Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - November 27 - The Wiggles, Car Park Etiquette, Ben's Awkward Accountant Moment

Episode Date: November 26, 2020

TGIF! No better feeling! On today's show we caught up with Anthony & Emma from The Wiggles ahead of their New Zealand tour next year. We decided to "audition" for The Wiggles and they judged us on whether or not we'd make the cut... Ben also shared an embarrassing situation that his friend was in when he was chatting to his accountant, which is a conversation you certainly don't want to have with your accountant! Jimmy Neesham also joined us, and Ben is desperate to go to the cricket tonight (but he has an important family dinner). So he took the opportunity to phone his wife Amanda and ask her, but she had the added pressure of Jimmy Neesham being there! All that & more, enjoy the pod and enjoy your weekend!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. I was ready for that one. It's taken him five days.

I've been using clearing emails, I've been waiting for you to push the buttons for the mics to go on where the red light comes on. I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait. Like a Formula One driver ready to go. Just revving,

ready to go. Yeah, once the light goes red. Because you always catch me off guard if you listen to the last few podcasts. Yeah, there's been a bit of a story developing,

isn't there? A bit of a story arc. A plot line, if you will. Yeah. Where I begin these podcast intros. Ben doesn't know he's on it. Well, I was in the middle of a meeting the other day.

We were talking about some stuff. Sensitive stuff, too. And you were like, put the mics on. And you were like, here we go, podcast. And you were like, are we on to that now? So it's been four days. And he's finally, he's got the better of me. So well done, Touche.

Yeah, I'm here. I'm here. I'm here ready for the podcast. Really fun show today. We've got the Wiggles. Anthony and Emma from the Wiggles. Anthony, I mean, almost 30 years he's been in the Wiggles. He's been wiggling for 30 years.

That's a lot of wiggling. That's so much wiggling. One of the most successful groups in the history of music, probably, I'd say. I mean, this sounds like a joke, but almost in the same category as the Beatles. Yeah, you're right. In terms of probably monetary success. Oh, yeah, I'd say so. And international fame. Yeah, you're right. In terms of probably monetary success. Oh, yeah, I'd say so. And international fame.

Yeah, you're probably right. There'll be children all over the world who know the Wiggles. And adults. 190 countries, I think, the Wiggles has played in. 30 million DVDs and CDs have sold. So, yeah, incredible numbers. You know what's disturbing is you're just saying that. You're not even reading it.

How do you know that information? the research 30 million dvd 190 country 1991 they started out of the band called the cockroaches which is a pub band that jeff and anthony used to have like what information from your brain did you relinquish to hold on to that it'll be gone in a day or two but right now i'm in that sweet spot where I needed to remember it for the show so it's there but you're right. I'll be like,

the kids! Oh, I forgot the kids! You forgot the kids but did you know the Wiggles have sold 30 million albums in 190 countries? Yeah.

I'll be like, yeah great, we won't get school since three. Anyway, no, they were nice, they were lovely.

Who else was nice today? You were nice. Oh, thank you. I'll tell you what was lovely today. Thanks to themarket.com we gave away a PlayStation 5,

and we're on the hunt for New Zealand's, you know, the kindest child in New Zealand, and we got some amazing stories from people. It was so hard to choose, so we ended up just putting it into a drawer and picking a name out at random. But the person that we chose, the kids that we chose, did a remarkable thing. Yeah, and the mother did a remarkable thing too,

revealing it to them as well. She did a wonderful, wonderful job. So you can hear that. That's a bit of a heart warmer for a Friday. Otherwise, your job is to go and have a good weekend. Have a great one. We'll catch you Monday on the podcast. I'll be ready.

I'll be here. I'll be ready to go. Actually, I'm going to wait from now until Monday just so I don't miss that second when the mics come on for the podcast. With his mouth open, ready to talk. The Wiggles. Some more facts, guys. The Songy Corn Flakes of Radio. It's Jono come on for the podcast. With his mouth open, ready to talk. The Wiggles, we've got some more facts, guys. The soggy cornflakes of radio.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. This is very exciting. They've sold over 30 million DVDs and CDs. They've been seen in over 190 countries. They clock up almost 30 years of kids' entertainment. They are, of course, the Wiggles. They've just announced more dates for the New Zealand tour next year. We're all fruit salad tour

and we're joined by Emma and Anthony from the Wiggles. This is very exciting. How are you guys going? Yeah, can't wait mate. We've been, we haven't toured all year. So our first tour is going to be in New Zealand which we love. Going to do a lot of driving and not taking the plane option

because we love seeing that countryside. Getting the big red car on the road, eh, driving around New Zealand? Yeah, he's going to do a lot of miles. He's going to do a lot of miles. We'll make sure you get one of the finest red rentals we can provide here in New Zealand. When you come, has it been spoken that you have to stay at the motel for two weeks in quarantine?

Or is that not a thing? We're not sure yet. Yeah, we don't know. We're ready to do that. Any situation to get us over to your beautiful country. Yeah, we spent the whole time together and we're looking forward to it. Yeah, because you guys have been in a sort of quarantine bubble yourselves, haven't you? So I bet what you can't wait to do is spend more time together locked in a room. Well this time

this particular year we haven't had to remember any hotel numbers so hotel rooms we haven't had to worry about but we did quarantine together as a group in about March, April, May when the restrictions were quite heavy here in New South Wales and we did a lot and lot of filming and we've been continuing filming new content for next year. Right. So you've probably got content in the bag for the next 10 years now. You can just roll it out.

I just want to pick up on you having to remember hotel room numbers. Is that like a bane of touring the world? That's right. Especially when you're my age. I think a number of times I go back to reception, I'm sorry. Because they don't give you, you know, there's a key, it's not a key, it's a little card. Oh, the card.

And they don't write the room number on it for obvious reasons, right? Who am I? Can you tell me what room I'm in? There's a lot of patrons going, I'm pretty sure Anthony from the Wiggles was trying to get to my room last night. Sometimes when you guys tour, you know, people say you don't work late nights, you're all over by five o'clock,

but sometimes you do like four concerts a day. Is that right? Yeah, well, we know we play Christchurch and we're doing three shows or four shows? Well, I think there's going to be more added. It could be four shows and then we're driving to Queenstown and that apparently is five hours, six hours. Now, anyone in my car know it's going to be eight hours, nine hours.

And anyone in Captain Feathersword and Simon's car know it's going to be three hours. Quite a slow driver, are you? Are you listening to the Wiggles soundtrack as you're driving? I like to imagine you would be. Well, I listen to a lot of music that's very esoteric and the guys have never heard of it. We were reading before how many famous people have been to Wiggles concerts over the years.

Everyone from Jerry Seinfeld, Robert De Niro, James Hetfield from Metallica. I mean, it must be pretty amazing to look into the crowd and see famous people all over the world at your concerts. Yeah, it's been incredible. And it's still brilliant. James Hetfield came more than once. And Captain Feathersword knew he was in the audience one time and sang Enter Sandman in a quack, quack version.

The unusual thing is James turned up without any children. He was just a kid. I think the greatest of all, we had Shaquille O'Neal come on stage. Oh, the basketball was awesome. But Chuck Norris was in the audience once and it was his birthday and Henry the Octopus sang

happy birthday to Chuck Norris. It was quite surreal. Emma, it must be surreal for you being in one of the world's biggest groups, of course, the Wiggles and seeing your face everywhere you go. I was in a store the other day and saw your face on a couch. It is surreal. Sometimes I don't think that it's me. I just

see Emma as the character and I see her in her own world. But really, for me, growing up with the Wiggles, I almost see the Wiggles as two things. The group that I used to watch as a child, and I remember Anthony back then, and now this is Anto now. It's like two different things.

Because you were in a Wiggles video when you were nine. 1997, I think it was Wiggle Dance, and it was a live concert in Sydney, and I do remember being there watching the dancers, watching the characters, watching the characters and being completely enthralled. Wow. And were you like, oh, I'm going to be in that band one day? Was this a dream of yours? Well, I grew up as a dancer, so I never expected that I would do anything related to singing necessarily. So I joined the Wiggles Company 11 years ago as a wiggly dancer and a ballerina and a dancing fairy. And that already was just amazing. And when I joined the Wiggles company 11 years ago as a wiggly dancer and a ballerina and a dancing fairy, and that already was just amazing.

And when I joined the Wiggles group with the original line-up for the big reunion tour, I was just stoked. Oh, wow. Well, it's so good to have you guys coming back to New Zealand next year. I'm sure the tickets will sell out. Last year, I think it was last time, it was two minutes they sold out in. But we have got some tops on. We wanted to audition.

We wanted to be part of the Wiggles. You haven't got a turquoise Wiggle. I've got a turquoise top, top on. More mauve. We've gone for lighter

colour palettes. You guys have got the, you've got the primary colours sorted. So what do we need to know if we were going to ever audition for the Wiggles? What are some tips

you can give us? Okay, first is the Wiggle figures. It's all about the wrists. Okay. Bad for the Wiggles. What are some tips you can give us? Okay, first is the Wiggle fingers. It's all about the wrists. Okay. Bad for the arthritis in later years, Anthony. Come up with a song about any subject because every subject is interesting to a child.

So you're going to do a song right now about vacuum cleaning. Off you go. Are you okay? We had one written about tax returns. I'm sure that fits well. Oh, rental well. Okay. Rental car.

Okay. Rental car. Okay. Two chugga-chugga crashed the rental car. Should have taken out the rental insurance. It's a very good message. How many times on 200 people say it's only a rental? Sorry, I just realised.

We'll call ourselves the squiggles. Half of the squiggles forgot the lyrics there. Okay, well, let's go cafe salad. Yummy, yummy. Cafe salad. Yummy, yummy. Oh, hang on, the cafe salad's $16. Do you really want the salad? Very expensive for a Caesar salad.

Yeah. The salad at the cafe is overly priced. Oh. Yes, yes. I love how Emma's having to explain it. You see, because they're quite expensive So listen, we expect you to not take us on board after that audition

Well, I really like your approach as the hipster wiggles You know, lovely, neutral colours different subject matter Yeah Go for it The hipster wiggles We'll sing songs about kale

And kombucha And kombucha Kombucha Yummy, yummy Go for it. The Hipster Wiggles will sing songs about kale. And kombucha. And kombucha. Kombucha. Yummy, yummy. So nice to talk to you guys. To be honest, I've been to more Wiggles concerts over the past decade than any other group in the world. You're so good to watch,

and it's so good to take your kids along and see it. So we can't wait to have you guys back in New Zealand. Thanks, guys. Remember to double pump the Wiggles. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. A lot of people talk about tax at the moment. Seems to be the news every day is talking about tax, right? Are they?

Yeah, they are. I need to watch more news. Capital gains tax are back in there. I just turn off mentally when people start talking because it's above my head. You don't like tax. You had your accountancy problems because you didn't pay tax for a while. I've had a checkered history with the inland revenue because I signed up when I was at our old job.

Anyway, long story short. You were on the wrong tax bracket. I was on the wrong side of the tax bracket and the law apparently. For a secondary job, you're running something on the side. Was it legal? I don't know. It was an importing-exporting business. Did the eyes of the law see it as legal? Who knows, Ben?

I was never caught properly. But I went through this whole thing for five years. Then one day I got a call from the Inland Revenue. They're like, you owe us $15,000. I'm like, what? I was 21. I didn't have $15,000. How that happened.

But I just want a little word of warning if you're out there in the tax game, because my friend had a very awkward conversation with his accountant. So he's just changed to a new accountancy, someone to look after his accountancy firm. Same accountant you use? No.

The guy who's got that offshore account for you in the Cayman Islands? No. Oh, yeah. Well, the one you recommended him. Yeah, you're like, don't talk about that publicly. Yeah, well, now you are. Okay.

But him and his wife, and they've been married for a few years, basically she sends her money into his account and they pay the mortgage out of his account. And, you know, when you set up your online banking, you can put, like, what is this money for? And she was just put, like, hot loving, you know, like that's what she put as a little bit of a joke. So for weeks and, you know, for the last couple of years,

he's been getting a lot of money for, in the eyes of the accountant, for hot loving. Is he receiving the money? Yes, and then he pays out the mortgage. So they know, gee, this guy must be giving some hot loving. Some real hot loving. But he said he got a conversation from his accountant and he goes, just running through a couple of things

for your books, end of year returns. He's like, yeah. And he was like, he sort of talked about a few things and my mate was like, oh, it feels like he's sort of dancing around a question. And he was like, gotta ask the money for the hot loving that's coming up. And to hear someone who's an accountant who's, you know, he's not a great joker, this person apparently.

He's like, oh, yeah, that's my wife. That's a gag. That's a thing. But they had to ask as an accountant, so you've got to be careful. If anything, it's fortnightly and anniversary loving. And even then, it's probably a little disappointing. Not so hot. It's not happening.

More just kind of going through the motions loving. Yeah, they need to update. Obligated loving. If you get paid for that. Serving bowls of lolls for breakfast. Actual lolls may not be served. It's Jono and Ben on the heads. We could be making someone's Friday be served. It's Jono and Ben on the heads.

We could be making someone's Friday even better. How's this? Thanks to themarket.com, we have a PlayStation 5 to give away. And the market want to give it away to, and us want to give it away to New Zealand's kindest kid. So if you know a kid in your life or someone you know that you think deserves this, and thanks to themarket.com, we could be making sure that they get this PlayStation 5 in time for Christmas.

PlayStation 5, just released a couple of weeks ago. I don't think you can buy these because they're all selling out. They're all sold out. You know, we went along and tested it, the PlayStation 5 and they were like, oh here, have a go. And so we're sitting down and we're like, whoa! And they're like, it's just

turning on. We're were so excited by it. It's incredible. I mean, the first 60 seconds of just turning on the machine, that was enough for me. It was too much for me. A little bit of wee came out of Jono. Yeah, it did. So if you know someone who you think is New Zealand's kindest kid,

in fact, give us a call right now on 0800THEHITS and we can put them in the draw. Tell us why they have, what kind of thing they've done. And thanks to themarket.com, you could be winning that PlayStation 5. And if you don't win, don't worry. They've got Black Friday deals running all day today until Monday midnight,

offering up to 50% on selected items. And you can stack an extra 10% site-wide. I almost got that there. Discount on top. Now, you wouldn't believe he was reading that. No. I didn't pick it. No. I actually on top. Now, you wouldn't believe he was reading that. No. I didn't pick it. No.

No. I actually did it. I should have read it. It was all from memory. I was like, just tell me. Tell me once. And he was told that information three weeks ago. And he remembered.

And he did pretty well. And I think they also said, get all you want for Christmas, even if you've been naughty or nice at themarket.com. Yeah, that was it. They said, don't forget to say that bit. There's some more stuff I'll tell you soon. But, oh, 100 was, they said don't forget to say that bit. There's more stuff I'll tell you soon but oh,

100 of the hits, so why do you know New Zealand's kindest kid? What good deed have they done and thanks to themarket.com we could be giving them a PlayStation 5. Should we go to the phones,

Benny boy? Yeah, why not? Yeah, okay, let's do it. We'll get to Te Araha. Linda, welcome. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Good morning. Lovely to have you on

nominating New Zealand's KK, kindest kid. Thankfully there's not another K at the end of it. The kindest kid, Linda. Yeah, no, Eli, I reckon he's the kindest kid in New Zealand. He, out of the kindness of his heart, recently, Dad,

pulled a muscle on his leg. And Eli, Dad, I'll mow the lawn for you, Dad. And the lawns were in the evening line. And this little seven-year-old, under the guidance to make sure you're safe and everything, out he goes and he mows his lawn. And he did a darn good job. But I know

that Grandad helped babysit them sometimes, Mum and Dad. They recently had a wedding to attend because Dad was a groomsman. And the little three-year-old, young Luca, he's a little honey. But sometimes he can be challenging. I suppose it was a nicesman. And the little three-year-old, young Luca, he's a little honey. But sometimes, you know, he can be challenging. I suppose it's a nice way of putting it. There you go. That's loving words from a grandmother. Challenging.

Yeah, it happens at that age, yeah. He was so helpful and so kind. He helped granddad so much. He knew the right things to say to a young brother and also just, you know, made life so much easier for Peter. It was so cool. Oh, that's lovely. You know, these sort of things make you proud. I do. I'm proud.

I had nothing to do with it, but I'm proud about Eli. I wish he was my kid. Well done. He's definitely in the draw. He could be New Zealand's kindest kid. We could have heard from his grandma right there. That's awesome. Thank you very much.

We'll go to Hamilton. Morena, Anika, how are you? Hi, how are you? We're doing well. You're nominating who? Your son? I'm nominating my son, Billy. And I believe he's the kindest kid because he is 14 years old

and their age is not always the best, and they struggle sometimes. And he will say his last money, and if we go get some takeaways or something and he sees somebody on someone homeless or something, he will just stare at us and say, Mom, please, let's just do something. And if we don't, then he will say, Okay, Mom, let's just do something. And he will, if we don't, then he will say, okay, Mom, you can use my money, you can use my last money or something like that. And yeah, he's just...

That's lovely. He's always thinking of others. With regards to Christmas coming up, he's asked us, can we please... He wanted the PlayStation 5, and we've explained to him because he's a teenager so he understands and we've explained to him this is what we're sitting in at the moment and this is what it's cost and after a little while he came back and he said, I understand

you don't have to get it for me, I understand it's too much money and we don't have it at this time He's charitable, he's charitable. He's just got And you don't have to get it for me. I understand it's too much money and we don't have it at the time. He's charitable. He's charitable. So awesome. He's just got the nicest, kindest heart. And he just always understands. He's just always understandable.

Oh, you brought up a lovely kid. You should be very proud. So thank you for sharing that this morning. And he sounds like he could be New Zealand's kindest kid. He's like a miniature philanthropist. Oh, so awesome. I love this kid. I love this. It's just making me, I was a horrible child.

Jesus, I was a horrible child. Your parents never had another kid. Sometimes from our kids. Yeah, no, good on you. We'll go to Taranaki. Adrian Moreno, how are you, mate? Good, thanks. Good, thanks.

And nominating New Zealand's kindest KK. The KK. Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay. Kindest kid. Thanks to themarket.com. We could be giving them a PlayStation 5. Who do you want to nominate?

I'd like to nominate Mena Raven. Yeah, what's Mena done? Mena is one of those children who hasn't been dealt the best set of cards in life. She's spent some time in and out of hospital quite regularly. But Mena basically takes, whenever she has a birthday or Christmas and things like that, rather than getting presents for herself, she takes presents and gives them to other children. Oh, God. How are we going to pick someone?

Oh, I don't know. Ben Boyce is going to make the decision. No. On his own, solely. No. Solely. Later in the programme.

It's all on Ben Boyce. Oh, that's such a lovely thing that she does. Yeah, Adrian, thank you so much for the nomination. Oh, man, keep these coming through.

Before nine o'clock, we'll give away the PlayStation 5 thanks to themarket.com. Heartbreaking stuff, isn't it? Oh, wow. You've got a tough decision ahead of you, buddy. Eggs for breakfast.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. It's a good day for cricket fans because the Blackcaps are back. They're playing tonight at Eden Park. The first 2020 against the West Indies. And joining us is Blackcaps star Jimmy Neesham. Are you feeling good today, Jimmy? Yeah, well, today's a great day, lads. We're moving out of isolation and back into the real world,

so it's pretty hard to be complaining. Oh, so two weeks, you've done the two weeks. You came back from Dubai, was that right? Yep, yeah, came back from Dubai on the 12th. Now, it's a crazy place, Dubai, isn't it? You know the people in Dubai, they don't like the Flintstones, but the people in Abu Dhabi do. Oh no, you led him into a terrible joke.

Nisham, give me something. Nisham. You gave him the right response. I just don't know whether to dignify that with anything. Nisham, that was just stone cold from Nisham. Fair enough. It got the response it deserved. He's like, put me back in quarantine so I don't have

to hear that joke again. We've got Jimmy Neesha Black Cat with us. Now, I love cricket, Jimmy, but people can, it can be 50-50 with people. People can say cricket's boring. Do you find that when you talk to people about what you do for a job? Oh, I do.

I love cricket, but some people are like, oh, cricket's boring. Or do they not have the guts to say it to your face? Probably not in the daytime hours. Do you sometimes lie about what you do for a job? You know how, like, people who are parking wardens or work for the... Radio announcers. Radio announcers.

Just so you don't have to get engaged in a conversation about cricket. Yep, yep, definitely. I get the old, you know, people sort of look at you in a restaurant or in a bar or whatever and they come up and go, you're that guy. And I go, no, no, no, I get that all the time. I'm an accountant. You're that guy, the guy with the face and the arms. Yeah, that's me.

Now, many families play backyard cricket, particularly over the summer. How much stuff did you break as a kid around your house? Oh, so much. Yeah, I vividly remember we had these kind of shades over the summer, man, how much stuff did you break as a kid around your house? Oh, so much. Yeah, I vividly remember we had these kind of shades over the windows of the backyard, and apparently they were quite expensive, and they got absolutely deleted every summer with tennis balls and that kind of thing.

I remember Mum had this kind of big decorative pot thing, which we had to panically glue together at one stage to try and pretend that we hadn't knocked it over and smashed it. So yeah, there was a fair bit going on. Every kid has done the panic glue together operation. I had to do it with a vase as well. Yeah, I remember when we got a window, me and my

stepbrother, we went and bought a window, came back with our bikes and put it in and then he stepped on it before we could try the new window. So we basically broke two windows in the space of like an hour. As a black cap, how many uniforms

do you get? And second follow-up question, can I have one of your old tops? What are you, a seven-year-old? Are you a seven-year-old boy? I just thought I'd ask

to angle in for something, but hey, that's all right. Yeah, oh, definitely. I've actually been around a little while now, so there's a few in the garage. So yeah, I'd be more than happy to donate one. Oh, okay. Can I have your a few in the garage. So, yeah, I'd be more than happy to donate one.

Oh, OK. Can I have your shoes? Can I have your socks? Yeah, I feel like you don't have to follow through on that. We've got Jimmy Neesham with us. The T20s kick off tonight against the West Indies. But playing tonight, 2020, the first game against the West Indies. And I really want to go.

There's a few of my mates going, but my mother-in-law has a birthday party. And, yes. I know. So it's been a conversation I've had with my wife, Amanda, about whether I can go with my mates to watch the Black Caps play or whether I, you know, like. What's her stance on it? I mean, I love my mother-in-law, you know, me and Joyce get on really great, but she's like, well, You don't love her as much as you love cricket. Well, it's not, I love them both, but I'd like to go, you know, so I thought maybe if Jimmy could help me.

Can we call up Amanda, my wife, now? Can you say, hey, it's Jimmy Nisham. Can Ben come watch me play? Yep, definitely. And we'll see how that goes. Just that would mean a lot if Ben was there supporting me. I'll see if this angle would work to get me. Not that I want to get out of the dinner.

I just. Go through to Amanda Boyce now. And we'll just leave you to do the hard work, Jimmy. Will she answer, hopefully? Hello, Amanda speaking. Hi, Amanda, it's Jimmy Nisham here. How are you? Hello.

Hello? Hello. Hello. Amanda, can you hear me? Hello. Hello. Hello. Hey, listen, I'm going to jump in here.

This is the most fumbliest start to a phone conversation. Okay, Amanda, it's your husband, Ben, here. Hello. You might be familiar with him. Familiar with me. You might be less familiar with black cap Jimmy Nisham, who's also on the phone, Amanda. Oh, g'day, Jimmy.

Hi, Amanda. How are you? Now, Jimmy was just saying to me, Amanda, completely off the top of his head, he was like, I don't know, that he would love me to come along Friday night to watch him play the first 2020 against the West Indies. Oh, I'm sure you would,

but you've got your mother-in-law's birthday dinner. Yeah, but it would mean quite... This is where you come in, Jimmy. You come in, Jimmy. It would mean quite a lot to Jimmy, wouldn't it, Jimmy? It would mean so much to me. We've known each other for so long, at least three or four, even five minutes.

But if he could come along to support me, that'd be great. You're telling me that a cricket game only lasts three or four or five minutes? No, no, that's how long we've known each other. Oh, right. It's a rich history. If you're willing to give up

your mother-in-law's birthday dinner, it's quite a big one, you know, on Friday night that we are actually hosting. Yeah, you're hosting, and you've known Joyce for what? 15 years or so. 15 years? Yeah. I used to live with her, remember, when I went overseas?

And she's a big fan of cricket. If anything, Joyce would want me to go. But here's the important thing, Amanda. The relationship that Jimmy, Nisham, and Ben have formed over the three or four minutes is far stronger than Ben's relationship with Joyce. Let's not get into that, John. Would you say that, Jimmy?

Wow. Absolutely. You know she listens to the station, eh? I know, but she's a big fan of cricket. She loves her sport too, you know? She does love her cricket. So what do you reckon? What do you reckon for Joyce as a birthday treat?

Her love of cricket, I think she might understand. Maybe you should get something autographed for her as a birthday present from Jimmy. Oh, hey, well, there we go. Boy, he's getting me a top, so there you go. It's just a standing line. You should get your chest signed, Ben's full hair. Okay. There we go, Jimmy.

That's a bit weird. It's a bit weird. It suddenly got quite weird. A weird conversation's got weirder. So, Amanda, can I go Friday night? For Jimmy? Yes, sorry. Little Jimmy, we'll be there,

we're watching you. Oh, that's great. Thank you very much. I don't know if I'm actually coming, but I hope I can see you Friday night, Jimmy.

Sounds good, mate. Thanks, Amanda. Did you notice there, Jimmy, that he gave you a nickname, Little Jimmy?

I just thought it was like... Little Jimmy? Are you already at nickname stage? No, I just thought it was like I was watching Little Jimmy play cricket. He's not little. He's bigger than me.

He's quite tall. Oh, he's hung up. Is he hung up? He's hung up. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Now, the four of us were trapped in a lift yesterday

with an external party who was also in the lift too. Because we work in a building, how many stories is this building? I think it's four. Four? Four stories, yeah. And so the radio. And a couple of basements, you know, levels. So I guess you can ride six levels in the lift if you really want.

That's good. I never factor in the basement. You should. You always forget about that. If you want to go for a longer lift ride, start at the basement. So yeah, we were in the lift with someone else because there's other businesses in the building. And, you know, there's a lady that I've seen a couple of times around the place.

Ben, I've even said to you, I think, at one moment, we saw her and I was like, I'm pretty sure I went to primary school with that lady. You have. You've said that before. Yeah, to me. Yeah, to you. And so then we found myself yesterday in the position and she was in the lift. And so then we found myself yesterday in the position,

and she was in the lift. And I looked her dead in the eyes, as you all witnessed. Yeah, we were all there. And granted, it's an odd lead-in question. First question, you didn't say, like, hey, how's it going? You're like, did I go to primary school with you? I looked her dead in the eyes. And I do that to everyone.

I ask everyone that. Did we go to primary school together? Usually the answer is no. Can you please stop talking to me, you unusual man? But this time, she's like, no. But then there was silence, wasn't there? And you guys were all awkward. You're like, what a weirdo.

And she's like, no, but you might have gone to primary school with my younger sister. And it turns out I did. And it was a win. You know, it was a win. But then afterwards you were like, you offended her. And I was like, how did I offend her? Because then I said to her, oh, are you older or a younger sister? And she said, oh, charming.

Now, I took that as, oh, that's a charming question. And you took that as, oh, charming. And so there's Juliet. This is why I want to bring you in there. Was it a, oh, you in there was it a oh charming or was it oh charming

it was like oh charming you've called me old yeah but no I also said were you are you the younger or older

I threw it out I threw it out right so you covered it yeah I see she took it very well after the old charming yeah because I read it as a

oh that's charming what a charming individual. No, if you'd got, anyway, I'm not going to get into it, but you've had a rich history of awkward banter, and I've been part of many of the champagne moments. One of my favourites was we had Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement. They had a new movie out together, and we'd been invited along to the premiere,

and there was a whole lot of people going. Originally, we had something on for work, and they were like, oh, so you're coming along to the movie. You was a whole lot of people going. Originally we had something on for work and they were like, oh so you're coming along to the movie? You're like, no, no, no we're not. We had something on for work and now we don't. We don't have anything on for work. So you explained the whole thing. Yeah, and then Jermaine went, so what you're saying is

now you've got nothing on and you're still not going to come. You're like, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't know why you had to go. We had something on and now we don't have something on. You could have just lied and said we had something on and that's what, and you're like, well, now we don't.

Yeah, so he called you out on it. I just like saying stuff sometimes. Just filling in your time. Just filling in your time on the radio, in life, in real situ. So that was just another one of those moments. Chalk that up as a win from the charmer. What a charmer. He's a charmer.

Just like a chocolate milkshake, only white and disappointing. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. This is very exciting. Thanks to themarket.com, we have a PlayStation 5 to give away. Now, I don't think you can buy these at the moment. They're in such hot demand. Yeah, they're sold out. So this wonderful placethemarket.com, for all your needs,

it's kind of like, what do you compare it to, the other? It's kind of like Amazon for Kiwis, right? Yeah, yeah. Do you like shopping? Well, you can get technical,

you can get sports, you can get outdoor. Yeah, and themarket.com have Black Friday deals today running through to Monday midnight offering up to 50% on selected items and you can stack

an extra 10% site-wide discount on top. Because all morning people have been nominating kind kids. We want to give it to someone deserving. There's so many deserving people, so we've just pulled out someone at random. Yeah, we have, because there was too many heartbreaking stories

that Ben couldn't choose a winner. It's too hard to choose. I was like, it's on you, mate. You need to pick it. And I wanted to give away 400,000 PlayStation 5s and we can't, because we can't get that many. I shouldn't be surprised. This comes from a guy who every caller we get on is like, it's on you, mate. You need to pick it. And I wanted to give away 400,000 PlayStation 5s, and we can't because we can't get that many. Yeah, and I shouldn't be surprised. This comes from a guy who every caller we get on is like, stay there, we'll flick you out something. Everyone gets flicked out something.

We don't know what they're getting flicked out, but they get flicked out something. That's the main thing. Jen Christensen, welcome from Hamilton. Morena. Hi. Hi, Morena. Good to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast, Jen.

Now, you nominated your kids. Yeah, my three eldest sons, Max, Ash and Zach. Okay, now, what have they done to make them the kindest kids in Aotearoa? They do a raft of amazing, kind, generous things, giving things to homeless people and just helping out with other people. But one thing in particular that stands out was last year, they wanted new bikes for Christmas, but they noticed the neighbour's kids were borrowing their

bikes every single day coming over because they don't have bikes of their own. So I suggested to the kids that when they get new bikes, they should hand down their second-hand bikes to the neighbours. But they thought it would be a better idea if the neighbour's kids had brand new bikes. And so at midnight, we snuck over and we left them at the back door so they still don't know to this day where their bikes came from but we've just had a letter from Santa I guess they know it comes from Santa to say that they've been so good

this year and here's the bikes and helmets to protect them and we're more than happy seeing them riding the bikes on the lane knowing that their bikes haven't been upgraded yet, you know, it's still a year on, we still haven't upgraded theirs but yeah, that's just, they get more joy, I think, out of, yeah, helping other people in that way.

And I just think they're the coolest kids. I think they absolutely deserve it. And they would lose their mind to have a PlayStation 5. They've been talking about it all year. What a generous thing to do. Oh, my gosh. So the neighbours still don't know. No.

No, they know it's from Santa, is all they know, because it was just left at the doorstep. And they ride them every day. They ride them to school. They love them. But they had never had bikes before. Oh, that's an amazing thing. Producer Humphreys is just telling us that your father,

or their granddad, taught them a lot about kindness growing up. Oh, it was my mum, actually, their gran. They were very, very close to their gran a couple of years ago, and she used to do things like Christmas Eve, she'd go to the Tarata Poles, and all the kids would dress up, all of our boys would put Santa hats on, and they would hand out pole noodles

and swim rings and balls to all of the kids there just to sort of brighten their Christmas. So she liked to do random acts of kindness, and so each year in her memory, we do random acts of kindness. So for them, I think this was their way of remembering their gran was doing this for the kids next door. Oh, beautiful story.

Beautiful story. Now, have the kids gone to school yet? No, they are still at home. And they know about this competition. And they've been looking at me with very eager eyes. And I've been giving them very sad faces. Is there one that we can speak to right now to tell them? I think there's three. Okay, should we go on speaker? Oh yeah. I'll be on speaker, hang on a sec.

All right, I'll just go on slide. Okay, here we go. About to give three children a piece. Hi boys, I've got Jono and Ben on the phone. We were just talking about the competition that I entered. There were a lot of really deserving kids out there. So, yeah, I don't think we're going to get it. But they wanted to call and just say, like, congrats on doing that awesome thing with your bike. Great lead-in. Great lead-in.

You guys there? Hey, how's it going? Hello. Have we got Max, who's 12, 9-year-old Ash and 7-year-old Zach. Yeah. You guys do some amazing things. We just heard the wonderful story about the bikes

and guess what, guys? What? Thanks to themarket.com, we're going to give you a brand new PlayStation 5. Wow! Thank you! Wow! a brand new PlayStation 5. Wow, it's awesome, guys. Great play by you.

Great play by Mark. Yeah, good pranking. Good pranking. Guys, you've got, this is even, Christmas hasn't even come. Yeah, I know. You supposed to wait till Christmas, though. No. No, now this is, well, you've got Christmas hasn't even come Yeah, I know You've got to wait until Christmas though

No No, now this is We'll leave that in your hands Jen You can have that debate for the next three weeks whether you get it out of the box or not

But well done guys It seems like you're such generous little boys and this is a small token of appreciation So you have a great Christmas you guys

and keep up the lovely things that you're doing for fellow New Zealanders. It's awesome. Awesome. Thank you guys so much. Hey, you've got toothpaste on the side of your mouth. It's Jono and Ben on my heads.

So yesterday, the New Zealand Herald audience numbers were announced. There's some pretty awesome numbers. And to talk more about it right now, we've got the NZME Managing Editor, Shane Curry. Nice to have you here, Shane. Morning, team. How are you?

Lovely to hear from you. I've been with good numbers, great numbers. Sounded like Trump. Some of the best numbers you'll ever see. They are. A lot of people, though. Over 2 million people read The Herald online or obviously in paper form, right? Yeah, yeah.

We're at a record high, actually. And obviously it's been a massive news year for everybody. But yeah, yesterday our readership results were announced for both print and digital. And yeah, we're at 2 million for the Herald. That's awesome. It's incredible. But as you say, what an extraordinary year of news. You know, a pandemic, you have royals leaving, you know,

the royal family, you've had elections in America. Two elections. Two elections. Zealand referendum, Jono and Ben on the hits. That's right. You guys have revolutionised the radio space here at NZ. But have you ever seen a year like this? No.

All the time you've been at the Herald? No, and I made the mistake this time last year of saying 2019, obviously with Christchurch and White Island and Sky City Fire. I said, we'll never see another New Year like it. And then... Jeez, yeah. Yeah, just wild. It's interesting, though, that obviously COVID was the,

obviously still is the biggest story about my career anyway. But the US election, it was up there. It actually surpassed the New Zealand election in terms of interest, you know, and the ongoing interest. And I think that's partly because, you know, Trump's still holding out and dragging it along. Yeah, well, I mean, ours is very boring and very bland in comparison, isn't it? We were sort of more missionary and they were taking some wilder. Yeah, doing some wild things. Because we always ask ourselves this question when we're talking about the US election on the show.

Do people care? But they actually do. The Kiwis do. Yeah, they do. In America, it's called the Trump bump. And it's where the New York Times and the Washington Post, they tripled their digital subscriptions in the last four years. Oh, wow. So, you know, for all his faults, he's actually been very good for journalism.

Yeah. In terms of people needing to turn to trusted information. If I said on the internet, I believe it, you know, and there must be so much false or fake news to quote Trump out there on the internet, you know. There is so much. And I think that's actually contributed to our great numbers, not just for us, but the mainstream media, I think, has come into its own this year in New Zealand for a lot of reasons. And I think people have turned back to traditional news sources to get the truth. And it's not an echo chamber. You do read other people's opinions in the newspaper

or on the Herald website, whereas in a social media feed, you're often just reading what your friends and family are saying and it's often probably aligned to your own views. That would, you know, because you could quote the Red Peak flag, the marijuana referendum. If you're on social media, you're like, these things are in, home and host. Yeah, you're right.

Yeah, look, it's a constant battle. And I mean, the journalists, including me, we love Twitter. It's a great news source and a news wire for us. But actually, most of the public are living their real lives and they're not on Twitter. And so we do have to sort of put our head above the... We've got Shane Carey with us, NZME Managing Editor. We're talking about the New Zealand Herald.

Shane, we wanted to put you on the spot right now. Oh, yes. That's a stitch-up, Shane. So the New Zealand Herald online, you have an online quiz that comes out each morning. We wanted to put you up against a listener who's phoned through and put you one-for-one questions. And if this listener beats you,

we'll give them a Herald Premium subscription. Oh, good. I don't know if you're on board with this, but Ben's just said it, so we're going to do it now. Let's go to Auckland. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Gary Moreno, how are you? How are you, boy?

We're doing well. Meet Shane. You're going to be taking Shane on to the Daily Quiz. First question, Ben Boyce. Which one would you... Shane or Gary first? We'll go Shane first.

Okay, Shane. According to myth, vampires are vulnerable to what vegetable? Brussels sprouts, garlic or onions? Garlic. Okay, always got that one correct. Well done. One from one.

Over to Gary. Okay, what body part does... Oh, jeez. I'm going to have to get... Shane to read out the always got that one correct. Well done. One from one. Over to Gary. Okay, what body part does... Oh, jeez. I'm going to have to get... Shame to read out the word of that one. Nephrologist. Nephrologist, yeah. Nephrologist study.

Is it the kidneys, knees, or heart? Gary. That's a tough one. I couldn't even say the word. What were the options, please? What body part does a nephrologist study? Kidneys, knees, or heart? Kidneys. Oh, he's got it right. Oh, Gary. Oh, there we go. I thought a nephrologist study. Kidneys, knees or heart? Kidneys.

Oh, he's got it right. Oh, Gary. I thought a nephrologist was from that show, The GC. That's what they say to me all the time here. Who wore the number 23 shirt for both Real Madrid and Los Angeles Galaxy? Shane, was it Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham or Cristiano Ronaldo? Yeah, I think that's Beckham. David Beckham, you are correct.

Well done. There we go. back to Gary. All right, Gary. Which famous fictional dog is owned by Emily Elizabeth? Is it Lassie, Clifford or Cuju? I feel like you're falling into the harder question category, Gary. Gary's definitely got the harder one. A nephologist?

Gary, this is like a snitch, Gary. Look, I'm going to'm gonna I'm just gonna give Gary the New Zealand I've been sorry hold on we'll do Shane's next question Shane spell blue

and Gary yeah Jesus poor Gary hey Gary we're gonna get the 12 month premium New Zealand Herald

subscription mate you have a wonderful weekend awesome guys thanks very much oh good on you Shane Curry thank you very much for coming in thanks Dan it made me sweat I was just reading Gary, we're going to get the 12-month premium New Zealand Herald subscription. Mate, you have a wonderful weekend. Awesome, guys. Thanks very much. Oh, good on you. Shane Curry, thank you very much for coming in. Thanks, Dan.

It made me sweat. I was just reading out the questions. New Zealand's breakfast. Just don't eat them. They're chewy. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy. No WhatsApp.

Spy.co.nz. Juliet, she's like a little sister to us, isn't she, Ben? That's if we had parents who got quite a surprise they could still actively procreate in their late 60s. But that's what you're like to us, Juliet. Thank you. I think you guys are like my uncles, my cool uncles that rip out dad jokes all the time, you know?

Of course. Then wouldn't we be dads? We're doing dad jokes? Yeah, but you guys aren't my dads, you know? You're not my real dads. You've never been my real dad. Tell me what to do. Now, if you guys had to choose

someone who would play Obama in a biopic, who do you reckon would be a good contender? It's quite a tough one, eh? Denzel? Will Smith would do it. Will Smith played Muhammad Ali. Oh, fantastically.

Who else would be good? Drake? Oh, honey, you should say that. Jamie Foxx. Jamie Foxx, yeah, that's another shout. He played well. He was amazing. Now, Drake, who you'll probably know from this big hit a few years ago,

he's a rapper, and he, back in 2010, said that he'd be keen to play Obama in a biopic. And this was when Obama would have been, like, a couple of years in his presidency. And now Obama has officially given him the stamp of approval. It's taken him 10 years to decide whether he wanted Drake or not. I know. For a movie that's not actually getting made, right? No, no, it's all hypothetical.

But Obama said that Malia and Sasha, his daughters, would be very keen for that, especially probably if they got to meet him as well he's got the same hairline Drake

do you think as Obama yeah you just need to grey it out a little bit Vin Diesel came to you and said I really want to play you

John O'Brien in a movie what would you say I'd say I'll go Gollum mate Gollum's probably a better I was trying to

give you Vin Diesel I was trying to give you a big up pack and save stick man for you. This week at Pack and Save. Oh, yeah. I'm going to take that.

Animated movie, great. But we were talking about... You've got a great name for movies. A few good Ben. Avengers. Yeah, Avengers. Avengers, oh, that's right. You had another one, what did you say?

Ben and Black. Oh, Ben and Black. Yeah, like Men in Black, yeah. You've got a great name to be a movie title. Let's Photoshop you into those movie posters. Or just a common name, you say? Ben and Black. Oh, Ben and Black. Yeah, like Ben and Black. Yeah. You've got a great name to be a movie title. Let's Photoshop you into those movie posters. Or just a common name,

you know, just a common name. I suppose you could say the same for Glenn or Ken. Yeah. A few good Ken works as well, doesn't it? Yeah.

So whether that movie comes out or not, I'm not really sure, but Drake reckons he's a good impersonator of, I was going to say of Trump, but no, of Obama. That'd be quite fun. I'd going to say of Trump, but no, of Obama.

That'd be quite fun. I'd like to watch that. Yeah, that'd be a great movie. Now, we've been talking a lot about the Skinny ads that are on TV at the moment about Skinny's Endless Data Weekends. Only if you're on a $16 plan or over. Thank you, Jono. Two gig of max speed data

and then Endless Data after that. Only if you're on a $16 plan or over. Yes. Now, at the end of the ad, they say anything could happen in 2020. And they talk about Israel Dagg, former All Black, having a rap career because he rapped in the Air New Zealand video. Yeah, so I guess there's a connection there. And anything can happen in 2020. I could go out there and marry that couch outside.

That could happen. Yeah, you could. You could do anything in 2020. It's also handy for sleeping on, too, when I go home and tell my wife I've married a couch. Yeah, you could. You could do anything in 2020. It's also handy for sleeping on too when I go home and tell my wife I've married a couch. Yeah, you're sleeping on the couch, you know. Am I what? If you know what I mean. Married that couch.

Weird. This is an odd tangent. Pull it back. Pull it back. Anyway, he says, could be starting a rap career. Well, that's the rumour. And we sort of spoke to him about this earlier in the week. He didn't deny it. He said, if you guys impress me enough,

we could get involved, jump on board. And he joins us right now. Welcome back to New Zealand's Breakfast, former All Black Israel Dag. Yeah. Guess who's back? Back again. Back again.

Izzy's back. Baggy's back. How are you, mate? I'm good, lads. How are you? How's your week been? Of course, the ad's been running for a few days now, mentioning the apparent supposed return,

return of the Dag in the rap game. How's the week been? Mate, it's been good. There's been a lot of chat, a lot of hype around about Lil Dag and what he's going to bring out and, you know, I've created a fair few content over my career, you know, in New Zealand. It's probably the best safety ad ever.

But the reality is, if I do that, I'm going to embarrass myself. So, no, I'm not going to have a rap career this year and I'm probably never going to do it ever again. Oh, you're not? Oh, what? No, no. Oh, okay're not? No, no. Okay. Because we've gone to... Anyway, no, don't worry.

We've made a little bit of trouble doing some stuff to try and... You could have mentioned this at some stage when we brought up the skinny hair, but that's fine. Have you got something for me? Oh, no. We may have written a song

and may have gone to the lengths of getting Sole Mio to sing it. But that's fine. That's cool. To be honest with you, Izzy, though. Oh, serenade me. Come on. No, to be honest, it's probably best this way because we just played the song before

and we tried to even, we couldn't feature in our own song. We weren't even good enough to feature in our own song. We had to get Sole Mio, one of our Solomio Amatai to be in it. So, yeah, so maybe it's for the best. Yeah, nah, boys, it's for the best. Like, I just don't want to ruin anything. Like, there's a lot of great rappers

in New Zealand and people around the world and if I just do it, I'll just embarrass myself. But, hey, get me out and about and I might be able to bust a little rhyme for you, but I'm not going to do it on air. Sorry about that. Okay. All right, that's done.

Well, who's to say what we did renders this a giant waste of time? Not me. Not me. Izzy's not. He was joking the whole time. And good luck to you, my friend. You're a good man, Izzy. No, thank you very much, team, and I'm sorry about that.

A little bag might make a little appearance later in life, but not right now. Just a little appearance. We've had enough drama in it. Fair enough, fair enough. Okay. Good on you, Izzy. Thank you, mate. Thanks, boys.

Well, geez, to coin a reference that might be familiar to Izzy, like a game of rugby, we just got played, Ben. We just got played. And, well, we recorded a song. We wrote a song. Yeah, we did. We spent tireless minutes producing this song. Tens

of minutes. We got some people roped in to sing the song. And we'll play it again for you next. Yeah, I'd like to play it. Can we play it? Well, we only played it once yesterday. It feels like it needs a run. Another run to get our monies worth. Yeah. 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. It is a hit. Jono and Ben in the weekend, Blinding Lights. He was meant to be nominated for a Grammy, wasn't he, for that? Yeah, well, yeah. He should have got a few Grammy nominations by all accounts. Snubbed. Snubbed by the Grammys.

Elton John's come out in support of him. So has Drake as well, too. Song of the Year, Record of the Year. That's what they're saying. Yeah. Something that may be Song of the Year next year. Is that a segue? I just tried one.

Wonderful segue. And yeah, a strong contender as well. Elton John and Drake are also putting their weight behind this song, too. Yeah. So we've made a version. We did it to play to Israel Dag, but if you just heard before that, he didn't want to hear it because he's not having a rap career. It just rendered, you know,

four days of our time pointless, didn't it? It did. Israel Dag said he was going to start a rap career. He was like, well, record a song, show me what you got. We did. He didn't even want to hear it. Wouldn't even give it the time of day.

Just said, oh, no, it's just joking. I'm not doing a rap career. I don't know how the weekend feels. It was brutal in the music industry, isn't it the time of day. Just said, oh, no, I was just joking. I'm not doing a rap career. I don't know how the weekend feels. It was brutal in the music industry, isn't it? It's brutal. It hurts your feelings. Well, at least he's got the Super Bowl to make him feel better. Yes, true.

We've got nothing. You've got a dog bowl on Dog Almighty. But, yeah, we're going to debut for the 7 O'Clock Club a song that we did record. Now, we went out there and tried to record a parody of marriage love to savage love. You know, the Jason Derulo song. About all the things that happen in a marriage. Now, you guys, you know, you text and called through with suggestions of what we could put in there. My husband never changes the empty toilet roll.

I don't know how many times I have to tell him, but every time it's empty and it's just left on the roll. My husband finishes work earlier than me, so when he comes home, he'll just start watching the Netflix show that we've been watching together. And he'll literally start watching it, and then I'll sit down after dinner being like,

cool, let's watch another episode, and we've skipped an entire episode because he's watched it. Forgetting your anniversary. I mean, no matter how many times I drop the hint, quite often my husband will forget our anniversary. And there were other things, like guys phoning through saying, we'll go out for dinner, I order a meal, my wife says she's fine,

then she ends up eating all of my food. So these were the things that we're going to try and work into the song. And ladies and gentlemen, we went to sing it and we were shocking. Yeah, we were terrible. It was so bad I don't even want to air it again. No, that's not. That's not good. So we've got a couple of people that can sing to join us

or join us on the song. We sat there in the studio while they sang. Jono and Ben, feet friends. Amitai from Soleimio. And the wonderful Laura McGoldrick too from the 3pm Pickup. They jumped on. They made it sound half decent. We sat back.

We get to take the credit for it. Got my nerve upset till you married me, you said I do Got us two kids, seems like forever since I married you You said you'd don't be buying, be buying Ryan's shoes You're so lazy, you never replace the wallpaper Does this shirt fit? Yes, babe Hey, did you just lie to me? Hey, did you watch our favorite Netflix show without me? Usually I order dinner, you say you're fine

And when it comes, you know, you eat all of mine I remember on the day You missed our anniversary I said sorry Marriage, love, did somebody, did somebody Get dishes done? Looking like someone forgot to pick up our son. You shop online, I know it's more than 20 bucks.

But wouldn't replace a marriage love. A marriage love, a love. A marriage love, a love. Mom's coming to stay. But wouldn't replace a marriage love. More painful than your alarm clock. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Todd, our boss, he mentioned something yesterday that really rung home. It's really resonated with you, isn't it?

It's resonated. It's touched me in a special place. It's touched me so much I think I need to go to HR. Keep talking about it. You're like, what Todd said before was beautiful. It was funny. It was one for words. They weren't even touching words.

But for some reason it really struck a chord with me. You're like, that's right, Todd. I hope it's going to strike a chord with you. I hope it's going to touch you as well. You can take me to HR. Oh, jeez. But he was saying, you know, the supermarket car parks. We've all been there. You're like, relatable.

We've all been there. It's relatable. You've been to a supermarket car park, Juju? Yes, I have, yep. You've driven your car to a supermarket car park? Yes. Ben, are you guilty of doing that? Yeah, I've done that many times. I've been there too. At least weekly, you know. And it's a difficult place now, at the best of times. You've got car parks designated to expectant mothers.

Mothers who have given birth. Oh, no, but they've got... No, let's not get into the light. Electric vehicles. Yeah, you get the word about that one, eh? People in blue cars having a bad day. Someone who had a disagreement with their partner this morning and just needs easy access to the supermarket.

Most of them are valid reasons. Three quarters of the car parks are assigned for people, you know? And so you have to park three kilometres away on the other side of the car park. But that aside, once you do find a car in a busy car park and you're sitting there and you're indicating to go into it. So you want to get into your park, right? Yeah.

Someone's coming the opposite way. They see the car park. They look you dead in the eyes. They know that you've laid claim to that. Yeah. But they have the right of way with road rules and they go in. Is that a fair play? In the eyes of the law, they're okay to take that left,

zoom into the car park, but you're sitting there having your right. You're just waiting for oncoming traffic. You know what you're doing. Yeah, it does feel like you've been there first, right, where you put your indicator on. I would say that if you're in there, you put your indicator on your first, and that's yours.

Is that the rule of thumb? Is that the social? I feel like you've claimed it, but maybe you haven't. Yeah, text 4487. Juju, where do you sit on this? I tend to agree with Ben, but then when you think of the road rules, you're so right. You have to give way Ben, but then when you think of the road rules, you're so right. You have to give way to that person.

But I think surely everyone... Does it matter in supermarket car parks? On the road, but then do the rules change within a supermarket car park? Does that rule not apply? It probably does apply. But you notice the people that always do snake the parks, they're never wanting to look at you.

No, no, no. The last thing I want to do is snake someone's bargain. Oh, sorry, and then too late now. And I'll just mumble something and lock the car hastily. We've all been there. Told you it was relatable. Whose side are you on here? Are you on the right-hand turner's side or the left-hand?

Do you have that happen to you? It happens to me quite often when I'll go, oh, here's a part, because someone's just getting their stuff in. You put your indicator on on and then for some reason it feels like they're at 100% speed and then they suddenly drop down to about 5%.

Unloading shopping. Shopping in the car, put the thing, they're buckling the kids and they put their trolley back, they're readjusting their rear vision mirror. They feel like they're doing

everything but leave the car park and you're holding up about nine cars after you and people are getting annoyed. You'll get in stress. They'll get in stress. You're like, just go, mate. Just go. And then the ironic thing is in a completely empty car park and you're holding up about nine cars after you and people are getting annoyed. You'll get in stress. They'll get in stress. You're like, just go, mate. Just go. And then the ironic thing is, in a

completely empty car park, you can never choose what park to go in. Oh, no, no, no. Maybe a bit further there. Let's go to the phone. Sam, who's in the right in this instance? Is it the right-handing turning motorist or the left? Sorry, is that me?

That's you. Yeah. I don't know if there's road rules in the car park. I think whoever there was first is. First and first serve. It's the law of common decency. That's what you're applying. Do you use parent parks?

Yes, but I feel like my time is almost over because Leo's 14 months now and I feel like it's almost been cheeky now because he's not really a baby. No, that's fine. I've got a 25-year-old son. I still go in there. I just put him in a car seat. You know,

in my local New World they have family parking. Oh, they've got another category. There really was. I think the problem is they've opened Pandora's box because they've gone, oh, you know,

pregnant mothers and they were like, well, what about mothers who give birth? What about families? All guys that aren't wearing a hat that need to walk across the gone, oh, you know, pregnant mothers. And they were like, well, what about mothers who give birth? What about families? All guys that aren't wearing a hat that need to walk across the car park on a sunny day, Jono. What about you?

Exactly. I'm going to start a campaign for that. Not a morning person. Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. All right, ladies and gentlemen, here's a group of stories you may or may not be interested in.

But the main thing is Ben has said a collection of words out of his mouth and that's what he's paid to do. And I'll do some right now. It is Black Friday here in New Zealand. It's a big day for shoppers, not just in New Zealand, but around the world. It came out of America. It's the day after Thanksgiving in America. So it's massive, massive discounts, particularly in America, for shopping.

Does Thanksgiving always fall on a Thursday? I think they always put it on a Thursday, yes. Oh, so the date changes? Yeah. Ah, I never knew. It's kind of like one of those Queen's birthday situations. Yeah, right. It's like a feast, blah, blah, blah.

All the footage that I saw of Black Friday up until New Zealand had it were just like Americans ripping each other's throats out. I saw a lady kick a kid in the face. It's pretty full on. It started back in the 1950s in Philadelphia, I was reading. So there was lots of chaos

around the city after Thanksgiving. Tourists flooded the city in advance because they had a big football game on the Saturday after Thanksgiving

and so they reckon that's how Black Friday started. There was a lot of people descended on Philadelphia. I was like, let's capitalise. Stimulate the local economy. And there's also

the word that it became because the accountants, when they're doing their books, in red pen, they put like losses and in black pen, they put their profits. So Black Friday was

profitable. Oh, Ben's voice. Wonderful Black Friday. I got some stats. I got some stats. I got stats on stats. Stat man. If you want to know

New Zealanders about Black Friday, here you go, from the Herald this morning. 53% of Kiwis will shop at Black Friday if the price is right. And so one in 10 will shop for a 25% discount and more than a third will shop for a 50% discount. Producer Humphrey was like, I haven't seen any good deals yet. I've only seen 20% off.

I don't get out of bed for 20%. No, but you get out of bed for a low-rating radio show every morning at four. You should get out of bed for 20% discount, but you get out of bed for a low-rating radio show every morning at 4. Maybe you should get out of bed for 20% discount and not this show. You'd be better off. Are you Black Friday shopping today for Christmas, you guys? No, I'm probably not that organised for Christmas. I do need to get a microwave.

Christmas is only three weeks away. I know, but I'm not that organised. You know, like I've got to kind of have... I'm not three weeks organised. No. But Allbirds, the New Zealand-based footwear company, they do environmentally woollen shoes. Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the owners.

That's right. They put their profits... So they put their prices up today instead of down. So up by a dollar today, and they're going to donate some of the money... To the environment. Yeah, to Greta Thunberg's charity, because basically they're kind of...

It's kind of a way to kind of go, well, it's all against consumerism and you know all this bad stuff that Black Friday maybe does for the environment you know with people

throwing out old products they've kind of put their prices up as a way of sort of making a stand that's a lovely gesture yeah that's a lovely gesture

and the money goes to a good cause so there you go Greta yeah well yeah her charity what's Greta going to do with the cash

it's called Fridays for Future well no she's not going to her she's trying to save's called Fridays for Future. Well, no, she's not going to her. She's trying to save the planet. Yeah, right. How's she going? I think she's going to cry. I think she's going to be better than us, that's for sure. Yeah, well, she's definitely doing a better job than me.

So full credit to her. I love that little Greta. She's great. I was going to tell you about something very exciting for you. Why don't you do that now? I might lord that over you for a little bit. What's going on? It's three minutes?

No, I want to know now. Stop holding off on your surprise. Producer Juliet sent this through to me this morning. There's a dating app now for bald people. What about married bald people? Is there a specific dating app for that? So for people, it's actually a really nice thing. So bald dating was created to show that being bald doesn't matter.

And it proves that there are people out there that prefer men that are bald. Don't treat us like a charity case. Oh, now you've got your little special app, mate. I'm saying it's a good thing. It's a really nice thing. So, you either need to be thinning up top or be open to dating someone who is.

So, you're Prince Williams? He's ideal? Yeah. So, the person that started the dating site has also made one in the past for people, men with smaller appendages. We're in that category. Sympathy apps. And also people that enjoy like 20 year age gaps and stuff as well. He's like, what other weird things can I focus in on?

I know, bald idiots. So there you go, a dating app for bald people. You could start a marry-bored one if you want, controversially. A sub-app. Hey, are you bald but then no one out of your marriage wants to be with you? What if I got the app for you? Scrolling through your feed this morning. Like starting your day without your morning coffee.

It's Jono and Ben on my heads. The A to Z of New Zealand. Juliet. Yes? Go take a good long hard look in the mirror. I signed out, I'm sorry. There was at least 0.5 of a second of dead air there and you shook your head.

Yeah. You were disappointed in yourself. I didn't know what was going on in my brain before thinking about dinner. No, listen, that's fine. It's only a couple of seconds of dead air. Let's not stress about it. On a show that people may or may not be listening to.

Yeah, exactly. This is the A to Z of New Zealand, where we phone every town in Aotearoa. We do one a day today, heading to the Northland region, Kaiangaroa. Not to be confused with the Kaiangaroa Forest, which is in the Bay of Plenty, not Northland. And the translation for Kaiangaroa is the long area of land. And I have no quirky information today. Oh, really? No, just factual, good, honest, solid, factual information.

Oh, that's good. That's nice. Now, I think we have someone on hold right now who's a local potter. His name's Mack. Are you there? It is indeed. It's John Owen Bing from the Hits radio station. How's things? Things are good, yeah No complaints Can you do me a favour, Mac?

Can we just put you on hold now we've spoken to you? And then I'll bring you back and I'll sing you a song, okay? Okay So there we go I know what you're doing there Hi, Mac Yeah It's the return of the Mac

I don't know if Mac knows that original song from Mark Morrison, that Return of the Mac. Have you ever heard the song Return of the Mac? No, I haven't. Hold there, Mac. I'll get it for you. Hold there. Okay.

Here's the song, Mac. You ready? Yeah. Return of the Mac. Return of the Mac. Now, Mac, to be honest, was that worth it? I think it's a pretty good one, yeah. Yeah.

You can use that as your theme song. Anytime you've been anywhere, you've gone away and you've returned. That's the return of the Mac. You walk in the room. Return of the Mac. Now, we haven't just called you to play songs from the early 2000s to you, Mac. We've called to find out about where you live. Well, I live in Kaingaroa. This is

a little town very close to Kaitaia. Kaingaroa. Do you know what we're doing, Mac? We're phoning every town in New Zealand. We do one per day. And so today we're doing Kaingaroa. So tell us about the place, Mac. Well, it's really just a wide spot on the

road, to be honest. That would be a great town slogan. It's really just a wide spot on the road. Quite a thriving farming community here and mostly people in the forestry and farming business. It's a good community. Now you, I detect a Canadian accent on you, Mac. I'm a Yank, actually, although I've been in New Zealand about 45 years. Oh, wow, you've still got quite the accent.

How did you end up in Kayangaroa of all places? Well, I'm a potter, and my wife and myself were looking for a place where we had a good supply of timber for our wood-burning kiln, and that's how we ended up here. So purely for pottery-based reasons? Pottery-based reasons, well, plus the fact it's a lovely area, so. Oh, that's great. The winterless north, you know, appeal to us.

So what sort of things do you make? I make mostly what we call domestic wear, like teapots and casserole dishes. Oh, now that is such a skill. What's the strangest piece of pottery you've made, Mac? Well, I've just made something that's very strange. People have called it a penis pot. But it's not quite a phallic looking, is it? I guess so. strange. People have called it a penis pot. But it's quite phallic looking, is it?

I guess so. I guess there's no other description for it. Wasn't it obviously the intention by the sound of it? What were you trying to make? Yeah, well, it was... I don't know what I was on about, but that's the way it came out. Yeah, right. Just turn it up. Maybe you were trying to make a French

stick or something. Or a spaceship. Something like way it came out. Yeah, right, just turned out. Maybe you were trying to make a French stick or something. Or a spaceship. Yeah, something like that. A spaceship. Hey, Mac, listen, lovely talking to you. Thank you so much for your time. No, no, no problem. And would you like to go out on your theme song? Yeah, why not?

Return of the Mac. And I know he'll be back on our show because he's been a wonderful character. Mac, appreciate your time in Kaiangaroa. Thank you very much. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. Listen, she never wanted this job,

but she got it by default because Ben couldn't be bothered doing it. Here's Juju for Spy. Is that too close to the truth? No, probably not. Look, I enjoy this segment being presented to me. But you don't want to do any of the research or heavy lifting.

To be fair, you do quite a lot of it in the show anyway. You probably need a bit of a break. So obviously, I think it was yesterday or the day before, famous Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona passed away. And Twitter is obviously the platform that everyone talks about immediate news on. And some people got confused between Diego Maradona and Madonna. So people started hashtagging RIP Madonna, thinking that Madonna had passed away,

and then all the memes came up. People photoshopping Madonna's face onto Diego Maradona's football body and everything like that. I mean, people were taking the mickey out of it. But yeah, Madonna, she's not dead everyone, so everyone can chill out. Madonna's dead to me since she released her last album. It was a nightmare.

She really was off the rails. Do you know I was researching Diego Maradona? Football legend. It was a nightmare. It was a nightmare. She really was off the rails. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's... Do you know I was researching Diego Maradona? Oh, yeah, he's a football legend. Yeah, really sad. He was only 60 years old. Really sad he passed away.

Yeah, but he led a wild lifestyle. Yeah. What? Oh, full of... He was like a rock star who played football for Argentina. He was, you know, like he was pretty much a god,

you know, in Argentina, right? Yeah, it was almost like his weekly football game got in the way of his partying. He was full-time party mode. So he would finish a football game on Sunday, start getting on the rantan Sunday, and would just party non-stop.

Wouldn't sleep till Wednesday, when then he would cleanse for a day, then get back to training Friday. Saturday, he would prepare for the game. Sunday, play again and repeat cycle. Oh, really? How is he so good, though? He's a big party lifestyle.

We saw some highlights of him yesterday on the screen, didn't we? He was incredible what he could do with the football. So, yeah, really sad that he's passed away. RIP Madonna. RIP Madonna. And Sam Smith has talked about kids and whether he wants them or not. And he can't decide if he wants two or none, which is kind of a weird thing because you're like, well, you know, you'd either have one or none or maybe, you know.

I can say, no, maybe as serious as two can occupy, they can entertain each other. Oh, that's a good point. If you've got one, it's all on you. You're the star of the show. Yeah, but the thing that he is, the thing that is his reservations about having children is the fact that he likes being able to have them for a little bit

and then just giving them back to the parents, being like, bye, that was fun. So he doesn't have the full responsibility of having to look after a child the whole time. Like the grandparents do, you know? Yeah. High impact. Come off the bench, boom, they cause an absolute scene.

Get them wound up, then leave. You're left to deal with the mess. I see, yeah. But for Sam Smith and the grandparents, it's very enjoyable. Because you always look like the fun one. Yes. In the kids' eyes, you're like, oh, Sam Smith. When Sam Smith comes over grandparents is very enjoyable. Because you always look like the fun one. Yes. In the kids' eyes, you're like, oh, Sam Smith.

When Sam Smith comes over, it's on. And then he just disappears. You know, he's only there for the good times. Yeah, here for a good time, not a long time. He's not wiping up vomit when they spew in the car when they're being casted, are they? Is that what happens with children? Yeah, they vomit. It happens with your rhythm of mind, so I don't know what you're judging.

I'll give you that. I'll give you that. I'll give you that. And that is five, and we can check out the hits. Dogfighter NZ. That is our show for a Friday. It's been really good hanging out with you guys. Yeah, it has been.

Weekend is coming up. Looking forward to the weekend, Ben Boyce. What have you got planned, baby? I'm going to the cricket tonight. It's going to be 20-20 cricket. Oh, yeah. We had Black Cap Jimmy Nisham on before we got him to call your wife Amanda

because you should be at your mother-in-law's birthday. Yeah, but he got me out of it. You're hosting at your house? Yeah. He got you out of it. My wife's hosting it at my house. Yeah, so next week, can Sam Kane get him off so we can go and watch the All Blacks play?

You guys have a great weekend. We'll catch you Monday from 6. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny.