Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - April 07 - Would You Allow Your Mother-In-Law In The Birthing Suite!?

Episode Date: April 7, 2021

On today's episode of the podcast, we discussed which emoji's classify you as "old", and turns out Jono has some skeletons in his closet when we looked at his most frequently used emoji... We also had Becky on who is due to give birth soon. She wants her own mother in the birthing suite with her, but not her mother-in-law... And the mother-in-law wants to be there. What should she do!? Finally, Jono showed off a wee talent he has, at remembering phone numbers off by heart. Maybe one of his only talents!? We'll see! 😂See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, the emojis, you know, we always like to send an emoji from time to time on a text message,

but there's been a big survey done overseas, basically by Gen Xers. Is this the next generation beyond millennial? Yeah, exactly. And these are the emojis that are most voted are the old people. If you're using these emojis, you're an old person. So these are disgruntled teens. Yeah, so these are the embarrassing

emojis, but basically, yeah, that you shouldn't be using according to them. I'm surprised disgruntled teens even took part in a survey. That's true. I'm doing a stupid survey. Mum, you can't make me do a survey. Well, they did, but they weren't happy about it. And so the nationwide survey over in the UK has found out the worst,

the most offensive one in their eyes, the most over-the-hill emoji, is the thumbs up. My dad loves a thumbs up. Kevin Boyce, I'll send a long message and he'll just reply back with a thumbs up. My dad loves a thumbs up. Kevin Boyce, I'll send a long message and he'll just reply back with a thumbs up. I've seen you.

I've witnessed you send a three page, pouring your heart out text message to Kevin Boyce going, I love you, mate. Love you. You're the best dad ever.

All this sort of stuff. Love you. Love you. And he just sends back a thumbs up. Savage. Ben Humphrey sent me a thumbs up this morning

when I said I was running five minutes late. You old fart. Savage. So these are the 10 emojis. Ben Humphrey sent me a thumbs up this morning when I said I was running five minutes late. You old fart. Yeah. So these are the emojis that mark you out as an old person according to the Gen Xers. The thumbs up, a heart. I use a heart quite a lot. Apparently the heart.

You hearted me. Yeah, the okay hand. The okay, you know, that's one. A tick or a check mark. The emoji for poo. The loudly crying face. The monkey covering his eyes. The clappy hands.

You're clapping hands. A kiss and a grimacing face. These are all ones that, yeah, from time to time. You're consistently using those. These are some of my go-tos. Yeah, those are your staple emojis. Do you use those, Juliet? I use some of them, but I'm really big on whenever new emojis are released, I jump your staple emojis. Do you use those, Juliette? I use some of them,

but I'm really big on whenever new emojis are released, I jump on them straight away. Like there's a new one that kind of looks like a little smiley face with a tear going down its face, so it looks a little bit sarcastic. When you're a little bit sad about something, but it's quite humorous at the same time, love that emoji. So here's my frequently used emojis.

Yes, I've got the heart. Oh, shaka. Shaka's in there. Shaka's there. So cool. Oh, and the cricket bat and's my frequently used emojis. Yes, I've got the heart. Oh, shaka. Shaka's in there. Shaka's there. So cool. Oh, and the cricket bat and balls, frequently used. That's obviously one. You've seen a lot of cricket bat and balls. Yeah. Anyone keen to watch cricket bat and balls? I'd never get thumbs up ones back for that one,

though, do I? Well, the good thing about the survey is it's going to no way affect the human race whatsoever. What's your one? You probably don't even know how to get there. Do you know how to use your frequently used emojis? I don't even use emojis. Chuck your phone to Juliet. I don't think I've ever used an emoji. I've got very big text too, Juliet, before you say it.

My friend put massive text on my phone. I don't know how to undo it. Okay, so frequently used emojis. Have a look. You've got the eggplant, the peach. The peach. There's some water here as well. Hold on.

Oh, I never use emoji. Oh, hello. You've got the hot sweats emoji here. Hold on. Lots of love hearts. I can feel some pre-prepared comedy here. Oh, no. Jonathan.

I never use emojis here. Jonathan. Oh, you can take my phone, but I never use emojis. A lot of eggplant and peaches at the fruit and veggie stores. Your eggs are of your most use. Well, yeah, listen, I'd like to give a five plus today, guys. Wonderful. The whole morning they're like, we've got to talk about this emoji thing.

I was like, why? No, you had a game plan all the way through this. Morning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. We want to bring a bit of a dilemma to the radio station. Yeah, now someone who we're not going to use the real name of, but is loosely associated with those on the program joins us now. Becky, her name.

Welcome, Bex. Hey, how's it going, guys? Good. About to give birth. Becky, congrats. Thank you. Yeah, first kid. So excited, but very nervous. Pump another one out. Pump another. Yeah, first kid. So excited but very nervous. Pump

another one out. Pump another one into the old system. That's great stuff. Now the dilemma though is not you giving birth. It's who is attending the birth. Yeah, so it's my mother-in-law's first, like my husband is an

only child. So it's my mother-in-law's first grandchild. So she's all over me. She wants to be involved in everything. She wants to be in the room. Not as much as her son was. Oh, you tell her, right? Family show, family show.

Oh, right. Anyway, sorry, sorry, Becky. No, it's cool. And so she wants to be in the room, and I don't really want her to be there because we're not that close. But the problem is that my mum is going to be in there and I know that my mother-in-law is going to be really upset

if she finds out she's not in the room but my mum is. So I'm starting to think that I have to uninvite my mother into the room. Just to be fair. Yeah, so everyone's okay. So I don't know what I should do. I either, you know, really get my husband shitty with me and my mother-in-law and have mum there,

or, you know, I feel shitty and not have anyone in the room. It's an awkward conversation either way. It's either an awkward conversation to your mum to say, oh, you can't come anymore, or an awkward conversation to your husband and your mother-in-law to say, hey, you can't come anymore, or an awkward conversation to your husband and your mother-in-law to say, hey, we don't want you in the room. I always find through life the path of least resistance is the way to go.

Don't offend anyone. Invite them in. Invite them all in. What does that mean? What's an extra body in there? But what if she doesn't want that? Get Duco Events on board. Sell some corporate tables.

Joseph Parker will fight at the end of it. But what are you saying? That's what I'm saying is just like at the end of it. But what are you saying? That's what I'm saying is just like at the end of the day, the mother-in-law, she could just sift in the corner. There's so many people in there anyway. You've got midwives, doctors. You've got your partner. You'll have your mum in there.

There's a new one that comes out on the guest list at the end of it. It's a crowded room anyway. You're going to notice if she's in there or not. Oh, yeah, but I guess it's a special moment, and you want to have that. It's one of the greatest moments you'll ever experience in your life. You want to have that. You want to be with.

It's your decision to who you want in the room, and I feel gutted for your mum if she couldn't come to that moment if you wanted your mum to be there. Yeah, I'm just in touch. I don't know what to do, really. You want some advice of random listeners on a radio show? I'm sure many people have been through the same process, you know? Have this happen to them or, you know, and go,

well, who did I want in the birthing suite? Did I have to make an awkward decision or was I okay with everyone joining in? Oh, 800 that's. What should Becky do here? Should she say no to the mother-in-law, then in turn saying no to her mum? Or should she agree for everyone to get in there? I mean, hey, Virgin Mary, three random wise men turned up to her one, or should she agree for everyone to get in there? I mean, hey, Virgin Mary, three random wise men turned up

to her one, didn't they? She was probably like, who are you guys? That was probably more like a birth care situation, where she'd gone to the manger sort of thing. Yeah, but I mean, that wasn't the most problematic thing about that birth, was it? Joseph's probably like, how did this happen? It's a miracle.

Who is this? Yeah. Anyway, really, you're taking us way off topic here, mate. Way off topic. It's what I do. So what should Becky do right now? Should she have an awkward conversation with her mother-in-law and her husband and say, hey, I just want my mum in?

Or should she say, oh, well, let's not just have anyone in and then it saves the awkward conversation, but she doesn't get what she wants and that's her mum at the birthing suite. We just had Becky on the phone who's giving birth very shortly Becky with the good hair and she has a bit of a dilemma she had promised her mum, she wanted her mum to come

into the birthing suite alongside her and now her mother-in-law She wants to double pass as well Yeah she wants to come in because it's her only child, her husband she wants to double pass as well. Yeah, she wants to come in because it's her only child. Her husband wants to be there as well. But now Becky's like, well, I just kind of want my mum but then I also feel weird

having the mother-in-law there. So should I just say no one comes in and then I don't get to bring my mum in, which I really want? It's quite a dilemma. Yeah, so she doesn't want to make it awkward with her new mother-in-law. And it's already a crowded guest list. I'm saying just what does it matter? You're not even going to notice that the mother-in-law, and it's already a crowded guest list. I'm saying just, hey, what does it matter? You're not even going to notice that the mother-in-law's in there.

Yeah, but I'm saying it's all about you. It's your moment, and if you don't want someone in there, then don't have someone in there. Have that conversation, because you may regret it later. Well, that's what you say, Ben. But who cares about what you say?

Well, because I care about what Sarah in Christchurch says. Morning, Sarah. How are you? Hi, guys. I'm good, thanks. How are you? You're hopping in on this one. What do you want to say? I definitely think she should have her Maudina, Sarah, how are you? Hi, guys. I'm good, thanks. How are you? You're hopping in on this one. What do you want to say?

I definitely think she should have her own mum there, definitely, but I think she should, yeah, have the mother-in-law in the room as well, like extra support. It'll bring them closer together. I've given birth once and I only had my partner in the room,

but I ended up having my midwife and a student midwife and at first I was like, oh, I don't really want her in the room, but I ended up having my midwife and a student midwife. And at first I was like, oh, I don't really want her in the room. But it was great. She was like extra support. And yeah, you don't even know. Like at one point you don't even know who's there and what's going on. So I think the mother-in-law should, yeah.

Okay. And that's a very simple way. More support, more hands on deck. Yeah. And your mother-in-law will see a side of you that's a new side of you. Completely new side of you. Yeah, exactly. Someone's texting 4487, screw the mother-in-law.

I didn't know that was an option that we threw out there. We'll start with Emma. Welcome from Auckland. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Yeah, good. Do you agree with Sarah?

The mother-in-law can get a free pass in? Nah, I would. I definitely only wanted my mum there and my husband. And I think if I was able to go through with having a natural birth, that would have been the option. I ended up with a C-section and only my husband was able to be there. But I think it's your body and you need to have who you feel comfortable with. It could just be mum.

I agree. I agree. A lot of people on the text are agreeing with you as well. Her body, she decides. I had my mum, partner, best friend, her husband, they're all in there. But it was my choice. Yeah, well, that's the thing.

If that is your choice, then that's fine. But, yeah. It's like who you invite to your wedding, I guess people are saying. It's over to you. Yeah.

It's over to you. Let's go to Gabby. Welcome from Wellington. What do you want to say on this? Does the mother-in-law get a free GA pass to the birth of her grandchild? I'd say no because it's whatever the person giving birth feels comfortable with.

Some things a girl only just wants to be with her mum and that's kind of special and she's going to feel uncomfortable because she's not as close with her mother-in-law then that's going to make her feel uneasy. I understand. It is going to make for an awkward conversation, though. I understand where you're coming from, to go to the husband and then to the mother-in-law

and go, hey, sorry, we don't want you in the room for this. It's not that we don't, you know, but... It's definitely just send a text, eh? Not a face-to-face convo, that one. Fire off a text, email maybe. Or you're in your ring, you're like, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up. So you can leave a message.

So it looks like you tried to have a conversation with them. Good on you, Gabby. Listen, I'm not going to lie, it's becoming a landslide against the mother-in-law. We'll go to Kaz in Waikato Gorge. Welcome, Kaz. Hi there, how are you going? Oh, Kaz, your thoughts.

Mother-in-law, should we let her into the birthing suite? Absolutely not. Because it's all about you. And at the end of the day, if she doesn't really want you in there, she could say something that's quite bad. You know, like she's going to be yelling and screaming at her husband. And everybody's going to have a whole new perspective when the baby's born. Nobody's going to care about it.

So do what you want to do right from the beginning, I say. Oh, yeah. But then I'm sure the mother-in-law will get phone calls to babysit, won't she? We want to go out for a nice dinner. Oh, really? Remember when I wanted to see all your bits? You don't have to be in the birthing suite to do that. We'll take line three, Steve in Taupo.

Welcome. How are you, Steve? Yeah, good, buddy. I think it's the husband's problem. I think if he loves his wife enough, he should reign his own mother in. It's not a case of show me yours, I'll show you mine sort of scenario. That's a very good point, actually. Yeah, right.

He's the one that should make that call and just say, hey, mum, for this time we want you to sit out. You can wait. Maybe she can wait in the hospital and be one of the first people to meet the baby. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. Because that lady is going to have enough to worry about and probably ask the doctor for extra stitches or something. Steve's getting himself in a hole here.

Literally. Maybe the mother could peer through the windows and the doors. Is that an option? Somehow I made a weird situation even weirder. There we go. On the text, listen, it's 89%. I'll be in there with a blindfold on. Be in there with a blindfold.

I can't see anything, honestly. That's what we wanted. I can just hear the audio soundtrack. On the text, 89% of people agreeing that you don't need to let the mother-in-law in. Your body, your choice, you make whatever call makes you happy. And that wraps up another great Jono and Ben segment on the show. I appreciate everyone's calls and texts on that one. Really, it did help Becky out a whole lot there.

We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about him. Sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the heads. The heads.

I want to get Jono to share something with you right now. Oh, not the time to bring up my charity work, Ben. No. Not the time to my tireless charity hours. That's definitely not that. But if you want to, you can pick up the ball and run with it. The people need to know. I haven't spoken about that because I don't know about that.

But there's also something else we haven't spoken about. It's a talent. I don't know if they brought back the show New Zealand's Got Talent, this talent wouldn't be winning the show. In fact... Would I advance on through to the next round? What talent are you talking about? I'm talking about the talent that you have for remembering

cell phone numbers from about 10 years ago. Imagine turning up on the stage of Got Talent. Well, we brought the show back. Got Talent is our first contestant. What's your name? Hi, I'm Jonathan from Auckland. What do you do, Jonathan?

Well, I vaguely remember cell phone numbers from about a decade ago. A lot of those numbers might not even be functioning now. But we'll give it a go, see if it still works. Oh, no, that one's not working. Okay, well, that one's not working. But that is that. That's their number. That was their number.

They've obviously changed it. No, well, that wasn't it, but that's their number. That was their number. They've obviously changed it. No, well, you're through to the next round. No, there was another because it was part of the job 10 years ago when I was working. Cell phones weren't freely around. Yeah, there was sort of a period in time where you couldn't just go into your contacts on your phone and just push the button and you'd call. You had to remember numbers in your brain.

Use your brain, right? Yeah. Oh, my friend's landline. Do you remember your landline number? 5289520. No, I don't. 5219055. Numbers are something that doesn't really, it sort of happens for a bit and then they just fall out of my brain.

I'm not a mathematical person in any way. I don't know why. I've just remembered the cell phone numbers of New Zealand celebrities that I used to have to book for the radio show. All right. So you're going to get right now. I wanted to see if you could still remember some of those numbers and we'll give it a go and see if they either answer

or it goes through to a message and we go, oh, that was their number. I think I remember John Campbell's number. John Campbell on breakfast. Yeah, we used to have to call him every week, so his that was their number. I think I remember John Campbell's number. John Campbell, on breakfast. Yeah, we used to have to call him every week, so his number was sort of ingrained in my... No, this is not, you're not looking at anything right now. No, I'm not. He's 021... Well, don't say the number, just...

There we go. Dialing through. I don't imagine Campbell's the type of guy to just answer a private number. We'll find out if this is still John Campbell's number and can you remember it? We've had a win already. It's ringing. Oh, yeah, it's a number that exists.

Hold on, Got Talent judges. He'll answer soon. Hello, this is John speaking. Sorry I couldn't take your call at the moment, but if you leave a message, I'll get back to you as soon as I can. There's not be those people that leave voice messages, no. Record your message. Hey, John, it's just John Owen being here, mate.

Ben didn't want to leave a voicemail. I did. Weirdly, John, I still remember your number from like a decade ago. I found that odd, but it still works. That's a win. You probably want to change your number if he's calling you a lot. All right. Love your work, John.

One from one. That was pretty impressive. Do you remember Mark Sainsbury? Yes. Mark Sainsbury's a great broadcaster. Political reporter and then he hosted what is now

Seven Sharp for many years Mark Sainsbury. He's got a wonderful moustache Mark Sainsbury too. I think he's 02138

I think this could be Mark Sainsbury's number. Is it going to go through? Oh! That's changed from 10 years ago. Sainzo's moved on. All right.

That's a loss. No. I'll put that as a loss. Okay, the last one that I kind of remember, and this is the back story, is when we used to work at MediaWorks, TV3 was part of the company, and Hilary Barry's number...

Oh, you don't know Hilary's number, do you? Hilary Barry's number was on the work exchange. Oh, this is weird that you... No, well, we'd call her for the radio, but I wouldn't call her just... Well, she works now, of course, at the Hits. Does a wonderful job. I think she's 0219. I won't say her number, but I think this could be her.

Is this Hilary Barry's number? Hello? Oh, my goodness. Hilary Barry? Who's number? Hello? Oh my goodness. Hilary Berry? Who's speaking, please? It's John Owen Bean calling from... Oh God, sorry. Who's speaking, please?

Do you know what? I don't know why. I never even answer normally when it's not ID'd. And then I thought, oh, why have I just answered this? But it's you guys. It's us. We were playing a game. I have a knack of kind of remembering people's cell

phone numbers from many years ago. And I wanted to see if he still remembers John Campbell's number and your number, weirdly, which is a bit weird. That's so funny. Splash creepy. Yeah, that's what I thought, too. I mean, is he calling you? Your number used to be on the MediaWorks

intranet, so... That's so funny. And, yeah, we called you a couple of times for radio and it's just been ingrained in my head. Oh, well, I love that. I love, love, love that. You sound a little bit creeped out by it. I am.

Look, I do find it unusual that you're able to keep that many numbers in your head, but it's obviously a sign of very, very high intelligence. Well, no, no. He's forgotten a lot about life admin and stuff, but he's remembering numbers. And if you ever need to get hold of Mark Sainsbury, I've still got his number in my head.

No, I'm all good, thanks. I'm all good. Yeah, good. All right, Hilary, love your work. Doing a great job on the 3pm pick-up. Thanks so much. Bye, Hills. To everyone pulling a sickie today,

you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Tonight, TBNZ 2, at 8.30, a brand new panel show called Patriot Brains looks really good. Yeah, hosted by UK comedian Bill Bailey, who's with us on the show now. Good morning, Billy. How are you? Hello there.

Come on down. How are you? I'm alright, thanks. How about yourself? Oh, we're doing well. I've been seeing you traipsing around the Auckland CBD. Within the vicinity of the casino, I've been driving past and going, hey, there's Bill Bailey. doing well. I've been seeing you traipsing around the Auckland CBD. Within the vicinity of the casino, I've been driving past and going, hey, there's Bill Bailey. That's what I've said to myself.

Oh, I see. Are you trying to stalk me in a car? He's been stalking. Right, yeah. It's getting a bit weird that I slowly follow you at five kilometres per hour. Do you know what? Now you say that, I do remember a car slowly tracking me as I've been going around Auckland. Now I know.

That'll be me, your friendly neighbourhood stalker. Good, thanks for that. Now, last time we spoke to you, you were in quarantine. You were basically MIQ. What was the first thing you did when you got out of there? Oh, yeah, I went out. Well, I was actually walking around the CBD of Auckland. I got stalked by a car. Yeah, I was actually walking around the CBD of Auckland. And I...

Got stalked by a car. Yeah, I felt very uncomfortable. I went back into my hotel room straight away. I actually, I went and ordered a coffee in a cafe. And it seemed like the most decadent thing I've done in a year. I shall have one flat white, thank you very much. Yes, one flat white for this gentleman, and I will not wear a mask. When you speak to your friends and family back in the UK, they must be green with envy.

I'm not telling them anything. I'm not posting anything. I'm not. It's just, it would be unseemly to do that. People are still stuck indoors, and they're talking about, oh, well, maybe June we might get out of lockdown so I'm keeping it on the low down. How was it here? Oh it's terrible. It's cold.

You can't go out. I've got this weird radio announcer stalking me in a car. I'm trapped in my hotel room. What happened was, you know, you say what happened when I got out with my kids. I had one day when I went out and had a coffee and I walked around and just sort of experienced freedom.

And the next day, Auckland went into lockdown for another week. So I was like, oh, you're kidding. You've got to be kidding me. Back to the hotel again. Yeah, back to the hotel. There we go. Hey, now, you're hosting a show called Patriot Brains, which is fantastic.

It's essentially Australia taking on New Zealand. Two teams of comedians. Explain a bit more about the format, Bill. Yeah, basically, it's like a panel show. There's two teams of three comics, three Australian, three New Zealand comedians. I'm the host. And it's basically to try and find out how much the panel knows about their own country.

So it's in a very light-hearted way. And we sort of delve into a lot of New Zealand and Australian history, cultural history. There's lots of things about TV and film and literature and so on. But a little bit about, you know, it gets a bit more serious, a bit about science and indigenous cultures.

It covers a huge range of subjects. Having done a little bit of it now and being from Britain, I mean, who's the best, which is the best country? Are you going to put your money on Australia or New Zealand? New Zealand. Oh, of course. Of course I'm going to say that.

I'm in New Zealand on a New Zealand visa. Of course I'm going to say that. And this is how we win these competitions. We bribe them with visas. You just grant the host a visa and say, you better make sure we win, otherwise you're out. Some would say it's match-fixing, but hey. Yeah, no, no, no.

No, I've got to say, it was really good fun as well. And I tried to sort of bring that kind of more conversational tone. It's a bit, I guess the thing is, I'm trying to make it a bit like QI so that, you know, it's a bit more conversational, a bit of a golf at tangents and all that. So we had a bright laugh. Oh, good on you. You've got Bill Bailey with us.

Also on a nationwide tour of New Zealand. Quite an extensive tour. You must have visited some towns and said to yourself, why is this place a thing? One of the things that we talked about actually in Patriot Brains was that we're small towns in New Zealand. And there was one town called Daniverk, which you probably know very well.

The Viking town. Yeah, the Viking town, that's right. And I looked on TripAdvisor, things to do in Daniverk, and there's only four things to do. One of them is buy socks, probably, from the Norwood Factory. Yeah, they've got nice warm socks.

Yeah, nice socks, and then there's a couple of things that you can do on the way out of Danny Burke. It's really hard. But I've not done a gig there yet, but that day will come, I'm sure. Yeah, well, if you like beer-swilling Vikings turning up to your comedy show, that's all you'll get in Danny Burke. That's my target demographic. Fresh from a day of pillaging. show, that's all you'll get in Danny Burke. That's my target demographic to talk about.

Fresh from a day of pillaging. Yes, exactly. Pillaging and whimsy. Bill Bailey, it's always good to catch up with you. We're really excited about the new TV show, Patriot Brains, Australia versus New Zealand. Before we go, we've got a little bit of a game. Now, we've got some moments from the news which have either happened

in Australia or New Zealand, and you need to decipher. Okay, so this happened on either an Australian or New Zealand drama, a soap TV show, and it was in relation to a genital shot, and the father was querying the son, taking pictures of his genitals on his iPad. Okay, go on.

The tablet is still synced to your phone. Please tell me that is not your penis. Oh, wow, that's a great quote. Well, I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to guess New Zealand. Yes. From Shoreland Street to'm going to guess New Zealand. Yes. From Shoreland Street to our medical drama in New Zealand.

Can't wait to see Patriot Games. It sounds amazing. Thank you, mate. And thank you so much for chatting to us again. No, you're welcome. Thank you. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime.

Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Want to play a game? Never have I ever. And you'll understand why when we talk to our next guest. A lovely gentleman who we've been working with lately. His name's Johnny. Welcome to the show, Johnny. Good morning, fellas.

How are we? Good to have you on. Good to have you on. We learned something about Johnny while on the road that floored both Ben and myself. It did. And it led on to many, many more questions. But if you'd like to say, never have I ever,

and then what you've never done. Never had I ever had a coffee. Not one coffee. You've never even tried a sip? No, never had a sip. When I walk past cafes and things, the smell kind of is quite nice in my opinion. It's kind of like weed,

and I kind of think someone's smoking a joint or something, but I've never had one. So have you ever been tempted to at least try it? No, look, I got to 41, and I thought, what's the point now? I kind of wake up firing on all cylinders, and I was just like, meh. Yeah, no, you've never felt the joy

of having your breath smell like a third world sewer. I've annoyed other people. Yeah, and the exhilarating uncontrollable sweats and shakes on your fourth coffee. Yeah. So was it a conscious decision earlier on to go, no, I don't want coffee? Look, like I said, it kind of got to that stage. I've got this weird thing in my life. If I don't do something for long enough, I'm never going to do it.

I've done it with several things, but coffee is probably the longest lasting tradition. It's a great conversation point as well, Johnny, isn't it? I mean, it got us our ears perked up. Now you're on the radio. I know you guys. Very excited. Very excited.

Now you're getting some media coverage for it. Oh, yeah. Unheard of. Straight after Beyonce as well. You're up there with Beyonce now. You've hit the big leagues, baby. Hit the big leagues thanks to that non-coffee consumption. Well, we just found that really interesting.

Well, how much would we have to pay you to have a sip of coffee? I went all the way through school. I never went to the toilet once from the age of 5 to 18 at school. I'm talking about number 2's here. Coffee is 41 years, mate. 41 years. I know, if you were in your 20s I'd be like, make the change. But I guarantee

you've led a good life so far. You don't need to go you don't need caffeine in your life. No, and also, my wife was actually saying to me yesterday, she's like, if anything you need something to calm you down't need caffeine in your life no and also like my wife was actually saying to me yesterday she's like if anything you need

something to calm you down but maybe that's a new business proposition like a calming coffee and you know I could give that a go she gives me chamomile tea right

okay so yeah basically Johnny wants uppers and downers that's what we're after hey Johnny listen thanks for coming on buddy good to hear from you absolutely a pleasure thanks very much fascinating isn't it it is never have I ever this is what we're after Hey Johnny Listen Thanks for coming on buddy Good to hear from you

It's been a pleasure Thank you very much It's fascinating isn't it It is Never have I ever This is what we want to open up 0800 That's the telephone number

What have you never done Never have I ever Watched Lord of the Rings And I'm not planning on starting You haven't watched any of it Nothing I've seen snippets On like the Herald and stuff

When they put them out Never You know It's too late Get out of Wellywood, mate. Are they still calling it Wellywood? No, I don't know. Are they even making movies there now?

Yeah, they're making movies. Yeah. I feel like that train's... Is there a train in Lord of the Rings? There's a train in Wellington. Yeah, yeah. Well, that train in Wellington, the Wellywood train is gone and I haven't caught it

and it feels like too late to catch up on. Is that a fair statement? Oh, you can't, well. Did I miss out on much? I think so. I think you, especially being New Zealander, but anyway, that's each to their own. Yeah, and what about you? Well, never have I ever broken a bone, which a lot of people I imagine would be the same.

And have I ever put together an entire flat pack of furniture by myself? I've never done that by myself. Without ending up in an argument with your partner or having leftover screws. I've never seen it from start to finish, doing a flat pack by myself. Juliet, never have I ever? I'm trying to think, but I'm the same,

kind of with Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and... Game of Thrones? I've never seen Game of Thrones. No, I've never seen that either. Never seen The Crown, never seen a lot of Netflix. That's probably my biggest claim to fame. Okay, that's the game we're playing right now.

0800, it's Never Have I Ever. You can text too. Let's go to the phones. Never Have I Ever. We'll start with Vicky in Hamilton. Morning Vicky.

Hi, how are you? You've never what? I've never smoked a cigarette, not even a puff. Have you been? I've tried a puff, but it wasn't for me guys Not for me

It's in the same category as coffee You have to fight through a few shaky months of coughing and spluttering but eventually you get there and you just love the taste of that lung cancer pouring in I wasn't interested in it at all The smell is pretty disgusting Sometimes when I was a kid

I remember walking past down Queen Street and you'd catch a sweet-smelling one. Yeah, so you get your sweet-smelling one. I'm like, oh, no, I've never had that. I've never seen any benefit in it whatsoever. Were you a smoker, Juliet? Were you a smoker? No, no.

I mean, I did go through a little phase in university trying them out, but like Ben, just couldn't get amongst it. Which is good. I'm glad. I'm glad I took that road. Yeah. A higher road. Look at him looking down his nose at me.

Oh, you sweet-smelling singer. Yeah, filthy smoker. What are you working for, British American Tobaccos? We'll get Kassania on the radio, shall we, in Wellington. Morning, Kassania. Hi. How are you? We're playing now.

We're doing well. Never have I ever. Broken a bone or watched Game of Thrones? Broken a bone or Game of Thrones? Oh, that's good, yeah. Yeah, I had a few really nasty falls on my ankles and I never broken them. Oh, she's got tough ankles.

I always said that when you do break a bone, it'll be watching Game of Thrones. You'll get them both done at the same time. Knock it off in one. Good on you. We'll go to the West Coast. Louise, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you?

I'm good, thank you. How are you? We're doing well. Never have I ever... Watched the Kardashians. Oh. How have you avoided it? Oh, because I can't stand them.

I've got no interest in them whatsoever. Oh, and our Kardashian update coming up in five minutes too, by the way. Our daily Kardashian updates. What turns you off them? Just the waste of space, plastic fantastics that they are, and all the money that they just waste on unnecessary stuff. Oh, but they're lovely people. They just

Haven't got a brain Between them Oh He's mucking on the Kardashians I love them I love them If you were going to pick A favourite out of them

Just one that you kind of like Who would it be? I couldn't even tell you Their names It's just who I am Oh that was going to be a test If you knew their names That they've got to you

Well done Well done Louise Louisa. You're on the West Coast. Continue hating those Kardashians, okay? Have a good day. We'll get Kate on. How are you, Kate? Hey.

I've never paid for my own Netflix. Are you chiming in on a family account? No, I'm actually still using my flatmate's account from about five or six years ago. I imagine there's a few people out there like that. Yeah, I think so. Just piggybacking off other people. You'd be one of those, Ben. He plugged into my personal hotspot for over

12 months and didn't tell me. I just kept popping up and I was like, oh, there we go. Would I like to use this again? Yes, I would. Not once did he inform me that he was in my hotspot, but anyway. And we actually just saw Juliet's waving here. We had a guy who phoned us. Never have I ever had a glass of water.

How long has it been since you've had water? About 35 years. No way. 30? 35 years. What are you drinking? I drink probably about between 15 and 25 cups of coffee a day. Jeez.

Okay. He is volatile. Amazing, isn't it? So he's got the opposite of Johnny, who we spoke to before, who's never had coffee. And then during summer, he does, we're like,

what do you do when the weather's hot? And he's like, drinks milk. Milk from a bottle. Keep the text coming through, 4487, what have you never done? Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The whole Nah. Yeah, nah.

The whole movie. Yeah, nah. She'll be right, and at the end of the day... Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Uh-oh. Pryor's found himself in another internet wormhole, and we're turning this into a thing? You sounded lukewarm on the idea yesterday, Ben.

Well, yeah, I didn't know if it was going to be a regular thing. Jono's internet wormholes? Although you do find there's a few little bits of fascinating bits of information. Yeah, there's a couple of little nuggets. You know, you've got to sift through the coal to find the nuggets of gold. Yeah, yeah. Don't you? So stick with me and something might mildly interest you.

Maybe we can rebrand it that. Something that might mildly interest you. And today the internet wormhole that I got lost on. And I get lost a lot on the internet. I get lost on the roads too, when I can't follow directions. And I get lost when Ben says, get lost, get out of here.

But today we got lost in 30 facts that will surprise you about McDonald's. Okay, so you go, yeah, again, you've gone 30. Like what? It's a lot of facts. Again. I've pulled out the big bangers. So how many is that?

Well, it depends when you get bored. Okay, I'll keep reading them out and you tell me when to fade out. Producer Julia and me yesterday were like, well, maybe three. Three to four if they're quick fire. Yeah, if they're quick fire. I'm sorry, I didn't see you in the brainstorming for the formatics of this part of the show because we actually spoke to someone the other day who used to provide all of the sauces

for McDonald's. Yeah. All sauces. Wow. Sauces. We went straight to the source of the sauces. Yeah, the sauces in New Zealand. And in Subway, everywhere. Yeah, it was fantastic. Incredible. So that's what got me interested. It sparked my interest in McDonald's. Alright, well give me some facts. Okay, hit the music, Juliet.

Do you know a new McDonald's. All right, well, give me some facts. Okay, hit the music, Juliet. Do you know a new McDonald's opens every 14.5 hours? I'm loving it. Really? Every 14 hours somewhere in the world. I'm loving it. I'm loving it.

This person. Me, too. I'm loving it. I'm loving it. Sorry, but wow. Okay, that's impressive. It does seem like that because you drive past the street one day and then the next day you're like, oh, where did that come from?

Yeah. Every 14 hours. Over 68 million people are eating McDonald's each and every day. That's the entire population of the UK. 68 million. These are really interesting. Are you happy? Are you surprised?

I'm loving it. Are these McDonald's facts that will surprise you? I'm loving it. Yeah. I'm loving it. The Queen herself is a fan of McDonald's. Oh, I'm loving it. She'd be a fillet of fish. She's a Big Mac lady.

She's a Big Mac lass. She's got a McDonald's near Windsor Castle. I think, and she'd bring in her like a gold card, she'd get like free tea or coffee, she'd have a tea.

Do you know Bill Gates? I'm loving it. Founder of Microsoft. I don't know of him, yeah. Gets free McDonald's. He's got a McDonald's gold card. Oh, he's loving it.

Out of all the people in the world who needs free McDonald's, I'm glad it's going to Bill Gates. Why does he get that? I don't's, I'm glad it's going to Bill Gates. Why does he get that? I don't know. I didn't do any further research on that.

They're just like, hey, we like your work. Do you know the nuggets, the different shapes of nuggets have names? The names are the bone, the bell, the ball, and the boot. Which don't sound that appealing, do they? You hit me with the queen one, you're starting to lose me. Am I losing you? Yeah. Well, I'll pull you back with this one.

Okay, one more. McDonald's, I'm loving it. This is the big one to go out on. McDonald's. You've saved one back, right? McDonald's, internationally, makes $75 million per day. $75 million. Wow.

If I keep saying it like this, will it surprise you? That's a lot. That's a wild amount of money. And there we go. There we go. Oh, Jono's internet wormhole. Did you like it today? I did, actually.

Do you want it back tomorrow? Yeah, I do, actually. I really enjoyed that. Okay, well, thank you. Thank you. That seems like a genuine compliment. No, I did, actually. Julius, what's your post analysis on that?

I'm loving it. I felt like I'd have some stuff that I might vaguely recount to people Okay, well do that, you do the same if you're listening Go to work and vaguely recount Bill Gates gets a big free week Why? I don't know I don't know, the guy on the radio didn't say, he didn't do any follow up research Add these two men together

and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast It's time for this Five words for 5k on The Hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Tell you what, your chance to win $5,000, or even better, your chance to hear someone win $5,000.

What a game. Yeah, it is a lot of fun. A game of word association. A very easy game to play, but very hard to match up, and that's the beauty of the game. But so far, we've given away more money than I've had hot dinners. Assuming I haven't had over

25,000 hot dinners. And I wouldn't think I would have. No, you probably don't. You don't eat lunch. You don't eat lunch. Maybe more than you've had lunches. Yeah. $25,000 out the door so far. Sharon, you want a slice of that pie in Ashburton, no doubt? That would be great, thanks. What are you doing in Ashvaga, Sharon?

Driving a milk tanker. Driving a milk tanker. Sound the horn. Oh, it's a beauty. A bit more horn. Oh, I can't. I'm sort of stopped on the side of the road. What did we hear the other day?

You were reading out some sort of clickbait article about Rarotonga in South Canterbury or something to do with the temperatures. Oh, that it was hotter in South Canterbury on Saturday than it was in the Pacific Islands. Well, it did get pretty hot. Yeah, hotter than the islands, they were saying, which I thought, this is wild. It's a bad day for the islands.

Shocking clickbait. Yeah. A bad day for the islands. Sharon, couldbait. Yeah. A bad day for the islands. Sharon, could be a good day for you, though. You want to win some cash? Who are you going to send into the SPB? Also, no, that's what we call it in the industry. To the wider public, though, the soundproof booth?

Yep. Oh, I think Jono. Oh, Jono. Good call. Jono, he's been a bit shaky of late, but I think now's the time to come through as he makes his way across to the corner of the studio, opening the door and getting inside the soundproof booth.

Sharon, you've been playing along. Great commentary, Ben. I feel like I like to commentate that a little bit. Yeah, I have been playing. It's quite tough sometimes to match up words, isn't it? It is, yeah. I've only got probably one out of five sometimes. Well, hopefully today we can change all that for you, Sharon.

Okay, Jono is inside the soundproof booth. Here is your first word today for Five Words $5,000. It is save. Save. Save as in S-A-V-E. Yes, that's right, S-A-V-E, yep. Ooh. No, no, actually, as soon as I said it, I'm like, ooh.

Money. Save money, yeah. Producer Juliet as I said it, I'm like, ooh. Money. Save money, yeah. Producer Juliette's nodding away in the corner. Yeah, that would have been my pick as well. All right, your next word, Sharon, is traffic. Jam. She's in a jam. Traffic jam.

All right, Prince is your third word. Prince. Ooh. Picture. Picture? Oh, sorry. Prince as in P-R-I-N-C-E. Royal family prince. Prince.

Princess. Oh, princess. Okay. Gone the opposite. That's good. Okay, next word, Sharon, is menu. Food. Food.

And finally, your final word for $5,000 is orchestra. Music. There we go, Sharon. I think you did all right. Some of those words are a little tricky, weren't they? Yeah. We're going to get Jono out of the soundproof booth

right now. He's looking at me through the glass, struggling to open the door as he makes his way walking around, left foot first and then the right foot

as he walks his way out, putting his headphones back on now. I don't know why you'd never pursue your career as a commentator. Did you know the soundproof booth actually outside of show hours,

Sharon, doubles up as a tanning, spray tanning booth? One time I came out of there like three times Donald Trump. Very orange, very orange. How'd Sharon go? Sharon did great, but again, we've got those tricky words that you have multiple options for. But hey, all that matters right now is what you say, Jono.

All that matters. Give me a little horn, Sharon. Motivational horn there on the side of the road in Ashburton. Okay, the first word I said to Sharon today for five words, $5,000 was save. Money. Oh, he's coming confident. Did we get that, Sharon? You did.

A little too quick. I should have thought about that a bit more. Sometimes just take a breath. Take a breath. That was a good start. Okay. Traffic. Jam.

Wow. I'm going quick. I'm not even thinking. First thing that comes to my head. Okay. This could be the downfall. This could be amazing. All right.

Prince. Harry. Where did Sharon go? Princess. Oh, I never would have got that. Oh, you would? No. I can see how Sharon ended up there.

Oh, well, let's play the rest of this game. Prince Harry. What would you have got, Ju? I would have got Prince Harry. Yeah, only because of the interview. Yeah. It's still in my head. Menu was the next step.

Menu. Menu, yeah. Food. Oh, yes. And orchestra. Music. Four out of five. Menu, yeah. Food. Yes. And orchestra. Music. Four out of five. Oh, Sharon.

You're so close. I'm sorry. I couldn't milk out that third word like you milk those cows. I'm so sorry, Sharon. I tell you what. We'll send you out something, okay? Oh, no, that'd be great, Ziggy. You got Hell Pizza in Ashburton?

I don't know. Okay, we'll send you some vouchers to Hell Pizza. Hopefully you find one along the way. Good on you, Sharon. Sorry about that. No, that's okay. Thank you. Four out of five.

I wouldn't have got Princess. Oh, well, another chance to play tomorrow morning, 7.45. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand to play tomorrow morning, 7.45. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Now, yesterday it was announced by the Prime Minister, the Trans-Tasman Bubble.

It's happening April 19. So, quarantine free travel between Australia and New Zealand as from April 19. Who do you think's more excited about it? Are we more frothy than the Australians? I'd say so. Is it equal froth? Is there froth on both sides of the chasm?

Well, no, as you said earlier, they've kind of been letting New Zealanders travel over to Australia, at least, without having to quarantine. We've been the ones. We've been the... Hard to get. Yeah.

That's good, though. Keep Australia wanting us. Keep Australia wanting us. We're a smaller country. We're going to play harder to get. I get that. But they always send back our criminals too, free of charge.

Yeah, true. So, I don't know who's winning out of this. But what we're going to do is play a little game because once the bubble opens up, we're all going to need somewhere to stay over there, aren't we? So the game is that we phone an Australian number at random and each of us have 30 seconds

to convince the person on the other end of the line to let us come and stay. She's a hard task. 30 seconds as well, just a random stranger. We'll see if you want to go first. I'll go through to the Coles supermarket in Brizzy. Hello, Coles Express. Sunnybank Leanne speaking. Hey, Leanne, how are you?

Good, thank you. Good to hear from you. Long time no hear. Yeah. How's the fam? Not too bad. How's yourself? Yeah, no, good.

We've been good. We've been good. So we're going to be popping over from probably the 19th. We'll come over. Yes. Are we still good to stay at yours? Do you even know who you're talking to? Leanne.

Who is on the other end? It's Jono. Who? Jono from New Zealand. I don't know anyone from New Zealand. Oh, time's up. Leanne, it's Jono and Ben. We host a radio programme in New Zealand.

Yes. The travel bubble's opened. I had 30 seconds to try and convince you to let me stay. It was a tall order. Yeah. I'm at work at a service station. I'm not going to let anyone stay at my house. No, fair enough.

I wouldn't let me stay at my house. In fact, I'm not allowed to stay at my house. I have to sleep outside on the lawn. Have you heard about the travel bubble opening? Yes, I have. I have. I work with many Kiwis, so they're all very excited to go home. And you'd be excited to see a lot more New Zealanders over there, wouldn't you?

We'd love them over here. Apart from the ones that you send home on planes if they've committed crimes. That's it. Well, lovely talking to you and thank you for making the right decision not letting Jono come over I'd like to go on public record and say if you ever come here you're more than welcome to stay

at our house. I'm a very cool person so that's ok Good on you Leanne Awesome, thank you Hotter temperatures over there but a bit of a frosty reception from Leanne. So your turn now, Ben. 30 seconds to convince an Aussie to let you stay once the bubble opens.

Juliet, call this number, please. Reception, Emily speaking. Oh, good morning. Yes, hello. How are things in Australia? Good. Good. Things are good in New Zealand?

Very good. Good. We've good in New Zealand? Very good. Good. You've got that out of the way. Well, now there'll be travel again. Yeah, so actually I was ringing about that. Look, I'm thinking about coming over after April 19 and I want to know, is it possible to stay at your place? Of course.

How many nights were you looking to book? Oh, I would... Hold on. Has he phoned a hotel here? Yes, yes, yes, it is. Yes! Sorry, it's Jono and Ben calling from... We work on a radio station in New Zealand.

Okay. And we had a little competition to see if we could ring anyone in Australia and see if we could stay the night at their place. Jono didn't say we couldn't call a hotel. Okay. So you're looking more for a complimentary stay? Yeah.

Are you? He's always looking for something free. He'll put it on his Instagram. No. So it's possible to come over and stay with you at your hotel? Yes, it will be definitely, yeah. Once the restrictions lift, we definitely have some availability. There we go.

I've had a win. It was a contentious win, but I'll give it to you anyway, Ben. Well done. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.

All right. Now, you are claiming, speaking of places to stay, that you've committed a crime upon your generation. Well, yeah, I blame you for this. So we're away for work over the weekend,

Producer Juliette, and so we sort of have a bit of a WhatsApp group with the crew because we're filming a TV show. And we got back, I think it was relatively late to the hotel, maybe, you know, a bit later from filming. And then we're like, should we meet up for dinner?

Let's get in touch on the WhatsApp group. And then Jono, you were like, let's meet up for dinner. And you gave us like an hour and a half to almost two hours you were like, let's meet up for dinner. And you gave us like an hour and a half to almost two hours of time before we were going to meet up for dinner. I was like, this is way too much time. Surely it'd be like one of those, see you in 20 minutes type

thing. But already he's like, let's meet up in an hour and a half's time for dinner. Yeah, I like to relax with a bubble bath. And everyone's like, yeah, cool, cool. And I'm like, oh, I got to the stage where everyone had agreed on it. I'm like, it would have been easier just to do it right. Let's do it now. Let's do it now. Let's get out there now. But I'm like, oh, I got to the stage where everyone had agreed on it. I'm like, it would have been easier just to do it right. Let's do it now. Let's do it now.

Let's get out there now. But I'm like, oh. Yeah, well, people like to stop sometimes, Ben. So I kind of had that awkward stage where you're in your hotel room. You're like, okay, I've got an hour and a half before I'm going to meet up with old mate and his dinner. Okay, what can I do? You know? So I got to the stage where I ended up laying out my clothes

because we had an early start for the next morning. Trying to do everything then so I could save myself time in the morning. So I go, okay, so if it's cold, I'll put these long pants up. So I laid out all my clothes next to it. I had my bag 90% packed. All the things I would have done later had we gone for an earlier dinner. He's living the schedule of a retiree of an 85-year-old man who's got nothing else to do.

What am I doing? He turned on the TV, then he muted the commercials. Phoned up Talkback Radio at one o'clock in the morning to moan about how noisy the other people in the hotel were. And then we had a moment actually that we haven't really revealed to Jono. It's not the truth. We're walking to dinner with the crew and Wellington's tallest building was there.

I think it's called the Majestic. It's a majestic building. I wouldn't have said it was majestic. Okay. I would have said it was a building. Okay, well, it's tall. The Majestic. Would you have called it the Majestic?

No, it's quite majestic, I guess, because at the top it looks like it's almost got a crown. Right. It's got these sort of poles sticking out from at the top. So when you look up the building, top of the building looks like it's got this sort of statue of liberty style crown. Looks like it's majestic, yeah. And one of the people that we were working with here was like, oh, look, he looked across the board at the building. And there was actually, I don't think Jono saw this, it was a gym in the building.

You can see it. And he went, oh, there's a game, You know, just making a joke about the gym. And Jono, you thought that the bit, the crown sticking out from the top of the building was called a gym. I thought it was an architectural phrase because I was looking up and I was like, oh, is that what they're called? Gyms. It was like, yeah, gyms, yeah.

We're like, yeah. I thought you were doing a joke. But you're like, oh, I never knew that. Architecture, eh? James, you're so well known. Then he had were doing a joke, but you're like, oh, I never knew that. Architecture, eh? James is so well known. Who brought it up? Then he had to awkwardly inform me he was talking about the gym.

It looks like something that you'd call a gyme, though. Yeah, I think it's quite a nice name for it. Yeah, let's call those things gymes. Yeah. If they don't have names. So the Majestic, if you've ever seen that in Wellington, which Jono says is not that majestic, if you look up top...

Look up there and you can look at that gyme sticking out of the building. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Now, the travel bubble announced yesterday by the Prime Minister between Australia and New Zealand officially opening April 19.

Seems like the trans-Sasman's worst-kept secret all day. Even Millennial Max came and he's like, oh, Air New Zealand have got a lot more flights from April 19. He had locked on the website before the announcement. Then the whole day the government were like, well, they don't know. Yeah. They don't know. There's a lot of speculation.

People have saved some stuff. But it turns out the stuff people were saying was exactly correct. Well, that's right. Yeah, April 19, you'll be able to have quarantine-free travel between Australia and New Zealand. And I don't begrudge Air New Zealand knowing before the rest of us. No. They kind of need to clean the planes,

don't they? Wipe down the windows. Yeah, they kind of need to have everything set up and ready to go, don't they? So we've been able to travel over there without quarantining for a long time now. New Zealanders. It's just that we haven't been given it the same way back.

But now, free travel. You don't need to be vaccinated. No, it's like we're all part of the same country. Go wild. Yeah. Go crazy. Now, we wanted to play a little game this morning, didn't we? Because the travel bubble is open between Australia and New Zealand.

And New Zealanders can go on over there and stay. Yeah. We gave ourselves 30 seconds each to call an Australian number at random. So, so random. And convince them that they could let either of us stay at their place. I went first and phoned a Coles 24-hour supermarket in Brisbane. Hello, Coles Express. Sunnybank, Leanne speaking. Hey, Leanne, how are you?

Good, thank you. Good to hear from you. Long time no hear. Yeah. How's the fam? Not too bad. How's yourself? Yeah, no, good.

We've been good. We've been good. So we're going to be popping over from probably the 19th. We'll come over. Yes. Are we still good to stay at yours? Do you even know who you're talking to? Leanne!

Yeah, but who is on the other end? It's Jono! Who? Jono from New Zealand. I don't know anyone from New Zealand. Oh, time's up. Leanne, it's Jono and Ben. We host a radio programme in New Zealand.

Yes. The travel bubble has opened. I had 30 seconds to try and convince you to let me stay. It was a tall order. Yeah. I'm at work at a service station. I'm not going to let anyone stay at my house. No, fair enough. I wouldn't let me stay at my house. In fact, I'm not allowed

to stay at my house. I have to sleep outside on the lawn. Have you heard about the travel bubble opening? Yes, I have. I have. I work with many Kiwis so they're all very excited to go home. And you'd be excited to see a lot more New Zealanders over there, wouldn't you? We'd love them over

here. Apart from the ones that you send home on planes if they've committed crimes. That's it. Well, lovely talking to you and thank you for making the right decision not letting Jono come over. I'd like to go on public record and say if you ever come here

you're more than welcome to stay at our house. I'm a very cool person so that's okay. Good on you, Leanne. Awesome, thank you. No dice there with Leanne. She was lovely though, wasn't she?

She was so bubbly because it would have been like four o'clock in the morning over there. And then Ben, you gave it a crack here to your 30 seconds to convince an Australian to let you come and stay after the 19th reception emily speaking oh good morning yes hello hey how are things in australia

good good things are good in new zealand very good. Good. You've got that out of the way. Now there'll be travel again. Well, yes. Actually, I was ringing about that. Look, I'm thinking about coming over after April 19th and I want to know, is it possible to stay at your place? Of course. How many nights were you looking to book? Oh, I would...

Hold on. Has he phoned a hotel here? Yes, yes, yes, it is. Yes. Sorry, it's Jono and Ben calling from... We work on a radio station in New Zealand. Okay. And we had a little competition to see if we could ring anyone in Australia

and see if we could stay the night at their place. Jono didn't say we couldn't call a hotel. Okay. So you're looking more for a complimentary stay? Yeah. Are you? He's always looking for something free. He'll put it on his Instagram.

No. So it's possible to come over and stay with you at your hotel? Yes, it will be definitely, yeah. Once the restrictions lift, we definitely have some availability. There we go. I've had a win. It was a contentious win. Oh, it's still a win?

The aim of the game was to do exactly what I did, right? Yeah, well, I overlooked that in the T's and C's. I'm sorry. That's the bubble. It's open. We're all good to go, guys. In April 19, that's happening. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone.

It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. This next part of the program proudly brought to you by Kate Hawksby's 5am news show on ZB. Thanks to Kate Hawksby and her hard work, that Ben Boyce will now regurgitate on our show. Yeah, pretty much. Now, the big news yesterday afternoon, the travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand is happening. April 19, just in time for school holidays, means quarantine-free travel between Australia and New Zealand both ways.

All except for Western Australia. Now, if you don't believe Ben, you think he's lying, because he does lie quite a lot, here's some murky audio of our Prime Minister confirming this news. This is an exciting day. The trans-Tasman bubble represents the start of a new chapter in our COVID response. I haven't had a burning desire to go to Aussie, but now just want to go because you can. Because you can. I want to head over to the Goldie, fly into Koolingatta and brown myself up like an old leather handbag. That's what I want to do. People have a lot of families who haven't seen

each other for like 17, 18 months and stuff. I saw a story on the news last night. A guy who's had a baby and the baby hasn't come back to Aotearoa yet. You do forget about those personal stories, don't you? A lot of people have been really affected by this. Hopefully also some of the sports games will start happening. They reckon later in the season, maybe there'll be some Warriors home games here.

I was going to say, they won't have to station themselves over there now. That's how they're hoping is going to be the case. At the moment, they're just working through a few things. They don't want to, like, rush back into it and then have things to sort of, you know... They're quite settled and stable over there at the moment, but at some stage throughout the season,

they hope, I think around July, they're hoping to have one of the first Warriors games back at Mount Smart, which is pretty cool. I'm sure all their partners would like them to not be so stable and settled over there and get their asses back here and start looking after the kids. Because the breakers are in the same position, aren't they?

Yeah, exactly. So I don't know if that means... Actually, I'll do some investigating on that one, see if they're going to be coming back and play some games here. But we've been able to go over there the whole time without quarantining. Yeah.

We're the ones who have been a little hesitant, haven't we? Playing hard to get, right? Yeah, we've been playing hard to get. Although we've given them the opportunity to stay in the Jet Park Hotel for $5,000. Yeah. Okay. That's true.

So we don't give you anything. And this is lovely news. Emma Wiggle from the Wiggles, she announced yesterday her engagement to musician Oliver Bryan. So congratulations to them. And do you know, last time, she was engaged also to Lockie Wiggle at one stage. She bought the ring from Sutcliffe Jewellery in New Zealand. Apparently, the former ring was from a jewellery store in New Zealand.

And she threw it in a rubbish bin. So are they on tour at the moment still? I think they've gone back to Australia, the Wiggles. So Lockie was there when this new engagement was announced? Well, I don't know if he was there there. Like, I don't think he was at the engagement. That'd be a bit weird. Why are you here?

I dumped you, didn't I? Can you please leave? Yeah, but he's commented with a lot of love, purple heart emojis and saying how that's

awesome on her Instagram, so that's great. Oh, good on him. But we all know that whatever you post on socials, not your true feelings. I'd like to know

how lucky he's really feeling. But you actually were playing something before and Julian and myself were like, what is this? Yeah, so the Wiggles originally started. This is a Ben Boyce exclusive.

Many, many years ago, the Wiggles started as a rock band in Australia and they were called the Cockroaches and this is what they sounded like. Come on, come on, come on, yeah, yeah. Hey, let's go, let's go, let's go. Hey, let's go, let's go, let's go. Hey, let's go, let's go, let's go. Sounds like an ad for Kmart.

Yeah. So this is the Wiggles pre... Yeah, so the original Wiggles, the OG Wiggles, back in the day, they had five members originally when they started. They were the cockroaches, and then one of them decided that kids, when they moved into kids' entertainment, it wasn't really for him. Oh. They wanted to be more of a, you know, like a...

A serious rock band. Yeah, I mean, I wish you understand. If you wanted to be a rocker and a, you know... And who pitched the kid idea, too? Because if that was... If I was in the band, I'd be like, that's a shocking idea. We are a hard rock band, mate.

And now they earn, they reckon, rumoured to earn $30 million a year. That's a lot of fruit salad, guys. That's a lot of fruit salad. Even if that's fruit salad where the fruit's not even in season, you could be eating that fruit. You can buy the fruits from anywhere in the world. You can

even afford to quarantine that fruit for two weeks. They sold 12 straight nights in a row at Madison Square Gardens, the Wiggles. Yeah. Sellouts. It'd be interesting to know which of them did pitch the idea to make the transition into children's entertainment You're right

It would have been interesting Come with me on this one guys A bit of a band meeting Obviously one of them Didn't disagree We were like But we already recorded That great song

It's the cockroaches We just heard before For the Kmart ad Why would we give up On that dream That is scrolling Through your feed this morning We're proud of New Zealand

Go New Zealand If only New Zealand Was proud of that Jono and Ben New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of that. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben.

Five away from six. Bye. No, what's up? Bye. Docco. I can tell the time themselves. Oh, no, I shouldn't have, but I corrected it because I was wrong. Yeah, no, that's fine.

Mate, just look at your phone if you want to know the time, guys. Don't put this pressure on Paul Ben. It's not like savings, too. I like it. Okay, thanks, bye now. It's too early for him to be know the time, guys. Don't put this pressure on Paul B. It's like savings too. I like allocate things by now. It's too early for him to be telling the time for you. All right. What she lacks in professionalism,

she makes up for in scream time on her cell phone. Producer Juliette's coming in with some spy entertainment news. So Harry and Meghan, obviously since ditching the royal family and supposedly being cut off financially from the royal family, they've got to now hustle to make a bit of money. And their first project with Netflix has been announced. It's called The Heart of Invictus.

Now, the Invictus Games are basically something that Harry founded. It's a Paralympic-style competition for wounded veterans to compete in and train for. Wonderful, wonderful organisation he's got there, isn't it? It's awesome. And so this Netflix show will follow these athletes and wounded veterans as they prepare to train for the Invictus Games. Harry will feature in this series, but Megan won't,

so maybe she's doing a bit more behind-the-scenes stuff. But that is their first project for Netflix. I was personally hoping for something a little bit more juicy, like another panel. I thought The Crown was their first project for Netflix. Rewriting the end of that. With a happy ending. And everyone lives happily ever after.

Yeah. But I imagine they'll probably do more of this sort of, hopefully the tell-all stuff is in the past. But they've got Spotify podcasts coming out in the future as well. She was voicing an elephant documentary or something like that for Disney+. She loves elephants. Yeah. She's been in love with elephants for years, she told me. Do you know, we used to have a friend of the family who had, like in her house,

there would have been over like 120 like little elephant, you know, sort of ornaments all over her house. And I was like, why do you love them so much? She's like, to be honest, I don't. But someone started buying me them. And everyone went, oh, you must love elephants. And they're elephants. And just kept buying her. And she honestly had so many elephants in her house.

Oh, that's so funny. Or ornaments. And now she says, anytime anyone goes anywhere and they see an elephant or an elephant. Look, I got you a porcelain elephant. She's like, oh, great. I'll put it on the wall. She now has to commit to that.

Yeah, I know. Now it's her thing. Wow. Elephants are great. I grew up with a lady whose mum was obsessed with Coca-Cola, the brand. Whole house was covered in Coke merch and memorabilia. You can really fill your house up quickly if you commit to it, can't you? And then when people know that that's your thing, they end up buying it.

Yeah, for sure. Look, here's a Coke G-string or something. Oh, thanks. I found this in... But you've filled your house up with Simpsons figurines, haven't you? Yeah, yeah. They slowly keep disappearing off the shelf. I know, I found some the other day in the carriage.

Seriously disappearing. Unless it's like the movie Toy Story and at night they wander off. I'm thinking it's my wife. Maybe they're like, we should probably be with a child, not a fully grown man. Try and find a child in the neighbourhood. And it has now been announced that Kim Kardashian has officially become a billionaire, according to Forbes. So she was worth $780 million in October last year.

Now she's a billionaire. And it's credited to two of her businesses, her very lucrative businesses, KKW Beauty and her shapewear company, Skimm. So, Jono, beforehand you asked if it was because of the divorce. And it doesn't seem like it was because of the divorce. No, because Kanye's worth a whole load more than her. And I would have thought it was because of the divorce, and it doesn't seem like it was because of the divorce. No, because Kanye's worth a whole load more than her, and I would have thought it would have been the other way around. Yeah, I found that really surprising.

But, yeah, his Yeezy fashion labels are worth billions of dollars. Billions. It's all up to the labels and the businesses they start, isn't it? Yeah, it's diversifying the old portfolio. It is. That's why Ben Boyce is going to announce his semi-professional gigolo service after 7 o'clock. Yeah, if you want gigolos wearing Coke G-strings. Holding an elephant.

And that is spy for more. You can head to that. It's.co.nz. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hefts. The Hefts. Wrapping up our show on a Wednesday. Don't forget, if you're anywhere near Botany tonight, come down to Botany Commons from 6.30.

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All right, let's bring this dog of a show home, Benjamin Boyce. Tomorrow, $7.45, $5,000 back. Di Henwood, Benjamin Boyce. Tomorrow, $745,000 $745,000 back. Di Henwood, star of Seven Days, will be joining us as well. They're back on telly tomorrow night. Very good. And we also speak about someone who had lunch. They were talking about her lunch with Beyonce and Jay-Z. It's an incredible story. Join us tomorrow

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