Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - November 30 - NZ's Longest Engagement, Anna Coddington, Jono Avoided Who??

Episode Date: November 29, 2020

Kia ora and happy Monday, TOMORROW IS DECEMBER, HOW WEIRD. Today on the show we chatted with you guys about who is going to the most Christmas dinners this year, and also who has had the longest engagements, there were some goodies! Dr Michelle Dickinson aka Nanogirl aka genius scientist gave us an update on the Covid vaccines and answered some of your questions, man she raises the IQ of the show whenever she's on! And Jono told a story about the lengths he went to to avoid bumping into someone in public. Something rather innovative! Enjoy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Here we go, welcome to the podcast. Wonderful, how was everyone's weekend, all right? Yeah, it was all right, it's just you and me talking right now. Oh, it's just, yeah. I've been everyone listening, okay. But it was a bit of a All right? Yeah, it was all right. It's just you and me talking right now. Oh, it's just... I've been everyone listening. Oh, okay. But it was a bit of a rhetorical question, wasn't it? We're not expecting answers.

Unless you guys want to text us 4487 and say, Hey, I was listening to the podcast. By the way, a bit of an up and down weekend. I got some household jobs done. Had some socialising. Yeah. I wish I did more socialising sort of thing. Here's a question to start things off for the podcast.

So I just saw this on social media. There are roughly 40 million kangaroos worldwide. And in this instance, in this post, they've said there's 8 million people in Ohio. But if you take New Zealand stats, 5 million people, that means that if kangaroos invaded New Zealand, there'd be 8 kangaroos per person. That would, you know, like the kangaroos.

They'd outnumber us. They're going to win. How many in Australia? Oh, population? Yeah. I think it's like 20 million or something. So they're two to one. Two to one in Australia.

Yeah. Are kangaroos only based in Australia? Well, they say worldwide in the tweet, but I'm not sure. But yeah, I mean, we've got a couple in the zoos here and there. Oh, yeah. But yeah, your obligatory. Oh, what was that fact I was thinking of? 24 million in Australia.

There you go. Almost 25 million. There we go. So there was some fact. Oh, camels. You know, the country that has the most camels in the world, Australia. More camels than the Middle East. Oh, really?

The Middle East get all their camels from Australia. They ship them over to Dubai and Abu Dhabi and the likes of. But I think we've had this conversation before, and you're like, well, why don't they start their own breeding program in Dubai and Abu Dhabi? Why are they flying camels? Yeah. A camel on a plane wouldn't be cheap.

Although there's plenty of space at the moment for international flights. Maybe that's what they're doing, they're just ferrying. South Africa has its own kangaroo, a smaller version than the Australian one, so there you go. Quite bullyish, the kangaroo as an animal. Yes. You know, if it was a human, you'd be like, oh, that's a bully, that's a bully. And always after a couple of beers, it'd get a bit, you know, fisty, you know, get quite fisty with the fighting and things like that. So that's how I imagine the kangaroo. Have you seen a kangaroo?

There was a kangaroo taking on some Aussie outback guy. Aussie outback guy was trying to get his bag and the kangaroo was boxing him. And the Aussie outback guy was boxing the kangaroo back. Really? Yeah. They talk about boxing kangaroos. The kangaroos being not actually going out, and I don't condone that, but kangaroos being the boxing kangaroo.

They always have their hands up ready to fight, right? They're the kangaroos. I don't think I'd like to take on a kangaroo in a boxing fight. No, no. Kangaroos get very good. They've got nothing to lose. Yeah. You know, you've got a family at home.

You've got a job. Anyway, on the podcast today, we spoke to Nano Girl, who's Michelle Dickinson. She's a wonderfully a wonderfully smart woman. Isn't she? Every time we speak to Nano Girl I learn something

every conversation we have with this person. Yeah, yeah. She's great. We talk about the vaccine today as well as that on the show. What else do we have?

Hey. What else do we have? I told you before we started. No, no. I forgot. We talked about kangaroos for like nine minutes. I had it in my head and. We talked about kangaroos for like nine minutes. I had it in my head and then we talked about kangaroos.

But the kangaroo banter was priceless. Yeah, so I've lost it. We prank called Anika Moore. Oh, that's right. Yeah, we did that. With her best friend down in Coddington who's a musician. And guess what we also did? Longest engagements.

And one guy, Phil, from Tauranga who phoned through, he has been engaged for a number of years. It's gone past the point of there's no real reason to have a wedding now. The amount of time this guy's been engaged, but we'll get him on the podcast as well. Have a wonderful Monday. The Songy Cornflakes of Radio. It's Jono and Ben on the hits.

Matthew Perry from Friends. Producer Julie, you're just telling us off here. He's engaged, right? Yeah, he just got engaged to his girlfriend I think long term girlfriend And he's bloody stuck with it He says that she's the Best woman on this planet Basically

Has he seen all the women On the planet There might be some That's all Like the best dad Your number one dad For Father's Day It's like really

I wouldn't even rank myself At number one No I've said that to the kids I mean I try my best There's a lot of dads In the world Great dads

I wouldn't even say I'm in the top thousand internationally. No, worldwide. No, you wouldn't be. No, because my socks, I do have socks that say world's number one dad. Yeah, like you would need to hand these back. Yeah. I'm a fraud. I feel like my feet are fraudulent when I wear those socks.

But Matthew Perry, she'll say he's 51, she's 29. There we go. Articles are always obsessed with the age, aren't they? We always lap that up, the age of the two people. Yeah, it doesn't matter. No, as long as they're happy. Yeah, exactly. As long as they're happy in their hearts.

And I didn't realise this, he dated Julia Roberts for a while, Matthew Perry. Oh, did he? Yeah. Julia, I didn't realise that. Did you? No. Julia's never brought that up when we've been talking to her. She's unusual.

All those times we've spent with her, I would have thought she once would have brought that up. Julia, you're a pretty woman. She's like, thanks. And you never said, by the way, I've been dating Matthew Perry, but hey, we won't hold that against her. So what are they, three years? I think it was, yeah, three years.

How long were you engaged for? We were seven years until I asked Amanda. Yeah, we were together seven years until I asked her to marry me. Does the acid start to come on after year six? Oh, yeah. From friends and family, not her. It probably ramped up from year three to year five and then everyone went,

oh, that's not happening and kind of, you know. Oh, right, so you go, we were happy, we were happy. And it was like, well, it's not happy in your heart. That's right, no need to. So she'd kind of, you know. So you rode out the awkward two years

of friends and family going, when are you getting engaged? And then everyone's like, oh, I guess they're not. But we ended up doing it. But I brought up the fact that Amanda made me wait like 48 minutes on our wedding day to arrive. She was 48 minutes late, but then she's always going, well, you made me wait seven years.

I'm like, okay, 48 minutes versus seven years. Let's throw this out there. I weighed 100 then, so I think I was about five years after I asked Jen to marry. So, okay, the longest engagements. Now, you could still be engaged, you never got married, maybe it's just lasted years.

I suppose you go past the point of no return where you're like, should we blow money on a wedding or put it into a house or something, you know? So what is the longest engagement out there in New Zealand? Maybe the longest time it took for your partner to propose to you or are you currently sitting in the middle of the longest engagement out there in New Zealand? Maybe the longest time it took for your partner to propose to you?

Or are you currently sitting in the middle of the longest engagement waiting to get married? 4487 is the text, 0800, that's the number. Bee Humps, are you getting married, Producer Humphrey? Is he getting married? Oh, is he not engaged yet? Are you engaged? You're not engaged?

Oh, okay. No, but end of the show. End of the show, yeah. That's it. That's what you do on radio. We're going to make you propose to Kate live. There we go. We'll go to the phones.

Tony, you're on the air. Welcome. Hiya. Now, longest engagements. That's what we're talking, Tone. What have you got? I've been engaged. Well, we were nine years together before he actually proposed,

and then we're coming up 20 years at the beginning of next year. 20 years of being engaged? No, 20 years of being together, and I'm still waiting for a wedding. Oh, you haven't had a wedding? Wow. Nope. So would you still want one? Are you like, now are we good?

Oh, he just says it's a bit of paper. That's what they all say. We're already married. We all know it's not a bit of paper. In the eyes of the lawyer, Mary, three years, right? That's it, you know? We're already married. But we all know it's not a bit of paper. In the eyes of the lawyer, you're married three years, right? That's it, you know? Who is this monster, Tony? Just name and shame him.

I'll give you his number and you can call him up. Yeah, we'll do that. We'll get him on after eight o'clock, okay? I promise. We'll put some more pressure on him, Tony. Oh, no, look, as you guys are happy

and it's all going with you, don't need it. We are, we're happy. We've got a little princess who's performing in the back now. Oh, we'll say hello to that little princess. That's what Ben calls me

every morning. Go and have a great day, Tony. You too. All right. Morena, Jackie and Tauranga, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Longest engagements is what we're talking.

What have you got? We've been engaged 18 years. Together, 22. So I think I'll win this one. So he's coming early after the four-year mark. Yeah. But then really pumped with the brakes for the last 16 years. Absolutely.

Absolutely. 18 years of bliss. Is it as good as being married, you know, engagement? I mean, you've still got that connection. You've still got that, you know, you've committed to each other. Absolutely. Yeah. Like you said before, it's a bit of paper,

and I'll have to change my surname. The admin associated with that. Yeah. Yeah. I imagine that would be frustrating. Now, did you buy a wedding dress that you've just been, have hidden in the cupboard for the last 16 years? No.

No, no, no. Didn't go down that path. Yeah. Thank God. Okay. I thought it would fit after 18 years Are you planning to get married? Well, we nearly did in lockdown

He got pretty close in lockdown Because he thought he could get away with it With just a maximum of 10 people But I stood my ground on that one Oh, so it's more that he's a tight arse Yeah He's a tight ass. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

He's a groom after Ben's heart. Yeah, I like it. Locked down. Great play, great play. Hey, good on you, Jackie. Go and have a great Monday, eh? Cheers. And I think Jackie did really well. She's great.

We can't be there, surely. Well, we are. We're going to head to Hamilton. Phil, you old Casanova. How many years have you been engaged, Phil? Oh, he's gone. After all that, I gave him a big build up and I was like, oh, he's going to do better.

How long has he been? 28 years engaged. No. 28 years, Phil. Jeez. Engaged after a couple and just has ridden it out for 26 years. So there you go. Hopefully that makes... 28 years? 28 years engaged. Wow. I feel like you're making it up now because we didn't have Phil on the phone. Yeah, 26 years. So there you go. 28 years! 28 years engaged! Wow, I feel like you're making it up now

because we didn't have Phil on the phone. Yeah, I know. It really destroys my credibility. All that great credibility that I'd built up over these years. Remember to double pump the virgals. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, a lot of talk in the media around a potential vaccine for COVID-19

and when it could be coming to New Zealand. So we thought we'd find out more information and we love talking to her. Dr. Michelle Dickinson in Nanogirl joins us. How's things? Good morning. It's good. How are you?

How are you? First weekend off. I see you pretty much since the start of the year, last weekend. It was so good. I had a whole weekend away. I went down to the Wairarapa, went hiking. It was cool. You haven't had a weekend off all year.

It's been busy, you know, COVID and all of that. Well, there's been stuff happening. There's been stuff happening. Gee whiz, that's incredible. Seven days a week. Now, Nanogu, we just want to talk to you about vaccines. A lot of them coming through every second day. There's a new company going, we've got a 94.5 success rate.

How long is it until we're jabbing these vaccines in our arms? Hey, look, in New Zealand, it's still a while, okay? It's not going to be probably before March. And there are lots of different reports from lots of different companies. But right now in New Zealand, we only have agreements with two of those companies for two different types of vaccines. So you'll see some vaccines that we might not even get here. And there's lots of, the problem is when one vaccine company goes, oh, we're doing great. Everybody else wants the media as well.

So just because they're releasing lots of data right now doesn't mean that they're all going to be approved. They still have to be approved through the different authorities. So yeah, get excited, but not too excited. And now they're all claiming like 90% or 90 something percent effectiveness. That's quite good compared to the flu jab, right?

They are. And look, you have to, so the great thing about this whole vaccine process is a lot of the data is now available publicly. So we never used to be able to read these trials, but because everybody's interested, they're letting us release it. So when they talk about this efficiency,

and basically it's about of the people that they tested and they've tested different amounts of people how many of them got covid and so we have to remember that some of these studies are still quite small and some of them when they're talking about you know how many people are protected they've had more than one dose so yes it's really exciting yes 90 is amazing but these studies are you know some of them are big some of them are 30 to you know, some of them are big. Some of them are 30,000 to 50,000 people. Some of them only got 70% of their Oxford vaccine, for example. They were only 60-ish percent covered until they got a second dose,

and then that went up to 90%. We were reading that the flu injection some years is only 70% effective. Is that right? Yeah, and look, we have to remember the flu jab is all about. So flu is really complicated. There are multiple strains of flu. So when you make a flu vaccine, you try and make it the year before and predict which strains are going to come. Now, you don't always get that prediction right.

We're quite lucky with COVID-19 in that there's only a few strains that we know of. And so these vaccines are, you know, going to be tailored to that. But also the type of vaccines that are being invented here, these are called mRNA vaccines in some of them, or recombinant vector vaccines. They're a different way of making vaccines compared to how we have before. So this is super exciting.

A bit of a dogleg of a question here. And I know it's like a completely different kettle of fish, but we've got sort of 23, I think, companies working on a COVID vaccine. And we've had cancer for years and there's still not a clear cure for cancer. That astonishes me, but I'm not a scientist, so I don't know. I guess the question is,

could there, if there was enough resource put into it, be a cure for cancer? So this is really exciting. So the mRNA vaccine, which is a totally different type of way of making vaccines um actually there's been a lot of research into whether or not we can vaccinate against cancer using this type of vaccine and i think if we look at the amount of money and focus that's been gone on to get a covid vaccine which has never happened before

it's a bit like when we went to the moon you know everybody just said just said, okay, NASA, you're going to get all the money. We've got this target to beat the Russians to go to the moon. The Americans went there. We're really doing the same thing around investment into science and focus into science for one strategic goal. And I think what we're going to find

is now that we're able to really commercialize this mRNA-type vaccine, it's going to be used for lots of different types of things. And cancer is on the top list of what they're trying to use this vaccine for. Oh, that's incredible. That's awesome. And another thing, I got lost in a bit of a clickbait article. Because you know when people contract COVID-19 and then Ashley's like, oh, they went to Bluff and then they went up to Whangarei to Countdown and then they went to a work do and kissed everyone. It feels like they just

go everywhere and socialise a lot. Now, this article was from scientists, and they were like, granted, this is not factual, but is there something to be said that the COVID-19 virus could make you feel more social, therefore keeping it alive, you're going out, you're spreading it. That was a theory.

I'd ask John about 5G as well, too. But anyway, you can going out, you're spreading it. That was a theory. I asked you about 5G as well too, but anyway, you can answer this question. Look, I mean, there's no scientific basis behind doing that, so it's probably just people doing nothing and just being normal people and I think you'll be surprised at how many places you actually go to

when you don't. It's like people on a diet go, wow, I didn't know I ate all of that food until I started logging it and then I realised that, yeah, I do a lot more than I thought I did diet go, wow, I didn't know I ate all of that food until I started logging it and then I realised that, yeah, I do a lot more than I thought I did. So,

there's no scientific basis that I've seen behind that. Okay, so you're calling me and my article crazy. Alright. Hey Michelle, always lovely talking with you.

Thank you so much. You really, you raise the IQ level of this show instantly as soon as you're on. Thanks guys for having me. Serving bowls of lolls for breakfast.

Actual lolls may not be served It's Jono and Ben on the heads I had to, yesterday a bit of an awkward situation My son, he's got his last year At primary school this year and so they're like Oh we'll make a yearbook sort of thing So they can all make their own year and glue bits And pieces into it

Long story short, he's like I need you to go and get A 1B5 The classic 1B5 It's been around and get a 1B5. The classic 1B5. It's been around for decades, the 1B5, hasn't it? I think Captain Cook wrote his journal on a 1B5, didn't he, when he came to New Zealand? The original map of New Zealand. On a 1B5 notebook.

Did you rock a 1B5 back in the day? Absolutely. They were the best. I forgot they existed until you just brought this up. Hey, can we all have a nice moment here where we've made a reference and it hasn't seemed too dated? Like Juliet, you understand it? We all understand it. We're all playing in the same field.

You know who we've got to thank? We've got to thank the 1B5 Notebook for bringing us all together. Normally we'll say, oh, you remember the Fresh Prince and you'll go, who? Oh, okay. You know? So that's nice. We've had a moment we can all share. Remember when we used to write with ink and feathers? Stop it, stop now. I've seen photos of that.

So anyway, I had to go get a 1B5 book. And I was walking out of Paper Plus, which is wonderful. It's got more than paper. More than Plus. Do you reckon they just started with paper and were like, guys, this is not working. We need to get Plus stuff. Plus books.

Plus stationery. It's like the one, two, three and more dollar store. So, you know, it came out and I saw a guy that we used to work with, Ben. But I was in a huge rush because I was running late and I had to pick my family up. And I was like, oh, I like he's a great guy. Don't get me wrong. I want this to be known from the get go. But I know that if I became engaged in a conversation,

it's a seven to 14 minute banter. Jeez, you're really, yeah. Oh, because, you know, I would be rude to cut it short. It's one of those ones. Haven't seen them all. It'd be, what have you been up to? How's the family? What, you know.

You'd be covering a raft of topics. And I just didn't have time at that moment to talk to her. Right, okay. And it was at this moment where I'm like, jeez, we rely on our phones a lot to pull us out of awkward social situations, don't we? Because you can just pull a, whether you're waiting in line,

you've got nothing to do, you look at your phone. We tend to be making a conversation as well. Oh, yeah, no. Exactly, it just saves you. It was so reliant on it. And I had nothing else apart from a 1B5. Oh, so you didn't have your phone in the situation?

No, I was in the car. And I was like, I need to look busy because he's sitting on a chair outside a shop. So I just start reading and walking the 1B5. The blank 1B5. The blank 1B5 notebook. In front of your face? Yeah, in front of my face. Well, no, just so he'd look.

Oh, well, he looked busy, obviously. He's written down some research notes. Yeah, there's lots of lines on that. I have more lines on that one. And the worst thing was I was still, because I committed to it, walked past him and then I got stuck at the lights and I was still reading it because I didn't want him to look and go, oh, he was just reading that past me to avoid me.

So I kept reading it and then he came up behind me and then saw that there was nothing. I was reading nothing. How did you deal with that situation? I was like, hey, mate. I was like, hey, I was just checking in all the bits and they're all stapled in and that's all good. And so it turns out I had a 7 to minute 14 conversation with him.

Couldn't get out of it then. Oh, I find the supermarket ones can be the worst. When you run into someone at the start, you have your convo, but then you catch up with them pretty much every aisle. You never want to meet someone in the produce aisle because it's going to be, you're right. If you're going to meet them, meet them down desserts. Yes, right towards the checkout.

Deodorants, yeah. Different lanes, you're like, yeah, nice to see you. Sometimes I wait at the end of the aisle, I'm like, oh, they're turning in, so you jump an aisle ahead. You're like, hold on, I'm going to have to work back. I'm going to skip whatever's in that section. I'll start at the frozen to work my way back.

Yeah, but also, have you found another thing with awkward conversations where sometimes people go, do you remember me? Did I ever say that to you before? Why do people ask you this? And you say yes, of course. What monster put you in that situation?

And then they go, from where? And you're like, oh, you have doubled down on this. This happened to me a couple of times. I'll go, yeah, you remember me? And I'll be like, yeah, of course I do. And then they'll go, from where? And I'm like, oh my God, why did you just say that? And then you have People go, yeah, you remember me? And I'll be like, yeah, of course I do. And then they'll go, from where? And I'm like, oh my God, why did you just say that? And then you have to go,

to be honest. I lied. I was just hoping we were going to stop after the first one and there were going to be no follow-ups. Yeah, it's like, good to see you again. I'm like, you don't. Who does ask the follow-up? I know, but now I want to do it. So I'm like, remember me? From where? And they're like, ooh, okay. Eggs for breakfast.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Yesterday, thousands of Aucklanders braved the rain to enjoy the Farmers' Santa Parade. My daughter came along the hits for me. I was like, do you want to come along? She's like, yeah, I like attention. That's what she said. So, Senor was up there. I love the honesty.

Yeah, I like attention. I'll get up on that. Yeah, I was like, oh, good on you. You don't get enough of that honesty nowadays. We're going to have an hour and a half of it as we travelled around the Santa Parade. Alan from The Office, who works here, Aussie L, with various costumes we had on.

You had pyjamas on, the Christmas pyjamas, produced by Juliet, gifted from the Hits team. But Alan had like an elf costume, like a Christmas elf costume, and sort of that foam felt sort of material and it kind of ripped towards the crotch area and his Christmas baubles were kind of

almost on display. I was surprised. Did the elf have tights? Was it a tights on the legging? No, no tights underneath on this one. That's usually an elf's costume, isn't it? Very, very revealing. Every little bump and slump on your legs is shown there, isn't it, when you've got elf tights on?

But Hilary Barry from Seven Sharp was leading out to the parade, the Auckland Santa Parade, and I had a chat for her. She wasn't in her candy cane costume. Maybe it was made out of felt. I thought you were going to wear a candy cane costume. Well, look, the problem was there were showers, right? And I thought, I'm not wearing white lycra

on a wet day. Not at my age. Now, you're leading the parade. You couldn't mislead us into a mall, into a bar. I mean, there's all the options. Our cameraman just said to me, do you actually know the way? I said, don't worry, there's a pace setter in front of me, so it's okay. And I can't pop into Smith & Curry's on the way.

Apparently. Apparently. I'll see you at the bar. That's her favourite saying. I thought she'd be heading to the bar. But Phil Go. I'll see you at the bar. That's her favourite saying. I thought she'd be heading to the bar but Phil Goff, Auckland Mayor,

was there and he sort of pointed out that not many other countries in the world get to experience something like this at the moment. It's something really

to celebrate. We must be one of the few countries in the world where everybody can mix like this. Now I just remembered I've left my hose on at home. Is that going to be a problem?

Oh, you're in deep trouble if you've got the hose on. I haven't. But guess what? On the 14th, you'll be able to use your hose because we've spent two and a quarter of a billion dollars on increasing our water supply. So that's really good.

And people have been really good at conserving. Yeah, well, Auckland, we love our sparkling water, you know, so maybe we can start bathing in that. We could do, too, yeah. There's Phil Goff and Ben Boyce yelling over bagpipes. What an interview. What an interview setting. So we wanted to open this up, didn't we?

Christmas dinners. You mentioned on Friday when we were leaving, when you were younger, because you had a split household, you would go to two Christmas dinners every day. Yeah, you'd either have lunch with Dad and the family and then you'd have dinner with Mum and the family, or vice versa. Would both households bitch you about each other?

You'd be like, you should have heard what i said over dance about you oh yeah they're all these you know yeah you can use that to your advantage exactly and your present ratio must shoot through the roof that was you know like horrible that the family spits up but great for presents you gotta look at the positives don't you you're doubling your presents yeah exactly um and we want to know right now, oh, 800, the hits. On Christmas Day, who is going to the most amount of dinners, events in the one day? 4487 is the text because, I mean,

there's only one way to make the most stressful time of year more stressful and that's by attending multiple Christmas dinners. Some people have a routine, right? They go for like a breakfast here or a lunch here

or a dinner there and all sorts of things they need to do. So are you attending the most on Christmas Day? And we've got, thanks to Mitre 10, we've got three Mitre 10 vouchers to give away so you can buy some of Stace, Mike and Anika's silly seasoning as well, which you can sprinkle on your pav and your Christmas desserts, which looks awesome.

Okay, 0800. Can we even find someone who's going into Ireland between the North and South Island same day, two dinners? Can we do it? 0800 the hits. The most amount of Christmas dinners this year. Sharon's on the air. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast, Shaz.

How are you? Hi. Hi. What are you doing? Can I just say I love listening to you two in the morning. You make me laugh. Oh, Sharon, and you make our egos bigger when you say stuff like that.

Lovely to have you listening, mate. We really do appreciate it. Now, how many dinners are you attending on the 25th? I've got four. Four? Four, only because I'm working all over Christmas, so I've had to cram it in on one day. So how's it going to work?

Logistically, I guess you've got to add in an extra meal outside breakfast, lunch and dinner, right? I've got breakfast, morning tea, lunch and dinner. Morning tea and lunch. That's the only way I can do it. You could chuck an afternoon tea in there as well. Yeah. You could push it to five.

Yeah, true. Are these family commitments? Friends, yeah. All my family's in England, so it's all friends. Oh, that's lovely. You get to do that, yeah. No one's busier than Sharon. I mean, the only person busier than you is Santa Claus at Christmas time.

That's incredible, Sharon. Appreciate that. Thank you, Mitch. Sharon's got to get a $50 Mitre 10 voucher to buy some of Stace, Mike and Anika's silly seasoning, right? Oh, brilliant. Thank you very much for that. You chuck that on your pav on Christmas. It'll be nice.

You have a great day, Sharon. Thank you for listening again. I appreciate it. You have a lovely Christmas. Thank you. You too. Too much food, isn't it? Too much food, isn't it? Too much food.

Someone's texted in saying, I'm starting with breakfast in Wellington with my parents. We fly to Christchurch, have lunch with my brother, and then we go to my wife's in-laws in Ashburton in the afternoon. That's incorporating travel as well.

Wow. Bloody impressive. Remember the Christmas dinner we did at the City Mission last year? That was lovely. We went along there, handed out some food and stuff. Yeah, it was fun. I think it was a couple of years ago, but it was a really nice thing to do.

Yeah, it was good. A lot of handshaking too. A lot of handshaking. And I could see, I shook many hands. I had gravy on my hands. And I shook a guy's hand. He was homeless. I shook his hand.

He's like, what's on your hands? He's like, can someone wash my hands? I had shook a guy's hand. He was homeless. I shook his hand. He's like, ugh, what's on your hands? He's like, can someone wash my hands? I gravied his mitts. We'll go to Perry. Welcome from Taranaki. How are you? Hey, good. How are you guys? Oh, we're doing well. We're looking for the most amount of Christmas dinners this year, Perry. Well, not this year, but

last year. So I live in Taranaki. We had breakfast at my mum's in Stratford. We went to Englewood to have lunch there with my dad. Yeah. And then we drove all the way to Taronga to have dinner with the in-laws. Oh, gee. And would you do it again? Oh, no way.

We got there about 7 o'clock and they'd already eaten without us. We can't wait for you any longer. There's some dried up turkey in the kitchen if you want it. I'm not going anywhere a minor 10 voucher coming your way alright so you can get some of Stace, Mike and Anika's

silly seasoning awesome thank you so much do you make the dinner do you make Christmas dinner I get involved yeah it's fun

you'd have like an array of carrot and celery sticks all sorts of snacks some vitamin shots I like I'm potting the peas is one of my favourite things to do. Some vitamin shots. I like un-potting the peas is one of my favourite things to do.

You know, you get the pea pods and you can put the peas in. Oh, do you not buy them in a frozen bag? Oh, no, it's more fun to un-pod the peas. Oh, you un-pod the peas? Yeah, that's all part of the thing. He's a pea potter. Yeah, what a pot.

Do you pod peas? What do you mean by pod peas? You know, you can get peas in it, and you can open up the pod and get the peas out. What a tedious job. I know, but it's so much fun, you know, and you can open up the pot and get the peas out. What a tedious job. I know, but it's so fun. My mum used to do it when we were little, so I kind of associate that with Christmas. What's the point in that? Well, you get

the peas out. You get to eat the peas. Or you could buy them in a frozen bag, too. Or you could, but that's something about unpotting the peas. This takes up two hours of your day. Pulling peas out singly. Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm drinking heavily while we're doing that. Am I doing that? Alright, thank you very much for your calls this morning.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Anna Coddington, she's a super talented singer, songwriter, and she's just released her brand new album, Beams. It's out now. And it's great to have her in the studio. How's it going, Anna?

Thanks for having me. Yeah, good to be here. Now you've got a really interesting life reading all sorts about you so I'd like to go through some of it. Oh, I'm interested. Start with your childhood. What you actually did, you grew up in Raglan, a surfy town in New Zealand. What was it like growing up there? It was great. It was awesome. It was not as flash back then as it is now. It was pretty basic. There was the dairy, the pub, and like one restaurant that did like frozen peas and corn and that kind of thing. Was that all that was on the menu?

Just frozen peas or frozen corn? No, I'm sure there was other stuff. The second darn black belt? Yes. As well as studying linguistics as well. Yeah, that's all from a previous life. But yeah, I mean, I still hold the titles. Do you still do martial arts?

I have tried to get back into it since I had kids and I've found it pretty difficult, just the timing. You know, because training's always in the evenings at like the witching hour kind of thing. So I kind of got into running instead really. I've been in and out of my dojo and

getting back into it. I took my son, Oscar, he was like, I want to do karate. He was going on about it for a year. It's the bomb. Yeah, well, I took him to his first class, and it was like the instructor was like, I'll come along, watch your class, and see if he's into it. And we turned up to the class, and at the end, Oscar was like,

they weren't chopping wood. I was like, yeah, it's not all about just chopping wood. He's like, when do I learn how to chop wood? With your hands. So he checked out of karate as soon as he found out he couldn't chop wood from here. I was like, yo, it's not all about just chopping wood. He's like, when do I learn how to chop wood? So he checked out a karate as soon as he found out he couldn't chop wood from here. I'm over this. Can you actually do that?

Not that we're going to make you do that. I can do that. Yeah, yeah, of course. I had to. You learn that. Not day one, obviously. No, no, that's more, yeah, when you're getting closer

to black belt. But you have to do it for your black belt grading. How thick is the wood? Like that thick. But you've got to do two planks for your black belt and then I think we had to do it for your black belt grading. How thick is the wood? Like that thick. But you've got to do two planks for your black belt. And then I think we had to do four or five or something. Almost an inch of wood you cut through.

Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah. What's the key? It's all in the mind, guys. Oh, really? Oh, really? So could anyone do it if they had... It's also making sure the grain of the wood is going the right way.

Okay. Yeah, the grain's going the wrong way. Ouch, ouch. Yeah, totally. It's all in the mind and the grain of the wood is going the right way. Okay. If the grain's going the wrong way, you're like, ouch, ouch. Yeah, totally. It's all in the mind and the grain of the wood. Yeah. All of the stuff that Ben has just mentioned, the last two minutes you've achieved in your life, I haven't done one of those things.

No, I know. Yeah, but you've done other things that I haven't done. Everyone's done interesting things. I've just done this job for 20 years. You're very good at it, though. I've never done this job. We've got Anna Coddington with us now. As you briefly mentioned before, good friends with Anika

Moore. Very good friends. Who hosts the Afternoon. From Rock Quest Days. Oh really? Came up through the grades together. Yeah, we both ended up in the final up here in Auckland. Two short Maori girls with short hair. What we thought we might do is we thought we might call

Anika on business related matters Ben and myself okay because we never call her she may suspect

something but anyway and we thought maybe we can be like oh just hold there a second we need to think about what we're talking about

and then as we put her on hold you play live hold music yes live karaoke all your classic Kiwi hold songs that you know from the Inland Revenue phone line and we're going to do live karaoke. All your classic Kiwi hold songs

that you know from the Inland Revenue phone line. And we're going to see how long we can continue this on until Anika clicks on. Do you reckon she'll recognise your voice? Immediately. Oh, you reckon? I do, but I could be wrong. But she might not realise it's live though.

Okay, we'll just go through to Anika Moa now. She'll probably recognise the work number. Yo. Oh, hey, Nicky. It's Jono and Ben here. How's it going? Good. How are you guys?

Hey, good, yeah. Sorry to bug you. We just had a quick work thing we wanted to run past you, if that's all right. Oh, it's all right. I'm just doing some Christmas shopping for a few of the colleagues at The Hits, actually. Oh, you're a nice person.

Oh, we were about to do that this afternoon. We're going to do that at some stage. Yeah. That's for sure. That's right. Oh, you're a nice person. We were about to do that this afternoon. We're going to do that at some stage. That's for sure. Actually, sorry, Todd, the boss has just come in for one second. Can we just pop you on hold for just a second? Sorry, this is rude. No worries. Yeah, all good. There is freedom

within. There is freedom without. Try to catch the delusion And paper cut Oh, yeah, Nika, sorry. Karaoke. Yeah, sorry, Todd just came in. Yeah, so we just wanted to ask you

about a work thing in the week. Oh, no, Hound. Oh, sorry, he's coming again. Hold there a second. Sorry, Hound, we just put you on hold. It's so annoying, isn't it? It's been bugging me I vaguely seem to recognise your face

Sorry, are you there, Anika? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. What's happening? Hey? What's happening? That's just the music that's playing on the radio.

Yeah, I don't know what was. Yeah. Are you getting that? It's weird. It is weird, yeah. Yeah, it is a bit odd. The phone system's been playing up a little bit, but yeah. Hey, so we're just wondering, the Christmas...

Oh, you wouldn't believe it. You wouldn't believe it. Todd, Todd, hang on, hang on. Sorry, I'm on hold again. yeah. Hey, so we're just wondering, the Christmas... Oh, you wouldn't believe it. You wouldn't. Todd, Todd, the boss is coming again. I'm sorry, I'm old again. Okay, okay. I've never seen a diamond in the flesh.

I cut my teeth on winning rings in the movies. Get it right, Jono. She's picked it. She's picked it. She's picked it. I told them you'd get it straight away. Yes, well, that's why.

Anna, what are you doing? Oh, it's just a silly interview with these clowns. Anika's like, why have you lowered yourself to these two? We hear you've had a friendship since you were teenagers. BFF, man. BFF, and we just ran a marathon together. Yeah. Well, you did.

I ran half. Still. Yeah, we'll just put you on hold. We'll come back to you soon, all right? Thanks. Yeah. Well, you did. I ran half. Still? Yeah, we'll just put you on hold. We'll come back to you soon, all right? Thanks, guys. Anna Connington, lovely to finally meet you. And congratulations on the album. Yeah, thanks.

Nice hanging out. Thanks for having me. Just like a chocolate milkshake, only white and disappointing. It's Jono and Ben on the Hit. Something I noticed a lot over the weekend is something that's been happening probably for about the past decade since we started working together, Jono, is that it's one of life's mysteries when you meet someone

out and about or if you are out and about which one of us is Jono and which one of us is Ben? Yeah, but we have been politely answered at both. Yeah, we do. That's our problem. That's our problem. I was stealing from Pack and Save last night and they're like, hey Ben. I'm like, I know, I'm sorry. It's my thing.

And so got away with that under your name. I always feel like it's a 50-50 call for the person who sees us. And I understand. I mean, Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street, they would have got this the whole time. I can't tell you who's who. Yeah. When they were out and about, they would have been Bert, Ernie.

All of the world's duos. The top twins. Which one's Linda? Which one's Jules? I don't know. They came in here for an interview, and I was too scared to commit to a name. Yeah, so I found it, even at the cricket and the Santa parade

yesterday, you were saying, you know, Sister Whip, Producer Juliet as well. You know, people just like, it's either Jono or Jono and Ben for me. And I just, as you say, I just, you end up just answering to either. Yeah, polite. Because you don't want to be like, no, no, I'm thing. And then, you know, that's it. It's confusing. And now my kids and my friends all just go, yeah,

he's at some stage going to answer to Jono out and about. It's just a thing the kids have got used to. They even call you Jono and Ben. They do. They do. I love you, Jono and Ben. Love you too, kids. But I had a moment at the cricket where a guy came in full confidence,

obviously had a few beers. He's like, well, well, well, that is an old Jonathan Pryor, eh? Like full confidence, full name. As I live and breathe well, well. And I didn't have the heart to tell him that. Full name as well. Full name. I was like, this is

impressive. So I told him to get stuffed and I said, yeah, he walked away going, Jono's a dick. Threw a beer in his face. Get out of here. Get people talking about how bad you are. Yeah, well listen, you're banned from back and save for five years soon. Hey, you've got toothpaste on the side of your mouth. It's Jono and Ben on my heads.

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is the joy that she's going to take down your favourite celebrities on the radio. That and her obnoxious alarm clock also gets her out of bed. What's happening in Spidey? So, Halsey, she has joined the artists and fans who are criticising the Grammys after they released the nominations for the 2021 awards ceremony. Now, The Weeknd didn't get any nominations and everyone kind of went into a frenzy. Oh, because you had the song Blinding Lights.

If I was prepared, I would have got that song ready. That's right, sing it. Now you've got to sing it. Oh, no, I can't do that. Put me on the spot. Why don't you sing it? I forget the words, but Ben, you sing it. Why don't we just all not sing it? Sorry for the best, to be honest. Yeah, true.

And even Elton John kind of got behind the weekend saying, you know, if it was up to me, he would have won Song of the Year and Record of the Year. But Halsey, she has posted on Instagram saying, the Grammys is about knowing the right people, having the right handshakes, and bribes that can be just ambiguous enough to pass as non-bribes. And that the Academy will do what they can

to get as many viewers as possible. And if that means, you know, letting someone go, for example, the weekend, because he's performing at another event, then so be it. Yeah, he's been doing the Super Bowl the week before, yeah. Yeah. All right, so they want exclusive performances

to draw in viewers. Yeah. Well, that's not a surprise, is it? Surely that's not... It should be on the best songs. No, but this is not the world we live in, mate. We live in a world of handshakes and bribes. Oh, it should.

And viewer ratings. It should be the best songs no matter what. I know, it should be. But I'm kind of thinking now that this has sort of come out, I'm like, is this happening in all the other awards ceremonies? Like, what about the Oscars? Oh, this is why we've never won an award. Stuff like this.

Antics like this. I tell you. But how cool will you feel if you're the artist who wins the category that he was supposedly meant to win? Oh, yeah, true. Hey, thanks.

Definitely a consolation prize. Like Hilary Barry, when she went on stage and was like, well, TV personality of the year was pretty much Ashley Bloomfield, but he pulled out, but I'll take it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So we'll see how the rest of that rolls out and Dwayne the Rock Johnson, Ben, you will love this. So every year Macy's which is a department store in the States have a Thanksgiving parade with floats, kind of like the Santa parade that we went to on the weekend but they have massive balloons

and it's just an incredible display. They debuted a giant inflatable Dwayne the Rock Johnson from the photo where he was in the turtleneck, the necklace and the fanny pack. And that floated down the streets of New York. Oh, that's amazing. How good.

And he was absolutely flattered to see it. I love a good fanny pack. The bum bag's useful nowadays because there's so much stuff in your pockets, isn't there? Keys, wallets, phones, swipe cards. But I always feel like a pill peddler from Splore when I'm wandering around with a bum bag. Don't you?

Have you got a bum bag? Yeah, I've got a bum bag, yeah. Take it out on the weekend. Did you use your bum bag on the weekend? Yeah, yeah, I did a couple of times. I used my bum bag on the weekend too. You got a bum bag? Yeah, I think so.

How many times can we say bum bag? They really fell out of fashion for about 10 years, didn't they? Now they're back. But nothing would realise that they were actually quite practical. They were very practical. It's like a handbag for your waist. People now with the fashion, especially at festivals, they wear them sort of over their shoulder, like a satchel.

I do go over the shoulder. I'm just doing full waist. I go sort of across the thing. I like having axes just above my private parts to all of my personal items. I love it, I love it. And that's spy for more. You can check out the hits.co.nz. New Zealand's breakfast.

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Yeah, well, how's Tudua this morning? Oh, yeah, good. Well, at least they're about 6.30 because I still work in Waiuku. Oh, well, I apologise that you have to listen to us babble on the radio for your commute, but we're going to give you a $500 Sharesies gift voucher. That's from the get-go. You walk away with that, but right now you can look like a great human being, and Sharesies, that with a friend of yours, if they answer the phone,

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Hayley, friend and boss. Oh, friend and boss. What a greaser. Giving $500 gift vouchers, Sh sharesies to her boss. Good on you, Kim. Here we go. Okay, we've got Hayley's number off here.

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Oh, Kim. You've just won a $500 Sharesies gift voucher. Oh, wow. Just like that. Just for answering the phone and sounding semi-coherent. Yeah. Just like that, Hayley. How good's that? Oh, fabulous. That's a good start to the day.

Kim's on the phone. What do you want to say to her? Give her some emotional stuff. Thanks, Kim. I'm glad you answered your phone. And Kim's also going to need a lot of annual leave as well. We'll get to that later when I understand you're her boss. But you guys can talk about that off air.

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Expires midnight on the 13th of December. Morning. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. Ben Boyce. Jeez, made a cameo appearance at the cricket on Friday night. It was swirling around the team's social media. It's Jono and Ben on the Heads. Ben Bush, geez, made a cameo appearance at the cricket on Friday night. It was swirling around the team's social media. It's funny because my mum texts me because I think it was a shot of me in the crowd watching the Black Caps play.

And it was like, I'm on TV three nights a week with dog on mic at the moment, but she texts me, photos, you're on the cricket, you're on the TV. Oh, thanks, bro. Because you had your Black Caps top on? And then they actually zeroed in. I don't know if you know this, but they zeroed in on you at the end of the night when you'd played your innings.

And it was just you trying to maneuver a hot dog into your mouth. But it looked very difficult. I don't know why it was so hard. And you were rolling around on the scene. You were slapping your mates in the cheeks. It was wild. Wild time at the cricket, though. But I did get to go along.

Because on Friday, if you've been following the drama, the tale of will Ben go to the cricket or not, we spoke to... What a harrowing tale. We spoke to Blackcap Jimmy Neesham and I kind of double booked myself. So mates were going to the cricket and I wanted to go along to the cricket,

but then it was my mother-in-law's birthday party at my house. That's an important detail. We got Blackcap Jimmy Neesham to call my wife Amanda and to see if I could go along and watch them play. You know, say it would mean a lot to them, but it was a very fumbly start.

Hello, Amanda speaking. Hi Amanda, it's Jimmy Neesham here. How are you? Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Amanda, can you hear me? Oh, hello. Those two could never hook up. They could never hook up. So you can rest safe in that knowledge bed. That's good.

But in the end, we got the permission. We've got Jimmy Neesham to ask, and Amanda kindly said it was okay for me to go along. Now, Jimmy was just saying to me, Amanda, 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 first 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. Yeah. If he could come along to support me, that'd be great. Yes, sir.

Little Jimmy, we're watching you. Little Jimmy. Is that even his nickname? No, no, I just felt like I was, you know, you're going along to support the little fella. You know, I've got to go and. Little Jimmy. Is that even his nickname? No, no, I just felt like I was, you know, you're going along to support the little fella. You know, I've got to go and watch Little Jimmy. He hung up after that, didn't he? He did.

He hung up after Little Jimmy. He did message me after the game because he played very well and he goes, I had to put in good innings to justify you going along to the cricket. It was his main motivation. Oh, good on him. And did you get home to Joyce's wonderful 65th birthday? No, I missed that. But the...

How late did you get home? Oh, look, it was probably 1.30. What? Joyce, Joyce, poor Joyce, you had a party

at your house and you didn't even see her. Poor Joyce. What do you want to say to Joyce right now? Because I know

she won't be listening. She won't be listening. Happy birthday. But I tell you what was, you know, I paid for it the next day it the next day

because the next day I had to take Sienna, my daughter, along to a gymnastics recital, end of year, and two and a half hours of gymnastics in a hot room. And you're like, her dance was, that was good, but it was her gymnastics routine was like, it was a minute one. I know, that's the thing. I mean, I say it was two and a half hours. It's like, let's just get in for your performance and glee.

Yeah, a lot of the other parents were sort of like, you could see they were going after their. What you want is you want a good exit seat Don't you You want a seat by the door So you can just sulk out I learned that over three years of ballet recitals Could be locked in there It could be a three hour performance

Yeah and when my daughter's performance Was towards the end So you were kind of I was in for the long haul To be honest You don't care about the other kids They were very good They were very good Yeah but you don't care about the other kids. They were very good. They were very good.

Yeah, but you don't care about them. I'm sure they're great. Kids are kids, D. Good on you. Where's mine? Film a video and let's get out of here. That's what we're all thinking. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. It's growing through your feed. Tell you what, overnight the news does not stop and neither does this man. On holiday, he literally has his family up at 5.45am so they can stick to his military life schedule. It's Ben

Boyce with Scrolling. Now Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been nominated for Time Magazine's Person of the Year, which is awesome. That's a prestigious honour. Who's she up against? What schmucks do we have to take down? So she's been nominated alongside 80 people at the moment, alongside several celebrities, politicians, sports stars, and more. So basically it's awarded for the individual or group

who has had the greatest influence on events of the year, for better or worse. It's going to go to Biden. Is Biden nominated? Biden's in there. Donald Trump is in there as well. Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, LeBron James from the NBA, as well as essential workers as well, as, you know, just.

As a group. As a group, yeah, worldwide. Oh, then you'd have to lock in essential workers that probably had the most impact. It's interesting. So I went to go vote for Jacinda on time and time.com, and I got three, into three, voted for three people, and then you had to most impact. It's interesting. So I went to go vote for Jacinda on Time and Time.com and I got three into three voting

for three people and then you had to sign up and you were like, well, if you want to vote for more. So I basically got to say no to three people. Who did you savagely deny? Cardi B, unfortunately.

Sorry. But then you can see the stats. 94% of people said no to Cardi B. I was like, poor Cardi B. She's done some great stuff this year.

Well, you said no to her too. I know, but I wanted to vote for Jacinda Ardern. Ii B she's done some great stuff this year well you said no to her too I know but I wanted to vote for Jacinda Ardern I mean she's a worthy nominee how many nominees

can you put forward I don't know but I didn't know I had to sign up to the Cardi B wasn't one of them it's too much I only want to

vote for one and that's Jacinda Ardern but I won't be bothered with the admin so if I can just do you

want to cast this as a vote we'll send this audio to time can you send this away Greta Thunberg of course last year last year's Time Person of the Year. Well, good luck to Jacinda.

She's done really well, hasn't she, this year? Although you would have to probably say, in terms of navigating the pandemic for New Zealand, Bloomfield was probably the mastermind behind it. Yeah. From a strategic point of view. Yeah, but I guess he's not up for, you know. Time Person of the Year.

No, is he? So he can go and, what do you want him to do, mate? Vote for Cardi B, all right? He can do that. And yesterday, Mike Tyson was back in the boxing ring in an exhibition match against Roy Jones Jr. And everyone was talking about Snoop Dogg as the commentator of the boxing. He was commentating the boxing?

Yeah. I've never heard him do any commentating. No, but he was commentating the boxer yeah yeah i've never heard him do any commentating no uh but he's very entertaining he talked about the uh the fighters looking like a couple of uncles at a barbecue it's like two of my uncles fighting at the barbecue get your uncle out of here get him you go meet me in the backyard i'm tired of this come on get up in there it's like he was just watching at home and he was just talking along. He was like sitting on the couch. Very entertaining.

And Israel Adesanya as well, UFC fighter from New Zealand. He was one of the commentators as well, so it was very cool. Oh, because he's stuck over there, isn't he? Yeah. Oh, there you go. Well, Snoop Dogg, the only commentator

to be paid in weed. Well done, Snoop. I love listening to commentators who don't know anything about the technical aspect of the sport. It's more entertaining, isn't it? It's like one of you's doing the commentating. It's just like a fan, right?

And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. More painful than your alarm clock. It's Joddo and Ben on the hits. Of course, last day of November, we are heading into December. And as part of the Christmas celebrations yesterday, thousands of Aucklanders braved the rain to enjoy the farmers' Santa parade. I was hosing down yesterday. It was a real shame that it was raining during it,

but it was still lots and lots of people turned out to watch it. Nothing puts a dampener on Christmas, mate. No, exactly. No. Do you want to float? Yeah, we're on the Hits float. It was cool. Do you get a sore waving arm?

You do, yeah. Smiling and waving the whole time. You got sore cheeks from smiling too much? Yeah, smiling and waving. I can tell you, respect to the royal family. That's what they and waving the whole time. You've got sore cheeks from smiling too much? Yeah, smiling and waving. I can see the respect to the royal family. That's what they do. All the time. You're like, oh, it must be an easy job, but no.

Smiling and waving, you don't appreciate it, do you? It was an hour and a half of constant smiling and waving, you know, as the Jono and Ben vehicle pulled us through the Santa Parade. You don't appreciate the muscular system that's involved in all that smiling and waving, do you? Your biceps? Yeah. Elbow? You could get tennis elbow?

I know. Too much waving? I know, but it was a lot of fun. When we were setting up, though, we found it quite amusing. Hey, Patricia Juliet. So when we were ready to go for the float, so you're all waiting in an area, some of the performers were warming up, and there was a group of people that were about to play the bagpipes

and they started warming up and then another group were also playing the bagpipes and so they both started warming up at the same time. It was just a cacophony of bagpipe noise. Oh, it's a beautiful instrument. It was like Battle of the Bands bagpipe edition. A rap battle. A bag battle.

That's the way they went. I reckon it's a fine line blown on the bagpipes, isn't it? Between it sounding acceptable or sounding completely terrible. I didn't realise I was talking to someone. They have to warm up. They have to sort of warm up the bagpipes and warm themselves up. They can't just go straight in there. They're like, yeah, you have to basically...

Always got to warm up your bagpipes. You don't want to go in with a cold bagpipe. Hilary Barry from Seven Sharp. Now, she was leading off the Christmas parade. She was at the front. And during the week, she put on social media that she was going to be in a candy cane costume. But she wasn't when I went and talked to her. I thought you were going to wear a candy cane costume.

Well, look. Well, the problem was there were showers, right? And I thought, I'm not wearing white lycra on a wet day. Not at my age. Now, you're leading the parade. You could mislead us into a mall, into a bar. I mean, there's the options. Our cameraman just said to me, do you actually know the way?

I said, don't worry, there's a pace setter in front of me, so it's okay. And I can't pop into Smith & Co's on the way. Apparently. So she was, like, driving. Yeah, no, she was going to be sitting on her car, but then in the end she was walking. So she was the first person out there. Oh, so she could have misled this. She could have veered off.

Yeah, a lot of pressure. We were all following Hilary Barry in the parade. A lot of pressure on H-Bears. And then Phil Goff, Auckland Mayor, was there and I popped over to have a talk to him. And I didn't realise how, you know, like, and when you think about it, there's not Santa Parades going on anywhere else in the world. So it's pretty special to have this happen in New Zealand. It's something really to celebrate.

You know, we must be one of the few countries in the world where everybody can mix like this. Now, I just remembered I've left my hose on at home. Is that going to be a problem? Oh, you're in deep trouble if you've got the hose on. I haven't, I haven't. But guess what? On the 14th, you'll be able to use your hose

because we've spent two and a quarter of a billion dollars on increasing our water supply, so that's really good and people have been really good at conserving. Yeah, well, Auckland, we love our sparkling water, you know, so maybe we could start bathing in that. We could do too, yeah. You'll go in the bagpipes just as acting as a wonderful background to that interview.

Jeez, I love those bagpipes. Don't go in with cold bagpipes, Ben. That's right. That's all you do. They were warm. Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits.

Hey, yeah. A to Z of New Zealand. I started talking over that, and I know we play that every time. Yeah. We've been doing it a long time. We've been doing it since we started here, haven't we? Calling every town and city in New Zealand. This is the A to Z of New Zealand.

Kaipara. We're heading to today in the northern region of Aotearoa. 45 k's from Whangarei is Kaipara. And if you like Kaipara, you can go and jump in a lake. Literally, the Kaiwi Lake is great for swimming in, fishing in, peeing in, whatever you want to do. You can do it in the lake. And you can wake up with this relaxed lifestyle,

light an incense candle, drink kombucha for breakfast, eat kale for lunch, and lick an organic cow for dinner. That is Kaipara, and we're heading through now to a beachwear shop, a local beachwear shop. You'll like the name of this, Ben. Bearchwear. Hello, is that Bearchwear? Yes, it is. Bearchwear. I love the? Yes, it is. B. Archweir.

I love the name. Is it B. Arch-weir? Or B. Arch-weir. It's B. Arch-weir. It's John Owen Bean calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, I was thinking, oh, God, is it my cousin? No, it's not. Well, I don't know, actually.

I don't know. We haven't done one of those DNA tests from Ancestry.com. We could be your cousin. Yeah, we might be. Should we come and get some DNA? Yeah. I'll get a mouth swab, and we can test it anyway. But aside from that,

aside from DNA testing, we are calling every town and city in New Zealand, and it's your turn today. Oh, yay. We like to learn about every place that we call, so what can you tell us about Kaipara? I love Kaipara. We've got the best beaches,

lakes, food. We've got new night markets, the twilight markets. We've got Biatchwear, the funk store. Now Biatchwear, can I wear your wear

to the beach? Is it... So it's like beach wear. It's like beach wear but Biatch. I love it. A bit more sass. Oh, you've got

Bob Marley singlets? We've got Bob Marley singlets, posters. Do you have rash shirts for the beach? I'm a dad now. No, we send them to Becky Manich's around the corner. That's where I'll be heading. I'm sorry.

And now I've got to. Seriously, as soon as I became a dad, I was like, well, suddenly I put on, it was almost like they handed me a rash shirt before they handed me my child at the hospital. It's like, now you'll be wearing one of these. And I do, you know? And you know what else they handed him to?

They handed him a bottle of bright pink zinc that he puts across his nose. Yeah, that's what you do. And a hat with a... A cap with a flap. And you've got Bob Marley posters as well. You've got spiritual oils. We've got spiritual sky oils.

We've got 21st keys, tins and bells and cow heads. Mate, what you've done, you've cast the net wide. Evan, you've cast the net wide. Is there anything you don't, maybe we should ask you, is there anything you don't sell? Yeah, we don't sell rash shirts. So where

is the place I need to go for the rash shirt again? Just around the corner. Johnny Madditch's. Okay, cool. Johnny Madditch's. I'm looking at your pictures on your website. Yep. You know what I'm smelling? Incense. Yes. Thank you, Mattiches. Okay, cool. Johnny Mattiches. I'm looking at your pictures on your website. Yep. You know what I'm smelling? Incense. Yes. Are you an incense store? We are.

We have people coming down from Paihe for our incense. Yeah, I like an incense. Yeah, I do. I always like it. It's a good selection. Yeah. What sort of incense have you got blazing at the moment? No, we're not burning it in store at the moment because of the little asthmatic kids that have come over in the holidays.

Well, I tell you what, Biatchware is more than a store with a catchy name. It's been lovely talking to you. Thank you very much. Stop into the shop when you guys come up. I'll get my rash shirt and then I'll come see you, alright? No worries. Alrighty, bye. Like starting your day

without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. Now, have you ever been part of a surprise party? Oh, yeah, a couple of times. Yeah, a lot of moving been a part of a surprise party? Oh, yeah, a couple of times. Yeah, a lot of moving, a lot of cogs in that machine, isn't there? Like a game of hide and seek, right? It is, yeah. Because you always turn up, obviously, half an hour to 20 minutes

before the arrival of the person. But what you know, there's 30 people all crammed into a lounge, and what you don't factor in is the person whose party is, they have no idea, obviously. And so they're not running to a specific schedule. They're meant to be here at two. Well, they don't know that they're meant to be there at two. They're out doing just daily chores. And so by the time that my good mate Cam arrived for his party, he was half an hour, 40 minutes late. We were just sitting in the lounge, waiting, hiding,

waiting to bounce out. And then he came home and it's a lot to take in, isn't it? Yeah, everybody always looks a bit confused. He did. What's going on? Is it me? And you think, well, I'm not really dressed appropriately for this. I haven't organised anything for this.

He was just being motocross riding and he was sweaty and he was covered in mud. And he was just like, everyone's saying, happy birthday to you. And he just stood there in silence. And he's like, okay, I need to go and have a shower now. So that was the first thing he went and did. I've spoken to my wife about it before

because I went to a surprise party. It was a little bit awkward at the top. But I was like, please never, never give a surprise party. You listen to me. From this day forward. Please just tell me. You wouldn't like a surprise party. You'd like to be for beer. I'd be like, I don't know, what am I

drinking? Have I got anything to drink? Have I got some food? It's in our house. All those things. I like to be part of the process. Would you like a surprise party? I would, yeah. But then I'm also that person that i'm like i would never i always throw a party anyway so no one has the opportunity to throw me a surprise party you know what i mean so yeah um the and i always think too if the surprise is on you you're like you've kept this lie hidden from me for probably four weeks yeah you know what else are you about? What other stuff are you doing behind my back?

True, people are lying for you and lying to you in a good way, aren't they? But you're like, well, if it was that easy to do it to me then, what else is going on? There's 40 people here. Not one of you told me. I suspected nothing. It's quite good for getting everyone there on time though, right? You know, I just think people will just drop

in, you know, and then they can run. But if it's a surprise party party you've all got to be there at a certain time too you're right get people to your house on time maybe that could be the surprise surprise it's not a surprise party I'm surprising you to get your ass here on time so you can leave early start your day the wrong way

it's Jono and Ben on my heads spy the whatsapp spy dot co dot embed alright prepare yourselves fresh from a three-day bender, looking like someone from an advisory commercial on a binge drinking, here comes Juju with the dustiest celebrity news update on radio. I love how accurate that is. So Ricky Gervais, he is obviously one of the stars in Afterlife,

which I think is a Netflix show that was really big a little while ago. It was good. It was two seasons of that. Two seasons, yeah. Yeah, it's a good show. show that was really big a little while ago. It was good. It was two seasons of that. Two seasons, yeah. Yeah. It was a good show. And so he said that the closest time in his real life that he's come to death was by choking on a smoothie. And when I read this headline, I was like,

oh, surely this is a gag. But no, he legitimately, obviously he swallowed it in a weird way and his partner was there at the time and she freaked out. He collapsed and his throat started closing up. But then, obviously, a little bit of air came through, and he was all right in the end.

And he said, despite this, I still think smoothies are the future for when my teeth fall out because I can't be bothered going to the dentist or I just get bored of eating SH. And there's nothing left to eat. So he thinks he's going to still neck back them smoothies. Yeah, I mean,

it's a versatile way to consume. You can put a roast meal in there and suck it back, can't you? Yeah. Have you ever

nearly choked? Oh, yes, but it's just the worst thing ever. You're like, this is it. This is the end. Oh, it feels like it.

Yeah, I had it happen to me at a restaurant once. A little bit of chilli sort of got, and then I just stood up and I slammed my hands down in the middle of the restaurant and everyone looked at me. But then instantly it went away and then I had to sort of sheepishly sit back down.

You hate making a scene. I know. Everyone's like, and then I'm like, okay, I'm just saying. It's almost like you should have continued on the performance. I should have. Just to, you know. Give it a do it. Like, I'm joking.

Someone did the, oh, thank you for saving, yeah, I should have. You're right. Because otherwise it looked like, what's this guy doing? Oh, maybe. He's on the car, he rattled. Look at this show pony

getting all the attention in the restaurant. You should have even gone. And then when you're in the St. John's ambulance just go, hey, sorry guys, I had to commit to that. I'm actually fine.

It was going to be a bad look if I, yeah, no, I wouldn't know how to save anyone if they were choking. No, it'd be nice to learn how to do that. The Heimlich.

Yeah. Do you know what I find is a really bad culprit for choking? Bok choy. Have you guys ever had bok choy? Yeah, I've had a bit of choc on it. It's very stringy, and every time I eat, I'm like... Gosh, you really have to chew it. So there's some advice, people, if you're eating bok choy.

Bok choy, yeah, that's for all the bok choy enthusiasts out there. I've got a very low consumption of bok choy. It's nice when I have it though. Yeah, it is really good. It's like a cleaner lettuce. It tastes like a, yeah. Like in Asian dishes.

Gratin stir fries and stuff. Give it up for bok choy. Okay, not too much. Just be careful when you're eating it though. Quite stringy apparently. And now Gwyneth Paltrow, she's obviously got

her Goop website where she's sold candles that smell like certain parts of her bodies and lamps that are made out of bread loaves. It's all very bizarre. The latest thing that she's sold candles that smell like certain parts of her bodies and lamps that are made out of bread loaves. It's all very bizarre. The latest thing that she's selling on her website is a bread knife, but it's worth $500.

And it's kind of like, why would you pay $500 for a bread knife when you can probably just go to Pack and Save or New World or Countdown? Or you can collect all the little stickers at New World. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And get a smeg one. But they've listed it, and it sounds... The way they've described it sounds quite

inviting. It's described as having a scalloped serration specifically designed to minimise crumbs and tearing, meaning that you can take even the Christmas baguette without the crust exploding all over the counter. Doesn't that sound quite luxurious? Yeah, I mean, but at the end of the day, it's just a bread knife, isn't it?

I'm on a website here, so it's end of the day it's just a bread knife, isn't it? I'm on her website here so it's kind of like a, it's a lifestyle website it's called. Yeah, I think so. So there's, I mean,

you've got here the top 20 best selling vibrators. There's an article there. Oh gosh. There's also the top 20 rice cookers as well.

Why? So she loves the top 20 Gwyneth on her website. You love going into top 20 articles, don't you? I do. I suck it into a list.

So good on you, Gwyneth Paltrow, with your $500 bread knives. And that is five and more. You can check out thehits.co.nz. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. We want to know why today is going to be a good day for you. Give us a call right now on 0800THEHITS.

Someone who had a good day yesterday was. Give us a call right now on 0800THEHITS. Someone who had a good day yesterday was Blackhack cricketer Glenn Phillips. Although during two games over the weekend, I don't know if you saw this, he popped his kneecap out and had to be put back in and he carried on playing. It happened on Friday night. Is that him screaming in agony?

Yeah, and then it happened again yesterday. Poor guy. Poor guy. Poor guy. He carried on. He put it back in and he got one of the fastest, I think, T20 centuries ever for New Zealand. So he had a great game. So both occasions he's popped his knee back in.

And he just carried on playing again. Yeah. I saw on the news he had a six off the first one on Friday night. Ah! Yeah, I know. That could be like his... His signature shot. It's like...

Ah! Poor fella, but he had a great game. And listen to us laughing in his pain. I know. But it's good. It's comedically amusing. Ben, you got to go after Jimmy Neesham, Black Cap, phoned your wife Amanda on Friday

and got permission for you to go because you're meant to be at your mother-in-law's 65th birthday at your own house. Yeah, I did. I did, yeah. But Jimmy Neesham asked if I could go along and Amanda said yes. Now, Jimmy was just saying to me, Amanda,

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 65th 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. If he could come along to support me, that'd be great. I think so. Little Jimmy, we're watching you. He even gave him a nickname and he bowled your maiden over, didn't he? He did. It was a good corner cricketing phrase.

And he texts you after the game. He messaged me to say that because he had a great game he put. And he texts you after the game. He messaged me to say that he put, because he had a great game, he put on an innings, just, you know, was worthy of me sacrificing. Yeah, Joyce is 65th. Yeah. Happy birthday, Joyce, too.

I'll say it because Ben has it. I was at the cricket, mate. I didn't have a chance. We're here to give you a motivational pat on the tush, send you out into Monday and straddle it with those strong thighs of yours, Scotty. You ready to ride Monday into Tuesday, mate? What's happened today?

I was at cricket yesterday, so New Zealand were very lucky to win because of Glenn Phillips getting 146 throws. Oh, you were just talking about the cricket, yeah. Ben Boyce played this audio of Glenn Phillips, who popped his knee twice in two games. Oh, yeah.

Could you hear that in the green? He got an amazing century, didn't he? Yeah, he did. I was actually at the Bay Oval game yesterday and, yeah, saw him actually pop his knee or heard him pop his knee and it was crazy how he ended up

getting that run out of one of the Western Indies. Yeah, put it back in and we had a great game and you're going to have a great day now because we're going to

give you a prize as well, okay? Awesome, thank you. Have a wonderful day, Scotty. Tauranga, Belinda,

you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Why is it going to be a good day for you? Because I and my husband are going to the cricket on tonight. Oh,

cricket content. I don't think I and my husband are going to the cricket on tonight. Oh, wow. Cricket. Cricket. Cricket content. I don't think we've ever spoken as much about cricket in the last five minutes in my entire life. So much. Well, I'm glad you're going along. You look excited, are you?

I would be excited if it was Australia playing New Zealand, but I'm all for the black hats. Okay, well, there you go. Good on you, Belinda. Appreciate it. We're going to give you a prize as well. From this moment forward, we will never speak of cricket again. Okay?

It seizes now. Love you, Belinda. Bye. Good on you. Enjoy whatever you're doing today. Now there's two C words we can't say on the radio. One of them being cricket. And we'll go to Penny in Wellington.

How are you? Penny, please don't talk to us about cricket. Have of them being cricket. And we'll go to Penny in Wellington. How are you? Penny, please don't talk to us about cricket. Have you got any cricket combos? No, but I feel left out not talking about cricket. No, let's talk about something. Much as I love cricket, I know it's not for everyone, so let's talk about something else. Well, is it going to be a good day for you, Penn?

Well, I worked the whole weekend in retail. It was the Black Friday sale, so I've got my first day off. Isn't it Cyber Monday, though? Don't you need to be getting out there for Cyber Monday? Well, that's the other people's job now. I've got my day off. You've done your heavy lifting? Well, well done.

Enjoy your day off, and we're going to send you out a prize as well. You have a great day, all right? Awesome, thank you. Love you, Penny. That is our show for a Monday. Thank you so much for listening. It's been a lot of fun. Hey, tomorrow on the show, we're going to talk to a New Zealander who's just broken a chicken nugget

eating record. She joins us. It's a world record. Guinness World Record, right? Did it in under a minute. We'll get her on after seven. We'll do that tomorrow. Have a great Monday. We'll catch you guys tomorrow from six. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from six on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app.

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