Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - October 19 - Benee, Indie Has Adopted Ben's Habits, The A To Z Of New Zealand

Episode Date: October 19, 2020

Kia Ora! Today was the Jono and Benee show... Yes. Kiwi singer Benee joined us for a chat and even signed an absentee form for Ben's daughters as to why they couldn't be at school today... as they were too busy being in the studio to meet her! Our new show on TVNZ 2 launches tonight as well - Dog Almighty. So we had Doggy Dan in to answer any questions you may have, he's a dog expert! Also with our new show, you could win $500 each time you watch an episode, we explained this on the podcast too. It was also a big weekend for a lot of people. The election (we ran through some of the highlights and funny moments), the rugby (Jono got booed out of Eden Park) and the Benee concert was on, which Ben went to as well! Enjoy the pod!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to a podcast, to our podcast. Well, it is our podcast, isn't it?

Yeah, welcome to a podcast. Yeah, a podcast from us, Jono and Ben. It's wonderful to be back here in the podcast space. That's what they say? Yeah. Welcome to a podcast. Yeah, a podcast from us, Jono and Ben. It's wonderful to be back here in the podcast space. That's what they say. Yeah. They're always saying nowadays you've got to be playing

in the podcast space. Is that what they say? Yeah, I always hear that in the office. Are we playing in the podcast space? I like playing in the podcast space

because it feels like there's no structure, there's no format. You just sit here and just say words. We never even know what we're talking about when we start this stuff.

No. Apart from the fact that we need to tell people what's on our podcast. Yeah, at some point we end up there. You know the tough thing I find about doing this breakfast radio gig, Ben Boyce? What's that? Is just always having to find stuff to talk about from your life. You know, you've got to share all these things from your life to make you relatable don't they to the audience yeah and i've just got i'm rinsing every aspect of my life like i'm cutting my toenails going how can i turn this into a radio bit yeah but right

now i'm thinking how can i turn what we're talking about right now you have you have this is what you're doing radio this is the ultimate inception of what you're trying to talk about don't you find that i know you mean I don't want us to complain about our job no it's fun it's a fun job but yeah there are some things

I've just talked about everything in my life and I'm a boring person in real life I think about those things though in the moment too when someone's like something's happening

I'm like oh this is a radio bit this is a radio bit and probably not playing like the proper emotions good bad whatever to the actual scene or whatever's happening in front of me. Your dad's telling you his dog's died and you're like, here's a radio bit.

Maybe not that. When did your dog die? 0800 The Hits. Great topic. We'll do that tomorrow. No, no. But the dad's dog's fine. Is it?

Yeah, he's fine. Has he got a dog? He's got a dog, yeah. Has Kevin got a dog? He's got a dog, yeah. What's the dog's name? Flossie. Flossie.

That is an adorable name for a dog. Yeah, like, yeah. Is it a little Jack Russell or something? It's a little King Charles. Cocker Sp's name? Flossie. Flossie. That's an adorable name for a dog. Yeah, like, yeah, a little dog. Is it a little Jack Russell or something? It's a little King Charles. Cocker Spaniel. Yeah, Spaniel, yeah. Oh, yeah. They love the dog.

Flossie. They take it everywhere. Boomers do love their dogs, don't they? They're like, oh, no, we can't go to this place. They don't allow dogs in there. You're like, well, you leave the dog. The dog can stay at home for a bit. They're like, oh, no, no, we've got to take the dog out.

They love the dog. Oh, there we go. Flossie. More than me, actually. They leave me at home in the day. Yeah, they do love that. Now, can I dedicate this podcast to Flossie? Yeah.

Is she still alive? She's doing great. R.I.P. Flossie. Not R.I.P. On the podcast today, Betty, pop star, joins us in the studio after two sold-out concerts at Spark Arena. Hey, Spark Arena.

As well as that, we break down all the highs and lows of the election. Enjoy the podcast. The radio version of Morning Breath. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Very shortly, we're joined by Benny. It's going to be Jono and Benny this morning, right? That's right. It's actually Xanthi, our wonderful graphic designer here at the radio station.

She just drew up, just designed a Jono and Benny show poster. So I'm out. But I appreciate it. It looks good. Much better show. It brings a lot more credibility to the program when you've got someone like Benny attached to it. She balances out my uncredible nature. But you know, with both of us here,

we're doubling down on the lack of cred. Not great, but I actually went along to the Benny concert on Saturday night. Hold on, cred's coming back up now. He's down with it. Yeah, it was awesome. It was quite weird first time going to the concert since obviously COVID hit and lockdowns and stuff, so it was a little

weird at first being surrounded by so many people, but after a while you kind of get into it. Here's a question, if you knew about this port worker that Mr... Yeah, true. Suspiciously was revealed about yesterday after the election. If you knew about the port worker, would you have still gone to the concert? Maybe I wouldn't have been right down there at the front mixing and licking. Licking people's right. Suspiciously was revealed about yesterday after the election. If you knew about the port worker, would you have still gone to the concert? Maybe I wouldn't have been right down there at the front mixing and mingling.

Licking people's hands. Yeah, exactly. But it was awesome just to see Benny do her thing because she's had just an amazing year. And it was like a world-class production with the costumes and the set design. It was really cool. And seeing everyone do their TikTok dances as they're dancing away. I know you were getting bullied last time seeing her. Your daughter was in here.

She's like, we're going up the front row. What time does the concert start? And you're like, oh, it's not until later that night. We're going to wait from lunchtime. Did you wait outside Spark Arena from lunchtime? No, we didn't. We sat up the top for a bit and then I caved because they were like, we want to go down the front.

I'm like, all right, I'm comfortable here in a seat. I can see quite nicely. He's like, Dad's had six beers. We to go down the front. I'm like, all right, I'm comfortable here in a seat. I can see quite nicely. He's like, Dad's had six beers. We'll go down the front now. So, yeah, but there was a wee moment because we were going with a lot of, you know, some of their friends and stuff. And they were, you know, we're down there together,

close to front. We can see Benny and stuff. And they were like, we want to go up a bit further. And, you know, I'm obviously a bit bigger, a bit taller. I didn't want to keep pushing through. So I was like, oh, well, I can see you guys. You go up a little bit more and I'll keep an eye on you. But then I had that realisation

that when they were about five metres in front of me, I could see them, but I'm just sort of standing there by myself. And to anyone else, it's like, I'm a fully grown man at a bending concert. Are you just surrounded by children? Just standing there. Oh no, I'm here.

There's kids in there somewhere. Just there, just there. They're mine. Put your hands up, kids. Wave like you know me so this isn't weird. Yeah, so I sort of stood there around there by myself for a little bit. I love going to a concert and just I'm a boomer. I love a seat, a comfortable seat.

You know what else I enjoy doing at a concert now? Snaking out one or two songs before the end. Oh, no, you're not one of those, are you? I'm not one of those. I snuck out for the rugby yesterday about five minutes ago just to beat the crowd. I know. The lady who we were sitting next to from Sparky's was like, he's gone. He's gone.

She caught it. She's like, he's gone. He took his stuff. He's gone. I was like, yeah, right. He's gone. He's not coming back. But we knew it.

I like to beat crowds. I don't like crowds, you know? So dealing with the crowd. You are a boomer. That's part of the fun of it. Why do you pay to go along to these things and you leave? I just don't understand that. But I get home at a comfortable time. I'm part of the fun of it all. Why do you pay to go along to these things and then you leave? I just don't understand it. But I get home at a comfortable time.

I'm in bed by six o'clock, all wrapped up. Last concert you went to was a Little Mix one and they made you hold a sign, remember? And they're like, I want to get up in your Little Mix or something. My heart Little Mix was it. But then I had to hold that. And I'm like, oh, again,

polygrine man with a hot little mix. You've got a rich history of standing at kids' concerts by yourself. Yeah. But very, very cool for Benny. Yeah, so she's joining us later in the studio. It was great to see not only her performing, but a young millennial on stage and not have their phone. She didn't have her phone for the full two hours.

So I was like, well done, Benny. Juliet, you couldn't do that, could you? No, that'd be a real struggle for me. She can't even go three minutes on this radio show. Please tell me you filmed it on your phone, though, so you can go back and relive those wonderful... Oh, my phone is clogged full of Benny videos. Yeah, distorted audio and amateur camera work. This is your new breakfast.

Health Star rating, still pending. It's Jorowyn Manomahit. She's got her debut album coming out November 13. You can pre-order right now. It's Benny. How's it going? Hello. Now, the album,

it's going to sound like my parents here, the Hey You X. Is it Hey You Times or Hey You X? It's like Hey You. A little kiss? It's like a little kiss. Gotcha. I did sound like a boomer then, didn't I?

I don't like to overthink the names. It stresses me out. Yeah, I can imagine. You know what I mean? So it's kind of just like... You could call it Benny, the greatest album ever. I could have thought of that. In history.

I could have thought of that. Now, you've been well, though? Yes, I've been good, thank you. You've been in the middle of a tour, a tour in New Zealand. You played two sold-out shows at Spark Arena over the weekend. Hey, Spark Arena! Oh, my God. We like to do that to the tune of the Macarena.

He's like please don't do this. Love it. When you're on stage you can be like hey everyone welcome to Spark Arena. And then you guys will, yeah. I'll hear ya. Now it's been a massive year for you. Nominations for the Aotearoa Music Awards as well as sold out concerts around New Zealand. And I don't know, recently you got a shout out

from Dr Ashley Bloomfield. Yes. But he kind of like made your name sound even more sophisticated. Have a listen. They're unlikely to be travelling, for example, to a Benet concert outside of Auckland. The Benet concert. It was very bougie, isn't it? It did. I quite like it. You need the accent

over the final year. I know, I know. Yeah, but that's pretty cool. I mean, there are times, you know, you're playing on US talk shows, you must just sort of pinch yourself and go, is this for real? Well, that was a big one, Ashley. Ashley, yeah. Ashley was the pinnacle. I mean, there are times, you know, you're playing on US talk shows. You must have sort of pinched yourself and go, is this for real? Well, that was a big one, Ashley. Ashley, yeah. Ashley was the pinnacle. Oh, yeah, I think so.

Getting a shout out at a COVID update. I think so. Honestly, I was pretty excited. You just voted for the first time, I understand. And you got quite nervous, I was reading. Yeah, I did. But I was excited. Like, it felt so good after doing it.

And I kept the pen. And your mum, pen and your mum you brought your mum along for support I take my mum everywhere right she's now my PA does she come on tour

with you your mum yeah yeah because you're backstage now you can obviously ask venues for you know things that you require backstage does your

what are you what's the one thing that you're always you're like I can't do anything unless this is there you've not got any wild demands yet? Not really, aye.

You need to start getting some. You have a rider, but mine's not very interesting. Not very exciting. Because then there'll be an internet clickbait article of like, top five outrageous Benny demands. Backstage Benny demands. Some people ask for M&Ms separated in their colours. Do they actually do that?

Apparently there was a rapper who came here and asked for blue M&M's only. What I like about you too, Stella, Benny, is you went to broadcasting school for two weeks. Yes. Two weeks. So you wanted a career in broadcasting. And I mean, you could have been outside a Bunnings with a Hits puffer jacket on,

cooking sausages on Saturday mornings. But look where you are now. I know. We'll still be waiting here for you. When you've got a career, you can have a job at the Hits when you come back. You can always cook a radio station sausage. Now, yesterday I was talking at home about

interviewing you today, and my two daughters are very excited you're coming in. And they were like, can we meet Benny? I was like, well, no, you've got to go to school. And then, you know, what am I going to say to the school? Well, they've actually, they came back a few minutes later. Do you want to come and now see? And they've written a note for the school. And then, you know, what am I going to say to the school? Well, they've actually they came back a few minutes later. Do you want to come in now, Sienna and Indy? They've written a note for the school. So

this is Sienna, this is Indy. Okay, now you've got to read it. Sienna, come over here and read out your notes. This is the note they passed me last night. Oh my god, I remember the questions from last time I was here. Dear school, please excuse Sienna and Indy for being late.

They just had to meet their fave singer. They may only be eight and ten, but they say it's a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Yeah, you've got one-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But anyway. It's all right. I'm just sick, honestly. Sorry. They promised to do extra homework tonight to make up for it. From Benny Popsa.

So can you sign their absentee note to take back to the school, and I'll see if this works. This is so legit. This is making up for Ben's shocking parenting. I love this. I've got Benny signing this right now for my kids. There you go guys. Do you want to ask one question to Benny? You've got two seconds with one of your favourite pop stars. If not your favourite pop star we listen to all the time. What do you want to ask?

Can you come to my birthday party? You can't ask that. That's great. You can't. Well that's well played but you can't. Well, that's well played, but you can't. This really puts Betty under pressure because we're live. The mics are on. Oh, well, thank you for coming in. We really do appreciate hanging out with you.

And did you know, actually, before you go, that I was looking last night, you're one of the most dangerous celebs to research online in Australia. Someone told me that. Yeah, because apparently it can trigger harmful links if you type in people's names. Adele's number one, you're at number eight. To do with cyber security.

Nothing that you've done on the internet. What have I done? Did you deserve this? Still top ten though. Still top ten. It's good. So I've been Googling a lot of you for this research, so now I'm worried.

Catch a debut album. We're very excited about this. It's called Hey You X, out November 13. You can pre-order right now. It's very cool. It's always great hanging out, and thank you for signing that absentee note. One of the top 10 most dangerous internet celebrities.

Watch out, people. Watch out. Don't get it. Infect your computer. Some people skip breakfast, the meal, and also this show. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. You know, as parents,

you're meant to pass on stuff to your kids. Crippling debt. Crippling debt. Don't pay off the mortgage the kids can have. That's why you have kids, so they can deal with that later on. Oh, good. Well, then at least I'm going to pass on that. Because I do worry, because I've got a lot of friends that, you know, they can do things.

They can do, you know, whether they can build houses or bake cakes or, you know, things like that. And I'm not very good at anything, really. I mean, you could teach your kids to talk over the introduction of a Pink song right up until the point where Pink starts singing. Mildly, just bad dad jokes and puns and like that. But I've noticed my daughter, Indy, my younger daughter, Indy, has picked up a habit from me because I like turning switches off. It's one of those things I like to do. I like to turn switches off.

I don't like to sleep next to my phone. So we know which way you voted in David Seymour's bill. Watch out, Ben's grandma. He coming for you. Oh, the waste of power. No, error. Waste of power. Turn this thing off.

But she's gone to the extra effort now. She will just turn switches off. Yeah, she goes around turning, you know, so I'll have a phone charger plugged in somewhere, not by my head, but just when I put my phone in, she'll just switch the power off. Just go in and go, and when you've had the phone in there, she's like wasting power. But now I've my phone in, she'll just switch the power off. Just go in and go, and what if I had the phone in there?

She's like, wasting power. But now I've noticed it trips me up because I plug it in at night, thinking it's on, and it doesn't actually charge up. The most energy conscious child in Aotearoa. So why are you worried about this? But I've passed this down from my kids, and I was wondering this morning. Well, you can pass down your collection of kids' NBA singlets that you have. He buys child NBA singlets because he can fit into them and they're half the price.

You can pass those on to them. Well, that's right. So, oh, 100 the hits is the phone number. What habits have you passed on, good or bad, that you do that your kids have now picked up? Yeah, let's go to Christchurch. Sarah, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Did you pick this up from your parents or you've passed it down? I have passed this one down.

What is it? It's for my little six-year-old son. Every afternoon just before bed he goes, can we have a cup of tea? A cup of tea? Are you getting your kids jacked up on tea, are you? Yep, now I am. Oh, good on you.

Yes, it does. I saw a lady feeding her three-year-old Powerade. Powerade. Oh, jeez.-old Powerade. Powerade. Powerade. Oh, jeez. A blue Powerade. That kid must be humming. Electrolytes. I don't know if kids need electrolytes or anything like that, but anyway, I'm not a doctor.

Probably hasn't slept in four weeks. You'll be getting a lot of stuff done, and that's what you need. Okay. Productive children jacked up on guarana. You're jacked up already enough as it is, but you enjoy your company and movie tickets as well. Reading cinemas. Thanks for your call, all right?

Thanks, Peter. Good on you, Sarah. We'll head to Parmy. Georgia's on the air. Welcome, Georgia. Did you pick this up from your parents or you've passed it through the generations to your children? I've passed it through the generations, unfortunately.

And what is it? So I have two kids. And without saying a word, they both will only eat their food separately, just like me. So no matter what, absolutely no food. Like spaghetti bolognese, not a thing in our house. But you won't combine two foods. Nope.

Would you have, like, meat on rice? No, I'd rather have it separate. So you'd have a pile of meat and then a pile of rice and eat them

so then you'd just eat rice just on its own? Yep. Oh, okay. But what about if something's combined in sort of like

a curry or a casserole or things like that, is that a combination of food? No, it just makes me uncomfortable. That's a nightmare.

That is a nightmare for you. It happens to be with the kids as well. It's just a bit weird. Okay. What about like a pizza? Yeah, that's again. Yeah, you're right. Or, I don't know, pizza.

It depends what kind of pizza. Are you picking off all the items of the pizza or just eat that little bit of ham there? Individually. Individually. Here we go. Well, that's very interesting. Your kids are doing it as well. Yeah. Good on you, George. I appreciate that. Actually, I have a good friend of ours, Chris. He used that little bit of ham there. Individually, there we go. Well, that's very interesting. Your kids are doing it as well.

Good on you, George. I appreciate that. Actually, I have a good friend of ours, Chris. He used to do that with his meals. He would get them and then sort of eat each category on its own. Save his favourite thing till last. Eat the least favourite thing first and slowly work his way around the plate. Systematically. Let's go to Topo. Chris, welcome to the show. What have you passed on to the kids?

Mate, I've passed on raking my farts. What is the system here that you're... You get a good trumpet long fart, that's an A. If you end up with a bit more in your jock,

that's an A. John, I do regret asking this follow-up. I do. Follow-up, probably the wrong term to use. A follow-on. Now, Chris, we're going to end this phone call. Sending you and your guessy self to the movies, all right? But I'm going to rank this out of 10,

and I'm going to give you a nine and a half. Cheers, buddy. Have a good day. Have a good day. You never know what you're going to get here on this show. Wake up and smell them. Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Tonight on TVNZ2 at them. Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Tonight on TVNZ2 at 7.30 and continue again tomorrow night at 7.30. So Mondays and Tuesdays, a brand new TV show that we're hosting called Dog Almighty. It's a reality TV show looking for New Zealand's most talented dog, hosted by New Zealand's most untalented TV host. Yeah, if you like the combination of those two things, this is the most perfect show for you. These dogs are

incredible. We've got dogs riding skateboards, dogs climbing ladders. One episode we get dogs to do open heart surgery on someone. That's amazing. They are the most talented. They also acted as defence lawyers in a white collar crime court case as

well. These dogs are good. They are in all seriousness, amazing. $100,000 up for grabs in this competition for Dog Almighty. So tonight you can catch the first load of auditions, the smaller dogs. And if you watch the show, we're going to give you $500 just for watching. It sounds like a little bit of a bribery. It is a bribe because you then have to bear witness to every dog pun known to humankind. Yeah.

This is serious too. We've got no more dog puns. No, no, we're out. We're out. Over 18 episodes. We even started making new dog puns up by 17 and 18 episodes later in the programme. But look out for The Code tonight

on Dog Almighty on TBNZ2 and then call us. Be the first caller through tomorrow morning when we say to and you can win $500 cash. Easy as. We filmed it months ago, and it pops up now like an illegitimate child.

Oh, that. Oh, that's right. People are going to see that. Oh, that's going on TV, is it? Yeah. Because we were shocking hosts. So I want to front foot it before, you know, any comments happen on the internet.

We know we were shocking. Yeah. So now you don't have to say. We had a lot of fun doing the show, but we were shocking hosts. And one of my favourite bits was Wendy, who was a lovely lady who came out and gave us a wee bit of a roasting, though. I'm trying to work out who you two are

because I never heard of you two before. You meant to be famous, but I'm sorry. Oh, Wendy, listen, enough of this savage roasting. Obviously, Wendy, wonderful dog owner. She's got, but they had no idea who we were. No, and over, you know, a few weeks, we got to know Wendy, didn't we? Yeah.

And I don't think our relationship got any better. No. If anything, it deteriorated from that point, didn't it? And I keep getting people's names wrong. We'll just, we'll pull out one. You have to remember, too, with the dog's names and then their owner's names as well, but on this occasion, you keep having a shocker.

What's going on? You keep calling me Linda. with the dogs' names and then their owners' names as well, but on this occasion, you keep having a shocker. What's going on? You keep calling me Linda. Is that the problem? I figured that was the problem. OK, wait, take, take. Linda, you get your wonderful face over to that dog box. He said it again, didn't he?

It's about now where they're like, we should have got a better host. I'm sorry, Matilda. Her name is Matilda. She told you, and you're like, you keep calling me Linda. You're like, we should have got a better host. I'm sorry, Matilda. Okay. Her name was Matilda. She told you. You're like, you keep calling me Linda. You're like, yeah, sorry. Okay, Linda.

You're like, what is this? Can I just say full credit to, you know, the hosts of like Survivor and The Bachelor and all that. There's so many names to remember. We're not good with names. No. We're not good with that. I can see why now our TV show got cancelled.

Here's some more of our highlights. Do you realise you're the only male in this category? Well, there you go. No, I've just been told there's another one. Too late to get a better host? And you're a taxidermist, is that right? No. Okay, that's nice. I always just like to ask that.

I understand you do yoga. Not really, but we just pretend. Hey, now, Brittany, you've got a sled. You get towed by 12 dogs. 12? I don't know who told you 12. I just made the number up. If you could agree with me and not make me look like an idiot.

The taxi-turbist question is very odd, but there was someone who was a taxi-turbist. But it just turns out it wasn't her. Yeah. It's something I like to ask everyone on this show. So you're a hitman for the mafia. The most unusual profession, taxi-turbist. Turns out it wasn't her. Yeah. It's something I like to ask everyone on this show. So you're a hit man for the mafia. The most unusual profession.

Tonight, 7.30, Dog Almighty TVNZ 2. Have a look. It's a very fun show. A lot of fun and the dogs are incredible. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. She's got the breaking news about the Kardashians' broken nails. Here comes Julie.

It was Spy. Thanks so much. Now, Captain Sir Tom Moore, you may remember him as the elderly man. He's 100 years old who did laps in his backyard to raise money for the frontline workers during the first wave of COVID. He got knighted too, didn't he? Yeah, he got knighted. He was adorable. He was painfully slow, wasn't it, the pace?

Yeah, he's 100 years old, mate. I was like, mate, pick it up. Give him a break. Just pick up a little bit of pain. One step. What an effort. You probably couldn't go much faster. I mean, he looks better than me.

He does. I was just racing you to that joke. Before you savagely roast me, I'll roast myself. But he said that he would be keen to play James Bond in the next film. Okay. Maybe that's a step too far. A slow step too far. Even Ben's roasting it on their one.

Yeah, but hey, full credit to him. He did an amazing thing. He raised a lot of money. James Bond to die another day. Oh, no. Oh, poor. No, he was great. He's obviously a war hero and stuff, right?

Yeah, well, it just doesn't mean he should be James Bond, though. But anyway, why does he think he should be James Bond? I don't know. He just said it would be a fun thing to do. But he probably would get to day one and They were making a film on him, aren't they? Yeah, they are. I should probably know about that, but I don't.

I don't know what the movie's about. Is it like documenting his walking or is it his life? I don't know, yeah. Anyway, what a lovely human being. Done more for the world than we were able to do. Very slow, but lovely. Hey, well done, Sir Tom Moore.

And speaking of James Bond, it has come out that over 30,000 litres of Coca-Cola was used to help with a motorbike stunt in the upcoming movie, the No Time To Die film. So basically, they had someone and they spent over $100,000 to get all this Coca-Cola. They sprayed it over the streets of Italy where they were filming to make it more sticky

so that when they were doing the stunts, the motorbike wouldn't slip and fall over. Oh, really? Yeah. So they used over 30,000 litres of Coke just to do that. Okay. I feel like there could have been another substance they might have been able to use, but who am I to say? I'm not a movie producer.

Do you think it was the movie producers going, how do we justify $30,000 of Coke? How do we write this off? Oh, we put it all over the streets for the motorbike stuff, didn't we, guys? Yeah, yeah. We haven't blinked in nine months. But I tell you what, those streets were sticky. I was all evaporated now, but yeah, it was all there on the street.

Do you know there's a rumour about Coca-Cola that the highway patrol in the States, when there's an accident on the motorway and there's blood on the road, they use Coca-Cola to remove it. Really? It's how powerful it is. Wow. Yeah, there you go. I love Coke.

Car, nice. Jeez, I love it. Yeah, you love it, don't you? I do, yeah. I could probably have six cans of Coke a day, but then I don't know if I'd be here to tell the story. No, you're just not blank for, like you say, nine years or however long it is. And Justin Bieber, he released some limited edition, very, very ugly mustard yellow Crocs. And of course, they sold out within

90 minutes. You've been hating on these Crocs since Wednesday last week. I love Justin Bieber, but come on, dude. Like, why would you? Why would you? Come on, dude. Like, don't do Crocs. You've got much better fashion sense than that, I reckon. But yeah, 90 minutes, they'll sold out. Croctober coming soon, too.

Jono and Ben present Croctober, something we've been trying to get off the ground for a couple of years. Crocs not on board with it, but who's to say we need them to do Croctober? Yeah, that's true. You don't know. We don't need the backing of Crocs. You're with it, but who's to say we need them to do Croctober? Yeah, that's true. You don't know. We don't need the backing of Crocs. You're right.

Next year, 2021, Croctober is coming. All right, looking forward to it. We're a bit late now. We'll be rushing to the finish line now. Oh, we can get there for the last little bit of Croctober. 11 days? Yeah, true. I'm looking forward to it.

I feel like this is a brainstorming session we should have off the air, but anyway. And that is five and more. You can go to the hits.co.nz. Making poor life decisions every morning. It's Jodo and Ben on the Hits. Tonight, TVNZ2, Dog Almighty, a brand new reality TV show

looking for New Zealand's most talented dog. There's some amazing dogs, amazing owners on the show. 100K prize money, and there's a watch and win as well for you guys. $500, just get the code word and call us tomorrow morning. And we're joined by a man by birth who was named Doggy Dan

and he was destined for one profession in life and that was to train dogs. Yeah. And now Dan is the dog expert on the show.

4487, have you got a text from this? They're flying through here, Doggy Dan. We'll get Nicole on from Pocono. Welcome to the show, Nicole. What's your question?

I want to know how I get my dog to greet other dogs nicely. So if a dog comes to our house that he hasn't met before, he goes nuts. He just barks and he won't bite, but he's very loud and shows his presence.

I want to know how to keep him calm and let him greet the dog nicely. Okay, how long we got? Oh, that's good. Do you want to settle in for a 45-minute bonanza? Yeah, yeah. Look, I mean, what I want to do is explain the concept of what's going on rather than give you the full solution,

because that really does take minimum half an hour to an hour of explaining it. If you think of it like this, when somebody comes to your door, who answers the door? I'll give you the answer. Oh, you're asking me? No, he was looking to me for an answer. I don't have an answer. Well, it'll give you the answer. Are you asking me? He was looking to me for an answer. I don't have an answer. Well, it's the person in charge. So at my house, if you came to my house, Jono, who'd answer the door if the doorbell rang? Me. Yeah. Sometimes it's your wife. Sometimes, well, because my wife's in charge as well. Now, just get in

there. And if we go to your house, Jono, who would answer the door if your doorbell rang? Me? Yes. I feel like there's a test. So I wouldn't answer it, would I? Because I'm not in charge, am I? Oh, I see. So if you're in someone else's house, you would not. Yeah.

So we have this automatic thing of whoever's in charge answers the door because they can go to the door, make a decision. Is this a dangerous person? Do I want them to come in? Go away? And that is what's happening at the door. So dogs are like that. The dog's saying, hey, doorbell, I better get there.

Check them out. See who's in my house. Tell them to go away. Mikasa, Mukasa, et cetera, et cetera. Oh, there we go. Thank you. So the concept is if you can say to your dog, hey, I'm in charge around here. I make the decisions.

It's incredible how the dogs will kind of go, okay, well, you're in charge. Doorbell rang. You go and deal with it. make the decisions it's incredible how the dogs will kind of go okay well you're in charge doorbell rang you go and deal with it and then you're able to say very easily hey go and lie down on your mat mate yeah go on shoot i'll deal with this but if the dog says no i'm in charge yeah and a lot of listeners will be going oh yeah this is my dog they're at the door they will not back off from that front door they're saying no this is my job and i'm up to the mark, and I'm going to check this person out. And it doesn't matter what you do to try and get them to go away.

They will not leave that person. So if you tell the dog, hey, I'm doing this now, the dog's like, okay, great, that's one chore I don't have to tend to now. Let's go to Amanda. Welcome. Your question for Doggy Dan, Amanda. Hi, good morning.

Earlier this year, we lost our elderly dog, and our younger dog, in a sense, has had separation anxiety. So if he's outside, he tries to escape. If he's inside, he's wrecking the house. I've got the insurers coming to assess the carpet this week for these two to the carpet. That's tough. Any suggestions?

That's really tough. I'm looking at Jono. You want me to offer a suggestion? No, I want to ask Jono something. Am I allowed to plug my own website, Jono? No. Okay. No, you monster.

How dare you come on here trying to plug your shibby website? No, you can. Of course you can. I really feel for you here because I know how horrible this is because it is very much a a stress related issue and it you know people

people mistakenly think that this is a dog who's bored but I'm sure as you know this is more than boredom and this is where think of it as a maternal connection whereas if you have a little child and your child was to wander out onto the street and

you're so worried because your two-year-old is on the street with the cars and danger and all this stuff. It's terrifying for you. You can't just relax, have a cup of tea and read a magazine and switch off and go, oh, they'll be all right, they'll come back later. You will do whatever it takes to get that child back, including smashing a window and climbing out of it, and I've seen dogs do that.

So this is a maternal thing where the doggy feels like they need to look after you and protect you and and so as soon as you're out of their sight they start panicking and so again it comes back to separation anxiety is not so much a training issue it's the same thing it's a leadership issue who's in charge here right who's really looking after who and so again if you can turn around that leadership, who's looking after who, everything changes. Your dog will chill out. So one quick suggestion is when you come in the house,

ignore your dog, stay calm. That is one way you can say, I'm in charge around here. Right. And the website, if Amanda wants to go and visit? If you want to come, it's theonlinedogtrainer.com. Theonlinedogtrainer.com. Shall we take one quick one? Yeah, one more quick one.

We'll go to Catherine. We've got Doggy Dan with us. The text machine's blowing up. Doggy Dan, we need you in here more often. Makes us feel better about ourselves. What's your question, Kath? Oh, hi. I'm having trouble with my dog in the car.

I have her in the back seat, which was better than having her in the front. But when we're driving, when there's cars going past, which is like all the time, she's just constantly barking the whole time at all the cars. A lot of people say this on the text machine.

This is quite a common problem. Any suggestions? It's sort of, usually it's stimulus overload. Usually it's more to do with kind of protective slash excited than anything else.

You know, it's almost like too much going on. Too much going on. And I don't like that and I don't like that. It's like Juliet at Rhythm and Bind. Stimulus overload. Exactly.

Too much going on Oh doggy Dan This has been really interesting Unfortunately we do have To wrap things up Okay I was going to give you More of an answer But I'm being shut down

Oh no Oh no Just done with it Quickly yeah It is tricky But a hand under the chin Of the dog I call it a calm

I tried that Yeah whilst you're driving It's very tricky I understand If you want a more complete, there's so many options. One thing is to put a crate, get a crate, and put a blanket over the top of the crate and pop your dog inside. It blocks off all the visual, and that can be super helpful.

I mean, obviously, there's loads more. Theonlinedogtrainer.com. Yeah. If you want to go and visit the website. Hey, thanks, Catherine. Yeah. Hopefully that helped you. And thank you, Doggy Dan.

Yeah, catch Doggy Dan with us tonight. TVNZ2, Dog Almighty, 100 grand up for grabs for New Zealand's most talented dog. We apologise in advance. It's Joddo and Ben on the hits. Over the weekend, very busy weekend all over New Zealand. And the rugby was on yesterday. We went along to the rugby, didn't we, Joddo?

Yeah, we had fun time at the rugby, didn't we? I had a bit of a shaky start. I forgot my tickets. Classic Jono. That is a classic me. If anyone was going to forget their tickets. Because we got passed on the tickets. I had the, you know, and I was like, oh, should I?

I had that dilemma going, oh, should I give the ticket, Jono's ticket? And I said, give them to me. I said, you give them to me. I'm a grown adult. I will not forget those tickets. Where am I going? The rugby. What do I need? The tickets. All right, I'll get there give them to me. I'm a grown adult. I will not forget those tickets. I'm the saver of hands. Where am I going? The rugby. What do I need?

The tickets. All right, I'll get there and go, oh, I forgot my tickets. Anyway, so I phoned Ben, and I knew he had the tone of his, I phoned him. I was like, mate, I forgot the tickets. He's like, what's that? Sorry, my phone's breaking. I was like, I forgot the tickets. And I could feel, his voice was like, I knew this was going to happen.

He's like, this wouldn't have happened if I had held on to the tickets. Because I've got my ticket. So anyway, hey, the tickets, we've got them. Hey, you got them. You had enough time. It was fine. It worked out. The main thing was I got the tickets. And I'm sure Jen, your lovely wife, was pumped about driving in with the tickets.

The tickets. I hate it to you. With road closures. I'm sure there's nothing more that she wanted to do. Yeah, no. And so she did that for me. Thank you. And I felt like it was expected from her and you that I was going to

forget the tickets. So I forgot the tickets. That was the first thing. So while I was waiting for the tickets to be delivered, there was a cafe there and I was like, you know what? I am going to go in and get a flat white. This flat white needs a flat white. And so I walk into the cafe and there's 150 people in there

and it erupts. Oh, she walked in. Woo! Cheering. I'm like, man, these guys are very passionate about the hits breakfast with Jono and Ben. Don't tell them I forgot the tickets. They're going to be disappointed. It made me feel great.

And then I turn around and it's the bloody Jacinda Ardern's walked in. Just behind you. I even did a wave. You know how you do that? You put the arm up. Yeah, yeah. G'day, guys. G'day. Hey, guys. Good to see you. I even did a wave. You know how you do that? You put the arm up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. G'day, guys. G'day.

Hey, guys. Good to see you. I'm available for selfies, but then I look behind, and there's, you know, five camera operators and ten security, and then Jacinda rolls in. Wow. And she deserved the applause. Oh, she did.

They had a great election, didn't they? I don't want to take it from her. Oh, but you did actually get a lot of coverage at the game because we did a wee bit of a paper scissors rock before going in and I brought along, I had a Wallabies top at home. And we were like, one of us can wear the all black top, one of us can wear the Wallabies top. I don't even know why.

It's not even for anything. It wasn't for telly or anything. No, no. I was like, why can't we just go along and enjoy the game? But he's like, no, no, let's do this. I was like, you usually film this or something? No, I filmed it. No one was filming.

We filmed it in our minds. In nature's camera. High definition, our brains and memories. But you went off to the bathroom at some stage, still wearing your Wallabies top, and you're walking up the stairs and you just got booed. You could hear the boo just like come around. It grew.

Yeah, I was walking up the stairs and I heard boo from one person and then that just, like COVID-19, it just catches on. And it spread. Before you know it, 10 to 15,000 people booing me, shaming me out of it. I was just going to the toilet.

I was literally the only one and they go, Australia, you need more subtle colours, please. I'm going to pitch that to you. But green and gold really stands out

when there's literally no other Australian supporters. full credit to you. Quite a moment because you were standing at the top of the stand and you tried to counter it. You were like, Aussie aussie no one's going away i fought i tried to fight the boo but you get drowned out by 10 000 people booing you like go oh he enjoyed it

on it after booing you but i was like look at on he's giving you the guy i got to the top and the police officer was like you're a brave man and then i And then I was too scared to come back after that. I didn't want to come back down and get booed walking back down the stairs. It's a shame to out of Eden Park. Well, well done to the All Blacks. And yeah, it was a fun time out at the rugby. Yeah, it was fun. My favourite moment was a kid looked me dead in the eyes.

Said, you're a national embarrassment. Spat in my face. We haven't heard that since the TV show was on. I said, you're not so bad yourself. That's a lovely compliment. Thank you. Brassman spat in my face. We haven't had that since the TV show was on. Yeah, no. I said, you're not so bad yourself. That's a lovely compliment. Thank you. Like starting your day with Panda Eyes.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono and I, we normally pick up our own kids from school each afternoon. No, I get a guy in a Mazda Bongo van to pick my kids up. But the other day, I got a little bit stuck because we were doing some voiceovers for this show we've got on tonight on TVNZ2. And it was running a little bit late and got to about 2 o'clock and I was like, ooh, we're probably going to go over time here. I'm going to have to try and make alternative arrangements for someone to try and hopefully pick up my kids.

So I text, you know, Grandma and a couple of other parents that I know that go along to the school. Send out a desperate text. Yeah, can someone help me out? Because I do the same for other parents as well. It's kind of, we've got a little, you know, community, which is nice. You kind of go, oh, hey, I can help you out if you're busy and vice versa.

What about the good old days where you just leave the kids at the school gate for a couple of hours until dad remembered that he forgot to pick you up? That builds character. That's right. Just alone with your thoughts. But this is an amazing friend of ours.

He was like, yeah, sweet, I'll do it. Because his daughter goes, he's friends with our girls and goes to the same school. And then he's like, oh, by the I'll do it. Because his daughter goes, he's friends with our girls and goes to the same school. And then he's like, oh, by the way, my daughter's not actually getting picked up by me today. The grandma's picking him up. Oh, so he's picked up, he's going to school to pick up your kids.

Brought them home and then grandma dropped his daughter home and they all had a play date together. But I was like, that's amazing that someone would come through in a favour like that, not even with his daughter. That is lovely of him. I mean, a bit horrible of you to ask a man to go to school where his kids aren't to pick up your kids. He's like, I can do it.

I'm like, cheers. Oh, that'd be great. Lock it in. By the way. Oh, by the way, just so you know. And they know him. They've been there many times and love him. So it's great.

And their daughter did come over. So it wasn't strange. But it was like, oh, it's a big favour to ask him. I mean, the biggest favours that you've done for people, let's chuck this open, eh? Oh, this feels like, Ben, one of those commercial radio moments where you tell a story and then we lead into asking people for their calls. That's what

I'm getting. That's the vibe I'm getting. I don't know what you're picking up. I wasn't picking up on that, but okay. No, I thought I'd take it there. 4487 0800 the hiss. You tell us, biggest favour that you've done for someone I imagine there'd be people listening that would have

someone that'd go oh it's just a favour can I sleep on your couch and then like six months later they're still there yeah get hold of us I tried to I thought a guy

in the Countdown car park was homeless sleeping in his car so I thought I'd do him a favour I went inside and got him some shopping bread, milk placed it on his windscreen

and then his dog in the car started barking aggressively woke him up and then he had in the car started barking aggressively, woke him up, and then he had to explain to me he wasn't actually homeless. He was just working at the building site across the road on his lunch break having a nap. So I left the bread and milk there. I said, oh, maybe you want bread and milk. I just thought you looked like a guy who was lacking in calcium and fibre.

So I thought I'd get you some. What is the biggest favour you've done for someone? Give us a call. 0800 the hits. So we'll go to Leisha. Welcome. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Leisha, you wouldn't read about it.

Morning, morning. Yeah, I was pregnant with my second daughter. I had a little one-and-a-half-year-old in nappies and I unexpectedly went into labour. I basically freaked out, phoned my best friend, asked her to come over and look after my little one while I was sorting myself out at the hospital. What I didn't know

was she had just had a car crash and I phoned her as she had pulled her car over on the side of the road. She didn't tell me. She just left her car on the side of the road, walked to my house, walked in, looked after my kid for two days and didn't tell me she'd actually walked away from an accident.

When a hero comes along. Like an action hero. Absolutely. Jeez. And wait, did she feel bad when she did tell you? Well, when I did ask her, I was like, well, why didn't you tell me I could have phoned someone else? She went, oh, yeah, no, don't stress.

I just didn't want you to go to labour on the spot. It's such a Kiwi thing. I don't want to make a big deal about it. No, let's not make a fuss. A little bit of a head gash. I'm bleeding a little bit. Concussion. But I don't want to make a big deal about it. I's not make a fuss. A little bit of a head gash. I'm bleeding a little bit. Concussion. But I don't want to make a big deal about it.

I can see three of you right now. That's okay. Good on you, Leisha. That's an amazing story. Reading Cinema's tickets coming your way. Thank you for your call. You can take her to the movies. Shane, you're on the air from New Plymouth.

Shane-o. How are you, mate? I'm doing good. Big favours. What did you do? I was on my way home from work and there was a hitchhiker standing in the rain and everyone going past her.

So I picked her up and took her an hour and a half out of my way so they got to where they had to go. Oh, that's lovely, have you? Three-hour round trip? Yeah. Jeez. Did you regret that at any stage? What's that, sorry?

Did you regret it at any stage? No, it was quite good because it was an overseas tourist. Oh, well, that's... She'll be back. Oh, that's nice. Good on you. And that's the hospitality that this country is built on. Yeah.

All right, come in here. Let's open up our borders. Let's get them all in here. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't worry about quarantining them. Okay, okay. Let's get them back out there. Get people like Shane out there taking the tourists around.

That's what we love. Hey, going to send you off to the movies, Shane. Reading cinemas, okay? No worries. Good on you. We'll take one more, shall we, Ben? What do you think?, going to send you off to the movies, Shane. Reading cinemas, okay? No worries. Good on you. We'll take one more, shall we, Ben? What do you think? How are you feeling this is going?

Yeah, one more. I'm enjoying it. Kayla, you're on the air. How are you? Hi, I'm great. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well. Biggest favour you've either asked of someone

or you've done for someone? I had a friend that used to ask me to pick up her son a lot from school, And when I was pregnant, she asked me to go and watch her baby while she had a rest so she could catch up on whatever sleep or whatever it was. So, yeah, no, I used to do that quite often. Oh, that's lovely. She's better people out there in the community than me,

I'll tell you that much. I'll tell you that much. Tell you that much. If it's stuff like this when we do it on the radio, I'm like, oh, God, I'm a horrible person. I really should do this. I watch you and you look like a big baby, so that's something, Johnny. You'll watch what you do, so maybe, you know, I feel.

You change me twice a day. Yeah, I know. Puts me down. Lets me feed off him. It's a bit weird. It's a bit weird, but yeah. We're going to send you the movies. You enjoy that, all right?

Awesome, thank you. Good on you, Kayla. Thanks for your calls, guys. Lou in calories and Lou in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Of course, the election happened Saturday, and everyone probably knows the results by now. Labour, huge night for them.

Spoiler alert if you don't. Didn't even give a warning. You want to catch up and watch that all again a wee bit later on. National, not a great one. Chloe Swarbrick, a bit of a surprise win in the Green Party, according to the polls. She won Auckland Central, so well done to her. Act Party had a great result. Winston Peters

is out. So that's kind of the recap. And David Seymour on television apparently arrived at his party sort of like James Bond via boat. With champagne. Yeah, it was like Bond. Popping champagne like a lot of budgie would have gone on their boat high ridge.

He's like in the middle of a Jay-Z video or something arriving to the act party. But yeah, that was a highlight from the evening. Ben Boyce, you've gone through, you've scoured through the highs, the lows, the gaffes, and you're going to cover it all right now. The Herald have got 19 pages of election coverage. Well, we've got about 19 different outlets of audio that producer Juliet has sourced for us this morning. All in 60 seconds too, we're going to cover. And you can achieve a lot in 60 seconds.

Oh, okay. Now we've put time pressure on it, haven't we? Now, Clark Gayford, partner to Jacinda Ardern, host Fish of the Day on TV as well. He brought out some fish. It's kind of tradition that he did that last election, and he brought out some fish to the media again. I day on TV as well. He brought out some fish. It's kind of tradition. He did that last election and he brought out some fish to the media again. I feel so rude interrupting everybody,

but goodness me, Wendy's got some food. Clark, you've done it again. I'm very, very impressed. What looks like fish sliders and venison bites. Tell us about it. Well, I wasn't actually going to do anything, but then there was so many reminders this week to come and do this.

And it was a good excuse to sneak out and go fishing sounded like a cooking show didn't it now what have you got here

I've got fish ladders because he came in with Jacinda on Friday and there was a bone of contention between the two

apparently they had a relationship discussion around his fish because he wanted to go Saturday election day so you brought up

before about needing to supply some fish. Is that what you... Yes, yeah. So that would require me to go fishing. Fishing.

I just want to go fishing. You've struck something. That is a good, solid idea. We may or may not have been having an argument about whether or not... Can you go fishing on election day?

Whether or not on election day it would be an appropriate use of Clark's time to go fishing. Do you know what her response was? If you get up at five in the morning you can sleep on the couch tonight. Really?

At least we know where he slept on Saturday night. Now, the referendum went on as well. We don't know the results until November 6th on that. But Hilary Barry, I love the way she described weed. Just a quick reminder too, for anybody who is tuning in and who voted in the referendums, we are not going to get those results tonight.

If you're wondering why we're not talking about it at the moment, you can put your jazz cabbage on hold right now. Your jazz cabbage. Your jazz cabbage. You fooling. You can get jazz cabbage on hold, John Campbell. I love Hilary. She wanted to go to the bar later on.

Do we have that as well? I think so. Whereabouts is that? No, I'm not sure if we do. Okay. What do we do? No, can I just sure if we do. Oh, we do. No, can I just say this is the most casual AF conversation ever. Have we got that? No, I don't know.

Oh, we do. No, we do. See you at the bar. See you at the bar. See you at the bar. See you at the bar. Rachel! You meet at the bar, Rachel!

Finally, Kelvin Davis, Deputy Leader for Labour, came out and he'd written a poem in his speech. My husband's from Samoa, so talofa. They all marched on anyway with very little hope. Down, down, down their slippery, slippery slope. Oh God, it's like an uncle at a wedding. I've just got a 19 page poem that I'd like to recite to everyone.

I'm mixing it up a little bit. That was some of your Jono and Ben election coverage for you. Lightly dusting over the events of Saturday evening. There you go. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Synchronise OBSES.

Love this game. Basically, you phone up, you win a prize, and Ben and me try and steal it off you if we synchronise up our answers. New Zealand's quickly becoming New Zealand's favourite game behind don't ever let anyone merge in the motorway in front of you. Now we've got $40 Hell Pizza up for grabs as our prize, and Hell Pizza has got the Silence of the Lambs pizza at the moment.

It's the brand new on the menu. It looks awesome. So you can check that out at hell.co.nz. Okay, Candice. Good morning. More reina to you from Tauranga. How's that on a Monday morning? Yeah, pretty good, thanks.

Yeah. Well done. Firstly, you've won your hell pizza. Perfect. And now, Ben and me are going to try and steal your prize off you. Juliet's going to throw out categories. If we sync up our answer, I'm sorry, Candice, you're not going to be eating any

baby lambs. Yeah, the silencer of the lambs won't be yours, alright? Okay, Juliet, here's the first question. Alright, name for me a TV show. This is... For you to go. Ooh, okay. Okay, Juliette, here's the first question. All right, name for me a TV show. The Simpsons. Fear Go. Ooh, okay. All right.

Okay, cool. Next category. Name for me an alcoholic beverage. Chardonnay. Oh, in the wine category. Candice, we nearly had you there. You have all the alcoholic beverages. It was interesting.

We both went for like a Kiwi Chardonnay salve. I can imagine you suck back on a Savvy D on the weekend, Candice. I'm more of a Pinot Noir. Oh, nice, yeah. Give me a Pinot. Okay, well, the prize is still yours unless we synchronise our answer in the final question. Here it is. Name for me in all black.

Boat and Barret. Oh, okay, Candice. Well done. Thanks so much. Isn't this the easiest game in the world for you? It was. Yeah, you didn't have to do it. Well, you did.

You phoned us up. You had to sit through that. And now you've got $40. Help, eat, or enjoy. Awesome. Thanks so much. You go and have a wonderful week, Candice. Thank you very much for listening to the program.

Thank you. Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The A to Z of New Zealand. We are calling every town and city in New Zealand. It's something we do once a day on the show. We're slowly making our way around every town and city in New Zealand.

Yeah, today we're going to head to Hastings and, you know, one of two major urban areas in the Hawke's Bay, Ben, on the east coast of the North Island. You know, 1931 they had a major earthquake in Hastings and the clock tower was destroyed and the local council ran a competition to design a new one. And that's how Clocky McClockface, the local town clock, was erected. It's not actually true, that part of the story, but they did get someone to design the... Oh, the new clock. Yeah, it was a competition. Also, the Queen has

been to Hastings. The Queen and Prince Andrew went to the Watties factory to see beans and sausages being squeezed into cans. Who would have thought all these years later she would also have to deal with Andrew's beans and sausages. Yeah, she'd be like wanting those... Anyway, no, let's not go there.

Let's not go there. This isn't about the Queen and Prince Andrew scandals. This is about Hastings, and we're going to go through to Club Hastings now. Hopefully they're up preparing the club. It's time of morning. We're on hold at the moment. Amanda speaking.

Hello, Amanda. It's John Owen Ben here. We're from the Hits radio station. We're phoning every town in New Zealand. And Hastings is next on our list. Wow. Wow, I know. Everyone we can call on Hastings, we've randomly called you,

and we hope you can tell us something about Hastings, something we don't know. Really? Yeah. Well, did you know that... Yes, I feel like I'm padding up for time, but that's all right. Not making this up as I go along. No, we're not.

Did you know so far you've got us hooked? Well, my first thought is good wineries. Oh, good wineries. Yeah, I kind of knew that, though, because that's very good wineries there, right? We went to the Black Barn Vineyard. Yeah, that was great. Oh, my favourite. Yeah, it's very good wineries there, right? Way into the Black Barn Vineyard. Yeah, that was great. Oh, my favourite. Yeah, it's really good.

Yeah, exactly. But something else. I feel like you could come out with one little gem for us. One little gem. What little gem about Hastings? Put you on the spot. Quick. The wineries, yeah, she said the same as me.

Oh, the wineries, yeah. Listen, guys, we all know you're big boozers. The weather. The weather's good. The boozers. The weather's good. The weather's fantastic. The weather's fantastic. This is the only time we could actually call Hastings because the only time they're sober is before 9am. It's not true.

We're sober a lot. Yeah, I know. We're sober a lot. It's at least till lunchtime. Yeah. Where should we go? Yeah, where should we stay? What other things could we do in Hastings?

You could go to Splash Planet. Oh, yeah, that's the water park, right? Yeah. Yeah, gotcha. That's pretty cool if you're into that sort of thing. If you're into splashing and a planet. If you're into splashing and a planet, yeah. Yeah, I've seen that advertised on the TV.

It looks very cool. Okay, I'm going to rattle off the, I'm on TripAdvisor here, the 10 best things to do in Hastings, and I want you to rank each of these out of 10. Guess what number one on the list is? Wineries. Yes. 10.

10. A lot of wineries. Guess what number two is on the list? Space planet. No, wineries and vineyards. Oh, no way. Wineries and vineyards. 10 out of 10 for those as well, eh?

Okay. Yeah, that's a 10. And there's number three, wineries, vineyards, and cellar doors. Super trikes. Super trikes. There's a big motorbike that you can take a tour on, which looks like it seats about eight people. Oh, really?

Okay, that's cool. That doesn't ring any bells. I've never seen it, but that sounds amazing. Yay, let's give it a seven. Okay, what about the Hastings Earthquake Self-Guided Audio Tour? Okay. That sounds incredible. Sounds like a what out of ten?

That sounds like an amazing thing if you're into that sort of thing. Yeah, it does. You're right. Oh, yes. You're not going to commit to a score on that one? No, maybe not. Maybe it feels weird. And lastly, what's number five?

Oh, seven? Okay, you got seven. Okay. Oh, and guess what else? There's an electric self-guided bike tour, but guess where you tour through? Wineries. Rounding out with the Wineries.

You're right. When you said Wineries was the top thing, you were right. Oh, look. You've even got subcategories of winery stuff in Hastings. Very impressive. Hey, listen, thank you so much for your time this morning.

No worries. Nice talking to you, and you enjoy the wineries. Thank you. And remember... You'll enjoy the wineries if you come. Yeah, we will. And what's your favourite station again?

The Jono and Ben station. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah, there you go. Good save. I know you were just about to say Fletchford and Megan on ZM. But thank you for pandering to our fragile egos. Don't worry. Love your work.

See you, mate. Good, thanks. Have a good day. You too. Bye. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed.

I tell you what, the headlines on his forehead from his pillow aren't the only ones. Ben Boyce has got some other headlines that he'd like to discuss. This is Scrolling Through Your Feed. We've been talking already about a massive weekend here in New Zealand, the election, the Benny concert. In fact, Benny's joining us just after seven on the show today. But also, there was a lot of sport going on. The All Blacks played the Wallabies

yesterday, and they won. And then a Kiwi driver, Shane Van Gisenberg, he won Bathurst 1000. Shane Van Gisbergen. Oh, Gisbergen, sorry. Oh, sorry. Well, there you go. Shows how much I don't know a lot about,

I love sport, but I don't know a lot about motor racing. Yeah, in our pre-show meeting, Ben's like, I don't know anything about this. I've got nothing. So what I'm going to do is, you said you want a highlights package of the weekend sport,

but you want it all at once. Yeah. Yeah. Because there's a lot of sport, almost too much sport. So I want Bathurst highlights and All Black highlights happening at the same time. Oh, now more on the podcast.

And now, Jay's the poster of Bathurst and Shane. Caleb Clark. And I don't know whether you want to be kicking the fist, but because he'll hurt you. And there we go. That's our in-depth sporting coverage. Yeah. A lot of stuff happened over the weekend. I know.

It's pretty exciting, though. Yeah. Good wins for New Zealand and Bathurst and also in the rugby. Yeah. I'll tell you what. You wouldn't get a coverage like that anywhere else. No, you're right. Would you, a sporting coverage?

Yeah. You wouldn't get someone getting the last name of the driver wrong as well. So apologies to Shane on that one. And this is, as a parent, you're like, oh, this is bad. So a mother in the UK gave her daughter her phone. Her two-year-old daughter, a toddler, while she was doing her hair in the bathroom. Now, the mum was, she didn't have a top on. She was in the bathroom.

She was just like, yeah, play on my phone. And the daughter, she didn't know, realised she took some photos on the phone and uploaded them to Snapchat. At age two? Yeah. Like, the kids are coming out of the phone. You came out of your mum was holding an iPhone, didn't you? Yeah, I did.

Swiping and doing all sorts of business. It's amazing that they can do this. Like, the steps that you have to go through to take the photo and then upload it. And it was full nudes of her mum. Oh yeah, like, topless photos. It wasn't until she got a text from a work colleague going, hey, thanks for the nude, that she was like, huh?

And then she went through and it said to basically people she'd been to university with, friends, family, work colleagues, everyone, and being sent a photo thanks to this toddler on Snapchat. They university with friends, family, work colleagues, everyone, and be sent a photo thanks to this toddler on Snapchat. They'll be like, okay, that's a bit unusual. Well, at least she's got the excuse. What's your excuse when you send them to our group chat?

It's always awkward the next day, isn't it, Juliet? It is. I kind of can't really look them in the eye. Did you guys get those accidentally? Oh, sorry, guys. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Like starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. Buy the WhatsApp by doco.nz. Now, a lady who dreams about Harry Styles

and had nightmares about reading light entertainment stories for Jono and Ben, but here she is. It's producer Juliette with Spy. Thank you very much. Now, Jason Derulo, you know how he sings at the beginning of his songs his own name like this?

Jason Derulo. So that was a thing for a while. Apparently he stopped. I don't remember him stopping, but he went on Evil Ellen. You call yourself a Derulo fan. I know. But he went on Evil Ellen's show. Always call her Evil Alan.

What monstrous things did Alan get him to do? Oh, just you wait. She would have been bullying him or something. She bullied him into singing her own name. Of course she did. Watch out. Of course she did. But she asked why he sings his name at the front of his songs.

It's a bigger hit if I sing my name at the front, you know, obviously. So yeah, I had to bring that back. I was actually wondering why other people didn't sing my name at the front of their songs as well, because it worked so well for me, they should sing Jason Derulo at the front of their songs. Right. Will you sing

my name right now? Alan DeGeneres. He's got a good voice, isn'teneres he's got a good voice isn't he he's got a great voice of course she got him to do that Eve Allen

probably pulled his pants down afterwards too pranked him somehow you know she scares all the guests doesn't she she does

yeah that's interesting good branding though isn't it for Derulo yeah it is actually every song you love it says Derulo what if you guys

opened the show at 6 o'clock with Fletch and Vaughn always say with Fletch and Vaughn oh Jono and Ben. Always say with Fletch and Vaughn. Oh, yeah. We might be more successful. True, true. Rebrand the programme.

If anything, we should take our names away from this. I know, if anything, there's too much saying Jono and Ben on the hits throughout the show. Just end the hits. Just take out the Jono and Ben. And Matthew McConaughey, he has revealed that his father passed away in the most weird way while making love to his mother. Oh, dear God. Yeah. Heart attack or something?

Heart attack in the middle of the act. Jeez. Probably, you know, as it was. Yeah. Awkward for the mother, too. I imagine that. It got like a deceased. Yeah.

You'd have to sort of remove yourself, wouldn't you? You'd be feeling all kinds of emotions. Yeah. Is this legit? It is legit. It is legit. Okay. Was he telling it in a chirpy fashion or was this like factual?

I actually don't know. I didn't watch the video. It sounds dramatic. It does. I know. But I feel like that's probably, I don't know if that would happen very common, but he did say that his dad was kind of one of those people that just lived through everything. Like nothing could kill him.

So the fact that this happened is like quite ironic. He was giving it 110 his whole life in every area. Doing what he loved. Doing what he loved and he happened to be doing his mum. Oh, jeez. And that is Spy. For more, you can go to hits.co.nz. Oh, thank you, June.

Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. We like to end the show on this. Why is it going to be

a good day for you? We like to get things started positively right around the country. It's a Monday, too. No one really looks forward to a Monday. No, I tell you

why it's going to be a good day to me because I had for months thought that my car's windows were tinted and the despicable acts I've been up to in my vehicle thinking no one can see. But then yesterday in the car park in the morning at the supermarket I was having a dig and a rummage in my nostrils. Oh yeah.

And I looked over and then a lady was laughing and then she gestured her finger up to it. I was like oh no so people know this whole time you think no one looks into your car don't you you think it's your

sacred little private yeah you do for some reason but everyone I tell you what your car knows your deepest darkest secrets and it hears everything sees everything

so why is it going to be a good day for you oh and 100 of the hits we like to end the show positive on a positive note of course we're back on TV tonight

7.30 on TVNZ 2 and one of my favourite moments was Wendy, a lovely lady who owns a dog on this Dog Almighty show who just had no idea who we were. I'm trying to work out who you two are because I never heard of you two before. You meant to be famous but I'm sorry.

Oh, Wendy, listen, enough of this savage roasting. I loved Wendy. Wendy was one of those people who, like, ignored the cameras. The cameras weren't even there. She was just herself on and off camera. I don't even think she knew she was on a TV show. No, that's the night, TVNZ 2. But why is it going to be a good day?

Shall we go see Hayley? See how Hayley's going in Ambley. Why is it going to be a good day for you in Ambley? No, it sounds like it's going to be a real blast. I couldn't catch a lot of that, but my husband's something. What's your husband doing? Hayley. We're opening up our new business.

Oh, wow. Well, this is a good day. Give it a plug. So we're making handmade pies up in Amberley in North Canterbury, and it's just called Amberley Pies. Homemade pies. Are they actually made in your home? Well, no, because of good old council regulations.

We've got a wee shop down in Amberley. Oh, okay, right. So that's too much to fit in, isn't it? Thanks to council regulations, they're not really homemade, but you get what we're saying. Well, there you go. Homemade pies, Amberley Pies. Go see them.

Yep. What's the best pie? What do you reckon is the best one? Oh, I suppose it depends what you like. We've got sweet and savoury, so we've got the good old steak and cheese, or we've got something a bit more adventurous, or we can see if we're making seasonal products or when the good old stone fruit comes.

Hey, good on you, mate. You go and have a great day. I will catch you guys tomorrow from sex. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys weekdays from sex on the hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on the hits breakfast. Friends of Skinny.