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Episode Date: July 30, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. The Football Ferns last night, it was a little draw, but unfortunately that means they won't be through to the knockout stages, the round of 16 in the World Cup. It is despair in Dunedin. The World Cup dream ends here. Yeah, proud of the football fans and the way they've captivated the hearts of the nation. But it's just a shame that they didn't quite get it last night. And you're just, the whole time you're just like, get a goal. Just get a goal. It's a lot easier said than done when you're yelling on a couch. That's football, by the way.

Just get a bloody goal. Yeah. Yeah. No, there was some close shots, though. Yeah, there was. On any other day A draw with The Swiss

Would have been Fantastic result For New Zealand That game against The Philippines Just will come back To kind of haunt them A little bit eh

Yeah Ah well hey That's football baby That is football I've always said That's football baby We've always swept up In the magic

Over the weekend I went and saw The new Mission Impossible Movie How was that? Amazing stunts. Is it a Mission Impossible? What number is it?

I think it's like nine or something. It's definitely, yeah. When do you reckon he's going to stop with the Impossible missions? Well, this one's part one of part two. So he's got one more mission to go. But that stunt, have you seen that stunt where he rides a motorbike off a cliff and then he parachutes down? That was on Instagram.

Yeah. Incredible. It's like he'sutes down. That was on Instagram. Yeah, incredible. It's like he's riding a bike into the Grand Canyon. And basically the bike drops out from underneath him. He's so high in the air and he just parachutes down. That was day one of filming I was reading about. So he's got a backpack on with a parachute in it. And he was like, well, day one of filming, I need to do this day one because if things go wrong,

that's the movie. And I don't want this hanging over my head. So he's like, we've got to do this day one. We've got to prepare for it. And go wrong, that's the movie. And I don't want this hanging over my head. So he's like, we've got to do this day one. We've got to prepare for it. And day one, that's the first thing we film. If it goes well, we'll carry on filming the movie or not. That's a really good mindset because if it was the last thing you filmed and things did end terribly and he perished, you're like, what happened?

Yeah. Well, it turned out the mission was impossible. It's pretty incredible that Tom Cruise actually did it it destroyed uh six motorcycles while doing it as well they had to get a chopper to pick up the motorcycles afterwards so there was no wastage and stuff there in the area which so the logistics of it they just built this massive ramp what a waste of motorcycles give those motorcycles to some orphans in africa but building this big ramp up a cliff which is pretty impressive and you watch the instagram footage of him doing it. But then in the movie, there's no ramp, obviously,

because it's just him riding off a cliff. So they've got to use special effects on removing the ramp. I'm like, well, just use special effects on Tom Cruise going off a cliff. Yeah. Yeah. We've got bloody AI. Exactly. They're doing all the actor's jobs anyway.

Tom, mate. You just, you know. Yeah. But it's pretty incredible that Tom Cruise managed to do that. And for a guy who's what 60?

Yeah. 61? Yeah. Jeez. No no. Every time we talk about Tom Cruise I'm like he's ageless.

He is. This is what Scientology does for you. Maybe that's the key. That's the fountain of youth. That's the impossible mission staying looking

that good. Basically looks 30 for the last 30 years isn't it? It's insane. Was it a good movie? looking that good. It basically looks 30 for the last 30 years, doesn't it? It's insane. Was it a good movie? It was fun. It was fun. Amazing stunts.

It's kind of had a bit of a battle at the box office, hasn't it? Yeah, I think it's probably losing out to Barbie and Oppenheimer. Played Monopoly with the family lately? Not for a while, but we do love our board games. Nothing brings a family together and then rips it apart like a game of Monopoly with the family lately? Not for a while, but we do love our board games. Yeah, nothing brings a family together and then rips it apart like a game of Monopoly. It's a great way to spend the afternoon bickering with your loved ones, isn't it, Monopoly? Because I didn't realise this, you have your first argument around, can you buy property on the first round?

Oh yeah. The first lap round. Where does all the money from the fines go? Does that go to free parking Or does that go back Into the bank Gotcha Always some discrepancy Around the rules

But then once you get into it It's just greed And capitalism At it's finest Takes a while To build up Monopoly too I find Because everyone's

Buying their stuff And then eventually Bang bang bang You know Everyone you land on Is getting reamed By four hotels And I'd set up

A beautiful little triple triple threat there yeah nice yeah yeah and i had i had to did the houses then i uh you know developed the property into hotels it was a dangerous little stretch to land on yeah but the family would land on it and they'll be like oh no we're not paying you well this isn't the rules of monopoly they're like no no it's not fair i was like but me having hotels is not fair you put all this you know now i feel like you know the top two percent of earners in this country and what the labour party are doing to them when does the property developer get a break you know exactly hard-working money-grubbing property developer so yeah that's the game just

fell apart from that point yeah but it's i But I find, like, I know there's Speed Monopoly now. Everyone's like, get up, mate. Monopoly deals meant to be really good. Is it quick? It's quick. You don't even need a board for that, apparently. Just run with cards. So, yeah.

So, yeah, it is a lot of fun. I'm always like, my first question to my wife at the start of the game with the kids, I'm like, how hard are we going? That's what I like to know. Like, are we going hard? Are we going to go? Or are we just going, it's a fun time. We're going to, you know? And that's where maybe I went wrong.

Like, you need to have the how hard are we going conversation. But then the kids are like, then you go hard. And then you say, all right, I will. Then they're like, oh, I don't like that. I'm going to bankrupt you. Smug little, yeah, yeah. Don't like that feeling, do you? Yeah, yeah.

So I'm like, well, what are we doing? So I want to play a game with you. Okay, my own little board game. I'm going to read the first line of a rule of a board game. You've got to guess what it is. Okay. See how many you can get in 30 seconds. Oh, so what the rule?

Yeah. So, for example, the goal of the game is to bankrupt your opponents by buying property, building houses. Oh, so that would be Monopoly. Monopoly. Okay. Okay, here we go. Players must end up with four of the same coloured discs in a row to win.

Oh, I connect four. Players must end up with four of the same coloured discs in a row to win. Oh, I connect four. Bang, well done. Each player chooses a mystery character and then using yes or no questions, decipher who your opponent is. Oh, guess who? Well done. Players roll six dice instead of five to make it a little easier to get those big roll combinations.

The rules otherwise are the same, though. The player must choose one dice to admit from the results, only using five score. It's not Yahtzee. Yahtzee, well done. He's on fire. A game for two players each controlling an army of pieces black or white in their colour with the objective to checkmate the

opponent's king. Chess. Well done. One randomly chosen player begins with the card Saza. Is it Saza? C-Z-A-R. And plays a black card Saza. Is it Saza? C-Z-A-R. And plays a black card. Oh. Cards against humanity. Oh, yeah.

You move from room to room to eliminate people, places, and weapons. Oh, cludo. Well done. One of your tiles must touch the other tile and play and alters the word, and you must turn into a brand new word. Oh, scrabble. On the buzzer. Well done.

Yeah. Do you like that game? Yeah, it was fun. It was a lot of fun. Feels like a one and done Oh, Scrabble. On the buzzer. Well done. Do you like that game? Yeah, it was fun. It was a lot of fun. Feels like a one and done situation though. Otherwise you're going to get into some obscure games. Cards Against Humanity, I didn't get that one right,

but that is a fun game, but that's also one you need to sort of, again, you need to gauge where you start. You know, because there's some stuff in there that... You can end up judging your friends. Oh, you can get cancelled very easily. You are a terrible human being. For that game. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Jono and Ben's Cake-a-thon. We want to bake every one of the cakes from the iconic children's birthday cake book. There's 106 cakes in that book, and we want to do it over a couple of days next week. If you can help us, go to thehits.co.nz. Yeah, our mums have said it can't be done. The haters, they're saying it can't be done. The cakers are saying it can't be done.

But what we realised last week is we need a kitchen. We need a kitchen on steroids because I thought we were just going to use the work one and make use of the leftover lasagna that's been sitting in there for six months. But we're going to need a proper, like an industrial-sized kitchen.

Yeah. Because we've got to navigate, you know, we're managing dozens of stressed-out amateur bakers here, and Ginny has come to the party. Good morning. Good morning. Lovely. How are you? Well, we're doing really well, and hey, you might be saving our bacon.

Well, we might be baking at your place, actually. Yeah, yeah, I hear that you are. That's wonderful news. We're very excited. You are coming to the Edmonds Baking School, which is part of the Chelsea Bay Visitor Centre and the Chelsea Sugar Factory in Birkenhead. Awesome.

Oh, the Chelsea Sugar Factory. Must be a nightmare with the bloody ants there. I've seen the building. I've never actually been in there, but driving across the Harbour Bridge, you see it. It looks like a wonderful, almost like a Willy Wonka-esque sort of factory. Like it looks incredible.

Exactly, exactly. It's a pretty iconic building. You know, everyone knows about it, but now you can come and see it. We do tours of the factory. We've got the baking school, and we've got an interactive zone, and the sugar cafe, which is pretty famous famous and a playground for all the kids so playground for us as well we can take some time out from making cakes to head to the playground yeah exactly exactly it's a giant pink building but you're not getting up to any weird wonka antics in there there's not like a chocolate

river or something or no but maybe there should be. It sounds like there should be. Okay, so how many stations do we have? Because we've got to make 106 cakes over what we think of over a couple of days. I mean, how big is the kitchen that we can use? So it's a state-of-the-art facility. We've got 12 workstations. You know, if there's a couple of people baking at each workstation, you should be able to get through them, hopefully. I love state-of-the-art facility as well.

This is going to be some high-end cake making. It is. Now, you're obviously an expert. Actually, no, I'm not an expert. I'm going to be completely honest. I'm not an expert, but we do have expert pastry chefs in the kitchen. But could you pretend to be an expert for a second?

Oh, yeah, okay. Okay, 106 kicks, two days. Can it be done? Absolutely. Oh, good confidence, because there are a lot of people. That's from an expert. Yeah, well, yeah. But it depends on your, like, it's the decorating part that takes the time.

So it depends on your piping skills and, you know, all of that sort of stuff. So that's going to be the challenge. Well, we are going to assemble a team like the Avengers and Endgame of Great Bakers. Excellent. Of listeners to the Hits radio station. We've also found out there's six ice cream cakes. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So we have to tackle that. And there's a couple of problematic cakes that we might just have to cancel. Yeah. They haven't stood the test of time. Oh, okay, okay.

So next door in the interactive room, we've got a couple of display cakes. We've got a Barbie cake and a swimming pool cake. Are you going to do those ones? Oh, yes. Yeah, definitely. Can we say they're already done? Yeah. Okay.

Well, thank you, Ginny. Thank you done? Yeah. Okay, well, thank you. Ginny, thank you so much for having us at the Chelsea Sugar Factory and the Sugar Cafe and the State of the Art Kitchen. Looking forward to it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. This morning, I said before I had an entanglement with the law. Can I come clean? I probably oversold it.

I thought that might have been the case yeah because if it was a proper entanglement with the law you probably wouldn't be talking about it on the radio yeah uh but on the motorway no matter how old you are no matter where you are in life but when you pass a police officer so you drive past them you're both going on the motorway and you pass them still doing the speed limit right you feel like so what's he doing he's slow he's a bit slow he's slow yeah yeah you still you feel like a badass don't you and then they started following me i'm like here we go here we go and as soon as the police office starts following you no matter if you've done something wrong or you haven't you feel guilty

yeah yeah immediately or even if you see one on the side of the road you're like you're checking everything you're like speed good what's this good On the side of the road You're like You're checking everything You're like Speed good What's this good You go through your head You're like Drugs Chuck them out the window

It's all gone It's all gone But you I've got the soundtrack Of like Bad boys Or something Playing in my head

Or this song too Whoever sings this one Do you think But this is my thing With police Do you think Because they drive around All day do you think but this is my thing with police do you think because they drive around all day do you think they notice everyone just immediately slowing down as soon as they would definitely they'll be like yeah yeah i mean sometimes everyone drops from 80 to 50 you know like that that game that people play in the motorway and hopefully people doing the

speed even they're doing like the speed limit everyone still slows down when they go past the police. It's like in unison. So I did something that it felt like it should be illegal, but it wasn't. Passing a police officer this morning and I looked at a list today of things that aren't illegal but should be. And I just want to get your gauge on

this, whether we should actually make them illegal. People walking past you on escalators. Oh, no, I don't mind that. I bet you do. I've got somewhere to be. There's nothing more frustrating than the 30 seconds that someone... It's like, you're fine if you just want to stay.

Are you that busy in life? Oh, no, but sometimes you're just like, it's not a spectator sport. You know, like looking from the... Yeah, no, I'm like, yep, move over the left. I've got places to be. You must hate it You know when people Go with a trolley

And it locks in Oh I hate being that person Yeah I'm like Oh I can't move In the middle of the house And you're like Yes yeah

You'd be very aware Of the people That you're holding Okay so we're not Going to make that illegal Not me Not for me You're like a passing lane

On the escalator How do you Because you're Non-confrontational What do you do When someone's Standing bang in the middle and there's no passing option?

Nothing. I just go behind. In my head, I'm like... I'm not saying anything. You've got stuff to do. People who overdose on emojis on the text. I mean, I have a friend who honestly doesn't even use English, just communicates in emojis.

Yeah, I don't mind the odd emoji. Yeah, okay. Maybe too many might be illegal. Maybe there's a limit, like drinking. It's a Yeah, I don't mind the odd emoji. Yeah, okay. Maybe too many might be illegal. Maybe there's a limit, like drinking. It's a beautiful language, isn't it, an emoji? Yeah. But it is sometimes when he fires through 12 different emojis, it's like looking at Egyptian hieroglyphics or something.

People who leave rotting banana peels in your car door. Okay, okay. That should be a blue. You know that little slot in your card? I don't know what you're talking about. I have no idea what he's talking about.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We like to do this from time to time because it feels like it needs to be done and there's, you

know, spam gets, your spam on your email gets a lot of bad things said about it but maybe there's some treasure in amongst all that. The things that we

haven't replied or haven't checked out. It's kind of know your bedside table drawer you need to clear it out every six to twelve months don't you spam folder yeah i notice it comes under promotions now on gmail you get you get promotions uh but it does it ends it backs up like a clogged colon doesn't it your spam folder yeah so what have you got sitting in there? Well, look, I got an email first up from Netflix saying my account has expired, but part of their loyalty program, I can now extend for 90 days for free. And one of the things I didn't know, that Netflix has changed their logo, according to the spam email.

A very slightly different logo. To Netflix. So I didn't know that. But anyway, as a loyal customer of the program, all they need is my bank account details, even though they're not going to charge me, is great so thank you netflix what a generous because i know they're under the pump too financially at the moment and for them to give you a free 90 days when they're cracking down on family sharing i know who would have thought so that's something for me what have you got in your spam uh i've got a lot of ones from google telling me i'm running

out of space just going but that might not be spam give us give us some money and we'll give you some more drive but i've got one on whatsapp here from mimi oh yeah yeah mimi's messaged she says are we still on for yoga at 11 a.m oh it's been such a long time i can't wait to see you love heart emoji and to be honest i can't remember the last time mimi and me went to yoga no it's can't remember the last time Mimi and me went to yoga. No. I can't remember. Downward. It was an age.

Ships in the night. So I must get back to Mimi. I got one on WhatsApp as well, actually. It says, your son has been hit by a car and is in the hospital. So I was like, jeez, I didn't even know. It's frightening for me because I didn't know I had a son. There's a double blow. So illegitimate child, love child.

Who's told you that the son's been in my car? The number didn't come through. It just said your son is, yeah. Do you know where the son is? No, no, no details. No, wherever it is in the world. I'm just like, dear God, my poor son. Do you know his name?

No. It's just like, reach out to dad. I can imagine, you know, he's been hit by a car. He's like, reach out to dad. He doesn't know about me, but reach out. That's how it happened. And so what do they want you to do? I don't know.. He's like, reach out to dad. He doesn't know about me, but reach out. That's how it happened. And so what do they want you to do? I don't know.

They're just frightening the hell out of you? I don't know. But I have won a lot of cash as well, too, according to this. Free money. Free money. It's my lucky day. Just pay the shipping and handing charges and I'll get $15,000. So all I need to do is pay the, I don't know.

Of the cash. Yeah. So the cash can come to you. Yeah. So that's really nice. Again, for no reason Maybe it's from your son On his deathbed

The sooner I act The sooner it'll be in my hands Is what it said in my spam So they're probably right Jeez lady luck is on your side Free Netflix Free money I don't know why I need

Shipping paid For cash I mean Maybe it's so much cash They're like And it's So heavy They're like

They've got to get it To them by ship So that's lovely When you clear out Your spam I've got to get it to them by ship. So that's lovely when you clear out your spam. I've got another one here from lovely Lena. And she must be very cold because she's not wearing much. It's winter over here at the moment. Lena, what are you doing this weekend?

Wink. Oh. I replied, mowing the lawns, cutting my toenails. What are you up to? You also got your yoga. I've got yoga with Mimi too. Very busy weekend. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Hello, Emily speaking. Hi, Emily. Murray Deaker from Sports Talk. How are you? Hey, good, thanks. I'll just put you through to the studio for the live interview. Which, which, which? Weekends.

Mean. Sport. On your home of sport Newstalk ZB Yeah Sport We love our sport We've been loving the football world cup

As well and now we'll bring in Our live reporter who's on the scene Been watching all the games, there's no question She can't answer G'day The football World Cup, are we loving it? Yeah. You know,

oh, just watching the goals score, I mean, it's amazing. Bit of a generic sweeping statement there. The favourite player, standout player for you? Yeah, because a lot of great players throughout the tournament. If you could just pick one, I know it's going to be tough, but name a name. Your favourite player. I'll tell you what, I don't know the name. Number seven from the Philippines. She's could just pick one, I know it's going to be tough, but name a name, your favourite player. I'll tell you what,

I'll tell you what, I don't know the name, number seven from the Philippines. She's got short, curly, dark hair. She's amazing. She's all up in everybody's faces. Yes. We're heading into the business end of the tournament.

I mean, who are you picking? Two teams in the final. Oh, gosh, gosh, it's going to be a hard one. You know, I've been out on the street asking everybody what their picks are. Mixed messages. Oh, okay.

Can't put a finger on it, eh? No. It's a hard one, isn't it? And what's been the favourite fact that you've learnt over the tournament? I mean, there's so many great statistics coming out. Yeah, you know, football is completely spherical. It's a perfect round circle. This is why we keep you around.

We really appreciate your time as our number one sports contributor. It's just making sure the public knows what's going on. I think that's the main thing we're trying to do, you know? Yeah, right. Pump up awareness. Yeah, right. Do you think you might have to try and figure out what's going on first? You know, I just keep an eye out

and just kind of see what it's about. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes it's a bit confusing being a reporter on the street. Emily, it's John or Ben. I think you might have figured it out. Thank you very much. You were so good at spouting off pretty generic stuff.

I like the football spherical. It's good. It's good. And number seven for the Philippines with the curly hair. Yeah, some great... Curly. She is great. I wish I had called her name.

She was great. But she was up in everyone's face, wasn't she? She was. Brilliant. We're going to hook you up with a prize because you were so good. We appreciate you being such a good sport. Oh, amazing. You're such a good sport at being

a bad sport reporter. Try my best. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. And the Netball, the Silver Ferns in the World Cup as well. They're playing a relentless schedule as well so let's all get behind them over there in South Africa. Well, you've covered off football, rugby, netball, Ben,

but there's one sporting event that everyone was talking about over the weekend. Bailey. Hi. Good to have you on again. Now, on Friday, just recap with the audience what you were heading into on Saturday. It was Maramuru under 12 versus Hoki Kohe under 12. The grand final. The grand final. The grand final of the season.

Yes. And we won. Oh, you won. Yes. Talk us through the game. You probably wouldn't phone us up if you lost, would you, Bailey? I don't know. Yeah.

Now talk us through the game. Was it tense? Did you score? Yes, I scored a try. You scored a try. Well done. Yep. Oh, what a big win. Was it tense? Did you score? Yes, I scored a try. You scored a try? Well done. Yep. Oh, what a big win.

Did you have any biffo? Sorry? Any biffo? Was there any fights, any dust? No one started it. Well, one, but... There was one. There was.

The under 12s going toe-to-toe. It was obviously a tense final, wasn't it? A grand final. And what was the end result there, Bailey? 36-12. Oh, good win. It was obviously a tense final, wasn't it? A grand final. And what was the end result there, Bailey? 36-12. Oh, good win. Wasn't it a good win? What do you want to say to the other team?

They were a good opposition and they were really hard. Good, yep. And what do you want to say to your team? Well done, boys. We've gone from nothing to something. Did you start with nothing? Yes. Nothing?

No boots? No clothes? Well, no. No results and you've won the grand final. That's great. Did you do anything afterwards to celebrate? Yeah, we went out for lunch. Where did you go?

The restaurant. Oh, the restaurant. It's like Mad Monday in the NRL. You can't talk about it, mate. You can't. Not to the restaurant. Oh, the restaurant. It's like Mad Monday in the NRL. You can't talk about it, mate. You can't. Not to the media. What goes on in the restaurant stays in the restaurant. No cameras.

You know what it's like. No media. Oh, well, Bailey, congratulations. I'm glad you won. And, hey, onwards and upwards to next season. Yes, thank you. You keep us up to date with the 2024 results, all right? Will do.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yes, thank you. You keep us up to date with the 2024 results, all right? Will do. Now, Producer Taylor's come in. You spent the weekend in your homeland of Sydney, didn't you? Yes. Arriving back 10.30 last night. Yeah. You look as tired as that whole thing sounds. Yeah, I thought I was holding it well, but that's good to know.

Thanks for pointing that out. But you went back to your family. Yeah. The Lombardis. Now, you said something before you left that really rocked us on Friday. You said, I'm not looking forward to going back because? Because they have an open door policy. No matter who it is in the family, if they just go to the bathroom,

it's like, yeah, cool, leave the door open. It's not even like a big deal. Is this an Italian tradition? I don't think so. I don't want to speak on behalf of the whole country. No, fair enough. I think it's just a Lombardi Cronulla thing. So that just anyone would go to the bathroom.

Yeah. And I didn't even think it was weird growing up because I was like, oh, whatever, until I met my now husband. He came to Slept Over the first time and walked past my dad just in the door so they'll sit down stand up whatever you need to do yeah like a dinner party what's happening if people are coming over for christmas lunch or something oh christmas lunch open door because it's just

family it's like grandparents and uncles and who cares uh but dinner party i feel like they'd close the door then or the cops Is the conversations going on? Or are those all people just... Yeah, sometimes if my mum's on the toilet, I'll just walk in and start doing my makeup. Really? So, yeah, because... What are you talking about?

What are you discussing? Sometimes even the German shepherd comes in. And just chills as well. As a parent, though, there is that thing with the kids for a while. We'll just bowl in. But it seems like most families stop, but you're not you. Not us. No, and I'm 27 now, and yep, I learnt quickly again that was a thing

when I went back on the weekend. Hey, Dad. Jesus. Okay, what if you go into a festival? Are you leaving the Port-a-loo door open? No, God no. God no. It's in the house.

It's just in the house. Yeah, just in the Lombardi house and now in the Montoya household. I've brought that. Oh, so you do this in front of Marcella? Yeah, well, we are in a tiny apartment, so it's not great for him, but yeah, whatever. Has he become accustomed to it now, or is he still a bit like, oh, that's... He walks past and rolls his eyes. That is, yeah, this is what we wanted to chuck open this morning.

Why are you the weird family? I remember I went to school with a guy, and the family were lip kissers. All kissed each other on the lips. And the good thing about teenagers is we didn't relentlessly mock them for the lip kissing. I don't know if it's still going on now. But I was always like to him, if you just move the bullseye two centimetres to the left, it becomes a kiss on the cheek. Yeah, you're right.

You're right. It's an easy adjustment to not make it mockable. We're the weird family because my grandparents, they had a full bookcase in the bathroom. So in the toilet, you'd sit down in the toilet, full bookcase, four shelves, full of books, just sitting there, the toilet books. Now looking back, I'm like, oh, that was, why would I want to read a book or take a book? Sometimes you take a book, you go, I like this, I'll continue to read this elsewhere. Not thinking about how long that book had been there for.

You know, in the particles. Yeah, I know, I know, I know. Well, now I guess we have our mobile phones, right? It's true. So they were ahead of the curve. But a bookshelf could be a good addition to the Lombardi. I think so, I'll tell them that. It's just another room in the house for you.

It's just like a living room. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, all right. Oh, 800 The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, we're just talking about why your family's the weird family. Producer Taylor's shared some intimate details about the lavatory habits of her family. Door open.

Door open policy. Yeah. I could, yeah, yeah, yeah. I imagine partners' relationships, you know, that happens, but maybe not between number, you know, for that ones and two, but, you know, but maybe some do. Helen's texting me and my husband,

we share a toothbrush. Okay. How does that sit with you? New Zealand Radio's premier germaphobe. Well, not, I mean, yeah, the times I've done it accidentally doesn't sit right. But it's funny, but you end up, you know, you kiss your partner, so you're kind of like,

there probably is no difference in their mind, in Helen's mind, but yeah, in my mind there is. Yeah, now some other great texts coming through here as well. I have a bell that I ring for the kids to bring me a drink when I'm sitting in the spa pool. Oh, that's a good family tradition. I like that one. It's great to have children and turn them into butlers, isn't it?

Yeah. Another one here from Lauren. Last Christmas, my family had an all-in brawl over $20. A $20 outstanding debt. Oh, okay. Turned it cancel Christmas 2023. Yeah. Let's go to Rowena.

You're on. Why is your family the weird family, Rowena? Oh, not that weird. Well, not that weird. What are you doing? Well, there was a discussion about Turkish Delight and whether or not

they should be in the favourites. And our family fights over the Turkish Delights in the favourites box. It's like a scramble when the box gets opened. Your entire family loves Turkish Delights. Well, I mean, myself and my kids, I should say, but yeah. Yeah, jeez, there's not many people who are fans

of Turkish Delights to have them all in one family. Oh, possibly I've raised them that way. It's my fault. Yeah, no, beautiful stuff. I appreciate your call, Rowena. No problem. Have a great day. Someone else texted,

I know my friend who eats fairy bread for breakfast. She's 30 years old. Her family grew up on fairy bread for breakfast. Oh, wow. I mean, it feels like now and again, maybe you could do that as a little treat. Like seven days a week fairy bread. Start my day with a nutritious breakfast.