Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - September 16 - Oh Wow Wednesday, Jono's Motorway Observations, Which Famous Person Do You Have A Tattoo Of?

Episode Date: September 16, 2020

Kia Ora Aotearoa (and to those also listening in other countries!) This morning we crossed to some big news from a small town. A man named Keith who lives in Kerikeri is known for going around and picking up other people's rubbish, for no payment or anything, he's just a good bloke! Him and his wife were absolute characters, people reckon we need to bring them on for a regular segment! We also spoke to the man who got a tattoo of Judith Collins on his thigh, one of her holding a gun that says "Crusher Collins". Finally, "Oh Wow Wednesday" returned, if you can wow us, you can win! Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. That's our little podcast siren that I like to use.

It just makes everyone aware that the podcast has begun being voiced. I notice you've gone and turned on the television on ESPN here in the studio. I didn't realise we had, yeah, like. You love ESPN. I didn't realise we had it. I just noticed in the office when I walked past before, they had the TV on and it was like ESPN. We obviously have Sky

in the office. I was like, why have we not had this on the whole time? Okay, right. So who's playing today in the basketball? We've got the Heat taking on the Celtics. And then the Clippers, big game. Clippers, Nuggets, two games, seven in that series as well. My problem with the NBA finals is it feels to me from the outside looking in, and I like basketball,

it feels like they go on for eight months of the year, the finals. Yeah, well, there's seven games. But then sometimes they get down to the last four minutes of a game and that goes on for like eight months. So there's four teams. Is this like essentially the semifinals? Well, there's, yeah. They're basically getting down to the, one's a conference final,

the other's getting like a semifinal for the conference final. Then when they win those conference finals, then they go through to the whole become NBA champions. But they're all in the same bubble anyway. They're all in the same bubble. No one's travelling across the states at the moment. And so if you could allow, if it was physically possible, for any NBA player to impregnate you with a basketball,

so you birthed a little baby basketball that was made by any player. Baby basketball. You make a little baby basketball. But you would have to carry the baby basketball for nine months. And then you'd have to birth it out of, I'm going to say your mouth. Okay. Your mouth. Okay.

You're going to birth the basketball out of your mouth. Okay, this is an odd question. Who do you want to impregnate you? Well, LeBron James is my favourite basketballer. Great basketballer. Yeah. And a great human being as well, so, you know. So, you're going to pick LeBron James?

Yeah, of course I am. He's my favourite. Okay, who would I pick to... You know what? I'm going to pick someone loyal. I'm going to go Tristan Thompson. I reckon he's a great guy to get you pregnant and stick around.

And be there for you. Be there for you. Even when you're in labour, he'll be there for you. He'll be there, right. Yeah. That's the impression I get of Tristan Thompson,

so I'll pick him. There was a lot of talk about what he did off the court, but there's lot of talk about what he did off the court, but there's not enough talk about what he did on the court. He had a great season for the Cavs. He does a lot of defensive work. He doesn't get a lot of shout-outs, but that type of stuff, some of the other stuff, we won't get into.

Very good with his hands, on and off the court. More prolific off the court with his hands, but anyway, that's enough. The NBA Finals, okay, pick a winner now. Well, I'd love to see the Lakers go through but I mean the Clippers I think

any of these teams could win and that's such a cop out saying it is a full cop out don't get more cop out than that saying any of the teams

could win you've just stated a fact yeah on the podcast today we tracked down a guy who's made national news for a national tattoo

for Judith Collins and our production engineer Aaron oh yeah what was his line because the guy's name was Nick and it's a national tattoo

and we should have said Nick Nat he's got a Nick Nat tattoo Nick Nat Tat yeah oh yeah that works he's like it was low

hanging fruit you guys didn't he was like a waste of it I still was not confident with it either but there you go thank you Aaron And thank you to you

For listening to the podcast The radio version Of Morning Breath It's Jono and Ben On their heads It's time to look at Some Big news

Small town Town town town Town town town And today we're looking At some big news From Kittikitty There's a guy By the name of Keith

He's known as Keith The rubbish guy And a really lovely thing He does Twice a week he goes out there and he just picks up rubbish all over town, just walks around. And there's photos of him doing the rounds with big rubbish bags full of rubbish that people have just littered everywhere. He cleans it all up.

Doing it off his own bat, absolutely free of charge. And Keith, the Rubbish Guy from Kittikitty, is on the big news now. Welcome. Oh, how you doing, mate? Oh, Keith, we're doing well. You're a good Samaritan, aren't you? Oh, I've got a massive opinion. You haven't spoken to my wife.

Okay. What would Keith's wife say about Keith? Have a quick word. Oh, check us on. Okay, check us on. Who am I talking to? Hello, is this Mrs. Keith? This is Mrs. Keith? This is Mrs Keith.

Oh, Mrs Keith. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, hello. Oh, you really don't want to know what I've got to say about him. Oh, okay. Well, we're ringing up. It was all quite positive because we read the news that Keith is picking up rubbish twice a week all over town, doing wonderful things for the community.

Absolutely. He's wonderful at home. Listen, I heard that he's only out there twice a week picking up rubbish because you kick him out of the house. Hell no. No, that's not true. He's lovely. He does all the cooking, all the cleaning, all the ironing.

Is there anything this man doesn't do? Who is this guy? Who is this guy? Giant bubbles. He does giant bubbles for everybody in Kerry Kerry, sets them on their way to work with a bubble display. He's actually a really wonderful person. That's why I've kept him for 55 years.

Sally, you're lucky you married him because I want to snap him up. Yeah. Oh, no. No, I can't let him go. Oh, thank you. I'll take him. I'll ride that pony. You're my show.

You're my show. He can pick up my rubbish, if you know what I mean. All right. Now, how often does he get... When did this start? Oh, the rubbish? Yeah, the rubbish. Oh, about seven years ago.

He's been doing it for seven years. That's amazing. Oh, the rubbish? Yeah, the rubbish. Oh, about seven years ago. He's been doing it for seven years. That's amazing. Oh, really? I love how Sally's now doing the interview for Keith. I was just thinking that. This was the radio first. We started interviewing the main story subject, and then for some reason we've deviated off to his wonderful wife.

Oh, that's great. You're all great. They're all great. I've been taught to get back on the phones. There we go. Now Sally's gone, Keith's back on. Oh, Keith. Well done on what you do for the community.

That's so lovely. Oh, thanks very much. Thanks very much. How much rubbish are people dumping on the side of the road there, Keith and Kerry Kerry? Heaps. Heaps. Obviously there's more people living here now,

and there's obviously more rubbish. Sometimes you're driving down, sometimes you're driving down the road, and you're like, there's a bloody mattress there. Yeah, people just leave stuff. How do people just chuck a mattress out? Yeah.

We don't have that. On the main State Highway 10, you'll get that sort of thing. But I just pick up, you know, coffee cups, McDonald's stuff, beer bottles. Yeah. Beer bottles.

And they're everywhere. It's kind of sad. I mean, it's awesome what you do, but it's sad that people just check this stuff out, isn't it, like that? Oh, yeah. The ones who check it out obviously don't care. And it's what happens in the world today, isn't it?

Yeah, we're a disposable society now, aren't we, Keith? Oh, absolutely. You've hit the nail on the head there. Well, look, don't it? Yeah, we're a disposable society now, aren't we, Keith? Oh, absolutely. Well, look, don't be getting back to that. I'm not disposing of him yet. No, you're not. Sally's back in there. Sally's like, no, we're not disposing of Keith. That's the one thing we're not getting rid of. No, yeah, because we're going to take him, Sally. He's all ours now.

No, no, no, no. The price has got to be right, because they do say everything is for sale. Oh, okay. So we can't buy them. Okay. So there is a price. We'll do some negotiating. You two sound like the most adorable couple.

Yeah. Well, that's our upbringing, you know. When you get brought up rough, your whole life changes. Excuse me, I wasn't brought up rough. Excuse me, I wasn't brought up right. All right, now the price has gone down now for Keith. He's in trouble. Hey, Sal's from Liverpool, remember?

Oh, you didn't know, but she's from Liverpool. Oh, Liverpool. The Beatles are from Liverpool, aren't they? Yeah, but they're male. The females in Liverpool are tough. She could rip your face off, could she? Oh, without a second thought. Actually, I'll tell you a story.

She'll deny it, but she stabbed me in the kitchen. She was denying it. Sally's like, what a wonderful day that was. Big old belly laugh there. I see why she's like that. Don't be close by this. Of course she'd deny it. Stop shanking your husband, Sally.

No, he walked into the knife ten times. Dear Lord Jesus. You two are hilarious. Oh, so much fun. I would love to catch up with you. Congratulations on all you do for the community up north. It's so wonderful. And keep up the great work.

Oh, thank you very much. And who am I talking to? Who are we talking to? I know, I'm Ben. Oh, that's right, John. See, my memory isn't as good as yours. Listen, it's been a wonderful conversation. It doesn't matter who you talk to, mate.

We don't mean anything to anyone. We could have the same conversation tomorrow and we wouldn't remember. That's the beauty of old age. Absolutely. So good. You go and have a lovely day, you guys. Thank you very much indeed.

See you guys. This is your new breakfast. Health Star rating, still pending. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Wow, oh wow. Can you make Jono and Ben go wow? Wow. Wow.

It's Oh Wow Wednesday. Oh Wow Wednesday. Now some may say it's only here because of the alliteration and you would be dead right. Yeah, It's Oh Wow Wednesday. Oh Wow Wednesday. Now, some may say it's only here because of the alliteration, and you would be dead right. Yeah, that's right. It doesn't work on any other day, this, but we like to do it on a Wednesday. You give us a call on 0800THEHITS,

and if you can get both of us to go wow with your talent or with your fact or anything you want to do that will wow us over the phone, then we'll give you a prize. Yesterday, we had Jules. Jules phoned up, and her talent, this wasn't for obviously a wow Wednesday, because it wasn't a Wednesday.

No, it would have been wow-woos day, and that wouldn't have worked. This wowed us. Jules' talent was she could do the noise of a car alarm with her mouth. Take it away then, Jules. And it's very talented. So good. So if you can phone us right now on 0800 The Hits,

and you can wow us. It could be a talent like Jules's. It could be a fact. It could be maybe you're related to a famous person. I don't know. Just anything you can do to wow us, to blow our socks off, we'll go wow. I mean, if you phone up and you literally blow our socks off,

that would make us go wow. Wow. But you set a very low bar for your wows. Yeah, I wow too. I'm too easily wowed. I'm a wower. That's what I do. Yeah, I mean, mainly if you phone up,

you use your fingers to dial through to the radio station. Ben will go wow. You made it through. You could never be a judge at the district court. No, no. It's like I'm sentencing you to life in prison for your horrific crimes, but I feel bad so I'll give you

a $40 hell pizza voucher as well. You're too kind. So I have to be the mean judge just so there's a little bit of jeopardy to this part of the show. So basically you've got a wow of Jono. I read the hits.

4487 on the text. Okay, now Producer Humphrey, Bee Humps, Bee Humps, lovely Producer Humps. Check him out. He's been next door taking the calls. We don't know what sort of talents

are on the line, what skills are on the line. We'll find out right now. Will they make us go wow? We'll head to Dion. Welcome, you're on the air. Morena, Dion. How's it going? Wow us, Dion. You need to wow us both. Okay, so I've got a joke for you.

Oh, these are always shaky. Jokes make Ben nervous. You ready? Even when he lines it up with, are you ready? Are you ready for this? Have you got the dumb button ready, Juju? We don't have a dumb button. Okay, go.

Knock, knock. Who's there? Wow. Wow who? Wow, I just won a prize because you said wow. Oh, wow. That's good. That's good. That's a prize coming your way.

Well done. Ben's just happy it didn't offend anyone. Yeah, I was like, Jesus, that's good. That was good. It offended Jono. That was the only person it offended because you got to say wow. Well done, Dion. When you walk away with a kindface.co.nz.

Jono and Ben, Ashley Bloomfield, could there be more names in this signature range face mask? And we'll flick you out something else as well for your troubles.

Appreciate that. Well done. Awesome, Keith. Good mind games there from Dion. We'll go to Elizabeth in Hamilton. Welcome to the show,

Elizabeth. It's Wow Wednesday. Wow us. All right. Today to wow you, I'm going to tell you that oranges actually used to be green, but they were modified to become orange so that they would sell more.

Wow, there you go. Wow, I got a wow on there. Modified, they used to be green. You can't rhyme anything with orange, too, apparently. No word rhymes with orange. Yeah, not a wow for me. Not a wow for me. I'm going to be honest.

I was like, okay, well, that probably makes sense. What? It makes you sound green. Limes were already green. What were oranges called when they were green, though? Were they called oranges? Well, it came first, the colour or the name, yeah. I have no idea.

Yeah, I appreciate it. Oh, it's not a wow. I'm not wowed. I'm not wowed. It's okay. I'll tell you what, Elizabeth, you hold there there anyway because Ben likes to send out prizes off air. Oh, no. Hey, no.

No one walks away feeling bad on this show. All right. You look after yourself. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you. Wow Wednesday. There we go. For another week back next Wednesday if you think you can wow us.

Let's just go out on that car alarm one more time as well. Oh, yeah. Let's do that. Take it away then, Jules. Thank you. Some people skip breakfast, the meal, and also this show. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. Now, my house at home at the moment is just full of people whistling.

Oh, yeah. I mean, you come from a very strong whistling household, and you're the only one in the family who can't whistle. I'm not very good at whistling, but my wife, I think we had some audio from a couple of months ago. My wife, Amanda, has a very, very strong whistle. It's one of her things. Oh, it's powerful.

Oh, listen to that. Yeah. There's wild wolves in Alaska whose ears prick up when they hear that whistle in New Zealand. That's how powerful that is. You've heard of the ski town whistler? Well, it's got nothing on Amanda. It was named after her because she visited there once

and whistled and caused an avalanche. And they're like this crazy whistling lady from Old Town. She does it at concerts and stuff and people don't generally think it's the blonde lady.

They always look at me like, alright mate, like a concert or like a theatre or something. I'm like, you want to pick her for a grade A whistler? No, but she's great.

Yeah, we've got a friend too, Vilma. She's a very strong whistler. If you but she's great. Yeah, we've got a friend too, Vilma. She's a very strong whistler. If you're at the beach with them, she'll whistle. Her kids will be 700 metres out at sea. They'll pop up and come swimming back in. 700 metres. Without a word of a lie.

No exaggeration. Yeah, they're out there swimming with the container ships. Doing bombs off the containers. But my wife, great whistler, and so my youngest daughter, Indy, now, you know, as all kids do, they want toler, and so my youngest daughter, Indy now, you know, as all kids do, they want to whistle and she doesn't realise

she's doing it but she goes around the house now just constantly trying to whistle and I was sitting next to her trying to do some work on the computer yesterday and she was just trying to whistle

and I just thought, you know, I'll record her and this is what I had to... This is what you do? Yeah, this is what I had to sit next to. Well, when you played that before and you're like,

guess what this noise is, I thought it was you trying to pee. Actually, that might have been me trying to pee. That might have been. That might have been my pee. What do you think? Just a little bit. Just come on, let's go. I was actually doing some research trying to help her to whistle.

And, you know, it's quite weird, the whistle, when you think about it. What it actually is. Can you do any whistling? I can. Well, I'm not great at it. That's a compare, yeah. But, yeah, whistle. So it says a whistle is an instrument that produces sound from a stream of gas,

which sounds weird on the surface, most commonly air. And people aren't born knowing how to whistle. It's a learned skill, and you can get there with constant practice. And in northern Turkey, there's a whole town. It's the native language of the town, apparently, where they go around instead of using words. They don't use words. Well, yeah, that's what it says.

I don't know if that's one of those internet things. Yeah, and they kind of communicate. Is it a town full of birds? Yeah. That's incredible. I remember, though, when you nail it as a kid because you just practice. You're right.

You spend months just going, and then one day it just happens, and it's a magical moment. So good luck to all the kids out there for that. Kids are into their own world, though, aren't they? That's the thing. Indy had no idea she was doing that 24-7. In fact, we were talking to Indy yesterday.

We were talking to the family. It was some sort of conversation. I think it was about hygiene. And we were like, it's really important. I was trying to, you know when you have that moment, this is me being serious, dad. I'm like, yeah, it's really important, kids. And the man, we're all listening.

I was like, everyone's into this. And Indy's like, can you survive without your head? That was the question. And I was like, what? I've just been talking for 10 minutes about how we have to navigate through a pandemic. And no, you can't survive without your head. He's like, cockroaches can. And you're like, okay.

All right. That was the thing. I was like, what's going on in a kid's head? Wake up and smell them. Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd. It's Jono and Ben on the Heads. Of course, the election has been delayed.

But all the politicians all over New Zealand, they're all over the place campaigning. Everyone's talking about the hits. Of course, the election has been delayed, but all the politicians all over New Zealand, they're all over the place, campaigning, everyone's talking about the election. What do they do now they can't kiss babies and shake hands? I mean, that was an election campaign staple, wasn't it? Getting out there kissing the babies and shaking hands? Especially elbow the babies, do you? Yeah, it's an elbow bump, a gentle little elbow bump at the baby, maybe.

I don't know. Don't elbow babies. No, no, it's not a, maybe. I don't know. Don't elbow babies. No, no, it's not a good thing. But there was a guy that made news yesterday. It was big news all over the place, even on One News last night as well, who got a Judith Collins, a Crusher Collins tattoo. And he joins us from the Waikato on the line right now. Nick, how's it going?

Yeah, good, guys. How are you? Wow, committed to the Crusher Collins. Gee whiz, whereabouts on your body is the tattoo, Nick? Oh, it's on my upper thigh, Colin. How are you? Wow, committed to the crusher, Collins. Gee whiz. What are whereabouts on your body is the tattoo, Nick? Oh, it's on my upper thigh, guys. So, yeah. Oh, so it can be slightly hidden away if, you know, things don't go Nationals way at the election and...

Well, that's right. Nothing a good pair of jeans won't take. Yeah, so if Judith gets rolled as leader, it's fine. You can roll your boxer shorts over Judith. That or I'll have to put something else on the other thigh. So when did you get this idea to put Judith Collins on your thigh? Oh, it all started just as

a bit of a jovial conversation between the tattooist and I getting some other work done and he talked about the Ashley Blumfield one on another person. Because he did that one, right? He did, yeah. So, you know, the conversation come up.

He said, oh, what would you put on yourself if you had the chance? And I said, well, without a doubt, it has to be Crusher. He called me on that and, you know, one thing led to another and here I am. And that's how you end up with Judith Collins pointing a gun on your thigh. Yeah. Absolutely. Gold member. And she rang you, we up with Judith Collins, pointing a gun on your thigh. Yeah. Absolutely. Gold member. And she rang you, we understand, Judith Collins, yesterday,

is that right? Yeah, I talked to her a few times yesterday, actually. She was pretty stoked about it, so she just wanted there to pass on her thoughts and that she thought it was awesome and, you know, she supported me like I supported her, so... So why is she ringing you a few times? Surely this is just a one conversation thing.

What did she call back about? Yeah, we're with friends basis now. Oh, yeah. Like you were texting her back, up to Jude. It's great commitment. I mean, you've got to be, yeah. Yeah, speed dial. You want to get her to sign it, I understand, as well,

to get that tattered. Is that going to happen? Yeah, ultimately, that would be a pretty cool outcome. But she, yeah, she says, you know, I hear people say they're going to try and make it happen. So, yeah, watch the space, I guess. Okay. I noticed you didn't get a Todd Muller one when he was leader, not as passionate about the Muller leadership.

He wasn't there long enough, guys. You would have just started the tattoo and he was gone halfway through. Yeah, exactly. Well, I suppose if you're leaning right, the ACT party, David Seymour could be an option for the other five. Yeah, and he's been discussed. He could be quite a follow-up piece as well. I think I'd be quite happy with an ACT national scenario.

I think we've got Seymour's number. We should give him a bell. Well, you should. We'll give David Seymour a call and see if he'd be interested in being emblazoned on your other thigh. What thigh is Judith on? She's on the right. She's on the right.

Of course. David Seymour. Seymour. It's prior. Boyce, the hits. You're on the air, mate. How are you? Ben calling, mate.

How you doing? This is exactly the kind of phone call I hope for. This is what you drink. Guess who we've got on the phone, David Seymour. Oh, I hate to think. Oh, just surprise me. Okay, okay. We've got a guy by the name of Nick.

Now, he made news yesterday because he got Judith Collins, Crusher Collins, tattooed on his thigh. Mate, what were you thinking? Oh, why not, Dave? You only live once, eh? He clearly leans a little to the right, so we were just pitching, would he be open to getting a Seymour tattoo

on his other thigh? And he said yes. Well, I tell you what, the ACT Party's always stood for freedom to do whatever the hell you're damn well pleased with your thighs, so long as you're not hurting anyone else. Seymour with your thighs? You do whatever you want with your thighs so long as you're not hurting anyone else. What, with your thighs?

You do whatever you want with your thighs. Well, you've got body parts too. So you'd be open to it, David Seymour? You'd give your blessing? Absolutely. If this guy wants me on his ass, then I fully endorse it. I don't know if he wants me on his...

No, you just promoted yourself. Oh, I did. I might have taken the suggestion a bit too far. Oh, I did. I might have taken the suggestion a bit too far. That's prime position. I don't know if you can get that one. I don't know if a wife would buy that. Oh, well, David Seymour,

thank you for your time. And Nick, thank you for your time and well done on making a muse with a tattoo. No, no, no. Thank you. See you later, mate.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. We are this week in the middle of our referendum. The Kiwi Referendum. We are meant to be voting. It was meant to be the New Zealand general election on Saturday this week. Now that's been delayed to October.

So we thought we'd give you guys something to vote on, and we want to vote on the most iconic bit of Kiwiana, New Zealand's favourite thing. Now, the Six O'Clock Club, you're our special friends. We know this. We've spoken about it before, so you may have missed the results of yesterday's big battle. It was his first semi-final, Onion Dip,

taking on the almighty... Kiwi Onion Dip. The original Kiwi Dip. Celebrate. Versus Slice of Heaven. Dave Dobbin. Yeah. And I don't know if you could tell, I forgot. So Juliet played the introduction, which really saved me there.

So thank you, Juliet. No worries at all. So Dave Dobbin's Slice of Heaven, which is a hell of an anthem. And unfortunately for Dob Heaven, which is a hell of an anthem. And unfortunately for Dobbin, it was a slice of nothing because he didn't make it through Onion Dip advancing through to the final. So our first final is Kiwi Onion Dip, and I think it's well-deserved. The original Kiwi Dip. Kiwi Onion Dip. So today we've got a big battle, and should we play the battle today?

You want me to pick a side in this one, but it's very tough. Mince and cheese pie versus jandals. We say jandals, everyone else says flip flops. Now, I haven't been a fan of having a final where food takes on food, but now I'm in a position where I need to back my favourite out of these two. And the more Kiwi I'm going to say is the mince and cheese pie. I love a mince and cheese pie. It's part of the New Zealand food pyramid,

along with binge drinking and sausages. It's shocking for our health system, shocking for our arteries, but we love it. Well, I'm going to go... I'm going to go Jandals. You think Jandals are more Kiwi? Because I keep going, what could I not do without? And in summertime, particularly, I got married in a pair go jandals. You think jandals are more kiwi? Because I keep going, what could I not do without? And in summertime,

particularly, I got married in a pair of jandals. You know? That was the footwear I wore at the wedding. I just had to pick jandals. And what about the explosion, the volcano-like explosion of piping hot cheese in your mouth

when you have a bite into a midget's bite and then you battle with it thinking you can still chew it and swallow it but you're going, ah, ah, ah. Yeah, I mean, they're great. What about that?

That's how much I love those. I would third-degree burn the innards of my mouth to swallow some mid-sand cheese pie. Yeah, but you just think about hot feet on the beach. You know, you've got to put your jandals on, you're fine. You're not walking on the sand, the scalding hot sand. I love being burned. That's one of my favourites.

What I'm going to do over summer is not wear jandals, walk on black sand eating a piping hot mince and cheese pie. So if you want to vote for your favourite, who is going to go through to the final mince and cheese, the pie or jandals, 4487 on the text. Yeah, the voting lines are open now, and we are going to be talking to a lady whose father coined the phrase jandals and started importing.

He was the first person to bring jandals to New Zealand. Making poor life decisions every morning. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, I was driving home yesterday on the motorway, and I know a lot of motorways across the country have this, that when you enter the motorway, there's sometimes like a two-lane situation where you find yourself lined up next to another vehicle.

Right, and then you end up merging like a zip. That's right. Well, no one in New Zealand likes merging like a zip. It's a sign of weakness if you let someone in front of you, isn't it? You don't want to show any weakness on the road. Yeah. Everyone's just like going as fast as they can, and it's almost like someone's going to hit the other one

until finally someone subsides and lets the other one in, right? Yeah, that's a sign of weakness. You want to be aggressive on the road. That's what you in, right? That's how it works. Yeah, that's a sign of weakness, man. You want to be aggressive on the roads. That's what you do, right? So I noticed that when you're lined up to enter the motorway. Is this the motorway that you get on before you've driven through the Fruit World car park and the Wash World car park? He doesn't like sitting still.

He gets quite agitated. And so there's traffic backed up. I've been to this on-ramp with you before. You drive through, he drives through like three car parks, three shopping car parks to bypass the traffic to get back in. I even drove through the wash world, through the little bay where you wash your car, just to save valuable seconds. Wow, I write that.

It's good. You've always got to be rolling. I always feel if I'm rolling, I'm moving. Changing lanes the whole time. I don't know if you get there any faster. You just don't like sitting still. He followed me down the motorway. He's like, you literally changed lanes about 18 times.

So we're just going to go, oh, no, then we'll go this one. We'll go that one. We'll go that one. So anyway, we're waiting to get on the on-ramp. And it's like the beginning of a Formula One race, isn't it? But no one wants to acknowledge it. And I've figured out you've got, you know, three or four different types of motorists

when they're driving down the motorway or wanting to enter on the motorway. You've got the aggressive one who wants to win but doesn't want to look like they want to win. So they don't eyeball you, but they go just over the speed limit just so they can get in front of you but completely ignore what's happening.

Gotcha. You've got the one who thinks he's Lewis Hamilton. He just guns off. Guns off at 220 k's. He boom, off the start line. Oh, you have those ones because sometimes they have the little traffic lights that sort of let you on. Some people are like, way gone before it's even green.

You're like, all right, mate. Yeah, I mean, that guy, he qualifies for the next Singapore Grand Prix. Then you've got people like me who just don't even pay attention to the lights. They're like, they're useless. They don't do anything. Just mow straight through them. That's the third type of person. And the other type of person.

And the other type of person is someone who's underprepared for the motorway entrance in the morning, which I have seen before. You've got someone applying lipstick, doing makeup. Shaving your face is always a classic one. We spoke to a lady who waxes her legs once a week on the motorway. On the motorway? Yeah. There's so much stuff that can be done on the motorway,

especially at peak hour traffic time when you're just rolling. Oh, stuff them, do it. You can do anything. Clear emails, file your tax returns. No, not if you're moving. That's not going to happen.

But if you're rolling slowly, it's fine. No, I don't know if that's... You've got one eye on the road. No, the law... One eye on your tax returns. I don't know if the law says that's okay. Yeah, well, I'd wax you in the car, Ben. Oh, thank you very much. I'd do that for you just so you can keep your eye on the road. No, the law. One eye on your tax returns. I don't know if the law says that's okay. Yeah, well, I'd wax you in the car, Ben.

Oh, thank you very much. I'd do that for you just so you could keep your eyes on the road. Not a morning person. Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 7.30 a.m. Taylor Swift, Shake It Off.

We heard yesterday that Taylor Swift and the News, which is Juliet, her and Katy Perry, they're made up now, haven't they? Yes. And she's seen a lovely gift. Yeah, because Katy Perry recently gave birth to a wee girl called Daisy Bloom and Taylor sent her a cute little embroidered blanket for the baby to use. That's really cool.

Oh, that's good. And to quote one of Taylor's songs, I was really upset when they were having a feud. It was a teenage nightmare, wasn't it? Not a teenage dream. No, that's not one of Taylor Swift's songs. No, but you could say they have rekindled their relationship

after having a bit of bad blood. That would be an example you could do, but maybe not. I was actually reading, I don't know if you read the whole story, Juliet, but she ordered a blanket from a local quilt maker. Right, yeah. And the quilt maker turned up and then Taylor was like, hold on, no, this is not the blanket that I ordered.

Okay? And I knew you were trouble when you walked in. You need to say that over the song. I actually heard that Taylor Swift did know the name of Katy Perry's baby. So when she was writing out the congratulations card, she just left a blank space.

But I've got a blank space baby. And I'll write your space. Which makes sense. But when she decided not to use the quilt maker's body of work, she was like, well, I'm going to do it myself. Taylor Swift's hands are actually going to make this blanket. And so she was on

the sewing machine, and she has a lot of cats in the household, famously. And one of the cats knocked her elbow and her finger went under the knitting needle. Oh, really? Yeah, and then she turned to the cat and said, Oh, look what you made me do. Oh, okay.

The cat's like, I'm sorry. I understand that she booked a courier service to deliver the gift Taylor Swift did. Taylor, she likes a swift service, obviously, with the name. And it wasn't a one hour, you know, it was a bit late. She got angry to the lady on the phone. The courier lady was like, listen, Karen, you need to calm down. I like the delay as producer Juliet's trying to find the song.

Did you read the thing, it was like she cut, when I was saying she cut her finger before. Taylor, yeah. Yeah, she went off and had to send a sample off to the medical centre. Oh right, did she? I didn't read that part of the article. And then the courier turned up with her sample and he's like the results aren't good and

I heard she was really annoyed. After the phone calls with the courier lady, she was very upset she went outside and she was just trying to cool off. Stray dog comes up, just a stray dog out of the neighbourhood and started like sort of grabbing her leg and sort of, you know, grinding up the upper. Dry.

Yeah, right. And Taylor had to shoot. That's what happens. I heard that too. And I also heard that when she was writing the card to Katy Perry, she was like, oh, I'll leave it a little bit sort of anonymous. Right, with a blank space. Right, with a blank space. Yeah, with a blank space

as you previously mentioned. Yeah. But then she just wrote, the card is from me. All right, that's nice. Bit of a guessing game for Katy Perry as to who got the blanket.

It's been quite a stressful day for Taylor Swift at the end of the day. I don't know if you know, but she went out for a bit of a walk, bit of orienteering. She likes this.

She missed the call from Katy Perry. She rang him to say, you know, but she went out for a bit of a walk, a bit of orienteering. She likes this. She missed the call from Katy Perry. She rang him to say thank you for the gift. She was out orienteering and all day long she was orienteering and going, are we out of the woods? Are we out of the woods? That's all she wanted to know. I don't have that one.

I put that down on the list for an orienteering gag. Good, because I think orienteering might have jumped the shark on that one. Like starting your day with panda eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The Kiwi Referendum. We are putting the most iconic New Zealand things as voted by you

head to head in a knockout style tournament. We have reached our semi-final, and it's a big one. Mince and cheese pie versus Jandals. We say Jandals, everyone else says Foot Fox. Yeah, the humble New Zealand Jandals and the mince and cheese pie, which both were part of any Kiwi childhood and adulthood, actually. I love mince and cheese pies so much. If I have two more children, I will name them mince and or cheese.

Now, Kiwi Onion Dip has gone through into the final, so which is going to go through, Jandals or mince and or cheese. Now, Kiwi Onion Dip has gone through into the final, so which is going to go through, Jandals or mince and cheese pie? 4487 on the text, but we hit the streets to ask their thoughts on their fave. Jandals, because it's such a Kiwi summer thing. I love mince and cheese pies. It'd have to be Jandals, I think.

I could live without mince and cheese pies, but Jandals in the summertime, freedom, aren't they? Mince and cheese pie, always, and I'm a vegetarian. Mince and cheese pie, they're super delicious. You can't eat a jandal. Jandals. Well, because you can have jandals forever but you can only eat a pie once. I'm going to have to go with mince and cheese pie

because it's always a go after a night out, which makes it iconic. Jandals. Definitely jandals. Jandals, because they're year-round kiwi couture. Mince and cheese. I don't really do Jandals, so mince and cheese pie. Got to be the mince and cheese pie. I'm supporting Jandals all the way.

Mince and cheese is all New Zealand. Jandals. Mince and cheese pie. Pie all day long. Mince and cheese pie. Jandals. I'd have to say Jandals is more iconic. I'd say mince and cheese, because it covers the iconic hairstyle.

Hands down the jandals. Jandals. I'm pretty sure everybody owns jandals. Jandals. Mince and cheese pie. And that is purely because when I first came to New Zealand, that was what the boys taught me. And they said we were going to get a V and a mince and cheese pie.

And I've never changed. And that is a wonderful diet of a V, a big can of blue V and a mince and cheese pie. That's why we love New Zealand. If you want to vote for your favourite, 4487. Lou in calories and Lou in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on my hits. Spy, launch into mess-free Mexican with the new Old El Paso tortilla pocket. That's right, she'll only talk to you if your name is Beyonce or Harry Styles,

which is made for very silent Sunday dinners at her family's house because she refuses to talk to her parents. Thank you. So Cameron Diaz, you may remember she famously sort of quit Hollywood back in 2014, but she's made a public appearance on Drew Barrymore's new talk show

alongside Lucy Liu and, well, the three of them for a Charlie's Angels reunion. Charlie's Angels reunion. And so Drew Barrymore's got like an Ellen-style talk show during the days now over there. Yeah, yeah, it's her new gig. Yeah, right. And to kind of...

When you say Ellen-style talk show, what exactly do you mean? She's abusing all her staff. Right, OK. There's sexual misconduct going on behind the scenes. Yeah. And it's all about to come out probably in about 10 to 15 years once we really love her. We don't know that at all.

But, yeah, it's really cool that she's got her own talk show. Yeah, absolutely. But the thing is, they were there via hologram, which blows my mind. Yeah, this is... You watch the video, and if they didn't say it was a hologram, you would never have known. Yeah, so the three of them are sitting on chairs, right,

and Cameron Diaz is just beamed in from Los Angeles. It's not even the same city. Yeah, exactly. Here, have a listen. And listen and I love being together although are we really together are we I feel like we're connected in some way but for anyone watching can you guess which one of us isn't really here I'm the one in Los Angeles so a lot of it was just them being like oh my god we're all in different places right now. Yeah, I think the world is going to need at least three to five years

to adjust to this hologram thing. So every hologram interviewer will just be talking about how cool it is to be doing a hologram interview. And you're a hologram. I'm a hologram. I'm not even here. I'm on the other side of the country.

That's where it's going to be. Yeah, but it's incredible. The technology blows your mind. Wait until it hits New Zealand. We won't know what to do. Oh, yeah. The islands will sink with excitement. Yeah, it hits New Zealand. We won't know what to do. Oh, yeah. The islands will sink with excitement. Yeah, it's very exciting.

We wouldn't even have to be here. We could all be in hologram form. Crazy. Wow. There was a tennis interview last week, and there was a lady who had just finished playing a game of tennis at the US Open, so she's in New York. She's doing the hologram interview in studio with a lady in Europe.

That's crazy. And you wouldn't know. Yeah. Technology. No one would need to fly anywhere anymore, pretty much. I'm always like, what's going to be happening by the time we're ready to die? Yeah. What is the world going to be doing?

I know. It's kind of scary. I know. Yeah, I mean, I've only got a couple of weeks to live, too. I mean, it's moving at a rapid rate, this technology. And Carol Baskin, so she has started on Dancing With The Stars, American version, and right before her debut performance, the family of her sort of long-lost husband, you could say... Who accused her of feeding him to a tiger.

Yeah, put out a commercial right before her performance, paid, being like, can this go out right before her performance, and it's quite something. I'm Gail, one of Don Lewis's daughters. We are a real family and to us, he was daddy. Don Lewis mysteriously disappeared in 1997. His family deserves answers.

They deserve justice. Do you know who did this or if Carole Baskin was involved? So literally right before her performance. That's good for the older public vote, isn't it? Yeah. Well, keep that lady in the competition if you want to see Car Carol dancing again next week.

Jeez. I know. Text Carol to 4487. And she didn't know until just before. They made sure that she found out just before she did her dance that she was, like, thrown. Oh, would have thrown you off. Right.

You'd have been like, what? I know. Mind you, for that family, if you believe that this lady truly has committed that crime and then you see her capitalising financially from her stardom and now going on Dancing with the Stars, you're like, hold on. She hasn't been held accountable for her actions.

Yeah, that's very true. And then a spy, thanks to Old El Paso, you can get some new tortilla pockets to launch into some mess-free Mexican food. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. We've got our own face masks.

It's got Ashley Bloomfield's face on the side saying, I'm a baby bloomer. Thanks to kindface.co.nz. If you want one, 4487 on the text. Protect yourself and those around you. Show your kind face. And they're actually having a bit of a flash sale. $20 kind face masks right now at kindface.co.nz.

They've got triple layer linen face masks and you're going to pay $20 per mask. They're normally around about $27.90. Limited stock available

ends on Thursday so get in quick at kindface.co.nz. Yeah, now nothing screams commercial radio like a nervous intern wandering the streets with a microphone

harassing innocent members of the public. Oh, we all had to do it, right? We all had to do it. We all did our time out on the street. The horrible things I had to do out on the street. Oh, yeah, yeah. Next level.

Do stuff to Jono. It was next level. And so we've sent Millennial Max out there to hand out some face masks and a fun game. And thanks to modern technology, Max joins us on the streets. Come on in. Max, are you there? It's a bit of a...

I am. Can you hear us? Yeah, I can. Yeah, slight delay. Slight delay. Just ever so slightly. Jeez. I don't know if this is going to be problematic,

but we'll keep boxing on because that's the unprofessional show we are. Okay, Max, you're on the street. He's reacting to something pub He's reacting to something He's reacting to something from five minutes ago This is going to be comical We're reacting to things But he won't know what we're reacting to

Now Max, set the scene Whereabouts are you, Millennial Max? I am just across the road from the hospital In Auckland And I've got Katie with me Hello Katie how are you going? Can you hear us alright?

Hey! Yeah, yeah. How are you Katie? I'm good thank you. Okay Katie you're waiting at the bus stop Yeah. You're waiting at the bus stop. You're wearing a mask right now I understand? Yes of course. Oh you're wearing a mask right now I understand

Yes of course Okay so what we're going to do is give you a chance to win as many masks As you can, as many Ashley Bloomfield masks As possible We're going to play a game called guess the mask Each correctly guessed answer is going to win you an Ashley Bloomfield mask However you will then have to put Another mask on top

To advance on to the next question and the next mask, okay? Yeah. It keeps going until we can't hear you anymore, Ashley. Take it away, Ben Boyce. First question. These are all mask-related questions. A movie where Jim Carrey finds a magical mask that transforms him into an annoying troublemaker. The mask.

It was the mask. There's one mask. Now attach another Ashley Bloomfield mask to your face, Katie, to answer the second question. Take it away, Ben Boyce. A very wealthy man. He's named Bruce Wayne. He wore a mask to fight crime and had a weird suspicious cave underneath his mansion.

Batman. There's two. On to the third mask. Another wealthy man. Tony Stark. Probably doesn't need a job, doesn't need a stressful job in his life but he fights bad guys and he probably should have an ironing board with his name to work best.

Iron Man. There's three masks. On to the fourth one. Put another one on. Put another mask on. This person had annoying sharp claws that would come out of his hands. Impossible for opening doors. Hugh Jackman played him. Was an ex-man but not in a relationship type. Oh. Quite a hairy chap.

Wolverine? Wolverine, yes. Wolverine, there we go. I could just hear that one. This person had a red suit, the lightning bolt, very, very fast runner. The nickname Jono's wife gives him. I don't know what Jono's wife calls him. Yeah, sorry. I don't know what Jono's wife calls him. Yeah, sorry. I don't know what she calls me either.

Very quick. Very quick individual. Very fast runner. This is not Jono. This is the superhero. The Flash? The Flash. The Flash, yeah.

Oh, yeah, she does it. I am quite speedy. I do the 100 metres in under 10 seconds. You're very fast runner. And another stuff in under 10 seconds as well. All right, we're struggling to hear Katie a little bit. We'll keep going. Okay, next question. And another suffered under 10 seconds as well. All right, we're struggling to hear Katie a little bit but we'll keep going. Okay, next question.

Is she suffocating? I hope not. Got bitten by a... No, I can breathe. She can breathe, she's saying. We can breathe. We can hear you loud and clear, Katie. Okay, this person in a mask

got bitten by a spider. Instead of ending up in hospital, they got web-slinging superpowers. It's Spider-Man? Spider-Man. Spider-Man. Another mask. This is 10 masks she's got on her face. Okay.

And finally, Anthony Hopkins wanted to eat people in this mask-wearing movie. Was a bit of a cannibal with an H. Cannibal. Cannibal. Now, wow, we've run out of questions and run out of masks. With 11 masks on her face, Katie, well done.

And congratulations to our intrepid reporter, Millennial Max who we're paying in smashed avocado and unaffordable housing. And we'll be sending Max off to the Evangelical Church next to hand out some masks to those wonderful people too. You have a great day Katie, thanks so much for playing. Thank you.

Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The Kiwi Referendum. Yeah, your favourite bits of Kiwiana head to head to this round. It's the semi-final. Mince and cheese pie taking on the humble New Zealand Jandle. Which one will go through to the final and fight it out with Kiwi onion dip?

Ben Boyce, you're backing the Jandle. Yeah, you're backing the Mince and cheese Yeah, you're backing the minced and cheese pie. This is the semi-final. You can get your votes in 4487. The Jandl is the only rubber protection I need in my life. That's why I've ended up with many children. But my feet have been fantastic.

Now we have on the phone, this is really interesting, we've got Mary Deacon. Mary, I understand your dad invented the New Zealand Jandu as we know it. You're from Taranaki. Welcome. Well, he went out. He was English.

He was born in India, but he was English. And he served in the war in India and in Hong Kong and China. And so he had a lot of contacts in Hong Kong and China. So after the war, he went out there and he began an importing-exporting company, importing raw materials and exporting goods all around the world. Ben does that as well. He's got an importing-exporting company

with materials around the world. Okay, here we go. That's his standard. Anyway, let's get back to the facts. I don't know if you're in the market for anything that Ben's importing or exporting. No, I'm not importing anything. Sorry.

Sorry. Apologies about him. Carry on about this. We're in your story. And so where did he discover jandals? Well, in Japan, they went up to some Olympic swimming competitions, and he noticed they were wearing the Japanese sandal, you know, the kind of chunky wood, big flip-flop. They thought they could start manufacturing those in plastic and rubber.

Wow. And they got talking about it. And so the Japanese businessman came down to Hong Kong and they were working it all out in his office one day. And my father said, well, why don't we call it Jandle, which is short for Japanese sandal. Oh, of course. And they were like, you're a genius. My father said, well, why don't we call it Jandl, which is short for Japanese sandal. Of course, it makes sense. And they were like, you're a genius, let's have some sake and seal this business deal.

Because New Zealand's the only place that they call them Jandls. They're different names, flip-flops, thongs, everywhere all overseas, but yeah, here in New Zealand, Jandls. In those days, the import laws in New Zealand were so strict they couldn't export them to New Zealand. It was about the only country in the world that they couldn't export them to. So there was a Kiwi guy called Morris Yock that went to Hong Kong, bought machinery and learnt how to make them, coined that name because my father had

never patented it. So he bought that name because my father had never patented it. So he bought that name back to New Zealand and started manufacturing jandals in his garage in Auckland. All thanks to your father. Well, I suppose. So who owns the term jandal now? Your family? No, they never did.

Oh, really? It must be kind of cool to see it be used all over New Zealand all the time, right? They sold out to Scalarup. Remember Scalarup? Oh, the gumboots? Yeah. Yeah, so they sold out to Scalarup. And Scalarup, I'm not sure if Scalarup patented the name

or whether Morris Jop patented the name, but they basically used that name to manufacture their product here. So, yeah. Wow, wow. And how many pairs of jandals do you own and do you wear? Are you constantly wearing jandals 24-7? Just like any other Kiwi. Yeah, I mean, you're kind of obliged, thanks to genetics, to wear jandals all year round.

Have you had some jandal injuries over the years, Mary? Because I've had some shockers. To be honest, when you get a little older you're not actually meant to wear jandals for long periods of time because actually they're not very good for your feet. Oh my God, if your father heard you right now, Mary,

he would be devastated. Well, the thing is, you've just got a flat piece of rubber. There's no support. There's no arch support. There's no... Listen, you're not doing good things for the jamboree. Great for the beach, though. I hear you. I know what you're saying. Great for summertime and small, you know, short distances, short amount of times. I mean,

you're not going to run a marathon in some jamborese, are you? You're not going to run it, but they've got incredible use and they still have to this day, don't they? They're not going to go away in a hurry. Well, geez, you guys, your family is such a part of New Zealand history that you wouldn't, I mean, we're always hearing about Sir Edmund climbing that mountain.

Yeah, well done, granted. Let's not compare. Let's just say, well, yeah. Mary's dad brought jandals to New Zealand. That's pretty incredible. Yeah, put him on the $5 note. So, Mary, I need to ask this. We've got a debate today which is more iconic for New Zealand,

the greatest piece of kibiana, jandals or mince and cheese pie. What are you going for? Well, I'd have to back the jandal, wouldn't I? Yeah, again, jandals all the way for Mary. I'd have to for my dad's sake. I mean, he'd be horrified if I backed the straight mince. Okay, well, I tell you what, Mary, if the jandals advance through to the finals,

we will call you on Friday, okay? Thank you. Oh, well, all the best for that, guys. I'll be looking forward to Friday. Nice talking to you. Appreciate it. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits.

Scrolling through your feed. He has been up all morning milking that news udder, that sweet, full, plump, bulbous news udder, dripping every bit of news and topical information out of that utter. I think yesterday, of course, our politicians on the campaign trail and Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister, was in Dunedin and she was interrupted on Breakfast TV by some seagulls, some clock towers, a whole lot of noise going on.

Confidence in the information that's being provided and confidence that we'll deliver the outcome. The seagulls are really taking you on. I know, I know. That's Radio Dunedin. You just said that. Did I just hear this correctly? Can you get rid of them?

Can you get rid of them? Is there some way we can get rid of the seagulls? I hope they don't go poo-poos. Anyway, Prime Minister, you just said... You're lucky that you didn't get the bells. Oh! Comedic timing for the bells. Perfect.

I feel like it was a great prank from Crusher Collins. Oh, yeah. She's like sabotage, left-wing Labour propaganda. She's trying to spout off on breakfast TV. Smart play. Later that day, Jacinda Ardern announced relaxing of quarantine measures for the Wallabies rugby side. So they're going to come to New Zealand to play the All Blacks very soon, actually.

Bledisloe Cup games. You're going to get two in New Zealand, if you didn't hear announced last night. All Blacks to play the Wallabies, Wellington Sky Stadium Sunday, Sunday, yeah, Sunday, October 11, and a week later on the Sunday in Auckland, Eden Park on October 18. Oh, I'm glad Eden Park finally gets the sold-out thing. You hope it's going to be, eh? Because they had the sold-out Auckland Canterbury game

and Eden Park were like, this is it, we're back, we're back, baby, and then it got cancelled. And then the North, eh? Because they had the sold-out Auckland Canterbury game in Eden Park. They're like, this is it. We're back. We're back, baby. And then it got cancelled. And then the North-South game they had there, and then it got moved, and no crowd. So come on. I almost feel like we should just go sit in Eden Park and look at nothing, just so it fills out and we sell some tickets for Eden Park. But hopefully that goes ahead.

That's very exciting. It would be a great tactic from the Wallabies just to jump on the field and start coughing and running around. Oh, if our son comes to the car. That would be a good tactic. No one wants field and start coughing and running around. Oh, whatever. That'd be a good tactic. No one wants to tackle coughing at the moment. I've got to sneeze. I've got to go all back, back.

Yeah, that's good. The amount of times I've felt like I've just needed to normally sneeze, not COVID related, or just have a little tickle in my throat. I hold it in now. I hold it in. You don't want to cough in the office. I was even by myself yesterday in a car park and I had a mask on going to get to the car. And then I needed to sneeze. And I was like, when you sneeze into a mask,

it's not a good thing. Yeah. Have you tried that? When you just sneeze and it's just like covers you. It's the facial equivalent of pooing your pants. It is. It is. And also in the political news,

this was all around yesterday. Judith Collins from the National Party, obviously their leader, she's extremely flattered at being immortalised in a Bond girl tattoo by a supporter. This was done in Morrinsville, and actually the guy who got it is going to be joining us on the show today. Yeah, so it's got a New Zealand flag,

and it's got Crusher Collins in front of the New Zealand flag, and it's that famous news shot when she was head of police, I think, at the time. That's right. And Minister of Corrections, and she was in a gun range, and she was head of police, I think, at the time. That's right. And minister of corrections. And she was in a gun range and she was firing a gun. So it's got her firing a big gold gun. She looks quite like James Bond, eh? Yeah, and it just says, Crusher Collins.

So I don't think you'll ever regret getting that tattoo. There's a guy who got a Jono and Ben tattoo on his bicep. What a cool guy. There you go. A rope worker. Ty. Ty. He worked overnight on worker. Ty. Yeah. Ty.

He works overnight on the roads. He did. We thought he was joking. We tried to pay him to not do it. We kept offering him more money, and the next day we'd come back and talk to him. We're like, we'll give you some more. He'd go, no, I don't really want to do it. And we just slowly keep slipping away from relevancy.

One day he'll be like, who are those two on your arm? Oh, they were nobody. At least he could put another face on top of our bodies. Well, true, true. We're replaceable. That's scrolling through your feed this morning. Like starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on my hips.

Now, yesterday I was driving home, Ben Boyce, and I know you've probably seen these around town, that you see groups of people and they're peddling, but they're peddling on a, like it's a bar leaner. And it goes down the footpath and stuff. Have you seen them? Oh, yeah. It's like a novelty piece of transport.

People like go out on like stag do's and hens parties and stuff. Yeah, this looked like an office team building thing. So it was people in, you know, shirts and ties and things like that peddling. And they're like, hey, are you having a great time? It's all like a table. It's like a table with wheels in it. It's like a bike. If you're cycling along these.

The beer cycle? Is that what they're called? Yeah. You got your shoes on there? Is that what you've done before? I've done it in Christchurch before. It's great fun. It's a massive table and you're all peddling and drinking.

Yeah, so these people must have been having like a fun day together. Let's come back after a pandemic, shut down and rebuild the team, etc, etc. But what I love about humans on novelty pieces of transport is you just feel obliged to wave to people, don't you? You're like,

look at us, we're on a moving table. Look at us. Oh, look at me, I want to tuk-tuk. And then we wave, the people who aren't on it wave back and go, look at you, you're on a tuk-tuk and you'll wave. And when you're on the ferry, you go on the ferry, you're like, look at me, on it wave back and go, look at you. You're on a tuk-tuk. And you'll wave. Yeah. And when you're on the ferry, you go on the ferry. You're like, look at me.

I'm on a ferry. Because you wouldn't normally do that, would you? No. You'd go around and go, look at me. I'm in a car. I'm in an Uber. No. At what point do you get to the stage where you start to wave?

Look at me. I'm on a bus with no windows. I did that duck, the duck, the amphibious buddy. The aqua duck. The aqua duck thing. And it was the same. You're waving at everyone. You're like, hello.

Hello, look at me. And everyone waves back. They're so happy to see you on that novelty transport, aren't now it's the same. You're waving at everyone. You're like, hello, look at me. And everyone waves back. They're so happy to see you on that novelty transport, aren't they? He's on novelty transport. Look at him. I'm on novelty transport. It's true. Yeah, but we forget that, you know,

every day we're transporting ourselves in cars and buses and we're not waving at anybody, are we? At what point? At what point do we decide that we don't need to wave? Yeah, as soon as it becomes not a normal mode of transport. It's a human, it's an unwritten law that we must wave at people and they must smile and wave back. As soon as you get to be not a kid on a bus,

that's when you stop waving on a bus, right? Like kids on a bus, the school bus, going past, they're all waving and doing all sorts of other stuff. Yeah. I remember we were on the school bus and someone pulled a brown eye and pushed their cheeks against the window. And the bus driver kicked them off. Oh, really?

Yeah, kicked them off. Had to walk all the way home. It was about five or seven k's away from home. Did you? Yeah. The worst bit was they didn't get my pants back either. A hell of a learning experience. Still waving to everyone on the way home, though.

Novelty way to walk up. We apologise in advance. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The Kiwi Referendum. We are putting the most iconic New Zealand things head to head

as voted by you. We're knocking out them as we go and we want to find the most iconic New Zealand thing. The one thing that we're most proud of

out of all the things we're proud of here in New Zealand. And right now we're in the middle of our semi-final. Mince and cheese pie versus jandals. We say jandals, everyone else says flip flops. We just love pies. So we've even got like an Academy Awards style Oscars event for the pie awards.

The pie of the year. Pythagoras, our most famous mathematician, did all his equations with pies from the petrol station. Ben Boyce, you're back in the jandle this morning. I am. It's just a summer essential. In New Zealand, I probably could do it without a mints and cheese pie. There's other pies.

A guy went to school that claims he can render a fully grown man unconscious with a jandle. I don't know how he does it. So he can use them as a kung fu style weapon. He can unconscious with a jandle. Oh, really? I don't know how he does it. So you can use them as a kung fu style weapon. You can't handle the jandle. But pies are very popular, as you said. And they are handling the jandle this morning, just in front.

Are they? Just in front, 55% of the people wanting the pies to advance through to the final against Onion Dip tomorrow. Vote for your favourite on 4487. But we thought we'd talk to a bit of a pie expert. And I was reading that a Wellington pie company, Crafty Pies, had a bit of controversy with their pies they put on Facebook. Facebook said their pies were too sexy. They were deemed explicit, weren't they?

The photos of the pies. They were just pies. I think it was a bit of a mistake. We're going to go through to him now to see which way he would vote and what happened with these photos on Facebook. Hello? Oh, hello. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits Radio station. Hi. Hi. We're just calling about pies. Do you have two seconds? Yeah. Do you do pies? Yeah, I do pies. You do pies? Do you like pies?

Yeah. We're looking for the most iconic New Zealand things and right now a pie is taking on, a mince and cheese pie is taking on jandals. Okay. Yeah, now we understand you've had some pie troubles in the past with some of your online content. They're too sexy. The pies are too sexy.

That's right. That's right. Facebook didn't like them. What happened? Why did Facebook complain about a pie? Oh, they said it was a sexual toy. Oh, really? Yeah. They banned my pie? Oh, they said it was a sexual toy. Oh, really? Yeah.

They banned my advertising. Oh, right. But then obviously that was a mistake, right? Obviously, yeah. Obviously, unless... Are they sexy pies, Neil? Well, they're cute, I suppose. They're cute.

I've got a bit of cinnamon in them. Well, today we've got the mince and cheese taking on the jandals. Now, Neil, this is the semi-final in our referendum. Whoever wins this advances on through to the grand final against Onion Dip. Onion Dip. I made that before.

You made it before. What are you backing? Are you backing the mince and cheese pie all the way? All the way, yeah. Okay, alright, good. Okay, we'll let you get back to your fingers and pies, Neil. Okay, mate, thank you. Do you want to vote for your favourite 4487 mince and cheese or do you want Jandals to go through in our final against Kiwi Onion Dip? Just text us through.

We'll have the results before nine o'clock. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. The A to Z in New Zealand. We do one a day. We do it alphabetically. It's going to take us over two years

to call every town and city in New Zealand. That's right. Today we're heading to Gordonton. Now, you might not have heard of Gordonton. It's a rural community in the Waikato where farmers lean on fence posts and two or three words and a conversation is considered deep and meaningful. It was initially named Hukanui. Did you know?

And then in 1886, it was renamed Gordonson. And I always wonder about this. The poor Maori had named everything in New Zealand. And then the settlers come in and they rename everything. They'd be like, we've done a good job of naming everything. We've remembered all the names of everything.

Now we've got to remember new names of everything. So anyway, it was changed to Gordonton in 1886 and we're going to go through to the honey proprietor in Gordonton.

Stephanie speaking. Stephanie. Hello. How are you? Who is it? It's Jono and Ben from the Hits Radio Station. Stephanie. Hello. How are you? Who is it? It's Jono and Ben from the Hits Radio Station. Oh, hello. How's your morning going, Steph?

Good, not too bad. How about you? Yeah, good. Listen, I like ranking mornings out of 10. Where are you sitting at the moment? Oh, maybe a 7. Well, we are going to work our little tushes off to turn that up to a 7.5, okay? Or a 7.3 at best.

Yeah. We're going to work hard. You're in Gordonton. Yeah, so sweet tree honey. Yes. You run a honey, a peddling honey. We are, yes. We're calling every town and city in New Zealand.

We do one a day. Today's Gordonton's turn. Ah, nice. You like Gordonton? Yes. And so, now, near Talpity, as well,

which is home to Billy T. James's grave. Oh, right. I didn't know that. Oh, you're held there. I think you're right, yeah. Wow, I never knew that. Legendary New Zealander, yeah.

That's literally the only fact I know about that area. Every time I drive past, I'm like, Billy T. James is buried in there. I never knew that. Good little village, nice people, good cafe, good knew that. Good little village. Nice people.

Good cafe. Good farm shop. Exceptional honey. Yeah, exceptional. Yep, the best in the country. You know what I didn't realise? I didn't realise all of the worker bees were female. They are.

Yeah. Yeah. Because I got into a hole of bee information and research over New Year's because I'd heard the population was declining. Yeah, not so much in New Zealand. We've got lots of honey producers in New Zealand, so we've got a really good number of beehives and bees in New Zealand.

It is definitely a problem in the States and other countries, but we're pretty good here. And they only produce like about five grams of honey in their lifetime. Oh, really? It's about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in their lifetime. Really? And all they're doing is working. They're just working their arses off and they do

a little bit of a teaspoon. I know. They're only tiny though, I guess. Yeah, you don't want to drop any honey on the bench. Make sure you eat it up. Is it true that honey doesn't go off, doesn't expire, or is that just a myth? That is true, yep. I've found honey in Tutankhamen's tomb that's been there for centuries,

and it can get a little bit crystallised over time and can darken up in colour, but it's still fine to eat, it doesn't go off. Now, there's an interesting thing, I can't remember what it was, about the queen bee. So if you took the queen bee out of the hive, what would happen? The bees won't be able to carry on for very much longer once the queen goes. Generally, once the queen leaves the hive, half the hive will go with her. That's when they swarm. Oh, right.

So she's calling the shots. She's in charge. Yep, she's in charge. Her Beyonce, very powerful. Yeah, she's a Beyonce. Now have we pushed you to a 7.5, Steph? Yeah, go on then. There we go.

All right, good. All right. Well, you've actually dropped us to a 6.5. No, I'm kidding. Yeah, go on then. There we go. Alright, good. Alright. Well, you've actually dropped us to a six point, no, I'm kidding, no, I'm kidding. Got up to a nine, maybe nine and a half for us. Oh, that's better. We are very low standard, Steph. You go and milk some honey out of those bees

and have a great day. Same to you. Thanks very much for the call. Have a good day. More painful than your alarm clock. It's Jotterwood Band on the Hats. Spy. Launch into mess-free Mexican with the new Old El Paso tortilla pocket. I tell you what, there's two loves, aren't there? There's two loves in producer Juliet's life. Millennial Juliet Miljoo, she loves smashed avocado

and smashed celebrities and nightclubs that she can rag on in the Spy update. You have absolutely hit the nail on the head, my friend. So Samuel L. Jackson, he is obviously the king of swearing. He loves a swear word. To try and get people to vote, he said that he will teach them how to swear in 15 different languages. So that's his bribery, to get people to vote. And I'm like, sign me up.

That's fun. I want to learn how to do that in 15 different languages. Every time Samuel L. Jackson talks, you feel like you're being told off or scolded by him. I imagine if you, like even when he's getting married, you take your wife and wedded. But of course I mother effing do. What do you want, sir, from the menu? I'll just get a mother effing toasted sandwich, even though he's probably not angry. No, true.

It's just his thing, right? Yeah, exactly. And I don't know if you guys remember, but back when sort of the first lockdown happened, he read a bedtime story to encourage people to stay at home. The corona is spreading. This is no joke. It's no time to work or roam. The way you can fight it is simple, my friends.

Just stay the f*** at home. And it went on and on and on and on. It was so good. I was like, I love you, Samuel L. Jackson. I'm surprised Samuel L. Jackson hasn't ended coronavirus. Oh, yeah. It'd be too scary to get near him, wouldn't it? Yeah.

It would never infect him. Like the snakes on the plane. Yeah, exactly. And Paul Rudd, he has teamed up with the governor of New York, I guess you could say, to encourage millennials to wear face masks. And this is the just greatest. I feel like the audio doesn't do it quite justice. Yeah, we were just watching before.

It's very funny. So Paul Rudd's obviously dressing like a millennial. He's got a hoodie on. He's got his cap on. He's looking cool. He's got headphones around his head. He's obviously kind of taking the piss, but the message is very serious.

Yo, what up, doggs? Paul Rudd here, actor and certified young person. A few days ago, I was talking on the iPhone with my homie, Governor Cuomo, and he's just going off about how us millennials need to wear masks. So Cuomo's asked me, he's like, Paul, you got to help. What are you, like, 26? And I didn't correct him. So fam, let's real talk.

Masks? They're totally beast. So slide that into your DMs and Twitch it. Hello? Oh, hi, Billie Eilish. So slide that into your DMs and Twitch it. Hello? Oh, hi, Billie Eilish. What's that? You're wearing your mask? Man, I want to stan you.

You're so my bae. And it goes on. It's so funny. You know, listening to that, that's how Ben and me try and act around Juliet, just to try to get on your level. I always think about the pandemic because I cast my mind

back to the GFC, the global financial crisis, which was, I don't know, 20 years ago maybe? Yeah. And I think the way you react to it,

it's all in what life stage you're in. See, if I was 2021 right now, I probably wouldn't give a rat about COVID. No. You reckon with all the news that's going on,

but I think, I reckon it was different from the global, I mean the global financial crisis. Because you don't have a family, you don't have a mortgage, you know, you're pretty, you're just doing, you're living your life. Yeah, I reckon with all the news that's going on. But I think, I reckon it was different from the global, I mean the global financial crisis. Because you don't have a family, you don't have a mortgage, you know, you're pretty, you're just doing, you're living your life. Yeah, but I guess that's been happening in America,

those parties going on, right? Yeah. And then people are all getting COVID that way. And I think the older you get, the more responsibilities you have, the more you can lose, the more that's at risk, the more that's at stake, the more worried you become about something like that. Yeah, maybe, yeah.

That's very true. Because I feel like all young people care about right now is whether they can go out or not. They don't have to worry about all that adult stuff. And me too, babes. All I want to do is hit the clubs.

Yeah, exactly. You know me. I know. I feel you. And that is Spy thanks to Old Al Paso. Lit fam. And that is Spy

thanks to Old Al Paso. They've got new tortilla pockets so you can launch into some mess-free Mexican food. Morning! It's Jono and Ben on the hips.

We're having our referenda and we're putting the most iconic New Zealand things head-to-head. Today is a semi-final between these two heavyweights. Mince and cheese pie versus jandals. We say jandals, your ass is flip-flops. Tough battle this one. It's a tough battle.

Now, Ben, you're a little cutie pie, but you're not backing the pie. No, I'm backing the jandals. And earlier today we spoke to a lady whose father was responsible for bringing jandals into New Zealand and coming up with the name of jandals. So Mary, I need to ask this. A debate

today which is more iconic for New Zealand. The greatest piece of kibiana, jandals or mince and cheese pie. What are you going for? Well, I'd have to back the jandals, wouldn't I? Yeah, again, jandals all the way for Mary. I'd have to put my dad's sake. I mean, he'd be horrified if I backed the straight mince. Genetics say she had to back the jandals,

and we've been looking at all the votes coming in on social media and 4487 on the text machine. Producer Juliette is our official scrutineer. And by 57%. Mince and cheese pie. Are through to the final The pie has made it through It's a versatile food

You can eat it on the go Eat it on a restaurant Eat it on a restaurant That's right Climb on top of the roof And eat it if you want to Can't eat it in the restaurant If it's not from the restaurant

Eat it in a steam room Or a sauna That would be weird But it's the mince and cheese pie Taking on Onion dip In the grand final. Wow.

Two titans, the food titans tomorrow. So if you want to vote, we're going to be 24 hours of voting. We're going to allow. And then on Friday, we're going to wrap up. Who's the winner of that? I think Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern might get her to announce the winner on Friday. Oh, that's good. She's got nothing more important.

Yeah, there's no bigger issue right now in New Zealand, right? New Zealand's breakfast. Just don't eat them. They're chewy. It's Jono and Battle of the Heads. Wrapping up our show for a Wednesday. Why is today going to be a good day? Of course, good news for rugby fans. All Blacks are going to be playing some tests at home this

year. Just announced last night, October 11 and October 18. One in Wellington, one in Auckland on Sunday. Sunday Arvo Rugby. I'll tell you why it's going to be a good day. It's because we live in New Zealand. My friend, who has been stuck in Thailand this whole time, went over for work and hasn't come back.

He's about to come back. He was showing me a photo when he first moved to his accommodation. There was a bag of unpopped homemade popcorn hanging on the wall. And he was like, what's this for? It's like hanging on a wire. And they're like, oh, if there's a fire, the popcorn will start popping. And then it's it.

Yeah. That's their vision of a fire alarm over there. Okay, I guess it quite, well. So it's going to be a good day in New Zealand. I'm not going to say I guess it kind of works because I don't know if it works, but I can see the idea behind it. Yeah.

It goes, yeah. It'd sound like gunshots in the middle of the night, wouldn't it? It'd be like a whole lot of... So it's a good day in New Zealand that we have fire alarms. I mean, that's a huge win for us. That we're not having to resort to pre-bag, pre-homemade popcorn. Hokitika, we're heading to. Anthony, why is it going to be a good day on the coast, mate?

Because it's not raining, hailing, thunder or lightning at the moment. Yeah, we'll be by 11 o'clock, though. If I know the west coast. Will you enjoy those few minutes of sunshine, my friend? Will do. We'll flick you out something to make your Wednesday a bit better. You hold the line, all right? Have a great day.

Bye-bye. Thanks for listening, Anthony. And Sav, her name? Sav, welcome. Confidence was good. Confidence was high on that day. Yeah, shaky, shaky throwing to you, Sav. I apologise.

How's Amberley this morning? It's pretty good. It's sunny over here. Oh, wonderful. Why is it going to be a good day in Ambo? I'm finally getting a new dining suite. I don't have to deal with two and a half chairs anymore. Oh, two and a half? What was the half chair? Oh, the seat's like full. You fall

through it. Oh, I love a prank seat. You can have a couple of savs around the table now, can you? Oh, you sure can. Don't worry about falling through the chair. It's great. Sucking back on a shardy. Oh, no. Sav's the guy. Sav's the guy. Apologies, Amelie. Hey, we're going to

send you out something to Amelie. Sav, you have a great day. You too, Sam. Thank you so much for listening and thank you to everyone that listened. We'll do it again tomorrow from six for the final of our referendum. We kick things off from six. See you then.