam whilst I was doing the burpees, she was so weak and I was so weak, and we just kind of just stared at each other, and we were like, yeah, it was a real big moment there. Well, you've done a very special thing, not only for your mother, but for everyone who's going through breast cancer. And so we're going to share a Coke with you, my friend. We're also going to give you on behalf of the hits, $500 for you because you have been nominated as a good bugger in the community for what you've done.

Thank you so much, guys. It's unbelievable. Nate's a good bugger! Nate's a good bugger! Nate's a good bugger! Hey, well done, mate, and love your work. I love it. Thanks, guys, so much. No, it was awesome. Give it up for Nate, ladies and gentlemen.

That was Nate. Incredible. I can't believe he did that many burpees over that long a time. He still can't walk properly. No, the poor guy. But he is a good bugger, and thanks so much to Coke. It's been a wonderful journey

over the last few days meeting some incredible New Zealanders. I can't walk properly after those two squats we did yesterday. Just like a chocolate milkshake, only white and disappointing. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Lowfare Rideshare is finally here with DeeDee. Had a fun week doing this DeeDee Rideshare cash car thing, haven't we? That's right.

The DeeDee cash car's been travelling around New Zealand. People have registered at the hitstock.nz. If it parks outside your place and we give you the word, you've got 60 seconds to run out there, get inside the car, limbo under a stick for some reason, get inside the car, 60 seconds, and you'll get $500 cash. Yeah, no, well, the reason for the limbo, the stick limbo, is because their rideshare prices are so low, Ben,

that you wouldn't get any lower than a limbo stick my friend. No. It might seem like a little unnecessary hurdle Makes sense now you've explained it to me on day five. I mean the clock's already ticking down do you need a 10 second limbo? It makes it also tougher to get into the car. DD is of course priced up to 10% lower than

other comparable ride share services it's in Auckland right now launching into other regions very soon. We've given out so much cash, ironically, we've got no money to actually fill up the cash card now. So we're just going to leave it on the side of the road and burn it. But joining us right now from Tauranga, wonderful Brayden.

Welcome from the hits, Brayden. Hey guys, how you doing? Oh, we're doing well. I said welcome from the hits, which made it sound like you didn't work for the hits. What I was trying to say is Brayden's from the hits in Tauranga. How's Tauranga this morning,

my friend? It is shaping up to be a beautiful day down here. Oh, lovely down there, Mount Maunganui and all. A lot of traffic, though, I notice.

It's been busy, yeah. Yeah, because a lot of Auckland is moving to Tauranga, aren't they? Yeah. Driving up the house prices. Damn Aucklanders! What sort of random

I don't know what you're doing right now. Like an old man rant. Anyway, we're outside someone's house. We just want to give away some money. That's all this is about. Describe the house, Brayden. So these people have got some beautiful gardens going on. It's a little cottage.

Okay, we'll stop there. A little cottage. Well, we have given away a lot of cash during the week and there has been some high drama before we find out more where Brayden is. We went to Invercargill. She's getting out of her jammers. No time to change.

She's racing. She's got about five seconds. Come on. Invercargill for $1,000. Is she there? Yes, she is and she's in the car. And, whoo! No, you can't say those words. Some blasphemy there in Invercargill,

and then Hamilton during the week as well. 20 seconds left on the clock, Felix. Any movement? We're not seeing anything right now. I'm feeling quite stressed. This is devastating. We're getting no answer on the phone. There's no one running out, and there's the timer up.

So there's been some high drama, highs and lows, and we go back to Brayden and Tauranga. You mentioned you're outside a cottage. I sure am. Okay, some further clues, Brayden. As soon as you hand out that name, we'll start the 60-second timer for the DD cash card. Any more clues, Braden?

Have you got a name, Braden? We're going to have to restart the clock, I think. Have we got a name there, Braden? The person whose house you're outside? Yep, it's Charlie Donnell. Charlie Donnell. Now start the timer. Charlie Donnell living in a lovely cottage in Tauranga. I do appreciate

a cottage. They're pretty, aren't they? Very pretty. Generally, do appreciate a cottage. They're all pretty, aren't they? Very pretty. Generally, they've got the nice deck out the front, don't they? With the sun soaks on. Just sit out there smoking, yeah. Or whatever you smoke, Ben. I don't know. I know what way you voted in the referendum.

Any sign of any life there, Braden? We've got some movement in the driveway. Oh, movement in the driveway. Oh, this is promising. The dogs have come out. The dogs coming out for the cash. He's about to jump in the driveway. Oh, this is promising. The dog's coming out for the cash. Okay. She's going into the...

Are we in? No! Well done, Charlie. Hand us over, Brayden. Charlie, well done. You made it to the car. You got $500. Oh, I'm so excited.

Thank you so much. You're welcome. What were you doing in the house when this happened? Listening to you guys. Oh, that's good. Yeah. All right. Well, listen, you came.

What are you wearing? Not in a weird way. No, I'm in my gym gear because I just got back from the gym. Just from the gym. There we go. That's great. Ben's trying to paint me out to be some sort of... Oh, you painted yourself?

By asking Charlie what she's wearing. Some sort of pervert. Yeah, pay a lot more on 0900 for that sort of conversation, Johnny. I was just wondering if she was ready for the day or not. Anyway, it was above board, but now it's gone on to an odd place. Hey, Charlie, lovely to hear from you. Well done,

and thank you so much for listening to the show. $500, what a way to start the weekend. That's amazing. Thank you so much, guys. Enjoy. We really do appreciate you listening to the show,

as Jono said, and it's all thanks to DD right now. Download the app. Launching in Auckland, the lower fare ride share option. Hey,

you've got toothpaste on the side of your mouth. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. Spy. Know what's up? Spy.co.nz. Here comes producer Juliette with a bulletin featuring all the people who are hotter than the rest of us.

Come on in, Jew, with Spy. Thanks very much. So, Ellen DeGeneres, aka who I like to call Evil Ellen. I'd just like to make a statement. I don't think she's necessarily that evil. It's just a little persona I like to put on that I don't like her. But I'm sure she's an okay-ish person.

Yeah, no. I mean, we like to have fun, don't we, and say she's an absolute animal. Well, you guys do. Yeah, Ben's always like, stop being mean to Ellen. Well, I feel like in the grand scheme of things, I don't know what she has done personally that, you know, maybe she was a bit, yeah, like cold towards people. I like her a lot more with her new haircut.

Oh, it looks so slick back, doesn't it? Yeah, it makes her look 50% less evil. Yeah, she looks identical to her partner now. Yeah. Don't you, Portia? With the slick back hair. Yeah, anyway, so what's this animal done now? Evil Ellen.

She has released for Christmas some Be Kind gift boxes. Of course she has. What's in them? Asbestos? Anthrax? So obviously Be Kind is her kind of statement that she's run with throughout her career. So it's worth $270.

And she's charging $900. No. She is almost making up for the fact that she's Evil Ellen and putting it up for sale for only $55. Oh, that's lovely. It's lovely. Oh, here we go. But.

What's wrong? I knew there was a but. There's nothing in the boxes. She's making up for the fact that she's evil. No, anyway. But, but, but, but, but, there's a but. Customers who have ordered these Be Kind boxes aren't actually impressed. So it comes with all of Alan's favourite things.

And so there's a pair of headphones that are in there. A book on workplace bullying. Headphones so you can ignore people. Why am I getting involved? Another how-to never to smile. People are saying that they've been charged twice for the boxes. Their boxes aren't arriving. The things aren't working. They're faulty. And everyone is

just going to town on Ellen. This is champagne, Ellen. This is champagne. We shouldn't be surprised. She's probably doing it as a joke. These people think they're getting Christmas presents. But in the big scheme of things, and Ben, you'll probably agree with me on this. I feel like I'm just taking both sides here.

But she's probably not responsible for, you know, the headphones breaking and people not getting their orders. She's just the face behind it all, you know? That's right. She's just trying to do a good thing. And the world is just waiting on Edge to go in on her every time she slips up. Exactly. Yeah. And we shouldn't.

We should stop. Okay, from now on, only positive Ellen news on this program. Oh, I like that. From this day forward. Yeah, Ben. I'm not talking about you, Ben. I'm kidding. Only positive Ellen news, which means you won't be hearing from Ellen on this program

for at least two to five years. Love you, Ellen. I don't want to talk to Ellen. I'm not talking about her anymore. And that's fine. You can go to the hits if you want more. New Zealand's breakfast. Just don't eat them.

They're chewy. It's Jotter and Ben on the hits. Now, I'm not known, Jotter, for my handy skills. No, a handsy man. Not a handy man. Yeah, here we go. I'motto, for my handy skills. No, a handsy man. Not a handy man. Yeah, here we go. I'm probably more known for my Japanese cherry blossom hand sanitizer, the smell of that, according to Harriet.

Yeah, it's wonderful. Harriet works in the office and she's like, every time I walk into the studio, it smells like a cool charm, like a 14-year-old girl's bedroom. Who's wearing cool charms? It's like me and also it's my hand sanitizer as well. Yeah, but you smell magnificent. Oh, thank you.

I could smell your hands all day. But yeah, like a handy person is not me. I can't do anything practical as far as that goes. We talked about this before. It's like I've called in a higher hubby. It's happened before. I'm putting up pictures and I'm not, you know. And I talked to the guy.

I made him a cup of tea, had a nice little yarn while he did all the things that I probably should know how to do. Because my wife, she's very good at that sort of stuff. She's got a tool belt, toolbox, all that sort of stuff. Yeah, Ben the Builder, can he fix it? Probably not. No, no, he doesn't have the skills, but he'll call hire a hubby.

Yeah, well, my wife, she's really good at that sort of stuff. Amanda is very handy. Yeah. Yeah. Why does that sound weird? It sounds weird. It shouldn't sound weird i know but she is yeah i've seen her out there painting the fence oh she's doing all sorts of stuff but then i'll be inside making lunches for the kids and stuff you know that's fine this is what it's 2020 yeah exactly that's right you're still contributing to that is it important stuff who's to say so we're all equally important they're all stuff that needs

to be done and we're all doing what we can do. That's right. I'm not handy either. I'm acting, I'm sitting here all high and mighty. I'm not. I'm the same as you. I have to call people in. I've got a couple of friends that are handy,

and one of them was over in the weekend, and I had, you know, they send them around. You can get them from stores like Typo and things like that, and Kmart. They're light boxes, like square things, and you put letters up on them. You can write little things and they have a light projected behind them

so you can have them in your thing and you can put like, be kind or like, Merry Christmas or whatever you want. Like funny little messages. We use one in the family and it lights up in behind it. Does the novelty of that wear off quite quickly? I imagine that you're like,

oh, the admin of having to... Well, it's not like you have to change it daily. What's up there now? How long has it been up there? Merry Christmas 2018. Oh, it's Sienna's birthday. So that was a week ago. So you're like, oh, the admin of having to. Well, it's not like you have to change it daily. What's up there now? How long has it been up there? Merry Christmas, 2028. Oh, it's Sienna's birthday. So that was a week ago. So you're right.

One of the daughter's birthdays is still up there. So right, we probably need to update that. But it's like the lights stopped working. And I'm like, this thing's broken. And I had a look. The man is like, have a look at it. And I had a look at it. And I was like, it's broken.

I've like, I looked at it. I feel like. Throw it out. The electric. I'm like, the electric. Man, the electric is screwed. I've had a look at it. It's not good. She's like, do I need to look at it? I'm like, I looked at it. I feel like the electrics are screwed. I've had a look at it. It's not good.

She's like, do I need to look at it? I'm like, no, you don't. I've got it sorted. The electrics. The electrics are screwed. I've seen electrics and these ones, they are not working. Take my word for it. So I had it by the door.

I was like, oh, I'm going to have to get rid of this. And then my mate who came over is quite a handy person. He's like, oh, what are you doing with this? I said, oh, the electrics. Take my word for it. They're screwed, mate. The electrics are screwed. Take a look at them. Do you want me to have a look at them? I said've had a look at that the electrics are screwed it's all good trust me he goes oh no i'll have a little look at up here now

because that part of you is like going oh yeah so he did have a look at it you know what was the batteries are flat i don't even know there were batteries for this thing but the batteries inside just needed it's like just put I was like I've got it fixed I was like what did you do? I just put new batteries in the thing it's got like a battery thing at the end of it I'm like oh god I don't need this don't tell anyone it's screwed

please tell my wife that you rewired the electrics because I was screwed I'd seen it you'd seen it took at least 5 hours I'm like oh my god how did I not notice that? But anyway, it's not my thing. No. It's not my thing.

I mean, you'll be out there, you've got your cherry blossom hands. Making my clean hands and making lunches for everyone. And I tell you what, those cherry blossom hands, they're not designed to fix things. I tell you what, they're designed to make a sandwich, that's for sure. Morning. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben Voice Productions Limited proudly presents

Jono Fryer's Worst Moment of the Week. Easily becoming my favourite segment of the show where I get to reflect back at some of the low points from my fellow co-host, Jono Fryer. Yeah, I do. See, he can't even talk about all the dastardly things I've done off here. These are just on here.

When are we going to focus on your faux pas just for one week? Oh, mate, you give me enough grief throughout the show. This is like his little revenge. His passive aggressive revenge. I get a chance

to look into these and it started when we were talking. Can I just ask you because you pick out my worst moments of the week. Do you mentally just bank them in your head

do they as they happen? Oh there's quite a lot. We have quite intensive meetings around it. There's about four or five of us come in and we're like it just takes quite a while because we're like hundreds and hundreds of things on the board

and we have to whittle them down. So really, you make it tough on us. Is there a spreadsheet? There's so many options. Secret. This segment could be the show. I mean, in fact, it is the show. It is.

Jason Momoa, actor, he's Aquaman. He's in Game of Thrones. And yeah, we were talking about him and this is what he had to say. Jason Momoa, he's obviously one of the big Hollywood actors these days. He's married to Lenny Kravitz's daughter, isn't he? Zoe Kravitz? No, he's married to Lisa Bonet, who's Zoe Kravitz's mum.

Oh, so it'd be weird if he was married to his daughter. So he's married to her mum. It makes a lot more sense. Who used to be with Lenny Kravitz. It does make a lot more mum. Yes. It makes a lot more sense. Who used to be with Lenny Kravitz. It does make a lot more sense. But then now I'm even more confused. Just to follow on from that, is Zoe Kravitz Lenny's daughter?

Yes. Because all the way through that, I thought I was talking about Jason marrying his own daughter. No, it's his stepdaughter. Yeah, okay. No, still getting to her. Now I'm up to speed on that one, four days later. The top twins, legendary top twinsins joined us in the studio,

and here's what happened. Our life has always been really positive, because it's about making people happy. Well, you do a good job of that. We make people embarrassed. I wouldn't agree with that. There's room for that. And you are really good at it.

It's true. Burned by the Top Twins, two-prong attack there. Yeah, it was pretty impressive. It's almost like a badge of honour, getting burned by the Top Twins, isn't it? Yeah, put that on my grave. Was burned by the Top Twins. Two-prong attack there. Yeah, it was pretty impressive. It was almost like a badge of honour getting burned by the Top Twins. Yeah, put that on my grave. Was burned by the Top Twins. Yeah. Now, we have been sharing a Coca-Cola around the country

with some amazing people in the community, and we went to a police station and met Lyle, who's doing some great work at Charity Drive to try and get some presents for underprivileged kids this Christmas. And, again, Jono, here you open your big fat mouth. And then yesterday, Ben Boyce, it was back for you to the police station. And you think a police station's probably the last place

you want to turn up with a bunch of coke, but we did. Yeah, I see what you did there. Big fat mouth, I see what I did there. We can't even talk further about that. No, it's best to move on, isn't it? Yeah, Julia Hartney you did there. Big fan, man. I see what I did there. We can't even talk further about that. No, it's best to move on. Yeah, Julia Hartney-Moore is amazing. She's the private investigator. I really enjoyed catching up with her this week.

And, well, yeah, this is not what she does for a job, Jono. We've investigated a private investigator. And not an investigator of privates. That's a completely different job. That's what Ben does. Oh, yeah, see, always the slander with me. No. That's what Ben does after this show. Oh, yes, he's always the slander with me.

There was more slander during that same conversation. First one, he's secretive about his phone. Yep, that is a classic sign. So would you suggest

everyone gets a burner phone like Ben has? Just, and I'm sorry, mate. You don't deserve it. It's all just made up, made up mud

being slung all over your name and you don't deserve it. It's all just made up mud being slung all over your name and you don't deserve it. So that's why I do this segment, to get a little bit of retaliation throughout the week. And I enjoy this. I was trying to apologise to you in a heartfelt apology so we didn't have to do this again. Do you accept my apology?

No, because I like doing this segment. And that was Jono's worst moments of the week. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Producer Juliet, you're off to Christchurch. I am tonight. It's actually my first flight since February.

Oh, right. Now you're going there because my mum just texted me too. Annie Pryor giving us some sense of daily local information from St Albans there in Christchurch. FYI, it's Canterbury anniversary day today. It's a holiday. Usually it's called Show Day, but not happening this year due to COVID.

It's a glorious day here. Hope you go well. Lots of love. Don't forget to breathe properly. Thank you. And she's always on about my breathing. Oh, really? She's concerned about breathing, even breathing.

I don't know why. What are you doing? What are you doing? I don't know. She thinks I'm a bit like... You do that little that drives him crazy I breathe through my nose

just a little constant actually yeah he does how did you say that once it gets in your head you're like let's do it again let's do it again

and he's like sorry for breathing yeah I'm sorry for the doing the basic human function of breathing it's like you can't even breathe quietly you've got to make that into something that we all look at you at.

You know, it's like the one thing that most people do that no one ever gets attention. You're like, look at me, guys. I'm breathing. Look at me, I'm breathing. It's like we're all doing it. We're all doing it. It's not about us bickering.

Hey, we'll sort this out. We've got therapy on Thursday night. Let's sort it out next week. Oh, yeah, I'm looking forward to that. I thought we had a good session last night. It was good. It was awesome. I've undone a Thursday nights. We'll sort it out next week. I thought we had a good session last night. It was good. It was positive.

I've undone a lot of things. How great were you? Anyway, what we're heading to is Canterbury Big Weekend and you're going there to, what are you doing, Juliet?

Because I'm worried for your safety and I'm worried for the safety of Christchurch in general. Well, yes, I'm going to the races tomorrow which is something that

I've gone to for the last five years and it's the greatest day of the year, I reckon. It's just a, which is something that I've gone to for the last five years, and it's the greatest day of the year, I reckon. It's just a big old... It's a lot of fun, eh? Oh, so much fun. Christchurch races, of course. Is there any point in even us trying to interact with you on Monday morning?

Like, is there any point in us seeing you or you coming in? I'll probably just look like a shell of a human being, and I'll probably speak two words, and that'll be it. Okay, what we want to do is want to throw this open. Juliet is heading off what we believe is do is want to throw this open. Juliet is heading off. What we believe is probably the best weekend for the show. Yeah, absolutely. None of us can beat it.

No, not at all. So we want to throw it out to you. Do you think you're going to have the best weekend this weekend in New Zealand? 0800, that's the number. You can text 24487. Let's welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Lisa live from Auckland Airport. Come on in, Lisa.

Good morning. How are you? I'm good, how are you? I'm good. How are you? Yeah, good. What are you doing? Why are you going to have the best weekend? Because I'm going to Christchurch for my 10th wedding anniversary.

Oh, awesome. And this has been in the planning since pre-COVID. Oh, so this is a long runway to the weekend. Gee, you're going to get up to some wild stuff. What are you going to do for your anniversary? Oh, we've got lots of stuff planned. Messages and going on those hunting boat things. And also, I'm going to go to Speedway tomorrow night. Oh, we've got lots of stuff planned. Messages and going on those hunting boat things and also...

It's beautiful. ...hunting guide speedway tomorrow night. Oh, my gosh. This is action-packed. Yeah. You might see... Now, just beware. Producer Juliette is going to be down there at the races.

She'll be surrounded by a hurricane of devastation and millennials. I'm worried about the flight home. Oh, yeah. If you see someone looking like a ghost, that'll be me. Well, enjoy your 10th wedding anniversary Congratulations, thank you for calling And we're going to give you some original Kiwi dip

And a $50 supermarket gift card Oh awesome, thank you Good, you as the 10 year anniversary of the best weekend We'll find out, we'll go to Patrick who's in Taranaki Best weekend, Paddy, what is it? It's my 7th and 12th birthday So have a bit of a shim day for him, eat lots of

real good food for you and probably end up going Pokemon hunting. Pokemon hunting. Overdose on Cheerios or something and go Pokemon hunting. I haven't been Pokemon hunting in years. You're still hunting the Pokemon. Yeah mate, sure I am. We go every weekend with him so

might have to go for a bit longer Since it's his birthday Oh good on you With his stepson 12th birthday Patrick That's a good weekend And of course

Everyone that calls As I said I don't want to say it every time But everyone that calls On the air Gets original Kiwi dip And a $50 supermarket gift card You're laughing good

Awesome thank you I'm not going to say it Every time I feel like We're going to take Five or six callers here And I'll be like Oh and of course

You give me And I'm like I'm not going to say it every time. We're going to take five or six callers here and I'll be like, oh, of course you give me it. I'm not going to say it every time. Is that for the client? Are you telling the client? Just so you know, I'm not going to say it every time. Is this because it's a personal endorsement thing? No. I just feel like you're just cutting pace with what I'm saying after every call

and just go, of course they'll get that as well. I've said it a few times. Six times is probably overkill. Just remember what he said about the original Kiwi Dip and keep that in your mind. I love it. It's awesome. Yeah, all right.

Susan, welcome. You're going to get something, but we're not going to speak about it, of course. Why are you having the best weekend, Susan? Meeting up with friends I haven't seen for a number of years. I'm in class reunion. Oh, awesome. I haven't seen for about 30 years. People you haven't seen for a number of years. I'm in class reunion. I haven't seen for about 30 years.

People you haven't seen for 30 years? Sometimes it's cool, yeah. Whereabouts are you going? Whereabouts in the country are you going to be? Down at Wellington, but people coming from around the country. Fantastic. I imagine people coming from Australia, but

because of COVID, they can't get over here. I imagine a lot of people you wouldn't even recognise. You'd be like, are you little Donnie Thompson? Yeah. Is that right? Yeah. Hey, well, you have a wonderful reunion. That's very cool, Susan.

Good weekend. Got a reunion. You know what you're getting. We're not going to tell you. You've heard Ben saying two times he said that's enough. There you go again. We'll go to Faye in Hamilton. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast.

Faye, you reckon you're having the best weekend in Aotearoa? Oh, yes, definitely. What are you doing, Faye? Having the four great-grandsons to stay for the night. Great-grandsons? Are you just saying they're great-grandsons or they're actually... Great-grandsons. Well, they're great-grandsons and they are great-grandsons, yes.

It's all the inflection. Well done. That's awesome. Are they coming to stay? Oh, yes, definitely. You're not going to get much sleep, it's going to be a heck of a fun night, that's for sure. And you're going to spoil them, that's what

grandparents do, and as a parent, you've got to stop the spoiling, stop it. Oh no, that's the best part. Then you send them back to us and we have to deal with the fallout. The next day, tired and everything, didn't get much sleep. They're a laugh, they're the best. You get to keep sleeping, Faye, you're a grandmother. Well at the best. You get to keep sleeping, Faye. You're a grandmother.

Well, at least Dad and Mum get a night to themselves. That's awesome. Oh, that's awesome. And their dad was just made Apprentice of the Year the other night, so it's their celebration

as well. Apprentice of the Year. Oh, that's amazing. Well done, Faye. Well, you have a lovely weekend. Should we take one more? Have we done enough, Ben? You seem to be controlling

this whole thing. No, I'm into this. I'll all say it one more time You seem to be controlling this whole thing. No, I'm into this. I'll all say it one more time, though, at the end of this. Okay, just so you know. Trina, welcome. Oh, you did do one more. I was waiting patiently. Just for you, Trina.

Just for you. Why are you having the best weekend, Trina? Well, let's just say two birthday parties, one Thursday market, acting this morning and my friend being on TV tonight. Oh, wow. What a weekend. What a schedule you're running. It's filled up.

That isn't, that's a good, the weekend hasn't even started and she's already had the best weekend. Oh, heck yeah. Oh, good on you. That sounds like lots of fun. Trina, we're gonna tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna send you out some original Kiwi dip and a $50 supermarket gift card, alright? Oh, sweet. Thanks, guys. Good on you. Thanks to you two. I'll tell you what we're going to do. We're going to send you out some original Kiwi dip and a $50 supermarket gift card, all right? Oh, sweet.

Thanks, guys. Good on you, Trina. Thanks for cheering me up. Oh, you're awesome. She sounds adorable. And thank you all for listening. We appreciate your calls. And I'll tell you what, we've got to pick a favourite weekend.

What are you going to go? What are you going to go? I'm going to go Faye with the grandkids. Should we lock in the grandkids? Yeah, all right. That's good. I had to pick it because it was the format I didn't want to because they were all great weekends

But you know sometimes you've just got to do What the format suggests You've got to be a slave to that format Ben Enjoy those weekends everyone More painful than your alarm clock It's Jono and Ben on the hits Love this part of the show He's up there with all of the great news networks

The CNNs, the BBCs, the ABCs, the ABCs, the RIPs, the GFCs. It's the BNN, the Ben News Network, with scrolling through your feed. And, of course, everyone's talking about today and yesterday a new case of community transmission, COVID back in the community, basically, in Auckland, and they're not sure where it's from. So that's a slightly worrying thing.

Some prices marketing for the A to z shop in uh high street there i mean you couldn't pay for that advertising yeah yeah so yeah yeah not really what they want now what was the deal because i haven't listened to be honest i'm a bit fatigued with covert coverage yeah it feels a bit that way at the moment i feel like this these little things are going to keep popping up. I heard she said she had symptoms, got a test, then the boss said, oh, we'll come in anyway, but wear a mask. Now the boss is saying, I didn't make you come in. And they're getting the lawyers involved, because obviously it's detrimental to their business, right?

So yeah, who knows who's telling the truth. Because then the boss was like, I didn't make you come in. No, yeah. And they're getting abused with messages and emails and stuff like that, which is horrible. So, you know, you shouldn't be doing this, no matter what happened in this situation. Yeah, hey, it happens.

It's a mistake. She didn't go out there knowingly want to spread COVID. No, no. It's just amazing, though. And I think it's a lesson. I'm guilty in tracking and tracing with your app. You know, I probably dropped the ball a couple of times on that. Probably more than a couple, to be honest.

I'm trying to make myself not seem as bad as I actually am. But, you know, keep on that. And masks. Well, you notice we flew to Blenheim yesterday. We were the only people on the plane with masks. And you feel like a right arsehole. You do feel a little bit like, oh, yeah, they've got, you sort of get people looking

like, oh, are you wearing masks now? You think we're all filthy, do you? You do feel like you're in the minority of that. They should just make the law that you have to wear them on planes and public transport. It seems like a no-brainer, right? And then everyone's like, oh, we've got to do this. Rather than leaving it up to people and then everyone's like, oh, look at those guys.

You get a mask shame, don't you? You do, and you feel, thankfully, you can't see my tears under my mask because I'm crying. But I think the problem is when we go to level one, everyone, including me, thinks, hey, it's back to normal, baby. You know, when it's not. And so if it was level one with masks and public transport and public places, it might have been a different story.

Who knows? Oh, yeah, we'll find out today. In fact, we're going to talk to Chris Hipkins from the Labour Party. The hippo! We've got the cute little hippo on the show. The hippo. Of course, a health official as well. We're going to talk to him after 8 o'clock today on the show. And speaking of political news,

Jacinda Ardern's done a sketch. It seems like all the politicians do some sort of sketch. They hastily put something together and it sells for lots of money for charity online. And so Jacinda's one is sold for a few thousand dollars at the moment. And it feels... Is it a doodle? Is it like a whipped up in a couple of minutes sort of situation?

Yeah, she's got 2020. She's crossed out 2020. And then underneath she's put 2021. And then she's written, let's try that again. And she signed it. That's what she's put. So, you know, it's just in her idea in doing it but it's sold for a few hundred dollars.

I can hear the disdain in your voice. I feel like you are saying the artwork is not worth a few thousand dollars. What do you think? Here you go. Oh. I mean, my daughter probably could have done that. Maybe it's a few hundred dollars. Is it for charity? Yeah, it's for charity. Oh, now we're my daughter probably could have done that. Maybe it's more $600.

Is it for charity? Yeah, it's for charity. Oh, now we're all bad people, aren't we? Yeah, true. Yeah. Look at that. When it's for charity, you can't say anything bad, Ben. No, yeah.

I love it. Yeah. I know, that's a shocking piece of artwork. It's not really art. It's just she's written something down. It's like a wee note. Oh, no, I've written this wrong in 2020. Oh, what's $6,000?

$6,700, producer. Thank you. You know, but've written this wrong. Oh, what's 6,000? 6,700, producer. You know, but to be fair to Jacinda, she's got a lot of other stuff happening in her day. So, you know, she's probably only got the time to write 2020, 2021 and cross it. You're right. I've spent nine days on this. Don't worry, guys. It's a wonderful piece of art.

How's the COVID situation? You're like, oh yeah, some news come through on that. But you've been painting, so we wanted to leave you alone, you know? Know how much you enjoy your painting. You're right. She is running the country. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Not a morning person?

Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Synchronise Odds. This is where we give you a prize. It's all yours, but we could take it off you if Jono and I synchronise our answer to the question that Julia asked us. We have three seconds to come up with one. The first thing that pretty much pops into our head,

if it's the same thing, we take that prize off you. We must have. We haven't been in touch lately, Benjamin. It's been a couple of months since we've actually landed one of these. Welcome, Tracey, on the motorway in Auckland. Morena to you, Trace. Morning. Lovely to have, on the motorway in Auckland. Morning to you, Trace. Morning. Lovely to have you on, Tracy. Literally,

you've joined the only show on commercial radio that gifts you a prize, then callously tries to steal it back off you. But you just need to sit there, okay? And if we don't sync up and answer, you'll be eating at Hell Pizza tonight, my friend. Cool. Sounds good. How's the traffic in Auckland? Obviously, a lot of people have been

told not to go into the CBD with the latest outbreak. I think they're still going to work. It's stopped on the moon, eh? Good to know that message got through to everyone. Alright, category number one, Juju. Alright, name for me a pub meal. Nachos. Did you go bangers and mash?

Yeah I thought it was a pub you know Yeah I've never had bangers and mash I thought it was right in your wheelhouse Yeah I know it is I love it I want to have it now for breakfast Absolutely

If I could live off pub meals The rest of my life I'd be a happy person Hey Trace You still got that voucher my friend? Alright your second one Is name for me a gym franchise. Snap Fitness.

We did it. Snap Fitness. I thought he was going to go F45 because we were there yesterday, but then I knew he wouldn't go F45, which means, Tracy, I'm sorry. We've stolen food out of your mouth. Oh, no. That's all good. No, no, that's your mouth. Oh, no. That's all good. Hey, no, that's fine.

You know what's going to happen? Do you want me to... I'll pull back the curtain. Here's what's going to... Here's how it's going to play out. I haven't said anything. I haven't said anything. You tell me if I'm wrong, Ben.

What's going to happen is we're going to go, hey, thanks for listening, Trace. Here's a song. While the song's playing, Ben's going to get you off air and go, hey, Tracey, don't go anywhere. Don't go anywhere. We'll send it out to you anyway.

Oh, thank you so much. Yeah, so that's what's going to happen. Ben, stop me if any of that was wrong. No, I haven't stopped you. So there we go. But thanks so much for playing, Tracy. We really appreciate it. Sorry you lost.

Just hold right there, Tracy. Hold right there. Okay. Like starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on the head. C-A- Z of New Zealand. We started this crazy adventure about six months ago, calling every town and city in New Zealand one a day,

slowly making our way around New Zealand alphabetically. And we're heading to Hunterville today. It's a small community on State Highway 1 in the Rangitiki District of the North Island. Population of 429. Currently 11 degrees, Ben Boyce. Wind sitting in Norrie, still about 8km per hour and 84% humidity forecast

today. Oh, that's good. So let's go hunting. That's good. I don't know much weather banded to that, sorry. Oh, that's good. That's good. Thanks, mate. Now let's go hunting out Hunterville. We're going to go through to the bookshop so hopefully they're open this early hour. Hunterville Village Bookshop.

Kelsey speaking. Hi, Kelsey. How are you? I'm good, thank you. How's the HVB? It's very well, thank you. Yep, you're up and at them early? Selling them books?

Oh, something like that. It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station here. No, you're kidding. Oh, no, we're not. We'd pretend to be someone way cooler if we were going to make it up. Oh, all right. Okay, it's Gary McCormick for the Breakfast Club here. No, we're not. We'd pretend to be someone way cooler if we were going to make it up. All right.

Okay, it's Gary McCormick for The Breakfast Club here. Yeah, more FM. No. No. Okay, I'll try another one. Yeah, no, Fletch and Vaughan from ZM? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, they're all right. Okay, what else have we got?

Matt and Jerry from Hauraki? Oh, yeah. We're trying to upgrade ourselves here. What are we doing here? What are we doing? Oh, cut to the chase. So we're calling every town and city in New Zealand. We call one a day. We like to learn upgrade ourselves here. What are we doing here? What are we doing? Cut to the chase. So we're calling every town and city in New Zealand. We call one a day.

We like to learn about the place. And today... We're in Hunterville today. No way. Hunter Vegas. You tell us about Hunterville because it looks like a thriving metropolis of entertainment, passion. Mate, that is the Hunterville capital of the world.

You have no idea. How long have you lived in Hunterville? Well, then I'd be telling you my age. Oh, okay. On and off, 47 years. On and off, 47 years. Okay, so does that mean you're 47? Well, yeah, something around there.

Okay, that's right. Hey, we're not going to drill down on that. What is there to do in Hunterville? Oh, there's so much to do. We have a huge festival at the beginning of November called the Shepherdshire Mozzle. You'll have to look that up. That's quite crazy. We get a few thousand people to the town.

Because I'm looking at a website which has got five great things to do in Hunterville. So I'll read them out and you rank them. No, I can't. Tell me. There's a dog statue of a Hunterway dog, is that right? That's right. Yeah, that looks quite cool. That's awesome.

Are there a lot of Hunterway dogs in Hunterville? Yes, particularly on Schmozzle Day there is. Schmozzle. I love the name Schmozzle. We have a Schmozzle every morning on the show. Yeah, well, it's a bit of a blimmin' Schmozzle today, that day. Now, okay, here's number one. Walk the Bruce Park loop track.

Oh, yes, you could do that. Yeah, right. You don't sound that enamoured with it. Where you start is where you end back up, I imagine, with the loop track. Oh, yes, you could do that. Yeah, right, you don't sound that enamoured with it. Where you start is where you end back up, I imagine, with the loop track, so I love that, OK. Soak in the views from the Stormy Point lookout. Yeah, that's pretty stormy. Relax, at the Simpsons...

Stormy Point doesn't sound like something that you want to... You're like, oh, I want to go to the most stormiest point in... Oh, no, look, there are amazing views up there. You got a view of Mount Taranaki in the Rangitiki Valley, I understand? Yes, and you can see up to central north, as you're coming towards Hunterville, you can see the mountains up there. How about relax at the Simpsons Scenic Reserve? Oh.

No. You're like, oh. No, you've even got to drive in there over this little bridge and then suddenly you're in this big reserve with all these old native traces. Oh, so it's a good one. But I think you're letting all hundred of all secrets out. Oh, you don't like this? It's too much information, really.

Your luck will just be inundated with visitors from all around New Zealand now. What about visit the Settlers Museum? That's cute. That's cute? Okay. The bookshop. The bookshop. What's in the bookshop?

Well, books. Oh,shop. The bookshop. What's in the bookshop? Well, books. Oh, great. No further questions. Do you sell pornography? Not at all. No, because I was wondering that. That's not a thing now, is it? Well, there's the internet for people that want to do that.

Books and gifts and vintage and stationery and clothing and wool and toys and, yeah. So you've got all sorts. All sorts in there. Because I went to the dairy the other day. I was like, there was still a section there. Mate, we're all trying to move on from that. You've come back to that. We've been talking about stationery and books. Yeah, we're trying to deflect that situation.

None of that available here, sorry. John, so anyway, so you just wanted, you're not my dad. You just wanted to tell your story. We're all like, no, not there. We're all moved on. And you're like, well, anyway. The conversation was not about that at all. Yeah, listen, I want to tell your story. We're all like, no, not there. We're all moved on. The conversation was not about that at all. Yeah, listen, I want to focus on this.

That's got no relevance to this conversation at all. At all. You're like, I went to the dairy. Tell me more about the dairy. Yeah, well, no, they had some bags. Okay, I understand. No, tell me less. Anyway, would you suggest we come to Hunterville?

Absolutely. Yep. And a heart, mate. It's on State Highway 1. All right. And what's your address? Because we'll stay with you. Yeah, very good.

16 Bruce Street. 9 to 5, Monday to Friday. 9 to 1 on the way, Kent. Okay. I feel like you're just sending us to your bookshop there. Yeah, mate. Oh, lovely talking to you. It's been a lot of fun.

All righty. Thank you so much. You're a good sport. Look after yourself. See you. Bye-bye. Bye. Start your day the wrong much. You're a good sport. Look after yourself. See you. Bye-bye. Bye. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits.

Bye. The What's Up by Docco.nz. Hey, how you going? Now it's time for your daily installments of up-to-date or slightly out-of-date celebrity stories, depending if you've been online or not. Juliet, what have we got? So, Coronation Street has won a Guinness World Record for being the most boring show in the world.

Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner. No, not quite. People will watch it. I mean, you can see it. Every time I watch it, I'm like, literally, I haven't watched it since 1991. If I tuned back in today, nothing would have changed. Yeah, exactly. You're quite accurate there. For being the longest running

TV soap in the world. So it's approaching its 60th anniversary. And it was initially only meant to air for 13 weeks. But then they're obviously like, nah, it's good enough to go on forever. And that's a phenomenal, you know, jokes aside. That's a phenomenal effort, really. Sometimes you tune back on, you know, you see it in ads and stuff. And you're like, that person is still on the show.

Yeah, well, one of the actors the actors William Roth who plays Ken Barlow in the series he received his own Guinness World Record as well for being the longest serving TV soap star in the world and I think he's been on it for the whole time. Ken Barlow still on Coronation Street. Oh my God. Warner would be chasing him down

wouldn't he Chris Warner? That's what I was thinking. And Elf Stewart in Home and Away obviously as well. He's done a great stint and I mean there's many great soap actors. Yeah, true. Coro Street,

have you seen, just taking that aside, Country Calendar which is the longest running show on New Zealand television. New Zealand made show, isn't it? Yeah, I think so, yeah.

And the highest rating. Like it is the number one rating show every year. Continually. Wow. I don't know. Who's watching Country Killer? Who's watching Country Killer?

My mum, Jenny, loves it. And you sit down and you enjoy it. It's good. It's really great TV. Is it about people working their farms? It's just interesting stories and stuff. Some of them use innovation, some bad work. Just souls of the earth.

Good people that you want to be like. Classic Kiwi story. You've said some words, but you have not explained what the show is to me. I still don't know what the synopsis is. Ed has got some of these guys doing this and that, and it's a little bit of stuff. I thought it was calendars for country people,

but it's not actually that. Damn it. That would have been quite a disappointing find out. Well done to Country Calendar and Coronation Street for their beautifully long tenures. And Taika Waititi's latest project was directing the new Christmas ad for Coca-Cola. Now, it's a two-minute ad

that we got Jono to watch just before. And I was like, oh, two minutes. It's really good. You should watch it. It's adorable. So it's basically about a dad who's trying to get his daughter's Christmas wish list to Santa after he misses the post.

So he goes on this big journey across the world through all sorts of weathers and countries and stuff like that. And the ending is adorable. I don't really want to say the ending. Don't spoil it. We brought it up on our social media, but it did bring some tears to my eyes.

It brought a tear to my eye too. It is adorable. And it looks like it was all shot in New Zealand. It does. I was thinking it might have been a New Zealand shot thing. And a Kiwi actor is the main actor in that. Yeah, Coen Holloway. And he's worked with Taika quite a few times before

with Hunt for the Wilder People. He's been in Thor Ragnarok. He's awesome. Yeah, he's been in quite a few things. Well, listen, we have almost been to as many locations this week thanks to Coca-Cola. And Ben, he demanded double what Taika got paid by Coke. So, I mean, this week has cost Coke millions, millions of dollars.

It's all been worth it for that ad. Exactly. Not so much me. And our coverage from our Coke tour after 7 o'clock this morning. And that's bye. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Ours won't bring a tear to your eye, though. No, it's just two idiots filling in some radio airtime.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. That is our show for a Friday. Now, producer Humphrey's come in and he said, apparently next week we might have, he reckons the biggest guest that we've ever had on the show. He's not saying who it is.

He's not telling us. Is this a, will this be a crown and you're producing, a jewel and you're producing crown, producer Humphrey? I'm not answering any questions. Okay, all right. Will you retire from producing once we get this person on? If I need to. Wow, wow. It's you retire from producing once we get this person on? If I need to. Whoa, wow.

It's big. It's big. Are we talking big? Would everyone know this person? Everyone listening right now. Everyone listening right now will know this person. Local or international? International.

Oh, wow. So join us next... Global. Global. Next week we're going global. All right. It's very exciting. Have a great weekend, New Zealand.

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