Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - September 22 - Karl Urban, The A To Z Of New Zealand, What's The Most Money You've Won?

Episode Date: September 21, 2020

Hello hello hello! Welcome to another episode of our poddy. Today we were joined by Kiwi actor Karl Urban who you may know from Star Trek, Thor Ragnarok, Lord of the Rings and many more films. We put him to the test to see how well he can remember his own movies and characters. We also want to give away $10,000 but we don't actually have that money, so we're settling on the idea to go down to Taupo and attempt the Hole in One Challenge. If we can get the hole in one, we win $10K and then we can give it away!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 today. Lovely to see you, Benjamin and Ross Boyce.

Lovely to see you, Jonathan Richards Pryor. Is there a full named version of Ross or is Ross all you get? Is Ross where it starts and stops? Oh, is it short for something? Roscoe? Like Ross Tectacular or Ross-tacular? I don't know. Ross Mini?

Yeah. I think Ross is just... Roslin? Yeah. Roslin? Yeah. Is there a full... But you're just Ross, middle name Ross.

Just Ross, yeah. Yeah. I'm just googling on the fly Which doesn't make great radio Well podcasts generally don't make great radio And we don't make great radio And then put them into podcasts So I mean it's a full circle we've come here Rossatron

Rossatron Surely that's not It's a member of the Transformers Yeah it does sound like a Transformer I like Rossatron I'm going to call you Rossatron Rossitron? Surely that's not. It's a member of the Transformers. Yeah, it does sound like a Transformer. I like Rossitron. I'm going to call you Rossitron. Rossitron.

Sounds like an adult toy. The Rossitron 6000. Yeah. Now, Ben, I wanted to play you some audio because I know you're a big fan of recording your family. Yes. For evidence, if you ever go to court, don't you? Mainly. Yeah, mainly.

Just to record. Pin them to the wall if your kids ever try and take you to court. Yeah. Yeah, if you need go to court, don't you? Mainly. Yeah, mainly. Just to record what's going on. Pin them to the wall if your kids ever try and take you to court. Yeah. If you need to sue them, you've got evidence on them. Exactly. So I took a leaf out of your book. Yesterday I had to look after Oscar and Poppy, my children, but also Gia and Bo, their cousins as well.

Right. Four kids on the go. Oh, jeez. Oh, God. Rampage. Just, there was a soundtrack oh wow that was a soundtrack for about an hour

I had no control over them no control I would be shocking school teacher it just becomes noise too doesn't it and you feel like a boomer saying that

but it does get to a point where you're like that's just noise yeah the more beers you drink the duller the noise becomes is that the thing the more the more adventurous your parenting becomes, the duller the noise becomes. Is that the thing? The more adventurous your parenting becomes. And once you notice the noise too, I remember sitting in

like an indoor pool at a hotel a few years ago and it was just noise. You know, and once you start noticing the noise you're like, this is the loudest thing. You can't notice it. It's just kids and they're having fun but you're just like, kids, stop! Yeah, when they're not your kids too it's really, ooo-wee! Anyway, so that's what's been going on in my life with the personal content there for you. Oh, when they're not your kids too, it's really, anyway, so that's what's been going

on in my life, but a personal content there for you. Oh, great, great stuff. Yeah, they say share your personal stories, don't they? Yeah, except for that example. No, no, that was good. Today on the podcast, though, we're on a mission to win $10,000 to give that away to you, and things really stepped up a gear for this. Yeah, it did.

Looks like we could be on our way to Lake Taupo to try and land a hole-in-one shot, which seems... It does. The more you say it, the more I go, oh, that's not going to happen. But we have an idea for tomorrow where we could see if we can get insurance to get that money regardless. Also, Carl Urban.

Carl Urban, he's a famous New Zealand actor, been in a swag of international movies, starred alongside The Rock, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone. Some of those are true. Some of them you've just... Kanye West. Yeah, you've named people.

But he has been The Rock, Vin Diesel, Robert Redford, Matt Damon. Julia Roberts. I was going to say you named it, but you've named it. I did name it, and apparently I didn't name the right names sorry for not being IMDB well yeah he joins us

on the show as well does he remember his character's names we'll find out very shortly just like a chocolate milkshake only white

and disappointing it's Jono and Ben on my head welcome to a guy at the gym that I kind of know at the gymnasium and what I love

about him is he plays this game with me every time we meet where I have to guess how much his clothes were. So he'll be like, but he loves a bargain. So he's like, got some new shoes, guess how much? And then so he throws the ball back into my court. And he's obviously nice looking shoes and clothes.

Oh, lovely stuff. And yeah, he's nabbed a bargain. Yeah. You know, where everyone gets a bargain while on this man's body with the, he's like the human version

of the warehouse. Do you do the thing you do with me though when you overshoot the mark? No, I try and play his game properly because I don't know him because Ben's always like,

oh, you never guess how much Madonna spent on a handbag and I'm like $9 million and he's like, oh, now $20,000 is going to sound less.

So in this case, you could probably go, no, I play the game properly. You could go like $2 and be like, oh no million? And he's like, oh, now $20,000 is going to sound less then. So in this case, you could probably go. No, I play the game properly. You could go like $2. He'd be like, oh, no, that was $87. I could undersell him. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I find myself, I never get it right. But he keeps playing it with me.

And every time, he's always got new clothes. See this thing? Look, guess how much I got this for? I was like, I don't know, $15? No, $9.50. Oh, wow. And everything's a bug. And we love that in New Zealand.

We love saying how cheap we got something for. We do. You're right. Oh, wow. And everything's a bargain. And we love that in New Zealand. Oh, we do. We love saying how cheap we got something for. We do. You're right. When we get something, someone goes, oh, you got that? You go, yeah, but I got it at, you know. Yeah, I got it on sale. Yeah. And we all need to be impressed that you nabbed a bargain on sale.

Oh, wow. Well done. That's pretty good for a duvet, you know. That's pretty good. What was the last, what's the best bargain you've got, Producer Julia? You're going to be really surprised by this. The local supermarket Near me

Sells six avocados For five dollars And I'm like that Compared to all the Other supermarkets Is just an absolute Can we talk about Anything apart from

Avocados with you I'm not doing good Things for millennials Every time we're like Hey Juliet Can you come in here Avocados Just every

All avocado content I really should think of other things tonight. That's all right. No one's listening anyway. Thanks for joining us, though. Thanks for putting up with our avocado content. Hey, you've got toothpaste on the side of your mouth. It's Jono and Ben on my heads.

Now we have a special guest in the studio. He's been in tons of Hollywood movies over the years, everything from Star Trek to Born to the Lord of the Rings. Now he's starring in Series 2 of the smash hit TV show The Boys. It's available now on Amazon Prime Video weekly. From now, you can get your 30-day trial at Amazon Prime Video. And please welcome to the studio, to the hits, Carl Urban. How's it going?

Kia ora, how are you? Kia ora, Carl. Can we just give it up for being boys too, getting that Amazon Prime 30-day free trial? I'm only going to get more than a 30-day free trial just for saying that, guys. It's really good to see you. This series looks amazing.

Yeah, it's a lot of fun. It's one of those series that dares to do and say things that any other TV show would be too scared to do. So it's about a whole lot of superheroes who are kind of bad people, really, when you pull it down. Yeah, this was about a bunch of morally corrupt superheroes and the messed-up vigilantes that are trying to take them down. And a 91% approval on Rotten Tomatoes, which is amazing.

So it's getting great reviews all over the world. What's it like, just asking for a friend, well, two friends, actually, to get a TV show that's well-received? People like it. Well, you know what? It's better than being on one that sucks and everybody hates. Okay, just a friend. I, that's good to hear.

Just a friend. Just a friend. I asked that question, Jono. Because looking at it, it looks hilariously gruesome in parts. Yeah. Are there some scenes that you're doing, you're like, oh, this is actually grossing me out, even just filming the fake version of this?

Yeah, well, there was one scene which we shot inside a dying whale, and they built this 30- or 60 foot whale, sorry, on a beach and rammed a boat into it and then we had to do a scene inside the bloody sarcophagus and it's like so gross. Now Anthony Starr,

he actually plays the lead baddie. Yeah, right. And there's two Anthony Starr, you'll know him from Outrageous Fortune. So it's amazing, you know, you've got two fantastic Kiwi actors in the same project. Two Kiwis in the same project, right. And there's two Anthony Starr. You'll know him from Outrageous Fortune. So it's amazing, you know. You've got two fantastic Kiwi actors in the same project. Two Kiwis in the same project, yeah.

We're having a lot of fun. And he does a great job, by the way. I mean, his character is probably the most psychologically complex and messed up on the show. And he's knocking it out of the park. But it's just great to have another Kiwi there over in Toronto with me, you know. That's very cool. So you're back home for a little bit right now.

I saw on your Instagram you were, like, lining up at the supermarket during lockdown as well. Socially distanced, responsible thing. Surely you've got people that can do that for you, Carl? No, and I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't want to live like that. I'll do it for you.

I'll do it for you. I appreciate it, actually. It was a freaky time though, wasn't it? It's like, we just don't know. It's like, you know, bringing all the groceries back and then, you know, sanit know. It's like, you know, bringing all this, the groceries back and then, you know, sanitising them and not knowing, you know, if you could catch COVID from it. It was a wild time. I found myself washing

individual grapes and I'm like, listen, I've gone full psychopath here. Is that a euphemism? Whose grapes are you talking about there? We all like clean grapes. Got Carl Urban with us. The Boys is out now on Amazon Prime.

You've got a lot of fans for this show, a lot of fans from your movies, passionate fans from Star Trek, Lord of the Rings. Where's the one more unusual place you've been people recognised you? Well, you know what? Actually, I have to say one of the amazing benefits of this whole pandemic was being able to walk around with a relative degree of anonymity

with having a mask on. But no, it's just surprising how many people actually still recognise me with the face mask on. Oh, really? Yeah, it's obscene. But then you can be like, no, not me, not me. No, you got it wrong there. But yeah, no, look, it's just, you know,

as I said to somebody earlier today, I said, listen, I'm in the wrong business if I have a problem with being recognised or giving a little bit of time and energy to fans and I don't mind

it's always you know again circling back to nice to be a part of something that's appreciated and liked and entertaining folks

so yeah it's all good so it's all filmed in Canada you were saying before yeah we shoot in Toronto and the show's

actually set in New York so we shoot Toronto for New York. That happens quite a lot, doesn't it? Toronto's quite the location for filming, isn't it? Yeah, it is. It's got the sort of infrastructure that can replicate New York pretty well.

And I remember in season one, we turned up to shoot a scene in the sort of Toronto version of Times Square. And we're walking onto set and there's an ambulance there and there's like the, you know, we're walking onto set and there's an ambulance there and there's like the, you know, and I was just, it's a big sort of police cordoned off area and I thought, oh, this is just part of our set.

No, no, there'd been a murder there. And we were literally shooting on a crime scene. Oh, really? Yeah. Did you still film that day? We still shot that day. Oh, yeah, the show must go on. The show must go on, but it was the night before.

It was drug related, apparently. Oh, yeah, the show must go on. The show must go on, but it was the night before. It was drug-related, apparently. Oh, gee whiz. Carl Urban, you've been in so many projects over the years. We wanted to play a game with you. It's called Character Assassination. So Ben will give you the plot line to the film. Yeah, or the TV series. Or the TV series.

You have to name the project, and you have to name your character in it. We're going deep, Carl Urban. I reckon you'll get the series or the movie. So you're out to get Matt Damon, who's forced to resume his former life as an assassin, the movie. Great. That'll be Born Supremacy and the character is Carell.

There we go, one for one. Okay, you star alongside Vin Diesel, who played a wanted criminal on a planet about to get invaded. Well, Chronicles of Riddick Varko. There we go. Two for two. Jeez, you're good at this. You and Dwayne Johnson are Marines set to investigate strange events on Mars.

Doom, Reaper. Okay. You're in space with Chris Pine and your space buddies defending the galaxy. Star Trek 1, 2, and 3 and Dr. Bones McCoy. Well done. This was not a difficult game. I mean, I would have serious concerns if I couldn't remember.

We thought maybe the characters might get you. Okay. Chris Hemsworth is in a race against time to return to Asgard to stop the destruction of the world. Thor Ragnarok and Scourge. Okay. Sir Peter Jackson. He did a bit of stuff didn't he

he directed Orcs and Hobbits and A Ringer's Return to Mordor yeah that'd be Lord of the Rings the character of Aoma you're the bad guy in the movie with Robert Redford who wants to get a boy and his best friend Elliot who's also a dragon right yes

that would be you might have it here. I get the character. It's Pete's dragon and the character is Gavin. Oh, you got it. And you start with... He almost had me.

He was like, he was breezing through it. This one I hope you're going to get. Start with Anthony Starr. You basically lead a group of vigilantes set to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers. Yeah, that's the boys.

Then I play Billy Butcher. Billy Butcher. Out now on Amazon Prime Video. Free 30-day trial on Amazon. I'm trying to get that, all right? Really good to see you. Congratulations on all your success. You really mean it.

You make New Zealand proud every time we see you popping up in shows like this and movies. It's awesome. Thank you very much. Always good to see you guys. You too, mate. You make New Zealand proud, we embarrass them.

We cancel each other out. New Zealand's breakfast. Just don't eat them. They're chewy. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Speaking of age, people with their whole life ahead of them,

kids. Kids. What I love about kids is how they all spend a lot of time on things that in their mind is very important. But it's a lot of time. It's, you know, when you're

an adult, you're like, I haven't got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that. Kids, they seem to have all the time for that. Oh, they do. And at the most inconvenient of times as well, when you're like, alright, let's go, let's go. Oh, I've got to go and muddy, eat some rations.

I don't know what kids are doing now. Are they eating rations, you kids? I don't even, what even are rations? We ate them in the war. Rationed out their food for the war. Just the last three World War II. That's what you did. But Indy, my daughter, I love it. She's very

organised and she likes making lists and stuff. She'll write a to-do list. Very detailed too. It'll be like, get up, 7 o'clock, 7.01, make bed to-do list. Very detailed too. It'll be like, get up 7 o'clock 7.01, make bed to 7.02. 7.02, open curtains. It's really detailed. Military precision. It's really detailed.

So it's not uncommon for her to be writing stuff down. She takes herself to bed as well, which we mentioned before. Very sensible child. So the other night she was writing on a notebook and she writes stories and stuff like that. She's quite creative. And she was writing for about 45 minutes an hour. She was writing down stuff and I was like, oh other night she was writing on a notebook and she writes stories and stuff like that. She's quite creative. And she was writing for about, it would have been 45 minutes an hour.

She was writing down stuff and I was like, oh, cool, she must be writing a story. And then I went over there after an hour and I'm like, oh, what are you doing? What are you writing about? And she's like, oh, I found a padlock in my room and I forgot the code, the three-digit code that I put in. So I'm going through now and marking off

all the possible combinations that this code could be from 001, 002, 003, 004. And she'd written them out and she was crossing them off one by one. Did you say, well, just buy a new padlock? I'll get you a new padlock. I know. I was like, this is gonna she's like, I've forgotten what it is, but I'll work it out eventually.

I'm like. What was the padlock locking in? Nothing. It was just, it'd been clipped back together. Oh, so it wasn't even. No, no. She didn't even need it. She didn't need it. She was like, well, I need it to use it again now. I was like, mate, I'll break... How much of her life did she dedicate to that?

I was like... She's still going. We've got to stop. She's like, you know, she'd written it on a piece of paper, crossing them all out. I'm like, man, this is a lot of time. It's like Russell Crowe, Beautiful Mind stuff. Yeah, just to try and work out the combination.

You do waste time. I remember when I was probably about seven or eight, me and my friend Andrew, he lived probably 10 or 11 kilometres away from my house, and he phoned me up one day, and he was like, hey, should we dig a hole to each other's houses? And I was like,

oh, this sounds like a worthy project. Oh, what, so dig down under the ground? Dig down under the ground tunnel. Oh, yeah. Like, you know, El Chap, the drug lord style tunnel. Between the two houses. Yeah, and so I phoned him and I was like, well, I'll start digging and you start digging your end.

There was no mapping out of it either. No, we didn't look at the underground structural system and where we should go, what direction. I just started recklessly digging. He started recklessly digging. About half an hour later, mum, I was like, mum mum Andrew's on the phone so I come back

and he's like oh jeez are you there yet and I'm like no are you and he said no so we gave up

alright so how far down you got well not far I was a child trying to dig a tunnel Ben how far do you think

I'd get somewhat like a metre if that a metre no I didn't get a metre probably 30 centimetres if that a A metre? No, I didn't get a metre. Probably 30 centimetres, if that.

Solid, solid effort. A metre's a long way down. I would have been stoked if it was a metre. Good morning. It's Jono and Ben on the Heads. Yesterday, we hatched a wayward plan to try and get our hands on some money to give away to you, You know, radio shows.

It's the backbone of a good radio show. Cash, cash, cash. Fake laughter and cash. The backbone of any morning radio program. But we don't have the cash. You know, budgets are tight. Or fake laughter. We can't even muster up fake laughter.

True. So our budgets are tight at the moment. So we thought maybe we could try and win some cash somehow. And then we could give that cash away. Yeah, and so we threw it out to you. It was a nationwide brainstorm. And without a word of a lie, a lady phoned up and said,

I will catch a wild horse and tame it and train it so you can sell it. That is the commitment that that listener has to this show. I wouldn't catch a wild horse and train it and tame it for this program, but she was willing to do that. That's pretty show. I wouldn't catch a wild horse and train and tame it for this programme. No. But she was willing to do that. Yeah, so it was pretty awesome.

What a wonderful gesture. But that's not what we went with. Would you catch a wild horse for this programme? No. But she was willing to. No, I wouldn't. She'd go out into the woods for four days trying to find a wild horse.

Yeah, well, we can't make someone do that. No. That seems like a huge commitment. So instead, we got this call, which sounds like something that we thought we could do. Jane, welcome from Rotorua. What's your idea for the show to get some cash? I reckon you guys should just drive on down to Topor

and do the hole-in-one down there with the golfing. How much money is that if you get that? I think it is $10,000 if you get the best hole. $10,000. Up for grabs best hole. $10,000. Up for grabs. All you've got to do is just assemble a hole-in-one. Get a hole-in-one. Just got to hit a golf ball.

I've got more chances of regrowing a full head of hair than getting a hole-in-one. But you might fluke it. So why don't we go down? I can't even get a hole-in-21. A hole-in-one. You can just stay there for like a day or so or whatever until we get it.

What do you mean a day or so or whatever? I mean I've got a family Ben. How long are you going to be away for? A day or so or whatever. I'll see you whatever. They're like

go take your time. Go away do something. Why don't you just wait there until you actually get the hole in one. Yeah well that's what we can do. So will you just

keep hitting the ball until we enter? Oh gosh good luck. I don't know how long I haven't thought about this. This is just the early stages of formulating a plan now I'm going to throw something out there

okay let's start to do with wild horses because there's no time for that one I have more chance of catching and taming a wild horse

than I do landing a hole in one I don't know I'm not interested now the money that you know you'll spend on us travelling there,

accommodation, buying the balls. Yeah. Like, why wouldn't we just put that money to good use and just give that money away? Save ourselves the hassle. No, no, let's be positive. Best case scenario, we have to pay for petrol driving down there. So not too much.

Where are we sleeping? Where are we sleeping? Lakeside. No, we go down there. We hit a golf ball. You know it. You can't do it overnight. You can't see where the ball's going. We'll get up early in the morning, we'll drive down there, get this. No accommodation expenses.

We just spend maybe 60 bucks on petrol. I feel like you've already made this decision. You have nailed the shot. John has got it. Wow, we've done it. Yay, we've got 10 grand. He's trying to get me on board by saying I'll get the shot. We drive back up, same day, no accommodation. No meals, minimal cost. Don't have to eat same day, no accommodation. No meals. Minimal cost.

Don't have to eat. Well, you don't eat lunch. We talked about that. So you're great. You're great to bring along. That's why you're there. I'm here just because I don't eat lunch. You've nailed the shot. We come back on the same day. I'm going to need some convincing. Minimal cost for the 10 grand. I'm going to need some convincing. And then we have $10,000 to give away.

At $100 is what we've outlaid. Okay, worst case scenario. Oh, that's, well, yeah, worst case. Let's not get into worst case. We're there for two days. Accommodation costs, meal costs. We pay hundreds on bull. Car breaks down on the way there and on the way back.

Yeah, that's the worst case scenario. Jono decides to start eating lunch. We've stopped paying for that. Very extravagant lunch, too. He's like, lobster lunch to start paying for that. Very extravagant lunch too. He's like, a lobster lunch. Okay. All right. Well, I'm going to need

some convincing, but after 8 o'clock, well, at least we can get, I'll give you the respect of maybe calling the hole in one place to see if it's feasible. How often do people land it?

All right, we'll find out. We'll give them a call. I'll give you that, Ben Boyce. Thank you. As long as you give me a lobster lunch when we're in Taupo. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Now, we're going to go down as a show, aren't we? And we're going to win $10,000 to give it away at the Taupo Hole-in-One. Well, this is Ben's dream. It was suggested yesterday by a caller. We were on a desperate plea, two radio hosts on a desperate plea

to get some money to give away. And, you know, there were many great suggestions that came through. I said, well, we could sell our kidneys on the black market. They got vetoed. I said, well, we can sell producer Juliet's kidneys on the black market again. Vetoed.

She went to HR about that one. Apparently that's a big no-no in this current environment. So Ben's settled on trying to land the hole-in-one At the Taupo hole-in-one Tourist attraction $10,000 up for grabs if you get that $10,000, after 8 o'clock we're going to call them And tell them we're coming

And find out how easy it is or how often it gets won But I want to prove to you Because you're still on the fence about this So I thought let's open up the phone lines 0800 the hits, 4487 on the text Oh excuse you're still on the fence about this so I thought let's open up the phone lines 0800 the hits 4487 on the text oh excuse me for being on the fence

about thinking we're going to land a hole in one oh let's be confident Tiger Woods has gone through his whole career and not landed a hole in one he's done some other stuff

as well what have you won what have you won like let's get some great stories of winning and you'll be like oh these people won maybe we're lucky too

oh some inspirational stories yeah stories that we can aspire to no it doesn't have to be obviously hole-in-one related. It'd just be like maybe you won big on lotto, instant kiwi. Maybe it was a horse you bet on. At the Whangamata Club once I won the meat raffle. Oh, there you go.

And that was a great day. It was a great day. I won free meat, raffled meat. Nothing quite like the joy. Although then you're left, I always find you're left with the tray of meat. And you've got to, you just carry it around with you all night. Oh, because I usually want to refrigerate that. Yeah, but then

by the time you get home, it's sort of room temperature meat. You're like, I've got to cook this meat now. You're waking up with food poisoning the next day. Yeah. I got a double draw once at the TAB, many years ago, with a $5 bet, it was paying $500 to one. The All Blacks were playing a game the same morning as the Kiwis

rugby league team, and it was paying $500 to one for both games to be a draw. And I was like, I'll put $5 on it. And won $2,500. Wow! I know, it was the most of it. I was like, I'm done from sports betting now, I'm never going to beat that. But then I was like, what? But then he had the bug! And got a hold of him. And he started spending the kids' savings!

And now he lives out of his car! And he showers in the bathroom here at work. Sorry, I really need this hole-in-one, guys. No, we are going to win that. We're going to give it away to you. What is your stories of winning? We'd love to hear what the most is you've won on 0800 THE HITS or 4487. We'll go to Catherine in New Plymouth.

How's Taranaki this morning, Kath? Hey, guys. It's absolutely kind of grey but lovely. New Plymouth is always beautiful. It's always beautiful. Yes, it's a lovely part of the lovely. New Plymouth is always beautiful. It's always beautiful, yes, it's a lovely part of the country. How much have you won, Kath? I won 480, guys, you wouldn't believe it. On a gambling machine, but I was underage and my father took it and paid for dinner. On the pokies? You were playing the pokies? Yeah, yeah, I swear I was only about 13 at the time.

You're never too young, I've always said that. I've got my swear I was only about 13 at the time. You're never too young. Never too young. I've always said that. I've got my kids out there at Sky City at the moment. Oh, no, you don't. Just looking after the machine. My favourite machines,

they just keep rolling over until after work. It's going to get lucky sooner or later, right? Yeah. I absolutely love it. Okay, guys, this has nothing to do

with winning, but I clean pokey machines at my job and I was like cleaning the machine. I won four bucks, right? So I withdrew it, put it in my pocket and I was kind of like, oh no, was I allowed to gamble while I was like cleaning the machine. I won four bucks, right? So I withdrew it, put it in my pocket and I was kind of like

oh no, was I allowed to gamble while I was cleaning? So I told my boss. Totally told my boss. Totally told him. You've not only started with the pokies at 13 but now got a life of pokies. Yeah, now they're in my life all the time. That's great. Kath, you're a champion.

You go and have a great Tuesday. Thank you guys You too Love your work mate We'll go to Let's go to Lucy In Rotorua Welcome Luce Most you've won

Hi So I won Some scratchies At a fundraiser And then I ended up Winning $2000 Off the scratchies Wow

I've never heard Of anyone winning Off the scratchies Sometimes The only scratchies I deal with is Ben's eczema. I don't win anything off that apart from dead skin cells under my fingernails. That helps me out. Two grand.

That's impressive. What did you spend it on? I bought some new shoes. I got all new clothes. It was awesome. That's good scratchy winning. You never know. We're lucky.

People are lucky. We could be lucky. You could be turning me. you could be turning me. You could be turning me. Shaz, do you think we can land a hole-in-one in Taupo? Shaz? Hi. Hi.

Yeah, what do you think our chances are of landing a hole-in-one in Taupo? I don't know. It depends on if you hit the ball, actually. Well, it does. Well, that does help. That does help. A better chance if we do hit the ball than not hitting the ball. So, well, yeah, you're right.

Most you've won shares in Christchurch. What was it? I won $10,000. What? No way. Doing what? F45 challenge. An F45 challenge?

Is that the fitness program? Yes, it is, yeah. So what did you have to do? I guess not just last. She had to do for 46 minutes. I gave her 10 grand. No one's ever done over 45. So what did you have to do? I guess not just last... She had to do for 46 minutes. I gave her 10 grand. No one's ever done over 45. So what was it?

It's a 45-day challenge, and I guess it's the most body fat loss is the overall winner. How much did you lose over 45 days, Sharon? I lost, I think it was almost 9% body fat. Oh, that's good. Wow, impressive. I don't understand what that means, but it sounds impressive. And it must be if they gave you $10,000 for it.

Well done, that's awesome. Well, Ben Boyce, I don't think there's, it's a bit risky getting you to lose any more weight. Me, yeah. It'll just be a skeletal mess at the end of it. But we might be 10 grand richer. Well, thank you very much for your calls. More painful than your alarm clock.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. What are you giggling at? You little giggling Gertie? Just to produce Juliet moments before the song. It's one of my favourite joys. Just talking to you at moments before a song finishes. Oh, right. And I was like, have you got this thing?

She's like, ah, no. Just as the weekend singing the final words. But I found it. Oh, right. And I was like, have you got this thing? She's like, ah, no. Just as the weekend singing the final words. But, I found it. Oh, see, this is why you're too good at your job, Juliet. So I don't know what we're about to do right now, but I know it relates to $2 rice that I talk about in Christchurch, right? Oh, yeah, I

somehow feel that there must be a backhander with this $2 rice that you have. Are you getting paid in grains of rice? No, as a student in Christchurch, there's a place, I think it was called Dumplings, in Christchurch that sold $2 rice that you have. Are you getting paid in grains of rice? No, as a student in Christchurch, there's a place, I think it was called Dumplings, in Christchurch that sold $2 rice and I've talked about it

a couple of times. They had $2 rice. Oh, $2 rice. So that's called the place that does $2 rice. See if they still do $2 rice. You guys used to do $2 rice. I lived on $2 rice.

$2 rice. $2 rice. We're coming to $2 rice, all right? Knowing about this $2 rice, it's beautiful. We'll see you for some $2 rice. $2 rice. $2 rice. We're coming to $2 rice, all right? Knowing about this $2 rice, it's beautiful. We'll see you for some $2 rice. He's been on a ricey rampage. Ricey, just spouting off rice propaganda.

$2 rice. I talked about it quite a lot, didn't I? So is this for me to apologise, talking about it? No, this is not time for you to apologise. I've even got a special guest on the phone. Adele joins us. Love her music. Great, great. It's even got a special guest on the phone. Adele joins us. Love her music. Great, great.

It's great to have Adele on the phone. I'm picking it's not the Adele, right? What is this? But I wouldn't just be casually throwing to Adele, Adele. We'd be promoing it for weeks, wouldn't we? We would, yeah. And that's not to talk down the Adele we have on the phone. No. I feel like if I bring in this Adele,

you're going to be disappointed that it's not the real Adele. No, I'd probably be even more stoked that this is Adele. No, you wouldn't. You want Adele the singer. No, I want Adele whoever this is. Well, this is Adele who is a listener to the show. Yeah, well, that's more important to me than the Adele whose songs we play. How are you, Adele? I'm good, thank you. How are you? Sorry you had to hear that fumbly introduction, Adele. Oh, that's okay. Ever since Adele became famous it's been hello and are you Adele the singer

or can you sing as well as Adele so I'm used to it. Yeah it's literally been the bane of your existence. Yeah well I'm sorry to bring that up. I had the name first so you know. Now the reason I put Adele on the phone being voice is because she reached out to the program

and she has followed up on a recommendation that you have made on numerous occasions. One I've made? Oh, really? Adele, you tell Ben what you did. So I was in Christchurch the other day and I had to try the $2 rice that Ben has been talking about. Oh, the $2 rice.

This is rice that I would have as a student in Christchurch. You'd go along. There was a place that served it, $2 rice. Very famous in Christchurch, $2 rice. So you get rice and you get their special sauce on top of it. What is the special sauce? That's a mystery. And the Colonel Sanders doesn't go around telling what his secret sauce is.

Is it safe to eat? Is it safe to eat? It's bloody delicious. Well, I think it's delicious, but now I'm nervous that you have tried it. What did you think, Adele? This is like MasterChef, I think it's delicious, but now I'm nervous that you have tried it. What did you think, Adele? This is like MasterChef. I think it was great.

The only thing was they need to put more of the delicious sauce on it. More sauce? Because I got halfway through, and it was all rice left and no sauce. Well, it's $2, though. I mean, I'm great. I'm glad you think it's great, but $2, I mean, that's a great deal,

getting rice and that sauce. Yeah, but Adele's saying the sauce to rice ratio was off. Oh, well, maybe we'll pay $4 and you can get more sauce. But I don't know why. It's like a list snack. They don't put enough of the cheese. You end up with more cracker than you do cheese dip, don't you, Adele? Yes, that's the one.

But I would pay an extra like 50 cents for more sauce. What's the name of the place? Can you remember the name? Dumplings. That's right, dumplings. Yeah, that's dumplings. We will reach out to the $2 rice place and just tell them your saucy feedback.

Yes. Saucy feedback. They're probably too busy feeding all the students the $2 rice at the moment. Well, that's true. No, but you're not a student as well, so you did this on your own bet. You took your health...

It was a recommendation from me. Yeah, yeah. A guy who just talks rubbish on the radio. He said, but I'm glad you did, and I'm glad they came through for you. Yes, yeah, it was great. It was really, really made my trip to Christchurch feel much better.

What I want you to do now, Ben, is give Adele another recommendation for something that she can go and try in the coming weeks, and then we'll get her feedback on that as well. What have you got for Adele to do? Anything to watch, anything to see? I think. I tell you what, he likes going to this cheeky little bar.

What's this? Well, I don't know. The roof might be caving in because they have a lot of poles holding up the roof, Adele. Okay, stop, Adele. I'm not getting involved in this. Structurally, the roof might be caving in because they have a lot of poles holding up the roof, Adele. Okay, stop, Adele. Adele, I'm not getting you involved with this. Structurally, it might not be safe. Not getting you involved with this.

Adele, you hold the line. We'll send you out something for you. Everyone in there pays them a lot of attention. I would like to send something out to Adele. For you, we've got some Hell Pizza vouchers. We'll send that out to you, all right? Okay, awesome. Thank you. Thank you for your time, Adele.

You have a great day. Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the heads. That song gives me PTSD. The kids had it on like a guitar when they were younger and they'd push the button and Billy would... Oh, because on Shrek, wasn't it?

Yeah. Oh, my God. I've got shudders thinking. Wasn't that Shrek? Yeah. Oh my God. I've got shudders thinking of that song. I'm a believer. There we go. I love Smash Mouth. One of my favourite bands.

Are they? Yeah. Wonderful catalogue of music involving that song. You're right. Yeah. Can't think of any more Smash Mouth songs

but they didn't need to do any more because everyone was I heard a couple but hey now, you're a nice star. Yeah. I was waiting for your little introduction but let's just get into Spy. Hey, now, you're a nice star. Yeah. Yeah. I was waiting for your little introduction, but let's just get into Spike. Yeah, Juliet, welcome.

She's a celebrity savage willing them to peel a new one, a new facial peel. And Ellen, you're going to rip her a new one this time. Evil Ellen has come back. Evil Ellen back on air with her evil propaganda. Evil, evil, evil. She's addressed all of the allegations against her. So it's the first episode of her new season. She's finally back.

And this is how she started. She started with a few gags. Well, I guess that's the style of the show. But I think she navigated her way quite well through it. She did. Oh, boy. Welcome to season 18 of the Ellen DeGeneres Show. If you're watching because you love me, thank you.

If you're watching because you don't love me, welcome. How was everybody's summer? Good? Yeah? Mine was great. All right, let's get to it. As you may have heard, this summer there were allegations of a toxic work environment at our show, and then there was an investigation.

I learned that things happened here that never should have happened. I take that very seriously, and I want to say I am so sorry to the people who were affected. I know that I'm in a position of privilege and power and I realize that with that comes responsibility and I take responsibility for what happens at my show. We have had a lot of conversations over the last few weeks about the show, our workplace and what we want for the future. We have made the necessary changes and today we are starting a new chapter.

So that was how she started. It went on for five minutes. There is another clip if you want me to play it, but she basically then went on to talk about the personal allegations made against her, and she said that, you know, putting on or claiming that she's a nice person is quite a hard thing to do when she's known as the nice person all the time. Oh, Alan's kind. Yeah, be kind. Interesting backstory she talks about because when she said she first started talking about be kind, it was when someone took their life, someone who was gay,

and she felt really strongly about this. She was like, the world needs more kindness, so I'm going to say be kind at the end of every show to pay tribute to this person that sadly lost their life. But she said she's not like that all the time. She's not obviously kind. She's a human being. Some days she's sad. Some days she's unhappy.

So maybe some people have caught on days that she's not always the person that she is on the telly. I just want her to dance when I see her. Just dance like a happy person. She's not going to be like that, though, is she? No, she's not. At worst, you know, her personally

has just been accused of being a cruddy person at times. At times? Behind the scenes? Yeah, that's the worst probably allegation. Obviously there's some other serious ones involving other staff members. But against her personally, you know, hey, you should see us behind the scenes. We are awful people. Ruthless!

Oh, I made Juliet drink the entire water cooler yesterday just for a laugh. I was like, drink that whole 20 litres of water. Stop me from doing that, because it's not good for your health. I made her eat the TV screen behind her. Yeah, it was weirdly delicious. But yeah, so that's that.

Some people are obviously saying, oh, it wasn't sincere. And then some people are like, well, she did well for everything that's gone on and trying to handle it. And as you said, she doesn't need to do the show anymore. No.

Financially, she doesn't need to. 18 years of the show, she could have just said, I'm done. I know a lot to be said for fronting up and making the apology and trying to recorrect things, recorrect wrongs. I take my hat off to Ellen and I apologise.

And Juliet will now eat the hat. Yes. Eat the hat. We'll get everyone to film it around the office. And Juliet will now eat the hat. Yes! Eat the hat. We'll get everyone to film it around the office. We can't do it on here. And that is five things to Old El Paso. You can launch into the mess-free Mexican with their new tortilla pocket. Like starting your day without your morning coffee.

It's Jono and Ben on the Hats. We are on a mission to win you some money so we can give it away. This is what we started yesterday. Suggestions came through, ranging from gambling, ranging from selling body organs on the black market, and also landing the hole-in-one

golf attraction in Lake Pupu. So they've got a hole-in-one sort of a platoon out in the middle of the lake and you fire the ball and if you get a hole-in-one apparently you win $10,000. Ben Boyce, this is your preferred option. I think we can go down there, we can win it, and then we can give that $10,000 away to a listener.

Ambitious. I love your can-do attitude. I've always wanted, it's one of those things I've always wanted to get. Not that I ever play golf and not that I've only ever played it once in Lake Taupo. But, you know, I'd love to get it and give it away. Well, listen, someone has phoned up from the Lake Taupo Hole-in-One golf attraction for... for Renee.

Kia ora, Jono and Ben. How's your day going? Kia ora, we're doing well, Renee. Now, listen, sorry to bombard you on the fly. With a four, like a... Golf reference. Yeah. You're in charge of the Hole-in-one challenge in Taupo.

I certainly am. Very iconic. I certainly am. Iconic tourist attraction, a lovely thing you've got going on. Yep, 27 years in the making. 20, okay, so $10,000 if you get a hole-in-one, we understand? That is correct, yep, on the red flag. On the red flag, okay. Because we're ringing.

You might want to red flag this because we're coming to get your cash. Are you coming to rob us, are you? No, no, no. We're coming down. Sorry, I made that sound quite threatening. We're coming to Taupo and we're going to win the money and we're going to give it away to a listener. How do you feel about that?

Oh, that sounds awesome. Let's do it. You're very agreeable. You're quite positive. Probably because Renee's like, you awesome. Let's do it. Well, you're very agreeable. You're quite positive. Probably because Renee's like, you're never going to get it. Well, I've seen your golfing skills, boys, so it is going to be a bit

of a challenge, but I'm sure you're up for it. How often does someone win? Because there's a couple of prizes to be won, right? Yeah, look, we average a hole-in-one every couple of weeks. There's three flags. Right. And we've got the blue flag and the white flag, which are sand bunkers. And they're

sponsored by local tourism operators, such as AJ Hackett, Bungee, Topal Float Plane, Hooker Jet, Chris Jolly Outdoors. So, yeah. And so the red flag is the one where you get the cash. And how often does that get struck? Well, not as often as the others.

We actually did just pay it out on the 3rd of August. No, 7th of August, sorry. Oh, right. And is it a cash thing? You just hand the cash over? Yeah, we pretty much do. We have to go out by boat and verify it just to make sure that

no funny business has gone on. We're not here for funny business. You're not here for funny business, are we? No. You're here to do the business, are you? Yeah, we're here. We're coming down to Taupo and we're going to try and stay there for a bit. We're going to put some commitment in it

and we want to see if we can win the money to give it away, all right? Okay, sounds good. Are you okay for us to come down and at least give that an attempt? Oh, please do. Please do. It'll be awesome. Have you ever landed a hole-in-one? Never, please do. Please do. It'll be awesome. Have you ever landed a hole in one? Never, unfortunately. I'm sad to say.

I have not enough meetings on the green, unfortunately. What's the distance? 102 metres. I don't even know if I can reach 102. No, I'm starting to feel less confident about this. 102 metres? Can you bring it in a little less metres? Yeah. How about not 102 metres?

Come on. If other people can. We've had seven red flag winners in the 27 years, so it is doable. So you can say an average every two to three years. Okay, the thing is we're going to spend quite a lot on balls, I imagine. Maybe $10,000 worth of balls, that won't be a good investment, but we'll see how many shots it takes for us to try and do this. Why not the money we're spending on balls?

We just take that money and give it away. Well, yeah, but we could nail it for a shot and get 10 grand. But you're right. Yeah, that would be a sensible... I mean, Renee's here. What would you... I mean, Renee, you're a business operator. You know how this thing works.

You know how to balance the sheets. I do know how to balance the sheets, so yeah. It feels like if we've got the money that we're spending on, why don't we just... Yeah, but then we could just get one ball, get it $10,000. Okay, okay. Listen, we'll talk, Renee,

and hopefully we'll see you in Taupo at some stage soon. Oh, no, my haramai, come on down. I'd love to see you. You prepare that lake. We will, and the weather. Just bring it in just a little bit for us, all right? There we go. There's Renee from the Holland One, Topo.

And we're going down. We're going to get the money. We're going to give it away. We're going to win it. 10 grand. Easy. You're not confident about this, are you? I'm just realistic.

I'm realistic. Sorry for being a realist. Yeah. We will talk more. I might be cancelling out your overconfidence with realism. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feet.

You know, whenever that song's playing, we all do it, and we're all guilty of it here in the studio. We all go... And none of us. We're way too pitchy. I was too early in the morning. I did it, and you did it, and then Juju, I heard you do a half-assed one. You don't even know you're doing it.

After 8 o'clock this morning we'll know that a lot better but right now at 6 o'clock all we can do is scrolling through your feed. Yeah, if there's a news story and you don't hear about it in this segment well then you've probably got a far more reputable source of news. That's right. Now 7 o'clock tonight, speaking of

proper news, the first leaders debate ahead of the election next month is on TVNZ. One at seven o'clock tonight, Judith, Mama Jude, as you like to call it. Mama Jude and Aunty Cindy. Yeah, the big battle. I heard Jacinda talking yesterday on the news saying she's not really, she's not going to write down burns or anything like that about, you know, to have jibes at Judith.

She's just going to talk about the issues. That's what she reckons. Oh, she always takes the high ground. Yeah. Always. I'd be writing little things and little there. But I would be so bad in a debate. Wouldn't you?

I would end up, like, agreeing with my political opponent. That's a good point. That's a good point. And then, or, like, driving home in the car on the way back and going, God damn it, I should have said that. Like, when you have an argument at home or whatever, you're like, God damn it, I should have said that. That was my in. That was my...

Yeah, never good in those moments. Gee, my wife, she's good at those little zingers in the moments. Women generally are, aren't they? Very quick. A lot quicker than men. It'll be quite an interesting little tussle tonight, though, I think. You know, Judith Collins is very good at that. That's her, you know, her sort of forte, right?

She is quite quick, yeah. Whenever I've seen her on on Breakfast or the AM show, she can snap back quickly with quite good responses too. I'd be like, hold on, I've got some notes on that somewhere. I'd have flummoxed her into the stress down the tie, undone a bit. Start talking about their mum for no reason. That's what your mum said. You're like, what?

When I was at her house, I was like, what? We're talking about immigration. Yeah, your mum was talking You're like, what? When I was at her house, I was like, what? We're talking about immigration. Yeah, your mum was talking about it. And tax reform. What was my mum talking about? I'd like to immigrate your mum into my pants. And they're like, all right, get out. Please leave.

And of course, yesterday, shocking traffic. Not only is Auckland still not at level one, but they had to contend with terrible traffic over the Harbour Bridge yesterday. I can't help but feel the rest of New Zealand must just be sitting there in their smug, smiling states. Drinking their instant coffee and laughing at us. We spoke to a lady yesterday

when we went to move our cars after the show. She listened to our entire radio show in traffic. She was like, I heard everything from start to finish. And it wasn't like she was saying she enjoyed it. It was more just factual that she was stuck there listening to the three hours of radio broadcasting. If you want to make your commute to work even more painful, listen to us for the entire time.

I just tuned on to ZB last night. Marcus Lush was talking to a lady who'd been sitting in traffic for three and a half hours. Hadn't moved. You would just be going. It would almost be like I'm walking away from my car and burning it.. Hadn't moved. You would just be going. It would almost be like I'm walking away from my car and burning it. I'm leaving it here.

It's the only sensible option. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. The A to Z of New Zealand. This is where we call a different town or city

in New Zealand. We call one place a day. We do it alphabetically. It's going to take us over two years to call every town or city in New Zealand. We call one place a day. We do it alphabetically. It's going to take us over two years to call every town and city in New Zealand. Been to Greymouth before? Oh, many, many years ago. Yeah, Greymouth. It's the largest town on the west coast of the South Island, New Zealand.

A rich history of gold mining in Greymouth. Right, yeah. Did you know Lee Hart, comedian, radio and television presenter, sausage peddler. He peddled sausages for a while, didn't he? He still does, I think. Hell is. Yeah. I remember him flying to England and doing a sausage ad.

Oh, yeah, he was trying to see what they thought of the sausages over there. He was like, that's a grossly expensive sausage commercial. Oh, it was memorable, yeah. It was a funny ad. We remember it now. Anyway, Lee Hart was born from grey mouth. Yeah, it was memorable, yeah. It was a funny, hey, we remember it now. Anyway, Lee Hart was born from Grey Mouth. Yeah. Here we go.

Interesting. And do you know who else was born from Grey Mouth? Who? Some other people. Okay. That I can't quite think of right now. Oh, that's good. Lee Hart was good.

You probably could have stopped. Stopped with Lee Hart. Stopped with Lee Hart. Yeah. But we're going to go to Grey Mouth now. We're just going to hopefully, the EyeSight Information Centre will be open at this early hour.

All right. Good morning, Grey Mouth iSight. You're speaking with Kelly. Hello. Have we got hold of the Information Centre? You certainly have. In Grey Mouth in the west coast of New Zealand. That's us.

Oh, well, we love it because it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station here. Oh, hello. How are you? We're doing well, mate. What's your name? Kelly. Kelly. We're phoning every town and city in New Zealand.

We're doing it alphabetically, and we've hit the Gs. That's Grey Mouth. Wonderful. Yeah. And we chose out of all the fine Grey-moutonians, Grey-mesians. Grey-mouthed mouths. Grey-mouthions. What is it?

What is the plural of Grey-mouth? I don't know. The Grey- Grey-mouths. Mouths. We chose you. Okay. Yeah.

And what an honour to be bestowed on yourself. I like how you talked that up quite a lot, John. Yeah, too much. Let's be honest. It's just a segment on our shocking radio show, basically. But we do like to learn about each place we phone up. And so what can you tell us about Grey Mouth? Oh, well, we've got a wonderful West Coast Wilderness Trail that

departs from Greymouth and heads south down to Ross. So we've got lots of people that are doing that at the moment. It's a nice trail to do. Some of it follows the ocean, some of it goes into the bush and past lakes and things. So it's a real stunner to do. So anyone can come on down and do that.

Now, do you guys still have Shantytown? Is that down that way? Yeah, we sure do. I remember going to Shantytown? Is that down that way? Yeah, we sure do. I remember going to Shantytown as a kid. It's like a historic sort of village. They kind of set up like the coal mining and the gold mining days, right? Yeah, so it's a recreated gold rush village. So you've got 30 plus buildings to wander through. I panned for gold and got little specks of gold that ended up I took home with me.

So they give you a little, I don't know if they still do, this is probably a while ago, but you could get a little, a pan and you pan for gold and you get little gold specks of gold that ended up I took home with me so they give you a little I don't know if they still do this is probably a while ago but you could get a little a pan and you pan for gold and you get little gold specks by the end of it yeah right you get to take them home with you

that's right did you know it wasn't even a tourist attraction then it was actually just mining for gold that's how old we are maybe I was helping them mine for gold it was in the 1920s

I thought it was a tourist attraction yeah no it was your old age in hindsight your old age is kicking in again I think we were mine for gold. It was in the 1920s. I thought it was a tourist attraction. Yeah, no, it's the old age. In hindsight, the old age is kicking in again. I think we were mining for gold back then. Oh, it was a whole different time.

Got on my penny farming and I rode home. It was great. Now tell me, the Monteith's Bar and Brewery. Yep. That's grey mouth, isn't it?

It certainly is. Wonderful West Coast atmosphere there. Do you do the Wild Foods Festival or is that Hokitika? Hokitika, yeah. Oh, sorry. Oh West Coast atmosphere there. Do you do the Wild Foods Festival? Or is that Hokitika? Hokitika, yeah. Sorry, sorry.

Sorry. Next letter. Don't even mention them. Next letter. Have you had some wild foods in your mouth? When I was a teenager, we went down to the wild foods, had some hoo-hoo grubs. It's always someone's testicles that you're eating.

I don't think it is. That's all I ever see on the news. No. It's like, who are the grubs like? Like peanut butter, yeah. Oh, they are? Because that's what people say, right? Yeah.

You can eat the testicles of any animal. Name an animal. No, she doesn't want to know. Name an animal, Michelle. It's Kelly. Kelly's working. She doesn't want to be associated with this. Okay.

Okay, no. You name an animal no I'm not going to play this why is no one naming animals because no one wants to involve Kelly from her workplace

into this conversation Kelly just name an animal no alright Kelly name one other thing to do in Greymouth I'll help you out there you're going to help me out

yeah well I'm asking you a question that's not Jono's question oh thank you you could pop down to along the flood wall is one of our good walks that you can do. It's another walk.

There you go. That's a great walk. Yeah, and it's a historic park, so it gives you a real good overview on our township and our history. I'll tell you what you see on walks sometimes. Animals. Now, if you'd like to name them.

If I wanted to take a walk to get away from the guy that I work with, what walk would you recommend in Greybath? Just something that could get me away for a day or two. I'd go out the King's Domain. Yes, great. I think we should let you go. Yeah, I've got customers.

Yeah, no, you definitely should go. You're welcome, thank you. See you, mate. Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. How's your stomach? How's the health of your digestive system, Benjamin Boyce? It's okay. No, I can't complain.

Heavy hitting question to launch at you for the six o'clock club, isn't it? No, I don't, yeah. See, mine gets noisy at times. Does yours? Well, I'm going to say it, and I say this all the time, is because unlike 98% of the population,

you don't eat from like, and now it's four in the morning until like six at night just fueled on a great attitude everyone else has lunch and like instant snacks during the day yeah no i don't get hungry no no well i just like if i get hungry i'll just have another coffee yeah yeah you'll see this yeah how does that help it doesn't help so what did i say now that you yeah i'm not surprised your stomach's like, hey, feed me.

I want some food. Everyone else is having lunch. Someone's having a snack. All I've got is caffeine. Litres of caffeine sloshing around in here. But anyway, are you? Yeah, so anyway, I have an acupuncture. I've got to start to go to the acupuncture.

Because you're like, I get headaches. Eat some food. Try that. Just try it like normal people. Listen, he sounds like my mother, doesn't he? I do worry about you. It's because everyone else has lunch. You don't have lunch. No, I don't. But anyway, what results

is a mildly amusing radio break here. So that's alright. That's the main thing. I might die in a couple of weeks, but at least we filled three minutes of radio here. I'll get you another coffee. So I was lying down and it's very silent when you're getting an acupuncture or whatever. Another thing too, when you go to any of those places and they're like,

oh, you know, you can take your clothes off now. And they're like, I'll just leave the room. But then when they come back in, you're lying there with just your underpants on anyway. Oh, right. So I was like, why did you have to leave when I was taking them off? Why is it weird when I'm taking them off? But it's not weird when you come back in. That's a good point. Anyway, right. So it's like, why did you have to leave when I was taking them off? Why is it weird when I'm taking them off? But it's not weird when you come back in.

That's a good point. Anyway, that's besides the point. So I'm lying there and I can hear it going. And you're like, oh. So your stomach just sort of. Yeah. And you try and ignore it at first.

It's kind of like a disobedient child. Yeah. But I could not deny it to the point where it was just going and it's always the quietest moments that your stomach wants to start talking

and you feel you should apologise for it. Do you guys have the same problem? Sometimes actually when I'm on the radio my stomach rumbles a bit and I'm like, oh I hope the microphone doesn't cut it off. No, we can hear it. It's the constant soundtrack of the show. Juliet's stomach just yearning for smashed avocado.

Did the person giving you the acupuncture, did they bring it up or not? Yeah, she did. She's like, oh, you've got quite a talkative digestive system. It's like, feed me, please. Somebody else, give me something. Anyway, it's almost one step away from the shame and embarrassment of a bottom burp, isn't it? Yeah. When your stomach's about, like, it's almost like, hey, I'm playing with you, buddy.

I'm going to really stitch you up right now. This is where it could get to, right? We're on the knife's edge. We're on the cliff. Low in calories and low in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on my hits. Spy. Launch into mess-free Mexican with the new Old El Paso tortilla pocket.

All right, strap yourself in for a light dusting of all the mildly interesting celebrity stories from the last 24 hours. Producer Juliette with Spy. Thank you. And this is basically an Emmys award special. They were on yesterday. So this is the TV awards, right, in America? Dedicated to all the TV shows.

And it was done very uniquely, obviously, because it was all virtual. Jimmy Kimmel was the host and everyone kind of came in virtually via a Zoom call. So you had like cardboard cutouts in the audience, except for Jason Bateman. I think he popped up as himself at one stage. Just sitting in the audience. And amongst celebrity cardboard cutouts as well. So that was pretty cool. Yeah, and the awards, so after they were announced,

the awards were actually delivered to every winner. And these people in giant hazmat suits but like tuxedo versions. So they would turn up to their houses. Pretty much, and just deliver them to the winners. Although when someone didn't win, they had this brutal

video of a person in a hazmat suit with an Emmy waving goodbye from their window and leaving. You didn't win, they had this brutal video of a person in a hazmat suit with an Emmy waving goodbye from their window and leaving. They're like, you didn't win, shame. So they go to all the nominees. That must have cost a fortune in flight. All over the country. To go, oh, I'm going to win. Someone's here. Oh, no. You'd think if they'd flown

someone all the way to Wisconsin to your house. Yeah, that's very true. The biggest winner was Schitt's Creek, which is a comedy series. It won nine awards. And some of the other highlights was Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow and Courtney Cox. They all zoomed in together as a mini sort of friends reunion.

Oh, so we had our friends reunion. Yeah, basically. And Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, they decided to throw a New Year's Eve party when they were crossed too. Wow, it's a big party. What's with the glasses and the decorations? Oh, we're having a New Year's Eve party. Why?

Well, because we're ready for this year to be over. So we're going to get started. Ten, nine, eight. And, yeah, when they're crossed. And Judy's like, and they count all the way down to one. You ain't got time for that. Don't need that. Don't need that detail.

Irrelevant. This must have been, this would have pushed Zoom to its absolute limits. Oh, yeah. How many people were on the Zoom call? Oh, I actually don't know. That's a good question. At one stage, they had a massive screen and Jimmy Kimmel, the host, was like, yeah, these are all the people nominated.

There were hundreds of people up on that screen. So, yeah. It would have taken a lot of organising to do. Because, you know, if you're used to the organisers of the Emmys or the Oscars or the Grammys or something, you usually just do the same thing every year. But the admin of trying to organise it virtually would just be a nightmare, wouldn't it?

You'd have to admit everyone to the meeting one by one as well. And you'd be like, oh, sorry, hey, Brad Pitt, can you just mute your microphone? We're just getting some standard feedback there, thanks. Yeah, exactly. Like my mum did over a Zoom that wasn't a problem.

So she didn't realise that everyone could hear her, right? So she started talking to you in front of 200 people. And I was like, mum, it's over. The school speeches. So that would be my mum at the Emmys going, oh hey Betty. Hi Betty, see you nominated. Good luck! You see you're nominated, good luck! I think you're going to win! What time's it on?

And a few other bizarre things happened, like Jason Sudeikis got tested for COVID while he was on stage presenting an award. Jennifer Aniston and Jimmy Kimmel set envelopes on fire after sanitising them, kind of as a gag, being like, we've got to make sure that there's no COVID touching these envelopes.

It was actually really, it was probably a lot of people's favourite Emmy Awards, I'd say, just because it was so unique and so different. But yeah. There you go, Juliet. What would you give the Emmy Awards out of 10? I would give it a solid 9.5. Oh, 9.5.

That's on the Milju scale, the Millennial Juliet scale of entertainment. Well done. No worries. And that is Spy, thanks to Old El Paso. They've got some new tortilla pockets so you can launch into some mess-free Mexican food. Like starting your day with Panda Eyes.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, they reckon about two and a half hours the commute time at the moment going across the Harbour Bridge in Auckland. A bit of an accident there in the weekend and some of the lanes aren't open. Yesterday, the traffic gridlocked going in in the morning. We spoke to a lady, we mentioned it earlier,

who listened to our entire radio show trying to get to work. From start to finish. And she looked like a shell of a human being. I think it was the result of having to listen to us for three hours. I didn't want to tell her it was other radio shows, but I really appreciate her listening to us. I don't even listen to the show for three hours, and I'm doing it. Sometimes I'm not even listening to myself now.

I'm just saying words that make no sense. But yesterday we focused on the rest of New Zealand phoning Auckland and saying, oh listen, my travel time's only three minutes. Oh, six and a half minutes to work. Well today, we're going to go the longest commutes.

Distance wise. Yeah. How far are you travelling to work every morning? So 0800 the hits is our phone number. How long are you taking to go to work? And this is something you do every day, not necessarily in Auckland where the traffic is busy. I knew a guy who drove every day from when I was doing radio school. He would drive from Palmerston North to Wellington every day.

Oh, that's quite a big drive. Yeah, there was a sort of, jeez, he must have loved radio. Who loves radio that much? Well, true. Who loves living in Palmerston North that much. Well, he does both. Yeah, he does both. He used to live both of those joys.

Palmer and radio. Yeah. Five-hour round trip. We've got Sarah who's just phoned up on the 0800. How long is your trip, Sarah? Travel an hour and a quarter one way daily. Oh, and you sound broken. Also sound like you're indicating somewhere as well right now, currently in the car.

I am. I am. From where to where do you go? So I travel from Tokoroa to Tirapa in Hamilton. Tokoroa to Tirapa. What do you do in Tirapa? I work for a company called APL. Oh, okay.

I hope they appreciate your nearly three-hour round trip every day. Yeah, yeah. I've been doing it for a wee while. Probably did it for three years. Sohour round trip every day. Yeah, yeah. I've been doing it for a wee while. Probably did it for three years. So just by yourself every day? Yeah. That gives you some great time to think about things, doesn't it? Yeah, I always feel you're most...

We're having this conversation with our boss, Craig. He was like, apparently Google is the most honest you'll ever be because you type things into Google that you never want to ask anyone else. But I feel like that with the car. You're the most honest version of yourself when you're driving by yourself. You're picking your nose. You're having arguments on the phone. You're thinking about things.

Yeah, you're right. You're doing all sorts. You're being the human that you never want other humans to see you be while you're driving your car. Even though people can see you. That's the thing. You end up doing stuff in your car and you're like, no one to see you be while you're driving your car. Even though people can see you. That's the thing. You end up doing stuff in your car and you're like, no one can see through these windows. They can, clearly.

Well, enjoy your commute this morning. Do you pick your nose in your car, Sarah? Try to avoid doing so. Yeah, good on you. Good on you. Publicly, but when you hang up the phone, we all know what you're going to do. Drive safe this morning, all right? Thanks for calling in.

Thanks, bye. Cheers, Sarah. We've had an offer apparently just come through tomorrow for someone who, or two people, who are normally stuck in traffic going over the bridge to get helicoptered to work tomorrow across the city from the North Shore to the city. Yeah. Sophia is her name from Hallie Trans.

Welcome, Sophia. How are you? Good morning, Tim. Can you pretend you're in a helicopter and I'll do the chest stuff? Oh, I like it. Helicopter noise. Last time I saw you guys, I think you were superheroes running around here at the heliport.

Oh, really? Is it disappointing that I can't remember doing that? Well, yeah, it's quite scary. I hope we had some cameras with us, but we may not have. Hey, Sophia, lovely to have you on from your helicopter. How is it up there at the moment? Oh, well, it's about a bit of a gridlock.

So I thought I'd come up with a bit of an idea to maybe help or come up with a solution to a couple of your listeners and cap the travel time to about five minutes. If they come to Helitrans in Albany, we will fly them in the morning. Six minutes it takes approximately to mechanic space. If I work at an office in town, this is a lovely offer of yours, Sophia.

If I work at an office in town, can you obnoxiously park on the roof so I can show off to all my colleagues that I arrived via the pretentious form of helicopter this morning? I'd say Goff might have to approve that one. That's a council... It's a council thing?

It's a council thing. All right, okay. But we can land at Mechanics Bay in the city, so we can go from here on the North Shore in Albany and take you to Orokee. That's amazing. So you can, tomorrow morning, take someone, a listener for us? Did you say a listener?

They're here at 8 o'clock and then we'll give them a quick briefing and then stress-free arrival to work and you will get to see the Harbour Bridge, the Sky Tower, the Viaduct. Yeah, and you get to see all the poor schmucks sitting in traffic for three hours. This is awesome. You can take some photos

and send it in. I tell you what, let's open up the text right now. 4487, if you're currently sitting in standstill traffic and Sophia... Sorry, now we just have a helicopter. You've got a helicopter coming? That's great. Great timing. I don't have to beat my chest anymore.

That's a live helicopter. You can kind of hear. You can kind of hear. They are arriving from Waiheke and doing their commute this way. Oh, very cool. All right, so, yeah, 4487 on the text. Well, one person? Well, tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow morning, and we will look after your car here. So three complimentary parking. Three complimentary. And we're going to send Millennial Max's waving saying he will chaperone them. Oh, will you, Max? Of course he will. Okay, Max. Millennial Max will come along.

He'll chaperone. And two people get tomorrow to beat the traffic and fly by helicopter from the North Shore to the city. Thanks to Helitrans. Sophia, I tell you what. Wonderful. Well, we really look forward to it. I hope you get a few people interested.

I'm sure we will. Well, listen, there's probably about 10,000 to 20,000 of them right now. Yeah. And in the beginning, I just want to make sure you do not need to wear that superhero gear that you guys... Oh, okay, okay. I got you. Okay, it sounds like we scarred Sophia last time we met.

I'm sorry, Sophia, for any long-lasting damage. I mean, of course, I don't know why I can't even remember it and I feel horrible. It's me too. I was like, what did we do? I know. Oh, Sophia, what a great sport, what a great New Zealander.

We really appreciate it. No worries. Look forward to talking to you later on. Good on you. It might have been that time we were doing our hens party, Ben.

Oh, yes. Remember? The two-person act. Yeah, didn't even know. Before you keep on thinking what you might have been up to, I'll try and find some photos. Oh, no, please don't.

No, don't. We don't need photos. That's all good. Thanks, Sophia. Okay, you're welcome. Have an awesome day. You too. Love you. We apologise all good. Thanks, Sophia. Okay, you're welcome. Have an awesome day. You too. Love your work.

We apologise in advance. It's Jono and Ben on the head. So, Jono and Ben on New Zealand's breakfast. I'm good. Oh, it's time for the big news. Oh, yeah. Hold down. Down, down, down.

Hold there, Eva. We'll be with you very shortly. Sorry, we said we'd come to her and we were shocking. It's all on us. It's all on Ben and myself, and that's why. Ben, we'll never make it to the big time. No. No, you're right.

We'll never get to the Emmy Awards or anything. No, we won't, because our boss is like, why don't you change the game? No, no, no, no. We'll just play the game, thanks. That's right. We told our boss Todd that. We don't even play very well.

Sometimes we fumble it, just like we did there. We just want to be part of the game. We don't want to change the game. That's what we're here for. But this is a story, a really nice story here for the big news, small town. That's right. Eva, who's a friend of ours, she's an ambassador for Cure Kids, the organisation.

She was born with only half a diaphragm and has really just sort of been battling health-wise through the majority of her life. She spent the first three months of her life in a coma on life support. And, you know, you hear stories like Eva's and you go, well, my problems in the world really pale in comparison. Yeah, you're right.

And she's got such a fantastic attitude towards life. And she, being obviously with her health issues, is quite immune compromised, so needs to wash her hands and keep them sanitised and healthy and safe. And she's come out with a great idea, and she joins us again, Eva. Round two, how are you? I'm good, thank you. A dear friend of mine.

I don't know, I consider you a dear friend, Eva. I don't know if it's reciprocated. Sure. You tolerate, you tolerate Jono, right? Like me, you tolerate him. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. She never said she was my friend.

No. I said I was her friend. That's what I say as a colleague. You're a colleague to me. A colleague. And a colleague to Eva, even though you don't officially work together. Okay. I'm happy to be your colleague, Eva.

Hey, now you're doing a cool thing for Cure Kids, matey. You tell us what's happening. So I have made a hand wash and also a hand sanitizer that also soothes your hands. Yeah, right. Now, Ben would like this because he uses, I tell you what, he has been keeping the hand sanitizer industry afloat for probably a decade. My skin's getting really too dry because I'm using too much. I've sapped all the moisture out of my skin with the hand sanitizer.

Your skin's like, we're sanitized for five lifetimes. Please do not apply anymore. Unless you want to apply this wonderful stuff from Ashley & Co and Eva. Yeah, it looks really cool. So where can people get hold of this? They can get it on Ashley & Co online, Ashley & Co retailers, and also shut the front door, have fun.

Because you're immune compromised, aren't you, Eva? Yeah, so when we were living in hospital, my mum and I's hands used to blister all the time from washing them so much. So we thought a hand sanitiser that was moisturisers would be perfect. And so it's called the Eva Edition. Now, do you get a lifetime supply

of free hand wash and hand sanitiser, Eva? We've got some at home. Yeah, right. You should have demanded a lifetime supply. So the good thing is too, if you head to Ashley & Co, the website,

and purchase this, so money's going to go to Cure Kids too, mate. Yeah, sure is. How much? $10 from the hand wash, which is called Wonder Wash. And then $5 on the hand sanitizer.

I don't know why I was so obsessed with how much was going to Cure Kids. What are you worried about their bottom line? You're like, how much money? It's an awesome thing that you're doing and they're doing. Who am I, the Inland Revenue? Hey, good on you, Eva. Well done, mate. That's really awesome.

And you keep safe, keep healthy, and we'll keep being colleagues. Thank you. It's an awesome thing they're doing. Cure Kids, great organisation. Remember, we did a cycle the length of the country. Well, we did it for TV for Cure Kids, helping out, and we're against Brendan Pongier, who was... He cycled all the way out of the country.

We lied and said we did. We cheated. We're doing it for TV, so we were like, oh, we're doing it for TV, so we'll make it. Nothing on TV is real. So we'll get a tank from the army to help us out. We'll get helicopters. We cheated. Well, we're doing it for TV. So we were like, oh, we're doing it for TV so we'll make it. Nothing on TV is real. So we'll get a tank from the army to help us out. We'll get helicopters.

We'll get all sorts. But he actually cycled the whole way, Brendan Pong, our former athlete. Even on the Inter-Islander. He went on an exercise and kept cycling.

I know. We were like, oh, mate, you can have a break on the Inter-Islander. He's like, no, I want to say I cycled the length

of the country. He meant to go cruising on the Inter-Islander, not cycling on the Inter-Islander. Well done. Well done. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up

with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. We're talking about commute times because a lot of people stuck in traffic this morning. Oh, the longest

daily commute time. We spoke to Sarah just moments ago. Wonderful memories of conversations with Sarah. She was great. It drives an hour 15 each way to work

from Tokoroa to Tarapa and Hamilton every day. That's a big commute. But I tell you what, we've got another late bloomer here, Ben Boyce. Dale's phoned through from the South Island.

How long's your trip? Two and a half hours. Two and a half hours. Where are you travelling from? From Prince Joseph, Glacier to Oteara up the Nazus Pass. And what,

so two and a half hours one way, so it's a five-hour round trip? That's the one, yeah. Oh, my God. What do you do for a job? Scrub cutting the roadside. So how often would you do this? Would you go and stay where you end up?

Five days a week at the moment. So five days there and back? Yeah. Why don't you get another job that's maybe closer to where you live at Franz Josef? So five days there and back? Yeah. Why don't you get another job? That's maybe closer to where you live at Franz Josef. Yeah, she's a part-time casual job due to COVID. I work in tourism otherwise and work at Franz Josef.

I see. Good on you. Dale, that is a heck of a commute. And do you listen to this show for two and a half hours there? I do when I can get reception. Oh, my God. I don't know what horrible things you've done in a previous life to have this as punishment, having to listen to us for an extended period.

But you go and have a great day, Dale. The line will flick something out to you, right? Ben loves flicking stuff out to people. Yeah, I do, I do. It's one of his favourite hobbies, flicking stuff out. Yeah, that's the least we can do. You put up with us, we can send you out something. Hold the line, buddy.

Awesome. Cheers, fellas. Good on you, Dale. Appreciate that. Hey, wonderful fun we had today. Thanks to Carl Urban who came through. Yeah. Geez, he looks like a movie star, doesn't he, Carl? He's awesome, eh? I look like a beaten-up adult film star, don't I?

We've got John Kilwin joining us on the phone, All Black Legend, tomorrow. And we'll tell you how you can win $10,000. We hatched a plan. It's happening. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys weekdays from six on the hits and

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