Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - October 09 - We Attempt The Hole In One Challenge In Lake Taupo!

Episode Date: October 11, 2020

Over the last fortnight, Jono and Ben have been giving away 1000 balls to 1000 listeners. In this edition of the Jono and Ben podcast, the boys attempted the Lake Taupo Hole In One, if they strike a H...ole In One on any of the assigned balls, the listener with that number ball wins!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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. One of the greatest displays of doubt that anybody has ever seen anything. Today is the day for Jono and Ben's 10K Hole-in-One Challenge
Starting point is 00:00:25 and it's two hours until tee-off. Good morning, New Zealand. Jono and Ben with you. We are sitting on the side of Lake Taupo. I thought maybe, although I don't want to start sounding like a diva, but I thought maybe there'd be a room that we could do the radio show from.
Starting point is 00:00:41 Oh, listen, if you had asked me, you know, what's better than broadcasting a radio show in a warm, air-conditioned studio, I would say put us on the side of State Highway 1 in minus two freezing conditions with trucks driving past. And I would go, that's a happy broadcasting location. That's where we want to be first thing in the morning.
Starting point is 00:00:59 There's a lovely lady with a dog. Hello. Good morning. It is dark. Are we here? I don't know if she is lovely. I don't know. I just, you feel like obliged to say there's a lovely lady with a dog. Hello. Good morning. It is dark. Are we here? I don't know if she is lovely. I don't know. You feel like a blind.
Starting point is 00:01:07 I should say there's a lovely lady. She might have done some horrible things in her life. It's dark and cold. The sun will hopefully be up shortly. We're on the side of Lake Taupo. We can see the hole in one that just after 8 o'clock today, we're going to hit 1,000 golf balls at to try and win 10 grand for a listener. That's right.
Starting point is 00:01:21 And, geez, we've got a bonanza of a program lined up for you. Lee Hart, a comedian joining us on the show, Jacinda Ardern. You may know her as the Prime Minister. She'll be with us after 8 o'clock to launch the festivities today. The first ball being hit just after 8 o'clock. What are you thinking? You got here now,
Starting point is 00:01:37 the first time to see the hole-in-one about 100 metres out on a pontoon. What do you think our chances are? The same as when we started this. Zero. I don't know what's less than zero. Is there anything less than zero? Negative something.
Starting point is 00:01:54 How about yourself, Ben? We haven't hit a golf ball yet. We're not going to hit one until after 8 o'clock. We were driving here this morning going, imagine if we get it. Like straight away. It would be the greatest moment in New Zealand broadcasting history. Better than the time that Grant Kiriyama
Starting point is 00:02:10 donated a kidney to Jonah Longman. Oh no, not as good. That was a lovely gesture. That was lovely. Yeah, so it's getting on board. Can't compare the two. The soggy cornflakes of radio. It's Jonah and Ben on the hits.
Starting point is 00:02:23 Scrolling through your feed. Yeah, live from a freezing location by a freezing lake from the sweet, sweet freezing lips of Benjamin Boyce comes all the news that's broken overnight. This is Scrolling Through Your Feed, ladies and gentlemen. And, of course, there's an election going on next week in New Zealand, but also one happening very shortly in the United States, and they had the vice president debate between Mike Pence and...
Starting point is 00:02:44 Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris. And the candidates, they were separated by plexiglass because of coronavirus. But the most prominent thing, the thing that everyone's talking about, is a fly that rested on the top of Mike Pence's, the deputy prime minister, the vice president's prime minister's white hair. The vice president prime minister. What is he?
Starting point is 00:03:02 I just gave him a new title. The Colonel Sanders Vice President. Prime Minister General. Anyway, Mike Pence is up there. A fly comes along and sits on his head for two minutes. Two minutes? Yeah, the fly was not budging. That's what I always respect about the Australians.
Starting point is 00:03:18 They can have 3,000 flies crawling over their face and still hold a conversation with them. There's nothing to the Aussies. Yeah, well, he's American. I know, but in general, when I go to Australia and I see them on the news with their cork hats, there's like flies crawling all over their face. Really respect that.
Starting point is 00:03:35 Ben Boyce, you actually wouldn't harm a fly, would you? Because we got given these rifles, like sort of a semi-automatic assault rifles that you could kill flies with, but you put in grains of salt and you shoot the flies. They were like assault rifles or something. And you're like, I don't want this. I don't want this.
Starting point is 00:03:52 I don't want to shoot a fly. They look quite like it. Yeah, I didn't... Who are you afraid of offending? The fly-lubbing community? I don't know if flies listen to the hits. I'm not going to take that chance. I'll take any listener.
Starting point is 00:04:04 And also, Burger King. Have you seen this? You might have seen this. It's all over's listening to the hits. I'm not going to take that chance. I'll take any listener. And also, Burger King. Have you seen this? You might have seen this. It's all over the TV at the moment. They've come up with a burger that is very similar to one from McDonald's. Yeah, they've stolen the Big Mac recipe, but blatantly as well. It's a controversial move. And coming up after 7 o'clock, Jono and Ben present The Secret Sound.
Starting point is 00:04:21 We'll be doing that live, 10 past 7. Yeah, it's the Burger King XL. They've said it's the classic made better. And, yeah, it just feels like they're kind of baiting, potentially baiting. They actually sent us some of these burgers on Monday morning at like seven o'clock. Yeah, it was probably too soon.
Starting point is 00:04:34 Everyone was like, I don't really feel like four meat patties. Right now, later in the day, yeah. Breakfast meat patties. I'll try that. Yeah, but a controversial move. Yes. Legally.
Starting point is 00:04:45 Oh, legally. I'm sure they've done all their due diligence and looked through it. Well, a few years ago in Australia, I was reading Hungry Jacks, which is similar to Burger King over there. They came up with the Big Jack. So not the Big Mac, the Big Jack. They had a few legal problems with that. But you can just do the Big Mac and there's no problems.
Starting point is 00:05:03 Well, I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. Why am I asking you? I barely knew who Mike Pence was just before. You called him a President Prime Minister. Look, it's very cold. We're sitting on the side of Lake Taupo, and 8 o'clock this morning we're going to be hitting 1,000 golf balls
Starting point is 00:05:17 to try and win you $10,000. We've still got a few more to give away as well, so a chance for you guys to win. Remember to double pump the vogels. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. We're about an hour and a half away from hitting 1,000 golf balls at the Hole-in-One attraction here in Lake Taupo. We had a dream, didn't we, Jono? Well, I did, and I feel like I put you along and you're hating life at the moment.
Starting point is 00:05:38 Yeah, this is, no part of this is my dream. I'm just here as a, unfortunately there's an and in between our names and anything he decides to do, I have to come along for the ride. I'm just collateral damage. I've always wanted to get a hole-in-one here and we're giving it the best shot today. I haven't, but I'm here anyway. We've got 1,000 balls, 1,000 attempts. We're going to give away some balls,
Starting point is 00:05:58 allocate some balls very shortly to you guys. But this is how the whole journey has played out. Nato, welcome from Wellington. Hole-in-one legend, we understand. Anyone can hit an amazing shot. guys, but this is how the whole journey has played out. Welcome from Wellington. Hole in one legend we understand. Anyone can hit an amazing shot and get it in. That vague pep talk will pull me through, Natho.
Starting point is 00:06:14 Sir Graham Henry, any advice from a great coach like you? Get your breathing right. Get your breathing right. Have you actually hit a golf ball before? Maybe there's more important things than breathing. Maybe we could talk to a clairvoyant and just see if there's anything out there. I don't see either
Starting point is 00:06:30 of you. Hang up on her. Hang up on her. New Zealand's top golfer is Ryan Fox. Do you think it's possible that one of us could fluke a hole-in-one? It's highly unlikely. You're right. We can't go in there with false hopes. Hayley, you're on the air. I play soccer and I believe in you.
Starting point is 00:06:46 You guys are going to get this. What would the professional golfer know? Let's listen to the amateur football player. Exactly. Here we are, Lake Taupo, where we're going to be next week. You reckon I can get it in? No. Nailed it, nailed it.
Starting point is 00:06:59 Oh, no. Jono and Ben coming to attempt the hole-in-one is the talk of the town. Is it? We met with professional golfer Phil Tautarangi. Yeah! Jono and Ben coming to attempt the hole-in-one is the talk of the town. Is it? We met with professional golfer Phil Tautarangi. With one shot, here was Jono's attempt. Now, what do you think his chances are, Phil? Zero to none.
Starting point is 00:07:14 Zero to none. You both shut up. Is there something less than zero? I didn't do much better. Here we go. It's gone off and it's hit an elderly gentleman in the head. There's a hole over there somewhere. Oh, yes. I'm just getting a message through from the people, Ben,
Starting point is 00:07:30 and they're saying, thank you very much for that conveniently timed recap package featuring highlights of the journey so far. Yeah, so that has led us to sitting on the side of Lake Taupo this morning. Just, you know, no covering, no shelter. We're just here in a couple of plastic chairs. But let's not complain. Let's give away some more. Well, you know, no covering, no shelter. We're just here in a couple of plastic
Starting point is 00:07:45 chairs. But let's not complain. Let's give away some balls. I know where you are. You've spent six o'clock. What's the time now? For 35 minutes. So what you've been doing is... I just thought maybe there would have been less of a... But not complaining. You mean passive... Quick up or something? Passive, aggressively complaining. Or maybe... A room? Anyway, anyway, we're here now. Let's give away
Starting point is 00:08:01 some last-minute balls. Cherie, you're on the air from Auckland. You tell us in two words why you want a ball. New curtains for a house. New curtains. New curtains. Well, I tell you what, these balls could get you some new curtains, my friend. And you're also in the drawer for that private boat charter on Chris Jolly Outdoors. You, six friends, Lake Popo, new curtains.
Starting point is 00:08:23 What about it? You have a great day, and we'll allocate a ball to you. Hopefully you can win 10 grand. Shall we go to Matamata? Wilma, how are you? Wilma? Yes, hello. I love the name Wilma.
Starting point is 00:08:37 Yeah, it's a nice name. Wilma? I love your Flintstones. Are you too young for that? No, I love the Flintstones as well. Yeah, you know what always confused me about the Flintstones was their cars. They used their feet with their cars. That's right.
Starting point is 00:08:50 Why wouldn't they just walk? Well, too bad, but you know, they're faster. Anyway, let's not get stuck into plot holes with the Flintstones. Their wheels were also stone as well. Yeah, they made it very difficult on themselves. But anyway, hey, Wilma, we're going to give you a golf ball. Best of luck, and also in the draw for that boat charter. Oh, fantastic.
Starting point is 00:09:06 Thank you very much. Hey, let's go to Tash. Tash, whereabouts in New Zealand are you, matey? Tash. Oh, hey. Where are you, mate? I'm about two k's
Starting point is 00:09:17 down the road from you guys on Lake Tupu. Oh, there we go. You could come down and talk to us, but you decided not to. That's fine. We'll move on.
Starting point is 00:09:24 Do you want to win a ball? I've got work. I'd love to win a ball. Oh, okay. go. You could come down and talk to us, but you decided not to. That's fine. We'll move on. Do you want to win a ball? I've got work. I've got work. I've got work. You want the winning ball? Well, you have got the winning ball, Tash. Well done. And also, you can go on your backyard on a private boat charter, potentially.
Starting point is 00:09:37 You're in the draw for that, okay, mate? Hey, perfect. Love you, Tash, even though you can't be bothered coming 200 metres down the road to see us I've got life to save You go save those lives Well thank you, we'll allocate some more balls before 7 o'clock so you can hopefully win 10 grand
Starting point is 00:09:55 Serving bowls of loels for breakfast Actual loels may not be served It's Jono and Ben on the heads We're just watching our producer Ben Producer Brent Humphrey has, I'll tell you what, got quite a knack with the old golf balls. There we go. Yeah. That's going to land on the pontoon 200 metres away.
Starting point is 00:10:10 He should be the one doing it this morning. But anyway, he's not. We are, and I don't think we're quite as good as that. Call him Tiger Woods. You know, not the shady few years that he had where he shacked up with 900 ladies. The good years of Tiger Woods. He's going to hit the pontoon as well. Jesus, Ben. Ben. And, you know,'s going to hit the pontoon as well. Jesus.
Starting point is 00:10:25 Ben. And, you know, this is shocking commentary from us. We're just surprised. We're not golf commentators by any stretch. Now, this morning on the way here, we got up nice and early to come down to sit on the side to do the radio show. Sit on the side of the lake. And, yeah, we've got a couple of. Oh, we wanted to get a coffee.
Starting point is 00:10:41 Yeah. There's a couple of orchids out of town. Let's get a coffee. Oh, I was dying for a soy latte. Lactose intolerant, of course. Yeah. And hello, mate. How are you?
Starting point is 00:10:51 What's your name? Pitty. Pitty. I should stop getting so distracted. Yeah, we're having a conversation. Sorry, we're on the radio. Pitty's just turned up. Lovely to meet you, mate.
Starting point is 00:10:58 So we're going to get a coffee, and then we ordered, what did you order? A couple of flat whites. Soy mocha, yeah, a couple of flat whites. A couple of boring flat white guys ordering flat whites. And they came back long black. Yeah, they weren't flat whites. But then we had that dilemma going, well, we're a couple of people come from Auckland,
Starting point is 00:11:15 we can't be the cliche Aucklanders complaining about flat whites. Yeah, so we didn't complain. We decided that we'd just leave them. So we didn't have them. And so we went to another place to order more. And then we're like oh this is taking ages This is ridiculous
Starting point is 00:11:30 I was getting out of the car looking in the window I was getting wetter and the lady came out She's like sorry for the delay. I'm like oh, that's fine. It's fine. No problem. You did the most Kiwi thing ever You were just like 20 seconds before that you're talking about this is ridiculous. How long does it take to make a good one? Oh I've got a suit. Give them a good suit. And then the lady comes out lovely and she's like I'm sorry but you're like to me going this is ridiculous how long does it take to make a bad lie give them a good serve and then the lady comes out lovely and she's like I'm sorry but
Starting point is 00:11:47 you're like yeah no worries no worries at all you're like well hang on moments before you were complaining about how long it took as soon as the person
Starting point is 00:11:56 comes up you're like I don't know that's fine I'll happily do it behind their back just onto their phone never complained
Starting point is 00:12:00 to anyone's face I'm a New Zealander Ben Boyce eggs for breakfast it's Jono and Ben on my heads. Spy. Launch into
Starting point is 00:12:07 mess free Mexican with the new Old El Paso tortilla pockets. Now as we're about to do the hole in one a lady who is on par with celebrity gossip
Starting point is 00:12:16 about to take a swing at some of these famous people in a dark hole. What? Some of that made sense. Some of that didn't, but I think... She's in an exclusive club.
Starting point is 00:12:27 There she is, Juliette the Spy. Thanks very much. So Ed Sheeran has been seen out with his baby daughter, Lyra Antarctica, she is called, for the first time since they announced the birth. He was stepping out. He came out of a home in London holding the little carrier. But what I was disappointed by,
Starting point is 00:12:43 they blurred the faces of the child. I'm like, I want to see what this baby looks like. Well, I'm sure Ed Sheeran's not disappointed by that. It's a good-me-the-child privacy reason. Unpixelated child. I want to see all of that baby. I know. So I'm quite disappointed by that. Does the baby have, what colour
Starting point is 00:12:57 hair does the baby have? I don't know. I want to see ginger hair. I want to see if it's pixelated. I know. I hope it's ginger. I hope Ed Sheeran, did you ever, when you had babies being boys, have the front pack where you'd strap onto your chest? Oh, yeah. I tried a little bit. I can imagine you rocking that.
Starting point is 00:13:13 I tried to rock it once. A lot of weight. A lot of front weight, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I would pay to see you guys do that. That'd be adorable. A couple of great dads.
Starting point is 00:13:21 A couple of great dads. Just off to the supermarket. Do some supermarket shopping. Walking around with the front pack. Yeah. Yeah. I do like, do some supermarket shopping. Walking around with the front pack, yeah. Yeah, no, I do like the front. Sometimes you see the celebrities with the front pack and you're like, damn it. Not even a celebrity can look cool with a front pack. It's like with a GoPro on your head.
Starting point is 00:13:34 No one looks cool at all, you're right. And Lewis Capaldi, he, so there were rumours that he was going to join that X-rated site, Only Fans, where people pay a subscription to see sort of naughty photos of celebrities. And he said he wouldn't go on it, not because he's a multi-millionaire, but because he's got a wee, he's got a small... Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:55 I know, but then sometimes he's like, yeah, I'm a sex god, you know, and Graham Norton, he jokes about how sexy he is. I love his vibe, Capone. Oh, I know. Yeah, he's very similar to Ed Sheeran, too. He just seems like a good, decent, you know? Yeah, I would love to have a drink with that man, I think.
Starting point is 00:14:11 Yeah, Lewis Capaldi wouldn't pixelate his baby. No. You'd see all of that baby. Little baby, baby. Exactly. And Harry Potter fans, including myself, are really shocked and disappointed to discover that Draco Malfoy,
Starting point is 00:14:25 who's quite a significant character in the franchise, total, his screen time was only 31 minutes across all seven movies. Really? Yeah. But he was such a big character in the movies. I know. It's bizarre. But also, who spent that time counting that?
Starting point is 00:14:39 Oh, my God, there are ducks. There's three ducks walking past. Put the mic up to the ducks, Ben. Get some audio. Get some audio. Take your headphones off. See if we can get some live ducks on the side of Lake Taupo. What do you want to say about the hole-in-one challenge, ducks?
Starting point is 00:14:54 Good luck, guys. Hope it goes well for you. We're going to buzz off right now. We're going to fly off. Aren't ducks great? Ducks are so inquisitive but also quite suspicious of you at the same time. They are. Aren't they? That was lovely. That was a bit of also quite suspicious of you at the same time. They are. Aren't they?
Starting point is 00:15:06 That was lovely. That was a bit of spy with a bit of ducks. Yeah, I love it. I guarantee no other radio show's got live ducks on this morning. No. For good reason, though. And that's five things to Old El Paso. They've got some new tortilla pockets that you can launch into some mess-free Mexican with.
Starting point is 00:15:20 Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. want more jonathan ben you can catch up with the boys anytime just search jonathan ben on facebook we are sitting on the side of lake taupo and about uh 45 minutes time we start hitting golf balls towards the pontoon here at the hole in one to try and win someone ten thousand dollars a bit cold joined by a couple of ducks before yeah we were we were you keep saying it's cold you keep moaning there's no shelter you keep seeing like there's a hotel across the road we could have just broadcast out of there.
Starting point is 00:15:45 A lot of passive-aggressive digs. But he's only doing them on a microphone. He's not facing producer Humphrey. I feel like these are all aimed at you, Ben Humphrey. I'm having a great time. Actually, there was a couple of ducks hanging around before, and it reminded me of last time I was here staying in a hotel. I had a little bit of a traumatic experience with one of the ducks
Starting point is 00:16:04 because we left some sliding doors open. We were right by the lake. And one of the ducks came inside. I was like, that's fine. He was looking for some food. And I'm like, all good. You never look around. But then obviously he kind of freaked out
Starting point is 00:16:14 when he saw me and then flew out and not realising there was a sliding door. And he didn't get the open part of the sliding door, just flew straight into the glass. Oh, the poor thing. That's funny though. It's funny when people do that.
Starting point is 00:16:25 He sort of shook it off, and then he kind of found the exit and went out. But I was like, oh, the poor thing. As a human, you get so embarrassed when you do that, don't you? And it's always in front of a huge mob of people. You're like, why did this glass window have to be right here? Yeah, so that was my story of a bit of a hotel horror last time I was here in Topol. Well, remember we were staying in the one just up the road? We were emceeing something, like an awards night,
Starting point is 00:16:46 and it was a hotel, and we'd finished for the evening, and the owner of the hotel was like, oh, just so you know, we were just walking off to bed, he says, just so you know, your wing of the hotel is haunted. You know, two things you don't want to hear. Is he just about to go to bed? Maybe, number one, you're going to have to sleep with Mum and Dad tonight because there's only one bed.
Starting point is 00:17:04 And number two, your hotel room is haunted. Haunted hotel room. It's all good. Friendly. They're friendly. But yeah, just so you know. They were friendly. They said please and thank you as they were probing me.
Starting point is 00:17:17 As I was taking my soul. So they were polite, guys. Actually, I woke up in the middle of the night and I was like, oh! There was a ghost in the room and it was just me in a mirror, naked. Just like a chocolate milkshake, only white and disappointing. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The A to Z of New Zealand. This is where we call a different town or city in New Zealand.
Starting point is 00:17:38 We do one a day. We're slowly making our way around in New Zealand, learning something about each place we call. That's right. Today we're going to head to Hampton, which is a small town in North Otago. It lies 35km south of Wamaru and 80km south of the city of Dunedin. It is home to the Wairaki Boulders, which is also the nickname I give Ben Boyce's biceps. They are wonderful biceps.
Starting point is 00:18:01 The current temperature in Hampton right now is about 6 degrees, and the local time is about 7.20. Yeah, it's the same time as here, mate. Oh, is it? That's a different time zone. And we're about to go through to Hamden now, the local Foursquare. Hello, Hamden Foursquare. OMG, how are you? Very well, thank you. Is this Hamden? It is Hamden Foursquare. OMG, how are you? Very well, thank you.
Starting point is 00:18:27 Is this Hamden? It is Hamden. It's Jonathan and Benjamin from the Hits radio station. Hello, how are you? Yeah, we're doing well. Now, we're calling every town and city in New Zealand one a day, and today it's your town's turn. Perfect.
Starting point is 00:18:40 We learn about every town. Do you know how many of them there are in New Zealand? How many? How many towns and cities there are in New Zealand? I haven't got to call. 570. 570, okay. And we're calling one a day.
Starting point is 00:18:54 We're in for the long haul, babes. Sounds like it. So what can you tell us about Hamden? Hamden is a beautiful coastal town. Well, same town. We're a wee village. Whereabouts in New Zealand? We're down the east coast,
Starting point is 00:19:07 one hour north of Dunedin. Oh, in the South Island. Okay. Are you near the Muraki Boulders? We are a five-minute drive from the Muraki Boulders. Oh, there we go. I've seen the boulders
Starting point is 00:19:16 and I was like, oh, okay. You haven't been in the store for an ice cream then? Oh, no. You're more angry. Clap your legs. Yeah, mate. You get in the. Pop your legs. Yeah, mate.
Starting point is 00:19:25 You're getting in the store for an ice cream. Why don't I come to Hamden where it's currently five degrees for an ice cream? What? You're at about five degrees. We're busking in sunshine, Dave. Yeah, you take that back. I'm offended. I've never been there.
Starting point is 00:19:36 But yeah. How long have you lived there? 20 years. Oh, 20 years. I detect an accent. Yes, I'm from England. Did you move from England straight to Hampton? No, we flew over here in the year, beginning of the year 2000,
Starting point is 00:19:50 to see my brother in the North Island. He lived out in West Auckland. And then we flew down here. We just travelled around for two years. Oh, and tell me, compare it to England. Just one second. It's John Owen Band from the radio station. Oh.
Starting point is 00:20:05 He's like, who's she talking to? John's just saying, what do they want? What do they want? You're getting all wound up about not getting ice creams and me saying the wrong temperature. A hell of a commotion in store. Now, do you know what we're doing today? We're in Lake Taupo.
Starting point is 00:20:20 We're trying to hit a golf ball into the hole-in-one attraction. We've got 1,000 shots, and we're trying to get a golf ball into the hole-in-one attraction. We've got a thousand shots and we're trying to get it in to win money, $10,000. Okay, I'm up for $2,000. Go on then.
Starting point is 00:20:30 $10,000. I'm not just going to give it to you, unfortunately. Just one second. The girl doesn't believe me that it's... Okay,
Starting point is 00:20:38 I was going to get some boss chat about the golf thing, but that's not important. She doesn't want to hear about your boring story, mate. Go on, sorry. Carry on. No, that's right.
Starting point is 00:20:44 That's right. Put on... No, that's all right. That's all right. Put on. No, that's gone. We're going to be here for two days. Pass you on to the girl. One second. Okay, all right. There we go.
Starting point is 00:20:53 Maybe she wants to hear about her hole-in-one. No, she's run away now. She didn't want to hear about the hole-in-one. Anyway, we're here for two days, and that's my story anyway. I've got to answer a question, Emma Jane. Oh, sorry. Carry on. Emma, tell Emma Jane to just say, hold her horses ask her a question, Emma Jane. Oh, sorry, carry on. Tell Emma Jane to just say,
Starting point is 00:21:05 hold her horses. Hold your horses, Emma Jane. Oh, it's been lovely talking to you. It's okay. If you ever come to Hamden, we'll come and have an ice cream. So what are we doing about the hole in one? What's this? Oh, now you want to know. Yeah. I'll tell you what, we'll allocate a
Starting point is 00:21:21 golf ball to you, and so if we get your golf ball in, you'll win the $10,000. Perfect. All right, and we're doing a draw on Monday if we don't get it in at all, so you've still got a possibility of $10,000 going to be won by someone, all right? Okay. Yeah, you don't sound that good. What's going on?
Starting point is 00:21:38 Talk to us. It sounds like there's a lot going on. One of them just said it's a scam. Oh, it's a scam. I said it. Now, all you need to do is give us your credit card number. Yeah, just a little bond. No, no, it's not a scam.
Starting point is 00:21:48 I don't have a credit card. I'm not that silly. It's not a scam. It's not a scam. You hold the line. Oh, yes, get your details. It sounds like a scam, doesn't it? Well, can you give us Emma Jane's credit card?
Starting point is 00:21:56 Give you Emma Jane's credit card number. Yeah, and the little number on the back. I'm not telling you what she's just done. You hold the line and we will actually allocate a ball to your name, alright? Okay, cheers.
Starting point is 00:22:08 Thank you so much. Nice talking to you. See ya. Cheers. Hey, you've got toothpaste on the side of your mouth. It's Jono and Ben
Starting point is 00:22:14 on my heads. We're just talking hotel horrors. What's happened to you in a hotel? Your best hotel story basically. That's right, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:20 I don't know why it's called Hotel Horrors. It's a radio. We have to do alliteration. First rule of radio. Second rule of radio, you've got to do everything naked. Stunt-wise, that is not... We don't all just turn up to the...
Starting point is 00:22:31 Broadcast naked. Yeah, we don't just turn up to the... No, it's not an office of naturists or anything. I didn't like that when you suggested that. Absolutely nightmare. But yeah, I woke up this morning at our motel. Tell you what, someone had finally crafted three flannels into a dove. Into a dove! Three flannels! Oh, what? Oh into a dove. Into a dove?
Starting point is 00:22:46 Three flannels? Oh, what? Oh, like the shape of a dove? Yeah, just sitting there on the bathroom. Yeah. Amazing. Whose job is it to take three flannels and mould them into a dove? I don't know, but that's impressive.
Starting point is 00:22:56 Full respect to that. You know when you're using a flannel in a motel? I was rubbing it this morning. I was just imagining halfway through how many faces have been on this piece of material. And I'm just adding to that number, baby. They do wash it. They do wash it. A lot of face.
Starting point is 00:23:09 A lot of face time. So we want to know your best hotel story this morning. Hotel horrors, Ben. Remember, it's alliteration. Hotel horrors. Story? You want to know the story? Yeah, I'll get one more story.
Starting point is 00:23:21 I feel like you're just an old man taken out from the day, from the retirement home. You're sitting here in golfing checkered pants. You've got a golfing hat, a cheese cutter hat on. You're just telling me stories now. That's right. Sitting on a plastic chair on the side of the road telling stories. A friend of mine was staying in a motel. Above him was a truck driver who had obviously done a long shift. Fell asleep
Starting point is 00:23:40 when he had run the bath. And so he was asleep on the bed. The bath kept running. Flooded the entire hotel. Oh, my goodness. You name a part of the hotel. The reception. Flooded. Another part.
Starting point is 00:23:54 The office. Flooded. Next part. A room. Flooded. Yeah, okay. Every part of it flooded. Crazy.
Starting point is 00:24:01 All right. Let's go to Petra. Welcome. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast. What happened to you in a hotel, Petra? Emily, what happened to you in a hotel? You can't remember the name. My one's a bit of an emotional scar, some would say.
Starting point is 00:24:16 I was a little girl, and my mum was taking me to a motel for a week. And she showed me photos. There was this amazing, beautiful pool there and I was super excited, really, really for it. And then when we got there, they had closed down the pool
Starting point is 00:24:32 for renovations for a week. Oh. And you can't swim in a renovated pool. No. I had an epic meltdown in the reception for a good hour and a half.
Starting point is 00:24:44 An hour and a half? 90 minutes? I was really excited for this pool. I was really ready for this pool. You know there's other pools. 90 minutes. That's it. Emily Hurte has made a new pool.
Starting point is 00:25:00 You filled up the pool. We're going to allocate you a golf ball, so hopefully you can win $10,000, all right? Oh, perfect. Cheers. Good on you, Emily. Let's go to Tanita. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Tanita. What happened to you in a hotel, matey?
Starting point is 00:25:14 So it wasn't actually me. It was a friend of mine who is housekeeping for a rather prominent hotel chain in Christchurch. Let's name them. No, no. That was his prerequisite. Let's name them. No, no. That was his prerequisite. Don't name them. So she actually sent a photo of this,
Starting point is 00:25:33 but you know how in hotels, they don't have smoke alarms like you'd find in a house. They have those little wee ones that stick out of the roof, just little ones. Yeah, I know the ones. It looks like a sprinkler. Oh, yes, yeah, yeah. So she walked in to find that someone had put a condom over it.
Starting point is 00:25:53 It was just hanging there. It was a wild night for Ben, boys. Here we go. He found some stuff in his fridge. What other stuff did you get up to in that room, mate? You're insane. We're going to flick you out a golf ball
Starting point is 00:26:08 and hopefully you can win $10,000 if we nail your ball in the hole in one. You have a great Friday, all right? Thank you, too. New Zealand's breakfast.
Starting point is 00:26:17 Just don't eat them. They're chewy. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. What I didn't factor in is broadcasting lakeside is the elements.
Starting point is 00:26:26 The cold elements. A little colder now. A little colder, yeah. But it's going to warm up a wee bit later on and things are starting to get hot right now because the late night
Starting point is 00:26:32 Big Breakfast returns to TV on Sunday night on Duke. It's a comedy chat show. If you haven't seen it before it's hilarious and instead of a studio they film the show
Starting point is 00:26:41 inside a real working furniture store. It stars Lee Hart and Jeremy Wells and guests like the Prime Minister and he should be back in our hit studio right now Lee Hart, are you there? Yeah, great to be here, thank you Do you know Lee, Ben is always threatening me
Starting point is 00:26:56 that if he ever offs me you're the better version the better version the older version far funnier, but I'm very excited about the late. The older version. Yeah, but far funnier. But it's good. I'm very excited about the late night big breakfast coming back.
Starting point is 00:27:07 Yeah, that is exciting in many ways. A bit ominous. It's been a while, I think. It actually doesn't seem like a long time.
Starting point is 00:27:13 It was five years. Is that right? Well, that's what people are saying. I think it's more like four, but we did a version online somewhere. I think here at Watch Me
Starting point is 00:27:19 at one point. So, because you film in Target on Dominion Road, do they leave the store open when you're filming? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, we work office hours there. So, it's like 8.30, 8.30 till 5.
Starting point is 00:27:31 Look, that is the most, I don't want people to take us up on this, but it's probably the most efficient studio in the country then. You know, on a budget, you can move from couch to lounge suite to futon, and it looks like you've got a massive budget. Because every... He's moving from set to decision.
Starting point is 00:27:44 Studio A, futons, Studio studio b wooden furnishings you know studio c lounges and um three cities you're beginning to know the staff on a personal level oh we're great i mean and the specials well the specials we know them inside out and a lot of the crew the film crew i mean they didn't really know this when they signed up they they said, well, that's a bit lower than my normal TV wages that I'm getting here. And I go, yeah, but remember, you're also selling furniture. So a lot of these people, they get a percentage of their sales, so they might be a cameraman, but if he can sell two futons
Starting point is 00:28:16 on a shift, he's on good money. You know what, if you don't mind, I think we'll just call Target and just see what sort of employee your crews are. Our opening hours, please dial 9. If you know your party's extension, you can dial that at any time. Otherwise, please choose one of the following options. What department do you see? After sales service, please dial 1.
Starting point is 00:28:37 To talk to our sales professionals, please dial 2. For pick-up or delivery... That'll come through to you. That'll come right back to my mobile. Oh, hello. Who have we got hold of here? You've got hold of Asif from Target Mount Eden Branch. Welcome.
Starting point is 00:28:53 It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station here. How are you? I'm great. How are you? We've got Lee Hart with us, who filmed a TV show in your store. Oh, yes, he did. He did.
Starting point is 00:29:03 He's here with us. Hi, Asif. Hi, hi. How are you? Did you enjoy us filming the show there? It wasn't too what's the word for it? Disruptive. Do you want me to be honest? No, no it's for radio so
Starting point is 00:29:17 talk it up. You loved having him there right? Yes, yes we loved having you guys over here it was great. And good. Any specials this week at Target that you want to get on air? This week, we do have the Trent sofa bed. That's going for $899, which is an amazing deal.
Starting point is 00:29:34 That's a good one. Always use the opportunity to promote, yeah? Oh, very good. That's great. Very accommodating store. Nice to talk to you, all right? Have a great day. Do you also do kids' birthday parties?
Starting point is 00:29:45 Because I could hold one of their too. Thank you. What about guys that have been kicked out of their house? Can I stay in the bed for a couple of weeks? Well, I did. Oh, you did? That was good. Now, I was reading up about you last night in articles.
Starting point is 00:29:57 It's hard to know whether something's a joke or whether it's actually legit, but you started off trying to be in a rock and roll band and then somehow, did people get arrested in France or is that a joke? No, no, that's true. I wanted to get into music as opposed to TV. We went overseas on tour to Scotland and Europe and France
Starting point is 00:30:13 eventually. Highlights there was playing with Jimmy Barnes in France at a ski resort. He came and did, played our gigs with us. It was quite cool. Was Barnes the opening for you or were you um a bit of both uh actually that's quite funny he was our gig and he we kind of conned him into showing up and told the whole community and you know the whole australasian community from the of
Starting point is 00:30:37 europe that he was coming in and we didn't know if he wasn't because he hadn't committed so we were playing and the place was packed you know about three quarters of this gig we're going this is not looking good and then sure enough he walks in through the back door like some sort of cowboy sits down and next thing you know he's on stage just going nuts and we're just playing every song we know and he had to sing our stuff because we didn't know his stuff you know like you know, you know this one? He was like, no, really? He didn't care, because he just, whatever key, he would just go for it. Really respected that.
Starting point is 00:31:08 But then about a day later, we got arrested. And at one point, we even thought about ringing him up to get some money to bail us out. You're at the gig as well. One phone call to Barnsley. Oh, what happened at the gig? Got you arrested. Well, we were sort of getting a few noise complaints,
Starting point is 00:31:24 and they dug deeper. Didn't really have work permits. Working illegally, that sort of stuff. And we ended up going to this deportation jail for like 12 days in Lyon prison. It used to be where the Gestapo used to take people in France. I actually researched it quite recently, this actual building. And so we're getting deported.
Starting point is 00:31:49 They do it in such a roundabout way. It takes as long as post type of thing in a way. They can hold you for as much as a week plus three more days or something. They're like the Edmonds shocking on this. And I was saying to Matt, the drummer of the band, because he was a little bit worried about it. I said, look, don't worry about it. It's just going to be like a departure.
Starting point is 00:32:08 No big deal. No big deal. We're in this van. Pull around the corner. There's barbed wire and there's machine guns and everything. And I go, oh, shit. Here we go. So it was like a prison.
Starting point is 00:32:19 Oh, yeah. It was a prison. So everyone else in there was from Morocco and all sort of Northern Africa, I suppose now. And they're getting deported back there. And us, these two Kiwis. What did you guys do?
Starting point is 00:32:31 Oh, we put on a concert with Jimmy Barnes. And there was hunger strikes going on in there. Oh, wow, you're really part of it. Yeah, we didn't get part of that. We're actually taking people's meals that were having hunger strikes. You're obviously not eating that, are you?
Starting point is 00:32:46 You're going to finish that baguette? Okay, thanks. Oh, it's so good. Yeah, so long story short after that, we came back to New Zealand and I thought, oh, maybe
Starting point is 00:32:54 take a bit of break for the band and sort of ran about while you got into TV. And there you go, the rest is history. The late night big
Starting point is 00:33:01 breakfast this Sunday night on Duke. Morning, it's Jono and Ben on the hips. We're sitting on the side of Lake Taupo very shortly, just after 8 o'clock we're talking to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern she is going to launch our
Starting point is 00:33:13 mission to try and get a golf ball in the hole in one here, win someone $10,000. Yeah, got a thousand balls to do it, all the balls going to be dedicated to the fine listeners of the hits. If we don't do it, we give away the money regardless on Monday and I don't even know the Prime Minister knows she's launching this. We're's going to be dedicated to the fine listeners of the hits. If we don't do it, we give away the money regardless on Monday. And I don't even know the Prime Minister knows she's launching this. We're just going to spring it on her.
Starting point is 00:33:30 Does she not know? We'll see how good a Prime Minister she is then. If she can launch a novelty golf expedition. Now, we're joined now here at Lakeside in Taupo by a long drive expert. Dan Crook is his name. Now, Dan, tell me about some of the longest drives you've taken because I drove from Nelson to Bluff. Oh, that's a long drive. That's a long drive expert. Dan Crook is his name. Now, Dan, tell me about some of the longest drives you've taken because I drove from Nelson to Bluff. Oh, that's a long drive.
Starting point is 00:33:48 That's a long drive. Through Murchison. That's a great drive. Yeah, it's a great drive. I've done Auckland to Wellington before. That's quite a long drive. What about yourself? What's your longest drive?
Starting point is 00:34:00 379 metres. Oh, okay. So that's not as far as I've driven, but that's fine. No, no, no, seriously. It's a golf long drive. 370 how much? 379 metres. Oh, okay, so that's not as far as I'm driving, but that's fine. No, no, no, seriously, it's golf long drive, 370 how much? 379 metres, so that's just over 14 yards. So this is your job, hit golf balls as far as you can. Oh, it's not my main job, but it's definitely something I put a lot of effort into, and there are a lot of people that do it full time.
Starting point is 00:34:20 So you had an event here yesterday for the kids. You know, we all love the kids. They're the future, aren't they? And you had a little seven-year-old hitting it. How far into the line? Oh, we had a young guy from Christchurch come up, and he would have been, I don't know, about three foot two. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:34 And he hit the ball 125 metres carry, so he was absolutely pumping it for a little fella. Now, how far is the hole from where we are? We're looking at about 108 metres, I think. 108 metres, okay. So that's a putt for you, pretty much. I don't think a putt is going to get there, actually. It's definitely a handy sandwich.
Starting point is 00:34:55 Have you landed a hole-in-one here? No. Have you ever landed a hole-in-one? Jono, it's embarrassing to say, 25 years of golf and I have never had a hole-in-one. Well, they were saying, because yesterday I think some of our team were setting up, well, I have never had a hole-in-one. Well, they were saying because yesterday I think some of our team were setting up, well, you were here at the hole-in-one. Then you're like, well, you were going like 200 yards past the hole-in-one. So maybe that's part of your problem.
Starting point is 00:35:14 You're driving 300 yards as opposed to 100. Club selection is key. Right. Yeah, so obviously you're picking a driver up, you're not going 109 metres. He had a ball from here to Wellington. Still going. still flying. So what advice would you give us? Because you're hanging out today, you're spotting.
Starting point is 00:35:31 I don't know if you're going to, I don't know if you're necessary because I don't know how close we're going to get to the pontoon. Won't be spotting much. What advice would you give us? Warm up. Warm up? Yeah, because you're going to be doing it for a long time. Your body is fragile.
Starting point is 00:35:44 You guys are definitely getting long in the tooth. We are fragile. Thanks for that honesty. When I stand naked in front of the mirror, I look like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. Oh, dear. So we'll see if this body can pull us through, eh? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:01 To you shortly. Nice to catch up with you this morning, Dan. Thanks, Dan. Cheers, Jono. What more Jono and Ben? You to catch up with you this morning, Dan. Thanks, Dan. Cheers, Jono and Ben. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram.
Starting point is 00:36:17 Joining us on the phone now, I think the Prime Minister might be on hold. You always do like a little joke, a little what? A welcome to Cinderin. Hello, the weed referendum hotline. Would you like to publicly state which way you are voting? See, I heard the whole build-up to that, including the planning. Getting worse, not better. Everyone's been bagging on about, why won't she tell us which way you're voting?
Starting point is 00:36:39 But you have voted already. I don't want to know what you voted in the referendum, but I want to know who you voted party vote. Can you tell us? Labour. Labour? Oh, I can't. Are you sure?
Starting point is 00:36:53 Controversial. Controversial. Yeah. You think they're good to run the country, do you? Okay. Yeah, it is a good thing if you're voting for yourself. Someone asked me whether or not you're allowed to do that. You absolutely can. I think that's encouraged yeah although as a kiwi you probably feel it's a bit
Starting point is 00:37:09 self-indulgent you know it's quite a new zealand thing oh i should vote for myself exactly a little bit shy about it okay prime minister i want to give you some hard-hitting questions if you don't mind you do mind no no no that no. That was me worrying slightly that I can hear a two-year-old approaching. Oh, is that Niamh? Oh, Niamh. Do you see much of Clark and Niamh during these crazy campaign days? No, no, I don't. She's just got out of bed, so this is my little chance to see her before I hit the road.
Starting point is 00:37:42 Oh, listen, and we're taking up your valuable mother-daughter talk. I'm going to wait for Mummy until she gets off the phone. Oh, sorry, you're talking to Jono and Ben. That's disappointing. Actually, Prime Minister, speaking of hard-hitting questions, you got asked about milk, the price of milk the other day. Yes, and I still defend my answer. Well, I'm just going to defend you as well because you said $4.50.
Starting point is 00:38:03 I was looking on Countdown. It depends on what brand you buy, but there's some for $4.50. Yeah, there's Anka, two litres, $4.50. I know. I didn't want to bang on about it, but I got a little bit done over on the question. You're like, I definitely knew. Is that the thing that you and Judith had to prepare for? You have to go to the supermarket and get the price of every item on the shelf
Starting point is 00:38:25 just in case they had it with you in a debate. No, I genuinely do, you know, not as often as I used to, shop at a grocery store, but obviously I'm not one frequently doing a 2kg legal lamb for a Sunday. I want to ask you another question. What's your coffee?
Starting point is 00:38:43 When you have coffee, what does Jacinda Ardern drink? Oh, my coffee's embarrassing, but all right. I drink single shot flat whites. Oh, that's not embarrassing. Why are you embarrassed by that? I've been mocked for that badly. It's single shot just because I drink so much tea that I've just got to...
Starting point is 00:39:04 Otherwise, you don't want an over-caffeinated Prime Minister. You just don't. The last thing we need. You're just turning up to press conferences not blinking. Yeah. Are you quite a big tea drinker, are you? A lot. A lot of tea.
Starting point is 00:39:18 Okay. Yeah. Okay, good answer. When signing up for websites. Preparing for my retirement. When signing up for websites, do you use the same password or do you use 20 different passwords? It might be sensitive government information.
Starting point is 00:39:30 There's going to be someone out there listening to this in the cybersecurity government waiting for this answer. I try and follow all the rules around having long, difficult, and multiple passwords. Okay. And then writing them down in obvious places. What a bonanza of a conversation we've had. And next week, guess what, Jacinda?
Starting point is 00:39:52 We do this face-to-face. You're coming in to see us? We do, we do. I look forward to the hard-hitting questions face-to-face. You're like, what are they going to ask me next week? Now, Prime Minister, we're on the side of Lake Taupo at the moment. Do you know the novelty hole-in-one attraction they've got going? I do.
Starting point is 00:40:10 I do. We've got 1,000 golf balls. We're trying to land the hole-in-one, and all the listeners have got a ball dedicated to them. So we'll get you to launch it. I don't know if you knew about this, but we're going to get you to cut the ribbon on this bad boy. Excellent.
Starting point is 00:40:25 I had no idea, but I reckon we can make this work. Yeah, so what would you say? You're starting it off for New Zealand. Every listener, a thousand listeners have got a ball allocated to them. Over to you. What do you say? Well, first of all, wishing both of you the best of luck. I hope you don't get any repetitive injuries.
Starting point is 00:40:43 Thank you. And to every listener, good luck. I hope you don't get any repetitive injuries. And to every listener, good luck now officially launching the Hold On One Challenge. Oh, okay. Should we do it? Should we do the first shot? Jono, you can go up for the first shot. Okay, here we go. This could be a Hold On One first shot.
Starting point is 00:41:01 Hold on, Ben. Oh! Not bad, Not bad. Not bad. No. No. We didn't get it. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:41:10 Did you hit the pontoon? No. No. It basically just dribbled down the hill into the water. Yeah, I was saying not bad, talking it up, but it really was quite bad. Yeah, okay. Imagine if that went in, though. That would have been a great moment.
Starting point is 00:41:24 That would have been a great moment. Jacinda on there. We could have gone home afterwards, but no, we're going to be here until tomorrow, but that's fine. Thank you so much for joining us, Prime Minister. We'll continue on the next batch of balls. Will we get a hole-in-one?
Starting point is 00:41:35 Will we $10,000? I think that's a sentence. Up next. It all sounded very smooth. If you want a ball 4487 We could win you $10,000 If we allocate you one Hitting more balls next
Starting point is 00:41:49 More painful than your alarm clock It's Jono and Ben on the hits We're here in Lake Taupo this morning Trying to get a hole in one We've got 1,000 chances Each ball is allocated to a listener If we get your ball in You'll get the 10 grand
Starting point is 00:42:04 And I tell you what The people have come out And the atmosphere is electric is allocated to a listener. If we get your ball in, you'll get the 10 grand. And I tell you what, the people have come out and the atmosphere is electric. Electric. Electric. You could cut the atmosphere with a knife. Is that what you do with atmosphere? Yeah, you cut some atmosphere.
Starting point is 00:42:18 Yeah, sure you can. You can take a knife to atmosphere. Is that what? So we've had three shots each so far. You can catch up on the live stream that's on our Facebook page, The Hits Breakfast. That's right. Each ball dedicated to a listener. If we get your ball in, $10,000
Starting point is 00:42:31 hole-in-one. I'm not going to lie, I think we're doing shockingly. I hit the pontoon once, but then I've had another couple of crappy shots. Yeah, so hey, there's still many more balls to come, my friend. Don't you worry about that. I'm feeling a little bit sore and I've only hit three balls. More chances at
Starting point is 00:42:47 redemption. We're going to go live now to Katrina. Welcome. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Katrina. Good morning, gentlemen. How are we? We're doing well. Owner of ball number seven. You can choose who you would like to hit it. Oh, wow. You're like, what are your names again
Starting point is 00:43:05 And you've always said you're not doing very well So yeah well my odds aren't very good are they Okay I'll go I'll go Ben I'll nominate Ben Boyce Very skinny by frame And by nature And also by sponsorship too there's wonderful integration Of our partners Skinny
Starting point is 00:43:21 They'll like that send that off to Skinny They'll like that okay here you off to Skinny. They'll like that. Okay, here you go, Katrina. Your ball, 100 metres away. Over the lake, toe boys. Hit it. It's going towards the pontoon, Katrina. It's hit the pontoon.
Starting point is 00:43:36 It's not in the hole. But I tell you what, it was close, Katrina. Thank you very much for listening, mate. You go and have a wonderful weekend, eh? Tony's on the air. Tony, how are you? Good, good Alright, who do you want to hit the ball? Ben or myself?
Starting point is 00:43:52 Definitely Ben Your eye, hand, leg coordination doesn't look good Any coordination I don't even know what coordination means my friend So Ben, you're nominated again Ben Boyce hit the pontoon twice this morning. Okay, your ball number eight, Tony. This could be a $10,000 moment for you right
Starting point is 00:44:10 now. I know. It's a lot of pressure. Okay, Tony's going towards the pontoon. It's off to the left a bit, probably 20 metres away. I'm sorry, Tony. He got the lake anyway. He got the lake. You got the lake. I got the lake. That was good. And we'll go to Johnny as well on 0800.
Starting point is 00:44:26 The hit's Johnny, owner of ball number nine. Johnny. Hey. Who do you want, Ben or myself, to hit this ball for you? Oh, you can hit it, eh? Oh, thank you. This is a pity one. What club are you using?
Starting point is 00:44:38 Oh, you nominate a club. What club would you like us to use for your ball? Five Iron. Five Iron. Okay. Here goes a Five Iron. Okay, Johnny stepping up ball? Five iron. Five iron. Okay, here goes a five iron. Okay, Jono stepping up with a five iron. We've got quite a big crowd watching here on Lake Taupo this morning.
Starting point is 00:44:50 What have you got to say, Taupo? Woo! Yeah! Electric atmosphere. You get cut up with a knife. All right, Jono Pryor. He's 102 metres away from it. Oh, he's really got on to this.
Starting point is 00:45:03 It's straight. Has he gone too far? Oh, but good accuracy. Sorry, Tony, we didn't quite. Tell Tony I blame the club choice. He blames the club choice. Well, you've still got another chance because, of course, if we miss all 1,000 balls, Monday morning someone will get 10 grand.
Starting point is 00:45:22 So you still have a chance right now for that. If you want a ball, 4487. We have a few more to give away. And wish us luck as we continue to hit golf balls here on The Hits this morning. Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on The Hits. Jono, we thought we were the star attractions here today.
Starting point is 00:45:38 You know, we thought people would come down to see us. We're all into town. Oh, here come the low-level celebrities coming in to do something quirky. It's all going to be about, but it's not about us. We've shown up already. We're only doing town, oh here come the lower level celebrities coming in to do something quirky. It's all going to be about, but it's not about us. We've been showing up already, we're only been doing it 20 minutes. Yeah, now we've got little Alex here who is 7 years old. We're from Christchurch? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:56 40 minutes out of Christchurch he said before, just to correct me specifically. And Alex, you've been playing golf since how old? Two. Since he was two years old. Now, Alex, you're here today. You look the part. You've got a Callaway Golf hat on and you've got your own club and you are, you're gnarling it. You're so good. Because I've been playing competitions a lot. He's been playing competitions. He's adorable, this little kid. And so he's got a driver in his hand and we're going to get him to do a... It's a lot. He's been playing competitions. He's adorable, this little kid.
Starting point is 00:46:25 And so he's got a driver in his hand. And we're going to get him to do a... It's a forward. Sorry. It's 40 minutes out of Christchurch and it's a forward. Hey, listen, buddy. When you're on the radio with low-level celebrities, don't correct them.
Starting point is 00:46:38 Alex, can you have a shot right now? Even on our live stream as well, and we'll get this for our social channels. This obviously doesn't count towards our 1,000, but we just want to show Alex what he can do. Now, is it good? Do you want me to talk to you while you're doing this or do you prefer to concentrate?
Starting point is 00:46:53 I prefer to concentrate. So shut up, basically. So here he is with his driver. He's got his driver. It's a forward. It's a forward. Here he goes now. Hits it straight. My God. He's got his driver. It's a forward. Sorry, forward. Here he goes now. Oh!
Starting point is 00:47:07 Hits it straight. Straight and... My God. Alex, do you mind if I adopt you and then make a lot of money off you when you're old? Yes. Just mind, okay. I've got a lot of money to be made out of.
Starting point is 00:47:21 It was worth it. It was a good question to ask. There's a lot of money to be made out of this kid. Yeah. I think I might take him. I think your own kids would feel about that. I'll add him to the mix. I'm going to take him home.
Starting point is 00:47:31 Well, very impressive, Alex. You've got a bright future ahead of us, unlike us. Okay, don't go anywhere because I'll take you home, mate. That's weird. Like starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. Now we're here at Lake Taupo. We're trying to hit the hole-in-one,
Starting point is 00:47:46 trying to get a hole-in-one to win someone $10,000. Jono, we've been golfing for about 40 minutes now. How are you feeling? 20 minutes down, 20 balls down, sorry, and I'm feeling very professional. I'm starting to get picky about the clubs we're using. Before, he was like, oh, no, the eight. The eight's no good.
Starting point is 00:48:02 And I was like, okay. Who are you? Thanks, Tiger Woods. Yeah, but we're having a lot of fun. If you want to ball 4487 on the text, and we may allocate one to you. But as we said earlier, this is not the first time we've done a novelty thing here on Lake Taupo. No, we sailed a children's bouncy castle across Lake Taupo a few years back. And after that historic occasion, we were kindly gifted the keys to Taupo by the mayor. And since then, Ben, we lost the keys.
Starting point is 00:48:33 You realise we lost the keys? We lost the keys. It happens. We can't get into any houses. We were given a big novelty key, a wooden key, the key to Taupo. And so we thought right now... When we had the keys, we were just wandering into everyone's houses helping ourselves.
Starting point is 00:48:46 We're like Goldilocks. We thought right now we might call our local locksmith to see if we can get a new key cut for the town. Locksmiths, good morning.
Starting point is 00:49:00 Good morning. You guys cut keys I understand? We do cut keys, yes. Oh great, I want to get a key cut for every house and business in Taupo. You do? Yeah. Is that doable?
Starting point is 00:49:10 It's doable, but it depends on whether I'm holding an account for the National Piss-Taking Authority. But look, to be honest with you, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Jono and Ben! Fantastic. How are you? Very good, mate. A few years ago, we came down to Taupo and Ben. Hey. Fantastic. How are you? Very good, mate. A few years ago, we came down to Taupo and we sailed a bouncy castle across the lake and the mayor gave us the key to the city.
Starting point is 00:49:30 It was a big wooden key and we've lost the key to the city. We're locked out of the city. We're locked out. We took it off the mayor. What are you on about? So now we're like, oh, geez, maybe we can get another key cut.
Starting point is 00:49:42 Hey, why not? We'll give it a go. So if someone can get a hold of the mayor and tell him that this has happened. Yeah, it's a big wooden key. I don't know if it actually fits in any locks, but we'd like to get one replaced. You'd like to get one replaced?
Starting point is 00:49:53 Yeah. Not a problem. I'll find him down at the pub street on Friday and give you a yell. We're down here for the next two days trying to land the hole in one. Oh, are you? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:03 Have you ever got that one before? No, no, no. There seems to be an issue between the size of the trying to land the hole in one. Oh, are you? Yeah. Have you ever got that one before? No, no, no. There seems to be an issue between the size of the holes and the ball, I think. Oh, you remember this. Well, it is for us today, that's for sure. The issue for us is the size of the lake and the aim of our swing. Oh, yeah, no worries.
Starting point is 00:50:20 Hey, make sure you drop into the shop, boys. We'd love to get a photo with you. Oh, that sounds good. We will do. Nice talking to you. Right next door to Herbert Holden. All right. All right, mate. We'd love to get a photo with you. Oh, that sounds good. We will do. Nice talking to you. Right next door to Herbert Holden. All right. All right, mate.
Starting point is 00:50:28 No worries. Cheers. Bye. Now, I'm going to make this claim right now. The mayor of Lake Taupo has three minutes to get down here. What? I want a conversation with him. We're the ones who lost the keys.
Starting point is 00:50:41 I want a conversation. Get him down here. I don't know who gets him down here. Someone get him down here. Someone tell him we need him down here now. Stat. Right. I don't know who gets him down here. Someone get him down here. Someone tell him we need him down here now. Stat. I don't care what he's doing. If he's opening a kindergarten, tell those children to wait because we've got a key issue we need to deal with.
Starting point is 00:50:54 We need a replacement set of keys. So I guess we'll find out if we've got it. I don't know why it's the mayor's fault. No, he gave us the key. We lost it. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. We're in the middle of our efforts to try and get a hole-in-one here on Lake Taupo,
Starting point is 00:51:09 hitting golf balls towards the pontoon, the famous attraction here. If we get your ball in, you will win the $10,000. Now, we just did mention that many years ago we gifted the keys to Taupo, and, well, we lost the keys. You know, you lose keys. Yeah, that's what happens. You lose keys. Even a large novelty wooden key, you lose keys. Yeah, that's what happens. You lose keys. Even a large novelty wooden key, you lose it.
Starting point is 00:51:25 Yeah, you lose it. And I callously made the demand three minutes ago that the mayor get down here right now and sort this mess out. And thankfully, there's no traffic in Taupo. And the mayor has literally turned up. Mayor David, ladies and gentlemen. Hey. He's coming. Oh, you've got your mayoral chains on.
Starting point is 00:51:44 How's things? Yeah, no, very well. Thank you. Welcome, boys. Nice to? welcome boys, nice to have you back lovely to have you back the chains, are these quite heavy these chains? very very heavy actually we got these in 1932 original chains made and we've had them valued on Trade Me
Starting point is 00:51:59 come up quite well so when we're going for an asset sell down program that's included in the process so at some stage but we're going for an asset sell-down program. That's included in the process. So at some stage, but we're not quite in the crap yet. But look at Air New Zealand coming in. Fantastic site. How is tourism for Taupo on a season?
Starting point is 00:52:16 It's actually quite cool because pre-COVID was 70% domestic tourism anyway. So now it's, of course, 100% domestic. And you were just loving all the Kiwis coming to... Well, it seems like the school holidays are here. There's heaps of people. It's exciting, and, you know, it just bodes well for the festive season coming up. You know, we're going to be chock-a-block, aren't we, because we're drivable. You know, 2.5 million people can drive here within three hours,
Starting point is 00:52:42 so, hey, what better place to be? Good stats. Also, the lake, the size three hours. So, hey, what better place to be? Good stats. Also, the lake, size of Singapore. Yeah, size of Singapore. It used to be the fourth cleanest lake. Now it's the third cleanest lake. Oh, you've gone up one. Yes, we've gone up one just in the last recording.
Starting point is 00:52:56 Who are the other two lakes? Because I'll go and deposit some rubbish in those lakes so you can get number one. The other two are in Iceland, and they haven't been visited for 172 years. So I think... I'll go chuck some McDonald's wrappers in there or something. Exactly, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:53:10 Now, me and David, you heard our plight. We lost the keys to Taupo and we just needed... I don't know if you've got a replacement set? Well, we just... I had a spare set in the cupboard. So I just looked at the cupboard. So here we go.
Starting point is 00:53:22 We've got a new key. We've got a new key. So on behalf of the people of the Taupo district we go. We've got a new key. We've got a new key. So on behalf of the people of the Taupo District, I'd like to present a new key. And we've got it actually labelled with the name on it. It's engraved with Taupo. Yes, this time around. So we don't mix it up with our Whakatane's keys.
Starting point is 00:53:37 Yeah, exactly. So if you can keep a hold of this, this has got quite an intrinsic value that we're happy to hand over here. But please, if you don't mind maintaining that, that will get you into most of the houses and commercial operations around town. I'm kindly donated by Taupo Key and Locke Smith, so I understand you talked to yesterday.
Starting point is 00:53:59 Oh, we did, actually. They send their regards. Oh, that's very cool. Thank you, Mayor David. Thank you very much. We've got the key to the city. I'll keep it in a shoe just outside the front doorstep. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:10 And we are going to be walking into a lot of houses this evening, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, thank you, Mayor David, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, time for us to hit some more golf balls. If you want one, 4487. We have a couple more to allocate over the next two days as we're hitting golf balls to try and win $10,000. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys
Starting point is 00:54:28 anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. We are hitting 1,000 golf balls across today and probably tomorrow, trying to get $10,000 if we get a hole-in-one, giving that away to a listener if we do, and if we don't get it today or tomorrow, on Monday, we're still giving away
Starting point is 00:54:43 $10,000, so that's very exciting. What a fun morning. I really had a lot of fun this morning doing the show, Ben Boyce. How about yourself? Yeah, it's been real cool. It's really great to see some people down here. It's a beautiful day in Taupo. Yeah, lovely.
Starting point is 00:54:53 So come on down if you're in the area. Come see us. You know where we'll be. We'll be here. Yeah, that's right. I'm going to meet some of the legends of Taupo. What's your name, legend? Juliet, your producer.
Starting point is 00:55:02 Great to meet you. First time John has actually ever looked at Juliet. I've never seen her in the flesh. I refuse to look her in the eyes. And she's not allowed to look at me in the eyes. She's too big a celebrity. Okay, well, those are the legends of Topol. Is that it?
Starting point is 00:55:15 There's like 30, 40 people down there. What's your name, legend? This is Nick. What do you do, Nick? Just not much. You put on those are the legends of toe balls. A segment that won't be back again, but that was a lot of fun. If you've got any advice for us, we'd love to hear from you.
Starting point is 00:55:34 We still have a few more balls to allocate. So 4487 if you want a ball, we may allocate one for you. We're live streaming it all too. That's right. Head to the Hits Breakfast on Facebook. You can see how badly our golf swings are going. Every now and again, alright, you hit the pontoon before. That was exciting, Jono.
Starting point is 00:55:49 Yeah, I know, but it's not a whole of mine, is it, Ben? It's not as exciting as a $10,000 whole of mine. No. So will we get a, I don't know, but as you say, if you want a ball, 4487 on the text, and we may allocate one for you. We'll text you back with your ball number, and that means you're in to win $10,000. Yeah, and if you're nearby or passing through, we'd love to see you. We'll text you back with your ball number, and that means you're in to win $10,000. Yeah, and if you're nearby or passing through,
Starting point is 00:56:07 we'd love to see you. We'll be here tomorrow as well. So come on down, bring the kids, bring the dog, bring the car, even pull the grandmother out of the retirement village, wrap that old duck up, come down and have a hell of a time with your old mates, Jono and Ben. We'll be here.
Starting point is 00:56:21 We'll catch you on the live stream. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' week'll catch you on the live stream.

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