Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Jono's National Record

Episode Date: August 28, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. You head to The Hits Breakfast on Facebook or Instagram, you'll see our video, we talked about this yesterday, it was a really lovely thing to be part of, we took Steve, who works at Wendy's, and you'd noticed Jono that when you, I don't know how often you frequent your local Wendy's,

but obviously quite a lot. It's embarrassing, I don't want to, yeah. I mean, I've spoken about how often I attend there, we don't need to reflect on lot. It's embarrassing. I don't want to, yeah. I mean, I've spoken about how often I attend there. We don't need to reflect. That's not what this is about. No, true. Let's just say multiple times a week I'm at Wendy's. And you notice the times that you do go,

the specific times where the Warriors are playing, that Steve, who works there, is always wearing his Warriors top, he's wearing his Warriors hat. He's obviously a super fan, and sometimes, well, he doesn't get to go to the games. So we thought we'd turn up, we'd organise behind the scenes

with Wendy's and the Warriors to surprise him, take him along to a game and even got him into a corporate box, which is pretty cool. Yeah, it was a wonderful, it was a really nice evening, wasn't it with Steve?

Is this the moment where we walked into the Wendy's? Yeah, and surprised him. Everyone was dining there. It was a huge interruption. It felt like when we walked in with the camera that we were there to do like an undercover sting on the whole wendy's operation you know when you walk into a place like that with a camera they're like oh

geez what do we do hide everything hide the papers uh but no it was a lovely moment with steve what are you doing tonight oh i just helped in the brook for a while i didn't no you're not me no we've talked to the bosses they're going to pay you give you the night off do you want to come What are you doing tonight? Oh, I'm just helping work for Wildin. No you're not mate. No you're not. We've talked to the bosses. They're going to pay you, give you the night off. Do you want to come to the game with us? No. We're going to go to the Warriors.

Do you want to come to the game? Steve's going to the Warriors! Steve's going to the Warriors! Do you want to come? Do you want to come? Do you want to come? Oh man. Are you okay, you, man?

Oh, you got me tearing up, mate. Yeah. Oh no. Shit. Whoa, whoa. Whoa. Okay. Up the Wilds. Up the Wilds. are you okay oh you got me tearing up man yeah oh no okay up the wires up the wires yeah yeah yeah let's bring it back to a little bit of up the wire otherwise otherwise so that was yeah that was a lovely uh and the video is lovely as well yeah you should check out the

video if you haven't seen it you head to the hits breakfast on instagram or facebook because it's good to use the internet for decent things being unlike your bloody ponzi schemes and your scams that you've got going on yeah well yeah yeah you can actually do good with the internet oh no it is it's nice you know all the all the time we wasted on filming crappy music video parodies over the years that no one wanted no one wanted no one liked all we needed to do was go out and take some dude to the warriors drink up true that was lovely to be part of thank you to wendy's needed to do was go out and take some dude to the Warriors. Drink up, Drew. That was lovely to be a part of. Thank you to Wendy's.

Thanks to the Warriors as well. And thank you to everyone who's commented on it. Now, and also as an aside, probably the greatest moment in Ben Boyce's career as well. Dallin Watene. Is that Lesnick? Yeah. He now follows you. The Warriors winger with the malesnik he now follows you

the Warriors winger with the mullet he follows you great stuff for Steve but we've made two dreams come true here another little boy's dream Dallin doesn't know how much I'll try not to punish him on it with direct messages but I'm very tempted

hey man what are you up to today he'll quickly unfollow me, I'm sure. He's definitely going to regret that follow. Yesterday, Ben, I was heading back to the car park where we park our cars. Gets a lot of air time in the car park, doesn't it? It does. The other day, producer Joel,

we put him to the test first thing Friday morning who claimed he could run to the car park, get something out of your car and return within six minutes. He did. Did that in four minutes, 45 seconds, which was over a kilometre round trip. Wonderful achievement. Yeah, so that was the car park.

So I electric scooter over. I'm very lazy. And going back to my car yesterday, I'm scootering down the car park. You know, you go down the ramps of the roads at the car park. And you're hitting top speeds of 20 25 k's an hour sort of thing all right and i see a sparrow who's in the garage from a distance now the sparrow's flying towards me and i'm flying 25 k's towards the sparrow. Now, I made a fatal mistake. I assumed that the sparrow would know its place and would swerve away. They're generally quite good at avoiding being hit by cars,

trucks, that sort of thing on the road. You're right, they are. Sometimes they really push it to the limits where you're like, are they going to back out? And then last minute they'll just. The cars, they sort of whiff away at the last minute. Yeah, yeah. So I ended up playing a game of chicken with a sparrow going head first towards it and i thought he's going to move i'm not going to have to move and obviously the sparrow was thinking

the same thing about me and it got to the point where the sparrow came so close that i could see the fear in the sparrow's eyes he could see see the fear in my eyes. And he last minute swooped up. Oh, wow. Hit my hat. Really? Hit my hat off my head. Jeez. This is a thrill-seeking sparrow right here.

Yeah. He had the entire garage he could have flown around. He's like, I'm out to prove a point. Yeah. A friend of mine had the theory that they were the daredevil stunt birds. They were the ones that were doing, watch this. They're pretty, yeah, like a friend of mine had the theory that they were the daredevil stunt birds. They were the ones that were doing, watch this,

you know, like. They are. Yeah, and maybe they are, or maybe they're just what they do. But there was no other

birds in the garage that he was impressing. This was just for his own thrill seeking. Yeah. But you do, there's a few that end up, you know,

there's a few losses in there along the way, but hey. Sometimes the odd cat can get a good leap on and catch them. Yeah. Cats are quite impressive when you think about it, the fact that they can catch.

The odds are stacked against cats. I mean, the bird only really just has to fly and they're away. Yeah. But the cat, you know. Just stay up in the trees and the cats won't get you. Yeah. But then they like to go down, just play, just taunt the cat, don't they? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

We part off. Now, after the game at Go Media Stadium on Friday night, you reckon you claimed that you did what? Well, New Zealand record at least. We started walking because, you know, after big events, concerts and sports games and stuff, you know, everything gridlocks outside a stadium, doesn't it? So you and me were walking and we put Steve in a taxi

and we kept walking. And we wanted to in a taxi, and we kept walking. And we wanted to get out of the clogged up zone. Yeah. So then you could hop in your Uber and go home, whatever. So we did. We walked probably two, three, four Ks. I can't remember exactly. It was quite a while, wasn't it?

Yeah. And then you were like, oh, well, it now seems like an ideal, clear location for me to order the Uber, and it's not going to get caught up in traffic. And so you did that. Yeah. And you hopped in your car. Now I was like, okay, well, I'm left here alone. What do I do?

I've got two choices. One, order an Uber or two, plow on like the legend I am. And I plowed on, kept on walking. And it's thrilling walking at night. You never know, am I going to get shanked when I see a ram rate? You know, you don't know what's going to happen to that time. Oh,'s gonna happen some scary things out there i thought you were getting an uber but obviously clearly not you decided to plow on i did decide to play out because i was like oh it's not quite you know it's not quite profitable enough for an uber to come yeah but it's also just that

niggly amount of distance to walk as well by the end when i go home guess how many k's i've done 10.1 k's that's a huge split now this is what my record is this is spur of the moment unplanned walking okay this isn't like i'm going to go out for a trek and i'm going to knock off 40 or 50 kilometers this is i hadn't factored that into my day it's just it just happened and i could see how forrest gump he just started running day. He was running though. Didn't stop. Yeah. Same thing.

Unplanned. And that's what I'm claiming is the record. That's the record, is it? Yeah. Okay. Because most people, they... They plan a walk. Exactly. So you want to know the biggest walks?

Unplanned. Or planned. You can plan a walk. I just want to be impressed by a walk. Oh, I know who that is. 4487. Because I told my wife, Jenna,

I was like, I'm walking home. She's like, I'll pick you up. And I'm like, nah. I was point proving. I was like,

I'm going to make it home. She's like, I literally, I can hop in the car, you idiot, and pick you up now. I was like, no,

I've refused it. Kept walking just so I could have this moment right here, Ben. This is your moment. To the record holder for the longest unplanned walk. What is your moment when it comes to walking? Give us a yell. Oh, 800 the hits of...

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. You were saying Friday night after we left the... Go Media Stadium for the Warriors, you claimed you walked a New Zealand record or something. Longest unplanned walk. How long did you say you could walk? 10.1k.

10.1k from Go Media Stadium to home. Now Joel, what I love about producer Joel he's like, oh here's something and then he goes, well hang on a second. I can't just take Jono's word for that. I need to work out how far it is from Go Media Stadium to your house. Producer troll Harrison we call him. What do you want to troll me for?

Over 10km and Joel's done the maps on that. Google Maps it. Yeah, I grew up around this area know it quite well, I was going to say it's a very short 10k walk and it's 4.9k the distance from Mount Smart to Greenwood's Corner which I know is past your house as well

so probably about 4.5k's max So I don't know where he ended up going and whether we're some sort of alibi For some sort of thing I thought he got into an Uber anyway Well there's about my health thing on the phone Said 10.1k

I don't know what else to say Joel Harrison It probably is about 4k But we've found Someone's been called through Patricia Taylor's tracked down someone Who's walked the length of New Zealand Jimmy this is you. Yes, sir.

From November to February last year, I did all 3,025 kilometres in 91 days. Wow. Jesus, now you've come in here, you've blown out my 10.2k's. I did it on Friday. Which is a great thing. We always like to escalate on the radio. But, I mean, we didn't expect the length of New Zealand. How long did it take you, 91 days 91 days now what like must have been painful i mean like talk us through some of the biggest days and the and the things that really when it

really started hurting yeah well if you guys remember november last year was the wettest november in history uh wettest december history. I walked through three cyclones in that first month. Unfortunately, towards the top of the North Island, a lot of the forests had been closed because of those cyclones, and there was a lot of road walking, and it hurt. Like, it just tore up my Achilles and my hammies, and it was a painful and annoying experience but sort of get to the middle of the North Island get back on on the nice forest paths and it worked out a lot better

but it was definitely one of those things that you just keep going and it just sorts itself out. Gee well I mean there must have been moments where you're like let's pull out. Yeah definitely through some of those storms. We're just walking through thunder and lightning and absolutely heavily pouring rain. Mud up to your thighs sometimes. And you're like, why am I here? Well, now you're on the radio with John O'Bennett. It makes it all worthwhile.

Only reason I did it, boys. Well, actually, in all seriousness, you did it for a wonderful reason. You're a great advocate for mental health and people talking and connecting. Yeah, so, you know, I have a history. You guys have been down my slides and you've seen me, Lilo Waikato, and all sorts of things like that. But this really, I think we're at a point in where we're talking about mental health that it's down to action.

We're all very aware of the problems that we're going through. We need to start taking action. And my walk was about really calling people out to take action on their mental health and their mental fitness. And my point was around connection. Connection with the self, connection with the land and connection with others, three scientifically proven ways to help increase our mental fitness. Just looking here, I just Googled while we're talking to you, Jimmy, you had a problem with your Achilles tendon on the walk

and a physio tracked you down and we see you strapping up your ankle just looks like next to his car on the side of the road. That's pretty awesome. Yeah, so I had a GPS tracker on me, and so people could come and join me at any time. And random people found me in the most random places, in the middle of the forest, in the middle of the beaches. And like this, yeah, the guy could drive there,

but it was a dirt road in the back of nowhere in Northland. And he just turned up. And he's like, I saw you had problems with your eye, Kelly. I'm here to help you. And it's just another example of the connection with people when you put yourself out there. And so I said, hey, I didn't say, hey, can someone come and help me? I was just like, man, I'm struggling right now. And someone off their own back came out and helped me. And it's just another beautiful indication of how good people are

if you're available for them to help. That's awesome. That's incredible. Now, having walked the length of New Zealand, what is the most beautiful stretch of 100 metres you can find in this country? Nelson Lakes. Absolutely stunning piece of land, which is just south of St. Honnard and before Lewis Pass. It's about a four-day section, but there is just some pieces

in there that are absolutely most stunning. And some views down the Southern Alps. There's some spots in there that just you can't get to. There's one spot I found a completely hot spring. It was like a spa bath. And I posted a picture of it. My dad was like, oh, that looks really cool. Is it hard to get there? I said, yeah, you've just got to walk two days.

Stuff that you can't get to by car or by bike or anything like that. You've just got to walk there. And that's just one of the beautiful feelings of accomplishment that you get. Where would you sleep? You've got your tent, so you carry that with you. You carry everything you have with you. That's awesome. So were you just doing it on your own?

You didn't have a support crew? No, just myself. Good on you, Jimmy. You can go to your website, jimmyhunt.com as well. Congratulations, mate, and you keep well. Will do. Thanks, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Taylor Montoya, our Australian arm of the program. You have come in today. I've never seen you so frustrated. What's going on, Taylor? Yeah, so we finally moved to a new place yesterday, which I'm very grateful for. Unfortunately, the Wi-Fi won't be set up until Thursday, which was fine because I was like, I can deal with that because I have my phone, which allows me to use data. I'm on the work plan again. Very grateful for that.

Shout out to you and to me, work plan. Yep yep very grateful um out of all the luck in the world my data happened to cap out yesterday around in the afternoon so once it caps out when you're on a work plan you can't just top it up yourself you have to go through the right people but what can you do when you don't have data to reach people you can't reach people so you were off the grid i was literally off the grid so i couldn't use my my emails wasn't receiving because this is one thing people don't notice as well when you don't have data you don't get iMessage so i didn't get any of the group chat like my family they were probably trying to reach me i'm sure how's the new place

now you're back on the wi-fi did Did your family try and reach you? Do you know? No, actually they didn't. But they could have. They could have. That's the point. You guys did. Yeah, we did. So that was cool. So yeah, couldn't even reach out to the work peeps to get it back on.

And again, that's all doable. You know, that's just all tongue in cheek. You live, you learn, whatever. Well, then it really reached dire straits this morning when I woke up and thought, holy crap. It really reached dire straits this morning when I woke up and thought, holy crap, I'm in a new area I've never lived in before and I've never been to the work building from here before. How do I get to work? She didn't know how to get to work.

She didn't have Google Maps. Of course. So what did you do? Just go off your waters, did you? Honestly, it was like when you guys made me use the map. Oh, we made you read a map book Because you'd never read a map book before. Not that I used the map this morning, but it was kind of like, yeah,

tapping into kind of northeast, southwest bearings. You said you drove up and down the same street 10 times. I did. And it was pitch black. And someone's house alarm was going off, actually. So I hope they're okay. But I kept trying to look for the needle tower. What's the tower?

The needle tower. Yeah. It does kept trying to look for the needle tower. What's the tower? Sky tower. Sky tower. Or the needle tower. Yeah, yeah. It does look like a hypodermic needle. It looks like a massive syringe. So I was trying to look for the light as my guide in here. And so that's how you made it in? That's how I got here, yeah.

So what we wanted to chuck open, because moments like this you realise how reliant we are on the internet, right? Yeah. What would you do in a radio show now without the internet? in the day they used to read books and papers yeah you're right it's so much easier to research do things and to know what's going on isn't it uh and it's going to get even easier for us when ai robots take over our job exactly you're right so 0800 the hits we want to check this open who listening Hasn't been on the internet For the longest amount of time

You can text 4487 Taylor's just pulled off 24 hours Yeah like 17 hours And that was enough Yeah Someone's been on for long

Or maybe you haven't been On the internet for 24 hours 48 hours Or even months We'd love to hear from you Talking about The longest amount of time That you haven't been on the internet listening.

0800, that's the telephone number if you can give us a call. Ben, you went to China, didn't you? Yeah, I did. Through the airport. Yeah, and that was interesting. I wasn't without the internet entirely, but it was interesting when you were in the airport. You couldn't go into anything like Instagram or Facebook or things like that. It's like it didn't exist.

Oh, yeah, because the Western devil social media, that's not going to infiltrate the communist China. They've got their own version of Facebook, don't they? I think so, yeah. What's it called? We something? Maybe it's something like that. So you can go on, obviously, that, but you couldn't go on the other one.

So it's kind of weird. It was just like the page didn't exist. Didn't exist over there. WeChat. Yeah. WeChat. WeChat, there you go. And they have 1.17 billion active users. Well, they're doing alright then, aren't they? Don't you worry about WeChat. There we go. 0800

the hits. Tricia, who's actually joining us from Hauraki. Welcome. How are you? Hi, I'm fine, thank you. Now, you, speaking of China, you went there, no internet. Yes, exactly. Well, yes'm fine, thank you. Now, you, speaking of China, you went there, no internet. Yes, well, yes. My foreign friends from Canada and America hooked me up with VTN or V something. It was like a backdoor version.

I paid $9.95 a month for it, but when it went out, I was a week without contact with family, friends. I hated it. It was terrible. I was over there all by myself. My husband had come back to New Zealand, and I hated it a week. So I know how you feel. Yeah.

You do feel like there's a limb missing, don't you, when you can't contact anyone? You feel isolated, yes. Someone just texted in too, Trish, you wouldn't like this, they went 24 days without the internet. 24 days. Oh, my week was bad enough, thank you. Well, yeah, you've done a long time. I mean, sometimes on flights it's actually quite refreshing

if you go on a long flight to not have the internet, but now they're putting internet on flights. And it's not great, the internet on flights, but's actually quite refreshing if you go on a long flight to not have the internet, but now they're putting internet on flights. And it's not great, the internet on flights, but you get annoyed, but it's like, well, it's in the air. Yeah, I know. It feels like they haven't quite nailed that tech. Let's not start advertising and marketing it just yet.

The other thing too is I imagine if you abstain from any technology, you would feel so good. Wouldn't you lead just such a simpler life? Yeah. You'd be oblivious to a lot of stuff that's going on. You'd be missing out on a lot of invites. What? What did this happen? Yeah.

A pandemic. Debbie. Good morning. How long has it been on the internet? It was over a year. What? What? No way. How did this come about? My husband and I cycled from Turkey back to the UK and then we jumped on a plane and spent

three months in Africa. No internet. Back in the day, no mobile phones, sent the odd postcard. You took it old school. What was it like? How long did it take you for you to actually forget about the internet? About two minutes. Really? Yeah, we weren't bothered at

all. It was freeing, I imagine. Yep. Oh, that's pretty cool. It was pretty good. I mean, i guess having a phone and stuff is quite good to feel for security purposes and stuff like that if you get lost i have traveled since with a telephone it is a little easier yeah i mean there's a reason why they're there what major events did you miss out on uh over that 12 month period because you didn't have the internet? Oh, probably nothing worth considering. It was quite tricky at times when we knew that there were some

beheadings going on somewhere, but because we were in a country and we didn't speak the language, we could see them on the television, but we didn't know where they were, and we were like, oh, this is a bit dodgy. Yeah, well. I've always said it, Ben, you always want to keep up to date with the B headings, don't you? You always want to know when those are happening.

Well, thank you so much, Debbie. Over a year not on the internet. Congratulations. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, Ben, you've got a dog. You'll know there's the periods in the dog's life where they just eat stuff, just anything. Cardboard box is one of his favourites. He couldn't be happier, little Milo, when a package arrives

and he gets to play with a cardboard box. Happiest, like when a baby, you buy them a present when they're two or three years old and all they play with is the packaging. Well, that's just his life. Every day he's thrilled with packaging but he found he was chewing away we have these coffee pods and he was chewing away on the cardboard sleeve of the coffee the pod packet oh right yeah yeah and then yesterday i saw i noticed that he had something purple in his mouth and i was like oh dear god it's a coffee pot oh he's been chewing raw and

it was a full one too it wasn't a used coffee pot it was one that had just kind of stuck down the bottom of the high strength coffee oh it was the purple one so i've seen milo milo's quite active already he's like a greyhound on yeah on steroids isn't he yeah but he was jeez i tell you what he was extraordinarily alert yesterday afternoon. Getting stuff done. You always go jump on a Google because you're like, oh, this is bad for the dog.

And yeah, it turns out coffee is terrible. I can imagine it would be, yeah. It's fatal, over more than 140 milligrams per kg of coffee. So thankfully he didn't have that much. Well, at least I didn't think

he had that much, but I did wake up to him in the night. He was just standing on the bed. And you know when you get that feeling, even though you're asleep, someone's staring at you. I wake up and he's just looking at me with pretty intense eyes, just staring me down going, is it time to do some stuff? And no, it was 2 o'clock in the morning.

Dogs on coffee, not recommended. No. But they get into things. They do. Yours, what did yours eat and you had to pull it? Oh, it was one of the kids' socks when they were little. That's right. Yeah.

It was like a tug of war out the back end, wasn't it? Yeah, I went, oh, what's the extra tail? And then I was like, oh, uh-oh. Why did that fall on you? Why did you? Yeah, I know. Whose sock was it? It was one of the kids' socks.

Should have been the owner of the sock. There were three at the time. I was like, mate, get out there. A little tug of war game that you can Yeah, I know. Whose sock was it? It was one of the kids' socks. Should it be the owner of the sock? There were three at the time. Mate, get out there. A little tug-of-war game that you can play with the dog. All you need to do is get Sienna to hold the sock in the back and then you go and call the dog. He runs away. Yeah.

So it was a low moment in my life and the dog's life. We don't really talk about it too much together, the two of us. Okay, I'll add on to that. together, the two of us. Okay, 0800 The Hits. What have the dogs digested? Okay. We've seen it before on radio and we'll see it again. It is a rock solid topic. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

What the dogs have digested on 0800 The Hits. My dog managed to chew away on a coffee pot. And like me, very erratic and indecisive for the afternoon and spilling into the evening as well. He really was wanting to get stuff done, just be very productive. Now, on our Facebook page, we put a post up last night. A lot of people have had some dogs attempting to eat some sort of wild stuff, a lasagna, including the glass dish the dog had a crack at which seems like it's but he doesn't

know the difference or she doesn't know the difference electric blanket plug while it was plugged in and turned on so jeez but anyway the dogs fortunately the dogs are all fine in these stories i do like this one uh the netting off a pork roast but conveniently it came out the back end like a rolled up pork roast with the netting tidily. So it keeps it all together, doesn't it? It does. It's quite easy to pick up when you go out. Yeah, just pick up the string and away you go.

Rachel, welcome. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Doggy digesting what? So my dog climbed on my kitchen table, went through my purse and grabbed my codeine tablets. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. What happens when a dog eats codeine? Well, I did contact a doctor friend and he said, oh, I'll just let her go with it. But she just sat there and was quite spaced out. So she was kind of sitting there for a while and she kept on

going over sideways and then would catch herself and she'd wake up and then she'd fall over again it was um very drowsy yeah very very very i didn't know that dogs could fall over sideways but yeah probably should be operating heavy machinery or driving or anything in that state that's for sure geez so the dog's fine now oh you know the dog was fine like this dog eats everything side of the couch a plastic air bed. Yeah, no, this is just an ongoing thing. She'll just eat anything that is around.

It's very impressive with four legs to even fall over sideways, isn't it? I mean, you've got four times the amount of support and two times more support than we do, but I imagine a very relaxed afternoon. It was a very, very quiet evening back there. It was great. I actually managed to get some sleep without being woken up half the night

so it was wonderful. Good on you Rachel. Appreciate it. Another great text here from Jenna Haywood. Dog ate the entire remote control. The couch cushions, the door frames, socks, dining chairs, you name it, the Espanol has eaten it all. Liz Marr is with us

on the phone. How are you? Good. How are you? We're good. We're talking about doggy digesting. What did your dog eat? I know. Well, it was my friend's dog.

They were at the dog park, and they were standing around chatting with a group of friends. Obviously, the dog was on a leash, and the next moment they wanted to turn around and grab their dog to go back home and the dog was completely missing with a little small chunk of leash hanging off. So it looks like the dog has chewed its leash and ate up. Ate its leash? The whole leash? Yeah, it ate its leash and the dog ran off in the park. They caught the dog and then they had to take the dog to the vet to take the whole leash out.

So they ate his whole leash. Oh, my God. Did they have to pull the leash out like a magician, you know, when they pull out the handkerchiefs? Unfortunately not. They had to take the dog to the vet. But the dog was okay. It just ate its whole leash.

That is, wow. I imagine if he's eating leashes, he must have a great history of eating other stuff. Yeah. My dog has eaten my uncle's passport. Your uncle's passport? Yeah. I had to go and renew their passports and it ate the whole photo part of their face.

So they had to get a brand new passport as well. Well, that seems like that's the excuse that you use, right? For the homework. Yeah, my dog ate my homework, my dog ate my passport. Yeah, wasn't that great for them, unfortunately? No, well, because I meant for the dogs too. Imagine after one or two bites.

I'll give them a grace of two bites. You would go, hmm, this is an unusual taste. But you keep ploughing on through the whole leash or through the whole passport. I know, and that is when no one realised when they're actually doing that. That is, wow, that's really impressive Alizma. Thank you so much for your time, appreciate it.

No worries, you guys. Have a good day. You too, mate. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We play a little game called Yeah, Nah, Yeah. If you can guess the year before Jono, then you will win. I thought you could call it, um, Ben there done that. So it's Ben, because you run the game I thought you could call it Been There, Done That. Oh.

Because you run the game, you know, and it's been going. You're fluttering, flickering through the history books, time-travelling through the history books. I like that. Okay. All right. Well, we'll just call it that from now on. Been There, Done That.

But for now, this is the game. Yeah, nah. Yeah. Until next week, Been There, Done That. You need to guess the year that these iconic things happened within New Zealand and around the world. This would be significantly more successful on my part if I was allowed to Google. Yes.

And I'm only allowed one guess. So, oh, 800, that hits the telephone number if you think you can beat me to the year. Planet Hollywood New Zealand opened in this year. I remember this. Opened in, yeah, a state-of-the-art building in Auckland called Force Entertainment Centre on Queen Street. And it is. It's a real spacey video with lifts

that you can kind of see through and all sorts of escalators and stuff like that. I don't know if you've been there recently, it's not so state of the art now. It's really sad it's really sad, there's nothing, there used to be a food court, there's all the shops, it's all just a Borders bookstore It was the entertainment

mech and you had all of Hollywood in this building. I have shot glasses at home that say Planet Hollywood, New Zealand on them. It's no longer a thing. Now, this was a restaurant chain owned by a conglomerate of famous people like Sylvester Stallone. Yeah, I think Arnie was there. Bruce Willis, I think, were all the people that owned Planet Hollywood around the world. One came to New Zealand in this particular year, and even stars came to visit. Robin Williams was the first star, the very funny comedian actor who came to New Zealand in this particular year, and even stars came to visit. Robin Williams was the first star, the very funny comedian actor who came to New Zealand.

And Bicentennial Man was the name of his movie he was promoting. He went into Planet Hollywood as well. He even spoke about how he was mates with Jonah Lummu. When I met him, it was like an eclipse. The light was blocked. Oh, it's Jonah! He's just gigantic. And the fact that he's that big

And runs that much And that fast And that far All the time Awesome isn't it Literally they have five Frenchmen on him And they're looking We can't bring him down

It's crazy Someone get a rock Get the tiny one with the stones Throw it at him Yeah He was obsessed with rugby Yeah Wasn't he

Yeah and he loved Jonah right So that opened the year I'm thinking I'm not going to lock in my year But I'm thinking 90s. Yes, you're right, in the 90s. It is in the 90s somewhere. Also, this iconic commercial in New Zealand.

This was a great commercial for Toyota Hilux. Bugger. Easy now, son. Ooh, bugger. Easy now, son. Ooh, bugger. Script-wise, it was pretty easy to write, but a very effective ad, wasn't it? And they taught the dog to say bugger too, didn't they? That's right, at the end of the ad.

Yeah, wonderful trick. Okay. Do you want one more thing as well? We were talking about Christopher Lux and talking about the real Slim Shady. This song came out this year. It launched... Was that in the 90s?

Launched Eminem onto the scene before the album came out the following year, which was good. Okay, I'm going... Rebecca's phone's through. I'm going to lock in 1999. Okay, let's see what Rebecca says. Rebecca, we'll get you on.

What are you thinking? That's what I was going to go. 1999. Okay, let's see what Rebecca says. Rebecca, we'll get you on. Yeah. What are you thinking? That's what I was going to go, 1999. Well done. You're both correct. Well done, Rebecca. We're going to send you out some hell pizza. Awesome.

Thanks, guys. What were you doing in 1999? Oh, I was flying out to Australia. Oh. Well, yeah. I was preparing for Y2K mate I was building a bunker Stocking up on water Cheese

Chips Supplies I don't know why we had so much cheese But we had a lot of it in that bunker That was a wild time Y2K wasn't it We thought everything was going to go haywire And it didn't

What was more wild COVID or Definitely COVID COVID actually probably went a lot more wild Than Y2K actually did Hey Rebecca We're going to send you out some help. Eat, see you.

Have a great day. Yes, guys. Have a great day, too. Good on you. There you go. 1999. 1999. What a year.

What a year. I remember going to Mount Maunganui for the Millennium for New Year's Eve. Oh, yeah. And we were all waiting for 1201 because that was doomsday. Yes. Whenever all the computer systems were going to crash the banking infrastructure was going to crumble and we all waited at 1201 and everyone was like you looked at each other are we dead yet and you keep going on it didn't happen hey

the next day happened the next day happened and uh you felt dead the next day i wish i was