Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Ben gets weighed at a waterpark?!

Episode Date: October 8, 2023

Do you wear shoes inside? Ben had the ultimate dad holiday Shocking things people keep in their freezer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. We're back after a couple of weeks of school holidays. Lovely to be back. It is good to be back. How was the break? It was really good. I went and saw some family in Australia.

I went to Melbourne's a cool city. I never really spent a lot of time in Melbourne. My sister's been there for five years now, so we went and visited her, which was cool. It feels like as a city, Melbourne's just nailed it. Yeah. You know, they've got transport, they've got great access to stadiums. Going on transport, you're like, oh, this is easy.

And even like didn't have to worry about digging below the ground. They're like, hey, we'll just put trams around the city above the ground. You know? Yeah, no, they really have. I mean, there's a few places here, or we won't name them, that could look to Melbourne and go, okay, i see what they've done there yeah i got into a bit of a trouble uh with my other sister um because she's had a baby about three months ago she had a baby so you know i'm an uncle again and i haven't like a four hour drive from where we live and i haven't i'll be i feel really bad we haven't

gone and seen the baby they're just an orphan and yeah and i was like and i need to sort out that but she rang and i was in melbourne and she's like where are you and i said i'm in melbourne with and she's like oh you're with my sister and she's like well i say you go to melbourne but you won't travel four hours up to see the i was like oh jeez and i said look look it's been five years and my sister's been living in Melbourne. I haven't visited her. So at least I've got five years grace to see the baby. I'll see the baby before the baby goes to school. You'll see the baby some point.

Some point before the end of the baby's life, you'll catch up with the baby. So I've got a toy bit of trouble as well. Well, to be fair, if you're comparing Russell and Melbourne, both great places, you can't compare them. Public transport's slightly better in Melbourne, but you don't if you're comparing Russell and Melbourne, both are great places. You can't compare them. Public transport is slightly better in Melbourne, but you don't need public transport in Russell because it's small, it's beautiful.

Doesn't the ferry just shut off when it wants? Yeah, duh. We're not here to have stabs at Russell. We love Russell. I've come back from holiday with the world's sorest neck. Really? And I don't know what I've done. Like, I've hit that stage in life

where just existing, you get injuries. You know? Okay. And to turn now, I have to turn like a thunderbird. Oh, like Batman. Yeah, like the puppet. Yeah.

So don't please, if you are on the right-hand side of me this week, please don't try and get my attention. Oh, really? Because I'll just have to fully turn around. Somehow you've come back more tense from my holiday. I don't try and get my attention. Oh, really? Because I'll just have to fully turn around. So somehow you've come back more tense from holiday. I don't know what. I went to the physio, and the physio's like, what have you done?

We'll have to claim ACC. So I'm like, this is official documentation. So I'm having to think of something cool. Like, I don't want the ACC admin team to be like, what, he just did it by just existing? He woke up and something happened. Sometimes you do wonder in the middle of the night, what did I get up to if you wake up and you're in pain? Yeah.

I've just been lying here. It's meant to be relaxing and somehow I've managed to This is definitely a conversation for people over 40, isn't it? I just said, I'll chuck something like I was bench pressing a car or something. Give me some street cred with the ACC team. It's just another Motivational Monday. I like to start the week with a bit of motivation on a Monday.

And it's already October, as I said before, and just a couple of months to the end of the year, already Christmas stuff in the supermarkets. I saw that. I sent a picture yesterday. Countdown, they've got little chocolate Santas on sale already, and I couldn't figure out, is it leftover stock from 22, or is it pre-stock for 23? I think it's pre-stock.

We're already in there. We're already there. We're on the countdown for Christmas, and it does feel like there's only a few weeks left of the year when you look at it. But this guy, this is a motivational guy from the internet just another motivational guy another guy another white guy on the podcast saying how you don't live your life as good as they do but he's got some interesting theories on uh what you can do and

what he does to make each year memorable have a listen the first thing that i do is there's an old japanese ritual called the misogi and the notion around a Masogi is you do one year defining thing every year. Something that like you can look back on. You probably don't even know what you do eight days ago, but you sure as hell should be able to say in 2022, I launched a podcast. I quit smoking. There should be one big thing that's going to really define my year. The second. Yeah. Okay what this is what we need is another podcast but that's you know i'm a soggy sounds like an initiation at a dunedin flat it's a nos canister or something yeah but that's you know it's a good thing it could be like a new

job it could be you know house whatever it is it's like one thing each year you kind of go okay that was the defining thing for my year and then he went on to talk about his mate, what him and his mate get up to as well. This is where he almost lost me. Have a listen. The second thing that I do is something that I call Kevin's rule. Kevin is a friend of mine, blue-collar guy, the happiest guy that I know. Kevin and I take our eight-year-old kids to climb Mount Washington in the winter.

How often do you do stuff like this? And he lights up. He goes, oh, ever since I graduated college, every other month, do something I normally wouldn't have done. I said, that's unbelievable. He said, yeah. I said, well, why do you do it? He said, because if you create six mini adventures every year and you're 40 years old and you live to be 80, that's 240 things that you wouldn't have had in your life, events or mini adventures that you just create. Oh, shut up. I actually, I do like, I do like this. I think it's cool because, you know,

he's actually doing stuff with his life. You're not looking back. But then I looked at the pictures of his kids. Like, they're going camping up a mountain. They're in sleeping bags without a word of light in the snow. Like, in the snow. No tents, no nothing. They're just like these kids are sleeping.

You'll remember those kids? Yeah, I bet we will. Because they've got hypothermia he's nearly dying but I was like yeah no it's kind of cool it's like do something every couple of months that you wouldn't do

it is nice yeah why does he have to point out that Kevin what's the adjective Kevin's a blue collar guy what does it matter what collar he's got white collar blue collar

anyway I've looked at this video he's um one of those people with like a bead necklace you know like when you go to Rara and you get swept up in the one of those people with like a bead necklace. You know, like when you go to Rara and you get swept up in the holiday mode

with braids and a bead necklace. And he runs ultra marathons and sits in ice for nine hours. So good on him. Yeah. Good on him. It's a good thing to have every year you've achieved one big thing.

Yeah, one big thing. What is it for you? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know, but I guess it's still time. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now this weekend,

it's going to be a big rugby game, Sunday morning, and Ireland taking on the All Blacks quarterfinals. I'm glad we've made the quarterfinals. Our first game was a bit of a toughie. Have we had some low ball games leading into this? Yeah. The first game was the tough one.

After that, it's been pretty easy, but this one, the first game was the tough one. After that, it's been pretty easy. But this one, you know, obviously we qualified second. So Ireland, the top of their table, looking really good. So interesting. How are you feeling? Oh, look, to be honest, I don't know as much about rugby as I used to. But I would say Ireland are definitely the favourites.

But, hey, anything can happen. They're all big. You know, good side. So Razor Robertson's not allowed at the games. Do you see that? I can see that. Ian Foster's banned him from the game. He should come in with a moustache on or something.

Yeah, he's too distracting. How can you tell him he's there amongst 35,000 people? That's true, actually. Now, I went under the hits as I said before, 4-4-8-7. I want to know, are you taking your shoes off when you go inside your house or other people's houses? Shoes off for on. It's always been something I was taught when I was,

my parents would always make me take my shoes off when going to someone's house. And that's something we always did. It was always just, I guess, a sign of, felt like a sign of respect, Dad would say, when you go around to someone's house. Or at least say, do you want me to take my shoes off? Is it clothing optional in here? What's happening here?

Yeah. I do like to ask. Although then, as you say that, I remember many times just wandering into your house with's happening here? Yeah. I do like to ask, although then, as you say, I remember many times just wandering into your house with my shoes on. Yeah. Without asking. Are your shoes off or shoes on? Yeah, we definitely have shoes off at home. We always have a big pile of shoes by the door.

We're 100% being, especially when the kids were little, we really got into the habit when they're crawling all over the floor. We're kind of 50-50 depending on the mood of the nation. Like if I'm just popping home for five minutes i'm leaving them on just wandering just because the admin of tying shoelaces takes 10 to 15 seconds you know i can't be bothered with that stuff uh but what i love too about children is they're bloody full gangster when it had no consequences roll i was during the holidays saw some kid rolling around on the carpet of the domestic airport

yeah and i'm going oh and there's some exhausted parents sitting there going oh i just can't who I was, during the holidays, saw some kid rolling around on the carpet of the domestic airport. Yeah. And I'm going, oh. And there's some exhausted parents sitting there going, oh, I just can't. Who am I to tell you to stop rolling around in that disease, you know? So that is the problem. You do trample disease. And I was reading an article, 421,000 units of bacteria clung to the soles of your shoes. Yeah, well, I've got some audio next that may or may not change your mind,

but I'll hold off playing that right now because we want to know on 0800 the hits of 4487. Are you taking your shoes off? The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Shoes off or on when you're inside your house or other people's houses, 4487 on the text. We put a little poll up on our Facebook page, the hits breakfast on Facebook yesterday.

A lot of comments. A lot of people saying they take their shoes off. 200 plus comments. This thing went viral, Ben Boyce, on the internet. It is, yeah, the majority is shoes off. Someone's saying they have a scabby carpet, so it doesn't matter, don't care. I guess that maybe is a situation. You know, you're living in a flat somewhere, maybe.

A wooden floor. A wooden floor you're probably giving a little more grace to don't you yeah um bonnie's saying that she can tell even when her husband wears gumboots inside he'll wake up but she'll be like half to sleep and she'll be like mate take your gumboots off gumboots inside someone said uh shoes off or i'll kick your teeth out but then you actually technically you'd have to put your shoes back on to kick the teeth out well you'll be quite painful without shoes on one day that's where i dare i say i'm going really getting into the croc game lately crocs are a great shoe for this yeah i know the uh the asian community loves slippers a house slipper uh which is we spoke to a guy who was a builder but he was living

with his auntie at the time and he had because he would work on building sites, he had a four-step foot cleaning program before he was allowed in the house. So obviously the boots off at the door, then he would have to take his work socks off, go into the house slippers, then make his way to a foot spa. Put the feet in the spa, clean the feet, mop those down with a foot designated towel.

Sounds quite relaxing, a foot spa. It does. Sounds very admin heavy though, to add that to your day. And then he would wear house socks. But then you're like, oh, I've just got to get something from the car. What happens in that situation? Anyway, here is, on Instagram, I found this over the weekend. This is from a doctor.

Look up his credentials if you want to look up his credentials. He seemed like a legitimate doctor. Hi, everybody. He's not quite Dr. Nick, but from the United States. Have a listen to what he had to say about wearing shoes inside. You should never wear your shoes inside your house. A study found that when people wore their street shoes inside, a whopping 90 to 99% of germs on their shoes were transferred to the floor tiles. And from there, they might get picked up by a crawling baby or toddler, a pet, or by objects that fall onto the floor tiles. And from there, they might get picked up by a crawling baby or toddler, a pet, or by objects that fall onto the floor. Your shoes may also carry cancer-causing toxins from asphalt road residue

and endocrine-disrupting lawn chemicals. So tell everybody in your household, absolutely no shoes inside. Or you can put it in the category of, let's just not overthink it. You know when you go to a four year old's birthday And they blow out the candles And you're like, hey I'll give you some cake Yeah, that's true The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast

First day back at school for the kids After school holidays You might have been away Or just trying to navigate the juggle of kids And working over the last couple of weeks Yeah, you went over to Hosea to see some family, see your sister in Melbourne. Your other sister's got a bit of an issue that you were talking about at the beginning of the show. Do you do this when you go away on holiday?

I feel like I do it, and maybe it's because I get worried that I don't, I like to know that I've turned off switches and all sorts of things. I even take photos sometimes of me having with the switch off, or the handbrake up in case the car rolls back, all those sorts of things. They even take photos sometimes of me having with the switch off, or the handbrake up in case the car rolls back, all those sorts of things. This is you on the regular day, but I imagine when you're going away for an extended period,

this would be hyped up. Oh yeah, and I always forget, I always feel like I've forgotten something. And so I was like, and so you play a game, I play a game with my wife and it's almost like I keep going until I find something I've,

I was like, did we turn the oven off? Yeah, did we turn the irons off? Did we lock the back door? You know, like, and like i keep going until i find something i've i was like did we turn the oven off yeah did we turn the irons off did we do you know do we do we lock the back door do you know like and i just keep going she's like with 20 questions until i'm like that's it that's it we need to turn the car around and go back you know did you get to a point where you did find something you had forgotten like we've got the passports do we flush the toilet the fridge the fridge what have we done but you're like there's so much like toothbrushes, who's got, you know. Do we make the bed? Me, I know. But one other thing I do love when people do go away for a couple of days,

and you've mentioned this before, is how people like to leave the curtains sort of half open, you know, like not fully closed and not fully open, but just halfway in between. Yeah, it's the international symbol to robbers. Hey, we could be home, or we might not be home and we haven't fully decided which which one we are because you're like we can't close them for like a week you know this is gonna look close but i can't leave it open because you know so we'll like we'll half do this and we know you ever at home and you're like i think these screens only

deserve to be half shut yeah a little bit of light in. But you often give me grief about how I record my family at all times. You know, like I get out the recorder and I record my family, you know, for radio content, get some audio content. Rolling CCTV coverage. Well, we were heading out to the airport very, very early because the airport was a shambles for school holidays and everyone's like, you've got to get there early. We're going to see my sister in Australia.

So we're like, we'll get out there three hours before a six o'clock flight so that was like heading out to the airport pretty much three in the morning. Now who initiated this? I bet you did. Well I did yeah. Yeah you would have been across the news going it's a nightmare out there. Yeah I was. Getting them all up in the middle of the night. But what I noticed is my daughter Indy, like on the ride out to the airport, decided to record me for a change and I did not like it. It's three in the morning. I know.

So we are on our way to, we're on our way to the airport and then we're going to go to Australia. I record all the time. But even for me, this is like, oh, this is... Yeah, yeah. So I'm just going to be catching up to see how you are, okay? Oh, great. Okay, well, can I wrap this up?

I know what that means. Yeah, great. Just a push stop. Okay. Yeah, so I didn't like it. I didn't like that. Taste my own medicine. When you wake kids up in the middle of the night, they're always going to be chirper

than you are. Yeah. As an adult. Yeah, they're very excited about it. They're straight into it. And so when you got to the airport, was it worthwhile getting your family up at quarter past one in the morning? Well, actually, we didn't have a lot of downtime.

I thought we'd be sitting around for hours and, you know, but it was actually, we probably gave ourself enough time. For me, there was enough time. There was enough time for me to check the flight 92 times. And you're like, damn it, the passports. We got the passports. I knew it was something. Should have fully shut the windows as well.

I told you we should have shut the curtains. The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge. Putting the service back into service stations. Pop star Britney Spears broke up with her husband just a couple of months ago and she bought herself a new dog, a little Maltese pooch called Snow. A nice little companion for her, which she said it's an awesome little dog and she's just purchased what she's claimed is Snow, the dog's first bikini.

So it hasn't had a bikini up until this moment, but the dog now has a bikini, a Gucci bikini so it hasn't a bikini up until this moment but the dog now has a bikini a gucci bikini uh yeah nothing i've seen i just looked at the uh the photo there you'd be paying top dollar for a gucci bikini i imagine being i would say so i was trying to find out exactly how much it was but i couldn't i couldn't find it but i mean it seems like it would probably be in the thousands for a bikini that the dogs i mean my dog swims at the beach not once has he ever gone hey mate i really need a bikini i might go after work i might go home and get my little bloody g-string or something nothing looks better than a dog and a g-string but i she said my friends have always had name brand everything i'm not into name brands they never

appealed to me but i will get it for my babies there you go gucci bikini for the dog yeah i mean gucci really like i mean gucci should be called poochie why haven't they called a poochie they should have been they've diversified obviously into like a dog bikini at what stage when you're a clothing manufacturer do you go hey guys this is what we should be doing now bikinis for dogs keep going keep talking keep talking you think all those times you've gone to the beach with your dog wouldn't this be better if they all had bikinis on sexy bikinis it'd be like get out of the meeting prior and then if you've been drinking again prior yeah do the dogs have to walk down a

catwalk as well i want to be a dog irony dog't it? I've said it before, and I'll say it again. To the canine community, I'm sorry what we've done. Your forefathers would be rolling in their graves, and they'd be rolling over without even a treat on offer. They'd just be rolling. So let's open it up right now. 0800 the hits, 4487. Open up the phone.

So what's your dog doing? Now, maybe it's not wearing a bikini or maybe it is. Have you got a bikini dog? Yeah. It'd be great. We'd love to mock you. My dog's learned a new trick recently. Very, very smart dogs aren't they? And my dog, big dog, Samoyed Bo, he's very

fluffy and very big. I can't really, like I struggle to pick him up. He's quite big. He'd be 45 kgs. He's pretty big and what he does 45 kgs. He's pretty big. And what he does now, cause we have people over and sometimes he's very loud. You know,

he can bark and get excited. Sometimes I'm like, okay, you need to go outside for a bit. Give yourself some time outside. And so I'll be like, all right, Bo outside.

And so he'll sit down. I'll be like, Bo, it's time to go outside. And then he'll lie down and he's in a position there where I can't get your hands on it. He's like,

I'm dead weight here, baby. He's just lying down. He's like, what are you going to do now? And now he's developed a position there where I can't get your hands underneath yeah he's like I'm dead weight here baby he's just lying down he's like what are you gonna do now and now he's developed a trick if I go up to him and I go look like I'm about to I'm not even touching him without a word of lie he'll go like yeah and everyone looks at me like oh the monster's just done something and I'm like I never even touched the dog and I'm like well that's a smart play for the dog and then after that i can't i can't put my hands anywhere near the dog not consensual so i'm like that's a really smart play just a little yelp and i'm like oh this out of nowhere you know i haven't even touched you it's a great yeah it's a great trick for the dog it's like when you go to uh a clothing store and uh your your daughter's in there and she walks out and she's like,

who are you? And you're like, I'm your dad. And you're like, no you're not. Who is this man? You're like, stop making a scene.

They've got a lot of power, dogs and kids. So what's your dog doing? Impress us with your dog trick or maybe an item that your dog owns. We'd love to hear from you on New Zealand's Breakfast.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Britney Spears just bought her dog over the weekend a Gucci bikini. Of course, every dog needs one of those, you know. Tux, tux, obviously tux. Every dog needs some tux.

Keeps them full of life. Fit as a fiddle to look good in their bikini. Now, 0800 The Hits. Impress us with your dog. What have you bought for them? What have you taught them? Denise on the phone. You taught your dog to open and close the door or something?

Yeah. He's unfortunately gone now. But, yeah. No, we taught him to – I taught him how to shut the door with his nose and his hand. Oh, his hand. His paw. Oh, so he would actually use the door handle. Yeah.

No, no, no. He used to knock it with his nose or whack it with his paw. Oh, so he would actually use the door handle? No, no, no. He used to knock it with his nose or whack it with his paw. Barge his way through and I would literally say door! And he'd turn around and he'd sigh at me. Turn around and go

knock it shut. And he's like, always with the door. Always banging on about the door. Can't a dog just walk in from outside nowadays? Yeah, and he just walk in from outside nowadays? And he'd walk in and I'd point and he'd go and turn around and go and shut it. He was fantastic. So how did you manage to get the dog to do this? How long did it take?

It literally probably took me half an hour. And I'm repeatedly saying, shut the door, shut the door, and pointing, making him jump, making him jump up against it, and he'd shut it with his nose or his paw and just, you know, do the praise when he did it. And it took him about half an hour, 45 minutes, and I had it fast. You can teach them to do anything. There's a guy, Mark Vetti, appropriate last name Mark Vetti, who he trains animals for movies and stuff.

He's taught them to fly planes Drive cars I think that's going A little too far But you can teach them You can It's amazing That you can teach them

Can't teach these old dogs New tricks though Ben No No Hey good on you Chrissie That's really cool Yeah he was cool His name was Douglas

Douglas I like it He was a staffie Yeah Very cute staffies. You love your work, Chrissie. You go and have a great day in Lower Hutt. Good morning, Pia. How are you?

Yeah, good, thank you. Lovely to have you on. Teaching dogs new tricks. You've done it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got a golden Labrador pup last year, and by the time she was three months old, I had taught her to when you point

your finger at her and go bang she flops to the floor and throws the legs in the air into the real Hollywood. Oh so she plays dead with her legs in the air. It's a good party trick. That's a great party trick. She's like I don't know what the point of this is but it seems to be bringing joy to people so I'll keep doing it. Oh yeah yeah yeah no it's funny as whenever you whenever you have people over you go you do it and then

they just crack up it's so funny again how long did it take to teach that um it probably took her about three or four weeks it was pretty it was pretty easy in a way i basically just point my finger go bang and then i push her over to the ground and she's like after a while she's quite like oh that's what you want me to do she like, this is some high concept stuff you're doing here, but I'll go with you. Yeah, I took her to a dog training thing when she was about three months old and on the last day, the trainer, she goes, oh, show us your best trick. And I did that and everyone went, oh, you know, that's the winner.

That's the winner. That's bringing the house down. Oh, good on you, Pia. Appreciate your call and you're going to have a great day. You too. Thanks, guys. Cheers. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

I went away and spent some time with family in Melbourne and then went to Gold Coast with the family as well. I'll tell you what, one of the things I found quite amusing is we took the kids to Wet and Wild, which is a fun water park in the Gold Coast good name for a strip club too yeah and they had a thing

where you know where the two person rides where you're two people you had to be on the rubber ring the rubber thing together they had to weigh you

before going on to the rides and I was like they should tell you about this people with their togs in front of other people getting weighed to get on a ride I mean we were fine my daughter and I but someone else did you get turned away They should tell you about this. People with their togs in front of other people getting weighed. This is degrading.

To get on a ride. I mean, we were fine, my daughter and I, but someone else. Didn't you get turned away? No, they turned and you're like, oh, jeez. Oh, no. I was like, this is, yeah, you have to be under a weight minimum for one ride. I'm like, uh-uh. And they're like, we've got to chub.

We've got to chub, ladies and gentlemen. If you could just move your way to the back of the line there and maybe the Atkins died or try something. I don't know. Come back in a couple of weeks. Two things people don't really enjoy, being in their togs in public and also getting weighed while in their togs. But a lot of fun.

A lot of fun at the theme parks. A lot of fun. It was wet and wild. He was wild that he got turned away. Well, over the break too, it's a good time to get a lot of house admin done. Yeah. Isn't there?

And I thought the freezer., it's a good time to get a lot of house admin done. Yeah. Isn't there? And I thought the freezer, everyone's got a freezer and it's kind of like just a really, really cold cupboard you can shove stuff in and forget about. Yeah, true. When you put a grandparent in a retirement village. But then eventually it gets to the stage

where you're having to do Tetris with every item you then place into the freezer. Yeah. Okay, enough's enough. The madness must stop. And you always pull out just tiny little bags of things that have been wrapped up, and you don't know what they are.

Yeah. What is this? Is this an umbilical cord? What is this thing? Bread. I keep buying, my wife says, don't buy more bread.

You keep freezing bread. We've got bread. It's just, you know. Just like half loaves of bread. Yeah. So stop buying bread. We've got a lot of those, you know how you get Watties, peas and corn frozen. Oh, yeah.

Just like, here's to those, but just kind of wound up with like seven or eight kernels of corn in them. But anyway, I got a bit of a clean out and I came across the lockdown bananas. Oh, yeah. Remember during lockdown, we're all like, no, bananas. Let's make banana bread, banana cake. We're all doing it all. I think in the first lockdown, a lot of people did. The second one, everyone hated that.

I was going to buy a banana cake. Yeah. But, you know, all good intention to transform these dead bananas into some form of baking, but never got round to it. No. I imagine there'll be a lot of frozen bananas, just black frozen bananas sitting in freezers across the country. Yeah, you're right.

People would have some random things as well. My mum, Jenny, she loves keeping everything. You know, a lot of juices from, like, fish juice and all sorts of weird stuff, like the leftover, like, the chicken oil socks, you know. Gravy. I'm like, do we really? Like, I know times are tough, but are we that? You know? or chicken oil socks gravy I'm like do we really like I know times are tough

but are we that you know we need to freeze chicken juice yeah what are you going to do with this chicken juice but that's the sort of thing

she's doing don't throw anything out you know what would she turn all that stuff into you don't know add it to this or do this

or make a gravy soup all sorts put the chicken juice with the gravy. Yeah. Lovely stuff. It's the stuff she'll do.

0800 HITS. Oldest thing in your freezer. What have you got? 4487. I imagine there's some interesting things in deep freezers across the country and rural areas too. Yeah. Body parts and all sorts.

0800 HITS. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We want to know what surprised us with what you've got in your freezer and what is the oldest thing or maybe you're just

keeping something in there. I've found also essentially a spoonful of spag bowl mints just wrapped up and glad wrapped in the freezer over there. I was like,

what were the intentions for this? But when did I think, oh, I'll feel like a mouthful of spag bol at some point in life? You never know. Well, true. Dakota, you're on. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast.

How's it going, mate? It's good, thank you. I'm just doing school drop-off. Oh, yeah. Okay, can the kids hear you? I'm kind of like away from the car watching. Okay, give us a big scream of joy. Me?

Yeah. Oh, no, I'm going to look weird. What kind of scream of joy? All right, okay, just like you do a silent fist pump that the kids are back at school then. All right. Oh, honestly, I'm so excited they're going to school. Well, scream, mate.

Orgasmic, like. Make it weird at the school gate Harry Vent there we go Dakota what's the oldest thing in your freezer

right now is my eldest son's placenta oh the placenta yeah right you kept it because they do

offer it to you I remember when we were at the hospital and it was lovely for them to offer it and some people like to keep it

some of you bury it, you know. Definitely someone over the years would have mistaken it for a steak and cooked it up on the barbie. Surely. Yeah, so my husband actually got it out and thought it was, thought one of them was their venison. And I was like, no, mate, you need to put that back. But there was heaps of people over because it was a barbie. I was like, no, mate, you need to put that back. But there was heaps of people over because it was a barbecue.

I was like, no, mate. You need to put that back. Hey, Dakota, you go and enjoy your first day away from the holidays, all right? Yeah, thank you, you too. Have a good day. Good to have you on, Chanel. Good to have you on, too. Oldest thing in your freezer, Chanel.

Well, it was the top tier of our wedding cake, which was a fruitcake. And everyone said, keep it for the tradition of having a slice on your first wedding anniversary or your first child. Well, we forgot the first wedding anniversary. So five years later, it was the first child. We had two, we're twins. So we had to have two slices in theory, but we couldn't even get through two bites. It was so disgusting. Yeah, I'd never know with frozen products when, you know, the shelf life of them.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's five years, so I don't know. Yeah. There you go. You found the shelf life. Well, because you do get something out. Like my mum used to, we used to live on the farms.

You'd freeze milk, you know, because you couldn't just whip down the road to the dairy. But then you'd get it out and you'd go, well, it's past the date, but it's been frozen. But how long does this last for now? Yeah, exactly. It's already expired, but it's okay. It's been frozen. Feels like you're spinning for now? Yeah, exactly. It's already expired but it's okay, it's been frozen. Feels like you're spinning the roulette wheel

with food poisoning, doesn't it? Hey, thank you so much for your call, Chanel. Really appreciate it. And thank you for all your calls and texts. Some good texts coming through,

Producer Joel. Yeah, there's a couple ones here saying Bacon Hawk from 2017. Oh, that's quite a while ago. Yeah. So just a five-year-old Bacon Hawk. Good for a soup but maybe not, well, five years ago it might have been, yeah. So just a five-year-old bacon hock. Good for a soup, but maybe not five years ago it might have been, yeah.

And just a lot of afterbirths, placentas. Yeah, people like keeping that. I mean, league legend Tawara Nikau. That's right. He lost his leg in a motorbike accident, didn't he? He was, yeah, yeah. And he kept the leg in the deep freeze. Yeah, he did.

And he'd pull it out as a party trick. Yeah. I don't know how do you react to it too like look at this guy's leg of lamb chuck it on the table that's right