Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: That Don't Impress Me Much...

Episode Date: November 2, 2023

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The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Of course it was Halloween this weekend. I went to the mall yesterday and Christmas trees already up. Yeah, quick turnaround. Yeah, they really ripped down their pumpkins and skeletons sort of overnight, don't they? Just knocking at the door of Christmas. Yeah, Mariah Carey, who obviously has the massive hit, All I Want for Christmas,

Halloween just finished in America and she's released a video where, you can have a listen to it here. She's inside, so she's inside like a big block of ice and then she's like, it's time and then she breaks out of the ice. She's thawed herself out.

She's ready for Christmas and then she busts into All I Want for Christmas is You. Jeez, I feel like we just copy and paste Mariah Carey conversations every 12 months so many years so in someone's... But at least she's embraced it. She's embraced it. She's like I've thought myself out for Christmas I'm ready to go again. She's the queen of Christmas she calls herself. Yeah exactly. Didn't she want to she wanted to like copyright a term didn't she last year and they wouldn't let her. Oh yeah.

What was that she was trying to copyright? Do you remember Patricia Stowe? The Queen of copyright a term, didn't she? Last year, and they wouldn't let her. Oh, yeah. What was that? Was she just trying to copyright? Do you remember Patricia Stowe? The Queen of Christmas, I think it was. It was the Queen, yeah, and someone else was like, no, I'm the Queen of Christmas.

That's right. And then they got into a bit of a bickering argument. But you're right, I think she's been sued again for like... Surely Mrs. Claus is the Queen of Christmas. Yeah, you're right. All I Want for Christmas has been sued by someone else who also had the name of a song, All I Want for Christmas. been sued by someone else who also had the name of the song All I Want for Christmas. But it feels like every year they pick up this lawsuit.

How long has All I Want for Christmas been out? A long time now. It feels like you've had your chance to sue. Yeah. It's a huge song and no doubt we'll hear it a lot more. But it feels like we've gone early, but maybe it is the start of Christmas. 4487, actually, have you got a Christmas tree up already? Have you already got it up?

Because I reckon no one listening right now would have it up because it's too soon. Unless you're so lazy you haven't taken it down from last year. Or your Westfield Mall. That's the only people that would have it up. If you haven't taken it down from last year, you'd really be hanging out for November. Yeah. Because now you're topical again. Well, yeah.

It feels early, but hey, maybe you're right. Maybe as soon as Halloween's finished, that's when we start the runway to Christmas. It's exciting. I don't care. I used to get all, I don't know why, or maybe it was just for radio purposes, get wound up that we'd start too early. But there's nothing wrong with going, hey, there's light at the end of the tunnel. Yeah, that's true. Giving us all hope.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. And now last night, driving around as the two, and I like to flick radio stations, sometimes listening to a bit of talkback to see what they're talking about. Marcus Lush. He does a great job, Marcus. Brendan in the evenings does a great job on The Hits as well,

but I was flicking between the two, and then I heard a voice come up on Newstalk ZB talking about fireworks. And I was like, I think I know that voice. Have a quick listen. And a lot of people my age do love fireworks, but I just think that

there's not much of a place at the moment for fireworks. It's producer Joel. It's producer Joel. Are you producer Joel? Are you producing, are you producer Joel for Marcus as well?

No, well, obviously I can't get any mic time here, so our boss gets a bit angry. I thought maybe why not try getting a gig at ZB doing a bit of calling. He's such a unique person. He does social sport every night of the week. He spends his time phoning talkback.

A lot of mornings he'll come and he's like, phone Marcus last night. Are you phoning because you work in radio and he sounds like there's no callers calling through or you're phoning because you really want to give your opinion? Well, he was battling last night, but also I was driving home from playing touch last night,

about a 30 minute drive and I thought, why not just kill some time and just, yeah. Every time we've gone on Talkback Radio, I find that you start talking and you phone up,

you're like, here's my point. You start talking, but then they ask follow on questions and you start to lose your place. And you're like, I'm just going to say

a lot of words and then hopefully they loop back around to the point i was initially trying to make because sometimes they have counterpoints you're like very good i hadn't thought of that but you still want to stick to your original thing yeah uh but but yeah okay so what's your what's your thoughts on fireworks and them and them well also because we have to wake up quite early in the morning as well yeah last night at about 10 15 i probably.15, I probably sound like an oldie saying this. Yeah, well, that's interesting because you are 23 years old. Didn't say this, right? Now, bearing in mind you've just come off a talkback radio call,

you're definitely sounding old. I also got blasted by Marcus last night. He completely disagreed. He's like, it's the only fun we still have left in New Zealand. All the shows are useless, like the big fireworks shows and stuff. But I think get rid of fireworks. So you're thinking that the general punter should not be able to go buy fireworks. You're okay to have them at public displays, New Year's, things like that?

Think of the animals as well. Oh, yeah, I'm with you. I know this is the one topic that Ben really, you're quite firm on. I know that and hand sanitization. Yeah, well, I mean, maybe if it was just one night, I would feel better. But it's but it's not you get the same as last night you get the lead into it uh it starts and then you get the lead in after it's probably a two-week thing pretty much you get a week before a week after

it's like maybe if it went one night got put up with it the dog you can look after the dog and stuff maybe that was fine but it just keeps going i uh i say let's keep him keep him for general access what are we we're turning into bloody China? What is this, a communist nation? Yeah, sure you're gonna get a few people putting skyrockets out of their butt cheeks. That's what's gonna happen. It does happen. But you've got people who are really into it. Like Robert who I used to work with, Robert Taylor. Geez, he loved fireworks. He was like, I've got the big jerker, all the flamethrower, all these crazy fireworks he's got. I heard a point yesterday someone made,

which is like, why do we celebrate this? Like, why? When you go back to what it actually is, it's like some guy trying to blow up Parliament. Nothing to do with our country. Really? So I was like, why don't we make it, and far be it for me to suggest something

that I don't know fully about, but why don't we make it a celebration for Matariki? And that's our New Zealand. I don't know. Maybe there's a suggestion there. They were saying it's in the winter. It gets dark earlier. You know, there's less chance of a fire. We're celebrating a terrorist

attack, aren't we? Well, pretty much. Yeah. A guy falls bomb to Parliament. He tried to. I think it failed. But yeah, but that's exactly what we're doing every year. So, yeah. Okay. So what is this? Fireworks, yay or nay? Yeah, can the general punter, should a punter be able to go out and buy fireworks?

That's my question. I'm saying no. I feel like they are on the verge of where we were with plastic bags. They're still around, but they're definitely losing popularity. Although I think the national government have said that they'll continue to keep, they have no plans to get rid of them. Producer Joel last night got himself involved in a night time that they'll continue to keep. They have no plans to get rid of them. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Producer Joel last night got himself involved in a nighttime talkback radio, phoning up Marcus Lush, wanting to ban fireworks, public access to fireworks, Joel. Get rid of them, man. Get rid of them. And Marcus didn't agree with you. He didn't.

I know. Put me on the roast for about two minutes on air. It was embarrassing. I'm just trying to help you out here. He put you on the bonfire. The issue is, too, when the host doesn't agree with you, they've got a lot of great points that they're arguing yeah yeah yeah you're right you're like i was just trying to help you fill some air time

and then so was the next caller too who phoned up b do it's marcus welcome and good evening hello hi b do what's happening? Nothing. He's like, that's why I'm phoning Torbay Radio. I've got nothing to do. All right, so fireworks. Can the general public, should they be allowed to? I'm not talking about public displays. I'm just saying the general punter, the Munters like you and me,

should you be allowed to go along and buy like a big box of fireworks and just let them off whenever you want? You like public displays of fireworks? I do, I love it. Not public displays of affection? No, don't love that, no. So Ange, this is our old mate Ange from Hamilton. How are you? Good morning, team.

Good morning. Always in a metaphorical sense, not literal. Yeah, I've been mates for a while now. Nice to hear from you. What do you think? Fireworks, should they be banned from punters buying them? No, keep them, but just lower the price. Oh, lower the you. What do you think? Fireworks, should they be banned from punters buying them? No, keep them, but just lower the price.

Oh, too expensive. How about state-funded fireworks? Take the GST off fireworks, like fruit and veg they were going to do. Do you obviously buy them and celebrate at home, Ange? Yeah, but we've sort of lowered our things now. We sort of just

buy sparklers and the Roman candles. Oh, yeah. Sparklers are harmless. Yeah, that we've sort of lowered our things now. We sort of just play sparklers and the Roman candles. Oh, yeah. Yeah, see, sparklers are harmless. Yeah, that's cute. That's nice. We used to live on a farm back in the Wadden Up, and that seemed like it was okay when you were away from everyone else. You weren't upsetting anyone else.

Do you like the Big Bertha banger box or whatever they call them? Back in the day. Yeah. Warehouse. Remember the warehouse used to bloody stop from the ceiling to the floor? Yeah, it was huge. I don't think they do that anymore.

Thanks for your call, Angie. We'll send you out some hell pizza. Good on you, mate. Lovely to hear from you. We'll go to Carla in New Plymouth. Welcome, Carla. For or against public fireworks or public access to it?

Not in that. No, I'm against it. Oh, you guys. You guys are all nerds. Joel, Bea, Carla. What? Animals get... I mean, the dog last night was barking.

Don't bring the animals into it now. I look like a... You're a monster. I'm with producer Joel. You're with producer Joel. You can't even buy decent fireworks anyway. They're all crappy ones. Only good ones are the public displays. Yeah, you're right. Only good ones are the public displays.

Yeah, you're right. They are great, the public displays. Don't get me wrong. I really do enjoy them when they're done properly. Remember the double happies you used to get as well? Oh, yeah. Like little gungy people who put them in letterboxes and stuff. Those were the good old days.

Yeah. I remember as a kid, I had one of those, and then my sister's friends were all around. I was like, get out of the way, get out of the way. I can't throw it. They didn't get out of the way, and it went way i can't throw it they didn't get out of the way and it went off in my hand oh geez running under the thing it was oh it was traumatic as a kid now it actually reminds me now i know why your stance is so strong on fireworks because you lit off fireworks during a very

flamboyant michael jackson performance high school. I did, I did. Set the gym alight. I did. I got a week's special detention. So yes, right, yes. We'll take one more quickly. Debbie, ban them or keep them for the public fireworks? Ban them.

Ban them, yeah. Have you had an incident with them, Debs? No, but I used to work with a lady who had just bought a house and it burnt down because of fireworks landing in her gutter. So yeah, they're dangerous. And back to the animals, you know, some idiot always hurts an animal. So, no, I think public displays only.

Oh, again, when you guys bring in burnt down houses and animals now. You've got no argument with that, have you? No, I don't. I've got nothing. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Who's having the best weekend? Very exciting. This is when workmates and dear friends become sworn enemies. Hayley from the Hits in Wellington and, as always,

Connor from the Hits in Christchurch. They do make it awkward when we gather as a team, don't we, for a conference once a year. They're like, you have to choose sides, and we all have to awkwardly sort of sit on one side of the room. Welcome, Hayley. Hello. Good to be back.

Good to have you on. This is the ugly side of this friendly, accessible radio station. Once a week, you two going at it. What's happening in the North this weekend, Hayley? Well, if you had to think of an event that is classic, filled with nostalgia and doesn't get more Kiwi,

what would it be? Jandal racing, holding Kiwis while running to the finish line and diving into a pavlova. Really, really close. The Manawatu A&P show. Oh, yeah. Some of those things may be there.

You're right. Yeah, it's a classic. You can go. There's cows, pigs, alpacas, pet lands. The fire service is going to be there in Manawatu as well for the little kids that love the fire trucks and things like that. And also wool handling competition. You know, there are books written on that.

It's really intense, apparently. Well, that sounds scratchy. It sounds itchy. I know. Now, I know I'm going to lose favour and credibility with the rural sector here, but I've never questioned what the letters A and P stand for. Agriculture, I'm picking. Yeah, agriculture. I've never questioned what the letters A and P stand for. Agriculture, I'm picking. And performance and pasture. I'll look into that.

Yeah, I'll look into that. Agriculture and pets? No, not really. Okay, well, Ben's doing some Googling, some panicked Googling. What else is happening in the North, Hayley? Wow, we have. How often have you wished you had a mosaic lamp? I can't count the amount of times.

You had to say it this morning, weren't you? Yeah, I was like, jeez, I wish I had a mosaic lamp. Yeah, well, now you're in luck. You can actually make your own in Mount Albert, Auckland, and learn it with an ancient 500-year-old Turkish technique, latiles, make your own, and have Turkish treats and tea at the same time. Hopefully not Turkish delight. I mean, the Turkish are delightful people,

but I'm not a fan of the Turkish delights. I've never met one I like. They're way too sweet. Turkish delight. Not Turkish people. Yeah, I was going to say, wow. We're not going to have a racism scandal here. Well, there we go. Agricultural and pastoral shows. Pastoral. Pastoral is what the AMP was. Hayley, well, there we go. Agricultural and pastoral shows. Pastoral.

Pastoral is what the AMP was. Hayley, well, that's what's happening in the north. Let's whip across to Kano to find out what's happening in the south. What up, sea dog? How are you? Yeah, Kilda. Morning, how's things? Nah, we're doing well, my friend.

What's happening in the South Island this weekend? It's Night Market Central Christchurch this weekend. We've got three in the next two days. We'll start tonight, the Tannery's 10th anniversary celebration night market. I can see this is the kind of night where either you take the family with you or you leave the kids at home and you kick on at Blue Smoke with some awesome pizza and some local craft beer. There's food trucks, games, face painting. Bouncy Castle, they always insinuate that they're only for kids,

but I don't understand the discrimination there. I feel like parents should be able to bounce them in as well. Yeah, a lot of ACC claims too, if you're suggesting that people kick on. Then in this bouncy car, we've been to the Tannery a couple of times. It was marvellous. It was awesome. A great little mall.

Beautiful place. Then Leighton Street Festival on Saturday. That's on Manchester Street. Apparently there's an after party following that as well. That's kid-friendly. My favourite night market's an after party following that as well. That's kid-friendly. My favourite night market, though, is Saturday night as well. So tomorrow night it's at the Fairy Meats Heritage Park, and the whole idea of it is it's firework-free.

So you can bring your dogs along. They've got cocoa mutt on site with dog ice cream. It's $2 entry. It's basically a safe haven for dogs to escape all the fireworks across the weekend. But I've got one of the best events I've found all weekend, lads. And I'm not sure if you know this, but you rate number one in the small, sleepy town of Te Ana. You know Te Ana in the South Island?

We know you. Lovely place. Yeah, yeah. They've got an open home tomorrow at Nine Miller Place if you're keen to go along. Okay. Are we doing some personal real estate advertising here? You had us and now you lost us. I'm sure it's a lovely place but I'm sorry you're too specific now.

I'll give it to Hayley. You know you start reaching once we mention open homes in Te Anau. I'm sure it's amazing. I was trying to include a small town that we don't often mention. No you're right. It was lovely, I appreciate it. And hopefully the market's right for them in Te Anau

this weekend you guys have a wonderful weekend we appreciate your time as always thanks guys I made a recommendation of a

like a food truck takeaway place to a friend I was like it's magnificent you'll love it you must go there so Tuesday night he went and got takeaways on the way home from work to a friend. I was like, it's magnificent. You'll love it. You must go there.

So, Tuesday night, he went and got takeaways on the way home from work, brought them home, and he texted last night. He said, hey, tried that place.

I was like, great, how good is it? He said, all four of us are currently holed up in bed with gastro.

Uh-oh. And you think it might have been. Yeah, and then so I'm like, he's like, I can barely muster up the energy to even send this text message. He said it's coming out of all ends, even my ears. And I quickly hop on the Google. I'm like, food poisoning, you know, how do you trace it back to it? It's in that two to three day sweet period too.

So it could be. I mean, you don't know 100%. And I don't want to mention the place. it might not be right you know and that's the thing with it you don't exactly know where you got it from you can have a good idea you have a theory but i mean sometimes i guess if you you go all that chicken was definitely raw then that's a but and you've actually it made me question whether i should give any more recommendations because you're putting your good name to this, but you know, you're endorsing this wonderful business. Yeah.

And then everyone's like, oh, such and such, Jono said we should go. And then you're like, oh, thanks, Jono. That was... The bonus is a bit of a pre-Christmas shred. Great way to knock off 5kgs. But yeah, they can't move at the moment. All lying in bed. So that's probably the last time I'll give any recommendations.

Well, let's go. Let's go. Let's back. back let's go good recommendations this morning have you got some good recommendations that you could you know just be positive not places that are giving you gastro or anything like that you know well i can i can send you to a great place if that's what you are places let's give some shout outs i know a hundred the hits of some places that you might recommend around the country um i'm not going to go particular places, but I've just got some recommendations of some hacks, some hacks to do with adults getting child stuff. NBA tops. If you want an NBA top, buy a child's extra large,

and it will fit. It'll be a lot cheaper, and it should hopefully still fit you. You do buy child's sporting merchandise, but it looks like you've bought it, and you've checked it in the dryer, and it's just like just squeezing in. Not everyone can fit child sporting merch. You want to order food around your house with delivery,

and you're not super hungry, order from the kid's menu. They're not going to turn up and go, is there a kid in the house? Is the kid going to eat that? You can order off the kid's menu. That is actually, yeah. You notice how everything just involves saving money. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

We want good recommendations for the country right now. If you want to put your good name behind something, or maybe your shabby name. I'm not here to judge. Well, I put my questionable name behind a sort of food truck outlet sent to my friend and his entire family along there Tuesday night. He you got takeaways and now they're all sitting in bed with food poisoning that's the risk you take though isn't it with a recommendation uh so yeah we just want some good ones good ones that we can copy and paste and share with other people we're going to kick

things off with lee in auckland you're on lee yeah hey i actually was recommending in the Te Hana cafe, they have some of the best pork sandwiches around. Oh pork sandwiches? Yeah, but actually go around and have it fresh made every day. Oh so what are we putting in a pork sandwich? Um let me guess. Oh no well with it with the pork I mean you know are we putting applesauce are we putting what goes in there? You can put applesauce, they have applesauce with gravy and you can put salad in as well if you want. Gravy in a sandwich. So we put in what what goes in there?

It's a versatile sandwich right okay, so that's Lee's recommendation best pork sandwiches cafe, Tihana Dibs you're on Raglan recommendations We've got loads in Raglan, as you guys know, but if there's any celiacs or gluten-free people out there, Raglan caters really well for them. We've got George's Beach Club, which you can sit outside and have your good George beer and whatever food you desire. They actually do quite a bit in tapas and stuff like that.

Their ceviche is amazing and their Korean fried chicken. And then Ulo's Kitchen, they have like heavy lounging music and they have beautiful prawn mayor arches. Yeah, we've got tons in Raglan. Debra, I'm going to ask you a question. Are you in any way associated with these businesses? I'm actually not. But my son has actually got celiac disease,

so we know we're all the good spots. Oh, that's lovely. Celiac-friendly town of Raglan. That's really good. Who would have thought that? Yeah, the best. Oh, good on you, dear. Yeah, I felt like that shit with the owner.

We are open from 9.30am till 7.30. You can get us at this website, the phone number, everything, but no. A salesperson. Good on you, dear. Well, you should be a salesperson for them. Go and have a wonderful weekend in Raglan. Joe from Christchurch. Recommendations?

Oh, yeah. That's what you should have called it. Recommendations. But I haven't given you any good ones. Oh, you told us how to save some money by buying kids' clothes or something. How are you, Joe? Good. I'm good.

Hey, I recommend the Thrive Cafe in Christchurch. $4 milkshake. That's not bad. It's good. And $10 for nachos. How much? $10 nachos. $10 for nachos.

That's really good. And $2 for sausage rolls. Oh, that's taking it at old school prices. I like it. Yeah. Healthy food is a wee bit more $8. You don't worry about it. They do their best.

They do their best. They do their best. That's really good. We want a belly full of milkshakes, sausage rolls and nachos. They're still doing $2 rice, which is another fave of Ben Boyce's in Christchurch. Wonderful place. Dumplings, I think there's a couple of them in Christchurch,

but one on Rickerton Road, and jeez, it's good. $2 rice. And they've been doing that since I was 20. It hasn't changed, I think, for 40 years. I'm always older than that now. Yeah. They haven't even factored in inflation.

Nah, that is like $2 rice, you get rice and an amazing sauce. What is it in the sauce? It doesn't matter. It's amazing. Whatever it is, it's amazing. The mystery sauce.

The colonel's not telling you what's in the 11 herbs and spices, mate, is he? But I'm going, why hasn't the price increased? Because they know they get you in there and then you get

some other stuff and I wouldn't be talking about it if it was like $9 rice, would I? It fed you for five years of your life, didn't it? $2 rice. Now, producer Taylor's been in New Zealand for just over a year. We want to make her an honorary Kiwi.

And we've decided that she needs to try the iconic cheese roll from Southend, from Invercargill. And the Batch Cafe do some of the best. And so we've got a plan to get one of the cheese rolls from Bacargal to Taylor because we can't get Taylor down there due to budgets. Due to budget restrictions. Liv from the Hudson in Bacargal is with us. Hey, I am good.

How are you? We're doing well. How's Bacargal? It's not too bad. We thought we were going to have some big downpours this morning, but I've opened up the curtains and it's lovely. Oh, lovely. It's always lovely down here You opened up the what sorry?

I opened up the curtains Now Liv you do a wonderful job for the hits in Invercargill and in the South End region and producer Taylor also does a great job up here as well, I don't know why I'm giving performance reviews What do I do? You do it, you're here each day.

But we find it shocking that producer Taylor has never had. He does a good job. He does a great job, but has never had an iconic cheese roll from Invercargill. Yeah, that's pretty shocking. How long has she been in the country now? Over a year. Over a year.

And hasn't tried it. Sort it out, Taylor. Yeah, sort it out. Well, Taylor. Yeah, sort it out. Well, we are trying to sort it out. Because Kate got in touch from the Batch Cafe in Invercargill. And she said to you what, Taylor? She is going to make me a fresh one and get it to me in Auckland somehow. So exciting.

So, yeah. Well, sound excited then. Yes, I'm excited. She's like, yeah. Well, I just. We haven't kidnapped you. I would be way more excited if I was going there to eat it then. Jesus. She's excited. She's like, yeah. Well, I just, I just. We haven't kidnapped you. I would be way more excited if I was going there to eat it fresh. Yeah.

But. You know the budgets won't allow for that. No, the budgets are tight at the moment, right, Liv? Yeah, they're pretty tight. And also, to be fair, I mean, I've got something in front of me. Yeah. Because I was a little bit concerned as to how you were going to get this. So there's a nice little chili bag that I do believe could be used

to get the cheese roll to you. So that's our idea, is we want to transport this piece of Kiwi culinary history from one island to the next. Now, we could just chuck it on a plane. It'll probably get here by this afternoon. Could put it on a courier. I guess the budgets might stretch for that,

but that doesn't seem quite as fun. It doesn't seem like it's worthy of this great monumental event, Taylor. Right. So what we want to do is we want the team of five million to bandy together. Oh. Oh. Remember that team of five million?

Yeah. Yes, I got mad at that. Yeah, great memories. And we're going to transport, with your help, this cheese roll from Invercargill to Auckland. Now, it can be handed from one person to the next, even if you're just travelling from Invercargill to Dunedin. You're just making that trip. Well, you can take it from there A to B and then pass it on like a cheesy baton.

That's right. So we've got a chiller bag. We've got some ice in there. We've even got a tracking, you know, a little tracking device as well. Right, right. Like a little Apple tag as well. So Liv, we're thinking on Monday morning at 7.30, could you go to the Batch Cafe and they can hopefully make you a lovely,

delicious cheese roll and we can put it in the bag and then we can get someone, if someone can help out, to transport some part of the way. You can hand it off. I can definitely do that. Is it okay if it's got a bite out of the end? I'm sure they'll make you another one. Perfect. Okay, you know, that's cool.

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Of course Liv will be there because she does a good job, Ben. She does a great job. She does a wonderful job. I've said that before publicly. I've put my good name behind you. So what are we talking?

7.30, 8 o'clock Monday? Yeah, 7.30 Monday morning we'll make the cheese roll at the Batch Cafe in Invercargill. If someone could help out and take it some other way. It doesn't have to be like John O said, the whole way.

I know you'd like it here quicker. Yeah, that's okay. I'm not going to be ungrateful. You sound very ungrateful. You do. We're doing all this for you, all the trouble we're going to. All right? Anyway, so it's departing in for Cargill on Monday morning,

destination Taylor's Mouth, hopefully by the end of the week. Yeah, let's hope so. Might be getting a little stale by then. Yeah, God. How long do you reckon that would last for, Liv? You know, a cheese roll. A normal cheese roll would probably last you about four years just sitting out on the bench.

Yes, you go four years, Taylor. Longest shelf life in a Big Mac. But the batch do make them nice and fresh with good ingredients, so I reckon a week's probably a good aim. Although Southland Hospitality, you'll probably have someone go, oh, it's no problem, and they'll just drive straight up to Auckland. Oh, bless. Okay. And they're like, I was just going to the petrol station. That's the commitment

they will have. Alright, 7.30 Monday, we'll talk to you. If you can help us get this cheese roll up the country. Firstly, we'll start it from Invercargill. Monday morning, 7.30, can you help us? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, we had a moment last night in our household.

I was asleep. My wife had gone to sleep as well. And it was probably about 11 o'clock, woke up to one of the kids standing just next to the bed. You know, when you're like, you sort of wake up. You know, sometimes you just know someone's in the room. Yeah, it's kind of like from a horror movie or something. And they stand there not saying anything. Yeah, it was my daughter, Indy, 11 years old.

And she was like, sorry, sorry. I've just been trying to sleep, but I can't sleep. We're like, oh, okay, what's wrong? She's like, tomorrow, meaning today, right now, she's like, I've got that doctor's appointment. I've got to go to the specialist. But I've also got a school trip. And we're like, oh my goodness, we'd forgotten.

We've kind of double booked the fact that there's doctor's appointment on the school trip. And then my wife says don't worry about it it's all good I've rung the doctor I've rescheduled for next week

and he's like oh great thank you this is a lot of conversation for 11 o'clock at night I'm like great thank you Amanda's got it I'm like good on Amanda

she sorted it it's all sorted it's all happened Indy goes back to bed goes to sleep I go back to sleep enter her in the wife of the year awards

I'm like this is amazing the wifeys's get a text from amanda before without a word of life she's like indy has a doctor's appointment today but she's going on a school trip i'm like but hang on last sort of this last night you said you'd phoned up and you'd rebooked with the doctor for next week she's like did i what i what i what now has no recollection of that conversation was just her like she's like i must have i what i what now has no recollection of that conversation was just her like she's like i must have been in a deep sleep having a conversation autopilot mode so i was like well you sound like you've sorted that out that admin's on you now well now you're in real life mode yeah and there's some issues isn't that funny that she was like the whole thing she's like i

honestly don't remember having that conversation and i just texted my daughter as well she's like yeah definitely said that yeah i sometimes do that as well. She's like, yeah, definitely said that. Yeah, I sometimes do that as well. I used to have a thing with locking the door. And in an old house we used to live in, I couldn't go to sleep without opening and shutting and opening and shutting and locking the door three times. But then what that would result in is in the middle of the night,

sometimes I'd wake up and just autopilot would open and lock the door. Oh so you had like kind of all my sleepwalk days. Yeah and I wake up in the morning the door wide open. Oh yeah. Had some troublesome times with that door in my sleep. I left the keys in the door. That's never a good feeling when you're like where's my keys and you find them in the front of the door you're like don't worry I found them. And there was a lady at the door. Oh that's right. And she remember that one? because we woke up and the keys were jangling and it was that thing of like

you've got to go and investigate and I'm like why do I have to go and investigate I don't want to investigate so we and then

I can hear jangling I'm like you put on the voice you know trying to make you sound 10 foot taller than you are and she's like

I found I just my kids are big fans I'm like oh dear Jesus and I'm like, oh dear Jesus. And I'm like, well, it's always good to meet one. So I open the door, let's have a selfie. Come in for a bloody mocha latte.

What do you want? Elon Musk, you know, he's going to be one of those figures in history that when he does go, he's made some changes, hasn't he? He's done some stuff. He's done some stuff. He's done some stuff. He made some changes hasn't he's done some stuff he has had some stuff he said some things he's done some stuff he's yeah you're right he's managed to lose twitter 25 billion dollars that's doing some stuff yeah uh but no he's obviously the tesla car uh a huge part of automotive history now and jess a friend of ours been she uh bought water tesla got the base level. And I didn't realize it's kind of like your Crocs, but you can add little gibbets and things.

So you can actually buy, if you pay more, accessories, like the navigation system and all that sort of stuff. And she just went and got the base level model. She couldn't afford. There's apparently a function that we've seen before. You push a button, the doors swing open open the boot and the bonnet swing open It creates a dance party. Yeah, it goes dance player. We didn't believe it, but we saw it with our own eyes We've witnessed a dance party from a tis later

What's fun feels like a huge waste of money resource and on R&D also a hazard to if you're standing behind the car It's on in the book comes up It's like raise your hands in the air. Well bang, you she wanted to show me a function uh ran into her have a listen to this this is my friend jessica and she has a tesla and you've just discovered a function what is it um it's a fart function so fart mode so from your cell phone you can control your car when you're not here and what does it do and you you won't make it far. What is the point of that? I have no idea. Have you seen it?

Is this your car doing that? Now imagine if... That's... I mean, smart people have spent too much time on that. And it feels like something that in a meeting Elon just said in passing

and they're like, oh, I guess he's the boss. He said it and then a conversation happened with my wife when she was half asleep before she didn't remember having it. Why did you make it funny? Well, you said it about three years ago. We've had all of our greatest researchers on it. Oh, I don't remember

saying that. If I did, I didn't mean it. Imagine if we thawed Einstein out or someone like that and Einstein came back and he's like, you know what? I left you guys in pretty good shape. Where have we got to? And then we're like, may we present to you the flatulence car. He'd probably be quite wowed by it.

I mean, when he left. Like, whoa. That's some huge advancements from when he was around. I mean, I know he's a smart guy. He's actually, no, it's bloody impressive, to be honest. You know what? That was was around. He was actually, yeah. I mean, I know he's a smart guy. He's actually, no, it's bloody impressive, to be honest. You what?

That was the car. That was not me. That was the car. There's no point to it. The car's already doing what it needs to do. So yeah, I'm 800 with the hits.

If it wasn't electric, it would make sense for that noise to come out of the exhaust pipe. Well, no, you're right. So I'm 800 with the hits. We just want you to impress us because that impress,

you know, that's... that's I know your stance on fart-based humour. Yeah, but it's impressive. Someone spent a lot of time on that. Yeah. Too much time. Yeah, maybe. So 0800 The Hits, you phone us up and you impress us with something you own, a fact you know, something you can do,

or something you've achieved. Alright, we'd love to hear from you this morning. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. So impress us. I remember we hit our friend who had a pizza shop. Yeah. Remember he was like, one night, one order, someone ordered 400 pizzas. He made 400 pizzas.

Yeah. Imagine if that was like. You know, pizzas are a mess like that. There'd be a couple of shaky ones in there, eh? Chuck it in the oven for about 32 seconds, that'll do. 400 in one go, that's impressive. We're going to go to Pairoa. Aaron, oh, sorry, Arlon, you're on.

How are you? I'm good. Impress us, Arlon. In my year eight finals, rugby finals, I scored nine tries in one game. Wow, in the one game? Yeah. Hold on, hold on.

Sorry, no, we've just had word from the Rugby World Cup TMO. Eight of those tries have been disallowed. I'm sorry, Alan. No, that's so impressive. Thank you. Well, describe your best one. The best one. What was your favorite try of the day?

What did you have to do? It was probably the last try of the game, and I was like a Bowdoin Barrett one. Oh, Bowdoin would have loved that. So you got 45 points yourself. Yeah. Jeez, that's impressive. Do you do the kicking as well?

No, my friend does. Yeah, right. Not much more I can do, mate. Over to you. That is very, very impressive. We're going to send you out some health pizza for you and your family this weekend. Thank you. Karen with us on 0800 the hits impress us.

Eating a 5kg bag of carrots when I was pregnant with my first child. Jeez, that's a lot of carrots. That's a lot of carrots. In one sitting? No, over a day. That's's a lot of carrots. That's a lot of carrots. In one sitting? No, over a day. That's still a lot of carrots. I mean, I do love my carrots, but... Yeah, true, yep.

I loved anything that was like that, and I actually even drank a bottle of vinegar. Was this a craving situation type thing? It was a craving situation, yes. Anything vinegary or pickled onions. My wife was the same thing. Once, through one of their pregnancies,

she was drinking from the pickle, the juice, the brine, you know, from the pickle juice. Not the pickles, but the actual thing. She was like, I just want to drink that right now. You're like, okay. Yeah, well, that's what I was like, drinking vinegar and was like, oh my goodness. So would you pour the vinegar into a glass or are you straight out of the bottle?

Straight out of the bottle, mate. Are we talking malt or white? Malt. Malt vinegar? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. They say that's apple cider vinegar too.

Apparently that's the one to cure for a hangover. Yeah, well, apple cider vinegar is actually really good to drink with a bit of a honey. It's good for your stomach. But I'm not too sure about drinking gallons of malt vinegar. Yeah, and so were there any long-lasting repercussions from demolishing five kilograms of carrots in a day? Oh, just having all these orange-looking blotches all over my hands. Yeah, because I have heard that if you eat too much,

it can make and discolour your skin, sort of Donald Trump-esque. Yeah, exactly. You look like you've been in the tanning booth. Yeah. Jeez, you must have had some incredible, you know, if the rumours are true, incredible night vision. I don't know about that. I really had orange skin.

Your eyes were like a night vision camera. That's amazing. Well, Donna, congratulations. That is a great feat, five kilograms of carrots in one day. Yep, excellent. you you you